2:12 Stone Age - 20000 BC 7:52 Nordic Conquest - 829 AD 11:07 Medieval Europe - 1202 AD 6:26 Feudal Japan - 1455 AD 5:03 Post Modern Age - 2024 AD 13:27 The Last Frontier - 2885 AD 9:15 Galactic Colonization - 3297 AD 3:35 Mutant Armageddon - 4002 AD 15:20 Hell - Unknown
Funny thing is that Time Killers released November 1992, only one month after Mortal Kombat. Thankfully MK was the better game and relegated Time Killers to little more than a curiosity,
I’m 39 years old. I remember seeing this for the first time with my best friend at the arcades. When rancid cut thugs arm off. Our heads almost exploded. We both looked at each other. Didn’t say a word. Looked back at the screen and knew we had to play it. We discovered this game and mortal combat that day. It was amazing to see. We were playing Nintendo and Super Nintendo at the time. This was so advanced for us. We were in shock.
I always thought this game looked like what Hollywood would portray as a videogame. Funny enough, it was at a couple of shopping locations my family would frequent when I was kid and when I got older, was surprised when I realized not a lot of people had heard of it.
I saw this game ONCE in a bowling alley and found it to be the most mystifying thing ever. Limbs were coming off, and I, a gradeschooler, was allowed to watch. I didn't have quarters of my own so I couldn't play tho. And then I never saw it again. Didn't know the name, so I didn't know what to look up. That is until AVGN reviewed it. "WHA- THERE IT IS."
Mortal Kombat violence never bothered me even a little bit as a kid...cartoon violence like this really managed to be much more disturbing in my opinion. I guess it is the juxtaposition of the ultra-violence on such otherwise child-friendly animation, like Heavy Metal, Watership Down or Plague Dogs captured so well in the 1980s (stupid violent stuff like Happy Tree Friends doesn't count) Thankfully I never watched those movies as a kid...and Time Killers wasn't a good enough game to get me to look past the creepy art and unsettling music.
For my money, you can't beat Time Killers. At the time this came out, my friends and I were playing a diceless role-playing game called Amber, and I created a character that had a "deadly damage" chainsaw, which was based on Rancid!
I used to play this game in the early 90’s arcades. The first time I saw it, I was like “No way!” Arms and heads flying off, what a crazy game. What it lacked in combos it tried to make up for in brutal gore.
This game seems sort of like Street Fighter 1, rusty but promising, like the developer's next fighting game would probably be a lot better. However the developer did follow this up with a similar fighting game called Bloodstorm, and it seems like it wasn't too well received.
One sound reminds me of the drum on Kate Bush’s “Sat In Your Lap” once the vocals start. Which in turn, reminds me of Zelda - A Link to the Past when you hit one of the enemies.
We can clearly say that Rancid is now not considered a fighter from the future (since 1992),next year he'll be considered a fighter from the past like the other 4 😁
I like (sarcasm) that the game is so rude to the player that once you mirror-match another version of the character you picked, it switches your color to the alternate color so the CPU can be the color you chose, then never bothers to switch you back after you beat them.
Ironically, the only place I could find this game in the arcades back in the day was at a Christian Amusement Center. I went back to the place a month later and it was gone - I suspect somebody who owned the place realized how awful it was and got rid of it, post-haste. Also, I'm gonna get flak for this but I think this game gets more hate than it deserves. Yes, it was pretty awful for the most part but certain parts of it, like the sound design (NOT the music!) and certain backgrounds, were better than people admit. I can't help but feel it would have done a lot better if a little more work had been put into making everything seem more coordinated and coherent.
Spent over $5 in quarters of my pappis money, weekly at the Wal-Mart playing this game. 😂 The Mantis has a secret move that you can literally cut the head off the other character with in fraction of a seconds beginning of the match. Only way you stoodba chance against Rancid. 😅😅
What a buncha AVGN scrubs in here. I'll have you know that this was bowling-alley quality material in the early 90s and...uh yeah the game got pretty old pretty quick even for an arcade title.
