I always felt the SNES version had a superior difficulty curve and sound compared to the arcade version, making it the best version in existence. Great game either way.
the soundfont for music is a downgrade for me, the piano is overused and isn't amazing on most snes games, and the bass feels kinda shallow. although at least the snes version can handle multiple sounds going on without sacrificing the music's quality
Dude, the SNES WAS ALRIGHT port but the older NES allowed for something I had never seen before on the NES. I dunno if it was possible with like a four way adapter but if you played solo, used both Player 1 & 2 controllers, you could move the player character using controller 1 but use the controller 2 D-Pad to aim and shoot. Yea, it was wonky as all "I'd buy that for a dollar" but yea it was kinda nice if you had two NES Advantage arcade stick type controllers, then you could do what the arcade did, just, I didn't have two of those ... so instead I used rubber ands to hold two regular rectangular NES controllers together, and hurt the heck out of my hands, rubbing that DPad to death. Big money, big prizes, and a big blister,
The super Nintendo version was almost arcade perfect aside from a little censorship here and there. Thanks to the extra button on the controller you didn't need to put two controllers together for one player. Don't get me wrong, the NES conversion was really good even including some of the speech from the arcade game and I loved using two controllers the simulate the arcade game
Eugene Jarvis also worked with Housemarque on the excellent Nex Machina. It was even code named "the Jarvis project" internally during development. His new studio developed the new Switch title, Crusin' Blast. Legit legend.
I remember renting this on the nes a few days before I got my genesis for Christmas (1992). I was actually disappointed that I was upgrading because I wanted to keep playing smash tv. Playing this with a friend is so much fun. It’s fast and chaotic, and it keeps you really invested in what’s taking place on-screen.
Nope. It pretty much was conceived by Robert Sheckley and his short story "The Prize of Peril" from 1960. This story was turned into a german movie called "Das Millionenspiel" in 1970 and when you watch it, you'll quickly notice, that Running Man really is just a cheap hollywood knock off. Also in 1970 there as basically no private television, no reality tv and the movie predicted all of that shockingly accurate. Also, the movie was so convincingly done, that the TV station showing it received thousands of phone calls and letters, both of people being completely pissed off and angry that a "manhunt" was shown on TV, but also from people, who wanted to be contestants of the show.
I had the Midway Arcade Classics collection on the Xbox. I enjoyed Smash TV, but I played TONNES of hours of Robotron 2084. Robotron just had so much more of a "just one more turn" hook!
There is also an arcade-perfect port of this on the original Playstation. The game is called "Arcade Party Pak." It was a compilation of 6 different games, one of which was Smash TV. If you have a PS1 Controller with analogue sticks, it also has perfect faithfulness to the original arcade controls, as the two analogue sticks function as the two joysticks from the cabinet.
In my opinion...almost look like Fornite which both battle royale, killing people with weapons, and survival but different except that Smash TV has bosses and others than Fornite doesn't.
I'm currently 21 and this game is older than me, but I have so much nostalgia for it. I used to have a copy on my PS2 and I'd play with my twin brother and older sisters. We used to always quote this game and it's one of the first video games I ever beat.
One of my arcade machines is a Golden Tee, but it's a conversion of a Midway cabinet. I guess someone put black vinyl on the sides to cover the side art, but you can clearly see under it, it used to be a smash tv. The silhouette is still there. Great vid.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Video Gamers R Us. It's a small group and it's mainly me posting lol but we have fun and I do giveaways from time to time.
It's really sad that there weren't many twin stick shooters in the arcades back then. Robotron, Smash TV, and Total Carnage are the only ones I can think of, and it's a damn shame because it's really the perfect control scheme for an overhead shooter.
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Thank you for the kind words, I hope I catch on too. People seem to like my channel and I try to make it as informative as possible without making it boring. Thanks again
It's worth mentioning the SNES version has 20, not 30 max enemies, 30% less arena space, 30% slower running. The design is change and is botched by the Beam Software conversion house. The best version is the Genesis version in every metric. If you can ignore the black box, you will find having the full arena makes the game much more enjoyable and having the game arcade accurate is a better design choice than Beam's new ideas. Fire reverse with B and strafe by also holding C will see you through this game without issue. Trying to use an twin stick setup without twin sticks is a fools errand as you have 8 button combinations to perfect.
