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Hoss Corncave posted:You can probably chalk that up to Platinum. Oh cool, yeah I'll note all these. Some of the Konami titles we have coming up aren't beat em ups per se. They really seem to have had an oddball experimental phase that I never knew about before. That said, we also have some lesser known relics from Capcom and non-extant companies that we unearthed, too; I am actually surprised at the sophistication of a few of these games from the late 70's/early 80's period; one wonders why Donkey Kong came to define that period in game history when there were considerably more repayable games available. Marketing?
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Lemma posted:Oh cool, yeah I'll note all these. Some of the Konami titles we have coming up aren't beat em ups per se. They really seem to have had an oddball experimental phase that I never knew about before. That said, we also have some lesser known relics from Capcom and non-extant companies that we unearthed, too; I am actually surprised at the sophistication of a few of these games from the late 70's/early 80's period; one wonders why Donkey Kong came to define that period in game history when there were considerably more repayable games available. Marketing? Maybe it's the World Warrior effect. Despite the fact that Street Fighter III was a superior game and the character designs were far superior, because it wasn't successful, most people still want the original twelve SFII characters and Cammy and Akuma. That's why they were all in SFIV and why 7 of the 9 announced SFV characters are in that group of 14 and why I'm not hyped for the game at all. Anyway, back on topic, if they've got it emulated properly now, you could try Lucky and Wild. The last time I tried it was a several years back. The game ran, but the second player's controls were dodgy so you couldn't shoot.
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Hoss Corncave posted:Maybe it's the World Warrior effect. Despite the fact that Street Fighter III was a superior game and the character designs were far superior, because it wasn't successful, most people still want the original twelve SFII characters and Cammy and Akuma. That's why they were all in SFIV and why 7 of the 9 announced SFV characters are in that group of 14 and why I'm not hyped for the game at all. Yeah, that sounds right. The Sandler Principle. Lucky and Wild; cool. I'll be sure to add it to the list. We have a ton of games both requested and found and we'll try to get to them all in time. Meanwhile… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_3bvXBDyT8 New LP is up; this time it's Two Crewd, otherwise known as Two Crude Dudes. It's pretty unremarkable for a beat em up, mechanics-wise- there isn't even a pseudo z-axis. However, it's always fun to bask in the sheer insanity of early 90's imaginings of the apocalypse. This is also one of the better commentaries we managed to record; we're starting to really get the hang of it by this point. Hope you like Rocky Horror anecdotes.
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Hoss Corncave posted:Maybe it's the World Warrior effect. Despite the fact that Street Fighter III was a superior game and the character designs were far superior, because it wasn't successful, most people still want the original twelve SFII characters and Cammy and Akuma. That's why they were all in SFIV and why 7 of the 9 announced SFV characters are in that group of 14 and why I'm not hyped for the game at all. We can definitely put Lucky and Wild on the list (I'm one of the guys who is part of the Let's Play, finally made an SA account). Hopefully Lemme is able to come down here often enough to be able to record stuff a little more often than we normally do. By the way, when we do "Season 2" would it be unwelcome if we started another thread? I might be taking over if that is the case, since I can't edit Lemma's front page post, and potentially anything new we put would be a hassle to find if you had to go digging for the posts. If not, I'm sure we can work something out. Also about Street Fighter, I think SF3 is probably too technical for the average schmo, almost everyone in the cast was a new character (except Ken and Ryu, and Akuma and Chun-Li in Third Strike), most of the cast used charged moves, and the introduction of the parry system seemed to turn people off, which is why I think SFII always did better.
