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Well there WAS an episode of Regular Show where Mordecai and Rigby were playing a parody of it called “Extreme Escape”. In fact there’s a lot of 80’s shout outs in that show, including their game system bearing a strong resemblance to a Sega Master System.
Same for the NES version. Didn't even grow up in the 80s. Played it on the Wii and just recently bought the cartridge version, and damn is it a bloody classic.
I used to watch my dad play this on our Ps2. Dad didn’t want me to know that the player was actually shooting people, so he told us he was throwing tomatos. Good times!
This was the very first arcade I ever saw. I was five and all we had was the Atari. This game blew my mind. It was at a grocery store. The next day in skool I was drawing up my own elevator action with paper figures I had moving around.
I once draw an eleborate elevator action inspired drawing with Mickey Mouse as the protagonist and some other characters with lizard villains. Took me almost whole day. For some reason no teaching took place and the teacher said we must draw. Everyone was amazed and I think the teacher took the picture home. Wish I took a picture of it. It was detailed.
One thing i like about youtube longplays more than finally seeing the endings to games i loved... ...is at least knowing that sometimes they didn't have endings at all. : p
This was one of the few arcade games I would ever play as a 13 year old kid because I could have 10-15 minutes of entertainment. It seemed like every other arcade game at the time would kill you or be over within a minute or two and I only had a couple of hard earned quarters to feed into them. Good memories of this game, thanks for the video and here is a tasty like for you.
Ah the many long hours me and my friends spent playing this at the arcade. You know, you play and they watch, then they play and you watch. And there goes 2 hours. Great times!
Loved playing this in the arcades. The NES version was solid, but the bullets were ridiculously fast; at the higher levels, the baddies may as well have been using frikkin' machine guns.
43:13 - Man, I'm just sooo tired of waiting for that guy. I say we should go up and blast him. - Joey, patience is the name if this game. How many time have I told ya? - If I just go over there and catch the next elevator… - Joey, wait, he's coming down! - So tired… - JOEY! - Whu-- (looks up) --OH MY GOD!! - JOEEEEYYYY!! - TONY!! HELP MEEEE!! - MY GOD JOEY NOOOOO!! - AAAARGGH **SPLAT** - JOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEYYYYYYY!!! NOOOOOO!!! YOU BAAAASTAAAAAAAAAARDD!! *bangbangbangbang*
I remember playing this as a fledgling child in Chuck E Cheese arcades, being completely blown away by arcade games. the memories this brings back. thx for the vid.
This game isn't made to be finished when you were a kid.. they're meant to be finished when you're an adult, feeling nostalgic and then playing this again
Great video but you seem to be missing some of the fundamentals of the game.I noticed that when you were in an elevator moving down with an enemy below you you would dodge by moving the elevator up and down till you could get low enough to shoot the bad guy.You could have just jumped at him as a jumping attack kills any nearby bad guy your feet hit-you are always trusting to luck that the bad guy doesn't shoot as you are going past him..Also when you are waiting for an elevator to cross an empty shaft if the elevator is above you so the cable is not in the shaft you can just jump across the gap (if you need to traverse horizontally to get to a red door)
This whole channel is games being competed using Mame save states rather than actual skill. In many of the runs he does it's easy to see for people that know the games in depth.
Many tactical mistakes. F.i., If you are in the elevator, leading to your car, and have a red door left in the first floor, go down to the car and you are automatically at the red door. Use, whenever possible, only two of the three shots, so you are always enabled to shoot. Never leave the elevator in the 7th floor, before the next elevator is arriving, to avoid enemys coming from the upper floors.
I didn't perceive that I could use the door to defend bullets at that time. But I don't care what it had happened. The only thing I can say is I'm happy to memorize the childhood till now. Thank you for uploading this material.
My dad worked for state industrial as an elevator inspector. He hated this game. He saw me playing it one day (after he told me not to) and dragged me to a building he was inspecting He held my head in the fucking shaft and was beating me; only pulled my head back in the Nick of time as the elevator came barreling down. It was tough love for sure but he did teach me this is a game which should have been banned
Love this game to death!!!!! sometimes you just wanna sit back with beers and play Elevator Action. No fetch quest, No collecting feathers. Just you and your gun taking elevators and escalators like a boss.
Yo this is one of them games only the cool kids would play. I had to wait until they was gone to put my quarters to work. Other then pushed out of the way by A bigger kid. This was one of the best game a kid could play back in the day.
