I agree. Next to the original Atari game, Breakout, released 10 years prior, this is one of the best games of its kind. You can spend hours mastering the levels!
I used to be SO addicted to this game when I was in college in 1991. I would play for hours in the student center; they had a couple of arcade games, and this was one of them. I've even won the game a time or two!
@harter kern is a pool that large thing of water where people for some weird reason like to enter half naked exposing their skin to everyone like demented freaks?
This game will always remind me of my dad, he would take my older brother and I to the arcades and he could go forever on this game. I sucked as a kid and as a 30 plus year old I still suck haha. Great memories, thank you!
This reminds me of my dad for a different reason. The only arcade in my area that had it was the bowling alley so my brother and I only got to play it on Wednesdays when my dad would take us there for league night and we'd go fuck off in the arcade during his practice games. Had it been at all the arcades I'm not sure my bro and I would've so strongly gravitated toward it but I guess lack of availability artificially inflated our interest in it. No problem with that cuz it's a damn good game. To this day, my dad still whimsically (but with slightly detectable annoyance) recalls the time my bro and I fucked up a perfect practice game of his just to bug him for quarters and he had to settle for a 265.
This game will always remind me of some birthday party, probably when I was 7 or 8 and one superstar uncle with long hair on a 386 (maybe it was a good 286?) with a clean mouse and some time to kill just walking this game. I have it now authentically on a 386 and 486, but I can never get this far. Still, to this day, 30 years later, I can approximately show what townhouse that game that so fascinated me was played in.
cwing1028 why is this link here weird i just finished reading the comment on his post wondering where is the footage and viola but sir this is a peaceful arena of gamers and......Damn he got socked for real
How do I get this game, me and my brothers used to play this as kids with my dad, we had a console that had 50 games on in 1, cabt remember what it's called
ARAKANOID points WHITE = 50 points ORANGE = 60 points LIGHT BLUE = 70 points GREEN = 80 points RED = 90 points BLUE = 100 points PURPLE = 110 points YELLOW = 120 points SILVER = 50x points (depends on round #) GOLD = NO points (cannot be destroyed) 100 points for each INTERFERING object 1000 points for each falling capsule B > break to the next playing field C > catches the energy ball D > splits the energy ball into three balls E > extends the vaus L > fires at the blocks P > awards extra player S > slows down the energy ball ARAKANOID points
When I was in high school, the local Pizza Ranch had this game in their game room. Two classmates and I were locked in a constant battle to unseat each other's high scores. Good times.... :)
Oh god! The memories of this game...college '86 '87 & '88. Played it daily in the student center, after lunch and dinner & probably skipped a class or two. FINALLY beat it when a friend and I played as a team with a pocketful of quarters each. Then I never touched the machine again. Still, would love to own one for home.
And people these days say that they didn't know how to make good games 'back in the day'. I'd be so happy playing this or gauntlet, or even Bubble-bobble in the arcades, along with a lot of other games. Playing my favourite arcade games and doing well left me feeling so much happier and with a sense of achievement, more than any of the games these days can.
Holy shit, man. Not even up for debate. Youre the best Arkanoid player to ever walk the Earth. This game was one of my arcade favorites 30 years ago for sure. I was never too good at it, but Ive seen some great players. You smoke them all!
I suspect it was played using rollback, which lets you rewind if you die. There's really no way to know if anyone has used it, so I always assume it was used in game longplays.
If that's a somewhat fancy way of saying that the ball's trajectory isn't random, then yes. Yes, it does: You actually have a fair deal of control over the ball, one of the few good things about this game to make it into its sequels.
When I was a kid, around 10 years old or so, I remember managing to beat this game. One of the few games I really mastered, alongside with Green Beret and Equinox. Remember beating hard games because I used to play a lot but this one was very very difficult but when I managed to know where to put the paddle and playing with the ball angle, I was able to beat it. In Spectrum DOH was specially difficult because it was nearly impossible to see where it was shooting, so it was to try and error. Also I beat this game in PC but never managed to beat revenge of doh
The only way to go if you want high scores. Break all those blocks, then get the sweet warp bonus too! I remember I used to wait until the very last block and then zip over to the warp. haha
Oh God! What memories brings me back this game. I first played it to a Cafe bar in my village on '88. I remember that instead of lever on the device there was a wheel,so it made the playing much harder for kid. Later I played it to NES console and then I found it easier.
Thank you for this Longplay! So many memories...and so many quarters out of me! That game took some serious skill! Any chance of maybe doing a Longplay of Reaxxion for the PC someday? Similar concept, and like this game highly addictive as well.
