*20* (Mostly) Awesome But Forgotten Arcade Games!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ธ.ค. 2023
- Sometimes you gotta get out of your comfort zone and play some games that you've never heard of. You just might find some "Hidden Gems!" And that's exactly what happened here! Check out some of these cool arcade games that have been virtually forgotten!
Games Covered: Aaargh!, Air Gallet, Avengers in Galactic Storm, Bay Route, Biomechanical Toy, Crackshot, Elevator Action II, Gundhara, Hard Times, Hotdog Storm, In The Hunt, Knuckle Bash, Mad Shark, Power Instinct, Riding Fight, Silent Dragon, Steel Force, Strikers 1945 II, Vendetta, Undercover Cops
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You’d be really surprised what isn’t forgotten, it’s all about money and competition and sitting on property is another form of it.
You have 11.9k friends that would probably love to play a 2 player video game with you.
Ha, thanks!
Undercover Cops is awesome! I remember playing it back in the 90s as a kid! The graphics/characters are very cool and the music is great. Definitely a hidden gem of an arcade beat em up. Very cool list of games on your video 😊
Luckily some of these games are not forgotten, because some of them ended to be featured on Evercade Arcade game compilations. Vendetta was also a very common arcade machine in Italy and some other european countries. Undercover Cops was also converted on Super Nintendo. 😉
Both Vendetta and Power Instinct were pretty common games in arcades in my city/area (I'm from São Paulo, Brazil). They weren't among the most popular ones but they were not hard to find.
Power Instinct became a series that, weirdly, Atlus used to change the name in later installments. The second game was Power Instinct 2, then P.I.Legends, then Groove on Fight, then Matrimelee, then Senzo Kuyo (that never got an official English name)
Thank you for this awsome list of games to check.
This was amazing! I can’t believe how many of these games I completely forgot about from my childhood. And some of the graphics for many of them were really impressive for the time.
There’s endless forgotten arcade games!
Don't you have any standards? Wouldn't you like to hear a review from someone who sounded like they cared. Maybe a little more enthusiasm than just reading a recipe?
@@user-jx4fe1xt8q I think Greg does a fantastic job and I really enjoy his opinion and insight into these retro games. I’m sorry you didn’t enjoy it, but the beauty of TH-cam is that there’s so much variety out there that I’m sure you’ll find someone that covers what you enjoy in the way that you’d like to enjoy it.
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Rare’s pre-rendered games looked good because they had solid colour palettes, they touched up the pixelized renders and incorporated sprite effects well.
And games like DK Country didn’t have gigantic people in them!
@@GregsGameRoom Killer Instinct 1+2
So many of these games are what I like to call 'laundromat games', because that's the only place I ever saw them in the 90's. Even in the slowly dying arcades around this time, these titles were nowhere to be found. One title I used to play a lot was a game called Turbo Force, which is oddly similar to the other shooters in your video. Except... the Strikers 1945 game. That's in a class all by itself, and one of my favorites as well. I have the MVS version and it's always my go-to shooter, next to the Sonic Wings 2.
It's not all that often we get to see you venture into the arcade stuff. Awesome video Greg! 👍
Yeah exactly. I remember going to the 7-11 just to play R-Type…
It's true, laundromats and candy stores always had the B and C-tier games, some of which were very good (Gyruss, Renegade, Strider and Champion Wrestler are some games I remember in that lane, that I never saw in actual arcades).
Elevator Action had a sequel? Sign me up
It had several.
"I don't thin it's cool to be shooting dogs in a game"
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Please do more of these! I'll watch them all! There's so much on a full mame list. It's donting but you can do a series from A-Z!
That'd be a lot of games...
@@GregsGameRoom Yeah but imagine the amount of no brainer content you can provide without thinking of what to do
These were a great throwback. Here's another older obscure game from overseas which I absolutely loved - Ninja Baseball Bat Man
Totally with you about Knuckle Bash, beat em ups do need a rockin soundtrack to make the experience complete. Also glad to see Vendetta and UC get some love, it's one of the greatest junk food beat em ups IMO.
Vendetta is my favourite beat em up. The follow up Violent Storm is awesome too
The one I liked the most that has no following is Mystic Marathon, really fun pvp obstacle course race. Phoenix another sleeper you don't hear a lot about.
I always liked that game ever since I found it in an arcade set to free play. :D
Best part of this video: at 15:52 in Knuckle Bash, the fountain inside of the "Hotel Rats" is just a kid pi$$ing into the pool...gotta love it...
I always enjoyed APB as a kid and still do today and still do today. It was the first one I went for in the arcade. That and arch rivals.
