If you select Roland as a sound device, you need to actually get a Roland device emulator. In your Ninja Gaiden 2 and TMNT Arcade segments the sound is not right because it's playing wrong instruments on a General MIDI player. Ninja Gaiden 2 needs an MT-32, and TMNT Arcade is targeting the CM32L to get the sound effects.
I appreciate this valuable information. I'll keep it in mind for when I play new games (I'm nostalgic for the DOS era but I admit I don't play enough!).
bad street might be the worst but sure as hell its the funniest. i forgot to mention that Shinobi is NOT a beat em up :) and love the channel, keep up the good work
I think it's important to remember that in the first 10-12 years of the PC existing it was a platform where you could play games on it but the PC graphics and sound architectures of the time were not well suited for games, especially games that did scrolling! The NES and Master System had graphics and sound hardware for games superior almost all PCs of the 1980's and even into the early 90s. But try to do a spreadsheet or database, type up a letter or invoice or run a modem based BBS using either one of those consoles. :) It wasn't until the early 90's when 386/486 CPUs, 256 color VGA/SVGA graphics and Sound Blaster (not just Adlib) sound compatibility were required that games started to get better on the PC. Even then unless a game used a DOS protected mode memory manager like DOS4GW (as Doom, Quake, Duke3d and similar games all did) then the main program of a game had to be able to fit into usually less than 500KB of conventional memory with additional sound & graphics data located above 1MB in extended or expanded RAM while in DOS. Because while the 386 and later CPUs were 32bit, DOS at it's heart was a 16bit OS with lots of limitations. Like it or not Windows was one of the best things to ever happen to gaming on the PC along with standards like Direct X and Open GL. They all helped make the PC as a platform much more viable along with getting rid of the limitations of memory management in DOS. I've been a console gamer since the early 80s and a PC gamer since the late 80s and it's been a wild ride to say the least!
I remember that scene in Terminator 2 where the T-800 & T-1000 slowly inched toward each other removing just a piece of skin at a time from one another til one was down. James Cameron is a genius.
I actually own the Super Nintendo version of Batman Forever. The commercial showed Batman beating up thugs with moves lifted from Mortal Kombat, and as a kid, I was a huge MK fan. Did a playthrough of it on my own channel for a chuckle anyway.
Most of these games such as golden axe, double dragon, crime wave, ninja turtles manhattan project and i never noticed unconfortable controls except if you owned a 12 mhz cpu and the speed lagged. Karateka is a cult game and the father of many sidescrolling beat em up games on pc and should not be considered awful. I remembered playing this game many times and loved the fibal part of kicking the eagle.
Great list but it's missing the best bad exclusive beat em up on DOS... The Executioners. I had the shareware version of this and I loved it back in the early 90s.
Estos juegos están igual a los que nos enseñaste de las copias de Mortal Kombat todos horribles 😂😂😂🤣🤣👎 Me llama la atención que sean tan malos, era PC, más recursos debió tener más calidad, no se... digo... 🤷🤷🤷🤷 Me estresa ver la lentitud de varios de la lista, pero supongo que para alguien que empezaba con los videojuegos (cómo fue en mi caso pero con la Atari) debió ser una maravilla. Hay unos que no se ven tan mal, ese Ikari 3, el de las tortugas de Manhattan por ejemplo no parecen tan malos, tampoco ese Golden axe ni Hulk. Ese de Batman forever se ve mejor allí que el desproposito de super Nintendo, jamás voy a olvidar que hay que puchar select para sacar el gancho 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣👎 Otro buen video hermano, acá aprendiendo algo nuevo contigo.
@@BitsBeats A mi la super Nintendo me voló la cabeza, más que yo empecé con fatal 1, y ese gráficamente es genial, más por el asunto de la transición del tiempo y el stage de Tung fu rue es bajo la lluvia
Seriously I don't even know why they are ported to PC like that. Every time when I trying to play something for MS-DOS that was not designed for it - it controls awful
The Ninja Gaiden arcade port for DOS was absolute dog crap. Got it in 98, as a bargain bin game in the back of a K-Mart. It was so bad it lead me to look up other ways to play it on my dialup internet.. and discovered this fancy new program called MAME. So i guess it was good for something.
The best beat'em up for DOS was and is OMF 2097. If just someone would make a proper remake with new characters, robots, stages, etc. for actual os. And please not like that crappy OMF Battlegrounds.
kind of puts a new spin on pc master race fanboism. i didnt even know what ppl were referring to when they displayed or mentioned that shit. i also remember lots of games like these.
