Track & Field | Rush ’N Attack | BurgerTime retrospective: Arcade fire | NES Works
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- Moving on to April and May 1987, three classic arcade games (well, maybe more like two classics and one "whuzzat?") arrive on NES in rapid succession courtesy of Data East and Konami. Konami's two games share a tenuous link in their cold wars roots, while Data East's game is... well, it's weird.
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To my mind, Track & Field remains the finest moustache-simulator outside of Mario.
It wins on box art stache contest
I loved Track & Field a lot back then, but it also was the scariest Game Over screens for me even to this day, I genuinely feel fearful every time the game over sound plays in it which is why I rarely play it (even though it was really good)
Good call on combining multiple smaller titles into single videos. Makes the whole future scope of the series seem more manageable.
Great video, but I'm surprised you missed this as Track & Field is literally two games in one. Five of the six events from the original arcade version were included (hammer throw was left out) and the other three come from the coin-op sequel Hyper Sports. In fact the NES version was originally two separate Famicom releases, Hyper Sports and Hyper Olympic, each containing four events, but was seemisly stitched together as one game for the North American release.
Even after "ISIS Crisis" and all that explaination, it wasn't until you actually said the words "Rush'n to attack Russians" that I FINALLY GOT THE TITLE FOR REAL. 30 years later.
Oh good, I'm not the only one!
You're brave for admitting this 🌷
Oh jeez you're right, I've noticed that too. That absolutely wouldn't fly today, lol
I always thought Green Beret was a way cooler name.
I got confused about the name "rush'n attack" when I first saw it, like "naw, but maybe???"
ISIS Crisis sounds like fun
*hurriedly renames my half-finished GameMaker ISIS CRISIS file*
I remember being deeply confused by Rush 'N Attack's title as a small child. My poor father did his best to explain to me the very clever wordplay that was going on there, but alas, puns would remain outside of my grasp for a while longer.
the guy you show in the video rapidly pressing the controller button for the track event at super speed, is using the "muscle spasm" technique, which i also have done since i was a kid and have never seen anyone else do until watching this video.
I've been binge watching NES Works like its netflix lol. Great channel you have, thanks for sharing your knowledge of the NES library and rekindling memories of games i had log forgotten.
Rush'n Attack was included in the GBA Konami arcade collection. That game let you input the Konami code to unlock special features like new graphics or levels. Rush'n Attack got two new levels I think... but I was never able to reach them lol. But it did control better than the NES game since jump was mapped to a face button while special weapons were mapped to the shoulder buttons. Man, that was easily the best compilation on GBA.
I'll have to look into that one.
This series is so much fun to watch. Thank you
Fun fact: in Rush 'N Attack, you can kill the jump kicking soldiers while standing completely still and jamming on the knife button. They'll try to jump kick you, but when their foot connects with your sprite, they die. I never even realized this probably wasn't an intentional thing until I played the arcade version of Green Beret years later and found that this didn't work.
Regardless, it definitely trivializes some of the game.
You can also just run straight at them and they'll harmlessly jump over you.
@@DantePlaysOldGames Despite these tricks it's still a very hard game.
Thank you, I was wondering where I would get my next fix of Heiankyo Alien references.
kudos to you for linking the common themes between Track and Field and Rush'n Attack, that's sharp writin'
I'd like to say it was my clever plan all along, but I wrote about the Olympics boycott first and got to Rush ’N Attack and said, "Oh... huh, yeah."
Chariot of fire feels so good in my ears ;)
2:04 How in the world did Konami get away with using Vangelis' "Chariots of Fire" theme? I mean, I highly doubt they paid a license for it. And it's not exactly an obscure piece of music - it won an Oscar!
I can only assume 8bit/midi versions are considered legally distinct enough to not warrant legal action. I mean, most of Doom's most iconic tracks are midi adaptations of 80s heavy metal.
It was the wild west days of game production. It actually continued well into the life span of the snes. People were still not taking videogames seriously and did not consider them any kind of "threat" to their IPs or profits.
Years later, Japan made console developers promise not to release consoles on a regular work day as it interfered with attendance.
Even more years later, Halo 2 is blamed for an abysmal week for movie theater profits.
😂
A lot of video game companies have gotten away with plagiarism. SNK's Vanguard copied Jerry Goldsmith's "Main Title" theme from Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Queen's "Vultan's Theme (Attack of the Hawkmen)" from Flash Gordon. However, Konami got an official Olympic license for the Japanese version of Track & Field, so maybe they also obtained a license to use the Chariots of Fire theme.
