The History of Green Beret \ Rush'n Attack - Arcade/Console documentary
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In 1987, my dad's appendix burst, it almost killed him and he was in the hospital for a.few weeks.
There was this Italian restaurant close to the hospital called Antonio's and the manager there was a friend of my mom's.
Just about every night after visiting hours were over at the hospital we'd go to Antonio's for a late meal. After eating my mom would usually stay a bit longer talking to her friend.
She'd give me a few dollars and I'd go to the bar/lounge area where they had a table top version Rush 'n Attack and I'd play that for a while. It was really fun and a nice spot I would look forward to during a scary time.
sorry to hear about your dad but I really appreciate you sharing your memories.
I was in 6th grade when this game came to Guatemala, we knew it as Rush N' Attack because the owner brought the arcade from the u.s, now i know why it was also known as Green Beret thanks to you 😊 i only knew the nes conversion until today.
Thanks for this great and wonderful videos, you bring so many great memories back, specially when the world was a better place to live in. Hope you can do a video about another excellent army game: Desert Assault-Data East.
Glad to know you are safe and sound in this hard times, take care, greetings 🇬🇹😊
Thank you very much my friend. I'm glad I can bring a little bit of joy in this otherwise dreary world. I will put the game in the list and see if I can dig something up.Glad you enjoyed the video so much. Stay safe
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries thank you. I would love to see the history of that game 👍
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries The "Boss" fights in Green Beret are more like Multi-melee mook fights.
Green Beret is among the first bunch of games that I played at the local arcade. On the sides of the cabinet, there were Space Harrier and Time Pilot.
Played Green Beret a lot on the brilliant ZX Spectrum conversion, this game was fast and true to the arcade.
Cheers from 🇵🇹
Very cool, cheers from the USA :-)
I remember playing this and another game called P.O.W. at our local laundromat. Thank you for the trip down memory lane!
POW is another great game, thanks for watching
P.O.W is one of my all time top favourites.
Although to this very day I'm still trying to figure out what he used to blow that cell door of its hinges?!
Here's a helpful tip for the NES port to avoid having to redo parts of the levels after getting killed: Start a 2 player game but stand above the unmanned 2nd player and let him get killed repeatedly by the CPU until all his lives are lost. Then advance alone and now whenever you die you will immediately respawn in the same spots where you died without having to restart the level over again a little bit farther back each time.
I've never tried this on the arcade version maybe it works there as well
Nice info
Thanx mate love your stuff, i played this on commodore with my dad he has passed away but brought back great memories as all your uploads do.
That's very nice, and thank you for sharing your gaming memories with your family. I always love to read about families bonding over videogames
Sorry for your loss. Hope you are doing well.
i realize it's kinda randomly asking but do anybody know of a good website to watch newly released series online?
@Oliver Gerardo i use FlixZone. Just google for it :)
That run cycle in Missing in Action is really something! 😂
The one in Green Beret is too :D I made a remake of it and studied the way the legs move and I still can't figure it out
Right out of the Ministry of Silly Walks
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Vince McMahon is obviously the figurehead of that party ministry lol
I had a demo of the Spectrum version back in the day - not up to the standard of the C64 version, but still really great when you consider that on the Spectrum the CPU had to do absolutely everything (no hardware sprites or anything like that). Honestly, I think it's one of the stand-out games on the system, and certainly one of the best arcade conversions. I've been playing the original on MAME quite a bit recently (still can't get past level 2!!) but will have to check out that NES version as well, because it looks really good. Anyway, a stone cold classic - thanks for the memories.
Absolutely, the spectrum version was really good. Thanks for watching
It was a Joffa game, so the quality precedes it. I would argue that GB on the Speccy, whilst completely different to the 64, is equally brilliant in its own way. I could complete the Speccy version and, for me, it was one of the best Speccy ports. I'm genuinely surprised by the NES port in this video - it looks so slick in terms of graphics. It almost looks like a port from a newer generation of hardware.
