Hudson Hawk on the C64 was coded by Robert Tinman of Special FX, not Jim Baguley. I have the original on disk, and it's every bit as playable as it was then - much more enjoyable than the film. It was a good licence across all the major 8-bits, and I'd have probably had that as my number 1 in my list. Cobra on the Spectrum also has an impressive piece of Martin Galway music on the title screen, which he would later use as the title theme on Arkanoid on the C64. The Jeroen Tel title theme of C64 Robocop 3 was also first used in the legendary demo Dutch Breeze, released by the group Blackmail - well worth checking that out if you get that. Each to their own in terms of what they'd deem as bad films - not everyone may agree on those you mentioned.
Cheers for the correction, I checked back on the script, and I've no idea why I mentioned Jim Bagley for anything other than the Spectrum, Amstrad (and I think Gameboy version?). Interesting about the different use of the same music, cheers. This whole youtube thing is all about opinions that I really enjoy debating in the comments..... it seems movies are as strongly defended as games, if not more so, so its been erm.... fun 😁. I'll pin your comment as a correction. Thanks again
Stallone was originally going to be in Beverly Hills Cop, the script wasn’t to his liking so he rewrote it to suit his persona. They didn’t go with Stallone however, so Stallone took his ideas for that film and made Cobra.
Nice idea and a cool list! The way the main villain in Death Wish III gets his comeuppance at the end may just be the most gloriously ridiculous over the top 80s action movie moment ever.
Wasn't expecting a victory for History's Greatest Console in this video. But in further HGC news the first Rambo game on SMS (based on movie 2) is interesting because it's literally just a sprite swap of an earlier Japanese game Ashura. And then for Europe the licence had expired so we got it as "Secret Command" if you believe the box or "Secret Commando" if you believe the menu.
I had Hudson Hawk on the CPC and associate that 'shades of blue' scheme with some good memories, it had a style to it; and unlike a lot of the 4 colour mode games the sprites are tailored to the CPC, making use of the shades for each sprite, rather than just being straight up Speccy ones. My parents kept calling it Blues Brothers instead of Hudson Hawk as a result of the colour scheme though.
What an excellent subject for a video! Bad films and good games really go well together. I recently saw another Brit enjoy the Hudson Hawk game, seems like a game I shouldn’t ignore.
Great video! I only ever played two of those, Cobra and Death Wish III. I watched a play through of Death Wish III, and it was completed really quickly. I thought the sprites and animation wee great for the time, but the map system confused me. When you mentioned Robocop 3, it will always bring up two memories. Watching the film on bootleg VHS about a year before it hit the UK cinemas. Even through the poor quality, I could still tell it was crap. Also, the amazing game my best friend had on his Amiga. Ocean supplied a special joystick port dongle with the game to stop the pirates. It obviously didn't work as my mate was playing it a week before its release!
As a kid, I actually liked Cobra for the C64. It was also one of the earlier games that I played on disk. I probably have rose colored glasses at this point given how it's generally panned. That and GI Joe were 2 of my action jams.
@@SebsPlaceYT Given that in general most of us that owned 64s probably had Atari 2600's or equivalents (Odyssey 2 here) prior, most early 64 games felt worlds ahead of those systems; even if they were bad. Being stuck on one button joysticks really hurt though since the Intellivison and collecovision had 2 (not including the keypad).
I only played Cobra on C64. It was sooo hard. I had to zerg to knife and jump all the time, climb up and maaaybe you can survive to get a gun. After that it is much easier. I think that it had only two levels. And everything can kill you, except hamburgers. And the bike spawn at the beginning? Fun times. :D
What I found to be the most interesting about Rambo First Blood Part II for the C64 was the gawking picture. That was literally what we called it over here in Vikingland at the time. To be more specific, it was the picture you got to gawk at, while waiting for the game to load up from tape. - The oh so mesmerizing part about the Rambo II loader, was that they (the C64 owners) actually got to see the picture progressively loading up onto the screen. Something which was kind of "meh" for us Speccy owners. What wasn't even the slightest bit "meh" though, was the fact that it was also playing music while loading. Because that was pretty much as impressive as breaking the laws of physics to us back then. - As for the gameplay... I recall thinking "Wauw! those baddies must really be bad, when they have to turn into white dog-pooh coloured cacti when they die, before drilling their own graves". That was just so weird-arse strange to me, that it ended up overshadowing any other gameplay mechanics for me back then. - The RoboCop 3 movie did manage to make me really want a miniature version of that "loyal as a puppy" model of the ED209. I still do... but I'll settle for a T-shirt with EDdie in its full "20 seconds to comply" stance on the front, going "I am now authorized to...", and on the back in its lounged over stance, going "... be loyal as a puppy".
