Lightbringer is better known in the US as Dungeon Magic, and is available on Taito Legends 2, as is Growl, so that's a fairly cheap and legitimate way to play them, at least. Desert Assault is a sequel to Bloody Wolf, which was in arcades and on Turbografx-16. I have arcade pcbs for it, Devastators, and some others from previous videos like GI Joe, and Devastators especially can be had pretty cheap if you have a super gun or vertical JAMMA cabinet. Desert Assault is so cool with 4 players, and had neat touches like being able to carry wounded teammates, double up on some vehicles as an extra gunner, or everyone jumping in a helicopter and gunning away. 'Nam 1975 was one of my first Neo Geo AES games (because it was one of the cheapest), and I think it holds up great. It gets tough as nails, but it is a ton of fun. Good stuff as usual.
I saw the Spider-man arcade at my Pizza Hut when it first came out. I played it a few times and I really enjoyed it but it was gone after a few months.
... Awww ... How sad. That was one of the more rare beat-em ups, i think. I only saw it at one or maybe two arcades. Cap & the Avengers was a bit more popular, and X-Men was everywhere.
Our local Pizza Hut had a tabletop arcade unit with The Simpsons Arcade for the longest time. Then one day, the same unit was running X-Men until the unit disappeared altogether, during the late 90's remodel the franchise saw. My friends and I spent many afternoons and many quarters on that machine. Good times.
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Oh wow, that's a treat. Boogie Wings getting some representation? I played the heck out of this at a local arcade at my hometown for YEARS. Loved it then, still love it now.
There was never any chance for an SNES port Jurassic Park Arcade or Spider-Man Arcade because they were made by Sega. Battletoads Arcade and Night Slashers would have to be HEAVILY censored. GROWL not only would've been heavily censored, but the gameplay and action would've been dialed way back just to get it to run. :( Btw, GROWL was not censored in Taito Legends 2 for the PC, but was censored on the PS2 version. I don't know about the original XBox version.
I like how the one game in this entire series that I've actually heard of is the one you take great pains to talk about how you've never heard of it and you've never heard anyone ever talk about XD
I remember a local comic book store I went to had the Spider-Man arcade game. I thought it looked pretty cool and flashy but it played kinda sluggish. I was used to the punchy quick Konami style beat-em ups.
Man I do love me some Boogie Wings, great game to try out in MAME. Also fun fact: That Jurassic Park game runs on Sega's System 32, which had no support in hardware for polygons. All the 3D visuals were done with sprites.
I always thought that game and it's lost world sequel should have been ported to Saturn instead of the Saturn LW, along with HD an LA RIDERS on DC, but Sega really dropped the ball. Golden axe 2 instead of the duel (or along side it as a 2 in 1) would have been awesome as well. I guess I was just a better game executive/designer. One day I hope to prove it to the world....
I remember playing that Spider-Man game on a ferry ride when I was a kid going to visit my family in New York! I loved it and have never seen it since.
@@TurdFerguson49 Only one I can think of is Steel Empire, but even then it's only really similar in the visual department(both games have some steampunk vibe), it's not as crazy or inventive as Boogie Wings. I believe I've seen a shmup game who apparently had a similar hook mechanic on steam but I haven't seen any videos of it so can't say for sure.
LoL "in the wild." I grew up in a small town so cabinets were few and far in my neighbourhood. A drive to the nearest arcade was where it was at but still your options were the most popular at the time. I'm loving this series, making me want to bust out a roll of quarters. Boogie Wings looks like a cat's butt 🐈!
I played the JP arcade game with my grandpa after seeing Mars Attacks. There was not only a moving seat that went 360*, but a mist sprayer to simulate the Dino breath.
@SNES Drunk, I played the Spiderman game at the end, it was the late 80s, early 90s. It was in a grocery store with a food court called "X-Tra" and my dad would bring my brother and I and we both LOVED that one. I hope Disney finds and re-releases that game, it was so much fun.