In my memories, the C64 version looked exactly like the original arcade game. Remember my buddies and I were raving about the amazing graphics for Green Beret back in the late 80s
Thanks for making this series.
Absolutely, thank you for watching :-)
Jonathan "Joffa" Smith was the main programmer on the Spectrum port of Green Beret.
Thanks For the correction
I loved that game SO MUCH! OBSESSIVELY. But I could never beat it as a kid. The farthest I ever got on the arcade machine was to the gyrocopters. I used to play it in a 7-11. I didn't win it until I saw it on game boy advance sp. Won it FINALLY! Also got to play it in 87 in the U.K. where they called it GREEN BERET, which confused the he'll out of me. "Why did they change the name of my beloved RUSH'N ATTACK?" I thought.
LOL, at least you finally beat it. Kudos :-)
Chuck Norris does not go missing in action. The action goes missing after it gets Chuck Norris.
When Chuck Norris finishes in the gym, the gym needs a rubdown and a protein shake.
Every 🐀 is scarred from Chuck
Superman thought that only Kryptonite can hurt him...
Until he pissed off Chuck Norris
Great video, loved the c64 version especially the loading music..........
Glad you enjoyed it, The music was fantastic on. Thanks
Thank you for posting. Green Beret was one of my favourite CBM64 games back in the day.
Glad you enjoyed it, I really enjoyed the Commodore 64 version
I remember this game in two doses: First as an early Konami game on NES. While nicely polished, even at the time I felt the overall gameplay was unusually low-variety for the platform. On the other hand, it was devilishly difficult and I never beat it as a kid. A few years later, I finally saw the arcade counterpart. The feel of the arcade game is really quite different. Less polished and correspondingly less easy to play.
Newsflash Murica isn't the entire world.It was called Rush'n Attack in Europe too
@@jonmegarton8078 Not every platform in Europe though.
One of the few arcade games with a better NES port! Contra was also better on nes, IMO.
@@swampdonkey4919 I think people have this conclusion about Contra because it's different in so many important respects from the arcade game. Horizontal screen orientation (obviously) rather than vertical. More "direct" graphics due to being 8-bit rather than the 16-bit that the arcade clearly is. Punchier sound due to being the simple waveforms of the 2A03 (especially the always-max-volume triangle bass), rather than the flexible but more tinny (Genesis-like) sound of the arcade. Gameplay wise, the two are completely identical. And if you had to compare the things in a logical way, there's no way 8-bit anything really beats 16-bit anything. The music is flat out better-iterated in the arcade original, and there's no getting around that. What the NES Contra is, is a superb example of a sincere effort to transition a 16-bit arcade game to a capable but comparatively limited 8-bit platform.
@@Asterra2 I am partial because I grew up with the NES version, for one. I knew the arcade version was out there, but they just didn't have it where I grew up. The graphics and sound are better, yes. I personally felt the controls were more responsive and the hit detection was more accurate in the NES version, but honestly this could just be because I played it on MAME, not an actual arcade machine.
I really do think the NES rush n attack was better, though. The graphics are a good representation, the soundtrack is a nice touch, the 2P mode isn't ideal but a good option to have when your friends are over,, and the "Nintendo treatment" of adding extra stages was a good way to add replay value.
One of the best from 'back then'... remember seeing it in several arcades and fairgrounds....as an 8 year old kid I was in awe of an 80-ies punker girl whilst nonchalantly chewing her gum, finished this game on one credit haha....
Got a great homeport on the c64 as well...I still think its a great conversion
Yes, I talk about the Commodore 64 version and show video of it
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries yeah Patman...mostly I get so enthousiastic in the beginning of the video I already start typing ahead of whats shown later on. Of course I expected coverage of the C64 version, the format is quite consistent ;)
I worked with the guy who wrote the c64 version. I asked him about the difficulty and he said that games at the time were a little bit easy so he deliberately tried to make it hard. The man is a legend and I was amazed to meet someone who wrote games I played as a kid. Shout out to Dave Collier
Thanks for the info, that would explain it
Lies. Green Beret is not an easy game. It was never thought of as easy and is held in the same regard as Ghosts 'n Goblins in terms of difficulty.
