I love Konami's production and ability to adapt something, from the early 90's era, into an arcade. I wish they had never stopped making beat 'em ups like this.
I wish Konami's beat em ups have more expansive move sets like Capcom beat em ups, but this game and X-Men at least had a special move and 4 players. A fantastic game for sure!
In 1995 I befriended a kid in my 6th grade class who I was in Chess Club with (I promise I wasn’t that nerdy, I just liked chess, lol) He told me his grandparents (who he lived with) ran a company that rented all kinds of amusement equipment, including arcade cabinets, pinball machines, and ticket games. The first time I spent the night at his grandparents house, he showed me the garage, where he had a pinball machine and an arcade cabinet. The pinball machine was The Twilight Zone... and the cabinet was Metamorphic Force. We beat the entire game, lol. I would have kept playing, but we had rented DK: Country 2, and spent all night playing through that (plus he was kind of not as interested since he had been playing the game for months by that point). But I would go to his place and play this ALL THE TIME. Eventually his grandparents took MF away, but they put Darkstalkers in its place... which we went nuts on. Crazy that his GP would only bring the cabinets that people weren’t renting... how could this AND Darkstalkers get ignored? Lol, I miss the 90’s. Also: 1:53 I always found that super-funny “I won’t let ANYONE step in this area!”... Players IMMEDIATELY step in said “area” and he gets knocked out of the “area”.
So, one day, Konami thought: "why don't we make an arcade game based on Altered Beast, Golden Axe, with a little Saint Seiya and Fist of the North Star influence?" The response from executives: As long as it's like X-Men The Arcade game. And the rest is history
My brother and I discovered this recently at an arcade and we were instantly hooked. We were making beastly battle cries to match the brilliantly over-the-top game style.
Great to hear your review. It's quite a good game. It's definitely heavily based on X-Men, probably running on the same game engine. The cool thing about Metamorphic Force is that it's totally original, which means they weren't constrained by a license, so they could go crazy with this one. I really like the feel of this one, plus it looks and sounds good. I like that they kept the attacks to grounded enemies, plus the addition of grab moves. Wonderful beat-em-up game.
Metamorphic Force is an arcade game I have never heard of; but I'm of course very familiar with the X-Men arcade game, since many, many of my hard earned dollars were poured into that one back in the day, (just like any other arcade rat 😊). I will have to download the rom immediately, and play it on MAME today. I can't wait.
Thank you for the entertaining video and also for referencing Lisa Frank. I made a joke at work about someone wearing a very colorful sweater and said "Calm down, Lisa Frank!" No one within ten miles got the joke. It was then that I had realized, I'm getting old😑
I really appreciate your recent arcade-related videos. It's surprisingly difficult to navigate this space as well as finding good sources of information.
I was not convinced this was an acid trip until I saw the wavy rainbow effect around seafoam green Satan wearing yellow spandex. Your reviews are always poetic and ooze with charm. If you haven't already, you HAVE to cover Ottifants on Sega Genesis. Holy god is that game a trip.
Haha, you had your coffee this morning! It's easy to hear the energy and good-mood-ness, or maybe it's just matching how bonkers the game is. Totally saw that nightcrawler animation right away. Great video, I gotta find this game!
I friggin' love this game. Never got to experience it in an actual arcade (though the quarters I pumped into X-Men back in the day would surely make up for it), but thanks to MAME, it's been one of my go-to party games for a long time now.
This is some of your best commentary yet. Would be nice to see you in some eSports commentary one day, particularly fighting games which will forever stay close to retro more than any other genre of games so that seems to be right up your alley.
I really enjoy the expanded content. I can only watch so many creators, so for me, this game would have been forgotten. I get my SNES content from here, plus your excellent delivery on a variety of other games. I hope all is going well for you also! Keep up the good work please!
Didn't play this one growing up but the Swap Shop (a flea market here in South Florida) has it's own arcade filled with new and old games including this one. I wasn't a fan that your health drained Gauntlet style but the gameplay itself was a blast and certainly gave me that X-Men arcade game feeling.
