Never heard of any of these Arcade titles except one "Q-Bert" At our Arcade it was a Pinball Arcade & there 1st Arcade was Q-Bert. i just so happen to be there when they installed it & the delivery guy game me 5 quarters & let me be the 1st to play this game! i just excelled at this game & later on that week i was the top score with my initials. As a kid i use to get teased Ernie & Bert from Sesame Street, but having my name at #1at our local Arcade made it all stop & i became Ernie & Q-Bert. So i will always love this game!
Completely agree about Contra, I greatly prefer the NES version. As a general rule I prefer NES ports to their original arcade counterparts, the controls are tighter and the music is better. I can’t believe you hate QBert! I actually somehow never played it as a kid, but I tried it for the first time at an arcade by me about 3 years ago and immediately fell in love with it. -Cast
Haha, it just chaffed me in my nether regions bad. I already have the attention span of a turnip so it didn't help that this game messes with your perception. Have you popped in the 2600 version?
@@Fortefyre lmao, everyone has games that immediately get under their skin, even “classic” games. I’ve never played the 2600 version, I think the only time I ever played an Atari was at my cousin’s house circa 1988
I checked it out during the Konami Conquest because I had it, right, so I was like...eh screw it, I have a AV modded 2600 that I almost never hook up, maybe check it out. Was pleasantly surprised lmao.
@@Fortefyre I’d love to play a few Atari games, I think the arcade near me has a few consoles that I can hook up. NES was my main system since I first got it in ‘88, but we also had an Intellivision that I messed around with a bit, underrated system from what I remember.
Q*bert is perhaps the first video game I played. I don't really remember, but I do recall my Mom would have me sat on her lap while playing games at the arcade and this was her favorite. Occasionally she'd let me play (or try to play the attract screen because I was 2 and stupid, I'm sure a few times it was for reals though.) That said, I never really liked this game, but it does hold a soft spot in my memory.
Super Cobra should have been called Super Crash-a-Lot. That game was so irritating I nearly got thrown out of an arcade yelling cuss words at it! (No surprise,I was banned from playing it again at that place).
@@Fortefyre A lot of them are actually pretty solid, have 81 of them so far. Each of them have an Interrupt save (a save state basically). They also have various tweakable options and sometimes even preference options to mess around with.
U want a game to get mad at and hate find a gauntlet arcade cabinet that has the health speed adjust to max. You can stand still with no enemies on screen and literally add a quarter every 38 seconds, not a made up time.
I played the hell out of Jail Break. Why? Because when I was in college we had extremely limited access to video games. For one semester, Jail Break was the only arcade game could play. This is a phenomenon kids today can’t understand. You might only have access to one arcade machine. You might only have two cartridges for your console. So that’s what you played. Didn’t matter if the game sucked. And boy did Jail Break suck. Ridiculously hard. Your only hope of advancing far was memorizing when and where every enemy appeared. And playing perfectly. But at least it had copyright-infringing “Batman” and pixilated boobies to find.
@@Fortefyre Yeah, Polybius has HUMAN BLOOD on it. BTW I read about where those players dropped dead IRL when a certain character popped up and scared them.
Contra is one of those rare games where the NES port was better than the arcade (Rygar and Ninja Gaiden where the other two, but those were completely different than the arcade version).
Konami put a lot of care into some of their NES ports back then, Blades of Steel, Jackal, Double Dribble, Gyruss, etc. were really great, sometimes even better than the original.
@@Fortefyre The arcade game had the nine lives code for 25 cents per three. I think that the dip switch could be set for six continues. Up to eighteen lives code! 😮
Q*Bert is ICONIC! What are you talking about?! And when Konami made Super Cobra, I'm pretty sure they weren't sitting there trying to figure out the velocity of the helicopter. They were just trying to make a fun game that was the spiritual successor to Scramble. I have both Scramble and Super Cobra on my PS4 from the Arcade Archive. I guess when I play a game I don't sit there and nit-pick something like that. If a game has bad graphics, bad music and sound, bad controls, and bad mechanics, THEN I get pissed at the game.