Me and a friend of mine could beat Super Smash TV on the SNES but never found the Pleasure Dome. Was it in the game or not? The number one rule of the game to us was to stay out of the middle.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries That's crazy! I mean, I've encountered this game all over the freaking place, and that's just in my small area of central Pennsylvania.
The Amiga Version had some interesting ideas, if you had two players on a Joystick each, pressing the ALT revered the Shooting Direction, and I think another button Locked your direction,, and I had a Dongle, I think that came with Amiga Bomberman (Dynablaster) that plugged into the Parallel port, and it gave two more joystick ports, so you could play 2player, with 4 sticks. Still SNES was the best home version
In call of duty Black ops if you pushed the triggers together you could break out of the chair on the main menu and walk over to a computer and play zork along with a zombie game like this. Never understood what was up with the invincible gorilla though. Maybe if harambe was invincible he'd still be with us.
I still get this song stuck in my head constantly. In the video game remake world we live in this is an obvious choice. You could monetize it by letting people pay a quarter for a continue. The way God intended.
I'd love to see a part 2 of your video covering Total Carnage in full. The art, sound, and animated scenes are amazingly well done in that game and I always get a kick out of watching that evil dictator dude pounding his fist causing the screen to shake.
The one constant is that whichever version I play I'm terrible at the game. It's a solid game although I always enjoyed Total Carnage that little bit more.
Types of games are so hard to play because the controls are always so bad. I used to think it was because the analog stick wasn't what they used and you only had the four directions but I played the DS version of geometry wars and that allowed you to aim in between the diagonals when you press the diagonal it would shoot from the cardinal direction all the way to the diagonal making it easier to hit your enemy. Also that game had touch screen controls which was the way better way to go.
Does anyone know if the mame version of this game can be played with one joystick since it is dual stick shooter game? Like if I have a bar top arcade can I configure to play it with one controller?
I preferred the version without the pleasure dome. It added to the sense of false accomplishment and general dystopian vibe. Like the dead winners in running man.
I don't buy the excuse that the pleasure dome was left out due to time constraints. So many rooms; how much time would it have taken to add one more? Seems more plausible that they were just being jerks and got caught. But given the satiric inhumanity of Smash TV, playing such a cruel joke on the players is kind of fitting 😋
When I was a kid a classmate sold me the Game Gear version of Smash TV and Virtua Fighter Animation for five bucks. He said he didn't play them anymore. Later on he sold me Toki and Rygar for the Lynx too. I think that was for ten bucks and some movie I had. I think it was my copy of The Goonies. I hardly ever watched it so I was cool with it Anyway, I liked it but didn't love it. I'm now able to play better versions with a dual stick controller so that's nice and I've come to appreciate the game, and twin stick shooters, a lot more in the last decade or so
A dedicated Smash is very hard to come by these days let alone cheap. I remember when these were around $400-500 fully working, no chance in that today unless it's dead
I found a genuine arcade cabinet in a UK seaside resort during 1996. It had been professionally reconditioned, almost looking like new. I asked the owner if he'd consider selling it, but it was a definite no. The SNES version is my console favourite by a long way.
I never knew about the Pleasure Dome update. Got caught stealing quarters! Sorta reminds me of the message in Strider during the attract mode, "SIBERIAN WILDERNESS: NOBODY HAS EVER CLEARED THIS STAGE."
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I was a play tester for them. I remember we had an arcade with all the games they had converted. The guys there were really clever.
DYK: Mark Turmell, Smash TV’s programmer, would later go on to create NBA Jam and NFL Blitz. Both the NES and SNES versions were developed by Beam Software, with Jamie Rivett as one of the programmers. Rivett would later join Midway as one of NBA Jam’s designers.
Some hard earned lawn mowing money bought me the NES port, and I was not disappointing one little bit! Masterfully done. But get this, the C64 port(and some other games) comes bundle free with C64 forever.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Along with Gauntlet and TMNT2: The Arcade Game, I'd say its easily one of the best arcade-to-home conversions on the NES.
