The Strike Series: The Complete History (DESERT, JUNGLE, URBAN, SOVIET, NUCLEAR)

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  • #DesertStrike was just the beginning! A hugely popular series of games followed and quickly became #ElectronicArts most loved non-sports franchise. This is the Complete History of the Strike Series of games ⬇️SOCIALS BELOW⬇️
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    What happened to this awesome series of games?
    DESERT STRIKE
    JUNGLE STRIKE
    URBAN STRIKE
    SOVIET STRIKE &
    NUCLEAR STRIKE
    These games kept gamers happy on the Mega Drive, Genesis, SNES, Amiga, Playstation 1, Nintendo64, and everything in-between.
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    • @thekornreeper
      @thekornreeper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice 👍🏼

    • @lancashirered
      @lancashirered 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      2 mega BYTE cartridge, that's 16 mega BITS.

    • @MateusAuri
      @MateusAuri 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hey, the music & footage list doc is not set for public viewing!

    • @yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082
      @yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This game is my childhood but it's expensive to get game cartidges in my country so the only way i can play it is either borrow or rent.

    • @Pensive_Scarlet
      @Pensive_Scarlet 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hey, I really liked the intro bit featuring your Dad. Would love to hear more about those memories.

  • @tonybarnes2920
    @tonybarnes2920 3 ปีที่แล้ว +654

    Hi, Tony Barnes here, co-Director of The Strike Series. As a long-time subscriber, really excited to see games I've made show up on the channel, even if I've been written out of the history. I guess I should've done more interviews, like Mike did. Still glad to see coverage and always happy to see people enjoy something I've made! Great vid. BTW, it's "Beirut BREAKOUT" not "Beirut BREAKDOWN". And if you ever want the real scoop about the Strike Series (especially Future Strike/Cop), from someone's perspective other than Posehn's interviews, let me know.

    • @jasonbrown467
      @jasonbrown467 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      i couldnt imagine how hard it was to code before the internet and not everyone even had a computer of any type in the house back in those days. well done

    • @tonybarnes2920
      @tonybarnes2920 3 ปีที่แล้ว +73

      @@jasonbrown467 Well, I mean I did live/grow up in The Bay Area (Silicon Valley) and was working for Electronic Arts, so we had access to this NEW thing called "The World Wide Web". But there wasn't anything on it. It was all text and certainly not a place to search for answers, code snippets, game engines, nifty videos. But we created most of our own tools and the engine for Strike was written in Assembly, as were the levels. I started coding in BASIC at 12 and was into 6502 Assembly by 15. It was NOT easy AT ALL back then, but it was fun bringing ideas to life.

    • @budaroddy
      @budaroddy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      @@tonybarnes2920 thanks for the awesome games, i'm kind of glad the series didnt turn into the games we see today from EA and hope they never touch it again

    • @tonybarnes2920
      @tonybarnes2920 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@budaroddy thanks for being a fan. I've posted in this thread about my own indie company and a game I'm working on, called CHAOS CHASSIS. But it seems if I put a link to the vid, it won't post here. So, search TH-cam for CHAOS CHASSIS and check out the teaser.

    • @pchien31707
      @pchien31707 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@tonybarnes2920 Your take on Strider was awesome too

  •  3 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    Urban Strike was set in 2001 and featured a destroyed World Trade Centre? Holy crap, I never noticed that before. Wow.

    • @mediawarrior5957
      @mediawarrior5957 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Video Game Prophecy

    • @tensevo
      @tensevo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah, the terrorists hated the game, they burnt copies of it. I doubt it was a coincidence.

    • @shifty2755
      @shifty2755 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That's where Bush got the idea from

    • @johnbowles5399
      @johnbowles5399 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Not only that but Urban Strike's main protagonist, H. R Malone, is a populist who is running for the US Presidency with very similar promises and policies that a certain Donald Trump ran on. He promises to clean up the streets and make the country great again. Urban Strike is definitely an oddly prophetic game.

