CarnEvil is the GOAT. My friend Brian and I basically had an unspoken pact that if we ever saw it in an arcade, theater, pizza place, WHEREVER...we had to play it. At least 2 credits apiece, but usually waaaaay more than that.
Heh, ahh man,..that's a really cool memory ya got. :-) My friend Gary (yanno, one'a the childhood neighborhood friends) and I had this on-going,...'thing',...where whenever the local rental shop got in a new Final Fantasy (parts 2 & 3 on SNES) or Mega Man game (the X's), we would go and get it, keep it until we finished it, and then we would split the eventual cost. Which,...I mean, yah....it got a little costly, but not that bad. Remember, at that time, new release games (at least at my shop) were $2.50/day. Older games, the non-new release games, $1.00/day. Mehhh,....FF's, we could finish after like,....3, 4 days if we wanted to take our time and explore, n' stuff.... Mega Man games?!.... *pssshhhyyyt!!*....Try more like five or sometimes six days! Ha! Ahhh yah, man.....good times, man,......good times. :-D
I was looking for the ps 1 or 2 home version of carnevil but I didnt find it. The ps gun zapper was great for these kind of games. It looked like dredds law giver. Gun games are the reason why we go to arcades to play term-salvation,colonial marines left 4 dead series.
If you would have told me at the beginning of the video "FNA's gonna talk about CarnEvil and by the end of the description you're going to well up slightly" I would have been sure you were messing with me.
I don't think it's dumb. It's a good and lasting memory that you had with a really good friend of yours. I hate to hear that he's gone but you have the good memories of you two having fun together. May he rest in peace.
I remember a local roller skate rink circle place with an arcade that had both T-2 and Xmen Arcade with 6 players, along with OG Mortal Kombat. Some of the best arcade games we played during my birthday party when we went there. My mom found out I spent all my time in the arcades during my bday partied and not roller skating so she just set up my future birthday parties at Arcades for a full afternoon. Some of the best birthday parties and memories playing MK2 and Primal Rage with friends.
Point Blank? Maybe it doesn't qualify for some reason. But that was the only machine which would guarantee to take my pocket money. Until my friend got a home version and two G-con guns, that is.
Police 911 is my favorite light gun series. The cabinet tracked your movements and gave you the ability to actually dodge the bullets in real-time. Great stuff!
Damn, I loved your story about your friend Kevin. Such a sweet memory. Also, that 'Lucky & Wild' game looks very appealing. I really like that we can see their faces on the rear view mirror and watch them react to what's going on; something rarely seen in a first-person-view game.
My local bowling alley had Lucky and Wild! As well as Area 51, Time Crisis and Silent Scope! The absolute best arcade experiences are light guns! Loved this episode
@@jamesnoble8205 You'll enjoy it. The first time I went there I got goosebumps hearing all the arcade games of my youth that I hadn't played in 15-20 years. I like to get there right when they open so I've got full run of the place.
Guessing I'm not the one who played it at a bowling alley but this was in Waseca, MN and hoping I'm spelling that name right but it was back in 1997-98 when they got it in.
Wasn't expecting to be all in my emotions watching this. It's crazy sometimes how's it's the little things we hold onto the most. That was really touching. RIP to your friend Kevin 🙏
Just want to say, I love the memory you shared at the end about your friend. To me that's what the arcades of old where; time spent with friends and great memories made.
I couldnt tell you how much money I've spent on area 51 as a kid. It was basically in every arcade I knew of and it was always a fun time with a buddy.
yeah that one was great! We'd drive from Chicago to Lake Geneva, WI for weekend vacations and there was this amazing arcade there that had it (unless I'm blending memories from my childhood haha)
I used to play it at my local bowling alley here in Melbourne Australia. Used to love hearing Arnie say 'no way Jose' when you push the start button without putting money in first
Thanks for asking. They're doing pretty good. Getting really big and I think they're close to officially teething. Glad you enjoyed this episode, Landi.
I think all these games really show that, you don't need the most realistic graphics, the greatest art-direction, or the fanciest technology to make something unique and attention-grabbing. Many of these look, for better or worse, like no others, but that just makes them more memorable than they'd normally be
It's definately not dumb or silly. It's nostalgia! It's good times with old friends, or family, and in this case, it's a touching story. A story that most of us can relate to, in one way or another. Back in 98, my Sister and Girlfriend would hang out at a 2$ movie theater. In the lobby they had the Die Hard shooter, where you had to rescue the President's daughter! The game had a bunch of action and was just balls out crazy. Whenever you Walked by it, the demo would be playing and the game would continuously yell at you, saying "SAVE THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER!" It was so stupid but we spent a pocket full of quarters on it ;) Good times! Cheers from Canada
RIP Kevin. Thanks for the video. House of the Dead was my big arcade shooter back in the day. Had one a few blocks from our houses on college campus that my friends and I would go stomp on as teens. Literally hundreds of dollars in the couple years we got to play that before they got rid of it, and it was all because we just randomly happened upon it trying to get some food one day. Good times.
My brother and I use to play Lucky & Wild all the time back in the day!!! He preferred to just drive so I took both guns and we rocked at that game! So many good times spent playing these games. Thank you for sharing your memories of your friend Kevin
I LOVE the Time Crisis series, I hold them very high on a pedestal. I just hope Time Crisis 5 gets ported to consoles one day, because that game upped the ante by having two foot pedals and extended the game with three more levels in the True Mastermind update.
