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Arcade Archives: A-Jax

Arcade Archives: A-Jax is a port of the shooting game Ajax. Players play as special combat troops codenamed A-Jax with the goal of destroying an army of alien invaders. This work was ahead of its time using…

19 March 2015

Arcade Archives: A-Jax is an arcade developed by Konami, released 19 March 2015 on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

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What Arcade Archives: A-Jax is

Arcade Archives: A-Jax is an arcade game developed by Konami and released in 2015. It was published by Hamster Corporation. It is available on Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Arcade Archives: A-Jax is a port of the shooting game Ajax. Players play as special combat troops codenamed A-Jax with the goal of destroying an army of alien invaders. This work was ahead of its time using flashy sound effects and musical scores and was one of the first games ported to a consumer game console.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Arcade Archives: A-Jax launched on 19 March 2015, within three weeks of Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0 and Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0, Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin.

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When did Arcade Archives: A-Jax come out?
Arcade Archives: A-Jax was released on 19 March 2015 for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

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