Obscure and underrated beat em ups
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ค. 2024
- I couldn't capture footage from my consoles when I made this video, so most footage is captured from arcade versions andI had to use footage from an old LP for the 3 Dirty Dwarves part. For some reason the Rastan footage became jerky after I rendered it.
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We need more 2d beatem ups nowadays.
wulverblade, figth n rage, search this games
Shattered Realms
Man i remember playing Top Hunter in an arcade back in VA in '95 and was surprised that no one else heard it at the time.
Thanks for making this video, it brings up so many childhood memories.
You hate everyone
3 Dirty Dwarves was awesome, can't believe I forgot about it
I need to make a 3 player longplay for youtube some time when I get the chance!
I missed that one back in the day😭
I remember watching the Cadillacs and Dinosaurs Cartoon.
Great video, man. Gave me some great ideas on what to play :)
congrats ! really good vid, didn't knew any game except cadillac, armored warrior is so nice !
How about River City Ransom? In the Nes days, gear, leveling, stats, buying a crazy amount of moves, semi open world. Well ahead of its time. Scott Pilgrim was heavily inspired by it. Also has a new one, River city underground. Arguably the best combat and combo system around.
RCR is an awesome game, but isn't really obscure or rare.
Wow, seeing the footage for Dungeon Magic. That clip really drives home the point of bosses feeling like work.
Hadriex
And when that guy catches you, he immediately grabs you and throws you down, and does it again as soon as you get up. That boss is such a pain.
Great vid man, liked the info along with the footage
Cheers! I've done similar vids on other genres as well.
I didn't know Top Hunter, Armored Warriors and Battle Circuit. They look awesome.
I actually played Battle Circuit when I was a kid. Very rarely these japanese only gems find their way over into the US.
Hey some quality titles in there and some truly great little gems.
Cool list of unique brawler games. Thanks.
Three Dirty Dwarves is a game very close to my heart. Probably one of the few games that I can enjoy getting my ass kicked. Good video, I actually saw a few titles that I may have to hunt down.
Another Great Video Gamer Impressive!!!
metal wolf and armored warriors are some of my favorites, great mecha games with fast combat and a surprising amount of depth
There's also Night Slashers, which is a pretty good beat-em-up for the arcades. It's horror-themed, meaning you'll be beating up zombies, werewolves, executioners, vampires, the Grim Reaper himself, and other monsters. However, what makes this game stand out is the massive amounts of gore. I mean, the enemies themselves are already gory enough (For example, the zombie enemies are either armless, with their organs exposed, jawless, eyeless or with their ribcages exposed), but it gets even gorier when they're killed, because they'll melt or die in a gory fashion, with lots of blood and organs. This game has 3 characters, all of them having a good number of moves and special moves, not to mention they can do the crowd control moves and screen-filling magic moves, at the cost of HP. Not to mention, you'll be seeing lots of wrestling moves, either from your characters or the enemies. If you love gory games and always wanted to suplex the Grim Reaper, this is the perfect game for you
I bought a pandora Key at a garage sale and I had no idea what it was but the joystick alone was worth the $25 that the lady was asking. It had Battle circuit on it and I loved the game, it was my first time ever seeing it and although it looked weird it was very fun to play.
Shank 1 and 2 were downloadables on PS3 and aren't even all that old but seem to be already forgotten nonetheless. They were good and think would make another worthy addition to this list. Thanks for sharing btw.
Three dirty dwarves is one of my all time favourite beat em ups as well.i was so desperately searching to get this game for my Sega Saturn (it was not easy) that when i finally got it i was super exhilarated!
Nice one, hope you get to try out the 3 player co-op!
Thanks for pointing these out for me to check out. ^_^
+Spynmaster
Glad to be of service :)
I have Cadillacs and Dinosaurs on MAME on my smartphone. I play it at least once a week for years now. It is such a great game and does feel perfect, not so stiff like other beat em ups. A real masterpiece.