I've played an Arkanoid machine in an arcade before. It was one of my favorites because I liked how fluent the control was. You controlled it with a knob like Pong and it was fun
I've managed to run into this machine twice in my life, once as a kid, another within the last 15 years, both times I had no choice but to sink some money into it, I love me some Arkanoid.
I love the music too - it featured in the The ZX Spectrum conversion, only it was used on the title screen, a little slower. Look for a video titled "Arkanoid ZX Spectrum"! :)
This dude is so good that when he gets a "break" he doesnt exit. He stays on the level to kick it's ass a little more and then leaves at his leisure. Hahaha.
+pingamalinga That's actually the best way to get the high score for this game! Purposely avoid finishing levels and just kill as many enemies as you can for 100 pts each.
The Vaus could be one of the most OP spaceships in sci fi >primary weapon consists of a heavy ricocheting projectile that can destroy other things on impact but not the Vaus itself, implying it is made of a superior impact resistant material >Can upgrade weapons and size at will
I remember ENDING this game wayyyyy back in the day in the late 80's as a teenager. The only arcade game I ever ended. It was a feeling like no other at the time, putting the 3 initials of my name in the high score. I was screaming at the top of my lungs after the giant head blew up. As luck would have it, of COURSE my friends went back to school at lunch while I kept playing, only to end it with no one around, and naturally they didn't believe me.
You guys are not going to believe this I just found out that the guy who made the sound tracks made a version of the sound to a song called revenge of arkanood by cosió and sound super familiar also zuntata works with Cosió
God the memories of the local Mom n Pop pizza shop in the 80s! We would eat $1 baskets of French fries and .50 tall glasses of Coke! Sometimes we'd pitch in and get a large pizza for $7 lol. And play this and so many other games all night!
the era and time of this story is unknown. after the mothership "arkanoid" was destroyed, a spacecraft "vaus" scrambled away from it. but only to be trapped in space warped by someone........
E: Extends bar length P: Gives an extra life B: Opens gate to next level D: Spawns 2 more balls G: Allows player to freely launch ball L: Turns bar into laser shooter But what does S do!?
Coming soon from Lionsgate and SuperNintendo Chalmers Productions: Arkanoid The Movie! When the evil DOH traps the spaceship ARKANOID in an strange dimension, Vaus must avenge the falling of the mothership to defeat DOH and escape. Starring Chris Pratt (well, he was good in the Lego Movie and both Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 1 and Vol. 2) as Captain Brad Brickmaster and reuniting with him, Elizabeth Banks as the alien princess love interest, and John C. Reilly (from Wreck It Ralph and his roles on Adult Swim) as Lt. Commander Steve Megafisto, the science officer/former MMA fighter. This summer 2017 from Lionsgate, based on the Taito arcade game!
Arkanoid, the original game (and one of the most well known arcade games in the 80's) that gave other companies a chance to make their own clones of this famous game. Much like Bust A Move (or Puzzle Bobble for Japan) which also got a lot of clones like Inside Out Thought Bubbles by Disney.
Arkanoid actually the first in these lines of games. Breakout and Super Breakout for Atari preceded Arkanoid. Arkanoid is definitely the superior game though.
Nice. I used to finish this as well. I my games' place back in 87 or so, the version was the one that offered you a life in every 30,000 points. So when you ended in the boss you had some 25 lives left, and then you hit the boss in each life 15 times and then lose on purpose (each hit worths 1,000 points). Haven't searched it but I recall my best high beeing ~1,206,000. It's obvious the player here is also very good and doesn't look for a high score. For example I never used the fire gun to shoot the bonus-giving blocks cause each bonus is another 1,000. Also, when we got the purple "stage out", we did the same he does sometimes here, waiting to get more points. Sometimes when I ended with a fire gun I didn't complete the stage but kept shooting the flying objects (100 points each). I was amazed, when I tried to play this on MAME, and was FAR too difficult with the keyboard and NOT the "wheel" we had in the consoles. If you did that with the keyboard, you have my great respect!!! :)
I've developed "Intensity" for Windows, Linux and Android, which is a mix of "Arkanoid" and shot'em-up, with scrolling and a awesome spherical effect 😀
It was one of the most colorful games back then. Way too hard for me, I could reach lvl 3 then die there. And I remember it had a spin control. Very hard game, the ball moves extremely fast after some time.
