Chase H.Q. Longplay (Arcade) [60 FPS]
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Developed and published by Taito in 1988
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During the golden era of the video arcade, Sega's Out Run was the poster-child for the driving genre thanks to it's amazing visuals and superb soundtrack; not to put too fine a point on it, it was a remarkable experience.
That was 1986.
Roll forward to 1987 and Taito, another arcade heavyweight developer, decided to release it's own hi-octane racer. Whereas Out Run was purely about driving as an experience in itself, Chase H.Q. is quite a different beast.
Heavily influenced by classic 80's cop shows like Miami Vice, the player takes on the role of police officer and member of the Chase Special Investigation Department, Tony Gibson. Along with partner and fellow wearer of sharp suits, Raymond Broady, the pair must patrol the highways in pursuit of dangerous criminals and bring them to justice.
Each of the game's five stages begins with Gibbs and Broady receiving information about their next mission over the police waveband radio from special investigation dispatch controller, Nancy. The briefing outlines who the perp is and the vehicle that they're driving (all of which are based on popular sports/super cars of the era - crime does pay after all).
Once on the road, the first objective is to catch up to the target vehicle before the timer (sixty seconds by default) runs out. A counter in the top right of the screen shows the distance between the player's vehicle and the criminal, as does the distance gauge located to the right of the screen - this is a nice touch since it allows the player an at-a-glance update on their progress, without taking their eyes off the road.
This is an important point since you definitely don't want to get distracted whilst driving. Hitting other vehicles, skidding off the road of colliding with obstacles costs you precious seconds, reducing the chance that you'll catch up with the target vehicle in time. Also, the road will fork in two directions and the player must pay close attention to on-screen indicator as to the correct path to take - take the wrong exit and it will only make the chase longer.
If you do manage to catch up with the criminal in time, the timer resets and the second phase begins. The player must now slam into the target vehicle to inflict sufficient damage to bring it to a halt. Of course, this must be done whilst avoiding other traffic and staying on the road, something that proves exceedingly difficult on later levels where the road often narrows and the turns the come thick and fast.
The player's car is equipped with high and low gear that can be changed at any time via the machine's lever shift. Low gear limits the car's speed to 200 km/h but improves handling, whereas high gear boosts top speed to 300 km/h but makes corner tough. Although the car has a brake, I find it's more effective to down-shift into low gear for sharp bends and switch back to high as you exit.
The car also comes fitted with three turbo boosts, granting a temporary boost to maximum speed when used. These should ideally be saved for vehicle ramming, but can be useful in making up lost ground during the initial chase.
The car's handling and cornering does take a little getting used to and is even more 'arcadey' than Out Run. Your gut reaction is to begin turning as soon as you enter the corner, but there is a delay before the game begins pushing you to the outside of the corner. As a result, you spend the first few games over-steering, but it's something you learn to correct with some practice.
On a technical front, the game boasts ultra smooth scrolling and attractive visuals at 60 FPS - it might not look quite as good as Out Run, but then that game was locked to 30 FPS. Parallax scrolling is used to good effect on buildings and scenery in the distance and the artwork is particularly crisp and well drawn.
For me, however, the sound is even more impressive than the graphics. The game features exceptionally clear, digitised speech samples and voice-overs that sound like they've been spoken by genuine human beings! Even better are the roaring engine sounds and screeching tyre effects as you hurtle around corners - this is a far cry from the warbling, crackly samples heard in other games of the time.
Chase H.Q. is a great arcade racer that manages to differentiate itself from other titles in the genre thanks to the high-speed chases, ramming mechanics and distinctly 80's theme.
So, what are you waiting for Mr. Driver? Punch the pedal and get stuck in!
#retrogaming
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My favourite arcade game when I was a kid. This still looks good today! What a game.
A company should come along that creates 90's type arcade games with the same colourful cartoon aesthetic but in 2.5D graphics.
This game used to make you feel like Crockett & Tubbs from Miami Vice in the arcades!
Even if Tom Selleck and David Hasselhoff work together also.
Heh, maybe even Starsky and Hutch too.
@@Ian16545 I loved their iconic white striped car!
I sometimes felt Vibes of Bad Boys 1 with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence when I would play this game.... mostly because of the Porsche 911 Will was driving.
arcade games had always better graphics than NES equalents (because better hardware)
They did an amazing job with the sounds of this game. Really sounds like a 911 starting. Love the different tones of tire squeal, and the voices are great too.
