For me besides sega rally and some single NASCAR arcades everything was new for me only a few years back from now. There I started to look after decent arcade games I find interesting.
Born in '89 here. I definitely have a few fond memories of arcades, but they were like a special treat by the time I was able to play them. There might be one at the local laundry mat or some little chuckle cheese-type place (pizza hutt etc), but there weren't any dedicated arcades around me living down in the south. So I mainly enjoyed home consoles as a result.
Definitely the 90s was the best. Early 80s I'd tag along with my older brother and watch him play Galaga, Arkanoid, Ms PacMan, R-Type etc... but never really felt like playing those games much, because A, I didn't have the money, and B they didn't seem as fun as the games I had on Coleco / NES at the time. Really, just enjoyed watching. But when TMNT and Hard Drivin hit my local arcade in 1989 it was too big of a draw. 90s brought so many of the great franchises. All of the Capcom fighters, MK, Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing, WrestleFest, House of the Dead, Tekken, Time Crisis, Daytona and so many more. In the mid-90s a Sega City opened up near where I lived and there was NOTHING like playing Daytona USA with a bunch of your friends and a live race announcer.
@@jamesdagnan2845 being born in the mid 70's. You nailed it perfectly in your observation. 90's video games were epic, but you really had to seek them out, to the point where, even a teen/young adult with a car... I also mostly stuck to console and later PC games. The 80's were the golden age of arcades, not because the games were better, but because games were everywhere. Restaurants ( pizza places and all mom and pop burger joints) convienient stores.. Hotel recreation areas, and proper arcades were also everywhere. Some that marketed to be "kid friendly" ( no smoking before a certain time, etc.. I think I remembered one where kids under 16 had to leave at 6 or 7 pm and adults were not allowed unless they were with a kid before that)...
This video would've been waaaaay different had you lived in Europe back then, at least in Spain the Master System was everywhere (even during the 16 bit era, since it was the cheap entry point to gaming), and even if the arcade ports had serious downgrades we all drooled with the magazine ads; seriously, having Golden Axe, After Burner, Out Run, Shinobi, Altered Beast, Alien Storm, and, well, almost every Sega arcade at home with decent quality was simply amazing, coming from Spectrum or Amstrad the Master System quality was unreal.
I think we all dreamt of having the arcade experience at home. I also think it was never possible because the arcade experience is much more than just the machines and the games. It includes the whole environment plus having an audience and spending real money.
Still remember the crowds of people gathering around new games when they came out. Everyone trying to figure out how to play from each other. Also, when the mid-90s hit and the games with outstanding speakers and digitized voices came out, the volume was always cranked to 11 like MK, NBA Jam and especially Killer Instinct. I could still hear the thunderous C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER 100ft from the outside the arcade over everything else, and that was in an amusement park next to rides and roller coasters.
the NES arcade ports was my childhood....Double Dragon Trilogy, DK, Contra, Super C, Turtles 2...some would be BETTER than their arcade counterparts in my eyes...what a time to be alive.
@@avalond1193 lol NES strider better than the arcade? You must be American with Nostalgia goggles. The only version comparable to the arcade is the Megadrive/Genesis version.
@@avalond1193 bubonic commando would be a funny game to see. You’re a soldier spreading the plague and you don’t know why people keep getting sick around you. Lol
@@nicholasbullock1709 The Nes hardly sold in the west outside the US. Every time I hear someone claiming an NES version is better than the arcade they are American with nostalgia goggles. That wasn't the childhood of most Europeans. There are some very good NES games but people get carried away. Strider and Double Dragon and 90% of arcade ports are ass on the NES.
The NES was still such a leap forward, even if it didn’t handle most ports well. TMNT 2: The Arcade Game was still very impressive for the NES. Me and my brother loved it so much.
Tmnt 2 on nes was so great at the time I liked it a lot more the the first game for nes I could never get through the technadrome. But tmnt 2 I was actually able to beat. The turtles games just work better as beatem ups. Turtles in time and the genesis game were fantastic games.
Hey, speaking of RoboCop, I knew someone who was in the movie. His name was Spencer Prokop. He played the guy with the math textbook at the gas station that gets robbed by one of the thugs who killed Murphy in the first place. Good dude. Later, he did a lot of voice-over work on Dragonball Z, IIRC.
Glad you called out the Famicom version of Contra. It's incredible looking, more like an early Genesis title than an NES game. Stupid expensive cart nowadays, though.
