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In Japan, Game Machine listed Varth: Operation Thunderstorm on their September 1, 1992 issue as being the seventeenth most-successful table arcade unit at the time.
In the October 1992 issue of Japanese publication Micom BASIC Magazine, it was ranked on the number eight spot in popularity.
It took 6th place for Best Shooting Game in the 6th Gamest Grand Prix (1992) run in the magazine Gamest (Shinseisha).
For years there was no home port in Japan on any platform, but on 2021-2-18 it was included for the first time in the Nintendo Switch version of Capcom Arcade Stadium (the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC versions followed on 5-25 of the same year).
Staff member Kenji Kataoka has admitted that he had the great shooters of the past in mind while making it, and the title "VARTH" was chosen both because games ending in "su", like Darius, tend to be hits, and after Randy Bass of the Hanshin Tigers.
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