Imagine my disappointment after the 18 minutes of this great video was over. Give us more Sega Lord! These videos are awesome! You've become my favorite channel to watch!
I miss the days of walking into an arcade. The smell, the insane volume of every arcade machine going at once, the flashing lights. It was a rush walking in and scouting for new games. Usually the brand new machines were up front as soon as you came in. I vividly remember seeing Killer Instinct without knowing what it was. It was louder than any other machine there and I heard the booming announcer shouting out combo names. I immediately ran towards it and put my quarters in. An older kid came up and inserted his money to go face to face with me. Needless to say I got my ass kicked and the kid was constantly shouting out the combo names like a jackass version of the announcer. It was a magical time
@AngryPostmanSthlm2 Bravo sir! Some think that this username comes from my love for the Resident Evil series but in reality it comes from my favourite Judas Priest album from the 70's.
From one Mel to another, keep this series coming. Being an arcade kid creates the sort of gamer who can appreciate all sort of games, game play styles and difficulties. I'm mighty glad I grew up in the 1980's and early to mid 1990's. The Punisher is my pick of the 10 games here. It still looks stunning today, and the game play has a meatiness and heft to it.
TrueSinister I still remember playing Return of the Jedi arcade 1984 in a movie theater. The sound of an arcade game in all its glory mixed with the wondrous smell of movie theater popcorn butter. Heaven
Mine first arcade center was a X theater few months ago. I remember..we walk on the streets discuss about Tokyo game show..neo geo..jamma..a nd Fight...start..Fiiniiish himm..Hiiitaaakkkkk.. That was just 20 m to 10 m large..but back then it was a pixels temple.
I always wished his team up had been Wolverine or Daredevil though. As much as I like Nick Fury as an adult, as a kid I loved Punisher along with DD. Everyone loved XMen.
@@elblanco5 there is an XMen beat ‘em up, though. I love XMen but I also love Punisher and I’m glad he got his own beat ‘em up, I just would’ve liked a more recognizable team up partner. I put Wolverine out there because they both had military history and could get along in my opinion. However, DareDevil and he had teamed up in the comics a few times, I remember this as a kid in the 1990’s who read comics heavily. The other obvious pick (who I didn’t name) is Spider Man who Punisher debuted by trying to kill before becoming allies, but I don’t think Spider Man’s powers would fit this games style very well, so if you wanted a spider man reference as the secondary character I would have gone with Venom. If you just wanted any Marvel Property with some recognition I would have preferred Ghost Rider over Fury any day of the week. Most other heroes don’t really make sense, Black Panther could be cool as he doesn’t have any “SUPER” powers in a similar vein to Punisher, or Blade could have been cool because he uses guns and swords like Punisher does and his vampire powers wouldn’t necessarily have to be game breaking.
1:34 Karnov (Data East) 2:57 Dragon Breed (Irem) 4:25 Space Gun (Taito) 6:00 Thunder Fox (Taito) 7:40 Combatribes, The (Technos Japan) 9:10 Outfoxies, The (Namco) 10:50 Punisher, The (Capcom) 12:35 Carrier Air Wing (Capcom) 13:59 Metamorphic Force (Konami) 15:35 Cosmo Gang - The Video (Namco) Rate up for everyone else, thanks!
Cosmo gang.....those characters in it, it was either a sequel or something to a live arcade experience, similar to shooting hoops in the arcade for tickets. Cause i remember those little characters having live animitronics.
I've never even heard of Dragon Breed. It looks very impressive. Also nice to see Space Gun. Like Thunder Fox, it was also included on the XBox/PS2 version of Taito Legends.
OutFoxies looks like Smash Bros predecessor. Also Punisher is the pinnacle of CPS1 arcade system. Game looks and plays nearly as good as later CPS2 games. Insane stuff.
I encountered a Space Gun machine in the wild for the first time a month ago, it's tucked away in an arcade off the main street in a sleepy CA beach town! Such a cool game.
I got some fond memories as a kid playing House of the Dead, Pole Position and Metal Slug at my local pizzeria. Love going there often to see the different arcade games they had. Bubble Bobble, Missile Command, Cruisin USA, Primal Rage. Good times.
Carrier Airwing reminds you of UN Squadron because it IS the sequel to UN Squadron. It didn't get as much circulation as UN did which is why it also was passed up for a home release on the SNES.
Loved Space Gun, here's a tip for MAME, there's a DIP switch to always have the gunsight power up, so you can turn off the MAME reticle (F1?) and have it look a little more authentic. Carrier Air Wing also has an amazing "you just put a coin in" noise, it was my message tone for a while.
The Punisher arcade game was the first arcade game I was able to beat and finish. It would normally take me 5 quarters to finish it. I became a big fan of the Punisher comic books because of this game. Thank you for another awesome video on these forgotten gems.
Arcades hold a special spot in my heart. My dad would take my older brother and I to the arcades when we would visit him. We would play: Rastan, Arkanoid, WWF Superstars, Karate Champ, WWF Wrestlefest, to name a few. I miss those days.
@@LorenHelgeson Silk Worm was definitely a quarter muncher and that would test your skill to the limits. Speaking of Helicopter and Jeep combo shoot em up games, go check out Firepower 2000 on the Snes, that game is a lot of fun and same time challenging.
This was exceptional! I really enjoy all these Gems I never played! Arcade games are such a cool part of gaming history! I'm glad I was able to be a part of the latter half of it!
