Love how youtube is advertising the Die Hard movie under this. Hold on Grumps, let me watch the Christmas classic again, and come back to compare how this game matches up. See you in 2 hours, 12 minutes.
@@Rowrowfightthepower I'm sorry, I should have responded sooner, I got caught up in all the National Lampoon movies. That dang squirrel gets me every time.
So I looked up the localization thing. Sega DID own the rights to make a Die Hard game and this was developed with Die Hard in mind but Sega didnt own the international rights to Die Hard which is why this game released as Die Hard Arcade in the west and in Japan as Dynamite Deka, which has different character names. Dynamite Deka later got a sequel called Dynamite Cop which released in the west on the Dreamcast.
There’s something charming about old graphics, I don’t know if it’s because of nostalgia or if it’s simply the smoothness that came from less complicated graphics. I do love realistic graphics, but there’s just something nice about the textured polygons now and then.
it's art style/design. Because developers couldn't really do "realism" they had to create an art style for the game, so sometimes games with simpler graphics look more interesting as a result. Now all triple A studios care about is realism. "You can see the hair folicules!"...I couldn't care less.
Old aesthetics are still overal my favorite, whether it's crispy clean pixel art or cell-shaded stuff that aged perfectly, or weird compressed polygons, it's got so much classic charm. (And you gotta love 16-bit sound in particular) Then I also think games overal were more stylish and had more personality before maybe like the 2010's, they used more tropes/cliche's etc., sometimes it got kinda corny but I love it, especially vs. a lot of modern games that get corny with different tropes instead. + I just love things for exactly how I grew to love them, I'd personally rather go back to a game than play a remaster almost every time. (Besides maybe QoL changes that don't compromise anything to me)
It's art. We only see old graphics as "limited" because technology keeps advancing. That's why I despise all these "cash-grab" remakes that are becoming so commonplace in the videogame industry. Classic games should be played in their original state. It's art.
It's the constraints. I have great respect for retro art direction. You can learn a lot from studying it. Ironically, I thought most games looked like crap as I grew up. It took me a very long time to understand just how impressive old games' graphics are.
With the initial blast from the heli, I knew we're in for a ride. This is NOT just processing capability, it's for being riddled wih VERY conventional thinking about how to actually create visuals. Expanding a polygon model and rotating it a little bit is something even TRON movie could do. But they wanted to go with swarm sprites, and box mortars lying around in hotel corridors. It's a shame so many people these days always resented games, adn actually just wnat everything to look Hollywood, like saying there's no point in making a door handle from drift wood because plastic is more "up to a modern standard". Or "accurate" to their childlike immersion where seeing is believing. Thy jsut WANT the immersion of diegetic sound design, but can't handle the same for visuals. Didn't have the creativity to enjoy real games, don't have the creativity to invent their OWN name for what THEY want, like visual novels had and carved out their OWN niche without eating up gaming. Unrelated but 6:54, imagine a game like this, only it's inexplicably very explicably set in Canada. Like some Japanese exec just randomly decided that USA is too done, so they just make it Canada like it's NK in Red Dawn.
If you put Christmas in a title for a video, you get views. It's clickbait. Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it. I hope Santa got you sweet loot. We all need sweet loot after these 3 years.
I came to the comments to see if I was the only one who clicked this and immediately thought it looked like Dynamite cop!!!! I played it on my dreamcast as a kid
Not really, it was called dynamite deka, and the sequel dynamite deka 2 was called dynamite cop outside of japan. Basically dynamite cop would be the sequel to die hard arcade!
From now on all GG titles will be "___ is a great game" "Is ____ killing us slowly?" "If you like ____, you're insane" and etc. Take that RUclips Algorithm.
I mostly haven't watched a lot of the recent grumps episode because I had no idea what the game was from the title. Even if they're doing an episodic thing I'd have no idea because they don't put numbers in the titles either.
One of our mall arcades had it until they closed it. I 1000% went there specifically to only play this. Most of the place was ticket games and bleh not my jam.
Same! It was at my local bowling alley, I Remeber seeing ppl play it and I thought the missile launcher was so cool that It became my no 1 quarter eater
34:52 "What better way to honor the death and resurrection of Jesus than with beating robots with a pipe?" Dan, that's Easter (Christmas is the birth of Jesus).
Brings me back to the times when I first discovered Game Grumps during the holidays of 2013. Something that is one of the most important things to happen randomly in my life. To this day I still watch you guys everyday, I love you, and happy holidays.
