The A-Z of Konami's Arcade Games from 1990-1996 | Kim Justice

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  • Опубліковано 21 лис 2024

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  • @Kim_Justice
    @Kim_Justice  Місяць тому +10

    It's the final 2 days for Arcade Decades! Pledge here to get your name in the book: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tabletop-book/arcade-decades-80s-edition -- thanks so much for watching, and thank you for all the support. Hopefully this vid brings back some great 90's Konami arcade memories.

    • @neat3468
      @neat3468 Місяць тому

      I think this was Konami's best period, ever in their history.
      I'm kinda torn about getting the book, 52 UKP for shipping to Japan just seems a bit crazy, that's slightly more than it cost for the book (The other Kickstarter book I backed was the GamesMaster history one a year or two ago and that was a "slightly" more sensible but more reasonable 20 UKP shipping costs)

    • @tomkrawec
      @tomkrawec Місяць тому

      Kim Justice videos and books are good. More. More!!!

    • @tiagopereirasantossilva556
      @tiagopereirasantossilva556 Місяць тому

      I would like that Konami port, remaster or even complete remake in Unity or Unreal 5 the G.I.O Game and, by the way, Alien Game (how I like call real contra 3)

    • @petercollins3846
      @petercollins3846 Місяць тому

      Hi Kim, when is the book likely to be released to buy?

    • @Kim_Justice
      @Kim_Justice  Місяць тому

      ​@@petercollins3846 Ideally, backers will receive the book in March, and it should be available to buy on Amazon after they've got it.

  • @Rosco1973
    @Rosco1973 Місяць тому +3

    Just love your input Kim Justice, absolute steller figure to all us 8 & 16 bit babies tbh, I often find myself using your videos on here as a place to really chill out and embrace an era that's so alive right now due to all all the 40 and 50 plus year olds like me. ❤

  • @Chilliconcarnage
    @Chilliconcarnage Місяць тому +2

    Currently on a flight from San Diego to Atlanta and this pops up. The best in-flight entertainment is here. Thank you 😊

  • @skywalkerranch
    @skywalkerranch Місяць тому +3

    Excellent stuff, Kim. I'm just on holiday by the pool, and then this lands well thats me sorted. Happy days. You are the best.

  • @craigcharlesworth1538
    @craigcharlesworth1538 Місяць тому +5

    My understanding of stuff like Mogura Dese is that they weren't so much test games as a legal requirement. Japanese law said cabs had to be shipped with a game, so companies that made universal cabinets would have tiny, basic little games that they'd put in there that the arcade operators could just rip out and replace with the PCB of the game they actually wanted.

  • @martiankeichan6887
    @martiankeichan6887 Місяць тому +15

    Thanks for giving Violent Storm the praise it deserves. I still don't know why it has never been released in Hamster Arcade Archives or something similar. It shouldn't be buried in Mame.

    • @PIKMINROCK1
      @PIKMINROCK1 Місяць тому

      I think it's mainly because 1993 is on the edge of what Hamster is focusing on. I'm not too familiar with what the hardware is for Violent Storm but, if it's on different level of board than say Mystic Warriors, Hamster is probably not prioritizing it yet. Taito is still funding the Milestones series and most of the rest of the lineup since 2021 has been 80s Namco games.

    • @CorporalDanLives
      @CorporalDanLives Місяць тому +1

      @@martiankeichan6887 WHO BE THE HERO!
      OOOOOOHHHH WOOOOW!

    • @heardofrvb
      @heardofrvb Місяць тому +2

      @@martiankeichan6887 Same for Metamorphic Force.

    • @Andrea-di2ew
      @Andrea-di2ew Місяць тому +1

      The best 90s beat em up imho

    • @martiankeichan6887
      @martiankeichan6887 Місяць тому +1

      @@Andrea-di2ew I agree, it feels fast and fresh during the whole playthrough. Even the most famous beat'em ups get kinda samey by the end of the game unlike Violent Storm.

  • @TruculentSheep
    @TruculentSheep Місяць тому +10

    I always read Sunset Riders as the adventures of Comano and his partner, who has three split personalities. This is due to Steve, Billy and Bob all looking like the same bloke in different wigs.

