You are a true American hero sir. As a kid, I would have never beat this damn thing at the arcade. I was too young at the time, but never forgot this game. Thanks for the video and for avenging my lost quarters :) !
I have been trying to figure it out forever. There's this top view game that had some type of spikey/pixelated vehicle, which looked similar to the one found in that game "Moon Patrol" for Atari, but from the top view. It also had better graphics in the arcade. The game's guns had a mixture of bullets and spikes. I think maybe the vehicle hovered and it had dungeons and weird traps to avoid as the game maps made you move forward. I've been searching and searching for this game forever on TH-cam and can't quit put my finger on it.. .
***** Thank you for the memories. Unfortunately, that one isn't it. It was an arcade game with spacey looking vehicles and spikes on wheels. It had a dungeon feel and look to it as well. Wish I could pin point it.
The theme in this game is awesome. The hero is ridiculously outnumbered, and even more enemies keep entering through all those doors. Enemies seem less intelligent, they behave in an automated behaviour, perhaps suggesting they are mind-controlled. They are seen operating this large computer, so they can't be completely mindless.A fascinating aspect: there is a predictable pattern of dress codes and enemy behaviour. Thus, our hero can predict an enemy's attack pattern based on his costume. Most enemies take either one or two shots to kill, which is reflected by their costumes, with no exceptions. The ability to shoot (or throw bombs) also follows this system. The purple guy with the blue hood takes two shots to kill and he may shoot, but not crouch. The green guy with the white hood can fire while crouching, but his costume takes away any element of surprise.
That's a very cool analysis! As for the mind control aspect, the main "hooded" enemies look very much like the KKK, who are brainwashed, themselves. Even weirder, they use Black Panthers to kill you! Is this a subliminal message that the Klan and BP are one and the same?!?....What I also love about RT is that it takes place entirely inside, never outside. You're literally in the enemy's fortress. Whether it's an industrial/backroom/electrical/cavern setting, you feel that you're separated from the outside world with no contact. I never played the sequels, but I saw that they took place in sunny settings, which took away from the charm of RT1.
I think this game is a serious contender for best game music of its generation. The 3rd stage's tune in particular absolutely grooves. It's just so funky. Not to mention the fact that the gameplay is incredible, and amazingly *still* holds up today. Definitely one of my fave ever arcade games.
A small fast food joint had this back in 1988 when I was a kid alongside Operation Wolf, Double Dragon, Ghosts 'N' Goblins and Gauntlet. I remember this tall black guy who played it because he was the only person I'd ever seen get past the lava pits. I saw this a few years later for NES and mom got it; I could NEVER beat the last boss, Mabu.
Oh yhea me on my psp i still play it on that namcomuseum battle colection disc it has a lot of games the arcade ones then the remastered version is a really klassic one
@@tbsq1114 I just got done playing this on PS2 Namco set to invincible and I still can't get past the second to last stage where you jump from tiny platform to platform while bad guys and fire creatures fly at you from all directions and knock you into the lava. Its infuriating
If you watch how the person who played this carefully the game's characters moved based on the main characters movements. To get them to move forward you did jumps in place, and jumps backwards to lure them out when they were jumping over objects. They seemed to move forward based on your movement towards them. Once the guy learned all the movements it was easy to beat. I remember playing the game at the arcade at the airport, my dad worked there and he just gave me a bunch of quarters to play the game and kill off time. I don't think I ever beat the game however.
This game was so much fun... and I put so much money into it... but never knew about going back for more machine gun bullets! And I definitely never finished it or saw anyone finish it. I could sometimes get past area 3, never past area 4. The controls were awesome as was everything about the game.
I spent many Saturday's in the Arcade playing this. I completed it a few times and felt pretty good when I did as there was always a small crowd watching
I remember being five or six years old and playing Namco arcade but I remember this one in particular because I could never get past the first stage, I would get mad and shut off the game but I enjoyed the music in the arcade selection screen
I remember first playing this at a fast food place near my house back in 1988 and later getting the NES version. We used to always say that Albatross looked like Pee-Wee Herman.