I had completely forgotten about Q-bert. That brought back some Atari 2600 memories... Pitfall, Pacman, Combat, Football, Pong, E.T. oh boy good stuff. I can't play them any longer. Most of them were not very good.
I like several of the games on this list, but the one that surprises me the most is Contra. It actually, by the way, does mention on the control panel that you get a max of 3 continues, which may or may not be true of Haunted Castle, which I feel belongs on this list more than Contra. Not only is Haunted Castle far more sluggish than pretty much every other Castlevania game out there, but it has something worse than the 3 continues rule. You can insert 4 coins and quadruple the health you get with 1 coin, but doing that counts as your 3 continues, so while the upside is that you have less to worry about in terms of dying and having to go back to a checkpoint, the downside is that one death on 4 coins results in a game over. And falling to your death during a 4 coins life is worse than anything Contra throws at you.
My local arcade may have had these games, but if so I either didn’t play them or don’t remember them. I played mostly beat-em-ups, light gun games and fighters.
Awesome and entertaining rants, you're killer on this. You could really go AVGN and do those games in more detail. And you're right, Konami did some strange ones in the late eighties, or they did good ones with strange choices.
How funny would it be if Konami, out of the blue, released an arcade compilation of all their games on list and send it to you 😂 I had an LED arcade portable Super Cobra back in the 90s which had a joystick as well. Weird as it sounds, i enjoyed it better than its arcade counterpart... Thanks for the vid man😊
9:53 Don't you watch Southpark? That's clearly Batdad! Randy must have beaten him so hard he got sent back in time to 1991. Come on Fort I thought you knew your stuff. The problem you have with the Qbert controls is valid if you don't have a propper emulated version. Most arcade games had the standard 4 directions Stick that goes up, left, right and down. Qbert was different from that because the stick was placed to achieve the directions you mentioned. up left, down left, down right and up right. Playing the game on mame or any of the homeports doesn't really do it justice. There are classic arcade toys from 2016 that have the stick set to the proper directions I think. I don't think Q*bert is a masterpiece but it is nowhere near the bottom when it comes to 8bit arcade games. You sure got alot of nerve to trashtalk Konami so much. If they were not busy making pachinco games they would be very upset now!
Never heard of any of these Arcade titles except one "Q-Bert" At our Arcade it was a Pinball Arcade & there 1st Arcade was Q-Bert. i just so happen to be there when they installed it & the delivery guy game me 5 quarters & let me be the 1st to play this game! i just excelled at this game & later on that week i was the top score with my initials. As a kid i use to get teased Ernie & Bert from Sesame Street, but having my name at #1at our local Arcade made it all stop & i became Ernie & Q-Bert. So i will always love this game!
That's an epic memory! Thanks for sharing it!
Completely agree about Contra, I greatly prefer the NES version. As a general rule I prefer NES ports to their original arcade counterparts, the controls are tighter and the music is better.
I can’t believe you hate QBert! I actually somehow never played it as a kid, but I tried it for the first time at an arcade by me about 3 years ago and immediately fell in love with it.
-Cast
Haha, it just chaffed me in my nether regions bad. I already have the attention span of a turnip so it didn't help that this game messes with your perception. Have you popped in the 2600 version?
@@Fortefyre lmao, everyone has games that immediately get under their skin, even “classic” games. I’ve never played the 2600 version, I think the only time I ever played an Atari was at my cousin’s house circa 1988
I checked it out during the Konami Conquest because I had it, right, so I was like...eh screw it, I have a AV modded 2600 that I almost never hook up, maybe check it out. Was pleasantly surprised lmao.
@@Fortefyre I’d love to play a few Atari games, I think the arcade near me has a few consoles that I can hook up. NES was my main system since I first got it in ‘88, but we also had an Intellivision that I messed around with a bit, underrated system from what I remember.
Q*bert is perhaps the first video game I played. I don't really remember, but I do recall my Mom would have me sat on her lap while playing games at the arcade and this was her favorite. Occasionally she'd let me play (or try to play the attract screen because I was 2 and stupid, I'm sure a few times it was for reals though.) That said, I never really liked this game, but it does hold a soft spot in my memory.