I loved this game . . . would give anything to go back in time for a week at the 'Arcade' and old style Putt-Putt. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana the Putt-Putt stayed open till 4am in the summer and they had a Arcade. 3 games of Putt-Putt then to the Arcade. We went there every Saturday night after we closed the McDonald's where we worked.
Exactly, those Wachoski brothers or sisters or whatever they are did their homework. Just like how the long chase scene in Point Break (1991), (you know the real one, not the world's most expensive Mountain Dew commercial.....I mean the 2015 remake....reboot.....retweek…..reworking.....resurface..) where everything in that chase scene that Kathryn Bigelow parroted from playing Paperboy (1988).
I love how the person who wrote the music for this was really pushing the limits of what they could eek out with the 8 bit platform, right down to the vibrato.
For the time it was impressive, but the NES for example has had much more impressive soundtracks later in its lifespan (the late 80s and early 90s). For example Silver Surfer, Battletoads and Journey to Silius. Still, this game came out when beeps and bops were still the norm so the vibrato is impressive, yeah!
It was more the "charm" of this game that made it cool rather than the gameplay. The music & the hair cut that evenly was cut to match bullets flying overhead was more endearing than the actual gameplay. Yet still- it was 1 of the better arcade games once upon a time.
the game is quite difficult, but when you know well what to do and what to do in case of the appearance of an enemy becomes quite fast, but still so difficult
this was one of my first games I ever played as a kid. Ah, the days at chucky Cheese (eek--horrible pizza!) but man, awesome game arcade. Loved this game.
Bring back good childhood memories used to go to this mom an pop store in a small shopping center.. it had a hand full of arcade machines there up the dirt road from my house to play this game and spend millions of my mom quarters😂🤣🤣
Incredible gameplay. I've never seen someone strictly go for clearing stages, hence the number of buildings you were able to clear. Points pressing is obviously risky, but if done right, can award you a higher number of points without having to complete so many buildings. This game could have easily been over 200k and a world record nonetheless, if there were some points pressing involved in the earlier stages. Still a great performance overall, but it would have been even better had you taking it all the way until you lost your last man. I'm curious just how many buildings there actually is and if it actually gets harder then what I've seen when you were on building 10.
No one commented about how there weren’t any jumps? You can jump kick people, jump to slam the door on people, jump over elevator shafts. I saw the first two levels and 0 jumps. There’s two buttons. Shoot and jump.
I predict the next game will be the more action-packed sequel "Elevator Action Returns". You guys have already done that one, but that was for the Saturn; not the Arcade original.
Honestly that one doesn’t feel like an elevator action game IMO, too much emphasis on plot and explosions. Maybe if Elevator action was turned into a Michael Bay action movie and then back into a video game then Elevator Action Returns would be “the game based on the movie based on the game” , but it definitely doesn’t feel like it’s just a sequel to the original.
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This game doesn't get the "arcade classic" recognition it deserves, very underrated
Well there WAS an episode of Regular Show where Mordecai and Rigby were playing a parody of it called “Extreme Escape”. In fact there’s a lot of 80’s shout outs in that show, including their game system bearing a strong resemblance to a Sega Master System.
That’s actually coming to switch next week
@@ShanGamer1981 more like tomorrow, it's out now
It’s on the Nintendo Switch Now!
Same for the NES version. Didn't even grow up in the 80s. Played it on the Wii and just recently bought the cartridge version, and damn is it a bloody classic.
the funniest death animation in history of games.. also how the player and the bad guy can use the same escalator side by side peacefully.
Lol ik right
Well it wasn't escalator action.
@@chrissawyer4060 😂
Mi infanciaaaaa...cuanta alegria por dios!!
Hail Hydra!
I loved playing this game long ago.
What system did it come out on I remember playing it on these controllers that hooked up to the tv cant remember what they were called
@@Trill_OGK3 at least here in brazil was called "dynavision" brother, great console for poor families not gonna lie lol played 18 years ago
Lol yea thankyou ill look it up
Happy 40th Elevator Action 🎂
I used to watch my dad play this on our Ps2. Dad didn’t want me to know that the player was actually shooting people, so he told us he was throwing tomatos. Good times!
Good Dad ..
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This was the very first arcade I ever saw. I was five and all we had was the Atari. This game blew my mind. It was at a grocery store. The next day in skool I was drawing up my own elevator action with paper figures I had moving around.
You misspelled "school".
They had this at a few arcades in Asheville when I was a kid. I remember the first time i spent my allowance playing Elevator Action at Sears.