Mortal Kombat ripoff? Maybe so... But since when can a fighter still fight while losing an arm or two? Dismembered Knight _(from Monty Python and the Holy Grail),_ eat your heart out.
The spiritual successor, Bloodstorm, is even better. You can remove both arms AND legs. Yes, it's fully possible (if very difficult) to win a round if you are just a bleeding torso on the ground. The game will even proudly declare "Limbless Victory!" if you do.
More like practically "no lower half", severed completely from the hips, with entrails _(severed intestines, liver, spleen, and other things nasty)_ spilling out and still fight until the "sundered" fighters very much.....drop dead. . . . But in the next round, they're back in one piece again.
This game has the same problem as Bloodstorm, it's so "generically 90s" it looks fake, like it's a parody game you'd see characters in a sitcom or cartoon playing because Mortal Kombat was popular at the time. The fact that it has a painfully generic premise and roster doesn't help.
2:12 Stone Age - 20000 BC
7:52 Nordic Conquest - 829 AD
11:07 Medieval Europe - 1202 AD
6:26 Feudal Japan - 1455 AD
5:03 Post Modern Age - 2024 AD
13:27 The Last Frontier - 2885 AD
9:15 Galactic Colonization - 3297 AD
3:35 Mutant Armageddon - 4002 AD
15:20 Hell - Unknown
The game that was played when the Mortal Kombat and Primal Rage cabinets were busy.
this game made me laugh when it was released even as a child it made me laugh so hard with how silly it was. Looking back years later its even worse!
Arcade near my house had this game on a HUGE screen back in the day! Kicked ass!
And the Genesis port sucked it
out of all the "ultra violence" fighters that sprouted in the wake of mortal kombat.......this is one of them
Funny thing is that Time Killers released November 1992, only one month after Mortal Kombat. Thankfully MK was the better game and relegated Time Killers to little more than a curiosity,
This and Bloodstorm
I’m 39 years old. I remember seeing this for the first time with my best friend at the arcades. When rancid cut thugs arm off. Our heads almost exploded. We both looked at each other. Didn’t say a word. Looked back at the screen and knew we had to play it. We discovered this game and mortal combat that day. It was amazing to see. We were playing Nintendo and Super Nintendo at the time. This was so advanced for us. We were in shock.
Yay, we are in 2024, The Modern Post Age!
Now all we gotta do is find Rancid , if he exists .
Feels like the headline in 2024: Florida Man fights neighbor with chainsaw
@@KwatsanDarbinianthat’s gotta be him no doubt
For years this game was in my memory bc i played it once at the arcade when i was a kid.
Same. I remember the animation looking a lot less cartoony/cheesy though...or apparently I don't.
same, only character i remembered is rancid
@@mykolas566wulf and matrix for me
It’s now 2024 let’s see Rancid!
We'll be hearing from Rancid soon, he is from 2024
"I AM IMMORTAL!"
(gets head cut off ten seconds later)
I always thought this game looked like what Hollywood would portray as a videogame. Funny enough, it was at a couple of shopping locations my family would frequent when I was kid and when I got older, was surprised when I realized not a lot of people had heard of it.
It makes sense that 2024 is known as "The Modern Post Age" because nowadays, we have AI generated Disney posters
Chainsaw guy seems OP
The reason I am here is because I remember that 2024 year in Rancid's stage, which we live in now.
Yea and Chicago looks nothing like his stage 😊.....well sort of 😁
I saw this game ONCE in a bowling alley and found it to be the most mystifying thing ever. Limbs were coming off, and I, a gradeschooler, was allowed to watch. I didn't have quarters of my own so I couldn't play tho.
And then I never saw it again. Didn't know the name, so I didn't know what to look up.
That is until AVGN reviewed it. "WHA- THERE IT IS."
12:06
*Wülf:* "Tis but a scratch"
Dammit, I'm glad I checked before posting this exact same comment.
