Oh, I almost forgot... I also worked on TRON and Spy Hunter as well, in another tie in to Satan's Hollow! So funny to see all of this getting attention again after all these years!! God Bless! ( I had to do that just to screw with the whole deal... LOL!!)
One of my favourite things about this game was how your firepower increased every time you went across the bridge and defeated the mini - devil who shot pitchforks at you. If you stacked 2 extra cannons on your ship ( or whatever it was ) you could get a nice semi - automatic effect and really blast those devils all to hell~! Thanks for another great review of a classic Arcade game I remember from my youth, Patman~!
Hello! And, thank you for featuring Satan's Hollow. I am the artist that did all of the cabinet, control panel and header art for the game! Thank you for the kind words at the end of the video about my graphics from so very long ago! I have a myriad of tales to tell about Satan's Hollow, none of which were even touched on in this video. If you are interested in any of that, or how I came up with the graphics, or the crazy letters I got from Jim Bakker, Jerry Fawell, and Jimmy Swaggart threatening me with eternal damnation for having done the artwork that was leading folks to Satan!! LOL! Dude... I was a Lutheran at the time! LOL!!! I remember my boss, Paul Farris coming to my desk and dropping those letters on it saying, "Well, you'vemade the big time, Paul! You have HATE MAIL!! LOL!!! I look forward to hearing from you!
Hello, thank you for taking the time to comment. Your artwork is fantastic and I would love to hear any sort of crazy tales you have from that timeframe. That's the problem with some of these games from almost 40 years ago is that getting in touch with the people involved. I tried reaching out to Bill Adams but never heard back. If you would not rather publish these on a public forum you can email me at pdbowling71@gmail.com. Look forward to hearing back :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I have no problem with a public format, and would actually prefer it! There are so many things that no one knows about except for people like me, who only got recognition at the time because I snuck my initials into the header!! I still have all of the original color comps and design sketches! I'm a pack rat, and when I saw that they just THREW THAT STUFF OUT, I nabbed it!! I have a FaceBook page, and if you'd like to PM me, I'd love to share with the fans!! I'd be honored and flattered!!
I bought a Satan's Hollow t-shirt, back in the day. It did not go over well in my religious family (my grandparents were big fans of Jim and Tammy). Now I know who to thank for that!
Hi Patman I just wanted to say many thanks for all your great videos, I only discovered your channel recently and have already watched almost all of them. In one you show real footage of you getting a strike in bowling and I was amazed by your skill and tenacity even though you have restricted mobility. It makes all of your arcade memories all the more poignant, I honestly would never have known without seeing that video of you, but it doesn't change how I feel about the content, it just makes me even more impressed. Thanks so much for all those great videos and I hope you continue to be well and produce more great content.
Thank you for the nice words. I still love bowling but have not been able to go since January due to the pandemic. Glad you enjoy my content, thanks again. :-)
This game was nearing completion when I was first hired at Bally Midway. Fun Fact: This was the first game fledgling programmer Jeff Nauman ever worked on, (while I was cutting my teeth on Discs of Tron). Later we would team up and create games like Sarge, Rampage, Arch Rivals, Pigskin, Rampage World Tour, General Chaos and many, many more.
This game was also featured in the 1983 movie Joysticks, which is a Porky's style teen comedy about a video arcade. This is a fun little film that shows lots of classic arcade cabinets.
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PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries Oh my! I didn’t realise you already did MK1! But it would be great to see you do other parts comparing the other games in the series, more specifically 2 and 3! ❤️
There was a movie in 1983 called Joysticks, where an arcade was in danger of being shut down and of course everything came down to a "game off" and the game they played, was Satan's Hollow!! That's what I've always remembered this game from. :D
at 3:14, the image in the background is from the unveiling ceremony of the Satanic Temple's Baphomet statue in 2015. I was standing just to the left of the photographer, lol. The video is about "Satan" so I understand why you used the image, it just caught me off guard when watching. On a more secular note, great job with the video. It was very entertaining and informative.
Thanks! I just found your channel a couple of weeks ago and love your gaming history documentaries. It came as a pleasant surprise to find an intersection with another area of interest. I'll probably continue to watch these videos for as long as you continue to make them. Take care!
My parents had a table top version of this game in their pizza place for a while. I loved playing it! Got pretty good at it too. It had one big pro about it and one big con: Pro: could sit down while playing it. Con: because of how table top games were made, the controls were usually on a ledge with the glass table top overhanging it. No way was there room for the nice control stick the stand up arcade cabinets had. So instead the control stick was pretty much like a joy stick you'd find on a Pac man machine, only there was also a dinky little firing button built into it too. It got the job done, it just felt like too puny of a control for this game.
@@TheTenthArt Yeah, I was privileged. Parents had a couple pizza places in the 70's to early 90's. Aunt and uncle had one too, they all had arcade games. I remember being like 3 years old in 1978 and bringing a chair over to stand on to play Sea Wolf, a submarine game where you looked through the periscope. They had that and a pinball machine. They always had 2 machines at that place. Sea Wolf got switched out for Asteroids which I fell in love with. Then the pinball machine got switched out for PacMan. Then Pac man was replaced by Ms. Pacman, then my dad told.the vending guy to leave Ms. Pac man there, it was.his favorite game. So then just the one game got switched out about every 6 months. After Asteroids there was Joust, Turbo, Mach 3, Tapper, Kung-Fu Master, Shinobi, and Ajax. At my parents other place we had the cocktail cabinets. At various times we had Galaga, Donkey Kong Jr., Super Pacman, Arkanoid, and Satan's Hollow. We also had a stand up arcade cabinet Star Trek game. At my aunt and uncle's I remember I liked playing Elevator Action.