@1:11 you say there was never a sequel to _Robotron 2084_ [1982; Williams Electronics, Inc.] but in fact there was, and is: _Blaster_ [1983; Williams] th-cam.com/video/agEQ7YIYk0A/w-d-xo.html www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7145 The 1983 crash of the home-/console- gaming market you reference affected the coin op arcade game market little or not at all. But about _Smash TV_ [1990; Williams], it's a _Robotron 2084_ -clone but is otherwise separate and unrelated.
How is that a sequel? And where does it say it's a sequel? It only uses one stick, the perspective is first person. It does have the same sound effects but that doesn't mean anything
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries : Even though it's an entirely other kind of gameplay, _Blaster_ nonetheless really is a sequel to _Robotron 2084_ . It says so @ 0:23 AND it's made by Vid Kidz*, of which Eugene Jarvis was one of. --- *Vid Kids, including Eugene Jarvis, were the makers/developers of _Robotron 2084_ , and also _Defender_ , _Stargate_ , _N.A.R.C._ , and _Smash TV_ and probably others, for Williams Electronics, Inc. in each case. P.S.: Your show is awesome! I've Thumbed Up many of your uploads already hehehehehe
This game was far more fun than it had any business being. I love the modern-day homages to it. if I ever do become some Big Shot director, I'm making movies of Smash TV, Sinistar and gauntlet.
wow, a stunt like that made Midway for at least one month, modern day EA levels of scummy to ship out a game with features it openly lies about in game, Mr. Jarvis in his interview didn't seem apologetic for legitimately scamming people, just telling it forward which is honest......but still shitty.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries picture this man telling someone "hahaha, people wasted millions of dollars in quarters trying to reach something we made up"......yeah, you tell that anecdote at a party, don't be shocked if they then immediately spits in your mouth ^^;
Who else hear got into the seizure- I mean pleasure dome? :D BTW: Any reason you mention Total Carnage but not the two contestants appearing in the bugged ending?
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries It's because of the bug ait endsu p one of the most discussed "you win" screens. Due to a bug, the graphics of the good ending will always display despite not collecting all goodies of the pleasure dome.
What's the best prebuilt fightstick to use for this game? Obviously, it needs two sticks that can be mapped for movement and fire direction and used simultaneously.
“I’d buy that for a dollar”
One of my favorite quotes which I still use to this day
The original line was, “I’ll buy that for a quarter” and came from the sci-fi novel “The Marching Morons” which has the same plot from Idioticy
Hahahaha I was coming over here to say that!
*I'd buy that for a dollar
Used to skip school and go to the arcade and play till 230😭😭😭
I always felt the SNES version had a superior difficulty curve and sound compared to the arcade version, making it the best version in existence. Great game either way.
It's a really good conversion
the soundfont for music is a downgrade for me, the piano is overused and isn't amazing on most snes games, and the bass feels kinda shallow. although at least the snes version can handle multiple sounds going on without sacrificing the music's quality
Eugene Jarvis, the designer of the arcade game, has even praised the SNES version. that has to count for something. -- A.T.
I haven't played that version, but will try it tonight.
Smash Tv was intense. The longer you played, the more worn out you got.
LOL, you're right that's exactly what happened.
"Big money, big prizes! I love it!" 😎👍
I'd buy that for a dollar!
(Wiggles eyebrows looking down at breasts)
"Good luck...you'll NEED IT!"
There was a sequel to Robotron called Blaster. One of Blaster's attract screen said that it was 2085 and Earth was destroyed by the Robotrons.
I just learned of thisA couple of days ago I had no idea
Looks Like an Atari2600 Game Called 'Berzerk!'.
when you figure out that cod black ops dead ops arcade is literally a reskin of smash tv
I had the Midway collection. This game was so fun it pulled my best friend and I attention from Halo 2.
