5 Bad Arcade Games that are Truly Terrible
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- With thousands to choose from, there are some truly terrible arcade games. In todays video, I pick 5 bad arcade games and explain why they are on the list. What are your picks? Comment below and thank you for watching!
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Intro 00:00
Double Dragon 3 1:10
Hunchback 2:20
Legend of Success Joe 4:18
Survival Arts 6:01
Professor Pac Man 7:53
Conclusion 9:19
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Double Dragon 3 was utter shite, Technos should have made Combatribes the third Double Dragon.
200% agree.
Agreed, but... HELLO YOU!! 😁
@Zale Blackwell SNES Double Dragon would have been better had it just been a little faster.
@Zale Blackwell there was neon double dragon 30 years after that.
@@jons9239 Gameboy Advance Double Dragon is the most amazing version ever. Hope you’ve all had a chance to play it at some point in your lives.
Worst one i played was the first street fighter. I once saw someone pull of a hadouken on it and i think i spent 4-5 bucks just trying to do one. How capcom went from that game to street fighter 2 is a miracle.
I remember playing the big button version
We had the game with the regular buttons, not the pressure buttons, in our local arcade. After many attempts, we concluded the fireballs and dragon punches must have had some random element. They can't really have been random, but Capcom didn't need to make it so awkward to do them.
@@videogamebookreviews agreed. Not sure which buttons the one at my arcade had. I didn't even know of the button types until 2005 or so.
Only way I could do specials in SF1 was grinding down-forward furiously while pressing punch, seemed to do a hadouken / shoryuken once in a while lol
6 button version of SF1 was cool, I even own the arcade machine to this day, it was fast and has a sudden death feel to it whereas SF2 WW was soooooooooooo slow in comparison with several stupid looking characters and was such an easy game, if you could do the special moves in SF1 then it becomes a good game especially for 1987.
I think that was one of the problems for players that if you couldn't do the special moves then you would get your arse handed to you by the computer opponants especially by the likes of Birdie, Eagle, Adon and Sagat.
There was nothing like it with the huge size of those fast characters at that time, nice graphics and great tunes, I loved it, don't care what negative opinions others say.
It's just a shame It's usually those who didn't know how to play it or those who never played it on the real 6-button machine at the time and their only experience of SF1 is via emulation years after SF2 was released or terrible youtube jerky distorted uploads which are not the same as the real machine who slate it so much, if SF2 never came to be then SF1 wouldn't get the amount of heat it unfairly gets because of It's over-milked slow sequel It's compared with, it will always be one of my favourite arcade games.
I legitimately have never heard or even seen of that Pacman quiz game before. Its always amazing to discover something completely brand new to something you thought you've seen everything too already lol
Good for quizzes and aesthetics, TERRIBLE for gaming. At least it'll keep your mind sharp!
@@elijahvincent985 I really DON'T recommend you try Pacman the Brain Surgeon
@@devilsadvocate1597 Or Pacman the Proctologist
The Journey Arcade game was so bad that I enjoyed playing the crap out of it.
That game is a guilty pleasure of mine. I secretly want an 1UPArcade cabinet of it.
I enjoyed that game! I don't see what's wrong with it.
My favorite arcade game of all time is "Victory Road." It was the first game that had a block function. If you got the sword, one could use the rotary stick to "swing" the sword and deflect projectiles back to your opponents. I played this game so much that I could complete it without getting hit.
Great game, I was just playing it on a pandora's box, (which is hard to play due to the missing rotary joystick).
Hah! Loved Ikari Warriors, only KIND of liked Victory Road... ...never knew there was a block function! As far as being "the first"... didn't one of those old karate games have a block function?
My personal pick for worst arcade game? BloodStorm, which was yet another attempt to cash in on the 90's fighting game craze and got Daniel Pesina into a LOT of trouble with Midway. Although it could also fall into that "so bad it's good" category.
BloodStorm ain't too bad all things considered. At least it was mindless fun. Tattoo Assassins on the other hand, now that's horrific.
Mikie by konami in 1984. I spent quarters on this game not cause i liked it, just cause i was trying to figure out what to do to advance. Horrible.
Arcades were a special place. One opened up in my city not terribly long ago. I actually got a little choked up when I first walked inside. All old games, a row of pinball machines...it was beautiful.
