Konami's 'Guttang Gottong' Is This Week's Arcade Archives Release

Never played this, but it reminds me of ‘Pipemania’
Just looked at the video, and saw “Sega”.
Could this be the start of Sega games coming to Arcade Archives?
3 hopes of that

We had this on our MSX back in the 80s, lots of fun. Shall grab this for a nostalia hit.

@Gerald I would love that! 😍 But sadly this doesn't mean anything - the Switch version likely won't say Sega, that's a video of MAME playing a rom. In the early 80s, Sega licensed many of Konami's games for mass distribution. This is why you often see Sega logos on titles like Frogger in the early 8bit home conversions.

Its absolutely very similar to pipemania, the difference being that instead of trying to make a specific route (for the water) the parts around the outside with smiley faces represent stations with people waiting, so you have to continuously change the target of where you are sending the train to pick them up.

Its a really fun game with a cool concept, though personally I've always found the colour pallets of this early Konami hardware makes the games hard on the eyes (as opposed to Namco games of the time, which are equally basic, but aged better visually imo).

I've long thought that this particular game would really suit a remake, just with slightly upgraded 90s era graphics. I made a bonus minigame for my Hazel adventure where its very similar, but she flies on her broom to pick up then deliver packages, ala Kiki's delivery service 😀 Not entirely ripping off this game as you have to deliver to specific places as well. I guess the same thing could be applied to a modern train based version - picking up then delivering passengers... hmm...

[edit] Just watched a video purporting to be Switch capture and it is still using the rom with the Sega logo. Either way the license doesn't belong to Sega and they didn't make it, just reproduced it for the arcade release. Suprised it wasn't patched out.