@@nicholasfarrell5981
Enlightened minds works the same way ;)
What’re you going to do, bleed on me? 😂
Ah, one of my favorite cheeseball fighters. It has a certain charm to it, but let's face it: the only reason people cared about it was the violence.
I used to search out these cabinets, the headshot kills are amazing.
5:04 we will actually reach to that year pretty soon since we are in 2022
Chegamos
Mortal Kombat violence never bothered me even a little bit as a kid...cartoon violence like this really managed to be much more disturbing in my opinion. I guess it is the juxtaposition of the ultra-violence on such otherwise child-friendly animation, like Heavy Metal, Watership Down or Plague Dogs captured so well in the 1980s (stupid violent stuff like Happy Tree Friends doesn't count) Thankfully I never watched those movies as a kid...and Time Killers wasn't a good enough game to get me to look past the creepy art and unsettling music.
You’re definitely on to something here. I think this unique juxtaposition is what explains the success of William Gaines and Junji Ito
12:07 - "What are you gonna do? Bleed on me?"
Rancid's time period is this year lol. Its sadly nearly accurate.
It's not hard to find people like Rancid in an American City full of meth and fentanyl addicts.
My parents tried to heavily censor what media I took in and yet I remember playing this in the arcade when I was like 7
You can thank this game for Tekken's limb-based button layout
I wanna play this game in 2024 AD
Yeah, because we are almost in the same year as Rancid
@@marcioaraujo9855We're now in 2024.
Unfortunately I met Rancid and he chopped off my arms. I had to type this with my nose.
I played this at the arcade and it was soooo dang fun !!!
For my money, you can't beat Time Killers. At the time this came out, my friends and I were playing a diceless role-playing game called Amber, and I created a character that had a "deadly damage" chainsaw, which was based on Rancid!
Epic
Has this on Genesis.
It was horrible.
I loved it dearly.
Your comment is very lovely and poetic.
The famous (or infamous) pre-Street Fighter The Movie game
I used to play this game in the early 90’s arcades. The first time I saw it, I was like “No way!” Arms and heads flying off, what a crazy game. What it lacked in combos it tried to make up for in brutal gore.
This game seems sort of like Street Fighter 1, rusty but promising, like the developer's next fighting game would probably be a lot better. However the developer did follow this up with a similar fighting game called Bloodstorm, and it seems like it wasn't too well received.
That's because it was arcade only
Super interesting for a mortal Kombat clone.
Screw the haters. I like this game. Cutting an alien praying mantis apart with a chainsaw wielding punk rocker never gets old.
I've been waiting for this!
Thank you.
5:25 ‘‘tis but a scratch”
This game was at Walmart am when I was younger. Never forget seeing it
I only know this game exists because of AVGN
It had a sequel, it's called "Blood Storm"
@@dnachistatrax1029 A.K.A. the game that Johnny Cage did a magazine ad for.
I love playing Orion, Matrix, and Mantazz. I love being futuristic in the year 2885 to 4002 AD
To mention that we are in the Rancid time 5:00
This game traumatized me as a kid. So happy to stumble upon this
Post-modern Age next year, people.
Anyone else watching this in the Post Modern Age ? 5:03
This decade is called that, most likely because of the posters made by AI we have today, well, they tried to prevent
Local 7-Eleven had this... thise were the days. Slurpees comics and time killers
I did see AVGN do that one review of it. It does indeed look bad but yet I still want to play it for some reason.
Time Killers…engage!
Someone please tell me from where I'm recognizing the grunting sounds Musashi is making around 7:06
One sound reminds me of the drum on Kate Bush’s “Sat In Your Lap” once the vocals start. Which in turn, reminds me of Zelda - A Link to the Past when you hit one of the enemies.
This was like a fake game youd see kids in a movie playing at an arcade lmao.
Can certainly see where Bloodstorm got its influence from...
Rip Hunter, Doc Brown, & Doctor Who
Won't Like This...!
Incredible Technologies was also behind Street Fighter the Movie (Arcade version) and the pseudo-sequel to this, BloodStorm.
Also, Ninja Clowns.
