Chris you got to be joking, Star Wars was ported to the 2600, 5200 and a whole bunch of other computer consoles at the time even though it really wasn't ported as a vector game. The only thing that could come close was the Vectrex and it was too underpowered to handle it. Only years later did we get a Homebrew that kind of sucked
@@irategamer it's no biggie, every one of us who watch your videos just watch it for fun. Got to say I love your analogy of The Phantom Menace, everyone loves to Monday Morning Quarterback. I also apply this to the Game Genie, helping me give continues on those early arcade ports
I remember playing the vector version on our old Macintosh Plus when I was about four or five. It should have been around 1988. I remember the coolest thing about it was the three or so digitized lines from the movie - "That's great kid, now don't get cocky!", "Look at the size of that thing" and "Let's blow this thing and go home". 20 years later I realized it was actually an arcade game.
This is why I love living in the era of MAME, all those ports at the comfort of my home. Even special backgrounds on some games to give a full arcade look. And if I decided that I want to, can play the home port versions too. Very good era to be alive in.
well, this is interesting, lately i am getting super excited when i see a new video from Irate gamer....real quality videos and a channel that i think deserves more love from the public.
I miss the old Arcade days of the early 90's. I still remember, as a kid, seeing the MKII(Mortal Kombat 2 for the kiddos out there) arcade cabinet being assembled at my local arcade(Alladin's Castle). That arcade was always packed.
Not many people had 3DO. I loved mine but the biggest issue was how they handled the 2nd player port on the 1st player controller. Killed games like Mad Dog McCree
Chris, you have no idea how good it makes me feel to see the Irate gamer back in action and with AVGN's blessing. You and James are the example to the rest of the internet how to be adults. way to go and keep the vids coming.
When i was a kid i used to play Capcom 1942 in arcade, for my birthday my father got me the nes port. At first i was like "the heck is this game, it doesn't look like the original". Then i ended loving the port because is was a bit easier and i could play it whenever i want ( i used to live far away from big cities with arcade places)
I'm happy you kept your passion for classic gaming. I always liked your original videos when they first came out. I was never a hater. Seeing this resurgence in classic youtube channels I'm happy to know you're one of the ones that returned.
2 hours in and 2.1k views way to go man keep it up. And one arcade ports that have to talk about someday is T2 the Arcade Game that went on Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis
I gotta say, your writing and sense of humor has come a long way since you first started the Irate Gamer show! Every episode's been entertaining since the AVGN crossover. Keep at it Chris, the fan reception speaks for itself!! P.S... I've completed Ghosts N' Goblins arcade without using any continues at all. It was a long and agonizing journey, but it was worth it for one of the most atmospheric games of the mid-80's. Always gives you the spooks when an imp suddenly spawns under your feet !!
AWESOME VIDEO! I didn't want it to end! I hope we can see more of theses Arcade and Console Ports comparisons in the next video! PLEASE! P.S: GAME ON , CHRIS! \w/
Chris thanks for this video brought lots of good memories when i was a kid and go play these games at the arcade. Keep up the great work really glad to see you back with the irate gamer character. Peace brother.
Maybe you could make a review of those mini hand held arcade games that AVGN never reviewed even though it showed him playing them in his X-Men and Magnavox Odyssey reviews during the first few seconds of the intros. They're those things that are always behind him on his shelf during his reviews.
Commodore Amiga version's one of the most impressive ports out there, having to be squeezed on 4 floppies and all the animation hand drawn from scratch!
@@kyokusagani8869 Of course not all the levels could be included on those four disks, so we also got Escape From Singe's Castle which included many more on (I think) five more disks. And could be linked to work with the first game, though it's amazingly a PITA to do so via emulation.
Both “Ghosts ‘n Goblins” and “1942” are developed by Micronics, and Capcom published it for the NES. Micronics became the worst video game developer to put out poorly made arcade ports for the NES. “Ikari Warriors” and “Tiger-Heli” are both bad, and it was also developed by Micronics.