Two horseshoes, one for skill, sick hand eye coordination and not losing a single life. The other for the 1ups and Breaks. Awesome job! BTW how many lives did you have at the end? I'll guess 9.
@@hitmangfx7162 Seriously, though. I wonder how much time the lad has spent on the game knowing what exactly will happen next and where exactly to put the thing.
They key to success in this game, either a knob controller like the arcade version, or fast enough reflexes on a mouse. Shame the original Arkanoid Returns for PS1 (longplayed by these guys, 2nd revision with paddle support) doesn't support a paddle or mouse, that's the one I have. NES version is extremely tough with a regular controller hence why Taito created the Vaus controller which is hard to find in good condition nowadays.
A lot of Taito's classics never made it to Legends or Legends 2. That's why I hope that someday, they'll correct this and make Taito Legends 3 and actually include both this and Arkanoid II: Revenge of Doh.
![[TAS] NES Arkanoid "warpless" by eien86 in 10:56.12](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bUSIQ9YwKpw/mqdefault.jpg)
Honestly this is just one of the dozen or so perfect arcade games ever created. The design, sound, graphics and controls are just right.
I agree. Next to the original Atari game, Breakout, released 10 years prior, this is one of the best games of its kind. You can spend hours mastering the levels!
I used to be SO addicted to this game when I was in college in 1991. I would play for hours in the student center; they had a couple of arcade games, and this was one of them. I've even won the game a time or two!
@harter kern is a pool that large thing of water where people for some weird reason like to enter half naked exposing their skin to everyone like demented freaks?
Interesting, you were born in 1971? Have you played “Metal Hawk” as well?”
This game will always remind me of my dad, he would take my older brother and I to the arcades and he could go forever on this game. I sucked as a kid and as a 30 plus year old I still suck haha. Great memories, thank you!
This reminds me of my dad for a different reason. The only arcade in my area that had it was the bowling alley so my brother and I only got to play it on Wednesdays when my dad would take us there for league night and we'd go fuck off in the arcade during his practice games. Had it been at all the arcades I'm not sure my bro and I would've so strongly gravitated toward it but I guess lack of availability artificially inflated our interest in it. No problem with that cuz it's a damn good game. To this day, my dad still whimsically (but with slightly detectable annoyance) recalls the time my bro and I fucked up a perfect practice game of his just to bug him for quarters and he had to settle for a 265.
This game will always remind me of some birthday party, probably when I was 7 or 8 and one superstar uncle with long hair on a 386 (maybe it was a good 286?) with a clean mouse and some time to kill just walking this game.
I have it now authentically on a 386 and 486, but I can never get this far.
Still, to this day, 30 years later, I can approximately show what townhouse that game that so fascinated me was played in.
cwing1028 why is this link here weird i just finished reading the comment on his post wondering where is the footage and viola but sir this is a peaceful arena of gamers and......Damn he got socked for real
Karl Miller I’m lost, what happened?
How do I get this game, me and my brothers used to play this as kids with my dad, we had a console that had 50 games on in 1, cabt remember what it's called
Used to play this game all the time when I was kid at my hometown arcade. I miss the 90s.
Played so much as a kid, finishing it was one of my proudest achievements, I am pretty sure all that gaming gave us great reaction times
"I shall conquer the universe of DOH!"
"How shall you do that, sir?"
"I dunno... put a whole bunch of blocks around, I guess."
"Very good, sir."
+OzzieBloke their not just blocks....they are big blocks
0:06, 0:08 and 0:16: Begin! (0:43) 1-UP!
7:12: Level skipped!
31:24: Boss Fight!
31:47: KO!
31:54: Boss Defeated! (32:03)
32:21: GAME OVER.
This game is 30 years old now! Can't believe it.. I was 12 back then.. But it still plays fine, and looks fine,
ARAKANOID points
WHITE = 50 points
ORANGE = 60 points
LIGHT BLUE = 70 points
GREEN = 80 points
RED = 90 points
BLUE = 100 points
PURPLE = 110 points
YELLOW = 120 points
SILVER = 50x points
(depends on round #)
GOLD = NO points
(cannot be destroyed)
100 points for each INTERFERING object
1000 points for each falling capsule
B > break to the next playing field
C > catches the energy ball
D > splits the energy ball into three balls
E > extends the vaus
L > fires at the blocks
P > awards extra player
S > slows down the energy ball
ARAKANOID points
When I was in high school, the local Pizza Ranch had this game in their game room. Two classmates and I were locked in a constant battle to unseat each other's high scores. Good times.... :)
Oh god! The memories of this game...college '86 '87 & '88. Played it daily in the student center, after lunch and dinner & probably skipped a class or two. FINALLY beat it when a friend and I played as a team with a pocketful of quarters each.
