This and Jungle Strike were some of my favorite games on Genesis. Even though, at the time, I couldn't get more than 2-3 levels deep lol never stopped me from playing though
I agree. I didn't have anything to compare it to back then when I first played it as a kid. But now, replaying this game, I am always impressed with how nice the movement is.
Exact same thing happened to me too. My Dad refused to play games, he'd watch us play them and tell us we were wasting our time, Then one day we had hired out Desert Strike, since we were so young we were playing it wrong, not following the objectives and so on. Next thing we knew he had taken over the mega drive. He bought himself a copy of the game for Xmas. And I even remember him telling all his friends how good it was. It was surreal.
Ha! My old man was exactly the same. He generally didn't care much for my MegaDrive bar the Strike series, he player Desert, Jungle and Urban to death.
my pops was a fan of the series also one day my controller broke because i used to mash buttons like crazy when i played mortal kombat 3 the he bought a controller for himself and used to hide it from me :D
I was like 9 years old when I last played and seen this, now I'm 38 and it just flooded all these memories of been a kid with my megadrive & super Nintendo 😊❤️
I loved this game. Me and my friend used to play it everytime we would stay the night at each other's houses. I liked how it had objectives and you could rescue people. Well designed. This is when EA really established themselves with good games. Now they're a scumbag developer.
I lost hours to this game as a kid. My one criticism was that there was a glitch that sometimes when you lowered your winch to pick up fuel barrels when you were abiut to run out it would tell you that you'd successfully collected fuel but then you'd run out and crash.
Used to play this game as a kid at my aunts house. Honestly could never remember the name of this game. Haven’t seen this gameplay in 25 years. Thanks for the massive nostalgia!!!
I remember my father playing this game and me watching him play back when we had the sega genesis. He loved this game and I enjoyed watching him; in a way you could say it was our bonding time earlier in my life. Who knew?
Yeah I remember this game being impossible if you just wanted to have fun. If you wanted to win, you practically had to memorize the most optimal path between targets and the exact number of weapons needed to destroy things. You always ran out of fuel or ammo otherwise.
deeditmane I used to be an Army helicopter pilot, I flew OH-58D Kiowa Warriors; trained with Apaches because we had similar missions: reconnaissance and fire support. Honestly, the Apache’s rotors give off a high pitch sound and they kinda nailed it in this game.
If they made this today they'll be so much political pushback there's so much racist overtones in this that it would never see a lot of day today LOL I mean and it's sad because this is a great game but the world is so bat shit it would never be able to look past it
Loved this played it to death it was released about the same time as the real life conflict operation desert storm led by storming Norman schwarzkopf, it was the reason I bought a mega drive I was about 24 at the time and my brother thought I was being childish spending my money on a video game then after he saw this I had to lend it to him! After completing it I tried to do the levels using only the original armour and just the machine gun (HARD) And if my memory serves me correctly you didn't use fuel if you stayed over the water, I still remember the save code to the last level to this day.
I loved this game when it came out. But reading the missions now.. " We have to stop this mad man before he gets nuclear weapons" its like yeah.. we all heard that one before.
I had my Sega Mega drive in 1994 when I was 7. Parents bought it in Germany, not sure how much they spent. Games for it did cost from 5 lats to 15 lats (around 7$ - 21$). 95% of market was used before cartridges, also we had cartridge exchange and rental. Pay deposit and take game home for a month or so. The feeling was unreal, colourful design of cartridges, unforgettable scent of them and of course the games themselves. This was a true window to the Western world for me as a boy living in young, post-Soviet country of Latvia...
One of the few games in the world I can claim absolute expertise in. After all these years, I can still remember where everything in this game was .... I can play this whole game without ever losing a life.
This is just creepy. I was just thinking about this game a few days ago randomly. I never really watch gaming videos, and the last game console I owned was a PlayStation 1. Now this is in my recommend.