Yeah, but the IOC is absolutely notorious about IP enforcement, and they will come down hard on anyone making anything that even LOOKS like an Olympic product without their permission. There's no way Konami could have put out an Olympic-branded product without paying for the license, the IOC *would* have shut them down and\or leaned on the Japanese government to do so. They're way more powerful than your typical music composer.
Vangelis played the game and liked it
The arcade version of Rush'n Attack has you rescuing prisoners of war. Great game and I used to beat regularly at the arcade. Even had audiences watching me play since the one arcade had an over head monitor showing your play through
I think the arcade version even had red stars on the planes in the hangar.
Interestingly enough, Burger Time on the Famicom in Japan was published by Namco, it uses the same rising introduction/title screen as many of their other titles, and the NES version by Data East retained this.
How does the gameplay vary? You check out the fami version?
@@MaxW-er1hm Both versions play exactly the same. The only difference is a Namco copyright on the FC version vs. the Data East USA copyright on the NES version.
@@DanZero77 I guess I was hoping it had better ladder transitions. Thanks fir the reply!
Rush 'N' Attack to me has the feel of Contra. It is intense.. You don't play your best? You're dead! The music is totally awesome as well. While not a perfect game once you master the stiff controls it is very enjoyable. I didn't go beyond the forth stage but once I heard my cousin had finished the game I went on it again and finished it. Once I did finish it something "happened". It never felt so hard again... Although there are perhaps three moments that I still can have a hard time with. Lovely game!
Basic port or not, Burgertime is a game I have tremendous affection for, no matter its format. To my childhood self (born in December '79), it belonged to a class of games like Dig-Dug, Q*Bert, Centipede, Robotron 2084 and Frogger that were bright, colorful and worked on their own strange internal logic that made perfect sense to my preschool brain somehow. And I can still hit the high score board on Burgertime to this day when I find it in the wild.
I feel the same. Those classic arcade games were bright and colorful and they bring back so much nostalgia. I saw them as having a special place in the nes library. Like here’s your chance to play them at home after blowing so many quarters at the arcade. It it was OK that they were simple because it was understood that they were from an earlier time in gaming.
Seems like Rush N Attack was the only game ever still in stock to rent at our local game store growing up, so I played it a good bit with my friends.
Glad these seem to be picking up in popularity. This series is so good.
Burgertime is an classic arcade game. 😀👍🎮
It seems that at this point that the NES is mostly killer and less filler. These three games are all good. They're not out-of-this-world amazing but they're well made and certainly aren't bad, particularly for the time period. It's astonishing to see three such games come out in succession like this... and Castlevania is next?! By 1988 I doubt we'll see streaks like this without some Acclaim-esque shovelware in between. At this point the NES is popular enough to have third party support but we're not at the point yet where every two-bit software publisher is trying to cash in on the Nintendo "fad".
The western publishers hit in force in 1988, and the quality ratio plummets precipitously. NES 1987 is fantastic because it's almost entirely the best stuff from Famicom, with the majority of the crap filtered out.
@@JeremyParish Yup, the bad games were there back then too, just that they didn't make the jump to the US
Pretty sure the 2-bit developers became obsolete around 1905.
Gotta love your content Jeremy. In depth look into the story of the games I grew up with. It is inspiring and really makes me want to start my own content in a similar fashion.
Is it wrong that I would TOTALLY play Isis Crisis?
Nope, because I would as well lmao
If you want the meaning little bit more hidden "Ice Seas Crisis" would work great.
I would 100% play Isis Crisis
WELP, time to make Isis Crisis.
Aaaaaaaaand it's on Steam
I absolutely love your content!
Good old Burger Time. I had the Atari 2600 version when I was a kid. And loved playing it in the arcade at the time. Never played the NES version though.
Track & field is an classic game. 😀👍🎮
When i was a lad i loved Rush an attack in the arcade none of my friends liked it cause of difficulty and i was very good at it. They were jelly😊
Instead of Track & Field we had Decathlon on the C64 and that wrecked joysticks like crazy. You had to waggle the joystick left and right, that wore down the mechanics really quickly.
Track & Field was also on the C64. I think that's where I played it, but I'm not sure. Might have been Decathlon, all I recall is waggling joysticks like mad.
I liked Rush'n Attack as a kid, but was always confused why I couldn't find the secret passages mentioned in the Official Nintendo Player's Guide. Heh heh, well...
For some unknown reason, those passages were removed from the US version, but their mention, and even screenshots of them, were left in the ONPG. Thanks a HEAP Nintendo.
I remember that as well. Never found it either.
This was a great video, as per usual, but I am soooo stoked for that next NES Works. I love it when you tackle a big series, Jeremy, and Castlevania is a personal favorite.
