Lucky and Wild is the Best Namco Arcade Game Ever Made...IMO
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If you watch my channel whatsoever you will know some things about my retro gaming tastes; I love arcade racing games and I love obscure retro games...so put those two things together and...well you get one of the best Namco Games ever...Lucky and Wild! Oh and its ALSO a lightgun game so...bonus! It's basically Chase HQ from Taito meets Point Blank meets OutRun! Oh and its also written Lucky & Wild
Luckily this runs on MAME via MAME emulation so it can be enjoyed by all and if you need a MAME tutorial or MAME guide I have one on my channel....just check the emulation night school playlist!
But its definitely an arcade hidden gem of jank as good luck finding it these days!
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You have to see the full cabinet. Both the driver and passenger had a gun mounted on the 'dash'. Driving and shooting was an intense arcade experience. I feel lucky to have experienced this in the early 90s
Haha ooh I’ve seen it. Just not for decades
Yes. 🎉🎉🎉
@@VideoGameEsoterica There's a full sit-down cab in the Barcade in Philadelphia, if you're ever out this way! It's in great working shape.Also you can drink while you play lol
I came to the comments to say the same thing. My local arcade growing up had the two player sit down cabinet. It was awesome. I didn't get to play it much because they jacked up the price too high for my meager allowance, but the few times I played it were incredible.
The best way to play haha
I was literally talking about this game to a buddy of mine hours before your video. I absolutely love this game.
Timing is funny like that sometimes!
I used to play this at Six Flags Magic Mountain as a kid. It was the full size bench cabinet and we would play with 3 players, 1 driver and 2 people on the guns. One the most unique arcade games and always a blast to play!!
Six Flags had all the cabs back in the day. I miss that
My friends and I used to play this game when I was a kid. Player one has a gun and driving controls, and player two just has a gun. We used to play this two player game as a three player game instead. One kid would drive, another would control the driver's gun, and a third kid would control the player 2 gun. It was always our favorite and we could never resist when we found one of these cabinets, especially when it was one of the original sit down cabinet configurations(in later years at least it seemed like some arcade operators would remove the bench in order to save space).
It was basically the perfect 2P arcade game. I wish more games used that mechanic
This, i found out, is an exceedingly rare arcade machine. I was priviledged enough to have played it frequently, as a kid growing up in the 90s, at a local theatre called the Cinedomes in California, that had a very nice arcade which also included The Punisher sidescroller, Simpon's Arcade, a full sized X-men Arcade machine and much more! The best part was that whoever ran it would leave a couple of the games, including Lucky and Wild, on free play!! I got to playthrough it on many occassions and it remains not only one of my favorite light gun gaming experiences, but is in my top 10 favorite arcade machines ever!! Loved the variations of ways to play. Driver could drive and shoot or just drive while a friend John Woo'd it with dual pistols or even get a 3rd person to join in! It was such a fond gaming memory that i later sought out a machine only to find that they are considered rare and super expensive, especially for the full model i got to play. As a kid i had no idea how good i had it and how well currated my local arcades were. They were truly lucky and wild times!!
P.S.- Another rare machine that i grew up playing, and is in my top 5 favorites is F-Zero AX (also, my favorite racing series). I used to work at a entertainment park called Golfland Sunsplash back when it actually had decent games and i helped maintain the machines. The F-Zero AX was an awesome set-up. We had the dual seater. It was cool to be able to bring your gamecube memory card in and transfer stuff from AX to GX. Have you covered F-Zero AX? Did you know that the full AX game was found to be included on the GX Gamecube disc? Anyways, thanks for the vids. Really appreciate your work. Peace.
I did AX forever ago but it’s due up for a revisit honestly
I’ve got great memories of playing this as a kid at my local Aladdin’s Castle! I was lucky (lol) to play it at Ground Kontrol in Portland Oregon a few years back. I was excited to see it in great condition. Good times.
I’m just happy cabinets still exist out in the world and are maintained. Game deserves it
Only ever tried it once, most arcades where I live seldom had the big cabinets.
The game looks and feels a lot like a Taito game and the reflections in the rear-view mirror are hilarious. Lots of O-faces. I think that's a feature made for onlookers to enjoy and have a laugh at. The players will be more focused on the in-game action.
Yep the game is just straight up filled with all sorts of small touches
I remember playing this with my dad back in the day, but it was so hard to beat that we could only make it to the second level.