My absolute favorite was L.A. Machineguns. It came out late 90s. It was an absolute blast. The sound effects and the actual battle rifle you use heavily vibrates when you press the trigger making the feel of the game much more enjoyable.
I bought an actual full Area 51 cabinet at an auction back around 2003 or so, put it in my garage, and would constantly go akimbo on it night after night
Always loved Time Crisis. Latest arcade gun game I'm fond of now is Aliens. Love how the the assault rifle shakes and you have to tap the magazine to reload it's great!
I cannot think how many quarters Area51, House of the Dead, and Time Crisis got from me. As for memories when me and my brother were in AIT together we had a weekend off...and found a Gauntlet Legends cabinet. With two other Joes we had to dump 50 a piece into that cabinet since it saved your progress. Still a great memory.
Operation Wolf was awesome at the time. But my story is of the shooter R-Type. I lived in a small town with one arcade in the little pub/nightclub in North England, and the landlord used to let us youngsters in to play pool and the arcade as long as we bought fizzy drinks, so I became really good at R-Type and could finish it on 1 credit. Anyway I came from a poor family and me and my younger brother went out on a trip to Newcastle, a huge city to us, to The Metro Centre (it's still in business) and it had a huge arcade with lots of people and there was a R-Type cabinet, so I went over put 20p in and started playing and I breezed through the early stages and after finishing stage 6 which is really quite tricky my brother said look behind and there was about 15 people watching and I remember the buzz of having a crowd who probably this was their local arcade and maybe they had not seen level 7 then 8. This memory from that day trip I'll always remember, the buzz of playing in front of a audience was a thrill. Arcades were so special back then and I still love shooters or shmups now, and can't wait to play R-Type Final 2 in a couple of months.
i remember playing the lost world arcade cabinet as a kid. the way it was made along with the sound system in it really immersed me in to it. also help to kind of blot out the noise from other cabinets in the arcade. lots of good memories with that. i'd then go home and rewatch jurassic park on vhs. if money was no object, i'd get it and "virtual on" just so i could share those experiences with my younger brothers and friends.
We had an Operation Wolf cabinet in our post-college party house. It was a blast! And I couldnt remember the name of the game Lucky and Wild until I saw your video! Fond memories of New Jersey arcades with that one!
Sorry to hear about your friend Kevin. The important thing is that you got to enjoy time doing something that he was excited to do before he passed in that accident. Memories like that last a lifetime!
I went to a local arcade bar for my birthday this summer and played through the original T2 Arcade Game all the way through. Man...the final boss battle is insanely crazy and was designed to suck up as many quarters as possible.
Thanks for the memories. I lost a lot of quarters to the following games: T2: Judgment Day, Area 51, Time Crisis, House of the Dead, Operation Wolf, and Lost World. There were many, many more. Wish the arcades were still around. I would like to get lost in them like when I was younger, such fun times.
Thank goodness for these “pay one fee, and play all the arcade games you want” I got to finally beat the TMNT, and Terminator rail shooter.... I would have been down about 42 lbs in quarters
T2 was probably my all time favorite arcade game. I remember once going to Funspot in Laconia, New Hampshire one summer vacation in I think '93 and had the best arcade play through of my entire life. In the zone would be an understatement. I got to the T-1000 with the liquid nitrogen on my original 50 cents. Didn't die or continue once. I had saved up an army load of weapons and missiles, but you ain't kidding about his health meter regenerating. I must have blasted away for 10 minutes straight until I ran out of ammo and then eventually died. It's impossible on one player. I managed to get to that part a few times after, never beat him, but never again without having to pump more quarters into the machine. But that one day, I was a T2 arcade god!
I loved arcades back in the day, but I didn't play that many Rail Shooters, and I don't actually have any specific memories that stand out to me. I did get to play the X-Men 6-player cabinet with a full host (and I wasn't even stuck with Dazzler!), but I had more fun playing Secret of Mana with my significant other. Finding out that Pac-Mania was real and not some weird fever dream from the '80s was neat, I guess. Great video, though, and thanks for sharing your memories of Kevin. It's funny what kinds of things we remember about those who've gone before us; I lost a close friend, Tim, many years ago, and the thing that I kept remembering over and over again was that I'd burned dinner (fried potatoes) because I was distracted playing Rondo of Blood on my PSP. It was a stupid thing to do, of course, but his smartass remark would always pop into my head every time I made them after that.
Man I love Lethal Enforcers. I used to work at a Q-Zar back in the day and after hours we would turn this on free play and play all night. The Terminator game was a ton of fun too.
I actually got to play Lucky and Wild on an actual cab at Galloping Ghosts in Chicago a couple years ago. One of the most fun arcade game experiences I have ever had
Have such good memories playing Lethal Enforcers at the bottom of my dorm in college. We had a curfew so would all gather down at the arcade at the bottom level and slam quarters in.
That's what I love about arcades - they have game experiences that you can't get at home with most home consoles like shooting big guns, riding plastic motorcycles, sitting inside flight simulators, hitting punching bags with your own fists, etc. I love shooters in the arcades. So much more fun than they are with a keyboard or controller. The Jurassic Park game was really fun. It's very imaginative and thankfully short so that you can actually see much of the gameplay without having to spend your entire allowance/chore money on it. Yeah, digitized video really didn't age well. It's almost as painful to look at now as N64 animation is. :) I never saw Crossbow. I'd love to find it. Time Crisis is probably the most familiar one in this video. It was a fun game that I also enjoyed on the PlayStation systems. Beast Busters looks like a ton of fun. I hope I see one in an arcade that's been restored.