These are all my favorites..I was born 1980 so I remember these games so well ..ur videos are awesome. I always look forward to what topic on games u got next..thank u SegaLord
"You got a scrotum gun in your pants or you are just happy to see me, I don't know I just ate a banana, bananas are healthy How did I get off the subject of the scrotum gun? Got a banana, no, I think that's something in your pants Are you happy to see me (happy to see me) happy to see me"
My wife, who is Brazilian, and now a legal US citizen told me a lot about how Sega, and the Master System, was much bigger amongst her family and friends, than the Nintendo systems. I lived out there for a number of years, and I can also tell you, Brazil has the largest Japanese population, outside of Japan, arcades are still thriving like crazy there, and Sega is still a having a huge impact.
Funny to think when the Famicom/NES was being created the spec was set so it would primarily be powerful enough to play Donkey Kong faithfully. The fact that it was able to do so much more than that over it's life through things like mapper chips and good programming is amazing!
Another great video. Born in 73, i have been lucky enough to experience most every home console one way or another. Starting with Atari 2600 in 79, Colecovision in 83, NES in 86, Game Boy in 89, TG16 in 90. I bought my own Genesis in 92, then SNES in 96, N64 in 97, GemeCube in 01, Wii in 07, X360 in 10, XONE in 15. My buddy also had Sega CD, PS1, Dreamcast that i also played quite a bit. I have fond memories of every console, some more than others, but the 4 that gave me the WOW factor with the warm cold chills. 4. Colecovision. 3. TG16. 2. GameCube. 1. NES. I still consider the NES the GOAT and look forward to your next installment in this throwback series.
Yeah, us poor kids had to make do with pre-crash games from discount bins and yard sales until the 16-bit wars finally made the NES affordable. On the other hand, this really helped me with an appreciation of gaming history. ET is a lot more playable if it's the only game you own besides Maze Craze and Demons to Diamonds (with no paddle controls.) so you're forced to actually read the instruction book. (Turns out there's way more to it than falling into holes.) Besides, getting an Intellivision with 35 games and an Intellivioice for just 5 bucks? Man, I miss the days when retro gaming was a hobby anyone could afford. Once angry internet critics made it mainstream, collectors priced all the best games out of reach.
I grew up poor and I remember when I came across arcade boards I would find quarters on top of the machine sometimes and it would make me so happy. I would use the quarters to play the arcade games with my brothers and even buy us snacks. I never understood this phenomenon. Was this some sort of arcade/gamer etiquette? P.S Seriously thank you 🙏 to those gamers who were very kind enough to do that. You made a kid and his brothers happy to experience what it was like to play arcade games. Also thanks for feeding me and my siblings as well.
Really enjoyable as always, thanks for continuing to share your journey. Being of similar age, I can really relate with my own nostalgia which is often so close to yours. Cheers.
I was born in 81 and I honestly got to experience the "Golden Era" of technology when Atari was was still kind of relevant to when Sega and Nintendo released their consoles. I got to experience games I would play at the bowling alley by simply popping them into my NES at home. Always thinking to myself "Why does it look so different?" While Nintendo didn't have the power to fully recreate the graphics of the arcade. It had the power to recreate the fun and it taught me then that graphics aren't everything. If the game is fun, the controls handle well, then graphics were nothing more than icing on a very delicious cake. Something I feel that went in reverse in this day in age where Graphics became the end all be all, with fun and controls taking a far distant step away from what fun is. Not saying this is the case for all games but it is the case for most.
Games would often be NESified and it always bothered me as a kid. I appreciate them nowadays. They made games to the strengths of the system instead of trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.
Good o' dayz😊. I got NES packed with the Mario and duckhunt combo cartridge when i was a kid. Thanks for showing us some classics. The nostalgia of better days.
Arcade ports give you a good base of comparison on home consoles. I hope you dig deep in to this arcade to home port series and touch on the early, mid and late 2000s.
I kid you not, as much as I liked Ghosts n Goblins in the arcades and on my Atari ST, I absolutely LOVED the Amstrad CPC versions. For me it was a clear upgrade. Others thought I was crazy. Same as Ikari Warriors. Ha, I guess you felt similar with Contra. VS and Playchoice 10. Never even heard of them before. Interesting. Cool video.
Dude... you're gaming experiences in life are almost identical to time!! Right down to the your best friend having the Master System! This was wild for me to watch
Arcade games were always my favorite type of games and maybe that's why I loved the Dreamcast so much because it was the first console to do it right (NeoGeo was the same thing as arcades with nothing extra while DC had exclusive games made for it on top of perfect ports using the same NAOMI Board)
Ah! The NES. So many great games. So many great memories. Metroid. Blaster master. Castlevania . Batman. TMNT. TMNT trilogy. Double Dragon games. Festers Quest. The Adventures of Link. Ninja Gaiden and many more. Great video thank you.
Thanks for making this series of videos which bring back so much great memories! Can't wait too see the next episodes 😊 I hope episode 4 is about the NeoGeo AES 😄
Gauntlet was probably my favorite arcade game of the 80s with 4 player cooperative and feed me quarters for health meant you could continue playing even if the odds were against you.
