{"id":135662,"date":"2026-01-15T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-196237"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:30:00","slug":"sega-is-adding-playable-bandai-namco-game-gear-titles-to-yakuza-kiwami-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/15\/sega-is-adding-playable-bandai-namco-game-gear-titles-to-yakuza-kiwami-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Sega Is Adding Playable Bandai Namco Game Gear Titles To Yakuza Kiwami 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7dc6483ec671d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7dc6483ec671d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"7dc6483ec671d\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Yakuza Kiwami 3\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7dc6483ec671d\/yakuza-kiwami-3.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7dc6483ec671d\/yakuza-kiwami-3.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Yakuza Kiwami 3\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/yakuza-kiwami-3-and-dark-ties\">Yakuza Kiwami 3 &amp; Dark Ties<\/a> launches for the Switch 2 next month, and in case you missed it, Sega and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio will be adding a variety of retro games.<\/p>\n<p>Our colleagues at Push Square <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2025\/12\/sega-classic-emergency-call-ambulance-comes-to-ps5-ps4-via-yakuza-3-remake\">covered one of these reveals<\/a> in December, and more recently, Sega lifted the lid on the inclusion of Game Gear titles. According to its latest press release, this is the first time in the series&#8217; history that the classic handheld is playable in-game.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in another development, it&#8217;s been announced Game Gear versions of three Bandai Namco titles will also be playable. This includes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gameboy\/pac_man\">Pac-Man<\/a>, the action platform title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/arcade_archives_mappy\">Mappy<\/a> and the space shooter <strong>Galaga &#8217;91<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\"><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Images: SEGA<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>These games will join the previously revealed Game Gear title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mastersystem\/sonic_chaos\">Sonic Chaos<\/a>. <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2025\/12\/sega-classic-emergency-call-ambulance-comes-to-ps5-ps4-via-yakuza-3-remake\">Emergency Call Ambulance<\/a><\/strong> is also breaking free from arcades, and it&#8217;s been confirmed the arcade beat &#8217;em up <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2026\/01\/arcade-beat-em-up-slashout-joins-emergency-call-ambulance-in-yakuza-kiwami-3-on-ps5-ps4\">SlashOut<\/a><\/strong> will also be included in the retro line up. You can read a little more about this one <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/news\/2026\/01\/arcade-beat-em-up-slashout-joins-emergency-call-ambulance-in-yakuza-kiwami-3-on-ps5-ps4\">over on Push Square<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from this, Sega&#8217;s latest Yakuza Kiwami 3 &amp; Dark Ties news drop has introduced more substories, &#8216;LaLaLa Loveland (a brand-new social platform), cell phone customisation, the latest Karaoke offerings and outfits Kiryu can rock and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Yakuza Kiwami 3 &amp; Dark Ties launches for the Switch 2 and other platforms on <strong>12th February 2026<\/strong> for <strong>$59.99 \/ \u00a354.99<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch-2\/related-articles:195679,194629,196236,193213 @ 1768473728 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p>What do you think of these latest retro reveals? <em>Tell us in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yakuza Kiwami 3 &amp; Dark Ties launches for the Switch 2 next month, and in case you missed it, Sega and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio will be adding a variety of retro games. Our colleagues at Push Square covered one of these reveals in December, and more recently, Sega lifted the lid on the inclusion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}