This game left an impression when I played it in 84. Only saw as far as the ninjas. Never saw it again in my life. Last week I finally got to see Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro on Netflix. What an amazing anime for 1979 and even now! No wonder they picked it for a Dragon's Lair clone.
It actually utilises footage from Cagliostro and Mystery/Secret of Mamo. This was an early English production, so not many people knew who Lupin the 3rd was in 1983.
I kinda thought this was almost a bootleg game. I saw it a few times in one arcade back in the day. It would go buggy and just play the movie at some point. Interesting it was actually licensed and distributed.
I only saw this game once in an arcade in San Jose California in the early 80s and I watched a guy beat the entire game. I never saw this game ever again anywhere im glad this video is here!
@bubbythebear6891 You are probably right. I always wondered about that! He made it look effortless. I was astonished it's one of those memories you never forget!
They renamed the game for the American market. I think it was called Lupin III in Japan. Anime was really just starting to catch on over here at that time and most Americans wouldn't have known who Lupin was so they disconnected the game from the anime by giving it a new name.
This is because America didn't get the rights to use the Lupin name in any media at that time until the 90s. Nowadays, we can now use the Lupin name on popular culture such as the Netflix show and others.
@@Jiterdomer Um, actually that's not 100% accurate, I'll give you the lowdown: -Mystery of Mamo had 4 different English dubs, you do know that right? The first English dub done by Frontier Enterprises/Toho in 1979 used Lupin name without any changes (well except Fujiko, Jigen, Ishikawa, and Zenigata's name were changed in the first dub, Lupin's name was still left intact for the first dub). That dub was used on Japan Airlines flight, and according to the special features from Discotek DVDs/blu-ray, that English dub was shown in Los Angeles theaters back in 1979/1980 (it wasn't publicized back then). So that dub was able to get away with using Lupin name without any issue even back in 1979/1980 in the US. -For Castle of Cagliostro, before it had a English dub, it was reported both on Wikipedia and Discotek's blu-ray/DVD special feature that the movie was shown at film festivals as early as 1980. it was notably shown at the World Science Fiction Convention in Boston for a marketing survey. It was later screened at other festivals during the 1980s, including FILMEX 82 in Los Angeles. But nobody took the film seriously back then and this was before anime/manga became mainstream, and before Hayao Miyazaki became a household name in the US today.
Captain Access, he's our hero! Gonna take collections well past zero! He is maintenance, magnified and he's fighting on our checkbook's side! "You'll pay for this, video game player!"
"We're the Sternateers! You can be one too! 'Cause making more money is the thing to do! Wasting arcade spacing, is not the way, hear what Captain Access has to say! 'The profits are YOURS!!'"
For some reason, I enjoyed this video. I'm a sucker for technical babble about video games. :P Quiet a coincidence but I just saw Castle of Cagliostro last week and then I find this. Had I found this a year ago, then I'd probably wouldn't have known it was Lupin and it WAS really an original idea called Cliff Hanger.
There are, but they are all in the hands of private collectors. I doubt any are playable by the public (except some years at the California Extreme show in Santa Clara).
@@dickjohnson5979 there's one at Galloping Ghost outside Chicago... I spent most of my time there playing it bcz like "I can play most of these on MAME but this is the only opportunity I'm to going to have for the rest of my life to play a complete game of Cliff Hanger"
It's part Lupin AND part Castle of Cagliostro. I shoved A LOT of money into this machine (and Space Ace) until I could complete it. Then I just played it as a 20 minute crowd-puller. Saved me a fortune keeping me off the nudgers and one-armed bandits! :-D
They sort of did in some selected theaters back then from what I've read from Discotek blu-ray/DVD special feature on both films. In 1979, Mystery of Mamo had it's first (out of 4) English dub made for Japan Airlines in-flight movie. That rare English dub was shown in some theaters in Los Angeles and this was before social media, & CZcams existed. Mystery of Mamo is the 1st Lupin movie to have 4 different English dubs (which you can watch them all on Discotek's blu-ray/DVD). About the Castle of Cagliostro, that film was shown in 1980 in Boston at the World Science Fiction Convention!!! It was shown at film festivals in the US during the same decade, it was shown at FILMEX 82 festival in LA. But sadly, because of the "cartoons/animations are for kids/children" stereotype aka Animation age ghetto. The film wasn't taken seriously back then, also this film came out before anime like Robotech, & Voltron was broadcasted in the US, and before anime became well-known and mainstream in the US today. Interesting fact: The Castle of Cagliostro was directed by Hayao Miyazaki, and it was Miyazaki's first anime film he directed pre-dating Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind, and Studio Ghibli. Interesting fact #2: Although Castle of Cagliostro didn't become the big hit in the US and the west, it left a big influence on American filmmakers & animators including those working at Disney.
