Most of these are 'sleeper hits' but yeah, Squash especially, there's a genuinely fun game in there. Many of these Spanish games are genuinely good, TCH put out a game called Speed Spin, which is one of my favourite Ping-Pong / Table Tennis games, although sadly that isn't part of any licensed collection at the time of writing.
I realy enjoyed the first Gaelco collection. Aligator Hunt is one of my favorite games on Evercade. And as i watched you play Thunder Hoop 2 it seemed like this game has some of the same enemies and it sounds the same as Aligator Hunt. I looking forward to play this one.
Ah slap shot hockey is dreadful.. pinball is good though. You need to probably access the virtual on screen controller by pressing L1 or R1. Then coose, confirm by pressing E.
@@GG-sn4cw Yeah it's not ideal, unfortunately it's the only way around trying to emulate the original Intellivision controller. The 2nd cart is even worse.
Thanks mate. Yep it's sure is decent plus as you say the remainder of the year looking good. After a dodgy quiet start to the year, things are looking good.
The Evercade can't have a light gun. That sort of technology requires CRT televisions, which is why you don't see any modern consoles having light guns. It would be possible for the Evercade to come out with some sort of motion control thing like the Wiimote, and that could work somewhat the same, but the games would have to be reprogrammed to work with it. I just don't see that being very likely for that one game which not many people even care about. But now that I've thought about this, I think a wiimote type of thing would be a great peripheral for Blaze to consider releasing for the Evercade. I don't know if the Evercade is powerful enough to emulate Wii games, but certainly this would open the door to a lot of possibilities for new original content. Consider how insanely popular the Wii was back when it came out, and as of right now no one is really tapping into that sort of market anymore. Blaze could be the ones to do it if they put in the elbow grease to make it happen.
There was a light gun made recently for lcd tvs, I'm sure I remember reading about it. www.vg247.com/light-gun-game-revival-sinden-lightgun#:~:text=Light%20Gun%20Games%20can%20now,be%20remade%20or%20even%20remastered.
I’m very happy to see both Thunder Hoop 2 and World Rally 2 play as they should! While not as filled with top notch entertainment as the first, I’ll gladly get this too! It seems very reasonable that the “light gun” game is a bonus not counting as a seventh game. While not playing as good as in the arcade, it’s more Gaelco weirdness to behold. By now I think all early Gaelco games worth compiling are on the Evercade. Time will tell if any polygon based arcade games will be featured, if so there are some more from Gaelco.
Great video as always :-) Big Karnak is probably the only game that really interests me on this cart but I do like janky games, lol. May end up picking this up on one of the quieter months if I'm feeling flush. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Lol that's interesting.. its probably my least favourite of the games but still a good game in its own right. Just a bit repetitive. If you like this the Astyanax on Jaleco Arcade 1 will be right up your street!
@@CrazyBurger You are absolutely right :-) I'm loving The Astyanax on Jaleco Arcade 1. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and there's no accounting for taste, lol
Unless I missed something there are enough Gaelco Arcade games for two more collections. ATV Track, Bang! (Shooter), Gun Gabacho (Shooter), Master Boy (Quiz), Radical Bikers (Racing), Speed Up (Racing), Surf Planet (Sports), Target Hits (Shooter), Tokyo Cop (Racing), and Xor World (Puzzle).
Been playing both this and jaleco arcade 1 last night and most of today. I think both gaelco arcade 1 and 2 are both equally awesome. My favorite game on this collection is Thunderhoop 2 easily. I think it should of gotten the front and centre treatment lol. Maniac square was a decent puzzle game. My least favorite game by far was the hidden dual cart game Bang! Definitely a wasted hidden game choice. World rally 2. Better than the first IMO. I really liked big Karnak. And I was quite surprised how good squash and touch and go was actually. Quality cartridge overall. Gaelco really did make some great arcade games. Easily one of the most underrated.
