I never noticed that in level two, one of the cars delivering ninjas to their doom is a porsche 911. Possibly the only time in the history of anything that ninjas and porsches have collaborated. Gotta love the 80s.
It's the Law of Inverse Ninja Strength. The more ninjas there are, the less powerful they are to the point of being pure fodder; meanwhile a single ninja is unstoppable-even if that ninja is Chris Farley.
Ah, I remember this game. When I was a kid, there was a videogame shop in the mall my mother used to do her weekly grocery shopping. I used to hang out in that shop, and right near the door, they had two arcade machines, the one was Street Fighter II Champion Edition - the first versus fighter I ever played - and on the other side was this game. I mostly went there to play Street Fighter, but when the older, skilled kids who had the money and ability to play for hours were hogging the machine, I'd play this game instead.
Great game, questionable ending. President Ronnie, the Dudes sacrificed their bodies to save you, yet your reward for them is to go out for a burger? *Cris Carter voice* C'mon man! *Cris Carter voice*. The Dudes deserve a Presidential Medal of Freedom, a Congressional resolution honoring them, and/or even a book or movie deal chronicling their quest to rescue you! That would be a much better ending.
Considering the Dudes were recruited by questioning their “badness” - which they feel the need to reaffirm at the end of every level - I’m pretty sure they were being strung along from the beginning.
Maybe he did give them special awards and everything, and the burger was merely an offer for lunch. After all, during the ending, notice how you have ranks outside the White House; maybe it is an award ceremony, and President Ronnie just wasn't finished with his burger.
INSERT COIN? Naughty kids in my hood would insert a curled up wire in the COIN slot and dupe the machine into thinking coins had been inserted. Thanx for childhood memories.
If a Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja was an actual movie adaptation during the late 80's, JCVD and Michael Dudikoff would make perfect partners in the movie.
@@Albert8044 Well... Actor homages as Blade & Striker would be a little too close to home for their roles, and plus Van Damme isn't American enough which would later ruin Guile in Street Fighter - The Ultimate Battle, unless you want to watch Double Impact to see an unofficial Bad Dudes film starring Van Damme. The actors I was thinking more for Blade & Striker were Patrick Swayze and Don Swayze.
If you remember the movie American Ninja 4 with Michael Dudikoff and David Bradley, I see them as an influence to Blade and Striker from Bad Dudes if a video game movie adaptation was possible.
love how the women casually jogs and then pauses to look back and then repeat until I get a hurricane kick to my face! lol I grew up with this game, memories forever in my mind
Dios mio, que cursilada de trama, y pensar que alguna vez estuve enviciado, de verdad que cuan ingenuo fuí... En cierto sentido me sigue gustando, solo que ahora empatizando con los ninjas. En cualquier caso es nostálgico y se agradece la subida
Thank you Data East Arcade Classics on Wii for having the arcade version on you. Yes the NES version is cool, and I own it too, but the speech on that, the guy hardly sounds like he's Bad.
I had a paper route back in 1989-1994 ..!!! I spent almost all my earnings on this game, Street fighter 2 , and Ninja turtles at the walmart arcade . lol I never go past the Green ninja in the sewer that multiplied himself..
This game was my obsession . My mother would send me to the post office, I do exactly as she instructed .... BUT pass by the arcade and come back home 5 hours later
It does the same thing in the NES version except the president in that one is modeled after George H. W. Bush since it came out after he was elected. This version came out while Ronald Regan was still in office.
Olá, boa tarde. É um grande jogo, já conhecia o jogo da arcada em 1988, eram 2 créditos com uma moeda de 25 escudos. Para mim, este jogo ultrapassa muitos dos jogos de agora; é impressionante como o jogador conhece as táticas de derrotar os inimigos. Deve conhecer o jogo de trás para a frente. PARABÉNS... 👍👏
Foi bem o que eu pensei... O cara manja muito, quando eu era moleque a primeira vez que cheguei nessa parte do caminhão 0:46 foi uma emoção que nunca vou me esquecer, era um poder de processamento que me marcou, tantos inimigos de uma vez só. E no chefe, sonhava em conseguir fazer aquele PORRADÃO de fogo e vencê-lo, nunca consegui !
