Just rewatching this entire video today. Funny how the Master System was not popular in the U.S. and finding one in the wild was quite rare. Well in PAL regions it was quite the opposite, the Master System was very dominant here and finding a kid that had an NES was very rare. The PAL NES was manufactured by Mattel from memory. Later on in the video during the 32-bit era, it was interesting to see the Saturn and PS1 get shout outs for some of their arcade to home conversions. I never had either growing up in the mid 90's. After the Mega Drive, my family bypassed both of those consoles and jumped on the N64 and then briefly Dreamcast to XBox and XBox to Gamecube, Gamecube to PS2 and then I returned for life to the Mega Drive as by 2003 I discovered that it was my one true console for life and I then started tracking down the Mega-CD extension and other add-ons.
you mentioned your family's interest and enthusiasm for arcades. I think a big part of why I find your content so enjoyable is you sharing your lived experience with all these games. it's just great.
Brilliant series - but Dreamcast deserved some shine at the end. It was the ultimate moment that ‘arcade perfect plus’ arrived for gamers who had craved to have arcade quality games at home for so long! Soul Calibur on DC is a historical tipping point. Unfair to group DC in with PS2 and later consoles. It was ahead of its time and really deserved the finale of this series.
One of my favourite arcade ports was for Cyber Troopers: Virtual On for the Saturn. I only got to play the arcade version once due to it seemingly being very rare in the UK. I was working a summer job by the coast and I toured the arcades trying to find the arcade version. I went back there later on and the machine was long gone, replaced by some gambling machines. It was sad to watch the decline of the arcade, those games felt special because you couldn't take the 100% authentic version of the game home. Some of those cabinets like Space Harrier felt revolutionary. It's sad that there will be people who never get to experience such machines.
I had the same experience with Sega Genesis. I was an early adopter. My Genesis came with Altered Beast. I knew the moment I saw that non-scaling explosion that the console was gonna do me wrong on Out Run, Space Harrier, etc.
I remember playing Double Dragon at Network Video (family-owned video store in my neighborhood) and Winn-Dixie had a Playchoice 10. Even the local Quik-Stop had an arcade cabinet (can't recall what title). Better times, gone forever.
I was born in May of 1975, Been gaming since Atari 2600 system. I was like 5-6 years old lol still gaming today my passion is 80s and 90s arcade games, love 2000s as well
The Dreamcast especially I’ll never forget. The same graphics as the arcade, and the ability to bring your VMU into certain machines, will never forget that era ❤️
Soul Caliber 2 on Dreamcast blew the arcade version out the water. When consoles started having able to run with arcade graphics and at times look better then I knew their days was numbered.
I remember our mall arcade in 1984 when it opened. What a fascinating experience for an 8 year old. Moon Patrol, Joust, Spy Hunter, Dig Dug, Tron, Discs Of Tron (cockpit), Crossbow, Chiller, Battlezone, Two Tigers, Defender, Missile Command, QBert, Burgertime, Dragons Lair, Chiller. Nothing else like it. I regret I wasn’t able to experience an arcade just a little earlier, because I missed out on a lot of vectors games, Sprint 2, Turbo, Space Encounters, Galaxian, Asteroids, etc. could only find an original PacMan and Sinistar at a local movie theatre which was very cool to experience those. Then there’s a whole host of less popular games of the time that I never saw or experienced. No Glob, Cosmic Guerilla, Space Zap, Cosmic Aliens, Ponpoko, Amidar, Make Trax, etc for me :(
I reset the score counter of Missile Command on the 2600 when I was a kid. It resets back to zero after you get 999, 999 points. I thought that was a big accomplishment back then, and no one believed me when I told them I did it.
Mid 70's? You're as old as my arcade loving dad as well. He used to skip school every year to play the new games, got addicted to Raiden when that came out. Mom did the same thing for Street Fighter 2.
Sega lord you grew up a little earlier than me so you got the full video game experience. I was born in 85 so my experience started on a nes home console. My Dad played galaga and pinball when I was a baby.
Arcading make up many of my favourite memories from my childhood. Space Invaders was my first along with Asteroids. I was born in 69 was I was at the prime age to enjoy everything that came along. Seeing the changes from Pong to Space Harrier and Dragons Lair looking back was mind blowing. I would always keep an eye on all the new games that came along and found my favourite genre that way and it’s light fun shooters. Terminator 2,Area 51 and then on to House Of The Dead and my all time favourite Rambo 2008. I look at games like Defender and Scramble with such fond memories of them being ridiculously hard
The n.e.s. version of Contra was and still is one of my favorite games, i once took an elastic band and some pennies and wrapped it around the controller to hold down the fire button and positioned my guy just so at a point were an enemy comes and i learned if i stand in a spot continuously firing the enemies would keep popping up. i did this on the 1rst stage and it was at a point(literally the first segment of the 1st level)were there was only one spot the bad guys would keep popping up so as long as the fire button was compressed my guy would be fine,lol no time limit helped to so i did this one day in the morning before school so when i came back id have all these free extra men built up and it worked beautiful. i had earned 120plus men (127or147,i can't remember)and with all those credits i fought my way thru and finally completed the game which goes back to 1rst level after the credits and i think its a little harder, i put so much time into that game. Another old n.e.s. game:Castlevania 2 simon's quest i think, was amazing to me and my favorite instalment to the franchise. i thought the vast scope of cites terrain and castles along with caves and other environments with many characters all with different dialogue exclusive to each one was a nice touch.