I used to play this nonstop as a kid on like this portable arcade game device made by namco, so many games like so many namco games it was crazy, and this was one of them don’t know what it was but this game scared me as a kid but it made me feel like a man playing putting the bad guys down😂😂
I used to play this in the 80's at the local corner shop. It didn't seem that popular for others but I loved it. Just hearing the music at the start of the mission was pretty cool.
I think this is the arcade game I used to love and play in the early 90's at my local Walmart. Then I would run over to Homeland, which was in the same complex, and play The Simpson Arcade game. I'm pretty sure this is the game that was in my local Walmart, because they enemies were hooded. I remember they used to creep me out, because I was only like seven or eight at that time. But I have never forgotten this game because I remember playing it and remember loving it.
What a game rolling thunder was. I played this game at the arcade so much. And yes lots of money wasted on it. Lol! 1987 or there abouts I started playing rolling thunder . I think it was 40 cents, 50 cents. (Australian dollar) , we had it here in Australia too. But man rolling thunder turned me into a zombie. If I remember correctly I got to area 2 but not to much further after that. Always running out of bullets. The enemies, I used to refer to them as the melting men as that's what It looked like when you shoot them. Great game it was.
You know it is a classic Atari/Namco game based on the Music! such as Paper Boy, Marble Madness, RoadBlasters, 720°, Super Sprint, Indiana Jones and so on!!
Played this *a lot* at the actual arcade back in the 80s. The.. err... guy's? "man's"? ... anyway.. the design and animations of the main character were really quite something at the time. I remember thinking that the developers must've watched one too many Bond-movies while working on this title. Not very common with early arcade machines that the pixels on the screen were able to tell the visual story on their own ... graphics just weren't that great back then, so they usually had to rely on cabinet artwork for support. Not so with this one, but 1986-games were a bit more advanced than, say, Missile Command or Battlezone.
I used to play the shit out of this on my gamecube, I was never really good at it, but it ended up becoming a tradition that me and my buddy would always try to beat this game when we hung out, great memories.
I don't recall seeing this game or playing it in the arcades back in the day. However, I have it on my A1Up Class of 1981 cab, and man, I'm loving it! It is so much fun! Thanks for showing me what lurks ahead! So glad I was a teen in the 80s, it was the best!
I just spent 2 days trying to remember what this game was called... I could picture how "player's chatacter" stood when he shot...but that's about it.. it suddenly came to me as I laid down to go to bed. Then spent 40 minutes researching the dang thing lol... Thanks for the gameplay !
I played this game in a Namco Museum for the Gamecube and it was my favorite of all. Idk why it was SO much fun to me to play it. I never finished it tho.
I remember playing this as a kid but never remembered the name of it. They had a few arcade machines at the local laundry place and I played this while my parents did laundry. I originally thought the bad guys look like foot soldiers from Turtles so was attracted to that lol.
Wow! Amazing! This and Shinobi were a couple of my favorite arcade game as a teen, I never dreamt I'd see the end of this game though, well done! I can't believe you didn't lose a single life either!
Alllll these years and I never knew you could refill MG bullets like that! I use to get my ass whipped by my mom for staying out too long when she sent me to the store 😱😂👍
I always imagined albatross being captured and tortured.. sadly at the end of the game he doesn't look like the sexy blonde guy the side art promised.. what a ripoff..
Awesome. I felt like a kid at the arcade watching a master and learning. I guess I wasn't the only one who didn't know you could go back in the ammo rooms. I always wanted to see the next stage. I thought the ending would have been bigger but I finally saw it.TY.
This game handed me my arse, easily, every time.... Maybe dial it back from ‘Rolling Thunder’, to ‘Bring a brolly’ to cater for those of us not on the spectrum. 😅
Grew up on this on Namco Museum 50th Anniversary from 2005. It was my favorite game out of them all. I still hop on my PS2 from time to time and play it. At one point me and my brother were playing this for HOURS and getting pretty far in it back in summer 2011. It was addicting. Good memories
I remember playing this on ps2 it was awesome, on the ps2 20th anniversary Nampo museum, on rolling thunder, you could change the settings to where you can't die unless you fall off the map.
