Is Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 on Steam?

No. Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.

What platforms is Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 on?

Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 is available on Neo Geo Pocket Color.

When did Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 release?

Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 was first released on October 21, 1999.

Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999

Oct 21, 1999Role-playing (RPG)Neo Geo Pocket Color

Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 — frequently asked questions

Is Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 on Steam?: No. Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
What platforms is Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 on?: Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 is available on Neo Geo Pocket Color.
When did Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 release?: Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 was first released on October 21, 1999.

About Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999

"I crave power. Power that only the darkest evil can imagine." Enter the sinister underworld of the Dark Realm! Battle creatures of darkness in your quest for the ultimate bio-weapon. Only then will you be able to conquer the evil and grisly world. Collect multiple weapons to defeat the hideous creatures. Four main areas to explore and complete. Will you be the one to conquer this action/adventure thriller?

Summary via IGDB.

Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 on Wikipedia

Dark Arms: Beast Buster 1999 is an action role-playing game released by SNK for the Neo-Geo Pocket Color in 1999. It is a spin-off follow-up to the SNK arcade shooter Beast Busters. The game was later re-released as part of Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection Vol. 1 in 2021.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

Game details

Developer: Noise Factory
Publisher: SNK
Themes: Action, Horror

Details via IGDB.

Collector value & authenticity

Neo Geo Pocket Color · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-08-07

Loose

$41

Complete

$170

Sealed

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Region: NA+EU+JP
Released: 1999
Authenticity: High

On NEOGEO POCKET COLOR SELECTION Vol. 1 (Nintendo Switch) — the cartridge is now a collectibleHigh counterfeit risk

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A strange, ambitious top-down shooter-RPG hybrid that nothing else on the platform resembles.

Dark Arms takes the Beast Busters arcade name somewhere completely unexpected: a top-down action game in which you grow your weapons by planting the souls of the things you kill and harvesting them later. It is a genuinely odd design, it is atmospheric in a way handheld games of 1999 rarely attempted, and it has a real cult following.

It is on NEOGEO POCKET COLOR SELECTION Vol. 1 for the Nintendo Switch, which has given it a second life with people who never saw the cartridge.

Before you buy

The boxed premium is where the money is, so reprinted packaging matters as much as the cartridge here. The game also saves progress to the cartridge, so a working save battery matters more here than on the fighters — ask the seller to confirm a save survives a power cycle before you buy.