Sega should seriously considered making an updated version, or a sequel to this game. If Streets of Rage made a triumphant return, this game can most definitely make an equally impressive return. If, done properly, that is. Sega, are you listening? Make a sequel to this master piece.
Thing is it wasnt sega that made the sor remake. So maybe the pc community will do it (make a golden axe remake) and sega will eventually get on board like they did with sor.
Sega should’ve stuck to their original guns with the Saturn and keep innovating on sprite-based games. The growing number of sprite and 2D platform games available on the digital market is growing. Maybe we could’ve gotten a Sega Saturn II and III. Nope, now, all we get are bastardized cameos of Sonic showing up in Mario games. It’s like Sonic is getting desperate for work and about to do pron. LoL
The golden axe street fighter could of been the graphical upgrade for Saturn release of this game or even have all the games in an updated style ported too the Saturn,linking the series together in one massive adventure.
Golden Axe: Revenge of Death Adder I only played this once in the arcades and never played it again. It's really a diamond in the rough and a hidden gem amongst beat em ups and hack and slash games.
I'm sure THGM knows how understated the word "Disgustingly Ignored" is for this game. Undeniably one of the best arcade games I have played. Hope they revive this as a Beat 'Em Up itself. Thanks THGM for the nostalgia!
What you should ask is , why does the centaur need to ride other animals. It should also carry the catapult and arrow weapons like the creature mounted characters do.
The most likely answer is that the animators probably couldn't get the image of a woman with a horse lower body riding on a mount to look decent. So rather than having the centaur not be able to ride mounts, they simply gave her a human lower body just for mount riding. They probably figured that players would be having too much fun playing the game to question the silliness of it all.
This game used to be at my local bowling alley. They had it set up right next to the Dungeons and Dragons Tower of Doom arcade game. Both were a blast to play and a lot of us spent so many quarters on them!
As someone who had this game in his arcade since he was a child till he was an adult in Chinatown Fair, NYC, they always had this game since it released, and this is the most amazing beatemup most have NEVER played. Period.
Revenge of Death Adder is STILL one of my favorite arcade games of all time. It's challenging but fair, the combat is incredibly varied and flows very well at a pace that's not too plodding or overwhelming. This is one of those games that was so polished, I couldn't really think of anything that would have made it any better. It truly is bewildering why this game has been left so obscure. We have Streets of Rage 4 and it is bliss. It's time to give Golden Axe the retro polish revamp and revive this forgotten franchise. Also, just gonna put this out there, from an animation perspective, Dora is a master class. The art team must have spent a lot of time seeing how horses move to get some of her animations just right.
@@FatNorthernBigot to a degree, but at the time, the Sega Saturn was known as a 2d powerhouse, capable of some of the best 2d visuals of that generation. The third parties, like Capcom and SNK, capitalized on it by releasing some of their big 2d titles on it. It was known, at the time, if you wanted to play stuff like the Street Fighters or the King of Fighters, etc, you best get a Saturn. Capcom even released the, first home version of Dungeons and Dragons Arcade collection on it. Somehow, SEGA first-party, still never decided to bring back this classic.
I remember Golden Axe the Revenge Of Death Adder and I use play this Arcade back in the day and this is the best Golden Axe game ever made on Sega System 32 hardware and you should cover Spider-Man the Arcade by Sega and the Spider-Man arcade use the Sega System 32 hardware same as Golden Axe the Revenge Of Death Adder.
This was an awesome game!! One I and my friends played in our arcade for what felt like years. The sprites and music, the replayability of multiple routes, the team-up attacks, the ability to load weapons like catapults onto the mounts! I usually played Trix: being the party's healer/support fighter/division. Great memories!
Golden Axe 1&2 were the most unbalanced in the series, imo - with the dwarf always being the best character to play because of his reach... Golden Axe 3 is one of the best, with many hidden underlying moves and much better balance between the characters than the first two games - but it suffered from blocky, washed-out graphics. It could've been much better. Revenge of Death Adder is admittedly the best overall... Dora is perhaps the best character, but I like Goah because of his high power - wielding the dwarf's battle axe. An awesome upload for this obscure arcade game!
Back at CES 2020 in January, Arcade 1Up annaunced that they were working on a new Golden Axe cabinet with Golden Axe, Golden Axe II: The Revenge of Death Adder, Altered Beast, Shinobi, and Wrestle Wars. I wonder if that's still in the works? Why Sega has not made a Sega Ages port of this game on the Switch is beyond comprehension. Thanks for the great video.
It's still in the works. I think it's scheduled to ship sometime this summer, but with the current pandemic problems, who knows when it will actually happen. arcade1up.com/collections/cabinets/products/golden-axe-arcade-cabinet
SOR4 is not amazing at all and has nothing to do with the old SORS which were made from japanese developers. It looks like a java game,awful ''modern'' artstyle with just ok gameplay.