Love APB!
I can't believe I have never heard of the Avenger's Galactic Storm game!! Riding Fight also looks enjoyable, I'd like to try that one out.
Great selection Greg.
I actually have more fun with Vendetta compared to Undercover Cops.
Even in 1 player mode.
You have a lot of great content!
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nice video, thanks for sharing these hidden arcade gems
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the reviews. I'm an 80s kid born in '72. Most of these games I have never seen or heard of but most look awesome.
Biomechanical toy was made by Spanish Arcade firm Gaelco, they no longer make video games but they are still making dart boards.
"Gotta have a friend for that..." I totally understand... lol
The dude in the lavender tank top and tighty whiteys in “Knuckle Bash” was worth the price of admission by himself! Oh and how did capcom not sure the pants of the makers of “Power Instinct?”
Strikers 1945 II was the game that got me into shmups in the first place. It was for my 9th birthday.
Airgallet & Hotdog Storm are just a reskinned version of Raiden too just like Mad Shark. Had no idea there were so many nearly identical clones out there.
02:17 There never was an F-19. 19 is one of the numbers that got skipped though there's an old rumor that it was assigned to a fighter design so secret that its still classified.
04:13 I played this during a trip to California in the early 90s. I never understood why it wasn't released on consoles because IMO having all the weapons always available made it very fun IMO. I would have loved to have gotten to play this with dad and some of my cousins from dad's side of the family. (Mom and I were on a vacation with her family when I played this)
I was thinking of the F-22 with it's diamond shaped wings, but F-19 is what popped out. (Because I have the Atari ST game.)
Maybe he was thinking of the YF-19?
@fennglordd6365 Was there a YF-19? I don't recall any being listed anywhere I've read and I've loved aircraft since I was a kid. Grandad was a aircraft technician with the US Airforce for twenty years, and worked for some military aircraft manufacturers after that until shortly before his death so he bought me tons of books on planes when I started showing interest in the topic. Or are you talking about the prototype from Macross Plus?
11:30 Hi Cabal, didn't know you were reskinned. 21:46 This almost has to be an "homage" to Alien Breed on the amiga
Many mentioned here are in the "All Killer, No Filler" games lists for MAME, I have mine setup with these lists plus a few Favorite of mine, best way ever to avoid all the "clutter" 🙂
There are quite a few Amiga based arcade machines. Mastertronic (i think) did quite a few under the Arcadia brand including a pretty cool trailblazer/monkeyball type game and the superb shooter sidewinder along with aaargh. The first Virtuality vr machines were Amiga 2000 based as well although later revisions used intel based pc boards.
The Mad dog mccree laserdisk lightgun games also used Amigas as did up-scope, a cool submarine game with a periscope to look through.
That could make an interesting video. All Amiga based arcade games…
The Trailblazer/Monkeyball game is Roadwars.
I really think those Arcadia games were completely out of place in an arcade. The Amiga hardware was amazing for its time, but those games are really mediocre for what you could play on arcades, and they are barely using the hardware properly.
Now one arcade game that used an Amiga and *should* be mentioned is MadDog McCree (and I believe some other games by American Laser Games)
@rafaellima83 roadwars was pretty unremarkable although it did look quite good graphically. But yeah, compared to other machines the arcadia system was very dated. Guess that's why it flopped.
@@meetoo594 To be quite honest, the Amiga is a 1985 Hardware... if you look at graphics and sounds only... take a look at games like Jim Power, Project-X, Lionheart, Ruff 'n' Tumble, Apidya, Stardust, Elfmania and so many others... all running on 1985 hardware....there aren't many 1985 arcade games that looked really *that* better. Gameplay wise, They weren't as good as the arcade games we could play but technically? The Amiga even had some nearly perfect arcade conversions from arcade games that were from the same year or even newer than the Amiga itself, stuff like Commando, Ghosts 'n' Goblins, Rodland or Pang.
You could use the Amiga hardware on an arcade machine back in 1985 and it would NOT LOOK out of place if the games were properly coded, the system was *that* ahead of its time. The problem is that it took too long for the european coders to learn how to use it properly and - even though I love many games made for the Amiga - European developers had a hard time desiging a good arcade game back then.
@@rafaellima83 Absolutely. The Amiga was ahead of its time in 1985 but severely held back by the likes of us gold and tiertex pumping out awful arcade ports often using Atari ST code and graphics, slapping an Amiga soundtrack on top and shoving it out the door. Strider, robocop, bionic commando, bad dudes and countless others were laughably bad conversions. That's not to mention all the other ST ported games that plagued the machine for most of its lifespan.