prior to emulation becoming mainstream (starting on the PC but also being ported to some of the more powerful consoles and in various raspberry pi type devices and now of course the infamous Arcade1ups and various other plug and play type things before and since), there were some great pc ports of arcade games, and the sega saturn, sony playstation and sega dreamcast brought out a lot of good quality conversions. the best way is still on a PC, but if I could afford an RGB style monitor and jamma supergun that would be pretty awesome, since owning your own retro arcade seems like a real money losing hobby (although totally awesome if you can swing it and share it with others!). of course the big elephant in the room is the NEOGEO because the hardware was basically the same in the console as at the arcades. it's a shame I couldn't afford one as a kid (most of us couldn't) but in recent years I finally got the mini as a gift and that was a real milestone in collecting what eventually became a great library of games (not just street fighter ii ripoffs although SNK was very good at those too!)
Love the show, SLX! Early super Scaler hardware was very novel for its time. The scaling hardware was ANALOG! The raster scan position within the sprite was controlled by a VCO (voltage-controlled oscillator) , a part more often associated with vintage music synthesizers than graphics. To scale a sprite up, the VCO frequency was decreased, making it spend more time scanning across the sprite relative to the screen pixel rate. I think Pole Position did something similar back in 1982. Or maybe it was Turbo, I forget.
A true classic, the game should have been called single dragon lol. The title screen music got you pumped for a adventure. 🙂 The double dragon title theme plays in the game river city ransom when you fight the dragon twins, near the end of the game.
The NES Chip tunes are absolutely awesome. They still invoke so much emotion and feeling. The musical atmosphere was a big part of what made NES games so special. To this day when I hear Double Dragon's start up music, I'm enstently a kid again playing it for the first time. That's why I love watching my kids play NES games. You get to relive those memories though there eyes.
@@wargameboy72 Do a UA-cam search for "Niko's 8BitStereo". He remastered all of the NES and Famicom games from their original mono sound into stereo! Listen to the Double Dragon one he did from a year ago, and listen to it with headphones on. It's amazing.
Maybe it's just a case of "correlation doesn't equal causation", but have you noticed Sega's rise and fall almost coincides with the arcade's rise and fall? They were at their absolute *best* when arcades were at their strongest, and as arcades waned, so did they.
This is a rather common pattern in business, many companies don't survive such paradigm shifts. SEGA is obviously still alive but is not as major of a player anymore
They made alot of arcade games but it those customers had to spend there money elsewhere in gaming so it came down to the Saturn and Dreamcast's poor sales. Mainly the hardware issue making burning Dreamcast games so easy game sales were torched
I remember spending hours in the arcades in the late 80s as a young boy watching older kids play the machines or just watching the attract modes taking on the wonderment of the sights and sounds. I truly feel blessed to be alive to have witnessed those special times. Another awesome video Sega lord X!
The attract mode.. I was spellbound by the attract mode for Vindicators and Blasteroids. I probably looked like a weirdo standing by the machine for many minutes, not playing the game, waiting for the attract mode to activate again. I have Vindicators as part of the Midway Arcade Treasures, I would like to record the attract mode and post it on youtube, but I'm not sure how I would do it or what equipment I would need.. do you or anyone else have any suggestions?
Sega Saturn also had a rough start when they decided to launch the console without much pre warning. It led to some companies like Kebee Toy Store to outright dump support for SEGA sadly.
I have beaten Defefender for tha Atari 2600 (it's the only game I've beaten in this console). It lasted around 5 hours and a half and ends when you reach 1.000.000 points and the counter restores to zero. I remember starting playing it at around 10:30 a.m and beat the game at around 4:30 p.m. My mother wanted to watch her tv shows and asked me from time to time if I have ended the game and I replayed "just a moment, gimme 5 more minutes"... and then so on until I reached 999.999 points and when I hit the next ship the next number in the counter was 0. I was like 7 or 8 years old.
Lord Sega please! 🙏 I spent an hour yesterday listening to your golden voice. I spent an hour watching your beautiful works. Give me more than a day! /s Cool compilation, thanks homie.
As a fellow Gen Xer, wow do I relate to these memories. I still vividly remember having my six-year old mind blown by seeing and hearing Galaxian for the first time at a Showbiz Pizza. One difference: I had a ColecoVision by the time the home ports of Donkey Kong and Burgertime dropped. Those were two of the many excellent arcade adaptions on the Coleco.
Robocop arcade was simply epic at the time,I remember the awesome fights with ig-99… or when you get the super gun, destroying everything on your path. Melee punches sounded heavy and somehow represented the movie really good
😅We gotta be near the same age. I had very similar experieances in my youth except for never owning an NES. In my part of Canada the Sega master system got there first and had a hold for a long while before the NES made it here. A year or 2 later then in the States. For my brothers and I it was in this order: the 2600, colleco or intellivision (i don't remember exactly which) the master system, the 7800 (what a mistake!), the genisis, the sega CD, the supernintendo, Saturn (boy did we LOVE the saturn), PlayStation (ff7 my little brotherHAD to have it), Dreamcast, got my first PC for wing commander 3 and 4, Ps2 after the dreamcast died, gameboy advanced, both my brothers got xboxs, xbox 360, gameboy 3dsXL (what a great system once the price went down and they added the 3d controls!) and then xbox 1 before moving to PC and a switch for everything. Considering how much I love jrpgs it was a bit perplexing I didn't become a Sony fanboy.....maybe I was jrpg'd out after the PS2 but it was probably my love of Halo that kept me on the box. W#hich is sad cause since 343 took over Halo I've not enjoyed it like I used too. I didn't even buy the latest Halo because there was no coop play. If I cant play the campaign with my brothers I just don't want to play it.