Arin has such amazing jinxing powers that the moment he says that all the christmas grumps' games were shitty lately he plays a banger next. Also, finding a minigame after the maingame that rewards you with extra lives for the maingame? Absolute heaven
I am so glad y’all are finally playing this absolute gem of a beat ‘em up. Arguably, one of the most unintentionally funny beat ‘em up of all time while also having great gameplay. Japanese name is “Dynamite Cop.” If anyone falls in love with it and wants more, it got a sequel on Dreamcast. If you’re having trouble beating the story, go into the Deep Scan mini-game and play it a bunch. Every sub you sink earns you a continue for the story and you can seemingly do that up to, like, 99.
Almost a year later and I can't believe that instead of catching that and giving him shit over it, Arin instead used all his brainpower to go, "Hey, PIPE down, heheh"
Oh man, this takes me back! Back in 2003 I was 19 years old and started my first job as an usher at the local movie theatre. We had a free-to-play arcade cabinet of this game in the break room and I played the shit out of it!!! Also, everyone kept making the same "Man I guess I need to watch that movie again because I don't remember ANY of this!!!" Lol
At its core, Home Alone is about a boy and his narcissist parents both learning the lesson that family is the true meaning of Christmas. It even had the subplot with Old Man ‘Marley’ and his estranged son to reinforce this theme. Both the soundtrack and original score are Christmas themed… I would probably put Batman Returns on the same list as Die Hard though.
The plot of Die Hard wouldn't be possible if it weren't Christmas. The holiday is intrinsically woven into the core of the movie. That's why Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
Got a lot of happy memories playing this game on my uncle's Sega Saturn as a kid. Farming tons of extra lives in Deep Scan, discovering the surprisingly varied moveset by accident (Bowser tossing was my favorite once I learned how to do it), hilariously inexplicable weapon pick-ups (loved me the multiple rocket launcher, but the anti-tank rifle was pretty fun as well), and one very angry football player looking boss who laughs a lot like Barney. An underrated (and wonderfully absurd) gem.
That wasn't a coelacanth in the aquarium. That was an arapaima. They're found in rivers in the Amazon rainforest. Look them up, they're beautifully terrifying.
Yesss one of my favorite games of all time! I would spend so much time playing it in the arcade. Fun fact: Bruno Dellinger from this game appears in Project X Zone.
My favorite scene in Die Hard is when John McClain sends a goon down the elevator to Hans Gruber, with a shirt saying "Ho ho ho, now i control the spider robots"
The movie Die Hard With a Vengeance was originally written as a screenplay called "Simon Says". The studio wanted it to be set on a cruise ship and parts of it were rewritten to become Under Siege and other parts were used for Speed 2: Cruise Control. Apparently Brandon Lee was set to play the lead actor in Simon Says before his untimely passing at which point Fox decided that they would use the screenplay for Die Hard.
It was made as a Die Hard game, but they only had the license in the US. The Japanese name was Dynamite Deka, & the 2nd game was released as Dynamite Cop in the US. Also the characters name was changed to Bruno Delinger
I haven't seen this game since I shoved money into the arcade as a child but couldn't remember what it was called (due to being a child when I last played it). Thanks for finding it again for me. Weapons were indeed the best thing ever.
2:53 - Hahahahah, what the fuck are they shooting? 700-grain .500 Smith & Wesson? 7:53 - Hahaha 10:02 - Perfect 16:00 - Ddduuuuude.... 17:28 - I've never seen or heard about something like this before 29:10 - His joy of finding a new tactic 💖 36:04 - Might be a "Sniper Rifle" cause it looks almost Barrett-y (update: I just noticed the box on the bottom left saying what it is)
Dan was surprisingly fast on the uptake in this episode. I don’t think he said “what button does what?” once. Ik it doesn’t last long but it was a Christmas miracle.
Aww man! I loved playing die hard arcade. My mom and I would play this together when we went to the arcade in the mall. It was always our game and we just mashed buttons and would end up doing crazy moves, even though we’d played it many times before. A special treat to see Arin and Dan play this
I'm only familiar with playing Dynamite Deka, the Japanese version on PS2, because of having the Altered Beast mode on there. But no matter which version, it's still a really hard game. Very fun and enjoyable, but it lives up to the "arcade" in the title with how much it doesn't hold back. All the crazy wrestling moves and grab attacks you can perform really make the combat more fun
This game is phenomenal and was a consistent part of my childhood. There was a bar/restaurant in my hometown that used to have the full on arcade game version of this game, and I would play it every time I went to this restaurant. I never beat the game as a kid, but I remember that I got pretty good at the game, up until the last few sections, which whooped me every time😅. I'm grateful that you two could bring back that childhood memory of mine😁
Die Hard IS a Christmas game, but only the ones based on the first and second movie (aka Die Hard for NES and the parts of Die Hard 1 and 2 in Die Hard Trilogy on PS1 and Saturn). Die Hard Arcade was the American version of Dynamite Deku (or Dynamite Cop) which had a sequel on Dreamcast. Sorry, I love Die Hard.