@@vasileios6301 I must inform you that you are pretty much alone with that opinion. Streets of Rage 4 is as great a sequel and homage to the originals as it possibly could be.
@@vasileios6301 You're alone on this one. I hated the art style initially, but the gameplay and music more than make up for it, along with all the awesome Easter eggs and unlockable characters.
Same... Not a big fan of the art style but I don't hate it either given the gameplay graphics and music sound everything blends in perfectly. This is the first street of rage game I have bought myself. The previous games I had to play on PC emulators because I never owned the consoles and these games were not available either way in my country.
Golden Axe: The Duel was great on Saturn, and this would have been a great Saturn title as well. Almost as great as two other Saturn titles: Warriors of Fate & Capcom’s spectacular D&D. Also reminiscent of IGS’s Knights Of Valour Series.
I only played the original. Never played this one. But wow it looks fantastic. The world building, journey, elements, and atmosphere. I wonder why Golden Axe went into hibernation. Although the one that was on 360 and PS3. Sigh now that I think about it, no wonder. Guess they thought there wasn't much left they could do with the series. But if Streets of Rage can get a revival. Golden Axe deserves one too
Its been too long sing I played this game back at Peter Piper Pizza! I'm really hoping that the 1-UP Arcade version comes in soon that includes this Altered Beast and a couple other classics!
had no idea this game existed, actually thinking back i do remembered playing it once on arcade & being blown away by it but trying to find it later only lead to Golden Axe II which was listed as a Megadrive exclusive, no wonder so many ignore it
I have to agree, Golden Axe: Death Adder's Revenge is a criminally overlooked title. I truly wish they would release it to some kind of console or pc just so more can experience and appreciate the quality of work that went into this game.
My brother and I are huge fans of the series. A few years ago at Texas Pinball Festival we sat down and beat this one together. Golden Ace 2 used to be our favorite, this one stole that spot pretty quick. Awesome game.
This game was rad. I was fortunate enough to play it on a real machine once. Those piledriver team attacks were hype. Man, a new Golden Axe would be trivial to make! What does it take to get executives to sign off?!
FINALLY, someone has said what needed to be said. I was fortunate enough to play this arcade game many years ago. My Dad and I had played together on the arcade version of Golden Axe 1 and we fought together and beat this game together. There was little in the home console sequels that this game did not already do and do better than them. I hope many people see this video and this unsung arcade hero gains the respect it deserves.
This was a favorite at my college arcade. I was terrible at it (plus the difficulty was set to max) but I still had a great time playing it. [sigh] I miss arcades. There's just a vibe you can't get with online play from all the people and noise around you.
I only saw it once, at an arcade in the mall back in the 90s. I turned and I saw this game's attract mode, which shows the cut scene that triggers when Stern uses his full power flame attack on any screen with a grunt soldier on it. Those who have seen and played the game know what I'm talking about. I made my way over to it and played, and loved it. I sucked at it, but I loved it. Never saw it in an arcade again though. It really needs a home console release and hey, since they made a SoR sequel, why not a pumped up Golden Axe sequel as well?
An arcade in my town got this in the past year and it was a blast to finally try it out on real hardware. Played through it at least 5xs in the time it was available
I only saw this game one time in an arcade, but my friend and I kept dropping quarters into it until we beat it. It was a really great game, and it's a shame that, to my knowledge, it's never gotten a home release (someone please let me know if that's not the case).
You uploaded this video after I spent the weekend telling multiple friends about the experience I had playing this on a Tinder date a few years ago... you’re a wizard, Big Daddy Top Hat. ❤️
When Konami released the 6 players version of X-men for the 360 and PS3 I thought Sega could take a lesson and do the same with this game, but they are dumb.
You forgot to mention some interesting features, such as Dora losing her horse legs and turning into a human just so she can ride creatures, and also Gilius Thunderhead sacrificing himself to save everyone from Death Adder's final suicide attack.
I was just thinking about this game a while ago. I only saw it in an arcade once and I didn't have much time to even look at it. Thank you for doing an in-depth.👍
The thumbnail uses the main protagonist from Golden Axel: The Duel which confused me for second lol. Thankfully this game will be brought to homes via 1up Arcade but I'd like sega to have either a Golden Axe collection with this title included or a sega arcade collection with various titles that have been left to arcade emulation. If you haven't covered the Dynamite Deka series already I think it's a great series with an entry that was left exclusively to arcades, same with Virtua Cop!
