88 Heroes: 98 Heroes Edition
It's 8:08am on 8th August 1988, and the evil Dr. H8 has brought the world to the brink of total annihilation! His demands are simple: pay $88 octillion within 88 minutes, or Dr. H8's 88 thermo-nuclear warheads…
88 Heroes: 98 Heroes Edition is an arcade, released 12 October 2017 on Nintendo Switch.
What 88 Heroes: 98 Heroes Edition is
88 Heroes: 98 Heroes Edition was released in 2017. It was published by Rising Star Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
It's 8:08am on 8th August 1988, and the evil Dr. H8 has brought the world to the brink of total annihilation! His demands are simple: pay $88 octillion within 88 minutes, or Dr. H8's 88 thermo-nuclear warheads will wipe out the Earth! But who will save us in our time of need? The bravest? The boldest? No... the 88 Heroes (plus ten of their friends)! Prepare to infiltrate Dr. H8's lair with the help of the strangest, dumbest and most pointless superheroes ever! With 88 levels between you and Dr. H8, only 88 seconds to complete each level and the 88-minute Doomsday clock already ticking, lead 98 unique characters – each with their own special abilities – on a platform-hopping, enemy-smashing…
How it plays
Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
88 Heroes: 98 Heroes Edition holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 35% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
88 Heroes: 98 Heroes Edition launched on 12 October 2017, within three weeks of Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Cuphead and Assassin's Creed Origins. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Call of Duty: WWII, Super Mario Odyssey, Cuphead, Assassin's Creed Origins.
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