I remember walking almost 2 miles to the 7-11 in the town I grew up in to toss the few quarters I had earned doing odd chores for the old neighbors around us in the Operation Wolf game. It's kind of surreal how easy it is to play games like that now.
The arcade specific video of shooters was great. I'd love to see more arcade specific genre videos like this. Arcade Beat 'em ups would be epic ( please include Renegade and Warriors of Fate, along with the obvious ones like DD and Golden Axe). I also think your skill for making humorous/snarky/ satirical pop culture references is underappreciated! Maybe in the future: movies that became arcade/video/ computer games ( TV shows, books, ads etc) would be fun. Maybe games inspired by Nancy Reagan ( like NARC) lol. You really have your finger on the pulse of pop culture from that time!
RIP Kevin - Thanks for sharing that story. It's nice to share moments w/ a friend in an activity/game they're particularly more into than you are. Feels good to see a friend happy. First time I think I heard of or seen ICP is when I was watching Woodstock 99 on pirated Pay-Per-View(not proud) and then MTV aired a comprehensive special on beefs in the industry and they had a little beef with Eminem. Anywho: Definitely played House of the Dead and Time Crisis on PS1 the most. I played Area 51: Site 4(which I'm sure was better than the original) on a pool/billiards hall in my neighborhood. Seen Lethal Enforcers in my local laundromat but never played it. Looked cheesy then and even more now lol. Also played a horror game that one side had the pistol and the other was a pump shotty. Clearly wasn't memorable since I can't remember the name. I wasnted to play Marvel Vs. Capcom anyways lol.
Sorry about your friend, Kevin. I loved CarnEvil due to ICP as well. Well, that and that it's a riot to play. I actually got my father to play it with me like 15 years, and he never played video games. He passed away last year. Thanks for the great videos.
The sit-down Jurassic Park machine is my arcade equivalent to owning my dream car. The Starsky & Hutch game from the 2000s is in a way like an updated Lucky & Wild, allowing one player to drive and the other to use a lightgun. There is also a port of Crossbow late in the 2600's lifespan of all places.
The reason why there is a pacing change between Jurassic Park and Lost World comes down to the controller. Jurassic park was a joystick shooter. Lost World and Jurassic Park/// were light gun shooters. I actually prefer the gun versions. They had good graphics and cool stories
My best arcade light gun game memory was probably Line of Fire: a 2-player vehicule unit (similar to the Jurassic Park games) with giant guns!! Awesome!!
Great video and memory that you had with your friend playing CarnEvil! I have a good memory beating the 2nd Jurassic park game with a friend while at Myrtle Beach. Time crisis would be my favorite series but also love Terminator 2, Operation Wolf, House of the Dead 2, Silent scope and CarnEvil! I did play Lucky and Wild 20 some years ago at the Best Western lodge in Jackson Hole Wyoming !
My favorite was Police Trainer. My dad would take me to a local arcade in the 90's and give me a ton of quarters that I'd mostly waste on it, but I also almost mastered it. Couldn't quite get through the Commissioner levels but came close!
Actually have a separate room made up with a Saturn, Playstation and Dreamcast hooked up to a nice Sony CRT just for light gun games. My 10 year old niece and 15 year old cousin love playing Virtua Cop(at one point I was so good at Cop I could finish the game without continues),Time Crisis,House Of The Dead and Elemental Gearbolt. These games just aren't any fun without a gun. So I wanted to make sure they could see what it was like to play these games the way they were supposed to be played. By the way,one of the best Light Gun games was Jurassic Park The Lost World,the model 3 arcade game. Sadly it was never ported to anything.
This video was like watching my childhood all over again. From Operation Wolf, Lethal Enforcers, Time Crisis, and T2. Kinda sad that you didn't have Turkey Hunter on this list, that to me was such a fun game, my brother and I would always place a gentleman's wager who would perform better in that shooter. As for your story, it's not silly at all and I know how it feels. My younger brother and I always played video games together and we made sure never to buy a single player game. Our father was an abusive person and our way to have a slice of peace was to escape into a game. While other kids got to go on trips, got new stuff, or even current gen consoles, my brother and I were using last gen tech. One time my dad broke my hand while I was handcuffed, but I did score our first color 13 inch tv and clay fighters as a hush "don't tell your mother" bribe. My younger brother is gone but I still foolishly out of reflex buy 2 player 16bit games on Steam that he and I would of played the piss out of together.
Older games aren't just rated on graphics/music/story; there's the initial wow factor, nostalgia which is even more common. Its cool to see how the industry explored/evolved from simple vectors (battle zone) to digital images, to full blown polys. I'm sure I can find full walkthroughs on YT but I'm gonna start with Jurassic and Virtua Cop. Cool recap bro.