1986 was the year of both Nintendo and Videosmarts. Videosmarts was educational for kids who went from Preschool to 2nd Grade while Nintendo was entertaining for kids of probably any age. as far as I'm concerned, they were both successful in their own rights, they just became that way for their own types of Audiences. does anyone besides me believe that Videosmarts was kinda video game-ish in its own way?
@08:58 : *Double Dragon* . Whenever i see this game i always remember 2 things : 1)Back then I had played a 2-player co-op mode with my baby brother in some computer store ,and after that ,i started asking my mother all the time to buy me a PC ,until ... she bought me one !! 2)A friend of mine was so talented at playing games , that he could play the Double Dragon PC version at 2-player co-op mode by ... himself alone !!! and he was veeery good ,not some random punches here and there ,he was actually playing the game like there were 2 players !!
I wanna give light gun games some love here. Operation Wolf for the Arcade a great solid arcade port but when it came to the Nes it was a huge disappointment as the Nes because the Nes light gun support was too often off-target and the calibration just wasn't precise for fluid accurate shots. I was fortunate enough to give Operation Wolf a weekend rental at a local video rental store as a kid just to be disappointed.
I cant tell you how amazed I am that mame came along and after buying my Nintendo minis to have some memories back, it blows my mind that I can have the arcade games of the nes game on those systems. I play tmnt, simpsons and xmen often, just to remember only ever seeing them on the arcades. Such beautiful games I was never able to beat but now its plain awesome
Great video bro really enjoying the series. Keep up the good work! My personal nostalgia is for the 16bit machines so really can't wait for the next part.
It was the Xmas of 86 that I got my very first console as well, aka the NES. I was only 3 years old at the time. While my stepfather had a 2600, this was essentially my introduction to video games & the beginning of my lifelong obsession.
By the time the 21st century arrived the arcade scene was dying by then with home consoles being more powerful than the arcade itself. Some of the most famous arcade games that can be play at home in near arcade perfect form are mainly SNK and Capcom fighting games so the Sega saturn was the system most well remembered for this feat follow by dreamcast and ps2 later on for a bit more handful of more technically demanding titles.
Great series! it will get really interesting with the Saturn hosting several near-identical arcade titles, and 6th gen carrying better-than-arcade ports
I was born in 79 in the UK and went through the full evolution from pong style game to the Atari 2600 then a Sinclair spectrum 48k onto the 128k version. After that a mega drive then Sega Saturn and playstation 2,3,4. I used to love 90's arcades. So much variety shooters driving games flight games fighting games platformers
His videogame experience growing up is very similar to mine, except the Commodore 64 was a huge part of my videogaming life, I was 6 years old at the time in the early 80s and videogames fascinated me ever since.
Hell, I absolutely LOVE the original Double Dragon myself. It was one of the earliest NES games that I owned & I played the living hell out of it. Still do to this day in fact. I actually love the "level up" system myself, gives it a bit of an RPG like touch. It's actually my favorite of all the Double Dragons for the system, and you're absolutely right about the soundtrack. It is truly amazing.
Love the Double Dragon chip tunes at the beginning. Nice touch. Not sure if you played it, but Gyruss for the Atari 2600 was quite an incredible port compared to the Arcade original. The fact that it had the full soundtrack of the arcade original in it thoroughly impressed me, considering the severe limitations of the Atari 2600 hardware.
Great stuff! Sorry your friend moved away in 89. My best friend Chris H moved from CA to MA back in 89 as well. He and I rode bikes and gamed as much as possible until he moved. I still wonder what he is doing these days 30+ years later.
Me & my friends LOVED Rampage growing up. It was tons of fun to play 2 Player. That being said, I can't imagine playing it in 1 player mode. It probably wouldn't be much fun that way & if that was your experience with it then I can't blame ya. It truly has to be played Co-Op to be enjoyed.
i remember playing ZANAC for NES allllll night long trying to keep quiet and not wake up mom and dad lol its so hard with that soundtrack ...that game was brutal as hell, i miss those days.
I knew one kid who lived one street over from me who got a Master System at launch. His mom and my mom worked at the same corner store in my neighborhood so when one worked the other would babysit the others kids. So when my mom worked I'd be playing The Master System over there and he'd play my NES at my place. Course we didn't refer to them like that. It was The Nintendo and The Sega. But I remember vividly playing Master System Double Dragon and watching his Dad play Phantasy Star. My Grandmother of all people I think in 1990 got an Atari 7800 on clearance with a bunch of games so my brother and I would have something to play when we visited. So I got to experience it all. Had the same thing with the next generation where I had a Genesis, my friends had SNES and relatives had Turbografx. It wasn't until I was older that I found out that was not a common experience. As for games I never liked Bad Dudes on NES and I actually didn't know Robocop had an arcade version. I just played the NES version. I think I might have beaten it but my memories of it are that the game gets really frustrating later into the game.