It's like the game was made to be turned into a Saturday morning cartoon. I can already imagine how the heroes would all be totally radical teenagers, the bear guy would probably be slow-witted and always complaining that he's hungry and the goddess who gave them their mission would be their babysitter and rolling her eyes at their crazy antics between fighting idiotic villains.
@Nefarious520 it's ok. It doesn't have the best emulation and you can't add any emulators to it but you can play alot of arcade games flawlessly on it including this game and X-Men. You will find some arcade games don't run well on it though. Especially the more advanced cps 2 and cps 3 games run very choppy on it. It plays all the arcade versions of SF 2 very well for example. It also plays NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, TG16, and Neo Geo games as well. You can add games to it very easy. It is easier to mod than a retropie or any of the minis and its very convenient. It runs GBA games as well but alot of those run choppy on it. It also runs Gameboy and Game Gear games as well!
The comic store I used to go to back in the 90s had a mini arcade in the corner, and they had this one. Great game, and since that comic store is the only place I knew that ever had it, I will always associate that game with going to the store on Wednesdays to pick up new issues.
Man , I didnt known this game but when I found a video here in RUclips I was impress. The graphics are better then many games at the time, the speed dont need to mencion, the animations then.... The best is I found it playable online.
Thanks for reviewing this game! You’re awesome, man! But it’s sad that I probably may never play this game. I wish Konami would release an arcade collection for all platforms. They could call it “Konami ArKadium!” Edit: well, wait no more! Arcade Archives is finally giving us Metamorphic Force!
I've been hopelessly waiting for Konami to port Metamorphic Force, Violent Storm, and Mystic Warriors to systems like Switch, PS4/5, and PC (Hamster doesn't seem interested in porting non-Neo-Geo games in their Arcade Archives lineup to Xbox systems for some reason).
This game it's fucking awesome but anyone who wants to play it you better playing the japanese version instead, because you have a lifebar there instead of numbers that drop down after some minutes even if you don't take damage, so it's more fair
1:50 yooo, that goat man is friggin awesome.... straight up BAPHOMET steez... though yes, lol, the amazing technicolor dream wave that comes with him is hilarious..maybe they added that to "holy up" the hint that this guy could be mistaken for the GOAT MAN Satan... shit is dooooooope!
I never knew about this game until a couple years ago and it felt like such a classic that I missed out on. Like you said it must be the same engine as X-men because it’s so similar, but that makes it great. Back then I think Konami made the best beat em up games. It was nice finding a new one. I also agree with you on your comparison to altered beast and yeah, this game is way better.
This game runs on the same arcade hardware as Mystic Warriors, Martial Champion, and Gaiapolis (and also Monster Maulers and Violent Storm), which are also great Konami arcade games as well.
This is an under appreciated classic, like Battle Circuit. This game may be inspired by Altered Beast and clearly uses some of the X-Men arcade engine, but I'd like to see a modern game inspired by Metamorphic Force.
Konami was on fire in the late 80's and early 90's...literally and figuratively. Of course, the funniest moment in this video was the idea to get rid of the annoying beeping in LttP and putting "Dead Soon" up instead. Hilarious.
OH! Took me until the end to catch that this is an arcade-only game. I sat there the whole time, in awe, thinking this was a mega-obscure SNES dream game. 😏 STILL, though, this looks incredible. Somehow I'd never heard of this. Putting it on the list to visit next time I'm in, uh, arcade town.
These end up being my favorite videos on this channel. All of these great arcade games that seem to come from this alternate dimension where there was an entire generation of consoles between the super Nintendo and the Nintendo 64. And these would be the games to those consoles. Check out Ninja Batman Baseball. Avgn did a short on it and it was really something to see for yourself.
@@gagecrawley6223 that's good, cause many people who cannot affoard pc's will be able to enjoy it, also I am pretty sure there are MAME emulators for consoles as well🤔
Before he even said it in the video i was like that is nightcrawlers special attack :P. I love the look of this game but have NEVER heard of it before. As always another fantastic video SNES drunk!
