Battle of the Ports - Moon Patrol (ムーンパトロール) Show
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Said to be the first ever arcade game to feature parallax scrolling, Moon Patrol is something of an industry innovator but how is it as a game? Let's take a look at Moon Patrol over many different formats.
Time Code
00:23 - Arcade
02:04 - Apple ][
03:00 - Atari 2600
03:35 - Atari 5200
04:39 - Atari 8bit home computers
05:22 - Atari ST
06:09 - Commodore 64
07:02 - Commodore Vic-20
07:59 - ZX Spectrum
09:14 - MSX
10:10 - MS Dos
11:10 - Colecovision
12:01 - Texas Instruments 99 / 4A
12:59 - Game Boy Colour
13:50 - All versions side by side
Enjoy!
One of my favorite early arcade games. Was glad to see it on the Irem Evercade cart.
impossible not open MAME and play it after watching this video. One of my first favorite games ever in the arcades!
It's a very simple yet addictive game.
Makes me glad I have it on "Arcade's Greatest Hits: The Midway Collection Vol. 2" for the PS1. Get a quality arcade stick, RGB cable, and set the video mode for the game to "Arcade", and it's about as bloody close as you can get to the original as you can get.
Developers of most of these ports didn't understand the speed controlling mechanism original have.
I love these 80's arcade ports episodes!
More 80s goodness coming next week.
The Flinstones Delorean in the atari 2600 version xD
A greeting!!!!!
Yep, that's classic. I'm sure it's nit meant to look like a Flinstones Delorean but it sure looks like one 😁
Hehe.. I just grabbed my copy today from the used game store. My 1st thought was Delorean as well. ;)
Delorean with feet that is..
Funny thing, i was looking if there was a Moon Patrol episode earlier this week after i bought the 2600 port. It's one of my favorite games on the console.
Man. I put soooo many hours into the 2600 version as a kid. Not half bad as far as games on that system go.
Another fantastic video. This game is extremely sentimental to me as it was the very first video game I had ever played or seen in 1982, I was either 4 or 5 years old at the time and it was the arcade cabinet at the variety corner store on the street I had just moved to back in 1981.
Glad you enjoyed the show, Kevin. I don't recall seeing this in the arcades myself back in the day. One that stood out to me was Legend of Kage and Ghost'n Gobilns.
It´s very nice to recieve a new video notification from Retro Core!!! Moon Patrol had an important part of my chilhood, I´ve played a lot in the arcade and in a friend´s home on the atari 2600. Very nice video thanks Mark!
I'm glad you enjoyed the video, fe Costa. I never actually had the chance to play it as a kid.
Moon Patrol on 2600 was the way I played it for many years. Digging that Commodore 64 version.
Great video! For me, my favourite was always the Atari 2600 one. It may not have had the graphical touches of the more powerful systems, but the gameplay was pure distilled fun, with great physics and a lovely satisfying feel. I still play it today, though on Retropie. Also I did actually have a Colecovision back in the day, probably the only person in my area who did and I would have loved this version you show here.
2:09 another great game, but it was at this point I decided to turn the volume down a bit...but my god, I hope no one was watching this with headphones. That sinclair zx port could kill...
Wow, I *am* listening to this with headphones, the Speccy section has left me with blood pouring from my ears!!
Hands down one of the best home experiences in the early eighties. We were lucky enough to have a neighbor with the C64 and the game was great.
One of my fav arcades as a kid.... And I remember how the tiny rocks was way more dangerous than big boulders
Yep, that's video game logic for you.
I remember spending a lot of time playing on the arcade original and the 2600 port.
Also, because I'm wearing headphones, my ears exploded when I started listening to the music from the ZX Spectrum port.
You can always rely on the speccy to blow your ears.
Excellent choice with Moon Patrol Mark. My uncle actually had the arcade cabinet in his recreational basement at one time when I was growing up. He loved this game so much that he said he needed this in his house. 8^)
Anthony..
That's a dedicated man. Owning an arcade back then was not normal. It's still not normal know but it is at least more common.
