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Arcade Archives: Tube Panic

Tube Panic is a shooting game released by Nichibutsu in 1984. It is considered to be the first game circuit board to have a 3D rotation function. A mysterious tube net appears before the command ship Marcus as…

23 April 2020

Arcade Archives: Tube Panic is an arcade developed by Nichibutsu, released 23 April 2020 on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

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What Arcade Archives: Tube Panic is

Arcade Archives: Tube Panic is an arcade game developed by Nichibutsu and released in 2020. It was published by Hamster Corporation. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Tube Panic is a shooting game released by Nichibutsu in 1984. It is considered to be the first game circuit board to have a 3D rotation function. A mysterious tube net appears before the command ship Marcus as it cruises through space. Use 360° turning to battle enemy ships hiding in the depths of each stage, and face off with the mother ship's fleet waiting at the end.
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How it plays

Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Arcade Archives: Tube Panic launched on 23 April 2020, within three weeks of Final Fantasy VII Remake, Resident Evil 3, Deep Rock Galactic and Streets of Rage 4. It arrived 7 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Final Fantasy VII Remake, Resident Evil 3, Deep Rock Galactic, Streets of Rage 4.

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When did Arcade Archives: Tube Panic come out?
Arcade Archives: Tube Panic was released on 23 April 2020 for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

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