Thank you for covering this one. I used to play this like crazy at an Alladin's Castle Arcade. Every time I mention this game, nobody remembers it. Glad to know somebody else does too!
That brings back some memories, Aladdin's castle. I could never explain to people who never experienced it as a kid in the 80's. Butt- rock blasting and the lights and sounds. It was pure Nirvana.
Is it an original marquee or a prototype? Many years later hundreds of NOS prototype marquees were found and sold off as originals but instead of player 2 being called Duke he's called Link.
@@a1exh It is all-original my friend. An oversized plexiglass "Duke" marquee from a dedicated cabinet, with the wooden mounting bracket still attached to the back. Picked it up around 2007 or so, I'd like to say.
Hey Pat, Where Time Stood Still was never released on the Amiga, it was Atari ST exclusive for 16 bits. The Amiga version available now was a fan port made in the early '00s.
The only game I ever completed at the arcade with a single quarter. Granted, it took over a year of repeated plays, but it was a moment I will fondly remember.
I loved this game, it spells American with its art design, almost like artwork out of a mad magazine, I love how they crouch and shoot ADAM-12 style. This cabinet was amazing, as well as the bassy sound FX and trademark Atari FM music. I am so glad you did a video of this Patman. Also, this was a missed opportunity for the Sega Genesis, they would have been able to handle the isometric parts of this game perfectly, as well as the LYNX. A very unique game for its time! Great video bro!
Another solid video here. Sci-Fi B movies in the 50's was ahead of their time and a tremendous influence in the gaming world and other sci-fi mini series in years to come.
Never heard of this. Gives me zombies ate my neighbors vibes. The end screen on ST would have been a huge incentive for me to beat this as a kid before beating another joystick 😉 great video as always. Keep up the great work
Glad you enjoyed it! LOL I don't know how they got away with that although it is the ending screen so not many people saw it. Toki on the other hand…… :-)
The B in "B Movies" refers to the fact that many of them were played second at drive ins and other double features. Like B Side is a term for the songs that were paired with popular singles.
An arcade game that actually tells you it's your last chance to add credits, that's a neat idea. Much better than those games you find out the hard way you can't continue anymore (I'm talking about you Shinobi).
I loved this game on the Atari st with the weetabix monsters and semi clad girls. Great times. Awesome documentary as always Patman. Thankyou very much Sir.
Some how I never saw this back in arcades, as I was a senior in 89, and after graduating I went straight to work and didn't get much time in arcades at the time. When SF2 became a thing, that was when I finally returned to the arcade scene and this was probably long gone by that time. I did learn about it a few years pack and fell in love, as the B Movie theming and art style are both amazing. This game easily fits alongside some of the best games that Atari has ever made, sadly it never got the level of success it deserved.
Rocket Ranger was awesome! I always liked It Came From The Desert despite how janky they both were, ha. Borderline unplayable in a couple of the minigames, but the atmosphere was so fun.
Always loved this game. Still play it frequently! I'm hoping it shows up on the MiSTer soon, as that's where I do the bulk of my arcade playing now. Nice video as always!
This videogame was included in the 1990 European "Flight of Fantasy" bundle with the Amiga 500 and a few other games and programs. I remember playing it a lot in my brand new Amiga 500 just because it was one of the first games I owned. But I never finished it. The second reptilian was too difficult and always diminished my lives and (limited) continues too much. Good old memories anyway!
My brothers and I played the doo-doo out of this game back in the early 90s at the Jaguar Drive-In (gas station, not movie theater, sadly) in Hubbard, TX. All the enemies have such great designs, and the bosses actually scared me as a kid! 😂😂
I love your videos and have been watching them for a couple of years now. I find your research and in depth analysis of my favorite games and some that I have never heard of invigorating. Keep up the great work!
Those are some nice words my friends and I really do appreciate that. When I first are the general the goal was to cover games that had not received a whole lot of love so you will find the rear oddity on my channel such as ninja baseball Batman or 64th St. as an example. Not big hits but I really enjoyed them and wanted to give them a little bit of shine :-)
I grew up watching the Creature Double Feature in the Northeast and now get to even work in some B movies now which is a blast to do. I work mostly A movies and television shows, but there is always something special bout working in a B movie still and it stemmed from my childhood growing up with reruns of great movies like The Spider, Flood, Earthquake, Ants, even Godzilla!
