My gosh i m 2000s born i didn't know much about old arcade games but i can probably say that most of the games graphics are way ahead of that era. I mean look at the marchen maze graphics looks same like today's android games.
Will somebody please build a time machine? I know there are ways to play these games today, but I want to be in an arcade with the background sound of 20 of these at once.
I know what you mean. It’s not that same playing these games at home. Need that dark room with black light responsive carpet and all 100 machines making beeps and boops. Fortunately there are lots of retro arcades popping up all over the place.
Omg, some of those really brought me back. It's insane that somewhere in my brain that knowledge was still there, but hasn't been accessed in over 30 years. I expect my nose to bleed any second...
There’s one arcade game I’ve been trying to remember. I know you played a caveman, it had like a birds eye pov. I think you started throwing rocks but could upgrade to throwing torches, and you could find a dinosaur (triceratops?) to ride. And the board you could go all around, not just continuously forward but more like an open area.
I thought I recognised some of these, like Bonze Adventure & Legend of Hero Tonma. I must have played them years ago on a PC Engine emulator. And I had no idea that an obscure game I played quite a lot on the Spectrum, called Ninja, was actually an Arcade port of Ninja Mission. Live and learn.
Aha! Excellent eye on "Ninja". It was actually the other way round; "Ninja" was a big hit on home computers (Speccy and the other 8 bits) in 1986. In 1988, Mastertronic introduced their "Arcadia" line of arcade systems - which were essentially just Amiga hardware packaged inside an arcade case. They made the decision to port some of their early titles ... like Ninja ... to this new arcade system! So, the arcade "Ninja Mission" is actually a port of the older 8-bit titles!
n° 98 was one of my favourites... Tecmo Knights / Wild Fangs... You could decapitate your foes in such satisfying ways... And it was quite easy, which was rare for an arcade game.
I'm trying to find this one arcade game I used to play at a Boys and Girls club in the early to mid '90s. All I remember is that it's a side-scrolling (like the first Super Mario games) game that starts on a mountain cliff with a waterfall in the background. I think it was set in medieval times, but I could be wrong. I tried Googling it, but no luck.
awesome video. all i play mostly is retro arcade games from the 80's early 90's. always looking for hidden gems and this will help. I just beat "bonze adventures" and i just saw it on ur list, lol. that game was killer.
I remember dedicated arcades becoming pretty scarce in the late 80s. In general, malls became a lot less "teen friendly" by the 1990s. We found various 7/11s that had the games we liked. Xenophobe... Gauntlet... Altered Beasts... they were scattered around town. Usually we'd be on comic book sprees to our local outlets and then to the video games at the 7/11s. Then we got girlfriends. LOL!
"Block Hole" is the international name of "Quarth". Obscure for the arcades, indeed. "Battle Shark"? We actually had that in one of the local arcades. It was tough as nails. "Crime City" runs on the "Rolling Thunder" engine, that one was also a rare bird. "Mad Gear" could also be LED Storm? "Night Striker" is at the bottom of the top ten most quarters spent in the arcades. The tech behind the game was impressive. The game itself? Tough as nails. Trivia: "Dynamite Duke" did terrible in the arcades, however, Seibu Kaihatsu immediately turned their losses around with their subsequent offering "Raiden", despite using weaker hardware, and it would be the start of a classic series of games for them.
There’s an arcade game from the mid to late 80’s possibly 1990 that I can never find the name of. Scrolls left to right, platformer starts in an out door grassy area jumping over pits then into a pyramid moving bottom to top. I never could get past the pyramid indoor area. Character you controlled could’ve been wearing a red cape . If you’ve any ideas would be appreciated . Great video helped me remember 6 or so from my youth. Especially Insector X !
Block Hole is Quarth, the European arcade version of this puzzle game which oddly enough never got a US release in arcades as did many of Konami's greatest late 80s arcade games.
Dang, I never knew Atari games were THAT good! There is only one Atari game featured in this list, while the other publishers had 5 or more obscure games. They deserve some sort of reward for that!
