{"id":30446,"date":"2026-01-22T18:16:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T18:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30446"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:58:08","slug":"labyrinth-runner-arcade-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/features\/labyrinth-runner-arcade-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Labyrinth Runner Dashed out of the Arcade Archives Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Labyrinth Runner<\/strong> is the latest release in <strong>Hamster Corporation<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Arcade Archives<\/strong> and <strong>Arcade Archives 2<\/strong> lines of emulated coin-op titles, following on from last week\u2019s release of Bomb Jack Twin, on which we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/bomb-jack-twin\/\">previously reported<\/a>.<br \/><br \/>Originally released into arcades <strong>by Konami<\/strong> in 1988,<strong> Labyrinth Runner<\/strong> is a shooting game that <strong>Hamster Corporation<\/strong> describes as follows: \u201cyou set off on a journey towards the castle where the evil Devil awaits, in order to rescue the kidnapped Princess Papaya. Be wary of the various traps along the way and use three types of projectiles to defeat enemies appearing from all directions as you advance!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As they so often do, <strong>Hamster Corporation<\/strong> has gone rather obscure with this week&#8217;s release. In fact, <strong>Labyrinth Runner<\/strong> is so obscure that it doesn\u2019t even have a Wikipedia entry!<\/p>\n<p>As usual, the <strong>Arcade Archives 2<\/strong> versions of the game add an all- new Time Attack mode alongside the original arcade mode.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>The <strong>Arcade Archives<\/strong> version of <strong>Labyrinth Runner<\/strong> was released today on <strong>Nintendo Switch<\/strong> and <a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/en-us\/product\/JP0571-CUSA57375_00-HAMPRDC000000001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PlayStation 4<\/a>, priced at $7.99 USD.<br \/><br \/>Meanwhile, the <strong>Arcade Archives 2<\/strong> version of <strong>Labyrinth Runner<\/strong> was also released today, on <strong>Nintendo Switch 2<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/en-us\/product\/JP0571-PPSA34240_00-HAMPRDC000000001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PlayStation 5<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbox.com\/en-US\/games\/store\/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%83%96%E3%82%B92-%E3%83%A9%E3%83%93%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC\/9nlmxrw4fkfn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xbox Series X|S<\/a>, priced at $9.99 USD.<br \/><br \/><br \/>As usual, those who purchase the <strong>Arcade Archives<\/strong> version of the game on <strong>Nintendo Switch<\/strong> or <strong>PlayStation 4<\/strong> can upgrade to the <strong>Arcade Archives 2<\/strong> version of the game on <strong>Nintendo Switch 2<\/strong> or <strong>PlayStation 5<\/strong> respectively for $2.99 USD.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Arcade Archives LABYRINTH RUNNER\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oDdmF3P6LdI?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>Labyrinth Runner is the latest release in Hamster Corporation\u2019s Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2 lines of emulated coin-op titles, following on from last week\u2019s release of Bomb Jack Twin, on which we previously reported. Originally released into arcades by Konami in 1988, Labyrinth Runner is a shooting game that Hamster Corporation describes as follows: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30465,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[36,81,137,138],"class_list":["post-30446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-arcade-archives","tag-arcade-archives-2","tag-konami","tag-labyrinth-runner"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30446","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=30446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31060,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30446\/revisions\/31060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}