@@Drawkcabi I'm 43 years old, Bornt in '77 and, like you, had see the game industry being formed in front of me. You had the privilege to played a lot of classics that I discovered only years later in MAME. Kudos!! :) That´s very nice to hear your history. P.S.: Periscope, the game Sea Wolf is inspired in, is an amazing Sega classic that, being electromechanical, is impossible to emulate in MAME :\ *sigh*
I had completely forgotten this game existed, and it's all coming flooding back to me. The sound effects more than the visuals, for some reason. This was one of those games you played while you waited to play the games other people were playing and that you actually wanted to play.
@@oaf-77 🤣 Good grief, that sounds truly shocking! Like those cancelled spin-off episodes Bill Cosby made, which were shot entirely from his POV looking into the women's changing rooms?! I believe it was gonna be called "The Cosby Hole"..?
@@residentelect The 2016 meltdown and continued TDS affected people/media is now the benchmark of Satanism - though I suspect even Satan would roll his eyes at these clowns. The rest of us should be afraid of how easily manipulated many of us humans are...
Thanks Patman once again for a great video. I played this game in the arcade growing up, and still enjoy it on my PS2. Cool to know that the developer was involved in some of my other favorites as well, like Tron. take care, and thanks again. :)
Please consider doing a History of these games: Space Ace, Dragon's 2: Time Warp, Killer Instinct, War Gods, Street Fighter Series, Time Traveller, Another World. Played these games in the arcade. Would love to see a video on them! Really enjoyed the History of Gauntlet video you just made!
I always remembered finding a cabinet in 1991, where the castle was burned into the screen from almost always being on there for the demo, when I got to the other side, I could see that burn in easy.
I just find out about your channel recently and binging your content. You make very good videos that reminds me of my childhood so much. Thanks for taking the time to make these and keep up the great work!
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries One was about the time Tramiel ripped a telephone off of a conference table and straight up hucked it at someone that had said something he didn't like. Guy was totally off his rocker and was hated by just about everybody, even his own family.
@@presidentsnow7315 Maybe, but you think that would give the man a bit of empathy towards others. Instead, it was the opposite, and he was almost universally loathed, both professionally and personally.
I've played this one on the Midway collection. - I wondered who that devil character in Wreck it Ralph was supposed to be and it makes sense that it was the same one as in this game now that you mention it.
Same here Matthew. It's a new one on me? I spent plenty of my salad days and teens in all sorts of arcades over here in the UK, and I am really struggling to remember if I ever saw this anywhere??? Then again, given its title and subject matter the classification suits may well have changed the name like they did with Teenage Mutant *Hero* Turtles, and rebranded it something like "Naughty Horned Red Pitchfork Man's Hideout"..??
Used to play this at Florie's Pizza South Gate California 1985! . The glitch we caught was when you jerked the stick to the left or right it would credit a life to our total!
Anyone else find it funny that the game is named Satan's Hollow and there's sort of a longish dramatic build up to bridge over to the part of the game where you face off one on one against Lucifer himself... But when he appears on screen he's this little 6 pixel totally non threatening looking thing that's easy to take out in one shot? Your cannon and the backgrounds are more detailed than the Devil. I always found that amusing. They seemingly put little effort into it
Never heard of this game, but as soon as you mentioned that the person who created the Tron arcade also created this game, you caught my attention! Great stuff 👍
The side artwork on the cabinet looks a lot like the movie poster for Legend, I wonder if they got inspired by this game. Another really high quality video, thank you! Love your voice and diction and you could definitely be mistaken for D.V. Doomcock with your satan voice filter on
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Got it off eBay with some other arcade ads. Tournament papers even encouraged getting an ad on the radio for it. Imagine how well that went over!
Great video. I haven't thought about this game since for some 35ish years. Looks like it goes pretty crazy after a few rounds. I was wondering if you had any interest in doing a video on bagman, pack rat or black tiger? I believe you mentioned once your patreon subscribers often decide but i thought i would ask. Keep up the good work.
When I was a kid I used to play an apple II game similar to this: you were a helicopter pilot and had to construct a bridge, then a train would cross and then you had to land and make your way through a building to launch a missile of something. I can't remember the title for the life of me.
Midway's games using that hardware were, in a way, ahead of their time, being fully 480 horizontal lines of resolution, which wouldn't really be seen by other arcade makers until well into the 3d phase. The extra detail was really important in games like Rampage. But on the other hand, they were limited to 30fps, which was also basically unique in the industry.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Glad for once I pop up first in lol Google. I have more controllers in the works ..star wars arcade is next .. keep up the great videos Respectfully Glen's Retro Show
An old favorite of mine. I discovered it on the C64 first, one of my older brothers had told me how great the arcade version was. It was great on C64 as was the original which I discovered when I finally had the chance to play it. One of the earliest test videos I made for my channel (which I didn't upload) featured gameplay from the arcade version :)
Would you do a history of all the Wonder Boy arcade games from Sega? Please include the history of the Hudson's Adventure Island Nintendo gane with that as I am sure there was a comparison made between those two games.