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Lemma posted:Yeah, that sounds right. The Sandler Principle. AMovieReference posted:We can definitely put Lucky and Wild on the list (I'm one of the guys who is part of the Let's Play, finally made an SA account). Hopefully Lemme is able to come down here often enough to be able to record stuff a little more often than we normally do. Cool, looking forward to it. Lemma posted:Meanwhile… Ah, Two Crude Dudes. A favourite of mine and a friend's. We played the Megadrive version though, which had a few differences (the stages were slightly different, graphics and animation weren't as great), but the game was pretty much the same. You could do some stupid stuff in that game like grabbing flying hovercraft out of the air, and picking up tanks. Also, the end of stage vending machine was a bonus stage and not just a transition. It was stupid though, because you had to attack the machine, then drink the can that came out to regain health. However, drinking took a while, and you could be hit by your partner, which always leads to petty squabbles and in the end you went into the next stage with less health than you started with. AMovieReference posted:Also about Street Fighter, I think SF3 is probably too technical for the average schmo, almost everyone in the cast was a new character (except Ken and Ryu, and Akuma and Chun-Li in Third Strike), most of the cast used charged moves, and the introduction of the parry system seemed to turn people off, which is why I think SFII always did better. It might also have been because SFII was on every console at the time, more people had a chance to play it. SFIII was only on the Dreamcast at first. Also, due to me being a massive nerd and filling my brain with inane and pedantic nonsense, I think there were more charge based characters in SFII. Honda, Guile, Chun, Blanka, Balrog, Vega, Bison, Deejay (who were all purely charge aside from Balrog's Turn Punch and Honda's Oicho Throw) as opposed to Oro, Urien, Remy, and Q, with all of them having motion commands as well (with Alex and Chun-li having one charge move each). I could be so much further on in life had I actually learned something useful.
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New episode out today, this one is "Escape From the Planet of the Robot Monsters". Probably one of the longest damned names I've ever seen for an arcade title. It's pretty. . . interesting as well. This one is also another "proof of concept" title, but worry not, it's still pretty decent, and the last of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nuRqtT0eX4 Only two more episodes until "Season 2" start, which means we'll start putting out videos that include the requests that some of you put up on here. Thanks for watching folks!
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AMovieReference posted:New episode out today, this one is "Escape From the Planet of the Robot Monsters". Huh. That's pretty cool. Kinda a robot-themed fake-3D isometric Gauntlet. And, wonder of wonders, it's not another damned side-scrolling brawler!!
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Glad you enjoyed the concept Ghostwoods, the game was interesting but I think Nick was killing the vibe with how much trouble he was having playing the game. I would have liked to go further into it. Also new video, that is not a side scrolling beat 'em up either! It's "Gunbarich". The game is kinda like Brick Break in a way but different in that it has bosses and other interesting elements. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePhvNZkckyE
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Good old Gunbarich. Though we have some way better puzzle type games coming up soon-ish. Next week, then, I believe will be Konami's early magnum opus. For real, I wish I knew more about the background of this game. Best I can guess is it has something to do with the "Yankee" fashion trend and subculture of the early 80's. Maybe someday we'll find a Deco-tora themed game. (Which would be amazing.)
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There was a period where the nearby basement arcade would just like, stock themselves with a bunch of weird Japanese games (which isn't 100% legal I think...) and they had this driving game where you were in a deco-tora truck. The cabinet would rock violently as you tried to race your semi to the finish line.
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Choco1980 posted:There was a period where the nearby basement arcade would just like, stock themselves with a bunch of weird Japanese games (which isn't 100% legal I think...) and they had this driving game where you were in a deco-tora truck. The cabinet would rock violently as you tried to race your semi to the finish line. Oh man. Now I will have to make it my life's quest to find the deco-tora game. Wonderfully enough there are people in the world who know what the hell I'm talking about. Though, that does remind me of the most unpleasant arcade experience of my life: there was some game in Funspot in Laconia, it was like a fighter jet game, and you sat in a little cockpit. It didn't move or tilt around, but whenever you get killed the seat would buck, like a powerful shock would be punched directly into your back. The whole seat, like, hit you. It was god awful and made me genuinely not want to ever play it again. This would count as the only game that was actually physically painful to play, except maybe Wii Sports if you have clumsy friends.