That Metamorphic Force game-- The first thing I noticed was the attack animations were the EXACT SAME as the X-Men Arcade game. The character even pulls off Nightcrawler's screen clear attack. Was that Rocky and Pocky in that Bubble Bobble game?
I encountered precisely 1 instance of a wild Spider-Man arcade cabinet in my life. It was in the arcade of a hotel my parents and I were visiting briefly while on vacation. It was a long time ago, but the game stuck in my memory.
Just watched all 4 of these videos and have thoroughly enjoyed them, personally I would've added Carrier Air Wing to 1 of these videos as I'm sure the SNES would've done it justice :)
The Spiderman and the Jurassic Park games would have never been ported to SNES if we take account that at that time Sega with Mega Drive/Genesis was Nintendo's main competition in the home market.
Agreed--back at the time of the SNES (early 1990s) the Nintendo-Sega wars were fierce and no amount of money would have let Sega make one of THEIR games for Nintendo, and vice versa. Now that Nintendo WON the wars (the Dreamcast was the last console Sega made before deciding to develop it's library for other consoles/formats like iOs) that might be less likely.
However, the Spiderman arcade game would have been absolutely perfect for the Sega-CD rather than a crappy upgrade to Spiderman Vs. the Kingpin and the Jurassic Park arcade game would have been perfect for the 32X.
Jac2Mac I absolutely don’t understand why!?WHY?!.. SEGA never took advantage of the Sega CD and utilized it to its fullest. It’s the only system at the time that had a completely graphical advantage over what Nintendo was offering at the time. I love my Sega CD but there was a painfully limited number I top notch games made available for it. Wasted opportunity!!.. it ticks me off to no end.🤔😩🙄
I have been looking for gameplay of the Spider-Man game for years! When I was probably 9 years old, my grandparents took me camping and they had a tiny arcade/game room for kids. I played that arcade all weekend hah. Great memories
Thanks for the video. I've only seen Metamorphic Force once, which was when I played it in Las Vegas, and I never saw it again or even remembered the name. It was definitely hard to forget because of the *Altered Beast meets X-Men* vibe it had.
Cool to see that the Bubble Bobble game used rainbows as weapons, just like Rainbow Islands for NES. Nice call back to previous games in the Bubble Bobble series.
Great video! 2 games I recommend if you ever do a part 5 are Dragoon Might which is a Konami fighting game and Osman, which is this really awesome Strider clone.
Never heard or seen Spider-Man, huh? Here on the East Coast, this game was in just about every arcade when it was released. Even at 36 years old, I can still remember that moment I saw the screen scale and VENOM appears. I've always wanted to play this game here at home, but like you have mentioned, no releases, oh poor us!!
I freakin' love the Spider-Man game. The bowling alley in my hometown had that and the Superman game, and I'd run over between frames to play one of them. This whole list is amazing.
Devastators was a real rare one. I only saw it at a small arcade at a student union that seemed to specialize in ridiculously rare games, like the old Williams light gun game Turkey Shoot (complete with the compressed air blower that shot feathers in front of the screen between rounds.)
The Spider-man arcade game I saw once in person. When I was a kid probably 7 or 8, we stayed at this hotel near my Grandma's and it was a really nice hotel. They had an arcade room near the pool with about 3 or 4 cabinets in it, and the only one I remember was the Spider-man. Of course I got my butt kicked in it and I didnt sit there and play it for a long time, but i remember getting to the first level and that was it. But I still remember it nonetheless :)
That Spiderman game DESTROYED my quarters when I was younger. The bosses were absolutely impossible (at the time) without help as they dealt so much damage you needed at least two life bars to get through them.
Desert Strike is most definitely worth playing today. No game plays like it today...just dont play it on the Snes...it looks terrible (seriously look it up, the Snes version plays like hot garbage the explosions look particularly bad). Play it on the Genesis or pick up a copy of Soviet Strike for either the PSX or Saturn as it is very similar and plays well on both (you could emulate the PlayStation version very easily). I find Soviet Strike to be the best as it also only has you piloting a helicopter and not all that added garbage of the Urban Strike series...like the hovercraft, who cares about the stupid hovercraft).