@@SegaLordX Definitely still is, I find it was more nostalgic back in the day and the fun times kids had before the internet and mobile handhelds were even a thing of today, not counting those classic handheld's Gameboy, Game Gear etc. during that timeline.
Space gun looks a lot like the old Light gun shooter for Aliens. Possibly reused assets? I miss my arcades. Aladdin's castle was good, Time out (Namco owned) was sub par, but Diamond Jim's was the best! Metamorphic Force looks great! going to add it to my arcade cab. Thanks for the video. Always a pleasure watching.
Dragon breed looks sick, thanks for the heads up. I've also played a weird amount of space gun, it was as a theater for a quarter a play for years and years. Game is tough as nails but a really fun classic light gun game
So great to see space gun get some love! I used to play that arcade machine to death every summer when is was like 9-10. The graphics and music still hold up today imho. My grandparents used to take me and my little sister to a holiday camp every year. My sister would go swimming and such but all I wanted to do was go to the arcade. Such amazing memory's. Karnov is great too but never found a machine in the wild, only played it on the amstrad cpc. Tnx slx, only found ur channel recently and am kinda hooked x
If you have a PS2 or original XBox, it's worth playing if you can get your hands on a copy of Taito Legends volume 1. The game is pretty short - about 30 minutes - so it never really gets stale. Plus, the rest of the disc has some real gems on it.
OUTFOXIES! Saw a little clip in there. That's an very obscure , manic , all out every-man-for-himself, nonstop blow-everyone-to-kingdom-come gem! Original and effective use of whole-screen scaling, too.
@@SegaLordX Thousands of arcade games. Every game you just mentioned were on it. Really you can do it all yourself but I don't have time or the want to root through all the roms. If for no reason other than arcade games I definitely recommend. Plus the other 15k or so games.
I too was absolutely mesmerized by the arcades. I can't tell you how many times I would get an Nes or Master System game as a kid that was "like the arcade." I would excitedly pop it into my console only to be greeted with...something far less than what I had hoped. This is why I always say, I was very much a casual gamer when I was really young. That of course changed the day I got my Sega Genesis. Altered Beast and Ghouls n' Ghosts in 1989 was like something in a dream. At any rate, the one arcade game that stuck with me from the early 1990's was The Ninja Warriors. It had graphics to die for and the music absolutely floored me. I must have put in over 50 bucks into that damn machine over the course of a week. What kills me is I never knew it hit the Sega CD some years later...I had a damn Model 1 Sega CD. Have you ever (probably a stupid question) played the arcade version of The Ninja Warriors? Of not, it's absolutely fantastic and hard as nails. I still too this day hum the opening score while I'm doing whatever. Addendum- The Out Foxies reminds me of a 2d Power Stones. I kind of get the connection with Smash Brothers but given its setting and with people...I would say more Power Stones 1 and 2. I sure wish Capcom would bring that series back as it was just so damn good.
It's absolutely insane how much bigger the 16-bit era was outside of just the games we had on our Megadrives/Gens and Snes at the time (and the few with Turbo Gfx). It was soo much bigger than just their libraries. Another awesome set of classics that I need to get into.
I grew up in the arcades myself x, nothing can, or ever will replace the experience. I have so many fond memories, thats actually where i met my friend mark. We ve been friends over 30 yrs now, met some of my best friends there. Oh and i put a lot of quarters in space gun, and the combatribes, and i just recently got into metamorphic force. Thanks for the advice about the japanese ver of meta force, much appreciated
Dude, you must be around the same age as me lol. Your videos speak all too well to my video game experience as a young person growing up in the 80’s and as a teen in the 90’s. Good stuff.
Thank you SLX for these videos! I watch them every morning before work and start my day off positively while bringing back good memories! Please keep em coming!
OMFG!!!! Thunder Fox was in a convenience store near my home back in the 80s! I totally forgot about that game but, when the video showed it, it came back to my mind! THANK YOU! Thank you for bringing it back to my memories!
I'm from inner city Birmingham in the UK. The only arcades I got to play was when the traveling fair came to the local park or when I went on holiday. There was a small arcade on holiday and I still remember the games and where the cabinets were placed to this day. Chase H.Q., Ghouls n Ghosts, TMNT, 1942, Outrun, Shinobi, Operation Wolf and Paperboy. Funny thing about that Paperboy cabinet was that if you pulled back on the handlebars and pressed the brake it would give you a free credit. It only worked after 1 game over and you couldn't do it twice in a row. As a kid I'd wait for someone to game over so I could do it and not pay. To my knowledge it must have been some kind of glitch or defect because I haven't heard of anyone hearing about it. I had to go to the sea front to play other games. There was a hologram game there but I was blown away when I first saw the Simpsons arcade game. I was allowed to spend a whole £1.
Space Gun is one of my favorites. The ski resort I went to as a kid had that machine every year. Fun times, but it becomes a quarter muncher shortly into the game.
I have played outfoxies for hours at galloping ghost. This game blew my mind the first time i played it. it is a great game that captures the era and engages your imagination for what you want to try to pull off in the stages.
@@bruceaskew2107 the same bowling alley also had a Gauntlet cabinet...if you were a fantasy D&D nerd kid in the 80s NO OTHER arcade game even came close to feeling like you were playing a D&D game like Gauntlet did. Can here the gauntlet music now...