Hey Chris, I'm surprised you didn't mention Double Dragon (which was both an arcade game then ported to the NES - which was a pretty good port) as well as Kung Fu Master/Kung Fu on the NES...
Great vid Chris. You know they did make a port of the Star Wars Arcade Game for the 32x. It is a little different though. Since it does not have the wire frame. But would be a cool side review. Keep up the great work man.
The Burgertime 2600 version enemies were: Mr hot dog Mr Egg Mr breadstick Mr Cheese (I suppose he’s Velveeta). I recall that MNetworks (a division of Mattel) focused more on the port for the Intellivision
Sounds like Coleco with Donkey Kong :D (speaking of which- why isn't this port mentioned? The Coleco Adam version even had all four levels if I recall correctly)
Star Wars the Arcade Game was ported to many diffrent systems including the Atari 2600. The Commodore 64 had two diffrent versions. I never realized they never made a version for the NES though. But then again I never owned an NES. Just my 2600 and my C=64 until I bought my first Windows 98 PC in January of 1999.
You forgot to mention that Ms. Pac Man had a two player co-op mode in the arcades, while the ports didn’t allow you to play two players. I used to go to Tilt that had that particular game, it’s the Midway version not Namco arcade!
@Folk Raven-Bear back then it was exclusive to arcades, the Genesis port had it, but there hasn’t been the full arcade game with two players co-op because it wasn’t made by Namco, but it was Tengen.
Er- I lived during Ms. Pac-man's time and it most certainly did not have two-player co-op. It was a single joystick game same as its predecessor. In fact, it started life as a third-party mod for Pac-man cabinets called Crazy Otto before Midway (note: not Namco though they knew about it) officially endorsed it and released it as Ms. Pac-man in its own cabinet. As others have mentioned, it was later console ports that had the co-op action.
@Qun Mang I played the Midway-Atari versions of Ms. Pac Man in the arcades back in the mid-1980s, because it was a special cabinet made for two players to play simultaneously. It was my favorite version of Ms pac man, because it had that experience with playing co-op at the mall!
@@Markimark151 Midway-Atari version? Are you sure you're remembering correctly? That doesn't sound like any official version released. Could it have been a console version hacked for the arcade perhaps? Or Playchoice 10 (though it isn't on the list of Playchoice 10 NES games)? Tengen did make an NES port of Ms. Pacman, albeit around 1988 or so, and Tengen was Atari, so... If it was genuinely the arcade version, it could also have been some prototype being location tested, though I'm highly skeptical about any involvement from Atari in that case as it simply wasn't their game. If you have a link to any information I would be interested to read about this machine.
I spent most of my life in a super small town in NW Kansas. Population of 300. Literally the only arcade games I ever got to see and play was whatever the Pizza Hut in the next town would have - and they didn't change them up very often at all. So I didn't learn that a lot of games I grew up loving were arcade ports until my late 20s!
Once again Chris makes a fantastic video and I love arcade gaming, had some great memories back in the 90s Can’t wait for the next video Chris See you next game
I had spyhunter for the Comadore 64. It was my favorite game for the system. It’s a shame they never ported WrestleFest to the home consoles. I played it every time I found it in the arcade (still do). But as the years went by it got harder and harder to find. It got to the point the only place i could find it was at the campground me and my grandparents would vacation at. Beach or boating all day, then off to the arcade room until close. Haven’t thought about that stuff in probably 20 years. Thanks for reminding me.
Chris, you forgot to mention the colecovision version of Donkey Kong. Back then it was pretty impressive as it was the closest thing to an authentic Donkey Kong arcade experience at home but by now it vaguely resembles the arcade game in terms of graphics. The Atari 7800 version of Donkey Kong came out after the NES version and was based on the NES version, like the NES version, the pie factory level is completely absent.
Very entertaining and informative video as usual for Chris, but I was surprised no mention of "Double Dragon", one of the biggest Arcade Hits of the Decade with tons of very bad to mediocre home conversions.