I remember my Brother being so good on this game . He only needed 1 Quarter to rescue Ronald Regan . Of course he played it everyday on his job for hours !
Conservation of Ninjutsu: In any martial arts fight, there is only a finite amount of ninjutsu available to each side in a given encounter. As a result, one Ninja is a deadly threat, but an army of them are cannon fodder.
They're good ninjas but they just aren't bad enough. The BAD DUDES grew up on the hardcore streets of America Town USA State. You want to know how the cold war ended? I've got two words for you: one starts with B and the other starts with D.
Thanks for uploading this, it brings back so many memories! By the way, what other game/s has Karnov been in? I recognise the character but I can't place where I know him from.
Joguei isso nos anos de 1990 e 1991 e hoje é 11/09/2023. Lembro-me exatamente dos anos, porque na cidade onde joguei isso, no fliperama local, eu acabara de me mudar exatamente em dezembro de 1990. Nas fases, por si só, não tinha tanto problema. Só qdo os vilões se amontoavam e cercavam, ou vinham de baixo ou de cima (dependendo de onde estivesse). Na fase da floresta, a quarta fase, tinham os cães (que apareciam até na primeira fase). Aquele ninja vermelho era visado, pois ele deixava itens, como as armas, o relógio e as lifes. O grande desafio era enfrentar os chefes , chamados lá de mestres. Eu lutava assim: desferia uma voadora (ou chute saltando) e recuava, pra depois dar outro ataque. Variava também com chutes normais, golpes de nunchako (aqueles dois bastões unidos pela corrente) ou faca (dependendo do que tivesse) e aquele soco especial. Este, chamado lá de soco energético, inspirava cuidados, porque requeria aproximação do inimigo. Aproximar-se dos vilões de fases requeria cautela e, geralmente quem fazia isso melhor eram os gamers mais habilidosos e/ou mais experientes. Isso, eu fazia mais contra o primeiro chefe (o cuspidor de fogo), o grandalhão da floresta, o do trem (da kusarigama - corrente com foice) e o da caverna ( o careca de bastão). Contra o segundo, da fase do treminhão, eu acionava o soco flamejante e esperava ele chegar ali na cabine. Quando chegava eu soltava o golpe e agachado desferia os golpes nele. O nunchako, apesar de ter a vantagem de poder usar mais à distância, no caso dele a faca era melhor, mais rápida. Eu no teto da cabine e ele no capô, de frente ao para brisa. Fácil desferir as facadas na cara dele, que é baixinho. Contra o chefe da terceira fase, a das galerias de esgoto, esperava ele completar as multiplicações, com um soco energético pronto. Quando todos os clones se materializavam de fato, eu desferia um soco, que matava vários, mas não todos. Aí eu terminava de acabar com os demais. O terceiro chefe, por si só, não era tão ruim. O problema era a arte dele de se multiplicar. Era, visualmente, um ninja como aqueles comuns, mas usava roupa verde. A partir do trem, aparecia outra versão do primeiro chefe, só que de pele mais escura. Lá na última fase, antes de enfrentar o temido Dragon Ninja, o último vilão, ainda tinha que enfrentar os clones de todos os chefes derrotados. No andar de baixo tinham o gordão de pele mais escura e um clone do quarto chefe, mas de arnadura dourada. Depois de subir o elevador, ainda tinha que enfrentar os demais chefes, um por um. Pior: o risco de não chegar ao líder máximo, era grande. Passei por tudo isso, só que qdo cheguei no Dragon Ninja, perdi. Até hoje não me conformo. Depois disso, não joguei mais este jogo. Logo depois, levaram a máquina para outro fliperama, pra dar lugar a outra máquina.
