{"id":30696,"date":"2026-02-05T15:47:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/?p=30696"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T08:58:08","slug":"top-speed-arcade-archives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/games\/top-speed-arcade-archives\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Speed Races out of the Arcade Archives Today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Top Speed<\/strong>, a racing game originally released into arcades by <strong>Taito<\/strong> in 1987, is this week\u2019s release in <strong>Hamster Corporation<\/strong>\u2019s<strong> Arcade Archives<\/strong> and <strong>Arcade Archives 2<\/strong> lines of emulated arcade titles, following on from last week\u2019s release of Quester, on which we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/quester-breaks-out-of-the-arcade-archives-today\/\">previously reported<\/a>.<br \/><br \/>According to <strong>Hamster Corporation<\/strong>, in \u2018<strong>Top Speed<\/strong>,\u2019 players get to, enter high-stakes street races where speed is everything, and aim for the finish line while dodging obstacles and avoiding collisions with rival cars.\u201d<br \/>\u201cUsing Nitro grants you explosive acceleration. Blow past the competition, leave everyone in your dust, and show them what it means to be the best!\u201d<br \/><br \/>Also known as \u2018<strong>Full Throttle<\/strong>,\u2019 <strong>Top Speed<\/strong>\u2019s only previous home release appears to have been for the Sharp X68000 computer, in Japan, in 1988.<br \/><br \/>The <strong>Arcade Archives<\/strong> version of <strong>Top Speed<\/strong> was released on <a href=\"https:\/\/store-jp.nintendo.com\/item\/software\/D70010000107073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nintendo Switch<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/en-us\/product\/JP0571-CUSA56802_00-HAMPRDC000000001\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PlayStation 4<\/a> today (February 5th 2026), priced at $7.99 USD.<br \/><br \/>Meanwhile, the <strong>Arcade Archives 2<\/strong> version of the game, which adds a new \u201ctime attack\u201d mode, was released on <a href=\"https:\/\/store-jp.nintendo.com\/item\/software\/D70010000107078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nintendo Switch 2<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/store.playstation.com\/en-us\/product\/JP0571-PPSA33095_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%95%E3%83%AB%E3%82%B9%E3%83%AD%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%AB\/9nzggb8x4x67\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xbox Series X|S<\/a>. As usual, purchasers of the <strong>Arcade Archives<\/strong> version of the game on <strong>PlayStation 4<\/strong> or <strong>Nintendo Switch<\/strong> can upgrade to the <strong>Arcade Archives 2<\/strong> version on <strong>PlayStation 5<\/strong> or <strong>Nintendo Switch 2<\/strong> respectively for $2.99 USD.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Arcade Archives TOP SPEED\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AP5W-AqwBT4?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>Top Speed, a racing game originally released into arcades by Taito in 1987, is this week\u2019s release in Hamster Corporation\u2019s Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2 lines of emulated arcade titles, following on from last week\u2019s release of Quester, on which we previously reported. According to Hamster Corporation, in \u2018Top Speed,\u2019 players get to, enter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":30717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,81,224,225],"class_list":["post-30696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","tag-arcade-archives","tag-arcade-archives-2","tag-taito","tag-top-speed"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30696","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=30696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31077,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30696\/revisions\/31077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retronews.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}