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Obscure Taito title returns on Nintendo Switch<\/h2>

Every week, I drop a short article letting you beautiful people know what Hamster has pulled out of its retro sack for the Arcade Archives range. Very rarely is it a game I haven’t played, but today it’s a game that has never even entered my frame of reference: Taito’s Ben Bero Beh.<\/em><\/p>

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Released in arcades in 1984, this early single-screen platformer sees players guide Ben – a self-styled superhero – through a burning building in a frantic effort to rescue his girlfriend Beh, who is trapped within the apartment complex. Armed with only a fire extinguisher and a goofy costume, Ben must bob-and-weave his way from floor to floor, putting out the flames and dodging other hazards such as rotting floorboards, loose electrical cables and… a giant face that attempts to eat Ben. Of course.<\/p>

Check out the obscure title below, courtesy of YouTuber Old Classic Retro Gaming.<\/a><\/p>

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I did notice in the video above the appearance of characters from other classic Taito titles such as gangsters from Elevator Action<\/em> and Chack’n from Chack’n Pop<\/em> – kind of a “greatest hits” of Taito’s early years. Still, Ben Bero Beh<\/em> is not an arcade game I’ve played myself, rare as that may be, but if you fancy a bit of classic arcade action, this forgotten game could spark that fire.<\/p>

Ben Bero Beh<\/em> is available to download now on Nintendo Switch, priced at around $8.<\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":260466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"article_type":"","gamurs_wordpress_blocks_hide_tags":false,"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[1,105,137],"tags":[168,169,1864,172,100,136,138],"internal-label":[],"invoiceable_action":[],"article_type":[],"coauthors":[{"id":3,"display_name":"Chris Moyse","user_login":"Chris Moyse","user_nicename":"chris-moyse"}],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nWhat in the blue hell is Ben Bero Beh? 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