{"id":30229,"date":"2026-01-14T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30229"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:58:07","slug":"bomb-jack-twin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/review\/bomb-jack-twin\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb Jack Twin set to Explode out of the Arcade Archives Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bomb Jack Twin<\/strong> has been announced as this week\u2019s release in <strong>Hamster Corporation<\/strong>\u2019s weekly <strong>Arcade Archives<\/strong> and <strong>Arcade Archives 2<\/strong> lines of emulated arcade titles, following on from last week\u2019s release of Touchdown Fever, on which we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/touchdown-fever\/\">previously reported<\/a>.<br \/><br \/>This week\u2019s release, <strong>Bomb Jack Twin<\/strong>, is the 1993 revision of\u00a0 <strong>Tehkan<\/strong> (now <strong>Tecmo<\/strong>)\u2019s 1984 arcade platformer, <strong>Bomb Jack<\/strong>. This version of <strong>Bomb Jack<\/strong> was released into arcades by <strong>NMK<\/strong>, and it differs from the original game because it adds the ability for two players to play simultaneously.<br \/><br \/><strong>Hamster Corporation<\/strong> describes <strong>Bomb Jack Twin<\/strong> as follows: \u201cBomb Jack is back, cuter and tougher than ever! Two-player simultaneous play is also possible!<br \/>Dodge enemy attacks and collect all the bombs on the stage. Prioritize grabbing the lit bombs for a chance at a high score!\u201d<br \/><br \/>The original <strong>Bomb Jack<\/strong> game received many home ports, and even sequels, back in the 8-bit era, but now, thanks to Hamster Corporation, modern gamers can enjoy a two-player version of the arcade original from the comfort of their own homes, with<strong> Bomb Jack Twin<\/strong>.<br \/><br \/>The <strong>Arcade Archives<\/strong> version of <strong>Bomb Jack Twin<\/strong> will explode onto <strong>Nintendo Switch<\/strong> and <strong>PlayStation 4<\/strong> tomorrow (15th January 2026), pieced at $7.99 USD, with the <strong>Arcade Archives 2<\/strong> version exploding onto <strong>Nintendo Switch 2<\/strong>, <strong>PlayStation 5<\/strong>, and <strong>Xbox Series X|S<\/strong>, priced at $9.99 USD.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Arcade Archives BOMB JACK TWIN\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kPafyYjCkUo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bomb Jack Twin has been announced as this week\u2019s release in Hamster Corporation\u2019s weekly Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2 lines of emulated arcade titles, following on from last week\u2019s release of Touchdown Fever, on which we previously reported. This week\u2019s release, Bomb Jack Twin, is the 1993 revision of\u00a0 Tehkan (now Tecmo)\u2019s 1984 arcade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[36,81,82],"class_list":["post-30229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-arcade-archives","tag-arcade-archives-2","tag-bomb-jack-twin"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31047,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30229\/revisions\/31047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}