Sky Kid

Horizontally scrolling shoot ’em up from Namco. Birds fly biplanes and bomb targets. Runs on Namco’sΒ Pac-LandΒ hardware.


Developer:Β Namco
Publisher:Β Namco
Available on:Β Arcade, NES, Switch


Articles about Sky Kid

Namco Essentials: Sky Kid - While I was familiar with most of the other games in the Namco Museum collection for Switch, one that I hadn’t come across before was Sky Kid. First released in 1985,Β Sky KidΒ is a horizontally scrolling shoot ’em up based on the company’sΒ Pac-LandΒ hardware introduced the previous year. Indeed, this fact is fairly obvious, as the two … Continue reading Namco Essentials: Sky Kid
Switch Essentials: Namco Museum - Interestingly, for a shiny modern piece of technology, one of the most appealing things about Nintendo’s Switch is the amount of retro gaming funtimes that can be had on the platform. While at the time of writing the system is yet to launch a Virtual Console service similar to that found on its two predecessors … Continue reading Switch Essentials: Namco Museum

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