Atari was an American company. So they could get really good distribution within the states. Some of these games seem like they’re more stuck in Japan rather than obscure. So I’m assuming it was harder for them to bring some of their less successful game’s here
People hardest find the reveal information about arcade game biographies wiki info, Yet still going around the rarest arcade game titles this year decades
Another viewer who grew up in the former Soviet Union mentioned they had seen those games all over the place. But when I lived in Moscow as a child, I never saw any!
glad u put a name to act fancer, a curious game i played when i was young. but there's another one not in here that should have been. a simple looking game where a man in space/scuba suit descended levels that were more and more packed with enemies that u had to shoot. Also it helped if u grab little one eyed friend floating aliens. played it a few about 30 years ago but can't remember the name.
Lots of games I have never seen but not the game I am looking for. A vertical scrolling shooter where you had 2 attack buttons, one for air targets and one for ground targets. The ship was black or grey jet I think, and it had a similar look to Terra cresta but from what I have looked up it is not a Nichibutsu game, I ASSUME this game would have come out around the same time.
i played an arcade game that you were flying in the air and you had to break away a mountain or something like that and every piece u broke away revealed a woman behind it. eventually when u break it all away it was a totally naked girl. wtf is the story behind that?? it was so bizarre.
Can anyone help? Trying to track down name of Robotron type game from 80’s where walls closed in on play area ... cannot find anything on it..please help
hola gamers soy de colombia,hace años estoy buscando un juego de arcade de los 80 y 90 el cual trata de un guerrero con armadura el cual inicia con este llegando a una isla en una balsa,a medida que avanza nos toca combatir diferentes criaturas con nuestra espada tambien nos proporcionan tres poderes,una bola de cristal,un zafiro morado y un rayo estos tres poderes se pueden usar individual o combinados tambien recuerdo que el primer encuentro es con cuatro hechizeros y a medida que avanzamos podemos entrar a un pueblito a obtener mejoras y aumentar el nivel de vida esto lo hacia en la iglesia del pueblito,otra pista es que el personaje se ve desde arriba como el guerrero del juego out zone quisiera ser mas preciso pero es lo unico que recuerdo de este espectacular y dificil juego,pues ni yo ni los que lo jugamos pudimos terminarlo,espero que alguien me de el nombre para asi poder lograr terminar gracias
Maybe someone can help with this one. I can’t for the life of me remember the name of one particular arcade game. Late 80’s or early 90’s. It was a dungeon style game. As you progressed you upgraded your weapon and armour eventually achieving a fiery version of both. I will ant to say the weapon carried was an axe head attached to a chain. Really would like to find this game if possible.
Thanks for the fast reply. Unfortunately it isn’t Rygar. In this one you move the character a ways left to right then climb something as part of that section and then move back to the left and so on. Man I wish I could remember the name lol.
There is even if I remember correctly this wizard that is in the game at random that you can buy potions from and also the spells to upgrade your gear.
I remember playing several of these. Nº4 (Battle Shark) looks a bit simpler but was much cooler on the actual arcade. The gimmick was that the controls were a periscope sight that you had to look trough, and you controlled the sight by turning the periscope to its sides and up and down with a set of joysticks on each side.
Note: Game #92 is "Tough Turf" by Sega (1989). Thanks @Luigi Dennis for pointing out the missing caption. (The entire game list is in the description)
My gosh i m 2000s born i didn't know much about old arcade games but i can probably say that most of the games graphics are way ahead of that era. I mean look at the marchen maze graphics looks same like today's android games.
I remembered this as if it was yesterday. Thanks for the video!
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This video is one of the most precious and rare on youtube !
Will somebody please build a time machine? I know there are ways to play these games today, but I want to be in an arcade with the background sound of 20 of these at once.
Agreed. Even though i built my own arcade machine with MAME installed there was nothing like being in an arcade parlour with all the lights and sounds
there are still arcades .. it's just that you dont put quarters in .. it's a free play but you have to pay the admission like $10.
I know what you mean. It’s not that same playing these games at home. Need that dark room with black light responsive carpet and all 100 machines making beeps and boops.
Fortunately there are lots of retro arcades popping up all over the place.
A pilgrimage to the fun spot arcade museum in New Hampshire is an incredible trip.