So, about that 2600 Donkey Kong: it was originally released by Coleco, and there was a popular theory at the time that Coleco intentionally made it bad so that the version for their own ColecoVision console (which was decently close to the arcade game, though like the NES version it didn't have the "pie factory" level) would look even better by comparison. Don't know if anyone ever turned up hard evidence for it, or explained why Atari themselves later rereleased this piece of trash.
I was on a 6-month pre-order list at Sears when the 2600 Pac-Man port came out. When I finally got it I was extremely disappointed. As were all my friends, and everybody I knew that purchased the game.
My first console was the Atari 2600, but man when the Nes came out you realized just how inferior the Atari was. On a side note I've also always pronounced Tengen with a soft G. I know a lot of purests go for that hard G, but the soft version always seemed like the correct way to me. A shame that we hardly see arcades anymore though. Some of my best memories as a child and teen were at the arcade. Great stuff as always Chris!
Irate gamer and AVGN are without question the best video game critics on CZcams along with gaming critics. You should do reviews for both old and new games and consoles along with AVGN, given you both are legendary critics online now on CZcams.
That Starwars arcade game was ported plenty of times. The Atari ST, Amiga, ZX Spectrum had it for sure and I think there was an Atari 2600 and a 5200 version too.
Noice. I just reviewed Donkey Kong (NES) last week and received a message from "Billy Mitchell" for referring to him as a cheating douche. I also have a review for Pac-Man (NES) coming in November. October will be all about horror themed games...although there are ghosts chasing Pac-Man around the maze...hmm...
Great episode, if I could point out one hiccup, the footage you used for the "Ikari Warriors" segment was actually from the sequel "Ikari Warriors II". But yeah, there are times where ports of classic arcade games, looking at you "Dragon's Lair", are inferior to the arcade version, while other times arcade games are inferior to console ports, prime example being "Ninja Gaiden". I don't think I've ever seen the "Atari" version of "Burger Time", but damn does it look like shit. It made me think back to a video made by Guru Larry about British Game Rip-Offs, and one of them being a game called "Mr. Wimpy", but even that game looks more graphically appealing than the Atari "Burger Time" port. lol
I was in perfect agreement, until you mentioned the inferiority of the arcade's Punch Out. That was one cool came. I always hated how Little Mac was so tiny. My kids even noticed that and asked why I played a kid against adults. Also, it was very cool for it's time to see a semi-translucent via grid player, so you could see the opposing player through him. Very underrated game. And, I do love NES Mike Tyson's Punch Out.
Chris you got to be joking, Star Wars was ported to the 2600, 5200 and a whole bunch of other computer consoles at the time even though it really wasn't ported as a vector game. The only thing that could come close was the Vectrex and it was too underpowered to handle it. Only years later did we get a Homebrew that kind of sucked
That's what I meant, as the wire frame version. Sorry about not clarifying.
@@irategamer it's no biggie, every one of us who watch your videos just watch it for fun. Got to say I love your analogy of The Phantom Menace, everyone loves to Monday Morning Quarterback. I also apply this to the Game Genie, helping me give continues on those early arcade ports
Punch out came out in arcades at first
Star Wars port happen to be one of the very first games I ever played, it was on a home computer, ZX Spectrum.
I remember playing the vector version on our old Macintosh Plus when I was about four or five. It should have been around 1988. I remember the coolest thing about it was the three or so digitized lines from the movie - "That's great kid, now don't get cocky!", "Look at the size of that thing" and "Let's blow this thing and go home". 20 years later I realized it was actually an arcade game.
This is why I love living in the era of MAME, all those ports at the comfort of my home. Even special backgrounds on some games to give a full arcade look. And if I decided that I want to, can play the home port versions too. Very good era to be alive in.
If only MAME didn’t have limitations on huge game files like the 3D ones.
@@KenMasters. I hope later versions of MAME are safe like the old ones.
11:05 see you forgot avgns guide to beating that game
step 1: get the knife
step 2: get the knife
step 3: get the knife XD
I was hoping rule #3 would be "Get the fcking knife!"