    • @tensevo
      @tensevo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@shifty2755 Yeah, except Bush wasn't triggered by the game, but quite a few turban heads were. World Trade Centre was a symbol of America. Only somebody who hated the actual values of the country would destroy it. Or it could have been simply envy or jealousy.

  • @vahlok1426
    @vahlok1426 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    I remember playing Desert Strike on the Genesis, but since I was a dumb kid I didn't understand it at all.
    Then I played Soviet and Nuclear for PS1 and even my parents wanted to watch because of the FMVs and the story. They thought it was based on a movie or something.
    Still have Soviet and Nuclear somewhere, and would love to play them again. Love those two.

    • @MrNegativecreep07
      @MrNegativecreep07 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Soviet Strike was the first game I'd played where it felt like actual effort went into the FMVs, rather than just getting the programmers or their mates to play the parts.

    • @AzraelThanatos
      @AzraelThanatos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I had the Genesis games, but didn't really play them that much and got them all used. The fuel part of it just irritated me as it felt like there was far to little of it compared to the reaction there.
      The game that I loved for chopper combat was LHX which could be awesome there and felt more interesting in what it did.

    • @paddington1670
      @paddington1670 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@AzraelThanatos i always had a problem with fuel too, but when I watch others playthroughs they never have issues, maybe I just needed to know where to go, i dont know

  • @mchief190
    @mchief190 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I played Nuclear Strike on my PS1 religiously, the story, gameplay, and the soundtrack was the complete package and those cinematics were amazing, it really pulled me into the world that the game was potraying.
    I also loved how there was a tease in the game for Future Strike.

    • @vahlok1426
      @vahlok1426 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      For me, the PS1 games' amount of information on everything in game, from your choppers and other vehicles, to enemy units, etc. all narrated with footage to go along was awesome.

  • @michiganjack1337
    @michiganjack1337 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Whenever I think of Desert Strike it always takes me back to playing it on my grandmothers Zenith tv during the hot summer days trying to stay cool with a little oscillating fan.

  • @tgdm
    @tgdm 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    The first three Strike games on Genesis and C&C Red Alert are the reason I learned to love heavy and industrial metal music.
    That said, the menu song for Urban Strike is the incarnation of 90s arcade music.

    • @residentelect
      @residentelect 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I've just replied to a post by Tony Barnes (one of the directors of the 'Strike series) telling him about how when I was deployed to Afghanistan it became a standing gag that when any of the AW AH1's would roll out on a Quick Reaction job, those of us near the pad would start singing/humming the opening theme to Desert Strike lol it certainly boosted morale for a few minutes (or at least till we were deafened and blasted by sand as the "Monster" went airborne)
      The music was absolutely awesome and I still think DS has one of the best opening screens ever produced.

    • @childlover4091
      @childlover4091 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I ported a lot of the Desert Strike concept to my 10 gig Ra2 mod. I litetally recreate the Desert Strike missions in RA2 which is an idea I have already copy written 12 years ago.

    • @childlover4091
      @childlover4091 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@residentelect Its ironic how America names its most murderous flying chariots after the tribes that were subjected to mass genocide. Its also ironic that a black developer promote such white imperialist gaming fiction.

    • @tomarmadiyer2698
      @tomarmadiyer2698 4 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Frank Klepacki and the Tiberian Sons
      Yeah

  • @TheBronyBraeburn
    @TheBronyBraeburn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The Strike series always makes me think of my older cousin, RIP. He was always introducing me, when we were kids, to the more "mature" games on the NES and Genesis.

  • @korgied
    @korgied 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    The snare drum intro keeps making me think of REM's "It's the End of the World As We Know It"

    • @sladeb134
      @sladeb134 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Do you know the name of the intro track by chance?

  • @JT_WARCRIME
    @JT_WARCRIME 3 ปีที่แล้ว +83

    What a genuinely pleasant surprise to see this Complete history.