Back in high school we had open campus lunch, so we would head up the road to a local pizza shop who had this arcade game. I loved it. I loved the zany animation and that if you watched closely, many of the characters had their own quirks which only added to the overall liveliness. The game was as you said “very difficult”. Many years later, I can say thank god for Mame
BBC 2 in the uk on VERY late Saturday/ Sunday nights and early Tuesday nights in the 1980s was my introduction to 1950's B movies and it has to be said other than "It Came From The Desert" it nails the feel of those films beatifully
Sadly, this was a total hidden gem that came out at Atari's peak but the NES & Genesis had already shut down most of the arcades at that point. I never got to play it but I'm on a mission to do so. What sucks is a friend has it on an old Pandora's box but it's gone from my newer version. Thunder Jaws is another hidden gem from that era of Atari's golden age that I recommend.
Honestly, I never heard of the game... or at least never saw/played it in my local arcades. It looks fun and will be putting it on my MAME machine! The game has a Commander Keen-ish look to it and hearing the sound effects, I kept thinking of Road Blasters (I know they were both made by Atari so there's going to be crossover). The Atari ST version's music has a Moon Patrol tune vibe.
@@ondrejsedlak4935 Yes, I have an Ultimarc Ultrastik 360FS which is analog and programmable. I love it! I can play Q*Bert by setting it in 4-way diagonal mode without having a 45° mounted 4-way stick. It has a front and top button for use with a lot of triggerstick games (Blaster, Buck Rogers, Gorf, Kozmik Kroozr, Mad Planets, etc) and analog flight stick games with trigger(s) (After Burner II, Aztarac, G-LOC, Space Harrier). Doesn't matter if they're 4-way, 8-way, 49-way, or Analog. The 360FS does well with all of them. It may not be the same height and shape as most trigger sticks, but it's in between a normal ball/bat joystick and say a triggerstick like Tron. So you can play Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Galaga, etc with no issues.
I really loved (and still do!) Atari arcade games from this era! The high detail graphics, the animation, music, sound effects, etc. It's incredibly nostalgic and I love revisiting them in MAME. This game, however, is one that I never saw in the arcades in my town, and we had a ton of arcades. I'm going to check this one out!
is mame setup for this easy these days? with the directional stick. I remember there was something weird about trying to get it right or maybe I didn't have a joystick then (like 15 years ago or something)
I seriously never heard of this game, but it looks like a lot of fun and I'm a huge fan of those cheesy B movies (especially the ones featured in Rifftrax shows such as Elvira and Mystery Science Theater 3000). This game somewhat reminds me of Rampage in which both games are inspired off pulp science fiction horror movies. Hopefully, I'll be able to find it playable online someday just to give this hard hidden gem a try, even if I'm not likely going to get far. 🤖🔫
Another great trip down memory lane. There's a definite crossover with Xybots happening here, I'm pretty certain the games even share some of their sound effects.
in the 80's and 90's I'd been to at least 50 different arcades or places with an arcade section and I never played this. I can't be sure I had even seen a cabinet. it's definitely a game I would've played.
Ha, I like the new Sega Patman QC intro logo. I don't remember seeing this one ever in arcades. Cool coverage of the history here. Thanks, Patman! This game includes Reptilon Aliens, but amazingly these days, some people believe there are really reptile alien humanoids, maybe similar to the series V. Robotron was very difficult, as this game looks to be also. Thanks for all the details!
We can also thank all those cheap B movies, and Star Trek, for helping create perhaps the greatest horror punk band ever...The Misfits 🖤🖤🖤 Oh and this game actually looks great for the time it was made.👍👍
The Sam Coupé version runs as crap for a very simple reason: the computer was 8 bit and had only a 6 mhz Z80B CPU Its graphics mode 4 took up 24 kb of ram to handle the screen, and that meant that a 6mhz cpu had to handle 24 kb of data refresh. The regular Spectrum had a 3ish mhz cpu handling 9kb of screen ram, that's why it was that blazing fast. If you see the Amstrad CPC games, they suffered from the same problem the Coupe did. Amstrad CPC computers used 16kb of video ram, and their cpu was a marginally faster version than the Speccy one, hence games ran pretty much at half speed, which was the bane of the computer: great for still shot, crap for anything that moved, not to mention the lack of hardware sprites that it had. So there is that.