Would like to see you cover Denjin Makai 2 - and tbh even the first ghost chaser as neither get much of a mention and the second one in particular is an excellent scrolling beat em up
Hopefully the new Sega Ages collect finally gets on this. Several PCBs of the game are now encountering audio-component-death, and even phoenixing the problematic part of the board isn't fixing the sound in many cases now. The remaining working copies could all go to junk in the very near future.
i did play it on release, unfortunately it was not the 4p cabinet version. but i loved it nonetheless, one of the best beat'em up experiences ever. it took ages for mame to emulate it somewhat correctly but then the magic came back again.. what a game
Thanks to Arcade1up I'll FINALLY soon be enjoying the heck out of this game at home in the best format possible with the right controls. SO glad I never had to suffer through what would have been inevitably CRAPPY console ports of this LEGENDARY SEGA GAME. 😎
I only hope with the success of streets of rage 4 that developers start looking at games like golden axe and other fantasy themed side scrolling beatumups and see the potential they hold. I personally would be all over those those games if they did. Revenge of death adder was my streets of rage 2 of the arcade fantasy genre.
SEGA's mighty entry of the Golden Axe saga. And just like Capcom's 19XX, Golden Axe: Revenge Of Death will remain an arcade exclusive. If only the creative team behind the new Streets Of Rage game could make a new Golden Axe game for next-gen consoles.
This is my favorite Golden Axe game. I'm a Dora player and I agree that it's awful this game never got a home release. Ever played Blades of Vengeance? It's one of my favorite-ever Genesis games and it's one I feel doesn't get enough love. It would be a good subject for one of your videos, I think. And how did you not know Mantises like curry? EVERYONE knows that. ;)
Where can i play this? You should do a section telling us where we can get these games today. Even if we need to download a ROM from somewhere. Tell us where. That would be nice. Other than that good video!!!😎
This game is brilliant. Only discovered it in 2018. Never knew it even existed until then. I own it and will get back on it tomorrow. People need to play this masterpiece.
Fantastic game. As a big fan of the golden axe series I've never been able to give an honest opinion on this one bc I haven't been able to play it until recently. Finally got it to work on mame 2003 although there are some graphical issues. Still able to play it though and now I can say this is without a doubt the best GA game. Like many people have said, it prob didn't make it to the Saturn bc it was already out for a couple years, and Sega probably felt it wouldn't make a big enough profit. Even so I would've appreciated a PC port at the very least like the first game got. It sure does seem to be getting quite a bit of attention from golden axe fans, and maybe someday Sega will take people's advice and rerelease it. Sure hope so bc for me it's up there with the best best em ups of all time.
If not for emulation, this game would be buried and forgotten. Yet sega still needs to keep releasing the same compilation collection over and over..... (Friendly tip: Fire the suit who keeps doing this and get someone who knows the library catalog)
THGM, Would you ever think of doing live streams of you playing some of these games? I really would love to join you and some blokes on the week ends on Twitch or something as you play and stream
I was highly upset that Sega never gave this game justice. I love this game when it came out and hope of arcade 1 or anybody decides to bring this game out to do it the right way.
Fully enjoy this Golden Axe as a child I believed this to be GA4 as from my perspective Golden Axe 3- Thunderhead was crippled and there was a giant character Golden Axe ROD Thunderhead was riding a well groomed Giant I was happy when Arcade Archives came in hopes of playing this again sadly so far no, its only home release will be the new Arcade 1Up which I can’t order in my country 😭
Games like this are the reason why we should all appreciate game emulation. Without emulation the only way to experience this game would be finding an original arcade cabinet.
1992 might have been the biggest year ever for arcade games. From xmen to mortal kombat and 5 iterations of street fighter. Without the internet even really existing at the time people were experiencing what was put in front of them. At my local arcade in 1992 ("the dream machine") there were two small lines and one big one. Two small lines for xmen and street fighter and the larger line for mortal kombat as everyone anticipated a home version that they would need to prepare for to play against friends. Other games such as death adder just got lost in the large selection of games released that year. But thats just a recipe for a cult classic right?!
I hope they will ever release this game but I doubt it and I dont understand why. They could release it on the psn or let Hamster (from the Arcade Archives) handle this. But again, I doubt they ever will and its a bloody shame. 🤦🏽♂️
Though i never played this game,i did play 2 similar games called dungeons & dragons:tower of doom & shadow over mystara.please talk about those 2 in the future along w/the bouncer on ps2,urban reign on ps2,& scott pilgrim vs the world
As covered in the video the game could not be easily ported to home consoles at the time of release. Plus in 92-94 beat em ups quickly fell out of favor as Street Fighter 2 and the like became the red hot genre for gaming in the arcades and on consoles. By the time the Saturn was out it was all about 3D and 1 on 1 fighters. Plus the 92-93 time frame is also when Sega started making a lot of bad decisions in the home console space.