Fun fact: there's a hotel in Egg Harbor, Wisconsin, the Newport Inn, which has an ORIGINAL Galaga arcade cabinet that STILL WORKS. 25 cents a play.
As a kid the best thing was going to the Mall with my Mom, I'd go into the Arcade and she'd go shopping. She'd come get me when she was finished and It would feel like five minutes had gone by meanwhile I had been in there an hour. Man, those were the good ol' days.
I remember playing Hard Drivin'. It was a premium experience, cabinet and price. I paid up, and was on Game Over a few seconds later. I felt robbed.
YES! I was stunned that "Hard Drivin'" didn't make his list. God, that game was wretched.
Hard Drivin' is actually quite fun in my opinion. People mistake it for a racing game when it's going for full on "driving simulator". Just don't play anything other than the arcade version cuz all the ports really ARE bad.
That's because kids can't drive stick. Had that same experience. Couldn't even start the car!
@@domidayv I can confirm I did not have a driving licence when I played Hard Drivin' back in the day. I did not realise that was a prerequisite!
@@64-Bit-Gamer
No one knew, dude. No one.
Ah, Samurai Showdown. I'm so glad I own the Samurai Showdown Anthology for my ps2. My favorite fighters of all time.
Cool. That is a great collection and even has SS6 on there. On PS4 and playable on PS5, is the Samurai Shodown Neo Geo Collection recently released in HD. I mostly play 1 and 2 being my favorite fighting game of all time, but enjoy 4, 5 and 6. Part 3 was interesting.
Yeah, the arcade version of Double Dragon 3 definitely deserves to be on this list. I admit that I have never played it, and I am very thankful for that... because this game literally steals people's money. I seriously want to know why the developers thought it would be a good idea for players to use real money to purchase moves and skills in the middle of gameplay. 😑
Meteors is the worst Asteroids clone you could possibly imagine, don't ever play it!
Funny that you mentioned Mutation Nation; I was going to bring that one up as an example of just another me-too game in what had become a tired and lazy genre at that time. Play it once and forget about it pretty much, but it's not terrible from a technical standpoint or anything. Also any of the interactive (skiing, dancing ect) games which costed 1.50 or more for a single credit and were front and center in the late stages of arcades before they went out of business and left empty spaces in indoor malls everywhere.
"Time Killers" is another violent, bloody, trend-following arcade fighting game that should be considered for this list, IMHO. It could be considered so bad that it's good, but I certainly can't say that it's a great game...
My friend used to “ one shot “ his brother in the arcade , he would get so mad lol.
I absolutely loved Time Killers.
Time Killers was a very unique game for the time and the arcade version is great
I'm sure it wouldn't stand up if I played it today, but I found it so over-the-top with its gore that I enjoyed it at the time. What other game lets you get a bonus for an Armless Victory? A lot of arcade games benefit from the fact that they only need to be enjoyable or interesting enough to be worth playing once. There are plenty that I'd say were worth a few quarters that I probably wouldn't be happy with if I'd paid fifty dollars to own them.
Miss the arcades 😭
I have one near my house
Garbage Day!
@@mattb9664 ???
@@paxhumana2015 look at Eisenhorn's picture...
Wow! I had no idea that Hunchback (known as "Quasimodo" on the Ti-99/4A) was an arcade port! I always thought it was a homebrew compiled TI-BASIC game (And not a great one at that.)
I guess the author deserves props...his port looks like a faithful conversion of the original. (which begs the question "Why?")
btw, I remember arcades when they were pinball tables, claw machines and Pachinko often with adult Super-8 loop booths behind a curtain in the back... and nary a video game to be found (because they wouldn't be invented for another 25 years)
Perhaps I'm even more immortal than Mr Hancock.
NES Double Dragon 3 is still trash! One of the my biggest birthday regrets as a child!
I guess I'm of a similar age to you but here are my picks.
Ozma Wars or Space Phantoms (both by Zilec Games) from 1979. Same game more or less but with different graphics. Terrible collision detection and annoying sounds that drove everyone crazy at the cafe I played it in back in 79/80. I almost feel nostalgic for it... but it really was a clumsy busy mess of a game...
Another one might be Astron Belt... early laser disc game from 1982 that just overlayed sprites over actual video footage... almost no game play at all.
Atari's vector based Red Baron was quite unplayable I thought.... thankfuly most were converted to Battlezone which is a classic.