Yeah, I know very little about c64 loaders and some of the cool features they had, especially with music but it's definitely something I want to cover. Cheers
My mum loves the Death Wish films. Basically any revenge flick see also the Taken series. To be fair to Death Wish and the gangs New York was an incredibly dangerous city in the 70s.
@@SebsPlaceYT read an interview once with Bo Derek that's always stuck in my mind. She said something along the lines of "hate is a very underestimated motivation". And she's dead right. Forget the Star Wars force namby pampyness DO give into your emotions. Gets the adrenaline pumping!!
Agree with your number one choice there cobra what a fantastic game for the spectrum , however death Wish 3 ay tune for the Sinclair Spectrum is phenomenal even seems to have bass .. which gives the game a complete different feel , has the music is dramatic and full of energy .. the Rambo game was fun if you can get to the choppa and fly around just blowing the buildings up😂😂😂 , great idea for a video this one. And I really enjoyed watching it thanks for making it well done
Goonies II on the NES!!! Now that the movie sequel in the works and we all know how today's movies turn out, nothing will beat out the Konami game sequel?! I mean Mikey rescues a Mermaid here.
I love Hudson Hawk. I also like The Last Action Hero, Tank Girl, Space Truckers, the Lynch Dune... A big part of my movie collection comprises 'so bad it's good' films. So it's hard for me to think of good games versus bad movies, although of the other films you have mentioned, I've only seen Robocop 3. Never played the game of that, after playing Robocop 2 and finding that it never came close to the perfect difficulty curve of the original Robocop game. I wasn't a great fan of movie tie-ins, but coming at it the other way, they eventually made a Rampage movie. That was one of my favourite multiplayer speccy games, and while I haven't seen the film, I suspect that it'll give the Cobra ratio a run for its money.
Might be a bit controversial but I quite liked Hudson Hawk (the movie). The C64 game was definitely fantastic. I bought a C64C and disk drive late in its life and this game was one that came with it. Great idea for a video btw.
Stallone and Schwarzenegger movies were the sort of thing I felt I was supposed to like but could never bring myself to care about, whether they were considered good or bad by critics. But I’ll admit to having playing a lot of Commando on the C64 before the endless murder spree started feeling a little wrong. That frikkin’ Hubbard-arranged music getting into your brain. Galway’s Rambo sounds amazing too. I think there were a lot of games I just treated as (music) “singles”, loading them up for the soundtrack. Feud, Spellbound, Delta…
I’m glad you liked Death Wish for what it was. It’s an early sandbox game and felt innovative at the time. Funny that the mags were alarmed at blowing people to bits. What would they think think of GTA?!
Regards changing tastes as you mature, I recall watching Commando over and over on VHS when I was a kid (not related to the game of the same name) and now I cannot watch it at all. Cobra just confused me, as the movie was a non sensical mess and the game was amazing. Interesting topic, though I usually think of good films with naff games instead (Big Trouble in Little China, Back to the Future 2, Highlander and so on).
Yeah, there is plenty the other way! And you are 100% right about Cobra. It's an awful mess of a movie. I kinda enjoy most bad eighties movies in a way, but Cobra was horrid.
Your "Hudson Hawk" review reminds me of "KP Skips action biker," The C64 version was brilliant, I loved it but the speccy version was a completely different game. Even a different premise
Totally agree your reviews of the films/games……..however……. Rambo 1st blood part 2 was amazing on the speecy, forget about it being a movie tie in.. As for Death Wish 3 the film and game are 100% 80s and just fantastic and well worth a watch/play
@SebsPlaceYT Would love to know your thoughts on some C64 classic games by Thalamus. Like Creatures 2, Snare, Andy The Ardvark and Mayhem in Monsterland.
We were early adopters of cable back in the day and whenever we were channel hopping and Broad Street showed up it was an instant 'next channel' effort. Never seen a minute of it and all i remember was it was the biggest flop in history til Ishtar came along.....and then Best Defence. The eighties had some mega flops lol
Very enjoyable as ever, thanks. I spent far too much time trying to wring some enjoyment out of Cobra on the C64. I never thought it was good, but I guess that's what we did back then when we couldn't get hold of many games! And what a philistine you are apparently for daring to not like such undeniable cinematic masterpieces as... err... Death Wish 3... Although for a worrying minute I did think you were about to slag off the original Robocop, at which point I would have immediately unsubscribed of course 😀
I really need to know what’s on the wall behind you. It feels familiar but also not… bugs me :) (The rectangle of what looks like colour-variant comic book album backcover art to me but that could really be anything)
Broad Street not seen that film for many years. Made a better soundtrack than a movie tho I still get earworms from that and I havent heard it for over ten years.