Nice. We're getting closer (compared to Part 1). But the 16-bit era is the first time that I think the arcade ports were generally "impressive". I'll go on to your next video in the series and check that out!
Even tho I didn’t have money to play, I really miss the Arcades. As a kid I didn’t see anything wrong with the NES Bad Dudes port. I loved it, & the music still one of my favorites. But playing it today I agree with everything you said about it. 😄
Some of the games like Contra, Super C, and Rygar, never came to arcades around me, so it wasn't until later when i played them and realized that in some instances the NES versions were actually better than the arcade. Double Dragon II is one of my favorite NES games but I absolutely hate the arcade version.
Yeah that first level in Double Dragon 2 had a really catchy soundtrack that to me is one of the highlights of NES music. I’ve ever added some lyrics to it which goes like this: Baking cookies in da microwave...
Double Dragon 2-3 (arcade) were both worse than the first game for various reasons. I know 3 was a decisive game on NES but 2 was and is still well loved.
I think part of the issue was also how the games were presented - there often wasn't enough to an arcade game, once you remove the better graphics, the difficulty, and the excitement/energy of being in an actual arcade. Those game that use the setting & characters of the arcade original, but made the home port into its own thing, fared much better, IMO.
I think the Nes' greatest strength was providing certain experiences that you couldn't get in the arcade. Games like Zelda, Metroid, and Final Fantasy redefined what you could play at home, especially for people who were not into computer gaming. This didn't make arcades obsolete but it was a big step in their eventual demise I think.
Great video, but I don't know if I'd say Ghosts n' Goblins' scrolling was smooth. Its choppiness is exactly the thing that has always jumped out at me. You definitely lucked out & got on board at the right time though, the end of '86 was the exact moment the NES started to get good.
I was born in 87 so I missed the golden era of arcades but at least got to enjoy the 90s arcades :) Enjoying this series!
For me besides sega rally and some single NASCAR arcades everything was new for me only a few years back from now. There I started to look after decent arcade games I find interesting.
Born in '89 here. I definitely have a few fond memories of arcades, but they were like a special treat by the time I was able to play them. There might be one at the local laundry mat or some little chuckle cheese-type place (pizza hutt etc), but there weren't any dedicated arcades around me living down in the south. So I mainly enjoyed home consoles as a result.
Definitely the 90s was the best. Early 80s I'd tag along with my older brother and watch him play Galaga, Arkanoid, Ms PacMan, R-Type etc... but never really felt like playing those games much, because A, I didn't have the money, and B they didn't seem as fun as the games I had on Coleco / NES at the time. Really, just enjoyed watching. But when TMNT and Hard Drivin hit my local arcade in 1989 it was too big of a draw. 90s brought so many of the great franchises. All of the Capcom fighters, MK, Virtua Fighter, Virtua Racing, WrestleFest, House of the Dead, Tekken, Time Crisis, Daytona and so many more. In the mid-90s a Sega City opened up near where I lived and there was NOTHING like playing Daytona USA with a bunch of your friends and a live race announcer.
86’ here. I think my earliest memory of an arcade was a Mortal Kombat or the Simpsons. Both absolute classics
@@jamesdagnan2845 being born in the mid 70's. You nailed it perfectly in your observation. 90's video games were epic, but you really had to seek them out, to the point where, even a teen/young adult with a car... I also mostly stuck to console and later PC games. The 80's were the golden age of arcades, not because the games were better, but because games were everywhere. Restaurants ( pizza places and all mom and pop burger joints) convienient stores.. Hotel recreation areas, and proper arcades were also everywhere. Some that marketed to be "kid friendly" ( no smoking before a certain time, etc.. I think I remembered one where kids under 16 had to leave at 6 or 7 pm and adults were not allowed unless they were with a kid before that)...
This video would've been waaaaay different had you lived in Europe back then, at least in Spain the Master System was everywhere (even during the 16 bit era, since it was the cheap entry point to gaming), and even if the arcade ports had serious downgrades we all drooled with the magazine ads; seriously, having Golden Axe, After Burner, Out Run, Shinobi, Altered Beast, Alien Storm, and, well, almost every Sega arcade at home with decent quality was simply amazing, coming from Spectrum or Amstrad the Master System quality was unreal.
And instantaneous at loading games
This was such an awesome time to be a kid and I'm so glad I got to experience the NES craze.
Yeah me too!
I was there right from the start of the NES craze. Glad to experience it all.
I think we all dreamt of having the arcade experience at home. I also think it was never possible because the arcade experience is much more than just the machines and the games. It includes the whole environment plus having an audience and spending real money.
Mostly true.