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Choco1980 posted:There was a period where the nearby basement arcade would just like, stock themselves with a bunch of weird Japanese games (which isn't 100% legal I think...) and they had this driving game where you were in a deco-tora truck. The cabinet would rock violently as you tried to race your semi to the finish line. Are you talking about Truck Kyosokyoku?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTs-v2N3QEw&t=147s (Jump ahead to 2:27 to skip menus and loading screens and stuff)
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EDIT: ^^^ o_O I'm not convinced that harvesting road-tuna is considered sanitary...AMovieReference posted:Also new video, that is not a side scrolling beat 'em up either! It's "Gunbarich". The game is kinda like Brick Break in a way but different in that it has bosses and other interesting elements. That's pretty cool, actually. Arkanoid by way of Gradius and pinball is an interesting mash-up.
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FredMSloniker posted:Are you talking about Truck Kyosokyoku? Maybe, it's been a while. For some reason my brain inserted a kidnapping plot into the game, but otherwise it looks and sounds right. Every shift and tilt you see of the cab in that video, the seat would tilt in accordance. Between that and the lumbering elephant style of steering a semi has, it's a lot harder to play than it looks Ghostwoods posted:EDIT: ^^^ o_O I'm not convinced that harvesting road-tuna is considered sanitary... Makes me think to request Quarth for the LP. It's kinda like tetris or arkanoid meets space invaders. Had a few ports.
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Man, my dream is to one day have a racing game cabinet in my house. I can't decide if it would be something like Hydro Thunder, or San Francisco Rush: 2049. The coolest (and most difficult) one I've seen was this really awesome looking F-Zero game, where you sat in an actual pod and everything. I remember the controller being slightly broken, so I didn't get the full experience, but I think the whole cart moved the way the vehicle did in the game too.
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AMovieReference posted:Man, my dream is to one day have a racing game cabinet in my house. I can't decide if it would be something like Hydro Thunder, or San Francisco Rush: 2049. Probably F-Zero AX, the arcade version of the Gamecube's GX, which was a collaboration between Nintendo (publisher), Sega (developer), and Namco (hardware manufacturer). It's considered by many as the best F-Zero game and one of the finest racers of all time.
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The funny/sad thing is, Google as I might, I can find scarcely any info whatsoever on Gunabrich. Seems like this one hit the depths of obscurity pretty quick. I always like to see a game we liked available on Xbox Live or Steam or some such, but this one seems lost to the mists of time. AMovieReference posted:Man, my dream is to one day have a racing game cabinet in my house. I can't decide if it would be something like Hydro Thunder, or San Francisco Rush: 2049. DO-do-DO-do-DO-do-DO-DO DAYYYYTOONNNAAAAAAAAA FredMSloniker posted:Are you talking about Truck Kyosokyoku? Man, I love how utterly annihilating a family sedan is met with a whopping 20 second penalty. Only in Chiller is life regarded as cheap.
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Lemma posted:The funny/sad thing is, Google as I might, I can find scarcely any info whatsoever on Gunabrich. Seems like this one hit the depths of obscurity pretty quick. I always like to see a game we liked available on Xbox Live or Steam or some such, but this one seems lost to the mists of time. I tried googleing something downloadable called Gun of a Bitch to make a joke, but apparently the only thing applicable with that name is a porn comic.
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JFairfax posted:Ummmm Oh God, I can't even imagine having that thing taking up so much room in my place. I'm sure my roommate would be pretty impressed with something like that. It make me think of this Gundam game I played over in Japan where you get into this full pod that closes and it plays kinda like Virtual On. If we ever got big enough, I think it'd be cool to go visit arcades across the world and kinda showcase them on the show or something. Most places I've been to in recent history are turning into Barcades, and mostly feature "beat 'em ups" or fighting games, which makes sense when you're drinking, but I wanna find the truly bizarre games, like in the past.