I was interested in checking it out, but damn I'm bad at it.
Skill Issue: The Video should be the proper title of this video.
Probably lmao
Never heard of most of these. I am a huge Q*bert fan... on the 2600. It is so easy to turn a CX-40 joystick 45° and have at it.
Right? And it makes sense.
Super Cobra should have been called Super Crash-a-Lot. That game was so irritating I nearly got thrown out of an arcade yelling cuss words at it! (No surprise,I was banned from playing it again at that place).
I'm not a fan of it at ALL lol
Hilarious commentary, great video bro
I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the kind words!
Even though I actually like QBert, I appreciated the hot take on it. I will forever see the fleshlight nose.
Have you ever played the "sequel" Q-bert's cubes? It's pretty interesting.
@@Fortefyre I never have. I had no idea it existed. I have mostly played the SNES port because I had it as a kid.
Should have called this Konami games to avoid 😂😂😂.
You're not wrong lmao.
My grand da worked at Konami in the 80's. He flipped you off but understands your view.
That's wholesome :P
I suggest to play Hamster’s Arcade Archives port of Gryzor/Contra, since you can turn off the continue limit in that version and keep on keeping on
I've wanted to check out those, I've seen them mentioned before.
@@Fortefyre A lot of them are actually pretty solid, have 81 of them so far. Each of them have an Interrupt save (a save state basically). They also have various tweakable options and sometimes even preference options to mess around with.
Don’t worry, I alerted the folks at Konami not to watch this video. Carry on! 😝
Oh thank God, I was worried. :P
U want a game to get mad at and hate find a gauntlet arcade cabinet that has the health speed adjust to max. You can stand still with no enemies on screen and literally add a quarter every 38 seconds, not a made up time.
I believe that, absolute coin sink.
I played the hell out of Jail Break. Why? Because when I was in college we had extremely limited access to video games. For one semester, Jail Break was the only arcade game could play. This is a phenomenon kids today can’t understand. You might only have access to one arcade machine. You might only have two cartridges for your console. So that’s what you played. Didn’t matter if the game sucked. And boy did Jail Break suck. Ridiculously hard. Your only hope of advancing far was memorizing when and where every enemy appeared. And playing perfectly. But at least it had copyright-infringing “Batman” and pixilated boobies to find.
That is very true, I always had the luxury of having a few different games, so that's a perspective I didn't experience.
I would also avoid playing that one in "Maximum Overdrive" that killed a guy.
Or Polybius lmao
@@Fortefyre Yeah, Polybius has HUMAN BLOOD on it. BTW I read about where those players dropped dead IRL when a certain character popped up and scared them.
Fun fact, that's a young Giancarlo Esposito, and the game was Star Castle, made by Cinematronics, the same folks who did Dragon's Lair and Space Ace.
@@Fortefyre I watched an excellent video from Hook about Polybius, highly recommend!
Contra is one of those rare games where the NES port was better than the arcade (Rygar and Ninja Gaiden where the other two, but those were completely different than the arcade version).
I absolutely agree.
Konami put a lot of care into some of their NES ports back then, Blades of Steel, Jackal, Double Dribble, Gyruss, etc. were really great, sometimes even better than the original.
The chopper in Super Cobra is flying 9x faster than the X-15.
FACTS.
Well, the NES port of Contra/Gryzor/Probotector only allowed three continues.
Git gud or git gone.
Just saying.
@@bildo1977 “Git gud or git gone” - One of Andy Dufresne’s lesser known sayings.
*konami code has entered the chat*
@@Fortefyre The arcade game had the nine lives code for 25 cents per three. I think that the dip switch could be set for six continues. Up to eighteen lives code! 😮
Q*Bert is ICONIC! What are you talking about?! And when Konami made Super Cobra, I'm pretty sure they weren't sitting there trying to figure out the velocity of the helicopter. They were just trying to make a fun game that was the spiritual successor to Scramble. I have both Scramble and Super Cobra on my PS4 from the Arcade Archive. I guess when I play a game I don't sit there and nit-pick something like that. If a game has bad graphics, bad music and sound, bad controls, and bad mechanics, THEN I get pissed at the game.
