BODY: The arcade shooters that defined Japan's mid-1990s coin-op scene are getting another lease on life โ this time on current-generation hardware.
Edia has announced Psikyo Memories, a compilation of classic Psikyo shoot-em-ups, for PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2. The collection arrives on February 18, 2027, priced at 7,480 yen (roughly $50), with the lineup including Strikers 1945, Sengoku Ace and Gunbird among its featured titles.
For anyone who spent time in a Japanese game center during the Playstation era, those names carry weight. Psikyo was founded in 1992 by former Video System staff โ the team behind Aero Fighters โ and built a reputation on vertical shooters that favored punchy, readable bullet patterns and brutal difficulty spikes over the dense screen-filling danmaku that rival Cave would later popularize. Strikers 1945 in particular became a fixture of arcade cabinets across Asia, and Gunbird's fantasy-flavored cast of witches and tinkerers gave the studio a visual identity distinct from its military-themed peers.
Edia acquired the Psikyo catalog in 2018 and has been steadily mining it since, releasing a run of Switch collections and digital ports over the following years. Psikyo Memories represents the library's first step onto Switch 2 and PS5 โ a meaningful jump, given that these games have mostly lived on handhelds and last-gen consoles for the better part of a decade. The announcement covers the Japanese release; no Western edition has been confirmed, though shooters of this vintage are famously light on text, which has long made them import-friendly.
The insider take
Edia is a small, Tokyo-listed company that pivoted hard from mobile into retro IP stewardship, and Psikyo is its crown jewel. That context explains both the 7,480 yen price โ firmly premium for a retro compilation, and a bet on collector loyalty rather than volume โ and the physical-friendly packaging strategy these releases tend to get. Japan's shmup revival market is genuinely crowded now, with M2's ShotTriggers line setting the gold standard for emulation fidelity and Hamster's Arcade Archives covering breadth. Edia's advantage is simple: it owns the games outright. Whether Memories can match M2-tier polish is the question Japanese enthusiasts will be asking between now and February.
Originally reported by GAME Watch (Japanese).