So... they changed the name from Satan's Master to Satan's power and then to Satan's Hollow because they didn't want to encourage Satan worship, yet leaving his name as the first half of the title was just peaches and cream. Makes sense.🤘🤣
Apparently when named "Satan's Master" every arcade cabinet ordered included a free Sacrificial Virgin! Unfortunately Bally Midway swiftly decided against the offer when they realised a lot of arcades at the time already contained plenty of sad, lonely virgins... And yes, I'm an oldschool gamer, so I admit I too fell into the category. Especially as my acne made my face look like the surface of the moon after it had been repeatedly nuked!!
Most of us know that Satan isn’t a good guy at all anyway. Even his own name means “adversary” and “one who opposes”, the ones who worship Satan won’t tell us that though.
Fista'Gon Jinn Irrelevant? Boy, please. It has to do with why they were okay with putting Satan in the title anyway, most people want to go to his Hollow to shoot him, like in DooM. Oh, that song... It was notorious back then and it was notorious now. As what David Bowie said in 1976: "Rock has always been the devil's music. You can't convince me that it isn't,"
I had not seen this game. From the title, I was hoping that maybe it would be something like Ghost and Goblins, but it is more like Galaga or Phoenix. So is it a fun game to play?
It's imho a relatively mediocre shooter. It's nothing really special, but there is also nothing wrong with it. You surely won't want to play this for hrs without end, but once and again 30min here or there or in between is fun. You can get quite easily into it and the difficulty level is rather on the forgiving side. As it's a kind of somewhat known, but largely forgotten classic, I'd advise to play at it at least once.
I remember seeing the arcade at a local fish and chips restaurant in Connecticut as a kid. No one and I mean no one dared to play the arcade. Besides, the green gargoyles reminds me of the Klingon Bird of Prey vessel.....Crazy!!
I used to play this in the arcades all the time, the sound effects, audio and sprites were fantastic. What was terrifying back then was Sinister. The fantastic C64 version shows how nice the Atari version could have been with appropriate talent.
Easily in my top 3 arcades, if not the top spot. Also good to mention the neon light, harder satans (7 princes and their rings of hell), and the excellent port on the Big Electronic's Midway Series cab (in which Satan is yellow!). The PS2 version looks amazing on a component crt.
I would say in gameplay. SatanHalo is closed to GORF and TRON. And Satan's hollow is one of my favorite arcade machines too own. Because of the multiplay aspects.
I always loved how the dark one himself shows up, and 8/10 times if you shoot one bullet immediately the duel just goes piewwww-(*puff*). Aaaaaad, Satan's finished.
Not flight - Ride of the Valkyries. As a kid, I couldn't understand why Satan's head was so big by itself, but then the entire Satan was so small. Heh. The flight stick was cool, but I wish the game had a fire button on the console as well.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Thanks for the quick reply. That is one movie I've always avoided over the years for some reason or another. I'll have to watch it soon.
I was just thinking about this game the other day. It was the third video game I remember seeing at the Standard National Supermarket in Nora Plaza in Indianapolis (now a Whole foods) after Pac-Man and Polaris. I can't remember if I ever got to play it, but pro ably not since I remembered nothing of the bridge-building element of the game.
in my opinion the satan from Wreck It Ralph is actually a character from the game Dungeon Keeper, its one of the minions you get in the Bullfrog game where you build a dungeon and take out the good guys. But they dont call him Satan in it I believe they call him horned Reaper here is a link to a pic of him www.artstation.com/artwork/lNxQz
The C=64 version of this looks very nice, though with not as many enemies on screen. I don't get it though, why did the creator know his days were numbered just because someone made a port? Was it unlicensed?
Because He wanted to create something that couldn't be easily replicated at home. He thought he had done this with Satan's hollow but then he saw how close to conversion to the Commodore 64 was and realized he couldn't keep up.
I tried get Double Dragon bought for me twice, but it was out of stock both times, so the second gane that I had to settle on was a game called: Wizards and Warriors. There was a sequel later to it called: Iron Sword. Sorry these were not video arcade games; I think they may have been made exclusively for the NES, but could you do a history on them anyway, and explain any of their back stories that you find?
This game definitely came out for the the Atari 8-bit. Played it back in the day. Still have it today for my 800xl and 130xe. Pretty close to the arcade version.
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries. I didn’t say I bought back then. 😁 but I still have a working copy of it now. I’m happy to video it for you send it to you.
@@briantheiss629 No because it was not officially released. What you bought was a bootleg version that was put Onto a cartridge After the prototype was leaked.
played the c64 version before the arcade version and even though we had several arcades in the city we never had this game and i never even knew it was an arcade game till prolly the 90s sometime.
There's a working Satan's Hollow in a retro arcade not too far from where I live. I make a point to play it since I wasn't allowed back when I was a kid :D
Oh, I almost forgot... I also worked on TRON and Spy Hunter as well, in another tie in to Satan's Hollow!
