Quick Look: Arcade Archives: Round 02

I miss Insane Warrior.

I think Karate Champ was the second arcade game I ever saw (actually it was Vs. Karate Champ, but pretty much the same thing aside from better voice samples), a grocery store here had one. Karate Champ is still fucking awesome and fun as hell to play.

As a stupid little kid I'd run around saying "STOP. JUDGE." for no reason because of that game.

Old ass videogames!

Fuck yeah Karate Champ!

The music in this second game is something else.

Yeah I really like the music!

NOW, YOU HAVE DRIVEN ALL THE HIGHWAY.

Guilty Gear does indeed call them "rounds," but whenever a new round begins it says "LET'S ROCK" and whenever you win in Accent Core it says "SLASH."

NOTHING STOPS THE GAME ROOM.

GORILLA PLATE IS TURNING.

Hamster Corp representing!

Always enjoy an history lesson for Mr Gertsmann.

Game Room shall live on... in some form.

Nothing stops the Gameroom Quick Look!

Sunset Ryders 4 Lyfe.

Arcade Archive, Game Room, Bombastica, etc. Gimme dat Gerstmann retro any day, sonnnnnnn.

They should give this hamster series an award. That way they can actually call it award winning.

It's still real to ME, damnit!!

I love older games. Was such a fun era.

Good times. I played the sh*t out of coin-op Karate Champ back in the day.

Space docking, huh?

Little known fact: The driver in City Connection is a female protagonist named Clarice. It was changed to a dude in the American version of the game. Where is the uproar?! Kotaku?! Anita?!! :v

Torque is a good movie.

"There's nothing to do in Iowa." Isn't Dan from Kansas? C'mon man, use flyover bros gotta stick together.

Jeff buying more jank arcade games? Ryan would no approve.

@jeff - In NOVA 2001, one of the buttons allows you to lock your ship angle and strafe. #gamechanger

I wish any of these could be nearly as upsetting as Game Room was :(

Once again, pretty mystified as to what makes an acceptable ancient ass game. City Connection looked boring as fuck and Nova looked at least decent.

I'm fine with all these things.

I don't know about you guys, but I got a lot of fun and thrill.

A big reason why these games still have attention brought towards them is due to the feeling of mastery after multiple rounds of failure. These games are very hard. Beginning to understand them and progress is one thing, but to claim mastery over these complex games is another. People argue it is a very :"pure" form of what video games are.

The only way to know if these appeal to you is to try them out. It is true that the pacing of older games are very different from the games made in the past 20 years, but I don't think either style invalidates the other. High scores from this era has been replaced, but there is still probably value of the player setting their own ambitions toward end play rather than the game guiding when the experience should end.

Sorry, no bonus.

Also, it's weird that Dan was disappointed to find that bottle rockets were illegal in California. They're illegal in Minnesota, too. Maybe he just didn't know and lit em off anyway (of course he did).

ALSO also: Moon Cresta looks like it was the inspiration for that vertical shooter that was included in the Game Boy Camera software.

In Guilty Gear they call the rounds "duels" ("Heaven or hell! Duel 1! Let's rock!"), and in BlazBlue it's "rebels" ("The wheel of fate is turning! Rebel 1! Action!"). Arc-system-works games are wierd...

The best Fast and Furious film is 5.

The 'best' Fast and Furious film is Tokyo Drift.

If you want some really good chiptunes here you go.

Moon Cresta is a pretty game, too bad its not so good/doesn't have great music.

Man, the hits in that Karate Champ game are pretty fucking brutal. The way the characters just lay on the ground with their mouths agape makes me a bit uncomfortable. Like, those dudes are actually hurting.

My favorite quick look duo at one point was Jeff+Ryan. Then it was Jeff+Vinny. Currently, it might be Jeff+Dan. I'm sensing a pattern here. I really enjoy the virtual company of one Jeff G-man.

Is the audio borked for anyone else?

I'm thinking Eternal Champions may have been one of, if not the, first games with mid match fatalities.

If you haven't, I recommend checking out the sequel, Terra Cresta, which rips off Xevious pretty blatantly, but cranks up the awesome.

There was another Solomon's Key sequel called "Fire and Ice" and it's awesome.

City Connection on the NES was DOPE.

The music, you guys say? Courtesy of Tchaikovsky, his first concerto:

The harmonized disgust/incredulity at 10:14 is magical.

Dan is 1000% right about Pain and Gain. It is a legitimately good movie, made by Michael Bay. I never thought I would be able to say that, but it's true.