Prop Cycle. There used to be a cabinet of this crazy game at a bowling alley I frequented. I always thought that I would buy one when I got older so I could use it to stay in shape. It didn't happen, but I'd love to try it again some day. They could have made it work on the Dreamcast fishing controller...
Big Fight: Trouble in the Atlantic Ocean It's a really fun beat'em up game (also has versus mode), where bosses become playable after beating them. The game has quite a few branch paths, which really ups the replay value.
4:15 - I think this revelation needs to be more widespread. It definitively proves that Billy Mitchell couldn't have performed his world record runs on an unmodified Donkey Kong arcade cabinet, as if it were unmodified, he would be playing Radar Scope.
The original 2,000 donkey Kong cabinets were converted from radar scope but there were upwards of 80,000 units sold in America alone so it's not like every donkey Kong game was a conversion. This isn't exactly a smoking gun that proves Billy Mitchell is a liar and a cheater. But there's enough evidence of that already anyways lol
i've kinda sick of watching the same 2018 game sack intro that hasn't been changed until 2024 because this channel never dies and never gets retired along with AVGN scott the woz nor happyconsolegamer because retro gaming channels on youtube still living place in my heart for entertaiment
The Hotel Dusk duology is something long overdue for a rerelease; given that the Trace Memory duology is coming out on Switch worldwide in the near future, who knows?
I binged-re-watched the previous 'Left in the Arcade' videos yesterday so this was a treat to sit down to after a *checks watch* 16 hour shift at work. Love the new intro.
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is not a spinoff. It's the main series. They have changed the name from Yakuza to Like a Dragon to match the Japanese name for the series, and they turned it into a turn-based game. You get the old style in actual spinoffs like Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name and the Judgement games.
Yep, I was amazed and instantly recognized this woman's yell from its title screen, right from "Close (to the Edit)". Glad to see some people here knows good old English electronic music as well!
Also, it's hard to think of a look more iconic than the Dreamcast style of super high resolution polygons, with ALMOST enough detail and animation to render convincingly realistic humans.
I have been watching your videos for years now and I just have to say that every time you post one I sit through and watch the whole thing. It's rare that a TH-cam video keeps me paying attention at the length your videos are. You're awesome! Thank you for everything and it's super entertaining and interesting to watch your stuff.
The graphics for Spikeout screams Dreamcast and definitely would sit right at home for the console. I love these bright colours that lots of Dreamcast arcade-style action games had.
New year, new intro. Love the animation, flow of movement. It looks amazing. Subject of the video: so many games never received home ports. Most I have never heard of, that you covered in this episode. Fun to learn about these lost treasures
64th Street was a precursor for Jaleco's Super Famicom "Rushing Beat" series; early ad screenshots of the original game (released as "Rival Turf" overseas) had the protagonist (also named Rick) dressed in the same pants and overalls combo as 64th St's Rick. He was modified into a Cody clone by the time the game hit the shelves.
If you ever do a "Left in the Arcade 11", one game you should review is Kaiser Knuckle/Global Champion (as well as its Dan-Ku-Ga update). Granted it technically did eventually get a home release via the Taito Egret II miniconsole in 2022, but considering that a game featured in this video also got a techincal home release on Evercade, I think that Kaiser Knuckle/Global Champion should also qualify for a LITA review.
*Super Monkey Ball / Slashout facts:* • Some of the enemies make cameoes as stone statues in Super Monkey Ball's storm stage (Expert 41-50) • One of the stages is used as Dr Bad Boon's secret base in Super Monkey Ball 2 (Story Mode cutscene) • The gear models from the Slashout clock tower stage are used in the Monkey Ball 2 clock tower stage Being a huge Monkey Ball fan, that is basically the only reason I've played Slashout
This is why FPGA hardware will always be the future of retro gaming. There's really no other way to play these games the way they originally functioned, outside of on the original arcade boards.
It is unbelivable that Toshihiro Nagoshi has left Sega after so many decades. He's probably gone to live in a stranded paradisiacal island along with Yu Suzuki and Yuji Naka 😬
The new intro looks awesome! There are so many games listed here that I still wish got released on console, like SCUD Race, and I had no idea about Planet Harrier! Another excellent episode, Joe!