Yeah except that it's quite obviously a 928!
Mr. Driver doesn't really need much info before he starts ramming into people's cars. Do you ever reckon Nancy ever ordered him to go after people she didn't like - like somebody who bullied her in school or an old ex? "Ian, the Pensylvania heartbreaker is fleeing in a Korean sedan. Over."
I like the account and profile .
Well he is a undercover cop so basically he can harass whoever he wants
I love this game this should be remade for modern consoles
Intense game of the 80's . The police looks like Miami Vice Crocket & Tubbs.
Back in the arcades, this sound would only stand out of all the other arcade machines: WOUWOUWOUWWUWOWUWOWUWOUWOUWOUWOUWUO!!!
It had a red and blue light bar like police cars often do that started fladhing whenever your car was close to the bad guy's target car, also.
Discovered this arcade game in the 90s on the ferries to and from France as a young child. Loved watching others play as had no money. The sound and graphics were outstanding at the time. Knocking over the barriers, the helicopter, the recognisable cars, the voice acting - all phenomenal. I think it holds up well today and thanks to emulators can enjoy it.
I was always a bit rubbish at this and rarely managed to get past the second stage in the arcades. Nice to finally see it completed after all these years!
Depends how tight the arcade owner was. Once you have it loaded up in MAME you can change the virtual DIP switches to change the difficulty level and add more turbos 😀
Never noticed this before, but I like how when they're chasing the other Porsche, the guy laments that they have to smash into it.
I would love to see Hamster Corporation pick this up and put it on PS4 and Switch in the Arcade Archives collection. They've already got a bunch of Taito games , and this is definitely one of the more popular Taito arcade games.
Seconded!
I wonder which Taito games they have.
This game was way ahead of its time. The graphics, the speech quality... Just amazing!
I think not. Having played both Outrun (1986) and this (1988) at the arcade I think you could say it about Outrun but this came two years later and did not do anything better than it did except the speech obviously.
@@kuningas7 This game had so much more to do than Outrun though (which I also loved and still play to this day)
When I was a kid my only encounter with arcade machines was the local confectionery. For some reason the guy who ran the place got in 1 or 2 arcade machine, they were in rotation. One of them was Chase HQ. I was very young but I was obsessed with the graphics, the sound and gameplay. I always watched a guy play it. A game wasn't that expensive but I didn't have any money. Finally I got a coin and I was so nervous when I put it in, I could barely start the game and even though I tried my hardest, I ran out of time before the first checkpoint. I was disappointed, I wanted to play more but I didn't have more coins :( But still liked the games and whenever someone played I was there to watch.
Bless that story , I used to get a 30 min bus ride to go play shinobi with £1 , that got me 5 goes , I loved the 80s
Absolutely loved this game in the arcade. When I was a kid my father gifted to me the C64 disk version. I had no heart of telling him the truth about the quality of that gift
"This piece of crap is nothing like the arcade version. Thanks a lot." --Truth about the quality
Amiga version was bad too. The sequel, SCI, was pretty good on Amiga though.
One of the worst conversions c64 made along with double dragon.
@@MegaasAlexandros The Speccy version is fantastic. Did you expect it to have the speed of the arcade? 🙄
@@MegaasAlexandros It was rated pretty high in the Speccy market. And I actually played it so many times. It really pushed the Spectrum's limits. A great effort all around by the programmers.
That Porsche 928 (S4) can sure withstand a serious amount of abuse.
The voice acting! Omg the voice acting!
I complet chase hq in 1989 at age 15 with 10p
That's some really clear speech with no artifacting, I bet a lot of the storage went on that.
I'm surprised! for the time yeah!
What's worrying is how you can apply the same speech to a porno and it not be the least out of place.
Scrolled down to the comments specifically for this. You can hear some artifacting in the higher frequencies like when he says "PLEASE!" but for 1988 it's really insanely clean. One of those developers must've been out of his mind obsessed with audio fidelity to have those samples be taking up that much damn memory!
6:00 lol they couldn't keep the fire in the cutscene
@@kz1000ps The whole thing with an arcade game is to blwo you away with stuff you couldn't do at home
one of my favorite arcade games of the 80s.....I still say "OH MAN!" "PUSH IT MORE!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Love it played it 2002,it was far a head of its times, glad to see retro arcades and games making a comeback.
The graphics are pretty badass. Great sense of speed.
