Looks like a Scooby Doo cartoon, villains wearing weird hooded masks, the way they walk, the color throughout. Awesome. Pretty sure the animation of the characters was worked out with drawings and then digitized into computer graphics judging by the complexity of the poses, acting and staging.
I remember this game.. my arcade got this one a little late.. 1989.. albatross was the second video game crush I had (the first being solid snake),, that side art had me in love (mostly games at my arcade were jam packed so you couldn't see the side art,, but this one was at the end).. he looks like the guy from space harrier haha..
The story of a man in a bright red ascot shooting the crap out of the most colorful evil henchmen 16 bits could output. A survivor, upon seeing the carnage, would quietly retreat to a idyllic island and adopt the name Plok.
Yes! I loved this game! My pals and me used to act like the characters when we were playing outside (of course we were kids). There was also this silly legend inside the arcade store that the main character was actually *Lupin*, but a bit 'changed' for lack of copyrights. ...now, if you excuse me, I have to spend the next 25 minutes swimming in my nostalgia. -BETMARK-
***** XD there are a lot of silly stuff I love of this game.Like the 'hood guys' taunting their boss everytime he turns to the other side.Or how they look around confused when you enter into a room right in front of them: "What is this sorcery?!? Where did he go?" -BETMARK-
***** When we were kids we just saw a skinny guy with a gun who was shooting bad people and that was pretty much the first version of Lupin the 3rd. We didn't even know this one was a secret agent (also the girl to rescue could be *Fujiko* or one of the random girls he was in love).
Love the look on Albatross's face at the end. Just killed 1000's of men and some green alien man to rescue the girl, but still has a look of "It's over. Go home. I'm bored now."
i had this game on my playstation 2 it came in an arcade pack type of game for the playstation 2 i was terrible at it but i still enjoyed. the noise for when you die still haunts me to this day though
Albatross saves Leila here, and in the sequel they both work together. Part 3 took place same time as part 2, so some jabroni named Jay went after the bad guys in a decent second sequel.
My mom actually got this particular arcade cabinet from the hotel she used to work at to the apartment she used to live in. So, I have fond memories of playing this game as a kid -- hard as hell, though.
It's using the existing character animations to give a Seig Heil style salute (but conveniently closed fist so as not to get the game banned in Germany!)
@@VinylSamuraisMusic Lol! Now would be very cool. Have great day CrabJab! PS: Just a Correction; The game's name is 'My Friend Pedro', not 'My Name is Pedro'.
For a moment it looked like they were going to pull a "ghosts'n'goblins" on you, but the second round turms to be pretty different from the first after a while.
I still remember the game over music and Maboo’s evil laugh used to scare the crap out of me when I was little. I used to watch my sister and my dad play this and Galaga 88 all the time because at the time both games were too hard for me (I was around 5-6 years old at the time)
@@luisreyes1963 Namco did eventually release a Lupin the Third game on the Famicom in 1987, and it was pretty similar to Rolling Thunder, albeit with more exploration and the ability to switch between Lupin, Jigen, and Goemon.
I bet originally it was programed to be a Lupin The Third game, the graphic and animations are 100% Lupin style and the sequel have a female character very alike to Mina Fujiko the partner/rival of Lupin.
Still want to see someone beat this with default settings. I don’t think it’s been done. This was great gameplay but settings were switched to extend timer and make it easier
No, child. Dabbing wasn't a thing. The only people that care about "dabs" are children and man-children. The same goes for t-bagging. They's both childish. Grow up.
That's because Wrath of the Black Manta was horrible attempt @ copying Shinobi, which plays similarly to Rolling Thunder. Shurikens instead of bullets..
Anyone familiar with the SunA(?) knockoff of this, "Rough Ranger"? Many Americans played "count the gay stereotypes" regarding the cabinet and game artwork.
This looks and feels a lot like the arcade version of Sly Spy, an old Data East game. I wonder if there's any relation? Even the main characters jump looks the same...
If I'm going to beat this game then I need to conserve bullets. I found out that if you start Story 2 Level 10 with few bullets to start, you have no chance. Rolling Thunder is a very brutally difficult game.