    • @carlosrueda9204
      @carlosrueda9204 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Holy crap me too!

    • @dandastardly2792
      @dandastardly2792 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Im excited. I had jungle strike and eventually urban strike

    • @SunChipss
      @SunChipss ปีที่แล้ว

      Not liking your comment out of respect ✊

  • @GottaLoveCheese
    @GottaLoveCheese 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Some serious nostalgia in this video. I'd completely forgotten about how much I adored Future Cop LAPD as a kid!

    • @carlosrueda9204
      @carlosrueda9204 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      YESSSS I loved that game

    • @VoxFelis
      @VoxFelis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I played the demo on repeat!

    • @BlazeC90
      @BlazeC90 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Honestly couldn’t remember for the life of me the name of Future Cop for so many years! Had it on PC and PlayStation! Hours and hours of my childhood playing that battle mode against the AI! So many great memories

  • @TheSuperuser49
    @TheSuperuser49 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Jungle Strike starts in Washington and Urban Strike starts in the jungle......Thought that was weird as a kid

    • @njalsand133
      @njalsand133 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I find the sheer number of primitive huts in Hawaii more odd

    • @residentelect
      @residentelect 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@njalsand133
      Lol I just wanted to riddle the White House and most of Washington DC with Hellfires' and Hydras!
      Upon reflection that was probably not very respectful to my country's closest ally 😳 Apologies Mr President...

    • @njalsand133
      @njalsand133 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@residentelect to be fair me and a friend wiped out the Hawaii map and somehow managed to win

    • @EduFirenze
      @EduFirenze 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      LOL so true!

    • @33Dannyb
      @33Dannyb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Similarly the chopper was brown in Jungle Strike, and green in Desert Strike.

  • @jackkoffin1
    @jackkoffin1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Jungle Strike was probably the one Genesis game I absolutely mastered. I could consistently play through it in a single sitting given enough time to do so, when I was 12 or so. I tried it again many, many years later and I couldn't retrain my brain to adapt to its unique control scheme. Fond memories, but it's tough to go back to.

  • @Evilgrebo
    @Evilgrebo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I had no idea about the LAPD/Strike backstory. I used to love LAPD as a kid

  • @BobExcalibur
    @BobExcalibur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Future Cop is tragically forgotten and quite underrated. The Precinct Assault game mode basically invented the MOBA genre fifteen years early, and it even has some concepts that would later appear in the Dead Space games (Check out the monuments in the Cult level).

    • @Invidente7
      @Invidente7 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      "Hello Mr.Criminal, my gun is bigger than yours"
      Greatest advertisement ever.

    • @osurpless
      @osurpless 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep, first read about it in Gamepro upon release, and was glad they made connections with the larger Strike series.
      Ended up picking it up on the PSN store, and now that the store apparently isn’t actually closing, everyone should pick it up.

  • @geesterfunk
    @geesterfunk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This on the Amiga was mind blowing to me, I was only 9 lol still finished it

  • @refundreplay
    @refundreplay 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    My father LOVED Desert Strike. And to be honest, so did I...

  • @danielschmaderer
    @danielschmaderer 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I remember playing Desert Strike and Jungle Strike as a kid. It was such a blast to play. Years later I picked up Future Cop and loved it. Never actually knew they were all connected. Great video.

  • @zeusapollo6504
    @zeusapollo6504 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Only played Desert Strike on the Mega Drive during the early 90ies. It was released right on time with all the gulf war news, well about 1 year later after operation Desert Storm. I think its a piece of art, with its story and missions, its just very well made.
    Hard to imagine better, but i will try the others at one point.

  • @hyenafur
    @hyenafur 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Thank you for making a video about the Strike series. Desert Strike holds a lot of great memories for me, and it’s still my favorite of all time. I used to play it every Thanksgiving with my older brother before he passed away in a motorcycle accident.