  • @romanhrobot9347
    @romanhrobot9347 Місяць тому

    This video is my childhood. This and your DataEast vidoe are a dream come true. Thank You Kim.

  • @jessragan6714
    @jessragan6714 Місяць тому

    "Will she mention Asterix?" She sure did!
    Doing great work as always. Now I've got to see how Gradius 4 looked in the PSP collection.

  • @ninjawacker5442
    @ninjawacker5442 Місяць тому

    Another quality deep dive onto some classic and unknown gems, thanks Kim. Have pledges on the book so looking forward to getting my signed book sometime in the future.

  • @gaminglakitu
    @gaminglakitu Місяць тому

    I just backed the book yesterday and I'm very excited now for when the book releases. Your work is always amazing Kim, and I hope your work continues to shine!

  • @Unquestionable
    @Unquestionable Місяць тому

    Very thrilled to watch this as your arcade coverage is always excellent and puts me on a nostalgia binge in the best way. A few years back my girlfriend got me one of the 1-Up arcade cabinets of The Simpsons and as a kid who was super obsessed with the game and show when they were both new it was an incredible gift.

  • @_The_Jim
    @_The_Jim Місяць тому

    Cracking video kj. Nice to see all these games and it's good to see violent storm get some coverage

  • @StangerStrange
    @StangerStrange Місяць тому

    I love all of your docs Kim. You must put a hell of a lot of work into them and I appreciate them all. I am also going to buy your book :)

  • @theflyingninja1
    @theflyingninja1 26 днів тому

    I had the pleasure of playing Violent Storm in the arcades, back in 1996 in Whitley Bay. Completed it there and then, and knew straight away it was the best beat em up I'd ever played.

  • @bsinforoso
    @bsinforoso Місяць тому

    I like 1981 to 1990, 80's decade. One more time, amazing content, thx Kim.

  • @Debagio
    @Debagio Місяць тому

    Nice one, Kim. Another great trip down memory lane. 👍🏻

  • @speakertreatz
    @speakertreatz Місяць тому

    Sunday evening viewing sorted out immediately, thanks Kim

  • @persona83
    @persona83 Місяць тому

    Man this is an amazing video. Lots of great memories playing those games. Thank you!

  • @pda1799
    @pda1799 Місяць тому

    Was so looking forward to this video, thank you!!!

  • @markjones5647
    @markjones5647 Місяць тому

    Another great vid kim
    These are so good to watch takes us old ones back to teenage days excellent

  • @stevemoon2136
    @stevemoon2136 Місяць тому

    Always an absolute pleasure to watch.

  • @blahblahblahdeeblah
    @blahblahblahdeeblah Місяць тому

    I loved Surprise Attack! It's great how the enemies wear their helmets when in outer space.

  • @SonicMrSumo
    @SonicMrSumo Місяць тому

    Loved the reference to Patman QC...what a dead set legend! Violent Storm is the best beat 'em up ever made...it's near perfect.

  • @elscorcho7033
    @elscorcho7033 Місяць тому

    I was going to the arcades in the early ‘90s and I missed out on Rollergames. Too bad it looks really cool!

  • @simpleexplodingmaybe
    @simpleexplodingmaybe Місяць тому

    When I was a kid we used to regularly take holidays by ferry to Norway, Germany and Netherlands. Those ships all had an arcade game we played to death and only watching this video today do I learn that it was Sunset Riders!

  • @mikeyyls2044
    @mikeyyls2044 Місяць тому

    Love the use of "kick out of" for the soccer (footy) game!

  • @broodicus1
    @broodicus1 Місяць тому

    I have great memories of Sunset Riders on holiday in the South of france years ago! Great game would definitely recommend playing it!

  • @ThePerradox
    @ThePerradox Місяць тому

    Oh I know I'm going to enjoy this video so much, thanks a lot Kim for your ever brilliant work.

