NOT a Fighting Game!? Top Hunter: Roddy & Cathy! Neo Geo's Colorful Arcade Beat Em Up!
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Well here we are! It's Neo Geo series time! Because damn it...it's my favorite retro gaming platform of all time and I've been collecting for the Neo Geo AES for years! As far as retrogaming collecting goes...it's not cheap, but don't forget...you can always get the 1:1 experience on MiSTer FPGA, which is how I am playing this now!
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Up next: Top Hunter: Roddy and Cathy. The Neo Geo does not have a ton of beat em up games but the few it does have are great...and my personal favorite is Top Hunter! Its half beat em up, half platformer and ALL fun! It has a really interesting multi plane setup ala Guardian Heroes but it has all the colorful charm you'd expect out of a gave developed by SNK for the Neo Geo! If Capcom had Final Fight and Sega had Streets of Rage...SNK had Top Hunter!
And if you don't own a Neo Geo or a MiSTer...play it on Final Burn Neo...it emulates extremely well!
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This is the first NeoGeo game I played in the arcade. I always remembered it, but never knew the name until I saw it again until I started my collection :-) Really love this game, it has such a charming personality!
Wow the first Neo Geo game you ever saw and it wasn’t a fighting game / Puzzle Bubble. That’s surprising!
This and Spinmaster are probably the most slept on Neo Geo games.
I almost did Spinmasters but I like Top Hunter just a tiny bit more so it won out
Top Hunter is among the Neo cd Dreamcast games I'm trying to upload to the internet archive. What makes this one unique is it seems like someone straight up ported it to Dreamcast.
Interesting
Excellent video of Top Hunter : Roddy & Cathy for the Neo-Geo VGE. I have this gem of a title for the NGCD, and AES. I think it's a really fun game for the whole family.
Also VGE, thank you for stopping by the Neo-Geo thread to share this with us. I also went on your thread and shared the video for others to take notice as well bro. Keep up the great work for sure. 8^)
Anthony...
It really is a gem. More people need to play it!
I own this game but did not play it yet. I have to say that it looks fantastic, so I'm sure it will stay in my collection!
You picked up an AES cart and instead of immediately playing it you put it down for later and haven’t gotten to it yet!?!? What are you…me??
@@VideoGameEsoterica Hahaha we're all the same xD No but, I've tried it for a minute of course. Just tough to find time to actually play the games. But its coming :D
Oh I get that. More games then time
Top Hunter is one of my personal faves.
Such a fun and unique game.
You seemed to forget to mention it has fighter style special moves though.
I did notice you pull a fire ball though lol
It’s a totally unique and fun game more people need to play
It has many moves taken from Art of Fighting.
Which funny enough is my least fav series from SNK
You're right, this is a pretty good game that I can't remember anyone really talking about. Great pick! I play this one on a 161-in-1 AES cart because I am a terrible person. I feel zero shame!
Haha that’s fair. Gotta do what you gotta do
Growing up, the neighborhood Roundtable Pizza near me just outside of Portland, OR had a 4 slot big red MVS cabinet. That cabinet was pretty much my sole Neo Geo experience until adulthood and Top Hunter was always available to play even when other games had been changed out. It is a must-play Neo Geo game for me and definitely one of the first that come to mind when I think of my own nostalgia. Worth noting that the Metal Slug games and Blue's Adventure were also far more popular on that cab than any of the fighting games. Would be interesting to see if its a regional thing or maybe Roundtable owners just light sidescrolls and platformers more. Great video as always dude!
PS: I always thought the villains were cool as a child so I had a Vac-Man instead of Stretch Armstrong
Glad more people played this back in the day. I expected more people to say “never heard of this”
Man, I wasn't really too interested in this game as I thought it was going to be a standard platformer and I haven't been into those since Sonic the Hedgehog, but this game is so much more.
It really blew my mind when I discovered my first fighting game input. My guy did a dragon punch and that was definitely a big surprise.
Everything about this game is absolutely perfect!
Of course SNK hid fighting game inputs in it. Couldn’t help themselves!
I’d never come across this game. Thank you for covering it as it looks like a game I need to visit.
Happy to do it! Def play it :)
Stretch Armstrong was a SAINT.
He got cancelled. Pyramid schemes. Took a lot of people for a lot of $$$
Big fan of this one as well. It was one of the games I knew I just *had* to add to my Arcade Archives collection on Switch. 😁
A wise decision :)
Love your channel! I actually bought the game back in the 90s. I love it, too, but always found the two planes confusing. 😅 I haven't played it in a long time, and now saw lots of little details in your video that I had -err- borrowed for a PSX game I had worked on (that never came out).