Finally... any quiz based game basically... :-)
I'll tell you what I have been playing lately, Streets of Rage 2 on my 3DS. I've always known that it was a great game but I have never (until now) shown it the respect that it so rightly deserves. I've always put Alien Vs Predator above it, which it most definitely is but dam is it a good game all the same.
Man, I spent so much time at the many local arcades when I was younger, particularly a place called Haunted Trails. Those places were just incredible to me.
Jack the Giantkiller. One of the few arcade games in the tiny town I grew up in, I got really good at it, despite it being absolutely terrible. I tried it via MAME recently and couldn't get past the initial screen. It's truly awful, in that Hunchback kinda way.
John I was a kid in the 80s when bowling alleys, pizza joints, pool halls & roller rinks starting creating little mini arcades as a side attraction. Always fun to be able to go just about anywhere and play an arcade game till you ran out of quarters😎
7:16 Such a strange assortment of characters in the background there.
The same company that did Hunchback did a few other games that all ran on a big daughterboard used to convert other hardware platforms. The version shown in your video runs on Donkey Kong hardware, and looks/sounds much better than the version on Scramble hardware. So as bad as Hunchback is, there is an arcade version that is even worse 😂
I was thinking the video looked better than when I played it! Thanks for solving the mystery!
I've legitimately never seen Hunchback before, and I think I'm better off for it.
I have a vague memory that I played it on the C64.
I never saw Professor Pac-Man, but two terrible games I remember are Guardians of the Hood and Tattoo Assassins. Guardians of the Hood was made by the same folks that brought you Pit Fighter, only it was like a scrolling Pit Fighter beat-em-up with the same awful hit detection and controls. Tattoo Assassins was another Mortal Kombat clone that I've only seen at arcade conventions. I don't believe it was ever released. But it was terrible, much like so many other MK clones.
Fun fact about Tattoo Assassins, the reason it was cancelled is because it was so bad they couldn't get playtesters who could stand it.
Fun fact about Double Dragon 3. The Japanese version removed the shops entirely, put weapons within the stages, and made all characters available from the start with all their moves unlocked.
It's still not a great game by any means, but it's better than the North American and European versions.
Rastan Saga II. I LOVED Rastan and would always look forward to playing it when we went to our local Pistol Pete's Pizza (basically a Chuck E' Cheese). But Rastan Saga II was ugly, cheap, and just objectively BAD on every level.
Yes! I hate that game.
I would say that was the greatest drop off in quality from the original to a sequel in arcade history.
Damn I miss arcades...
I have to pretty much agree with your picks. I remember really wanting to like Hunchback but never could, it was just such an all around bad game. Though I'm sure there are a lot of people who would probably disagree with me, I really didn't think Donkey Kong 3 was a very good game. It seems to lack everything that made the first two games fun. Another one I really felt was unfun to play was Jack the Giant Killer.
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One game that has been unfairly disparaged by history is Nintendo's Radar Scope. This is the cabinet that Nintendo massively overproduced when it was realized the game was merely just pretty good. That was then Shigero Miyamoto had his big break and created Donkey Kong as an alternative ROM that would run on the same board. Huge success story, #1 arcade machine in the world for a time, etc., etc.
But few people actually ever saw Radar Scope. If you were into slide and shoot (Galaga, for example) games, it was a great entry to the genre. If I ever became insanely rich to the point of having my own arcade in my mansion, I'd have a Donkey Kong cabinet but with Radar Scope ROMs installed, just to mess with people.
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I'll put pretty much all Laserdisc FMV (including Dragon's Lair) to the list. They're just glorified QTE fest overlaid on top of some decent (or horrible) videos, and I honestly feel like it's a disgrace to gaming itself to call them games.
As for a game that are pretty bad in a lot of people's eyes but I love it nonetheless - Sega Touring Car Championship. Twitchy and borderline unplayable to some people, yet extremely satisfying to play once you get used to it.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who loathed FMV. I remember being scared that they were the future of gaming. They truly are not games.
Yeah, Dragon's Lair scared me as a kid, but even so, i knew me DYING non-stop wasn't me being sucky, it was the wretched controls.
None of the FMV games are great... the best compliment I can give them is that they're fun to watch. But Astron Belt by Sega has got to be one of the very worst. Things explode constantly and without explanation. It's like Star Wars as directed by Michael Bay.