The only game i play and known on DOS is prince of persia, Fatal fury 2 and speed racer .. the last batman game and hulk game seem to be ported to window, correct me if im wrong, coz i skiped PC games until windows ME/XP came out..
them u have to check from 95 to 2000 the PC windows games were far ahead from all the consoles from PS1 to Dreamcast and i dare say even better than the PS2 and the XboX at the time from Need for Speed to Age of Empires and Red Alert 2 specially and to Half Life (one of the greatest games of all time) to Halo...
@@bottledviolence133 Red alert is one of my favorite RTS game, Also fallout 1 and 2 this is windows era 95-98, this is one is my beloved western RPG game, and i remember i have a lot of issue while instaling fallout 2 on winXP.. tbh, i dont play half life but i play Counter strike a lot in netcafe with my budy..
Yeah same thing here with fallout2 but really man you gotta play half life its the fps game that took ut to a whole new level its a but tricky and not traditional but its satisfying gotta try it man and the sega arcade ports to windows were amazing toi from sega rally to virtua cop even the karting so much better than all the console ports
@@bottledviolence133 i play some fps game beside Counter strike like deus ex and elder scrool:daggerfall but im not finished those game coz sometimes i got lost direction and dont know what to do or where should i go, i have the same vibe for half life to..but anyway, i try to play Half life next maybe in december,
@@sannsan33 u should brother and deus ex and daggerfall go to the rpg territory but half life is more fps than these 2 and it is heavily dependent on puzzle solving but its more fps than deus ex and elder scrolls, trust me you will enjoy it allot it starts a bit slow but you will love it, gunman chronicles is another good example its very close to half life with a little more shooting than the puzzle an knowing were to go and what to do oh and quake and duke nukem 3d were a great time and check empire earth and specially rise of nations with civ3 they are early 2000s games but you will love them, rise of nations is like a mix of risk and age of empires and red alert, a very underrated game
Seriously uncool adding Simpsons to this, that was a very good port from the arcade given when it came out, maybe the C64 version sucks but the DOS game is hardly bad let alone even mediocre. Sure it's sound blaster audio and not some rich arcade sound, and yes it's 2P vs 4P, but the core mechanics, stages, enemies, and bosses are there. The one damning thing about it was common, you couldn't quarter feed it into an easy free play win. It's not an easy game, hard because of that very fact, but the actual game while visually paired back a bit limited by PCs of the time is there, and it importantly plays well. Yeah I'm moaning, yes I did own it then, and out of curiosity re-purchased it a few years back and it's still fun as I didn't want to think it was nostalgia glasses, it's not, since I don't even care about the cartoon anymore and haven't in a very long time. One of the bests of the time period for PC ports, and yet somehow Golden Axe gets a pass yet included too? Eh?
I did a bit of clickbait with the title and thumbnail of the video, there are not 20 games on the list, there are 22. They are excluded from the 95% of terrible games. I'm with you mate, they are enjoyable ports. I love Golden Axe, I played it a ton as a kid.
At the time arcade game have most powerful cpu than pc and console. So no wonder porting no exact nearly quality arcade(except just some game have good quality arcade have)🤔
some of these game were really really good, some made me cry, some made me happy, but i think the title is kinda wrong and i won't like this video nor dislike it, i know u mean well, but please, try to change the title, it is misleading and might make some people unhappy.
Well, okay, not all of them are that horrible... and there are 22 games in the video, not 20! Hope you have fond memories 😉
Wasn't first Kunio-kun game released a year before Bad Street Brawler, and was a first game to have all the hallmarks of the future beatemups to come?
Let’s just say the extra two were the okay ones, and then technically nobody’s lied to anyone.
@Ryan S That's right 😁
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Batman Returns is not a Beat 'em Up game. You cant control Batman directly.
If you select Roland as a sound device, you need to actually get a Roland device emulator. In your Ninja Gaiden 2 and TMNT Arcade segments the sound is not right because it's playing wrong instruments on a General MIDI player. Ninja Gaiden 2 needs an MT-32, and TMNT Arcade is targeting the CM32L to get the sound effects.
I appreciate this valuable information. I'll keep it in mind for when I play new games (I'm nostalgic for the DOS era but I admit I don't play enough!).