I remember playing most of these. I remember playing Revolution X for the first time shortly before the tabletop RPG group I was part of started a Cyberpunk campaign and begging the GM to let me replace my planned Techie character with a Rockerboy just because of how much I enjoyed the game. I also like the Terminator Salvation arcade game which I consider a spiritual successor to the T2 arcade game and hope I get to play it again someday (The only local machine I know of is in my favorite movie theatre and I haven't gone there since before COVID hit. A new arcade opened near my house just before COVID became a big deal but I haven't visited it so I have no idea what light gun games it has)
Damn.... Hahahaha! Ah dude, seriously, thank you so freakin' much for the teenage me memory throw-back. :-D Geez,....I 'member playin' most of these back in the arcade. I grew up in Riverside, CA. So, one of my typical things was, during the summer school break, I'd ask my mom if she could drop me off at Castle Park for a couple hours. A few of the shooter games you listed, I played and did....meh,...okay, not terrible, but man...I tell ya, heh!, some of 'em would just be like, "Hey kid, thanks for the quarter,..by the way,....NOPE! I dun wanna play, GAME OVER!" heh, but even the ones I sucked at, were, but of course!, still so very fun. :-D
Lots of great memories in this video! you actually mentioned Lucky and Wild! I loved that game! it was stupid hard, but so much fun! that and LA Machineguns were always the go to games in my youth. LA Machineguns would leave my hands numb from al the vibrating the huge gun would do.
if there was youtube at that time, you'd have seen me completing Time Crisis 1 on PS1 quickly before my mum calls me for dinner, untouched, using one bullet a bad guy with one leg on my desk and my arm with the gun lazily resting on it using only my wrist lmao
Dude I LOVED lucky and wild!!! When I was a kid my stepbrother and I would play it all the time at the arcade. Being poor we would usually opt for the one player mode he would shoot and I would drive. It was a blast. AREA 51 was also pretty cool, when it came out it the graphics looked so revolutionary. I was pretty crap at it tho and would run through my quarters in the first level.
There was a Lucky & Wild machine at my local Dave and Busters. I spent about $15 just to play all the way through it. I was the solo player, so the experience of driving while blasting was awesome. Also another good shooter was Ghost Squad. You can make choices that actually effect the story line and outcome. There's a good port of it for the Wii (the Wii is a great system for rail shooters)
Fun fact: Michael Jackson (RIP) actually owned a Beast Busters arcade cabinet and during his 1991 world tour, he always brought it along so he can play with his crew or guests after concerts or rehearsals
just discovered your channel. There used to be a lucky and wild machine at a bowling alley I went too in Calgary Alberta. I loved the cabinet. love that game.
Great video. My fav shooter as far as shooting skills testing was police trainer. Granted it was only good if the gun was calibrated properly. I liked the nwo slip up. Man, revolution x called it. Great work! Wish I could find an arcade.
CarnEvil is the GOAT. My friend Brian and I basically had an unspoken pact that if we ever saw it in an arcade, theater, pizza place, WHEREVER...we had to play it. At least 2 credits apiece, but usually waaaaay more than that.
Heh, ahh man,..that's a really cool memory ya got. :-) My friend Gary (yanno, one'a the childhood neighborhood friends) and I had this on-going,...'thing',...where whenever the local rental shop got in a new Final Fantasy (parts 2 & 3 on SNES) or Mega Man game (the X's), we would go and get it, keep it until we finished it, and then we would split the eventual cost. Which,...I mean, yah....it got a little costly, but not that bad. Remember, at that time, new release games (at least at my shop) were $2.50/day. Older games, the non-new release games, $1.00/day. Mehhh,....FF's, we could finish after like,....3, 4 days if we wanted to take our time and explore, n' stuff.... Mega Man games?!.... *pssshhhyyyt!!*....Try more like five or sometimes six days! Ha! Ahhh yah, man.....good times, man,......good times. :-D
Emulates perfect btw
I was looking for the ps 1 or 2 home version of carnevil but I didnt find it. The ps gun zapper was great for these kind of games. It looked like dredds law giver. Gun games are the reason why we go to arcades to play term-salvation,colonial marines left 4 dead series.
RIP Kebin
Oh give me a break.
The time crisis series is clearly the cream of the crop.
Glad that you had a friend like Kevin and good memories to bring him back just for a while - RIP Kevin
Agreed. Video/arcade games somehow trigger
memories of loved ones we were playing them with long ago.
If you would have told me at the beginning of the video "FNA's gonna talk about CarnEvil and by the end of the description you're going to well up slightly" I would have been sure you were messing with me.
Good memories of fun times with friends
I don't think it's dumb. It's a good and lasting memory that you had with a really good friend of yours. I hate to hear that he's gone but you have the good memories of you two having fun together. May he rest in peace.
I still consider T2 to be the best on rails shooter in history
I remember a local roller skate rink circle place with an arcade that had both T-2 and Xmen Arcade with 6 players, along with OG Mortal Kombat. Some of the best arcade games we played during my birthday party when we went there.
My mom found out I spent all my time in the arcades during my bday partied and not roller skating so she just set up my future birthday parties at Arcades for a full afternoon.
Some of the best birthday parties and memories playing MK2 and Primal Rage with friends.
I miss the old light gun games. My favorite has to be all the Jurassic Park games, Aliens, and Area 51. Such classics
The only game I can think of that you missed was Silent Scope!
Point Blank? Maybe it doesn't qualify for some reason. But that was the only machine which would guarantee to take my pocket money. Until my friend got a home version and two G-con guns, that is.
Beat me to it! 😄
@@andrewmartin3671 At the arcades point blank was always in use,very popular for casual players
Mechanized Attack and Police Trainer: Hold My Beer.
Police 24/7 was fun as well (it used a motion sensor to hide and reload).