Interesting assortment of ports. I never knew about Moon Patrol in the arcades as I was very young. I grew up with the Atari 2600 around and started playing those games early. I found out about Moon Patrol from an acquaintance later on, probably in 1986. It seemed like one of the coolest 2600 games when he brought it over. I am pretty sure that's the last 2600 game I ever got. If not the very last one, one of the last ones. I'd end up with a Master System in 1987 with not much desire to go back to the 2600. Good to hear that port holds up in comparison. Good to see all the other versions. Thanks for showing.
As of writing, if you go to the App Store and type in "Amico Club" you can download the demo version of Moon Patrol for the Intellivision Amico... which is scheduled for April 2021
Oh the Amico. The console with absolutely zero appeal.
@RetroCore Now it's going to be a mobile app with zero appeal! But hey, some of their games are going to be ported to other platforms!
Ahh..Moon Patrol. One of my favorite games in my 2600 library. Use to play it so much, but never could quite make it to the end..it was a toughie! never stopped me from trying, though. The hallmark of a truly great game.
Indeed. A tough game that isn't frustrating is a game you know had a lot of thought put in to it .
Easily one of your best battle of the ports......stellar work mate!
Thanks. I personally like my updated Space Harrier video the most though. Probably because I really enjoyed that game.
This game was the inspiration for Victor Ruiz Dinamic's Army Moves first two stages changing this lunar module for a military jeep with missiles.
This one I played on Arcade and Atari 2600. I was too young to play it on arcades, just if I were with older friends (during the mid 80s), but on Atari 2600 I played A LOT! A friend of mine had the cartridge and I borrowed very often.
Atari 2600' version is still my favorite. The gameplay is addicting, thing that the arcade did not made me feel.
Woo! This is one I've been waiting for. Irem forever!
Hope you enjoyed the show.
I played this in my 800XL Atari home computer and I managed to finish it. Those days of old when just playing the game was more important than graphics.
Indeed. Still, we do get games like that now from time to time.
@@RetroCore really? I only see overpriced unfinished games these days sold as complete games with lots of micro transactions.
It is always surprising to me how diffrent the TI, Coleco, and MSX versions of a game wind up being when all three systems have the same video and sound chips.
I love Moon Patrol. Of course nothing can beat the arcade version, but I got to know the game with the 2600 version which is probably my fav game on the system, then the great MSX version.
Now I was really impressed with the smooth scrolling of the Colecovision port. The fact the enemies only stay at the "black" portion of the background makes me believe the scenary there is made up with sprites, not actual redefined characters as it would usually be the case with Colecovision.
Still pretty impressive. Shame it was never finished/released.
I have to admit that I was also impressed with the 2600 version. It's funny but this is just one of many 2600 games that's more playable than it's 5200 big brother.
@@RetroCore The 2600 version is amazingly good for the system. I had about 36 games for the 2600 when I was kid, before moving to the MSX. Moon Patrol really was my favourite game back then.
/@Peck Man I really think its a pretty solid port. It does look very good for the system and plays pretty well.
Unfortunately it takes a lot of liberties with level design, like all the other home ports. It doesn't have the "record" bonus at the end of level, there aren't "areas" or "courses", just a level after the other, and some other stuff is missing.
But overall is very solid, even more considering its a very early release for the system.
I think Moon Patrol looks and plays good today. It's worth the few bucks to pick up on PS4 or X1 (thank you Hamster). It can easily leave you wanting another try.
nice and complete video!
Amazing Game, 100% Playability & fun, no flamboyant & pretentious storytelling, a truly classic. Great video!
The Atari ST port could have potentially sounded identical to the arcade original, too, since it uses basically the same sound chip.
Just lazy arsed development as usual.
When I was 5, a kid from school had a 2600 with this, pitfall, and some other games. Also, I remember seeing a handheld lcd version of this. The lcd art of the buggy looked similar to the buggy on the 2600 version, or at least that's how I remember it
I didn't know there was an LCD version. I would have loved to have added that to the video if it was official.