In the game must've been good because Halo 2 is a classic
Dude, the SNES WAS ALRIGHT port but the older NES allowed for something I had never seen before on the NES. I dunno if it was possible with like a four way adapter but if you played solo, used both Player 1 & 2 controllers, you could move the player character using controller 1 but use the controller 2 D-Pad to aim and shoot. Yea, it was wonky as all "I'd buy that for a dollar" but yea it was kinda nice if you had two NES Advantage arcade stick type controllers, then you could do what the arcade did, just, I didn't have two of those ... so instead I used rubber ands to hold two regular rectangular NES controllers together, and hurt the heck out of my hands, rubbing that DPad to death. Big money, big prizes, and a big blister,
The super Nintendo version was almost arcade perfect aside from a little censorship here and there. Thanks to the extra button on the controller you didn't need to put two controllers together for one player. Don't get me wrong, the NES conversion was really good even including some of the speech from the arcade game and I loved using two controllers the simulate the arcade game
Well, there goes my comment saying remember Total Carnage.
LOL :-)
Eugene Jarvis also worked with Housemarque on the excellent Nex Machina. It was even code named "the Jarvis project" internally during development. His new studio developed the new Switch title, Crusin' Blast. Legit legend.
I remember renting this on the nes a few days before I got my genesis for Christmas (1992). I was actually disappointed that I was upgrading because I wanted to keep playing smash tv. Playing this with a friend is so much fun. It’s fast and chaotic, and it keeps you really invested in what’s taking place on-screen.
It's an excellent two player game and one of my favorite twin stick shooters
I think, much like The Running Man, Smash TV must've largely predicted the rise of "reality" shows.
Nope. It pretty much was conceived by Robert Sheckley and his short story "The Prize of Peril" from 1960. This story was turned into a german movie called "Das Millionenspiel" in 1970 and when you watch it, you'll quickly notice, that Running Man really is just a cheap hollywood knock off. Also in 1970 there as basically no private television, no reality tv and the movie predicted all of that shockingly accurate. Also, the movie was so convincingly done, that the TV station showing it received thousands of phone calls and letters, both of people being completely pissed off and angry that a "manhunt" was shown on TV, but also from people, who wanted to be contestants of the show.
I had the Midway Arcade Classics collection on the Xbox. I enjoyed Smash TV, but I played TONNES of hours of Robotron 2084. Robotron just had so much more of a "just one more turn" hook!
That's what a lot of games today are lacking is that hook. A lot of games from my youth were like this.
There is also an arcade-perfect port of this on the original Playstation. The game is called "Arcade Party Pak." It was a compilation of 6 different games, one of which was Smash TV. If you have a PS1 Controller with analogue sticks, it also has perfect faithfulness to the original arcade controls, as the two analogue sticks function as the two joysticks from the cabinet.
In my opinion...almost look like Fornite which both battle royale, killing people with weapons, and survival but different except that Smash TV has bosses and others than Fornite doesn't.
Ugh... Fortnite... smh
That game's got nothing on Smash TV.
This game is tough! I like watching it though. Back in the day it was off the charts cool.
I'm currently 21 and this game is older than me, but I have so much nostalgia for it. I used to have a copy on my PS2 and I'd play with my twin brother and older sisters. We used to always quote this game and it's one of the first video games I ever beat.
I still quote the game LOL
Let’s not forget Lucio Fulci’s The New Gladiators inspired Running Man.
SmashTV on NES was The "NintendoThumb" Killer!
(CarpalTunnelSyndrome Progressor.)
LOL
The controller was the best and reaction time was prefect
I agree, probably my favorite twin stick shooter
One of my arcade machines is a Golden Tee, but it's a conversion of a Midway cabinet. I guess someone put black vinyl on the sides to cover the side art, but you can clearly see under it, it used to be a smash tv. The silhouette is still there. Great vid.
Very odd, thanks for the nice words
Another quality video! I share your videos to my small Facebook group on release. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the shares, I really appreciate it. What's your Facebook group? I'd like to check it out thanks the comments
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Video Gamers R Us. It's a small group and it's mainly me posting lol but we have fun and I do giveaways from time to time.
I'll be sure and check out thanks
It's really sad that there weren't many twin stick shooters in the arcades back then. Robotron, Smash TV, and Total Carnage are the only ones I can think of, and it's a damn shame because it's really the perfect control scheme for an overhead shooter.
How about Taito’s Space Dungeon?
3:40 at this point my best friend and I would always say in unison...