Yeah very much underrated and probably under the radar. These games shouldve hit consoles. Agree and actually forgot to mention that.. TH2 should be the cover star. Blaze say in the manual that Big Karnak is there most well known name.. 🤔
@@CrazyBurger quite surprising that most if not all the gaelco games never had a console. Handheld or computer port. I get serious Amiga vibes when playing a gaelco game. Especially biomechanical toy and the thunder hoop games. At least Evercade is breathing new life into this software studio. Thanks to piko as well :). Oh it definitely makes sense putting the most familiar game at the front and centre.
@@CrazyBurger it's the same for a lot of these smaller developers, even if they were big in their own regions. Gaelco did at least have some success outside of Spain with Atari licensing a number of the games, but even that was only a handful. IGS titles are in a similar boat, it's difficult to believe that games like Demon Front, Martial Masters, The Gladiator, and Oriental Legend 2 never saw true home releases.
I passed on this one for now, but got my Jaleco one yesterday and am really enjoying it...I pre-ordered C64 and Alwa for sure though! Also thank you for cleaning most of the dust off of your screen, it makes me feel much better...otherwise it looks to me like Thunder Hoop 2 is the only really good game on this cart, so maybe I'll order it after I beat the first game.
It's definitely worth a look. I did actually think of you before I recorded and gave the screen a wipe! 😆 there's actually a very small speck under the glass. Bloody annoying!
@@CrazyBurger - That happened with my Mega Man 2 Tiger LCD game last night, I had to open it up and give it a good cleaning (too bad we can't do that with Evercade, can't even change the bloody battery which is running down on mine)...a speck of dust got on my Evercade screen under the glass once too, but I carry mine around with me so much that it somehow righted itself luckily.
The coolest thing about the Gaelco carts is that these games are completely unknown, at least to us Americans. Not sure if you got them in the (UK?, Ireland?)
Totally unknown to me as well. Some folks were aware, but I don't ever recall seeing these in arcades. Those lucky enough to holiday in Spain mightve seems them at resorts at the time. But for me a Totally new experience.
If you can find a way to reliably reproduce the issue you had with Thunder Hoop 2 I'd be interested in knowing. I did encounter something similar while working on it, when I was aggressively attacking the boss, breaking the attack pattern and driving it off-screen, but thought I'd just found a bug in the actual game. Interesting to hear of it not spawning at all though, as I played this a hundred times and never saw that happen! Gaelco did love to layer their protection though, and hide subtle checks, so it's possible some specific sequence of doing things triggers a check even beyond the DS5002 emulation that triggers such a behaviour, assuming it isn't just a bug in the game itself.
I did take a video and sent it to Blaze. I'm pretty sure it's a save state issue compatibility with the game rather than being an issue with the actual game. These games were not designed for save states. Similarly with Alligator Hunt, going back to a save state, the music stops playing.
@@CrazyBurger I'm not sure it will be save state related, I think everything is being saved as it should be, probably a case of a corrupt internal game state from something going wrong earlier becoming part of the save. Alligator Hunt, yeah, that's understandable, I needed to make a number of fixes to the sound core to properly support Touch and Go, and I did notice at the time that it wasn't saving its state properly at all (so fixed that for Gaelco 2) but it will affect games built off the older code (I wasn't really involved in the Gaelco 1 cartridge apart from providing the fixes for Thunder Hoop 1)
I fear without context of whatever happened before it the video won't show me much. If you take Thunder Hoop 1 for example, the protection check occurs on the Stage 2 boss, when it spawns the pink enemies (it checks the refresh frequency of the screen!). The game then acts like everything is fine until the 4th stage, where if that protection check on stage 2 failed, the game will freeze when you die. These copy protections of old can really come back and bite you! If you want to link to an unlisted video of the failure I can take a look, but I think this is going to take a lot of debugging to figure out if it's a game flaw or an emulation flaw.
@@mamehaze So my save state was just before the boss, where you smash the green cylinder. When I returned to the save state it was initially fine.. then during the boss fight it went a bit sideways.. as per the section in this video. Could do nothing as TH stuck in the air. Then loaded that exact same save state back in again and went to the boss stage and no boss materialised. I reverted to a previous save which then seemed to fix the problem.