Aww man SPACE GUN I ABSOLUTELY LOVE!!! I think it was meant to be converted to the snes... Alas it never happened. We got a weird master system version. And the outfoxies took me ages to get emulated on my phone but by god I love it! All these games you mention I play heavily on my phone via mame... Great taste I guess. Carrier airwing never gets a mention. Its like the sequel to area88/un squadron... I come back to this one over and over - it was one of the first arcade games as a kid I really was hooked.... Then it was midnight wanderers (or roosters as you call it in your area)
Great Video SLX, I've played Combatribes under another name and really enjoyed it. It reminds me of another arcade classic Renagade; the extra move sets over the standard beatem ups, like grab punching, ground punishing, throwing enemies into one another is very satisfying. I was hoping the genre would continue to evolve character moves to give these games more appeal, visual reward and a deeper learning curve for the players; analogous to executing a fatality or learning a 10 punch combo. Yet another fun but highly under rated but really great game with high US availability back in the day was Fighters History, Ray Wins. Ironically a sequel came out for it on Neo Geo called Karnovs revenge; speaking of Karnov lol
Hell yeah, combatribes! Always loved how you could stomp on an opponent or slam heads in the ground. The arcade is best mainly because of the music and blood but the SNES version is pretty good too. Used to play this at my local bowling alley as a kid.
@arbereshe besides the snes and genesis one, there's a Japan-only Mega CD version that has never received an English translation patch. I'm very interested in that one as well. And of course there's the shitty cross-platform multiplayer game on Xbox 360.
DUDE! I used to play dragon breed at a bodega near my house as a kid! Also, thought I knew my arcades but you shocked me with some GEMS! The outfoxies?!?! Metamorphic force?!?!?! I need to play those RIGHT NOW! Awesome job as always!!
Another great video as always. Keep em coming! Love finding games I never knew about. Beats all the shovelware you find in the eShop these days. Space Gun looks great, but stuff like that was probably best played on the arcade cabinet due to light gun and pedal. Too bad it didn't get a Wii/Wii U port w/the Wii-motes. Really miss arcades. Heck, just miss having random arcade cabinets in Liquor/grocery stores, restaurants, ice cream parlors, etc. One suggestion, can you put a list of the games you cover in the video in your episode notes.
Sega Lord X this among other reasons is why I love you. Because you always respond. I miss arcades so much it hurts. I remember being 7 yrs old and literally hugging arcade machines at the joy of just seeing them. Now I get out of my car,step up close to one, shed a tear and slide my hand across its controls or t molding whenever I see on gutted in alleys. Thank you for remembering the good times.
That first part about going everywhere looking for stand-up arcade machines to play. Yep I remember that as a kid in the early 90s and late 80s. and occasionally go somewhere like Disneyland and have an absolute seizure being like whoa look at this arcade!!
This is a fantastic series. I always loved going to arcades as a kid, but my parents had no interest so the only "real" arcade I got to go to was in a strip mall while they were shopping at a now long dead chain called Caldor's. Before I got my license, I had to make due with whatever the local stores had, never more than 2 machines. By the time I could drive, all of the local arcades were gone so I missed out on a lot of greats.
Completely agree about both types of arcade games giving a great variety. I classify them into two categories in my games beaten list. Console style and coin wasters. Console style are the ones with penalties for death and coin waster are games you can pay to win with no consequences. Ive beaten a pretty even number of both types and enjoy mixing it up. I tend to seek out the console style arcade games, so I like when videos mention which ones are in that style. If I really like a coin waster game I will do a low credit run like going through Double Dragon on 1 CC. If I can beat a coin waster in 3 credits or less I list it in the console style section. I have my own weird rules but I really enjoy listing games I complete. Its an old thing Ive always done. Keep up the great content.
Nice video. There's an arcade treasure I found are Steel Gunner 1 and Steel Gunner 2 by Namco. It's like E-SWAT except it's a gunner game. Inever played it but I seen that game and it was great. Good graphics, great parallax scrolling (compare to Taito's Space Gun) and excellent soundtrack. It outshines Taito's gunner games and even Sega's Line of Fire imo.
OH HELL YEAH! The Combatribes! This reminded me so much of the movie "The Warriors" It took many more years for us to get the Rockstar masterpiece about that movie, but The Combatribes..... totally BADASS!
"Play the Japanese version" should be considered a rule for all Konami Arcade games. Without fail there was something unfairly balanced, censored or dumbed down in the export versions.
@@dreamcastfan But the into-the-screen sections were crap, they looked dated and ruined the game's flow. Also, the alien colours we're totally fucked up for the international release.
I feel the same way. I spent a lot of time playing arcade games growing up in the 80’s and hated console conversions. Can’t understand how some people prefer the NES versions of Double Dragon, Contra, Ninja Gaiden, and others over the arcade. Once I saw the Genesis was coming out I was done with 8-bit and sold my NES and all my games, controllers, satellite, everything to get it and a few games at launch. I wanted to get as close to the arcade at home as I could.