AMAZING SERIES! Takes me back to my childhood. I remember all these titles at my local arcade. The Master system was very rare in my neighborhood too: the only person who owned one was an adult !! I played it 2-3 times
That part and quote from 1:39:44 and onwards made me tear up a bit. I miss those arcade times. Only Japan you can still experience the arcade scenes. And now it's time for the Arcade Treasure series to be in a full video as well. I am so looking forward to that one.
I'm already thinking this video looks more like a movie rather than a series, seeing as how the videos in this one whole video were edited together. I like it this way.
Thank you for another great anthology! I agree with dropping it at the G5 console series; the lines between the arcade and home-based hardware became so blurred after that. Thanks for the compilation, and the continuing nostalgia trip :)
Loved this series. I'm an older gamer had an Atari 2600 then a nes growing up. Remember playing at the 3 local arcades when I was teenager and wishing my NES looked and played as well as they did. Loved the Sega machines mainly Genesis and Sarturn. Those were good days for gaming.
I’ve noticed the 3DO barely had any shmups. Like horizontal or vertical scrolling shoot ‘em ups. While the PC Engine, Saturn and PlayStation ate it all up, the 3DO had none. If we were to get some back in the day, we would’ve got Raiden, Truxton II, Dogyuun, Grind Stormer and Mahou Daisakusen (which should’ve saw a release on the Saturn and PlayStation).
80s kid here, and I had The Nes, Snes, Sega Genesis, Turbo Grafix 16 and the Game boy and they are the only ones that Have Nostalgia attached to them at least for me. The Games of today don't bring the memories like the older ones do. The graphics of the 80s and 90s consoles are something that you had to grow up with and experience them for yourself to appreciate.
That makes three of us my friend. Till this day, I’d much rather play arcade style games rather then stuff like RPG’s or anything else that takes forever to get into and complete. Lol
I always laugh when they use Atari 2600 Pacman and Donkey Kong sound effects in movies and commercials when kids are playing a Playstation or Arcade games
I seen a Cabinet version of Comix Zone in the Arcade. Sega Genesis version was/is great, SoulBlade & Soul Caliber & Mortal Kombat are the only fighter games I liked. It’s real sad the state of arcades now. I agree, at least we have our memories of great time past at once great now long gone Arcades. I’m still looking for Flynn,s Arcade, hopefully some day soon I will find it.
I bought MK3 on ps1 before I had a Playstation. I had to rent the system and flip it upside down to play. Becouse of this I went with the Saturn insted. Got playstation when they worked correctly and dual shock was a pack in.
The biggest difference that made me like the Atari Pacman more than the NES is the Joystick. You can't compare the feeling of moving Pacman with a Joystick and using de Dpad.
Lmao i remember being excited to tag along to the arcade at the big mall with my older brother and cousin just to watch them play games or watch the attraction modem. I played galaxian on a machine that also included pacman in 1998 at my local restaurant that was literally a stones throw away, throwing the stone as a 7 year old lol.
The first time i remember playing arcade games at home was the Atari and Midway compilations on PS1 in about 1999. Its incredible how many different ways we can play arcade titles at home these days. Space Invaders, Pong,Pac Man, Missle Command,Frogger, and Joust were the earliest arcade titles i played at home. Great series keep em coming.
Love the content you share with us, my first Sega system was the Saturn. I adored the games I had on the Sega Saturn, and wish I still had it along with all my games.
My favourite arcade game has to be bubble bobble. The theme song will keep playing for days in your head. And gameplay is quite addictive that you'll wanna continue
What a GREAT video. One of gamings best. You got everything right of my sentiments growing up and Experiences of the ups and downs of the arcade into Console gaming. Never has an 1 hour and 40 mins ever go so fast. BRAVO!!!!
A very interesting video. Pure nostalgia. You captured the mists of time perfectly with each format jump. With me I was more about wanting to forget the side scrolling etc and see the hardware advances of the PSX etc. there were some killer games on that. Plus the consoles you mentioned. For me my list of winners that pushed the cart to the max. SNES - DKCountry Genesis - VR Racer master system - robocop v terminator NES - SMB3 Saturn - panzer dragoon PSX - resident evil 2 N64 - goldeneye / PD
What impress me as a Chilean child in the 80, it was you found easily "original arcade" and not those generic cabinet ... Monaco GP, Star wars, karate champion, space invaders, defender, joust, etc... But I was a poor boy, so my first experience arcade to console was TMNT XD
Awesome video, Dude. I was surprised you didn't mention SNES greats like SUNSET RIDERS, SUPER PUNCH OUT and all three awesome PARODIUS games, each one better than the last. You should also check out the Arcade Hack for TRUXTON, the Genesis version. All the games issues get fixed and much more. It turns the game into a treat for the senses and what it should have been all a long.
