For a brief moment, Track and Field was the biggest game in the arcade. There were always people waiting to play it and gamers would try different techniques to maximize the speed they could hit the buttons. I think a comb and pencil combination was used by some? I know that plastic guards were placed around the buttons to try to prevent the use of such makeshift devices. I recommend playing on an actual arcade machine so you can the authentic experience and really hammer those buttons!
That has to be my no1 retro game, I loved it but my fingers were so soar afterwards 😅, other favourite titles include defender, moon cresta, scramble, phoenix and Kung fu master, awesome games, great video!
4:03 There has technically been a new Elevator Action port in recent years, Returns S-Tribute, which has some nice bells and whistles to make Elevator Action Returns Saturn a bit more of a solid time.
D&D: Tower of Doom and Shadows of Mystara were just incredible games. I remember the first time I saw them in the arcades. I was immediately enamored by them. I also remember thinking...these have to release on a 32-bit platform! As I had both the Playstation and Saturn I actually thought I had a pretty good chance of that happening. Especially when you look at Guardian Heroes I thought it was a Saturn lock and I was right but... Unfortunately, while they both released for the Saturn they were kept in Japan. However, there is actually a happy ending ending to this story albeit it took forever to happen. Both D&D games were released via XBLA in one package and can be played on every Xbox platform from the Xbox 360 all the way through the Series X! I have them downloaded to my Series X SSD right now (as well as Guardian Heroes). Welcome to the D&D World!
I was wondering about the Saturn as I had never heard of it on the Saturn in America. I am a D&D guy but never played this in the arcade. I play the old C64 D&D gold box games. Great stuff
Concerning medical issues caused by arcade games: There was a certain soccer game in the 80's, I played the 2 player version which was table-shaped, where you controlled your player by a trackball: Faster rotation means faster running. After about 20 minutes I had severe blisters on my thumb.. And there was this crazy vertical shump where you had to hammer the button like in track and field to build up your spaceship's weapon power - and you were not allowed to ever slow down. Anyone remember that?
Have you done an episode of coin sucking arcade games? I can only imagine how many quarters Double Dragon, Ikari Warriors, Gauntlet swallowed over the years
A friend and I would go play Track & Field any chance we got. The local 7/11 had one, and if we had a spare quarter, we were there w/ our trusty #2 pencils. In case you aren't aware of that particular hack, the #2 pencil was used to mash the run buttons @ super speed in order to break records. I still play it the same way on emulators using arcade controls.
Excellent watch. Liked and subscribed good luck to your channel. I like this idea of just showing some games that a re cool rather than the usual Top 10. I've been around for a long time (born in 1972) and was a big fan of Goemon on the NES and Super Nintendo but I learned something today I didn't know about the Japan only arcade game. Cheers!
*"These are not the best games of all time"* [immediately shows three of the best games of all time] 1942 and the two D&D games still hold up in 2024 as if though they were just released. Timeless classics.
Tekken Tag Tournament, Soul Calibur, and Soul Calibur 2 are very good on arcade. They were made even better on home consoles (with Tekken Tag Tournament still looking really good outside arcades). Also, Ace Combat didn't truly begin until Ace Combat 2 outside the arcades (it began life on the arcades).
I feel like there’s rarely a bad shmup out there. Very few stinkers in that genre. Trust me, I tried looking for the worst, but there just aren’t that many bad vertical/horizontal shooters out there. Some mediocre and mid ones, yeah. But a lot of them are excellent and well made. And as an STG fan, that makes me very happy to know and have played those games. Must be easy to develop/program for and get right. I think it’s the most consistent game genre out there with rare duds. Same for metroidvanias, fighting games and RPGs. Oh hey, I’m also a fan of arcade games in general.
I noticed most of the big name games were left off this one. Also, don’t forget to check out X-Men ‘97 in 2 days. I’m interested to see how faithful it will be to the original cartoon.