You have to remember that in the 80s having a random access video format like laserdisc was somewhat like magic to people. I'll admit that as a kid, I had no idea how it worked or how a laserdisc functioned. That and the fact that the Disney quality animation and a quest to rescue a beautiful princess in a spooky castle. It's something you had to experience at the time. I would often dream of what was in the castle when I was saving up 50 cents to play it. I even had a "Dragon's Lair" lunch box. Sure, now we can play it on the Daphne emulator, and see that it is qte events, but in the 80s it was remarkable. So was "Space Invaders" in the late 70s and "Pong" in the early 70s. Do we play them as much now? Maybe not. But they were awesome at the time.
@@mwelle1 The thing is, with Space Invaders and Pong it's a *game* that demands skill. It's not just "you don't know the exact direction the FMV expects, you die LOL". Space Invaders and Pong are games that can still be played nowadays, by anyone, without major frustration with horrific controls, and getting a high score is a matter of skill. Visuals don't matter if the gameplay is bad (as if Dragon's Lair has gameplay, but that's for another time).
Doesn't help you can't modernize QTEs, you can do so with Space Invaders and Pong (Space Invaders Extreme/Infinity Gene as well as Pong: The Next Level can attest to this).
I also grew up playing arcade games and as you so eloquently put, were everywhere and there were at times bad games. At any rate, this video reminded me of that Simpsons episode where Millhouse tries to play Water World. Please insert 40 quarters to play. He moves the character forward a step and the game asks him for another 40 quarters. The best part about that little skit was his reaction. He says something like "oh man" and then proceeds to put in another 40 quarters to play again. I'm loving the coverage man and happy Thanksgiving!
Here are my top 5 worst arcade games-
1. Street Fighter: The Movie
2. Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone
3. Chiller
4. Survival Arts
5. Batman (Atari Games)
Addendum- I paused your video when I made my pics to see if we had any matching titles. It appears we both dislike Double Dragon 3...oh God it was bad.
Worst arcade game I ever played was John Elways football, an exact copy of the nes version on an arcade machine! The game was a buggy glitchy mess where the characters would move incredibly fast!
It was when you ran the double reverse. The running back was stupid fast lol
@@alexmotts Yes lol! You could run clear to the other side before the other team could make it ten yards lmao!
For me Rastan saga was my favourite the music was excellent unfortunately they made a sequel that was horrible
Hunchback is a funny one, it's an objectively bad game from a company that never made anything big, but when Ocean secured the license to do the home ports of it over here they bigged it up like the next coming of Pac-Man. As a result it was also cloned countless times on our home systems due to how overexposed we were to the game, and how this idea that it was somehow good was still circulating. Admittedly many of the ports did do a better job than the arcade original.
I'd forgotten that Hunchback had even existed. I had a friend who was the absolute master at that game, I couldn't get more than a few levels. No, my game was Bank Panic, no one could better me on that one.
There was a fighting game called The Shanghai Kid. Absolutely horrible! LOL
There was an NES adaptation called Flying Dragon. It was... better, but still not fantastic. They were trying to make a one on one fighting game before Street Fighter II, and the standards that we've come to expect from the genre just weren't there yet. It gets points for effort if nothing else.
so, Mr. Hancock: could I persuade you into diong one of these... with the 5 worse of the SNK NeoGeo? I'm aware that due to the high price of the actual carts it might prove real difficult- unless you're OK with emulating, at least just for this idea- but I do believe it'd make for an interesting view of one of the all-time great systems of yesteryear! as incentive I nominate the following in MY order from least bad to absolute trash= 5] The Super Spy, 4] Burning Fight, 3] Riding Hero, 2] Fight Fever, 1] Legend Of Success Joe (which already made #3 on this list)! here's hoping you'd consider it!
Wow thank you SO much for mentioning Survival Arts..I have been driving myself nuts for years now trying to remember the name of this arcade game. We used to play it constantly (for some reason) at our local pizza spot growing up. All I could remember when asked to describe it was how the one character 'Gunner' used to constantly shout his own name in the most obnoxious way possible. "GUNNARRRR!!" Thank you John, I can now go on with my life
You are so welcome! Trust me, I have several games that searched for years to get the name of.
