Ludography
Mach Breakers cover

1994 · Namco · Sports · Arcade

Mach Breakers

Mach Breakers: Numan Athletics 2 is a sports arcade game that was released by Namco in 1994 only in Japan; it runs on Namco NB-2 hardware and is the sequel to Numan Athletics, which was released in the previous year.

Released
1 January 1994
Platforms
Arcade
Genres
SportsArcade
Developers
Namco
Publishers
Namco
Modes
Local multiplayerSingle-player
Perspective
Side view
Themes
ActionScience fiction

About

Mach Breakers is a 1995 sports video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was released in Japan in February 1995. It is the sequel to Numan Athletics, released in 1993 two years prior.

Hamster Corporation released the game as part of their Arcade Archives series for the Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4, as well as their Arcade Archives 2 series for the Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S in September 2025.

Keywords

  • minigames
  • minigame collection

Media

Mach Breakers screenshot 1

The articlegameplay, story, development, reception

Gameplay

The players must take control of up to seven new (and selectable) Numans with different speed and power levels, who must compete in a competition consisting of various absurd variations of sports. The competition takes place over five days, and on the second, third and fourth ones, there are three (four on the third day) different events that must be qualified for. If any player fails to qualify for an event on these days, they lose and will have to insert another coin and continuing in order to try again. Each of the Numans has their own unique ending sequence (much like the four lords from Exvania), which means a player will have to finish the game with all seven of them to see them all.

The starter lights on the "Hyper Glider" event also look like Pac-Man, and a picture of him also appears on the side of a passing airship (along with Prince Gilgamesh and Princess Ki from The Tower of Druaga, Momo Kanda from Wonder Momo, Valkyrie from Valkyrie no Densetsu, Hiromi Tengenji from Burning Force, and Pitt and Patti from Tinkle Pit), while Miyuki Chan (from Ordyne) can get seen running a "Prince Paco" (from Marvel Land) taco stand, and the Dig Dug characters can be seen in the "Ground Spike" event as the crack a Numan makes in the ground goes deeper.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Mach Breakers on their April 1, 1995 issue as being the ninth most-successful arcade game of the month.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
Arcade1 January 1994Japan

Editions and related releases

Ported as
Arcade Archives 2: Mach BreakersArcade Archives: Mach Breakers

Games like this

Collections1 collection

Publishers

  • Namco gamesArcade-based games › Namco proprietary arcade systems

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