A SEGA arcade mini that was full of unconsolized arcade games would be great. Games like Turbo Outrun, Outrunners, Spiderman Arcade, Golden Axe Revenge of Death Adder, AB Cop. Arcade version of ESWAT, Thunderblade, Moonwalker, etc. What a waste. Thankfully we have emulation. But a true console version with extra options would be great.
Top Hat Gaming Man, here is my suggested fighting and beat 'em up games that you should cover in future videos. Fighting Games: Mortal Kombat II Dead or Alive Pokken Tournament SoulCalibur The King of Fighters '95 Marvel vs Capcom Infinite Ultra Street Fighter IV Fighting Vipers Primal Rage Tekken (original) Virtua Fighter 2 Real Bout: Fatal Fury Samurai Shodown II Art of Fighting 2 X-Men: Children of the Atom Marvel Super Heroes Tech Romancer Power Stone 2 Super Smash Bros. (Nintendo 64) Savage Reign Waku Waku 7 Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Super Dragon Ball Z Dragon Ball FighterZ Persona 4 Arena Battle Arena Toshinden Star Gladiator Bloody Roar BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (1998 Arcade game) Double Dragon (Neo Geo) Sonic Championship (Sonic the Fighters) Mega Man: The Power Battle Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters Beat 'em Ups: Double Dragon (1987) Ninja Baseball Bat Man 64th Street: A Detective Story SpikeOut: Digital Battle Online SpikeOut: Battle Street River City Ransom Die Hard Arcade Dynamite Cop Knights of the Round The King of Dragons Battle Circuit Zombie Revenge
Finished it a few times with my mate in the arcade back in the day, it was such a huge, impressive cabinet. Fantastic game, very impressive & a massive coin eater ;) . Sega's best arcade game for me personally, and a missed opportunity, imagine this being a pack in game for the Saturn...why the fuck this never came out on the system is beyond me, it could've easily handled the graphics and all the sprites on screen...
They should have made an Golden Axe collection
They did make a Golden Axe vintage collection. But they conveniently left this one off. Strange, yea I know.
Sega should seriously considered making an updated version, or a sequel to this game. If Streets of Rage made a triumphant return, this game can most definitely make an equally impressive return. If, done properly, that is.
Sega, are you listening? Make a sequel to this master piece.
I'd like to see it.
There was the Golden Axe game that came out on 360 and PS3
Thing is it wasnt sega that made the sor remake. So maybe the pc community will do it (make a golden axe remake) and sega will eventually get on board like they did with sor.
@@rickhoes6326 That didn't happen. There was definately no game ever called Beast Rider. What are you talking about?
They should hire rhe same team that made Streets of Rage 4.
This game would be amazing on Sega Saturn.
Sega missed a golden opportunity once again
Sega should’ve stuck to their original guns with the Saturn and keep innovating on sprite-based games. The growing number of sprite and 2D platform games available on the digital market is growing. Maybe we could’ve gotten a Sega Saturn II and III. Nope, now, all we get are bastardized cameos of Sonic showing up in Mario games. It’s like Sonic is getting desperate for work and about to do pron. LoL
it would have been.
The golden axe street fighter could of been the graphical upgrade for Saturn release of this game or even have all the games in an updated style ported too the Saturn,linking the series together in one massive adventure.
@@AlphaPapa69 just like the hype recently Sega are one thing reliable in trolling or just hyping up a major event then game gear micro 😆
Golden Axe: Revenge of Death Adder I only played this once in the arcades and never played it again. It's really a diamond in the rough and a hidden gem amongst beat em ups and hack and slash games.
I'm sure THGM knows how understated the word "Disgustingly Ignored" is for this game. Undeniably one of the best arcade games I have played. Hope they revive this as a Beat 'Em Up itself. Thanks THGM for the nostalgia!
I never understood why the centaur transformed to a 2 legged woman when she rode something. Never made sense to me.
What you should ask is , why does the centaur need to ride other animals. It should also carry the catapult and arrow weapons like the creature mounted characters do.
Fantasy?
FANTASY, WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's magic!
The most likely answer is that the animators probably couldn't get the image of a woman with a horse lower body riding on a mount to look decent. So rather than having the centaur not be able to ride mounts, they simply gave her a human lower body just for mount riding. They probably figured that players would be having too much fun playing the game to question the silliness of it all.
The Spider-Man arcade, naturally, unless you've already covered it by now.
I agree, he should really do a review of spider-man the video game.
This game used to be at my local bowling alley. They had it set up right next to the Dungeons and Dragons Tower of Doom arcade game. Both were a blast to play and a lot of us spent so many quarters on them!
This was awesome. Dungeons and dragons tower of doom and shadow over mystara should be next!
As someone who had this game in his arcade since he was a child till he was an adult in Chinatown Fair, NYC, they always had this game since it released, and this is the most amazing beatemup most have NEVER played. Period.
One of my personal favorites among arcade beat-em-ups. Truly a masterpiece.