@@SebsPlaceYT I can't believe you sat through the entire movie and still didn't include the game in the run down - that's real dedication to the cause. It's not a terrible game and I liked the driving round London bit but probably best - along with the movie - consigned to history!
I enjoyed deathwish 3, although as you mentioned I didn't have a clue what I was really meant to do. Never played or watched robocop 3, fairly sure I dodged a bullet. I love Hudson hawk. Regarding cobra I hated the game and the film.
I had Robocop for my C64 it was rubbish but it was a platformer type game and was impossible with a joystick in the end it was always back to California Games to cool down the fire
Beside Hudson Hawk i love all those films, the 80s were the best for film, tv and music franchises. Yes i have them all on 4K or Blu-ray 😂 Some of the games were decent but i got fed up to the back teeth with platform games constantly.
@@SebsPlaceYT Death Wish 3 is by no means my favorite movie but you'd have to be a fool not to recognize how great Death Wish 3 and Cobra really are. They are the gold standard of great bad movies. Their dialogues alone have more cheese than Italy, France and Switzerland combined.
😂😂 very cheesy! I did enjoy everything here in a "bad 80s movies" Cheesy way except Hudson Hawk which was just odd and Cobra which was just an incoherent mess. The supermarket bit at the start though is class!
We had it back in the day on account of my dad being a Beatles / Wings / Macca fanatic. I remember quite enjoying playing it as a 9 year old. I went back and played it recently on my Next and, yes, not so good to play as a 48 year old. It's sort of like a rubbish, top-down version of Turbo Esprit.
RoboCop 3 (the movie) was a horrendous turd. iirc, it was one of the earliest examples of a studio thinking they could cash in on some popular 18-rated movies with a "PG-13" sequel that the kids could go see, and that nothing would be lost ... completely ignoring the fact that what made the earlier films (especially the original) so good was how gloriously OTT and off-the-leash they were.
I had the CPC version of COBRA - It is AWFUL! And yet, It was one of a few games I could at least get somewhere on... So I did keep coming back to it for a while... I remember lending the Compilation it was on to a friend and I never saw it again...
@@SebsPlaceYT Ah! It happened... LOL! Its odd as believe it or not... I only realised I had lost teh compilation as I wanted to play Cobra... LOL! It was one of those I bought because the games all had great reviews, and I played all of them - but could not get anywhere on any of them except Cobra!!! AND THAT WAS A BONUS GAME AS IT WAS SO BAD!!! I think it was the Magnificent 7... (NO! Wait, Bonus game on that was Yie-Ar-Kung-Fu... I was awful at that too!)
Another great round up and your poor offspring. Watching the worst of 80s movies ;) Though to be fair Rambo II could have been a great film if James Cameron had been left to make it more coherent but Stallone messed it around, which is a shame because First Blood is a bloody good script and much like Rocky really gave depth to Rambo that later films did not, until very recent ones. The game was good though and glad you liked it too. Can't say I played any of the others, though Hundon Hawk does intrigue me, as I liked puzzle action games back in the day. Once again you go above and beyond the call of duty and I hope you went back and watched the first film in the franchises as they are all pretty good. A bit like Karate Kid was ;)
😁 Cheers! 100% agree with you about Rambo. First Blood is still a great movie, just went a bit bonkers by the 2nd one. Hudson Hawk is definitely worth a play and the movie is too if you've not seen it, just for how odd it all is.
Roobocop 3 might be the worst of the trilogy but its still a good movie IMO. I remember having fun with the NES game but its very different then the computer game,. Edit: Ok less different then I thought.
Hudson Hawk (the movie) is so boring. I watched it not *that* long ago and can hardly remember any of it apart from being bored. I heard about it for the first time by stumbling upon the C64 game.