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It's been several years since I visited it, and last time it seemed slightly more "traditional" in its game choices, but that arcade I mentioned before with all the weird and probably illegal in this country Japanese games had some really goofy gimmick ones. I remember there was a music game ala Guitar Hero where you waved your hands in front of panels, essentially making it a "Theramin Hero" game. Also I remember a cool motion-based boxing game where you stuck these controller-gloves on and actually bobbed and weaved to dodge incoming punches as well as punched at air to hit your opponent. It was an incredible workout actually.
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Choco1980 posted:It's been several years since I visited it, and last time it seemed slightly more "traditional" in its game choices, but that arcade I mentioned before with all the weird and probably illegal in this country Japanese games had some really goofy gimmick ones. I remember there was a music game ala Guitar Hero where you waved your hands in front of panels, essentially making it a "Theramin Hero" game. Also I remember a cool motion-based boxing game where you stuck these controller-gloves on and actually bobbed and weaved to dodge incoming punches as well as punched at air to hit your opponent. It was an incredible workout actually. I think the Theramin Hero game was ParaParaParadise which works the way you describe. The idea is it's supposed to be like dancing at a rave. It was not.
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Choco1980 posted:It's been several years since I visited it, and last time it seemed slightly more "traditional" in its game choices, but that arcade I mentioned before with all the weird and probably illegal in this country Japanese games had some really goofy gimmick ones. I remember there was a music game ala Guitar Hero where you waved your hands in front of panels, essentially making it a "Theramin Hero" game. Also I remember a cool motion-based boxing game where you stuck these controller-gloves on and actually bobbed and weaved to dodge incoming punches as well as punched at air to hit your opponent. It was an incredible workout actually. Theramin Hero… seems un-ironically like something they'd have tried to roll out on Kinect. You aren't playing an instrument by waving your hands? Are you? Are you sure you aren't thinking of that one DJ game that's supposed to be horrifically complex? LIke, you have a turntable and a bunch of sound control switches and everything? I think the turntable in that works not by actually spinning but with some kind of weird sensor like that.
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Now, it took longer than I realized, but here's one of those wacky Konami experiments of the Before Time. I give you: High School Graffiti Mikie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBP9AV6wIAs This also means that we'll probably be getting to the first requested games next week! Keep a look out for one of yours if you requested one!
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Now that is one weird and hosed up game. EDIT: http://acimon.cocolog-nifty.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/2012/12/23/seal_056.jpg This image makes things a lot clearer. Ghostwoods fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Sep 1, 2015 |
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Lemma posted:Theramin Hero… seems un-ironically like something they'd have tried to roll out on Kinect. Looking it up, I Don't Know was right, it was Para Para Paradise. Also, this Mikie game is amazing.
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Ghostwoods posted:Now that is one weird and hosed up game. I'm glad you posted that picture, everything makes more sense now! Choco1980 posted:Looking it up, I Don't Know was right, it was Para Para Paradise. Yeah, we all love Mikie. I want everyone in the world to know about Mikie. If you have any sort of social media outlet, scream into it about the wonders of Mikie. If we could somehow overshadow the release of Metal Gear Solid V by brining up this gem to the masses, I. . . I think I'd weep tears of joy.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikie Wow, the game just keeps getting better. You guys didn't see that you could pick up the basketballs in the second room in the corners and hurl them at the faculty. Later the cooks throw beef legs at you. This game is amazing and shouldn't be so unknown...
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Ghostwoods posted:Now that is one weird and hosed up game. Wow, interesting find. That version says it's set in an office, you play as "Tooru-kun", and that the hearts are messages from your girlfriend. I guess Mikie was an art swap for western markets a la Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean Machine. I kind of like better the premise of starcrossed lovers deciding to trash their office and run away together, to what fate we can never know. Perhaps they run an onsen together in Aomori. Surely less bleak than young Mikie's prospects, his rear end is bound for juvie.