Thanks for the memories.. remember going down the local arcade with mates just to play this.. one of my mates who has sadly passed away was so good at this game.
This game and Spyhunter were my favorite drive and destroy arcades!!
Ah nostalgia. Played this a lot in local arcade hall :3
Getting that last hit on each vehicle was SO satisfying
GOD I MISS LATE 80S ARCADE MACHINES being 10 in '96 these things were everywhere on the east coast of England
I searched for this for years. When I was a kid in the early 90's and we are on vacation, there was an arcade machine with this game. Experiencing this game after 30 years, like a time machine. Great nostalgia! Thanks for uploading it.
This is exactly my memory of this game as well. On holiday in France (from the UK at that time) and the campsite I stayed at had this arcade game and I was hooked as an 10 year old.
It's like Miami Vice meets Outrun
great playing this game in the arcade as a kid. the graphics were top notch at the time and the flashing police lights at the top of the game cabinet really got the adrenaline pumping
Wow. Didn't know there was a arcade version, the game play is so smooth.
This game deserves a remake 🤔
Yeah very hope so!
The frequencies that the radio tunes to are in the Ham (amateur) range. I played this arcade quite a bit when I was a kid!
Nothing makes you want to floor it than hearing “Gitty up Boy”. 🤣🤣. Loved this game when it was in the arcade.
I played this game at least 40+ times until I finally beat it the 3rd one was the toughest I have seen others try time and again but still couldn't past stage 3 I was given a praise for the first person to beat it in one credit now that's was good enough for a thank you from me
"Well, we pursued the suspect across multiple state lines so the judge will probably throw this out but man, what a rush!"
If this game came out today, it would be cancelled for racism:
"Giddy up, BOY!"
"Let's go, Mr. Driver!"
How is that racism ?
@@MegaasAlexandros Good question! 🤔 Ask a psycho lefty
@@youknowwhatdaysayinhoe5646 i think you mean sexism not racism (not that i think this is sexist).
@@MegaasAlexandros
1. BOY-often a term used for a slave or surely disrespectful of blacks before civil-rights.
@@Tigerman1138 I'm black and I was never offended by this. I always looked at it like an old west lawman talking to his horse
The suburbs. A nefarious safe haven for dangerous criminals.
And thus was the beginning of Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit. 🔥
And also NFS 3 HOT PURSUIT is much favorite for my best classic collection! 📀💾
Something about the end of the boost and shifting into high-gear really sells it that they mean business.
03:11
I was playing it a lot on the ARCADE machine what 😢a beautiful childhood Nostalgia in 1997
I *STILL* Say To This Day...
"Let's Go Mr.Driver!"
(WhenEver I Need to Push TheAcceleratorPedal Down or Grab a Gear.😜)
While Driving
Ain't nothing better than a black 928
Used to love playing this.
I used to spend ALL my money playing this game at Circle K.... But I would steal all their YooHoos too. Brings back memories
I love the Japanese voice actors talking with US english accents. >chef's kiss< I wouldn't have it any other way!
Despite tons of coins i never stopped the 4th car(blue ferrari bb512). I loved that game in my youth on summers. And i remember one night i was playing, my cousin told me hey come on and see this: this, was street fighter 2. Wow. What an era.
In a world where half the cars on the street cost more than the houses they drive past....
remember watching some lad in 1988 put many coins in to catch the level 3 car, and he finally got him on suspicion of selling drugs ... " Just for that?!? I would have let him go "
I only played the NES version. This one looks really fun to play as well.
Woonderful game, how is it that today, this kind of game do not exist
Chase H.Q. Longplay (Arcade) [60 FPS]: Taito deliver thrills aplenty in this high-octane, cop-themed racer!
Read the video description for my review!
Never heard of this in Arcade mode pursuit game, I hope have best Arcade emulator can testing play for greater PC! 😁🖥💻🕹🎮✨✨🌟✨⚡
THIS GAME MAN OMFG I miss the arcade times
I always get Miami Vice vibes when I play this. This game needs an emulated rerelease on the Nintendo Switch!
O man such a nostalgic game
"Congratulations" - The ending to all games back then.
this game makes me want a black Porsche 928 in my garage...
I drive for Grubhub and when I take a delivery out I always say to my car,”Giddy-up boy!”,
Awesome, what a classic!
Damn I forgot how beautiful the engine sounds when it starts at 2:07, sounds like a real engine.
The sense of speed is unreal and in 1988!