There are a multitude out that are worthwhile to play. Some others I'll mention include the Daytona USA/Sega Racing Classic series (including the HD remaster), Virtua Racing (with Switch and Deluxe 32X being the best ports), Mortal Kombat 2 & Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (with Trilogy unfortunately not on arcade), Darkstalkers 3, Tekken 3 & 5, Samurai Shodown 1 & 2, Final Fight (with Sega CD arguably being the best version), TMNT: The Arcade Game, Alien vs Predator, Twinbee Yahho!, R-Type 1 & 2 (with 3 not being on arcade), Time Crisis series, Rastan 1 & Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode 3 (ironic how a change in genre made Rastan 3 better than Ratsan 2), Sunset Riders, Terminator 2: Judgement Day... X-Men (1992), X-Men: Children of the Atom, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Star Wars Trilogy Arcade, Star Wars: Battle Pod, F-Zero AX, Galaxy Force 2, After Burner 2 & After Burner: Climax, Out Run, OutRunners, Out Run 2, Fighting Vipers, Virtua Fighter 3 & 5, Sega Rally & Rally 2, and Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram.
Mostly all great games, but you forgot Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder, Burning Force, Steel Gunner 2, The Outfoxies, Ghouls 'N Ghosts, The Punisher, Armored Warriors, Osman, Metal Slug 3, Fatal Fury 3, Pulstar, Windjammers, Street Slam, Boogie Wings, Chelnov, Space Harrier, Super Hang-On, Daytona USA 2, Scud Race, Time Crisis, Qix, Light Bringer, Salamander, Monster Maulers, Violent Storm, Gunforce 2, Lunar Lander, Berzerk, Donkey Kong, Galaga and still loads of others left to mention!
@@DancesRainyStreets He briefly mentioned Salamander/Life Force in the NES games you should try video. The NES version is my favorite, but Salamander for the Turbografix 16 has some of the best remixes for the game. Also, did you know Japan had their own Life Force conversion for the arcade release?
@@tidepoolclipper8657 Yeah, it went from Salamander in Japan to Life Force in the US and then went back to Japan again with the US name, is what i've heard.
Nice list! But Strider 2 was also an arcade game, though one I believe only was in Japan. My friends and I still consider it to be the greatest arcade platformer of all time.
Retro gaming hippie approves! Great production and insight! I never saw that elevator action in the arcades. I loved the first one. Great gameplay. I also recommend trying bonanza bros. On sega genesis. Very similar gameplay
For part 2 of the video, you should check out the following arcade games: Dead or Alive (original) (1996) Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad (1998) Daytona USA (1994) Rival Schools: United by Fate (1997) X-Men: Children of the Atom (1994) Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (1999) Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Arcade) (1993) Dead or Alive 2 (1999) OutRun (1987) Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes (2000)
You should check out "The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy" from Data East, but it's a more Indiana Jones type of action game. A real shame this game never got a console port of any kind, not even a Saturn port or something. I guess it was way too ambitious for the usual 16-bit consoles of the time. It was released in 1990, so even a Genesis port would have been extremely butchered with all the animation techniques used that the consoles from the time couldn't do. And i'm guessing the Saturn or PS1 could have done it, but it was way too late for a port, and the game didn't really caught on back then. G-Mode/Marvelous: we need a Data East collection, and that MUST include "The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy" among other must-play titles!
@Marc_Araujo ohhh that's the one with random legs coming out of the wall in the Japanese version lmao. I played it a LOOOOONG time ago. Such an interesting art style!
Good list! Played them all of course, except Track and Field, but that's by choice. Not really into these types of games, (except California Games on the Lynx :D for some reason) I'd have added Sinistar, Robotron, etc. but then it wouldn't be a list of 10. ;)
Except for 1942 Track And Field and House Of The Dead I have never heard of any of these games I was so bad at House Of The Dead I was dead five minutes after I started playing
You could do that OR you could get the windows version. The one big thing I noticed from the abandonware windows version is that they yanked the "White" flashing that happens in the arcade version of HOTD, and honestly if you're going in VR, you might want to consider that lmao.
For a brief moment, Track and Field was the biggest game in the arcade. There were always people waiting to play it and gamers would try different techniques to maximize the speed they could hit the buttons. I think a comb and pencil combination was used by some? I know that plastic guards were placed around the buttons to try to prevent the use of such makeshift devices. I recommend playing on an actual arcade machine so you can the authentic experience and really hammer those buttons!