Haha the arcade must have had the difficulty up higher
@@VideoGameEsotericaCould be, but what do I know? I was a wee kid last time I played this on the arcade lmao
My recent experience with this game indicates that two moderately inebriated adults can blast through this game with a continue or three per level depending on how serious they're playing. It's definitely a quarter muncher.... but it's also pretty short... so the overall $$$ damage is not too bad
Not sure if there are difficulty DIP switches though... so YMMV for sure
what an absolute blast, this game is such an absolute treasure
Haha and that’s all anyone can ask for
You had me at Tango and Cash with Cat Girls.
Winning combination.
Haha and maybe the only combination with those ingredients
Concept of lucky and Wild is amazing !!!
I wish we saw more games like this
@@VideoGameEsoterica There is Starsky and Hutch
True someone else mentioned it. I’d forgotten about that one
Played this at the Jersey Shore back in the 2k's with my younger cousin he was shooting I was driving and of all the arcades games we played that day this was definitely the most fun. A blast to play especially with two players.
It’s the perfect 2P game but it’s also a wildly fun dual wield drive and shoot game too
Loved playing this in the arcade as a kid. What a cab.
I wish they would have remade this or done a successor during the XBLA era. Would have been a great co-op experience.
Would be great in VR these days too
They still have one of these at an arcade bar near me in Newcastle UK. Such a fantastic game - I always pop in a few credits
Time to go visit it again. For me!
I always assumed this game was inspired by the movie Tango & Cash.
(Sly Stallone and Kurk Russell.)
I remember it being quite a fun movie, but it probably hasn't aged well. lol
Haha nothing back then has aged well. But we still love it
I played this at Galloping Ghost arcade in Brookfield, IL about a week ago. So much fun!
I need to stop back out there soon
This brought back some great memories, I loved playing this cab back in the day, the whole thing was insane, never see these out in the wild these days!😢
So glad to see so many people love and remember this one
Yeah, you'd have to be pretty "Lucky" to see these in the "Wild" these days... 😏
...I'll see myself out.
@@GreyMatterShades I had to stop myself typing no pun intended! 🤣
@@StiffPeak Great minds...😂🍻
I remember seeing this for the first time in the Arcade, back in the day, so impressive. Still looks good to me, to this day !
The art style has aged so well
Im old enough to remember playin this in the arcade cost me a fortune great game.
The fortune was worth it
Looks stunning . I'd of loved to of seen that cabinet back in the day
More people have seen this one IRL than I expected
I loved this game! My favorite was left hand driving and right hand shooting. So good.
Dual world haha except ones a wheel
I don't know how well that game did in arcades but I'd definitely play it if I saw it. That just sounds like a really fun concept driving and light gun game at the same time
Seems to have done ok-ish. So hard to tell back then
They need to bring back light gun games, man. There’s a unique appeal to games like this that you don’t see anymore.
This is one of the most interesting games I’ve seen, I can see why it’s your best Namco arcade game.
I thought we’d see a lot more with VR but it’s not nearly as many releases as I’d hope
SUCH an amazing game, I spent countless lunch money on this game as a kid. Legendary cabinet ❤
I’m so glad to see all the love for it here today
Not heard of this one looks wild driving
Def a deep cut
One of my brothers was fortunate enough to play the arcade with a friend. He was absolutely sold on it, and I can see why…
Yes it’s just pure fun from start to finish
I do remmeber playing this game in the arcades.
Fun fact: This game was created in 1992 but it was released in1993.
Yes a lot of games release a year after the copyright when it comes to arcade stuff
I have distinct memories of this game.. my parents didn't like games or feeding quarters to play arcade games, but I guess my parents liked seeing me and my brother playing this one together- and encouraged it on occasion.
Like other Namco games, Lucky and Wild also had a degree of 'being fair' and allowing you to play longer as you developed skill...rather than cheating and becoming a borderline illegal video machine that you feed money into for only about 20-30 seconds of play (like Mortal Kombat 2).
Yes it def was skill based and didn’t feel too cheap whatsoever which made a huge diff
I have this setup on mame with my T300 RS wheel and pedals and two Sinden lightguns. Very fun! I never knew about the game or seen it in arcades from what I recall.
It’s great we can set it up at home easily and have fun
My partner doesn’t really play video games, but this is her favorite game of all time. We used to have a cabinet at a barcade here in Kansas City, but it’s been missing since 2021 :(
Sad it went missing. Hope it was just sold and not recycled
I played this game at an arcade as a kid. Really cool
Glad to see so many people have played a cab even if it was back in the day
Played it in Panama City Beach and loved it.