Do the Out Foxies (World) Arcade longplay
Guess what year rancids level takes place in.😮
Oh noes, Rancid will be going on his rampage NEXT YEAR!! 😱
We can clearly say that Rancid is now not considered a fighter from the future (since 1992),next year he'll be considered a fighter from the past like the other 4 😁
Remember this game summer 92 over seas good times this n mk1
I made the Battle Over jingle my ringtone.
I remember playing this at Wal-Mart in 1994 lol
Wtf! A mix of Toshinden, Primal rage, Street fighter 2 and Killer instinct! Awesome audio fx!
At the 5 minute mark it goes to the future 2024 😂
Apart from the music, this game looks like it should have came out on the Super Nintendo instead of being an arcade game.
I like (sarcasm) that the game is so rude to the player that once you mirror-match another version of the character you picked, it switches your color to the alternate color so the CPU can be the color you chose, then never bothers to switch you back after you beat them.
ZZZ. Did you predicted new game?
12:09 Come on then! HAVE AT YOU!
'Mantazz'
Sorry but i just see 'mantass'
It's 2025, where are you Rancid???
Ironically, the only place I could find this game in the arcades back in the day was at a Christian Amusement Center. I went back to the place a month later and it was gone - I suspect somebody who owned the place realized how awful it was and got rid of it, post-haste.
Also, I'm gonna get flak for this but I think this game gets more hate than it deserves. Yes, it was pretty awful for the most part but certain parts of it, like the sound design (NOT the music!) and certain backgrounds, were better than people admit. I can't help but feel it would have done a lot better if a little more work had been put into making everything seem more coordinated and coherent.
Such a classic game
Very like a Mortal Kombat game
AVGN brought me here
Recently i watched various gameplays about this Game including this. Yes, this is My favorite bloody fighting Game. But scares me.
Rancid is from 2024 😄
Spoiler alert: we know now that Rancid, who is from 2024, is actually a trans-man
Too far
If you pressed the top 3 buttons and timed it right, you could end the match right away. Amazed this player never did that.
Do Not Flip A Chainsaw, It Could Injure You!
This videogame is Similar to Mortal Kombat
I can think of infinite reasons why this "game " blew......but my parents told me:if you can't say anything nice,don't say anything at all.
Spent over $5 in quarters of my pappis money, weekly at the Wal-Mart playing this game. 😂 The Mantis has a secret move that you can literally cut the head off the other character with in fraction of a seconds beginning of the match. Only way you stoodba chance against Rancid. 😅😅
Все, пост модерн чуваки
What a buncha AVGN scrubs in here.
I'll have you know that this was bowling-alley quality material in the early 90s and...uh yeah the game got pretty old pretty quick even for an arcade title.
I remember this game being brutally unfair as a kid. It looks lame AF now. 🤣
Mortal Kombat ripoff? Maybe so... But since when can a fighter still fight while losing an arm or two?
Dismembered Knight _(from Monty Python and the Holy Grail),_ eat your heart out.
The spiritual successor, Bloodstorm, is even better. You can remove both arms AND legs.
Yes, it's fully possible (if very difficult) to win a round if you are just a bleeding torso on the ground.
The game will even proudly declare "Limbless Victory!" if you do.
More like practically "no lower half", severed completely from the hips, with entrails _(severed intestines, liver, spleen, and other things nasty)_ spilling out and still fight until the "sundered" fighters very much.....drop dead.
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But in the next round, they're back in one piece again.
@@blukmage19typeR That's fighting game logic for you.
And you can still bite your opponent to death!
tikicore
Not recommended by the association of concerned mothers.
This game has the same problem as Bloodstorm, it's so "generically 90s" it looks fake, like it's a parody game you'd see characters in a sitcom or cartoon playing because Mortal Kombat was popular at the time.
The fact that it has a painfully generic premise and roster doesn't help.
Mortal Kombat ripoff.
I’ve seen bad beatem ups but this…this is terrible 😒😒
What a horrible basic game lmao
This is a bad game. And you should feel bad for having played it.