As a ten year old, the Sam Coupe was the dawn of the disc drive era for me. Interestingly as per your comments I spent more time on the drawing package and somehow managed to create what I remember as being a pretty decent 3d style space ship with the metal colours providing depth. I also vividly remember and still have one of the demo tunes stuck in my head. My dad collected a pile of user made magazines and discs for years after MGT were bust. He worked all his days as a maintenance engineer in the same jute factory. At some point some of the guys who had worked there got into coding during the early spectrum days and found success. He gave away to a budding coder the Sam Coupe, with 2 drives and ram upgrade, games and all sundries except the single owners book still in the loft with the drawings by Mel Croucher (RIP) as he had got his first 486 PC. I wonder if they kept it and realise the value sitting possibly in their loft?
Just to note that the Amiga port of Where Time Stood Still was released in 2014. The original ports were in 1988 for the ZX Spectrum, MS-DOS and Atari ST. Still a great video though and a lot of memories for me with this game on the Spectrum and Amiga
THAT'S A nipple! =) A least there was a decent Atari Computer version of an Atari Games game. Actually the ST ports were usually pretty decent when done by Domark. The Amiga ones did take advantage of the extra tech (music at least) so they were usually that much better. The Amstrad does look really nice, but it sounds like a 2600 (that's OK though, I like the 2600)
Awesome game. I saw it in an arcade only once, in Laughlin, NV circa 1991 or 92, and it was the most impressive video game I had seen up to that time. I loved its aesthetic and the many options for jump, duck, bomb and shoot, not to mention the bikini clad prisoners to rescue.
I don't think I have ever seen or heard of this game which is weird to me because I loved arcades so much as a kid I haven't even noticed it on MAME thanks for another great video
I have always wondered how some of these conversions got made. I understand the limitations of these home conversions, but some of them really were not worth producing. I cannot imagine many of these conversions for this particular game were huge money makers, which makes me wonder if they did not lose money producing them. I loved this arcade game at my local Putt Putt Golf back in the day. Cool video Patman, it brought back some nostalgia of those good old days.
I don't think they lost money unless the conversions were ridiculously bad. You have to remember in the early 80s in Europe the spectrum and Amstrad were the only machines that a large portion of the population had ever used so I guess they were used to conversions not being that close to the arcade original
This game is cool never played it or heard of it. I have played Gauntlet 3 in this format though. Going on Vacation to Florida to visit Arcade Bars this summer & i'll be keeping my eye out for it!
This really has the look and feel of Zombies Ate My Neighbors….I’m betting this game was the primary influence! Very cool, I’ve never seen this one before. 😎
I am a huge fan of this game and have BOTH the Atari Jaguar physical cartridge and the JAMMA arcade board. The Jaguar version is very nice compared to the arcade board, but is missing the duck button. I have never been able to afford the expensive Hall effect joystick, but thanks to some genius engineers this arcade game is now playable with a JAMMA dongle. This inexpensive dongle allows a standard 8-way digital joystick to output an analog signal that ultimately becomes 16-way movement in the game. I use the board with a SuperGun.
I really love the sci-fi B movie vibe of this game. Plenty of tongue in cheek humour as well, not least with the naming of Professor Sarah Bellum - you'd need a bit of brain power to get that. I'll get me coat.
A peril, I never heard of, had some fun on Mame with it. And to be honest, I'm quite impressed with the C64 port, as it made some unusual decissions, but regarding the hardware, they weren't the wrong ones. Color always came with bulkiness on the breadbin and leaving this to the fast sprites, but have a detailed, isometric background works quite well visually.
Used to love this game big time in the arcade. I thought the humor was great and really had that 50s sci-fi feel to it. Just wish I could have beaten it, but it was such a quarter muncher!