So funny to see all of this getting attention again after all these years!!
God Bless! ( I had to do that just to screw with the whole deal... LOL!!)
FANTASTIC intro music! Amazing to hear back in '82 as a teen!
Absolutely
One of my favourite things about this game was how your firepower increased every time you went across the bridge and defeated the mini - devil who shot pitchforks at you.
If you stacked 2 extra cannons on your ship ( or whatever it was ) you could get a nice semi - automatic effect and really blast those devils all to hell~!
Thanks for another great review of a classic Arcade game I remember from my youth, Patman~!
Semi-automatic means one firing per trigger squeeze, so that doesn't seem like an upgrade when stacking - should be full auto...
Absolutely, I'm glad you enjoyed it :-) thank you
Hello! And, thank you for featuring Satan's Hollow. I am the artist that did all of the cabinet, control panel and header art for the game! Thank you for the kind words at the end of the video about my graphics from so very long ago! I have a myriad of tales to tell about Satan's Hollow, none of which were even touched on in this video. If you are interested in any of that, or how I came up with the graphics, or the crazy letters I got from Jim Bakker, Jerry Fawell, and Jimmy Swaggart threatening me with eternal damnation for having done the artwork that was leading folks to Satan!! LOL! Dude... I was a Lutheran at the time! LOL!!!
I remember my boss, Paul Farris coming to my desk and dropping those letters on it saying, "Well, you'vemade the big time, Paul! You have HATE MAIL!! LOL!!!
I look forward to hearing from you!
Hello, thank you for taking the time to comment. Your artwork is fantastic and I would love to hear any sort of crazy tales you have from that timeframe. That's the problem with some of these games from almost 40 years ago is that getting in touch with the people involved. I tried reaching out to Bill Adams but never heard back. If you would not rather publish these on a public forum you can email me at pdbowling71@gmail.com. Look forward to hearing back :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I have no problem with a public format, and would actually prefer it! There are so many things that no one knows about except for people like me, who only got recognition at the time because I snuck my initials into the header!! I still have all of the original color comps and design sketches! I'm a pack rat, and when I saw that they just THREW THAT STUFF OUT, I nabbed it!! I have a FaceBook page, and if you'd like to PM me, I'd love to share with the fans!! I'd be honored and flattered!!
I bought a Satan's Hollow t-shirt, back in the day. It did not go over well in my religious family (my grandparents were big fans of Jim and Tammy). Now I know who to thank for that!
Hi Patman I just wanted to say many thanks for all your great videos, I only discovered your channel recently and have already watched almost all of them. In one you show real footage of you getting a strike in bowling and I was amazed by your skill and tenacity even though you have restricted mobility. It makes all of your arcade memories all the more poignant, I honestly would never have known without seeing that video of you, but it doesn't change how I feel about the content, it just makes me even more impressed. Thanks so much for all those great videos and I hope you continue to be well and produce more great content.
Thank you for the nice words. I still love bowling but have not been able to go since January due to the pandemic. Glad you enjoy my content, thanks again. :-)
Love your channel!!! Growing up in the 70's and 80's were a good time for video games!! Can I borrow a quarter?
Absolutely! Thank you :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries its funny, after all these years I still have to play "pump up the volume" on repeat when I play tiger heli LOL
This game was nearing completion when I was first hired at Bally Midway. Fun Fact: This was the first game fledgling programmer Jeff Nauman ever worked on, (while I was cutting my teeth on Discs of Tron). Later we would team up and create games like Sarge, Rampage, Arch Rivals, Pigskin, Rampage World Tour, General Chaos and many, many more.
Fantastic, you do great work. Those are some classic games right there. Thanks for the comment
Been waiting for this one!
Hope you enjoy it :-)
This game was also featured in the 1983 movie Joysticks, which is a Porky's style teen comedy about a video arcade. This is a fun little film that shows lots of classic arcade cabinets.
I have heard of that movie and probably seen it when I was a teenager but don't remember anything about it
Critics hated it, but I really liked it when I was a kid.
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Would love to see you tackle the many ports of the Mortal Kombat series, there are some doozies in there!
Thank you. I did a video on Mortal Kombat a while ago, Are you talking about the different games in the series?
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Oh my! I didn’t realise you already did MK1!
But it would be great to see you do other parts comparing the other games in the series, more specifically 2 and 3! ❤️
@@OfficialDarkSydeMedia I plan on going back and covering the rest of the series some point
Just discovered your channel... looks like I've got something new to binge watch this weekend.
Thanks a lot, hope you enjoy the content :-)
There was a movie in 1983 called Joysticks, where an arcade was in danger of being shut down and of course everything came down to a "game off" and the game they played, was Satan's Hollow!!
That's what I've always remembered this game from. :D
I have never seen that movie, I will have to check it out
at 3:14, the image in the background is from the unveiling ceremony of the Satanic Temple's Baphomet statue in 2015. I was standing just to the left of the photographer, lol. The video is about "Satan" so I understand why you used the image, it just caught me off guard when watching.
On a more secular note, great job with the video. It was very entertaining and informative.