Here is a story that is 29 years old....when I was just 10 years old (1991), I was out shopping and getting lunch with my mother...we stopped at a small takeaway shop...and like a lot of them had at the time, towards the front there was some coin operated candy and toy machines, and an arcade cabinet. I saw this cool looking beat 'em up game with weapons ...watched the play demo while my mum ordered our food...and asked to play as she was waiting. She gave me $1. I throw that dollar into the machine...and nothing...I don't know, I was pretty young at the time...and I thought like I was just waiting. A few minutes pass and my mother has the food, and we're leaving "But I haven't played yet...", nope, nothing...I said It didn't work and just got "we have to go!" and dragged away. Like I said, this was just out the front of a shop...one that wasn't anyplace near where we lived...I never got to go back. Always thought I'd see that game again though - but I never did. Some years later, with a PC at home after having discovered emulators...I decided to look for this game... Didn't have the name. Kind of hard to look for one specific beat 'em up with little to no information. Didn't know if it was one player or two, the company, the name, nothing. I remembered one thing - that the guy in the demo was on a jet-ski type thing. I looked. I googled my heart out. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. It was like this ridiculously long standing childhood tragedy. Eventually I gave up. Today, this video showed me what I'd been looking for all along... "Thunder Fox". I'm not really even into emulators any more, but now I feel like I have to grab one again just to give this the play through I never had. Thank you, for anyone who read the story of my gaming sorrow. & Thank you, Sega Lord X for, well, helping me rediscover something I had completely given up on years ago.
My childhood favorites: Golden Axe, Golden Axe 3 (they had it hooked up to an arcade somehow?), Cadillac and Dinosaurs, The King of Dragons, Mercs, and some others my feeble brain cannot remember anymore.
I enjoy vertical/horizontal shooters myself. I do have Carrier Airwing for mame, Dragon Breed looks interesting likely will hunt that down along with Punisher, since I like the Final Fight genre of games. Great series so far, watched from the first part.
I used to be the same with arcade games. Until arcades kind of died off and I was no longer able to access the games I loved. Particularly, strangely enough, my childhood dentist had an arcade in the waiting room so when I stopped going there I realized I had no choice but to find other means of playing them. And you know what? Some of the at home conversions ended up being more fun for me. Like Golden Axe, the extra level and the challenge mode.
Heck yeah!!! I already know this video is going to kick a$$, just listen to this intro from like 1:06... lord X rules I hope we'll eventually get arcade treasures number 86 man... I'll watch each one.
Yep, Carrier Airwing really reminds me of U.N Squadron for the SNES too. The general gameplay concepts are the same, the life bar and selecting/buying planes and buying ammo between missions...it’s all there. Going to check this out! Looks like a lot of fun. Punisher is my all time favourite beat em up. I don’t love the genre but have played a fair share. There is just something so fluid and tight about the gameplay that I can’t quite describe, but it makes the game feel amazing to play.
Love these - some great games there, a few of which im lucky enough to own on pcb and a few of which I've lost out on in the past for whatever reason but remain firmly on my 'to buy' list lol
That joy when you entered an arcade, and heard the mix of all the sound effects surrounding you...especially from the pinball tables.
It was overwhelming, especially when my grandmother would shoot me a $10!
Imagine my disappointment after the 18 minutes of this great video was over. Give us more Sega Lord! These videos are awesome! You've become my favorite channel to watch!
I miss the days of walking into an arcade. The smell, the insane volume of every arcade machine going at once, the flashing lights. It was a rush walking in and scouting for new games. Usually the brand new machines were up front as soon as you came in. I vividly remember seeing Killer Instinct without knowing what it was. It was louder than any other machine there and I heard the booming announcer shouting out combo names. I immediately ran towards it and put my quarters in. An older kid came up and inserted his money to go face to face with me. Needless to say I got my ass kicked and the kid was constantly shouting out the combo names like a jackass version of the announcer. It was a magical time
No one cares about that dumbass game. It Came out in 1994 nearing the end of arcades as we knew them.
Great video. Australia was very unique as we got all Japanese releases at our local arcades, even very obscure titles.
Arcades were magical places, kids these days will never know the feeling.
You know arcades still exist right?
@GamebroTV you'd be surprised
PopeTheRevXXVIII Sure are. Check out the Galloping Ghost Arcade. Look it up.
@@nicotoscani8270 I'm Facebook friends with the owner Doc Mack.
Geographically I'm closer to Funspot
@AngryPostmanSthlm2 Bravo sir! Some think that this username comes from my love for the Resident Evil series but in reality it comes from my favourite Judas Priest album from the 70's.
I LOVE this series. I’m ready for many more arcade treasures installments
From one Mel to another, keep this series coming. Being an arcade kid creates the sort of gamer who can appreciate all sort of games, game play styles and difficulties. I'm mighty glad I grew up in the 1980's and early to mid 1990's. The Punisher is my pick of the 10 games here. It still looks stunning today, and the game play has a meatiness and heft to it.
Punisher is my fav beat em up besides AVP I wish there was a download
The arcade is a movie theater for video games. Walking into one in the 80’s/90’s was like entering a whole different world
TrueSinister I still remember playing Return of the Jedi arcade 1984 in a movie theater. The sound of an arcade game in all its glory mixed with the wondrous smell of movie theater popcorn butter. Heaven
Mine first arcade center was a X theater few months ago.
I remember..we walk on the streets discuss about Tokyo game show..neo geo..jamma..a nd Fight...start..Fiiniiish himm..Hiiitaaakkkkk..
That was just 20 m to 10 m large..but back then it was a pixels temple.
Punisher is such an amazing beat-em-up. The characters control so amazingly well.
I always wished his team up had been Wolverine or Daredevil though. As much as I like Nick Fury as an adult, as a kid I loved Punisher along with DD. Everyone loved XMen.
@@Thor-Orion How badass would it have been for an X-Men belt scroller that features the expressive control of Punisher?