    • @ThePerradox
      @ThePerradox Місяць тому

      And I wasn't wrong. 👏👏❤

  • @mattyboy2024
    @mattyboy2024 Місяць тому +3

    Fun fact about Simpsons arcade- Marge's hair can come off revealing rabbit ears. Yet I found that game nightmare fuel as a kid before I knew that anyway ha

    • @jessragan6714
      @jessragan6714 Місяць тому +3

      The thing is, that was a reference to Matt Groening's Life in Hell comic. He toyed with the idea of making Marge a rabbit in disguise, with Homer not knowing, but that ultimately never came to pass.

    • @mattyboy2024
      @mattyboy2024 Місяць тому

      @@jessragan6714 I know but it's still remarkable it was only canon in the arcade ha

  • @RobertBatchelor
    @RobertBatchelor Місяць тому

    I remember playing Gaiapolis in a Margaret River tuck shop when I was 12 (1993) and I really liked it. So the game did actually left Japan.

  • @caiusmadison2996
    @caiusmadison2996 24 дні тому

    I wqs huge o fighters in the 90's arcade scene, so Martial Champions was my jam because the audio is crazy good.

  • @BURRITO44
    @BURRITO44 Місяць тому +1

    Excellent

  • @ShanetheFreestyler
    @ShanetheFreestyler Місяць тому +1

    You did miss one Konami racing game that actually is somewhat notable: 1998's Thrill Drive. In a way, the game is like a prototype Burnout with a much darker theme. If you wreck, your driver gets ejected from the car. Only, rather than it being cartoonish like FlatOut, they land unconscious on the hood of the car while the text *FATAL ACCIDENT!!* appears in bold letters. When you respawn, the music changes from the high energy rock/dance tracks you'd think of for a street racing game to a more ominous, horror-like soundtrack and the sunny skies suddenly become overcast, and then raining if you crash again!
    Thrill Drive was a pretty obscure title, and cabinets are hard to find in the wild, yet it did manage to get 3 sequels! (Though most don't like to talk about TD4.) Also, it was one of the inspirations of the aforementioned Burnout series, so if there was no Thrill Drive, we'd probably not have Burnout!

  • @joedent3323
    @joedent3323 Місяць тому

    Hello Kim.
    You did cover the RollerDerby game in a previous vid. I know, as i downloaded it for MaME! Its a great little game. "Streets of Rage on Rollerskates".
    I take it RollerDerby was very popular in the 1970s - a kayfabe'd, trash TV enjoyed at large, by folks who dug Wrestling. I used to watch a LOT of Sanford and Son, and The Dad LOVES the Rollerderby of a Friday evening.
    There is also a nice, feelgood film I can recommended, named "Whip It!", which is a coming-of-age Teen drama, set against a backdrop of Pro RollerDerby. Directed by and Starring Drew Barrymore - itll give you a nice warm glow inside, akin to the Ready-Brek of yore. 7/10.
    Cheers for another great vid Kim. Ive been thru 4 times now :)

  • @alainsoucysergerie9879
    @alainsoucysergerie9879 Місяць тому

    That was such an excellent two-part essay. As always.
    With that being said, pleaaaaase do the same with Capcom some time soon!

  • @XmasTablet
    @XmasTablet Місяць тому

    Great video, I do remember a lot of these games, as my parents used to have a take away with an arcade machine, 10p a game 😃😄😆😉😊

  • @elscorcho7033
    @elscorcho7033 Місяць тому

    My friends and I pumped a lot of coin into the X-MEN game, what a blast we had!

  • @Aragorn7884
    @Aragorn7884 Місяць тому +2

    Lethal Enforcers 1 to me is a "forgotten" gem

  • @outdooradventures8773
    @outdooradventures8773 Місяць тому

    Just played Thunder Cross 2 on your recommendation, Thank you, its a fantastic game.

  • @OzgurSalur
    @OzgurSalur Місяць тому

    Great one! Thank you!

  • @ShadowbannedSounds
    @ShadowbannedSounds Місяць тому +1

    Can never get enough Konami !

  • @SimianScience
    @SimianScience Місяць тому

    oh hey a huge list of iconic games that NEED a home port.