And then you could go to the beach after. Perfect day
The last working cabinet I saw was at Ober Mountain in Gatlinburg Tennessee, around 2018. I probably spent $15 on it when I came across it.
As you should have! Haha
The way the building scale remind me of wobble effect of traditional animation
It does have a similar vibe
Great frickin game VGE. I played the living day lights with Lucky & Wild with my brother growing. We loved it the moment we first inserted our tokens and had knowing anything about what the game was going to be like. Man, what a gem this is from Namco. 8^)
I assume said brother was Odie?
Of course a game about getting lucky and wild would be your favorite! It's like a recreation of when you and mom first met!
🤣
Uh oh. Another one to keep my eye out on the Japan trip in a couple of months. :)
Ooh nice. Have fun!
I used to stand around in arcades watching the demo play. As a kid i didn't have the money to play it more than a few times. Typically the only arcade games that interested me were from Sega, who were very much in a league of their own and many arcades here in the UK would have Sega Model 1/2/3 cabinets, but this game and its cabinet still managed to stand out and i wish the Saturn had gotten it.
Sega was the undisputed king but Namco was very close behind
This game was so good in the arcade.
A classic but obv I think that haha
Love the content! 🎉
One of the nicest cabinet in history
It’s a legit awesome cab
I love this game! A Barcade near me actually has it, and my wife and I played through it about a year ago. Must have cost like 50 credits hahaha
Nice. Which arcade?
@@VideoGameEsoterica BRcade, located in Baton Rouge Louisiana. We had just come from a Mardi Gras parade and were... pretty tipsy. It was free to play after paying the cover to get in, so we just kept "feeding quarters" until we finished it.
At the end I turned to my wife and said "My finger is throbbing from pulling that trigger for 25 minutes w/o stopping." To which she turned to me and said "It's an automatic honey, just pull and hold." 😅
The arcade version was always kinda cumbersome to play since the gun was attached to the dashboard. I mainly played Lethal Enforcers at the time sine I thought super scaler type games weren’t interesting since home ports always sucked. Which was a weird way to look at things…
Lethal Enforcers was a classic
My mate who lives in Estonia recently sent me photos of an arcade he found had a working cab of this.. I haven’t seen one in years
Estonia eh? Fun place to find it
@ Halinga Restoran, Halinga Pizza google this place check out some of the pics it’s wild I’d love to visit it
@ th-cam.com/video/GPqj9PQPLtc/w-d-xo.htmlsi=jRkls1s2wYF1tgDx found a vid of the place too
Oh wow nice!
So fun. Would've liked to see a home adaptation.
Would have been great on Saturn
Wish some of these sprite scalers would get modern home ports. I would love to play it on my TV on Playstation.
When consoles went 2d to 3D nobody wanted to publish 2D games it seems
Looks like super chase hq crossed with ur light gun game of choice!
The best combo
I haven't seen one in a very long time, but I have played this in arcades numerous times. I could have sworn I read somewhere there was a sequel in development. But age may be catching up to me. LOL
Haha happens to the best of us. I don’t recall sequel talk but I could have easily missed it
Another missed opportunity for the Sega Saturn. If you design a console that is basically a System 32 you should be porting everything super scaler too it yet the vast majority of games never got home conversions. I remember playing this game at one of the best arcades ever known the third floor of The Exchange in Church Street Station in Orlando FL as a kid in the early to mid 90s. They had every game you could possibly imagine. They even had a mini theater of Galaxian 3.
However namco jump ship to Sony during the preparation of the ps1.
So many good sprite callers that could have been great on Saturn
Yeah that was a bummer for Sega
@@VideoGameEsoterica OutRunners/Racing Hero/NBA Run N Gun 1+2/Soccer Superstars/Galactic Storm/Night Striker/Galaxy Force 2/Thunder Blade/Super Chase/Top Speed/Chase HQ/Operation Thunderbolt/Rambo 3/Aqua Jack etc.
I’ll take them all!
I got to play on a real cabinet once on my travels for work. Definitely a cool game and a concept I can see wouldn't be popular with an arcade owner because they'll never get that sweet sweet double play purchase ever since half the controls can just be handed off to another player, similar to Return of Ishtar, another one which gives two players a game for a single credit.
Yes you can use one credit for two players. Halves the potential revenue
Only just clicked on, and not watched the video yet, but f**king A, this is one of my most fun experiences in the arcades bar none. And one of my favourite youtubers doing a video I know it's gonna be an awesome watch.