It is so satisfying to hit enemys. In my opinion only Batman Returns on the SNES comes close to the hit-feeling...you can almost feel Batman's headbutts.
Awesome video
Awesome vid and Manowar mentionned...so i give a like right away!
That Rastan games looks fucking awesome, it will be cool to see more of those barbarian stuff on these days
That Rastan looks GREAT
I've always thought that i knew most of the best beat em up's but you sure surprised me.
If there's a game here you haven't heard of that you end up liking, this video has served its purpose :)
Three Dirty Dwarves was my favorite
Agree with you on beat em ups. I like the gimmicky ones. I'm always searching for ones I haven't played
Great choices . Put some of them on my list to play . Specially Armored warriors
Thanks bro. I forgot the name of guardian heroes and you showed it ☺
what is the name of the first game shown@ 0:01? I remember playing it as a kid.
Robo Army
Nice, I love beat em ups and didn't know a lot of the ones you showed and talked about.
And my love for the genre began with Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. Me and some buddies of mine skipped classes in 2nd grade (!) to go and play that game, which is legendary among certain people were I'm from.
And you said you find Streets of Rage boring, but have you tried the fan game Streets of Rage Remake? I think that particular game is probably the best beat em up ever. The music alone makes this game a must play (superb remixes).
You quipped about Day of the Tentacle near the end, cool game too, though for best point and click/adventure game I'd probably say The Longest Journey from the top of my head (though you probably meant best in the style of LucasArts games, then I kinda agree). Hope we see an obscure/hidden gem/underrated oldschool adventure game video soon!
As always, thanks for the informative videos and keep em coming!
Wind Falcon
Do you mean Beats of Rage (or something like that)? I've heard of it, but never played it. I ought to check it out some time.
I think that I didn't get further than stage 2 last time I played Streets of Rage 2, it's just felt like I was doing the same thing over and over again. I guess it depends on a lot of the visuals, moves and feedback whether I get bored with a beat em up or not. There's long enough intervals and enough of side activities in a game like Top Hunter that I never become bored with the combat, while in something like Cadillacs and Dinosaurs or Battle Circuit you can take out multiple enemies at the same time and hitting them feels really good, so the higher enemy count doesn't matter as much.
One of the only arcade memories I actually have is related to a beat em up game, which I played while on a holiday when I was 5 or 6. I've been trying to find its name for a long while now, my memories are so hazy that there's not much to go on.
I actually have 3 top picks for point&click adventures: Monkey Island 3, The Longest Journey and Day of the Tentacle. Monkey Island: Visuals, cartoon vibe, just perfect athmosphere. Longest Journey: storyline, writing. Best "serious" adventure game I've played. Day of the Tentacle: Overall package and game design. Brilliant puzzles and great art style. The visuals aren't as picturesque as in other adventures, but the animation is great for '93 standards and the style is very consistent through out the game. I actually prefer Sam&Max Hit the Road content wise, but DotT does things technically so well that I think it's the best game in the genre for that reason.
I have considered doing an episode on good adventure games not by Sierra&LucasArts, but my list might be a bit short at the moment. I've done reviews of DreamWeb and I Have no Mouth and I must Scream in Finnish and I have a couple of other "candidates", but I don't know if I've got enough material to work with yet.
90sgamer92Eng No, I didn't mean Beats of Rage (first time I hear of this). You can get (and check some info on) Streets of Rage Remake from here if you are interested - soronline.net/sorr_downloads.htm
Another adventure game you might want to consider for the potential upcoming video is Beneath a Steel Sky (its legit freeware now), a personal favorite thanks to it being cyberpunk. At the moment outside of Sierra/LucasArts I can't think of other games too, at least not oldschool ones, but in recent years there have been some great 2d point and clicks that came out like Gemini Rue and Primordia, so maybe you can mix old and new games for more material.