LMAO I'M SORRY ANDY
I had completely forgotten about Q-bert. That brought back some Atari 2600 memories... Pitfall, Pacman, Combat, Football, Pong, E.T. oh boy good stuff. I can't play them any longer. Most of them were not very good.
That's the beauty of progress though. The had happened, and now we see the good!
I like several of the games on this list, but the one that surprises me the most is Contra. It actually, by the way, does mention on the control panel that you get a max of 3 continues, which may or may not be true of Haunted Castle, which I feel belongs on this list more than Contra. Not only is Haunted Castle far more sluggish than pretty much every other Castlevania game out there, but it has something worse than the 3 continues rule. You can insert 4 coins and quadruple the health you get with 1 coin, but doing that counts as your 3 continues, so while the upside is that you have less to worry about in terms of dying and having to go back to a checkpoint, the downside is that one death on 4 coins results in a game over. And falling to your death during a 4 coins life is worse than anything Contra throws at you.
I didn't know it mentions it, and I do believe Haunted Castle was mentioned on another one of these episodes. Thanks for teaching me something today!
My local arcade may have had these games, but if so I either didn’t play them or don’t remember them. I played mostly beat-em-ups, light gun games and fighters.
Same here, it wasn't until my adulthood I messed with Hi-score games for the most part. I wanted a conclusion for my efforts.
Tic tac toaster in a bathtub 🤣🤣🤣
IT'S TRUE.
Awesome and entertaining rants, you're killer on this. You could really go AVGN and do those games in more detail.
And you're right, Konami did some strange ones in the late eighties, or they did good ones with strange choices.
I want to do reviews at one point, but the sketch setup is kind of hard to do. I'll see what I can pull off though.
How funny would it be if Konami, out of the blue, released an arcade compilation of all their games on list and send it to you 😂
I had an LED arcade portable Super Cobra back in the 90s which had a joystick as well. Weird as it sounds, i enjoyed it better than its arcade counterpart... Thanks for the vid man😊
I would look around for the sniper dot lmao.
Kitten Kaboodle is “OUCH MY EYES!!!” the game.
FACTS
Yes here we go!!!!
I'm so glad you're excited!
some of these are great games especially Super Cobra. Frustrating though until you learn the enemy patterns so I can see how it could annoy
Yeah it's a VERY early rudimentary approach.
Super Cobra may have more sections, but I'd rather just play Scramble for its history.
Yeah same. I mean it's all but the same game anyway.
"Why Forte hates Konami" -OR- "Why does everyone like Q*Bert"
Haha, I don't hate Konami, just an oddly specific point in time for their games lol
always a pleasure and thank you sir
Thank YOU!
Somebody hates Konami :)
Haha, I promise I don't, it's just I didn't keep track of arcade games I played UNTIL I did the Konami conquest.
Rock n rage has a big history funnier than the game
Really? I didn't know that lol
9:53 Don't you watch Southpark? That's clearly Batdad! Randy must have beaten him so hard he got sent back in time to 1991.
Come on Fort I thought you knew your stuff.
The problem you have with the Qbert controls is valid if you don't have a propper emulated version.
Most arcade games had the standard 4 directions Stick that goes up, left, right and down. Qbert was different from that because the stick was placed to achieve the directions you mentioned. up left, down left, down right and up right. Playing the game on mame or any of the homeports doesn't really do it justice.
There are classic arcade toys from 2016 that have the stick set to the proper directions I think.
I don't think Q*bert is a masterpiece but it is nowhere near the bottom when it comes to 8bit arcade games.
You sure got alot of nerve to trashtalk Konami so much. If they were not busy making pachinco games they would be very upset now!
I ALMOST MADE A BAT DAD REFERENCE HAHA
I love your content, but you dissed Q*Bert. You need to be punished.
I will accept the paddlin'