@@techmark3665 Okay? It's still an arcade series. SUPER PUNCH OUT (SNES) is a mash up of PUNCH OUT & SUPER PUNCH OUT arcade. SNES or arcade, SUPER PUNCH OUT is still SUPER PUNCH OUT. It doesn't have to be a one to one, To be an arcade home port. So I'm not sure what your trying to say I got wrong. But thanks for the info anyway, Bro.
We must be of the exact same generation Sega Lord X, when you narrate your personal perspective and experience it's like a flashback in time. There was nothing like growing up in the 90's.
There was a public house near where I lived called "the engine" (with images of a milling engine on the signage, cheers) and they had arkanoid in an upstairs room ... so cheers !!!
I watched this entire video just agreeing with you! I enjoyed going to the arcade with my family from tmnt, house of the dead, terminator, Daytona, mortal kombat, tekken the list goes on and on! I enjoyed it. This video and the content was awesome. Each home console had its own unique style and sense of competitiveness. Video games gave us some great memories. Thanks SLX! Great content as always!
Being born in 95, I really only caught the tail end of arcades and arcade ports. I wish I could have experienced more of the spectacle that is playing an arcade port at home. I only got to experience it a little bit, like playing Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter at the car wash while my moms car was being cleaned inside and out, I remember so vividly wanting to own that game so bad, then one day we came across it at the store for the PS1 and my mom bought it for me and I got to play it as much as I wanted! Man, what a time!
I'm a bit late to this discussion but my childhood was spend in the arcades. The only difference to Sega lord's is back in the 80's I had to come home to the 8-bit spectrum 128k and during the 90's, the amiga 500.
I was born in the late 60s so Pinball, analog games, as well as some of the first videogames were part of my childhood and boy was it a special time. It's memories I will cherish forever. It's a shame today's kids will never experience some of the original tactile experiences like looking through a periscope in battle-zone or shifting back and forth driving a car in outrun or physically rolling around in afterburner! I've lost all my original consoles unfortunately through a move but am happy with an android box like super console x that's replaced all of my videogame library. Though admittedly I've moved on playing modern games like Destiny 2 on xbox. :D edit: I remember when activision and Imagic hit the scene it felt like they upgraded my 2600 with games like boxing and Demon Attack which was as close to galaxian you could get at the time!
Fascinating video! It’s always cool to look into a different time, and the progression of tech is really interesting to watch. I’ve really been enjoying this channel; it reminds me why I started buying retro games in the first place
Back in the 80s about the time I convinced my dad to get us a used Atari 2600, my friends family got the new Colecovision, which had awesome ports of Donkey Kong, Zaxxon and some others. It has an great port of Ladybug too, which was a souped up pac man with some cool twists. Thank you for the awesome content. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Great job! I feel like we need this series to include Dreamcast though, particularly as it had so many arcade games ported to it. Also surprised to see no mention of Killer Instinct.
I had a very different experience. I did discover Space Invaders first, on a small tabletop game machine. Then I never got to know the original early arcade games, but I played most of those on the Apple II without any basis for comparison, and I was completely absorbed in them!
I was also born in mid late '70s. My first game was Donkey Kong on the ColecoVision. Space Invaders the first time I played that was a green screen computer in elementary school.
Another series to watch with a drink and popcorn
Wrong what you are supposed to do is eat broccoli while gaming. what's wrong with you?
@@jacobprayer8656 Like cheese and broccoli pasta?
@@AmbientMess wrong again friend!! Broccoli and beets are the ONLY acceptable gaming foods.
@@jacobprayer8656 haha gonna take your advice on that then!
For real
Just rewatching this entire video today. Funny how the Master System was not popular in the U.S. and finding one in the wild was quite rare. Well in PAL regions it was quite the opposite, the Master System was very dominant here and finding a kid that had an NES was very rare. The PAL NES was manufactured by Mattel from memory.
Later on in the video during the 32-bit era, it was interesting to see the Saturn and PS1 get shout outs for some of their arcade to home conversions. I never had either growing up in the mid 90's. After the Mega Drive, my family bypassed both of those consoles and jumped on the N64 and then briefly Dreamcast to XBox and XBox to Gamecube, Gamecube to PS2 and then I returned for life to the Mega Drive as by 2003 I discovered that it was my one true console for life and I then started tracking down the Mega-CD extension and other add-ons.
80 and 90 was a great time for gamers.
you mentioned your family's interest and enthusiasm for arcades. I think a big part of why I find your content so enjoyable is you sharing your lived experience with all these games. it's just great.
Brilliant series - but Dreamcast deserved some shine at the end. It was the ultimate moment that ‘arcade perfect plus’ arrived for gamers who had craved to have arcade quality games at home for so long! Soul Calibur on DC is a historical tipping point. Unfair to group DC in with PS2 and later consoles. It was ahead of its time and really deserved the finale of this series.
One of my favourite arcade ports was for Cyber Troopers: Virtual On for the Saturn. I only got to play the arcade version once due to it seemingly being very rare in the UK. I was working a summer job by the coast and I toured the arcades trying to find the arcade version. I went back there later on and the machine was long gone, replaced by some gambling machines. It was sad to watch the decline of the arcade, those games felt special because you couldn't take the 100% authentic version of the game home. Some of those cabinets like Space Harrier felt revolutionary. It's sad that there will be people who never get to experience such machines.
