{"id":27127,"date":"2026-08-28T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T00:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=27127"},"modified":"2026-08-16T23:13:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T23:13:48","slug":"the-arcade-games-of-splatoon-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/28\/the-arcade-games-of-splatoon-raiders\/","title":{"rendered":"The Arcade Games of Splatoon Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One of my favorite things about the original Splatoon was that while you were waiting for an online match to start, you could play a little 8-bit arcade style game.\u00a0 I even wrote an article about them here<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 I missed having them in the sequels, but I can understand why they took them out.\u00a0 I think most people would rather play in a practice arena doing what they\u2019ll actually do in the match while they wait, and I think some of the extra arcade games were locked behind amiibo figures anyway.\u00a0 But I still liked them because I\u2019m weird I guess.\u00a0 So I was pleasantly surprised that the arcade games made a return in Splatoon Raiders!\u00a0 I don\u2019t even remember anyone talking about them in previews or reviews, so it was a surprise to me!\u00a0 So I\u2019m going to talk about them here!<\/p>\n

So Splatoon Raiders is a single player spinoff of Splatoon.\u00a0 It plays a lot like the single player missions from the main games, just a bit more fleshed out and with RPG elements.\u00a0 You can level up and upgrade your equipment for instance.\u00a0 It\u2019s not Game of the Year material or anything like that, but that\u2019s OK, not every fun game has to be. It gets a bit repetitive at times, but I\u2019m still enjoying it anyway.\u00a0 You play as a squid kid mechanic going treasure hunting with the three pop idol stars from the third game.<\/p>\n

As you play, you\u2019ll upgrade your base and one of the things on your base is an arcade game cabinet that you can add arcade games to.\u00a0 I love how the menu where you choose the games looks like the menus to play games on the old Apple ][+ computer my family had in the early 80s!\u00a0 The graphics in these games are very much 8-bit and even have blurry low res visuals!\u00a0 I think the only thing you get by playing these games is a new outfit if you get high scores.\u00a0 Unfortunately that\u2019s really hard to do!\u00a0 I was disappointed that there were only four games you could unlock.\u00a0 I swore the original Splatoon had more arcade games, but looking back, it only had four as well!\u00a0 At any rate, let\u2019s take a look at each one of these games!<\/p>\n

Mining<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the main game, one of your teammates will pilot this big robot mech thing that helps you drill for treasure.\u00a0 In this game you play as that bot as you drill down a vertical shaft for treasure.\u00a0 The deeper you dig, the higher your score.\u00a0 As you dig, a timer ticks down and it\u2019s Game Over when time\u2019s up.\u00a0 You can push a button to speed up, but it makes it harder to avoid the sides of the walls and rocks in your way.\u00a0 If you pick up a jewel, it\u2019ll add a second to your timer.\u00a0 And you just try and dig down as far as you can!<\/p>\n

Hopping<\/strong><\/p>\n

In this one you control the Bot as it bounces a Squid.\u00a0 You want the Squid to collect jewels for points, but you must avoid enemies.\u00a0 The Bot can jump on ground enemies to defeat them, and the Squid can hit enemies from above, but not below.\u00a0 If you get hit too many times or drop the Squid a certain amount, it\u2019s Game Over.\u00a0 It\u2019s like they implemented platforming elements to an Arkanoid game.<\/p>\n

Juggling<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Bot stands on one side of the screen and the Squid on the other and you move both of them left and right as they bounce enemies from one side of the net to the other.\u00a0 Miss too many times and it\u2019s Game Over.\u00a0 It kind of reminds me of a more analog version of the Game & Watch game Ball.\u00a0 Two players can enjoy this game with one controller as long as you don\u2019t mind getting close to them!<\/p>\n

Landing<\/strong><\/p>\n

And finally, this one reminds me of Lunar Lander, except a lot harder!\u00a0 You press the L and R buttons to fire jets on the Bot to turn left and right, and you must make it from one side of the screen to the other and meet the Squid.\u00a0 There are ten stages total, which may not seem like a lot but I only made it to stage three, so it\u2019s really hard!<\/p>\n

And those are all the games!\u00a0 I don\u2019t really have much else to say other than I\u2019m glad they brought the arcade style games back!\u00a0 Later!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite things about the original Splatoon was that while you were waiting for an online match to start, you could play a little 8-bit arcade style game.\u00a0 I even wrote an article about them here.\u00a0 I missed having them in the sequels, but I can understand why they took them out.\u00a0 I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":27117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27129,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27127\/revisions\/27129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}