@@elblanco5 there is an XMen beat ‘em up, though. I love XMen but I also love Punisher and I’m glad he got his own beat ‘em up, I just would’ve liked a more recognizable team up partner. I put Wolverine out there because they both had military history and could get along in my opinion. However, DareDevil and he had teamed up in the comics a few times, I remember this as a kid in the 1990’s who read comics heavily. The other obvious pick (who I didn’t name) is Spider Man who Punisher debuted by trying to kill before becoming allies, but I don’t think Spider Man’s powers would fit this games style very well, so if you wanted a spider man reference as the secondary character I would have gone with Venom. If you just wanted any Marvel Property with some recognition I would have preferred Ghost Rider over Fury any day of the week. Most other heroes don’t really make sense, Black Panther could be cool as he doesn’t have any “SUPER” powers in a similar vein to Punisher, or Blade could have been cool because he uses guns and swords like Punisher does and his vampire powers wouldn’t necessarily have to be game breaking.
1:34 Karnov (Data East)
2:57 Dragon Breed (Irem)
4:25 Space Gun (Taito)
6:00 Thunder Fox (Taito)
7:40 Combatribes, The (Technos Japan)
9:10 Outfoxies, The (Namco)
10:50 Punisher, The (Capcom)
12:35 Carrier Air Wing (Capcom)
13:59 Metamorphic Force (Konami)
15:35 Cosmo Gang - The Video (Namco)
Rate up for everyone else, thanks!
Cosmo gang.....those characters in it, it was either a sequel or something to a live arcade experience, similar to shooting hoops in the arcade for tickets. Cause i remember those little characters having live animitronics.
Keep these up love finding more treasures to play on MAME
Where do you get these roms?
I would love complete rom sets!!!
@@NewportBox100s Then look for them yourself. They're not legal so posting links here would be a fucking stupid thing to do. Get the HINT.
I've never even heard of Dragon Breed. It looks very impressive.
Also nice to see Space Gun. Like Thunder Fox, it was also included on the XBox/PS2 version of Taito Legends.
You can hear sound effects from "Operation Wolf" being re-used in Thunder Fox.
OutFoxies looks like Smash Bros predecessor. Also Punisher is the pinnacle of CPS1 arcade system. Game looks and plays nearly as good as later CPS2 games. Insane stuff.
Zero Team by Seibu Kaihatsu is a hidden gem also!
Easily becoming my favorite retro game channel on youtube and I wasn't even a Sega kid!
I encountered a Space Gun machine in the wild for the first time a month ago, it's tucked away in an arcade off the main street in a sleepy CA beach town! Such a cool game.
I got some fond memories as a kid playing House of the Dead, Pole Position and Metal Slug at my local pizzeria. Love going there often to see the different arcade games they had. Bubble Bobble, Missile Command, Cruisin USA, Primal Rage. Good times.
Carrier Airwing reminds you of UN Squadron because it IS the sequel to UN Squadron. It didn't get as much circulation as UN did which is why it also was passed up for a home release on the SNES.
Some of the best memories i have are arcade experiences.
Loved Space Gun, here's a tip for MAME, there's a DIP switch to always have the gunsight power up, so you can turn off the MAME reticle (F1?) and have it look a little more authentic.
Carrier Air Wing also has an amazing "you just put a coin in" noise, it was my message tone for a while.
I’m constantly impressed with the amount of quality content you keep making. This is one of the best channels going!
The Punisher arcade game was the first arcade game I was able to beat and finish. It would normally take me 5 quarters to finish it. I became a big fan of the Punisher comic books because of this game. Thank you for another awesome video on these forgotten gems.
Arcades hold a special spot in my heart. My dad would take my older brother and I to the arcades when we would visit him. We would play: Rastan, Arkanoid, WWF Superstars, Karate Champ, WWF Wrestlefest, to name a few. I miss those days.
The one arcade shoot em up I recall spending 10 bucks in quarters, the game was Silk Worm, it's a Helicopter and Jeep shoot em up.
I remember the NES version. Didn't know there was an arcade version.
@@LorenHelgeson Silk Worm was definitely a quarter muncher and that would test your skill to the limits.
Speaking of Helicopter and Jeep combo shoot em up games, go check out Firepower 2000 on the Snes, that game is a lot of fun and same time challenging.
This was exceptional! I really enjoy all these Gems I never played! Arcade games are such a cool part of gaming history! I'm glad I was able to be a part of the latter half of it!
Chuck E Cheese back in the day of the 80's was known for kids birthday party's, Pizza and most definitely arcade cabinets.
Aren't Chuck E Cheese restaurants still around?
@@SegaLordX Definitely still is, I find it was more nostalgic back in the day and the fun times kids had before the internet and mobile handhelds were even a thing of today, not counting those classic handheld's Gameboy, Game Gear etc. during that timeline.
What's it known for now?
Space gun looks a lot like the old Light gun shooter for Aliens. Possibly reused assets?
I miss my arcades. Aladdin's castle was good, Time out (Namco owned) was sub par, but Diamond Jim's was the best!
Metamorphic Force looks great! going to add it to my arcade cab.
Thanks for the video. Always a pleasure watching.
Dragon breed looks sick, thanks for the heads up. I've also played a weird amount of space gun, it was as a theater for a quarter a play for years and years. Game is tough as nails but a really fun classic light gun game
So great to see space gun get some love! I used to play that arcade machine to death every summer when is was like 9-10. The graphics and music still hold up today imho. My grandparents used to take me and my little sister to a holiday camp every year. My sister would go swimming and such but all I wanted to do was go to the arcade. Such amazing memory's. Karnov is great too but never found a machine in the wild, only played it on the amstrad cpc. Tnx slx, only found ur channel recently and am kinda hooked x
Wow. Space Gun definitely wowed me with the graphics!