I had the same experience with Sega Genesis. I was an early adopter. My Genesis came with Altered Beast. I knew the moment I saw that non-scaling explosion that the console was gonna do me wrong on Out Run, Space Harrier, etc.
I remember playing Double Dragon at Network Video (family-owned video store in my neighborhood) and Winn-Dixie had a Playchoice 10. Even the local Quik-Stop had an arcade cabinet (can't recall what title). Better times, gone forever.
We had 5200. My cousin had Colecovision. I was so jealous that the Donkey Kong port for Colecovision was so much better.
I was born in May of 1975, Been gaming since Atari 2600 system. I was like 5-6 years old lol still gaming today my passion is 80s and 90s arcade games, love 2000s as well
I feel you 100%! I was stuck with an Atari 2600 when everyone else had the good consoles! I hated life until I finally got a C64
The Dreamcast especially I’ll never forget. The same graphics as the arcade, and the ability to bring your VMU into certain machines, will never forget that era ❤️
Soul Caliber 2 on Dreamcast blew the arcade version out the water. When consoles started having able to run with arcade graphics and at times look better then I knew their days was numbered.
was born in '78 here I really like your videos bringing back memories from my childhood
I remember our mall arcade in 1984 when it opened. What a fascinating experience for an 8 year old. Moon Patrol, Joust, Spy Hunter, Dig Dug, Tron, Discs Of Tron (cockpit), Crossbow, Chiller, Battlezone, Two Tigers, Defender, Missile Command, QBert, Burgertime, Dragons Lair, Chiller. Nothing else like it. I regret I wasn’t able to experience an arcade just a little earlier, because I missed out on a lot of vectors games, Sprint 2, Turbo, Space Encounters, Galaxian, Asteroids, etc. could only find an original PacMan and Sinistar at a local movie theatre which was very cool to experience those.
Then there’s a whole host of less popular games of the time that I never saw or experienced. No Glob, Cosmic Guerilla, Space Zap, Cosmic Aliens, Ponpoko, Amidar, Make Trax, etc for me :(
So you remember when Dragons Lair first came out, and was also just completely blown away by the graphics, yeah?
I reset the score counter of Missile Command on the 2600 when I was a kid. It resets back to zero after you get 999, 999 points. I thought that was a big accomplishment back then, and no one believed me when I told them I did it.
Mid 70's? You're as old as my arcade loving dad as well.
He used to skip school every year to play the new games, got addicted to Raiden when that came out. Mom did the same thing for Street Fighter 2.
Sega lord you grew up a little earlier than me so you got the full video game experience. I was born in 85 so my experience started on a nes home console. My Dad played galaga and pinball when I was a baby.
Honestly that sounds ridiculous dude.
Same, was the Master System for me in Australia. My dad was a Galaga king
Arcading make up many of my favourite memories from my childhood. Space Invaders was my first along with Asteroids. I was born in 69 was I was at the prime age to enjoy everything that came along. Seeing the changes from Pong to Space Harrier and Dragons Lair looking back was mind blowing.
I would always keep an eye on all the new games that came along and found my favourite genre that way and it’s light fun shooters. Terminator 2,Area 51 and then on to House Of The Dead and my all time favourite Rambo 2008.
I look at games like Defender and Scramble with such fond memories of them being ridiculously hard
The n.e.s. version of Contra was and still is one of my favorite games, i once took an elastic band and some pennies and wrapped it around the controller to hold down the fire button and positioned my guy just so at a point were an enemy comes and i learned if i stand in a spot continuously firing the enemies would keep popping up. i did this on the 1rst stage and it was at a point(literally the first segment of the 1st level)were there was only one spot the bad guys would keep popping up so as long as the fire button was compressed my guy would be fine,lol no time limit helped to so i did this one day in the morning before school so when i came back id have all these free extra men built up and it worked beautiful. i had earned 120plus men (127or147,i can't remember)and with all those credits i fought my way thru and finally completed the game which goes back to 1rst level after the credits and i think its a little harder, i put so much time into that game. Another old n.e.s. game:Castlevania 2 simon's quest i think, was amazing to me and my favorite instalment to the franchise. i thought the vast scope of cites terrain and castles along with caves and other environments with many characters all with different dialogue exclusive to each one was a nice touch.
Ikari Warriors was a go to couch co op game. Loved it.
prior to emulation becoming mainstream (starting on the PC but also being ported to some of the more powerful consoles and in various raspberry pi type devices and now of course the infamous Arcade1ups and various other plug and play type things before and since), there were some great pc ports of arcade games, and the sega saturn, sony playstation and sega dreamcast brought out a lot of good quality conversions. the best way is still on a PC, but if I could afford an RGB style monitor and jamma supergun that would be pretty awesome, since owning your own retro arcade seems like a real money losing hobby (although totally awesome if you can swing it and share it with others!). of course the big elephant in the room is the NEOGEO because the hardware was basically the same in the console as at the arcades. it's a shame I couldn't afford one as a kid (most of us couldn't) but in recent years I finally got the mini as a gift and that was a real milestone in collecting what eventually became a great library of games (not just street fighter ii ripoffs although SNK was very good at those too!)
Love the show, SLX! Early super Scaler hardware was very novel for its time. The scaling hardware was ANALOG! The raster scan position within the sprite was controlled by a VCO (voltage-controlled oscillator) , a part more often associated with vintage music synthesizers than graphics. To scale a sprite up, the VCO frequency was decreased, making it spend more time scanning across the sprite relative to the screen pixel rate. I think Pole Position did something similar back in 1982. Or maybe it was Turbo, I forget.