  • @joedent3323
    @joedent3323 Місяць тому

    Cheers Kim 😊

  • @rodneyabrett
    @rodneyabrett Місяць тому

    Wild West COW Boys of Moo Mesa!.. that's the name! You just solved a huge mystery for me trying to figure out the name of this game. 😆

  • @FaTBoYs_GaMInG_N_NoNsEnSe
    @FaTBoYs_GaMInG_N_NoNsEnSe Місяць тому

    Let's Go Awesome Video @Kimjustice keep up the Great day/week stay Awesome

  • @AcornElectron
    @AcornElectron Місяць тому +4

    The difference between Kim and Konami? Well they’re both from the 80s so not that… and they’ve both made some great gaming content over the years, so not that either …. Hmmmmmm….
    Got it!
    Kim didn’t fall off and try to sell me a Fight Palace Pachinko machine and tell me it was the new Metal Gear.

  • @jasonrockley3724
    @jasonrockley3724 Місяць тому

    Cheers Kim

  • @Aboveup
    @Aboveup Місяць тому +1

    Mystic Warriors is easily one of my favorite arcade games of all time. Just absolutely lovely on all fronts.
    Violent Storm is up there too. It always frustrates me how weird people treat that game. Almost every time I've heard people talk about it, it's weirdly negative. Even downplaying the music as if it's awful. The first time I saw it, it was through a UA-camr playing it solely to show how bad it was so he could mock the game and just seeing it, I knew I had to play the game for myself because it legitimately looked like a great time. Never got why people get that way with that game. Maybe people just hate games being fun.

  • @TheBeird
    @TheBeird Місяць тому

    God I want Violent Storm. I got Vendetta on Arcade Archive and had a great time so I want moar! And Violent Storm seems to be moar than enough!

  • @blitzerblazinoah6838
    @blitzerblazinoah6838 Місяць тому

    The Super Nintendo version of Parodius Da/2 was also known as (Super) Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy.

  • @markveganism5003
    @markveganism5003 Місяць тому +5

    Imagine a childhood without arcades

    • @MichaelLeroi
      @MichaelLeroi Місяць тому +2

      @@markveganism5003 It's honestly a sad thought

    • @TruculentSheep
      @TruculentSheep Місяць тому

      I remember the late 80s and early 90s where cabs were EVERYWHERE in the UK, from newsagents to launderettes, pubs, cafes and sport centres. And especially video shops, for some reason. (This is where my brother played the uncensored version of Crime Fighters 2/Vendetta. And yes, he reacted to THAT LEVEL with all the maturity and dignity you'd expect from a tween of that era.) In one case, there was even a cab in a car dealership! (It sold Fiats.)
      I always see this as the Golden Age of the Arcade Game, if not the Arcade itself. By the time I was old enough to play them, they were, as mentioned, far more accessible, while arcades themselves, outside of the seaside, were stigmatised as dangerous, seedy places where strange men would try to sell you drugs or worse. Cabs became, for a brief time, mundane and part of everyday life, at least until the Playstation came along.
      On a final note, Asterix was also very rare, but I really enjoyed playing it on Brighton Pier in the year it came out, alongside Turtles in Time.

    • @yasin_GD
      @yasin_GD Місяць тому +3

      well If youre young enough you dont have to, unfortunatly.

    • @jessragan6714
      @jessragan6714 Місяць тому

      It's a nightmare lived by members of Generation Z.

    • @persona83
      @persona83 Місяць тому

      no way!

  • @orderofmagnitude-TPATP
    @orderofmagnitude-TPATP Місяць тому

    Spot on....again

  • @JuanGomez-ke5py
    @JuanGomez-ke5py Місяць тому

    18:12 it was cool enough to show up in Yu-Gi-Oh

  • @DobbyDoo24
    @DobbyDoo24 Місяць тому

    Love those old Konami arcade posters where they used cheesy models to promote the game. Would be great if Bitmap books released a collection of them

  • @gmo6854
    @gmo6854 Місяць тому

    Asterix is the perfect ip for a belt scrolling beat em up.