Anybody else play it 'drive by style' with one hand on the wheel and the other for the gun?
I emulate on Series X and it's kinda heartbreaking there's no gun available for X-Box that would work. I already got a crappy wheel for arcade racers so I'm half there (those £30 multi-platform ones for Xbox/PS4/PC that just take over your controller functions and aren't recognised as a real wheel like those £300 simulator ones, works so much better for arcade racers than a proper sim-wheel does, and they work in emulators for stuff like Chase HQ and outrun on MAME and those old school arcade racers on PS1/PS2/GC/Dreamcast etc... as well as making stuff like Need for Speed, Ridge Racer, Burnout and Split Second WAYYYYY more fun. They eat a big bag of asses for stuff like Asseto Corsa and Forza Motorsport though.)
**EDIT - Damn, everyone in the comments had a player 1 gun as well, so either the arcade near me must have a busted one, or the model was different in Europe, as there was no player one gun on my mine and it cost another 50p to use the player 2 gun. I would have saved so much money back in the day.**
Haha that’s the only way I play it. Driving and shooting GTA style
Love this game! Their faces in the rear view mirror 😂
Haha it’s a classic
When I was a kid, a guy once called me over and paid for me to be player 2 for a whole run. I have no idea how much he spent, but it was a lot.
Haha that story could have gone badly. Glad it didn’t!
@@VideoGameEsoterica lol I can confidently say I only ever had wholesome experiences with strange adults in arcades.
As it should be!
Not arcade, but non rail light gun and driving "Starsky and Hutch" for PS2 and Xbox. one player drove the other uses the light gun or you could try both.
I 100% forgot that game existed
@@VideoGameEsotericalol not many people would ;) back in the day this concept blew my mind and I love local coop with my buddies. Average games can be great with a friend.
Now I’m gonna play it again
This was one of my fave arcade games in the 90s and would make sure we played it whenever we came across it in arcades (still one of my all time fave cabs). Combining light gun and driving was genius! (Lethal Weapon vibes) As far as I know there isn't FFB working yet, but if that ever happens I can't wait to load it up with the Sinden.
I'd love if Danny Glover was modded into this game! "I'm too old for this shit" on the continue screen.
Haha I say Murtaugh’s line often when I don’t want to do something
Do you know / have the pinout for the edge connector that takes the analogue inputs for the steering, brake & accel, and gun positioning? I can't seem to find it documented online.
I believe I do somewhere here
@ If at all possible, it would be most appreciated if you’re able to dig it up and share it, please. I just acquired the board yesterday so I’m keen to wire up a rig to play it.
Contact me on discord or Twitter so I can send it when I find it
Is there some sort of database where i can fish out all mounted-gun (potentiometer, not lightgun tracking) sprite-scaler arcade games? I'm trying to remember something.
Not that I’ve ever seen
@@VideoGameEsoterica Looking for a darkish reddish zombie-ish game of the first person rail shooter kind that i played exactly once more than 30 years ago, so between 1992 and 1995, at a random railroad station in Crimea. Mounted gun and sprite scaling. Absolutely unfair, horrible coin muncher.
At the time i had a self-built ZX Spectrum clone at home (a Leningrad 48k), and some of my friends had a Dendy or Ending-Man (Famiclone).
@@VideoGameEsoterica You know what maybe it was original SNK Beast Busters (1988). Man it looks a lot worse than i remember it.
Zombie Raid?
Could be that too
I assumed this was 3D rendered until you said it wasn’t. That’s really impressive 2D scaling.
Yes the pseudo 3D is very convincing
If you can get a Wii USB sensor bar, a Wiimote and a Nunchuck, it's a great way to play it on your PC.
Or maybe on a Wii U with MAME, I'm not up to how good MAME on WiiU is right now
That’s actually a good combo idea. I’ll give it a shot
Sad I never saw this one in the wild, back in the day. I would have loved it. Ah well.
You never know. One day it might pop up
HELL YEAH Lucky and Wild! Awesome arcade game.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, this would make an awesome VR game, either a port of the original or a new game inspired by the original. Driving games are awesome in VR. Shooting games are awesome in VR. The combination would be perfect for the hardware.
I’d love to see a ton of super scalers recreated in VR
@@VideoGameEsoterica Yeah I'd think super scalers could work really well in VR with the high resolutions and framerates. And I'd bet they'd even run great on less powerful VR hardware like the Quest 2.
Seems like developers are leaving money on the table.