    • @Bollibompa
      @Bollibompa ปีที่แล้ว

      Happy memories and then sad memories.

    • @Vendarize
      @Vendarize 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yeah man, similar to me. Except me and my brother we're playing Nuclear Strike. Good memories we get to hold on to of them. Peace from NZ

  • @thehumbleone1983
    @thehumbleone1983 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Desert Strike is one of my favourite Mega Drive / Genesis game

  • @stevesmithx
    @stevesmithx 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Only recently discovered this channel, but absolutely love the content. This stuff was my childhood , yet I'm slowly discovering just how little I know about the history of the games I love. The history as an adult now is just as interesting as playing the games themselves.

  • @mayamanign
    @mayamanign 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    One of the greatest game series ever. Just played through Desert Strike again.

  • @ShadowMk3
    @ShadowMk3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Oh man dude, Desert Strike was my jam

    • @residentelect
      @residentelect 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice baguette mate... Freshly baked, or is it just a display one..?

    • @ShadowMk3
      @ShadowMk3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@residentelect always fresh my friend, always fresh!

    • @residentelect
      @residentelect 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ShadowMk3
      Excellent my good man!
      Britain may have spent hundreds of years scrapping with France, but when it comes to the battle of the breads, our Gallic cousins win hands down!
      Also, when the baguette goes stale it can be repurposed as a vicious weapon...
      I'm sure I once read that during WW1 French troops wielded stale baguettes as trench clubs when storming German positions.
      The horror... The horror... 🇫🇷🥖🤕

  • @TommyCrosby
    @TommyCrosby 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Future Cop LAPD was one of my favorite game back then.
    The Multi-player mode of defending your base was really good.
    I didn't knew about the link to Strike series.

    • @Invidente7
      @Invidente7 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is alvaible in the PSN, I think.

  • @salud7432
    @salud7432 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Desert Strike was my favorite MD Game, along Shinning Force

  • @themapmaker5374
    @themapmaker5374 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I bought Desert Strike on a whim at Toys ‘R Us back in ‘92, for the Sega Genesis. I was 18 at that time, and this was right after the Gulf War of course. The box art was cool, seemed like it would be fun, plus it had the EA name. I was all about sports games mostly back then. I was hooked on the game straight away, and eventually would have and play all of the Strike series games. There wasn’t one that I didn’t like. I felt they got better with each new release. Thanks for posting this. It brought back some good memories.

  • @TheFenrir666
    @TheFenrir666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Urban Strike was a game I remember playing so much, but never getting past the second level.

  • @truehare
    @truehare 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Desert Strike holds a special place in my heart for a simple reason, besides being a great game in itself: it's the game I was playing right before going to the hospital for the birth of my first son. I was only 17 at the time (teen pregnancy is not a joke, guys!), and the memory of playing that game became forever entwined with the indescribable emotion of seeing my baby boy for the first time. He's turning 29 next month, and is as much a geek as me, if not more.
    Yeah, I know you can tell, but for the record: you couldn't find a prouder parent than me if you searched the whole world.

  • @OfficialPhazeMusic
    @OfficialPhazeMusic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bro your description of dad in the 90s playing man games at night….. so spot on. Except in my house the consoles were in my room so he would come in and play alllllll night while I watched him and eventually fell asleep and he’d be up til like 3-4am on a game. I loved those days

  • @justysilverman
    @justysilverman 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Sweet! I was just about to write a review on this series. Soviet Strike might be my favorite PS1 game. Really bummed Future Strike got cancelled.

    • @slopesgameroom
      @slopesgameroom  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Glad you liked it :D I was really shocked at how accessable the PS1 games were all these years later

  • @samfrito
    @samfrito 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    What a blast! I started replaying my old Genesis games during the pandemic and Desert Strike was actually a favorite to pop in and try to get better at. It does take strategy and since placement of enemies, resources and objectives remain the same its a good work out for your memory too. Great video Slopes!