"I'm the bad DUDES" > Ninjas get kidnap the president while the dude declaring himself as 'i'm bad' > It has female ninjas in arcade version unlike NES port
I remember whole awesomeness of that game :)) it even now have more power than all pcs and playstation in the world :)) how can some arcade games be so AWSOMLY COOL??? it's some kind of magic...
![Arcade Longplay [296] RoboCop](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/nQutm0TjZfw/mqdefault.jpg)
![Arcade Longplay [296] RoboCop](/img/tr.png)
![1988 [57fps] Dragonninja NoDamage ALL](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/m8JR20rBjUc/mqdefault.jpg)
![NARC Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/yptpWO66HA4/mqdefault.jpg)
When I was growing up, I really thought that ninjas, quicksand, and lava were going to be real life issues.
You got Hamas, weather weapons, and climate change.
I never noticed that in level two, one of the cars delivering ninjas to their doom is a porsche 911. Possibly the only time in the history of anything that ninjas and porsches have collaborated. Gotta love the 80s.
Whoever trained this ninja army is straight up fired.
my guess it was the Shredder
They're bad!
😂😂😂
It's the Law of Inverse Ninja Strength. The more ninjas there are, the less powerful they are to the point of being pure fodder; meanwhile a single ninja is unstoppable-even if that ninja is Chris Farley.
Genial@@minns5515
love the sound of arcade machines, each trying to attract you to drop a quarter in and be hooked for hours with the smell of pizza, popcorn and cigs
1 quarter will get you hooked in for about 3 minutes. :P
"I'm Bad!"
This was my favorite game in the 80s. Spent most of my money on playing Bad Dudes. Brings back memories
Great no hit playthrough and the fact that you finish off every boss with the powered up fist attack just makes it even better.
You got my respect.It's the 1st time I saw someone playing the whole game without taking a single hit.And I thought I was good.
Ah, I remember this game. When I was a kid, there was a videogame shop in the mall my mother used to do her weekly grocery shopping. I used to hang out in that shop, and right near the door, they had two arcade machines, the one was Street Fighter II Champion Edition - the first versus fighter I ever played - and on the other side was this game.
I mostly went there to play Street Fighter, but when the older, skilled kids who had the money and ability to play for hours were hogging the machine, I'd play this game instead.
Desperate for money and having squandered all the treasure he obtained in his first game, Karnov joined the Dragon Ninja.
And did they ever get their money's worth from him? How many times did he show up? lol
I couldn't get over every level ending with "AHM BAD!"
Sin duda un clásico que nunca olvidaré
Great game, questionable ending. President Ronnie, the Dudes sacrificed their bodies to save you, yet your reward for them is to go out for a burger? *Cris Carter voice* C'mon man! *Cris Carter voice*. The Dudes deserve a Presidential Medal of Freedom, a Congressional resolution honoring them, and/or even a book or movie deal chronicling their quest to rescue you! That would be a much better ending.
Romulo Buen One of the very few examples that the real world is better than what is depicted in video games.
Considering the Dudes were recruited by questioning their “badness” - which they feel the need to reaffirm at the end of every level - I’m pretty sure they were being strung along from the beginning.
Maybe he did give them special awards and everything, and the burger was merely an offer for lunch. After all, during the ending, notice how you have ranks outside the White House; maybe it is an award ceremony, and President Ronnie just wasn't finished with his burger.
A burger is as Americana as it get.
Calm down, you're scaring the Chelnov.
INSERT COIN? Naughty kids in my hood would insert a curled up wire in the COIN slot and dupe the machine into thinking coins had been inserted.
Thanx for childhood memories.
first boss is non other than karnov, awesome
Even has bits of the Karnov theme playing during the boss fight.
And it has bits too from Rastan xD
And Karnov comes back in the game all zombified.
Bad Dudes also drew inspiration and reference to an 80's movie call American Ninja with Michael Dudikoff.
During the dance scene from Kickboxer,
Van Damme dressed as Agent Spike (Bad Dude #1).