I have! I've also played Street Fighter in the arcade with the punch buttons! :P
That has to be my no1 retro game, I loved it but my fingers were so soar afterwards 😅, other favourite titles include defender, moon cresta, scramble, phoenix and Kung fu master, awesome games, great video!
I didnt eat lunch through most of junior high because of that game!
I encountered one that used a rollerball instead of buttons. Unless you brought along a belt sander, you couldn't reach warp speeds.
4:03 There has technically been a new Elevator Action port in recent years, Returns S-Tribute, which has some nice bells and whistles to make Elevator Action Returns Saturn a bit more of a solid time.
Ooh! I do love Saturn games!
Track and field...that most certainly is a blast from the past
Straight up time machine into carpal tunnel lmao
Decent list, may I add Rally X? Simple, fun.
Absolutely!
Excellent list! I freaking love HOTD but one my favorite on rail arcade shooters is still Area 51!
Good choice!
D&D: Tower of Doom and Shadows of Mystara were just incredible games. I remember the first time I saw them in the arcades. I was immediately enamored by them. I also remember thinking...these have to release on a 32-bit platform! As I had both the Playstation and Saturn I actually thought I had a pretty good chance of that happening. Especially when you look at Guardian Heroes I thought it was a Saturn lock and I was right but...
Unfortunately, while they both released for the Saturn they were kept in Japan. However, there is actually a happy ending ending to this story albeit it took forever to happen. Both D&D games were released via XBLA in one package and can be played on every Xbox platform from the Xbox 360 all the way through the Series X! I have them downloaded to my Series X SSD right now (as well as Guardian Heroes). Welcome to the D&D World!
You're going to hate me, but I'm a Pathfinder guy 😭
@@Fortefyre
No! You stop it now, you. ;)
😂@@Sinn0100
I was wondering about the Saturn as I had never heard of it on the Saturn in America.
I am a D&D guy but never played this in the arcade. I play the old C64 D&D gold box games. Great stuff
Concerning medical issues caused by arcade games: There was a certain soccer game in the 80's, I played the 2 player version which was table-shaped, where you controlled your player by a trackball: Faster rotation means faster running. After about 20 minutes I had severe blisters on my thumb.. And there was this crazy vertical shump where you had to hammer the button like in track and field to build up your spaceship's weapon power - and you were not allowed to ever slow down. Anyone remember that?
That sounds like fresh hell lmao
One of the world cup football games was pretty bad for that, I think it was kick off.
Have you done an episode of coin sucking arcade games? I can only imagine how many quarters Double Dragon, Ikari Warriors, Gauntlet swallowed over the years
Not yet, but I will add it! I can already make it RIGHT now lmao.
Double Dragon isn't a money muncher
Definitely going to try Tower of Doom!
Shadow of Mystara is a little "better" looking, but still worth checking out!
A friend and I would go play Track & Field any chance we got. The local 7/11 had one, and if we had a spare quarter, we were there w/ our trusty #2 pencils. In case you aren't aware of that particular hack, the #2 pencil was used to mash the run buttons @ super speed in order to break records. I still play it the same way on emulators using arcade controls.
Excellent watch. Liked and subscribed good luck to your channel. I like this idea of just showing some games that a re cool rather than the usual Top 10. I've been around for a long time (born in 1972) and was a big fan of Goemon on the NES and Super Nintendo but I learned something today I didn't know about the Japan only arcade game. Cheers!
Welcome to the channel! I'm glad to have you here! Definitely check out the arcade Goemon title if you can!
*"These are not the best games of all time"*
[immediately shows three of the best games of all time]
1942 and the two D&D games still hold up in 2024 as if though they were just released. Timeless classics.
Haha it's just Alpha Roll footage.
Elevator Action Deluxe was released on PlayStation Network on August 31, 2011.
Might be worth checking out!
If you haven’t played Cadash I highly recommend it, one of my favorite arcade games, also the Raiden series.
I'll have to check it out. My friend just beat it the other day!
Tekken Tag Tournament, Soul Calibur, and Soul Calibur 2 are very good on arcade. They were made even better on home consoles (with Tekken Tag Tournament still looking really good outside arcades).