  • @System_Sega
    @System_Sega 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Can't believe you didn't mention the Saturn version of Soviet Strike. Extra Weapons, More difficulty settings, Extra music and sound effects and analog contoller support. The definitive version.

  • @sh2157
    @sh2157 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow! You've just activated some long dormant memories with this video! Good job as always sir! 😎

  • @duncanself5111
    @duncanself5111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Ah man, I used to love Desert and Jungle Strike back in the day. Such an addictive and satisfying game

  • @peterbruin5154
    @peterbruin5154 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I've been waiting so long for someone to do a dedicated strike series doc. Bravo!

  • @PACKYCSONE80
    @PACKYCSONE80 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Two of my favorite channels in one awesome video...cheers mates!

  • @Retrobution
    @Retrobution 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    instantly recognised Oliver Harpers voice there, nice! Great video, am a huge Desert Strike fan (have collected the first game on every format!) Love the details covered in this video. Iwas planning to do a detailed video of the first game and all of the ports of it but looks like I pretty much dont need to now haha!
    Baffles me why EA havent brought this series back with the battlefield engine. I would love to see it with those graphics, same isometric view with cinematic angles etc (night vision etc) and the ability to be a pilot and have an online co pilot and others that you can control within the same apache, drop them off into the warzone and they would control their character in FPS mode, infiltrate a camp or command other road vehicles whilst the other player pilots the apache and takes out other targets etc. teamwork.
    Would just be awesome and would sell well imo

  • @mikethetowns
    @mikethetowns 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great vid this one. Lookin' damn clear in the cam footage too. So fresh and so clean haha.

  • @katenunyabizness9221
    @katenunyabizness9221 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I always took this series as the love child between Raid on Bungling Bay and Choplifter. Loved it and thanks for all the extra history on it!

  • @TheEnLighteN1
    @TheEnLighteN1 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Loved this. Such a throw back to my childhood with my father. Waiting patiently for my turn. And then the day he brought home Urban Strike.

  • @Autotrope
    @Autotrope 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    So glad I found this channel, it's one of the ones that bring me joy when something pops up on my recommendations

  • @tomhools1605
    @tomhools1605 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    YES!! I've been waiting for a long time for someone to make a documentary about Strike series. Thanks.

  • @mafiousbj
    @mafiousbj 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This kind of documentaries not only bring me back to game memories that I had stored in some dark corner of my mind, but also have the perfect lenght to watch while having dinner.
    Love the format!!!

  • @shinjinanahara
    @shinjinanahara 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for this Complete History. I didnt know anything about this series before. Will have to check it out

  • @aegoulette
    @aegoulette 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very happy to see this. I miss the strike series terribly. I replay all of them every year.

  • @scottcollins5240
    @scottcollins5240 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have been waiting for this one. I really love these complete history videos. Never tried the PS1 games, always played on the Genesis. Now I want to try them.

  • @IntriguedGaming
    @IntriguedGaming 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I loved Desert Strike and still plays remarkable well. Great video once again!

  • @Far2Sega4U
    @Far2Sega4U 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Woah now this is a series I thought nobody knew existed. Only ever beat Jungle Strike on Genesis

  • @Destroier534
    @Destroier534 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I loved Future Cop LAPD as a kid. Glad to see it mentioned. And by the way, it had two game modes: a regular one, and a versus mode (Precinct Assault), where you and a friend (or the cpu) fight over terrain with the objective being to escort a minion you created to the enemy base. I spent a lot of time in that mode, it was great. It is rumored to have served as inspiration for the Aeon of Strife map of Starcraft, which then lead to the Defense of the Ancients map of Warcraft III, or DotA.

  • @BrokenCircle1
    @BrokenCircle1 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I LOVED Soviet Strike. The main theme made me want to sit on a folding metal chair, put on aviator glasses and lean back nodding my head slowly.