"Big money, Big prizes, Big titties!!!!
I loved being a teenager.
LOL
Pleasure dome = Village Chieftains eaten by gelatinous cube
I remember playing this a lot when I was a kid. I played the arcade game a few times plus owned Super Smash TV.
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Thank you for the kind words, I hope I catch on too. People seem to like my channel and I try to make it as informative as possible without making it boring. Thanks again
Robotron and Smash TV are in the same universe as Mortal Kombat because Johnny Cage was a contestant on Smash TV...
I fxcking adore Robotron and Smash TV
I LOVED this game. Smash TV was just epic.
It was my favorite twin stick shooter of all time
It's worth mentioning the SNES version has 20, not 30 max enemies, 30% less arena space, 30% slower running. The design is change and is botched by the Beam Software conversion house. The best version is the Genesis version in every metric. If you can ignore the black box, you will find having the full arena makes the game much more enjoyable and having the game arcade accurate is a better design choice than Beam's new ideas.
Fire reverse with B and strafe by also holding C will see you through this game without issue. Trying to use an twin stick setup without twin sticks is a fools errand as you have 8 button combinations to perfect.
Me and a friend of mine could beat Super Smash TV on the SNES but never found the Pleasure Dome. Was it in the game or not? The number one rule of the game to us was to stay out of the middle.
I would assume it was in the super Nintendo version but I never found it
I guess it's one of those video game mysteries
Wait--only around 2000 of the cabinets were produced? That sounds really low.
According to one of the designers that's all that was produced
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries That's crazy! I mean, I've encountered this game all over the freaking place, and that's just in my small area of central Pennsylvania.
The Snes Version of this game rocked. Im not sure I ever beat it though
It was excellent, a very good conversion. I know I never beaded but I had fun playing it
Had Smash TV on the SNES, and I loved Robocop. I played that game for hours.
So did I, those are two good games
The Amiga Version had some interesting ideas, if you had two players on a Joystick each, pressing the ALT revered the Shooting Direction, and I think another button Locked your direction,, and I had a Dongle, I think that came with Amiga Bomberman (Dynablaster) that plugged into the Parallel port, and it gave two more joystick ports, so you could play 2player, with 4 sticks. Still SNES was the best home version
In call of duty Black ops if you pushed the triggers together you could break out of the chair on the main menu and walk over to a computer and play zork along with a zombie game like this. Never understood what was up with the invincible gorilla though. Maybe if harambe was invincible he'd still be with us.
I still get this song stuck in my head constantly. In the video game remake world we live in this is an obvious choice. You could monetize it by letting people pay a quarter for a continue. The way God intended.
You forgot a port to the PSX in 1999 on the Arcade party pak. Twinstick enabled as well.
Loved this game on the NES, had no clue there were so many other different versions of the game. Great work as always!
Thanks, yet there were a ton of differenT versions
I'd love to see a part 2 of your video covering Total Carnage in full. The art, sound, and animated scenes are amazingly well done in that game and I always get a kick out of watching that evil dictator dude pounding his fist causing the screen to shake.
I can deefinitely do that in the future. Didn't spend a whole lot of time with total carnage but looks like a lot of fun
Total Carnage is funny as fuck. The dictator says ill buy that for a dollah 👍
Actually, he says, 'I'll buy YOU for a dollar', along with other taunts such as 'You suck at this game!'.
the PS1 williams arcade party pack runs the arcade version on emulator. use the analog twin stick controller for true arcade experience.
My partner and I found this game last week in an arcade place we immediately became obsessed with it haha
The one constant is that whichever version I play I'm terrible at the game. It's a solid game although I always enjoyed Total Carnage that little bit more.
Types of games are so hard to play because the controls are always so bad. I used to think it was because the analog stick wasn't what they used and you only had the four directions but I played the DS version of geometry wars and that allowed you to aim in between the diagonals when you press the diagonal it would shoot from the cardinal direction all the way to the diagonal making it easier to hit your enemy. Also that game had touch screen controls which was the way better way to go.
5:16 That was actually a snippet from _Beverly Hills Cop_ and not _48 Hrs_ ...
Thanks for the correction
Bruh, Smash TV is The Running Man.
