Never see this game for more than 30 years. And its the first time for me to see the finish moment. Never can go through that labyrinth building, and never see another player pass that stage. Actually its so close.... Thank you for sharing. Now i can slepp well as i know what happen after that crazy building lol.
I spent all my money for this game. Here in Germany it was more expensive. The game for 1 DM, wich was aproximately 70 cent. And one game doesn't last long in the beginning. It took as many tries to manage the 3rd round. And the 5th stage, we thought to be impossible, before we were told, that you have to go forward before the first descend. In those times, the money I get from my father (he will become 89 years old in November and s still fit) for the month, (I think 60 DM when I was seventeen) very often was spent after three days for gaming.
Family summer vacation on Ibiza in 83‘ . The radio was playing “baby Jane” by rod Stewart and “gold” by Spandau Ballet. I met my first love “Beatrice” from Germany. I remember spending lots of pesetas on that game as well. I’ve never rembembered the name of the game until now❤ Great memories. Great times
I had scramble on the Vectrex in 1982. I did not know the arcade! I Just discover now 44 years after that the Vectrex version was really respectfull. Incredible for the Vectrex how the game is the same despite the vector graphics and the color overlay. Wow.
@@wolfgangs.8243Why would it be impossible? I remember ,I made around 650 000 points. In order to keep ship running, just need to maintain fuel level enough to travel from one level to another. You dont need to hit every single fuel to survive. If you watch this video, you can see that he miss lots of fuels, but still running
Even today I still cannot get through that damn annoying maze after the end!!!! You really make it look so easy. So addictive to play though, even though I cannot complete it. Lol
The KONAMI building!! I just started playing this game for the first time on the Switch, but I'm a huge fan of the old school stuff and this game was clearly the one that started the trend towards horizontal shooters , as opposed to vertical ones. I mostly prefer the vertical shooting games , but that doesn't mean I don't also dig the horizontal , and this one, being so primitive, just makes it better! It's like the Space Invaders of side scrolling space shooters! CLASSIC!!
I was really addicted to this game .was passing second level without firing. it was in a stylish box that ,writing orion on the both sides of the machine in a game center . 1. Scramble 2. Gyruss 3. Space pilot.
Scramble was in the conv store in my neighborhood. Have been looking for it on psii since 2000. I just found Zaxxon last week and I want Scramble. Yes, I've got most of the old Arcade games. Scramble is awesome! Who can tell me where I can get a copy for psii?
What controller are you using on the MAME? I remember this game being "very" important to have a good joystick - especially on the tunnels. I remember getting several hundred thousand on the arcade version, but never any kill screen - is there one?
Oh wow! My friend F and me spent too much of our Holiday Money on this game. We where 17 or 18, spending our summer hols in Cassis, south France. 1983 i think. We became addicted to the game for a few days (thus only eating bread and youghurt from the Supermarket). When we lay on the beach in the evening, falling asleep he would suddenly ask me: where are you? and i wuld say: just coming up to the first wall.....
Unlike the guy who made the other video I just watched, you seem to know the mechanics of the game. How to pop the bombs over the hills, and how to get low and strafe everything withe the bullets. The game counts your progress with those little flags down in the right hand corner. After you make it through a few times you'll start to notice how fast your fuel runs out. I once made it to 8. The fuel goes insanely fast, to the point where that's your entire mission. You need to keep from running out of fuel. Gotta hit every fuel tank if possible. When you run out of fuel the space ship dead-sticks down to death. If you're really good, you will have dropped a bomb just before the dead stick. That bomb miraculously hits a fuel tank and you've got a quick reprieve. But you better pull up real quick or you're still dead.
i played this when i was a kid....my dad had this on his PS and i flipped it 13 times before quitting..this shit was easy...same pattern.. =D fun though =D
the main problem that it didn't get much harder as it went on. I was ok at the game getting around 250,000 but for a serious player they could go on for a very long time. I think I completed about 10-11 full sheets
Was it released in the uk for PlayStation ? I have a Japanese disc that has this game on it, but not seen a uk pal version. The disc i have has a few other classic arcade games on it too.
John Smith, Hi. You mentioned that you have Scramble on ps, ... Is that psii? If so, what is the name of the disc? Thank you, kindly, sir, Chris Bowlen 8/JUN/22
True, scored around 850,000, which is about 24000 per level. The game was predictable ,other than the fireballs which could pin you to rocks, making it easier to play as you could remember the levels, although a dodgy joystick caused problems in the maze. Also racked up 1.7 million on Atari Gravitar, completed Atari I Robot, and completed The Jackal, Super Mario also...