  • @WhichWayGames
    @WhichWayGames 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love these videos!!!! And I was playing Desert Strike over the weekend!

  • @roglar
    @roglar 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent video mate. I played Jungle Strike on the Megadrive back in the day. The intro still gives me shiwers down my spine.

  • @nachos1162
    @nachos1162 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey man I wanted to thank you for making these videos. I watch your channel pretty frequently and I get game recommendations through them. I was never huge on pac man before but after seeing your pac man series video it caused me to get the pac man 256 ps4 release and ignited my love for the series. Thank you!

  • @UnkindledTheUndying
    @UnkindledTheUndying 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The intro is so accurate. My step dad had nuclear strike, but he used to let me play it back when I was like 10. Completely forgot about it til' now, I even still have the disc. Great video, I love learning game history, in all shapes and forms.

  • @vallaurianv6024
    @vallaurianv6024 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Epic video! Thanks. Must get all of these!

  • @HybridAngelZero
    @HybridAngelZero 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's always a good day when Slopes uploads a new Complete History

  • @bobbywagner5371
    @bobbywagner5371 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Just found your channel, and love your content, man! Keep up the great work.

  • @TheEagleofSteel
    @TheEagleofSteel 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    You nailed it with the intro. When I was about 7 I remember my dad playing desert and jungle strike on the mega drive, I used to try having a go myself but didn't understand how to refuel the chopper.

  • @6Stevo
    @6Stevo 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    My Dad did indeed love these games. I remember him kicking me off the Amiga 500 so he could play Desert Strike for hours at a time.

  • @MrStrikecentral
    @MrStrikecentral 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I absolutely LOVED the Strike series from beginning to end. Heck, I named my alter ego from this series. I'm somewhat pissed that EA decided to just drop a successful franchise and didn't at least attempt to keep it going as long as it made money. I had no idea about the Future Cop development. If I would have known, I would have picked it up.

  • @SPac316
    @SPac316 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I loved this series. First played Urban Strike because there weren't anything else to rent at the video store. I was surprised I liked it when I played and I was hooked. I wish a new one would be made or at least a similar game by a capable team.

  • @shabmaster7128
    @shabmaster7128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This just makes me want to pickup the strike style game I was working on years ago. Due to my lack of experience, it wasn't really isometric, but more top down. It was a bit more like Choplifter, as you landed to get power ups. A decent game like the strike series is Battletech for Megadrive / Mechwarrior 3050 for the SNES. Not quite as good, but still fun. And it is Battletech.

  • @squeedaleedeemcfarfennoogi3276
    @squeedaleedeemcfarfennoogi3276 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love the Strike Series, played every one, great series. Just subscribed, great video!

  • @VoxFelis
    @VoxFelis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have been subbed to you for years.
    Pretty sure I requested this from day 1 haha
    Finally. The Strike series.

  • @serpico1616
    @serpico1616 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    My dad worked for a company that made parts for the Tomahawk cruise missile and it was blown up by terrorists in the 80's... in Canada...
    He looooved these games, he only ever had the first 3 strike games plus Battletech on the Sega.
    Thanks for all this nostalgia lol

  • @SaberusTerras
    @SaberusTerras 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The entire strike series was a big hit for me, my bro and my dad when I was younger. It was one of the last game series that all of us enjoyed before our different preferences drew our gaming times apart.

  • @AmuroRae
    @AmuroRae 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I always loved these games. Great little insight to one of my favorite 'underrated' series!

  • @NickSalvatoriello
    @NickSalvatoriello ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved this game series!! Thanks so much for making it. 🎉

  • @xSolarPhantomx
    @xSolarPhantomx ปีที่แล้ว

    This game has popped in to my head a couple times over the past few years, remembering that I played it as a kid. Could not for the life of me think of the games name and then suddenly today this video shows up.

  • @bubbleboyspot
    @bubbleboyspot 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mate you're a legend for giving us content we didn't know we needed :-)!!