Oh my gosh this was amazing! Even though I never played it in the arcade like others, it’s amazing such a wonderful and nostalgic game was still able to transcend generations. I played this game OBSESSIVELY on my PlayStation 2 Namco bundle when I was just a little girl- I’m so glad I found this video!
Same! I had a crush on Albatross once I discovered the official artwork. But the fucking alien weirdo scared the crap out of me... I called him "Piccolo's abortion."
yes, I have gameplay video of 2 SNK games on my channel POW Prisoners of War and Ninja Combat. I also played back in the arcade days Fatal fury 2 and World Heroes 1 alot
Love it when I have to sit through a 30 second ad when I don't even know if I want to watch the video, or if I want to only watch it for a few seconds.
1988-visited my family in California. I was 8yrs old at the time, but i remember visiting 7-11, and that’s when i got introduced to this game. Lol - Signed 09/02/2023
Playing this right now with my two year old brother trying to make ends meet 🤣!! Thanks for this you are amazing!! I think I may be addicted to this game now
Great game, I loved this game, and the cutscene s were like anime before I knew anime. Is the music in the cutscenes from a classical music piece, sounds familar.
There are many things I like about this arcade game which I first played at Pickets Lock Leisure Center in Edmonton, North London. The music, the style, the animation, the innovative gameplay (this was a year before Shinobi!!) but it is so RIDICULOUSLY hard, even by '80s arcade standards, I don't believe that any kids could have had the patience or money to finish it in the arcade! With some games it's clear the programmers never expected you to finish the game, or wanted you to i'm sure! There's way too many ways that this game kills you in unfair and cheap ways. Add to that the old chestnut, a very short sudden-death time limit. Still, it's very memorable. I wouldn't be surprised if Sega took a few cues from it when they made Shinobi.
+AfterSabbath I used to play it arcade only. I made it to Story 2 Area 9 like once. Usually I'd time out on the part before that. Even in this video he was fairly close (17 seconds i think)
Man I've been looking for the name of this game since I was a teen cause I remembered playing it as a kid google was no help lol. I remember trying to type things like "old game where you press up to hide in doors and shoot hooded enemies that melt when you shoot them" ok not that exactly but various things I remembered about the game but couldn't find squat.. but hey today it pops up in my feed.
Arcade1up has this 40th Anniversary Ms. Pacman cabinet; I might just buy it, simply because it has several games I don't already own---this is one of them, Tower of Druaga is another. The others are Rally X, Rompers, and King and Balloon.
Consider the Class of 1981 game. It is more expensive but has a few extra games and more features. It is normally $600, but it goes on sale once in a while for $450 to $475 at Best Buy and Target if you are willing to wait.
I just absolutely love this game, from the first moment I saw it in the arcade, 35 years ago. :-) Everything about it is awesome... the music, the graphics, the gameplay, and of course the giant TV screen showing pictures of a tied-up half-naked chick! :-) The guy's clothes always made me wonder if this game was set in the 1970s? Anyone know? Unfortunately, the actual video quality here is not so great, with blurry frame blending, probably due to video being captured at the wrong rate?
Albatross in the main artwork looks like a sexy blonde guy in a red shirt (common amongst arcade game characters round that time: Harrier and Ken Masters have the same look.)
Dear god I played this game to *_death_* back in the day. I miss the old Space Port arcades. Too bad this game didn't have any epic bosses :/ Also, "Geldra" sounds sort of like "Zelda."
![Arcade Longplay [492] Rolling Thunder](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/ADEF8Uue7_0/mqdefault.jpg)
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First time played that on Namco Museum 50th anniversary
×2 what memories :') i have this game in my mobile :'D
Same
Same
@@bettianaramosrodas483 what how ?