Revenge of Death Adder is STILL one of my favorite arcade games of all time. It's challenging but fair, the combat is incredibly varied and flows very well at a pace that's not too plodding or overwhelming. This is one of those games that was so polished, I couldn't really think of anything that would have made it any better. It truly is bewildering why this game has been left so obscure.
We have Streets of Rage 4 and it is bliss. It's time to give Golden Axe the retro polish revamp and revive this forgotten franchise.
Also, just gonna put this out there, from an animation perspective, Dora is a master class. The art team must have spent a lot of time seeing how horses move to get some of her animations just right.
Its a crime that this was never released on the home consoles.
Paul Palace they should have ported it to the Saturn
@@hdofu at that point, everything was about 3D polygons, and this game was getting on a bit when the saturn came out.
Saturn and Dreamcast. If Sega management had any sense!
@@FatNorthernBigot to a degree, but at the time, the Sega Saturn was known as a 2d powerhouse, capable of some of the best 2d visuals of that generation. The third parties, like Capcom and SNK, capitalized on it by releasing some of their big 2d titles on it. It was known, at the time, if you wanted to play stuff like the Street Fighters or the King of Fighters, etc, you best get a Saturn. Capcom even released the, first home version of Dungeons and Dragons Arcade collection on it. Somehow, SEGA first-party, still never decided to bring back this classic.
After all these years I’ve only just questioned how a centaur could ride steeds 😂
This is one game that demands a Sega Ages release for the Switch
True
99% of Switch owners dont even know what Golden Axe is, PC/PS4/XBOX should be the right choice
@@psychopoison but sega has been releasing a lot of obscure arcade games for switch
@@psychopoison lmao, yeah sure buddy. 99% of sega released titles do best on switch, fucking moron.
This should have been on PS4, Xbox One and Mobile devices.
I remember Golden Axe the Revenge Of Death Adder and I use play this Arcade back in the day and this is the best Golden Axe game ever made on Sega System 32 hardware and you should cover Spider-Man the Arcade by Sega and the Spider-Man arcade use the Sega System 32 hardware same as Golden Axe the Revenge Of Death Adder.
This was an awesome game!! One I and my friends played in our arcade for what felt like years. The sprites and music, the replayability of multiple routes, the team-up attacks, the ability to load weapons like catapults onto the mounts! I usually played Trix: being the party's healer/support fighter/division. Great memories!
Golden Axe 1&2 were the most unbalanced in the series, imo - with the dwarf always being the best character to play because of his reach... Golden Axe 3 is one of the best, with many hidden underlying moves and much better balance between the characters than the first two games - but it suffered from blocky, washed-out graphics. It could've been much better. Revenge of Death Adder is admittedly the best overall... Dora is perhaps the best character, but I like Goah because of his high power - wielding the dwarf's battle axe. An awesome upload for this obscure arcade game!
You completely nailed it.
They need to throw this on the Switch. Holy cow it looks incredible
Back at CES 2020 in January, Arcade 1Up annaunced that they were working on a new Golden Axe cabinet with Golden Axe, Golden Axe II: The Revenge of Death Adder, Altered Beast, Shinobi, and Wrestle Wars. I wonder if that's still in the works? Why Sega has not made a Sega Ages port of this game on the Switch is beyond comprehension. Thanks for the great video.
It's still in the works. I think it's scheduled to ship sometime this summer, but with the current pandemic problems, who knows when it will actually happen. arcade1up.com/collections/cabinets/products/golden-axe-arcade-cabinet
Why does Dora suddenly have human legs when she climbs upon a battle creature?
Plus is would just be ridiculous for her horse legs to be shown atop of another creature.
For someone who is already half an animal/beast herself, technically speaking of course. Gillus on the back of a giant makes much more sense.
Wait... you are a Half Animal? This isn't believable at all.
Hopefully DotEmu is working on a new Golden Axe... they did an amazing job with SOR4, and I am sure they would do the same with this lost franchise.
SOR4 is not amazing at all and has nothing to do with the old SORS which were made from japanese developers.
It looks like a java game,awful ''modern'' artstyle with just ok gameplay.
@@vasileios6301 funny you should say that every time I see the dotemu logo it just makes me think of old flash/java games.
@@vasileios6301 I must inform you that you are pretty much alone with that opinion. Streets of Rage 4 is as great a sequel and homage to the originals as it possibly could be.
@@vasileios6301 You're alone on this one. I hated the art style initially, but the gameplay and music more than make up for it, along with all the awesome Easter eggs and unlockable characters.
Same... Not a big fan of the art style but I don't hate it either given the gameplay graphics and music sound everything blends in perfectly. This is the first street of rage game I have bought myself. The previous games I had to play on PC emulators because I never owned the consoles and these games were not available either way in my country.