Holy smokes, that is amazing
Thanks! I just found your channel a couple of weeks ago and love your gaming history documentaries. It came as a pleasant surprise to find an intersection with another area of interest. I'll probably continue to watch these videos for as long as you continue to make them. Take care!
Your voice sounds like doomcock when reading the intro lol!
LOL, I've heard of the guy but don't know what his voice sounds like
Perhaps Hell is truly at the center of the Earth?
He does now that you mention it.
Patman shoulda been a radio jock or a voiceover artist fr.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Quad amp AND deaf? This is shocking and sad news! :(
;)
My parents had a table top version of this game in their pizza place for a while. I loved playing it! Got pretty good at it too.
It had one big pro about it and one big con:
Pro: could sit down while playing it.
Con: because of how table top games were made, the controls were usually on a ledge with the glass table top overhanging it. No way was there room for the nice control stick the stand up arcade cabinets had. So instead the control stick was pretty much like a joy stick you'd find on a Pac man machine, only there was also a dinky little firing button built into it too. It got the job done, it just felt like too puny of a control for this game.
Yes, those are called cocktail style cabinets and I can recall those tiny joysticks well LOL
Wow, played this game a lot, but never encountered the tabletop version.
Had you a pizza place AND a personal Arcade Cabinet in your childhood!? Niiiiiiiiice!!!
@@TheTenthArt Yeah, I was privileged. Parents had a couple pizza places in the 70's to early 90's. Aunt and uncle had one too, they all had arcade games.
I remember being like 3 years old in 1978 and bringing a chair over to stand on to play Sea Wolf, a submarine game where you looked through the periscope. They had that and a pinball machine. They always had 2 machines at that place.
Sea Wolf got switched out for Asteroids which I fell in love with. Then the pinball machine got switched out for PacMan. Then Pac man was replaced by Ms. Pacman, then my dad told.the vending guy to leave Ms. Pac man there, it was.his favorite game.
So then just the one game got switched out about every 6 months. After Asteroids there was Joust, Turbo, Mach 3, Tapper, Kung-Fu Master, Shinobi, and Ajax.
At my parents other place we had the cocktail cabinets. At various times we had Galaga, Donkey Kong Jr., Super Pacman, Arkanoid, and Satan's Hollow. We also had a stand up arcade cabinet Star Trek game.
At my aunt and uncle's I remember I liked playing Elevator Action.
@@Drawkcabi I'm 43 years old, Bornt in '77 and, like you, had see the game industry being formed in front of me.
You had the privilege to played a lot of classics that I discovered only years later in MAME. Kudos!! :) That´s very nice to hear your history.
P.S.: Periscope, the game Sea Wolf is inspired in, is an amazing Sega classic that, being electromechanical, is impossible to emulate in MAME :\ *sigh*
I had completely forgotten this game existed, and it's all coming flooding back to me. The sound effects more than the visuals, for some reason. This was one of those games you played while you waited to play the games other people were playing and that you actually wanted to play.
The music in particular really drew me into this game. I like playing it regardless of whatever other games were on offer
I wasn’t allowed to play this one as a kid
Too satanic.
I can see that
I wasn't allowed to Baywatch... I'm assuming for the exact same reasons..? 🤔
They didn’t hit peak satanism until Baywatch Nights
@@oaf-77
🤣 Good grief, that sounds truly shocking!
Like those cancelled spin-off episodes Bill Cosby made, which were shot entirely from his POV looking into the women's changing rooms?!
I believe it was gonna be called
"The Cosby Hole"..?
@@residentelect The 2016 meltdown and continued TDS affected people/media is now the benchmark of Satanism - though I suspect even Satan would roll his eyes at these clowns. The rest of us should be afraid of how easily manipulated many of us humans are...
Thanks Patman once again for a great video. I played this game in the arcade growing up, and still enjoy it on my PS2. Cool to know that the developer was involved in some of my other favorites as well, like Tron. take care, and thanks again. :)
I'm glad you enjoyed it, Thanks!
Since we lost Christopher Lee now we need Patman to narrate heavy metal album intros. +10 to charisma.
LOL, that's a high benchmark indeed, thank you :-)
This was my 2nd favorite arcade game when I was a teen ager. Fond memories of playhing this game!
So do I, I always enjoyed it
Dude, you can’t make a comment like that and just leave people hanging. What was #1?
@@billcook4768 Actually number 1 was Donkey Kong Jr., but in third place was a three way tie with Asteroids, Galaga, and Qix.
Please consider doing a History of these games: Space Ace, Dragon's 2: Time Warp, Killer Instinct, War Gods, Street Fighter Series, Time Traveller, Another World. Played these games in the arcade. Would love to see a video on them! Really enjoyed the History of Gauntlet video you just made!
Most of those are on my list is not sure when I'll get to them. Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks
Satan's Hollow, and Sinistar, my two favorites growing up as a kid, and I turned out just fine.
Absolutely, I enjoyed both and there Wasn't one satanic ritual in my past
Post pictures of your closet and basement just to make sure LoL !
Top quality programming as usual. Keep and it and I’m sure several will agree, your content is one of a kind! Love the videos!