Played a zillion hours of the Apple 2 port. Once of the best arcade ports for the system because the keyboard controls work well
I have to admit that I did like the apple 2 port.
My first real love on the Atari 2600 this was...quite a good version all told.
Wow! Parallax scrolling on an Apple II! I didn't remember that. To be fair I only played it as a kid. I didn't even know it was from Irem!
The Atari 5200 and 8-bit Moon Buggy looks like a tank or a Humvee with a Cannon installed on the front of it.
Hehe, they do a bit.
It's so funny seeing how the buggy changes with each port and developer.
Some look pretty cool.
Damn, you’d think it’d be hard enough being a normal police officer. At least they don’t have to put up with mines and flying saucers every other millisecond, and don’t forget the flying Space Bras.
Love your channel and love these comparisons! Not sure if you are aware but there was a Homebrew release of Moon Patrol for the ColecoVision that was actually polished and finished as well as (I believe anyway) blessed for release by the original programmer. Virtually the same as the prototype, but a few things fixed, polished and smoothed up as well as a new title screen.
Thanks for watching, needhambunch. Yes, I know about the other coleco version but decided to leave it out due yo it not being official. Good game though.
The 26 zones is for a single course. The game has the "Beginner" course and then the "Champion" Course. After you finish the Champion Course, you play it again and again and again up until you lose all your lives :)
The way of the classics. Who needs a final ending when your skills could allow you to play forever 😁
It's kind of frustrating looking at the great MSX port and thinking the Speccy could have handled a port similar to that instead of the goddawful crap it was saddled with. The Atari 2600 version was always my fave as a kid, I've really gotten into the original arcade game more in recent years though.
the music is more noticeable in the Master System part of Paperboy
I remember playing the Apple version on a IIe as a kid - only played in the arcade for the first time two weeks ago!
I'm surprised you could find an arcade of this or did you play via mame?
@@RetroCore The arcade machine! Was a bit of a random find while on holiday in Brisbane and searching for retro games to buy (which are very overpriced in Australia) - www.1uparcade.com.au/
Nice, lucky find.
@@RetroCore I have a Retrocade that is 5 mins away from my house that has a perfect working Moon Patrol machine. Just barely played it lol!
10:17 - It's so weird that the buggy's wheels don't individually follow the Moon's terrain, -until- there are flying enemies...
por suerte para los usuarios de spectrum se hizo justicia hace poco con Moon Ranger!
Moon Patrol for the ColecoVision came out in 2014. There was a near-complete prototype that was given the finishing touches and released. Not sure why this wasn't reviewed unless we are pretending the systems are museum pieces that ceased to be real after the '80s.
The bra enemies? Actually they probably were to be changed, yes, the graphic artist (who was the guy who released the ROM online methinks) just had some fun with it :3
In the coleco version white brassieres 11:42 are enemies 😂
Yep. Very odd choice for a stand in graphic.
@@RetroCore Battle of the Ports Show 253 Hydro Thunder Please?
This game brings me back some really good memories! I used to own a pretty old Laptop (So old... It's Pentium III) and I did have the C64 and Arcade versions running on pretty old emulators but man this was pretty good fun, the C64 had pretty awesome and bassy sound effects...
Most of this ports are not really THAT good but hey, they are playable, Atari did something that ressemblex Tiertex in every single way on the ZX Speccy port...
Great video as always... In fact, I did run to play it yet again after seeing the video haha
Ooh, don't talk about Tiertex. I just had to play a load of Tiertex garbage for the next Battle of the Ports.
Surprised that this never got a Famicom port. Absolute classic.
On that DOS version I remember when you blew up, man you REALLY exploded! Like parts flying in the air all over the place lol! Hey Mark, check out Irem's Horizon from 1985. It's basically a sequel to Moon Patrol that very few people knew about.
Thanks for the info on Horizon. Id not heard of that one.
Did you notice on the MSX version when you explode the buggy's driver fkys out too 😁
12:28 Why does it remind me of Doom E1M1 music? (especially at 12:56)
There is also a remake for windows: Moon patrol new path. Quite well done.