  • @dustheg
    @dustheg 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes my dad played all of these and beat them all these were a few of the games my dad played that wasnt football. He passed away a couple years ago and I have been thinking about the times watching him play this series thank you this video brings a smile to me thinking of those times

  • @EverettB74
    @EverettB74 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks for bringing back some memories of great game plays!

  • @digsbious
    @digsbious 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I was just playing Desert Strike last week. Bravo on this video good sir.

  • @Johnnyafc
    @Johnnyafc 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Brilliant video and series thanks slope 👍🏻

  • @ChrisRamsayy
    @ChrisRamsayy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I loved Future Cop LAPD, dropped so many hours into that and playing with friends with some of the quirky vs modes was entertaining for countless more hours. Glad to see it mentioned as most I talked to in recent years never heard of it. Shame for how great of a game it was.
    I can't say it was my favourite PS1 game, Dark Stone was (another game no one seemed to know of and I still play it to this day), but it's definitely my second favourite.

  • @shrektaculer
    @shrektaculer ปีที่แล้ว

    I remember being 7 years old in 1993 receiving a sega genesis with a copy of Sonic 2 and Desert Strike. Some oy my most happiest childhood memories are playing those two games and every once in a while even up to this day, I'll pull up an emulator of Desert Strike and go ham. Now, my son loves the game as well.

  • @jackspence6061
    @jackspence6061 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I had Jungle Strike on game boy as a youngster. It took me literal years to do the first level and then I blasted through the whole game in a weekend.

  • @SirSkud
    @SirSkud 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Desert strike was definitely a major part of my early gaming history! Thank you!

  • @bleikr3611
    @bleikr3611 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ty for this video such an underrated series

  • @SA80TAGE
    @SA80TAGE 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    loved the strike series.... never knew Future Cop was a spin-off, explains why I loved that too. good pedigree.

  • @dominicsmith5588
    @dominicsmith5588 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Duuuuude! Frickin AWESOME! Completing the original Desert Strike back in the day ranks as one of my top video game achievements. I owned all the other games but could never get more than a few levels in on each of them, I just didn't have the skills. Now that I think about it I really should go back an re-visit the series and see if I can actually get them them.

  • @Aragorn7884
    @Aragorn7884 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good video Slopes! Thx.

  • @awesometown666
    @awesometown666 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing video, Desert strike gives me so many hrs of fun when I was a kid.

  • @graywatkin8510
    @graywatkin8510 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Loved these games. Bring em back. Great vid, cheers.

  • @socillizt4life
    @socillizt4life 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The 1st time I put the ‘Desert Strike’ cartridge into my Megadrive(Genesis)it remained 1 of my favourite series & the most played games on my megadrive.Gr8 games!

  • @treyjohnson82
    @treyjohnson82 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's about time that someone did a history! My late father loved the Strike series,we had desert and jungle On genesis,he bought the first edition Atari 2600 ,the 77one ,it was a demo model the early 80s model,at a rent to own place,we know that the black front or Vader model,Raider of the Lost Ark was the first one he bought,I have Indy on top of the pedestal as a tattoo

  • @benistingray6097
    @benistingray6097 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Absolutly loved the Strike series as a kid and played countless hours! And i didnt know Future Cop LAPD was also from them, still one of my favourite games till this day and i still play it from time to time.

  • @mrwsd88
    @mrwsd88 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Exactly, my dad woudln't play anything but Derset Strike, and for whole nights, he play for hundred of hours and was obsessed with it, but the poor man barley made it to mission 2! hahahaha

  • @embergamedev
    @embergamedev ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you so much for sharing the history of this series in such detail. I personally had never played any of the games in the series even though I owned a lot of the retro consoles mentioned here. I have recently been building my own game with an isometric perspective and a drifting / strafing car controller and wasn't really sure what to do with the game or what genre it fit into. Then someone mentioned it felt like the game Renegade Ops. After digging deeper I found that game was inspired by this series. It has been a very enlightening research period where I can see what makes this style of game fun!
    Let me know if I'm missing anything important!!! But core mechanics that seem important for this series are:
    - isometric perspective
    - loose, swinging / strafing physics that feel good
    - shooting and destructible environments
    - diverse missions spread across an open world environment
    - cohesive graphics and scenery that immerse you into the setting (desert, jumgle, urban)
    (how important / fun is resource management as compared to a more a run and gun style???)