Much appreciated! Thank you very much
Nicely done sir. To the best of my recollection, I didn't play this until 1985, at one of the arcades in the West Edmonton Mall.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you
such iconic music
I agree, that's what drew me to the game as a kid
I always remembered finding a cabinet in 1991, where the castle was burned into the screen from almost always being on there for the demo, when I got to the other side, I could see that burn in easy.
I just find out about your channel recently and binging your content. You make very good videos that reminds me of my childhood so much. Thanks for taking the time to make these and keep up the great work!
That is fantastic. I'm glad I could scratch that nostalgic itch. Thank you very much :-)
Awesome job with the vid! Such a cool back story around this game. The cover art for the arcade is top notch 👍
Thank you, Are you talking about the thumbnail for the video?
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries no the physical arcade unit
Hey, I actually know the guy that programmed the C64 conversion of this, David Berezowski. Guy has some real horror stories about Jack Tramiel.
I would love to hear some :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries One was about the time Tramiel ripped a telephone off of a conference table and straight up hucked it at someone that had said something he didn't like. Guy was totally off his rocker and was hated by just about everybody, even his own family.
@@Dorelaxen Wow! I didn't know that Jack Tramiel was a holocaust survivor. Maybe he was suffering from PTSD...
@@presidentsnow7315 Maybe, but you think that would give the man a bit of empathy towards others. Instead, it was the opposite, and he was almost universally loathed, both professionally and personally.
@@Dorelaxen Ya, it's very sad. He was obviously a very unhappy person.
I still remember my Mother yanking me away from this game while I was playing it and telling me to never play it again!
LOL that's hilarious
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries She said that no son of hers was going to play a game about the Devil!
another good one, i never knew how to play that game, but now i know.. thanks
Glad to help , Thank you
Somehow I had the bootleg Atari version when I was a kid. I never knew you had to build a bridge..doh!
I've played this one on the Midway collection. - I wondered who that devil character in Wreck it Ralph was supposed to be and it makes sense that it was the same one as in this game now that you mention it.
Absolutely, apparently the spelling of the character in wreck it Ralph is the same as in Satan's hollow but I could not find any confirmation on that.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I think your right - carn't think of any other game character that fits so well.
Thanx for the reply back. I enjoy your videos! Keep them coming!
Thanks, will do!
I'm almost 40 and have never even heard of this game before. Good informative video. 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome video this my favorite arcade cabinet it's a underrated classic
Same here! I always enjoyed the game. Thank you
I would like to request the history of Trog.
I will have to look into it
You must have just watched the Game Chasers
kuma138, I hadn’t heard of them
Ive never seen this game before but i would have loved it
I have always enjoyed it
Same here Matthew.
It's a new one on me? I spent plenty of my salad days and teens in all sorts of arcades over here in the UK, and I am really struggling to remember if I ever saw this anywhere???
Then again, given its title and subject matter the classification suits may well have changed the name like they did with Teenage Mutant *Hero* Turtles, and rebranded it something like "Naughty Horned Red Pitchfork Man's Hideout"..??
Used to play this at Florie's Pizza South Gate California 1985! . The glitch we caught was when you jerked the stick to the left or right it would credit a life to our total!
Any chance of doing the history of Karnov?
It's on my list it just depends if I can find something interesting to talk about
The Black Light bulb near the control panel really set this Arcade game off. It was a looker.
Absolutely, just like Tron
You don't hear much about this puppy. Sweet!
I always enjoyed this game ever since I was 10 years old
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Oh yea, me too. All of Bally Midway games of that era were worth the quarters they ate!
@@rvfiasco I agree 100%
Anyone else find it funny that the game is named Satan's Hollow and there's sort of a longish dramatic build up to bridge over to the part of the game where you face off one on one against Lucifer himself...
But when he appears on screen he's this little 6 pixel totally non threatening looking thing that's easy to take out in one shot? Your cannon and the backgrounds are more detailed than the Devil. I always found that amusing. They seemingly put little effort into it
This game was in the corner of the arcade, and it generated a hell of a lot of heat.
Never heard of this game, but as soon as you mentioned that the person who created the Tron arcade also created this game, you caught my attention! Great stuff 👍
Absolutely, thank you glad you enjoyed it :-)
The side artwork on the cabinet looks a lot like the movie poster for Legend, I wonder if they got inspired by this game. Another really high quality video, thank you! Love your voice and diction and you could definitely be mistaken for D.V. Doomcock with your satan voice filter on
They could be, I'm not sure. Thank you for the nice words :-)
Great game, love the sound chip on this board.
So do I, it was fantastic
I've got some of the old advertisements for this game, even paperwork for setting up a tournament at the local arcade.
Fantastic,I've never seen those
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Got it off eBay with some other arcade ads. Tournament papers even encouraged getting an ad on the radio for it. Imagine how well that went over!
Great video. I haven't thought about this game since for some 35ish years. Looks like it goes pretty crazy after a few rounds. I was wondering if you had any interest in doing a video on bagman, pack rat or black tiger? I believe you mentioned once your patreon subscribers often decide but i thought i would ask. Keep up the good work.
Thank you, they are all on my list it just depends if I can find something interesting to talk about
Never heard of this game. Great videos, great channel. Subscribed!