This arcade game was at my local Pizza Hut for years. Got replaced with a great Mega Man arcade game where you could play as Zero and Bass, and then the Pizza Hut moved and didn't have an arcade area anymore.
Die Hard is a family tradition of ours. We watch It’s a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve, and Die Hard on Christmas Eve’s Eve. It’s a wild jump from 80s action to black and white introspection, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I remember a Game Boy game, called Radar Mission. The main game was a modified version of Battle Ship, but it also had a submarine game on it that was very similar to Deep Scan.
1:20 - "Kinda looks like Craig Kilborn" "I don't know who that is" First host of the Daily Show! ...And, I mean, he did other stuff too of course but I never watched any of that stuff. Doesn't surprise me that Arin wouldn't know who he is, but I know I can count on Dan for some sweet late 1990s Comedy Central references. (I'm guessing that's how Dan knows him, too)
Christmas is the secondary plot to Die Hard and Die Hard The Game. They're not Christmas movies or games because of this. Movies like A Christmas Story are Christmas movies because it is the main driving plot and not just the setting. I stand by this till I die. hard. on christmas.
Honestly his game reminds me SOOO much of the game Dynamite Cop for Sega Dreamcast. But Dynamite Cop was so much more outrageously funny and weird which gave it so much charm. I absolutely loved playing it as a kid.
5:49 I was watching a Top Hat Gaming video yesterday about X-Men VS. Street Fighter and it's home ports on the Saturn and the Playstation 1. Capcom initially wanted to make it's home port a Saturn-exclusive because the Sega Saturn has superior processing power over the Playstation 1. The Saturn port of Street Fighter Alpha 2 was practically identical to the Arcade original, and Capcom made Darkstakers' Revenge a Saturn exclusive because the Saturn was just better. The gaming media and fans were angry that Capcom was showing favoritism to the Saturn instead of releasing games on multiple home consoles, so Capcom had to change their plans and they released X-Men VS. Street Fighter onto the Playstation as well. The Playstation version was interior from a technical standpoint because the fighters were all missing frames of animation, and the Playstation couldn't load the moves lists for 4 separate characters at one time, so they were forced to make it single player was one on one instead of tag battles, and the tag mode they did have required each player to pick one character, and the opponents character would become your partner character and your character became their partner. *Too long, didn't read:* The Saturn versions of some games, especially fighting games, were superior to the Playstation versions, which lost features because the console wasn't powerful enough.
Sega Saturn had the Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racer and Panzer Dragoon Saga games. Those are the ones I remember reading of in 1990's videogame magazines.
This whole episode is fantastic and it’s fun to watch the boys having a good time playing a game they’re actually enjoying! I put out there if at some point Arin feels like grinding in Deep Scan to max out credits and then they play the game all the way through I wouldn’t be upset. Or just more co-op beat-‘em-ups in general!
I remember first playing this game in the arcades and later the Saturn as a kid way before I ever saw the movie... and later finding out the game just barely resembles the movie it's based off of. Apparently the original game's name in Japan is "Dynamite Deka" but they ended up renaming it "Die Hard Arcade" for the west probably because the main guy looked like Bruce Willis and the building looked like Nakatomi Plaza. Still, I remember really liking this game a lot when I first played it! Though I had no idea the Deep Scan game included in the Saturn version could earn you extra credits... explains why I never managed to get past the part with the pink spider bots. XD
Apparently there is some dispute to if this was supposed to be a licensed Die Hard game and they couldn't get the rights for Japan or if Dynamite Detective was the original and they slapped the license on for North America. Either way I find it amusing that P2, Kris Thompsen, just seems to be inspired by Cynthia Rothrock, who was basically the go to inspiration for a bunch of blond female martial artist characters in games at the time, like Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat.
I loved this game as a kid! It was in the hotel by the pool where i took swimming lessons. Put more money into it than I probably should have 😂! I could never get past the robots
Happy to see the grumps playing this gem... so many memories of playing it in the arcade. It's called Dynamite Deka or Dynamite Cop, and yeah it has nothing to do with die hard, probably just had the name slapped on for marketing and recognition
0:56 Die Hard Arcade is the original name for the game and it is a proper Die Hard game. The game was published in cooperation with Fox Interactive and was a licensed product. Sega were unable to obtain the video game rights for Die Hard in Japan, so it had to be renamed Dynamite Deka (Dynamite Detective) there. The misconception that it was a Die Hard licence slapped on to an unrelated game comes from the sequel, Dynamite Cop, which did not have the Die Hard licence in any region and was developed without Fox Interactive’s involvement.