Couldn't agree more. 99% of games originally designed for the Megadrive/Genesis and then ported over to SNES are better to play on Genesis. Its not like PS2/GC or PS3/360 type of comparison, they had different types of processors, different screen resolutions, hell, different screen ratios. SNES had more colours, and better graphics in most cases (Desert Strike is a change from the norm on that and does look pretty bad on the SNES), meaning you are getting attacked by things off-screen in SNES games (or making blind jumps on platformers) when you could see what was there on the Genesis version simply because it showed more of the screen (compare the cut-scenes in Jungle Strike to see the difference.) And the Genesis version usually ran faster, they even changed the gameplay of the Alien 3 port to SNES as it couldn't run as fast as the original version, from an arcade style run'n'gun to an exploration type platform adventure. Games designed for the SNES and ported to Genesis, and EVERY arcade conversion except for Mortal Kombat 1, were better on SNES though. SNES was designed to have lusher graphics, with bigger sprites, more colours, and sampled soundtracks, Genesis was designed for chip-tunes, speed and paralax scrolling, they were made to do different things, not just push polygons like later generations were, SNES to Genesis was a change of mentality when it came to coding, not just turning the AA and levels of detail down on one version so it didn't lag so much like modern conversions do.
For a great arcade game that actually *has* received a port to the Super --Nintendo-- Famicom, feel free to check out _Undercover Cops._ While the gameplay itself is mostly standard fare, the art style and sheer insanity of what's happening on the screen definitely makes it worth checking out. The port unfortunately suffers from being a single-player experience, but aside from that, it's a shockingly faithful experience. Also, if you *do* check out the game, I highly recommend either the Japan or "Alpha Renewal" versions. For some reason, the World version lacks some basic moves for each character, as well as their insanely life draining, but high damaging super.
I played the Spiderman game at my local arcade in the 80s at Putt Putt Golf and Games, in Raleigh, NC. Always thought it was interesting. Thought it was cool that Namor and Black Cat were playable characters.
I played the Spider-Man arcade game one time at Pinocchio's Pizza where I grew up at. I really dug it, and it's a crying shame it never got released to home consoles, and still hasn't seen the light of day to modern consoles.
I use to LOVE that Spider-Man game! I only ever saw it in a couple arcades, but I spent a lot of cash on that as a kid! I always wished I had a way to play it at home!
I saw the Spider-Man game at the grocery store once, then never again. Nobody ever talked about it, nobody seemed to remember it. I'm glad I didn't imagine it haha
I’m very surprised you had never heard of or seen the Spider-Man beat’em-up! It wasn’t always at every arcade in the 90s, but definitely wasn’t hard to find. Classic! And we all made fun of Spider-Man’s posture lol
Jurassic Park was the easiest to find as a kid because it was at my local chucky cheese. while it was cool it was more expensive to play. I played these at random arcades in the late 90s once and never saw them again: Spider-Man Battletoads Arcade Metamorphic force's sprite work on the panther character is exact to night crawler from the xmen arcade beat em up. This vid sure brought back good memories of these games. Thanks Snes Drunk!
Is Growl heavily censored on Taito Legends? I just read that they removed the flying limbs from exploded enemies but I know you can still grab and kick/knee a woman in the face. For the animals, of course.
I have Taito Legends 2 and have played Growl that way, I honestly didn't notice much, if any, censorship in it. The game is still fun and crazy enough that the exploding limbs being remove doesn't kill the experience if you're looking to play it on a console.
I loved R-Type Leo! I gather that it was originally developed as a different game by a external developer contracted by Irem, but Irem liked it so much that it was adapted into an R-Type game. I had no idea that a SNES port was in the works at one point, though.
I remember seeing a print ad for Devastators, but I never saw it in person. In fact, until this video I was convinced they must have cancelled the cabinet.