Awesome, thank you! Hope you enjoy the rest of the content
gotta have some "Sympathy For The Devil".... defiantly one of my arcade favorites
It was one of mine as well
I've never even heard of this game before, and I thought I was well versed in my knowledge of retro gaming. Thanks for the history lesson, Patman
Glad I could help!
When I was a kid I used to play an apple II game similar to this: you were a helicopter pilot and had to construct a bridge, then a train would cross and then you had to land and make your way through a building to launch a missile of something.
I can't remember the title for the life of me.
LOL
Minit Man. There was a C64 version aswell.
www.mobygames.com/game/minit-man
Midway's games using that hardware were, in a way, ahead of their time, being fully 480 horizontal lines of resolution, which wouldn't really be seen by other arcade makers until well into the 3d phase. The extra detail was really important in games like Rampage. But on the other hand, they were limited to 30fps, which was also basically unique in the industry.
I always wondered as a kid why the graphics in those games were also similar. You are right though they were way ahead of their time
Really enjoyed that thanks! Really like Satans Hollow, stands out againts the standard space shooters and still give it a quick blast now and then
Glad you enjoyed it! Everything at the time at a space motif so this was a nice change of pace. Thanks
Dropped tons of rolls of quarters on this game at the arcade when it first came out.
Awsome my Tron joystick and deck were used at 2:44 awsome to be in one of your videos :)
Thank you, I did a Google search for the Tron joystick and that popped up. Very nice :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Glad for once I pop up first in lol Google. I have more controllers in the works ..star wars arcade is next .. keep up the great videos
Respectfully
Glen's Retro Show
@@GlensRetroShow Very cool, once you get them done let me know and I'll check them out. Thanks for the nice words
I liked the music it played when you crossed the bridge which was stereo if you played on a cocktail table machine.
You can hear it in this video.
Yes, I mentioned that. It's called flight of the Valkyrie
An old favorite of mine. I discovered it on the C64 first, one of my older brothers had told me how great the arcade version was. It was great on C64 as was the original which I discovered when I finally had the chance to play it. One of the earliest test videos I made for my channel (which I didn't upload) featured gameplay from the arcade version :)
It was really good on the Commodore 64, surprisingly so considering how early in the lifespan of the computer it was
Would you do a history of all the Wonder Boy arcade games from Sega? Please include the history of the Hudson's Adventure Island Nintendo gane with that as I am sure there was a comparison made between those two games.
"Don't blame me if you start to worship the Devil" :) Best phrase ever!
Thank you very much :-)
So... they changed the name from Satan's Master to Satan's power and then to Satan's Hollow because they didn't want to encourage Satan worship, yet leaving his name as the first half of the title was just peaches and cream.
Makes sense.🤘🤣
Makes no sense to me either
Apparently when named "Satan's Master" every arcade cabinet ordered included a free Sacrificial Virgin!
Unfortunately Bally Midway swiftly decided against the offer when they realised a lot of arcades at the time already contained plenty of sad, lonely virgins...
And yes, I'm an oldschool gamer, so I admit I too fell into the category. Especially as my acne made my face look like the surface of the moon after it had been repeatedly nuked!!
Most of us know that Satan isn’t a good guy at all anyway.
Even his own name means “adversary” and “one who opposes”, the ones who worship Satan won’t tell us that though.
@@KenMasters. hey don't forget he also wrote lyrics for Led Zeppelin. Thanks for the irrelevant lesson in etymology though.
Fista'Gon Jinn
Irrelevant? Boy, please.
It has to do with why they were okay with putting Satan in the title anyway, most people want to go to his Hollow to shoot him, like in DooM.
Oh, that song... It was notorious back then and it was notorious now. As what David Bowie said in 1976:
"Rock has always been the devil's music. You can't convince me that it isn't,"
I loved this game.
It was great on Commodore too.
Yes it was, fantastic
Love your editing!
Thank you!!
I had not seen this game. From the title, I was hoping that maybe it would be something like Ghost and Goblins, but it is more like Galaga or Phoenix. So is it a fun game to play?
I've enjoyed it since I was 10 years old
Definitely a great game. One of my favorites as well.
It's imho a relatively mediocre shooter. It's nothing really special, but there is also nothing wrong with it. You surely won't want to play this for hrs without end, but once and again 30min here or there or in between is fun. You can get quite easily into it and the difficulty level is rather on the forgiving side. As it's a kind of somewhat known, but largely forgotten classic, I'd advise to play at it at least once.
I remember seeing the arcade at a local fish and chips restaurant in Connecticut as a kid. No one and I mean no one dared to play the arcade. Besides, the green gargoyles reminds me of the Klingon Bird of Prey vessel.....Crazy!!
LOL, that is so funny
I used to play this in the arcades all the time, the sound effects, audio and sprites were fantastic. What was terrifying back then was Sinister. The fantastic C64 version shows how nice the Atari version could have been with appropriate talent.
I agree, I don't know what happened to the Atari version but it is definitely not good
Easily in my top 3 arcades, if not the top spot. Also good to mention the neon light, harder satans (7 princes and their rings of hell), and the excellent port on the Big Electronic's Midway Series cab (in which Satan is yellow!). The PS2 version looks amazing on a component crt.
Thanks for the info
I would say in gameplay.
