A Secret HORROR Game! Emergency Call Ambulance on the Sega Model 3! Arcade Racing of Horrors!
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
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I have been teasing this series for a very long time...and that's because it took a VERY LONG TIME to make...a twenty episode retrospective on every Sega developed arcade racing game in 3D! Because whether its retro gaming or modern pc gaming...Sega is the KING of the arcade racing genre! So buckle up and get ready for a retrogaming ride!
THE RULES FOR INCLUSION: 1) It must have had an arcade release (So no Sega GT) 2) It must be in 3D (Bye Bye Outrunners, etc etc) and 3) you MUST be racing against an opponent and not just a timer (sorry Crazy Taxi, Wild Riders)
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Up next: Emergency Call Ambulance BONUS EPISODE! It's hard to call ECA a true arcade racing retro gaming experience...as you really aren't racing anything but the timer! So compared to Daytona 2 or Scud Race on the Sega Model 3...this one feels way more like Crazy Taxi! Which is NOT a bad thing. It's a legit awesome Sega arcade game you should 100% play and it works incredibly well on the Supermodel emulator. Emulation for the win here!
If only you could drift the ambulance like you drive in OutRun 2 though!
It was slated to come out for the Dreamcast too...and then it was cancelled. Classic Sega!
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It might be creepy but I love the late 90s medical drama inspired attract mode
Just needs more George Clooney
Please everyone knows Anthony Edwards was the star. Goose MD
The final stage where you rescue the president -- that's game industry legend Gregg Tavares, who was working at Sega at the time!
Haha fun little fact. Did not know
I'm a Paramedic and a gamer. Was able to find the full sit down machine local-ish to me a few years ago and bought it. The machine is HEAVY compared to other sit downs to the point of bending the truck's bed, ha. Still, I felt it mandatory to purchase considering my career choice. Happy to see you give it some attention.
So on a scale of 1 to 10…how often do you ditch the ambulance and just run through the city pushing a gurney at 60+ mph
If I ever need urgent paramedic assistance, let's hope your on call!
For all those bazooka attacks he sees!
@@VideoGameEsoterica Funny you mention that, our early patient care report software had "Bazooka" as a mechanism of injury. I suspect it was a test item that was never updated after release. I always wanted to mark that, but sadly never got the opportunity. Lol.
🤣 now there’s something you don’t hear every day. I’d have programmed in “zombie bite” myself if I intended on it just being a test
These EMT’s give speedrun a whole new meaning
They aren't messing around
Did not get this joke til end of video :P
😂
I love this series so much! I would love to see you extend the bonus episodes to all driving games like Jambo Safari!
MAYBE I’ve thought about it
What an amazing concept for a driving game. Don't know how I missed this. Great video!
Def play it. It’s an absolute blast
I have never seen this game before but this looks really awesome. I could drop $20 in quarters here in the arcade no problem. I’d give anything for the big 3 to be Sega, Nintendo and Sony again-we just don’t see games like this anymore 😢
Now that you know it exists…go play it!
I love how the dog pulls out the person from the car in fast forward ⏩
dog is just that fast!
@@VideoGameEsoterica 😂🐾🐾🐾🐕
Best paramedic in the game
This is that finely balanced arcade tastelessness
the best kind
Reminds me of that obscure PS2 game called Zombie Virus in which you had to pick people up in an ambulance and get them to hospital before they turned into a zombie.
haha I have never heard of this one
Rob Lowe driving ambulance - check
Female EMT kisses patient's forehead if Rob Lowe hits something - check
Female EMT is somehow shouting directions and cautions while attending to patient in back of ambulance - check
Pregnant patient in lead vest from dentist - check
stretcher-run 5000 event - check!
Game also gets DARK for sure - I love this and wanna try it this weekend
Def play it. Experience the weirdness
I felt the frustration 2nd hand when you lost 10 feet away from your goal!
That’s always the hardest loss
It seems emergency call ambulance was so stunned at the best stream
Love this game ahaha I do wish it was a bit longer, it had so much potential to have sequels in other cities like crazy taxi
Yes give me this same game in NYC/SF/Atlanta/etc etc
Oh sweet, the game where you're racing _DEATH ITSELF_
VGE: "The reason this is a bonus episode is because you're not really racing anybody"
The Grim Reaper: 😢
There is no “place” in the game, therefor not a race. Because you can’t race death…he always wins
I remember the last level of the game. It was to save the president of a '' Certain Country '' from a plane crash. He had a (Russian/Balkan region ?) name I think and his face was on the tail of the plain. At that time i found it funny as with the presentation and ''Certain Country'' it gave a dictators vibe XD.