I got quarantined with my 4years old for the past 2 days... We finished Spiderman arcade (sega), cadillacs & dinosaurs, tmnt arcade, Turtle in time, and others... :) His arcade skills are getting good. Thanks for the good ideas!
I used to think Metamorphic Force must have been a fever dream or something for the longest time (years). I saw it at one arcade on a trip, and never again. Couldn't remember the name, publisher, or even what the cabinet looked like. Whenever I tried to describe it to people, they thought I was talking about Altered Beast.
I love how "play it any way you can" is Drunk-ese for "JUST EMULATE IT!"
Emulate but in only 2 players
@@fidelsolis6070 maybe the rom you have.me, my wife and 2 kids just played this through a couple weeks afo
When he told Spider-Man to stop slouching I straightened up
That Spider-man game was in my local Food Lion when I was younger and I absolutely ADORED it. I loved the perspective shift stages.
The spider-man game was so much fun when I was kid! I played it a lot in “the wild.” Lol
Lightbringer is better known in the US as Dungeon Magic, and is available on Taito Legends 2, as is Growl, so that's a fairly cheap and legitimate way to play them, at least.
Desert Assault is a sequel to Bloody Wolf, which was in arcades and on Turbografx-16. I have arcade pcbs for it, Devastators, and some others from previous videos like GI Joe, and Devastators especially can be had pretty cheap if you have a super gun or vertical JAMMA cabinet. Desert Assault is so cool with 4 players, and had neat touches like being able to carry wounded teammates, double up on some vehicles as an extra gunner, or everyone jumping in a helicopter and gunning away.
'Nam 1975 was one of my first Neo Geo AES games (because it was one of the cheapest), and I think it holds up great. It gets tough as nails, but it is a ton of fun.
Good stuff as usual.
I remember playing that Jurassic Park game at my local Chuck E Cheese as a kid.
That arcade game is still around surprisingly
@@jong6829 D&B has it.
@@GT6SuzukaTimeTrials your thinking of the Raw Thrills one
Damn, I love that Spider-Man arcade game. I wanted a port of it so badly on either the SNES or Sega Genesis, back in the day.
I saw the Spider-man arcade at my Pizza Hut when it first came out. I played it a few times and I really enjoyed it but it was gone after a few months.
... Awww ... How sad.
That was one of the more rare beat-em ups, i think.
I only saw it at one or maybe two arcades.
Cap & the Avengers was a bit more popular, and X-Men was everywhere.
Our local Pizza Hut had a tabletop arcade unit with The Simpsons Arcade for the longest time. Then one day, the same unit was running X-Men until the unit disappeared altogether, during the late 90's remodel the franchise saw. My friends and I spent many afternoons and many quarters on that machine. Good times.
Spider-man looks like he just woke up and is just walking around getting himself together.
Use to play the Spider-Man arcade game at a skating rink as a kid, still play it on my phone
have a great rest of your day, everyone!
You too buddy!
@Most Deadest Pool of em All. - Would ya please then consider having a great rest of your day..?
The bowling alley in my hometown still has Devastators
Where do you live
Nice try online predator
Just give me the city
I used to pump quarters into Spider-Man and was so bummed it never had a home console port. I loved that game.
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Oh wow, that's a treat. Boogie Wings getting some representation? I played the heck out of this at a local arcade at my hometown for YEARS. Loved it then, still love it now.
There was never any chance for an SNES port Jurassic Park Arcade or Spider-Man Arcade because they were made by Sega. Battletoads Arcade and Night Slashers would have to be HEAVILY censored. GROWL not only would've been heavily censored, but the gameplay and action would've been dialed way back just to get it to run. :(
Btw, GROWL was not censored in Taito Legends 2 for the PC, but was censored on the PS2 version. I don't know about the original XBox version.
Sega had no issues porting to Nintendo consoles under the right conditions, hence Afterburner and Fantasy Zone and Space Harrier getting NES ports
Desert Assault was one of my absolute favorites as a kid. I always loved those types of games. Mercs and Shock Troopers were awesome as well.
Whelp, I think it's time I find and invest in a Boogie Wings machine for my man-cave. That games looks amazingly fun!
