Let's Compare ( Moon Patrol ) ( REMADE VIDEO )
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2013
- ( Remade this video to reduce the risk of a copyright strike. I think this one is better anyway. )
Video Locations:
1. Arcade 0:25
2. Atari 2600 2:28
3. apple 2 3:44
4. Commodore Vic 20 6:03
5. Intellivision ( Clone ) 8:25
6. Atari 5200 / 400 / 800 / XL 10:28
7. MS Dos 12:30
8. ZX Spectrum 14:32
9. Commodore 64 16:47
10. MSX 18:44
11. TI99 20:49
12. Colecovision 23:10
13. Atari ST 25:09
14. Gameboy Color 27:08
15. Dreamcast / Playstation / Windows ( Live Capture ) 28:42
Description Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Patrol
Moon Patrol (ムーンパトロール Mūn Patorōru?) is an arcade game by Irem that was first released in 1982. It was licensed to Williams for distribution in North America.
The player controls a moon buggy, viewing it from the side, that travels over the moon's surface. While driving it, obstacles such as craters and mines must be avoided. The buggy is also attacked by UFOs from above and tanks on the ground. Moon Patrol was one of the earliest side-scrolling shooters and is credited for the introduction of parallax scrolling in side-scrolling video games -- although Jump Bug featured it first.
Gameplay
The player takes the role of a Luna City police officer assigned to Sector Nine, the home of the "toughest thugs in the galaxy."
The top portion of the screen shows a timeline-style map of the current course, and three indicator lights. The top light indicates upcoming enemy aerial attacks, the middle one indicates an upcoming minefield, and the bottom one indicates enemies approaching from behind.
The map shows five different checkpoints labeled E, J, O, T and Z. Similar to racing games, the time spent during between each checkpoint is compared to the average which determines the number of bonus points allocated to the player. The game contains two courses, the regular and champion course; after completing the first course your buggy's color changes from pink to red and the game continues on. 
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Moon Patrol is one of my favourite arcade game ever! There are so many many great conversations. Thanks for the video.
There's something about the simplicity of the Atari 2600 version that's just fantastic.
When I was but a wee lad learning guitar, Moon Patrol was the first thing I taught myself when I got a bass guitar. It's just so damn cool.
the atari 2600 port of moon patrol is ADORABLE
What impresses me about so many VCS/2600 ports is how well they were refined and tweaked, to make the gameplay really good. Not too difficult, but with the feel of the arcade. Smooth, playable, fun; it must have been so much work to get the games just right before release. Good game!
Although it was done in at least one previous game (Jump Bug), this game right here helped spread Parallax Scrolling in the videogames, simply one of my favorite visual effects. :)
Interesting how the game varies depending upon the programmer. The MSX, Colecovision and TI99/4A have more or less the same exact graphics and sound chips.
It's ColecoVision's 40th Anniversary. How about making another game?
Arcade the best version ever.
Fabiano Barcelos Every version has it's owns.
C=64 and TI-99 have better sound.
5200/8-BIT has a better and more ''rude'' patrol style.
MSX look pretty sweet and also that ''lose'' sequence is good.
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And ZX Spectrum features Mate (From CARS) LOL!
MetalSonicodraco7342 Godd Night!!! 2600 is a classic version, Collecovision have a good grafic, but my sytem favorite is the "father" for all. ARCADE ever.
Best version for me is the Vectrex homebrew that came out a couple of years ago
Atari 5200 was the best.
Actually, no. The best is not featured in this video. It is "Vector Patrol", a current-era addition to the Vectrex library. Expanded cut scenes and music, stunning graphics and a battery backed cartridge that saves high score and level times. Look it up, you'll see what I mean. It easily beats the arcade version.
Haha, the Intellivision one looks like a tiptoeing hummingbird.
I only had so many pixels to work with.
@@intvnut Amazing how the music is so faithful to the original! Sound effects, too.
No problem. It was nice to get 2 videos this week, and I just finished watching all 2 hours of the Bomberman video. Thanks for what you do.
The remix of the song,at the beginning of the video was pretty cool :)
I loved this game as a kid, i had it on the 2600. For years i couldn't remember what it was called.
The XL version was one of the first games I played (and the first one I could "beat") back when I was 7 - 8. I still looove the funky Moon Patrol theme to this day ^^
(I want to own the XL version again but I got the 2600 version a couple of years ago and that is great too. Even the music sounds awesome)
It is the perfect bass tune, which is why it's at such a low key. Good choice.
At some point I keep hearing Art Of Noise "Beatbox" in my head.
I remember being six or seven years old playing this game at the arcade with my dad.
Thanks ! :) Glad You enjoyed it. That Bomberman video could have been easily 4 hours if I added the entire series. 0_0
One of the very few games where the continuous background music was clearly considered so integral to the game that even the ports to the most primitive platforms attempted to replicate it.