This game is a classic i,m playing it now with a Retrovision cable and the big difference right away is the helicopters blades that swings is like a glowy red rather than a dual red, incredible balance game you can see mostly were all the fuel, ammo is located on your map too calculate your fuel consumption. A must have, sorry for the snes fans theirs just doesn't come up to the hype of this version!
Man this video makes it look so easy. When I played this at 4yrs old, all I could do was pick up ammo and fuel and aimlessly shoot at the guns without any clue what was going on. It was my favourite game along side micro machines. Happy Days!
so many other games today do a far better and more spectacular job and much more.. i mean, i'm playing just cause 3 on PS4 now and that has everything. so i think today, games like this can't really be much good or successful.. good war games where you fly choppers, blow shit up, run around and shoot, take over enemy base etc are everywhere.. i did LOVE the strike game series back in the day!
This brings back memories. The good old Sega Megadrive, bought it from my first hard earned money at age 14 and still have it to this day. The EA games were brilliant. Desert, jungle and urban strike, I couldn’t believe the perfect gameplay and graphics back then. And I must say, it still is a good game.
One of my favorites from the 16 bit era. I still bust it out and play every now and then. I can even finish the 1st mission, out of order on our one life on a good day.
Wow! This game was amazing spent many hours playing this game. My strategy was to go in slow and kill everything. It took me many tries but I got it right. One other thing notice how you blow a building up and the pow’s always survive? 😂
That last mission brief, lol. "The embassy officials have given us the location of the Madman's nuclear weapons plant and Presidential Palace. You must prevent these weapons from being produced and sent to the Madman's bomber... BUT OUR FIRST CRISIS is to save the oil fields. So for your final missions: 1 - Save the Oil Fields 2 - Stop Oil Spill The rest of your missions are still unknown at this time." I guess they got their priorities straight, lol.
Madman with Aviators: The motherland is under siege! I thought you said we could handle anything? Madman General: The attack force is stronger than we thought! Me: Whaa? The attack force is one freaking helicopter!!
this video is so nostalgic. I had this on my parents' SNES, and while I wasn't very good at it (I'm about 80% sure I never got past the second mission, and it took me a while to figure out the first one. Those damn raptors kept missiling my tail rotor) it was a blast to play. Thank the creator for Internet archives and RUclips keeping my childhood alive :-)
Sega genesis was my first console. My dad gave it to me. I was technically too young but my dad got me started early. I want a sega so bad. He still has it but wont let me take it lol. He says "just come over here to play it" old man, I want to play it 24/7
I have very foggy memories of this game, or some type of helicopter game very similar to this one. I recall playing this (I think it was this game) on the computer when I was about 6 or 7 years old back in the early 2000s. I don’t know why we had it, let alone have it on the computer, but this game has haunted my dreams for at least 13 years now. It is only tonight at 2:30 in the morning that I’d decide to look for it, and even then it just doesn’t feel how I remembered it.
![Mega Drive Longplay [177] Urban Strike](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/non_ng53vyI/mqdefault.jpg)
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![Mega Drive Longplay [168] Vectorman](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/NcL_kM9twZk/mqdefault.jpg)
Over 25 years has passed since I played or watched this game. Nostalgia...
This and Jungle Strike were some of my favorite games on Genesis. Even though, at the time, I couldn't get more than 2-3 levels deep lol never stopped me from playing though
Yup. Sick game. Miss thoes days.
@@carloscastiano Me too :)
@@CliffuckingBooth just watched video of urban strike. Awesome.
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I don't know why Nostalgia always makes me sad. But it brings me back to happier times lol. I hope life has turned out well for all of you my friends.
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Same I remember my uncle playing this game in 1994 all I got is old memories good memories though
You defined nostalgia
The helicopter actually has pretty good movement for this games time
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@Cornish Fool never even heard of that controller. Incidentally which are your cornish foods? I'm a house fan of most of them.
