Mach Breakers: Numan Athletics 2


Mach Breakers: Numan Athletics 2 is a sports arcade game released by Namco in 1995; it runs on Namco NB-2 hardware and is the sequel to Numan Athletics, released in 1993 two years prior.
The players must take control of up to seven new Numans:
  • Masala T. Masala - age 194; highest speed, but lowest power
  • Johnny Sanders - age 25; balanced speed and power
  • Makoto Kotobuki - age 19; high speed, low power
  • * In the Asian version, she is known as Li Shao-Yen.
  • Sophia Rayleigh - age 24; high speed, low power
  • Long Rui Huan - age 41; low speed, high power
  • Michael Fletcher - age 28; low speed, high power
  • Karl Weisemann - age 37; lowest speed, but highest power
All seven of these new Numans have different speed and power levels, and if less than four players are present, the CPU will randomly select up to three of the other Numans to compete against them ; the competition takes place over five days, and on the second, third and fourth ones, there are three 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, 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, while Miyuki Chan can get seen running a "Prince Paco" 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.
On September 4, 2025, the game got ported for the first time on home consoles as part of the Arcade Archives series.

Reception

In Japan, Game Machine listed Mach Breakers: Numan Athletics 2 on their April 1, 1995 issue as being the ninth most-successful arcade game of the month.