The Moon Patrol Buggy looks funny.
Thank you for posting the video!
awesome share! Thank you! I often hum this damn tune in my head ..even complete with the jump and ufo noises LOL!
This tune from the atari 2600 has been in my head since I played it back when it came out. 82 or 83?
A Vectrex (homebrew) version will come next... very soon.
Here is an interview with its developer, the very talented Kristof Tuts.
Please scroll down for more...
www.iamretro.gr/kristof-tuts-interview-english/
Τι είπες τώρα!!! Θυμάμαι η καμπίνα που το "φιλοξενούσε" (στο arcade που έπαιζα) είχε ένα κλειδί που γύρναγε σε φρουτάκια!!! :D
Ωραίο VS review!!! :)
Don't know why so many platforms attempted to replicate the in-game musical score when they were clearly incapable of it.
Muy buen trabajo, felicitaciones! 👏👏👏
Going ahead & releasing this one today. it was scheduled for tomorrow. Enjoy !
The Final Course is Champion Course 3, If this Course clear, this course has no End. What a Deluxe Video!
É impressionante como ninguém conseguiu fazer melhor que no arcade.
I just noticed that except for the 2 arcade ports and the 2600 port you didn't get a fast enough time for the checkpoint bonuses. I was seeing a lot of "Sorry, No Bonus" is all.
Sorry, No Bonus
Story of GHS life this video
Love the flying bras! LOL
There was a "Dexter's Laboratory" themed pc remake of this on the Cartoon Network back in the day. It's still playable it seems. But the basic concept appears to be the same.
One of my favorite arcade games. I find the Gameboy Color version pretty close to the original.
Why every time I play Mass Effect and do the moon quest it reminds me Moon Patrol?
OHHH ! lol I had a rough last couple of days & didn't catch that. lmao. thanks for explaining.
good lord we suffered.
Props on the Intellivision version for having the multi-playfields. One of their better ports.
Atari 2600 car looks like it's walking instead of rolling...
ZX Spectrum...Yikes!
The Spectrum version was never officially released. It was a prototype
@@satan3959 Ah, okay. Sorry for the late reply!
Excellent game! Used to play this on the C64!
I used to love this game! I just hated how these early 80's/ late 70's games didn't have much of an ending except "THE END" or "CONGRATULATIONS" or "YOU WIN", no cutscenes/cinematics whatsoever :D
I love that the aliens in the ColecoVision version look like Devo hats, or "energy domes."
Good observations, spud! I thought the exact same thing!
In retrospect I'm pretty glad Jack Tramiel aggressively pushed TI out of the computer business. Until the NES came along, the C64 set the standard for 8-bit gaming.
My brother must have put so many upgrades on his Apple 2e. I never suffered from any slowdown in this game on it
Great compare vid as always, but as you've sometimes done in the past, this one could use an update...hmmm a 5th Anniversary Update?? One of the best ports of this game was released recently, and VERY much deserves to be compared to the rest.
That would of course be the Vectrex version "Vector Patrol" from Kristof Tuts (aka Tutstronix) Unbelievable attention to detail, faithful gameplay, non-volatile high score save on cartridge, and a 3D record-breaker cut-scene that the coders of the arcade originals would salivate over.
I know your video pre-dates the game by half a decade, but it really should get a late-date addition to your fine work.
Only remember the atari XL version and arcade, very hard when had 9 years
The Vectrex version of this (By Kristof Tuts), called Vector Patrol, is mind blowing! For a raster game to be in vector graphics and look that authentic is simply amazing. Definitely look for a video on it. I never by home brew games, but that was one I couldn't pass up.. Well Vector Pilot (Time Pilot) I also bought.
You would think a moon vehicle with 6 wheels wouldn't fall into small holes.
Although it doesn’t look much like the original, the C=64 version looks really cool.
Love it
I couldn't find it either, but since there is an Atari ST version. It should have easy to port Amiga. But for some reason, there isn't any.
Who knows, maybe a homebrew version pop-up from somewhere.
Like prince of persia C64 version.
I only ever saw the Williams Electronics version of Moon Patrol (I think it was a license from Irem when they were starting to have financial trouble). Williams were the KING of arcade for a while. Such classics:
- Defender
- Stargate
- Robotron
- Sinistar
- Joust
Like all great games, they're easy to learn, difficult to master.
and a little later --- SmashTV.
@@infindebula Strongly influenced by The Running Man movie and Robocop. Loved that game but could never get very far in it. Way better with two simultaneous players.