Cobra? Really? In my childhood that game could hardly be reffered as tie-in to the movie (which is crap, no doubt, but only if you have no piety to the heritage of the action-packed B movies of the 80s😅). So the game was treated as "below average" (in spite of the graphics) due to the high level of difficulty and weird gameplay, and if at that times we were to choose what to load between Cobra and some vague titles as North Star or Beyond Ice Palace, the choice was in favour of the latter. Rambo 2 to my mind is far more playable😮
Hi! I do love an 80s movie, I've been enjoying some classic Chuck Norris recently, which are awful but steeped in that 80s action pack heritage you mention. Cobra though, was a big let down. I don't understand how anyone can enjoy this movie (then or now) it's just a mess. The first scene in the supermarket is pretty cool, but it's a car crash after that. As for the game, I found it really tough back in the day and used to dip in and out of it on tbe speccy every now and then. Playing it now, it felt easier than I remember, and it's still massively playable. You are right though, it has little to do with the movie even though it's an official license, but that's because Joffa thought the movie was so terrible 😁 cheers!
Remember seeing Cobra when i was about 10 and liking it. Saw it recently, with adult eyes, and it is utter unadulterated dogshit. 🤣🤣 Joffa deffo pulled a beautiful rabbit out of a shit-smelling hat. 😁
Haha , no worries. As a kid I enjoyed it (which I think I mention) and I get the appeal and love it gets (unlike Cobra) but it hasn't aged well for me.
Hudson Hawk on the C64 was coded by Robert Tinman of Special FX, not Jim Baguley. I have the original on disk, and it's every bit as playable as it was then - much more enjoyable than the film. It was a good licence across all the major 8-bits, and I'd have probably had that as my number 1 in my list. Cobra on the Spectrum also has an impressive piece of Martin Galway music on the title screen, which he would later use as the title theme on Arkanoid on the C64. The Jeroen Tel title theme of C64 Robocop 3 was also first used in the legendary demo Dutch Breeze, released by the group Blackmail - well worth checking that out if you get that.
Each to their own in terms of what they'd deem as bad films - not everyone may agree on those you mentioned.
Cheers for the correction, I checked back on the script, and I've no idea why I mentioned Jim Bagley for anything other than the Spectrum, Amstrad (and I think Gameboy version?).
Interesting about the different use of the same music, cheers.
This whole youtube thing is all about opinions that I really enjoy debating in the comments..... it seems movies are as strongly defended as games, if not more so, so its been erm.... fun 😁. I'll pin your comment as a correction. Thanks again
"Not everyone would agree..." - congratulations on making the most obvious statement of the week.
Stallone was originally going to be in Beverly Hills Cop, the script wasn’t to his liking so he rewrote it to suit his persona. They didn’t go with Stallone however, so Stallone took his ideas for that film and made Cobra.
Ha - that's brilliant
And in BHC2 Rosewood has a Cobra poster on his bedroom door as an Easter egg
Nice idea and a cool list! The way the main villain in Death Wish III gets his comeuppance at the end may just be the most gloriously ridiculous over the top 80s action movie moment ever.
Ha, yes, very true!
@@SebsPlaceYT He was bulletproof but NOT rocketproof...
I'll give the C64 version of Cobra this much at least: Ben Daglish did a great job on the music.
Right off the bat I can't take this video seriously with Rambo on the list.
It's OK to not take it seriously and completely disagree, I don't mind 🙃
This was a great video, one of your best in my opinion, thanks for making it :)
Thank you! Very kind!
Wasn't expecting a victory for History's Greatest Console in this video. But in further HGC news the first Rambo game on SMS (based on movie 2) is interesting because it's literally just a sprite swap of an earlier Japanese game Ashura. And then for Europe the licence had expired so we got it as "Secret Command" if you believe the box or "Secret Commando" if you believe the menu.
Oooh blimey!
Kramer vs Kramer on Atari 2600 The Color Purple and Witness on the Nes and The Piano on the SNES/MD are all movie licenses that don't exist.
I just had to Google Kramer vs Kramer Atari 2600 as I thought you were taking the piss! Turns out you wasn't! 😵
Kramer vs Kramer vs Godzilla it was called.
@@LordmonkeyTRM Remains of the Day on the Neo Geo was always my Favourite
You need to put a Warning before you show Gavin and Stacey. I can handle Violence, Swearing, Sex and Gore, but not James Cordon.
😂😂 sorry
There should have been a Corden sanitaire.
I love the second Rambo movie, unashamedly 🙂
On the Amstrad, there was another program on my copy of the disk version that had French text, but I had no idea what it was about.
I had Hudson Hawk on the CPC and associate that 'shades of blue' scheme with some good memories, it had a style to it; and unlike a lot of the 4 colour mode games the sprites are tailored to the CPC, making use of the shades for each sprite, rather than just being straight up Speccy ones. My parents kept calling it Blues Brothers instead of Hudson Hawk as a result of the colour scheme though.