That's right. I thought about adding that but decided not to in the end and keep the video focused on official ports only.
One thing on the ZX Spectrum port is the background colors look horrible to me, most of the other ports look better in that regard. That MS-DOS port has some weird shooting sounds like if you were shooting mice. The ColecoVision unreleased port looks moderately good for the system. Although I still prefer the Donkey Kong port instead. The GB Boy Color port has horrible music although if you tuned it up a bit it could sound better probably. I'm not sure. Anyway like the video!
Thanks dude, now you've got me wondering if I had the 2600 cart as a kid or not. 😋 I know I played it, but I just can't remember if I actually had it. The C64 version, on the other hand, was a lot of my wasted childhood. That's one of the few games I remember having on a cartridge. Except for a Lunar Lander, I think all of my C64 cart games were released by Atarisoft. So sad about the ST port. Such wasted potential.
My sis and i used to play this game all the time on MAME, it was such a fun and addicting game to play. i wish it had a 16-Bit remake or sequel.
Look for another Irem game called Horizon in Mame. It is the little known sequel to Moon Patrol.
@@AzrialAlaria It looks like a good sequel. thanks for the say.
I played a lot of this game on my CoCo 2 as a kid. I think it was an unauthorized clone, though, rather than an official port. The CoCo got a lot of those, but they were often better than the official versions that other systems got.
Yes, there is a clone game on the Tandy which almost made it to the video until I found out it wasn't official.
Probably one of my favorite older chip tunes, to me it will always be the Moon Patrol theme. :D I enjoy the 2600 quite a bit and look forward to testing out the 5200 one once I get my controllers put back together heh. 5200 graphics usually succeed or fail mostly in good distribution of the objects, think most of them are concentrated into the background.
ST, oof painful. VIC-20 is pretty good given the hardware and development time constraints bitd. Yeah Atarisoft didn't really understand the ZX. :P Probably should have made the MSX buggy black instead. DOS, shame no Composite Artifact Color mode, say that of most CGA heh. Weird how different the Coleco & TI are given similar hardware. DE porting, no ears or no time from that developer, they're better now apparently?
Pretty sure the music in "Paperboy", while similar, isn't the same as in this. *Andy goes away to check* Yep, I was right, similar but different.
I love "Moon Patrol", though; a true classic.
Yep, it's not the same but it is extremely similar. I'm sure they were "influenced" by Moon Patrol.
@@RetroCore I was about to say, it'd be lawsuit worthy today...
Chords from both games uses standard blues chords, so while they might been similar, its far from the same tune. On C64 they are also quite very differents in the blues style. Im also did a remix of this tune in SidTracker 64 how its also could sound, howover im did used all 3 channels, while 2 channels would been optimal, while leaving the last channel to the SFX.
I'm sure that I played game just like "Moon patrol" when I was young (Somewhere between 1980-1990) and it wasn't any of these but then I only had Vic20, C64... was there any clones of this game around that time?
Sure, there were a few different clones around. It's likely you played one of those.
They couldn't even get the title screen right in the ZX Spectrum port. This is just SAD.
Great game! I still love the ST port but most likely for sentimental reasons
I can understand that. There are a few poor games that I still enjoy even though I know they are awful :
Yes, the simple Atari 2600 version is a very fun port, and great to see a property port to MSX. Moon Patrol is a real golden classic!
I think we have to be thankful Denpa handled the port rather than a western developer otherwise MSX owners would have probably received a poor ZX Spectrum port.
Great video. It's been a while since we've had one with so many versions but then, I suppose you're going to run out of arcade games eventually!
Eventually they will all run out but when that happens I'll move on to none Arcade games :)
Before R-TYPE, Kid Niki and Kung-Fu Master, there was Moon Patrol.