In Burger Time you can get more pepper spray if you can reach the ice cream or coffee or object that appears in the middle of the screen when you get a certain number of points before it goes away
I had a clone NES and one of those 9999999 games in 1 cartragies.
Track N Field was one of the games and played that with my mom and few neighbourhood friends.
I was always beaten by them because I never figured out the controls and always admired their skill like some super expert in front of whom I was a lowly scrub, hehe.
Good Times.
Jeff Gerstmann recently showed off a bunch of different Burgertime conversions and ports, fascinating stuff. The Flintstones GBC version is such a strange thing.
Well timed to have Castlevania 1 be covered in October, very much looking forward to that.
I know for sure in Track and Field in some events there are some easter eggs, one of the easiest ones I know is on the Javalin throw: get a good speed on, and put the angle all the way up to the max.
I can't say whose BurgerTime looks best overall but at least the colecovision doesn't have green meat!
I'm surprised no mention of Track and Fields conversion for the US. It could be considered the first NES game with multiple games.(Hyper Olympic +Hyper Sports) Also in Japan there was a special controller designed especially for Track and Field as well as a modified version featuring a Samurai character (Gentai Ban!) the same was done with Gradius with a tie in with ramen noodles!
1984
-Russia boycotts the Olympics
-Venom Snake kills SkullFace and shoots Ocelot with so many tranquilizer rounds that it puts Diamond Dogs' into debt for several days.
Krusty the Clown loses $44 million in promotional burger giveaway.
A bunch of robots turn up, steal some vehicles and begin beating the crap out of eachother.
I like when they reference track and field in lucky star
Eagerly awaiting for your Rygar video.
I used to play Green Beret on my brother's Commodore 64!
Simon snapping his legs are the end of the video was a good way to end it.
I love BurgerTime, and I agree with your complaint that the control feels a little stiff, as though it was meant for joystick play. Also, I find it a bit unfair that the enemies can get you if they are still on ladders
I love how the javelin goes up into the black box scoring area. Track and Field is a bit monotonous though // Burgertime is fantastic for its time and I enjoyed it greatly- but for that dated gameplay and high cost new...I waited til nes carts were at the all time lows before I snatched it up, kid me wasn't gonna choose that title for Christmas by ANY means.
Track & Field and Rush 'N Attack were successful and were well regarded at the time.
What's coming up next?
What's coming up next??
Is the video broken? *What's coming up next???*
OOOOOOOOHHHH!
I never played this. I like that rendition of Chariots of Fire.
If you think the title Rush 'n Attack is crass beyond belief, don't forget that Konami also published Contra, a game that shared its name with Nicaraguan counter-revolutionaries who were accused of terrorism and human rights violations.
Oh, we'll get to that one in due time, don't worry.
Ginormousaurus That’s the reason the NES version of the sequel went with Super C over the arcade title Super Contra.
6:32 on top of that blue roof is that the dog from Duck Hunt?
RIP to Buttons being mashed relently so that you can run faster. Such an epic game.
What’s the song you play when you’re announcing the next episode? It’s so good! Great content btw
Track & Field sounds an awful lot like Microsoft’s Decathlon on Apple II. Like, a LOT.
title of the song at the end?
Castlevania was out before Zelda? Man, US release dates were weird.
Also as plenty of people have probably noted, Track & Field and Hyper Sports were two completely separate games, both based on the respective arcade titles, known in Japan as Hyper Olympic and Hyper Olympic '84. But I suppose it is more logistical to chuck the compilation cart instead.
Great episode regardless!
"[...] right around the time the NES started to gain TRACK-tion [...]" hm?
What was it about the gameboy that invited excellent expansions of vintage arcade games?
One of my fondest gaming memories is playing Mario Party 4 on the GameCube with (against) my brother. There was one mini-game in particular whose name I can't recall, but the general thrust of the game was that you had to charge up power to strike a Whomp, which would then hit other Whomps in a domino-like line, and the winner was the player who knocked down the most Whomps in succession.
In practice, of course, this meant...mash the A button as many times as you can in the ten second "charge" window and the number of Whomps you knocked down was simply how many times you pressed the button. Fortunately - or unfortunately - my brother and I both have the same "arm vibration" superpower as the individual you showed in this video. So this meant that when this particular mini-game would come up, he and I would make brief, knowing eye contact before both laying down on the floor, getting our wrists in position, and drastically reducing the shelf life of our controllers' primary face button. I believe our scores would routinely fall within the 100-110 range, which equates to 10 or 11 button presses per second.