Hello ruby
You are a true American hero sir. As a kid, I would have never beat this damn thing at the arcade. I was too young at the time, but never forgot this game. Thanks for the video and for avenging my lost quarters :) !
+Er C Congrats on the great memories! Any other titles stuck in mind?
I have been trying to figure it out forever. There's this top view game that had some type of spikey/pixelated vehicle, which looked similar to the one found in that game "Moon Patrol" for Atari, but from the top view. It also had better graphics in the arcade. The game's guns had a mixture of bullets and spikes. I think maybe the vehicle hovered and it had dungeons and weird traps to avoid as the game maps made you move forward. I've been searching and searching for this game forever on TH-cam and can't quit put my finger on it.. .
SAAAAAAAME! :-)
My score was higher than that but nice job.
***** Thank you for the memories. Unfortunately, that one isn't it. It was an arcade game with spacey looking vehicles and spikes on wheels. It had a dungeon feel and look to it as well. Wish I could pin point it.
I remember playing this in the Arcade all the time after the movies and I always thought the enemies were dudes in the KKK :3
HOTA REX (Hallways Of The Always Reckords) 😂😂
Yep 👍
I always knew the KKK was led by some scaly man fish mutant from another planet..
Lmao
The KKK jump pretty high for white men.
The theme in this game is awesome. The hero is ridiculously outnumbered, and even more enemies keep entering through all those doors. Enemies seem less intelligent, they behave in an automated behaviour, perhaps suggesting they are mind-controlled. They are seen operating this large computer, so they can't be completely mindless.A fascinating aspect: there is a predictable pattern of dress codes and enemy behaviour. Thus, our hero can predict an enemy's attack pattern based on his costume. Most enemies take either one or two shots to kill, which is reflected by their costumes, with no exceptions. The ability to shoot (or throw bombs) also follows this system. The purple guy with the blue hood takes two shots to kill and he may shoot, but not crouch. The green guy with the white hood can fire while crouching, but his costume takes away any element of surprise.
That's a very cool analysis! As for the mind control aspect, the main "hooded" enemies look very much like the KKK, who are brainwashed, themselves. Even weirder, they use Black Panthers to kill you! Is this a subliminal message that the Klan and BP are one and the same?!?....What I also love about RT is that it takes place entirely inside, never outside. You're literally in the enemy's fortress. Whether it's an industrial/backroom/electrical/cavern setting, you feel that you're separated from the outside world with no contact. I never played the sequels, but I saw that they took place in sunny settings, which took away from the charm of RT1.
In the 2nd part,they are androids.
I think this game is a serious contender for best game music of its generation. The 3rd stage's tune in particular absolutely grooves. It's just so funky. Not to mention the fact that the gameplay is incredible, and amazingly *still* holds up today. Definitely one of my fave ever arcade games.
yeah stage 3 called jungle beat
52 years old and we're back at an arcade watching a pro get through this game so we ( kids ) can figured it out ourselves ! Just great !
holy shit! I never knew you could keep going back to the Arms room to max out the ammo for the SMG - no wonder I could never get past the 5th level
Played this one so much and never realised either!
someone restocks that room REALLY fast!
Neither did I. But in our defense, there is that time limit. Why risk it on a what if right?
Its a bug
1 of the greatest arcade games ever for it's era
It's an underrated game.
A small fast food joint had this back in 1988 when I was a kid alongside Operation Wolf, Double Dragon, Ghosts 'N' Goblins and Gauntlet. I remember this tall black guy who played it because he was the only person I'd ever seen get past the lava pits. I saw this a few years later for NES and mom got it; I could NEVER beat the last boss, Mabu.
I used to think this game was creepy
It kind of is with the graphical style. It's really good though.
Jrod 69 dude me too lol
I think it’s the villains
Same
I think it's the green monster Shrek thing that laughs at you when its GAME OVER
The enemies look like Man Ray from Sponge Bob Square Pants.