Though if you could afford it at the time a neo geo AVS was as good as it got.
Definitely a completely unique experience compared to home or mobile gaming
Having friends gaming by your side in the arcades also made the experience more satisfying.Really miss them days!
Still remember the crowds of people gathering around new games when they came out. Everyone trying to figure out how to play from each other. Also, when the mid-90s hit and the games with outstanding speakers and digitized voices came out, the volume was always cranked to 11 like MK, NBA Jam and especially Killer Instinct. I could still hear the thunderous C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER 100ft from the outside the arcade over everything else, and that was in an amusement park next to rides and roller coasters.
@@djstyles97 Love KI! Always hit that sweet spot when you heard Ultra Combo!!! It is favorite fighting game of all time.
the NES arcade ports was my childhood....Double Dragon Trilogy, DK, Contra, Super C, Turtles 2...some would be BETTER than their arcade counterparts in my eyes...what a time to be alive.
Don't forget bionic commando and strider! Better than their arcade big brothers
@@avalond1193 lol NES strider better than the arcade? You must be American with Nostalgia goggles. The only version comparable to the arcade is the Megadrive/Genesis version.
@@alexojideagu only Americans can have nostalgia goggles? No other nationality remembers their youth? That’s tragic.
@@avalond1193 bubonic commando would be a funny game to see. You’re a soldier spreading the plague and you don’t know why people keep getting sick around you. Lol
@@nicholasbullock1709 The Nes hardly sold in the west outside the US. Every time I hear someone claiming an NES version is better than the arcade they are American with nostalgia goggles. That wasn't the childhood of most Europeans. There are some very good NES games but people get carried away. Strider and Double Dragon and 90% of arcade ports are ass on the NES.
The NES was still such a leap forward, even if it didn’t handle most ports well. TMNT 2: The Arcade Game was still very impressive for the NES. Me and my brother loved it so much.
Tmnt 2 on nes was so great at the time I liked it a lot more the the first game for nes I could never get through the technadrome. But tmnt 2 I was actually able to beat. The turtles games just work better as beatem ups. Turtles in time and the genesis game were fantastic games.
We had TMNT 2 around 1992 if I remember correctly , was blown away at the time by the graphics
Sega Lord X, arcade games from that era are so cool
Rastan is incredible on the Master System, I still play it to this day. 👍🎮
Same here. Great in its day(I had it then) and stands the test of time. One of my favorites for the system.
Hey, speaking of RoboCop, I knew someone who was in the movie. His name was Spencer Prokop. He played the guy with the math textbook at the gas station that gets robbed by one of the thugs who killed Murphy in the first place. Good dude. Later, he did a lot of voice-over work on Dragonball Z, IIRC.
Glad you called out the Famicom version of Contra. It's incredible looking, more like an early Genesis title than an NES game. Stupid expensive cart nowadays, though.
glad Konami decided to include it in the Contra collection
I was just playing Double Dragon in the arcade on my vacation this afternoon, good timing.
Yes, loving this series so far! I imagine it can go for quite a lot more installments!
I am a simple man. I see "Arcade at Home", then I click. Can't wait to see the next episode!
These are all my favorites..I was born 1980 so I remember these games so well ..ur videos are awesome. I always look forward to what topic on games u got next..thank u SegaLord
Every time I hear Ikari Warriors I cant help but hear someone singing "where did the hair go?"
Yes hahaha
"You got a scrotum gun in your pants
or you are just happy to see me, I don't know
I just ate a banana, bananas are healthy
How did I get off the subject of the scrotum gun?
Got a banana, no, I think that's something in your pants
Are you happy to see me (happy to see me) happy to see me"
Yes, and my car just ran out of gas. Better get out and start running b/f it fucking explodes, lol!
A B B A.
Your channel is the best way to feel better; thank you very much :)
My wife, who is Brazilian, and now a legal US citizen told me a lot about how Sega, and the Master System, was much bigger amongst her family and friends, than the Nintendo systems. I lived out there for a number of years, and I can also tell you, Brazil has the largest Japanese population, outside of Japan, arcades are still thriving like crazy there, and Sega is still a having a huge impact.
Every game on this list was part of my childhood too. Almost 100k subscribers man!
Funny to think when the Famicom/NES was being created the spec was set so it would primarily be powerful enough to play Donkey Kong faithfully. The fact that it was able to do so much more than that over it's life through things like mapper chips and good programming is amazing!
Another great video. Born in 73, i have been lucky enough to experience most every home console one way or another. Starting with Atari 2600 in 79, Colecovision in 83, NES in 86, Game Boy in 89, TG16 in 90. I bought my own Genesis in 92, then SNES in 96, N64 in 97, GemeCube in 01, Wii in 07, X360 in 10, XONE in 15. My buddy also had Sega CD, PS1, Dreamcast that i also played quite a bit. I have fond memories of every console, some more than others, but the 4 that gave me the WOW factor with the warm cold chills. 4. Colecovision. 3. TG16. 2. GameCube. 1. NES. I still consider the NES the GOAT and look forward to your next installment in this throwback series.