The Sega Saturn was great. The library is small 230 games or so. There were some great games and the Saturn is lots of fun. If you go the import route there are more games to enjoy. The problem in 2022, is that if you didn't buy all the saturn games you wanted back in the 90s, your going to pay close to over 100 dollars per game. This is why optical drive emulators exist. 🙂
Everyone always goes on and on about how Die Hard is a Christmas movie, but no one ever mentions that Lethal Weapon is also just as much a Christmas movie.
Watching this was a blast from the past for me. I really don't know how, in my childhood, I got a Sega Saturn and had this game, but man it was wonderful. The real "Oh wow" moment ain't had was when you booted up the deep scan game. I havent thought if that game in so so long!
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Love how youtube is advertising the Die Hard movie under this. Hold on Grumps, let me watch the Christmas classic again, and come back to compare how this game matches up.
See you in 2 hours, 12 minutes.
Ouch, you should have waited to hear its not actually die hard. At least you got to watch a really good movie though
@@Rowrowfightthepower I'm sorry, I should have responded sooner, I got caught up in all the National Lampoon movies. That dang squirrel gets me every time.
@@Rowrowfightthepower Die Hard is a classic. Christmas movie? Yeah sure, whatever.
But it's a classic.
I never said it was a Christmas movie though... I just said you got to watch a really good movie that had nothing to do with this game.
@@Rowrowfightthepower yeah, I know
Could the Lovelies possibly be so lucky as to someday get the return of Krampus for Jingle Grumps?
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I think they quit because it got too difficult for them to beat. I too wish they'd go back to it.
Doubtful but not impossible. Considering all these episodes were recorded at least a month ago
Do it!
No definitely not
So I looked up the localization thing. Sega DID own the rights to make a Die Hard game and this was developed with Die Hard in mind but Sega didnt own the international rights to Die Hard which is why this game released as Die Hard Arcade in the west and in Japan as Dynamite Deka, which has different character names. Dynamite Deka later got a sequel called Dynamite Cop which released in the west on the Dreamcast.
Dynamite Cop was sooo good
There’s something charming about old graphics, I don’t know if it’s because of nostalgia or if it’s simply the smoothness that came from less complicated graphics. I do love realistic graphics, but there’s just something nice about the textured polygons now and then.
it's art style/design. Because developers couldn't really do "realism" they had to create an art style for the game, so sometimes games with simpler graphics look more interesting as a result.
Now all triple A studios care about is realism. "You can see the hair folicules!"...I couldn't care less.
Old aesthetics are still overal my favorite, whether it's crispy clean pixel art or cell-shaded stuff that aged perfectly, or weird compressed polygons, it's got so much classic charm. (And you gotta love 16-bit sound in particular) Then I also think games overal were more stylish and had more personality before maybe like the 2010's, they used more tropes/cliche's etc., sometimes it got kinda corny but I love it, especially vs. a lot of modern games that get corny with different tropes instead. + I just love things for exactly how I grew to love them, I'd personally rather go back to a game than play a remaster almost every time. (Besides maybe QoL changes that don't compromise anything to me)
It's art. We only see old graphics as "limited" because technology keeps advancing. That's why I despise all these "cash-grab" remakes that are becoming so commonplace in the videogame industry. Classic games should be played in their original state. It's art.
It's the constraints. I have great respect for retro art direction. You can learn a lot from studying it.
Ironically, I thought most games looked like crap as I grew up. It took me a very long time to understand just how impressive old games' graphics are.
With the initial blast from the heli, I knew we're in for a ride. This is NOT just processing capability, it's for being riddled wih VERY conventional thinking about how to actually create visuals. Expanding a polygon model and rotating it a little bit is something even TRON movie could do. But they wanted to go with swarm sprites, and box mortars lying around in hotel corridors.
It's a shame so many people these days always resented games, adn actually just wnat everything to look Hollywood, like saying there's no point in making a door handle from drift wood because plastic is more "up to a modern standard". Or "accurate" to their childlike immersion where seeing is believing. Thy jsut WANT the immersion of diegetic sound design, but can't handle the same for visuals. Didn't have the creativity to enjoy real games, don't have the creativity to invent their OWN name for what THEY want, like visual novels had and carved out their OWN niche without eating up gaming.
Unrelated but 6:54, imagine a game like this, only it's inexplicably very explicably set in Canada. Like some Japanese exec just randomly decided that USA is too done, so they just make it Canada like it's NK in Red Dawn.