Also, Ace Combat didn't truly begin until Ace Combat 2 outside the arcades (it began life on the arcades).
You taught me something today! I had NO clue Air Combat was originally an arcade game!
Tekken tag tournament reused the same game engine that 3 had to save time and money but when it was released on PS2, the beefed up the graphics.
I used to love Pooyan on the C64
Pooyan is oddly satisfying!
Donkey Kong,PacMan,Galga,Spy Hunter,Gradius,Burger Time.
all great choices!
I feel like there’s rarely a bad shmup out there. Very few stinkers in that genre. Trust me, I tried looking for the worst, but there just aren’t that many bad vertical/horizontal shooters out there. Some mediocre and mid ones, yeah. But a lot of them are excellent and well made. And as an STG fan, that makes me very happy to know and have played those games. Must be easy to develop/program for and get right. I think it’s the most consistent game genre out there with rare duds. Same for metroidvanias, fighting games and RPGs. Oh hey, I’m also a fan of arcade games in general.
Do you enjoy Cave shooters? Those are my favorite.
I noticed most of the big name games were left off this one. Also, don’t forget to check out X-Men ‘97 in 2 days. I’m interested to see how faithful it will be to the original cartoon.
We will see!
Well put together video... I'm totally looking forward to checking out Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara, something new to me!
Thanks! I've played many, I'll try to write down more so you can check out even more awesome arcade games!
Capcom has always been a rock solid developer.
I comfortably can say that this is 100% true.
There are a multitude out that are worthwhile to play.
Some others I'll mention include the Daytona USA/Sega Racing Classic series (including the HD remaster), Virtua Racing (with Switch and Deluxe 32X being the best ports), Mortal Kombat 2 & Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (with Trilogy unfortunately not on arcade), Darkstalkers 3, Tekken 3 & 5, Samurai Shodown 1 & 2, Final Fight (with Sega CD arguably being the best version), TMNT: The Arcade Game, Alien vs Predator, Twinbee Yahho!, R-Type 1 & 2 (with 3 not being on arcade), Time Crisis series, Rastan 1 & Warrior Blade: Rastan Saga Episode 3 (ironic how a change in genre made Rastan 3 better than Ratsan 2), Sunset Riders, Terminator 2: Judgement Day...
X-Men (1992), X-Men: Children of the Atom, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Star Wars Trilogy Arcade, Star Wars: Battle Pod, F-Zero AX, Galaxy Force 2, After Burner 2 & After Burner: Climax, Out Run, OutRunners, Out Run 2, Fighting Vipers, Virtua Fighter 3 & 5, Sega Rally & Rally 2, and Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram.
All are such good games! I'll get to them eventually!
Mostly all great games, but you forgot Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder, Burning Force, Steel Gunner 2, The Outfoxies, Ghouls 'N Ghosts, The Punisher, Armored Warriors, Osman, Metal Slug 3, Fatal Fury 3, Pulstar, Windjammers, Street Slam, Boogie Wings, Chelnov, Space Harrier, Super Hang-On, Daytona USA 2, Scud Race, Time Crisis, Qix, Light Bringer, Salamander, Monster Maulers, Violent Storm, Gunforce 2, Lunar Lander, Berzerk, Donkey Kong, Galaga and still loads of others left to mention!
@@DancesRainyStreets
He briefly mentioned Salamander/Life Force in the NES games you should try video. The NES version is my favorite, but Salamander for the Turbografix 16 has some of the best remixes for the game. Also, did you know Japan had their own Life Force conversion for the arcade release?
@@tidepoolclipper8657 Yeah, it went from Salamander in Japan to Life Force in the US and then went back to Japan again with the US name, is what i've heard.
Huh, I had no idea that Goemon had its start in the arcade, though I guess it being Japan exclusive might have had something to do with that.
Indeed it did! It's exciting!
Nice list! But Strider 2 was also an arcade game, though one I believe only was in Japan.
My friends and I still consider it to be the greatest arcade platformer of all time.
Oh nice!
Retro gaming hippie approves! Great production and insight!
I never saw that elevator action in the arcades. I loved the first one. Great gameplay. I also recommend trying bonanza bros. On sega genesis. Very similar gameplay
So that Elevator Action game was ONLY released in Japan, I did the research after the fact. It is however available on MAME and through Antstream!