If you have a PS2 or original XBox, it's worth playing if you can get your hands on a copy of Taito Legends volume 1. The game is pretty short - about 30 minutes - so it never really gets stale. Plus, the rest of the disc has some real gems on it.
I'll check that out, then! Just fixed my original Xbox, so that's convenient ^-^
OUTFOXIES! Saw a little clip in there. That's an very obscure , manic , all out every-man-for-himself, nonstop blow-everyone-to-kingdom-come gem! Original and effective use of whole-screen scaling, too.
Second I saw it it reminded me if smash bros. Can't believe I've never heard of it til now.
Arcade games are why I bought a loaded Odroid a few weeks ago. Been looking for more to try. It's like you are in my head! 🤯
Been considering that myself. I've heard good things, but not sure I need it.
@@SegaLordX Thousands of arcade games. Every game you just mentioned were on it. Really you can do it all yourself but I don't have time or the want to root through all the roms. If for no reason other than arcade games I definitely recommend. Plus the other 15k or so games.
Man i still remember the day I beat Karnov on the NES :D one of my favorite achievements !!!
I too was absolutely mesmerized by the arcades. I can't tell you how many times I would get an Nes or Master System game as a kid that was "like the arcade." I would excitedly pop it into my console only to be greeted with...something far less than what I had hoped. This is why I always say, I was very much a casual gamer when I was really young. That of course changed the day I got my Sega Genesis. Altered Beast and Ghouls n' Ghosts in 1989 was like something in a dream.
At any rate, the one arcade game that stuck with me from the early 1990's was The Ninja Warriors. It had graphics to die for and the music absolutely floored me. I must have put in over 50 bucks into that damn machine over the course of a week. What kills me is I never knew it hit the Sega CD some years later...I had a damn Model 1 Sega CD. Have you ever (probably a stupid question) played the arcade version of The Ninja Warriors? Of not, it's absolutely fantastic and hard as nails. I still too this day hum the opening score while I'm doing whatever.
Addendum- The Out Foxies reminds me of a 2d Power Stones. I kind of get the connection with Smash Brothers but given its setting and with people...I would say more Power Stones 1 and 2. I sure wish Capcom would bring that series back as it was just so damn good.
It's absolutely insane how much bigger the 16-bit era was outside of just the games we had on our Megadrives/Gens and Snes at the time (and the few with Turbo Gfx). It was soo much bigger than just their libraries. Another awesome set of classics that I need to get into.
I grew up in the arcades myself x, nothing can, or ever will replace the experience. I have so many fond memories, thats actually where i met my friend mark. We ve been friends over 30 yrs now, met some of my best friends there. Oh and i put a lot of quarters in space gun, and the combatribes, and i just recently got into metamorphic force. Thanks for the advice about the japanese ver of meta force, much appreciated
Dude, you must be around the same age as me lol. Your videos speak all too well to my video game experience as a young person growing up in the 80’s and as a teen in the 90’s. Good stuff.
Thank you SLX for these videos! I watch them every morning before work and start my day off positively while bringing back good memories! Please keep em coming!
Yup! Nothing compared to battling it out with friends at our local Vegas arcade! Ours was even 24hrs!
The classic arcade lightgun games I like: Steel Gunner, Steel Gunner 2, & Gundam Final Shooting.
Thanks for the memories, those were the best days ever.
Aw yeah! I LOVE me some Space Gun. One if Taito's best games in my opinion.
OMFG!!!! Thunder Fox was in a convenience store near my home back in the 80s! I totally forgot about that game but, when the video showed it, it came back to my mind! THANK YOU! Thank you for bringing it back to my memories!
I'm from inner city Birmingham in the UK. The only arcades I got to play was when the traveling fair came to the local park or when I went on holiday.
There was a small arcade on holiday and I still remember the games and where the cabinets were placed to this day. Chase H.Q., Ghouls n Ghosts, TMNT, 1942, Outrun, Shinobi, Operation Wolf and Paperboy.
Funny thing about that Paperboy cabinet was that if you pulled back on the handlebars and pressed the brake it would give you a free credit. It only worked after 1 game over and you couldn't do it twice in a row. As a kid I'd wait for someone to game over so I could do it and not pay. To my knowledge it must have been some kind of glitch or defect because I haven't heard of anyone hearing about it.
I had to go to the sea front to play other games. There was a hologram game there but I was blown away when I first saw the Simpsons arcade game. I was allowed to spend a whole £1.
Fantastic video. A great selection of awesome arcade gems.
Carrier Airwing was easily one of my favorite arcade games growing up. Many quarters were well spent.
Space Gun is one of my favorites. The ski resort I went to as a kid had that machine every year. Fun times, but it becomes a quarter muncher shortly into the game.
Well that does it.... loading up MAME tonight!
Absolutely loving this arcade treasures series
Thank you for sharing these treasures! 😎
I was not old enough to allow me to enter the arcade places but I still managed to play some during my youth. Great times!
Coming back from work and watching a new video of Sega Lord X.