Adnan Khan
MMM-MMM-MMM
LOL
Awesome observation, maybe Man Ray from Spongebob looks like the enemies instead though.
I thought they looked like flamboyantly gay colored klan members
And the weirdo alien dude looks like Piccolo
This game was lit. I played the shit out of this on namcomuseum!
Benny D. / ChumpTV so my wife?
Oh yhea me on my psp i still play it on that namcomuseum battle colection disc it has a lot of games the arcade ones then the remastered version is a really klassic one
lol i broke my first psp while trying to play this game
@@tbsq1114 I just got done playing this on PS2 Namco set to invincible and I still can't get past the second to last stage where you jump from tiny platform to platform while bad guys and fire creatures fly at you from all directions and knock you into the lava. Its infuriating
This is my favourite game on my psp.
Underappreciated game in the arcades. It was so smooth, fast paced and fun! I think I only had four quarters with me when I played it 😥
used to play this at the Jamesway entrance, Flemington NJ! 1988. Such great memories....
If you watch how the person who played this carefully the game's characters moved based on the main characters movements. To get them to move forward you did jumps in place, and jumps backwards to lure them out when they were jumping over objects. They seemed to move forward based on your movement towards them. Once the guy learned all the movements it was easy to beat. I remember playing the game at the arcade at the airport, my dad worked there and he just gave me a bunch of quarters to play the game and kill off time. I don't think I ever beat the game however.
I would never get passed the first level. This video brought back childhood memories
I’ve literally been trying to find this game for YEARS. FINALLY.
This game was so much fun... and I put so much money into it... but never knew about going back for more machine gun bullets! And I definitely never finished it or saw anyone finish it. I could sometimes get past area 3, never past area 4. The controls were awesome as was everything about the game.
I think that it's the key to beating the game: going back inside the rooms and accumulating as many bullets as you can.
I think the continue rate of this game would have been much lower if it hadn't been for that creep laughing at you at GAME OVER.
FantasyWargnome I got scared the f**k when I first saw that
Yes I agree
YES!! He scared the friggin' flyin' fuck out of me as a kid!!
I spent many Saturday's in the Arcade playing this. I completed it a few times and felt pretty good when I did as there was always a small crowd watching
Part of my holy trinity of 'R' games: Rolling Thunder, Rastan, and Rygar.
Man when i was prolly 7 years old i would always watch the older guys play this game 🔥 so goood to watch the walk through… thank you 🙌🏻
18:00 I could NEVER get past that part on Namco 50th anniversary ps2!!!
I made it to story 2 area 9 like once as a kid. It was the furthest I'd ever seen anyone go...until now...nearly 30 years later... Thanks! =D
I remember being five or six years old and playing Namco arcade but I remember this one in particular because I could never get past the first stage, I would get mad and shut off the game but I enjoyed the music in the arcade selection screen
I remember first playing this at a fast food place near my house back in 1988 and later getting the NES version. We used to always say that Albatross looked like Pee-Wee Herman.
Pee Wee Inc
But didn't you look on the side of the cab? Albatross looked hot in the artwork...
I used to play this nonstop as a kid on like this portable arcade game device made by namco, so many games like so many namco games it was crazy, and this was one of them don’t know what it was but this game scared me as a kid but it made me feel like a man playing putting the bad guys down😂😂
I remember being 7 and playing this game. And I found the video of a dude playing it the exact way I did. I just couldn’t ever beat it😵💫
What's so difficult about this game is Area 4.
I hate the fire men in the magma.
Me too!!!! I CAN'T get past that part in the second to last stage with the damn platform to platform jumps over lava
That's the most difficult part of the game.
IMO the most difficult part of the game is the time limit in area 8.
Isnt it crazy that tge most difficult part is so soon?
Alexis Autotte never can make it pass the 3rd stage🤦🏽♂️😂
I always thought the Maskers were sentient rubber suits that deflated when shot.
This has got to be the most underrated Namco game ever!!