Can we take a minute to appreciate the awesomeness that was the music of the starting menu screen in the NES version of Double Dragon?
A true classic, the game should have been called single dragon lol.
The title screen music got you pumped for a adventure. 🙂
The double dragon title theme plays in the game river city ransom when you fight the dragon twins, near the end of the game.
@@marccaselle8108 nice! :-)
The NES Chip tunes are absolutely awesome. They still invoke so much emotion and feeling. The musical atmosphere was a big part of what made NES games so special. To this day when I hear Double Dragon's start up music, I'm enstently a kid again playing it for the first time. That's why I love watching my kids play NES games. You get to relive those memories though there eyes.
@@wargameboy72 Do a UA-cam search for "Niko's 8BitStereo". He remastered all of the NES and Famicom games from their original mono sound into stereo! Listen to the Double Dragon one he did from a year ago, and listen to it with headphones on. It's amazing.
I first played this on a Nintendo play choice 10 arcade machine in the 80s.
Maybe it's just a case of "correlation doesn't equal causation", but have you noticed Sega's rise and fall almost coincides with the arcade's rise and fall? They were at their absolute *best* when arcades were at their strongest, and as arcades waned, so did they.
This is a rather common pattern in business, many companies don't survive such paradigm shifts. SEGA is obviously still alive but is not as major of a player anymore
@@mystrdat Sega, as we knew them, ceased to exist when Sammy bought them out. They're basically Atari now.
They made alot of arcade games but it those customers had to spend there money elsewhere in gaming so it came down to the Saturn and Dreamcast's poor sales. Mainly the hardware issue making burning Dreamcast games so easy game sales were torched
I've already watched all parts of this but it's worth watching again as a single video. 👍🏽
Sega Arcade classics on 3DS was my first time playing super scalers at home, well worth the port.
I remember spending hours in the arcades in the late 80s as a young boy watching older kids play the machines or just watching the attract modes taking on the wonderment of the sights and sounds. I truly feel blessed to be alive to have witnessed those special times. Another awesome video Sega lord X!
The attract mode.. I was spellbound by the attract mode for Vindicators and Blasteroids. I probably looked like a weirdo standing by the machine for many minutes, not playing the game, waiting for the attract mode to activate again. I have Vindicators as part of the Midway Arcade Treasures, I would like to record the attract mode and post it on youtube, but I'm not sure how I would do it or what equipment I would need.. do you or anyone else have any suggestions?
Sega Saturn also had a rough start when they decided to launch the console without much pre warning. It led to some companies like Kebee Toy Store to outright dump support for SEGA sadly.
I have beaten Defefender for tha Atari 2600 (it's the only game I've beaten in this console). It lasted around 5 hours and a half and ends when you reach 1.000.000 points and the counter restores to zero. I remember starting playing it at around 10:30 a.m and beat the game at around 4:30 p.m.
My mother wanted to watch her tv shows and asked me from time to time if I have ended the game and I replayed "just a moment, gimme 5 more minutes"... and then so on until I reached 999.999 points and when I hit the next ship the next number in the counter was 0.
I was like 7 or 8 years old.
Lord Sega please! 🙏 I spent an hour yesterday listening to your golden voice. I spent an hour watching your beautiful works. Give me more than a day! /s
Cool compilation, thanks homie.
As a fellow Gen Xer, wow do I relate to these memories. I still vividly remember having my six-year old mind blown by seeing and hearing Galaxian for the first time at a Showbiz Pizza.
One difference: I had a ColecoVision by the time the home ports of Donkey Kong and Burgertime dropped. Those were two of the many excellent arcade adaptions on the Coleco.
Robocop arcade was simply epic at the time,I remember the awesome fights with ig-99… or when you get the super gun, destroying everything on your path. Melee punches sounded heavy and somehow represented the movie really good
😅We gotta be near the same age. I had very similar experieances in my youth except for never owning an NES. In my part of Canada the Sega master system got there first and had a hold for a long while before the NES made it here. A year or 2 later then in the States. For my brothers and I it was in this order: the 2600, colleco or intellivision (i don't remember exactly which) the master system, the 7800 (what a mistake!), the genisis, the sega CD, the supernintendo, Saturn (boy did we LOVE the saturn), PlayStation (ff7 my little brotherHAD to have it), Dreamcast, got my first PC for wing commander 3 and 4, Ps2 after the dreamcast died, gameboy advanced, both my brothers got xboxs, xbox 360, gameboy 3dsXL (what a great system once the price went down and they added the 3d controls!) and then xbox 1 before moving to PC and a switch for everything.
Considering how much I love jrpgs it was a bit perplexing I didn't become a Sony fanboy.....maybe I was jrpg'd out after the PS2 but it was probably my love of Halo that kept me on the box. W#hich is sad cause since 343 took over Halo I've not enjoyed it like I used too. I didn't even buy the latest Halo because there was no coop play. If I cant play the campaign with my brothers I just don't want to play it.
AMAZING SERIES! Takes me back to my childhood. I remember all these titles at my local arcade. The Master system was very rare in my neighborhood too: the only person who owned one was an adult !! I played it 2-3 times
That part and quote from 1:39:44 and onwards made me tear up a bit. I miss those arcade times. Only Japan you can still experience the arcade scenes.