CarnEvil was one of my favorite arcade cabinets growing up. That's a really sweet memory and I'm sorry for the loss of your friend.
Police 911 is my favorite light gun series. The cabinet tracked your movements and gave you the ability to actually dodge the bullets in real-time. Great stuff!
Damn, I loved your story about your friend Kevin. Such a sweet memory.
Also, that 'Lucky & Wild' game looks very appealing. I really like that we can see their faces on the rear view mirror and watch them react to what's going on; something rarely seen in a first-person-view game.
My local bowling alley had Lucky and Wild! As well as Area 51, Time Crisis and Silent Scope! The absolute best arcade experiences are light guns! Loved this episode
I love Lucky & Wild, our bowling alley had one back in the day. Galloping Ghost in Brookfield, IL has one.
I'm hoping to get to visit GG someday soon
@@jamesnoble8205 You'll enjoy it. The first time I went there I got goosebumps hearing all the arcade games of my youth that I hadn't played in 15-20 years. I like to get there right when they open so I've got full run of the place.
@@RacinJason302 galloping Ghost also has the original house of the dead and original time crisis
Guessing I'm not the one who played it at a bowling alley but this was in Waseca, MN and hoping I'm spelling that name right but it was back in 1997-98 when they got it in.
@@night-x6793 ok
Wasn't expecting to be all in my emotions watching this. It's crazy sometimes how's it's the little things we hold onto the most. That was really touching. RIP to your friend Kevin 🙏
Just want to say, I love the memory you shared at the end about your friend. To me that's what the arcades of old where; time spent with friends and great memories made.
LA Machine Guns was one of my favorite rail shooters. Using a huge mounted gun and the entire machine shook when you were shooting. Was a total blast.
You really outdid yourself this time. Massive episode. Thanks man.
I was a big Area 51 fan as a kid. The peak of my enjoyment was putting in a dollar and playing with both guns, Matrix style.
I absolutely LOVED Beast Busters. The local arcade had that one.
Thanks for sharing your memories about your passed away friend, that was touching.
Omg that last fact about your friend man... big hugs...
Thanks man.
I couldnt tell you how much money I've spent on area 51 as a kid. It was basically in every arcade I knew of and it was always a fun time with a buddy.
i had great times with T2 on the snes...me playing with a controller while my brother used the scope...amazing times
No Chiller? It was the most tasteless shockingly dark and violent arcade game even by today's standards I ever saw lol
I loved that game! I played it in a Jersey shore arcade in '86 then I believe got banned. Then I was thrilled when a version came out for the NES.
yeah that one was great! We'd drive from Chicago to Lake Geneva, WI for weekend vacations and there was this amazing arcade there that had it (unless I'm blending memories from my childhood haha)
@@Defrezus the NES port was toned down a bit. I rented it a few times back in the day
T2 was a staple of my childhood. Bring back arcades!!!
Side note: how are the babies?
I used to play it at my local bowling alley here in Melbourne Australia. Used to love hearing Arnie say 'no way Jose' when you push the start button without putting money in first
Thanks for asking. They're doing pretty good. Getting really big and I think they're close to officially teething. Glad you enjoyed this episode, Landi.
I think all these games really show that, you don't need the most realistic graphics, the greatest art-direction, or the fanciest technology to make something unique and attention-grabbing. Many of these look, for better or worse, like no others, but that just makes them more memorable than they'd normally be
It's definately not dumb or silly. It's nostalgia!
It's good times with old friends, or family, and in this case, it's a touching story.
A story that most of us can relate to, in one way or another.
Back in 98, my Sister and Girlfriend would hang out at a 2$ movie theater.
In the lobby they had the Die Hard shooter, where you had to rescue the President's daughter!
The game had a bunch of action and was just balls out crazy. Whenever you Walked by it, the demo would be playing and the game would continuously yell at you, saying "SAVE THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER!"
It was so stupid but we spent a pocket full of quarters on it ;)
Good times!
Cheers from Canada
RIP Kevin. Thanks for the video. House of the Dead was my big arcade shooter back in the day. Had one a few blocks from our houses on college campus that my friends and I would go stomp on as teens. Literally hundreds of dollars in the couple years we got to play that before they got rid of it, and it was all because we just randomly happened upon it trying to get some food one day. Good times.
This is a criminally underrated channel! Love this stuff! Keep it coming brother!
Thank you for the kind words.
My brother and I use to play Lucky & Wild all the time back in the day!!! He preferred to just drive so I took both guns and we rocked at that game! So many good times spent playing these games.
Thank you for sharing your memories of your friend Kevin
I LOVE the Time Crisis series, I hold them very high on a pedestal. I just hope Time Crisis 5 gets ported to consoles one day, because that game upped the ante by having two foot pedals and extended the game with three more levels in the True Mastermind update.
My absolute favorite was L.A. Machineguns. It came out late 90s. It was an absolute blast. The sound effects and the actual battle rifle you use heavily vibrates when you press the trigger making the feel of the game much more enjoyable.
Lucky and Wild is at my local cheap theater. Rainbow Cinemas in Regina, Sask, Canada.
The Jurassic Park shooter was one of the staples of my Chuck E Cheese visits lol. Also...this video was pure gold
Light gun arcades will never die.
Me and my best bud used to play T2 at our Cinedome here in Sacramento back in the day. Those happy moments as a kid are heaven compared to now.
Dual-wielding in Area 51 will always make me feel like a badass.