If a Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja was an actual movie adaptation during the late 80's, JCVD and Michael Dudikoff would make perfect partners in the movie.
@@Albert8044
Well... Actor homages as Blade & Striker would be a little too close to home for their roles, and plus Van Damme isn't American enough which would later ruin Guile in Street Fighter - The Ultimate Battle, unless you want to watch Double Impact to see an unofficial Bad Dudes film starring Van Damme.
The actors I was thinking more for Blade & Striker were Patrick Swayze and Don Swayze.
If you remember the movie American Ninja 4 with Michael Dudikoff and David Bradley, I see them as an influence to Blade and Striker from Bad Dudes if a video game movie adaptation was possible.
President: "Hey dudes thanks for rescuing me, let's go for a burger.... Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!"
Dudes: "I'm going to give you a burger, son of the!!!...."
Maybe the burgers are the first payment before a cool several mil? $$$
Being a bad dude seems to be an easy trade. And I couldn’t wait to be one of them.
Robocop: "We're is Cain?
Duffy: "I told ya I don't know! *Break screen* Urgh! 0:45
Oh, god, yes. Loved this arcade when I was a kid... and it was SO long ago :)
The ending is classic!
love how the women casually jogs and then pauses to look back and then repeat until I get a hurricane kick to my face! lol I grew up with this game, memories forever in my mind
to this day, the detailed, intricate plot and masterful storytelling of bad dudes has yet to be equaled by any other video game
Este fue el primer video juego que me cautivo y me volvió fanático de los vídeos juegos.
Good game play takes me way back.. so many quarters well spent
One of the best arcade games ever.
Buenos juegos nostalgicos de la infancia. Excelente.
Jesus Alexander Pacheco 😢😢😢yes
Lmao! I'm Bad! Used to love this in the arcade!
Thanks for posting this... I could never finish it back then!
Dios mio, que cursilada de trama, y pensar que alguna vez estuve enviciado, de verdad que cuan ingenuo fuí... En cierto sentido me sigue gustando, solo que ahora empatizando con los ninjas. En cualquier caso es nostálgico y se agradece la subida
Thank you Data East Arcade Classics on Wii for having the arcade version on you. Yes the NES version is cool, and I own it too, but the speech on that, the guy hardly sounds like he's Bad.
I can hear mordeaci and rigby playing this in my head and it is glorious.
in the second level. the music sounds like castlevania 2:05
Fat dude seemed generally surprised by that energy fist at the end. He sat up like “da fuck?!”
At first I thought he shouts "DIET!" when picking up soda cans.
And it gets him so mad that it's a power up
He is saying got it
It doesn't sound clearly cause the sounds weren't than good at that time
I always liked that game! Was one of my favorite
I had a paper route back in 1989-1994 ..!!! I spent almost all my earnings on this game, Street fighter 2 , and Ninja turtles at the walmart arcade . lol I never go past the Green ninja in the sewer that multiplied himself..
This game was my obsession . My mother would send me to the post office, I do exactly as she instructed .... BUT pass by the arcade and come back home 5 hours later
Awesome documentary!
Second boss looked well difficult!
I always remember this game having great title screen music on the amstrad cpc
President Ronnie says... "Let's go for a burger!" 👍🏻
It does the same thing in the NES version except the president in that one is modeled after George H. W. Bush since it came out after he was elected. This version came out while Ronald Regan was still in office.
My classic nostalgic memory. thks
Its such a short game but back then it was a daunting task to finish this game
CLASSIC!!!!
So this is bad dudes!? I didn't know they had a game like this!!
Olá, boa tarde. É um grande jogo, já conhecia o jogo da arcada em 1988, eram 2 créditos com uma moeda de 25 escudos. Para mim, este jogo ultrapassa muitos dos jogos de agora; é impressionante como o jogador conhece as táticas de derrotar os inimigos. Deve conhecer o jogo de trás para a frente. PARABÉNS... 👍👏
Foi bem o que eu pensei... O cara manja muito, quando eu era moleque a primeira vez que cheguei nessa parte do caminhão 0:46 foi uma emoção que nunca vou me esquecer, era um poder de processamento que me marcou, tantos inimigos de uma vez só. E no chefe, sonhava em conseguir fazer aquele PORRADÃO de fogo e vencê-lo, nunca consegui !