There were some amazing European coded games, its a pity they weren't hired to convert titles from the arcades very often.
The lack of multi button joysticks/gamepads also didn't help. Even though the Amiga could support them developers almost never used more than 1 button due to the prevalence of 1 button controllers in the home computer market at the time.
One thing to note on Crackshot: on the Police Alley stage, there are enemies with a white hood and robe with two K's on them.
Not appropriate in today's society but much tamer than Chiller.
But we want to shoot those!
I remember playing Avengers in Galactic Storm in the 90s. It was my favorite. There's in fact a move list with the character special moves and the other characters are your striker you have to press 2 buttons to call him/her out and perform a special attack. My favorite were Giant man and the mighty Thor.
Cool collection, Greg. ARRUGH! is on the ST too, but the Amiga one sounds slightly better, but not by much.
Wow, there's an Elevator Action 2!!
Yeah need to play EA2 more often!
There’s actually a Sega Saturn port known as Elevator Action Returns. It was also re-released on consoles and Steam about a year ago.
I never knew it was called "Elevator Action 2" anywhere. I alwaws knew it as Elevator Action Returns. I've finished it with a single credit a lot of times, fav game of mine.
I'd not call Elevator Action Returns forgotten, it was ported in Japan to the Sega Saturn, was on US and Japanese Taito PS2 compilations, and was once again released for more modern consoles. Power Instinct was ported to the SNES, and the Genesis, but the latter never left Japan. Power Instinct has at least 5 games in the series, and 1 spinoff i arcades and Sega Saturn, Purikura Daisakusen.
Agreed. It’s also on the Taito Egret II Mini.
Hotdog Storm needed more hotdogs. I was expecting something awesome. I may be influenced by hungry I am.
Vendetta is aka Crimefighters 2. Probably where the familiar sounds cone from.
I don't know if I'd call In The Hunt a "forgotten" game. It received a PS1 release as well as arcade ports on PSN, and is held as pretty much a gold standard among shmup fans (as well as being famous for an early Nazca release.)
It's available on the Evercade as well. Such a great shmup!
Awesome
Wow those are some rare games I don't think I ever saw even one of them.
that Airgilette game, I'm sure I have played this on DOS and it was called Raptor. It took a pretty hefty PC to run propperly.
I used to play Avengers in Galactic Storm at a local laundromat back when the game first came out. The graphics may not have aged well, but you have to remember that Data East was on a tight budget in the mid-90's. As a comic book fan and fighting game enthusiast, I actually like the game. And for anyone familiar with the Kree, you get everyone from Korath and Ronan The Accuser to Dr. Minerva and Atlas. So Marvel fans should check it out.
And the Power Instinct brand is pretty big in Japan. They had four games in the Power Instinct franchise, and I think the first one got an SNES port.
Never really cared for that graphic style.
3:25 The secondary characters show up when you give a command, during the fight. They pop in to do an attack, similar to how Marvel vs Street Fighter does. In Marvel vs Capcoms case, Thor does the exact same attack :P
"I don't wanna' shoot dogs in a game..."
My man... sometimes they just bad boys.
I don’t think it was handled well. Narc did it better.
You don't like the whimper sound when they get shot?@@GregsGameRoom
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Played the crap out of Vendetta, the boxer character you used plays very different to the other choices available fwiw...fun time.
The gangster game plays identically to a trackball game I used to play called CABAL. The wide rectangular cursor when shooting heavy weapons is identical, along with the crumbling of the buildings.
Really cool games you've dug up,
Thanks for the fun video.👍
yeah basically same thing completely.
I remember going to a Junior College in the early 90's and they had an arcade across the street. I liked playing this basketball game that would have things like banana peels that could slip you up. They would also have dropping boxes and you would have to hit these to get to the person with the ball to steal the ball from them. They also had another game that you were fighting clowns I believe and that was fun as well. I was never good at arcade games either but liked to play them.
I like undercover cops . Il try to find it and play myself. Metal slug is one of my favorite arcade games. Thanks.
This was an awesome list to watch buddy. Also, the Avengers in Galactic Storm game is one I've never heard of, and that is the only one I have seen have Black Knight as a playable character. Do you know of any others he may be in?
Um... is that the same Black Knight from the pinball? ;-)
@@GregsGameRoom that's one of my favorite pinball games!
In the Hunt & Biomechanical Toy are both available on the Evercade. There was a third one you reviewed as well, but I don't recall the title now.
Good news, Elevator Action Returns has a release on Steam.
Steel Force looks like an Alien Breed clone.