![Arcade Longplay [902] Rolling Thunder 2](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/9sHXfIM3axE/mqdefault.jpg)
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To think I spent my entire childhood deprived of that synth steel drum action at the end because this game was too hard in the arcades.
Man.. I've been trying to remember the name of this awesome game for years. Finally found it.
I just remembered it today
My Arcade NAMCO MUSEUM mini cabinet has the original arcade version game on it. It's on PS2 as well, I think on the NAMCO MUSEUM disc.
Lmao me too finally found it today
Dude I never heard of that game, but thanks @Anthony Cassimiro for unlocking a new game for me :)
@@freddyfazbear29470 👍
Looks like a Scooby Doo cartoon, villains wearing weird hooded masks, the way they walk, the color throughout. Awesome. Pretty sure the animation of the characters was worked out with drawings and then digitized into computer graphics judging by the complexity of the poses, acting and staging.
Between the 50s and the 80s every villain were Scoobydoo villains.
@@fighthighlights2201 😅👍
@@fighthighlights2201 Then in the 70s and 80s every villain was Darth Vader.
It was made in Japan, I wonder how influential Scooby Doo was there in the mid 1980s.
Loved this game as a kid. Great game and great player
I remember this game.. my arcade got this one a little late.. 1989.. albatross was the second video game crush I had (the first being solid snake),, that side art had me in love (mostly games at my arcade were jam packed so you couldn't see the side art,, but this one was at the end).. he looks like the guy from space harrier haha..
The story of a man in a bright red ascot shooting the crap out of the most colorful evil henchmen 16 bits could output. A survivor, upon seeing the carnage, would quietly retreat to a idyllic island and adopt the name Plok.
TIM IT WAS JUST PLOK
I could smell the pepperoni pizza already. Just like at the arcade.
Yes! I loved this game!
My pals and me used to act like the characters when we were playing outside (of course we were kids).
There was also this silly legend inside the arcade store that the main character was actually *Lupin*, but a bit 'changed' for lack of copyrights.
...now, if you excuse me, I have to spend the next 25 minutes swimming in my nostalgia.
-BETMARK-
***** XD there are a lot of silly stuff I love of this game.Like the 'hood guys' taunting their boss everytime he turns to the other side.Or how they look around confused when you enter into a room right in front of them: "What is this sorcery?!? Where did he go?"
-BETMARK-
BETMARKonTube Lupin? That's weird. I guess it's because of the player's red shirt, though Lupin's a thief, not a secret agent.
*****
When we were kids we just saw a skinny guy with a gun who was shooting bad people and that was pretty much the first version of Lupin the 3rd.
We didn't even know this one was a secret agent (also the girl to rescue could be *Fujiko* or one of the random girls he was in love).
Love the look on Albatross's face at the end. Just killed 1000's of men and some green alien man to rescue the girl, but still has a look of "It's over. Go home. I'm bored now."
PTSD
The thousand yard stare
Holy crap those last few levels are ridiculous! I could never get past the 4th level.
i had this game on my playstation 2 it came in an arcade pack type of game for the playstation 2 i was terrible at it but i still enjoyed. the noise for when you die still haunts me to this day though
d e e g o hahah exactly what heppened to me lol but still worth it
You’re talking about Namco Museum 50th Anniversary, correct?
@@gamerguy13dave24 I had that game!
I remember playing this great game back in 1987. Phew the memories awsome game.
Wonderful game, and not an easy one so I applaud the moves on this player...
Yep. Arcade games were made tough to take your money. It was to teach us the consequences of Vegas for later life 🤣
You know it's tool-assisted, right?
@@KajuTheRudeMonke Proof?
@@Arbaz3102 Read the description of the video. "Disclaimer: Most videos by World of Longplays use SaveStates!"
Great classic. The control is tough and makes the game harder. The second loop is a complete nightmare.
I struggled to play this game at first but then after seeing others have success then I started to have it
I used to love playing Rolling Thunder in the laundrymat in my old hometown neighborhood of Little Italy in the Bronx.
Albatross saves Leila here, and in the sequel they both work together. Part 3 took place same time as part 2, so some jabroni named Jay went after the bad guys in a decent second sequel.
This game was stupid hard after the cave part.