@@Jiterdomer No, the Japan Airlines used the 1979 Frontier Enterprises/Toho dub, not the Streamline dub. I believe the Discotek blu-ray/DVD copy had a special features that explain the history of the 4 English dubs for Mystery of Mamo.
It's also functioning on Daphne, but some other source made an "HD Remaster" that uses Singe that features unused footage that sourced from Mystery of Mamo with Lupin holding a rose as a "Player 1 Ready" screen.
Tape? Why didn't they put this on laserdisc? I have the disc from this game, I assume the cabinet it went with is long gone. Played this a few times when it came out, you basically just had to remember the right controls to hit at the right time, like with Dragon's Lair (have that disc too!)
What is the cliff hanger game that came out when they used Sylvester Stallone on the cover for it? Is it tied in with this or something is it part two or what?
Where do I find the complete walkthrough? I finished this game at a nickel-arcade, when I was a kid, haven't seen it since. Took a ton of nickels, I've always wondered; does anyone remember this game? Does anybody have a "Cheat Paper"? Does somebody have this game?
I remember this game at the arcade way back beat it in 2 days and only took $4 at .25 a pop. I liked it, funny and interesting. Wish they'd release it on console like they did Dragons Lair and Space Ace.
'Cliff Hanger' A.K.A. 'Lupin The Third: The Video Game'.
Seeing this just drives home how much I need to watch Castle of Cagliostro again.
+Akumacornflakes One of the scenes this promotion showed was from The Secret of Mamo.
This game left an impression when I played it in 84. Only saw as far as the ninjas. Never saw it again in my life. Last week I finally got to see Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro on Netflix. What an amazing anime for 1979 and even now! No wonder they picked it for a Dragon's Lair clone.
I remember the trick was to hit the hands & feet buttons at the same time. Guy taught me that at the arcade.
This game made me want to watch Castle of Cagliostro and Mystery of Mamo.
It actually utilises footage from Cagliostro and Mystery/Secret of Mamo. This was an early English production, so not many people knew who Lupin the 3rd was in 1983.
I kinda thought this was almost a bootleg game. I saw it a few times in one arcade back in the day. It would go buggy and just play the movie at some point. Interesting it was actually licensed and distributed.
The Mystery of Mamo's footage is the one which features Lupin (or Cliff as he is known in this game) being hung from the gallows.
In that movie, he survived. He was doing this as some sort of a prank to scare Jigen before he flies away in a glider.
I only saw this game once in an arcade in San Jose California in the early 80s and I watched a guy beat the entire game. I never saw this game ever again anywhere im glad this video is here!
This game is mind-numbingly hard! It makes Dragon's Lair look like kids stuff! That guy had to have spent no less than$200 to learn this game.
@bubbythebear6891 You are probably right. I always wondered about that! He made it look effortless. I was astonished it's one of those memories you never forget!
They renamed the game for the American market. I think it was called Lupin III in Japan. Anime was really just starting to catch on over here at that time and most Americans wouldn't have known who Lupin was so they disconnected the game from the anime by giving it a new name.
I don't think the game was ever released in Japan.
This is because America didn't get the rights to use the Lupin name in any media at that time until the 90s. Nowadays, we can now use the Lupin name on popular culture such as the Netflix show and others.
@@Jiterdomer Um, actually that's not 100% accurate, I'll give you the lowdown:
-Mystery of Mamo had 4 different English dubs, you do know that right? The first English dub done by Frontier Enterprises/Toho in 1979 used Lupin name without any changes (well except Fujiko, Jigen, Ishikawa, and Zenigata's name were changed in the first dub, Lupin's name was still left intact for the first dub). That dub was used on Japan Airlines flight, and according to the special features from Discotek DVDs/blu-ray, that English dub was shown in Los Angeles theaters back in 1979/1980 (it wasn't publicized back then). So that dub was able to get away with using Lupin name without any issue even back in 1979/1980 in the US.