😂 I can see where they are coming from. The main character even looks.a bit Blues Brothery 💙
Secret Command on the Sega Master System was called Rambo in the USA
I liked Hudson Hawk.
Pretty sure there's an explosion somewhere in the movie, and that was all I looked for back then :)
Haha love it!
Robocop 2D by Park Productions definitely lives up to the movie expectation.
Fantastic idea for a video, I really enjoyed this! 😄
Thank you!
What an excellent subject for a video! Bad films and good games really go well together. I recently saw another Brit enjoy the Hudson Hawk game, seems like a game I shouldn’t ignore.
Yeah it's definitely worth seeking out! Cheers!
It's that Michael "Calm down, dear" Winner directed the Death Wish movies that really baffles me.
Ha! I had forgotten those esure ads! 😁😁
@@QuagmiresDooflab He was a food critic
Great video! I only ever played two of those, Cobra and Death Wish III. I watched a play through of Death Wish III, and it was completed really quickly. I thought the sprites and animation wee great for the time, but the map system confused me.
When you mentioned Robocop 3, it will always bring up two memories. Watching the film on bootleg VHS about a year before it hit the UK cinemas. Even through the poor quality, I could still tell it was crap. Also, the amazing game my best friend had on his Amiga. Ocean supplied a special joystick port dongle with the game to stop the pirates. It obviously didn't work as my mate was playing it a week before its release!
Haha brilliant! Didn't know about the dongle! Love it how certain games stir memories, it's what this hobby is all about. Cheers!
As a kid, I actually liked Cobra for the C64. It was also one of the earlier games that I played on disk. I probably have rose colored glasses at this point given how it's generally panned. That and GI Joe were 2 of my action jams.
Yeah it's funny how we remember some games. I never played it on the C64 as a kid so can only go on how badly it seems to play now 😒
@@SebsPlaceYT Given that in general most of us that owned 64s probably had Atari 2600's or equivalents (Odyssey 2 here) prior, most early 64 games felt worlds ahead of those systems; even if they were bad. Being stuck on one button joysticks really hurt though since the Intellivison and collecovision had 2 (not including the keypad).
I only played Cobra on C64. It was sooo hard. I had to zerg to knife and jump all the time, climb up and maaaybe you can survive to get a gun. After that it is much easier. I think that it had only two levels. And everything can kill you, except hamburgers. And the bike spawn at the beginning? Fun times. :D
Ha fun times indeed!
That trophy shot looked pretty realistic! Nicely done
Haha thanks!
What I found to be the most interesting about Rambo First Blood Part II for the C64 was the gawking picture. That was literally what we called it over here in Vikingland at the time. To be more specific, it was the picture you got to gawk at, while waiting for the game to load up from tape.
- The oh so mesmerizing part about the Rambo II loader, was that they (the C64 owners) actually got to see the picture progressively loading up onto the screen. Something which was kind of "meh" for us Speccy owners. What wasn't even the slightest bit "meh" though, was the fact that it was also playing music while loading. Because that was pretty much as impressive as breaking the laws of physics to us back then.
- As for the gameplay... I recall thinking "Wauw! those baddies must really be bad, when they have to turn into white dog-pooh coloured cacti when they die, before drilling their own graves". That was just so weird-arse strange to me, that it ended up overshadowing any other gameplay mechanics for me back then.
- The RoboCop 3 movie did manage to make me really want a miniature version of that "loyal as a puppy" model of the ED209. I still do... but I'll settle for a T-shirt with EDdie in its full "20 seconds to comply" stance on the front, going "I am now authorized to...", and on the back in its lounged over stance, going "... be loyal as a puppy".
Yeah, I know very little about c64 loaders and some of the cool features they had, especially with music but it's definitely something I want to cover. Cheers
My mum loves the Death Wish films. Basically any revenge flick see also the Taken series.
To be fair to Death Wish and the gangs New York was an incredibly dangerous city in the 70s.
Ha love it! Gotta love a bit of revenge!
@@SebsPlaceYT read an interview once with Bo Derek that's always stuck in my mind. She said something along the lines of "hate is a very underestimated motivation". And she's dead right. Forget the Star Wars force namby pampyness DO give into your emotions. Gets the adrenaline pumping!!
A neat topic!
I loved (and still do) Hudson Hawk on the gameboy. As slow as it it, is has it's charm (also with great music)
Yeah it's a fun little game!