Also thank you for giving us your location> Chicago, 2 blocks right from lake Michigan. That should narrow the search .I hope you have a good padlock for that sweet arcade collection 😅😅 !
Cheers mate and as always, a awesome video! This could have been a great Dreamcast port if they wanted to.
Hahaha it’s a long lake. Probably…couple hundred thousand houses “two blocks from the lake”
@@VideoGameEsoterica Just has to listen carefully for the house/apartment that goes loud > Daytonaaaaaaaaa Lets Go Away !! XD
🤣 that might help
I always assumed this was "Crazy Taxi but darker and more stressful/depressing," but the emphasis on clean driving as a mechanic gives this game its own distinctive spin on the gameplay and now I really want to give it a go!
Def play it. It’s not depressing. It’s more like dark comedy
The ending is also a rather happy one.
I just played this in an arcade in Tokyo and it's a lot harder than Crazy Taxi!
It is 100% NOT an easy game. Even on easy
Freeways need to have an EMT runner lane
People in Chicago really don’t move out of the way for ambulances here in real life. This game is way more accurate then anyone realizes
that one ambulance literally went into the water lol, Sega is just awesome with these arcade games
A Dalmatian was driving that one I bet
This is one of this game's mysteries that we've not solved yet.
Yes on Jambo Safari.
They should force all aspiring paramedics to play this game and make it mandatory to pass as part of the exam 🤣
I'm new to this title and definitely need to play it now, thank you!
Hahaha I think that would be great training
I would have been all over that Dreamcast 3-in-1 career pack.. read about it in the Dreamcast magazine back in the day. Sigh. Oh well.
Yep. With Brave Firefighters and Jambo Safari. Not sure exactly what job Jambo was trying to relay...dinosaur wrangler? lol
@@VideoGameEsotericaHonestly, it would make more sense if Airline Pilots took Jambo's spot, considering that it was also an NAOMI game.
Jambo was an odd choice. Career? Animal trapper in Jeep? Weird
doggo saves the boy in the car accident hes the game hero
The dog is always the hero
I think this game traumatized me as a kid. 😢 If only I'd played it in my teen years, I'd have loved it! 😂
There is an epidemic of people out there scarred by this and Thrill Drive. So many comments saying the same thing
Thanks for reminding me (and hopefully many others) of this gem. I couldn't get it widescreen in Supermodel emulator even though I checked Fullscreen, Widescreen, Wide Background and Stretch... Nevertheless still great fun to play in regular 4:3!
Weird it wouldn't go widescreen
Man, Gotham city looks pretty cheery in this game.
Until people die in the back of your ambulance lol
Sega was into weird city driving simulations in the late 90s. Crazy Taxi, L.A. Riders, 18 Wheeler, Emergency Call Ambulance... am I missing one?
Wild Riders but that comes later
@@VideoGameEsoterica oh wow, never heard of this one. Jet Set Radio meets L.A. Riders?
LA Riders meets Crazy Taxi
"I don't want to die."
My god.
Its a secret horror game!
@@VideoGameEsoterica (BTW, I don't know if you noticed, but I did a HOTD reference)
Haha I did notice. Was just playing HotD last week
Virtua striker next 😉
Lol not exactly racing but maybe soon!
Good video about a great game. Without typing a complete review about, as much as I love this game, I'd like to add a few details which I think it deserves. As you mention it's not a racing game, it is a kind of an occupation themed skill-challenge much like certain other games from SEGA this era. Simply testing the game regardles of how well the emulation runs visually, with a keyboard or a gamepad, doesn't really give it much credit. You need precision control via a steeringhweel of analog sort, gas and brake pedals, and preferably also a gear shifter. The software allows for a choice of either a 4-position shifter, or up/dn shifter types.
The objective is to reach the ER as fast as you are able, yet driving carefully enough not to cause any damage to the patient, nor the vehicle. You have the patient on your monitor up right, as well as heart rate, remaining "health", and always listen to the medic voice. She will tell you when you're being careless ;)
The "Bonuses" in the game are infact ratings of your driving, mostly, and awarded after each "Case". So you need to be very precise to score any or all. That bridge can be cleared without loosing any points, just need to slow down and keep the vehicle straight to get a stable landing.