Rolling Thunder is ABSOLUTELY AWESOME and STUNNINGLY AMAZING
Albatross taking on the enemy to save Leila From Geldra 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
This game is great, I cosplayed as Agent Albatross a few years ago at AWA.
Awesome! AWA is a nice con in my experience.
So how many people thought that you were cosplaying Lupin the 3rd?
@@TheDutchGhost About 3 people, or someone from the series.
This and Shinobi are among my fav's
One of my all time favorite arcade games!
This looks like Sean Connery vs the gay klu klux klan.
Thank you for uploading this. I poured so many quarters into this arcade game in 1989. Good times.
0:36 - Game Over: Return of Maboo.
YESS it does look like that haha..
@@CreesNostalgiaHut Indeed.
At least the Zelda 2 one is less of a jumpscare than this.
I wasn't too scared of Rolling Thunder, actually.@@YuukiTakemoto1996
needs a remake :) happy times.
My mom actually got this particular arcade cabinet from the hotel she used to work at to the apartment she used to live in. So, I have fond memories of playing this game as a kid -- hard as hell, though.
Back when you could beat a game. Now they never end lol
The power of a great shooter.
Still classic!
Amazing they used to have arcade games u could beat without even being hit once?! Definitely worth a quarter
The chaser bullet after you shoot you follow the bullet it saved my bacon more than a few times
Rolling Thunder is badass! It’s like icing the KKK in a James Bond triple assault.
Loved the soundtrack
this and stryder my favourite childhood arcade games.
Good ole days! Great graphics on this old school jam I always thought 👍
24:11 white enemy: I gotta go. *leaving the game*
i played this game at my summer camp best day of my life
Rolling Thunder! Lost many a quarters with you.
Wow, he was never touched!!
Good Lord, this tells me back in the day I was so close to completing this game.
this is Pat the NES Punk all-time favorite arcade game
The music sounds a lot better on the Arcade than the nes
It's been 31 years since this game came around? Come on Bandai Namco! Make a new version!
KawaiiNeko333 omg. 31? I remember first playing this game 17 yrs ago as a small child :(
I would play this
at the laundromat and one time it gave free games! I liked to camp at the turret. ROFL 🤣👍
I don't know if you know this, but you can get arms more than one time in the same level.
My favorite arcade game!
why enemies are punching their leader in cutscenes ?
Because he keeps watching snuff films in front of them.
What kind of education have you received?
It's probably reusing the animation to look like they're saluting or heiling him.
Even they dont like him
It's using the existing character animations to give a Seig Heil style salute (but conveniently closed fist so as not to get the game banned in Germany!)
What were those things that explode in blue flames?
Look out for:
MY NAME IS PEDRO
New game that looks like 2019 Rolling Thunder. I can’t bloody wait
I just checked out that "My Name is Pedro" game. Really really cool. Thanks 'Crab Jab' for telling us. Crab Jab, now that's a cool nickname.
@@fighthighlights2201 Yeh i don't know how i came up with it haha. I might use that as my gamertag
@@VinylSamuraisMusic Lol! Now would be very cool. Have great day CrabJab!
PS: Just a Correction; The game's name is 'My Friend Pedro', not 'My Name is Pedro'.
Nice playthrough. you made it look like it's a breeze.
For a moment it looked like they were going to pull a "ghosts'n'goblins" on you, but the second round turms to be pretty different from the first after a while.
I still remember the game over music and Maboo’s evil laugh used to scare the crap out of me when I was little. I used to watch my sister and my dad play this and Galaga 88 all the time because at the time both games were too hard for me (I was around 5-6 years old at the time)
Mabu is a goddamn green motherfucker! Like, he looks like Piccolo's abortion! Albatross gets bitches but he doesn't!!!
oh, player character totally same like lupin the third
Tmour Funny you should say that. It actually was going to be a arcade game featuring Lupin The Third, but Namco couldn't secure the rights.
@@luisreyes1963 Namco did eventually release a Lupin the Third game on the Famicom in 1987, and it was pretty similar to Rolling Thunder, albeit with more exploration and the ability to switch between Lupin, Jigen, and Goemon.
Old school arcade game, hard but good.
Very Good play, Thanks
I bet originally it was programed to be a Lupin The Third game, the graphic and animations are 100% Lupin style and the sequel have a female character very alike to Mina Fujiko the partner/rival of Lupin.