SatanHalo is closed to GORF and TRON.
And Satan's hollow is one of my favorite arcade machines too own.
Because of the multiplay aspects.
I always enjoyed the game, I agree
I always loved how the dark one himself shows up, and 8/10 times if you shoot one bullet immediately the duel just goes piewwww-(*puff*). Aaaaaad, Satan's finished.
LOL, yes you think he would be a bit more difficult
Did I see an image of the band disturbed Mascot?
Not flight - Ride of the Valkyries.
As a kid, I couldn't understand why Satan's head was so big by itself, but then the entire Satan was so small. Heh.
The flight stick was cool, but I wish the game had a fire button on the console as well.
Hey Patman, any idea what that video clip is from at beginning with the demon lighting the cross on fire?
bram stokers Dracula
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Thanks for the quick reply. That is one movie I've always avoided over the years for some reason or another. I'll have to watch it soon.
I was just thinking about this game the other day. It was the third video game I remember seeing at the Standard National Supermarket in Nora Plaza in Indianapolis (now a Whole foods) after Pac-Man and Polaris. I can't remember if I ever got to play it, but pro ably not since I remembered nothing of the bridge-building element of the game.
Glad I could scratch that nostalgia itch :-)
A little different than the usual space shooting games. I liked it!
I like it as well, loved the whole devil motif
That's a really clever concept for a 1982 video game.
I agree
I remember loving the theming of the game, but I also remember how difficult it was!!
I seem to recall playing this on the Amiga.
An official conversion never came out on the Amiga so it must've been a clone
That reading was epic stuff!
LOL, thank you :-)
PatmanQC, I love your work. Please tell me you have seen the 1983 movie Joysticks. This game is showcased in it.
I may have seen it when I was younger but I don't recall anything about it. I will have to check it out
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries It’s basically Porky’s with a video game theme. Good schlock 👍🏻
I played this game on an arcade machine in elementary school. Such an amazing, nostalgic game😭
Absolutely, I loved it
That back story is pretty epic and intense!
I thought so too :-)
Love the graphics of Satan's Hollow, great game
So do I
PatmanQC could describe a phone book to me and he would make it interesting, funny, and totally great.
LOL, that's very nice of you. Thank you :-)
Oh man, as a kid I loved this game. The local gas station had this. I just remember it was crazy hard.
I agree, although the difficulty ramps up perfectly in my opinion
in my opinion the satan from Wreck It Ralph is actually a character from the game Dungeon Keeper, its one of the minions you get in the Bullfrog game where you build a dungeon and take out the good guys. But they dont call him Satan in it I believe they call him horned Reaper here is a link to a pic of him www.artstation.com/artwork/lNxQz
Satan's Hollow on Atari 8bit was released in Europe. I still have the cassette.
Definitely a classic game. I’ll have to find a good rom to play it.
Absolutely, have fun
Isnt this a PS5 exclusive and how did you get to review it so fast?
LOL just lucky I guess :-)
For the life of me I can’t remember this one many thanks patman QC 👏
Absolutely, thanks for watching
The C=64 version of this looks very nice, though with not as many enemies on screen.
I don't get it though, why did the creator know his days were numbered just because someone made a port? Was it unlicensed?
Because He wanted to create something that couldn't be easily replicated at home. He thought he had done this with Satan's hollow but then he saw how close to conversion to the Commodore 64 was and realized he couldn't keep up.
I tried get Double Dragon bought for me twice, but it was out of stock both times, so the second gane that I had to settle on was a game called: Wizards and Warriors. There was a sequel later to it called: Iron Sword. Sorry these were not video arcade games; I think they may have been made exclusively for the NES, but could you do a history on them anyway, and explain any of their back stories that you find?
I can put on the list but it all depends if I can find anything interesting to talk about
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Okay.
This game definitely came out for the the Atari 8-bit. Played it back in the day. Still have it today for my 800xl and 130xe. Pretty close to the arcade version.
You actually bought this in a regular retail store back in the day?
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries. I didn’t say I bought back then. 😁 but I still have a working copy of it now. I’m happy to video it for you send it to you.
@@briantheiss629 No because it was not officially released. What you bought was a bootleg version that was put Onto a cartridge After the prototype was leaked.
PatmanQC - History of arcade game documentaries Hmm... definitely fooled me back in the 80s then. I never would have known. Still plays well too.
played the c64 version before the arcade version and even though we had several arcades in the city we never had this game and i never even knew it was an arcade game till prolly the 90s sometime.
It was pretty widespread in my area
Oh! I played that Commodore 64 version a lot! What a great game.
It was first as an adult, that I became aware of that it was an arcade game. 🙂
I played the Commodore version a bunch as well. It was one of my earlier games for the system
"So grab your crucifix and prepare for battle!" that made my day. 😂
LOL, thank you
this game reminds me of the PC classic Round 42 and also Moonbugs which was a copy of another game but very playable
This was one of my favorites on the Commodore.
It was really good on that system,And it was also one of the earliest games I owned for the system
This game is what Chernabog plays in his spare time.
There's a working Satan's Hollow in a retro arcade not too far from where I live. I make a point to play it since I wasn't allowed back when I was a kid :D
LOL, good for you