Golden Axe: The Duel was great on Saturn, and this would have been a great Saturn title as well. Almost as great as two other Saturn titles: Warriors of Fate & Capcom’s spectacular D&D.
Also reminiscent of IGS’s Knights Of Valour Series.
Arcade 1up is releasing this game in a 4 player version like their tmnt cabs
They are finally releasing a cabinet that needs to be done?!
That sounds brutally awesome!
i have it. i'm awesome.
Finally! I waited for this! Thankyou
This game Needs a remaster. With the addition of a playable Tyris Flare and a playable Gilius Thunderhead.
I only played the original. Never played this one. But wow it looks fantastic. The world building, journey, elements, and atmosphere. I wonder why Golden Axe went into hibernation.
Although the one that was on 360 and PS3. Sigh now that I think about it, no wonder. Guess they thought there wasn't much left they could do with the series.
But if Streets of Rage can get a revival. Golden Axe deserves one too
That was an excellent review sir! Thank you!
Its been too long sing I played this game back at Peter Piper Pizza! I'm really hoping that the 1-UP Arcade version comes in soon that includes this Altered Beast and a couple other classics!
Well, now you got Chronicles of Mystara, and Dragon‘s Crown is a terribly overlooked/ignored game as well.
had no idea this game existed, actually thinking back i do remembered playing it once on arcade & being blown away by it but trying to find it later only lead to Golden Axe II which was listed as a Megadrive exclusive, no wonder so many ignore it
I have to agree, Golden Axe: Death Adder's Revenge is a criminally overlooked title. I truly wish they would release it to some kind of console or pc just so more can experience and appreciate the quality of work that went into this game.
My brother and I are huge fans of the series. A few years ago at Texas Pinball Festival we sat down and beat this one together. Golden Ace 2 used to be our favorite, this one stole that spot pretty quick. Awesome game.
DUDE!!! I loved this game!!! Dropped SO MANY quarters/tokens into this cabinet!
This game was rad. I was fortunate enough to play it on a real machine once. Those piledriver team attacks were hype. Man, a new Golden Axe would be trivial to make! What does it take to get executives to sign off?!
FINALLY, someone has said what needed to be said. I was fortunate enough to play this arcade game many years ago. My Dad and I had played together on the arcade version of Golden Axe 1 and we fought together and beat this game together. There was little in the home console sequels that this game did not already do and do better than them. I hope many people see this video and this unsung arcade hero gains the respect it deserves.
This was a favorite at my college arcade. I was terrible at it (plus the difficulty was set to max) but I still had a great time playing it.
[sigh] I miss arcades. There's just a vibe you can't get with online play from all the people and noise around you.
I only saw it once, at an arcade in the mall back in the 90s. I turned and I saw this game's attract mode, which shows the cut scene that triggers when Stern uses his full power flame attack on any screen with a grunt soldier on it. Those who have seen and played the game know what I'm talking about. I made my way over to it and played, and loved it. I sucked at it, but I loved it. Never saw it in an arcade again though. It really needs a home console release and hey, since they made a SoR sequel, why not a pumped up Golden Axe sequel as well?
An arcade in my town got this in the past year and it was a blast to finally try it out on real hardware. Played through it at least 5xs in the time it was available
Streets of Rage 4 is awesome. I would buy a new Golden axe game in a heartbeat! !!!!
Regarding Golden Axe, you should cover Golden Axe: The Duel on the Sega Saturn.
Dora is quite possibly my favorite Golden Axe character. 🥰 Pretty horsie~
I only saw this game one time in an arcade, but my friend and I kept dropping quarters into it until we beat it. It was a really great game, and it's a shame that, to my knowledge, it's never gotten a home release (someone please let me know if that's not the case).
You uploaded this video after I spent the weekend telling multiple friends about the experience I had playing this on a Tinder date a few years ago... you’re a wizard, Big Daddy Top Hat. ❤️
Wait what? You went on a Tinder date and ended up playing Revenge of Death Adder?? shit now i wanna know more lol
When Konami released the 6 players version of X-men for the 360 and PS3 I thought Sega could take a lesson and do the same with this game, but they are dumb.
Either that or they lost the source code for it
Big Ed cant they just use an emulator and release it that way?
The centaur lady become a regular human when she mounts a monster.
You forgot to mention some interesting features, such as Dora losing her horse legs and turning into a human just so she can ride creatures, and also Gilius Thunderhead sacrificing himself to save everyone from Death Adder's final suicide attack.
I was just thinking about this game a while ago. I only saw it in an arcade once and I didn't have much time to even look at it. Thank you for doing an in-depth.👍
The thumbnail uses the main protagonist from Golden Axel: The Duel which confused me for second lol. Thankfully this game will be brought to homes via 1up Arcade but I'd like sega to have either a Golden Axe collection with this title included or a sega arcade collection with various titles that have been left to arcade emulation.