  • @NeoTrggrTheGammer
    @NeoTrggrTheGammer Місяць тому

    mentioning the sheer amount of Beatmania IIDX games...I am pretty sure they are up to 30 last time I checked

  • @Alex_Power
    @Alex_Power Місяць тому

    To me, Punk Shot was fun because of the 90s aesthetic and the attacks for knocking the ball out. Also it didn't have a 'goal tending' penalty like NBA Jam. Graphics are not too disimilar from Street Hoops

  • @williamschristopher12
    @williamschristopher12 Місяць тому

    Great video sir! A true scholar and gentleman.

  • @rossvegas7
    @rossvegas7 Місяць тому

    Kim, your channel and content is amazing thank you so much for all the videos you're a legend 🖤🤍🖤🤍

  • @Bloodreign1
    @Bloodreign1 Місяць тому

    I don't know, while I love Gradius Gaiden, I still like Gradius IV as well. Enough to get the PS2 Gradius3 and 4 pack off Ebay as my second ever purchase off that site in late 2004, right after buying a copy of Gradius Gaiden, as my first ever Ebay purchase on October 4th, 2004 (Ebay reminded me the other day that I made my 20th anniversary there). The third purtchase to finish the top 3? Parodius Deluxe Pack on the PS1.

  • @CatFish107
    @CatFish107 Місяць тому

    Ooooooh yeah, that's the stuff!

    • @CatFish107
      @CatFish107 Місяць тому

      Parodius switch port when?!?!

  • @googleboughtmee
    @googleboughtmee Місяць тому +1

    Is Racin' Force (1994) not working in mame?

  • @heavysystemsinc.
    @heavysystemsinc. Місяць тому

    I think you missed Racin' Force, which is improperly emulated in MAME. I played it once at an arcade. The thing that's throwing off Emulation, I'd suppose, is it's the only Konami game that seemingly uses Voxel Graphices for the turrain. So in essence it's like a Mode 7 SNES game with Super Scaler Sprites and voxel stages.

    • @Kim_Justice
      @Kim_Justice  Місяць тому

      Yeah, I tried Racin' Force but unfortunately it just isn't playable -- it's totally black where the track should be. Same applies to a few others like Golfing Greats 2.

  • @Boogie_the_cat
    @Boogie_the_cat 10 днів тому

    30:03 60% of the time, turning into a were-panther works all of the time.

  • @RichardTroupe
    @RichardTroupe Місяць тому

    An interesting fact about the Northern Ireland flag faux-pas in Premier Soccer...
    Northern Ireland doesnt actually have an official flag. The flag that is often used to represent Northern Ireland is the 'Government of Northern Ireland, 1924' flag which isn't official.
    Another soccer related flag faux-pas, although arguably not as egregious, is FIFA International Soccer on 3DO using the St.Patrick's Cross flag for Northern Ireland which isnt recognised as official either.
    Northern Ireland is a mess regarding 'flegs'.

    • @joedent3323
      @joedent3323 Місяць тому +1

      Interesting stuff. Cheers.

  • @EvanCWaters
    @EvanCWaters Місяць тому

    Seems like Bishi-Bashi and other games were the forerunners of Wario Ware.

  • @Boogie_the_cat
    @Boogie_the_cat Місяць тому

    Konami was killing it in the arcades in the 90's.
    Now it seems they only are interested in mobile games and pachinko machines.
    Sad to see how the mighty have fallen.

  • @KarlSturmgewher
    @KarlSturmgewher Місяць тому

    Ones not on Arcade Archives:
    Parodius
    Punk Shot
    Over Drive
    Escape Kids
    Lethal Enforcers
    Gaiapolis
    Martial Champion
    Megamorphic Force
    Monster Maulers
    Premier Soccer (should fill the void left by the Super Sidekicks games)
    Run and Gun
    Violent Storm
    Crazy Cross
    Soccer Superstars
    Dragoon Might
    Magical Twinbee
    Salamander 2

  • @tiagopereirasantossilva556
    @tiagopereirasantossilva556 Місяць тому

    I would like that Konami port, remaster or even complete remake in Unity or Unreal 5 the G.I.O Game and, by the way, Alien Game (how I like call real contra 3)

  • @batzraph708
    @batzraph708 Місяць тому

    I would buy a Konami arcade collection on steam.