I used to play this in the 80's at the local corner shop. It didn't seem that popular for others but I loved it. Just hearing the music at the start of the mission was pretty cool.
As a toddler, this was one of my favorite games just because the colors.
I think this is the arcade game I used to love and play in the early 90's at my local Walmart. Then I would run over to Homeland, which was in the same complex, and play The Simpson Arcade game. I'm pretty sure this is the game that was in my local Walmart, because they enemies were hooded. I remember they used to creep me out, because I was only like seven or eight at that time. But I have never forgotten this game because I remember playing it and remember loving it.
The creepy green dude (that looks almost like a pupil-less Piccolo) scared the heck out of me.
What a game rolling thunder was.
I played this game at the arcade so much. And yes lots of money wasted on it. Lol! 1987 or there abouts I started playing rolling thunder . I think it was 40 cents, 50 cents. (Australian dollar) , we had it here in Australia too. But man rolling thunder turned me into a zombie.
If I remember correctly I got to area 2 but not to much further after that. Always running out of bullets.
The enemies, I used to refer to them as the melting men as that's what It looked like when you shoot them.
Great game it was.
You know it is a classic Atari/Namco game based on the Music! such as Paper Boy, Marble Madness, RoadBlasters, 720°, Super Sprint, Indiana Jones and so on!!
I have a namco museum GameCube disc, and this game was on it, and it used to scare the shit out of me when I was younger
Played this *a lot* at the actual arcade back in the 80s. The.. err... guy's? "man's"? ... anyway.. the design and animations of the main character were really quite something at the time. I remember thinking that the developers must've watched one too many Bond-movies while working on this title. Not very common with early arcade machines that the pixels on the screen were able to tell the visual story on their own ... graphics just weren't that great back then, so they usually had to rely on cabinet artwork for support. Not so with this one, but 1986-games were a bit more advanced than, say, Missile Command or Battlezone.
I like how in the cutscenes the guys air punch the main antagonist
I used to play the shit out of this on my gamecube, I was never really good at it, but it ended up becoming a tradition that me and my buddy would always try to beat this game when we hung out, great memories.
I don't recall seeing this game or playing it in the arcades back in the day. However, I have it on my A1Up Class of 1981 cab, and man, I'm loving it! It is so much fun! Thanks for showing me what lurks ahead! So glad I was a teen in the 80s, it was the best!
I just spent 2 days trying to remember what this game was called... I could picture how "player's chatacter" stood when he shot...but that's about it.. it suddenly came to me as I laid down to go to bed. Then spent 40 minutes researching the dang thing lol...
Thanks for the gameplay !
I played this game in a Namco Museum for the Gamecube and it was my favorite of all. Idk why it was SO much fun to me to play it. I never finished it tho.
I remember playing this as a kid but never remembered the name of it. They had a few arcade machines at the local laundry place and I played this while my parents did laundry. I originally thought the bad guys look like foot soldiers from Turtles so was attracted to that lol.
Wow! Amazing! This and Shinobi were a couple of my favorite arcade game as a teen, I never dreamt I'd see the end of this game though, well done! I can't believe you didn't lose a single life either!
He did. He edited it out though.
Area 5 does something really interesting, introducing the option of walking inwards and outwards. Not exactly 3D, but adds a lot to the game.
An absolute classic. The music alone should be up for an Oscar...Genius gameplay...Never met anyone who didn't love this game...
The damn lava part would always get me and it pissed me off so much 🤣🤣 good times
I just got done tossing my PS2 controller over that damn part
Frustrating isn't it? I hated when I got to that part.
Alllll these years and I never knew you could refill MG bullets like that! I use to get my ass whipped by my mom for staying out too long when she sent me to the store 😱😂👍
I love how every time you clear an area it plays happy music over the girl being captured and tortured
I always imagined albatross being captured and tortured.. sadly at the end of the game he doesn't look like the sexy blonde guy the side art promised.. what a ripoff..