Also that remix of the theme song gives reminds me so much of UNATCO HQ in Deus Ex.
the apple 2 version is why games never come to mac
The Apple IIGS was a good system though, but this was the original Apple II which was also made in 1977 and geared more towards educational institutions, So it wasn't going to have great graphics anyway
@@scottbreon9448 LOL - we must have lived on different planets. Everyone that I knew had Apple computers. They used them for games. Their hi-res graphics mode had 6 colors, which was very good at the time. When I bought my Atari 400 the only documentation was that it could only put 4 colors on the screen at the same time. When the doc's finally came out and people could see to excellent graphics it could do, the Apple became a business computer.
BTW - The Atari 800 could make a superior business / educational computer than the Apple. It ran 80% faster and it could put a 40K program into a 16K cartridge leaving 32K ram for the program. It's not as if by magic the Apple was somehow better just because it had an Apple logo on it.
@@bjbell52 You must have had rich friends then
Apple = overpriced and overrated since the dawn of time
@Peck Man: Game Compares and More! The IIGS wasn't a mac though. It was a predecessor
Wow the intellvision version looks great for an intellvision game!
colecovision version looks good. it seems it was a good machine with many good arcade conversions.
Oh, yeah: Back in the day the ColecoVision was the machine to beat, especially when it came to arcade conversions. Really top notch stuff. If it hadn't been for the video game crash and the poor reception of the Adam computer, ColecoVision might still be around in some super advanced form...
That homebrewed Vectrex version that came out of a couple of years ago is also awesome
Hey your videos are so useful. I suppose I always wonder which one plays the best... Do you recall the answer for Moon Patrol?
The Dreamcast version was the best as far as graphics to me.. but on a classic system I have to give it to the Colecovision.
MSX version is running at a wrong speed. This is running at 50hz , while the game was made for 60hz machines.
This is *very* common on MSX videos uploaded on RUclips by people who has not much knowledge of the machine and it's really annoying :)
The game should be a tad faster on proper hardware on properly configured emulator.
Sometimes it's not possible to get the emulation to work correctly. I have run into this issue on several occasions. Sometimes it cannot be helped.
Here is a quick fix for ya ! Go to settings & speed. Go to the next speed up. It's 1.25. You'll see the correct speed. :P It works !
To be fair, the MSX was also a thing in Europe. Did it have a region lock?
Great game!
the game is from another planet!
Ha, the Atari 2600 version looks like it's a running Hedgehog lol
+ZEUSDAZ - THE UNEMULATED RETRO GAME CHANNEL Still one of the best ports
ZX Has Mate (from Cars) LOL
Mate Patrol
Hedgehog Patrol
+ZEUSDAZ - THE UNEMULATED RETRO GAME CHANNEL ... The 2600 didn't look that good but it played very well and was fun for its day.
Zeusdaz - The Unemulated Retro Game Channel nah
Sonic the Moonhog
Every version look really nice, too bad there was no Amiga version, beside that Lunar Patrol clone, i can imagine it would look identical to Atari ST, but with better sound, it look like only MSX version had guy jumping out of vehicle after explosion, rest versions had nothing/wheels.
I saw the old video you put walking on the moon ☺👍
Lidia Carvalho :D I had to take it down because of the Copyright possibilities.
You missed a great port on the TRS-80 Coco / Dragon computer!
the game boy colour version out shines the atari st one,man that;s no good like, the atari st should of had this one in the bag,yet another example of lazy programing.
great video by the way.
Well, to be fair, the Gameboy Color came out about 13 and a half years after the Atari ST. It just goes to show how quickly things evolve in the world of technology: Smaller, faster, better and cheaper!
Heh that's weird, in the Coleco prototype it looks like the aliens were replaced with bras and Devo hats. ^_^
Coleco version is pretty sweet. Are the Devo hats exclusive to it?
My only complaint is that the Coleco version seems to copy the Atari 5200 sounds, rather than the arcade sounds. The Coleco could sound so much better than it does...
Wow, the C64 version has upwards shots about 4 times faster than any of the other versions, including the arcade! Funny that the Colecovision version (prototype) is so much better than the Texas Instruments TI-99/4a version considering they use the same video chip and the TI is using a quasi-16 bit CPU comparted to the CV's Z80. I guess nobody ever made an Amiga version?
the zx spectrum is the worst
i dont think so.
Agreed. It's too slow.
It was only a prototype. It was never officially released for sale
Interesting how all the computer ports were more concerned in replicate the vehicle look, and had poor gameplay. The Atari port has bad graphics, but perfect gameplay replication.
It’s all about the wheels 😃
Your videos always remind me why I play only arcade versions. Those clones are not only awful, but just wrong.
C-64 version did a lot of things right....but then they didn't put any of the other backgrounds in! That was such a disappointment. 5200 version was really good.
When does the Colecovision version come out???
And the best it was...ATARI 2600!