I see you've never played the Donkey kong country series
I agree. I didn't have anything to compare it to back then when I first played it as a kid. But now, replaying this game, I am always impressed with how nice the movement is.
a 3D-world game into a 16-bit console, Sega was ahead of its time back 28 years ago
Exact same thing happened to me too.
My Dad refused to play games, he'd watch us play them and tell us we were wasting our time, Then one day we had hired out Desert Strike, since we were so young we were playing it wrong, not following the objectives and so on. Next thing we knew he had taken over the mega drive. He bought himself a copy of the game for Xmas. And I even remember him telling all his friends how good it was.
It was surreal.
tat's a funny story !
Ha! My old man was exactly the same. He generally didn't care much for my MegaDrive bar the Strike series, he player Desert, Jungle and Urban to death.
my pops was a fan of the series also one day my controller broke because i used to mash buttons like crazy when i played mortal kombat 3 the he bought a controller for himself and used to hide it from me :D
That's when you find out your dad's the hidden Master or the Retired Special Ops 😀😀😀
My dad used to play this to when me and my brothers were kids.. I just linked him this video.
Finally finished this game today after starting it almost 30 years ago. On to Jungle Strike!
🤣 I beat both those games years ago 😂
@@MrMJmusicLover Yeah...and?
@@the_scraggler AND they were fun to play too!😅
Hope you did this and went onto Urban Strike too!
Still got them all on emulator. Urban strike is my favourite
I was like 9 years old when I last played and seen this, now I'm 38 and it just flooded all these memories of been a kid with my megadrive & super Nintendo 😊❤️
I remember how I was blown away by the graphics of this game! Those were the days. .
shoot the camping tents for more ammo!
Except the civilian tents w the camels 🐫 you will get in trouble
Perform war crimes for additional bonus! Ah, good times with this game
@@Jomster777 so basically what USA are doing all the time. Then say it is collateral damage :)
Loved the strike series and road rash
Me too! My fav games from my childhood. Mega-drive my favorite video-game
The road rash and destroying oil retainers was was quite a rash 3rd party political inervention, But quite the pleasure.
Sir Spencer Agreed. Great games!
My 2 favorite along with mutant league hockey and football, and skitchin
Do y’all remember the Simpsons version of Road Rash
It was always hilarious going overkill using a Hellfire Missle on an a defenseless guy with a regular gun
Bob Jones the best! Hahaha
Thats what they get for shooting at an apache helicopter
@smilenowsmileforever422lol6
This game was so ahead of its time. I remember playing it with my dad when I was 10. It’s a lot like Choplifter but it’s not a side scroller.
Return to the Gulf? Baby, we never left!!
E H hoorah
😂😂😂😂
I loved this game. Me and my friend used to play it everytime we would stay the night at each other's houses. I liked how it had objectives and you could rescue people. Well designed. This is when EA really established themselves with good games. Now they're a scumbag developer.
The reason why it became like that is because they are moneygreedy
My parents were separated. I used to go to my dad's house and sit in front of his TV in his house and play this all night
Nostalgia hittin hard here
damn on you
you send me to golden days...
thanks buddy... its one of the greatest games for sega
I lost hours to this game as a kid. My one criticism was that there was a glitch that sometimes when you lowered your winch to pick up fuel barrels when you were abiut to run out it would tell you that you'd successfully collected fuel but then you'd run out and crash.
This EA needs to come back
Defo - - I keep coming back to the strike series.
Back when EA were the best devs in the world.... before the greed
It would be nice on the Switch
You can get Genesis reissue for dirt cheap in ideal condition.
The Independent Fighter this EA is long gone. In fact any kind of EA could be long gone soon.
What a classic. Played it to death on my old Sega mega drive back in the 90's.
This puts a smile on my face.
Absolutely one of my all-time favorite games
Used to play this game as a kid at my aunts house. Honestly could never remember the name of this game. Haven’t seen this gameplay in 25 years. Thanks for the massive nostalgia!!!