This channel keeps delivering awesome niche stuff that super interests me. Keep it up!
also holy shit i remember playing the original double dragon on pc with CGA graphics and what a pile of shit it was
bad street might be the worst but sure as hell its the funniest. i forgot to mention that Shinobi is NOT a beat em up :) and love the channel, keep up the good work
I think it's important to remember that in the first 10-12 years of the PC existing it was a platform where you could play games on it but the PC graphics and sound architectures of the time were not well suited for games, especially games that did scrolling! The NES and Master System had graphics and sound hardware for games superior almost all PCs of the 1980's and even into the early 90s. But try to do a spreadsheet or database, type up a letter or invoice or run a modem based BBS using either one of those consoles. :) It wasn't until the early 90's when 386/486 CPUs, 256 color VGA/SVGA graphics and Sound Blaster (not just Adlib) sound compatibility were required that games started to get better on the PC. Even then unless a game used a DOS protected mode memory manager like DOS4GW (as Doom, Quake, Duke3d and similar games all did) then the main program of a game had to be able to fit into usually less than 500KB of conventional memory with additional sound & graphics data located above 1MB in extended or expanded RAM while in DOS. Because while the 386 and later CPUs were 32bit, DOS at it's heart was a 16bit OS with lots of limitations.
Like it or not Windows was one of the best things to ever happen to gaming on the PC along with standards like Direct X and Open GL. They all helped make the PC as a platform much more viable along with getting rid of the limitations of memory management in DOS.
I've been a console gamer since the early 80s and a PC gamer since the late 80s and it's been a wild ride to say the least!
Another outstanding video thanks!😎👍🏻👍🏻
That reminder that there was that point in time when PC wasn't better than console ...
To think that there was a time when console games were superior to PC ports, performance wise
I remember that scene in Terminator 2 where the T-800 & T-1000 slowly inched toward each other removing just a piece of skin at a time from one another til one was down. James Cameron is a genius.
I actually own the Super Nintendo version of Batman Forever. The commercial showed Batman beating up thugs with moves lifted from Mortal Kombat, and as a kid, I was a huge MK fan. Did a playthrough of it on my own channel for a chuckle anyway.
Like you're work 👍 keep up the good job on your videos 👏👏👏
Bad Street Brawler. I didn't know Hulk Hogan had his own beat em' up.LOL.😄
What’s the game with the blonde ponytail dude you have at the beginning and end of your video? I’ve been looking for it for ages
Comix Zone
Comix Zone shows up at the thumbnail.
Doesn't mention it at all on the list.
Me: *Epic Confusion*
Most of these games such as golden axe, double dragon, crime wave, ninja turtles manhattan project and i never noticed unconfortable controls except if you owned a 12 mhz cpu and the speed lagged. Karateka is a cult game and the father of many sidescrolling beat em up games on pc and should not be considered awful. I remembered playing this game many times and loved the fibal part of kicking the eagle.
Great list but it's missing the best bad exclusive beat em up on DOS... The Executioners. I had the shareware version of this and I loved it back in the early 90s.
If you think the MS-DOS version of Shinobi is the worst version, it means you haven't played the NES version.
Wait, why the ports of some games (like Double Dragon) are considered awful?
I didn't get to play both version so I don't understand the difference
wha really? I didn't know Simpson's ever had a home port of that game
Crime Wave is basically just using Pink Floyd’s One Slip.
Estos juegos están igual a los que nos enseñaste de las copias de Mortal Kombat todos horribles 😂😂😂🤣🤣👎
Me llama la atención que sean tan malos, era PC, más recursos debió tener más calidad, no se... digo... 🤷🤷🤷🤷
Me estresa ver la lentitud de varios de la lista, pero supongo que para alguien que empezaba con los videojuegos (cómo fue en mi caso pero con la Atari) debió ser una maravilla.
Hay unos que no se ven tan mal, ese Ikari 3, el de las tortugas de Manhattan por ejemplo no parecen tan malos, tampoco ese Golden axe ni Hulk.
Ese de Batman forever se ve mejor allí que el desproposito de super Nintendo, jamás voy a olvidar que hay que puchar select para sacar el gancho 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣👎
Otro buen video hermano, acá aprendiendo algo nuevo contigo.
Pues esto me pasaba a mí, que cuando era pequeño tuve un Amiga 500 y un PC y cuando veía videojuegos de la SNES se me ponían los dientes largos
@@BitsBeats A mi la super Nintendo me voló la cabeza, más que yo empecé con fatal 1, y ese gráficamente es genial, más por el asunto de la transición del tiempo y el stage de Tung fu rue es bajo la lluvia
Why was Hulk Hogan beating up Bernie Sanders in 1987? I'm confused.
Seriously I don't even know why they are ported to PC like that. Every time when I trying to play something for MS-DOS that was not designed for it - it controls awful
There are some games that I have a great affection for from when I was a child, but seen with the perspective of time...