Then I never touched the machine again.
Still, would love to own one for home.
lol those pings are hypnotizing, i just watched the whole thing straight through.....
Yeah, and the opening theme for levels is good too. :)
Ping: 12.04
And people these days say that they didn't know how to make good games 'back in the day'. I'd be so happy playing this or gauntlet, or even Bubble-bobble in the arcades, along with a lot of other games.
Playing my favourite arcade games and doing well left me feeling so much happier and with a sense of achievement, more than any of the games these days can.
Thanks for reminding me my old days of gaming :)
Better ending than Mass Effect 3.
That's not much of an accomplishment
4:12 what a ballsy gamble shooting out the bricks while ignoring the ball to clear out the level. Pretty cool.
Arkanoid is one of my favourite games and also one of my most played games (although I have played the MS-DOS version)!
Holy shit, man. Not even up for debate. Youre the best Arkanoid player to ever walk the Earth. This game was one of my arcade favorites 30 years ago for sure. I was never too good at it, but Ive seen some great players. You smoke them all!
I suspect it was played using rollback, which lets you rewind if you die. There's really no way to know if anyone has used it, so I always assume it was used in game longplays.
It's clearly a TAS.
@@megac4
Why would he avoid Break if doing a speedrun? This is no speedrun.
@@FITE_MEReally? How many hours did it take you to become that good? 4000? 10k?
Never could play this game a damn, but i'm glad to see someone manage to get through it.
If that's a somewhat fancy way of saying that the ball's trajectory isn't random, then yes. Yes, it does: You actually have a fair deal of control over the ball, one of the few good things about this game to make it into its sequels.
God i still can remember when i finally beat it 2 years ago on my arkanoid arcade table 0_0
I have a full size arcade machine in my livingroom, I still play this game nearly everyday. Will forever be addicted
same!
12:53 Impressive.
Yep, good combo!
Very impressive.
Да, это великолепно
This is one of my favorite games to play, even though I've beaten it just once.
When I was a kid, around 10 years old or so, I remember managing to beat this game. One of the few games I really mastered, alongside with Green Beret and Equinox.
Remember beating hard games because I used to play a lot but this one was very very difficult but when I managed to know where to put the paddle and playing with the ball angle, I was able to beat it.
In Spectrum DOH was specially difficult because it was nearly impossible to see where it was shooting, so it was to try and error. Also I beat this game in PC but never managed to beat revenge of doh
Gets the Warp....but sticks around to finish the level anyway. THAT IS BOSS!
+Chris Muzyka i cant even beat level 1 without losing a life
That was pissing me off. :P
The only way to go if you want high scores. Break all those blocks, then get the sweet warp bonus too!
I remember I used to wait until the very last block and then zip over to the warp. haha
Oh God! What memories brings me back this game. I first played it to a Cafe bar in my village on '88. I remember that instead of lever on the device there was a wheel,so it made the playing much harder for kid. Later I played it to NES console and then I found it easier.
Thank you for this Longplay! So many memories...and so many quarters out of me! That game took some serious skill!
Any chance of maybe doing a Longplay of Reaxxion for the PC someday? Similar concept, and like this game highly addictive as well.
I've played an Arkanoid machine in an arcade before. It was one of my favorites because I liked how fluent the control was. You controlled it with a knob like Pong and it was fun
I've managed to run into this machine twice in my life, once as a kid, another within the last 15 years, both times I had no choice but to sink some money into it, I love me some Arkanoid.
Proper game with proper final boss stage and proper outro. ❤
You are insanely good at angles.
Able to predict where the ball will end up before it comes down too.
You know what a TAS is, right?!
@@megac4 I do, but it says nowhere that it's a TAS.
I love that 31:54 tune
I love the music too - it featured in the The ZX Spectrum conversion, only it was used on the title screen, a little slower. Look for a video titled "Arkanoid ZX Spectrum"! :)
Arkanoid 2000 on PSX, remix on ending too
Memories of summer 93' brought me here... my brother and i used to play this game and Oregon trail all time at summer camp.
When I had laser, the only two capsules I would purposely get (and sacrifice the laser) would be the P (extra player) and B (break out to next round).
This dude is so good that when he gets a "break" he doesnt exit. He stays on the level to kick it's ass a little more and then leaves at his leisure. Hahaha.