Steel Force looks a lot like the Alien Breed games (the first two anyways) in the top down / Birds Eye view. Even the main sprite looks a lot like the one from Alien Breed. Weird.
1:55 The second one, Airgallet, looks like a very polished version of Tiger-Heli
I never thought that Aaargh! was all that great on the Amiga. It was a novelty, and fun for a few minutes, but it got frustrating quite quickly. Between the troubles getting your character lined up to destroy stuff and the way everything is always sapping your health, I just found it annoying.
It’s a different take on Rampage.
@@GregsGameRoom To be honest, I've never been any good at Rampage either.
Vendetta has a sequel called Violent Storm that I highly recommend, it’s one of my favorite beat ‘em ups.
Sounds interesting...
Hot damn I remember playing gundhara as a kid! Been trying to find it forever! Used to play in an arcade at our local dairy Queen before they got rid of it. Wonder who has it now?
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Thanks! I try to make it interesting...
I had Aargh! way back in the day on the Apple IIGS. I had no idea it was a port!
Wow were you right. I don't remember seeing any of these. I did not play a lot of games back them but my boyfriends were usually in the arcades and I was familiar with a lot of what was out there. Or at least I thought so until this. Thank you.
I always liked the beat em up scroller called Roar. If you like that genre I recommend it.
Irem’s Gun Force II is really the dry run for Metal Slug.
The Commodore Amiga can do great graphics and sound. It's the only machine at the time that can replicate Axel F perfectly. The Aaargh arcade didn't fully utilize the power of the Amiga both graphics and sound. If you want some good examples of what Amiga can do just search for Shadow of the Beast, Apidya, Lionheart, Ruff n' Tumble, Superfrog, Zool, Turrican 2 and Lotus Turbo Challenge 2.
Vendetta is a classic, I could finish the game with 1 credit and a lot of patience, the trick is to walk vertically up and down the screen and do the 2 button attack and as the enemy walks to meet you on the horizontal plane across from you they never have enough time to counter the attack, works for all enemies pretty much.
I remember Aaargh! but for the c64, kinda weird game for the arcade.Also, the game Vendetta reminds me of the game crime fighters.
1:Spiderman the arcade game
2: Heavy Barrel
3: Superman The Arcade game
4:TOKI
5:Batman the Arcade game
6: G.I Joe
7:Double Dragon fighting game
8:king of monsters
Under cover cops looks pretty good 😊
I love Elevator Action 2, it’s one of my all-time favorites. There was a place in my neighborhood that had it and I played it all the time. Could never quite beat it in one quarter, but got pretty close. BTW, I always played as Edie because her firebombs made those enemy swarm battles like in the airplane a piece of cake.
In the Hunt is great too, that’s another one I played a lot even though I was pretty bad at it. One of my local movie theaters used to have it.
Never seen Hard Times, but it looks like a reskinned/updated version of Blood Brothers. I can tell that it even reuses some of the same sprites and sound effects from that game.
I would say the first game is more King of The Monsters than Rampage. Oh the first jet is a YF-22 Raptor and the second one looks like an F-18 Superhornet.
Addendum- Elevator Action 2 is definitely not an unknown. It first released in the arcades and got an arcade perfect port for the Sega Saturn. Finally, it was just released earlier this year for the Xbox One, One X, Series S, and Series X. The game is fantastic.
That was a good video bro could you find some more gems like that
I'll do more. There's 1,000s of forgotten games.
Vendetta is part of the Arcade Archives series on Switch and PlayStation.
12:00 Hello, Voz do Gibi here. I didn't know Hard Times. The gameplay and appearance are very similar to Cabal (Viet war based) and Blood Bros. (Wild west based).
Elevator action 2 takes it to another level?
C'mon man. You're writing gold here and you didn't even notice!
😅
LOL, you’re right I didn’t even catch that!
"This game's driving me up the walls"
I did not know most of these even though we had ton of bootlegs coming from Asia where I am from in the 90's. I did play AAARGH! on the computer though. And the Hardtimes game look a lot like Cabal.
Damn elevator action 2 had that alarm that was all over goldeneye. Playing goldeneye as a kid I knew I'd heard that somewhere before. 😮
A lot of games re-use sound effects. They must have all shared the same library...
Did Goldeneye steal the alarm sound effect from Elevator Action 2?
The punching sound effects for that final fight type game sound like they were taken from an old Bruce Lee movie like Enter the Dragon.
Wgat about Uncle Poo the arcade game? Yes it's real - look for that ROM. I cannot find an actual picture of the real arcade game though. Great video - thanks.