The worst part about Planet Harriers is that Hikaru boards are notoriously fragile due to defective soldering on the BGAs which will pop off the board if they are handled roughly or sometimes just due to heat cycling putting stress on the solder joints. Every Hikaru board is on borrowed time and will eventually unalive itself at some point by means of one of the BGAs falling off the PCB just from being used.
Always love these episodes and many thanks for reminding me that Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth is out soon, amazing series and made sure to order my copy when the section mentioning it came up. Absolutely adore the "digital tourism" those games provide along with the great functional arcades that include stuff like Virtual Fighter 2/5, Virtual On, Fighting Vipers, and more.
Amazing.! new year, new gamesack. Well done to the whole team for reinventing gamesack but chirpier and quicker. Deadmeat done the same and never looked back. I will always watch every single episode every year. Great job gamesack (and dave) 😅👍
Wanted to drop a comment for props on the new intro. Not sure how you made it but I love it. Super cool. Oh… and of course that ending was no slouch either 😂. Maybe someday I’ll have the bravery to pull that on camera. On second thought, for the sake of my audience I’ll refrain 😅
Somebody should make a montage of Joe saying things like: "..but Sega decided to cancel it, because they hate all of us" and "if you like to be able to (blank), then you can go straight to hell, because there's none of that here" (I've heard many variations of that over the years, and makes me laugh every time)
Nitro Ball has a home port via Johnny Turbo's Arcade collection! Or well... it did before it (and all the other games) was unceremoniously delisted from the eshop a few months ago.
What are some more interesting games that absolutely never came home?
Prop Cycle. There used to be a cabinet of this crazy game at a bowling alley I frequented. I always thought that I would buy one when I got older so I could use it to stay in shape.
It didn't happen, but I'd love to try it again some day.
They could have made it work on the Dreamcast fishing controller...
Big Fight: Trouble in the Atlantic Ocean
It's a really fun beat'em up game (also has versus mode), where bosses become playable after beating them. The game has quite a few branch paths, which really ups the replay value.
Techno Drive by Namco
The outfoxies
Surprise Attack (Konami, 1990), Magical Truck Adventure (Sega), Tokyo Wars (Namco, 1996), Vandyke (UPL, 1990) and Valtric (NMK/Jaleco, 1986).
The A-ha "Take on Me" Game Sack intro
2023 mario movie made me smile like an idiot because animation is cinema
Absolutely loved the intro Joe!
What do you think of take on me?
But the outro tho 😂
I’ll just add the intro was amazing!! Great start to a new year. Take care and thanks Joe
The old one is better
I love the previous intro too but this new one is next level.
The first fresh Sack of 2024!
Nothing like s fresh sack!!
Smells fresh, too! 👃
Long live the show, long life for Joe!
Hopefully thd the first of many😊
That's what she said.
4:15 - I think this revelation needs to be more widespread. It definitively proves that Billy Mitchell couldn't have performed his world record runs on an unmodified Donkey Kong arcade cabinet, as if it were unmodified, he would be playing Radar Scope.
Tagging @Karl Jobst!
He disappointed his dad. This revelation was on the Regular Show final battle.
The original 2,000 donkey Kong cabinets were converted from radar scope but there were upwards of 80,000 units sold in America alone so it's not like every donkey Kong game was a conversion. This isn't exactly a smoking gun that proves Billy Mitchell is a liar and a cheater. But there's enough evidence of that already anyways lol
@@JaredConnellCalm down, dude. It's just a joke.
@@will4688 Brokeenn boooooones!
Slick new intro to ring in the New Year. Lookin good Mr. Joe Sack.
i've kinda sick of watching the same 2018 game sack intro that hasn't been changed until 2024 because this channel never dies and never gets retired along with AVGN scott the woz nor happyconsolegamer because retro gaming channels on youtube still living place in my heart for entertaiment
We've entered the Rotoscoped Joe era of Game Sack.