Hi, I just purchased this cart and thought Bang might work better on ps4 controller. However when trying this, the cursor moves to the other side of the screen randomly and using the controller seems to make some games freeze/stutter. I was just wondering if you have tried this and experiencing the same issue or is it my cart thats faulty? ( Works fine with the VS controller by the way )
The cards are great. Not so great: spelling the cart name incorrectly on the menu (Galeco), putting the right screenshots on the right pages of the manual. Having the text properly laid out in the Thunder Hoop comic. Proofing isn't this hard guys. Even the promotional email they sent out about the EXP waiting list had multiple obvious typos. It continues to give the impression that Blaze just don't care about quality and getting things right. It's quite infuriating.
Really enjoying this cartridge, I’ve had some amazing games of squash.
Lol its amazing fun. Unexpected.
Most of these are 'sleeper hits' but yeah, Squash especially, there's a genuinely fun game in there. Many of these Spanish games are genuinely good, TCH put out a game called Speed Spin, which is one of my favourite Ping-Pong / Table Tennis games, although sadly that isn't part of any licensed collection at the time of writing.
I realy enjoyed the first Gaelco collection. Aligator Hunt is one of my favorite games on Evercade. And as i watched you play Thunder Hoop 2 it seemed like this game has some of the same enemies and it sounds the same as Aligator Hunt. I looking forward to play this one.
Yes, TH2 seemed very much Alligator Hunt inspired, mainly with the music and sounds.
Hi buddy evercade hit a grand slam with there releases yesterday I am absolutely addicted to the squash game can’t get enough of it
Lol brilliant.. yeah it's strangely addictive.. who would've thought a squash game could be so much fun?!
@@CrazyBurger my buddy the intellvision cart 1 slap shot hockey and pinball game I can’t get it started is there a special to load it thanks
Ah slap shot hockey is dreadful.. pinball is good though. You need to probably access the virtual on screen controller by pressing L1 or R1. Then coose, confirm by pressing E.
@@CrazyBurger oh ok thanks out of all the carts this is the most complicated it should be friendly useable
@@GG-sn4cw Yeah it's not ideal, unfortunately it's the only way around trying to emulate the original Intellivision controller. The 2nd cart is even worse.
It’s another decent cart from Blaze and five more left for the rest of the year too. Good Video CB. 👍
Thanks mate. Yep it's sure is decent plus as you say the remainder of the year looking good. After a dodgy quiet start to the year, things are looking good.
@@CrazyBurger I forgot about the EXP bonus content too.
Just brought the jaleco arcade pack. This one next on my list
The Evercade can't have a light gun. That sort of technology requires CRT televisions, which is why you don't see any modern consoles having light guns. It would be possible for the Evercade to come out with some sort of motion control thing like the Wiimote, and that could work somewhat the same, but the games would have to be reprogrammed to work with it. I just don't see that being very likely for that one game which not many people even care about.
But now that I've thought about this, I think a wiimote type of thing would be a great peripheral for Blaze to consider releasing for the Evercade. I don't know if the Evercade is powerful enough to emulate Wii games, but certainly this would open the door to a lot of possibilities for new original content. Consider how insanely popular the Wii was back when it came out, and as of right now no one is really tapping into that sort of market anymore. Blaze could be the ones to do it if they put in the elbow grease to make it happen.
There was a light gun made recently for lcd tvs, I'm sure I remember reading about it. www.vg247.com/light-gun-game-revival-sinden-lightgun#:~:text=Light%20Gun%20Games%20can%20now,be%20remade%20or%20even%20remastered.
I’m very happy to see both Thunder Hoop 2 and World Rally 2 play as they should! While not as filled with top notch entertainment as the first, I’ll gladly get this too!
It seems very reasonable that the “light gun” game is a bonus not counting as a seventh game. While not playing as good as in the arcade, it’s more Gaelco weirdness to behold.