Try to download and install "Romstation" to your computer. Then, use romstation to download the rom and play it with "mame". It's a bit difficult to complete installation of all these correctly but when it's done, you can play every arcade games you want !!!
Your right i had this game in my grandparents candy store years back. (god bless them) i dont remember it being that fast either. And i aced that game.
lightfreak our brains was probably faster, at the time when we played it :D ... i don't quite remember it, but i don't think that i got through all the levels.
What difficulty was it on ? i remember as a kid it was pretty hard to finish more than a couple of times,my usual run was 2 on 3 times after that i got pretty tired :)
@@caipi8429 Cosmic Avenger is pretty similar, and from a similar era, so it might be that. If not, was it an arcade game and approximately what year did it come out? Come back in another 5 years and reply. :P
One of the most complicated and frustrating games I've ever played. The key to it is making sure u don't run out of FUEL.😃😀 Wonder what other games r out there like this?
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One of the greatest arcade gamea of all time!!
Scramble was an amazing game. I used to play this game like crazy in the early 80s
after almost 40 yrs i still remember this game :). The sounds take me back
Never see this game for more than 30 years. And its the first time for me to see the finish moment. Never can go through that labyrinth building, and never see another player pass that stage. Actually its so close....
Thank you for sharing. Now i can slepp well as i know what happen after that crazy building lol.
Same, I kept bashing into the walls on those really narrow bits. It's great to finally see the ending !
I don't want to think of how many quarters I pumped into this game when I was a kid.
Gee, same here man. All my school dinner money !!
I spent all my money for this game. Here in Germany it was more expensive. The game for 1 DM, wich was aproximately 70 cent.
And one game doesn't last long in the beginning. It took as many tries to manage the 3rd round.
And the 5th stage, we thought to be impossible, before we were told, that you have to go forward before the first descend.
In those times, the money I get from my father (he will become 89 years old in November and s still fit) for the month, (I think 60 DM when I was seventeen) very often was spent after three days for gaming.
Just how good did this game sound!!! Fat analog synths non stop..... perfection!!!
I ran into this game at the Lutzen Resort in Lutzen, MN in 2008. Could not believe it when I saw it. The Lutzen Resort burned down 1-2 months ago.
Cool das mal wieder zu sehen.Erinnert mich auch wieder an Moon Patrol, und Gyros.👍
Family summer vacation on Ibiza in 83‘ . The radio was playing “baby Jane” by rod Stewart and “gold” by Spandau Ballet. I met my first love “Beatrice” from Germany. I remember spending lots of pesetas on that game as well. I’ve never rembembered the name of the game until now❤
Great memories. Great times
Haven't seen this for 30 plus years wow thank you :))
I had scramble on the Vectrex in 1982. I did not know the arcade! I Just discover now 44 years after that the Vectrex version was really respectfull. Incredible for the Vectrex how the game is the same despite the vector graphics and the color overlay. Wow.
Scramble and Phoenix, those two games was my favorite. I could play for hours with one coin.
Scramble was impossible to play for hours with one coin. You had to hit every fuel tank in the higher rounds to not lose a live.
@@wolfgangs.8243Why would it be impossible?
I remember ,I made around 650 000 points. In order to keep ship running, just need to maintain fuel level enough to travel from one level to another. You dont need to hit every single fuel to survive. If you watch this video, you can see that he miss lots of fuels, but still running
Where this all began. How this game inspired the creation of the Gradius series.
This game as a big deal back in the day. Everybody wanted to play it.
Listeing to the soundtrack takes me back. Can you smell the old cigarettes on the cabinet? I've got in my my nose right now.
and a dodgy joystick that made the tunnels a nightmare
I always smelled of cigarett smoke and "chip fat" when I had spend my money on this game :)
Yes I am feel just like you it was beautifull time time when we were young......... greetings from Poland.
and the quarters lined up along the bottom of the screen for the next player! The best times!
I really miss the golden age of arcade.
The first game I played on the C64. Great memories.
This game was incredibly difficult.
General Zod No, Super Cobra was extremely difficult! That was like this game only it was a helicopter.
Probably took more of my money then any other game back then, I loved this game!
Those were the days...
Yes cool playing, this was my favorite game back in the 80. i allways hated the tunnels, but you are good :)
im at school still and im 15 down arcade!