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Lemma posted:Wow, interesting find. That version says it's set in an office, you play as "Tooru-kun", and that the hearts are messages from your girlfriend. I guess Mikie was an art swap for western markets a la Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean Machine. I kind of like better the premise of starcrossed lovers deciding to trash their office and run away together, to what fate we can never know. Perhaps they run an onsen together in Aomori. Surely less bleak than young Mikie's prospects, his rear end is bound for juvie. I kind of think that it's about time Mikie gets a sequel. The second game could start similar to the opening to "The Blues Brothers", where it's been 30 years, and Mikie is finally released from prison. He of course has no high school degree, so he has to go back to school in his 50s, but he can't hack what life has become, everything is far too different. He decides to go on one last violent spree of trashing his school and trying to relive that one fateful day before he spends the rest of his life in prison or suicide by cops. His Magnum Opus.
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Dunno if you're into shmups at all, but I request that you play some selections from Toaplan's library. They were a little behind technology-wise in the 80's compared to the big guys, but in the early 90s they caught up and the last 4 games they did (Batsugun, V-Five, Dogyuun, Truxton 2, plus Outzone which is a run-n-gun) are spectacular. Their older stuff (Sky Shark, Twin Cobra, for example), while a bit rough-looking/sounding is well designed and widely regarded as classic and highly influential on the genre. Overall I'd say they are my favorite arcade dev.
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Hey all, so as you may have noticed (who am I kidding, you probably don't think about us unless we post something here) we didn't have anything out on Thursday. That's because we're doing a new schedule for this "season" of Mon/Wed/Fri. So instead of 2 videos a week, get up to 3. Hopefully we can maintain this standard for a while, as we've got lots of content coming up. W also made a new intro that's specific to each video that is playing, hopefully you guys will enjoy it, and not get too sick of it. First up is Chiller. It's. . . it's really a game that existed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1tvlZ6zzIc You can also check out the playlist if you're new to us, which I can't link to because SA keeps trying to shorten everything I put in here.
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Exidy were American, and did a bunch of second-string arcade games. Larry Hutcherson was the guy responsible for Chiller, which sold well "in the third world". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exidy Ghostwoods fucked around with this message at 16:36 on Sep 7, 2015 |
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Ghostwoods posted:Exidy were American, and did a bunch of second-string arcade games. Larry Hutcherson was the guy responsible for Chiller, which sold well "in the third world". Yeah, we looked into it and found that as well. I found some other random tidbits about the game, especially about the unofficial port to the NES. By the way, forgot to mention, we're starting up with the requested videos on Wednesday. We tried to get at least one from everyone because we have a complicated filming schedule, since we're geographically displaced by several hundred miles across the country.
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AMovieReference posted:Yeah, we looked into it and found that as well. I found some other random tidbits about the game, especially about the unofficial port to the NES. I was kinda amused by how dry the Wikipedia article managed to be. Even at the time, that must have been a really unpleasant release -- as it says, lots of US arcades wouldn't even let it in. Seriously mad stuff.
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Ghostwoods posted:Exidy were American, and did a bunch of second-string arcade games. Larry Hutcherson was the guy responsible for Chiller, which sold well "in the third world". Yeah, somehow that adds to the strange and terrible mythology of this game. Like imagine this and some soccer game are all there are in some dusty bazaar in Tanzania. It's like a full Twilight Zone denouement.
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Chiller. I'm going to use this as the game that will make my friend go "What the...?" on Friday. He's going to use Harvester on me.
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Chiller is definitely a game alright. The NES port was the easiest go-to illustration for why not having the "Nintendo seal of approval" meant a game was poo poo. Even emulated, that thing is buggy as hell and half the time flat out doesn't work. It has all the care put into it of an Action 52. The fact that most other non-approved NES games worked just fine (such as the world of Color Dreams/Wisdom Tree) don't matter, it's the one bad apple that ruins the bunch. Also, just going to say it, I liked the music to the first intro better, but that's just me.
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It's funny because the opening seems to have a polarizing reception, either people hated the first one and love this one, or loved the first one and hate this. I had considered re-recording the first song and just using it again, but I figured since the opening was so different than before I wanted to make a new song for it. Hopefully it's not too off putting to ruin the show for you.
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