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Thank you for covering this one. I used to play this like crazy at an Alladin's Castle Arcade. Every time I mention this game, nobody remembers it. Glad to know somebody else does too!
Absolutely, thanks for watching
That brings back some memories, Aladdin's castle. I could never explain to people who never experienced it as a kid in the 80's. Butt- rock blasting and the lights and sounds. It was pure Nirvana.
Amen to that. To go back for just one day...
I forgot about Aladdin's Castle.
Great times.
Despite the amount of covers, it's still not very well known! I love it....
I own an original marquee from this game. Even without the rest of the cabinet, it’s a pretty impressive piece of artwork all on its own.
Yes that giant Marquee was very cool
Is it an original marquee or a prototype? Many years later hundreds of NOS prototype marquees were found and sold off as originals but instead of player 2 being called Duke he's called Link.
@@a1exh It is all-original my friend. An oversized plexiglass "Duke" marquee from a dedicated cabinet, with the wooden mounting bracket still attached to the back. Picked it up around 2007 or so, I'd like to say.
Hey Pat, Where Time Stood Still was never released on the Amiga, it was Atari ST exclusive for 16 bits. The Amiga version available now was a fan port made in the early '00s.
Okay, thanks for the info Larry.
Yep; it's actually a Spectrum 128k game which then got ported to a few systems.
Wow! Patman and Larry Bundy Jr. in one comment section? What a crossover!
Meh, I was never a fan, I was just bored and did it!!
Another obscure game that i have never heard off or ever seen in an arcade. Intresting game...
Like I said, it was only a moderate hit
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries probably only showed up on the east coast... west coast we got screwed so bad on games...
The only game I ever completed at the arcade with a single quarter. Granted, it took over a year of repeated plays, but it was a moment I will fondly remember.
That's fantastic
Same here, my friend..
🙂 Loved the game.
Big fan (and small creator) in CANADA!!! *KEEP UP THE AWESOME WORK PatmanQC!!!!* 😁😁👍👍
Thank you very much, I've seen your channel Some of your videos and enjoyed them. Good job!
I loved this game, it spells American with its art design, almost like artwork out of a mad magazine, I love how they crouch and shoot ADAM-12 style. This cabinet was amazing, as well as the bassy sound FX and trademark Atari FM music. I am so glad you did a video of this Patman. Also, this was a missed opportunity for the Sega Genesis, they would have been able to handle the isometric parts of this game perfectly, as well as the LYNX. A very unique game for its time! Great video bro!
Mad Magazine is a good comparison. I think I Genesis version would've turned out good as well. Thanks
Another solid video here. Sci-Fi B movies in the 50's was ahead of their time and a tremendous influence in the gaming world and other sci-fi mini series in years to come.
Thanks a ton. Like I said I always enjoy those zany movies and thinking back I should have Given Svengoolie A shout out.
Aw man Atari c*ckedblocked us after
We finished the game like no more
Continues go away.
You saw her tatas already now leave.
I had this on amiga and I absolutely loved it. Spent many hours playing co-op. The intro and music were great!
Amen to that, I had it on my trusty Amiga 500. Loved every bit of it.
So did I, it just has not aged very well
@patmanqc-historyofarcadega6601 the controls are what age 99% of good amiga games badly, that one button setup was just an awful awful idea.
Your upgraded "patman" opening effect was worth the watch alone, well done 👍
Couldn't aggree more!
I really enjoyed this on the Amiga. Also, what a game IT Came From The Desert was, brilliant.
Yes, way ahead of his time
Loved this on the Amiga, I saw the arcade version in the wild in Bournemouth leisure centre as a kid, oh the memories.😊
Never heard of this. Gives me zombies ate my neighbors vibes. The end screen on ST would have been a huge incentive for me to beat this as a kid before beating another joystick 😉 great video as always. Keep up the great work
Glad you enjoyed it! LOL I don't know how they got away with that although it is the ending screen so not many people saw it. Toki on the other hand…… :-)
I stumbled across this game a couple times as a kid and loved it. Still play it as an adult now.
I love when a new Patman video drops, happy little videos.
How nice of you to say, thanks
Played this a lot back in the day, great game.
