Awesome driving! Thank you for posting! I used to pump endless quarters in for the music that plays at 3:02, 5:54, 8:17, 12:21, 14:44 but I would always get so distracted listening to the music and crash LOL!
I got 380K (arcade) (I think, somewhere around there) (Emporium Wicker Park - Chicago, IL) Secrets: 1) don't use the gas peddle (usually) - only shift up and down to change speed (do it A LOT - like constantly ALL the time). VERY rarely do I have both hands on the steering wheel. One on the wheel at the gun trigger and one on the gear shift. 2) on the boat stage, stay in high gear, but use the gas peddle to edge off your speed, because low gear is too slow and high is too fast. You can cruise through the level at about 2/3 high gear 3) on the ice stage if you don't have oil and and are following AND followed by only blade cars, you can stay in between them by edging your speed up and down. 4) it's ALL about points, so get them 5) if you crash, judge the cars coming from the rear and pull SLOWLY off the side of the road - avoid the double death phenomenon. (ANY person who has played knows what I'm talking about) AND Most important - play on a fully functional machine (preferably a stand up box) OH, there is another 6) If you can fill up the screen with max cars and they are all friendly, then you can coast in low gear and no more cars will come out. If you are in low gear, then slower friendlies will go off the bottom of the screen BUT will still be present. (you can actually have only your car on screen and coast through a level like this. This also works for enemy cars on the other side of the road. and another 7) Always take the left path if possible, and always follow the left half of the screen on the boats stage if possible. and another 8) at the first split in the road, go left. Then get close to the left edge (not on it) and go as fast as you can. It's a great way to rack up points, and all cars will pass on the right (feigning attempts to knock you off the road, but none will hit) and hence another 9) At the beginning, you get unlimited lives and a timer. At the end of the timer you get get additional lives according to how many points you got during the timer session. I think it's like 1 for 10k and 2 for 18k. (if you got 20k during the timer session, then you are on track to doing very well) Now get out there folks and show me what you can do. Oh, yeah, after about 200K, no more free cars. Before that I think it's every 20k, then 40k, then 60k (I may be wrong with those numbers, but there is a point where you will not receive any more extra cars.) (have you ever seen a game of Spyhunter with 7 evil cars and a helicopter on the screen at the same time?) I played this game for about 2 or 3 years, and I'm the best I've ever seen play it - by far.
I totally forgot about this song. Thanks avgn🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮🎉😮🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮😮🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮😮🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮😮🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
This was supposed to have been the first James Bond arcade game, but when MGM/UA declined Midway permission to use any portion of its license, including the original intended use of its iconic theme tune as background music, the game was retitled Spy Hunter and the music used instead was a synth rendition of Henry Mancini's "Theme from Peter Gunn."
I swear to God when I was in high school 1989 I played Spy Hunter for over an hour during lunch break and racked up over a million points. I finally killed myself so I could get back to class within 15 minutes of being tardy so I wouldn't get in big trouble. yet 135k is the world record? what??!! I consistency smash that on my ps3 version to this very day...
This is my favorite game on Midway Arcade Treasures. Always had to deal with that Mad Bomber and on rare occasions Dr. Torpedo. Oil slick was just the best weapon
... Average high score was one million at the local machines. But I had seen scores as high three million, which required a couple of hours of play. So, no, he's not that good.
@@captainharris8980 He played this on a computer using keys not on arcade or using a controller. So he is good, I know this guy he killed it for hours at the arcade back in the day.
To get rid of the Enforcer Car; When the bridge is out, Call the weapons van right before the straight section of the bride, When you exit the van stay to the right side on gravel section. Do not drive on the road surface. Drive to the edge of the broken bridge and wait for the Enforcer Car to show up on the left side of the road on the gravel section. Stay on the gravel section and slowly cross the broken bridge. The Enforcer Car will follow parallel to you on the left side on the gravel section. The Enforcer Car will crash into the water while you cross over the broken bridge. After you cross over the broken bridge you can drive on the surface road and continue to drive. From this point the Enforcer Car will never appear for the rest of the game. Enjoy!
ok here's how bad I was at this game..... 1) I didn't know the music went beyond the whole "do do do deh deh deh deh do deh do dehhhhh" because my game was far beyond over at that point. 2) I didn't know that you could down a helicopter with missiles. 3) I didn't know there WAS a helicopter. Yay Beefsteak Charlie's take my quarterz plz....
Beats my high score! I notice that I used to confront enemy cars while you avoid them; that's probably smart. I'm reminded of a game Adult Swim put out called "Viva Caligula!" where you're Caligula wandering around Rome to collect weapons. There are countless citizens for you to get into fights with; but if you just ignore them and go about your business, the game gets much much easier.