@@johnhancockretro it sounds silly but man what a feeling of relief you experience after getting that closure. Especially when its been a loose end for well over a decade haha This is the type of nonsense that we struggle with as nerdy as it is. Feels good man!
I'm glad I'm not alone with Hunchback - I never played the arcade version, but I did play a BBC Micro re-creation of it, and it was frustratingly precise - 5-year-old me couldn't jump the parapets or grab that swinging rope!
As for the others, I was genuinely getting a headache watching Survival Arts because of the way it moves.
Can't believe I've never stumbled upon Survival Arts in my stash! Looks like a real treat!!
I once saw that game back in the 90's at an old Wal-Mart.
I miss the simpsons arcade game. Hell I miss going to the mall and playing games that don’t give you tickets for crappy toys.
Always great videos, man! Thank you, cheers 🍻🍻
Success Joe is based on the manga/anime called Tomorrow's Joe, about a teenage thug turned boxer. The story was reimagined as the anime Megglobox.
@nemo pouncey Meglobox was for an anniversary of the Tomorrow's Joe property. 50 years I believe.
The hit detection on that boxing one feels awkward as heck. I think the player in the video missed about 90% of their punches and it's all because of how weirdly they programmed their hitboxes.
First thing that came to mind was Double Dragon 3 ha! I played it recently on MAME with cheats and even then it felt bad. The bosses were really annoying and never barely gave you a chance to hit them.
A terrible game that I used to love is Chinese Hero by Taiyo from 1984. The hit detection in that game is godawful. It almost feels random whether your punches and kicks land on the enemy. But when I was a kid, my friend and I played the crap out of it at our local convenience store and got extremely good at the game. We somehow figured out a method to the madness. But I tried to play it recently, and apparently I've lost all that knowledge because I couldn't get past the first screen!
I don't think I have ever played a bad arcade game unless you count the ones where the joystick left is nonfunctional or the fire button.
by the time I got old enough to know what I was doing I could tell what I liked by the attract mode or watching others.
Great video, John. Hunchback is just as bad as I remember it being. Do you remember the light-gun game Chiller? As I recall, that was pretty bad. I had high hopes for that game because of the fantasy element, but alas, it let me down. Not to mention the gross factor.
Own the NES version.
I came across Chiller at a small town bar when I was a kid. I think playing that game traumatized me.
I was about to say Chiller! I never saw it in the arcade, but the Barcade franchise has on in its Los Angeles location.
@@johnhancockretro Yep. I've got it on NES too.
OMG I was trying to remember that one! That was terrible!
Ahh the quiz games!!! The bane of virtually every bartop and touchscreen game system that graces a corner in your local bar. Those consoles alone have whole videos on them. Especially the PacMan and Mario hacks or kludges. I think someone forgot the motto of what a bar is for "I came to drink, not to think". I have a classic 1982 Little Casino that emphasizes simple card, dice, and horse betting games. But there was a version of Little Casino called "Little Trivia" that had quiz and trivia games and more modern versions had Professor PacMan and Mario (hacked of course).
Nice video Johnn!You are one of my favorite youtubers and surely the kindest person on YT.
The worst arcade game I have ever played is NBA Jam Extreme. Total abomination that did not deserve to be in the same breath as the real NBA Jam games
Arcade games had cutting edge technology with graphics, sound, and game play that was mind-blowing. That said, there were a lot of cheap-shot quarter-stealers out there too. Although I hadn't played the arcade version, the Commodore 64 version of Hunchback is actually pretty good! The controls and graphics both look much improved and had replayed it a number of times. I think you've touched on a great point that every gamer should ask themselves, which is, "am I having fun?" If not, it's time to move on. I've been guilty of playing bad games because they're popular, got too heavily vested into it to turn back, or frustrated enough to plow through just to finish, none of which are good motivations. Pit Fighter was the first to come to mind. Some that just seemed to drag on repeat or have high frustration levels were Dig Dug and Xevious, Kung Fu Master has that annoying shaking off enemies control. Rush N' Attack did not seem worth it either. Still all these are far better than the worst of any console game.
I feel like a lot of people have fond memories of my pick, but I didn’t understand it then and I won’t understand it now as I’ve always thought that Pit-Fighter is a terrible game!