Awesome. I felt like a kid at the arcade watching a master and learning. I guess I wasn't the only one who didn't know you could go back in the ammo rooms. I always wanted to see the next stage. I thought the ending would have been bigger but I finally saw it.TY.
Me neither I didn't know that you can go back in those rooms and reload on the machine gun
The fact u couldn’t jump and shoot together makes this game that much harder….awesome job…i played this obsessively as a kid in the arcade….
So 33 bullets will end that guy...
damn for being '86 this game was pretty advanced
It was, I was suprised when I saw the age
The addiction I had for this was ridiculous. I had it for the Namco Anniversary disc on the original Xbox.
This game handed me my arse, easily, every time....
Maybe dial it back from ‘Rolling Thunder’, to ‘Bring a brolly’ to cater for those of us not on the spectrum. 😅
Always reminds me of going to the arcades with my brother, 88-90!
This is so 80s all around. No guy would ever do this for a girl in 2016.
Im pretty sure no one would do this period.... Except me im built different
Grew up on this on Namco Museum 50th Anniversary from 2005. It was my favorite game out of them all. I still hop on my PS2 from time to time and play it. At one point me and my brother were playing this for HOURS and getting pretty far in it back in summer 2011. It was addicting. Good memories
I remember playing this on ps2 it was awesome, on the ps2 20th anniversary Nampo museum, on rolling thunder, you could change the settings to where you can't die unless you fall off the map.
Playing it on PS2 I always chose the invincible setting.
@@kevinpayton2664 Same, but I have it on MAME with 25 other games on Pac-Man’s Mega Arcade PC Collection
Oh my gosh this was amazing! Even though I never played it in the arcade like others, it’s amazing such a wonderful and nostalgic game was still able to transcend generations. I played this game OBSESSIVELY on my PlayStation 2 Namco bundle when I was just a little girl- I’m so glad I found this video!
The game is garbage and you like trash.
i had that one too. never got past stage 4 though, so it's nice to actually see what else was beyond that.
Same! I had a crush on Albatross once I discovered the official artwork. But the fucking alien weirdo scared the crap out of me... I called him "Piccolo's abortion."
yes, I have gameplay video of 2 SNK games on my channel POW Prisoners of War and Ninja Combat. I also played back in the arcade days Fatal fury 2 and World Heroes 1 alot
Personal Top 10 fav arcade game for me. I remember Part 2 added a much needed feature, shooting UPWARDS.
Love it when I have to sit through a 30 second ad when I don't even know if I want to watch the video, or if I want to only watch it for a few seconds.
This was such an awesome game. So fun to play.
Love this game, never seen it finished, I always die at the lava jumps
I always thought of the masked enemies trying to punch "Voldemort". Now I think of it as fist pumping...
For awhile, when I was younger, I could get to Area 3 on one credit.
I used to watch my brother play this game, I called it Run Run Shoot Shoot
Used to play this in the early 90's at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, NY. Holy shit.
Awesome dude...never made it past level 8 myself.
Great Video thanks! Played it as a kid but it was never available at a local arcade. Loved it
1988-visited my family in California. I was 8yrs old at the time, but i remember visiting 7-11, and that’s when i got introduced to this game. Lol
- Signed 09/02/2023
Was a fun game.. memories..parents dumped ya off with quarters
What fascinated me about this game as a kid was how the slain hooded villains melt.
WOW I MISS THIS FUCKIN GAME!
excuse my language, i just miss this fuckin game is all :(
Hell yay this game kick ass. It was at Safe Way next to my apartment in 88.
You can run it using namco arcade 50th anniversary on the dolphin gamecube emulator. works great. (that's what I do)
What a cheezy end. Those albino ninjas are surely camping.
This game brings be good memories
it was the time my uncle used to get carried away touching us in appropriate places. bad memories for me and my younger siblings. Hated this game
One of my favorite Namco games from the 80s
Playing this right now with my two year old brother trying to make ends meet 🤣!! Thanks for this you are amazing!! I think I may be addicted to this game now
I played this on "Namco Museum: 50th Anniversary" when I was a kid at 10, going to 11, but I didn't beat this game to this day.