Wind Falcon You can play all arcade/mames games free online on Vizzed
In The Hunt, Gunforce and Metal Slug were developed by the same guys. Nazca was founded by ex-irem members who did In The Hunt and Gunforce for Irem.
Didn't know there was a Rastan 3, pretty cool
HELP! Has anyone played a cartoony 2d beat em up with children main characters - boy and a girl (on rollerskates?). For their special move they pulled out a boombox and everybody started dancing? The (final) boss was a big overweight disco queen with a crown, big red lips and a black dress like a witch.
Was it DJ Boy 1989?
Top hunter !! My childhood.
A small hint. You can select gapless in the video options to get games like Warrior Blade to get rid of that small black bar in the middle and get a full screen.
+Ingen Ting
Thanks, I didn't find it though (it's supposed to be in the video manager?). Does that also work for 3 screen arcade games?
90sgamer92
Yeah, it's the "Video options" from the menu you get by pressing TAB. Seems 3 screen games are gapless as standard. At least the ones I've tried for example Ninja Warriors :)
Three Dirty Dwarves is really awesome fun, I got blind luck picking it up on Saturn back on the day somehow. This footage is weirdly hi-res
Yeah, I used some old LP or something, I made the video back before I could capture console footage myself, so I had to use emulators/some one else's long plays whenever I wanted to capture footage from non-PC games. The gameplay video I posted later on that you left a comment on was captured on a legit Saturn, so it should look more "normal"
now THIS i what i call a hidden gems video :-) actually games most have never heard of.. only games i knew about in this video is cadillacs & dinosaurs and three dirty dwarves!.. i own rastan on sega master system, and knew about a second one, but a third one? this is news to me :-) great informative video :-)
+Leirdua Leirdua
Thanks, I'm glad to hear that! As a collector, I always run into the same titles when looking for lists like this, so I try to make a point of (mostly) sticking to games I've never seen or heard covered by other websites&youtube channels that I follow. Though there's some times overlap with GameSack, those guys know their stuff and I love them for it! :)
undercover cops, vendetta and denjin makai 2. Those are my favorites.
Hello men.. Who know name of old ninja game when warrior do miracle say hoba plz help me
Humouristic... humouristic.
looking for an older arcade game there were ninjas (colorful ones pink girl green,blue i believe) anyway 2 player co-op and it was a beat em up you had a reg attack and jump and a special move that's all i know can ANYONE help plz!! can't find it anywhere
Great video! Can you please please re-upload your old dungeons and dragons in video games video? I used to watch it every week or so while working! It’s so good.
I would like to see more bloody arcade beat em up like Splatterhouse 3.
I found out about Dungeon Magic thru Taito Legends Vol 1 and 2 - which are amazing compilations, prob the best of that era. Now I havent noticed any major emulation problems but Im not expert , and Im sure they could use a lil cleaning up and a Switch/PS4 physical version of Vol 1 and 2 in one package would be amazing!
Night Slashers
better than many over there
Night Slashers X on the openbor is like Night Slashers but 100 times better
What game is the screen shot from 3 seconds into the video?
Humoristic. Wow.
you missing my all time favorite from ps1, gear dendo fighter, and also a one from latest arcades, sengoku 3
battle circuit looks like a captain comando sequel, I can't imagin why they didnt used Captain comando name, maybe some copyright issue, or they just thought Captain comando wasnt popular enough
Nice list I just subbed. Have you ever played the Yakuza or Shank games? I think those are underated/overlooked beat em ups as well. Maybe you can do another list covering modern beat em ups
I haven't played the Yakuza games (nor God Hand for that matter), but I've seen some footage of the PS3 games. It's like a mix of Shenmue and a 3D beat em up, right?