Agree with your number one choice there cobra what a fantastic game for the spectrum , however death Wish 3 ay tune for the Sinclair Spectrum is phenomenal even seems to have bass .. which gives the game a complete different feel , has the music is dramatic and full of energy .. the Rambo game was fun if you can get to the choppa and fly around just blowing the buildings up😂😂😂 , great idea for a video this one. And I really enjoyed watching it thanks for making it well done
Ha yeah I remember having fun flying the choppers round 😁 cheers mate.
Goonies II on the NES!!! Now that the movie sequel in the works and we all know how today's movies turn out, nothing will beat out the Konami game sequel?! I mean Mikey rescues a Mermaid here.
Yeah, great shout for a contender! You are probably right in how it will turn out......
Rambo is a great movie.
Always will be.
I love Hudson Hawk. I also like The Last Action Hero, Tank Girl, Space Truckers, the Lynch Dune... A big part of my movie collection comprises 'so bad it's good' films. So it's hard for me to think of good games versus bad movies, although of the other films you have mentioned, I've only seen Robocop 3. Never played the game of that, after playing Robocop 2 and finding that it never came close to the perfect difficulty curve of the original Robocop game. I wasn't a great fan of movie tie-ins, but coming at it the other way, they eventually made a Rampage movie. That was one of my favourite multiplayer speccy games, and while I haven't seen the film, I suspect that it'll give the Cobra ratio a run for its money.
Oooh Rampage is a great one! Good shout!
Might be a bit controversial but I quite liked Hudson Hawk (the movie). The C64 game was definitely fantastic. I bought a C64C and disk drive late in its life and this game was one that came with it. Great idea for a video btw.
Cheers! You are not alone, a few Hudson fans here! 😁
Stallone and Schwarzenegger movies were the sort of thing I felt I was supposed to like but could never bring myself to care about, whether they were considered good or bad by critics. But I’ll admit to having playing a lot of Commando on the C64 before the endless murder spree started feeling a little wrong. That frikkin’ Hubbard-arranged music getting into your brain. Galway’s Rambo sounds amazing too. I think there were a lot of games I just treated as (music) “singles”, loading them up for the soundtrack. Feud, Spellbound, Delta…
Ha - yeah, some of that sid chip music is soooo good!
I’m glad you liked Death Wish for what it was. It’s an early sandbox game and felt innovative at the time. Funny that the mags were alarmed at blowing people to bits. What would they think think of GTA?!
Lol yeah, times have certainly changed!
Deathwish 3 would have been better rendered as an Ikari/Commando style run and gun - just like the movie lol
Yes!!! 😁
Regards changing tastes as you mature, I recall watching Commando over and over on VHS when I was a kid (not related to the game of the same name) and now I cannot watch it at all. Cobra just confused me, as the movie was a non sensical mess and the game was amazing. Interesting topic, though I usually think of good films with naff games instead (Big Trouble in Little China, Back to the Future 2, Highlander and so on).
Yeah, there is plenty the other way! And you are 100% right about Cobra. It's an awful mess of a movie. I kinda enjoy most bad eighties movies in a way, but Cobra was horrid.
Your "Hudson Hawk" review reminds me of "KP Skips action biker," The C64 version was brilliant, I loved it but the speccy version was a completely different game. Even a different premise
Yeah, I remember that one!
Shame about Cobra on the C64 as the music is great. Not that it suits the action but as a stand alone tune, superb.
Agreed
Totally agree your reviews of the films/games……..however……. Rambo 1st blood part 2 was amazing on the speecy, forget about it being a movie tie in.. As for Death Wish 3 the film and game are 100% 80s and just fantastic and well worth a watch/play
Cheers mate. Death Wish 3 is great fun for sure!
Is that the Satisfactory boombox in the background?
It is indeed!
Awesome! Looking forward to 1.0?
Love the video- off to World of Spectrum I go for Cobra!
I genuinely enjoyed this!
Thank you!
Cobra is one of my favourite 80s action flicks. Blasphemous
😁😁 sorry!
Ha Ha, don't do it again. 😂
@SebsPlaceYT Would love to know your thoughts on some C64 classic games by Thalamus. Like Creatures 2, Snare, Andy The Ardvark and Mayhem in Monsterland.
Great video mate, love your stuff. Are my eyes tricking me on the deathwish game is the lady keep getting her arse out?
She is indeed! Cheers mate!