I had no idea Jackal was an arcade game. My dad and i used to play this together. I just picked up another copy a few days ago.
I was 9 years old in 1986 and the atari 2600 was my go to console at the time.
Yeah, us poor kids had to make do with pre-crash games from discount bins and yard sales until the 16-bit wars finally made the NES affordable. On the other hand, this really helped me with an appreciation of gaming history. ET is a lot more playable if it's the only game you own besides Maze Craze and Demons to Diamonds (with no paddle controls.) so you're forced to actually read the instruction book. (Turns out there's way more to it than falling into holes.)
Besides, getting an Intellivision with 35 games and an Intellivioice for just 5 bucks? Man, I miss the days when retro gaming was a hobby anyone could afford. Once angry internet critics made it mainstream, collectors priced all the best games out of reach.
I was born in the same period, and I can relate to this a lot, even though I was in Europe :-)
the only difference i think is that in europe, master system has a way bigger market, i knew a lot of people having it.
I grew up poor and I remember when I came across arcade boards I would find quarters on top of the machine sometimes and it would make me so happy. I would use the quarters to play the arcade games with my brothers and even buy us snacks. I never understood this phenomenon. Was this some sort of arcade/gamer etiquette?
P.S Seriously thank you 🙏 to those gamers who were very kind enough to do that. You made a kid and his brothers happy to experience what it was like to play arcade games. Also thanks for feeding me and my siblings as well.
almost 100k subs! Dude you deserve to have so much more! You're one of my favorite content creators.
Thanks man. That 100K has been a long time coming.
Really enjoyable as always, thanks for continuing to share your journey. Being of similar age, I can really relate with my own nostalgia which is often so close to yours. Cheers.
I was born in 81 and I honestly got to experience the "Golden Era" of technology when Atari was was still kind of relevant to when Sega and Nintendo released their consoles. I got to experience games I would play at the bowling alley by simply popping them into my NES at home. Always thinking to myself "Why does it look so different?" While Nintendo didn't have the power to fully recreate the graphics of the arcade. It had the power to recreate the fun and it taught me then that graphics aren't everything. If the game is fun, the controls handle well, then graphics were nothing more than icing on a very delicious cake.
Something I feel that went in reverse in this day in age where Graphics became the end all be all, with fun and controls taking a far distant step away from what fun is. Not saying this is the case for all games but it is the case for most.
Exactly! This is why AAA titles these days rarely do it for me. I feel a lot of the modern indie scene is made for us old school gamers.
One of the best channels of YT about gaming: these Arcade inspired chapters are a real big deal!
Now I'm waiting for the 3rd installment!
Games would often be NESified and it always bothered me as a kid. I appreciate them nowadays. They made games to the strengths of the system instead of trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.
Good o' dayz😊. I got NES packed with the Mario and duckhunt combo cartridge when i was a kid.
Thanks for showing us some classics. The nostalgia of better days.
Frankly dude, listening to you speking from your experience while keeping a great calm is like fresh air to me. Congrats for another great video.
Up, down, up, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, START. Contra 2 player mode was the Greatest! on the NES. Thanks again for more great memories!
Arcade ports give you a good base of comparison on home consoles. I hope you dig deep in to this arcade to home port series and touch on the early, mid and late 2000s.
I kid you not, as much as I liked Ghosts n Goblins in the arcades and on my Atari ST, I absolutely LOVED the Amstrad CPC versions. For me it was a clear upgrade. Others thought I was crazy. Same as Ikari Warriors.
Ha, I guess you felt similar with Contra.
VS and Playchoice 10. Never even heard of them before. Interesting.
Cool video.
Loving the series and the all the editing (vid clips) great stuff.
Dude... you're gaming experiences in life are almost identical to time!! Right down to the your best friend having the Master System! This was wild for me to watch
Arcade games were always my favorite type of games and maybe that's why I loved the Dreamcast so much because it was the first console to do it right (NeoGeo was the same thing as arcades with nothing extra while DC had exclusive games made for it on top of perfect ports using the same NAOMI Board)
NES, Master System, Genesis, those all had valiant efforts at bringing the arcade home.
Can't wait for the Neo Geo Arcade At Home video.
"They are all arcade perfect ports" - 10 second video
Unfortunately the Neo plays no real role in my gaming past outside the arcade. Home iterations were well beyond my means.
@@SegaLordX That's why I love being an adult. If I haven't played it, it's new to me!