    • @joedent3323
      @joedent3323 Місяць тому

      I can imagine that sorting licensing for the licensed games - Simpson's/Turtles/Asterix/etc., could be long and fruitless. These are some of the most attractive titles.

  • @StrelokBogard
    @StrelokBogard Місяць тому +1

    I think Xexex is really good, the problem is Konami sabotage themselves cause they change the mechanics for the western version (for awesome shmup action play Japanese version). Same goes for thunder cross 2, if you like the western version, you’ll probably will love the Japanese one. In TC2 Japanese instead of the bombs (little babies) you’ll get amazing power ups (the way the game was meant to be played).

    • @mamehaze
      @mamehaze Місяць тому

      It is strange how Konami did this to so many games; I was kinda surprised when Kim mentioned that Trigon went the other way, with the Japanese version being significantly more difficult in that case. As a general rule though, yeah, if it's a Konami arcade, play the Japanese version. Monster Maulers is another good example, the export version strips out even the intro/attract tune, which is one of the most quirky and amusing things about the game.
      Gaiapolis did get export releases btw, there are European and USA sets of it in MAME, probably just didn't end up being very popular. Also Vs. Net Soccer and Rushing Heroes are the same hardware as Soccer Superstars, so not really 3D games at all, just 2D graphics with rotating ground planes like SNES mode-7.

    • @neat3468
      @neat3468 Місяць тому

      Xexex is perhaps the craziest of all, I mean they took out the 2 player coop and made it a 1 player game. ON PURPOSE... Let that sink in.

  • @CMc-v7z
    @CMc-v7z Місяць тому

    I played the absolute fudge out of Sunset Riders.

  • @neat3468
    @neat3468 Місяць тому

    I still think it's hilarious that Konami's Contra is an Aliens ripoff (especially with the later stages) and then when Konami actually gets the official Aliens licence, they technically just make another Contra game, which just happens to use the Aliens licence lol.

  • @simplesimonhadapie
    @simplesimonhadapie Місяць тому

    In the words of the krankies "which unlucky bastard got my keys" sorry fandabidozee

  • @heralduk5839
    @heralduk5839 Місяць тому

    Aw what ? They didn't call it Lifeforce 2.... lol 🫢

  • @timothyjholloway
    @timothyjholloway Місяць тому

    I know I'm just some rando in the internet and you don't have a ton of subscribers or viewers to this video, but... your voice constantly reminds me of Peter Cook as the clergyman at the wedding in The Princess Bride: ua-cam.com/video/3odMTPuzLwY/v-deo.htmlsi=rR481qhMa-8HGQ0f

  • @PedroSilvahf
    @PedroSilvahf Місяць тому

    Its a good thing that some of those games are and remain obscure. Konami did get it right a lot but when they missed the game is bad in every way possible. Talk about ugly graphics.

  • @Spolupyo
    @Spolupyo Місяць тому

    There's a lot of crap here, with a few passable ones and only 2-3 that can be considered gems.

  • @scalliano
    @scalliano Місяць тому

    That isn't even the Ireland flag, let alone the Northern Ireland flag...

  • @minixtvbox
    @minixtvbox Місяць тому +1

    First

  • @Aragorn7884
    @Aragorn7884 Місяць тому +1

    Hot Take: Out of all 3 versions of Sunset Riders...I prefer the Genesis version 😱

    • @burntyper
      @burntyper Місяць тому

      Shite

    • @Kim_Justice
      @Kim_Justice  Місяць тому +2

      That's a hot take!

    • @Aragorn7884
      @Aragorn7884 Місяць тому +1

      @@Kim_Justice Nostalgia Glasses lolz

    • @jessragan6714
      @jessragan6714 Місяць тому

      @@Kim_Justice Seriously. Sunset Riders was such a bummer on the Genesis that there's currently a team of hackers working on a proper port. Still eagerly waiting for the finished product!

  • @NEKO7853
    @NEKO7853 Місяць тому