Hamster discusses bringing Nintendo's arcade titles to Switch, working with Nintendo, and more

Nintendo Dream recently conducted and interview with Hamster CEO Satoshi Hamada about their work on bringing Arcade Archives: Mario Bros. to the Switch. You can see some snippets from that interview below, as translated by NintendoEverything.

- this marks the first time arcade titles from Nintendo have been completely ported
- Hamada himself actually gave the proposal to Nintendo
- the two had been already in talks before the Switch was formally announced
- both sides wanted to release past arcade games Nintendo had created
- Mario Bros. was decided for porting when Hamada and Nintendo discussed which game would have the best impact
- development was mainly done by Hamster, while Nintendo acted as the supervisor
- Hamster had to check the game thoroughly before sending it to Nintendo
- debugging included people who worked on the original arcade version
- Hamada wants to set a pace of one Nintendo arcade game per three or four months
- the pace of releases is due to the time and care both Hamster and Nintendo put into these projects