@SebsPlaceYT and people were worried about mortal kombat. Here we had some guy mowing down people while a lady of the night flashes everyone 😅
We were early adopters of cable back in the day and whenever we were channel hopping and Broad Street showed up it was an instant 'next channel' effort. Never seen a minute of it and all i remember was it was the biggest flop in history til Ishtar came along.....and then Best Defence. The eighties had some mega flops lol
Ha, they certainly did! Other than hard-core McCartney fans, I have no idea who would have happily watched Broad Street. A bizarre movie!
Very enjoyable as ever, thanks. I spent far too much time trying to wring some enjoyment out of Cobra on the C64. I never thought it was good, but I guess that's what we did back then when we couldn't get hold of many games! And what a philistine you are apparently for daring to not like such undeniable cinematic masterpieces as... err... Death Wish 3... Although for a worrying minute I did think you were about to slag off the original Robocop, at which point I would have immediately unsubscribed of course 😀
Ha - thanks! Robocop IS a classic!
I really need to know what’s on the wall behind you. It feels familiar but also not… bugs me :)
(The rectangle of what looks like colour-variant comic book album backcover art to me but that could really be anything)
Hi - it's series 1 of the garbage pail kids stickers 😁
@@SebsPlaceYT Ah, thanks. Never seen those here. Somehow I was reminded of the original ElfQuest backcover character portraits. I was so into that.
Broad Street not seen that film for many years. Made a better soundtrack than a movie tho I still get earworms from that and I havent heard it for over ten years.
Yeah agreed, soundtrack is miles better!
@@SebsPlaceYT I can't believe you sat through the entire movie and still didn't include the game in the run down - that's real dedication to the cause. It's not a terrible game and I liked the driving round London bit but probably best - along with the movie - consigned to history!
😁 true!
I enjoyed deathwish 3, although as you mentioned I didn't have a clue what I was really meant to do.
Never played or watched robocop 3, fairly sure I dodged a bullet.
I love Hudson hawk.
Regarding cobra I hated the game and the film.
Loved Hudson Hawk eh! Fair play! You've not missed much not seeing Robocop 3. Bobbins 😁
I had Robocop for my C64 it was rubbish but it was a platformer type game and was impossible with a joystick in the end it was always back to California Games to cool down the fire
Beside Hudson Hawk i love all those films, the 80s were the best for film, tv and music franchises.
Yes i have them all on 4K or Blu-ray 😂
Some of the games were decent but i got fed up to the back teeth with platform games constantly.
Haha There is something about some of these movies that really give off the 80s nostalgia. That being said.....Cobra is just crap 😁
Play Total Recall on the Speccy. It's a blast, and the film is one of Arnies last great action flicks
Yeah, I might do a Arnie games special. Cheers!
Surprised Alien 3 wasn't on the list. Naff movie, but some good games came out of it.
That's a great shout!
Nooo! All films I love, well RoboCop 3 is really pushing it.
All ones I would stick on over 99% of the drivel coming out today.
Yep, lots of crap these days 🫤
Some people don't understand that Death Wish 3 is a movie too good to be a good movie.
Haha love this! Your favourite movie? Just don't tell me you enjoyed Cobra and I'll let you off 😁
@@SebsPlaceYT Death Wish 3 is by no means my favorite movie but you'd have to be a fool not to recognize how great Death Wish 3 and Cobra really are. They are the gold standard of great bad movies. Their dialogues alone have more cheese than Italy, France and Switzerland combined.
😂😂 very cheesy! I did enjoy everything here in a "bad 80s movies" Cheesy way except Hudson Hawk which was just odd and Cobra which was just an incoherent mess. The supermarket bit at the start though is class!
I think the home versions of Robocop came out before the arcade version (could be wrong though).
The arcade seemingly came first but because of Oceans involvement throughout, home ports very quickly followed.
I love you .....also i thought deathwish free on my zx was great...but like yourself didnt actually know what to do
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You didn't rate Give My Regards To Broad Street. Swiz.
😂😂 best Paul McCartney show piece I've seen this year 😁
I want to see the video game adaptation of that McCartney film!!
Yeah I had a quick look at it. It's not that great either.... 😁
We had it back in the day on account of my dad being a Beatles / Wings / Macca fanatic. I remember quite enjoying playing it as a 9 year old. I went back and played it recently on my Next and, yes, not so good to play as a 48 year old. It's sort of like a rubbish, top-down version of Turbo Esprit.