Wowwww u showed me games i used to play and didn't even remember i did....the best channel hands down....all games were nice on the video
I have played outfoxies for hours at galloping ghost. This game blew my mind the first time i played it. it is a great game that captures the era and engages your imagination for what you want to try to pull off in the stages.
The hits keep coming SLX dropping more quality content on us!
OH and the Camaro reference is top notch!
Love it!
I was definitely a acrade kid, i grew up in a bowling alley
Bowling alleys alway had a solid arcade room. That’s where I saw double dragon for the first time
@@tokenblack7983 the good old days bro
@@bruceaskew2107 the same bowling alley also had a Gauntlet cabinet...if you were a fantasy D&D nerd kid in the 80s NO OTHER arcade game even came close to feeling like you were playing a D&D game like Gauntlet did. Can here the gauntlet music now...
Me Too always in the ARCADES since childhood >>> LOVE VIDEO GAMES !!!
Great episode. I LOVE finding out about new games. The only game I knew about from this entire list is Karnov.
Aww man SPACE GUN I ABSOLUTELY LOVE!!! I think it was meant to be converted to the snes... Alas it never happened. We got a weird master system version.
And the outfoxies took me ages to get emulated on my phone but by god I love it!
All these games you mention I play heavily on my phone via mame... Great taste I guess.
Carrier airwing never gets a mention. Its like the sequel to area88/un squadron... I come back to this one over and over - it was one of the first arcade games as a kid I really was hooked.... Then it was midnight wanderers (or roosters as you call it in your area)
Excellent video! You’ve come a long way.
Space gun looks so Cool!
Great Video SLX, I've played Combatribes under another name and really enjoyed it. It reminds me of another arcade classic Renagade; the extra move sets over the standard beatem ups, like grab punching, ground punishing, throwing enemies into one another is very satisfying. I was hoping the genre would continue to evolve character moves to give these games more appeal, visual reward and a deeper learning curve for the players; analogous to executing a fatality or learning a 10 punch combo. Yet another fun but highly under rated but really great game with high US availability back in the day was Fighters History, Ray Wins. Ironically a sequel came out for it on Neo Geo called Karnovs revenge; speaking of Karnov lol
Hell yeah, combatribes! Always loved how you could stomp on an opponent or slam heads in the ground. The arcade is best mainly because of the music and blood but the SNES version is pretty good too. Used to play this at my local bowling alley as a kid.
Love that intro about being an arcade kid!
I’m 41, Man! The memories!! I got to play a lot of these Games. So Awesome!! Great Video!!👏👏👏
Hoping for a Snatcher or Shadowrun video one of these days!
@arbereshe besides the snes and genesis one, there's a Japan-only Mega CD version that has never received an English translation patch. I'm very interested in that one as well. And of course there's the shitty cross-platform multiplayer game on Xbox 360.
DUDE! I used to play dragon breed at a bodega near my house as a kid! Also, thought I knew my arcades but you shocked me with some GEMS! The outfoxies?!?! Metamorphic force?!?!?! I need to play those RIGHT NOW! Awesome job as always!!
I enjoy playing The Combatribes more than any Double Dragon game before it. Awesome video!
Another great video as always. Keep em coming! Love finding games I never knew about. Beats all the shovelware you find in the eShop these days. Space Gun looks great, but stuff like that was probably best played on the arcade cabinet due to light gun and pedal. Too bad it didn't get a Wii/Wii U port w/the Wii-motes. Really miss arcades. Heck, just miss having random arcade cabinets in Liquor/grocery stores, restaurants, ice cream parlors, etc. One suggestion, can you put a list of the games you cover in the video in your episode notes.
What’s that song that’s playing in the beginning? I know I’ve played the game that that song belongs to but I just can’t remember what that game is.
Arcade version of ESWAT.
Sega Lord X this among other reasons is why I love you. Because you always respond. I miss arcades so much it hurts. I remember being 7 yrs old and literally hugging arcade machines at the joy of just seeing them. Now I get out of my car,step up close to one, shed a tear and slide my hand across its controls or t molding whenever I see on gutted in alleys. Thank you for remembering the good times.
This is a great video! Thanks for the suggestions, I can't wait to get off work and get a couple of these running on Retroarch 👍
That first part about going everywhere looking for stand-up arcade machines to play. Yep I remember that as a kid in the early 90s and late 80s.
and occasionally go somewhere like Disneyland and have an absolute seizure being like whoa look at this arcade!!
I love this series, keep em coming!
This is a fantastic series. I always loved going to arcades as a kid, but my parents had no interest so the only "real" arcade I got to go to was in a strip mall while they were shopping at a now long dead chain called Caldor's. Before I got my license, I had to make due with whatever the local stores had, never more than 2 machines. By the time I could drive, all of the local arcades were gone so I missed out on a lot of greats.
Completely agree about both types of arcade games giving a great variety. I classify them into two categories in my games beaten list. Console style and coin wasters. Console style are the ones with penalties for death and coin waster are games you can pay to win with no consequences. Ive beaten a pretty even number of both types and enjoy mixing it up. I tend to seek out the console style arcade games, so I like when videos mention which ones are in that style. If I really like a coin waster game I will do a low credit run like going through Double Dragon on 1 CC. If I can beat a coin waster in 3 credits or less I list it in the console style section. I have my own weird rules but I really enjoy listing games I complete. Its an old thing Ive always done. Keep up the great content.
20 dollar bill from mom in the changer quarters hitting the tray straight euphoria
My man... raised by a poor single mom...but she still did her best to spoil me
Nice video.