I remember my father playing this game and me watching him play back when we had the sega genesis. He loved this game and I enjoyed watching him; in a way you could say it was our bonding time earlier in my life. Who knew?
Helelification that's beautiful.
Priceless Moments are the best.
Got a similar story myself, were great times for me and miss them a lot
Helelification thats cool! Awesome game too
That made me teary man. I used to play nuclear strike. Memories.
Wow, I'm so old. I bought this New back in the day.
I never did beat this game. I was too busy blowing shit up and failing missions
or as i like to put it, I was too busy "having too much fun" >:D
knuclear200x that’s why I’m here today 😂, think I only ever got up to mission 2 or 3 tops
Yeah I remember this game being impossible if you just wanted to have fun. If you wanted to win, you practically had to memorize the most optimal path between targets and the exact number of weapons needed to destroy things. You always ran out of fuel or ammo otherwise.
How could you NOT beat his game? Lemme guess, you keep running out of fuel, dont you?
;)
Same here lol
😅
I LOVED this game growing up!!!
Best thing about this game is the slap in the 1st cutscene
Someone getting bitch slapped is always a thumbs up in things like that.
It's like Old EA slapping New EA for being a shadow of its former self.
Sulli440 😂😂😂👍agree
2:00:55 - and then the president explodes but the rest of his plane doesnt
@@goldman77700 damn
I love this trilogy Desert Strike / Jungle Strike / Urban Strike !!
Nuclear Strike came out for the playstation, it was the last of the series!
Soviet strike was good.
can't be overstated how revolutionary this game was
Haha coming off that hard 80’s electro intro to the helicopter sounding like a squeaky desk fan 😂😂 good times
deeditmane I used to be an Army helicopter pilot, I flew OH-58D Kiowa Warriors; trained with Apaches because we had similar missions: reconnaissance and fire support. Honestly, the Apache’s rotors give off a high pitch sound and they kinda nailed it in this game.
Omg!!!. I haven't even thought of this game since I was a kid!!!. It was a favorite
This is the first game I ever remember playing. Very faint memories, but so much comes back as I watch it.
I would love to see this series remade. Keep the concept exactly as it is but go to town on the visuals and audio.
If they made this today they'll be so much political pushback there's so much racist overtones in this that it would never see a lot of day today LOL I mean and it's sad because this is a great game but the world is so bat shit it would never be able to look past it
it was remade a few years ago.
Loved this played it to death it was released about the same time as the real life conflict operation desert storm led by storming Norman schwarzkopf, it was the reason I bought a mega drive I was about 24 at the time and my brother thought I was being childish spending my money on a video game then after he saw this I had to lend it to him! After completing it I tried to do the levels using only the original armour and just the machine gun (HARD) And if my memory serves me correctly you didn't use fuel if you stayed over the water, I still remember the save code to the last level to this day.
I Love Desert Strike. I am from Brazil. Este é um grande jogo! 🇧🇷
Concordo cara, eu fico pensando como esse jogo conseguiu rodar no mega drive parece ser tão pesado pro console, é algo incrivel
@@linkinparksongsforever 👌😄👍🤝
jogava no Pc da minha irmã era viciado mas não tinha tanta habilidade assim
@@SANGUINARIA_BR 👌👍👊
1:32 The most menacing head turn in gaming history.
This game is Aladeen.
1:25:11. So cheesy yet so rad! The school bus, music, cutscene animation, everything! They don't mak'em like this anymore! 😂🎮🕹️🤘
I was 5 years old when I had this game, my grandmother always completed it for me lol glad this popped up in my recommendations
I loved this game when it came out. But reading the missions now.. " We have to stop this mad man before he gets nuclear weapons" its like yeah.. we all heard that one before.
They got it from this game
I have no idea why this is being recommended to me now, but this was one of my favorite games from that era.
I remember buying this the day it came out.........£59.99
@@magnetohex703 Love your story thank you for sharing.