+pingamalinga That's actually the best way to get the high score for this game! Purposely avoid finishing levels and just kill as many enemies as you can for 100 pts each.
You know what a TAS is, right?!
@@megac4The video is listed as longplay.
Absolutamente sensacional um dos jogos mais difíceis de todos os tempos do arcade wolrd .... vi Pouquíssimos jogadores terminarem essa partida
The Vaus could be one of the most OP spaceships in sci fi
>primary weapon consists of a heavy ricocheting projectile that can destroy other things on impact but not the Vaus itself, implying it is made of a superior impact resistant material
>Can upgrade weapons and size at will
I find it very “therapeutic watching this”.
Sound: NES: music, SMS: sound effects.
Graphics:SNES
I remember ENDING this game wayyyyy back in the day in the late 80's as a teenager.
The only arcade game I ever ended. It was a feeling like no other at the time, putting the 3 initials of my name in the high score.
I was screaming at the top of my lungs after the giant head blew up.
As luck would have it, of COURSE my friends went back to school at lunch while I kept playing, only to end it with no one around, and naturally they didn't believe me.
well - you did have the saved highscore to prove it, no? ;-)
This is pretty amazing for a game released in 1986. The ball seems to obey Newtonian mechanics.
Cool to see this game to the end. The End Of Game Baddie reminds me of the AI's in Neuromancer.
She's a proudly best actors and gamers!!
R.I.P. Nobuyo Oyama.🥲👋
You guys are not going to believe this I just found out that the guy who made the sound tracks made a version of the sound to a song called revenge of arkanood by cosió and sound super familiar also zuntata works with Cosió
Awesome play! I actually found an original Arkanoid in great condition I’ll be bringing it home shortly!
This game ROCKS!!! The version for the NES is also great!
I had such good times playing arkanoid, its even been a long time playing it.
me, as engineer remember a big circuit card board in order to run any arcade game....now there is room in your phone to run this game ha ha
God the memories of the local Mom n Pop pizza shop in the 80s! We would eat $1 baskets of French fries and .50 tall glasses of Coke! Sometimes we'd pitch in and get a large pizza for $7 lol. And play this and so many other games all night!
the era and time of this story is unknown. after the mothership "arkanoid" was destroyed, a spacecraft "vaus" scrambled away from it. but only to be trapped in space warped by someone........
Wait, there's more than two rounds? (...well, there are, but the continue screen is a bit deceptive.)
At an arcade that I go to in the summer this arcade game has been out of order for years
E: Extends bar length
P: Gives an extra life
B: Opens gate to next level
D: Spawns 2 more balls
G: Allows player to freely launch ball
L: Turns bar into laser shooter
But what does S do!?
I remember as a kid, one person who got to the boss. I was amazed.
One of these days RUclips has to start allowing 60 fps. Video game footage always looks so choppy here.
This and Gyruss were the two arcade games that were at my dad’s squash club when I was a little kid. I was terrible at both of them lol.
So, this game is basically Breakout in a remix. The Space Invaders alien in 3:38 is quite cool, but the boss in the end is unexpected.
26:18 I thought it was gonna get stuck!! 🤣
OMG THIS GAME... Is my fucking childhood...
I skipped school a few times and this game was partially to blame 🤭
Coming soon from Lionsgate and SuperNintendo Chalmers Productions: Arkanoid The Movie!
When the evil DOH traps the spaceship ARKANOID in an strange dimension, Vaus must avenge the falling of the mothership to defeat DOH and escape. Starring Chris Pratt (well, he was good in the Lego Movie and both Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 1 and Vol. 2) as Captain Brad Brickmaster and reuniting with him, Elizabeth Banks as the alien princess love interest, and John C. Reilly (from Wreck It Ralph and his roles on Adult Swim) as Lt. Commander Steve Megafisto, the science officer/former MMA fighter.
This summer 2017 from Lionsgate, based on the Taito arcade game!
Arkanoid, the original game (and one of the most well known arcade games in the 80's) that gave other companies a chance to make their own clones of this famous game.
Much like Bust A Move (or Puzzle Bobble for Japan) which also got a lot of clones like Inside Out Thought Bubbles by Disney.
Arkanoid actually the first in these lines of games.
Breakout and Super Breakout for Atari preceded Arkanoid. Arkanoid is definitely the superior game though.
It's nearly impossible to clear this game as the ball moves too fast.