Dope game. It was at the laundromat in Cheyenne about 6 years ago.
I bought an actual full Area 51 cabinet at an auction back around 2003 or so, put it in my garage, and would constantly go akimbo on it night after night
Matt it is the truest path.
Always loved Time Crisis. Latest arcade gun game I'm fond of now is Aliens. Love how the the assault rifle shakes and you have to tap the magazine to reload it's great!
I cannot think how many quarters Area51, House of the Dead, and Time Crisis got from me. As for memories when me and my brother were in AIT together we had a weekend off...and found a Gauntlet Legends cabinet. With two other Joes we had to dump 50 a piece into that cabinet since it saved your progress. Still a great memory.
Man, nothing dumb or silly about the carnevil story. That's a great memory you have of your friend! Much respect!
Operation Wolf was awesome at the time. But my story is of the shooter R-Type. I lived in a small town with one arcade in the little pub/nightclub in North England, and the landlord used to let us youngsters in to play pool and the arcade as long as we bought fizzy drinks, so I became really good at R-Type and could finish it on 1 credit. Anyway I came from a poor family and me and my younger brother went out on a trip to Newcastle, a huge city to us, to The Metro Centre (it's still in business) and it had a huge arcade with lots of people and there was a R-Type cabinet, so I went over put 20p in and started playing and I breezed through the early stages and after finishing stage 6 which is really quite tricky my brother said look behind and there was about 15 people watching and I remember the buzz of having a crowd who probably this was their local arcade and maybe they had not seen level 7 then 8. This memory from that day trip I'll always remember, the buzz of playing in front of a audience was a thrill. Arcades were so special back then and I still love shooters or shmups now, and can't wait to play R-Type Final 2 in a couple of months.
One that I didn't see here that was very cool and different was Silent Scope.
I was also hoping to see this game make the list. So cool how the scope was a monitor.
i remember playing the lost world arcade cabinet as a kid. the way it was made along with the sound system in it really immersed me in to it. also help to kind of blot out the noise from other cabinets in the arcade. lots of good memories with that. i'd then go home and rewatch jurassic park on vhs. if money was no object, i'd get it and "virtual on" just so i could share those experiences with my younger brothers and friends.
HELL YEAH, TERMINATOR 2. many quarters were blown and many pizza boxes were knocked over playing this one.
We had an Operation Wolf cabinet in our post-college party house. It was a blast! And I couldnt remember the name of the game Lucky and Wild until I saw your video! Fond memories of New Jersey arcades with that one!
Sharing a game with friends is a good thing to have. Lucky you have one enthusiastic friend to enjoy a game.
Beast Busters was the bomb. I still have flash backs of playing this game with my oldest brother in the arcades back in the day.
Sorry to hear about your friend Kevin. The important thing is that you got to enjoy time doing something that he was excited to do before he passed in that accident. Memories like that last a lifetime!
Time Crisis 3 was one of the most exciting things of my childhood! Also R.I.P. to your friend Kevin.
I went to a local arcade bar for my birthday this summer and played through the original T2 Arcade Game all the way through. Man...the final boss battle is insanely crazy and was designed to suck up as many quarters as possible.
Thanks for the memories. I lost a lot of quarters to the following games: T2: Judgment Day, Area 51, Time Crisis, House of the Dead, Operation Wolf, and Lost World. There were many, many more. Wish the arcades were still around. I would like to get lost in them like when I was younger, such fun times.
Whenever you have a memory of a long lost friend it is never dumb, sir. Thanks for the video!
Thank goodness for these “pay one fee, and play all the arcade games you want” I got to finally beat the TMNT, and Terminator rail shooter.... I would have been down about 42 lbs in quarters
T2 was probably my all time favorite arcade game. I remember once going to Funspot in Laconia, New Hampshire one summer vacation in I think '93 and had the best arcade play through of my entire life. In the zone would be an understatement. I got to the T-1000 with the liquid nitrogen on my original 50 cents. Didn't die or continue once. I had saved up an army load of weapons and missiles, but you ain't kidding about his health meter regenerating. I must have blasted away for 10 minutes straight until I ran out of ammo and then eventually died. It's impossible on one player. I managed to get to that part a few times after, never beat him, but never again without having to pump more quarters into the machine. But that one day, I was a T2 arcade god!
I loved arcades back in the day, but I didn't play that many Rail Shooters, and I don't actually have any specific memories that stand out to me. I did get to play the X-Men 6-player cabinet with a full host (and I wasn't even stuck with Dazzler!), but I had more fun playing Secret of Mana with my significant other. Finding out that Pac-Mania was real and not some weird fever dream from the '80s was neat, I guess. Great video, though, and thanks for sharing your memories of Kevin. It's funny what kinds of things we remember about those who've gone before us; I lost a close friend, Tim, many years ago, and the thing that I kept remembering over and over again was that I'd burned dinner (fried potatoes) because I was distracted playing Rondo of Blood on my PSP. It was a stupid thing to do, of course, but his smartass remark would always pop into my head every time I made them after that.
NOT dumb OR silly. Wasn't expecting the feels at the end. 100% agree the Carnevil is the best cabinet shooter ever.
I'm so glad you brought up Carnevil! I had fond memories of this game.
RIP Kevin. Thanks for the gaming memories. ❤️
Always looking for solid retro gaming content with a focus on both gameplay and *history*. Nailed it. Subbed!
