Arcade Archives Gun Frontier releasing on Switch in August

Hamster has revealed one of its future Arcade Archives releases on Switch, with Gun Frontier set to make its debut on August 12. The announcement was made during a live stream earlier today.

Gun Frontier made its original debut in 1990. The Taito-developed game is space western-themed vertically shoot ’em up in which players are tasked with defeating the Wild Lizards that have invaded Gloria.

Here’s a bit of additional information, courtesy of Moby Games:

Gun Frontier is a 1990 arcade vertical shoot-’em-up. The setting of the series and purportedly of the game is an extraterrestrial American Wild West, with the player fighting to defend settlers from airborne pirates – the game, though, actually looks to be an entirely standard military-themed shooter, with the player’s jet fighter set against tanks and other airplanes. Guns and bombs are levelled-up and collected by dropped power-ups, which are money-themed, with the gun upgrades shown as American dimes and bombs as gold bars.

Arcade Archives Gun Frontier will cost $7.99 / €6.99 / £6.29 on the Switch eShop.