Don't know if I have some old clips of me driving .. I was very good. I'll check it.
This is an incredibly stressful game, especially at the end, you literally only have ONE second with only ONE room for damage.
They def give you very little margin for error
It's horror in real life VGE. I mean, these EMS workers happen to do this everyday. Even if the game is fictional, situations happen like this for sure.
Thank you for sharing this with us bro. 8^)
Anthony...
I hope a situation where they run at vehicle speed with just the stretcher happens in real life haha
Loving your channel!
Appreciate that :)
Horse on Daytona USA, sheep on Manx TT Super Bike.
They loved animals
We need a mod of this game where they put really heinous people in the back of your van and you need to kill them as fast as possible without it looking like it was on purpose.
I’d play that for a dollar
could you send your supermodel 3 settings? ive tried to play this game, but i always get some slowdowns that ruins the gameplay
Up the clock speed in the GUI. Should improve any slowdowns. What specs are you using?
I somehow missed this one, thanks!
Gotta play it!
Looks like a lot of fun :)
How good is Supermodel emulation, i mean, how accurate is it?
Very accurate. One of the most impressive emulators out there IMO
Having someone die in your vehicle is some incentive to have clean racing lines.
It doesn’t help every driver around you is an idiot. Clearly Sega visited Chicago during development
SEGA definitely made some fun arcade driving games. Glad Crazy Taxi and 18 Wheeler came to DC.
18 wheeler will def be making an appearance on this series. As will King of Route 66 :)
It is a shame you dont even show a picture of the arcade cabinet or talk about it. Sega makes good looking cabinets and I think you should mention it. This is memorable arcade and you dont even show the awesome looking arcade cabinet.
I normally don’t show the cabinet. Just my preference
This was still on location at my local seaside till fairly recently. I've enjoyed killing many children on original hardware, which just can't be convincingly replicated 1:1 via emulation.
😂 it’s rare that happens in video games. Especially back then
Maybe all the fires are a reference to the Great Chicago Fire.
Not a terrible thought actually!
I've never seen this one! It's kind of like life and death Crazy Taxi! I got a kick out of the people jumping into Lake Michigan. I live only a few miles from Lake Michigan, so that hit home. 😂
Never seen it? Homework assignment! Where near the lake? You aren’t in Chicago are you?
@@VideoGameEsoterica I'm in Racine. Which is just north of Kenosha and South of Milwaukee. Pretty close to Chicago!
Same lake, diff state. I am about 60ish minutes from you then
Legends say teenagers sold their copies of Sonic R on Saturn just for quarters to play this game once they learned you could run as EMTs.
Hahaha better than playing Sonic R
One other thing - If you ever set up the original PCB for this game, you will eventually want to burn and modify two new EPROMs. The game has a "Cabinet Network Error" that is related to the drive board not being connected to the Model 3. It sticks there for about two minutes before the game finally loads.
It *_can_* be patched, however. I patched it to my Japanese board of the game. I just posted them on Arcade-Projects but have yet to post the US version since work has been hectic for me. :-P
Ooh good to know. Also good you posted it :)
I was a vol fire/EMT driver. This ambulance is a E-Type Ford. Body and Engen was in evething it was good. We use in till 2006. 2007 We got a box Ambulance. The van ambulance in snow & Ice not fun at all. I live Michigan
Wow. Not a detail I expected but I do love knowing. Since you were an EMT…how many times did you run the entire way to the hospital like in the game? Haha
@@VideoGameEsoterica Nearest hospital fifteen miles away
The 🚑 we had was the city's. A copper got them form the fire department
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This game traumatized me as a ten year old. That little boy didn’t stand a chance.
Seems like it did that to a lot of people
For me, this game is another proof of Moder 3's superiority over the Naomi. Case in point: Crazy Taxi.
Both games are similar in that they use an open world town to traverse. But here, the town not only looks bigger/better with more things going on, there's also nearly infinite draw distance. Crazy Taxi on Naomi though, you only see a tiny part of the town as it slowly pops up in a short distance around you.
Same with the LA Harley Davidson Model 3 game. Yet another open world town filled with huge structures and zero pop-up. No such thing in Naomi though.
