The 1980’s was one of the early decades of video gaming, and was very different from today’s video game landscape. Trends in video gaming had not been set yet, and a lot of what was done at the time was experimental. A lot of the older gaming audience feels nostalgic when they see the games of old, they can look back to a time where arcades were very popular and were in their glory days. Now, some of the best games of the arcade era are coming to the Nintendo Switch, with the announcement of Wizard Fire for Switch.
For those who wish to see what games were like back in the arcade era, Wizard Fire for Switch will be a great game, developed by Data East, and a nice way to start exploring into a by gone era of video gaming. Flying Tiger Entertainment is bringing old arcade era video games to the current generation Nintendo Switch console. They revealed this through their mascot, Johnny Turbo, on Twitter.
#WizardFire is available for PRE-ORDER for $6.99! https://t.co/gDK13fBLHB Come one, come all, and hear the tale of Valiant Knights of the Wizard Fire while it's still 12% off. #NintendoSwitch #RetroGaming #GateofDoom pic.twitter.com/BPbTcQfTSQ
— Johnny Turbo (@ItsJohnnyTurbo) June 13, 2018
Wizard Fire for Switch will be available all across North America on June 21st, 2018
The original Wizard Fire came out for arcade games in 1992. It was an RPG for up to 2 players. This is one of many games that Flying Tiger Entertainment are bringing over to the Nintendo Switch. Wizard Fire for Switch is priced for pre order at $6.99 at the Switch eShop, which comes as a 12% discount.
Data East was one of the many developers releasing video games for the arcade back in the day. In the roughly three decades that they had been operational, they had 150 games to their name. In 1986, Data East began entering the console market, and from that point on would be a developer for many consoles such as the Nintendo GameBoy, SNES, Neo Geo, PlayStation and Sega Saturn, among some others.
What are your thoughts on games from the arcade era? Would you like to see games from the arcade or other older platforms come to the Nintendo Switch? Have you ever been to the arcade? Let us know in the comment section below.