Nice playing bro!
I remember my Brother being so good on this game . He only needed 1 Quarter to rescue Ronald Regan . Of course he played it everyday on his job for hours !
A really nice touch with the Karnov music, too.
this was a classic beat em up 2 player was addictive
One kick and they are down?, and they dare to call themselves "ninjas"?... Shame on them!
Conservation of Ninjutsu: In any martial arts fight, there is only a finite amount of ninjutsu available to each side in a given encounter. As a result, one Ninja is a deadly threat, but an army of them are cannon fodder.
They pussy
That's just how powerful your character is.
They're good ninjas but they just aren't bad enough. The BAD DUDES grew up on the hardcore streets of America Town USA State. You want to know how the cold war ended? I've got two words for you: one starts with B and the other starts with D.
bad dudes were the prequel to hoktu no ken. this is canon.
Thanks for uploading this, it brings back so many memories! By the way, what other game/s has Karnov been in? I recognise the character but I can't place where I know him from.
Joguei isso nos anos de 1990 e 1991 e hoje é 11/09/2023.
Lembro-me exatamente dos anos, porque na cidade onde joguei isso, no fliperama local, eu acabara de me mudar exatamente em dezembro de 1990.
Nas fases, por si só, não tinha tanto problema. Só qdo os vilões se amontoavam e cercavam, ou vinham de baixo ou de cima (dependendo de onde estivesse). Na fase da floresta, a quarta fase, tinham os cães (que apareciam até na primeira fase).
Aquele ninja vermelho era visado, pois ele deixava itens, como as armas, o relógio e as lifes.
O grande desafio era enfrentar os chefes , chamados lá de mestres.
Eu lutava assim: desferia uma voadora (ou chute saltando) e recuava, pra depois dar outro ataque. Variava também com chutes normais, golpes de nunchako (aqueles dois bastões unidos pela corrente) ou faca (dependendo do que tivesse) e aquele soco especial. Este, chamado lá de soco energético, inspirava cuidados, porque requeria aproximação do inimigo. Aproximar-se dos vilões de fases requeria cautela e, geralmente quem fazia isso melhor eram os gamers mais habilidosos e/ou mais experientes.
Isso, eu fazia mais contra o primeiro chefe (o cuspidor de fogo), o grandalhão da floresta, o do trem (da kusarigama - corrente com foice) e o da caverna ( o careca de bastão).
Contra o segundo, da fase do treminhão, eu acionava o soco flamejante e esperava ele chegar ali na cabine. Quando chegava eu soltava o golpe e agachado desferia os golpes nele. O nunchako, apesar de ter a vantagem de poder usar mais à distância, no caso dele a faca era melhor, mais rápida. Eu no teto da cabine e ele no capô, de frente ao para brisa. Fácil desferir as facadas na cara dele, que é baixinho.
Contra o chefe da terceira fase, a das galerias de esgoto, esperava ele completar as multiplicações, com um soco energético pronto. Quando todos os clones se materializavam de fato, eu desferia um soco, que matava vários, mas não todos. Aí eu terminava de acabar com os demais. O terceiro chefe, por si só, não era tão ruim. O problema era a arte dele de se multiplicar. Era, visualmente, um ninja como aqueles comuns, mas usava roupa verde.
A partir do trem, aparecia outra versão do primeiro chefe, só que de pele mais escura.
Lá na última fase, antes de enfrentar o temido Dragon Ninja, o último vilão, ainda tinha que enfrentar os clones de todos os chefes derrotados. No andar de baixo tinham o gordão de pele mais escura e um clone do quarto chefe, mas de arnadura dourada. Depois de subir o elevador, ainda tinha que enfrentar os demais chefes, um por um. Pior: o risco de não chegar ao líder máximo, era grande.