@@thatoverweightguywitharms.7961 it would of helped Chris little cousin joey (since joey first appearence was in irate gamer ghost n goblins review)
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well, this is interesting, lately i am getting super excited when i see a new video from Irate gamer....real quality videos and a channel that i think deserves more love from the public.
Yeah ikr his videos are actually really good quality now
James Rolfe is looking weird in this video.
The Ghosts n Goblins joke brought me back to when I was watching you at 12 years old. :)
I miss the old Arcade days of the early 90's. I still remember, as a kid, seeing the MKII(Mortal Kombat 2 for the kiddos out there) arcade cabinet being assembled at my local arcade(Alladin's Castle). That arcade was always packed.
This channel is alive and kicking! 🙌
Dragons Lair on 3DO was a fantastic port. You didn’t have to wait until 96. Just had to pony up your 699 bucks!
Not many people had 3DO. I loved mine but the biggest issue was how they handled the 2nd player port on the 1st player controller. Killed games like Mad Dog McCree
The Jaguar version came out for less than half that with a CD player.
😆
Dragons lair 2 is a very underrated arcade game. Not many were made though
Wait, that Star Wars game looks like the ATARI 2600 Star Wars game. You sure it never got ported?
So glad you are still making videos and sticking true to your original recipe. 💪🏽❤️👾
0:44 AVGN!! 😁😁😁😁
Actually they did do a port of star wars the arcade game, it was released on the atari 2600 among other systems at the time.
Nice. That's a somewhat original topic that few other CZcamsrs covered.
Yea man....thoroughly enjoying this.....dare i say it - more than avgn of late....ok ok ok.... dont throw things at me! - compliment ok?
No no, you're totally right.
Donkey Kong for 2600: Mario dodging cookies
Was that a Game Dude reference?
I always called them Ritz Crackers :)
@@supermariof0521 Sounds like it, he referred to DK as gingerbread kong
I always thought they were honey combs cereal as a kid
@@ravinnox2640 oh yah! They do look like Honey combs ..lol
Chris, you have no idea how good it makes me feel to see the Irate gamer back in action and with AVGN's blessing. You and James are the example to the rest of the internet how to be adults.
way to go and keep the vids coming.
When i was a kid i used to play Capcom 1942 in arcade, for my birthday my father got me the nes port.
At first i was like "the heck is this game, it doesn't look like the original". Then i ended loving the port because is was a bit easier and i could play it whenever i want ( i used to live far away from big cities with arcade places)
Excellent video Chris, it’s so great to have you back at it again.
I'm happy you kept your passion for classic gaming. I always liked your original videos when they first came out. I was never a hater. Seeing this resurgence in classic youtube channels I'm happy to know you're one of the ones that returned.
2 hours in and 2.1k views way to go man keep it up. And one arcade ports that have to talk about someday is T2 the Arcade Game that went on Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis
I gotta say, your writing and sense of humor has come a long way since you first started the Irate Gamer show! Every episode's been entertaining since the AVGN crossover. Keep at it Chris, the fan reception speaks for itself!!
P.S... I've completed Ghosts N' Goblins arcade without using any continues at all. It was a long and agonizing journey, but it was worth it for one of the most atmospheric games of the mid-80's. Always gives you the spooks when an imp suddenly spawns under your feet !!
AWESOME VIDEO! I didn't want it to end! I hope we can see more of theses Arcade and Console Ports comparisons in the next video! PLEASE!
P.S: GAME ON , CHRIS! \w/
Chris thanks for this video brought lots of good memories when i was a kid and go play these games at the arcade. Keep up the great work really glad to see you back with the irate gamer character. Peace brother.
The callback your ‘Ghosts and Goblins’ review genuinely made me giddy with nostalgia
Take a shot of vodka everytime Chris says "ass" or "asshole(s)"!!! I promise you will be wasted by the end of this video!!!