By now I think all early Gaelco games worth compiling are on the Evercade. Time will tell if any polygon based arcade games will be featured, if so there are some more from Gaelco.
Both excellent games, very well emulated as well. I'm pleasantly surprised.
Great video as always :-) Big Karnak is probably the only game that really interests me on this cart but I do like janky games, lol. May end up picking this up on one of the quieter months if I'm feeling flush. Thanks and keep up the great work!
Lol that's interesting.. its probably my least favourite of the games but still a good game in its own right. Just a bit repetitive. If you like this the Astyanax on Jaleco Arcade 1 will be right up your street!
@@CrazyBurger You are absolutely right :-) I'm loving The Astyanax on Jaleco Arcade 1. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and there's no accounting for taste, lol
_"Maniac Square"._ That also happens to be the title of _volume one_ of my autobiography.
😂
Unless I missed something there are enough Gaelco Arcade games for two more collections. ATV Track, Bang! (Shooter), Gun Gabacho (Shooter), Master Boy (Quiz), Radical Bikers (Racing), Speed Up (Racing), Surf Planet (Sports), Target Hits (Shooter), Tokyo Cop (Racing), and Xor World (Puzzle).
Mmm maybe.. not played any of those ones.. any of them worth playing?
@@CrazyBurger I haven't played them either, I just know about them. I'd love to see them on Evercade though.
Been playing both this and jaleco arcade 1 last night and most of today. I think both gaelco arcade 1 and 2 are both equally awesome.
My favorite game on this collection is Thunderhoop 2 easily. I think it should of gotten the front and centre treatment lol. Maniac square was a decent puzzle game. My least favorite game by far was the hidden dual cart game Bang! Definitely a wasted hidden game choice. World rally 2. Better than the first IMO. I really liked big Karnak. And I was quite surprised how good squash and touch and go was actually. Quality cartridge overall. Gaelco really did make some great arcade games. Easily one of the most underrated.
Yeah very much underrated and probably under the radar. These games shouldve hit consoles. Agree and actually forgot to mention that.. TH2 should be the cover star. Blaze say in the manual that Big Karnak is there most well known name.. 🤔
@@CrazyBurger quite surprising that most if not all the gaelco games never had a console. Handheld or computer port. I get serious Amiga vibes when playing a gaelco game. Especially biomechanical toy and the thunder hoop games. At least Evercade is breathing new life into this software studio. Thanks to piko as well :).
Oh it definitely makes sense putting the most familiar game at the front and centre.
@@CrazyBurger it's the same for a lot of these smaller developers, even if they were big in their own regions. Gaelco did at least have some success outside of Spain with Atari licensing a number of the games, but even that was only a handful. IGS titles are in a similar boat, it's difficult to believe that games like Demon Front, Martial Masters, The Gladiator, and Oriental Legend 2 never saw true home releases.
@@mamehaze sad day considering the quality of the games
I passed on this one for now, but got my Jaleco one yesterday and am really enjoying it...I pre-ordered C64 and Alwa for sure though! Also thank you for cleaning most of the dust off of your screen, it makes me feel much better...otherwise it looks to me like Thunder Hoop 2 is the only really good game on this cart, so maybe I'll order it after I beat the first game.
It's definitely worth a look. I did actually think of you before I recorded and gave the screen a wipe! 😆 there's actually a very small speck under the glass. Bloody annoying!
@@CrazyBurger - That happened with my Mega Man 2 Tiger LCD game last night, I had to open it up and give it a good cleaning (too bad we can't do that with Evercade, can't even change the bloody battery which is running down on mine)...a speck of dust got on my Evercade screen under the glass once too, but I carry mine around with me so much that it somehow righted itself luckily.
Gaelco 1 is a more solid collection, collection 2 has 3 games I like on it still worth 20 bucks. Like you said more variety of games on collection2.
I think definitely 1 is the better cart though.
Big Karnak has hit and jump sounds that are curiously similar to The Combatribes, and a blue Karnov appears at 8:36
Wow.. you are right! It does sound the same. I just felt the sounds for this game don't really suit.