What?! No The Simpsons arcade game?! 😂
Haven't played it on twitch lol
A great game in the arcade was Tumblepop, developed by Data East.
Tumbelpop is incredibly fun, magical drop is as well. I know that it's a different genre, but I love it.
Gotta check out that Goemon arcade game.
It's astonishingly approachable and fun.
For part 2 of the video, you should check out the following arcade games:
Dead or Alive (original) (1996)
Shock Troopers: 2nd Squad (1998)
Daytona USA (1994)
Rival Schools: United by Fate (1997)
X-Men: Children of the Atom (1994)
Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (1999)
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (Arcade) (1993)
Dead or Alive 2 (1999)
OutRun (1987)
Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes (2000)
Part 2 is available :)
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You should check out "The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy" from Data East, but it's a more Indiana Jones type of action game. A real shame this game never got a console port of any kind, not even a Saturn port or something. I guess it was way too ambitious for the usual 16-bit consoles of the time. It was released in 1990, so even a Genesis port would have been extremely butchered with all the animation techniques used that the consoles from the time couldn't do. And i'm guessing the Saturn or PS1 could have done it, but it was way too late for a port, and the game didn't really caught on back then.
G-Mode/Marvelous: we need a Data East collection, and that MUST include "The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy" among other must-play titles!
Pu-Li-Ru-La...you're welcome.
Noted! Thank you for taking the time to comment!
@@Fortefyre It's the craziest beat-em-up ever...so Japanese.
@Marc_Araujo ohhh that's the one with random legs coming out of the wall in the Japanese version lmao. I played it a LOOOOONG time ago. Such an interesting art style!
1942 was amazing for its time.
So good!
10:09 Konami game about Mario?
I'm confused lol.
Time Pilot 84 is sooooo good! I alway feel like I’m one of the very few people that have ever played it.
It is!
Dyna Gear is an amazing game you should check out.
I'll have to check it out!
The Capcom DND games are good
They really are!
Good list! Played them all of course, except Track and Field, but that's by choice. Not really into these types of games, (except California Games on the Lynx :D for some reason) I'd have added Sinistar, Robotron, etc. but then it wouldn't be a list of 10. ;)
I LOVE Sinistar, it's tattooed on me lmao.
Nice!! I have T-Shirts of the Sinistar that I wear frequently, but you know, I may need a tattoo :)
Or just one that says “Run Coward!”
😂
"Beware, I live"
Space Harrier was so...different.
It was VERY different!
The OG.. Double Dragon
Double Dragon Advance improves upon the original arcade release.
I've only played the NES version.
@@Fortefyre The NES version was ok it wasn't as good as the arcade. The NES Double Dragon 2 was a much better game.
Except for 1942 Track And Field and House Of The Dead I have never heard of any of these games I was so bad at House Of The Dead I was dead five minutes after I started playing
Give them a shake!
No way I could narrow it out to just 10
Same here, there's no way I could either. So I just put out a general 10, there will be more!
@@Fortefyre But man. Your list and mine are pretty close! I am doing a list as we speak!
@@TheDaggerman30 Would you like a link to my list? Lol. I have a running compendium of 64 consoles, and 500+ franchises
@@Fortefyre Of course I would man!!
House of the Dead I'm so ready to set up Emu Vr just to play house of the Dead Maybe ill get my moneys worth vs what I spent lol
You could do that OR you could get the windows version. The one big thing I noticed from the abandonware windows version is that they yanked the "White" flashing that happens in the arcade version of HOTD, and honestly if you're going in VR, you might want to consider that lmao.
House of the Dead is the number 1 lightgun series ever
Wrong :D
Its Carnevil
Lol @ "Five bucks worth for 10 games"
I recall a time when you could get 20 games for $5.
Let's go back to that token economy, please!
Metal slug :)
ABSOLUTELY.
I prefer 1943. The sound when shooting in 1942 is just not pleasant to my ears
I'd prefer 1943 IF you didn't have the "existence is pain" style of life remaining. That low "fuel" song haunts me in my dreams!
Never play a Micronics port.
Facts. But I do enjoy 1942!