To be honest, I don't really know that many good 3D brawlers (besides more modern God of War clones). Your top 5 video pretty much covers most games I know, and some I hadn't heard of before! Well, there's atleast The Bouncer by Square on PS2. And I guess No More Heroes and Mad World on Wii count as well? I also really liked the Tekken Force and Devil Within modes in Tekken 3-5. Tekken Force was more of a traditional beat em up with side scrolling levels just done with polygonal graphics, but Devil Within had more 3 dimensional levels and even platforming if I recall correctly.
90sgamer92Eng Thanks for watching my video, Yeah Yakuza is basically a mix of Shenmue and 3d beat em ups, and just a fun series overall if your into brawlers with more depth than just beating people up.God Hand is great too if your looking for a good challenge. God Hand also lets you customize your move sets and combos which gives the game great replay value for me. As good as some of the 3d beat em ups I mentioned are, they just don't make as many as they used to. Hack n slash games like God of War have kind of taken over Beat em ups. Madworld was cool but No More Heroes is more of a hack n slash in my opinion. And Tekken Force and Devil Within were a pretty cool add on to those games too. But they still do make some 2d beat em ups like Shank And Double Dragon Neon but are few and far between.
What is the 4th game shown in the start of this video, where the characters name is Kyle, and he's in an arcade wearing a green vest?
+Christopher cruz
Violent Storm by Konami. I've got some footage of it on my channel ("More arcade beat em ups")
please! the kinda chip músic of the opening?
Awesome, really helped.
Could you make another beat em up list review?
I am working upon a side-scroller/ beat em up project so this would really help.
Sorry but I dont really have time at the moment. But you can ask for recommendations for different systems if you wish. What kind of project you're working on?
Can we talk in a more private room?
I want to hear opinion, maybe some tips.
+Adrain Munteanu Sure, send me a PM on youtube inbox and I'll see if I can be of help
+90sgamer92 Sorry, how do i do that? XD
+Adrain Munteanu
I think I should be under "About" if you visit my channel page.
th-cam.com/users/messages is where you can see your inbox. For some reason youtube decided to hide that feature some years ago...
que buen video!!!
But...but...I love Earthworm Jim minigames
nice video
I loved the video! But please, can someone tell me what's the game on 0:34 ? Thanks in advance!
Woah, Manowar reference. You get a sub.
Thanks :D Rastan is like a Manowar album cover in motion
cadillac and dinos was quite popular back in my childlhood
Talks about Bandit Kings, shows footage of Nobunaga's Ambition...
whats that music at the start from?
Whats the game at 0.08? Looks great! Thanks for the video.
Very well done. What about Shadow over Mystara? Violent Storm?
Violent Storm is the greatest. Soundtrack is ludicrously good.
Simon Hope Violent Storm is hugely under rated.
Violent Storm is most def my no1, this was my best arcade side scrolling game from a game room next to my school in the middle of 90's. Everyone was playing this, cads&dino, metal slug and tekken/soul blade. Aaa yeah, and I'm from average city in Poland, cheers!
Pretty sure any serious beat'em'up fan knows the DnD games ;)
Cool! :D
What theme is that at 13:46?
Manowar - Hail and Kill
Nice list, except Top Hunter (pretty well known game ^^).
Really want to try the taiwanese one :)
Also 8:20 xD
Are there any modern Beat'em up games that You can buy (lets say) on steam ?
The TakeOver, Double Dragon Neon, 99 Vidas... just to name a few.
Mother Russia Bleeds, 99 Vidas, Double Dragon Neon, Shank, etc.
best beat em up is cadillac and dinosaurs god knows it.
Three dirty dwarves is a really good one that was also on PC
>button-smashing
everybody gets this wrong
what's the name of the game at 0.54?
what game is the very first u show at 0.0 with the mecha ape thing thanks
Robo Army on Neo Geo
+90sgamer92 thank you i appreciate it
Olá bom dia!
Gostaria de saber o nome desse game nos minutos 0:34 ?