Irate gamer is still legendary
Irate Gamer’s comeback has been so enjoyable so far!
Happy 40th Anniversary, Pac-Man!
Maybe you could make a review of those mini hand held arcade games that AVGN never reviewed even though it showed him playing them in his X-Men and Magnavox Odyssey reviews during the first few seconds of the intros. They're those things that are always behind him on his shelf during his reviews.
"Pretty much wrinkled my shit." Made me laugh I'm gonna start using that.
You should have mentioned the Atari Jaguar CD version of Dragon's Lair. It was actually pretty dang good.
Didnt know jaguar cd got any er....fmv games? (Well it wasnt laser disc was it?!)
Commodore Amiga version's one of the most impressive ports out there, having to be squeezed on 4 floppies and all the animation hand drawn from scratch!
@@kyokusagani8869 Of course not all the levels could be included on those four disks, so we also got Escape From Singe's Castle which included many more on (I think) five more disks. And could be linked to work with the first game, though it's amazingly a PITA to do so via emulation.
Must've made the six people with functional units happy.
Loved this episode Chris, keep it up!
This video was awesome Chris! I laughed out loud at: They turned Pacmania into a Pac pile of porcupine piss. 😂😂
Both “Ghosts ‘n Goblins” and “1942” are developed by Micronics, and Capcom published it for the NES.
Micronics became the worst video game developer to put out poorly made arcade ports for the NES. “Ikari Warriors” and “Tiger-Heli” are both bad, and it was also developed by Micronics.
Hey Chris, I'm surprised you didn't mention Double Dragon (which was both an arcade game then ported to the NES - which was a pretty good port) as well as Kung Fu Master/Kung Fu on the NES...
I could only fit in so much
@@irategamer vigilante should get a nod in the next episode
Makes me wonder if we'll see more Arcades vs console in the future
Great vid Chris. You know they did make a port of the Star Wars Arcade Game for the 32x. It is a little different though. Since it does not have the wire frame. But would be a cool side review. Keep up the great work man.
The Burgertime 2600 version enemies were:
Mr hot dog
Mr Egg
Mr breadstick
Mr Cheese (I suppose he’s Velveeta).
I recall that MNetworks (a division of Mattel) focused more on the port for the Intellivision
Sounds like Coleco with Donkey Kong :D (speaking of which- why isn't this port mentioned? The Coleco Adam version even had all four levels if I recall correctly)
Star Wars the Arcade Game was ported to many diffrent systems including the Atari 2600. The Commodore 64 had two diffrent versions. I never realized they never made a version for the NES though. But then again I never owned an NES. Just my 2600 and my C=64 until I bought my first Windows 98 PC in January of 1999.
Great video! Chris, how many arcade machines do you have?
Chris, did you know Mike Tyson just confirmed Mike Tyson's Punch Out 2! he stated that in Steve-O's Wild Ride podcast with Mike.
Well, The Star Wars Arcade game did get ported as a secret unlockable in Rogue Squadron III for the Gamecube.
I would love to see an episode about bionic commando. That’s my favorite nes game
Niiice
I'm glad this guy came back.
Holy! I thought the internet buried you... Welcome back my friend
You forgot to mention that Ms. Pac Man had a two player co-op mode in the arcades, while the ports didn’t allow you to play two players. I used to go to Tilt that had that particular game, it’s the Midway version not Namco arcade!
It did on genesis, maybe a few other ports too but that's my go too
@Folk Raven-Bear back then it was exclusive to arcades, the Genesis port had it, but there hasn’t been the full arcade game with two players co-op because it wasn’t made by Namco, but it was Tengen.
Er- I lived during Ms. Pac-man's time and it most certainly did not have two-player co-op. It was a single joystick game same as its predecessor. In fact, it started life as a third-party mod for Pac-man cabinets called Crazy Otto before Midway (note: not Namco though they knew about it) officially endorsed it and released it as Ms. Pac-man in its own cabinet. As others have mentioned, it was later console ports that had the co-op action.