If you haven't covered the Dynamite Deka series already I think it's a great series with an entry that was left exclusively to arcades, same with Virtua Cop!
Glad to see Death Adder getting love from both sides of the Atlantic!
Would like to see you cover Denjin Makai 2 - and tbh even the first ghost chaser as neither get much of a mention and the second one in particular is an excellent scrolling beat em up
Amazing game ! That's why I keep searching for those hidden gems of the arcade era !
Thank you shading light on this amazing game, you are awesome 🙏🧡
My favorite arcade game
Absolutely incredible work. Can’t wait to see your next anything.
Sir Top of Hat. I do hope your keeping well after your video during lockdown. This is a great video.
Hopefully the new Sega Ages collect finally gets on this. Several PCBs of the game are now encountering audio-component-death, and even phoenixing the problematic part of the board isn't fixing the sound in many cases now. The remaining working copies could all go to junk in the very near future.
I remember playing this in the movie theater arcade before I was about to watch Mortal Kombat with a friend. Top 10 arcade beatemup of all time.
I remember seeing this game in the mid 90s at an arcade called Fiesta Village.
One day I hope I can buy this board.
i did play it on release, unfortunately it was not the 4p cabinet version. but i loved it nonetheless, one of the best beat'em up experiences ever. it took ages for mame to emulate it somewhat correctly but then the magic came back again.. what a game
Yeah, screamed Jason, Conan, Krull, BeastMaster etc ... loved it
Revenge of DeathAdder was unique that you could play as a centaurette.
Thanks to Arcade1up I'll FINALLY soon be enjoying the heck out of this game at home in the best format possible with the right controls. SO glad I never had to suffer through what would have been inevitably CRAPPY console ports of this LEGENDARY SEGA GAME. 😎
This game was so sick! Too bad it came out when Street Fighter was king.
Another good episode, I suggest taking a look at Battletoads on the arcade.
I only hope with the success of streets of rage 4 that developers start looking at games like golden axe and other fantasy themed side scrolling beatumups and see the potential they hold. I personally would be all over those those games if they did. Revenge of death adder was my streets of rage 2 of the arcade fantasy genre.
SEGA's mighty entry of the Golden Axe saga. And just like Capcom's 19XX, Golden Axe: Revenge Of Death will remain an arcade exclusive.
If only the creative team behind the new Streets Of Rage game could make a new Golden Axe game for next-gen consoles.
I Love this game, my pals and I play this monthly, well used to. Should have come out on the Saturn. Thanks for the video.
Really want a classic Golden Axe collection on modern consoles. 1,2,3 and Revenge of Death Adder in one package, minus the shitty ones.
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This is my favorite Golden Axe game. I'm a Dora player and I agree that it's awful this game never got a home release.
Ever played Blades of Vengeance? It's one of my favorite-ever Genesis games and it's one I feel doesn't get enough love. It would be a good subject for one of your videos, I think.
And how did you not know Mantises like curry? EVERYONE knows that. ;)
Where can i play this? You should do a section telling us where we can get these games today. Even if we need to download a ROM from somewhere. Tell us where. That would be nice. Other than that good video!!!😎
Easy...take a android box..or raspberry 3..recallbox..mame...
Or a real arcade pcb...but expensive.
This game is brilliant. Only discovered it in 2018. Never knew it even existed until then. I own it and will get back on it tomorrow. People need to play this masterpiece.
Fantastic game. As a big fan of the golden axe series I've never been able to give an honest opinion on this one bc I haven't been able to play it until recently. Finally got it to work on mame 2003 although there are some graphical issues. Still able to play it though and now I can say this is without a doubt the best GA game. Like many people have said, it prob didn't make it to the Saturn bc it was already out for a couple years, and Sega probably felt it wouldn't make a big enough profit. Even so I would've appreciated a PC port at the very least like the first game got. It sure does seem to be getting quite a bit of attention from golden axe fans, and maybe someday Sega will take people's advice and rerelease it. Sure hope so bc for me it's up there with the best best em ups of all time.
Vectorman for sure!!! 💜
If not for emulation, this game would be buried and forgotten.
Yet sega still needs to keep releasing the same compilation collection over and over..... (Friendly tip: Fire the suit who keeps doing this and get someone who knows the library catalog)
THGM, Would you ever think of doing live streams of you playing some of these games? I really would love to join you and some blokes on the week ends on Twitch or something as you play and stream
It is the plan soon!
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I never have seen this game b4. Great video. Hats off to you M8.
I was highly upset that Sega never gave this game justice. I love this game when it came out and hope of arcade 1 or anybody decides to bring this game out to do it the right way.