Thank you for the suggestions. You continue to provide fun, informative, and well-made videos. I always look forward to your reviews and insights.
I'd never seen Boogie Wings before. That game looks awesome!
I like how the one game in this entire series that I've actually heard of is the one you take great pains to talk about how you've never heard of it and you've never heard anyone ever talk about XD
Awesome job covering these MAME games, I just got an emulator and had no idea about the majority of these titles. Great commentary
I remember a local comic book store I went to had the Spider-Man arcade game. I thought it looked pretty cool and flashy but it played kinda sluggish. I was used to the punchy quick Konami style beat-em ups.
“This game was developed by Sega”
Well, there’s your reason for why it never got an SNES port
Tell that to Afterburner, Space Harrier and Fantasy Zone.
Which also never got SNES ports.
1 of the best 4 player games ever
Wow Desert assault is decent.
@@fidelsolis6070 ever fuck it ar least tried it
Did I see a pocky and rocky boss In bubble symphony?
Yes, there are space invaders ones too.
I have to buy this game, that alone is a solid excuse.
Please don’t be expensive, please don’t be expensive...
I remember seeing that spider-man game in an arcade as a kid. That zoom-out when you first get to venom blew my MIND!!
That Jurassic Park game was my favorite growing up. The local Chuck E. Cheese had it and it was always amazing. Still is.
Bubble Bobble will always be one of my favorite cabinet games. It just plays better with a joystick too!
Man I do love me some Boogie Wings, great game to try out in MAME.
Also fun fact: That Jurassic Park game runs on Sega's System 32, which had no support in hardware for polygons. All the 3D visuals were done with sprites.
I always thought that game and it's lost world sequel should have been ported to Saturn instead of the Saturn LW, along with HD an LA RIDERS on DC, but Sega really dropped the ball. Golden axe 2 instead of the duel (or along side it as a 2 in 1) would have been awesome as well. I guess I was just a better game executive/designer. One day I hope to prove it to the world....
I always liked Crime Fighters and Vendetta in the arcades. Too bad they were never ported to home consoles.
I hate to admit this but I have only heard of about half of these games.
Theres a lotta great arcade games that are sadly overlooked compared to console games.
Some of them were at least ported to the Saturn
None of us have. SNES Drunk has somehow discovered and played more games than anyone in the galaxy.
Most likely you probably weren't even alive or way too young when most of these games came out in the arcades back in the 80's and early 90's.
@@mitrooper Oh how I wish I could blame it on being too young.
Such a great list! So many of my favorite games. Battletoads is my all time favorite Arcade game.
I remember playing that Spider-Man game on a ferry ride when I was a kid going to visit my family in New York! I loved it and have never seen it since.
It is a shame a lot of these haven't even got a modern rerelease. Good to see games like Boogie Wings getting some coverage.
What are some other games like Boogie Wings?
@@TurdFerguson49 Only one I can think of is Steel Empire, but even then it's only really similar in the visual department(both games have some steampunk vibe), it's not as crazy or inventive as Boogie Wings.
I believe I've seen a shmup game who apparently had a similar hook mechanic on steam but I haven't seen any videos of it so can't say for sure.
LoL "in the wild."
I grew up in a small town so cabinets were few and far in my neighbourhood. A drive to the nearest arcade was where it was at but still your options were the most popular at the time. I'm loving this series, making me want to bust out a roll of quarters. Boogie Wings looks like a cat's butt 🐈!
I played the JP arcade game with my grandpa after seeing Mars Attacks. There was not only a moving seat that went 360*, but a mist sprayer to simulate the Dino breath.
@SNES Drunk, I played the Spiderman game at the end, it was the late 80s, early 90s. It was in a grocery store with a food court called "X-Tra" and my dad would bring my brother and I and we both LOVED that one. I hope Disney finds and re-releases that game, it was so much fun.
That Metamorphic Force game-- The first thing I noticed was the attack animations were the EXACT SAME as the X-Men Arcade game. The character even pulls off Nightcrawler's screen clear attack.