Does anyone remember the name of a martial arts game around this time, where an Asian martial artist would be running through the woods and fight enemies. He would climb trees to get super powers. The goal was to reach a warehouse and rescue a princess.
I'm wondering the same thing. Maybe it's leveraging some internal logic, like there are a fixed number of enemy cars roaming around, and destroying them causes them to respawn near you, therefore it's best to simply avoid them? It's a very strange way to play though; I feel like it's missing the point.
When I'd play this as a kid at the arcade or at home it never occurred to me that there were rules, had no idea how points or anything worked. I thought the basic idea was to just not die, and kill as much as possible. I didn't realize killing the civilians was wrong lol.
if you get 18,000 points before the timer runs out, you star with 2 extra lives instead of 1. @7:51 if you waited to get in the truck until 7:59 you could have jumped the "out" bridge. God I want to play this game again.
why are the trucks comeing like immediatly after getting out of another truck.. that has never happened when i played this.. you must have this set on the easiest setting possible.
I don't know , I could bang this game for quite a while back 1984. 18 minutes is alright , but I think I did longer runs in the sit-down cabinet version. I guess I got spoiled , because I can't play most on those old games on the new emulators. Give me a sit-down Asteroids machine, I could play all day on a quarter . best game 8 million in 12-13 hours IIRC, I was going for the world record (12 million at the time), but got tired.
Like I just replied to another guy who praised this video's game play, the average high score at the local machines was one million to one point five million. But I had seen scores as high as three million and higher. I could go for an hour or more on the sit down version.
@@captainharris8980 IDK, how long I Played or my score, I defintely liked the game, but I was 17 in 84 and my drug intake was more phenomenal than my video game playing. LOL 37-38 years later plus that , little hard to remember much ;:)
This is such a fucking lame score. Back when I used to smoke loads of weed and hang out at the arcade I used to regularly get scores over 400,000 on Spyhunter. My record was 512,000. My initials were FIK.
Gosh I can barely watch this. Very ameteur performance. Terrible weapons van technique/utilization. Not one force-off-road kill! Under a utilization of free points riding weapons van left to right screen. Also completely absent ability to shoot cars/boats upscreen.
Thanks ruffie love that little too fast song mixed heavy with Atari and your coffee 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮killer 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
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Going back 37 years, the 13 year old in me crowned you arcade legend. Flawless performance bro!
Awesome driving! Thank you for posting! I used to pump endless quarters in for the music that plays at 3:02, 5:54, 8:17, 12:21, 14:44 but I would always get so distracted listening to the music and crash LOL!
I got 380K (arcade) (I think, somewhere around there) (Emporium Wicker Park - Chicago, IL)
Secrets:
1) don't use the gas peddle (usually) - only shift up and down to change speed (do it A LOT - like constantly ALL the time). VERY rarely do I have both hands on the steering wheel. One on the wheel at the gun trigger and one on the gear shift.
2) on the boat stage, stay in high gear, but use the gas peddle to edge off your speed, because low gear is too slow and high is too fast. You can cruise through the level at about 2/3 high gear
3) on the ice stage if you don't have oil and and are following AND followed by only blade cars, you can stay in between them by edging your speed up and down.
4) it's ALL about points, so get them
5) if you crash, judge the cars coming from the rear and pull SLOWLY off the side of the road - avoid the double death phenomenon. (ANY person who has played knows what I'm talking about)
AND Most important - play on a fully functional machine (preferably a stand up box)
OH, there is another
6) If you can fill up the screen with max cars and they are all friendly, then you can coast in low gear and no more cars will come out. If you are in low gear, then slower friendlies will go off the bottom of the screen BUT will still be present. (you can actually have only your car on screen and coast through a level like this. This also works for enemy cars on the other side of the road.
and another
7) Always take the left path if possible, and always follow the left half of the screen on the boats stage if possible.
and another
8) at the first split in the road, go left. Then get close to the left edge (not on it) and go as fast as you can. It's a great way to rack up points, and all cars will pass on the right (feigning attempts to knock you off the road, but none will hit)
and hence another
9) At the beginning, you get unlimited lives and a timer. At the end of the timer you get get additional lives according to how many points you got during the timer session. I think it's like 1 for 10k and 2 for 18k. (if you got 20k during the timer session, then you are on track to doing very well)
Now get out there folks and show me what you can do.
Oh, yeah, after about 200K, no more free cars. Before that I think it's every 20k, then 40k, then 60k (I may be wrong with those numbers, but there is a point where you will not receive any more extra cars.)
(have you ever seen a game of Spyhunter with 7 evil cars and a helicopter on the screen at the same time?)
I played this game for about 2 or 3 years, and I'm the best I've ever seen play it - by far.
I hope you one day get this arcade machine in your home
No mention of the "Cross the broken bridge on the side of the road" hack??