And now it's time for the Arcade Treasure series to be in a full video as well. I am so looking forward to that one.
I'm already thinking this video looks more like a movie rather than a series, seeing as how the videos in this one whole video were edited together.
I like it this way.
Thank you for another great anthology! I agree with dropping it at the G5 console series; the lines between the arcade and home-based hardware became so blurred after that. Thanks for the compilation, and the continuing nostalgia trip :)
1971 here, i saw and play the hole thing here in Brazil, thx for the amazing content.
Loved this series. I'm an older gamer had an Atari 2600 then a nes growing up. Remember playing at the 3 local arcades when I was teenager and wishing my NES looked and played as well as they did. Loved the Sega machines mainly Genesis and Sarturn. Those were good days for gaming.
I’ve noticed the 3DO barely had any shmups. Like horizontal or vertical scrolling shoot ‘em ups. While the PC Engine, Saturn and PlayStation ate it all up, the 3DO had none. If we were to get some back in the day, we would’ve got Raiden, Truxton II, Dogyuun, Grind Stormer and Mahou Daisakusen (which should’ve saw a release on the Saturn and PlayStation).
Same story for me. One of my uncles showed me this and I was amazed and didn’t even know what a video game was and here I am cheers brother.
80s kid here, and I had The Nes, Snes, Sega Genesis, Turbo Grafix 16 and the Game boy and they are the only ones that Have Nostalgia attached to them at least for me. The Games of today don't bring the memories like the older ones do. The graphics of the 80s and 90s consoles are something that you had to grow up with and experience them for yourself to appreciate.
I was the same with arcades but I was born in '82 ... altered beast was one of the first things I noticed ... also arkanoid ... double dragon ...
I honestly think we took the same lane in gaming life.
That makes three of us my friend. Till this day, I’d much rather play arcade style games rather then stuff like RPG’s or anything else that takes forever to get into and complete. Lol
Same here !
Here here! Especially in older age with a wife kid and work! That's why I love my sega saturn so much !
I always laugh when they use Atari 2600 Pacman and Donkey Kong sound effects in movies and commercials when kids are playing a Playstation or Arcade games
I seen a Cabinet version of Comix Zone in the Arcade. Sega Genesis version was/is great, SoulBlade & Soul Caliber & Mortal Kombat are the only fighter games I liked. It’s real sad the state of arcades now. I agree, at least we have our memories of great time past at once great now long gone Arcades. I’m still looking for Flynn,s Arcade, hopefully some day soon I will find it.
I bought MK3 on ps1 before I had a Playstation. I had to rent the system and flip it upside down to play. Becouse of this I went with the Saturn insted. Got playstation when they worked correctly and dual shock was a pack in.
The biggest difference that made me like the Atari Pacman more than the NES is the Joystick. You can't compare the feeling of moving Pacman with a Joystick and using de Dpad.
Who had in that time where the master system came out thought that the master system would have a huge success in Brazil 🇧🇷!!!
Loving the series compliations keep em coming!
You are the best uploader ever to grace UA-cam and I take my hat off to you!
Awesome thanks segalordx great work Sir
Sega Lord X thanks for making another collection for all of these great videos yours truly Sega Mega Zero
Another fantastic compilation! Going on my Playlist for sure
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Lmao i remember being excited to tag along to the arcade at the big mall with my older brother and cousin just to watch them play games or watch the attraction modem. I played galaxian on a machine that also included pacman in 1998 at my local restaurant that was literally a stones throw away, throwing the stone as a 7 year old lol.
Outstanding and robust retrospective. Your writing and presentation are exceptional. Fun!
The first time i remember playing arcade games at home was the Atari and Midway compilations on PS1 in about 1999. Its incredible how many different ways we can play arcade titles at home these days. Space Invaders, Pong,Pac Man, Missle Command,Frogger, and Joust were the earliest arcade titles i played at home. Great series keep em coming.
Love the content you share with us, my first Sega system was the Saturn. I adored the games I had on the Sega Saturn, and wish I still had it along with all my games.
The only complaint I have there’s only one thumbs up I can give you. I appreciate the effort and time and soul you put in all your videos 👍👍
Upvoted for the narrator’s deadpan delivery of the line ‘I won’t blow smoke up your ass..’
These compilation vids are helping me get through my sessions on the elliptical haha SLX is my unofficial fitness coach
Keep up the hard work my friend.
My favourite arcade game has to be bubble bobble. The theme song will keep playing for days in your head. And gameplay is quite addictive that you'll wanna continue
What a GREAT video. One of gamings best. You got everything right of my sentiments growing up and Experiences of the ups and downs of the arcade into Console gaming. Never has an 1 hour and 40 mins ever go so fast. BRAVO!!!!
I love the arcade era
I was obsessed with playing the arcade spy hunter. I remember they had it at Jamesway, along with TMNT and double dragon. God ol days man.
Excellent video!!
Finally I got to watch all the episodes, so what if I am at work not working...🤣. Thanks for the video man
I have a nearly exact timeline and experience as you. This was a great video, enjoyed the trip down memory lane.
A very interesting video. Pure nostalgia. You captured the mists of time perfectly with each format jump.
With me I was more about wanting to forget the side scrolling etc and see the hardware advances of the PSX etc. there were some killer games on that. Plus the consoles you mentioned. For me my list of winners that pushed the cart to the max.
