Classic Game Room - 1943: THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY review for NES
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Classic Game Room reviews 1943: THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY on the Nintendo Entertainment System NES. What a SHMUP in the SHMUPS genre! The sequel to the classic Capcom arcade hit, 1942 (released to the arcades in 1984), 1943 featured familiar vertical scroller shooting game action. This shoot em up allows you to play as the hero airplane pilot against waves of enemy bad guys in their fighters, bombers and battleships. 1943 came out in the arcades and saw life on the NES in 1988 with this excellent port of an excellent game. It has similar sounds to Bionic Commando in the NES and similar gameplay to 1942: Joint Strike on the Xbox 360 Live Arcade or PS3. In fact CGRHD reviewed 1942 Joint Strike and gave it high marks for being one of the best shooters our there right now. 1943 is easily on of the best vertical scrolling airplane games on the Nintendo and I used the NES Advantage joystick to get this footage. Oddly enough the original Battle of Midway took place in 1942 and starred Charlton Heston. Many sequels have been made including 1944 The Loop Master. Classic Game Room was the original classic video game review show on the Internet in 1999-2000, now on DVD. The reviews on the HD series are reviewing PS3, PS2, Genesis, NES, Atari and Xbox 360. XBLA. videos review reviews show wii trailer. - Zábava
ha nice. I remember playing this one in the arcades too! Who could ever forget a game named 1943?
Your remarks about the 1984 trifecta has got me cracking up
Man I love that opening music.
I just bought this game on Friday, and I picked up the NES advantage for free! What a great combination; the turbo speeds on the Advantage really come in handy. It feels just like the arcade version.
omg i still have this game
Man, 1984 sounds awesome. Review it!!!
awesome, I love this game.
The music is not worse than Bionic Commando. Both are great. The "aviation" sounding themes in 1943 speak of old war film soundtracks, but with more beautiful melodies.
Originally composed by one "Jungle Kumi" (Kumi Yamaga), most of the re-scores heard here were done by Hiroshige ("Perorin") Tonomura. I know this, at least, since the NES version's ending theme shares a similar chord progression as the Moon stage theme from DuckTales, and also the sound effect that plays when you collect a power-up is the exact same sound you hear when Mrs. Beakley drops ice cream cones for Scrooge to recover his health.
i used to LOVE this game played for hours as a young one hah
This was the third game I ever played on the NES "back in the day" I was a beast at it! This bring back great memories. I hope yall did a review on a game called Karnov!
Great video, I recently started booting up 1943 and wondered why it was called 1943 and not 1942. Heh.
Great Review.
I have an arcade machine with 52 old school games like 1942 and 1943. Also, mark's favorite MS. PAC MAN.
What a classic for the game room
Way awesome video man.
Capcom always had quirky power-ups. :)
1984 sounds like my kinda game!
Love the 1984 reference.
This is the best shooter for the NES bar none. I consider Contra more of an action/shooter hybrid. The only thing that held this game back was the fact that it was a one player game. Guevara is good too, but the music, weapon upgrades, bosses, and graphics of 1943 were amazing for its time.
2:52 reminds me of a piece of a battle ship game
@anthonywastrinh what's your point? for years the arcade versions were always superior to the home version but the thing that matter was how close the home version comes to the arcade version given the limitations to the home system it's on. And honestly this is a excellent port of the arcade version and that is all that matters.
I'd watch out if I were you, Inecom; Big Brother's WATCHING you!
Nice video too (smiley face).
This game was fun, but also as hard as HECK!!! I only barely managed to defeat Totaku in the final mission ONCE!!!
one of the best games on the system!
once they memorize our shot pattens we're screwed!
I was flyin' along in my P-38, I saw a Yashichi in the sky.
I swooped on down and I picked it up, and then I did not die.
This was the first shooter I ever played. It kicks all kinds of ass. It's not as good as the arcade original, but still amazing!
My sister was ridiculously good at this game. 1942 also.
Finally bought this game after I, well, finally realized I didn't have it in my collection already! The time to get NES games is now, before they spike up in value any further. I started boosting my NES collecition in 2006 and shouldn't have stopped just a few years later, because some games have gone up 10 to 20 times their original value. Power Blade 2 went from $15 to $225. Ouch. 1943 isn't a rare game, but you never know. Its value went up 5x since 2011. Only from $2 to $10, but damn.
Which is the best fired power for this game? Laser?
5:12
vector man ending
wasn't there a Wind Squid 1984: The Mullet-Battle of Beeronia?
Capcom used to be great at vertical shooters, like on this one. In the late 90's and early 2000's they started making vertical shooters that were quarter eaters and even the home versions were impossible to play without dying a million times even on the easiest seeting. I enjoy games that where if you have skill you can play the game through. The whole screen littered with enemy fire is not fun. I wish capcom would make the shooters more like they used to. Like the people that make Raiden.
attle at midway? how about bally at midway?! get it? t-th-the company tha... ok i'll shut up
6:04 Who can see the bacgrounds for all the enemies and bullets?
GOOD TIMES!
@OmegaDeman I'M BUYING A NES W/ THIS GAME TOMORROW!!!
Need more reviews for the NES please! :3
Me too.
But I didn't hink something was wrong.
Cool game but I always hated that near death music.
In the arcade version it was just a ringing sound; but here they changed it to sound Jaws-like!
Gotta love old classic games with sound that tried to hurt your ears lol
classic game, still play this game when i have the chance and still own the NES cart. but damn i hate that low energy music that came on during the battle, so nerve racking
This video (and 1943) needs some love in 2020!
sisters of the time were better than any of us.
i play this game a lot in emulators when i was a kid, now i wanna buy it but is too much fucking expensive :(
1943 on the 360 is a good remake
Excellent and funny review.
Another badass review. Will you ever do 1944?
Fan-made hack, sorry.
Wow. A 1988 vertical shooter with RPG elements. That's rad! Oh and I'm pretty sure this video's intro is Lord Karnage approved.
We need a national holiday to commemorate all the mindless drones that lost their lives in fictional battles for our entertainment
i sooooo so so so so muchly miss CGR reviews, ah well i guess he had to move on, to another galaxy where entertaining game reviews are much needed for the sake of alienkind!? :P
the enemy would most likely be the japanese
SO that is how the U.S won the war in the Pacific... Magic Cows..
You sir have an awesome voice. XD
I always have and always will hate the low fuel song. It's like the constant beeping when you're low on health in a Zelda game- loud and obnoxious.
I have it on the pacman plus machine
Lol.....'Magic Teepee'. Too funny. But hey, I can't do any better. I have no idea what that thing is supposed to be. My brother and I always just called it 'The Rock' or 'Dragonfly' for those special points that give you two upgrades instead of 1.
i disagree with the music being much worse than Bionic Commando. I would say the other way around, then again i grew up playing 1943 first instead of Bionic Commando
The music actually reminds me a bit of Mike Tyson's Punch Out!
Ugh....didn't even mention that P-38 Lightnings were ARMY planes that never flew off carriers. The history on this game was notoriously bad. Really fun game, though. Also, Turbo Key totally cheapens the great challenge balance of this game. It's tough, but not unconquerable.
which is really funny cause the whole thing is from japan
Hold down b
I love this game even though I don’t have a NES I still have emulators and stuff
Btw in the game you fight japan
Someone need to make "1984" a real game.
Ninteng fourty three...
Is it me, or does Mark just seem blah in this particular review?
The arcade is better
LRN 2 graze danmaku, you nub.
Wow, what a refusal to suspend your belief to review a video game.