Konami released an "Arcade Classics" collection not too long ago, but they seriously need to do a second one including games like this, Sunset Riders, and Mystic Warriors.
I never heard of this game before, but it seems to be a hybrid of the color scheme of Time Killers with some of the mechanics, sound design, and silky smooth animation of X-Men, combined with the basic premise and general BG/character designs of Altered Beast; all cranked up to 11.
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I can’t believe you missed “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream GOAT”.
It was right there!
I love Konami's production and ability to adapt something, from the early 90's era, into an arcade. I wish they had never stopped making beat 'em ups like this.
Same for Sega and Capcom.
I wish Konami had never stopped making good games.
@@ArcaneAzmadi but they lost all their best guys. They should at least be able to make a good Bomberman...
@MultiTarded You wot?! _Square_ the worst? Worse than Konami? Worse than Activision-Blizzard? Not even close.
I wish Konami's beat em ups have more expansive move sets like Capcom beat em ups, but this game and X-Men at least had a special move and 4 players. A fantastic game for sure!
In 1995 I befriended a kid in my 6th grade class who I was in Chess Club with (I promise I wasn’t that nerdy, I just liked chess, lol)
He told me his grandparents (who he lived with) ran a company that rented all kinds of amusement equipment, including arcade cabinets, pinball machines, and ticket games.
The first time I spent the night at his grandparents house, he showed me the garage, where he had a pinball machine and an arcade cabinet.
The pinball machine was The Twilight Zone... and the cabinet was Metamorphic Force.
We beat the entire game, lol. I would have kept playing, but we had rented DK: Country 2, and spent all night playing through that (plus he was kind of not as interested since he had been playing the game for months by that point).
But I would go to his place and play this ALL THE TIME. Eventually his grandparents took MF away, but they put Darkstalkers in its place... which we went nuts on.
Crazy that his GP would only bring the cabinets that people weren’t renting... how could this AND Darkstalkers get ignored?
Lol, I miss the 90’s.
Also: 1:53 I always found that super-funny “I won’t let ANYONE step in this area!”...
Players IMMEDIATELY step in said “area” and he gets knocked out of the “area”.
I enjoy the recent uploads of arcade game reviews, most games I never played...
Lisa Frank, Spyrograph beat’em up...your descriptions are always on point.
I miss the 90s
👍
Love seeing these 90s arcade games. Thanks SNESDrunk!
One of my favorites on MAME. A short game though.
“I won’t let anyone step in this area”
*Waltzes right into area*
Still better than Magneto.
“Master of Magnet!”
Gandalf approves
@@ggbetz Noooo! My AREA!
2:25 it HAS to use the same damn engine as the X-Men Arcade Game.
The late 80's and early to mid 90's we're all about recycling.
Bottles and cans or videogames it all got recycled.
@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Your comment is so underappreciated. Have my like, good sir!
3:06 THAT'S EYDOL FROM KILLER INSTINCT WITH A SPECIAL VIKINGS COLOURWAY
So, one day, Konami thought:
"why don't we make an arcade game based on Altered Beast, Golden Axe, with a little Saint Seiya and Fist of the North Star influence?"
The response from executives: As long as it's like X-Men The Arcade game.
And the rest is history
"Get a load of this guy's codpiece" is going to become an essential phrase in mocking someone for boasting when they can't back it up.
My brother and I discovered this recently at an arcade and we were instantly hooked. We were making beastly battle cries to match the brilliantly over-the-top game style.
Great to hear your review. It's quite a good game. It's definitely heavily based on X-Men, probably running on the same game engine. The cool thing about Metamorphic Force is that it's totally original, which means they weren't constrained by a license, so they could go crazy with this one. I really like the feel of this one, plus it looks and sounds good. I like that they kept the attacks to grounded enemies, plus the addition of grab moves. Wonderful beat-em-up game.
When people say the 90's were EXTREEEEEME, things like this are what they're talking about.