RotoJoed
Looks Sketchy 😁
this man has listening to take on me on repeat because of the mario movie just saw last year in cinema
Ah yes, the "Take on Me" era. I'm also waiting for the "Money for Nothing" era, and eventually the cursed claymation "Tool" era, lol.
Kudos to the person who made that Hotel Dusk: Room 215 esc intro :D
The Hotel Dusk duology is something long overdue for a rerelease; given that the Trace Memory duology is coming out on Switch worldwide in the near future, who knows?
All the video thumbnails should be redesigned on that style.
If Another Code Recollection sells well the creator of Hotel Dusk (which is the same) will consider making a remake/remaster of Hotel Dusk.
I was thinking A-ha but I'm old.
I'm thinking the intro was done with ebsynth but I could be wrong
I binged-re-watched the previous 'Left in the Arcade' videos yesterday so this was a treat to sit down to after a *checks watch* 16 hour shift at work.
Love the new intro.
That cat gallop is insane.
8:52 1988? The Sega Model 3 hardware was so powerful, it could go back in time!
They were so ahead of their time😂
Damn! You truly cannot be satisfied without Model 3!
Arcades? Where they're going, you don't need arcades.
Sega Model 3 is an evolutionn
“I'm from the future. I came here in a Sega Model 3 arcade cabinet that you invented. Now I need your help to get back to the year 1988.”
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is not a spinoff. It's the main series. They have changed the name from Yakuza to Like a Dragon to match the Japanese name for the series, and they turned it into a turn-based game. You get the old style in actual spinoffs like Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name and the Judgement games.
Yeah, Infinite Wealth is basically Yakuza 8.
New year, new Game Sack! Bring it on!! Great job as usual.
The end skit is as funny as ever.Happy New Year, Joe and long live Game Sack.
Sega GT's graphics were incredible for 96 even for Arcade.
Agreed!
I thought i was looking at something from the early 2000s. Pretty incredible
Thanks for always making awesome videos! Hope 2024 is a great year full of even more Game Sack!
Thanks a ton! :)
Looks like someone really likes holding the sack😮
Loving the sack on me intro
"Sack on me
Sack me on"
That should be on a t-shirt 👕
I'll be gone
In a sack or twoooo
What a great opening intro!
i remember when i got left at the arcade. it was fun until i ran out of money
@John-PaulHunt-wy7lfwut
Ton of unauthorized Art of Noise samples in Silent Dragon! Would never have known that without this episode -- thanks Joe!
Yep, I was amazed and instantly recognized this woman's yell from its title screen, right from "Close (to the Edit)". Glad to see some people here knows good old English electronic music as well!
Love the intro! Gives me Hotel Dusk vibes.
Or 1980 music video vibes because that’s exactly what it’s from.
Indeed. :)
@@whatjake7898I’m familiar with Take On Me, I was just linking it to games.
Yet again, Joe knocks it out of the park. Thanks for all your efforts, Joe, and a belated Happy New Year to you and yours.
The new intro is SICK! Well done Joe
4:09 love this 100% genuine photo of Shiggy
Good video. One of very few channels that have managed to stay entertaining. And that was good comedic ending. Several of them are gems. Thanks.
thanks for all the years of sacks! i appreciate everything that goes into them
That intro was cool as hell. Happy to see you holding it down 10 years since I've first watched your channel. Say hi to Dave for all of us
Thank you for Dedication and hard work on making these videos.I have been watching for the last 5 years. Love your Cheesy Skits 🤣👍👍
Also, it's hard to think of a look more iconic than the Dreamcast style of super high resolution polygons, with ALMOST enough detail and animation to render convincingly realistic humans.
I have been watching your videos for years now and I just have to say that every time you post one I sit through and watch the whole thing. It's rare that a TH-cam video keeps me paying attention at the length your videos are. You're awesome! Thank you for everything and it's super entertaining and interesting to watch your stuff.
The graphics for Spikeout screams Dreamcast and definitely would sit right at home for the console. I love these bright colours that lots of Dreamcast arcade-style action games had.
16:02, 64th Street A Detective Story is also available via Arcade Archives on Switch/PlayStation 4 & 5.
Yup, was gonna sayvthat
DERP! (window crashes)
New year, new intro. Love the animation, flow of movement. It looks amazing.