@@futureskeletons66669yes, old games weren’t easy. Coin-ops less so as they want you to put in more quarters/20p’s.
Awesome work as always sir! This brings back many happy memories of playing this in the summer holidays on my Amstrad. Of course, it was a smouldering turd of a conversion, but they were simpler times and I was more than happy with it. Keep up the good work buddy.
Thank you very much, I agree about simpler times :-)
Coolness. Did a anniversary vid on this also. Memories playing this in the arcade along with Commando
Awesome
I was just playing Rush ‘n Attack on NES a few days ago! Love this channel! Keep rocking, Patman!
That is very nice of you to say, thank you
I really love your videos man! Always happy to see a new one! ☺️
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed the channel
Noice, that opening. Felt like I was in the arcade hall right away. Thanx for this very nice documentary.
Your soothing calming commentary just earned my subscription buddy. Loved your video
Awesome, thank you!
Dear sir, I love your documentaries more and more! Always so accurate and entertaining! I am learning tons of new informations about the games that made my youth awesome! Thank you!! :-D
Glad you like them! Thank you so much
R.B.I. Baseball next!
Imagine/Ocean also released their own sequel to the game with "The Vindicator: Green Beret II" Where you now fight the xenomorphs from Alien for some reason.
I don't think Konami liked it as later adverts removed the Green Beret name.
Yes I was aware of it but did not included since it wasn't actually associated with Green Beret
I love you Larry
Wow!
The main thing I remember about that game is that the code to access Level 2 was 'Valsalva Manoeuvre' and Level 3 was 'Eustachian Tubes'
(In medicine, The Valsalva Manoeuvre is used to clear the Eustachian tubes (basically to make your ears pop if they're blocked))
I remember this game , hard af. Great video as always.
It was really hard, thank you very much
You're videos are great dude. I'm 41 and the nostalgia hits hard. Keep up the good work dude
Glad you like them! Thanks for the nice words
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Once i get my stupid stimulus I'm gonna donate to your patreon. I'm one of the few dummies still waiting
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Very much appreciate the video. Really takes me back.
Thank you very much
One of my all time favorite games. The first game that i loaded on my new Commodore 64 in 1987. Damn difficult, but excellent arcade conversion. Great video PatmanQC. Keep it up.
It was very difficult on the Commodore. Thank you for the nice words
I always thought the rush’n attack music on the nes version was sooo good!
I never would have thought this had so many ports. Awesome job with the vid! 👍
Thank you very much
5:43 When the helicopter was in the air it's blades were off but When it was in the ground it's blades were off. 80's choppers were great.
Wow I haven't played Green Beret in years I totally forgot about that one so thank you for reminding me I was a little kid when I played Green Beret I definitely have fond memories of this game.
Glad you enjoyed it
Superb video as per usual Pat👍
Thank you very much
I played the arcade when I was a kid, in the little mall in town, always loved it. Never knew until some years ago that it has a NES version, now i have it in a reprocart. Great video! Greetings from Ecuador!
Thanks for the visit, You are my first visitor from Ecuador so thank you and hope you enjoy the rest of my channel
Glad to know! Videogames are so important in my life! I remember vaguely an arcade place in my city with and old cowboy game machine, totally mechanical, as well the Pong and Night Driver and some more, I started there , Im 42 now and love al these!!!! thanx for bring back info for games i thought I forget them
When he said "All over the world", it made me think of the voice on Street Fighter
That wasn't my intention but thank you :-)
Oh wow! You have the voice for it doing video game voices though
Hey man I just found your channel and I’m a big fan. I’ve never really had any interest in arcade games but after watching your ms Pac-Man video I’m hooked!