Some of the songs in this game were used in Konami's Guitar Freaks/Drummania games.
Loving this deep dive into 80's 90's arcade games.
Feels like a mashup of Altered Beast and Golden Axe.
Great review.
It kind of is.
Omg I haven't seen this game since 96' in third grade,... now I feel old,.. truly an underrated gem of the 90's !!
The two headed one looked like idol from killer instinct
I remember playing this one a long time ago. I ran out of quarters on the final boss. :/
Man that sucks
You should have shook down the kid next to you playing T2 saying i need your Tokens quarters and fanny pack.
some of the colors reminds me of Transformers: Generation 2 repaints
Metamorphic Force is an arcade game I have never heard of; but I'm of course very familiar with the X-Men arcade game, since many, many of my hard earned dollars were poured into that one back in the day, (just like any other arcade rat 😊). I will have to download the rom immediately, and play it on MAME today. I can't wait.
This is one of those rare games that you can unironically love or ironically love. It's amazing either way, and hilarious.
Thank you for the entertaining video and also for referencing Lisa Frank. I made a joke at work about someone wearing a very colorful sweater and said "Calm down, Lisa Frank!" No one within ten miles got the joke. It was then that I had realized, I'm getting old😑
I really appreciate your recent arcade-related videos. It's surprisingly difficult to navigate this space as well as finding good sources of information.
I was not convinced this was an acid trip until I saw the wavy rainbow effect around seafoam green Satan wearing yellow spandex. Your reviews are always poetic and ooze with charm. If you haven't already, you HAVE to cover Ottifants on Sega Genesis. Holy god is that game a trip.
I think this is your best review - your descriptions are spot-goddamn-on. Plus this game looks tight as hell.
There's a dope anime called MOLDIVER they use the term METAMO-FORCE
Look it up!
They had I Pads with actual Pages back in 1993!
"When your opponent is prone on the ground, you can wail on them" you sound like wayne campbell!
When I first saw the game I believed that it was an Altered Beast sequel.
Me too. I thought Sega pulled a Revenge of Death Adder and made a sequel to Altered Beast that never got a home port.
This video was great and had me cracking up. I first played this one a few years ago and yeah it’s really great.
Yes it is 93!
Haha, you had your coffee this morning! It's easy to hear the energy and good-mood-ness, or maybe it's just matching how bonkers the game is.
Totally saw that nightcrawler animation right away. Great video, I gotta find this game!
That was a nice comment.
Saw screenshots of this in EGM when I was a kid. Always wanted to play it, but never ran into it at arcades. Shame it was never ported to consoles.
3:33 LOL the gameplay through this segment is hilarious, just bounding across the landscape at 199.99mph... the 90's were just awesome.
I friggin' love this game. Never got to experience it in an actual arcade (though the quarters I pumped into X-Men back in the day would surely make up for it), but thanks to MAME, it's been one of my go-to party games for a long time now.
Total length of video: 264 secs.
Total length of "SNES Drunk": 3.5 secs.
1.33% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk."
Lmao, more games need to steal that "Dead Soon" feature
This looks insane! Thank you, Mr. Drunk, for another missed tubular arcade game.
I spend years i mean YEARS looking for this game without knowing the name! thank you so much!
This is some of your best commentary yet. Would be nice to see you in some eSports commentary one day, particularly fighting games which will forever stay close to retro more than any other genre of games so that seems to be right up your alley.
"Dead Soon!" This needs to be a meme.
Example:
Guy in a crowd watching a Ford Mustang do a burn out.
"Dead Soon!"
[Gets hit by Mustang]
It's like if Altered Beast had been adapted into a 90's Saturday morning cartoon, and then that cartoon was adapted into a game of it's own.
I really enjoy the expanded content. I can only watch so many creators, so for me, this game would have been forgotten. I get my SNES content from here, plus your excellent delivery on a variety of other games. I hope all is going well for you also! Keep up the good work please!