Created by Takashi Nishiyama who also did Moon Patrol as his second game, his first game UniWar S, Kung-Fu Master and later did the first Street Fighter, worked on creating Neo-Geo platform and its early fighting games including Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting.
www.1up.com/features/the-man-who-created-street-fighter.html
The 2600 version is great, but its weird floaty jumps are hard to deal with; I've never finished it because of that, it's way harder than the arcade game because of the way the jump works. You need to jump from the exact right pixels to make it through those minefields, you don't have as good control as the other versions I've played (arcade, 5200, GB/C). In comparison, the 5200 version controls about how I'd expect, so it's a lot easier to finish.
So, I take it that the arcade version was developed by Irem but distributed by Williams? Also, Billiams on the Coleco Vision title screen LOL
I had the atari 2600 First, was good fun..later I got the c64 version which I played alot
The GBC version's music isn't just out of key, it's out of scale! They took a piece written in blues and constrained it to your garden variety major.
I wonder if something was lost in translation on its way from standard MIDI to whatever the GBC used...
Possible but still, they should have fixed it.
After all this time I'm still waiting for Moon Patrol 2, does anyone knows about a modern clone or similar games?
I had this for the ti99-4a which was a great version
I'd have to agree with you on that.
For the system its pretty good. The TI99 doesn't have that many great games.
Retro Core ain’t that the truth I wanted a Commodore 64 or at least a Vic 20 but my dad got it for practically free so that is the computer we had until I was like 10
Would love to see you tackle Klax in the future.
It's one the list for a future show 👍
Is in the hunt a spiritual successor to this in anyway? Or the link between this and Metal slug?
No, in the hunt is probably more connected to Gun Force than anything else besides Metal Slug. But that came after In the Hunt.
Retro Core I discovered in the Hunt in retro magazine a while back when they had an article about Metal Slug. The game is different for sure, but the graphics are quite similar. I like metal slug so I bought the item collection for my Mac (3 dollars for 12 item Arcade games, great value), and in the hunt is fun, and it has Gun Force 2 which the article mentioned too. In the hunt looks a little like it plays a little similar to moon patrol and both are item games, why I was thinking there might be a connection.
Amstrad CPC gets left out in the cold again!
Yep he's going turbo ...... or pandering to yanks .. either way Alan Sugar is mad somewhere in the world
There is a clone of Moon Patrol on the CPC but I don't remember what it was called.
Well the music for moon patrol is indeed ripped off from paperboy but the familiar music plays only in master system/game gear version of the game
Watch out people. Moon Patrol is returning on the Intellivision AMICO!
Oh no!
lol
Again sticking with the no compromise for the sake of price, Atarisoft put out Moon Patrol on Cartridge here in UK on the A8 at £24.99
I love this game...... PS: Bra shaped enemy's in coleco version 🤣
I actually played this in the Arcade.
That's how old i am.
So you're in your 40s I guess?
I like to see the Atari Lynx have a port of this. Could you imagine how good it would be?
What about Moon Patrol on Uzebox?
That's not an official port so it was left out. Kind of how the many clones were also left out.
@@RetroCore Yeah but it's a pretty good port though. 😊
The Colecovision port being canceled was most likely a casualty of the American video game crash of 1983. In my mind, said crash didn't actually end until the original Xbox came out, because up until that point, aside from the occasional flop( like the Atari Jaguar and 3DO) the US was on a constant diet of Japanese gaming platforms.
In away you are right but then again we now only have one American company and two Japanese companies. Still, I really do like the 360 and Xbox One X. Was never a fan on the original though.
@bUH sNUH Colecovision was a beast. It felt like a true next gen experience compared to what came before.
this was a lot of games to play
It sure was. What makes it worse is most of them are computer games meaning configuration is needed to make them run.
You missed intellivision version there is also exist a C16 version under the name moon buggy
When I was a child, I confusingly called it "Moon Buggy".
Moon Buggy would make sense.
License and registration please, sir.
Sorry, I was drunk, oops, err, never mind.
@@RetroCore, first DUI on the Moon, huh? You're under arrest, Wheels Armstrong!
Well, at least the name "Moon Patrol" is more accurate on the ZX Spectrum version, _the jumping controls feel like you're on the fucking moon!_ oh wait...