Solomon's Key from Tecmo was a great conversion; the NES over theme is one of my favorite game tunes of all time
Really enjoying this series. It’s pretty much a history from one persons perspective of arcade to console which is cool
I am loving this series. Very fun to watch and a lot of great stories and content here.
Part 2!
Today just got sooo much better.
Thank a million SLX! 😊
Can't wait for the rollover to 100,000 subs.
Thanks was waiting for this
Ah! The NES. So many great games. So many great memories. Metroid. Blaster master. Castlevania . Batman. TMNT. TMNT trilogy. Double Dragon games. Festers Quest. The Adventures of Link. Ninja Gaiden and many more.
Great video thank you.
Thanks for making this series of videos which bring back so much great memories! Can't wait too see the next episodes 😊
I hope episode 4 is about the NeoGeo AES 😄
Loving that Rygar music playing in the background. My favorite NES game without question.
Gauntlet was probably my favorite arcade game of the 80s with 4 player cooperative and feed me quarters for health meant you could continue playing even if the odds were against you.
1986 was the year of both Nintendo and Videosmarts.
Videosmarts was educational for kids who went from Preschool to 2nd Grade while Nintendo was entertaining for kids of probably any age.
as far as I'm concerned, they were both successful in their own rights, they just became that way for their own types of Audiences.
does anyone besides me believe that Videosmarts was kinda video game-ish in its own way?
Oh man a lot of these bring me back. Rastan is my ALL TIME FAV!
Great series, loving it! Looking forward to the next chapter!
Lol the hell is Robocop yelling all the time in the Arcade game? Sounds like he's yelling "Coughin!". So I'd always yell "Sneezin!" while playing lol.
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*Double Dragon* . Whenever i see this game i always remember 2 things :
1)Back then I had played a 2-player co-op mode with my baby brother in some computer store ,and after that ,i started asking my mother all the time to buy me a PC ,until ... she bought me one !!
2)A friend of mine was so talented at playing games , that he could play the Double Dragon PC version at 2-player co-op mode by ... himself alone !!! and he was veeery good ,not some random punches here and there ,he was actually playing the game like there were 2 players !!
I wanna give light gun games some love here. Operation Wolf for the Arcade a great solid arcade port but when it came to the Nes it was a huge disappointment as the Nes because the Nes light gun support was too often off-target and the calibration just wasn't precise for fluid accurate shots. I was fortunate enough to give Operation Wolf a weekend rental at a local video rental store as a kid just to be disappointed.
I cant tell you how amazed I am that mame came along and after buying my Nintendo minis to have some memories back, it blows my mind that I can have the arcade games of the nes game on those systems. I play tmnt, simpsons and xmen often, just to remember only ever seeing them on the arcades. Such beautiful games I was never able to beat but now its plain awesome
Really been enjoying this series and the nostalgia
Great video bro really enjoying the series. Keep up the good work! My personal nostalgia is for the 16bit machines so really can't wait for the next part.
I realy enjoying this series :)
Seen some games i totaly forgot the name of, thank you for making me rememeber this.
Sega Lord x you are a heart of nostalgia love your channel
I was born in '82, and was there. Right at the beginning of the craze.
It was the Xmas of 86 that I got my very first console as well, aka the NES. I was only 3 years old at the time. While my stepfather had a 2600, this was essentially my introduction to video games & the beginning of my lifelong obsession.
i reallly love this series, hoping for a part 3!
By the time the 21st century arrived the arcade scene was dying by then with home consoles being more powerful than the arcade itself. Some of the most famous arcade games that can be play at home in near arcade perfect form are mainly SNK and Capcom fighting games so the Sega saturn was the system most well remembered for this feat follow by dreamcast and ps2 later on for a bit more handful of more technically demanding titles.
Would love to see some side by side footage in the next vid. Love your work
Hooray for another Sega Lord X Video
Great series! it will get really interesting with the Saturn hosting several near-identical arcade titles, and 6th gen carrying better-than-arcade ports
I was born in 79 in the UK and went through the full evolution from pong style game to the Atari 2600 then a Sinclair spectrum 48k onto the 128k version. After that a mega drive then Sega Saturn and playstation 2,3,4. I used to love 90's arcades. So much variety shooters driving games flight games fighting games platformers
His videogame experience growing up is very similar to mine, except the Commodore 64 was a huge part of my videogaming life, I was 6 years old at the time in the early 80s and videogames fascinated me ever since.
Hell, I absolutely LOVE the original Double Dragon myself. It was one of the earliest NES games that I owned & I played the living hell out of it. Still do to this day in fact. I actually love the "level up" system myself, gives it a bit of an RPG like touch. It's actually my favorite of all the Double Dragons for the system, and you're absolutely right about the soundtrack. It is truly amazing.