Looks like a metal album
The RC cola of Europe hair metal
Never heard of this game, which makes the review even better. Great writing this episode as well. Good stuff, SNES Drunk.
Didn't play this one growing up but the Swap Shop (a flea market here in South Florida) has it's own arcade filled with new and old games including this one. I wasn't a fan that your health drained Gauntlet style but the gameplay itself was a blast and certainly gave me that X-Men arcade game feeling.
It's like the game was made to be turned into a Saturday morning cartoon. I can already imagine how the heroes would all be totally radical teenagers, the bear guy would probably be slow-witted and always complaining that he's hungry and the goddess who gave them their mission would be their babysitter and rolling her eyes at their crazy antics between fighting idiotic villains.
I love all the obscure games you're talking me into trying out, thanks!
2 Fast 2 Furious - Metamorphic Force
Nice review! :D
Love the arcade binge you are on.
This game is bonkers! I play it in my super retrocade every now and then!
@Nefarious520 it's ok. It doesn't have the best emulation and you can't add any emulators to it but you can play alot of arcade games flawlessly on it including this game and X-Men. You will find some arcade games don't run well on it though. Especially the more advanced cps 2 and cps 3 games run very choppy on it. It plays all the arcade versions of SF 2 very well for example. It also plays NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, TG16, and Neo Geo games as well. You can add games to it very easy. It is easier to mod than a retropie or any of the minis and its very convenient. It runs GBA games as well but alot of those run choppy on it. It also runs Gameboy and Game Gear games as well!
Keep up the good work, I look forward to your videos every week.
You are the ideal youtuber for my minimal data plan
This looks like it could be inspired by a 80's Saturday Morning cartoon. Like the Turtles or He-man
What a videogame! I love voices and colours!
Greetings from Argentina!
Got a home port now.
The comic store I used to go to back in the 90s had a mini arcade in the corner, and they had this one. Great game, and since that comic store is the only place I knew that ever had it, I will always associate that game with going to the store on Wednesdays to pick up new issues.
Oh man, I completely forgot about this. One of a handful of arcade games I got to play as a kid. I remember thinking it was pretty crazy.
Man , I didnt known this game but when I found a video here in RUclips I was impress. The graphics are better then many games at the time, the speed dont need to mencion, the animations then.... The best is I found it playable online.
Think I saw a “Dead soon” above the Vikings offensive line last season....
You definitely saw it hanging over Xavier Rhodes' career
Imagine going about your day when a goddess says you’re a recantation of a guardian spirit and sends you to an island to fight lizard-people.
God I love your show. All I need after a long hard day :)
Thanks for reviewing this game! You’re awesome, man! But it’s sad that I probably may never play this game. I wish Konami would release an arcade collection for all platforms. They could call it “Konami ArKadium!”
Edit: well, wait no more! Arcade Archives is finally giving us Metamorphic Force!
I've been hopelessly waiting for Konami to port Metamorphic Force, Violent Storm, and Mystic Warriors to systems like Switch, PS4/5, and PC (Hamster doesn't seem interested in porting non-Neo-Geo games in their Arcade Archives lineup to Xbox systems for some reason).
Your wish has been granted 😁👍👍
@@TheDimeDrawer So it has. Twice. Now all that’s left on that list is Violent Storm.
If you are in Minnesota and want to see a cabinet in the wild, they have this game at Up-Down in Minneapolis.
I'm not in MN anymore but that is good to know, do they have any other games?
This game it's fucking awesome but anyone who wants to play it you better playing the japanese version instead, because you have a lifebar there instead of numbers that drop down after some minutes even if you don't take damage, so it's more fair
It's like after making so many Saturday morning cartoon licensed arcade games they ran out of licenses but couldn't stop.
I was actually thinking about this game about a week ago. I couldn't remember what it was though. Thanks!
Love this game! Great review!
Jesus Christ, this game looks like a bowl of fruity pebbles being shaken in front of my face.