Born in 83 I did some mistakes buying Mega Drive and PlayStation 1 video games.
I had my Sega Mega drive in 1994 when I was 7. Parents bought it in Germany, not sure how much they spent. Games for it did cost from 5 lats to 15 lats (around 7$ - 21$). 95% of market was used before cartridges, also we had cartridge exchange and rental. Pay deposit and take game home for a month or so. The feeling was unreal, colourful design of cartridges, unforgettable scent of them and of course the games themselves. This was a true window to the Western world for me as a boy living in young, post-Soviet country of Latvia...
This was one of my favorite games back in the day
That pimp smack though 😂😂😂😂
Now is known as the Will Smith slap. 😂
Memories of my childhood. I had this on SNES myself and would play this everyday after school for hours.
Thanks for posting.
Wow! All these years and I never realized Rob Hubbard has a hand in this game's music. No wonder the songs would never leave my young self's mind!
The title screen music alone kicks so much ass. Altough, it reminds me that I never managed to finish this game :(
One of the few games in the world I can claim absolute expertise in.
After all these years, I can still remember where everything in this game was .... I can play this whole game without ever losing a life.
This is just creepy. I was just thinking about this game a few days ago randomly. I never really watch gaming videos, and the last game console I owned was a PlayStation 1. Now this is in my recommend.
Glen, youtube watches your mind, use foil hat.
It’s being recommended because of all the ww3 talk lately
Didn't pop up for me, I had to search for it.
This game is a classic i,m playing it now with a Retrovision cable and the big difference right away is the helicopters blades that swings is like a glowy red rather than a dual red, incredible balance game you can see mostly were all the fuel, ammo is located on your map too calculate your fuel consumption. A must have, sorry for the snes fans theirs just doesn't come up to the hype of this version!
Whoa the sega version of this game has a way more kickass soundtrack. This version outshines the snes version in a lot of ways
Man this video makes it look so easy. When I played this at 4yrs old, all I could do was pick up ammo and fuel and aimlessly shoot at the guns without any clue what was going on. It was my favourite game along side micro machines. Happy Days!
Одна из самый классный и интересных игр на Сега )))
Oh God, floppy disk, Amiga 2000,my dad, me as a child... Memories
WOW,the memories come flooding back.
OMG my cousin and I played the hell outa this game. I totally forgot about it till now. Brings back so many good memories back in the day. Thank you
Watching my dad beat the game was epic!
Loved this game as a kid - sunk so many hours into this and streets of rage
i still play this game on my genesis this game is so epic
Thanks for uploading, could never remember the name of this game. Takes me back to Action Video and Hollywood Video days
I always used to get creeped out around the 1:34 mark when the dude turns and looks your way lol.
I love that they tried to cover up who the "madman" is (most likely saddam hussein given the time it was made) but that is literally Muammar Gaddafi
wouldn´t mind seeing a new version of this franchise.. had all the games back then
I loved the series and loved Jungle Strike and Soviet Strike too. It would be different today because they would try to do it in 3d. It would ruin it.
There is already a 3D game. Nuclear Strike on the PS1 and N64. It actually looks pretty good.
Comanche 4 was very good.
Nuclear strike was my childhood! Absolutely amazing!
so many other games today do a far better and more spectacular job and much more.. i mean, i'm playing just cause 3 on PS4 now and that has everything. so i think today, games like this can't really be much good or successful.. good war games where you fly choppers, blow shit up, run around and shoot, take over enemy base etc are everywhere.. i did LOVE the strike game series back in the day!
My first experience about gulf war :)
Это была обалденная игра. Любил в нее играть !!!!!
This brings back memories. The good old Sega Megadrive, bought it from my first hard earned money at age 14 and still have it to this day. The EA games were brilliant. Desert, jungle and urban strike, I couldn’t believe the perfect gameplay and graphics back then. And I must say, it still is a good game.