Even today I still cannot get through that damn annoying maze after the end!!!!
You really make it look so easy. So addictive to play though, even though I cannot complete it. Lol
I played this in the 80s.
Ship is a gas guzzler in SPACE! no resistance.
this used to be my fav,never got past the last buildings with the high and low part. sad to see it only repeated after there.
I made it through this game 8 times on 1 quarter.
Took a lot of quarters to get good at this one
The only arcade game I ever "looped" on a single 10p coin :)
The only game I ever excelled at, always looked at those guys killing it on Defender wishing I could do that, had to just stick to Scramble.
After 30 + yeras, my muscule in a hand automatic react when ship come in labirint ...
The KONAMI building!! I just started playing this game for the first time on the Switch, but I'm a huge fan of the old school stuff and this game was clearly the one that started the trend towards horizontal shooters , as opposed to vertical ones. I mostly prefer the vertical shooting games , but that doesn't mean I don't also dig the horizontal , and this one, being so primitive, just makes it better! It's like the Space Invaders of side scrolling space shooters! CLASSIC!!
One of my chief addictions along with Asteroids Deluxe... Until I discovered Defender and 1942, that is.
We have Defender, Stargate, and Scramble am side by side at the barcade I work at.
One of my favourite shooters as a kid managed to reach end a few times at best :)
Me and my bro bought one of these in a yard sale in the 90s and my parents still have it. Is it worth anything?
I was really addicted to this game .was passing second level without firing.
it was in a stylish box that ,writing orion on the both sides of the machine in a game center .
1. Scramble
2. Gyruss
3. Space pilot.
Scramble was in the conv store in my neighborhood. Have been looking for it on psii since 2000. I just found Zaxxon last week and I want Scramble. Yes, I've got most of the old Arcade games. Scramble is awesome! Who can tell me where I can get a copy for psii?
Brilliant - my friend would laugh at how addicted I was to this game... glad I was not alone ;)
Same with me. And here in Germany, the games were more expensive than in the U.S.
I remember playing as a team...a pilot and a bomber.
i've played this before on one of my dad's gaming units....flipped it like 11 times before giving up...great gameplay, though ..thumbs up...
What controller are you using on the MAME? I remember this game being "very" important to have a good joystick - especially on the tunnels. I remember getting several hundred thousand on the arcade version, but never any kill screen - is there one?
I remember the joystick causing problems in the tunnels, I got about 36 Super Bases at around 23,000 per Super Base
Oh wow! My friend F and me spent too much of our Holiday Money on this game. We where 17 or 18, spending our summer hols in Cassis, south France. 1983 i think. We became addicted to the game for a few days (thus only eating bread and youghurt from the Supermarket). When we lay on the beach in the evening, falling asleep he would suddenly ask me: where are you? and i wuld say: just coming up to the first wall.....
You're pretty good at this. Extremely well played :)
I was really good at this game back in the day smoking my weed.
Dammit ! I just realised that I got to within about two screens of finishing this, when i was a kid, but I never got to the Konami building ...
Can you dig it?! In June 2.001, a 4-life game gave me the best record: 81,600! Fullerton, CA.
Played this at some restaurant in Bakersfield, it seems like I get worse at it every time I play it lol
Unlike the guy who made the other video I just watched, you seem to know the mechanics of the game. How to pop the bombs over the hills, and how to get low and strafe everything withe the bullets.
The game counts your progress with those little flags down in the right hand corner. After you make it through a few times you'll start to notice how fast your fuel runs out. I once made it to 8. The fuel goes insanely fast, to the point where that's your entire mission. You need to keep from running out of fuel. Gotta hit every fuel tank if possible.
When you run out of fuel the space ship dead-sticks down to death.
If you're really good, you will have dropped a bomb just before the dead stick. That bomb miraculously hits a fuel tank and you've got a quick reprieve. But you better pull up real quick or you're still dead.
Da ging damals das ganze taschengeld drauf
The final stage on this game is so tricky
THE BEST GAME ....FOR ME...
i played this when i was a kid....my dad had this on his PS and i flipped it 13 times before quitting..this shit was easy...same pattern.. =D fun though =D
How was this video actually filmed please? Using FRAPS or something?
GOOD LUCK NEXT TIME AGAIN
cost me a lot of quarters but i beat this way back when
the main problem that it didn't get much harder as it went on. I was ok at the game getting around 250,000 but for a serious player they could go on for a very long time. I think I completed about 10-11 full sheets
Glory days.