Yes Model 3 had the ability to do those larger open worlds justice
Man, it feels like Sega couldn't make a bad arcade game if they tried
No they were constantly making hits in that generation
Really hoping the Real Life Career series prototype shows up. Jambo and Emergency Call are perfect to show off the Naomi arcade bizarreness to newbies. Blazing Firefighters seems wishful thinking and to me shows probably never in actual development. The source of this rumor is page 27 of official UK dreamcast magazine #15 nov 2000 stating a early 2001 release date. Took me awhile to track the exact archive down as wiki only cites IGN citing the magazine with no issue #
Firefighting was an interesting genre for arcades but it def worked
@@VideoGameEsoterica Yeah, I find it amusing the magazine says it’s coming out in like 4 months and will somehow use wiimote style gameplay with a regular light gun
Haha it could have been done. GunCon works in a similar method. So it’s possible
Too creepy for my taste.great finding anyway!
Haha it is oddly a bit creepy
I never played this game but it looks so stressing!
Its def stress inducing!
Brilliant.
Its a good time for sure
since this was posted on neogaf and they love to poopoo on sega (and sonic) i had a idea for a horror game where sonic-antis and militants rule the world via biopunk machinations but the player can reverse all of that if he can get to the middle power source at a giant tower once you activate will erase them for good - but will also erase them from history and start a new timeline
Lol that’s quite the story idea
Have you ever beaten the game? I'm not even sure if it's possible to complete with automatic transmission. With manual I can only squeeze through the final course with a second on the clock--and we know how perfect you have to play in EGA to complete those courses. It's lots of fun but far too reliant on memorization, where Crazy Taxi is the opposite and has plenty of freedom. Jambo episode would be cool.
Once or twice years ago. I think I was on manual
In MT you have more control over your ambulance, but it is doable in AT. You need to mind your driving not to knock off any health-points, you'll be OK.
Great video. Do you need a high end pc to emulate this? I remember trying to emulate this awhile back and it had all kinds of weird textures. I kind of want to revisit this again now that I watched this.
No. Medium tier should be fine
I am emulating this in Batocera on a Nucbox 7 MiniPC with integrated graphics and it works great. If you have any sort of graphics card all Model 3 games should look beautiful in emulation.
Good to know 👍
Put this on my work laptop and now my steam deck. This game so good. Thanks for pushing to get back into it lol
I need to get Supermodel set up on my Deck
That's pretty random even for Sega, Cool though I'd play it
It’s random in the best ways possible
This game looks fun but the plots to these stages are weirdly dark. Specially if you don't make it in time. 😨 But, I'll definitely would give this game a try when i have the chance! 🥰
Oh they are def dark. Which is the weird and charming part
@@VideoGameEsoterica Right exactly bro
Can't compete with Crazy Taxi in the audio department at all! Otherwise looks fun.
Unless you want to listen to the soundtrack because Crazy Taxi always throws up matches for content lol
Unfortunately everyone not pulling over when you're going code 3 is the most realistic thing
Haha esp in Chicago
"you guys requested this"
I feel spoken to😂
Not much to really say I haven't in other video comments. This is one of the most insane games Sega ever made and makes Crazy Taxi look tame. Should've been on Dreamcast or at least PS2/XBOX/Gamecube.
Hard game too. I never got past Stage 2 exact reasons you stated.
The game is brutally hard. But in a good way
Modern games have spoiled me.
This is the Dark Souls of arcade racing games
Real ones know Dark Souls knows nothing of Ninja Gaiden 6-1
I’ll never beat Ninja Gaiden
Sad we did not get this on dreamcast
It was. We were supposed to but nope. Classic Sega
See Sony, See Microsft, See Nintendo! THIS! THIS RIGHT HERE! THIS! This is what Arcade racing is about, silly easy to pick up and fun! Now get your dev teams started :P .
Seriously. Forza Horizon is fun but its still not an "arcade racing game"
@@VideoGameEsoterica Yup, I also get bored after the first race. It also takes too long to get into and there are like only a few of these "spectacular races" where you race a plane or something.
But I know this is a very "dad" way of thinking XD. Old Man Millenial LOL. Wanting my themepark ride arcade racer with fantastic music and spectacular over the top effects. XD .