@Qun Mang I played the Midway-Atari versions of Ms. Pac Man in the arcades back in the mid-1980s, because it was a special cabinet made for two players to play simultaneously. It was my favorite version of Ms pac man, because it had that experience with playing co-op at the mall!
@@Markimark151 Midway-Atari version? Are you sure you're remembering correctly? That doesn't sound like any official version released. Could it have been a console version hacked for the arcade perhaps? Or Playchoice 10 (though it isn't on the list of Playchoice 10 NES games)? Tengen did make an NES port of Ms. Pacman, albeit around 1988 or so, and Tengen was Atari, so...
If it was genuinely the arcade version, it could also have been some prototype being location tested, though I'm highly skeptical about any involvement from Atari in that case as it simply wasn't their game. If you have a link to any information I would be interested to read about this machine.
I spent most of my life in a super small town in NW Kansas. Population of 300. Literally the only arcade games I ever got to see and play was whatever the Pizza Hut in the next town would have - and they didn't change them up very often at all. So I didn't learn that a lot of games I grew up loving were arcade ports until my late 20s!
Chris making irate gamer videos again is one of the best things that 2020 has given us
Just a few years ago, the Commodore 64 got a nearly arcade-perfect port of Donkey Kong. Gameplay even extends into the top/bottom border area.
It's a very interesting video, man. Love ur vids!
Dragon's Lair is the Origins of Dark Souls lmao
The Irate Devil showed up! I've missed him so much!
You forgot the greatest arcade game of all time. Michael Jackson moonwalker.
I beat Tiger Heli once....and it took a lot of Kool-Aid to get through it.
"...a bunch of SHITTY beans!!" Haha!
Once again Chris makes a fantastic video and I love arcade gaming, had some great memories back in the 90s
Can’t wait for the next video Chris
See you next game
Awesome Video again.
Damn, you got a big arcade Collection.
Thank you! I love it! Keep doing your excellent work. Cheers from Brazil!
Irate gamer dropping another banger! Keep up the good work Chris!
Finally someone does a practical sponsor. Nothing I want now but I'll be watching it.
15:30 Me when my dad takes away my 3DS for watching My Little Pony. 🥺🥺🥺😭
According to South Park, Custer’s Revenge for the Atari 2600 was ported from an arcade machine.
You always come with some Cool Ideas Chris! Never disappoint me with your Content😎
So Inspiring❤
Thank you so much 😀
“A Bunch of Shitty Beans!”
I had spyhunter for the Comadore 64. It was my favorite game for the system.
It’s a shame they never ported WrestleFest to the home consoles. I played it every time I found it in the arcade (still do). But as the years went by it got harder and harder to find. It got to the point the only place i could find it was at the campground me and my grandparents would vacation at. Beach or boating all day, then off to the arcade room until close.
Haven’t thought about that stuff in probably 20 years. Thanks for reminding me.
ITS AMAZING to see you back
in action man, Good job AS ALWAYS.
Your videos are pretty awesome man. Keep it up.
Dragon's Lair looks fun. But i heard 2nd one is better since you can see the obstacles better. Cool vid : D
Watching this for some reason I remembered something... playing terminator 2 on the nes and somehow spawning a second player that was pink once.
Chris, you forgot to mention the colecovision version of Donkey Kong. Back then it was pretty impressive as it was the closest thing to an authentic Donkey Kong arcade experience at home but by now it vaguely resembles the arcade game in terms of graphics.
The Atari 7800 version of Donkey Kong came out after the NES version and was based on the NES version, like the NES version, the pie factory level is completely absent.
Very entertaining and informative video as usual for Chris, but I was surprised no mention of "Double Dragon", one of the biggest Arcade Hits of the Decade with tons of very bad to mediocre home conversions.