Great game, I loved this game, and the cutscene s were like anime before I knew anime. Is the music in the cutscenes from a classical music piece, sounds familar.
I love it how you do the Secret Ammo Restocking Technique (move a few screens away and then come back to the ammo door and then you get more)
There are many things I like about this arcade game which I first played at Pickets Lock Leisure Center in Edmonton, North London. The music, the style, the animation, the innovative gameplay (this was a year before Shinobi!!) but it is so RIDICULOUSLY hard, even by '80s arcade standards, I don't believe that any kids could have had the patience or money to finish it in the arcade!
With some games it's clear the programmers never expected you to finish the game, or wanted you to i'm sure! There's way too many ways that this game kills you in unfair and cheap ways. Add to that the old chestnut, a very short sudden-death time limit. Still, it's very memorable. I wouldn't be surprised if Sega took a few cues from it when they made Shinobi.
+AfterSabbath I used to play it arcade only. I made it to Story 2 Area 9 like once. Usually I'd time out on the part before that. Even in this video he was fairly close (17 seconds i think)
Yeah the time restrictions are ridiculous. I don't think they want you to finish it haha
I finished it in the arcade. I used to always lose a life on level 8 because the time limit is ridiculous.
The time limit drove me crazy. As difficult a game as it is, there shouldn't be a time limit.
i loved this game im 17 i miss my old plug and play :(
THEY SERIOUSLY HAD THIS ON PLUG AND PLAY? I HAVE BEEN LOOKING SINCE I WAS A KID
@@austinperezgk1 yep it was on mrs. pac-man plug and play. nvm my bad i think it was another one.
Man I've been looking for the name of this game since I was a teen cause I remembered playing it as a kid google was no help lol. I remember trying to type things like "old game where you press up to hide in doors and shoot hooded enemies that melt when you shoot them" ok not that exactly but various things I remembered about the game but couldn't find squat.. but hey today it pops up in my feed.
Such a classic. I love the dying villian sounds😊
This is like Elevator Action without an elevator
Arcade1up has this 40th Anniversary Ms. Pacman cabinet; I might just buy it, simply because it has several games I don't already own---this is one of them, Tower of Druaga is another. The others are Rally X, Rompers, and King and Balloon.
Consider the Class of 1981 game. It is more expensive but has a few extra games and more features. It is normally $600, but it goes on sale once in a while for $450 to $475 at Best Buy and Target if you are willing to wait.
@@originalfred66 I've already purchased the 40th Anniversary cab; it was $200 at Walmart at the time, so I bit.
Thanks for this info just the same!
I used to play this in a pub in Dorset when i was 10. Man , i loved this game
I have this on NES. Very faithful port
Me as well, it is not an easy game
Always enjoyed this game and technocop
Always wondered how the ending looked. Brilliant play!
0:22 - The crate enters into videogame history, never to leave again
Anyone missing that original arcade machine voice randomly saying "tachi kenachi"?
I just absolutely love this game, from the first moment I saw it in the arcade, 35 years ago. :-) Everything about it is awesome... the music, the graphics, the gameplay, and of course the giant TV screen showing pictures of a tied-up half-naked chick! :-) The guy's clothes always made me wonder if this game was set in the 1970s? Anyone know?
Unfortunately, the actual video quality here is not so great, with blurry frame blending, probably due to video being captured at the wrong rate?
Albatross in the main artwork looks like a sexy blonde guy in a red shirt (common amongst arcade game characters round that time: Harrier and Ken Masters have the same look.)
NES version was much longer and more difficult. The last boss was far more difficult on NES.
I remember playing this at my local Tom's burgers as a kid 😂
This is kinda like Elevator Action, except horizontal.
Dear god I played this game to *_death_* back in the day. I miss the old Space Port arcades. Too bad this game didn't have any epic bosses :/
Also, "Geldra" sounds sort of like "Zelda."