No I agree. I just want 10+ awesome tracks with a ton of spectacle and amazing shortcuts / jumps. Give me a new SF rush and I’ll be happy
@@VideoGameEsoterica Yup, lately for the fix I've been playing Hydro Thunder. Not SEGA, I know, but close enough to scratch it a bit.
couple of years ago,someone was selling the arcade ab 500 klms from were i live for 150 euros(!!!) in working condition and the add was there for a month. noone wanted it! i would consider it now,but still the theme is too obscure even for my taste
Oh I would have been in the car that day!
You see one complete working game for sale, go get it a.s.a.p! You'll be buying a SEGA driving setup that works with most other Model3 driving games, provided you get the appropriate board for it.
poor guy, he lives in Chicago !!!
Its like this every day!
I wonder if any of the developers who worked on this went on to do Crazy Taxi.
A good question
I can answer this. The two games were made by different than semi-independent branches of SEGA. This game was developed by AM1 (who also made games like House of the Dead) and Crazy Taxi was AM3. That being said, the studios did collaborate often so it would not surprise me if some ideas exchanged hands.
Yes. Some staff may have floated around too
Unfortunately little Timmy hardly makes it, usually I play this one after my Virtua Fighter 3 run throughs, especially on Shun Di nights as I usually love to throw back a few beers to give it the authentic drunken master feel
Timmy didn’t make it because the paramedics have been drinking!
@@VideoGameEsoterica I'd love to see someone make a Drinking and driving PSA with footage from the game staring little Timmy that creepy looking scene would scare anyone straight, seriously though I have to try the "stretcher" mode I never knew about that it looks hilarious
I’d watch that
@@VideoGameEsoterica LOL little Timmy didn't make it a few more times tonight, massive bleeding and respirator failure.... Shun Di is a horrible EMT Timmy will fair better on a Sarah or Akira night
Timmy is in the great beyond
Been wanting to play this forvever & finally got to recently thanks to Supermodel UI. Can anyone tell me how to access the test menu to change the difficulty or how to use save states? (If even possible?) As rough as this game seems, I wanna keep giving it a shot, but there are zero continues as far as I can tell & starting all over again from level 1 just NOT going to happen
Supermodel has a page in their site that lists the service/test keys. Off the top of my head I think it’s F2 and F4 but check
I love that you have to get the President of the USA to the hospital safely. The President, who looks suspiciously like Bill Clinton! 🤣
I mean when you are the best arcade ambulance driver around...you get the hard jobs!
9-1-1 IS A JOKE!
Sorry, I can't help but sing that song every time I play this game lol
😂
A game where the sirens are on non stop is not for me.
Haha that’s fair
You can set the volume of the siren under the test-menu.
Or just turn it off too I believe
Ok, a few years old but still a good example how to manage this game:
ruclips.net/video/HI_1iXpbCYU/видео.htmlsi=_oPH1XN0IRWrCT7e
Model 3 RGB @25kHz captured with a Micomsoft SC-500N1 card.
Yeah no. I'm not going to be like other commentors who give you empty praise. This video was clearly rushed. Stop trying to rush out an episode every single day. Next time focus on QUALITY over Quantity. I played this game all the time in arcades, and I say this game deserves a better video from you.
You didn't even talk about the actual arcade cabinet. Not. one. single photo. Of. The. Arcade. Cabinet. You didn't talk about the development of the game, any of actual Sega staff who were involved in the game's development, or it's reception in arcades. Complete rush job.
All you did was talk about subscribing for the first part, then rambled about gameplay for 9 minutes. You could have done much better than that and you KNOW it.
You did a game that I played often a disservice. These videos are not supposed to be "fast food" that gets pumped out each day with low quality. There is much more you could have and should have done for a review about this game.
Lol ok. Whatever you say. I decide what I want to talk about and that’s not the physical cabinet. It’s the gameplay
And don’t speak for me. You don’t tell me what I know. I do that for myself
It’s his channel, man, geez. It’s not a public service. VGE, try not to feed these boyos.
Haha I can’t help respond sometimes. Everyone thinks they know better than I do what I was trying to do
I think I kinda agree. Video Game Esoterica made a few good videos. But I think he rushing them out now maybe he thinks it gives him more subscribers by rushing maybe? I mean how can you talk about the arcade game without even mentioning the arcade cabinet? One picture would have been cool. Sega makes unique arcade cabinets but he dont even bother showing the arcade cabinet. Even other people in comments mention it.