They're really trying to find some Christmas games for us aren't they
yes😂
It doesn't matter what game they play as long as they're playing it together because that's the true meaning of Die Hard
They've had Christmas NiGHTS into Dreams sitting there this WHOLE TIME
This is the loosest connection to anything Christmas
If you put Christmas in a title for a video, you get views. It's clickbait.
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it. I hope Santa got you sweet loot. We all need sweet loot after these 3 years.
This game was called Dynamite Detective or Dynamite Cop in Japan.
Also on the Sega Dreamcast.
Dynamite cop. Saw it pop up when i googled die hard games. Lol
I came to the comments to see if I was the only one who clicked this and immediately thought it looked like Dynamite cop!!!! I played it on my dreamcast as a kid
I was gonna say. Dynamite Cop was so much fun.
Not really, it was called dynamite deka, and the sequel dynamite deka 2 was called dynamite cop outside of japan. Basically dynamite cop would be the sequel to die hard arcade!
I love the reference to the “take a bath” from the 90s toys episode
Can't believe he didn't say "Take a bath" when the fire truck was hosing them.
@@resileaf9501 Missed opportunity, I'm disappointed, unsubscribed
I liked the part where they talked about taking baths for a little bit of time
The name of the game is in the title! It's a Christmas miracle!
YESSSS
From now on all GG titles will be "___ is a great game" "Is ____ killing us slowly?" "If you like ____, you're insane" and etc. Take that RUclips Algorithm.
God bless us! Every one! Except the Algorithm! Death to the Algorithm!
I mostly haven't watched a lot of the recent grumps episode because I had no idea what the game was from the title. Even if they're doing an episodic thing I'd have no idea because they don't put numbers in the titles either.
Its Die Hard Arcade, so technically
Nothing gets me more into the Christmas spirit than watching (not)Bruce Willis punch multiple people several times in quick succession
Yooooooo! It's Patterz!
You can tell it’s going to be a good episode when Danny and Arin start talking like siblings playing the new game they just got.
God I love this game. I played the hell out of it at Dave and Busters back in the day
Heck yeah, its super fun, we used to play it at our local bowling alley. I was really excited to get it on the saturn
One of our mall arcades had it until they closed it. I 1000% went there specifically to only play this. Most of the place was ticket games and bleh not my jam.
I did too.
Just emulated the game on my phone for some nostalgia.
Same! It was at my local bowling alley, I Remeber seeing ppl play it and I thought the missile launcher was so cool that It became my no 1 quarter eater
34:52 "What better way to honor the death and resurrection of Jesus than with beating robots with a pipe?" Dan, that's Easter (Christmas is the birth of Jesus).
Brings me back to the times when I first discovered Game Grumps during the holidays of 2013. Something that is one of the most important things to happen randomly in my life. To this day I still watch you guys everyday, I love you, and happy holidays.
If you chuck an analog clock at someone, you're technically throwing hands
Harvester is probably the greatest Christmas game ever. You guys should have played that.
Oh god lol
Dan saying "BRING ME MORE STAIRS" just about killed me
I used to play this game at my local skate world and never beat it. This is the best christmas present ever :)
Yo! I think I remember this game from the arcade at my local skate rink! What are the chances??
22:49 new compilation idea, Arin giving up on bits when he realizes he has so ideas to make them funny
Arin has such amazing jinxing powers that the moment he says that all the christmas grumps' games were shitty lately he plays a banger next.
Also, finding a minigame after the maingame that rewards you with extra lives for the maingame? Absolute heaven
I love hearing Dan's jersey accent come put. 4:45 when he says "boss" ❤️❤️❤️
I was expecting a mess but this game looks awesome
"He told me to get bigger hands - *sob* - and so I got the bigger hands - *sob* - but now my hands are too big!"
I think I’ll _hang_ around and see how this plays out!
- Diehard is a xmas movie by virtue of being set around xmas.
- Yakuza is set around xmas
- Yakuza is a xmas game
- Yakuza for Jingle Grumps!
Seems legit.
I am so glad y’all are finally playing this absolute gem of a beat ‘em up. Arguably, one of the most unintentionally funny beat ‘em up of all time while also having great gameplay. Japanese name is “Dynamite Cop.” If anyone falls in love with it and wants more, it got a sequel on Dreamcast.
If you’re having trouble beating the story, go into the Deep Scan mini-game and play it a bunch. Every sub you sink earns you a continue for the story and you can seemingly do that up to, like, 99.
You can tell Dan's new to Christmas because he confuses it with Easter
Or as non-Jews call them: Jesus' first birthday and Jesus' second birthday.