Was that Rocky and Pocky in that Bubble Bobble game?
I friggin love bubble symphony and bubble memories
I played that Spider-Man game in a barcade in Chicago - it was one of the best games I've ever played.
Sincerely.
I encountered precisely 1 instance of a wild Spider-Man arcade cabinet in my life. It was in the arcade of a hotel my parents and I were visiting briefly while on vacation. It was a long time ago, but the game stuck in my memory.
Just watched all 4 of these videos and have thoroughly enjoyed them, personally I would've added Carrier Air Wing to 1 of these videos as I'm sure the SNES would've done it justice :)
The Spiderman and the Jurassic Park games would have never been ported to SNES if we take account that at that time Sega with Mega Drive/Genesis was Nintendo's main competition in the home market.
totally agree
Lol I’ve just got done beating the Spiderman Arcade game earlier this week at the Arcade in Chinatown. Still love those old games! 👍🏼
Agreed--back at the time of the SNES (early 1990s) the Nintendo-Sega wars were fierce and no amount of money would have let Sega make one of THEIR games for Nintendo, and vice versa. Now that Nintendo WON the wars (the Dreamcast was the last console Sega made before deciding to develop it's library for other consoles/formats like iOs) that might be less likely.
However, the Spiderman arcade game would have been absolutely perfect for the Sega-CD rather than a crappy upgrade to Spiderman Vs. the Kingpin and the Jurassic Park arcade game would have been perfect for the 32X.
Jac2Mac I absolutely don’t understand why!?WHY?!.. SEGA never took advantage of the Sega CD and utilized it to its fullest. It’s the only system at the time that had a completely graphical advantage over what Nintendo was offering at the time. I love my Sega CD but there was a painfully limited number I top notch games made available for it. Wasted opportunity!!.. it ticks me off to no end.🤔😩🙄
I have been looking for gameplay of the Spider-Man game for years! When I was probably 9 years old, my grandparents took me camping and they had a tiny arcade/game room for kids. I played that arcade all weekend hah. Great memories
I totally dumped quarters in that spiderman arcade. It was awesome! I enjoyed it along with xmen, avengers, and Simpsons.
Thanks for the video. I've only seen Metamorphic Force once, which was when I played it in Las Vegas, and I never saw it again or even remembered the name. It was definitely hard to forget because of the *Altered Beast meets X-Men* vibe it had.
In the video he said Golden Axe but he clearly meant Altered Beast. I had to go back and check that I heard it right.
Cool to see that the Bubble Bobble game used rainbows as weapons, just like Rainbow Islands for NES. Nice call back to previous games in the Bubble Bobble series.
Thanks for mentioning the spider-man arcade game, I remember playing it at 7-11 when I was a kid
Great video!
2 games I recommend if you ever do a part 5 are Dragoon Might which is a Konami fighting game and Osman, which is this really awesome Strider clone.
Man, great memories playing the Spider-Man arcade machine. Greetings from México. Keep with this awesome vids
I need to play me some Light Bringer! Another solid vid. So many arcade games I’d forgotten all about.
I had Spider-Man at one of my local arcades. It's lots of fun, especially the first stage with Venom.
Woke up this morning and saw that SNESDRUNK had a new video, and thought "Yeah! Today is off to a great start!"
The Spider-Man game was popular at the local pizza joint in my hometown. It blew my mind as a kid.
Never heard or seen Spider-Man, huh? Here on the East Coast, this game was in just about every arcade when it was released. Even at 36 years old, I can still remember that moment I saw the screen scale and VENOM appears. I've always wanted to play this game here at home, but like you have mentioned, no releases, oh poor us!!
Oh wow Night Slashers and Boogie Wings look like so much fun!
I actually didn't know about a lot of these. The Battletoads one looks rad as heck!
i used to play that Spider-Man arcade game all the time as a kid
I freakin' love the Spider-Man game. The bowling alley in my hometown had that and the Superman game, and I'd run over between frames to play one of them. This whole list is amazing.
