Hamster Corporation were able to reference the only known working Sky Skipper arcade board in Japan via the cooperation of exA-Arcadia and used the ROM image from this board[3] to release it on the Nintendo Switch eShop under license from Nintendo in 2018 as part of the Arcade Archives series of digital download titles.

In Sky Skipper, the player pilots a biplane through scrolling mazes to save animals caged by enemy gorillas.

[11] According to Nintendo World Report, the rerelease may have taken years to come to fruition due to legal issues with Ikegami Tsushinki.

[7][17] Nintendo Life enjoyed "striking a balance between completing the levels quickly and plotting a route to maximise your point-scoring.

[7] Nintendo Life agreed in that the colors were garish in places and the environments were blocky, writing this: "The simple design and plain backgrounds ensure everything is easy to follow, but Sky Skipper certainly shows its age.

[7][17] Having played the vintage arcade, Nintendo of America's gameplay tester Howard Philips called Sky Skipper a "confusing thematic mess"[6] akin to an LSD trip.

One of the ROM chips was dead, so they contacted Genyo Takeda who pulled the original files from Nintendo's archives, enabling Eggebrecht to repair the machine.

Four boards owned by collectors, containing Popeye ROMs, were known to have been converted from Sky Skipper based on their serial numbers.

[6] To get information on the cabinet, they asked video game player Billy Mitchell to connect with Nintendo of America.