Yo tuve este genial juego en el Commodore Amiga, y era una conversión genial de la máquina Arcade.
Loved this game. I use to finish it also at the arcade
2:35 "Lets go Mr Driver"
*crashes and spins out*
This reminds me a lot of a game Taito made called Continental Circus.
I remember playing this & when the red light was put on top,a boy asked me how did I make that into a police car
3:47 This jingle is my personal "You're under arrest" theme which plays in my head everytime when I see a police video when they bust one. :)
Glad to hear every freakin' time she's at the Chase HQ....
Well there is also the Nancy at the booking office.
The second best racing game off the 1980's after OutRun, anyone disagree?
what i LOVE about this game is (something you forgot to mention) it uses actual supercars like the ferrari testarossa right on the cover, as well as porsche 911 and a lamborghini and delorean (not a supercar of course...). rad racer did this on the nes as well showing vw beetles, lamborghinis, porsches and the like. free car design without the royalties!
Delorean? That is a Lotus.
Hard to tell, DeLorean and Esprit were designed by the same folks. Nearly identical back end, especially with the louvres.
Someone needs to remake this game with the testarossa from Miami vice, kitt from knight rider,the batmobile, starsky and hutch, nash bridges cuda,magnum pi Ferrari, the green hornet and the blues mobile!
i love this game so much 🔥
Villains (for arcade versions):
1. Ralph, the Idaho Slasher (White Lotus Esprit) - 238 km/h
2. Carlos, the New York armed robber (Yellow Lamborghini Countach) - 315 km/h
3. Chicago pushers (Silver Porsche 959)
4. L.A. kidnapper (Blue Ferrari 288 GTO)
5. Eastern Bloc Spy (Red Porsche 928)
I forgot about this game....badass!!
Underrated classic game. Good longplay. Tony and Raymond would chase down an entire group of street racers (like need for speed and ect), rogue corrupted law officers (like gta games and ect), a terrorist apc vehicle (from silent scope EX arcade), A hijacked G.U.N. truck (from sonic adventure 2) a stolen high-perfomance metal slug and a VTOL jet fighter (From various videogames).
chase that 'British sports car', (Lotus) in a German Porsche, through an American city .... gotcha Nancy!
At 300 km/h that is approx 186MPH!
Why this wasnt on Neo Geo is beyond me. Taito should have made that happen!
I came from AVGN's video of Lucky and Wild
RIP Takami Asano, composer for this and Chase HQ 2/SCI
I remember playing this as a kid at our local Pizza Hut!
Sentences for the villains:
Ralph the slasher: Death
Carlos the robber: Ten years
The drug dealers: Life without parole
Winston the LA Kidnapper: Life without parole
Targo the Eastern Bloc spy: Death
Does anyone feel that the two cops are modelled off the Leathal Weapon movie? I'm legit seeing Mel Gibson and Danny Glover here, and that first movie came out in 1987, when they would have been making this game.
This game has great music
13:46 Amazing that these two 80s detectives got c0ked up and chased down half a dozen criminals all across the US and were rewarded by none other than Chief Anus. All while one of the detectives was shouting "PLEASE!" constantly. Really beautiful game though!
My brother won a free Nintendo by getting the high score on this game at Walmart in Ocean Springs MS. Good times!!!
great game!! I was very good at it
Little do you know im still haunted by the memories 😿
BEST GAME EVER !!!
Reminds me of Outrun except you’re a cop. Great game 👍🏼
Chase HQ if you know you know "push it driver"
was the coolest arcade game!
such a good game
I used to love this gsme I had it on the Sega master system
Lol, the cars get magically repaired after the chase ends.
One of the best games of that time, a pity they never made a Sega CD conversion, that system was specially good with this type of games.
Just the fire is out.
Criminal Cars List
Ralph: Lotus Esprir
Carlos: Lamborghini Countach
Chicago Drug: Porsche 911 turbo (901)
L.A. Kidnapper: Blue Ferrari 288 GTO
Eastern Spy: Red Porsche 928.
The English voices sound a lot more satisfying than the original Japanese. It makes it more like a classic 70s cop tv series.
All missions briefings :
1:50
3:59
6:12
8:45
11:10
Interestingly enough when the call comes in usually between 144 MHz-148 MHz and that is the two-meter amateur/ham-radio band.
Could never get past stage 4 when playing this as a kid
Amazing game
Can play this game today, this game is best