SNES - DKCountry
Genesis - VR Racer
master system - robocop v terminator
NES - SMB3
Saturn - panzer dragoon
PSX - resident evil 2
N64 - goldeneye / PD
man, I miss arcades....the glowing screens...abundance of quarters...the digitized sounds filling the area. Ah, good times. Good times.
What impress me as a Chilean child in the 80, it was you found easily "original arcade" and not those generic cabinet ...
Monaco GP, Star wars, karate champion, space invaders, defender, joust, etc...
But I was a poor boy, so my first experience arcade to console was TMNT
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This is one of my favorite YT channels! So glad the vids are longer! Great stuff bro 👍🏽!
Awesome video, Dude. I was surprised you didn't mention SNES greats like SUNSET RIDERS, SUPER PUNCH OUT and all three awesome PARODIUS games, each one better than the last. You should also check out the Arcade Hack for TRUXTON, the Genesis version. All the games issues get fixed and much more. It turns the game into a treat for the senses and what it should have been all a long.
Super punch out (snes) is the 4th entry in the series. Super punch out (arcade) is the 2nd entry. They are completely different games.
@@techmark3665 Okay? It's still an arcade series. SUPER PUNCH OUT (SNES) is a mash up of PUNCH OUT & SUPER PUNCH OUT arcade. SNES or arcade, SUPER PUNCH OUT is still SUPER PUNCH OUT. It doesn't have to be a one to one, To be an arcade home port. So I'm not sure what your trying to say I got wrong. But thanks for the info anyway, Bro.
Wow the sound fx on the arcade defender are mind blowing and powerful
We must be of the exact same generation Sega Lord X, when you narrate your personal perspective and experience it's like a flashback in time. There was nothing like growing up in the 90's.
were you born mid 70s?
@@adewilson132 : Exaclty. Dead and center.
Loving these longer compilation videos. Thank you so much Sega Lord X.
I miss when arcades were inside of convenience stores. That era is long gone now.
Thank you for this video :)
I'll watch this and then spend the rest of the night on MAME. Cheers for the video.
There was a public house near where I lived called "the engine" (with images of a milling engine on the signage, cheers) and they had arkanoid in an upstairs room ... so cheers !!!
Ahhh 75'. You are my older brother in spirit. Great content!
I watched this entire video just agreeing with you! I enjoyed going to the arcade with my family from tmnt, house of the dead, terminator, Daytona, mortal kombat, tekken the list goes on and on! I enjoyed it. This video and the content was awesome. Each home console had its own unique style and sense of competitiveness. Video games gave us some great memories. Thanks SLX! Great content as always!
You are completely killing it with the content! 😊
Being born in 95, I really only caught the tail end of arcades and arcade ports. I wish I could have experienced more of the spectacle that is playing an arcade port at home. I only got to experience it a little bit, like playing Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter at the car wash while my moms car was being cleaned inside and out, I remember so vividly wanting to own that game so bad, then one day we came across it at the store for the PS1 and my mom bought it for me and I got to play it as much as I wanted! Man, what a time!
You had all my arcade great time back. Thank you.
I'm a bit late to this discussion but my childhood was spend in the arcades. The only difference to Sega lord's is back in the 80's I had to come home to the 8-bit spectrum 128k and during the 90's, the amiga 500.
I was born in the late 60s so Pinball, analog games, as well as some of the first videogames were part of my childhood and boy was it a special time. It's memories I will cherish forever. It's a shame today's kids will never experience some of the original tactile experiences like looking through a periscope in battle-zone or shifting back and forth driving a car in outrun or physically rolling around in afterburner! I've lost all my original consoles unfortunately through a move but am happy with an android box like super console x that's replaced all of my videogame library. Though admittedly I've moved on playing modern games like Destiny 2 on xbox. :D
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I remember when activision and Imagic hit the scene it felt like they upgraded my 2600 with games like boxing and Demon Attack which was as close to galaxian you could get at the time!
Fascinating video! It’s always cool to look into a different time, and the progression of tech is really interesting to watch. I’ve really been enjoying this channel; it reminds me why I started buying retro games in the first place
My grandmother Meredith was a space invaders junkie/champion back in 80/81? Somewhere her trophy sits waiting for an heir. 👍😎
Epic bro. Much abliged!
You are so good at doing these long form videos. Your narration alone is worth the time.
Respect your content Sega lord always enjoy your insight of games on everything you do for the video game community
Back in the 80s about the time I convinced my dad to get us a used Atari 2600, my friends family got the new Colecovision, which had awesome ports of Donkey Kong, Zaxxon and some others. It has an great port of Ladybug too, which was a souped up pac man with some cool twists. Thank you for the awesome content. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Great job! I feel like we need this series to include Dreamcast though, particularly as it had so many arcade games ported to it. Also surprised to see no mention of Killer Instinct.
I had a very different experience. I did discover Space Invaders first, on a small tabletop game machine. Then I never got to know the original early arcade games, but I played most of those on the Apple II without any basis for comparison, and I was completely absorbed in them!
Love the channel my friend:)
I was also born in mid late '70s. My first game was Donkey Kong on the ColecoVision. Space Invaders the first time I played that was a green screen computer in elementary school.
Sega version of dbl dragon was spot on, 👌
Great job SLX! You should be proud of your work.