@@BitsBeats Bomberman(Dyna man) on MS-DOS was very solid
The Ninja Gaiden arcade port for DOS was absolute dog crap. Got it in 98, as a bargain bin game in the back of a K-Mart. It was so bad it lead me to look up other ways to play it on my dialup internet.. and discovered this fancy new program called MAME. So i guess it was good for something.
I been had, I clicked for Comix Zone.
Simpsons was actually quite decent for me. 😇
The best beat'em up for DOS was and is OMF 2097. If just someone would make a proper remake with new characters, robots, stages, etc. for actual os. And please not like that crappy OMF Battlegrounds.
kind of puts a new spin on pc master race fanboism. i didnt even know what ppl were referring to when they displayed or mentioned that shit. i also remember lots of games like these.
What is even the point in playing Double Dragon without music?
The only game i play and known on DOS is prince of persia, Fatal fury 2 and speed racer .. the last batman game and hulk game seem to be ported to window, correct me if im wrong, coz i skiped PC games until windows ME/XP came out..
them u have to check from 95 to 2000 the PC windows games were far ahead from all the consoles from PS1 to Dreamcast and i dare say even better than the PS2 and the XboX at the time from Need for Speed to Age of Empires and Red Alert 2 specially and to Half Life (one of the greatest games of all time) to Halo...
@@bottledviolence133 Red alert is one of my favorite RTS game, Also fallout 1 and 2 this is windows era 95-98, this is one is my beloved western RPG game, and i remember i have a lot of issue while instaling fallout 2 on winXP.. tbh, i dont play half life but i play Counter strike a lot in netcafe with my budy..
Yeah same thing here with fallout2 but really man you gotta play half life its the fps game that took ut to a whole new level its a but tricky and not traditional but its satisfying gotta try it man and the sega arcade ports to windows were amazing toi from sega rally to virtua cop even the karting so much better than all the console ports
@@bottledviolence133 i play some fps game beside Counter strike like deus ex and elder scrool:daggerfall but im not finished those game coz sometimes i got lost direction and dont know what to do or where should i go, i have the same vibe for half life to..but anyway, i try to play Half life next maybe in december,
@@sannsan33 u should brother and deus ex and daggerfall go to the rpg territory but half life is more fps than these 2 and it is heavily dependent on puzzle solving but its more fps than deus ex and elder scrolls, trust me you will enjoy it allot it starts a bit slow but you will love it, gunman chronicles is another good example its very close to half life with a little more shooting than the puzzle an knowing were to go and what to do oh and quake and duke nukem 3d were a great time and check empire earth and specially rise of nations with civ3 they are early 2000s games but you will love them, rise of nations is like a mix of risk and age of empires and red alert, a very underrated game
Karateka is normal in her time standarts.
Seriously uncool adding Simpsons to this, that was a very good port from the arcade given when it came out, maybe the C64 version sucks but the DOS game is hardly bad let alone even mediocre. Sure it's sound blaster audio and not some rich arcade sound, and yes it's 2P vs 4P, but the core mechanics, stages, enemies, and bosses are there. The one damning thing about it was common, you couldn't quarter feed it into an easy free play win. It's not an easy game, hard because of that very fact, but the actual game while visually paired back a bit limited by PCs of the time is there, and it importantly plays well. Yeah I'm moaning, yes I did own it then, and out of curiosity re-purchased it a few years back and it's still fun as I didn't want to think it was nostalgia glasses, it's not, since I don't even care about the cartoon anymore and haven't in a very long time. One of the bests of the time period for PC ports, and yet somehow Golden Axe gets a pass yet included too? Eh?
I did a bit of clickbait with the title and thumbnail of the video, there are not 20 games on the list, there are 22. They are excluded from the 95% of terrible games. I'm with you mate, they are enjoyable ports. I love Golden Axe, I played it a ton as a kid.
I LOVE beatemups.
I dont know what i hate most on pc dos...sound or graphics....
lol comix zone all over the thumbnail but nowhere in the vid
At the time arcade game have most powerful cpu than pc and console. So no wonder porting no exact nearly quality arcade(except just some game have good quality arcade have)🤔
Golden Axe was actually decent port.
some of these game were really really good, some made me cry, some made me happy, but i think the title is kinda wrong and i won't like this video nor dislike it, i know u mean well, but please, try to change the title, it is misleading and might make some people unhappy.
Bravo
Punchout arcade had better animations in a video game
Atari 2600 games were better than all of these
You are opening Pandora's box 😂
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My Gosh 😱😱that port of Shinobi was horrible!
Still nowhere near as horrible as the NES version.
Why Billy sprite in DD 1 looks like female 😅
Bad Street Brawler. That music.
What happened? That was ass.