There's an arcade treasure I found are Steel Gunner 1 and Steel Gunner 2 by Namco.
It's like E-SWAT except it's a gunner game.
Inever played it but I seen that game and it was great.
Good graphics, great parallax scrolling (compare to Taito's Space Gun) and excellent soundtrack.
It outshines Taito's gunner games and even Sega's Line of Fire imo.
I remember playing Dragon Breed in 1993. Thanks to reminding me the name!
Space Gun was also on Taito Legends Volume 1. :)
Best video yet, these look amazing!!!
Sega lord x the best TH-camr on TH-cam
Good job and Great series!! Hoping for a lot more!!
OH HELL YEAH! The Combatribes! This reminded me so much of the movie "The Warriors" It took many more years for us to get the Rockstar masterpiece about that movie, but The Combatribes..... totally BADASS!
Punisher : the goal here is to whoop ass !!! That’s brutal honesty right there 😆
Metamorphic Force is clearly a re-skin of X-Men. The panthers attack animations, AND special move are both Night Crawler.
"Play the Japanese version" should be considered a rule for all Konami Arcade games. Without fail there was something unfairly balanced, censored or dumbed down in the export versions.
Very true, although Aliens did add the into-the-screen shooting sections on the APC for the international release.
@@dreamcastfan But the into-the-screen sections were crap, they looked dated and ruined the game's flow. Also, the alien colours we're totally fucked up for the international release.
I feel the same way. I spent a lot of time playing arcade games growing up in the 80’s and hated console conversions. Can’t understand how some people prefer the NES versions of Double Dragon, Contra, Ninja Gaiden, and others over the arcade. Once I saw the Genesis was coming out I was done with 8-bit and sold my NES and all my games, controllers, satellite, everything to get it and a few games at launch. I wanted to get as close to the arcade at home as I could.
Here is a story that is 29 years old....when I was just 10 years old (1991), I was out shopping and getting lunch with my mother...we stopped at a small takeaway shop...and like a lot of them had at the time, towards the front there was some coin operated candy and toy machines, and an arcade cabinet.
I saw this cool looking beat 'em up game with weapons
...watched the play demo while my mum ordered our food...and asked to play as she was waiting.
She gave me $1. I throw that dollar into the machine...and nothing...I don't know, I was pretty young at the time...and I thought like I was just waiting.
A few minutes pass and my mother has the food, and we're leaving "But I haven't played yet...", nope, nothing...I said It didn't work and just got "we have to go!" and dragged away.
Like I said, this was just out the front of a shop...one that wasn't anyplace near where we lived...I never got to go back.
Always thought I'd see that game again though - but I never did.
Some years later, with a PC at home after having discovered emulators...I decided to look for this game...
Didn't have the name.
Kind of hard to look for one specific beat 'em up with little to no information. Didn't know if it was one player or two, the company, the name, nothing.
I remembered one thing - that the guy in the demo was on a jet-ski type thing.
I looked. I googled my heart out.
Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.
It was like this ridiculously long standing childhood tragedy.
Eventually I gave up.
Today, this video showed me what I'd been looking for all along... "Thunder Fox".
I'm not really even into emulators any more, but now I feel like I have to grab one again just to give this the play through I never had.
Thank you, for anyone who read the story of my gaming sorrow.
& Thank you, Sega Lord X for, well, helping me rediscover something I had completely given up on years ago.
My childhood favorites: Golden Axe, Golden Axe 3 (they had it hooked up to an arcade somehow?), Cadillac and Dinosaurs, The King of Dragons, Mercs, and some others my feeble brain cannot remember anymore.
I enjoy vertical/horizontal shooters myself. I do have Carrier Airwing for mame, Dragon Breed looks interesting likely will hunt that down along with Punisher, since I like the Final Fight genre of games. Great series so far, watched from the first part.
Metamorphic Force looks incredible!
I used to be the same with arcade games. Until arcades kind of died off and I was no longer able to access the games I loved. Particularly, strangely enough, my childhood dentist had an arcade in the waiting room so when I stopped going there I realized I had no choice but to find other means of playing them. And you know what? Some of the at home conversions ended up being more fun for me. Like Golden Axe, the extra level and the challenge mode.
Heck yeah!!! I already know this video is going to kick a$$, just listen to this intro from like 1:06... lord X rules
I hope we'll eventually get arcade treasures number 86 man... I'll watch each one.
Yep, Carrier Airwing really reminds me of U.N Squadron for the SNES too. The general gameplay concepts are the same, the life bar and selecting/buying planes and buying ammo between missions...it’s all there. Going to check this out! Looks like a lot of fun.
Punisher is my all time favourite beat em up. I don’t love the genre but have played a fair share.
There is just something so fluid and tight about the gameplay that I can’t quite describe, but it makes the game feel amazing to play.
UN Squadron and Carrier Airwing Are indeed the same exact game, different titles for different regions.
They are actually two different games. It's known in Japan as U.S. Navy.
@@SegaLordX My mistake, never knew there was a sequel.
@@SegaLordX Gotcha, well that’s great, means that it will be all new content for me.
I miss smoke filled rooms...
Love these - some great games there, a few of which im lucky enough to own on pcb and a few of which I've lost out on in the past for whatever reason but remain firmly on my 'to buy' list lol
Always wondered what the hell the punisher said when you did the special attack (the spinning kick)
Never heard of Dragon Breed. Freaking awesome looking game. Thanks, man.