-For Castle of Cagliostro, before it had a English dub, it was reported both on Wikipedia and Discotek's blu-ray/DVD special feature that the movie was shown at film festivals as early as 1980. it was notably shown at the World Science Fiction Convention in Boston for a marketing survey. It was later screened at other festivals during the 1980s, including FILMEX 82 in Los Angeles. But nobody took the film seriously back then and this was before anime/manga became mainstream, and before Hayao Miyazaki became a household name in the US today.
Little would they know the guy who did the animation would later be hailed in later life as "the Walt Disney of Japan"
Hayao Miyazaki.
Coin Door!
Cash Box Door!
Mechanism Door!
Laser Door!
By your powers combined, I have front access for ease of service!
Captain Access, he's our hero! Gonna take collections well past zero! He is maintenance, magnified and he's fighting on our checkbook's side! "You'll pay for this, video game player!"
"We're the Sternateers! You can be one too! 'Cause making more money is the thing to do! Wasting arcade spacing, is not the way, hear what Captain Access has to say! 'The profits are YOURS!!'"
Wow, four doors in the front of the cabinet?! IT'S A REVOLUTION IN ENTERTAINMENT!! I'll take ten!!
Took you 10 years to get a thumbs up you’re welcome
@@robintaylor4249 Thank you sir, I can die a happy man
jgwest1 hahA
It's driving me mad how they didn't use Lupin's name.
It's cause the name Lupin was under copyright at the time by the estate of the author of the Arsine Lupin books
@@RainbowMilk1996 It's also why in the English dub of the movie he's called "Wolf"
I have this on a Daphne loader! Comes with every Laser disc arcade game ever made!
It's really cool to get a chance to see this. Thanks for uploading. This is great.
3/4 inch plywood?!?! SIGN ME UP!
Video's narrator sure sounds identical to narrator of the attract mode. "...One mistake, and you've blown it!"
Probably saved them a bit using the same guy for both parts.
For some reason, I enjoyed this video. I'm a sucker for technical babble about video games. :P
Quiet a coincidence but I just saw Castle of Cagliostro last week and then I find this. Had I found this a year ago, then I'd probably wouldn't have known it was Lupin and it WAS really an original idea called Cliff Hanger.
Three-quarter inch plywood, awesome
Would be interesting to see if any of these machines are even operational after 30 years.
There are, but they are all in the hands of private collectors. I doubt any are playable by the public (except some years at the California Extreme show in Santa Clara).
@@dickjohnson5979 there's one in NH that's playable to public
@@dickjohnson5979 there's one at Galloping Ghost outside Chicago... I spent most of my time there playing it bcz like "I can play most of these on MAME but this is the only opportunity I'm to going to have for the rest of my life to play a complete game of Cliff Hanger"
yes I have one still works
I remember playing this in Arizona at Valley West Mall In 198? something.
It's part Lupin AND part Castle of Cagliostro. I shoved A LOT of money into this machine (and Space Ace) until I could complete it. Then I just played it as a 20 minute crowd-puller. Saved me a fortune keeping me off the nudgers and one-armed bandits! :-D
I'm convinced... how can I invest into this arcade game?
I never knew Cagliostro was adapted to a Dragon's Lair style videogame.
I wonder if Miyazaki received any royalties for this game?
it was licensed by tokyo movie shinsha (TMS, the production studio of the movie)
@DavidTRichard Yes, mostly Castle of Cagliostro. The game also featured video from another Lupin film, the Mystery of Mamo.
If you're wondering, this is Lupin The 3rd . Using two films: Castle Of Cagliostro and another one I can't name top of my head.
The other one is Mystery of Mamo (that one had 4 different English dub made for that one), and yes both of them are available on blu-ray home video.
This is Lupin the 3rd isn't it?
yes
Another classic
I saw The Castle of Cagliostro movie.
Lupin 3 the castle of Cagliostro
I wish they had released lupin the 3 somewhere around the 70s or 80s, I bet it'd be popurler. and after all this game could have been famous if that.
They did release it in the late 70s, just not in America.
They sort of did in some selected theaters back then from what I've read from Discotek blu-ray/DVD special feature on both films. In 1979, Mystery of Mamo had it's first (out of 4) English dub made for Japan Airlines in-flight movie. That rare English dub was shown in some theaters in Los Angeles and this was before social media, & CZcams existed. Mystery of Mamo is the 1st Lupin movie to have 4 different English dubs (which you can watch them all on Discotek's blu-ray/DVD).