Of course it is
Does anyone know if the mame version of this game can be played with one joystick since it is dual stick shooter game? Like if I have a bar top arcade can I configure to play it with one controller?
I preferred the version without the pleasure dome. It added to the sense of false accomplishment and general dystopian vibe. Like the dead winners in running man.
I don't buy the excuse that the pleasure dome was left out due to time constraints. So many rooms; how much time would it have taken to add one more? Seems more plausible that they were just being jerks and got caught. But given the satiric inhumanity of Smash TV, playing such a cruel joke on the players is kind of fitting 😋
Well that straight from Eugene Jarvis's mouth so who knows
The Grid was the spiritual sucessor of this great game, SNES Port is the best one , can be easier than arcade but had a lot of bonus content
Took my cousin and I like 10 dollars to beat this back in 1991.
Just a question
Does anyone think this game needs a reboot?
I would love to see an updated version
No.
I hope smash tv comes to switch.
I'm surprised it hasn't yet
You said 48hrs but it was a clip from Beverly Hills cop
Smash was a awesome game, i remember playing it all night
When I was a kid a classmate sold me the Game Gear version of Smash TV and Virtua Fighter Animation for five bucks. He said he didn't play them anymore. Later on he sold me Toki and Rygar for the Lynx too. I think that was for ten bucks and some movie I had. I think it was my copy of The Goonies. I hardly ever watched it so I was cool with it
Anyway, I liked it but didn't love it. I'm now able to play better versions with a dual stick controller so that's nice and I've come to appreciate the game, and twin stick shooters, a lot more in the last decade or so
The dual sticks are a necessity when it comes to this game
A dedicated Smash is very hard to come by these days let alone cheap. I remember when these were around $400-500 fully working, no chance in that today unless it's dead
It is crazy how the prices have shot up on arcade cabinets. About 20 years ago we get by them for a couple of hundred dollars
I found a genuine arcade cabinet in a UK seaside resort during 1996. It had been professionally reconditioned, almost looking like new. I asked the owner if he'd consider selling it, but it was a definite no. The SNES version is my console favourite by a long way.
Yes, the super Nintendo version was fantastic
I'd buy that for a dollar
LOL
Weren't there actual prizes you could win ?
"Good luck...you'll need it!" 😊
I thought this game was inspired by the running man movie and the robocop movie
You have a good voice for narration
Thanks, glad you liked it
Am I the only person who remembers a Smash TV arcade sequel in the early 2000's??? It was at the arcade at the Sahara casino in Las Vegas!
Total carnage was the spiritual successor
Awesome!
I love how Smash TV sort of branched off, one being Total Carnage and the other being The Grid. Love them both!
What a great series of games
A modern Smash Tv would be wild. Picture it like killing floor minus zombies
It would be very cool
Havent heard of this one, i am intrigued 🧐🧐
It's a spiritual successorTo Robotron and is insanely fun
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries i missed out on amiga coleco and all those, born in 81 :)
Gamer ...the running man...super smash tv ...🤔
I never knew about the Pleasure Dome update. Got caught stealing quarters! Sorta reminds me of the message in Strider during the attract mode, "SIBERIAN WILDERNESS: NOBODY HAS EVER CLEARED THIS STAGE."
LOL, I hadn't thought about that
and when someone passed that stage, the demo would show who cleared it in the cutaway.
Thanks for the vid, Patman. I never had the chance to play this game in the arcade but now I want to play, it looks like fun.
Thanks for watching, it is a lot of fun to play.
I had a ps version of this and it played pretty spot on to the arcade version. Loved it. Still one of my favorite run n guns (sort of).
It is fantastic and definitely a classic
Big up the Sales Curve - my first employer!
Very cool, they always Made quality product
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I was a play tester for them. I remember we had an arcade with all the games they had converted. The guys there were really clever.
DYK: Mark Turmell, Smash TV’s programmer, would later go on to create NBA Jam and NFL Blitz.
Both the NES and SNES versions were developed by Beam Software, with Jamie Rivett as one of the programmers. Rivett would later join Midway as one of NBA Jam’s designers.