+Henritronik Play (̲̅н̲̅є̲̅и̲̅я̲̅i̲̅т̲̅я̲̅σ̲̅и̲̅i̲̅k̲̅)
Dragon's Crown (PS3/VITA)
Great video! I recomend Graia Crusaders and Knights of Valour 2.
Guardian Heroes is rad as Hell lol
Which game is shown in the thumbnail?
battle circuit
Guys, what the name of the game at 00:09?
Night slashers too, many people don’t know it
Hewlett Packard?
the intro songs sounds similar to street fighter world worrier special credits ending
Sengoku 3!
0:15 game name plz
whats the game still of at 0.35 i don't recognize that game
annoyed567 I want to know too, if possible.
annoyed567
Dragon's Crown on PS3 :) It's the spiritual succesor of Odin Sphere and Princess Crown.
I believe it is called Splatterhouse
whats i the 0:11 game ? im searching it months ago :(
Captain Commando (the one with the mech) - that and Armored Warriors, Battle Circuit and some other classic beat em ups are on the Capcom Beat Em Up Bundle for Switch and PS4 - check it out, its well worth it.
th-cam.com/video/4jTzG7Y-daE/w-d-xo.html
Gaiapolis - remember this one from arcade - great and hard one. :)
+Jarosław Świerczewski
Really unique too!
+90sgamer92 Yes, I actually has been looking for this game, coz I forgot the title, and I think I found it thanks to your video. ;) So thanks for that.
+Jarosław Świerczewski Glad to hear that!
One of the reasons why games like Armored Warriors had such a good soundtrack is it's when Capcom was letting Q sound handle the music for them. Marvel Super Heroes, the Darkstalkers franchise, and even many of the Alpha games were all handled musically by Q sound. When they no longer utilized the company, is about when Capcoms fighters felt like they were losing much of their quality in mechanics as well as music design. However, despite many short comings of Street Fighter V, I will say that the soundtrack has gotten interesting again.
Hopefully Capcom will further make good on a promise to work with it's many IP's again rather than just trying to milk Street Fighter and Resident Evil time and time again. Some of these old japanese companies need to realize they can wind up the next Konami at any time by not branching out and making just a few wrong moves that turn them from legend to utter losers. Capcom and Sega have been two companies circling the drain for some time, and both have only in recent times made vows to do better by their fans.
Sadly we'll never see a golden era like that again, even if they pull their shit together, they just cant produce games as rapidly as they did back in those days (even though, in my opinion those 90s games look and sound objectively better than modern 3D games like SF V, which took ages to develop). It's so absurd, when game budgets and development times have ballooned so much with outh the games even looking beter often times.
SFV sadly is an eyesore on many levels. They should get to tossing out more co op walk around beat em ups again.
0:50 What is the name of that game?
there’s this 2d side scroller on the ps3 that i played in childhood but now i can’t find it :(
whats the game. at.1.40 guys??
+Ricardo Rossini
Gun Force 2, I reviewed it in my "Run n guns: hidden gems and obscure&forgotten games" video.
Check out Mad Stalker on PC Engine CD.
Ops i meant 34 seconds into the game
Check Bad ass babes game on PC. Can be bought on Steam and Gamejolt and is def an instant classic
Battle circuit 🥺👍💙
Metamorphic force?, Ninja Baseball Batman?. Great to see Rasatan Saga III, though.
top hunter a beat'em up? that's like saying street fighter is a jump'n'run.
I guess the qualify that as it, becaus you basicaly use punches to fight. But I agree that hisotrically beat em ups were only that kind of game were you can move sideways in the screen and only go forward. but there ar some other platform games wich have beat em up gameplay.
you want underrated and obscure beat em ups? i've got some examples.
cadillacs and dinosaurs
the punisher from 1993
p.o.w.: prisoners of war
final fight
final fight 2
final fight 3
golden axe
golden axe 2
golden axe: the revenge of death adder
golden axe 3
river city ransom
please link game dow battle circuit..