About the Castle of Cagliostro, that film was shown in 1980 in Boston at the World Science Fiction Convention!!! It was shown at film festivals in the US during the same decade, it was shown at FILMEX 82 festival in LA. But sadly, because of the "cartoons/animations are for kids/children" stereotype aka Animation age ghetto. The film wasn't taken seriously back then, also this film came out before anime like Robotech, & Voltron was broadcasted in the US, and before anime became well-known and mainstream in the US today.
Interesting fact: The Castle of Cagliostro was directed by Hayao Miyazaki, and it was Miyazaki's first anime film he directed pre-dating Nausicca of the Valley of the Wind, and Studio Ghibli.
Interesting fact #2: Although Castle of Cagliostro didn't become the big hit in the US and the west, it left a big influence on American filmmakers & animators including those working at Disney.
The JAL dub was called Streamline Proudctions dub.
@@Jiterdomer No, the Japan Airlines used the 1979 Frontier Enterprises/Toho dub, not the Streamline dub. I believe the Discotek blu-ray/DVD copy had a special features that explain the history of the 4 English dubs for Mystery of Mamo.
@dilithium72 Technically it's two Lupin III movies that were used for the game (The Mystery of Mamo and Castle of Cagliostro).
God I loved this game. Anyone know where I can get a mame of this??
if you still are looking:
www.emuparadise.me/M.A.M.E._-_Multiple_Arcade_Machine_Emulator_ROMs/Cliff_Hanger_(set_1)/11911
@@tango_doggy Thanks man!!
It's also functioning on Daphne, but some other source made an "HD Remaster" that uses Singe that features unused footage that sourced from Mystery of Mamo with Lupin holding a rose as a "Player 1 Ready" screen.
Castle of Cagliostro IS a Lupin the III movie. The second movie to be exact.
@tdickensheets More or less it started a rather short but interesting trend of putting those type of games out.
@stickyfox Wow. That comment just made my morning. Nice Captain Planet reference :D
Tape? Why didn't they put this on laserdisc?
I have the disc from this game, I assume the cabinet it went with is long gone. Played this a few times when it came out, you basically just had to remember the right controls to hit at the right time, like with Dragon's Lair (have that disc too!)
It has the look of Dragon's Lair. Never played it but looks fun.
It stole from two movies Lupin vs the clone and Castle of Cagliostro.
Is that Bob Ross playing Cliff Hanger?
Wow, I completly forgot about this impossibly hard to play game. I think I played it once and got too frustrated to try again. Back to Tempest...
I thought it was kind of hard the first $2 but easy once i memorized the mechanics and beat it the next day on another $2.
Dragon's Lair and Space Ace may have Don Bluth, but this game is a lot more forgiving
They got Hayao Miyazaki here
His name in the game is a play on "Cliff" hanger. Get it? "Cliff" hanger? Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
Cliff Hanger aka Lupin III: Castle of Caligistoro (if I spelled it correctly).
Cagliostro
Rupan Sansei
Dang, Count of Caglistro, the Studio Ghibli movie by Miyazaki.....either Miyazaki made some quick cash, or he got ripped off.
What is the cliff hanger game that came out when they used Sylvester Stallone on the cover for it? Is it tied in with this or something is it part two or what?
So it's basically Dragon's Lair but with mismatched Lupin III footage?
Cagliostro is so mangled in it that you can't even tell they spliced in a scene from a different movie
My uncle worked on this game Paul max Rubenstein
DAMN, Your uncle is a legend!
@@SONICBOOM1889 thank you
Was he aware of Lupin the third while making this game?
Where do I find the complete walkthrough? I finished this game at a nickel-arcade, when I was a kid, haven't seen it since. Took a ton of nickels, I've always wondered; does anyone remember this game? Does anybody have a "Cheat Paper"? Does somebody have this game?
How many nickels was it to start and continue?
I remember this game at the arcade way back beat it in 2 days and only took $4 at .25 a pop. I liked it, funny and interesting. Wish they'd release it on console like they did Dragons Lair and Space Ace.
I don't understand?! Lupin the 3rds name isn't cliff and it's an Anime movie called castle of cagliostra...
Jeez😨😱
I see Lupin... But WHERE is Sylvester Stallone?
lupin3
fucking ausome but hard game
That just looks like time base error from the VHS recording - it is prevalent throughout this video.
Jeez😨😱