Welcome aboard! Thank you so much for the nice words :-)
A brilliant documentary as ever, sir! I loved this game on the Commodore 64..great memories!
Thank you very much for the nice words
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries you're welcome!
Play this on the arcades on to this date on MAME. LOVE IT. another Great Vid!
Thank you
This was my game rushing attack me and my brother you use to play it for hours on nes. Luv your vids man👍🏿
Thank you very much :-)
This was a great arcade game and not a bad nes game. I'll never forget the day I finally beat it. I'd just got back from my grandma's funeral and my brain was in this state of ultra concentration. I only beat it that one time in entire life. I wrote down my score. It was the nes version. Never had enough money to pass the Arcade version
Excellent, kudos for finally beating it. The NES version was really good especially back in the day
Excellent work as per usual. Congratulations on a well-deserved 41,000 subscribers by the way!
Thank you very much! Slowly but surely :-)
Great video!! Talk about a blast from the past. My 7eleven had it as rush n attack...but what a great game!!
Thank you, yes it was a lot of fun
Yes! A new Patman video! 😊😊
Hope you enjoy it :-)
Love your videos patman.
Thank you very much
How do you not have more subs? Such an under rated channel
I am not sure, that's very nice of you to say :-) thanks
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Is there any way to contact you?
I was watching the video with great interest. So funny to see the differences between the various 8-bit home computer versions back in the '80s. When watching the ZX Spectrum version, I told myself that the playing style/tactics look just so familiar to me - until I realized it is literally me playing the ZX Spectrum version of Green Beret displayed in your video. 🙂
That playthrough was conducted about twenty years ago.
I'm usually pretty good about including credit for video clips so let mme know and I'll be sure and credit you
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Hello, and thanks for your reply. No worries at all! The gameplay is from the RZX Archive, to which my gameplay was submitted long ago.
I was just amused to realize I was looking at myself in your video. 🙂
Another great video I look forward to your videos
Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed them :-)
Heck yeahhhh new video!!!
Hope you enjoy it
I remember this game and Choplifter at my local pizza parlor. Man, Choplifter was everywhere. You should do a video on that one! Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the idea!
Ironically, Choplifter is one of the few arcade games that actually started as a computer game. Started on the Apple II in fact.
Thanks for an awesome video!
Thank you very much for the nice words
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries thank you for the vids
Awesome video! I had no idea there was an official sequel. What a great game! I remember playing this when I was in junior high or high school, loving it, and mastering it. It was disappointing that there was no Amiga version, because once I finally got one in the early 90s, I wanted the game again. Amazingly, there's a group of coders who made an Amiga version in 2017. Check that out, if you haven't already. Thanks Patman!
Thank you. The home releases came out in 1986 or so, so if there was an Amiga version it would just be a port of the Atari ST version and probably wouldn't have turned out that good. I will check out the homebrew that you mentioned. Thanks
What the heck is boot camp?
It looks like a military themed Track and Field
That's a great description of it! Broke a couple of joysticks from waggling too much whilst running it on my Amstrad.
That's exactly what it is
Tried it once or twice in the arcade when it came out and yes, it's competitive joystick waggling.
YESSSSSSSSSS @PatmanQC
Hope you enjoy it
I'm crying right now. So many memories!
Nostalgic overload :-)
Great Review! Thanks a lot!
Glad you enjoyed it!Thank you
Thanks fir anither cracking review, u prefer the name green beret but its just the one im used to. 1985 i was 11years old and this was in my local arcade along with all the other classics, even watching someone else play was just as enjoyable even with less stress than when i played.
Thank you very much.
One I played randomly in a Bowling alley once growing up that I never seen again was TumblePop, I recently tried it on MAME and I lived so long off one quarter that I eventually got bored and stopped playing which is why no where prolly had it I reckon. Hope you're having a good day Pat.