Devastators was a real rare one. I only saw it at a small arcade at a student union that seemed to specialize in ridiculously rare games, like the old Williams light gun game Turkey Shoot (complete with the compressed air blower that shot feathers in front of the screen between rounds.)
We had that spiderman game in a mom and pop pizza place when I was growing up ahhhh good memories!!!
The Spider-man arcade game I saw once in person. When I was a kid probably 7 or 8, we stayed at this hotel near my Grandma's and it was a really nice hotel. They had an arcade room near the pool with about 3 or 4 cabinets in it, and the only one I remember was the Spider-man. Of course I got my butt kicked in it and I didnt sit there and play it for a long time, but i remember getting to the first level and that was it. But I still remember it nonetheless :)
XEXEX and R-Type Leo are certainly some arcade games that would have been awesome ports on the SNES!
I love your channel. Just found it today. Kudos.
Spider-man was at my local arcade around 1990 or 91, I loved that game
Never heard of Growl or Boogie Winds. I've buyed an arcade stick, and those games are perfect to give a try. Thank you so much, Drunks!
I like watching Snes Drunk in the morning during breakfast. It's nice
Nice list of games.
I did not know a lot of them .
I like how you put emphasis on your "I hope you have a great rest of day" :P
I remember that Spider-Man arcade back in the day. It was awesome!
I definitely played Metamorphic Force as a kid. It looks so familiar. Thanks!
You may not have though
That Spiderman game DESTROYED my quarters when I was younger. The bosses were absolutely impossible (at the time) without help as they dealt so much damage you needed at least two life bars to get through them.
Can you please do a "Is 'Desert Strike' worth playing today'...thanks for the great content 😎
The answer is yes btw (but better on Megadrive/Genesis due to having a wider FOV so you can see more of what is happening.)
Desert Strike is most definitely worth playing today. No game plays like it today...just dont play it on the Snes...it looks terrible (seriously look it up, the Snes version plays like hot garbage the explosions look particularly bad). Play it on the Genesis or pick up a copy of Soviet Strike for either the PSX or Saturn as it is very similar and plays well on both (you could emulate the PlayStation version very easily). I find Soviet Strike to be the best as it also only has you piloting a helicopter and not all that added garbage of the Urban Strike series...like the hovercraft, who cares about the stupid hovercraft).
Couldn't agree more. 99% of games originally designed for the Megadrive/Genesis and then ported over to SNES are better to play on Genesis. Its not like PS2/GC or PS3/360 type of comparison, they had different types of processors, different screen resolutions, hell, different screen ratios. SNES had more colours, and better graphics in most cases (Desert Strike is a change from the norm on that and does look pretty bad on the SNES), meaning you are getting attacked by things off-screen in SNES games (or making blind jumps on platformers) when you could see what was there on the Genesis version simply because it showed more of the screen (compare the cut-scenes in Jungle Strike to see the difference.)
And the Genesis version usually ran faster, they even changed the gameplay of the Alien 3 port to SNES as it couldn't run as fast as the original version, from an arcade style run'n'gun to an exploration type platform adventure.
Games designed for the SNES and ported to Genesis, and EVERY arcade conversion except for Mortal Kombat 1, were better on SNES though. SNES was designed to have lusher graphics, with bigger sprites, more colours, and sampled soundtracks, Genesis was designed for chip-tunes, speed and paralax scrolling, they were made to do different things, not just push polygons like later generations were, SNES to Genesis was a change of mentality when it came to coding, not just turning the AA and levels of detail down on one version so it didn't lag so much like modern conversions do.
A game that combines Bubble Bobble & Rainbow Islands gameplay ? Brilliant !
I definately have to play *Bubble Symphony* (06:06)
Jurassic Park is one of my favorite arcade games ever. Such a fun cabinet
Used to play the Spider Man game a lot. Awesome game...loved Time Killers as well...
