This week’s patreon Steamkey is one of the best: it’s MEGA MAN LEGACY COLLECTION First six Mega Man games on Steam, jeez thanks Gary! So much to say about this video -- some notes: - Thanks for all the different genres, including off-the-beaten-path games -- fun! I'm going to use your videos as a starting-point for my own genre-by-genre arcade research, something I love doing with retro games. btw, I don’t know if other viewers are like this, but it takes me about two hours to watch this kind of video for the first time on your channel … sends me down so many windy garden paths. - First-person-view driving games are starting to look pretty good in 1991! This would become one of my favorite game genres later in the 90s. On the other hand, I always have had trouble with the overhead-view driving games which dominated 3rd and 4th gen consoles ... it's like my mind can't process how to turn quickly in those games. - Marge kicks so much a$$ (17:20) - I miss 90’s light gun games. - Capcom side-scrolling beat-em-ups look fantastic, not necessarily more fun but definitely smoother and better-looking than their competitors. KING OF DRAGONS & KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND have long been two of my favorites! - Damn I hope I can play SOLVALOU some day. It’s a first-person game in the Xevious series of course, and that music is the *exact* music of the original Xevious -- probably the game I played the most back in the arcade in the early 80s. So cool to get in the ship in this Solvalou game, even though the 3D flight is very early and rudimentary. - So many cool shmups, I just can't -- - I recognize ROHGA ARMOR FORCE as the outside-of-Japan name for WOLF FANG: KUUGA 2001. That game had nice ports on PS1 and Saturn, and I play it on PS3! MonkeyPaw released it on PSN in the west, sometime around 2013-2014. You can still purchase and download it today, if you can figure out how to navigate the relentlessly ossifying PS3 and Vita stores. - Another of those shmups pushed me to make a purchase today: RAIGA: STRATO FIGHTER from Tecmo is right up my alley aesthetically (and that soundtrack!). So I found out that the game was included in a 2005 release for Xbox, "Tecmo Classic Arcade", which somehow I had never picked up. Still pretty cheap (under $30 new) and it has 11 games including a few greats: Pleiads (1981), Swimmer (1982), Star Force (1984), Rygar (1986), and this Raiga: Strato Fighter game (1991) which I've never played before. (Strangely, no Ninja Gaiden or DOA games…) Several of these have been or will soon be released by Hamster in the Arcade Archives series, so I'm sure they'll hit Raiga soon, but I can't wait LOL, and anyway this disc fits right in with my og Xbox collection. I'll be playing it on the big screen with sound system in a few weeks -- my 1991 arcade at home!
I am glad you enjoyed the video! I really do believe the early 90s was where arcade gaming really reached peak evolution. Almost every game released in 1991 is still playable today (which couldn't be said for earlier years) - which makes sense as many of the game design principles were nailed down and developers could really evolve their art. I should point out that I didn't actively select genres/games - I simply went through a list of every single game that was released in 1991 (and was playable on MAME) - and the results speak for themselves. Capcom was indeed on top of their game; so was Konami - and other giants like Taito and Namco. But yeah, in terms of pure graphic flourish, Capcom was a cut above the competition. I think they peaked in '93 with Shadows over Mystara - which we'll see when we get to Part 4 of this series. As for Solvalou - bear in mind that it's an "on-rails shooter" - so not quite as exciting as a full-on 3D flight game. It seems to be a predecessor Namco's better known "Starblade" series. Also, I find it impressive that in order to experience a retro game - you're having to buy a retro compilation for a system that is itself retro. That, sir - is commitment! Well played!
@@GaryRetroGamer Most of these games are just clones of other games. So many R-Type, Golden Axe, 1941, and Street Fighter/Double Dragon clones with just different skins put on top of them. Street Fighter 2 is by far the best game on this list. Even Terminator 2 was just a clone of Operation Wolf, and the Spider-Man, Avengers and even The Simpsons were clones of TMNT/X-Men.
I was 7 years old, Terminator 2 came out that year, I had tons of Ninja Turtle toys, and I enjoyed so many classics in this video! 1991 was a great year!
@@dark-jedi I got a missed SNES mini with almost 5K games and it's just the perfect nostalgia machine. Plus, I love watching old toy reviews here on UA-cam of toys my parents couldn't afford haha. The 90s were a special time!
Good list. I played 12 of these (mostly on home versions but I did play The Simpsons at a Go Kart place once) and I was aware of 22 of these. Btw: Ninja Clown?! That sounds like a parody like Bat Chick or Man Boy in the Comic Book Shop of The Simpsons!!
Getting into the _really_ good stuff now. Still lots of shmups, though. I'm surprised how many games had true polygonal 3D this early. What is it about these videos that's so oddly enjoyable? It's just lists of arcade games, yet there's something unquantifiably entertaining about them.
I forgot that game name do you remember a game where we shoot the airplanes from a bunker and enemies also came down with a parachute and if we lost the ambulance came and take us
Great Golf should have been labeled Lousy Golf. Terrible game. The distance to everything is off so you cant know where your ball will end up at. What rubbish.
Note: There is a typo: Game 113 should be "Ultraman"
Golden era of arcade
The year holds both iconic and hidden gems, awesome 91!
so many legendary beat m ups in this year, 1991 :)
Truly one the best years ever in term of arcade games, music, movies.
what an absolutely MASSIVE year for arcade games.
Oh man!!.. You have made my Sunday afternoon happy!!.. What memories!.. And you have helped me remember some names!!.. Thank you! 👏
This week’s patreon Steamkey is one of the best: it’s MEGA MAN LEGACY COLLECTION First six Mega Man games on Steam, jeez thanks Gary!
