Arcade Archives: Buta san (2015) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Arcade Archives: Buta san

A bomb-filled battle royale with up to 100 Buta sans of 16 different types! Buta san' is an action game that was released from JALECO in 1987. Players try to survive while throwing time bombs at each other…

12 March 2015

What Arcade Archives: Buta san is

Arcade Archives: Buta san is an arcade game developed by Jaleco 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

A bomb-filled battle royale with up to 100 Buta sans of 16 different types! Buta san' is an action game that was released from JALECO in 1987. Players try to survive while throwing time bombs at each other. Can you survive the gauntlet of 100 fellow pigs to become the champion Pig? In this title, two players can play together to help or hamper each other.

Description from the publisher · source

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. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

What it launched against

Arcade Archives: Buta san launched on 12 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.

Arcade Archives: Buta san — frequently asked questions