  • @ollieb9875
    @ollieb9875 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I seem to remember you could fire the missiles on the intro screen. 👍 Loved the series and your coverage here. Cheers boss! 😁

  • @Master-Wanderer
    @Master-Wanderer 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    We could never afford paying full price for games back when I was a kid but I do remember hiring out these games a bunch of times from the local video store!

  • @quetzadrake
    @quetzadrake 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow, that was a nostalgic memory that came out of nowhere. I'd completely forgotten I had played Soviet Strike as a kid, I had no idea it was part of a series and didn't even remember what it was called until seeing it again here, I just remembered that it was a surprisingly-fun helicopter game where you went around blowing up buildings and throwing a ladder down to save people.

  • @danieldevito6380
    @danieldevito6380 ปีที่แล้ว

    I will NEVER forget playing Desert and Jungle Strike, I felt like I was really at war in an Apache lol

  • @Paul07791
    @Paul07791 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You almost threw me at dads playing Desert Strike, that sounds very specific to you. We played it, my dad never plays games, my step dad stopped at Galaxian but did comment about Strike being pure propaganda. The only grown up I knew that played Strike was "Tony", my barber. OTHERWISE, great video.

  • @DrGreenThumbNZL
    @DrGreenThumbNZL ปีที่แล้ว

    I was always more of a Nes and Snes fan back in the day , but i still vividly remember seeing a Megadrive Desert Stike Kiosk setup in a shop back in the 90's and it really impressed me

  • @andyb9675
    @andyb9675 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wow!!! Never knew that Future Cop was originally intended as a Strike! But now you mention it, it makes so much sense!!! Freakin love that game

  • @agiekasaputro5884
    @agiekasaputro5884 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I loved playing these series especially the PSX ones. Thank you for making this video. This great franchise deserve better. Hopefully someone will remake them, or at least remaster them

  • @adamrutherford4759
    @adamrutherford4759 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this video and I just checked out your channel and after watching this video I decided to subscribe.

    • @slopesgameroom
      @slopesgameroom  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks mate

    • @adamrutherford4759
      @adamrutherford4759 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@slopesgameroom funny thing was I was playing jungle strike while I was watching your video. And I got jungle strike Urban strike desert strike and I love them things from games are awesome because when I was young I played with army man and you know micro machines and just it is kind of like the precursor to command and conquer and it's a very good game series that you can still place it is day with decent Graphics like really good graphic actually and I ain't going to lie cuz I used to be really good at it but I put the code in this time for 23 lives hahaha. But back in the day I really could beat the game without putting in a code. Plus I didn't have internet so that's the only way I could beat the game. I did have nuclear strike but I was jealous cuz my friend had Soviet strike but me and my buddy had all the games except I had one he didn't and like he had Silver Strike on PlayStation and I had nuclear strike on N64 but I had a PlayStation I didn't have that game but I got all three of them for Sega Genesis and from what I understand they say that the the desert strike or jungle strike a nerve strike is really poopy and slow on the Super Nintendo and I love Super Nintendo but I guess it just couldn't handle the speed that the strike series needs. I love your channel bro keep the videos coming and I'll probably be checking out more videos that you got. Cheers brother this beer for you and I'm gaming right now

  • @anthonybeswick1937
    @anthonybeswick1937 3 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I heard Megacopter was supposed to be successor to the strike series? Looks incredible from the ads.