I always enjoyed this game but I could never get very far in the arcades. I am hanging in there my friend, hope you are doing well
Spectrum version was programmed by Jonathan Smith, A man who is a legend for all Spectrum lovers. He coded the game and did the graphics, the cool sounds for a 48k Spectrum with humble beeper sound systems. The game has no music, and you only cannot select control system more than one time it fits everything on one load and has not a single byte left of free memory.
Im confident all the story you mention about David Collier is about the Commodore 64 version.
He specifically mentions the spectrum version in the interview I saw
It's a very well-known conversion by Joffa Smith, you might want to do some fact-checking.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Maybe an transcription error. Believe me, David Collier was a C64 programmer, Joffa Smith was a ZX Spectrum legend.
Hey Pat, New sub here but already loving your content. 👍
Welcome aboard! Glad you enjoyed the content so much :-)
"I eat Green Beret's for breakfast. And I'm very hungry." -John Matrix.
That was such a great movie
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries
*"Remember Sully when I promised to kill you last?"*
"Th, th, that's right Matrix, you did!!"
*"I lied..."*
Great history, I played a lot of this game in my childhood. In the arcade...
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it
Why are you darn videos so much fun?
LOL, no idea but thank you
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I really do enjoy them. God bless your darling wife for putting up with you. She is a Saint. You are a lucky man.
I dont laugh at anything anymore but you always make me laugh at least a couple times every time I watch one of your videos.
That's very nice of you to say. Glad you enjoy my sense of humor :-) Thanks
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Thanks for making me laugh hey - those wife jokes are the best (:
@@theoneonly259 LOL, thank you
I couldn’t sleep one time so I watched one of his videos about 3 am in bed with headphones on. Something he said made me proper laugh out and I woke my wife who was up for work at 6 am.She didn’t speak to me all that day ......... which wasn’t a bad thing 😀
@@Buck3366
Patman has a habit of getting us into trouble with our other halves!
My missus was dead to the world while I watched his "History of WWF Wrestlemania the arcade game" video.
I leaned over to retrieve my cup of tea from the bedside drawers, but managed to snag my earphone cable, ripping the jack out of the tablet socket.
She almost leapt out of bed in shock as Vince McMahon boomed "A CAPACITY CROWD HERE TONIGHT!!
I'm still banned from having anything other than a paperback book in the bedroom 😫
Yess patmannnnnnn
Hope you enjoy it
It had a sequel called. MIA
Yes, I talk about that after I talk about the original game in the video
I loved MIA!! I played it at our local burger joint and later had it on NES. What a good time for a lil feller back in like 1990. Played the hell out of that game
It’s a shame it was green and not raspberry just so I could make a Prince reference 😂🤷🏻♂️
Oh thank you I now have that damn song in my head 🤣
buck3366 you’re welcome 😂
Raspberry beret 😂
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Same as the British Parachute Regiment.
They work bloody hard to earn that "maroon machine" as they call it.
It is a thing of mystical properties to Paras lol
Konami has a history of changing names. A game called Horror Maze on this compilation on the DS was called Tutenkham in the arcade.
In was Rush n Attack in Canada too.
It was an impressive game in 1985
Thanks for the info
Yay! one of my all time favorites!!!
Hope you enjoy it:-)
😎See when great quality gets recognition my day is made....
👍Rock on Rolling thunder......
Excellent
AWESOME!!
Thank you
Nice video, I've been playing the C64 version a lot recently. I didn't know about the GBA and NDS versions so now I want to try those too.
Thanks a lot
Hello from spain. First video game system we had at home was the ZX Spectrum 48k. We couldn't buy a game for at least a year (they were very expensive) and so my brother borrow this green beret from a friend . We didn't gave it back to him for at least....2 months 😅. Since then I love this game. I bought it for the DS and
Greetings from the USA. Glad you enjoyed the video and I always enjoyed Green Beret as well :-)
A great one!