There are games that can be download and play under DOS enviroment.
Thank you for moving from the 5 secs format! It's so much more enjoyable now to watch.
Some of these remained obscure for a reason...
DEAD ANGLE!!
Exactly the old arcade game I was looking for! GGWP 🙏
Omg, some of those really brought me back. It's insane that somewhere in my brain that knowledge was still there, but hasn't been accessed in over 30 years. I expect my nose to bleed any second...
There’s one arcade game I’ve been trying to remember. I know you played a caveman, it had like a birds eye pov. I think you started throwing rocks but could upgrade to throwing torches, and you could find a dinosaur (triceratops?) to ride. And the board you could go all around, not just continuously forward but more like an open area.
Sounds like Boomer ranger, don't remember who made it, though.
Ninjas....so hot in the 80's.
Also, the company Taito was prolific in their game production.
14:53 "Zmeika":D Quite a tough game and almost on all cellphones back in 90s:D
Thanks, mate. Some of them I played when kid and I couldnt remember the name!
Some of theese games I thought I forgot but come back like ptsd memories
Ninka Kid II brought me here. Greate games, but still missing Choplifter, Bomb Jack and Commando.
I think Metal Hawk is the most masculine sounding title Namco ever did. And I love it!!
Kein einziges habe ich gekannt :) Top Retro Vupes *thx*
0:20 my fave childhood game!
Arcadia games Aargh! and Ninja Mission (they had futuristic racing battle pods one, too) were running on Commodore Amiga personal computer hardware!
I found some games I thought id never see again..thank you so much!!
I thought I recognised some of these, like Bonze Adventure & Legend of Hero Tonma. I must have played them years ago on a PC Engine emulator. And I had no idea that an obscure game I played quite a lot on the Spectrum, called Ninja, was actually an Arcade port of Ninja Mission. Live and learn.
Aha! Excellent eye on "Ninja". It was actually the other way round; "Ninja" was a big hit on home computers (Speccy and the other 8 bits) in 1986. In 1988, Mastertronic introduced their "Arcadia" line of arcade systems - which were essentially just Amiga hardware packaged inside an arcade case. They made the decision to port some of their early titles ... like Ninja ... to this new arcade system! So, the arcade "Ninja Mission" is actually a port of the older 8-bit titles!
Gary Really? I was right when I said Live and Learn. 😂
n° 98 was one of my favourites... Tecmo Knights / Wild Fangs... You could decapitate your foes in such satisfying ways... And it was quite easy, which was rare for an arcade game.
Good list. I was born in the late 80s and missed most of these but I do have and beat Burning Force and Street Smart on the Genesis Ports.
I'm trying to find this one arcade game I used to play at a Boys and Girls club in the early to mid '90s. All I remember is that it's a side-scrolling (like the first Super Mario games) game that starts on a mountain cliff with a waterfall in the background. I think it was set in medieval times, but I could be wrong. I tried Googling it, but no luck.
Hippodrome!!! MAN THAT GAME WAS EPIC WHEN I WAS A KID
awesome video. all i play mostly is retro arcade games from the 80's early 90's. always looking for hidden gems and this will help. I just beat "bonze adventures" and i just saw it on ur list, lol. that game was killer.
oh yeah...i just saw "legend of makai"...im playing that game right now and it is so freakin awesome. i love it.
Back then these games are very good and still in my opinion I'll enjoy them all which they need to come to consoles
Taito uses the same text font as Namco and presumably Atari.
I love it.
Some of these look like a lot of fun
Great list! I seem to know and have played most of these games listed here.
I remember dedicated arcades becoming pretty scarce in the late 80s. In general, malls became a lot less "teen friendly" by the 1990s. We found various 7/11s that had the games we liked. Xenophobe... Gauntlet... Altered Beasts... they were scattered around town. Usually we'd be on comic book sprees to our local outlets and then to the video games at the 7/11s. Then we got girlfriends. LOL!
Rabbit Punch/Rabio Lepus is an all-time favorite for me, even though I never even made it to level 3
Awesome list! Thank you!