Yes, very cool
Thanks man, I have never heard of this game and as always you bring new information.
The B in "B Movies" refers to the fact that many of them were played second at drive ins and other double features. Like B Side is a term for the songs that were paired with popular singles.
An arcade game that actually tells you it's your last chance to add credits, that's a neat idea. Much better than those games you find out the hard way you can't continue anymore (I'm talking about you Shinobi).
LOL, it was a novel concept
I totally remember this being in the Guiness Book of World Records for having the longest title of a video game
Never heard of this one but i really appreciate the fact that the professor's name is Sarah Bellum. Great new intro and another well done video :)
Thanks a lot friend
Dude always uploads QC.... "Quality Content"
That's excellent, good call. Thanks
@patmanqc-historyofarcadega6601 it's a fact, keep up the fab work dude. We love ya
I fn love this channel! I fell asleep to the Mega Man comp last night and woke up to a brand new vid the AM.
LOL that's awesome. Glad you enjoyed the content so much
I loved this game on the Atari st with the weetabix monsters and semi clad girls. Great times. Awesome documentary as always Patman. Thankyou very much Sir.
Glad you enjoyed it, The ST version was fantastic. Thanks so much
Deadly towers of monsters was
Similar to it.
Seeing Sara's clevage after beating
The game was satisfying.
Never heard of this game until now.
Some how I never saw this back in arcades, as I was a senior in 89, and after graduating I went straight to work and didn't get much time in arcades at the time. When SF2 became a thing, that was when I finally returned to the arcade scene and this was probably long gone by that time. I did learn about it a few years pack and fell in love, as the B Movie theming and art style are both amazing. This game easily fits alongside some of the best games that Atari has ever made, sadly it never got the level of success it deserved.
An arcade game I've never heard of? Awesome. I love that distinctive Atari arcade graphics cartoon look.
So do I, always have. It reminds me of paperboy and APB which both were designed by Atari
They also did that on smash tv
If you wait in a room to long they
Send something in there to make
You move.
The spiritual successor is deadly
Tower of monsters.
Always happy to see a new PatmanQC vid. I hope you end up being the next AVGN (but way better) cus you deserve it!
It Came From The Desert / II (and Rocket Ranger) by CinemaWare are some of my favorite games of all time, I just LOVE the mood they captured!
Yes. 3 more classics I owned on the Amiga.
Rocket Ranger was awesome! I always liked It Came From The Desert despite how janky they both were, ha. Borderline unplayable in a couple of the minigames, but the atmosphere was so fun.
Atlus brought this back once but
As deadly towers of monsters.
Always loved this game. Still play it frequently! I'm hoping it shows up on the MiSTer soon, as that's where I do the bulk of my arcade playing now. Nice video as always!
My local cornerstore had this cab in the vhs rental section. Love playing it but couldn't get far. Had to save my quarters for candy 😅
Very cool
This videogame was included in the 1990 European "Flight of Fantasy" bundle with the Amiga 500 and a few other games and programs. I remember playing it a lot in my brand new Amiga 500 just because it was one of the first games I owned. But I never finished it. The second reptilian was too difficult and always diminished my lives and (limited) continues too much. Good old memories anyway!
That's what it's all about. Thanks
My brothers and I played the doo-doo out of this game back in the early 90s at the Jaguar Drive-In (gas station, not movie theater, sadly) in Hubbard, TX.
All the enemies have such great designs, and the bosses actually scared me as a kid! 😂😂
The new logo alone made my day.
LOL thanks
I love your videos and have been watching them for a couple of years now. I find your research and in depth analysis of my favorite games and some that I have never heard of invigorating. Keep up the great work!
Those are some nice words my friends and I really do appreciate that. When I first are the general the goal was to cover games that had not received a whole lot of love so you will find the rear oddity on my channel such as ninja baseball Batman or 64th St. as an example. Not big hits but I really enjoyed them and wanted to give them a little bit of shine :-)
wholeheartedly agree with this, excellent game documentaries!
0:00 awesome intro
I grew up watching the Creature Double Feature in the Northeast and now get to even work in some B movies now which is a blast to do. I work mostly A movies and television shows, but there is always something special bout working in a B movie still and it stemmed from my childhood growing up with reruns of great movies like The Spider, Flood, Earthquake, Ants, even Godzilla!
