The Secret Garden

This week’s Arcade Archives entry from Hamster is in step with the week’s ongoing theme of farming/gardening titles, although this one gives a bit of added spookiness — Namco’s maze chaser Rompers is now out there to obtain on PS4 and Nintendo Switch.

Released to arcades in 1989 and designed by Splatterhouse creator Akira Usukura, Rompers is a maze-chasing title that sees a younger farmer on a quest to rescue his girlfriend from the clutches of a military of monsters and ghoulies. Our hero, “Chap,” should negotiate a collection of backyard mazes, gathering a complete of 61 keys to unlock what should be the most important door in human historical past and free his gal from her floral jail.

You can take a look at the motion within the trailer beneath, courtesy of YouTuber crazyclimber80.

Being chased by dinosaurs, wolves, jellied blobs, a cigarette-smoking… factor, and even a cute, unkillable woman vampire named Tsukaima, Chap’s solely protection is the flexibility to push partitions to dam or crush his opponents (although defeated enemies will return after a brief interval of downtime). After battling his approach by means of every maze, Chap will come head to head along with his woman’s captor, the mad scientist Gurerin. Like a variety of maze-chaser titles, brief intermission sequences options cute cartoon cutscenes starring the sport’s characters.

Rompers wouldn’t obtain a house port, however did characteristic in a number of Namco compilations and was made out there on the Wii’s Virtual Console in Japan. This new launch represents one of many only a few events during which the title has been made formally out there outdoors of Japan.

Rompers is out there to obtain now on PS4 and Nintendo Switch, priced at round $8.

Chris Moyse

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