RoboCop 3 (the movie) was a horrendous turd. iirc, it was one of the earliest examples of a studio thinking they could cash in on some popular 18-rated movies with a "PG-13" sequel that the kids could go see, and that nothing would be lost ... completely ignoring the fact that what made the earlier films (especially the original) so good was how gloriously OTT and off-the-leash they were.
Yep! 100%
I did like Licence to kill on the ZX Spectrum and although not a bad Bond movie IMO the game was better.
Yeah I did look at that but I do really quite like that Bond movie, although I've not seen it for a few years, so you might be right! 😁
No Corden warning? Really??
😂😂 sorry
I had the CPC version of COBRA - It is AWFUL! And yet, It was one of a few games I could at least get somewhere on... So I did keep coming back to it for a while... I remember lending the Compilation it was on to a friend and I never saw it again...
Oh no!
@@SebsPlaceYT Ah! It happened... LOL! Its odd as believe it or not... I only realised I had lost teh compilation as I wanted to play Cobra... LOL! It was one of those I bought because the games all had great reviews, and I played all of them - but could not get anywhere on any of them except Cobra!!! AND THAT WAS A BONUS GAME AS IT WAS SO BAD!!!
I think it was the Magnificent 7... (NO! Wait, Bonus game on that was Yie-Ar-Kung-Fu... I was awful at that too!)
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Another great round up and your poor offspring. Watching the worst of 80s movies ;)
Though to be fair Rambo II could have been a great film if James Cameron had been left to make it more coherent but Stallone messed it around, which is a shame because First Blood is a bloody good script and much like Rocky really gave depth to Rambo that later films did not, until very recent ones. The game was good though and glad you liked it too.
Can't say I played any of the others, though Hundon Hawk does intrigue me, as I liked puzzle action games back in the day.
Once again you go above and beyond the call of duty and I hope you went back and watched the first film in the franchises as they are all pretty good. A bit like Karate Kid was ;)
😁 Cheers! 100% agree with you about Rambo. First Blood is still a great movie, just went a bit bonkers by the 2nd one. Hudson Hawk is definitely worth a play and the movie is too if you've not seen it, just for how odd it all is.
Roobocop 3 might be the worst of the trilogy but its still a good movie IMO. I remember having fun with the NES game but its very different then the computer game,.
Edit: Ok less different then I thought.
Is the woman sprite scratching her arse in death wish 3 on the C64?
Lol, I think she might be....
Hudson Hawk (the movie) is so boring. I watched it not *that* long ago and can hardly remember any of it apart from being bored. I heard about it for the first time by stumbling upon the C64 game.
Yeah it's not the sort of film you'd ever watch more than once.....
Cobra? Really? In my childhood that game could hardly be reffered as tie-in to the movie (which is crap, no doubt, but only if you have no piety to the heritage of the action-packed B movies of the 80s😅). So the game was treated as "below average" (in spite of the graphics) due to the high level of difficulty and weird gameplay, and if at that times we were to choose what to load between Cobra and some vague titles as North Star or Beyond Ice Palace, the choice was in favour of the latter. Rambo 2 to my mind is far more playable😮
Hi! I do love an 80s movie, I've been enjoying some classic Chuck Norris recently, which are awful but steeped in that 80s action pack heritage you mention. Cobra though, was a big let down. I don't understand how anyone can enjoy this movie (then or now) it's just a mess. The first scene in the supermarket is pretty cool, but it's a car crash after that.
As for the game, I found it really tough back in the day and used to dip in and out of it on tbe speccy every now and then. Playing it now, it felt easier than I remember, and it's still massively playable. You are right though, it has little to do with the movie even though it's an official license, but that's because Joffa thought the movie was so terrible 😁 cheers!
Top 5 worst movie license next time😋
Remember seeing Cobra when i was about 10 and liking it. Saw it recently, with adult eyes, and it is utter unadulterated dogshit. 🤣🤣
Joffa deffo pulled a beautiful rabbit out of a shit-smelling hat. 😁
😂😂 He did indeed! Could not have put it better myself!
Neat idea for a video well delivered. And good to see Joffa get his dues this time!
Cheers! Cobra is a top game! ( on the speccy.....)
Sorry dude, turned off after you called Rambo a 'crap fest'. . . . ..No true 80's child would ever say that . . . .
Haha , no worries. As a kid I enjoyed it (which I think I mention) and I get the appeal and love it gets (unlike Cobra) but it hasn't aged well for me.
@@SebsPlaceYT 👍😁 Rambo tying his bandana to that synth soundtrack!! Iconic . . . 😉
I'll pop back in and watch the rest of your vid!! 😉
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