@GreyMatterShades I wish someone would try
Could you do clip about Rapid River (Namco)?
I don’t believe it runs well enough for coverage yet
Excellent
Just a perfect game IMo
@VideoGameEsoterica I'm not sure if I've played this or something similar using emulation years ago . I think the controller made it a miserable experience but I can see why you'd like this classic, especially with 2 players, light gun and steering wheel. . Is there a modern day equivalent?
Not really a modern day equivalent in the last 15 years
I don't think there's any arguing against the vid title this time. 🚓🔫
lol it’s never stopped people before. It’s social media. People will start an argument over anything 🤣 you could give them $100 for free and they’d complain it’s five twenties and not a single hundred
For you, what are the most accurate cores on Mister ? Megadrive, Neo-Geo ?
Neo-Geo/SNES/Mega Drive/PC Engine
@@VideoGameEsoterica Thanks 😉
Oh I love sprite scalers, I was lucky to have played this in the wild. What do you think was the best / most technological use of the tech? Galaxy Force II? Thank God for the 3ds M2 ports.
Art and design wise my fav is Night Striker
@VideoGameEsoterica definitely a cool aesthetic with some great music. Have the Mega CD and Saturn port.
I can’t wait for the sequel. Wild we are getting one
Never have seen this in the wild or played it. At least, not that I can remember. Did spend some time in Japan in 1993 and so it is possible that I encountered it then. Is this supported by Mister yet? Would like to try it but controls might be cumbersome.
No sadly no MiSTer core. Hopefully one day
All that you could want.
The perfect mix
ooh looks fun
Def give it a shot
They should release this on switch..
I’d certainly play it
Just an fyi that your discord server link in the description is broken
Thanks. I had to change some up
It's pretty, but not as pretty as something like Outrunners in my view. The draw distance is quite short and the roads flat with little verticality. There doesn't seem to be any cool weather effects either, like in some other sprite-scalers. On the plus side, the scaling works smoothly and isn't glitchy, even though there's a lot going on in this game
Roads just flatted to accommodating the shooting mechanics it feels like
I wish Namco would have made Saturn games, this would have been a perfect game to port on the Sega Saturn. Does anyone know why Namco and Square soft just avoided Sega?
I’ve never heard a real reason but my guess is Sony showed up with cash
Namco and Sega had a rivalry in the arcade market dating back to the early '80s. Namco had fully embraced arcade 3D technology and the PS1 as a pure 3D system was a good fit. Nearly every Namco game for the PS1 was a 3D game. Sony and Namco co-developed the PS1-based System 11 board. Namco became more of a partner than an ordinary third-party dev with Sony and also had more favorable licensing terms, compared to the stricter terms under Nintendo and Sega previously. Square or Enix never released a game for the Mega Drive, which wasn't big in Japan. Despite the MD having some excellent RPGs, Sega consoles weren't generally known for RPGs. I think Square and Enix thought that the PS1 had more potential to become the next big RPG system.
Sony just had the momentum that generation too. Same with PS2 era
this game is so good, it sucks it got kinda slept on :(
Yes it should be way more well known than it is
I love sprite scalers, but I find that 'Damage' hit and flash infuriating and distracting . . . .
It’s a vibe but I love it
What!? Wow! WHOOPEE!
lol
This game is not exactly my cup of pee. It has the same enormous popups of screen filling props like Thunderblade, and so IMO was an era where sprite scaling already a bit had lost its soul (making just even bigger and blockier madness like Pitfighter, without caring for fine graphical details anymore). But it has some interesting ideas; I like the truck 7:00 dropping multiple cars onto the road or 9:40 the burning obstacles falling inside a tunnel.
lol did you mean tea?
@@VideoGameEsoterica Yes, sort-of...😉 I ceased to have fun in war-like shooting games (there is too much genuine war in this world now). But I would love to make a disaster driving simulator about driving through similar chaos full of destroyed roads and bridges, flooded sceneries, lava or forest fire (waiting too long nearby a fire burns your car etc.). Missions like rescuing injured people or bringing supply goods into a disaster area is nicer than just a shoot-em-up.
Haha
I LOVE THIS GAME. There is a working, playable cab at Barcade in Philadelphia. Every time I hit up that bar with people, it's SUCH a treat to hand them a fistful of tokens and blast our way through this one.
It's also great since it's inside a BAR, which means you can drink while playing the game... and (virtually) "driving" lmao
It’s the perfect co-op game. Especially with drinks!
Hahaha. Good one VGE. 8^)