So much to say about this video -- some notes:
- Thanks for all the different genres, including off-the-beaten-path games -- fun! I'm going to use your videos as a starting-point for my own genre-by-genre arcade research, something I love doing with retro games. btw, I don’t know if other viewers are like this, but it takes me about two hours to watch this kind of video for the first time on your channel … sends me down so many windy garden paths.
- First-person-view driving games are starting to look pretty good in 1991! This would become one of my favorite game genres later in the 90s. On the other hand, I always have had trouble with the overhead-view driving games which dominated 3rd and 4th gen consoles ... it's like my mind can't process how to turn quickly in those games.
- Marge kicks so much a$$ (17:20)
- I miss 90’s light gun games.
- Capcom side-scrolling beat-em-ups look fantastic, not necessarily more fun but definitely smoother and better-looking than their competitors. KING OF DRAGONS & KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND have long been two of my favorites!
- Damn I hope I can play SOLVALOU some day. It’s a first-person game in the Xevious series of course, and that music is the *exact* music of the original Xevious -- probably the game I played the most back in the arcade in the early 80s. So cool to get in the ship in this Solvalou game, even though the 3D flight is very early and rudimentary.
- So many cool shmups, I just can't --
- I recognize ROHGA ARMOR FORCE as the outside-of-Japan name for WOLF FANG: KUUGA 2001. That game had nice ports on PS1 and Saturn, and I play it on PS3! MonkeyPaw released it on PSN in the west, sometime around 2013-2014. You can still purchase and download it today, if you can figure out how to navigate the relentlessly ossifying PS3 and Vita stores.
- Another of those shmups pushed me to make a purchase today: RAIGA: STRATO FIGHTER from Tecmo is right up my alley aesthetically (and that soundtrack!). So I found out that the game was included in a 2005 release for Xbox, "Tecmo Classic Arcade", which somehow I had never picked up. Still pretty cheap (under $30 new) and it has 11 games including a few greats: Pleiads (1981), Swimmer (1982), Star Force (1984), Rygar (1986), and this Raiga: Strato Fighter game (1991) which I've never played before. (Strangely, no Ninja Gaiden or DOA games…) Several of these have been or will soon be released by Hamster in the Arcade Archives series, so I'm sure they'll hit Raiga soon, but I can't wait LOL, and anyway this disc fits right in with my og Xbox collection. I'll be playing it on the big screen with sound system in a few weeks -- my 1991 arcade at home!
I am glad you enjoyed the video! I really do believe the early 90s was where arcade gaming really reached peak evolution. Almost every game released in 1991 is still playable today (which couldn't be said for earlier years) - which makes sense as many of the game design principles were nailed down and developers could really evolve their art.
I should point out that I didn't actively select genres/games - I simply went through a list of every single game that was released in 1991 (and was playable on MAME) - and the results speak for themselves.
Capcom was indeed on top of their game; so was Konami - and other giants like Taito and Namco. But yeah, in terms of pure graphic flourish, Capcom was a cut above the competition. I think they peaked in '93 with Shadows over Mystara - which we'll see when we get to Part 4 of this series.
As for Solvalou - bear in mind that it's an "on-rails shooter" - so not quite as exciting as a full-on 3D flight game. It seems to be a predecessor Namco's better known "Starblade" series.
Also, I find it impressive that in order to experience a retro game - you're having to buy a retro compilation for a system that is itself retro. That, sir - is commitment! Well played!
@@GaryRetroGamer Most of these games are just clones of other games. So many R-Type, Golden Axe, 1941, and Street Fighter/Double Dragon clones with just different skins put on top of them. Street Fighter 2 is by far the best game on this list. Even Terminator 2 was just a clone of Operation Wolf, and the Spider-Man, Avengers and even The Simpsons were clones of TMNT/X-Men.
I was 7 years old, Terminator 2 came out that year, I had tons of Ninja Turtle toys, and I enjoyed so many classics in this video! 1991 was a great year!
@@dark-jedi I got a missed SNES mini with almost 5K games and it's just the perfect nostalgia machine. Plus, I love watching old toy reviews here on UA-cam of toys my parents couldn't afford haha. The 90s were a special time!
TY Gary
9:32 Godzilla vs Kong
12:14 How the hell did I go through life not knowing there's a game called Ninja Clowns?!?!
A lot of legendary beatemups
Nice. Subbed. Can’t wait for 92.
Good list. I played 12 of these (mostly on home versions but I did play The Simpsons at a Go Kart place once) and I was aware of 22 of these. Btw: Ninja Clown?! That sounds like a parody like Bat Chick or Man Boy in the Comic Book Shop of The Simpsons!!
Getting into the _really_ good stuff now. Still lots of shmups, though. I'm surprised how many games had true polygonal 3D this early.
What is it about these videos that's so oddly enjoyable? It's just lists of arcade games, yet there's something unquantifiably entertaining about them.
Nice video just supported you
Ninja Clowns. Pretty cool game!
Spectacular list as always, Gary:) Keep up the good work:) Sadly can't say so for my channel though as I'm not feeling up to it lately:(
Had been looking to play this game for years in HD pixelated Glory and finally have it on the PS classic🤘🤘 edit: Warrior Blade Raston Saga lll
Simple pure fun
I forgot that game name do you remember a game where we shoot the airplanes from a bunker and enemies also came down with a parachute and if we lost the ambulance came and take us
Berlin wall....what the hell lol
The new video of gary : Me 😍😎😻💋💖 yeahhh
Great Golf should have been labeled Lousy Golf. Terrible game. The distance to everything is off so you cant know where your ball will end up at. What rubbish.