Pat I need some heavy barrell
It's on the list just don't know when I'll get to it
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries very good sir. Thank u
I had the PlayStation 2 version and it’s one of my or if not my favourite childhood game
Another excellent version
awesome!
Thank you very much
Some hard earned lawn mowing money bought me the NES port, and I was not disappointing one little bit! Masterfully done. But get this, the C64 port(and some other games) comes bundle free with C64 forever.
The NES port was the first one I got to play as a kid and it was really good.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Along with Gauntlet and TMNT2: The Arcade Game, I'd say its easily one of the best arcade-to-home conversions on the NES.
Top 10 Arcade game for me.
It's also mine :-)
I played Total Carnage on the SNES as a kid, and felt dirty doing it.
The the game is okay but I prefer the original
"You suck at this game"
Thank you
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries To be clear I was quoting the dictator in total carnage. I love the channel by the way.
So y’all just forgot about nitroball???
Im surprised that there werent that many twin stick shooters in the arcades due to how popular this was.
I agree, I don't know why they never made more
Cod zombies dead arcade did it better
@1:11 you say there was never a sequel to _Robotron 2084_ [1982; Williams Electronics, Inc.] but in fact there was, and is:
_Blaster_ [1983; Williams]
th-cam.com/video/agEQ7YIYk0A/w-d-xo.html
www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7145
The 1983 crash of the home-/console- gaming market you reference affected the coin op arcade game market little or not at all.
But about _Smash TV_ [1990; Williams], it's a _Robotron 2084_ -clone but is otherwise separate and unrelated.
How is that a sequel? And where does it say it's a sequel? It only uses one stick, the perspective is first person. It does have the same sound effects but that doesn't mean anything
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries :
Even though it's an entirely other kind of gameplay, _Blaster_ nonetheless really is a sequel to _Robotron 2084_ . It says so @ 0:23 AND it's made by Vid Kidz*, of which Eugene Jarvis was one of.
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*Vid Kids, including Eugene Jarvis, were the makers/developers of _Robotron 2084_ , and also _Defender_ , _Stargate_ , _N.A.R.C._ , and _Smash TV_ and probably others, for Williams Electronics, Inc. in each case.
P.S.: Your show is awesome! I've Thumbed Up many of your uploads already hehehehehe
This game was great, made my mind go into flow like drumming fast.
Always been one of my favorites even though it was a tad hard
Should do one about Total Carnage!
This game was far more fun than it had any business being. I love the modern-day homages to it. if I ever do become some Big Shot director, I'm making movies of Smash TV, Sinistar and gauntlet.
That would be awesome to see
@Random Yes, I talk about that in my video
wow, a stunt like that made Midway for at least one month, modern day EA levels of scummy to ship out a game with features it openly lies about in game, Mr. Jarvis in his interview didn't seem apologetic for legitimately scamming people, just telling it forward which is honest......but still shitty.
He seemed to think it was rather funny when he was telling the story so I agree, it's rather crappy that he would do that
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries picture this man telling someone "hahaha, people wasted millions of dollars in quarters trying to reach something we made up"......yeah, you tell that anecdote at a party, don't be shocked if they then immediately spits in your mouth ^^;
love your videos! keep up the good work, im glad for pleasuredome forums or i would have never found your channel
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Why does it say "Ten seconds" sometimes? Usually when I die?
Because when all your lives are spent, you have about 10 seconds to insert a coin and/or press start to continue.
'bingo!'
"I'd buy that for a dollar"
I would watch this game show
the internet? back in 1990?
7:03 Oh No! Killer sperm! :P
Who else hear got into the seizure- I mean pleasure dome? :D
BTW: Any reason you mention Total Carnage but not the two contestants appearing in the bugged ending?
I wasn't aware of the ending
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries It's because of the bug ait endsu p one of the most discussed "you win" screens.
Due to a bug, the graphics of the good ending will always display despite not collecting all goodies of the pleasure dome.
@@RetroPixelLizard Very cool, thanks for the info
Where's rastan on the list?
What's the best prebuilt fightstick to use for this game? Obviously, it needs two sticks that can be mapped for movement and fire direction and used simultaneously.
Another I spent alot of time on in my youth and time well spent!
You and me both my friend