Definitely will be a part 2 inclusion when I get around to it
So, about that 2600 Donkey Kong: it was originally released by Coleco, and there was a popular theory at the time that Coleco intentionally made it bad so that the version for their own ColecoVision console (which was decently close to the arcade game, though like the NES version it didn't have the "pie factory" level) would look even better by comparison. Don't know if anyone ever turned up hard evidence for it, or explained why Atari themselves later rereleased this piece of trash.
Still glad you are back. Keep up the awesome work, Irate.
I LOVED your Contra review. It was actually the first Irate Gamer episode I watched. ^_^
I'm a simple man, i see an IG video > I smash the Like button
This video could be considered the close to his History of Video Games series.
Maybe, but I want more of those, so I hope not.
Great work Chris. Great work :)
Wow you're on fire with videos! And pretty consistent with quality.
Bring'em on!
Donkey Kong Jr for the Atari 2600..... masterpiece!
Intellivision version was great though!!
Tiger heli! That brings back memories
I was on a 6-month pre-order list at Sears when the 2600 Pac-Man port came out. When I finally got it I was extremely disappointed. As were all my friends, and everybody I knew that purchased the game.
My first console was the Atari 2600, but man when the Nes came out you realized just how inferior the Atari was. On a side note I've also always pronounced Tengen with a soft G. I know a lot of purests go for that hard G, but the soft version always seemed like the correct way to me. A shame that we hardly see arcades anymore though. Some of my best memories as a child and teen were at the arcade. Great stuff as always Chris!
Irate gamer and AVGN are without question the best video game critics on CZcams along with gaming critics. You should do reviews for both old and new games and consoles along with AVGN, given you both are legendary critics online now on CZcams.
That Starwars arcade game was ported plenty of times. The Atari ST, Amiga, ZX Spectrum had it for sure and I think there was an Atari 2600 and a 5200 version too.
That really wrinkles my shit!
That's a new one that made me laugh
Great as always keep it up Chris
Noice. I just reviewed Donkey Kong (NES) last week and received a message from "Billy Mitchell" for referring to him as a cheating douche. I also have a review for Pac-Man (NES) coming in November. October will be all about horror themed games...although there are ghosts chasing Pac-Man around the maze...hmm...
People say Dragons Lair could not have been faithfully ported to the NES... but, the GBC port was just like the arcade...
Can't beat he classics with my favourite Arcade Games don't ya know!
Really informative. Great video as always!
The GBC port of Dragon's Lair was very impressive how close it was to the arcade port despite the limitations.
How did you miss Final Fight? The SNES version dropped one of the playable characters and the entire two player mode.
Great episode, if I could point out one hiccup, the footage you used for the "Ikari Warriors" segment was actually from the sequel "Ikari Warriors II".
But yeah, there are times where ports of classic arcade games, looking at you "Dragon's Lair", are inferior to the arcade version, while other times arcade games are inferior to console ports, prime example being "Ninja Gaiden". I don't think I've ever seen the "Atari" version of "Burger Time", but damn does it look like shit. It made me think back to a video made by Guru Larry about British Game Rip-Offs, and one of them being a game called "Mr. Wimpy", but even that game looks more graphically appealing than the Atari "Burger Time" port. lol
I was in perfect agreement, until you mentioned the inferiority of the arcade's Punch Out. That was one cool came. I always hated how Little Mac was so tiny. My kids even noticed that and asked why I played a kid against adults. Also, it was very cool for it's time to see a semi-translucent via grid player, so you could see the opposing player through him. Very underrated game. And, I do love NES Mike Tyson's Punch Out.
0:44 what's with adding the "inspired by avgn" all of a sudden?
He started his show after being inspired by AVGN, it's that simple. Any beef these guys had (which they probably didn't anyway) is long dead.
I’m enjoying your content, nostalgic ones too.
Awesome episode Chris!
For me most of the games that became arcade perfect started with the Sega Saturn. especially all of those Capcom fighting games.
I’ve watched several videos of people doing no death runs on ghosts n goblins. It’s incredible.
Tool-assisted?
There was a surprisingly decent port of Dragons Lair for GameBoy Color, it plays like the arcade FMV game in 8 Bit