I once draw an eleborate elevator action inspired drawing with Mickey Mouse as the protagonist and some other characters with lizard villains. Took me almost whole day. For some reason no teaching took place and the teacher said we must draw. Everyone was amazed and I think the teacher took the picture home. Wish I took a picture of it. It was detailed.
Comigo também foi assim no dia seguinte fiz um jogo do elevador em uma caixa de papelão bons tempos
To this day, that music randomly gets stuck in my head.
One thing i like about youtube longplays more than finally seeing the endings to games i loved... ...is at least knowing that sometimes they didn't have endings at all.
: p
I was addicted to this game as a young teenager in the early 1980s 😊
Она вышла в 1985
Me too! I found a way to get about $5 a day in quarters & must have played this game over 100 times during the early 80s
OMG Elevator Action was my favorite game back in the day. I would play it all of the time. Just to hear the music again put a smile on my face. :)
Yeah the music & the hair cut that seemed to be shaved by the bullets made it endearing to many of us old timers.
This was one of the few arcade games I would ever play as a 13 year old kid because I could have 10-15 minutes of entertainment. It seemed like every other arcade game at the time would kill you or be over within a minute or two and I only had a couple of hard earned quarters to feed into them. Good memories of this game, thanks for the video and here is a tasty like for you.
Ah the many long hours me and my friends spent playing this at the arcade. You know, you play and they watch, then they play and you watch. And there goes 2 hours. Great times!
shooting out the lights and having them fall on peoples heads is still awesome to this day
This game bring back a lot of memories when I was 12 years old back in Chicago Illinois
Loved this game at Fun Zone on Western across from Waveland Bowl
You knew these guys meant business because they are wearing Fedora's.
Something says me they are mafia
The bad guys look like Boris Badenov!
I remember playing this, Bubble Bobble, Liquid Kids, Megaman: The Power Battle, and Galaga a lot on my dad's Window's 98 computer on Mame32 as a kid.
still humming that music after 30 years
played the hell out of this on NES. Loved jumping around the open area near the bottom and was convinced there was a last stage.
Wow! What a nostalgia!...
This sound track reminds me that I had a life of joy in younger years...
I loved shooting the lights on top of the bad guys killing them
I sucked at this game, couldn't even complete the first level.
Same
You're all fucking losers. Easy as pie.
Samez!
@@aceisagodkiss3872 my highscore is lvl 4
Yup me to think the furthest I got is at 27th floor or 16 can’t remember was my favorite at show biz pizza place
Loved playing this in the arcades. The NES version was solid, but the bullets were ridiculously fast; at the higher levels, the baddies may as well have been using frikkin' machine guns.
I whistle this song whenever I get into any elevator.
I was late home from school many times because of this single Elevator Action game in the middle of Westfield in 1984
43:13
- Man, I'm just sooo tired of waiting for that guy. I say we should go up and blast him.
- Joey, patience is the name if this game. How many time have I told ya?
- If I just go over there and catch the next elevator…
- Joey, wait, he's coming down!
- So tired…
- JOEY!
- Whu-- (looks up) --OH MY GOD!!
- JOEEEEYYYY!!
- TONY!! HELP MEEEE!!
- MY GOD JOEY NOOOOO!!
- AAAARGGH **SPLAT**
- JOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEYYYYYYY!!! NOOOOOO!!! YOU BAAAASTAAAAAAAAAARDD!! *bangbangbangbang*
I remember playing this as a fledgling child in Chuck E Cheese arcades, being completely blown away by arcade games. the memories this brings back. thx for the vid.
04:08 There is a sign in the escalator that says: "Please don't shoot while using the escalator, it is dangerous".
Escalators are gun free zones
Man! I miss playing this!!!
Finally found the title of this game after 10 years! 😂😂
Same here!
I could be in a coma for 7 years and if someone had this music on when I woke up. I would recognize it.
A little disappointed at the lack of jump kills and lamp shootouts.
Or jump the elevator shaft
Yeah I used to jump the the bad guys all the time
It's got elevators, it's got action, what more could a boy possibly want?
Best elevator music ever! :D
This game isn't made to be finished when you were a kid.. they're meant to be finished when you're an adult, feeling nostalgic and then playing this again
I used to play this on the original arcade machine and it costed me a LOT of my pocket money back in the days! Along with Kung Fu Master and 1942.
Great video but you seem to be missing some of the fundamentals of the game.I noticed that when you were in an elevator moving down with an enemy below you you would dodge by moving the elevator up and down till you could get low enough to shoot the bad guy.You could have just jumped at him as a jumping attack kills any nearby bad guy your feet hit-you are always trusting to luck that the bad guy doesn't shoot as you are going past him..Also when you are waiting for an elevator to cross an empty shaft if the elevator is above you so the cable is not in the shaft you can just jump across the gap (if you need to traverse horizontally to get to a red door)
And they never shot down a lamp! Heresy!
