Quick Look: Arcade Archives: Round 06

Years of looking into shady arcade Mahjong games have taught me not to trust people who know Japanese Mahjong.

I absolutely adore these types of "we're just going gonna sit down and play a bunch of old shit" videos.

Jeff's going to need a room for all of these games

Oh man where is the video where they messed with that erotic bar arcade machine?

Maybe! I don't explicitly remember it as being from an Arcade Archive video—I've watched GB play so many old games by this point that my memory is fairly fuzzy—but I swear this happened. I must find it.

We should have a online dodgeball game.

Awesome! These are my favourite quick looks on the citadel.

Juliett and Lima

I now want a short video or podcast that quizzes Dan on his knowledge of trees and plants.

I loved Technos World Cup Soccer so much. Mark this first time I have ever agreed with Dan in the great tome of records.

I'm sure @jeff has researched it himself since recording this, but Gaplus was also known as "Galaga 3," not "Galaga '88."

"Galaga '88" — the next in the series — came out a few years later in the arcade, later arriving on the TurboGrafx as "Galaga '90."

So, the Galaxian/Galaga timeline is:

• Galaxian

• Galaga

• Gaplus/Galaga 3

• Galaga '88/Galaga '90

Then sundry sequels/remakes/"arrangements" that I lost track of.

No wonder that mahjong title has good music: it's Sunsoft!

I'm 99% sure that he's played the Famicom version on a livestream at one point...

I've got some Black Bamboo, but I keep it in a large container. You do not want that stuff in the ground, grows all over the place, invasive.. Also, it is related to the grasses.

I used to be obsessed with Legend of Kage as a kid. I had a childhood friend who had this game and pretty much every single time we visited I demanded to play it first for a few years there.

Square-Enix also released a Legend of Kage 2 for the DS. It was a pretty decent action game. Several playable characters, tons of moves and spells, huge feeling levels with lots of verticality. The game also felt really long. And I think the bosses were pretty brutal.

Do people actually think Volleyball is difficult? I always sucked at sports in school and I sucked at serving but the actual play itself i found easier than any other sport in school, even won the school tournament.

DODGE BALL! NOT VOLLYBALL! AND I WAS A BEAST! AT IT. ONCE WON 4 vs ME :) GOOD TIMES.

We really need a Kunio-kun sports based livestream/video on this site. Also I love whenever soccer is mentioned Jeff twitches up and something along the lines of "what, no ones talking about that what". But anyway I still need to play that kunio-kin hockey game.

Cannot beat the classics

These videos continue to be great and Super Dodge Ball is a legitimately fun game.

@danryckert You were right about unlocking a 3rd costume in Tekken. If you 100% the Galaga(?) game in the beginning, you unlocked Devil Kazuya and could select it by pressing start.

There was this gnarly Kunio-kun PvP brawler game that played kind of like an NES Power Stone. It controlled like River City Ransom, but it was an arena fighter with multi-tiered arenas like in Bio-Freaks and shit like that. It felt pretty progressive and played kinda well, didn't really see that kind of game in that era.

Man, I remember playing Super Dodgeball on the NES with my friends when we were young. Great game!

Wow, Super Dodge Ball is surprisingly violent.

The alphabet must be finished!

Quebec (that's what we use in Canada I dunno if this one is different), Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu.

@7x_ said:

Do people actually think Volleyball is difficult? I always sucked at sports in school and I sucked at serving but the actual play itself i found easier than any other sport in school, even won the school tournament.

Funny, I was the exact same way, but with SERVING. I was an unathletic and unassuming punky kid who put in minimal effort needed to pass... especially in gym.

But once I rotated into serving position, I would routinely get aces until we won. At best,the most athletic/showy/ballsy dude on the other team would dive on the hard floor and get a hand on the ball, but basically never keep it in play. I'd hit it so hard, and at such an angle, it was basically impossible for them.

In my head it was as easy as "ok, I'm tall, I'm basically looking down over the net. Toss the ball in the air and just punch the ball towards the gaps between people." And I found it remarkably easy to make that happen. The school did a "Candy Cane Tournament" all December every year, and people got pretty invested. Pretty hilarious when you have jocky football and basketball players suddenly looking at you with puzzlement and probably at least some respect. That candy cane was probably the sweetest one I've ever tasted.

Star Force! It's one of the first NES games I played and I've been looking for the name for years now. Good to know at last! :D

@nikbhat: Likely from the beta.

I kind of wish they hadn't changed the trophies, it was part of the charm.