Touchdown Fever has been announced as this week’s release in Hamster Corporation’s Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2 lines of emulated coin-op titles, following on from the previous two weeks’ releases of Space Invaders and its sequel, which were the 500th and 501st Arcade Archives releases, on which we previously reported.
Originally released into arcades by SNK in 1987, Touchdown Fever is an American football game, as you may well have guessed from its title.
Prior to these Arcade archives and Arcade Archives 2 releases of Touchdown Fever, the game also received home releases on Nintendo’s 8-bit home consoles, with a Famicom release in Japan in 1988, and an NES release in North America in 1991. The game’s most recent home release was a PSP port back in 2012.
And now, thanks to Hamster Corporation, the original arcade version of Touchdown Fever will be playable at home, nearly 40 years after it was originally released into arcades.
The Arcade Archives version of Touchdown Fever will be released on PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, priced at $7.99, with the Arcade Archives 2 version set to touch down on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S, priced at $9.99. This week’s Arcade Archives 2 title is apparently skipping a Nintendo Switch 2 release.
The Arcade Archives 2 version of Touchdown Fever adds a new Time Attack mode to the game, and as usual, if you buy the Arcade Archives version of the game on PS4, you can later upgrade to the PS5 Arcade Archives 2 version for $2.99.
The Arcade Archives and Arcade Archives 2 versions of Touchdown Fever will both be released tomorrow, Thursday January 8th, 2026.