Lurch 666 I agree with you, however it seems that the player is not just trusting luck but showing an alternative (and harder) way of playing.
That flying kick was the shit!
This whole channel is games being competed using Mame save states rather than actual skill. In many of the runs he does it's easy to see for people that know the games in depth.
Many tactical mistakes. F.i., If you are in the elevator, leading to your car, and have a red door left in the first floor, go down to the car and you are automatically at the red door. Use, whenever possible, only two of the three shots, so you are always enabled to shoot. Never leave the elevator in the 7th floor, before the next elevator is arriving, to avoid enemys coming from the upper floors.
Loved this game as a kid used to play it at show biz pizza all the time never made it to the bottom actually was a tough one miss the 80s
Someone should make an ios/android version of this.
Mat Hantu its on a emulaterr
There was... a few years ago :( Don't know what happened to it.
Ahh wrapped in a blanket of nostalgia! I loved this game, and I think I was pretty good as well.
I didn't perceive that I could use the door to defend bullets at that time.
But I don't care what it had happened.
The only thing I can say is I'm happy to memorize the childhood till now.
Thank you for uploading this material.
I always thought this game was difficult.
Can still remember this tune as clear as day, even after all these years
It still pops in my head from time to time. This and the music from wonderboy!!
My dad worked for state industrial as an elevator inspector. He hated this game. He saw me playing it one day (after he told me not to) and dragged me to a building he was inspecting
He held my head in the fucking shaft and was beating me; only pulled my head back in the Nick of time as the elevator came barreling down.
It was tough love for sure but he did teach me this is a game which should have been banned
20:28 ....the low bullet goes right through the player....this isn't the only time. Something is very sketchy with this game.
man, you were watching every detail the whole game :)
Our hero moves in the 3rd dimension that our down scrolling 2D game can't display.
@@TheLAKERSareGodsTeam Now that makes sense!
😉
I suspect he has the cheat mode on. I noticed several hits that went through.
He gets shot towards the end!
man the 8bit cold war was harsh! he killed like 100 ppl!
this was my favorite game as a kid.
Gotta love the simplicity.
Such a fun game.
O tanto que eu era viciado nesse jogo...bons tempos
Eleveitor E'kitiom
I always found this to be one of the more interesting arcade games. Hard, but interesting.
Classic game! Used to play this on a famicom piratecartridge over 20 years ago. Good times!
Love this game to death!!!!! sometimes you just wanna sit back with beers and play Elevator Action. No fetch quest, No collecting feathers. Just you and your gun taking elevators and escalators like a boss.
Yo this is one of them games only the cool kids would play. I had to wait until they was gone to put my quarters to work. Other then pushed out of the way by A bigger kid. This was one of the best game a kid could play back in the day.
This looks surprisingly interesting
Have the music ingrained in my head.
Came back for a refresh.
See you in another ten years.
If I make it.
I loved this game . . . would give anything to go back in time for a week at the 'Arcade' and old style Putt-Putt. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana the Putt-Putt stayed open till 4am in the summer and they had a Arcade. 3 games of Putt-Putt then to the Arcade. We went there every Saturday night after we closed the McDonald's where we worked.
After you enter the red doors they turn blue, like the matrix with the red and blue pills.
Exactly, those Wachoski brothers or sisters or whatever they are did their homework. Just like how the long chase scene in Point Break (1991), (you know the real one, not the world's most expensive Mountain Dew commercial.....I mean the 2015 remake....reboot.....retweek…..reworking.....resurface..) where everything in that chase scene that Kathryn Bigelow parroted from playing Paperboy (1988).
Many quarters spent playing this great game back in the early 80s!
I loved playing this and Im always hyped...
I used to have dreams about this particular version of the game.
This is just like a James Bond movie except with elevators
and really slow non-threatening henchmen.
WOULD YOU BELIEVE MAXWELL SMART?
Oh man - I spent a lot of money playing this game at my corner fish and chip shop as a kid!
Wow, you didn't bother jump kicking anybody or shooting out the lights in level 1. That was the first thing I noticed.
So many near miss shot and left unscatched. you re awesome
I love how bayonetta 3 decided to go
"Yes a perfect reference to make"
Played it a lot on NES, but really liked it to play on Taito Legends. Thanks for a great playthrough!