Omfg I laughed really hard at his joke and then didn’t even notice that, thank you for commenting XD
Almost a year later and I can't believe that instead of catching that and giving him shit over it, Arin instead used all his brainpower to go, "Hey, PIPE down, heheh"
Robot spiders are definitely more of an Easter thing.
...I never thought I'd have to say that again.
Oh man, this takes me back! Back in 2003 I was 19 years old and started my first job as an usher at the local movie theatre. We had a free-to-play arcade cabinet of this game in the break room and I played the shit out of it!!! Also, everyone kept making the same "Man I guess I need to watch that movie again because I don't remember ANY of this!!!" Lol
Die Hard and Home Alone are Christmas Movies in the same way. They take place at Christmas but it's not super important to the plot.
At its core, Home Alone is about a boy and his narcissist parents both learning the lesson that family is the true meaning of Christmas. It even had the subplot with Old Man ‘Marley’ and his estranged son to reinforce this theme. Both the soundtrack and original score are Christmas themed…
I would probably put Batman Returns on the same list as Die Hard though.
The plot of Die Hard wouldn't be possible if it weren't Christmas. The holiday is intrinsically woven into the core of the movie. That's why Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
Got a lot of happy memories playing this game on my uncle's Sega Saturn as a kid. Farming tons of extra lives in Deep Scan, discovering the surprisingly varied moveset by accident (Bowser tossing was my favorite once I learned how to do it), hilariously inexplicable weapon pick-ups (loved me the multiple rocket launcher, but the anti-tank rifle was pretty fun as well), and one very angry football player looking boss who laughs a lot like Barney. An underrated (and wonderfully absurd) gem.
Oh man, this game was AWESOME as a kid.
Seeing it now, I wonder what it looked like when it was a kid.
@@LeviathanLP lmaoooo
Playing this game co-op as a kid to the end taught me how painful betrayal can be.
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Thank you for playing this, it was cool to see more of this game having only experienced the demo as a kid!
Allie’s laugh randomly popping up in the background fills MY heart with glee. Truly, it’s the best. 🤣💜
Allie laughing in the background is the best! She's vicariously us!
Love this game. I played through it so many times as a kid.
Low-key one of the greatest Arcade Games of all time. Up there with Gauntlet.
Alan Rickman looks different here than in the movie. Also don't remember Bruce Willis entering Nakatomi tower from the roof 🤣🤣
That wasn't a coelacanth in the aquarium. That was an arapaima. They're found in rivers in the Amazon rainforest. Look them up, they're beautifully terrifying.
Yesss one of my favorite games of all time! I would spend so much time playing it in the arcade. Fun fact: Bruno Dellinger from this game appears in Project X Zone.
Like holy f, does John mcclane trip that enemy at 00:36 and just executes them with a shot to the back of the head? Jayus.
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My favorite scene in Die Hard is when John McClain sends a goon down the elevator to Hans Gruber, with a shirt saying "Ho ho ho, now i control the spider robots"
The movie Die Hard With a Vengeance was originally written as a screenplay called "Simon Says". The studio wanted it to be set on a cruise ship and parts of it were rewritten to become Under Siege and other parts were used for Speed 2: Cruise Control. Apparently Brandon Lee was set to play the lead actor in Simon Says before his untimely passing at which point Fox decided that they would use the screenplay for Die Hard.
It was made as a Die Hard game, but they only had the license in the US. The Japanese name was Dynamite Deka, & the 2nd game was released as Dynamite Cop in the US.
Also the characters name was changed to Bruno Delinger
27:45 the legendary moment
Bruh yesterday I literally said "man i hope they play the die hard game for jingle grumps some year" im hyped
You know, "Batman Returns" is also a Christmas movie!
7:58 What a damn coincidence that a compilation of them syncing just came out a few weeks ago.
I haven't seen this game since I shoved money into the arcade as a child but couldn't remember what it was called (due to being a child when I last played it). Thanks for finding it again for me. Weapons were indeed the best thing ever.
2:53 - Hahahahah, what the fuck are they shooting? 700-grain .500 Smith & Wesson?
7:53 - Hahaha
10:02 - Perfect
16:00 - Ddduuuuude....
17:28 - I've never seen or heard about something like this before
29:10 - His joy of finding a new tactic 💖
36:04 - Might be a "Sniper Rifle" cause it looks almost Barrett-y (update: I just noticed the box on the bottom left saying what it is)
Dan was surprisingly fast on the uptake in this episode. I don’t think he said “what button does what?” once. Ik it doesn’t last long but it was a Christmas miracle.
00:34:52 - I'd expect Arin to mix up Easter and Christmas but not the guy who dances around in a star of David leotard.