This year was the Arkanoid: Eternal Battle on the Switch
wow i got to level 32 once years ago on commodore 64 did not know i was close to the end
『大山 のぶ代』が熱中していたゲーム
And she could defeat in one coin.
anyone notice at the end... planet DOH which has been now added to the dictionary
I am addicted to this game when i was a kid :)
There was another version of this that scrolled downwards that I was addicted too...
I have a multicart and used an in-game cheat funcion to get to DOH and hear that rocking tunage at the end
Friggin' love this game.
Round 14 is rotten.
Nice. I used to finish this as well. I my games' place back in 87 or so, the version was the one that offered you a life in every 30,000 points. So when you ended in the boss you had some 25 lives left, and then you hit the boss in each life 15 times and then lose on purpose (each hit worths 1,000 points). Haven't searched it but I recall my best high beeing ~1,206,000. It's obvious the player here is also very good and doesn't look for a high score. For example I never used the fire gun to shoot the bonus-giving blocks cause each bonus is another 1,000. Also, when we got the purple "stage out", we did the same he does sometimes here, waiting to get more points. Sometimes when I ended with a fire gun I didn't complete the stage but kept shooting the flying objects (100 points each).
I was amazed, when I tried to play this on MAME, and was FAR too difficult with the keyboard and NOT the "wheel" we had in the consoles. If you did that with the keyboard, you have my great respect!!! :)
Playing with that wheel?! Now that is awe worthy.
音だけ聞いていても気持ちが良いね。
I don't know how it is possible to go far in this game: despite all my efforts i never went beyond round 7 or 8 in a single game.
I only reached level 5 as a kid
Is the HEAD at the end Round 33?? Or is there 32 rounds and the DOH head is seperate from all the rounds???
I still remember when I received the 2nd place score for Arkanoid, which was 67,630. I know that I just didn't try very hard like I was supposed to.
Sadly that isn't the case, no Arkanoids made any of the Taito collections in Japan.
1986, Taito (Romstar license)
Arkanoid
I've developed "Intensity" for Windows, Linux and Android, which is a mix of "Arkanoid" and shot'em-up, with scrolling and a awesome spherical effect 😀
OHHHH your the one that made that game. I Love that game bro
@@jcharmaine1 Thanks, pal :)
@@bitmagine your welcome :)
It was one of the most colorful games back then. Way too hard for me, I could reach lvl 3 then die there. And I remember it had a spin control. Very hard game, the ball moves extremely fast after some time.
ah! this is what a nostalgic game, it's better exciting to watch than i playing in person because clear the stage is hard to me. Lol
This game would make a fantastic screensaver.
Actual games: what is this???
Tetris: It's a classic, that's what it is!
That's great play. Well done.
Once you figured out the secret, it was impossible to lose.
A space invader and an umbrella!!! Why aren't all the other rounds things we can recognize???!!
Des heures passées au Lion d'or à Lomme...
Two horseshoes, one for skill, sick hand eye coordination and not losing a single life. The other for the 1ups and Breaks. Awesome job! BTW how many lives did you have at the end? I'll guess 9.
Man I was so useless at this game
Mainlu when the ball hit these enemies coming from the gates,one hit and the ball get loose
oh there's lasers
but when you press fire on arcade machine it lags for like 2s
First time playing?
+Dr. Awkward Isn't it obvious? He's such a newb. lol
@@hitmangfx7162 Seriously, though. I wonder how much time the lad has spent on the game knowing what exactly will happen next and where exactly to put the thing.
They key to success in this game, either a knob controller like the arcade version, or fast enough reflexes on a mouse. Shame the original Arkanoid Returns for PS1 (longplayed by these guys, 2nd revision with paddle support) doesn't support a paddle or mouse, that's the one I have. NES version is extremely tough with a regular controller hence why Taito created the Vaus controller which is hard to find in good condition nowadays.
This most reminds me of another one of my favorite brick out games
31:51 What the hell was with the Tiki head?
Great play, game, and memories.
I never knew that the game had an ending and final boss like that!
A lot of Taito's classics never made it to Legends or Legends 2. That's why I hope that someday, they'll correct this and make Taito Legends 3 and actually include both this and Arkanoid II: Revenge of Doh.
大山のぶ代さんが元気だった頃は、アルカノイドをクリアしていたけど、今は認知症になってしまって…。
もうクリアするのは無理かなぁ。。。
Takeshi Saitama sou
このエンディングのように時間がリバースできればいいですね。3次元では認知症になっても５次元では活発だと思います・・きっと。
Such an awesome game to play growing up. Back when arcade games took skill not micro transactions like today’s you see in arcades.
I was a super star ✨ on Arkanoid in the arcade :)