5:54 Imagine playing an arcade game and getting refunded by the game‘s developers on the spot.
Can't believe Atari c*ckblocked us from continuing the game after finishing it.😂
They knew you'll try to see her tatas
Again.
Another fantastic video Pat. This game was a favorite during my Amiga days.
The art design of this game always stuck with me.
Ive been looking for the name of this game for 25 years. THANK YOU!
Absolutely
Another great video, luv ya work.
Thank you! Cheers!
Back in high school we had open campus lunch, so we would head up the road to a local pizza shop who had this arcade game. I loved it. I loved the zany animation and that if you watched closely, many of the characters had their own quirks which only added to the overall liveliness. The game was as you said “very difficult”. Many years later, I can say thank god for Mame
If it wasn't for that emulator we Wouldn't get to play 90% of these games
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I would absolutely agree with that
BBC 2 in the uk on VERY late Saturday/ Sunday nights and early Tuesday nights in the 1980s was my introduction to 1950's B movies and it has to be said other than "It Came From The Desert" it nails the feel of those films beatifully
Yes they did a great job
remastering this into a steam game or console would be great
Check out deadly towers of monsters.
It's like the game.
Sadly, this was a total hidden gem that came out at Atari's peak but the NES & Genesis had already shut down most of the arcades at that point. I never got to play it but I'm on a mission to do so. What sucks is a friend has it on an old Pandora's box but it's gone from my newer version. Thunder Jaws is another hidden gem from that era of Atari's golden age that I recommend.
Wow!!😮 With a title screen like that, who would want to escape... lmao 😅
Honestly, I never heard of the game... or at least never saw/played it in my local arcades. It looks fun and will be putting it on my MAME machine! The game has a Commander Keen-ish look to it and hearing the sound effects, I kept thinking of Road Blasters (I know they were both made by Atari so there's going to be crossover). The Atari ST version's music has a Moon Patrol tune vibe.
I tried putting this on my MAME machine years ago but didn't realise it needed an analogue joystick. Hope yours has one.
@@ondrejsedlak4935 Yes, I have an Ultimarc Ultrastik 360FS which is analog and programmable. I love it! I can play Q*Bert by setting it in 4-way diagonal mode without having a 45° mounted 4-way stick. It has a front and top button for use with a lot of triggerstick games (Blaster, Buck Rogers, Gorf, Kozmik Kroozr, Mad Planets, etc) and analog flight stick games with trigger(s) (After Burner II, Aztarac, G-LOC, Space Harrier). Doesn't matter if they're 4-way, 8-way, 49-way, or Analog. The 360FS does well with all of them. It may not be the same height and shape as most trigger sticks, but it's in between a normal ball/bat joystick and say a triggerstick like Tron. So you can play Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Galaga, etc with no issues.
Cmdr. keen is a great comparison. Totally forgot about that game
Very interesting documentary
Glad you enjoyed it
remember beating this at a friends house
One of my favorites from the arcade way back when, but I always have trouble remembering the name!
same here!
I remember when this was released on the Amiga- I was blown away since closes to arcade at the time. Would love a remake!
Yes it was really good
Never seen or heard of this..nice
I remember the name in magazines in Spain back in the day.
Woah! It’s rare a game I’ve never heard of is mentioned but usually when it happens, it’s Patman. Yay Patman!!
LOL thanks my friend
I really loved (and still do!) Atari arcade games from this era! The high detail graphics, the animation, music, sound effects, etc. It's incredibly nostalgic and I love revisiting them in MAME. This game, however, is one that I never saw in the arcades in my town, and we had a ton of arcades. I'm going to check this one out!
You and me both. Enjoy
is mame setup for this easy these days? with the directional stick. I remember there was something weird about trying to get it right or maybe I didn't have a joystick then (like 15 years ago or something)
Holy cow. Thank you!! I've been looking fir that game for years. Played it once at the arcade when I was younger.
Excellent thanks for watching
Loved playing this in the arcades,
This game came free with my Amiga back in the day. I didn't get very far lol. Cheers Patmanqc
Can't wait to get home to watch this! I love this game almost as much as I suck at it.