Hey thanks!
Man I love Lethal Enforcers. I used to work at a Q-Zar back in the day and after hours we would turn this on free play and play all night. The Terminator game was a ton of fun too.
I actually got to play Lucky and Wild on an actual cab at Galloping Ghosts in Chicago a couple years ago. One of the most fun arcade game experiences I have ever had
Have such good memories playing Lethal Enforcers at the bottom of my dorm in college. We had a curfew so would all gather down at the arcade at the bottom level and slam quarters in.
24:18 -I never got the Brundle reference until now! Christ I'm thick! Great vid!
That's what I love about arcades - they have game experiences that you can't get at home with most home consoles like shooting big guns, riding plastic motorcycles, sitting inside flight simulators, hitting punching bags with your own fists, etc.
I love shooters in the arcades. So much more fun than they are with a keyboard or controller.
The Jurassic Park game was really fun. It's very imaginative and thankfully short so that you can actually see much of the gameplay without having to spend your entire allowance/chore money on it.
Yeah, digitized video really didn't age well. It's almost as painful to look at now as N64 animation is. :)
I never saw Crossbow. I'd love to find it.
Time Crisis is probably the most familiar one in this video. It was a fun game that I also enjoyed on the PlayStation systems.
Beast Busters looks like a ton of fun. I hope I see one in an arcade that's been restored.
I remember walking almost 2 miles to the 7-11 in the town I grew up in to toss the few quarters I had earned doing odd chores for the old neighbors around us in the Operation Wolf game. It's kind of surreal how easy it is to play games like that now.
The arcade specific video of shooters was great. I'd love to see more arcade specific genre videos like this. Arcade Beat 'em ups would be epic ( please include Renegade and Warriors of Fate, along with the obvious ones like DD and Golden Axe).
I also think your skill for making humorous/snarky/ satirical pop culture references is underappreciated!
Maybe in the future: movies that became arcade/video/ computer games ( TV shows, books, ads etc) would be fun. Maybe games inspired by Nancy Reagan ( like NARC) lol. You really have your finger on the pulse of pop culture from that time!
I loved that Terminator arcade game. And played virtue cop on Sega Saturn for hours a day as a kid. It was amazing having the gun on home console.
RIP Kevin - Thanks for sharing that story. It's nice to share moments w/ a friend in an activity/game they're particularly more into than you are. Feels good to see a friend happy. First time I think I heard of or seen ICP is when I was watching Woodstock 99 on pirated Pay-Per-View(not proud) and then MTV aired a comprehensive special on beefs in the industry and they had a little beef with Eminem. Anywho:
Definitely played House of the Dead and Time Crisis on PS1 the most. I played Area 51: Site 4(which I'm sure was better than the original) on a pool/billiards hall in my neighborhood. Seen Lethal Enforcers in my local laundromat but never played it. Looked cheesy then and even more now lol. Also played a horror game that one side had the pistol and the other was a pump shotty. Clearly wasn't memorable since I can't remember the name. I wasnted to play Marvel Vs. Capcom anyways lol.
As a kid, the light gun game that blew my mind when I first saw it was Silent Scope, great memories!
Space Gun and Time Crisis took all my pocket money when I was a kid 😁
Love your channel. I got all sentimental when u mentioned your days at the arcade. I miss those days
Sorry about your friend, Kevin. I loved CarnEvil due to ICP as well. Well, that and that it's a riot to play. I actually got my father to play it with me like 15 years, and he never played video games. He passed away last year. Thanks for the great videos.
The sit-down Jurassic Park machine is my arcade equivalent to owning my dream car.
The Starsky & Hutch game from the 2000s is in a way like an updated Lucky & Wild, allowing one player to drive and the other to use a lightgun.
There is also a port of Crossbow late in the 2600's lifespan of all places.
The reason why there is a pacing change between Jurassic Park and Lost World comes down to the controller. Jurassic park was a joystick shooter. Lost World and Jurassic Park/// were light gun shooters.
I actually prefer the gun versions. They had good graphics and cool stories
Rail shooters have always been a favorite genre of mine. That's why the Wii is one of my favorite systems.
My best arcade light gun game memory was probably Line of Fire: a 2-player vehicule unit (similar to the Jurassic Park games) with giant guns!!
Awesome!!
CarnEvil
RIP Midway arcade division. they made an amazing game right before the end of the arcade industry in the USA.
RIP Kevin, real bro
When I was little, the earsplitting mortal screams the heroes let out when they died in Crossbow always scared the willies outta me.😥
The last time I was there, Ground Kontrol arcade in Portland Oregon had a Lucky and Wild cabinet. It's a lot of fun, especially with a friend.
When I was a kid there was a game at the local 7-11 called Cheyenne. It was a western version of the Crossbow game.
The company that made them both was exidy....they also made chiller
Great video and memory that you had with your friend playing CarnEvil! I have a good memory beating the 2nd Jurassic park game with a friend while at Myrtle Beach. Time crisis would be my favorite series but also love Terminator 2, Operation Wolf, House of the Dead 2, Silent scope and CarnEvil! I did play Lucky and Wild 20 some years ago at the Best Western lodge in Jackson Hole Wyoming !
My favorite was Police Trainer. My dad would take me to a local arcade in the 90's and give me a ton of quarters that I'd mostly waste on it, but I also almost mastered it. Couldn't quite get through the Commissioner levels but came close!