So happy to see survival arts on this. Great memories, you’re a fellow Californian, so maybe you remember Sam’s town in Cameron park (el dorado)? I used to play survival arts there all the time. I was the only one who played it lolz
Enjoying catching up on your videos!
I never ate popcorn before I started binging John's 'bad game' videos.
7:36
Whew! For a moment there, I thought you were gonna dump on Pac-Man. I thought we were gonna have to fight! LOL!
Bad news: Double Dragon 3 is gonna be on the Evercade’s Technōs Arcade Collection, which will be a pack-in with the Evercade VS console!
Your clip from Hunchback brought back memories of playing it on the Amstrad, back in the mid 80's. Great Amstrad game btw is Tubaruba, played loads of that at my friend's house, when I was about 6 or 7.
"The Arcade: The Movie" NEEDS to be MADE NOW!
Spy Hunter 2. The sequel that had no connections to the first game. I like the Mad Max perspective but its just too hard and will drain your 25 cents in a matter of seconds.
I hate to say, a lot of arcade games were straight trash. Some just didn't stand the test of time, some were clearly designed to take quarters, and some were just plain bad. I'm not a snob, per say, but a good arcade can avoid all of those. Great video as always!
Charlie "Hairy" Palmer rides again!
A lot of american light gun shooters (and american arcade games in general really) fell to this trap. Terminator 2 and Revolution X are some of the examples - they are pretty much unbeatable if you decided to 1cc the games.
For sure! I was a sucker for both of those games for a few bucks here and there. The vibrating guns and general layout to those games with the themes, was perfect sucker bait for an American kid in the 90's, haha.
I’d say Guardians of the Hood is worse the double dragon 3. I liked pit fighter but man that part 2 clone of the first game is the worst lol
I was born in the early 80s so missed a lot but. I do remember most places like Pizza Hut fish chip shops video shops had arcade cabinets and pinball machines. I use to waste so much money at the video shop playing MK on arcade machine even though I had it on sega mega drive anyway
Were I've been born and raised, on the countryside in the Netherlands, there were no arcades, just nowhere but in the big city. When I went to university in that city, for the first time I could play some arcade games, but it was already on it's way out.
I remember an arcade at the local pizza hut. It had mario and a few other games but it was timed based. You could stop one game start another anytime but when the timer hit 0 you were done no matter what.
Holy smokes I forgot about Professor Pac! Thanks for that blast from the past, I guess I'd only played it in 1983 or '84 as I recall it wasn't in the arcade very long and then it was gone, which lines up with what you'd said about 3/4 of them being converted into another Pac game in '84. I actually enjoyed playing Professor Pac, it was something different from all of the button smashing and endlessly shooting at [insert anything at all here], and was a lot more cerebral and made you think. It kind of kicked the cobwebs out of your head that formed while playing everything else. I def need to find it in an emulator _right_now_ hehe. Thanks John!
I can't think of an arcade game that I played back in the 80s and 90s that I really didn't like. I would find a favorite, but then play a quarter for each game to test them out over the years, so never found one I disliked. But then again, I never found the ones in this list at an arcade.
"77345" spells SHELL, upside down&backwards....my face-->👁️👄👁️ as I found out this today. 🤭
ZX Spectrum version of Hunchback is a classic.
Had a ZX myself but not the game,but played it on a Toshiba MSX in the youthclub. Loved it.
Double Dragon 3 sucks because it's way too hard, you can't even get past the first se of thugs without loosing all your guys.
I was born in '96, so I still got to experience arcades. I absolutely HATED NARC. It was nightmare fuel to the max. I remember double dragon iii and UGH. Pit Fighter??? 💀💀💀 Q*bert, Rally X, Dragon Spirit, Pole Position, and Burger Time were my favorites.
What was the name a two player sit down cockpit cabinet that was about drag racing? I remember the graphics weren't that good, it looked like Spy Hunter 2, but it did have steering wheels pedals and shifters. I think you could play head to head or against the machine. What was it's name?
Well, the Japanese version of Double Dragon 3 did have all the playable characters from the get-go, but it still sucks. Go play Combatribes instead.
My favorite arcade games were Donkey Kong, Pacman, Elevator Action, Mario Bros and Return of the Jedi especially Jedi,that game burned a hole in my pocket full of quarters
Spent so many quarters on Dig Dug
I would totally buy an arcade 1up Pac-Man "Ulitmate Legacy" cabinet if it had an exhaustive Pac-Man library on it, including Professor Pac-Man... But I'm probably in the minority here.