Did it repeat, or was it difficult with each passing?
It became more difficult with each lap, because the ship consumes more fuel.
Great Game.
Here in Brazil we had the Taito copie none COMMANDER. The same game only substitute de ship for one lokks like 1978 Battlestar Galactica Viper.
El primer videojuego que jugué por el lejano 1985.
The One Thing I Hate about this Game, is that you Constantly have to Refuel your Ship
So hab ich den Endboss auch gekillt. Nur auf dem Vectrex. Leider ein Leben verloren. Kannste dir ansehen ;)
So this is the game that inspired Gradius!!
this game was hard as heck and very frustrating...glad I have for playstation now!!
Was it released in the uk for PlayStation ? I have a Japanese disc that has this game on it, but not seen a uk pal version. The disc i have has a few other classic arcade games on it too.
John Smith, Hi. You mentioned that you have Scramble on ps, ... Is that psii? If so, what is the name of the disc? Thank you, kindly, sir,
Chris Bowlen 8/JUN/22
Hey chris its called Konami arcade classics for playstation one , here in the states I would post a picture but you know TH-cam
@@balsaboy55 THANK YOU, Sir! I'm on ebay now. Have a great day.
I'm in highschool again!
Fantastico!
I did 36 Super Bases on this back in the 80's
The bull shit kid returns
True, scored around 850,000, which is about 24000 per level. The game was predictable ,other than the fireballs which could pin you to rocks,
making it easier to play as you could remember the levels, although a dodgy joystick caused problems in the maze.
Also racked up 1.7 million on Atari Gravitar, completed Atari I Robot, and completed The Jackal, Super Mario also...
my dad bought the coin op arcade of this game :D.. awesome game
i would too if i can find one xD
Classic
1:22 and 1:24 were always so important! :)
what happen if you dont destroy mistery?
Death out of fuel and crash
Somebody knows how to download this game from someplace
Jesús Uriel Esparza de Lira download mame and ROM file and run it.
Try to download and install "Romstation" to your computer. Then, use romstation to download the rom and play it with "mame". It's a bit difficult to complete installation of all these correctly but when it's done, you can play every arcade games you want !!!
i did not remember that it was so fast :)
Your right i had this game in my grandparents candy store years back. (god bless them) i dont remember it being that fast either. And i aced that game.
lightfreak our brains was probably faster, at the time when we played it :D ...
i don't quite remember it, but i don't think that i got through all the levels.
***** i think your right about our brains being faster when we were younger. Now if i went any slower I'd be stopped...
Playing this on x box
My highest score on this was 365,000 i got to base 18 times. I kid you not.
I did 36 bases
SW20 i used to be like that with contra 1 now i suck at it
Wow, I could do 3 bases.
What difficulty was it on ? i remember as a kid it was pretty hard to finish more than a couple of times,my usual run was 2 on 3 times after that i got pretty tired :)
545,470 Is my highest for Scramble. Super Cobra was a bitch!
Hi guys, anyone reminds the name of a similar game where you could also fire to the mountains to get a passage?
Caipi gradius ?
Super Cobra maybe? That's the sequel to this game and uses a lot of the same ideas.
@@phj9894 I'm a bit late with the answer but no :)
@@TheRealDJSigma I'm a bit late with the answer but no :)
@@caipi8429 Cosmic Avenger is pretty similar, and from a similar era, so it might be that. If not, was it an arcade game and approximately what year did it come out? Come back in another 5 years and reply. :P
Grande gioco... Non so quante monete da 200 lire avrò speso per giocarci.
Hell ya
Lmao, almost Gradius
Kochałem tę grę i te odgłosy
One of the most complicated and frustrating games I've ever played. The key to it is making sure u don't run out of FUEL.😃😀 Wonder what other games r out there like this?
+jim68 Great game when it came out but it is a bi frustrating have you tried Defender? best sounds effects ever
+Raymond Duke whoops forgot about that one. So is Defender 2. Trying to control the ship and save the humans is very difficult.
+jim68 in the Defender games at least u don't run out of FUEL. Lol.
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Game Over.........
This looks good sounds not so good but 👍
Lol @ 6 mins 32
MMMMooooooInnnnn
Gg.
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Wow, this sucks compared with even the first Gradius. No background music, that's for one.
Konkani have said that they consider this to be their first Gradius game actually.