For a great arcade game that actually *has* received a port to the Super --Nintendo-- Famicom, feel free to check out _Undercover Cops._ While the gameplay itself is mostly standard fare, the art style and sheer insanity of what's happening on the screen definitely makes it worth checking out. The port unfortunately suffers from being a single-player experience, but aside from that, it's a shockingly faithful experience.
Also, if you *do* check out the game, I highly recommend either the Japan or "Alpha Renewal" versions. For some reason, the World version lacks some basic moves for each character, as well as their insanely life draining, but high damaging super.
That one's coming soon
I played the Spiderman game at my local arcade in the 80s at Putt Putt Golf and Games, in Raleigh, NC. Always thought it was interesting. Thought it was cool that Namor and Black Cat were playable characters.
Boogie wings looks awesome
I played the Spider-Man arcade game one time at Pinocchio's Pizza where I grew up at. I really dug it, and it's a crying shame it never got released to home consoles, and still hasn't seen the light of day to modern consoles.
I use to LOVE that Spider-Man game! I only ever saw it in a couple arcades, but I spent a lot of cash on that as a kid! I always wished I had a way to play it at home!
I saw the Spider-Man game at the grocery store once, then never again. Nobody ever talked about it, nobody seemed to remember it. I'm glad I didn't imagine it haha
That Spider-Man game was the first arcade game I ever actually beat with my brother at a Bullwinkle's Family Fun Center.
I’m very surprised you had never heard of or seen the Spider-Man beat’em-up! It wasn’t always at every arcade in the 90s, but definitely wasn’t hard to find. Classic! And we all made fun of Spider-Man’s posture lol
I remember playing the Jurassic Park arcade game and it was amazing.
Boogie Wings was the shizzle, used to play it when i was in highschool.
Jurassic Park was the easiest to find as a kid because it was at my local chucky cheese. while it was cool it was more expensive to play.
I played these at random arcades in the late 90s once and never saw them again:
Spider-Man
Battletoads Arcade
Metamorphic force's sprite work on the panther character is exact to night crawler from the xmen arcade beat em up.
This vid sure brought back good memories of these games. Thanks Snes Drunk!
I need to watch more of ur stuff.
For anyone in the Twin Cities, a Battletoads Arcade cabinet is also at Up Down in Minneapolis.
Nice job as always-Thanks Drunk!
Is Growl heavily censored on Taito Legends? I just read that they removed the flying limbs from exploded enemies but I know you can still grab and kick/knee a woman in the face. For the animals, of course.
I have Taito Legends 2 and have played Growl that way, I honestly didn't notice much, if any, censorship in it. The game is still fun and crazy enough that the exploding limbs being remove doesn't kill the experience if you're looking to play it on a console.
It's noted in a reply, but Night Slashers was just recently released on the Nintendo Switch eShop. Well worth playing!
This really helps when hunting for decent games in mame romsets. I’m defo gonna try desert assault after watching this!
Top choice of games dude, I've played a number of these (on emu, didn't have the spare cash to go to arcades as a kid) and they're all great.
you have a great rest of your DAY
I loved R-Type Leo! I gather that it was originally developed as a different game by a external developer contracted by Irem, but Irem liked it so much that it was adapted into an R-Type game. I had no idea that a SNES port was in the works at one point, though.
I remember seeing a print ad for Devastators, but I never saw it in person. In fact, until this video I was convinced they must have cancelled the cabinet.
The mall in my town had that Spider Man game, it was sweet!
I got quarantined with my 4years old for the past 2 days... We finished Spiderman arcade (sega), cadillacs & dinosaurs, tmnt arcade, Turtle in time, and others... :) His arcade skills are getting good. Thanks for the good ideas!
I used to think Metamorphic Force must have been a fever dream or something for the longest time (years). I saw it at one arcade on a trip, and never again. Couldn't remember the name, publisher, or even what the cabinet looked like. Whenever I tried to describe it to people, they thought I was talking about Altered Beast.
Brooo this is an All-Star list of games you put together here. I played very few arcade games as a kid so thank you sir! (PS - Enjoy your coffee 😀lol)