Horizontally scrolling shoot ’em up from Namco. Birds fly biplanes and bomb targets. Runs on Namco’s Pac-Land hardware.
Developer: Namco
Publisher: Namco
Available on: 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, Sky Kid is a horizontally scrolling shoot ’em up based on the company’s Pac-Land 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 Gallery
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