Finest Hour (video game)

Finest Hour
Arcade flyer
DeveloperNamco
PublisherNamco
ComposerKatsuro Tajima
PlatformArcade
Release
  • JP: September 1989
GenreRun and gun
ModesSingle-player, multiplayer
Arcade systemNamco System 2

Finest Hour[a] is a 1989 run and gun video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was released only in Japan in September 1989.[1] It was re-released on the Wii's Virtual Console on August 25, 2009.[2] Hamster Corporation released the game outside Japan for the first time as part of their Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in September 2023.[3]

Gameplay

In-game screenshot

The player must take control of a Transformer-like battlemech known as Sygnus, who is equipped with a laser cannon, Vernier jump-jets, auto-targeting, and an automatic cooling system. Pushing that joystick twice in the same direction will make Sygnus switch from a march to a dash while he is moving, and the player may not make him change the direction that he is facing in mid-air. He has no "life meter", just a temperature meter which increases when he is hit, and decreases when he is not hit - but, if the timer should run out, his cooling device will break. If he should overheat, the game will immediately be over. The game is made of four stages which must be finished twice.[4]

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Finest Hour on their October 15, 1989 issue as being the eighth most-successful table arcade game of the year.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Japanese: ファイネストアワー, Hepburn: Fainesuto Awā

References

  1. ↑ Akagi, Masumi (October 13, 2006). アーケードTVゲームリスト国内•海外編(1971-2005) [Arcade TV Game List: Domestic • Overseas Edition (1971-2005)] (in Japanese). Japan: Amusement News Agency. p. 52. ISBN 978-4990251215.
  2. ↑ Nakano, Shinji (August 21, 2009). "バンダイナムコ、「ファイネストアワー」 VCAで8月25日から配信開始". Game Watch (in Japanese). Impress Group. Archived from the original on April 21, 2019. Retrieved July 20, 2020.
  3. ↑ Yarwood, Jack (September 21, 2023). "Namco's 1989 Arcade Game 'Finest Hour' Lands On PS4 & Switch Later This Month". Time Extension. Retrieved June 6, 2026.
  4. ↑ Horowitz, Ken (October 21, 2008). "Lost in the Arcade: Namco Games – Sega-16". Archived from the original on January 4, 2020. Retrieved June 6, 2026.
  5. ↑ "Game Machine's Best Hit Games 25 - テーブル型TVゲーム機 (Table Videos)". Game Machine (in Japanese). No. 366. Amusement Press, Inc. October 15, 1989. p. 25.
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