We probably both have long-term wear and tear issues with our forearms, but that's a worthy price to pay for bragging rights in the living room.
I loved track & field and rush n attack. I thought it was a great game.
Funny enough Rush'n Attack is the only game I know of that works differently with 1 and 2 players mode. If you play 1 player mode and die you're send back, but with 2 players mode you respawn immediately kinda like Contra.
Life Force on NES does that, too. I guess it was a Konami thing.
This is a thing in many 80's and 90's co-op games, particularly shmups. Another common variant is that continues will have you restarting the stage in 1 player mode, but lets you continue on the spot with 2 players.
If ISIS Crisis was a good run n' gun platformer like Rush 'N Attack then I don't care, I'd buy and play it, crass or not.
I just think it's weird how the Olympic tie-in game nowadays is Mario & Sonic.
It's easy to get your ass kicked in burgertime but for some reason it's got some real addictive gameplay
Ngl “Isis Crisis” is a *fantastic* name 😂
The best technique is to hold your index finger right on top of the button and then vibrate your whole hand.
What's the over/under for how many parts the Castlevania episode will be broken up into? I'll take the over, whatever it is.
Just one part. After burning out on the Final Fantasy II series, I'm trying to avoid multi-parters from now on.
2:41 - if only I had a dollar for everytime I did that on my NES controller.
I find Gradius is like a better version of the game Life Force
I will play rush 'n attack. 😀👍🎮
I think my favorite out of this line up was Rush'n Attack! while not quite up there with the likes of Contra, I did still enjoy playing it back in the day.... and its 2 player co-op so I hope konami will ressurect it for NES Online!
I think Track and Field ripps off a lot of ideas from Activision's Decathlon, for Atari 2600.
Edit: Isis Crisis sounds like a great Far Cry 5 mod idea.
Edit 2: Burger Time and Pressure Cooker are the games of my early childhood, but for Atari 2600. When I saw the NES version the graphics blew me away.
You mean "Data Vice" right?
Fun thing: Track'n'Field was my first XBLA I ever bought, back in 2007 :D still a great party game.!
Actually, games like the ISIS one you mentioned do exist :/ IS Defense for an example exists on steam. It's about a NATO soldier fighting ISIS on the shores of Europe. I have no idea if the game is any good, because I've never seen it in action, I just know of its existence.
The big difference though is that while those games exist today, they are cheap indie titles while Rush'n Attack was "AAA" for the time.
Where is that outro music from?
Neon Genesis Evangelion
@@djnekroman Thanks👍
I could 100% see an Isis Crisis game on steam.
Track & Field,
"..cartoon athletes sporting '70s pornstaches."
In my country the game characters could look like 70s school PE teachers.
I’ve always liked T&F 1 better than T&F 2 I once heard that T&F 1 was actually made up of two other games but I forgotten what they were
all returns to heiankyo alien
Despite playing a lot of shitty games on the NES in the 5 years i owned one, Burger Time always was the game me and my clique of friends mentioned when we wanted to refer to a shitty shit game. It was basically a running gag. Might not have been fair, i don't know, i just thought it was an infinitely boring game...but it was also a game from 1982 which i don't believe was a fact i was aware of then.
russian attack's stage 5 boss aint gonna jump no more.
It has been [0] days since the last Heiankyo Alien reference
There is a recent game about fighting back an ISIS invasion of Europe, though. It's even on Steam.
I always cheat when playing Track & Field by using a turbo controller
I'd still play ISIS Crisis.
Is that too much black during the "Next Episode" segment?
Or is it... not enough?
The answer is none. None more black.
Rush n attack? Say it really fast 3times lol Konami is very clever xD
Can you do a video on why Life Force looks so much like Gradius. It goes beyond just being from the same company, so I'm curious about the story.
I'd so play ISIS Crisis.
I would play the hell out of ISIS Crisis
Wow those youtube sections are really awful I assume they must have been added in by youtube themselves
I prefer track and field 2
I only get the "Russian" attack word joke at the end of that game retrospective, maybe it is because english isnt my native lenguage
Looks like you didn’t get the full hang of BurgerTime. If you let the enemies get close to you so they are on the pice of burger you are walking on when you finish with it, they will ride it all the way to the bottom.
That's in the video.
Ghosts and Goblins look so crude compared to many of the games featured in this episode.
Dumbkoff Crow Likely due to the fact that Micronics has nothing ether of these games.
meh i am so good i beat gladius in blade of steel in 8 sec moo ahahaha !
IGN review 7.5 too much black.
Oof. Isis crisis. Please don't encourage America - I'm terrified of how much more crass we can get.
CRASH N THE BOYS WAS BETTER!