Passei por tudo isso, só que qdo cheguei no Dragon Ninja, perdi. Até hoje não me conformo.
Depois disso, não joguei mais este jogo. Logo depois, levaram a máquina para outro fliperama, pra dar lugar a outra máquina.
Dang, I remember making the noises from this game on the playground!
New inscribed! This game have the first game playing in life
Karnov was also featured as a boss character / playable fighter in the Data East game Fighter's History. Arcade and Sega Saturn (Import).
Ni un solo golpe en toda la partida. Menudo maquina!!
Omg memories, playing it now couldn’t remember the name 👍
Great musics!
The scars of the cheeks that were created while playing this game still remain for More than 30 years
Omg the memories
Classic game!
Vaya recuerdos,bar del barrio y máquinas
U just took me back thanks
"Ishiwawa=kagé bunshi no jutsu" lol
The '80s and all the ninja-related crime.
Has anyone else noticed that when the character says "got it", that it sounds like Ice T?
A agosto 2019 que buen juego mis hijos no dejaban de ver como jugabas y eres muy vicioso no dejaste que te tocaran un pelo hahaha
Haha 😂 I love the ending... Let’s go for a Burger 🍔
Good idea to post both versions :)
After the "I'm BAD!" I want to say "and that's good!" (Wreck-It Ralph much?)
Hilarious! After I would hear "I'm bad", I say "Shamone! He he!"
0:17 - This guy looks like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Duke Nukem
Dude, you are one BAD DUDE! yOU DIDN'T TAKE ONE HIT!
Those bamboo sticks creeping out of the water were so scary..
If this game were made into a movie it would be even more of a classic than Big Trouble in Little China.
This game has so much cheese on it, that the moment I hit the play button on this video, an army of rats invaded my bedroom.
I'm bad!
First Appearance of Karnof is in this game I think, for those of you who played Fighter's History..
Actually I think his debut was from the 1987 game "Karnov" on the NES.
lol i had never played that game but i did see a picture parody of it on danbooru lol.
Maaan I lost so many quarters to this game :D... Ah, good times...
Rrrrggggghh!!! I’m baaaadddd! Lmao
The end boss reminds me of Zelda 2
Allways though the green ninjaboss was so cool....
And what president would say "Thank you for the rescue. Now lets grab a burger!"
Wow Flawless Victory :O
Every day I pray thanks to The Emperor of Mankind for Data East games having existed
this is game of my childhood
I was playing this in atari saloons..good times ❤
Ohh how I would love to play this again stoned and with a friend Was a fun game kinda hard for me as a kid
"I'm the bad DUDES"
> Ninjas get kidnap the president while the dude declaring himself as 'i'm bad'
> It has female ninjas in arcade version unlike NES port
The Bad Dudes got a lesson in Reaganomics. 😂
7:36 incredible part...the sound of dog and the fire ninja was break your ass, completely
Great! A good action game
The gameplay of Bad Dudes allows up to 2 players to play at once.
How did you do the fireball punch against Karnov at the end of the first stage?
+LarcenTyler You charge it up by holding down the punch button.
Hold down the attack button to charge and release.
I remember whole awesomeness of that game :)) it even now have more power than all pcs and playstation in the world :)) how can some arcade games be so AWSOMLY COOL??? it's some kind of magic...
"Who's bad?"
"Im BAAAAD" xD
that song on stage 2 is awesome
that second stage boss got popped all up side his head with them chucks
This is awesome 80s cheese. I love it!
Got it!!
Both were Data East games.
You'll also notice the same punching sounds as Robocop, which appears to use he same platform.
I was always wondering what the 'duplicate' ninja in the sewers is saying??
"Konnichi-wa!"
Ka kak chi u klak klak
*Whack this one!*
bee choo wa wa, the same thing the ewoks say when they need help
"Not so easy when there's more"