Actually have a separate room made up with a Saturn, Playstation and Dreamcast hooked up to a nice Sony CRT just for light gun games. My 10 year old niece and 15 year old cousin love playing Virtua Cop(at one point I was so good at Cop I could finish the game without continues),Time Crisis,House Of The Dead and Elemental Gearbolt. These games just aren't any fun without a gun. So I wanted to make sure they could see what it was like to play these games the way they were supposed to be played. By the way,one of the best Light Gun games was Jurassic Park The Lost World,the model 3 arcade game. Sadly it was never ported to anything.
This video was like watching my childhood all over again. From Operation Wolf, Lethal Enforcers, Time Crisis, and T2. Kinda sad that you didn't have Turkey Hunter on this list, that to me was such a fun game, my brother and I would always place a gentleman's wager who would perform better in that shooter. As for your story, it's not silly at all and I know how it feels. My younger brother and I always played video games together and we made sure never to buy a single player game. Our father was an abusive person and our way to have a slice of peace was to escape into a game. While other kids got to go on trips, got new stuff, or even current gen consoles, my brother and I were using last gen tech. One time my dad broke my hand while I was handcuffed, but I did score our first color 13 inch tv and clay fighters as a hush "don't tell your mother" bribe. My younger brother is gone but I still foolishly out of reflex buy 2 player 16bit games on Steam that he and I would of played the piss out of together.
Older games aren't just rated on graphics/music/story; there's the initial wow factor, nostalgia which is even more common. Its cool to see how the industry explored/evolved from simple vectors (battle zone) to digital images, to full blown polys. I'm sure I can find full walkthroughs on YT but I'm gonna start with Jurassic and Virtua Cop. Cool recap bro.
I remember playing most of these. I remember playing Revolution X for the first time shortly before the tabletop RPG group I was part of started a Cyberpunk campaign and begging the GM to let me replace my planned Techie character with a Rockerboy just because of how much I enjoyed the game.
I also like the Terminator Salvation arcade game which I consider a spiritual successor to the T2 arcade game and hope I get to play it again someday (The only local machine I know of is in my favorite movie theatre and I haven't gone there since before COVID hit. A new arcade opened near my house just before COVID became a big deal but I haven't visited it so I have no idea what light gun games it has)
Damn.... Hahahaha! Ah dude, seriously, thank you so freakin' much for the teenage me memory throw-back. :-D Geez,....I 'member playin' most of these back in the arcade. I grew up in Riverside, CA. So, one of my typical things was, during the summer school break, I'd ask my mom if she could drop me off at Castle Park for a couple hours. A few of the shooter games you listed, I played and did....meh,...okay, not terrible, but man...I tell ya, heh!, some of 'em would just be like, "Hey kid, thanks for the quarter,..by the way,....NOPE! I dun wanna play, GAME OVER!" heh, but even the ones I sucked at, were, but of course!, still so very fun. :-D
Lots of great memories in this video! you actually mentioned Lucky and Wild! I loved that game! it was stupid hard, but so much fun! that and LA Machineguns were always the go to games in my youth. LA Machineguns would leave my hands numb from al the vibrating the huge gun would do.
You had your outtro thing and I thought you weren't going to talk about Carnevil. I was going to riot! Glad I was wrong!
if there was youtube at that time, you'd have seen me completing Time Crisis 1 on PS1 quickly before my mum calls me for dinner, untouched, using one bullet a bad guy with one leg on my desk and my arm with the gun lazily resting on it using only my wrist lmao
I can still remember the shakes and jolts of the Jurrasic Park machine. Along with the Star Wars Arcade at my local Chuck E. Cheese.
Dude I LOVED lucky and wild!!! When I was a kid my stepbrother and I would play it all the time at the arcade. Being poor we would usually opt for the one player mode he would shoot and I would drive. It was a blast. AREA 51 was also pretty cool, when it came out it the graphics looked so revolutionary. I was pretty crap at it tho and would run through my quarters in the first level.
There was a Lucky & Wild machine at my local Dave and Busters. I spent about $15 just to play all the way through it. I was the solo player, so the experience of driving while blasting was awesome. Also another good shooter was Ghost Squad. You can make choices that actually effect the story line and outcome. There's a good port of it for the Wii (the Wii is a great system for rail shooters)
There's nothing dumb about missing your friends. My best friend died a few months ago and your story made tear up near instantly.
Thanks for sharing. Sorry to hear about your friend. Life is too damn short.
Lethal Enforcers was so cool. My local convince store has it for a while and it blew my mind.
man i loved that game aerosmith revolution x...i remember playing that on the genesis with my counsins! we loved it
Fun fact: Michael Jackson (RIP) actually owned a Beast Busters arcade cabinet and during his 1991 world tour, he always brought it along so he can play with his crew or guests after concerts or rehearsals
Awesome. I had to look this up. When you showed Crossbow, I vaguely remembered a similar Western: Cheyene.
Exidy had 3 light gun games...Crossbow, Cheyenne and Chiller.
The nostalgia is strong with this video!
Kevin lives on forever through this video. RIP
just discovered your channel. There used to be a lucky and wild machine at a bowling alley I went too in Calgary Alberta. I loved the cabinet. love that game.
Great video. My fav shooter as far as shooting skills testing was police trainer. Granted it was only good if the gun was calibrated properly.
I liked the nwo slip up. Man, revolution x called it. Great work! Wish I could find an arcade.