I remember that Elvis / Evil Kieval fighter guy.... That one look slike if F-Zero and Road Rash had a baby
I wonder how old are you, because I am feeling REALLY old seeing people talking about Strikers 1945 II, Vendetta, Elevator Action Returns or... damn, POWER INSTINCT as if they were hidden gems.
Those games were everywhere on arcades back at my day, and they got a lot of coverage on magazines and stuff. And while Stikers 1945 II and Elevator Action returns had home ports that weren't widelly distributed, every friend of mine back at the day had played at least the SNES port of Power Instinct (since the Mega-Drive one also didn't get a wide release)
And Vendetta, back at its day it was impossible to get into an arcade and not seeing a machine of it. The guy humping the lamp post was a constant topic of conversation during school times (Hope you played the version that didn't censor him, it's too damn funny, heh)
Vendetta is a sequel to Crime Fighters, it was released as Crime Fighter 2 in some regions. If you haven't played Crime Fighters, you may want to try it out just as a curiosity :)
And the guys from Nazca used to work at Irem before forming Nazca so... guess why Undercover Cops looks so much like it. :D Also check Armed Police Unit Gallop :D
Does anyone per chance know of this arcade game I remember. The opening is the female singer of a rock band is grabbed by a large hand, during her band performance at a rock concert. Two of the band members follow through the portal and fight their way through the various levels to rescue her. It had a sort of over head view, like the early Zelda games.
Zeus was a spanish developer, made some of the best games published by Dinamic. Biomechanical Toy was published by Gaelco (also Spain based), and was coded by Ricardo Puerto, who also made Risky Woods for the Amiga. I am pretty sure this is not running on Amiga hardware, but it's easy to see why it looks like an Amiga game. I'd say it "Looks like an euro Game from the 90s", but that's that :D
Steel Force is a similar ase (Not published by Gaelco, but also made in Spain). And you say "This is a top-down game similar too.... " ............ take a look at Alien Breed on Amiga. It's very clear what game inspired them :D . But it also feels a lot like an Euro Game.
You forgot to mention you can play as a Hulk Hogan clone in vendetta
Good list of games, the only one I knew and usually play is elevator action returns, mostly because I had the original one on the msx and later on the famicom. I'm looking for a mame game I played when I was young, don't remember the name, was a fighting game similar to street fighter, remember some of the characters, one of them was from a tribe and had a mask, there was also an old man with big foot and I remember one, his special move was similar to Ryu hadouken, but instead of a ball, it was a blue ship... That's the only things I remember, do you know any fighting game like that?
12:51 “BRUH!!!” 😂
Steel force looks like an alien breed on the amiga
*Before viewing* Does this have Xexex? That horizontal shmup is GOAT, a shame it's never seen a home port.
The real question is why are you wearing a motorcycle jacket while playing arcade games?
The Amiga had an AMAZING sound chip in it. If something doesn't sound right on the Amiga, it was the author, not the machine. I should know, I've actually cut albums where 90% of the audio came from my Amiga and OctaMed (a tracker).
Absolutely. It’s the artist that makes the difference.
Hey do you have a Bandcamp/Soundcloud for your Amiga beats? I have five CDs worth of beats made on Amiga 4000 w/ OctaMED4.00++ - I know a whole lot of Jungle/DnB/House/Electronic was birthed on Amiga trackers... always like to hear what folks came up with on that set-up?
Peace
Old Octamed user here, first introduced to me with a free copy on a magazine and I was hooked. Spent many hours sampling then turning into a track. House tracks and D&B were particularly good and relevant. One trick we did was to make the beats with the four channels then sample them back to one channel, little was lost in quality and three channels gained for the rest. A bonus was the resampled beat could be chopped up and manipulated again. I keep saying one day I will upload some stuff just hope the disks still work.
you eventually go to the moon in strikers 1945 not sure about the sequel cause i havent played it as much but yah its totally historically accurate 😂
There are two versions of Undercover Cops. One is a revised edition w/more moves I believe
Oh nice. That game is awesome!
“Bay-Route” lol!
Maybe if he'd figured out at least out one fighting move. I'm playing it now for the first time, and ive done two of Thunderbolts special moves in the first 30 seconds by accident. Try harder!
That marvel fighting game feels real Robot Chicken-eques
Exidy? wow i remember that company, they used to make games in colecovision like Venture,
Those few shooter games were very similar to Tiger Heli
Elevator action 2 looks bad ass!!! Wish I could play that!!! Remember Russian attack
I just played Biomechanical toy on Antstream Arcade on my Xbox
11:45-Anyone remember 'Cabal'? Same concept.