Absolutely loved your upload. Now, time to fire up the raspberry
"Block Hole" is the international name of "Quarth". Obscure for the arcades, indeed. "Battle Shark"? We actually had that in one of the local arcades. It was tough as nails. "Crime City" runs on the "Rolling Thunder" engine, that one was also a rare bird. "Mad Gear" could also be LED Storm?
"Night Striker" is at the bottom of the top ten most quarters spent in the arcades. The tech behind the game was impressive. The game itself? Tough as nails.
Trivia: "Dynamite Duke" did terrible in the arcades, however, Seibu Kaihatsu immediately turned their losses around with their subsequent offering "Raiden", despite using weaker hardware, and it would be the start of a classic series of games for them.
There’s an arcade game from the mid to late 80’s possibly 1990 that I can never find the name of. Scrolls left to right, platformer starts in an out door grassy area jumping over pits then into a pyramid moving bottom to top. I never could get past the pyramid indoor area. Character you controlled could’ve been wearing a red cape . If you’ve any ideas would be appreciated . Great video helped me remember 6 or so from my youth. Especially Insector X !
Thumbs up if you've never forgotten Trio the Punch
Block Hole is Quarth, the European arcade version of this puzzle game which oddly enough never got a US release in arcades as did many of Konami's greatest late 80s arcade games.
Dang, I never knew Atari games were THAT good! There is only one Atari game featured in this list, while the other publishers had 5 or more obscure games. They deserve some sort of reward for that!
Atari was an American company. So they could get really good distribution within the states. Some of these games seem like they’re more stuck in Japan rather than obscure. So I’m assuming it was harder for them to bring some of their less successful game’s here
Number 66, Night Striker, looks nothing short of awesome.
when i see collections like this, i feel no need whatsoever to pay 70 dollars for a mtx ridden game anymore.
Man, so many arcade gems^^
Great list as always;)
2:04 What a weird looking game:D
fabulous !!!
3:03 The dude in Crime Fighters is getting the shit kicked out of him so bad its hilarious
People hardest find the reveal information about arcade game biographies wiki info, Yet still going around the rarest arcade game titles this year decades
A good number of these games can be found on modern consoles under Hamster's Arcade Archives.
Strange how arcade games looked great in the late 80's, but lacked the pure gameplay of the games in the early 80's.
Ninja Spirit has one of the best soundtracks of all games facts
Nice work
Great work as always Gary..👍😊
Dragon Punch goes hard. 💀
Loooooove the content 🤘🤘🍻
Bucanners is vigilante,🤣🔥, and gang wars is ninja combat.
16:43 And again Russian folktale is on the list: How come I've never played these games when I was a kid?:D
Another viewer who grew up in the former Soviet Union mentioned they had seen those games all over the place. But when I lived in Moscow as a child, I never saw any!
29 is quite spicy indeed.
it's so weird to me see names like Namco or Taito as "obscure arcade games" developers
Great games! It has Bonze, Wonder Momo and Rabbit Punch but it does not have the shoot e'm up game I am searching for: "Bialik's Adventure"!
Great video love arcade games so will try few of these on mame emulator 👍
glad u put a name to act fancer, a curious game i played when i was young. but there's another one not in here that should have been. a simple looking game where a man in space/scuba suit descended levels that were more and more packed with enemies that u had to shoot. Also it helped if u grab little one eyed friend floating aliens. played it a few about 30 years ago but can't remember the name.
Sounds like Namco's Baraduke
@@Tigerlord4835 thanks. been waiting for 35years to know. played it in the arcade when i was about 9yo.
@@plasmaastronaut You are welcome!
No love for "ThunderJaws" ?
Street Smart was ported to Sega Genesis
cool video bro
Japanese games in '80 = Europe games in '90
you should activate the THANKS button...
Good Stuff, keep it up!
does any one remember that game where are a red guy running and you shot monsters and umped on a dragons head
Lots of games I have never seen but not the game I am looking for. A vertical scrolling shooter where you had 2 attack buttons, one for air targets and one for ground targets. The ship was black or grey jet I think, and it had a similar look to Terra cresta but from what I have looked up it is not a Nichibutsu game, I ASSUME this game would have come out around the same time.