I went out and got an eighth of weed for your videos! Your videos are the best to watch while stoned! 😊
LOL, that's hilarious. Have fun
I seriously never heard of this game, but it looks like a lot of fun and I'm a huge fan of those cheesy B movies (especially the ones featured in Rifftrax shows such as Elvira and Mystery Science Theater 3000). This game somewhat reminds me of Rampage in which both games are inspired off pulp science fiction horror movies. Hopefully, I'll be able to find it playable online someday just to give this hard hidden gem a try, even if I'm not likely going to get far. 🤖🔫
Another great trip down memory lane. There's a definite crossover with Xybots happening here, I'm pretty certain the games even share some of their sound effects.
This game returned but went by a
Different name deadly towers of monsters.
Same viewpoint as well.
I've never even heard of this game.... But It Came From the desert kinda looks like a video game adaptation of the movie THEM.....
Very similar
I think you finally found a game I’ve never heard of!!
in the 80's and 90's I'd been to at least 50 different arcades or places with an arcade section and I never played this. I can't be sure I had even seen a cabinet. it's definitely a game I would've played.
I'm sure you would've noticed it withHow unique the cabinet is
Ha, I like the new Sega Patman QC intro logo. I don't remember seeing this one ever in arcades. Cool coverage of the history here. Thanks, Patman! This game includes Reptilon Aliens, but amazingly these days, some people believe there are really reptile alien humanoids, maybe similar to the series V. Robotron was very difficult, as this game looks to be also. Thanks for all the details!
We can also thank all those cheap B movies, and Star Trek, for helping create perhaps the greatest horror punk band ever...The Misfits 🖤🖤🖤
Oh and this game actually looks great for the time it was made.👍👍
The game does look really good, I love that pixel art style
The Sam Coupé version runs as crap for a very simple reason:
the computer was 8 bit and had only a 6 mhz Z80B CPU
Its graphics mode 4 took up 24 kb of ram to handle the screen, and that meant that a 6mhz cpu had to handle 24 kb of data refresh. The regular Spectrum had a 3ish mhz cpu handling 9kb of screen ram, that's why it was that blazing fast. If you see the Amstrad CPC games, they suffered from the same problem the Coupe did. Amstrad CPC computers used 16kb of video ram, and their cpu was a marginally faster version than the Speccy one, hence games ran pretty much at half speed, which was the bane of the computer: great for still shot, crap for anything that moved, not to mention the lack of hardware sprites that it had. So there is that.
As a ten year old, the Sam Coupe was the dawn of the disc drive era for me.
Interestingly as per your comments I spent more time on the drawing package and somehow managed to create what I remember as being a pretty decent 3d style space ship with the metal colours providing depth. I also vividly remember and still have one of the demo tunes stuck in my head. My dad collected a pile of user made magazines and discs for years after MGT were bust.
He worked all his days as a maintenance engineer in the same jute factory.
At some point some of the guys who had worked there got into coding during the early spectrum days and found success.
He gave away to a budding coder the Sam Coupe, with 2 drives and ram upgrade, games and all sundries except the single owners book still in the loft with the drawings by Mel Croucher (RIP) as he had got his first 486 PC.
I wonder if they kept it and realise the value sitting possibly in their loft?
I didn't even know about this game! Mr. Pat, you're a legend and keep up the awesome content! Thanks!
Thanks a ton :-)
great video. totally forgot about this one. always enjoy your videos. keep up the great job!
Been around the gaming world for over 40 years and have never heard of this game. Looks like I need to give it a shot.
It's a fun quirky action adventure
Just to note that the Amiga port of Where Time Stood Still was released in 2014.
The original ports were in 1988 for the ZX Spectrum, MS-DOS and Atari ST.
Still a great video though and a lot of memories for me with this game on the Spectrum and Amiga
THAT'S A nipple! =) A least there was a decent Atari Computer version of an Atari Games game. Actually the ST ports were usually pretty decent when done by Domark. The Amiga ones did take advantage of the extra tech (music at least) so they were usually that much better. The Amstrad does look really nice, but it sounds like a 2600 (that's OK though, I like the 2600)
Awesome game. I saw it in an arcade only once, in Laughlin, NV circa 1991 or 92, and it was the most impressive video game I had seen up to that time. I loved its aesthetic and the many options for jump, duck, bomb and shoot, not to mention the bikini clad prisoners to rescue.