Absolutely love this series, I hope it goes all the way up to 6th gen consoles and maybe beyond.
thanks for this awesome video miss the 80's
Love the Double Dragon chip tunes at the beginning. Nice touch.
Not sure if you played it, but Gyruss for the Atari 2600 was quite an incredible port compared to the Arcade original. The fact that it had the full soundtrack of the arcade original in it thoroughly impressed me, considering the severe limitations of the Atari 2600 hardware.
I love your content Sega Lord!
The Sega Master System had a port of Rampage that mopped the floor with the NES version.
Great stuff! Sorry your friend moved away in 89. My best friend Chris H moved from CA to MA back in 89 as well. He and I rode bikes and gamed as much as possible until he moved. I still wonder what he is doing these days 30+ years later.
I'm loving this series, man!
Good series. Looking forward to part 3.
Me & my friends LOVED Rampage growing up. It was tons of fun to play 2 Player. That being said, I can't imagine playing it in 1 player mode. It probably wouldn't be much fun that way & if that was your experience with it then I can't blame ya. It truly has to be played Co-Op to be enjoyed.
i remember playing ZANAC for NES allllll night long trying to keep quiet and not wake up mom and dad lol its so hard with that soundtrack ...that game was brutal as hell, i miss those days.
I knew one kid who lived one street over from me who got a Master System at launch. His mom and my mom worked at the same corner store in my neighborhood so when one worked the other would babysit the others kids. So when my mom worked I'd be playing The Master System over there and he'd play my NES at my place. Course we didn't refer to them like that. It was The Nintendo and The Sega. But I remember vividly playing Master System Double Dragon and watching his Dad play Phantasy Star. My Grandmother of all people I think in 1990 got an Atari 7800 on clearance with a bunch of games so my brother and I would have something to play when we visited. So I got to experience it all. Had the same thing with the next generation where I had a Genesis, my friends had SNES and relatives had Turbografx. It wasn't until I was older that I found out that was not a common experience.
As for games I never liked Bad Dudes on NES and I actually didn't know Robocop had an arcade version. I just played the NES version. I think I might have beaten it but my memories of it are that the game gets really frustrating later into the game.
Nice. We're getting closer (compared to Part 1). But the 16-bit era is the first time that I think the arcade ports were generally "impressive". I'll go on to your next video in the series and check that out!
I played the crap out of the Nemesis back in my gameboy, could not pass the 3 level but love it nonethless, great content man
I am loving this series! Keep up the good work!
Spy Hunter was one of my favs in the early 80's I got to play it on the nes and was happy but had always felt something was missing lol
Hope there're more parts to come!! So many Ads though.
I grew up playing arcade ports on the Spectrum and Master System. Some valiant conversions by the developers on both formats.
Really enjoying this series part history, part nostalgia, all Sega Lord X!!
Even tho I didn’t have money to play, I really miss the Arcades. As a kid I didn’t see anything wrong with the NES Bad Dudes port. I loved it, & the music still one of my favorites. But playing it today I agree with everything you said about it. 😄
Gun.Smoke (NES) was another good conversion : D
Man, the way you make your videos and narrate them, you could make a video about your grocery list and I would 100% enjoy it.
Ah yes. The good ol' NES :)
And now I can't wait for the 90s Arcade, Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo.
I agree with all of those reviews. I really dug the application towards what Nintendo put out.
Thank God for MAME lol
wow nice series, its nostalgic trip for gaming history.....
Some of the games like Contra, Super C, and Rygar, never came to arcades around me, so it wasn't until later when i played them and realized that in some instances the NES versions were actually better than the arcade. Double Dragon II is one of my favorite NES games but I absolutely hate the arcade version.
Yeah that first level in Double Dragon 2 had a really catchy soundtrack that to me is one of the highlights of NES music. I’ve ever added some lyrics to it which goes like this: Baking cookies in da microwave...
Double Dragon 2-3 (arcade) were both worse than the first game for various reasons. I know 3 was a decisive game on NES but 2 was and is still well loved.
amazing story! thanks for sharing!
I think part of the issue was also how the games were presented - there often wasn't enough to an arcade game, once you remove the better graphics, the difficulty, and the excitement/energy of being in an actual arcade. Those game that use the setting & characters of the arcade original, but made the home port into its own thing, fared much better, IMO.
I think the Nes' greatest strength was providing certain experiences that you couldn't get in the arcade. Games like Zelda, Metroid, and Final Fantasy redefined what you could play at home, especially for people who were not into computer gaming. This didn't make arcades obsolete but it was a big step in their eventual demise I think.
Great video, but I don't know if I'd say Ghosts n' Goblins' scrolling was smooth. Its choppiness is exactly the thing that has always jumped out at me. You definitely lucked out & got on board at the right time though, the end of '86 was the exact moment the NES started to get good.