Back in the 80s I ruled this game one quarter I was there playing for hours love this game growing up
Very well played!! I used to play this game all the time and it honestly never occurred to me to use the strategy to tail the weapons van.
This is one of the most relaxing games ever created. No stress whatsoever
I totally forgot about this song. Thanks avgn🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮🎉😮🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮😮🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮😮🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮😮🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
That was one of my favorite games as a kid .
Love the spy hunter theme music it never gets old
I'm sure Henry Mancini appreciates it.
@@Krendall2 I wouldnt say that much as hes dead since 1994.
@@johnmc3862 Well, this game came out in 1983, so it's entirely possible he knew about it.
I love the theme too but….. it git old. I dont recall it playing constantly like this.🤔🤣
@@charlesajones77 I was replying to present tense lol.
This was supposed to have been the first James Bond arcade game, but when MGM/UA declined Midway permission to use any portion of its license, including the original intended use of its iconic theme tune as background music, the game was retitled Spy Hunter and the music used instead was a synth rendition of Henry Mancini's "Theme from Peter Gunn."
Another thing, the supply truck won't move away, until your sports car gets service for the armaments it has to have.
I swear to God when I was in high school 1989 I played Spy Hunter for over an hour during lunch break and racked up over a million points. I finally killed myself so I could get back to class within 15 minutes of being tardy so I wouldn't get in big trouble. yet 135k is the world record? what??!! I consistency smash that on my ps3 version to this very day...
that CANT be the world record. I got 963,000 back then. I think he means this game's high score.
The melody for that game is Peter Gun by Henry Mancini.
It replaced the James Bond theme; Midway originally wanted to use that but MGM/UA refused to let them license it here.
Music and mattresses? Who knew?
The music for this game is epic
Lol, my favorite game for years. Found the SPY HUNTER game with cockpit and built-in speakers I an arcade in Amsterdam....37 years ago😁.
This is my favorite game on Midway Arcade Treasures. Always had to deal with that Mad Bomber and on rare occasions Dr. Torpedo. Oil slick was just the best weapon
Flash back from when I used to play this when I was in Mexico as a kid. Thanks for the video.
I NEVER KNEW you could get into a SPEED BOAT
LOL
Same!! My 10 year old self never tried
At first I thought: "This guy sucks, my 1 year old nephew could play better". And then this guy went full super sayajin on this.
... Average high score was one million at the local machines. But I had seen scores as high three million, which required a couple of hours of play. So, no, he's not that good.
@@captainharris8980 He played this on a computer using keys not on arcade or using a controller. So he is good, I know this guy he killed it for hours at the arcade back in the day.
@@DRRAYDAYY22 I've played it on my computer using keys. It's not that big a deal.
Im old enough to know this set the standard for awesomeness.....
To get rid of the Enforcer Car;
When the bridge is out,
Call the weapons van right before the straight section of the bride,
When you exit the van stay to the right side on gravel section. Do not drive on the road surface.
Drive to the edge of the broken bridge and wait for the Enforcer Car to show up on the left side of the road on the gravel section.
Stay on the gravel section and slowly cross the broken bridge. The Enforcer Car will follow parallel to you on the left side on the gravel section.
The Enforcer Car will crash into the water while you cross over the broken bridge.
After you cross over the broken bridge you can drive on the surface road and continue to drive.
From this point the Enforcer Car will never appear for the rest of the game.
Enjoy!
Also the game will never get any harder! It's a bit of a cheat but what the hell.
ok here's how bad I was at this game.....
1) I didn't know the music went beyond the whole "do do do deh deh deh deh do deh do dehhhhh" because my game was far beyond over at that point.
2) I didn't know that you could down a helicopter with missiles.
3) I didn't know there WAS a helicopter.
Yay Beefsteak Charlie's take my quarterz plz....
Beats my high score! I notice that I used to confront enemy cars while you avoid them; that's probably smart. I'm reminded of a game Adult Swim put out called "Viva Caligula!" where you're Caligula wandering around Rome to collect weapons. There are countless citizens for you to get into fights with; but if you just ignore them and go about your business, the game gets much much easier.
0:09-0:10: Game Start
1:11: Stage Clear
1:56: Extra Life
16:48: Game Over
16:55: Final Results and Ranking Results
17:00: Name Entry
This takes me back.
You can glitch the game out by driving in the rough side of the road and put it on high gear
Yesss! Never gets any harder! Such a cheat! 🤩🤩
Does anyone remember the name of a martial arts game around this time, where an Asian martial artist would be running through the woods and fight enemies. He would climb trees to get super powers. The goal was to reach a warehouse and rescue a princess.
It was called “Legend of Kage”
Yes, that's it! Thanks for the info. I was addicted to this game and was able to rescue the princess a couple of times.
Sounds like a ton of arcade games. Yie Ar Kung Fu, Kid Nikki Radical Ninja, etc.