Man that ZX Spectrum... lol
The game was never released. It was uncovered abandonware. So at least nobody had to pay for that shite.
Top.
The only Amiga version I know is just a clone called Overlander.
there is a Vectrex version coming soon from Kristof Tuts the guy that wrote Vector Pilot!
I have a Vectrex, but it doesn't work. It turns on, but all I get is the music from "MineField". Know anyway to get it fixed?
@JustWasted3HoursHere
It may sound like a stupid question, but have you made sure your brightness dial in the back is turned up?
I forget how dim the screen can get with it turned down all the way, but possibly just a blank screen. Worth a try.
@@JustWasted3HoursHere I think you mean MineStorm. LOL
Vic 20 is worse than Atari 2600
Quite an achievement
Didn't like the C64 version when i was a kid,but compared to some of the other abomination here...
Nah not really, not being a fanboy.
The C64 version had one of the best sfx and music,
@@MetalSonicodraco7342 sfx and music, but the gameplay was off. And the closer the GAMEPLAY to the original is the MOST important factor in arcade conversions.
why atari change the patrol? in early versions was the original desing
Moon paper delivery.
From what I could see. Doing the digging and all ... I really didn't see any evidence of it. There was a clone but it was just too different. Unless I missed something.
Why are there only three wheels flying off? This vehicle does not have six tires?
One of my favorite games. It looked pretty good on the vic20. I always hated everything on Atari. They could take any game and turn it into a pile of poo.
MSX version (18:44) in this vid does not run at 60Hz(NTSC)... :-(
I see even back then, Apple products were 10 steps behind every one else in quality.
The Apple II was actually ahead, being the the only one capable of color graphics out of the home computer offerings.
...in 1977, that is. They were apparently so proud of this fact that the Apple II also remained one of the costliest of the home computer market for about a decade, haha!
The Apple II had no sprite or sound hardware and early models had no screen interrupt. Basically, it was a nightmare for fast paced games.
What is name of this arcade system?
+Вячеслав Дадада Not sure what you mean. But it was played on the MAME emulator.
+Вячеслав Дадада It should be an Irem M-52.
The ZX Spectrum version was pretty clearly a corrupted load. Probably why the speed was so slow.
According to World of Spectrum, that port was a prototype and wasn't released to the public.
Thank goodness!
I was never released. It was uncovered abandonware.
It was a beta/prototype
It was NEVER released for public sale
wha what? Am i seeing a decent atari st arcade port?
Hermosos recuerdos pero, en la luna no hay montañas y mucho menos montañas nevadas, oh! ajajaja que gran error!, Todavía la ciudad lunar la creo.
thanx for the info m8.
I immediately checked. Overlander is clearly a clone and game seems crap, although graphics are improved.
windows version?
The ZXSpectrum version is particularly abominable
In it's defense, it was never officially released. It was only uncovered a couple of years ago
It was just a beta/prototype that was never officially released
C= rules!
yes but we are under attack by flying bras at 24:30
Why is the Spectrum version so slow?
Scooter Ahlers lazy progamming
Probaly because there is music playing. Making sound on the Spectrum's beeper was a CPU hogging task! Making scrolling was another one. Everything relied on software rendering, If the programmer is not at the height to handle this with finesse, things are doomed to slugggggggg,
It was only a prototype/beta version. The game was never officially released for sale
Falta uno que el tanke era version mas realista de mejores graficas y se miraba la tierra creo jeje se jugaba en windows 95 y al final del nivel se veia el tanke en una foto grande pero el tanke se parecia mas a un carro de carreras de la formula 1 pero en gris... si alguien lo tuviese me haria feliz :S
+Jeyl@nD Chico...estas comentando en español en un lugar poblado de gente Inglesa
COLECOVISION BY A MILE..i have that cartridge.
As of writing, if you go to the App Store and type in "Amico Club" you can play the demo version of Moon Patrol for the Intellivision Amico.
Some games look way better in monochrome.
huh ? what do You mean By that ?
my favorite one will have to be the arcade because its the OG and "main" video game, if you know what I mean. also, I had the ZX spectrum and I always try to play this game.... it was not good.
Too Bad there Wasn't a Version for the NES.
For what? I couldnt imagine how bad the sound could be in that abomination of sound chip of the NES.
Seriously I dont like to hate but man...I simply cant like in anyway that sound!
+MetalSonicodraco7342 Have you not heard the music for Batman on the NES? Brilliant for an 8 bit machine. Now the Megadrive/Genesis sound chip..... there is a lump of grit filled turd. I liken the megadrive sounda to fisher price keyboard spinning in a cement mixer.
+craig cotter Brilliant sound track. Like the Ninja Gaiden 2 track as well.
@@craigcotter7476 That's because of the musician. The quality of the tune is generally a result of how talented the guy doing it is.