Ha i found this arcade game on RUclips way before Snesdrunk found it himself 😎
1:50 yooo, that goat man is friggin awesome.... straight up BAPHOMET steez... though yes, lol, the amazing technicolor dream wave that comes with him is hilarious..maybe they added that to "holy up" the hint that this guy could be mistaken for the GOAT MAN Satan... shit is dooooooope!
Altered Beast meets X-Men?? Amazing.
"Neon Bowl of Fruity Pebbles"-Great quote :D ima steal it during a livestream. Awesome review dude
I just picked up a Pandora 5S for only $90 and this was the 1st game I played. Best enemies ever!
_"These creepy looking things straight out of an inter-dimensional cable show..."_ You're right. They do look like *Sleestaks.*
I never knew about this game until a couple years ago and it felt like such a classic that I missed out on. Like you said it must be the same engine as X-men because it’s so similar, but that makes it great. Back then I think Konami made the best beat em up games. It was nice finding a new one. I also agree with you on your comparison to altered beast and yeah, this game is way better.
This game runs on the same arcade hardware as Mystic Warriors, Martial Champion, and Gaiapolis (and also Monster Maulers and Violent Storm), which are also great Konami arcade games as well.
90s + Trapper Keeper + Acid = Metamorphic Force!! No home console could handle this, it doesn’t care how many “Teraflops” you have.
This is an under appreciated classic, like Battle Circuit. This game may be inspired by Altered Beast and clearly uses some of the X-Men arcade engine, but I'd like to see a modern game inspired by Metamorphic Force.
Just got it for the Switch. Been playing it on the go. Loads of fun
Konami was on fire in the late 80's and early 90's...literally and figuratively.
Of course, the funniest moment in this video was the idea to get rid of the annoying beeping in LttP and putting "Dead Soon" up instead. Hilarious.
OH! Took me until the end to catch that this is an arcade-only game. I sat there the whole time, in awe, thinking this was a mega-obscure SNES dream game. 😏 STILL, though, this looks incredible. Somehow I'd never heard of this. Putting it on the list to visit next time I'm in, uh, arcade town.
These end up being my favorite videos on this channel. All of these great arcade games that seem to come from this alternate dimension where there was an entire generation of consoles between the super Nintendo and the Nintendo 64. And these would be the games to those consoles. Check out Ninja Batman Baseball. Avgn did a short on it and it was really something to see for yourself.
Thank to the gods of gaming for the MAME emulator
Well guess what. This game is coming out to consoles!
@@gagecrawley6223 that's good, cause many people who cannot affoard pc's will be able to enjoy it, also I am pretty sure there are MAME emulators for consoles as well🤔
I saw this in a ski rental place as a kid and never forgot, but never knew the name of the game. Now I do.
You really blurred the lines on your sarcasm. Couldn't tell if you like the game or not. Your sarcasm is top notch.
Before he even said it in the video i was like that is nightcrawlers special attack :P. I love the look of this game but have NEVER heard of it before. As always another fantastic video SNES drunk!
"Any way you can"??? WHY WON'T YOU SAY MAME!? Just kidding. Great vid as usual.
@matt fahringer No.
This plays on FBA. Doesn't need to be MAME.
@@jeffg492 I was making a joke about someone who went off on the previous video about emulation. Check the Twitter page.
Burger VonStadt Right? Total shill.
:P
"Dead Soon" seems like it should be a meme
Probably the fastest paced beat 'em up I've ever played.
I love this game. Great video.
Konami released an "Arcade Classics" collection not too long ago, but they seriously need to do a second one including games like this, Sunset Riders, and Mystic Warriors.
I don't normally "like" videos, but once you made that cod piece joke, you got a like from me. Good show!
This and Battletoads were in the same mall arcade I went to as a kid. Loved this shit
This shit looks tight
I never heard of this game before, but it seems to be a hybrid of the color scheme of Time Killers with some of the mechanics, sound design, and silky smooth animation of X-Men, combined with the basic premise and general BG/character designs of Altered Beast; all cranked up to 11.
Certainly one I like to play at times, and it's especially great with multiplayer.