Games that time forgot. A new monthly video segment. This month's game: Freedom Fighter.
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- I will be doing a monthly video on games that have been somewhat forgotten. What better way to start this off than with the Laserdisc game titled Freedom Fighter (1987).
I played this in Penn Station in NY. ❤
Renegade was my favorite but Freedom Fighter was right up there.
Here in Latinamerica, Galaxy Express 999 enjoyed some brief emission during the 80's and was fairly popular, yet it was now actually forgotten; the OVA's and Movies were actually transmited on TV. This game actually I didn't know about it, thanks pal! I should search the Galaxy Express 999 movies and give a new review as an adult, the themes and the lore of the series are actually one of the best.
I started watching the anime on PLuto TV and it is great.
Dragon slayer was epic, but like you said it was a quarter making monster. They hit big with that one.
Aladdin's Castle at Northeast Mall in Hurst, TX. Must've been late '80s or early '90s. Loved playing this one! The train sequence was as far as I got, too, and the baseball sequence was my favorite. One quote I kinda remember was, "With this you can shoot the eyes off a cockroach," as the old guy hands you the gun. Glad to know this game wasn't completely forgotten! Thanks for the post!
The cockroach quote always stuck with me as well. Glad you enjoyed the video!
I played this game in a Malibu Grand Prix in Columbus Ohio in 1994 and have been thinking about it ever since. Couldn’t remember the name or even much of the game since it was darn near impossible to play. Thanks for doing a show on it, the 30 year mystery has been solved!
Glad to be of help. Hope you enjoyed the video.
Ive been trying to figure out what this game was for years!..all i could remember was the baseball field! It was at a malibu grand prix in nj for like 3 months, then vanished!.. finally!
When I lived in Miami, it was in Malibu Grand Prix as well.
Glad to be of help. Hope you enjoyed the video.
That’s all I could ever remember about the game as well. Never seen a game like it before, that’s why it stuck in my head all these years.
Yeah, this game was insanely hard! I was able to play this back at Aladdin's Castle, NE Mall in Hurst, TX! And boy does this footage really take me back in time! Thanks for sharing.
thanks for watching!
Dang I've been trying to find this game for years. I'm 49 by the way (in 2024). A buddy of mine at the time LOVED this game, the style of it. I still remember the "you belong at a baseball game!" section. Definitely not a great game by any means, but you know about nostalgia.
Glad you found it. I had not played that game for the longest time before I was able to find an image of the laserdisc and a specificically made emulator to run it. Thanks for watching!
I found your vid because I was having nostalgia about this game I only played once. I was on Christmas vacation in Florida, and it was at the Malibu Grand Prix, though I don't remember which location. We may have played the same machine! that is amazing!
Could be. These things were pretty scarce. Thanks for watching!
I played this Arcade game at "Malibu Grand Prix" in Dallas Texas back in the late 80's,... It was so screwed up butt I attempted to play it anyways..... I love Japanimation.
Nice! I am still waiting for a fully original rom to be dumped or properly translated to a current console.
This is really fascinating as I’d never heard of this one! I was eventually able to beat Space Ace (on ace setting) as well as Dragon’s Lair when I was 10-11 at our local arcade but never beat Cliff Hanger or Super Don Quixote or Thayer’s Quest.
I really likes this one because it gave you different paths to choose from. Thanks for watching!
While I'm waiting for dinner to finish cooking and before I go back into Starfield...let me see the games time forgot. As a gamer that started back in 1986 with the Nes and Master System let's see what you got.
Addendum- I had a Malibu Grand Prix close to my home that I used to go to all the time. Mine had a building for brand new cutting edge games that was next to the small go-kart race track (there was 2) and a 3 story castle filled wall-to-wall with arcade cabs. It was the very first time I saw Freedom Fighter and it was incredible. My favorite cab back then was Stun Runner and anything Sega did. I really started getting into the arcade scene in the early 1990's with Street Fighter II and SNK! Good times!
Nice! Malibu was awesome! the current generation may have online gaming and all the fancy hardware, but there was something about the arcade scene that was just a great social experience.
Thanks for watching!
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Let me tell you...I love my current gaming. The Xbox Series X is sweet, the PS5 is super tight, and the Switch isn't bad. However, nothing touches the experience, sights, and sounds a full sized arcade brings. Being completely immersed in the moment. Good friends, incredible games, being surrounded by gamers, cheap pizza, smoke filled rooms, and people shouting "I got downs!" While slapping a quarter on a cab...there is nothing like it in the world. We had the coolest subculture around and for a time it seemed like it would never end. I miss it....
I played this game at the mall in the electronics section. They had it playing on their laserdisc display. They made me stop cause they got annoyed I was constantly dying.
Wow, great video and great game. Never heard of it. Probably no one imported this game here in Europe.
Mailbu Games only created this game before they shut down. Shame. Glad you enjoyed the video. This will be a monthly thing, so stay tuned for the game featured for July.
What are some games you think have been somewhat forgotten or just not properly given their due?? Share your thoughts on the comments below.
I think Rastan had some potential, but slowly faded away.
@@robertofuentes2141 Rastan got a spirtual successor may years later as an indie game. Volgarr The Viking. It's on Steam.
Yes!!! Loved it!
I used to kill this game at Malibu Castle! Loved it so much!
Nice!! I always went through my quarters once I got to that train scene.
Where did you hear about a planned Sega CD port? That's not something I've heard before. This is probably the best dedicated video on the game I've seen so far, although I really wish someone would actually deep dive into the history of the game's production, the people behind it and all that. I've researched the game enough to where I probably could do that myself but that'd obviously take a ton of work to edit and I don't really feel comfortable doing the voice over myself.
The fan Singe recreation I feel is lacking and doesn't really represent the arcade game that great, the lack of branching paths or the screen panning does take away from it along with the poor re-construction of the video (the disc is formatted in such a way that allows the game hardware to seamlessly switch scenes but you can't just view it on its own without editing the pieces together). And to clarify, the arcade game's ROMs are dumped (both the Star Rider hardware-based prototype and dedicated custom hardware versions) and there's an old M2V rip of the laserdisc, but you can not currently emulate it at all. It'd really be beneficial if the disc was properly preserved using the Domesday86 Project, I'm not sure if that's been done or not.
Btw, as far as the two films go, if you liked Freedom Fighter I'm sure you get something out of them. They're both really good, especially the first one, and they're easily available on Blu-Ray from Discotek.
Awesome info! Thanks for the heads up on the ROM dump. I am still watching the episodes, though it's been over 3 months since I saw the last one. Hopefully, PLutoTV hasn't removed them.
I played this game on CDi and I was trying to remember it’s name and not here I am
Glad to be of help!
There is not even a longplay of it to watch.
Nah! it is pronounced 'Galaxy Express THREE NINE'. 3:19. This Title score card has japanese pronounciation very clear.
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Yo, the title is missing an R - or is that the Engrish-nesss of the translation?
How the heck did I miss THAT?? Fixed!
Any idea were the rom dump is ?
not the original. I forgot where I found this one. I will look for it and reply back once I do find it.
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@@phoenixmixgaming4625 I cant find the dump but tomorrow I can upload the folder which is 1.23GBs to me Mega account and you can take it from there. I will send you more info once you get the files.
@@gamingquarterly6353 thx
@@phoenixmixgaming4625 mega.nz/folder/iGhgRBZB#Y9oCIZ1hKm2H44QI11MBUg