Loved this video~
Also, I'm kinda ass at this game myself, which is rather unusual for a guy like me.
EDIT: I was joking when I said I was ass at the game. I'm actually really damn good at it.
there's nothing wrong with being ass at a game :)
@@RetroCore
I was joking about it tho. I know there's nothing wrong with being ass at it, but I was only saying that jokingly.
Normally I prepare for ear rape when the Apple ][, ZX Spectrum and MS DOS versions are shown, but to my surprise only the ZX Spectrum port ended up sounding so horrible that I had to skip ahead. I guess a simple game makes for a lot of decent ports, though I'm surprised the Game Boy Colour port looks and sounds as poor as it does. It's by far the most powerful console this game was ported to, and while it seems to play decent enough, there's no reason it can't be arcade perfect, or at least very close to it.
For the GBA issues we only need to look at the developers to understand why the music was bad.
@@RetroCore GBC, not GBA. Anyways, it turns out this was actually one of those black cartridges that was designed to be backwards compatible with the original Game Boy, so I guess that explains why the graphic quality was somewhat poorer than it could have been.
@@zanegandini5350 And the GB/C was never really an audio marvel.
Programmers for 16/48k Spectrum games shouldnt have bothered with ingame music for the most part.The 128k Models were far more capaple at that.
@@pjomayo The Moon Patrol devs should have followed the pack, clearly.
Even at the budget price of £14.99,the ST version failed to impress the UK press, C+VG awarded it 6/10, calling it dated and offering only a few hours of fun.
The Games Machine giving it 41% for it's limited appeal etc
I guess they never received their monthly payoff that month.
@@RetroCore only 38% from Gen 4 (French Magazine) as well and 2 reviewers.
I had kinder memories of the speccy version :)
Hey Mark,
Guess what bro? SNK 40th Anniversary Collection is coming to the Playstation 4. I posted it up on the Neo-Geo thread for others to view. 8^)
Anthony..
Yup parallax scrolling still look primitive but it's good to get variant background even though only few of it coz it's look like they just use same Background over and over, while as game I don't know how to say it than super basic.
Most games back in the early 80s kind of looked like this to be fair. It wasn't until around 1985 did games start to look more advanced
The color of the MSX version look like the Russian flag!
Impressive port on the Colecovision, despite of some enemies that looked like a bra...xD. In Amstrad I've a similar game called Army Moves.
I wonder how many people never beat that ridiculuously hard first level of Army Moves and never knew you only ride the jeep on the first level. After that you ride a chopper, then you go through a swamp by foot... and stay by foot while you invade an army base, then you have a maze like level inside a an army building where you need to find a safe.
The game only resembles Moon Patrol at the first level.
@@rafaellima83 Yes, yes, only in the first level. The rest of the game it's entirely different. I hate the part on foot because there isn't scroll and the enemies appear on the border of the screen and kills you instantly, so random
great music
My suggestion for the next 'Battle of the ports'... Last Duel by CAPCOM. One of the few Japanese arcade games that got a western home computer port but no console port.
Last Duel? Can't say I've heard of that one. Let me check it out. It may be next weeks show.
@@RetroCore Thank you very much.
OK, it will be next weeks show but be ready for a shit storm because Tiertex did the ports 😱
@@RetroCore Damn you Tiertex !!! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL 🔥🔥🔥
@@RetroCore Not to mention Mark Last Duel was Designed by Takashi Nishiyama. The same guy behind Trojan, the original Street Fighter, Legendary Wings, among others.
Excellent vid Mark and a great little game. I'd have been really happy with that Coleco version in the day. That spectrum version though is just hateful, I nearly for the first time in watching your videos skipped past it as that music is just hideous.
I find most Atari Soft games on the speccy are really bad. It's as if they mode them poor on purpose.
Am I the only one to notice that the Apple II copy says "cracked by ..." Hummm..........
Nope. Most of the computer versions I show are hacked.
Spectrum deserved better than that. What a shame.