Subject of the video: so many games never received home ports. Most I have never heard of, that you covered in this episode. Fun to learn about these lost treasures
64th Street was a precursor for Jaleco's Super Famicom "Rushing Beat" series; early ad screenshots of the original game (released as "Rival Turf" overseas) had the protagonist (also named Rick) dressed in the same pants and overalls combo as 64th St's Rick. He was modified into a Cody clone by the time the game hit the shelves.
love the new intro and the remastered theme!
Thanks. I really like these as it makes me aware of obscure arcade games and i can just rry them on mame
Thanks!
Thanks a bunch!
If you ever do a "Left in the Arcade 11", one game you should review is Kaiser Knuckle/Global Champion (as well as its Dan-Ku-Ga update). Granted it technically did eventually get a home release via the Taito Egret II miniconsole in 2022, but considering that a game featured in this video also got a techincal home release on Evercade, I think that Kaiser Knuckle/Global Champion should also qualify for a LITA review.
These videos always drop when I'm debating jumping out my window. So I appreciate the life sucks distraction lol
Really pleased to see that gems like Spikeout are finally being mentioned more. It's fighting system is near to flawless.
*Super Monkey Ball / Slashout facts:*
• Some of the enemies make cameoes as stone statues in Super Monkey Ball's storm stage (Expert 41-50)
• One of the stages is used as Dr Bad Boon's secret base in Super Monkey Ball 2 (Story Mode cutscene)
• The gear models from the Slashout clock tower stage are used in the Monkey Ball 2 clock tower stage
Being a huge Monkey Ball fan, that is basically the only reason I've played Slashout
Great video! As per usual, in addition to the excellent research into the main topic, the ending skit is pure gold.
Great eh ❤
This is why FPGA hardware will always be the future of retro gaming. There's really no other way to play these games the way they originally functioned, outside of on the original arcade boards.
Oooh, stylish new intro! Who drew that? Was it you or some other guy? I recall that you were a good artist.
I did!
You rotoscoped it huh? Looks good!
Very cool intro!
A-ha, a new intro. Nice one.
I've always wanted to play Scud Race. Hoping to see it show up on PSN or in a Yakuza game one day. Loved the intro!
I loved the yakuza games. Been doing a marathon of finally beating the games. Couple of months ago I went from 0 to 6 games I beat.
I believe most of them are on gamepass
Silent Dragon - Wow, someone was listening to a lot of Art of Noise when they did that music.
I usually don’t like change, but that intro was fire
It is unbelivable that Toshihiro Nagoshi has left Sega after so many decades. He's probably gone to live in a stranded paradisiacal island along with Yu Suzuki and Yuji Naka 😬
Hopefully it isn’t linked to the last paradisical resort island popular among rich successful men :P
Now I have to wonder if going to live in a paradisiacal island would violate Yuji Naka's probation and which would land him in jail
@@Jofe000 Haha, Yuji Naka is a lucky b@stard, he escaped from jail by a hair!
Another left in the arcade? Again?
THANK YOU, Joe! It feels like that cozy show you watch at Sundays that we have no more. ❤
(loved that intro)
Ooooh yeah, new Game Sack video… it’s cozy time 😁
Hey Joe, I haven’t binged your stuff in a while. It’s really cool to check in every now and then and see you’re still going great. Love the channel!
I can picture some Sega Engineer, drunk and watching Radar Scope, and thinking "Hey, we can make something really cool with sprite scaling!"
I love the new intro. Kudos to the artist!
The new intro looks awesome! There are so many games listed here that I still wish got released on console, like SCUD Race, and I had no idea about Planet Harrier! Another excellent episode, Joe!
Love the consistency of this channel. Can always come back and find new content to go through. Thanks!
8:51 That looks amazing for a game that came out in "1988."
He mess up It came out in 1998. 😂
The worst part about Planet Harriers is that Hikaru boards are notoriously fragile due to defective soldering on the BGAs which will pop off the board if they are handled roughly or sometimes just due to heat cycling putting stress on the solder joints. Every Hikaru board is on borrowed time and will eventually unalive itself at some point by means of one of the BGAs falling off the PCB just from being used.