Fully enjoy this Golden Axe as a child I believed this to be GA4 as from my perspective
Golden Axe 3- Thunderhead was crippled and there was a giant character
Golden Axe ROD Thunderhead was riding a well groomed Giant
I was happy when Arcade Archives came in hopes of playing this again sadly so far no, its only home release will be the new Arcade 1Up which I can’t order in my country 😭
Arcade 1UP is releasing a Sega cabinet which includes Revenge of Death Adder and 4P support. Nice. =)
Sega should pick up the saga and entrust the developers of dragon crown...
I'd like to to see more about the elusive Golden Axe fighting game
At least this game has been released onto Arcade 1up Golden Axe arcade collection
Does anyone know how to play this on PC? I used to have a CD that had a bunch of arcade games and this on it and I want to revisit it
Games like this are the reason why we should all appreciate game emulation. Without emulation the only way to experience this game would be finding an original arcade cabinet.
Yup, just went and hopped on the 1up notification list for the Golden Axe cabinet.
Is this Arcade only or is there some way I can play this on PC or consoles?
1992 might have been the biggest year ever for arcade games. From xmen to mortal kombat and 5 iterations of street fighter. Without the internet even really existing at the time people were experiencing what was put in front of them. At my local arcade in 1992 ("the dream machine") there were two small lines and one big one. Two small lines for xmen and street fighter and the larger line for mortal kombat as everyone anticipated a home version that they would need to prepare for to play against friends. Other games such as death adder just got lost in the large selection of games released that year. But thats just a recipe for a cult classic right?!
Fantastic game!!! Ashame Tyris isn't playable... Thank You Big Daddy!!!
Best ep ever. Hope this gets a port soon
AWESOME 🎩!!!
I hope they will ever release this game but I doubt it and I dont understand why. They could release it on the psn or let Hamster (from the Arcade Archives) handle this. But again, I doubt they ever will and its a bloody shame. 🤦🏽♂️
Though i never played this game,i did play 2 similar games called dungeons & dragons:tower of doom & shadow over mystara.please talk about those 2 in the future along w/the bouncer on ps2,urban reign on ps2,& scott pilgrim vs the world
As covered in the video the game could not be easily ported to home consoles at the time of release. Plus in 92-94 beat em ups quickly fell out of favor as Street Fighter 2 and the like became the red hot genre for gaming in the arcades and on consoles. By the time the Saturn was out it was all about 3D and 1 on 1 fighters. Plus the 92-93 time frame is also when Sega started making a lot of bad decisions in the home console space.
A SEGA arcade mini that was full of unconsolized arcade games would be great. Games like Turbo Outrun, Outrunners, Spiderman Arcade, Golden Axe Revenge of Death Adder, AB Cop. Arcade version of ESWAT, Thunderblade, Moonwalker, etc. What a waste. Thankfully we have emulation. But a true console version with extra options would be great.
An outstanding game best in the Golden Axe series!! Am I allowed to say there's a full playthrough on my channel? ;)
such a good game, shame i never got to play this outside of emulation, would love to play this on an arcade
Top Hat Gaming Man, here is my suggested fighting and beat 'em up games that you should cover in future videos.
Fighting Games:
Mortal Kombat II
Dead or Alive
Pokken Tournament
SoulCalibur
The King of Fighters '95
Marvel vs Capcom Infinite
Ultra Street Fighter IV
Fighting Vipers
Primal Rage
Tekken (original)
Virtua Fighter 2
Real Bout: Fatal Fury
Samurai Shodown II
Art of Fighting 2
X-Men: Children of the Atom
Marvel Super Heroes
Tech Romancer
Power Stone 2
Super Smash Bros. (Nintendo 64)
Savage Reign
Waku Waku 7
Dragon Ball Z: Budokai
Super Dragon Ball Z
Dragon Ball FighterZ
Persona 4 Arena
Battle Arena Toshinden
Star Gladiator
Bloody Roar
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (1998 Arcade game)
Double Dragon (Neo Geo)
Sonic Championship (Sonic the Fighters)
Mega Man: The Power Battle
Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters
Beat 'em Ups:
Double Dragon (1987)
Ninja Baseball Bat Man
64th Street: A Detective Story
SpikeOut: Digital Battle Online
SpikeOut: Battle Street
River City Ransom
Die Hard Arcade
Dynamite Cop
Knights of the Round
The King of Dragons
Battle Circuit
Zombie Revenge
It still pisses me off that we never got this on the Saturn...the D&D arcade games were ported to that console, so why not?
Finished it a few times with my mate in the arcade back in the day, it was such a huge, impressive cabinet. Fantastic game, very impressive & a massive coin eater ;) . Sega's best arcade game for me personally, and a missed opportunity, imagine this being a pack in game for the Saturn...why the fuck this never came out on the system is beyond me, it could've easily handled the graphics and all the sprites on screen...