The coolest thing about the Gaelco carts is that these games are completely unknown, at least to us Americans. Not sure if you got them in the (UK?, Ireland?)
Totally unknown to me as well. Some folks were aware, but I don't ever recall seeing these in arcades. Those lucky enough to holiday in Spain mightve seems them at resorts at the time. But for me a Totally new experience.
The best game on this cartridge to me is Thunder Hoop 2
I could punch Gaelco 1 in the face for the lack of invert aiming on Alligator Hunt. Wrecked the whole cart for me.
Is that more an issue with the original game rather than Blazes fault?
@@CrazyBurger Burn them all to the ground. If I can't enjoy Alligator Hunt, then no one can! lol
@@esperago lol brutal. Such a great game too...
If you can find a way to reliably reproduce the issue you had with Thunder Hoop 2 I'd be interested in knowing. I did encounter something similar while working on it, when I was aggressively attacking the boss, breaking the attack pattern and driving it off-screen, but thought I'd just found a bug in the actual game. Interesting to hear of it not spawning at all though, as I played this a hundred times and never saw that happen! Gaelco did love to layer their protection though, and hide subtle checks, so it's possible some specific sequence of doing things triggers a check even beyond the DS5002 emulation that triggers such a behaviour, assuming it isn't just a bug in the game itself.
I did take a video and sent it to Blaze. I'm pretty sure it's a save state issue compatibility with the game rather than being an issue with the actual game. These games were not designed for save states. Similarly with Alligator Hunt, going back to a save state, the music stops playing.
@@CrazyBurger I'm not sure it will be save state related, I think everything is being saved as it should be, probably a case of a corrupt internal game state from something going wrong earlier becoming part of the save. Alligator Hunt, yeah, that's understandable, I needed to make a number of fixes to the sound core to properly support Touch and Go, and I did notice at the time that it wasn't saving its state properly at all (so fixed that for Gaelco 2) but it will affect games built off the older code (I wasn't really involved in the Gaelco 1 cartridge apart from providing the fixes for Thunder Hoop 1)
Ah I've just realised who you are.. if you want me to send you the video of TH2 let me know. It was very bizarre.
I fear without context of whatever happened before it the video won't show me much. If you take Thunder Hoop 1 for example, the protection check occurs on the Stage 2 boss, when it spawns the pink enemies (it checks the refresh frequency of the screen!). The game then acts like everything is fine until the 4th stage, where if that protection check on stage 2 failed, the game will freeze when you die. These copy protections of old can really come back and bite you!
If you want to link to an unlisted video of the failure I can take a look, but I think this is going to take a lot of debugging to figure out if it's a game flaw or an emulation flaw.
@@mamehaze So my save state was just before the boss, where you smash the green cylinder. When I returned to the save state it was initially fine.. then during the boss fight it went a bit sideways.. as per the section in this video. Could do nothing as TH stuck in the air. Then loaded that exact same save state back in again and went to the boss stage and no boss materialised. I reverted to a previous save which then seemed to fix the problem.
Hi, I just purchased this cart and thought Bang might work better on ps4 controller. However when trying this, the cursor moves to the other side of the screen randomly and using the controller seems to make some games freeze/stutter. I was just wondering if you have tried this and experiencing the same issue or is it my cart thats faulty? ( Works fine with the VS controller by the way )
Mmm interesting. No I just use the standard controller. The game clearly doesn't like this controller. I'll mention it to the testing guys in discord.
Cheers Crazy Burger, thanks for the reply.👍
The cards are great. Not so great: spelling the cart name incorrectly on the menu (Galeco), putting the right screenshots on the right pages of the manual. Having the text properly laid out in the Thunder Hoop comic. Proofing isn't this hard guys. Even the promotional email they sent out about the EXP waiting list had multiple obvious typos. It continues to give the impression that Blaze just don't care about quality and getting things right. It's quite infuriating.
I think they need a Quality Checks department!