I love how the person who wrote the music for this was really pushing the limits of what they could eek out with the 8 bit platform, right down to the vibrato.
For the time it was impressive, but the NES for example has had much more impressive soundtracks later in its lifespan (the late 80s and early 90s). For example Silver Surfer, Battletoads and Journey to Silius. Still, this game came out when beeps and bops were still the norm so the vibrato is impressive, yeah!
This and Joust were my 2 favorite games growing up in the 80's
Finalmente achei o jogo da minha infância!!
Ridicolous to jump over bullets and not having a chance to escape a dog close to you, but conceptually a splendid fun game.
I used to love squashing the bad guys with the elevator. Hearing that 8 bit music really brings me back to the early 80s!
Thief should be the bad guy lol :p
@@keerthivelm7530 anyone who is trying to make my game harder and make me spend more money is a bad guy!
He’s not a thief he’s a spy.
My fav game of all time . The hours I spent playing this ❤️❤️❤️
At 50 yrs old that music still in my head
Use to play this game for hours.
Ah, the nostalgia
that background music became my ringtone!!
Lol- that's so cool!
I played this arcade at a Pizza Inn, in 1991!
Didn't know it was an 80s game. Lol
It was more the "charm" of this game that made it cool rather than the gameplay. The music & the hair cut that evenly was cut to match bullets flying overhead was more endearing than the actual gameplay. Yet still- it was 1 of the better arcade games once upon a time.
This game has the same music all the way through. It's just so great, I never noticed!
Spent many quarters at the local dairy queen when I was a kid playing this
Used to love this game. The song drove me nuts, though. :P
I used to play this game on my dad's Original Xbox (Crystal Edition) That my dad passed it down to me when Died when I was 15 years old (8 years ago)
Why did I think this was the most amazing game ever as a kid! haha.
Best game i have played ever in my childhood
the game is quite difficult, but when you know well what to do and what to do in case of the appearance of an enemy becomes quite fast, but still so difficult
i love crushing the bad guys lol
this was one of my first games I ever played as a kid. Ah, the days at chucky Cheese (eek--horrible pizza!) but man, awesome game arcade. Loved this game.
Was it bad pizza? I was so young I didn't even notice. We were all there for the games - let's be honest- lol.
Elevator action, 1942, kung fu master . Top games
Oh god- Kung fu master- impossible! The 2 stick controller did work for me
this and contra were my childhood favorites 🥹
Bring back good childhood memories used to go to this mom an pop store in a small shopping center.. it had a hand full of arcade machines there up the dirt road from my house to play this game and spend millions of my mom quarters😂🤣🤣
one of the most original videogames has ever made
I loved this game when I was little.🤩
Incredible gameplay. I've never seen someone strictly go for clearing stages, hence the number of buildings you were able to clear. Points pressing is obviously risky, but if done right, can award you a higher number of points without having to complete so many buildings. This game could have easily been over 200k and a world record nonetheless, if there were some points pressing involved in the earlier stages. Still a great performance overall, but it would have been even better had you taking it all the way until you lost your last man. I'm curious just how many buildings there actually is and if it actually gets harder then what I've seen when you were on building 10.
I loved when you get close to ground level where the bad guys be frantic where as they fall down the elevator shaft
No one commented about how there weren’t any jumps? You can jump kick people, jump to slam the door on people, jump over elevator shafts. I saw the first two levels and 0 jumps. There’s two buttons. Shoot and jump.
I see that the ending of this game will never be shown!
@ 42:49 nice move. NEO WOULD B PROUD
Childhood memory is waving 😊😊
was looking for something a little different..... but ill hang out and check this out!
Just got this game out again...11/7/2021...still love it...fun!!
Centipede. Bump and Jump. Scramble. Star Castle. Elevator Action. Rally-X. That's what I'd have in my personal vintage arcade!
Diggo e sergiojunkz, obrigado pela descoberta.
I predict the next game will be the more action-packed sequel "Elevator Action Returns".
You guys have already done that one, but that was for the Saturn; not the Arcade original.
***** Well hopefully someday.
Christopher Sobieniak As time goes by, more games become capable of having save states.
***** The Arcade & Saturn versions are the same.
My title is "Escalater Action" were the story begins in a mall instead of a hotel.
Honestly that one doesn’t feel like an elevator action game IMO, too much emphasis on plot and explosions. Maybe if Elevator action was turned into a Michael Bay action movie and then back into a video game then Elevator Action Returns would be “the game based on the movie based on the game” , but it definitely doesn’t feel like it’s just a sequel to the original.