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There's an arcade game, The Ninja Warriors which is even wider. 3 screens across!

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Nice video, WB is definitely a gorgeous and under-recognized classic! The dual and triple screen was Taito's go-to for deluxe cabinet experiences. See also Darius and The Ninjawarriors. I think this game was actually the same overall hardware as Darius II (Sagaia in the US), which was shipped in both dual and triple monitor. It also has the branching level paths like Darius

Thank you for bringing back these memories. I've seen a ton of these games in the 90's but never had enough time to play them (Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter to blame)

Really enjoying your game selections, discovering some new things! Fun channel, subbed

I like the widescreen format. It probably cost a lot to produce these 2 player cabinets b/c of it which may explain why it was never localised for overseas audiences

So many amazing arcade games are gone and forgotten by so many

Ok on 3:31 what arcade game is that? I’ve seen it before but it’s driving me crazy thinking about the name of that game.

I like your style and energy. Great videos. This one in particular had me chuckling and I laughed out loud with unrestrained mutual excitement at your spazzing over the grapples. I am right there with you, brother. LOL They just don't make them like they used to.

No matter the platform, TAITO consistently had amazing s character sprite work and animation.

Kick a wizard on his ass and the wizard obliterates every enemy on the screen. Say no more! Im sold

*fucking

Played this with a friend once and was laughing hard on all those German audio samples "Ich lösch dich aus" (= I will annihilate you) or "Ich bin dein Gegner" (= I am your enemy). Super funny 😆

Play and review The Crystal of Kings if you haven't already

Why would a game have English text but not a North American release? do they speak English anywhere else?

Cool video, I can wait to get the next Taito collection to play this on my Switch!

Those graphics are incredible

The buff system reminds me of D&D Tower of Doom & Shadow Over Mystara

Switch is getting this and the other Rastan games on Taito Milestones 3

still a better Conan game than Conan Chop Chop

This brought back the memory of playing the original Rastan. They used to have arcade game cabinets at the front of stores, not just arcades and I would play it there.

I hope Taito's Golden Axe have lovely music like Sega's. Taito sure do love wide screen arcades, they were ahead of their time for that.

Worth noting that the game will be on the forthcoming Taito collection volume 3.

Rastan Saga III YEAHHHH 💥

Man this really does look incredible!

Last year, I picked up a Pandora's Box. I was just playing random games and to my surprise, I found Warrior Blade on it. To those of you who ever play this, make sure you setup your emulator to run it in 16:9 mode. It looks amazing on modern TV sets and is totally worth the plythrough

You weren't lying, the game really nails the "Conan" aesthetic. Shiny glistening muscles and small outfits, except for Dewey the Bully which just gets to show of his arms, I guess. Not sure why he doesn't get a crop-top at least, maybe his hair is just seen as too short so he doesn't get to be the display the other long-haired characters are. I went down a rabbit-hole investigating beat-em-ups at the time, and Capcom actually also released a fantasy-themed game involving leveling and such- King of Dragons, the same year as Rastan III released. In the years to come both Capcom and Taito would release more "level up" beat-em-ups, often fantasy themed, so I think it was just a trend at the time with people looking at how popular RPG's where and decided they should incorporate that into other games for more variety. Though most interesting of all is how the first beat-em-up with leveling I found... was the "modern urban"-themed NES game, River City Ransom. So technically those squat cartoon-thugs beat Rastan and Capcom to the leveling-punch.

So it's a janky rip-off of Golden Axe.

Please, please, please, tell me the name of the game that appears in minute 0:56. I've been looking for it since the early 2000's

The Conan look comes from the Frank Frazetta covers to the novels. They saw Arnold and realized he was perfect.

Schwarzenegger looked the part, but... dude, give Frank Frazetta _some_ credit for the Conan aesthetic! 😂 His Conan paintings influenced the sets, the clothing, and casting Arnie in the first place.

Alien Vs Predator my dude❤

5:23 may the force be with us lol

I didn't even bother with Emerald Beyond. I couldn't even make it through the demo because it was so damn boring. Try out Minstrel Song & Romancing SaGa 3 next. They're like a high fantasy version of Saga Frontier 1. I haven't played RS2 remake yet but I did enjoy & beat the demo several times.

I don't really understand the complaint about the lack of consequences for running out of lp. There's clearly a consequence, you have to start a new character. In most Saga games, the character perma dies when you run out of lp & can't be replaced. Although in Minstrel Song you can revive perma-death characters through a god that you have to find which normally happens near the end of the game.

this game was probably great inspiration for D&D Tower of Doom / Shadow over Mystara games and used the Darius II twin screen hardware.

That dragon riding stage really looks inspired by the cover of the old D&D Module DL3: Dragons of Hope.

_Warrior Blade_ is one of those lesser-known arcade games that I love to play on MAME every once and a while. I'd like to thank that the art direction was heavily influenced by legandary sci-fi/fantasy artists and couple Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell.

Nice, I knew there was a Not-Conan one and two game, but was unaware of this third one. Looks like a beefed up Golden Axe… which I love!

Though perhaps less “whelming” than the other boss fights, it was memorable to me because, as the ghosts are shrieking out of him, the dead king continuously pleads, “Help me! Help me!”

the term youre looking for is sword & sorcery

Rastan the Barbarian might be grounds for lawsuit. So just Rastan or Warrior blade is fine.

The spritework almost looks rotoscoped and the backgrounds look to seem to look very familar. Did ed boon work on this?

it always amazes me how awesome the pixel art looks in these arcade games :)

That intro made my eyes bleed. Not complaining though

I just checked to see if I have this and yep, had it for decades and never knew it existed until this video. It's like a darker grittier Golden Axe but from the Rastan universe. I'll be playing a lot of this. Thanks.

This game is pretty fun.

I completely forgot Warrior Blade was a Rastan game.

Yo, the balls Taito has for putting such a gorgeous game in widescreen. Mad respect.

Blade Master is also look very good, its the creator of metal slug earlier work