Thank you :-)
I had the NES version and it was great at the time. I remember it being hard to find in stock in stores for a while.
Yes, it still holds up todayIn my opinion
that sirens sound is engraved in my mind since i was a kid and would recognize it in afterlife
That's all I remember from the game
I know, same here. :-)
I will not acknowledge this game as anything but Rush'n Attack. Great video.
Thank you :-) I didn't know which one to call it when making the video because it was always Russian attack to me.
Haha I remember that intro sound effect back in the early 80’s on the c64.. just trying to squeeze one last game in before the bus goes past.
Wow I didn’t realise how good I had it on the c64 compared to those other conversions. 😅
I have this one on emulator it's a good game but I've never been patient enough to beat it now that I know it only has 4 levels I might give it another shot thanks PatmanQC !
Thank you for watching :-)
Great video! Please do Robotron 2084 or Berzerk
Thank you, it's on the list
That siren still gives me the fear
LOL, that's why I had to put it at the beginning of the video Because It's so iconic
I always thought the dogs that serve as the stage 2 boss were siberian huskies. also, the msx version was actually developed by Konami's UK subcitiary, which is unusual since the msx was a bit of a failyur there.
One of my favorite nes games, I used to beat it over and over in the hour a day I had to play games.
Excellent,Much better than I could do
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries it wasnt easy at first but once you realize the timing on the jump kick guys it got real easy.
@@jimnpen8451 Had it on the NES also and you're right - at first it seems ridiculously impossible, but gradually you learn each enemy's timing and your strategy improves. It would still get the heart pumping, though. I found it was actually much harder in co-op mode due to proximity to the edge of the screen being a (usually fatal) factor as one player inevitably leaves the other behind.
Amazing game, amazing video thks!
Thank you :-)
LOL- He said "they attack similar to my wife at a $3 Buffet"😆😂🤣🤣
:-)
It's funny how arcade operators in your local area shape your personal coin-op history. I thought for ages that this was an NES game. Then comes the internet and MAME and lo and behold...
That's what most people Saw it
on first was the NES
Another classic I forgot about
It's a classic
There was a game called The Vindicator! It was also called Green Beret II. It was released for the Commodore 64, but it had nothing to do with the original Green Beret.
Correct, which is why I did not include it
I had the NES version, and the name made me chuckle.
LOL
Loved this game in the arcades when it came out. The C64 conversion was excellent. Downgraded graphics of course, but they improved the main character's running animation. Most importantly, the gameplay was intact.
Absolutely, I agree that the Commodore version was great
I had the max version. I knew that it was rough around the edges, but still played it all the way through
As long as you enjoyed it that's all that matters :-)
Great video, I have fond memories of Rush'in attack the arcade game, and love the Nes port, I remember buying the Nes game for 20 bucks at the Wiz at a sale and playing the shit out of this cart in stereo. The commentary is the funniest in this video, keep up the great work PatmanQC!
Thank you, glad you appreciate my humor :-)
Cool videos such nostalgia of hitting up the mall and local arcades and spending my allowance lol can you do a History if video of Toki??? The monkey dude who shot fire balls out of his mouth???
Thank you, I've got it on the list but not sure when I'll be able to get to it
This game popped into my head this morning out of nowhere, then scrolling through TH-cam and bam, it's in my recommendations.... Strange lol.. Also I wasn't searching for old school games or anything 😂
LOL, that's weird, glad you found the channel though :-)
Nostalgia!!!!!
Hope you enjoyed it
I got to play rush n attack the arcade version and the nes version. 😀👍🎮
In 87-88 a local pizza shop had this machine along with Double Dragon, Kageki and a weird Super Mario Bros bootleg called Super Skate Kid Bros. I dropped a lot of quarters in it.
This game got a lot of my money as well
Played this a lot on the 64. Good times👍
It was a really good conversion