Aww man! I loved playing die hard arcade. My mom and I would play this together when we went to the arcade in the mall. It was always our game and we just mashed buttons and would end up doing crazy moves, even though we’d played it many times before. A special treat to see Arin and Dan play this
It’s Christmas when you two actually enjoy a game together, honestly 🎄
My local small town pizzeria had this arcade cabinet way back in the day (prob around 96-98), so this is bringing back a lot of memories. Fun times!
I'm only familiar with playing Dynamite Deka, the Japanese version on PS2, because of having the Altered Beast mode on there. But no matter which version, it's still a really hard game. Very fun and enjoyable, but it lives up to the "arcade" in the title with how much it doesn't hold back. All the crazy wrestling moves and grab attacks you can perform really make the combat more fun
This game is phenomenal and was a consistent part of my childhood. There was a bar/restaurant in my hometown that used to have the full on arcade game version of this game, and I would play it every time I went to this restaurant. I never beat the game as a kid, but I remember that I got pretty good at the game, up until the last few sections, which whooped me every time😅. I'm grateful that you two could bring back that childhood memory of mine😁
Die Hard IS a Christmas game, but only the ones based on the first and second movie (aka Die Hard for NES and the parts of Die Hard 1 and 2 in Die Hard Trilogy on PS1 and Saturn). Die Hard Arcade was the American version of Dynamite Deku (or Dynamite Cop) which had a sequel on Dreamcast.
Sorry, I love Die Hard.
All things considered, the health bars were red and green... Merry Christmas.
This arcade game was at my local Pizza Hut for years. Got replaced with a great Mega Man arcade game where you could play as Zero and Bass, and then the Pizza Hut moved and didn't have an arcade area anymore.
It took 38 days but they finally put the game name back in the title. Hopefully they don't make me reset my counter again!
You know what would make this the best Game Grumps Christmas/New Year in the World?
Danganronpa 3. it's about that time again, please!
Die Hard is a family tradition of ours. We watch It’s a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve, and Die Hard on Christmas Eve’s Eve. It’s a wild jump from 80s action to black and white introspection, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.
I remember a Game Boy game, called Radar Mission. The main game was a modified version of Battle Ship, but it also had a submarine game on it that was very similar to Deep Scan.
I need a Game Grumps Animated of Dan absolutely *Blasting* Arin with that rocket launcher and saying “oops sorry” about it
"Take a Bath!" Has got to be the best current ongoing Game Grumps joke that better stick around.
I remember seeing the arcade cabinet for this in my local bowling lanes. Such a blast from the past!
Fun fact, only "A good day to Die Hard" was written as a die hard movie. Everything else was originally something else
"Bring me more presidents' daughters!" really broke me
1:20 - "Kinda looks like Craig Kilborn"
"I don't know who that is"
First host of the Daily Show!
...And, I mean, he did other stuff too of course but I never watched any of that stuff. Doesn't surprise me that Arin wouldn't know who he is, but I know I can count on Dan for some sweet late 1990s Comedy Central references. (I'm guessing that's how Dan knows him, too)
You can grab the enemies and do combos too with throws and slams.
Idk why, but I love how ever since the 90s toys episode of TMPH, "Take a baaaath" has become a running joke 😂
This one goes from zero to a million real fast, geez!
used to LOVE this game as a kid
it was basically a major step up from streets of rage with (inferior music but) AMAZING gameplay.
I can't stop laughing at the idea of a generic Movie Bad Guy Boss saying "Bring me more president's daughters!" into a burner phone
Christmas is the secondary plot to Die Hard and Die Hard The Game. They're not Christmas movies or games because of this. Movies like A Christmas Story are Christmas movies because it is the main driving plot and not just the setting. I stand by this till I die. hard. on christmas.
Dan, the death and resurrection is Easter. Christmas is his birthday, hence the presents.
Honestly his game reminds me SOOO much of the game Dynamite Cop for Sega Dreamcast. But Dynamite Cop was so much more outrageously funny and weird which gave it so much charm. I absolutely loved playing it as a kid.
5:49 I was watching a Top Hat Gaming video yesterday about X-Men VS. Street Fighter and it's home ports on the Saturn and the Playstation 1.
Capcom initially wanted to make it's home port a Saturn-exclusive because the Sega Saturn has superior processing power over the Playstation 1. The Saturn port of Street Fighter Alpha 2 was practically identical to the Arcade original, and Capcom made Darkstakers' Revenge a Saturn exclusive because the Saturn was just better. The gaming media and fans were angry that Capcom was showing favoritism to the Saturn instead of releasing games on multiple home consoles, so Capcom had to change their plans and they released X-Men VS. Street Fighter onto the Playstation as well. The Playstation version was interior from a technical standpoint because the fighters were all missing frames of animation, and the Playstation couldn't load the moves lists for 4 separate characters at one time, so they were forced to make it single player was one on one instead of tag battles, and the tag mode they did have required each player to pick one character, and the opponents character would become your partner character and your character became their partner.