The music iso incredible.
Why did he not use his gun?
I'm wondering the same thing. Maybe it's leveraging some internal logic, like there are a fixed number of enemy cars roaming around, and destroying them causes them to respawn near you, therefore it's best to simply avoid them? It's a very strange way to play though; I feel like it's missing the point.
Very ameteur performance overall.
EPIC classic arcade game!
This game looks like it never had an ending! At least Stainless Steel made you start back at the start!
That tends to be the case with arcade games, yes.
This guy played this on retro uprising website and used computer keys not a controller awesome
When I'd play this as a kid at the arcade or at home it never occurred to me that there were rules, had no idea how points or anything worked. I thought the basic idea was to just not die, and kill as much as possible. I didn't realize killing the civilians was wrong lol.
You didn't notice the "NO POINTS" flashing over your score when you killed a civilian?
if you get 18,000 points before the timer runs out, you star with 2 extra lives instead of 1.
@7:51 if you waited to get in the truck until 7:59 you could have jumped the "out" bridge.
God I want to play this game again.
I like when The Enforcer "accidentally" bombs his friends. 🤣
The helicopter was named "The Mad Bomber", not "The Enforcer".
Does not like using his machine guns, do he?
Played it. Loved it
Dude,
You know you can bump those shorter bad guy cars off the road, right??
15:08 Road Lord ("Bullet-Proof Bully") killed by Mad Bomber ("Master of the Sky")! 15:30 Weapons van kills Switch Blade ("Never to Be Trusted").
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐👍💯 old school never get old
0:23 very sour first attempt to be honest
I used to ride the shoulder for the first few senconds too.
To try to avoid getting killed by cars running into you from behind. That pissed me off the most about this game.
Yes I did the same I would ride the shoulder of the road and glitch the game out or I did that when I was on the icy part of the road
Yep always exit/pass the weapons van on the right, in front of it. This guy's a major chump.
My cousins used to play this game all the time!!!!
Wow man played this game for hours but never completed it
i dont think there is an ending.
You have to know how and when to use your machine guns, oil slick, smokescreen, and surface to air missles.
Absolutely this player is barely an intermediate.
I wish this was available on the iPhone
Ok now I feel old
Nice job! I've been looking around for high score vids and yours is the highest I've found. Do you know of any higher?
0:00Yellow marshmallow Peeps at the beginning. Mmmmmmm.... makes me hungry
LOl! I thought of that as smashed potatoes.
why are the trucks comeing like immediatly after getting out of another truck.. that has never happened when i played this.. you must have this set on the easiest setting possible.
It's because he's calling the weapons van immediately. He's very inexperienced!
Anything over 100k is a good score. My highest on the arcade was 224k
Mine was 963,000 took 2 hours.
MAME with an analog stick?
what browsers are supported? none of mine work.
Nothing beats the original Spy Hunter. The sequel games of Spy Hunter suck.
Hmm .... I think the highest score I ever saw was 3 million, on some machine in SF.
Tugboat @4:20 never saw that before.
I never even got to the boat 😅
The Weapons Van’s the shiz nit
3:03 , 5:10 *the MUSIC!!!!*
That score sucks. My high when I was 11 was around 325k. By the time I was 13/14 it was 500k.
The hardest board was the icey roads
Oil slick
I don't know , I could bang this game for quite a while back 1984. 18 minutes is alright , but I think I did longer runs in the sit-down cabinet version. I guess I got spoiled , because I can't play most on those old games on the new emulators.
Give me a sit-down Asteroids machine, I could play all day on a quarter . best game 8 million in 12-13 hours IIRC, I was going for the world record (12 million at the time), but got tired.
Like I just replied to another guy who praised this video's game play, the average high score at the local machines was one million to one point five million. But I had seen scores as high as three million and higher. I could go for an hour or more on the sit down version.
@@captainharris8980 IDK, how long I Played or my score, I defintely liked the game, but I was 17 in 84 and my drug intake was more phenomenal than my video game playing. LOL 37-38 years later plus that , little hard to remember much ;:)
@@chrisperrien7055 Apparenty.
Well, that's not a very high score. When I get less than 200k, I feel like it's just not my day.
Do you know how to shoot and run cars off the road? LOL!
This is such a fucking lame score. Back when I used to smoke loads of weed and hang out at the arcade I used to regularly get scores over 400,000 on Spyhunter. My record was 512,000. My initials were FIK.
Obviously the greatest accomplishment of your life.
I always wondered who FIK was on the Spy Hunter machine!
Good run but geez use the machine guns more.
Such slow driving
Gosh I can barely watch this. Very ameteur performance. Terrible weapons van technique/utilization. Not one force-off-road kill! Under a utilization of free points riding weapons van left to right screen. Also completely absent ability to shoot cars/boats upscreen.
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