Professor Pac-Man was in the arcade at the Flemington, NJ mall. It was bad, after I thought Baby Pac-Man was already too far from the original formula...
Baby Pac-Man (mixing video and pinball gaming was not a good idea, give us one or the other), Pac-Land (Pac-Man in a jumping, platform-style game just doesn't work), Donkey Kong 3 (No Mario, just a generic shoot-'em-up with DK included for no better reason than to tie it in to an established Nintendo franchise), Jack and the Beanstalk (I don't think many of these were made, it was a poor translation of a faerie tale into video game format), and then there was a knock-off of Berzerk (I think it was called Frenzy, same game except you could blast out the walls, just another cheap imitation). And those are my Infamous Five.
Thanks for your list. Frenzy was the official sequel to Berzerk and I like it.
Very hard to choose bad arcade games but I totally agree with your picks, especially DD3. Atari’s “Guardians of the Hood” is pretty awful but at least that one could be called “so bad it’s good” because it’s funny at times.
I remember my first arcade: "Jail Break" by Konami. I was 6 back then :)
That game was stupidly hard. It was hard enough to survive, but you had make sure you didn't shoot the innocent people or your weapons got downgraded instead of a power up for saving them. I watched a playthru of the whole game....like Yeah no way in hell I was ever going beat that game as a kid.
I was born in 1983 in Las Vegas.. There were arcade games everywhere in Vegas ,in the late 80s and 90s.
Dragon's Lair was one of my least favorite. It looked good but it was deceptive. It felt like you were not in control of it at all.
I've beaten that game so many times. You just have to know the input timing. I once beat it without dying at all. It takes 11 minutes to complete the game with zero deaths.
@@StageRight123 I've seen people do it successfully on youtube so I guess it is possible, but at the time as little kid I couldn't control it.
@@rossb.7471 To be fair, I did do it on the SegaCD, rather than the arcade, but the SegaCD version is exactly the same as the arcade version.
COMBATRIBES is the DD3 we accept. And DD3 on NES is best because at least it was actually developed by technos
luckily i have more memory of good arcade games, played a few shitters but i wouldnt put more coins in. id go back to my favourites, Dinosaurs and Cadillacs, NBA JAM, Street Fighters II, Xmen children of the Atom, Alien vs Predator, TMNT etc
The only game on this list I've heard of was DD3. The rest I've never heard of, and I'm glad I never heard of them.
I'm really glad to see that someone agrees with me about Double Dragon III. God what an awful game.
I think EVERYONE will agree with that lol
I like it on the NES 😆. Chin was unbeatable against certain opponents. Once you figured out who to use against certain opponents it helped a lot. Still need to get a cartridge.
@@mitcdav Yeah nes wasn't bad, chins jumping attack head but thing worked and his wep was good too, was just talking about the arcade, that was awful
@@matthewlane518 absolutely agree. Great review, really enjoyed it :) . Good work! I'm pretty fussy about the arcade games I like and dislike. Double Dragon is my all time favourite game. So many great memories in the arcade. 😀
I agree this game on arcades terrible buttttt to be fair at least the names are spelt right in the arcade thr nes version it was bimmy and jimny yeah what a era
instead of hunchback I highly recommend BONGO! definitely a way better platformer, although the item collision detection isn't perfect.
I am also old and remember the seedy dank smell of grease and hot electronics at the mall on Saturday.
The Exidy gorefest "Chiller" would be on my list of bad games.
i was born in 82 quebec and been in little kid in the 80 arcade add such a bad rep of beening drug den to beeing mutch cleaner in 90 land usely arcade wher next to a cinema to this day it the only spot u can find modern arcade in quebec
Guardians of the hood.... which was a "successor" to pit fighter. Everything about it is bad, and yet I play it once in a while lol
The only one of these I ever actually played was Hunchback. Possibly the most painful video game experience of my life. My local arcade/pizza joint gave unlimited free credits on all their video games for a few hours every Saturday, and just charged admission to get in to play. Hunchback was just about ALWAYS available. Did anybody else have a love/hate relationship with the arcade game Shanghai Kid back then?
Video gaming used to be a sociable activity, you had to get out of the house, hang out with people. Now it’s kids locked in their bedroom,