Couldn't they just be resoldered? Doesn't sound like an unrepairable problem.
kinda reminds me of Konami specific board where it contains a "suicide battery" where the component will stop working at the designated date.
New year, new fancy intro. Thx for everything, Joe.
Great video as always. Love that intro too.
What an awesome intro! Now, you just need that "take on me" song in the background and your set Bro! Salud from Chicago! 🍻💥🍻👍
Loved the video. Glad to see Joe starting off the new year with a great video! Also, love the new intro!
I’ve learned about some great games I wasn’t aware of by watching these, great episode as usual and the new intro looks great!!!
Always love these episodes and many thanks for reminding me that Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth is out soon, amazing series and made sure to order my copy when the section mentioning it came up. Absolutely adore the "digital tourism" those games provide along with the great functional arcades that include stuff like Virtual Fighter 2/5, Virtual On, Fighting Vipers, and more.
love this joe thank you!!!
I love the new intro Joe!
Fresh new year and the freshest of fresh new GameSack.....ah....smells super fresh.
my favorite series from my favorite gaming channel
Amazing.! new year, new gamesack. Well done to the whole team for reinventing gamesack but chirpier and quicker. Deadmeat done the same and never looked back. I will always watch every single episode every year. Great job gamesack (and dave) 😅👍
Fun fact:
Yakuza actually also reuses animation from Spikeout like for example, Mine who is the final boss of Yakuza 3 reuses animations from White
Wanted to drop a comment for props on the new intro. Not sure how you made it but I love it. Super cool. Oh… and of course that ending was no slouch either 😂. Maybe someday I’ll have the bravery to pull that on camera. On second thought, for the sake of my audience I’ll refrain 😅
Love this show always helps me to sleep 👍🏻
I LOVE THE NEW INTRO!! Keep up the great work Joe! Thanks to this series I've found many new games to play with the boyz!
You're among the best on TH-cam Joe.
Wooo first Gamesack video of 2024 and with a cool new intro!
ooh yeah! Funky JET was my favorite game for a long time back in the arcade! ❤
Somebody should make a montage of Joe saying things like:
"..but Sega decided to cancel it, because they hate all of us"
and
"if you like to be able to (blank), then you can go straight to hell, because there's none of that here"
(I've heard many variations of that over the years, and makes me laugh every time)
Game sack 2024 already poppin off
Loved the variety on this list! Please talk about Gun Ball/Nitro Ball
Nitro Ball has a home port via Johnny Turbo's Arcade collection! Or well... it did before it (and all the other games) was unceremoniously delisted from the eshop a few months ago.
Love the new intro Joe. I'm starting this New Year better than I have in a decade, and a fresh episode of 'Sack is making it even better.
These are my favorite episodes I think.
I hear that "hey" sound effect from silent dragon and i instantly think of the song "fire starter" by the prodigy.
I'm the trouble starter, punkin' instigator!
That opening
The 1st Game Sack video of 2024. Gonna be an interesting one topic wise.
Joe, you've been at this for a long time and it just keeps getting better. Please don't change a thing.
New year, new Intro!!! Awesome!!!
A-HA! I love the new intro!
Awesome intro for the 2024 sack season 😮
Joe! That intro!!
This is my favourite topic as i use mame all the time!
Spectacular episode!
29:31 THE best part of the video and one of the funniest things ever done on the series 😂
Me: "I'll go to bed early tonight."
Maury: "The new Game Sack video determined that was a lie."
Dude that intro was incredible! Got those Take On Me vibes. Well done, Joe!
Awesome new intro Joe, happy new year ! Looking forward to another year of sack in my face.
Stylish new intro was great, ending skit was great, and the stuff in the middle was ok too! 😉
Ah another great video from my favorite sack based gaming channel.
I love arcade game videos. Happy New year bro🎉
Love the rodoscoped intro! Reminds me of Hotel Dusk and Last Window!
The transition from Saturday to Sunday watching a new gamesack episode is just 🛐
Dude looking so forward to 2024 keep up the good work!
I love the intro!!
(As well as the rest of the video, of course)