Sounds like Namco's Xevious
@@Tigerlord4835 I found it, XX mission
@@TheCubicleReview2 That one is obscure, and it's on Hamster's Arcade Archives
Crime fighters was not obscure as main event . They were popular arcade games
Big like Gary
Most of them are from Japan so most people have never heard of them❤
Good video
11. China Gate -- Damn, it's just like being in China IRL.
i played an arcade game that you were flying in the air and you had to break away a mountain or something like that and every piece u broke away revealed a woman behind it. eventually when u break it all away it was a totally naked girl. wtf is the story behind that?? it was so bizarre.
So uh.....what's Dragon Punch about, anyway? And Mitchell too?
Hi! I claimed the key. It is a sniper elite III thanks!
Oh awesome! Thank you for letting us know! And I hope you enjoy Sniper Elite III!
how does "diamond run" have the same music as "ghosts n goblins"?? is that right??
I like this video.
Hi Gary i'm looking for a vertical shooter, years within 87-90 about, i Remember First or second boss with a rhomboidal shape, maybe you can help me
Can anyone help? Trying to track down name of Robotron type game from 80’s where walls closed in on play area ... cannot find anything on it..please help
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hola gamers soy de colombia,hace años estoy buscando un juego de arcade de los 80 y 90 el cual trata de un guerrero con armadura el cual inicia con este llegando a una isla en una balsa,a medida que avanza nos toca combatir diferentes criaturas con nuestra espada tambien nos proporcionan tres poderes,una bola de cristal,un zafiro morado y un rayo estos tres poderes se pueden usar individual o combinados tambien recuerdo que el primer encuentro es con cuatro hechizeros y a medida que avanzamos podemos entrar a un pueblito a obtener mejoras y aumentar el nivel de vida esto lo hacia en la iglesia del pueblito,otra pista es que el personaje se ve desde arriba como el guerrero del juego out zone quisiera ser mas preciso pero es lo unico que recuerdo de este espectacular y dificil juego,pues ni yo ni los que lo jugamos pudimos terminarlo,espero que alguien me de el nombre para asi poder lograr terminar gracias
Can someone tell me the name of a rare shooter in wich you could choose between a group of amazing characters, one of them was a chimpanzee
Did they just steal Ghosts n Goblins at 4:27 ?
That one is more like Boulder Dash.
Is the false Diamond rush java
I was thinking the same thing about that.
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Maybe someone can help with this one. I can’t for the life of me remember the name of one particular arcade game. Late 80’s or early 90’s. It was a dungeon style game. As you progressed you upgraded your weapon and armour eventually achieving a fiery version of both. I will ant to say the weapon carried was an axe head attached to a chain. Really would like to find this game if possible.
Rygar
Thanks for the fast reply. Unfortunately it isn’t Rygar. In this one you move the character a ways left to right then climb something as part of that section and then move back to the left and so on. Man I wish I could remember the name lol.
There is even if I remember correctly this wizard that is in the game at random that you can buy potions from and also the spells to upgrade your gear.
Sounds like capcoms black tiger
Joe Young Thank you so much. FINALLY!! This is the game I have been searching for, for so long. Really happy thanks.
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Hard head sun a
So many crappy clones.
Legend Of Hero Tonma OBSCURE?
Come on, man...
No wonder these are obscure, they're all crap.
Thanks for this, gary
What a collection. It's baffling to see what people had already achieved by my birth in 1989.
I remember playing several of these. Nº4 (Battle Shark) looks a bit simpler but was much cooler on the actual arcade. The gimmick was that the controls were a periscope sight that you had to look trough, and you controlled the sight by turning the periscope to its sides and up and down with a set of joysticks on each side.
If you guys want to check out some cool really old school arcade retro games then come over and check them out.
This is a phenomenal list of games! Thank you!
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I think I've heard this exact explosion sound on kirby and the amazing mirror, i think it plays when you crash as missile
I don't really remember bruh
Thanks mate, useful.
59. Rock n roll racing
60. GTA
Awesome content ;p
9:57 Even Russian folktale got it's own arcade game but the sounds are kinda.....irritating tbhXD