I never noticed tell now it sounds like mutant league football the intro
That was awesome. I never completed all the missions decades ago so it was nice to see all the missions I didn't see back then.
Oh
My
God
I totally forgot about that game... It was so aweseome
OMG 😱 I haven’t seen this for about more than 20 years!!!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
The memories... loved this game
GAME OF OUR CHILDHOOD! :)
When EA is doing something good.
Their best game should be Another World.
Man I loved this game! Jungle strike was the sheet too!
goddamn I played this all night when I was in college
I played this game when i was 9 yo, now i am 36 :-) good memories
EA: It's in the game*
*DLC not included.
Its scripted!
I was today years old that I saw "Sound and Music by Rob Hubbard" and now it all makes sense.
wow.. games like these actually sold.. back in early 1990's.. lol.
John Krain you have no idea son.. i would give everything to back to this era
@@Destroyreligion-42 That was the era when I was happy all the time if I had access to my crt tv and super nintendo. :(
One of my favorites from the 16 bit era. I still bust it out and play every now and then. I can even finish the 1st mission, out of order on our one life on a good day.
Wow! This game was amazing spent many hours playing this game. My strategy was to go in slow and kill everything. It took me many tries but I got it right. One other thing notice how you blow a building up and the pow’s always survive? 😂
That last mission brief, lol.
"The embassy officials have given us the location of the Madman's nuclear weapons plant and Presidential Palace. You must prevent these weapons from being produced and sent to the Madman's bomber...
BUT OUR FIRST CRISIS is to save the oil fields.
So for your final missions:
1 - Save the Oil Fields
2 - Stop Oil Spill
The rest of your missions are still unknown at this time."
I guess they got their priorities straight, lol.
Save the oil field while the madman is launching nukes. Great plan! 😏
Shout out to RUclips recommendations
Looks impressive even now. I can imagine how enjoyable it was in 90s
So many cherished memories....and who ever in the world could the story-line be parodying?
Madman with Aviators: The motherland is under siege! I thought you said we could handle anything?
Madman General: The attack force is stronger than we thought!
Me: Whaa? The attack force is one freaking helicopter!!
@@fredsas12 But it's a very, very strong chopper.
Thank you for letting the intro song play
Music by Rob Hubbard. Thats is all im saying :) legend
Used to love firing at the aircraft carrier and getting recalled.
1:30:55 look at the 'heli' and his smiling face
this video is so nostalgic. I had this on my parents' SNES, and while I wasn't very good at it (I'm about 80% sure I never got past the second mission, and it took me a while to figure out the first one. Those damn raptors kept missiling my tail rotor) it was a blast to play.
Thank the creator for Internet archives and RUclips keeping my childhood alive :-)
I’m sure there was similar game on NES but can’t find it
Electronic Arts > EA
Jungle Strike my favorite of the series
Holy shit I loved these games.... Totally forgot about their existence... Thanks RUclips recommendations
1:16 this scene is creepy as hell.
Sega genesis was my first console. My dad gave it to me. I was technically too young but my dad got me started early. I want a sega so bad. He still has it but wont let me take it lol. He says "just come over here to play it" old man, I want to play it 24/7
21:17:"Get to the chopper!"
I have very foggy memories of this game, or some type of helicopter game very similar to this one. I recall playing this (I think it was this game) on the computer when I was about 6 or 7 years old back in the early 2000s. I don’t know why we had it, let alone have it on the computer, but this game has haunted my dreams for at least 13 years now. It is only tonight at 2:30 in the morning that I’d decide to look for it, and even then it just doesn’t feel how I remembered it.
Esse jogo foi épico
I found this and jungle strike in my loft my dad's old games before I was born lol
Anyone else watching this and thinking, this game is an exact copy of the Gulf War!lol
holy fuck you cracked the secret code
I love the way targets explode and then are completely erased not leaving an ounce of rubble and pristine desert beneath