This game definitely made an impression
This one skipped my arcade radar. I missed out on this one.
The reptilon voices sound like Mukor from Blasteroids.
I don't think I have ever seen or heard of this game which is weird to me because I loved arcades so much as a kid I haven't even noticed it on MAME thanks for another great video
Thanks so much glad you enjoyed it
Brilliant video, your channel sand videos will be watched by future generations
Wow, thanks
Only saw and played this game at this retro arcade near me. Never knew it existed until then
It's a lot of fun
I have always wondered how some of these conversions got made. I understand the limitations of these home conversions, but some of them really were not worth producing. I cannot imagine many of these conversions for this particular game were huge money makers, which makes me wonder if they did not lose money producing them. I loved this arcade game at my local Putt Putt Golf back in the day. Cool video Patman, it brought back some nostalgia of those good old days.
I don't think they lost money unless the conversions were ridiculously bad. You have to remember in the early 80s in Europe the spectrum and Amstrad were the only machines that a large portion of the population had ever used so I guess they were used to conversions not being that close to the arcade original
This game is cool never played it or heard of it. I have played Gauntlet 3 in this format though. Going on Vacation to Florida to visit Arcade Bars this summer & i'll be keeping my eye out for it!
You should definitely check it out
This really has the look and feel of Zombies Ate My Neighbors….I’m betting this game was the primary influence! Very cool, I’ve never seen this one before. 😎
Could be, entirely possible
Honored to leave the 500th like on this! I love the concept of EFTPOTLM!
Awesome review as always!
wow I watched all the patmans from the beginning and this is the first game I just never even knew existed I never heard of this
Brilliant game - much underrated - love it
I agree
This looks amazing. I've seen the Arcade cab only 1 time but didn't try it
It was only a moderate hit so I would assume it wasn't in very many arcades. I saw it a few times back when it was released and played it quite a bit
Okay, is it just me or does that Atari ST version music kinda sound like a funkified version of the Moon Patrol song?
I encountered this at an arcade with my dad when I was younger. Sadly, I never encountered the machine again so I had to settle for emulation.
I am a huge fan of this game and have BOTH the Atari Jaguar physical cartridge and the JAMMA arcade board. The Jaguar version is very nice compared to the arcade board, but is missing the duck button. I have never been able to afford the expensive Hall effect joystick, but thanks to some genius engineers this arcade game is now playable with a JAMMA dongle. This inexpensive dongle allows a standard 8-way digital joystick to output an analog signal that ultimately becomes 16-way movement in the game. I use the board with a SuperGun.
That is awesome, I would love to try that
Very good review! Thank you!
"Where Time Stood Still" was not exclusively an Amiga game. It came out on pretty much all 8 and 16 micros of the day.
Didn't even come out on Amiga officially until I converted it lol
Underrated channel
Thanks a ton
I really love the sci-fi B movie vibe of this game. Plenty of tongue in cheek humour as well, not least with the naming of Professor Sarah Bellum - you'd need a bit of brain power to get that.
I'll get me coat.
Years before Powerpuff girls ms bellum.
I like the new Patman Sega sound at the start.
Thanks, I did have help with it
I play this game on MAME often! I was unaware it jad a fillowing But I love quirky offbeat retro games.
So do I it's a bit quirky
A peril, I never heard of, had some fun on Mame with it. And to be honest, I'm quite impressed with the C64 port, as it made some unusual decissions, but regarding the hardware, they weren't the wrong ones. Color always came with bulkiness on the breadbin and leaving this to the fast sprites, but have a detailed, isometric background works quite well visually.
If this ever gets rereleased I hope they come up with twin analog controls, and even better, a modern/classic graphics toggle
Used to love this game big time in the arcade. I thought the humor was great and really had that 50s sci-fi feel to it. Just wish I could have beaten it, but it was such a quarter muncher!