Who were the enemies supposed to be?
Never heard of it, but dam this looks so good
Are we supposed to say, “white power”? Or “rainbow brite power”?
Time for...Rotating Vomit!
So simple and still so amazing game 😍
Wasn't this released for the NES?
Charlie Owens Yes, but it was published by Atari/Tengen so it was not licensed by Nintendo.
Charlie Owens Was also released for the Commodore Amiga, but terrible port (IMO).
***** Tiertex syndrome, their games usually tend to be terrible.
CarozQH Just like my marriage, and I was never married.
Needs a reboot for PS5 and/or XBox X...
Behold, the hardest final boss in history!
Imagine how much harder this game would be if the mooks had a more elaborate AI? These guys can't even see you if you're on a stairway.
+Akira625 that and they are all conveniently color coded according to what they are allowed to do.
Still want to see someone beat this with default settings. I don’t think it’s been done. This was great gameplay but settings were switched to extend timer and make it easier
Genio!
Makes me think of Codename: Viper. Similar gameplay
Codename: Viper was a reskin of this game pretty much.
Estuve intentando recordar el nombre de este juego por 30 años!!!!!!!
Rolling Thunder is an great spy arcade game. 😀👍🎮
One of the best parts about this game was that I got to play it before arcades started setting their games to .50 cents a play.
0:09 Is that a dab I see?
No, child. Dabbing wasn't a thing. The only people that care about "dabs" are children and man-children. The same goes for t-bagging. They's both childish. Grow up.
Shadowbane Gaming Jeez, I was kidding. Obviously I wasn't being serious.
Reminds me of Wrath of the Black Manta on NES.
That's because Wrath of the Black Manta was horrible attempt @ copying Shinobi, which plays similarly to Rolling Thunder. Shurikens instead of bullets..
Anyone familiar with the SunA(?) knockoff of this, "Rough Ranger"? Many Americans played "count the gay stereotypes" regarding the cabinet and game artwork.
Arcade rolling thunder
Classic 80s
0:26 and 0:30: DAMAGE! PLAYER DOWN!!
0:40 and 0:49: Coin insert! READY? GO! (1:04)
24:23: BOSS DOWN!
Nice one, gameplay is similar to Code Name Viper
Who's that joker laughing at the end
Maboo The Leader Of Geldra
Mabu, a.k.a. Piccolo's abortion (that's what I used to call him as a kid.)
This looks and feels a lot like the arcade version of Sly Spy, an old Data East game. I wonder if there's any relation? Even the main characters jump looks the same...
No.
Sly Spy came wayyyy after this.
Albatross is SOOOOO hot!!! Only on the official artwork though. I have a thing for blondes in red sweaters.
If I'm going to beat this game then I need to conserve bullets. I found out that if you start Story 2 Level 10 with few bullets to start, you have no chance. Rolling Thunder is a very brutally difficult game.
Like an upgrade to Elevator Action 🤔
It's not quite fun when I actually turn up invulnerable to pass it.
This is almost a pallet swap of Shinobi
When I use to look into and read from Newsweek magazine; I found out this, women discriminate too you know!
God this was hard, not sure I ever got past the first level
Edit: watching this I didn’t
A Shinobi's ancestor
I would like this better than dead fox were it not for how ridiculous the enemies looked
THIS A HARD GAME I BARILY MADE IT PAST THE 1ST PART OF LVL 1 BRAHH!!
Brother memorize the enemy placements very time consuming but benefits you it took me nine years to finally beat the game
man imagine spending so many quarters and time and effort to get that garbage ending.
i always wonder how the evil supervillain guy made payroll
He tells a young Saiyan to dodge.
Insert credit 0:40
its like Django if he was white lol
This game!!!! I couldn't remember t he e name
Jablinski brought me here
BARLEY made that around 15:17😳lol!
Color not true like reak arcade i remmber it was like janes bond movie
Yeah ابو ها الراس اجل تقتل الزعيم بدون رشاش ههههههههههههه انا قبل مواجهه الزعيم الرشاش عندي يكون فوق الالف طلقه
Wir spielten das bis das Geld alle war.
Blatant Shinobi clone