*Too long, didn't read:* The Saturn versions of some games, especially fighting games, were superior to the Playstation versions, which lost features because the console wasn't powerful enough.
Sega Saturn had the Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racer and Panzer Dragoon Saga games. Those are the ones I remember reading of in 1990's videogame magazines.
Giraffe town isn't a christmas game, but I wish it was to make it into game grumps.
Didn't they already play the game?
@@AnOrdinaryMole But like many others before it, they stopped halfway.
My favorite Christmas movie that people always forget is The Addams Family. :)
Arin growling "punch time" just fully reminded me of dead rising "chuck time!"
This game rules!! Love the firetruck fight, hahaha. Spent so many quarters to get to the end 😭
I used to love playing this as a kid. I remember finding the guy peeing and absolutely dying of laughter
- What's your favorite episode of Game Grumps Timmy?
- I like the one where they play Deep Scan for a looooooooooong time
Die Hard and Die Hard 3 are so good. If you haven't seen Die Hard, just watch 1 and 3! It's a great two part series lol
This whole episode is fantastic and it’s fun to watch the boys having a good time playing a game they’re actually enjoying!
I put out there if at some point Arin feels like grinding in Deep Scan to max out credits and then they play the game all the way through I wouldn’t be upset. Or just more co-op beat-‘em-ups in general!
I remember first playing this game in the arcades and later the Saturn as a kid way before I ever saw the movie... and later finding out the game just barely resembles the movie it's based off of. Apparently the original game's name in Japan is "Dynamite Deka" but they ended up renaming it "Die Hard Arcade" for the west probably because the main guy looked like Bruce Willis and the building looked like Nakatomi Plaza. Still, I remember really liking this game a lot when I first played it! Though I had no idea the Deep Scan game included in the Saturn version could earn you extra credits... explains why I never managed to get past the part with the pink spider bots. XD
Apparently there is some dispute to if this was supposed to be a licensed Die Hard game and they couldn't get the rights for Japan or if Dynamite Detective was the original and they slapped the license on for North America. Either way I find it amusing that P2, Kris Thompsen, just seems to be inspired by Cynthia Rothrock, who was basically the go to inspiration for a bunch of blond female martial artist characters in games at the time, like Sonya Blade in Mortal Kombat.
I loved this game as a kid! It was in the hotel by the pool where i took swimming lessons. Put more money into it than I probably should have 😂! I could never get past the robots
Happy to see the grumps playing this gem... so many memories of playing it in the arcade.
It's called Dynamite Deka or Dynamite Cop, and yeah it has nothing to do with die hard, probably just had the name slapped on for marketing and recognition
I loved the robot spider part of die hard.
Yippee Ki-Yay it's Game Grumps Christmas time! Hope everyone has a great day!
Dan confusing Christmas and Easter is oddly adorable to me
Aww man I remember playing this game in the arcade. This is my first experience with quick time events, when I was still pleased with them.
0:56 Die Hard Arcade is the original name for the game and it is a proper Die Hard game. The game was published in cooperation with Fox Interactive and was a licensed product. Sega were unable to obtain the video game rights for Die Hard in Japan, so it had to be renamed Dynamite Deka (Dynamite Detective) there.
The misconception that it was a Die Hard licence slapped on to an unrelated game comes from the sequel, Dynamite Cop, which did not have the Die Hard licence in any region and was developed without Fox Interactive’s involvement.
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die hard description: facing christmas 3000 miles from his estranged wife and two children- yeah its a christmas movie alright
I love the jacket that reads "Police #2"
The Sega Saturn was great. The library is small 230 games or so. There were some great games and the Saturn is lots of fun.
If you go the import route there are more games to enjoy.
The problem in 2022, is that if you didn't buy all the saturn games you wanted back in the 90s, your going to pay close to over 100 dollars per game.
This is why optical drive emulators exist. 🙂
Everyone always goes on and on about how Die Hard is a Christmas movie, but no one ever mentions that Lethal Weapon is also just as much a Christmas movie.
“Having a weapon is just like you win!”
“Yeah, that’s how fights work.” 😂
Watching this was a blast from the past for me. I really don't know how, in my childhood, I got a Sega Saturn and had this game, but man it was wonderful. The real "Oh wow" moment ain't had was when you booted up the deep scan game. I havent thought if that game in so so long!
I love how there's a Die hard ad on this video 🤣