So glad you enjoy the channel. Thanks!
Here in Italy was quite common and popuplar in the arcade. Palyed a lot with friends.
Good to know!
Awesome! Never heard of this game, so definitely going to check it out. Unfortunately I am pretty sure that you didn't crush a robot monkey, but a real monkey. The feet you throw are the feet of your mech that you rode in!
haha maybe its a real monkey?
Love this one! The tunes are bumping and it looks fantastic.
Yeah it is. Looks good, sounds good…plays great
I always looked over this game, but I think I'll try it.
Def give it a shot! Tons of fun to be had
Yeah, I heard of it when some Neo Geo titles were avaliable online for the Wii. The Swedish magazine LEVEL heralded it as pretty much the first really good game on Neo Geo. I should play it, it´s on my Neo Geo Collection on Wii.
Yes it’s on Wii and it’s great there
Beautiful game and deffo underrated soundtrack, very atmospheric and the graphics absolutely pop, was one of my faves on Neo CD.
Yes it a blast and more people need to know about it. Fav Neo Geo CD game though?
@@VideoGameEsoterica my heart is with the Real Bout Special CD soundtrack for top winner. Shout out to Rally Chase tho
I was JUST playing Real Bout FF Special last week. On AES though. My fav of the Real Bout series
@@VideoGameEsoterica IMO better than Garou in nearly every way apart from frames of animation.
I dunno if I’d say that. They are so different for being the same series its hard for me to really compare them
Crushing that giant monkey robot is so satisfying (and kind of disturbing before you realize it's a robot!).
Haha robomonkey
Love Top Hunter. Great OST
The soundtrack is legit for sure
I'm surprised man that the neo-geo had such few platformers. Think it would have been better to have some more of those and less fighting games
I agree...but SNK knew what people wanted I am sure
I was today years old when I found out you could punch the wood walls in the first label...🤦
haha it happens!
One of my faves❤
A total classic for sure
Looks awesome! I'd like to check it out and play it. Love the charm and fun, and some of the mechanics remind me of Mischief Maker. I like the dual-play mechanic as well. "Top Hunter" in the modern context sounds like it would be an LGBT adult video series.
🤣 I can’t say you aren’t right. Never thought about it that way
Never played this but it looks great. Does the game have unlimited credits like most NEO GEO games?
Pretty sure it does. But I usually use a Unibios so I can’t remember if it’s infinite credits because that’s how it is or if I set that
I think the NeoGeo has probably one of the best Quality vs Quantity ratios of any console. Granted there are quite a few average games on it, there are just a handful of truly awful games and there are plenty of amazing games.
100%. The hits are deep, tons are “really good” and only a few are bad
Many Prefer Contra-ish games so most wrote this game off it trying to be a Metal Slug clone so most I know never really got past the first stage. Good to hear you thought this was a good platforming game. Just wish it had more uniqueness to not look like Metal Slug in my opinion. I think it would have done better if the character designs were more different and enemy designs. Like I wanted to make an Action Fantasy Game like this where you go into the background and foreground. But yeah this is still a game I noticed not many talk about and again I think it is because the game was trying to be Metal Slug when it should have tried to go for a more different Fantasy look.
Which is a bad choice on peoples behalf to write it off
@@VideoGameEsoterica yeah I know and also it didn't help that I really never saw this game in the Arcades. It was mostly the Fighting Games loaded into the neo geo machines or Shoot em ups or beat em up games. Magician Lord and Last Resort and Viewpoint were most the odd balls I was coming across playing.
Fighting games and Puzzle Bobble. But you can’t blame them…it’s what made money!
@@VideoGameEsoterica Yep and so some games like this wasn't that popular sadly. Like I say again. Contra was far more superior and so Metal Slug was that game.
Logic checks out. Contra was huge
Bionic Commando
Haha kinda
SNES game with 50 Mbit? Which? I thought 32 Mbit was a big deal like in 1994.
Edit: Google says Star Ocean and Tales of Phantasia, although technically 48 Mbit ;)
Rounded 2 lol
Accckhhtually stretch Armstrong was at its height of popularity during the early 80s … his popularity had severely declined by the 90s! .. whole video is wrong!
haha I had him in the 90s!
@@VideoGameEsoterica lol me too !
lol!
He was a popular toy apparently
Some real stretch Armstrong love this morning
I never have seen it in Arcades. But i like to play it on my MiSTer. Top Hunter is a fun Game. Thank you for the Video.
Happy to make the video :)