It’s so crazy to actually hear this game’s soundtrack so clearly, because back in the day it would be drowned out by all the other games in the arcade lol.
This game looks great even today, 30 years later. I think this is one of the greatest games in terms of level design and atmosphere. It reminds me of those disturbing places described by Lovecraft in his stories.
This was 1 of Capcom's most challenging games. After a year, i managed to beat this game on a single credit. They sure don't make games like this anymore.
I just finished this game for the first time this evening. It was and still one of my absolute favorite arcade games as a kid. This really takes me back. ☺️
I used to love watching people play this game at the arcade. I could never make it past the 4th stage. I finally beat this game when I played it on Capcom Classics for my PS2. What a feeling of accomplishment!
This game blew my mind as a kid. I played it at the Roller Rink. So memorable. I couldn't remember the name. I talked to a guy who owns a retro arcade and he knew right away the game I was describing. Takes me back to playing games w roller skates on while eating a slice of pizza 🍕
One of my all time favourite arcade games, this and Wonderboy 2 adding the shopping/upgrade feature just seemed like it added so much at the time but what I really remember was how often I was rolling backwards while playing this game because I was usually at the local roller skating rink on a Saturday morning.
I think I am in love with this game... And I had never seen it before. That dark ages feel to it. Very barbaric. The poses the character does at the end of the level though. Reminds me of the Village People a little. Amazing upload! Thank you.
I don't know what run you were watching but it looked hard as hell. I only ever made it passed the ball devil back in the day at my 7-11. Game is brutal.
He did use save states to erase blunders. Any time you hear the music glitching during the run, that's when a state is restored. That's because the FM music chip driver doesn't save the internal state of the emulated sound chip - only the registers, so the notes sound strange until new notes get played in the song.
Late 80's, if I had a quarter, I could always play Black Tiger, at the nearby Villa Roma, through to the end. The arcade console version of Mario Bros. (where you could get a million lives) made a quarter stretch into hours at the local bowling alley. With $5 at 13yo I could have a soda, nacho chips, chili dog and game all day while my mom was working.
Played in 1989, full game with one coin, no lifes lost. We havent been killing the final dragon, we were farming skeletons to compete for high score. Fast forward to 2001, pc, mame, i still remembered every hidden spot in game. Still playing it ofc, best game ever.
Great game, I've Always been amazed by the stoned old clones. Some of them gives you money, some gives time (I really want to know how this last one *works!*), then... there was this sick bastard at 5:22 that was like: _"Here is some advice..."_ _"Toincreaseyourearningsseekhiddensymbolsdiditalkedtofastwellfuckyoubye"_ This is actually the FIRST TIME I can read what he say. -BETMARK-
Shit!! This was in an old shed(where the shop stored bags of coal) out the back of a local newsagent when I was a kid. We used to queue for fucking hours to get a shot, 10pence piece in hand, covered in coal dust......lol
This game had a later point where you had to make an INSANELY complex long-jump. One of those, "I made it this far and now I'm eternally stuck" moments in gaming where you wonder if the level designers fucked up.
Are you talking about the jump that is in the stage before the final stage? I know for that one you MUST hold up + jump, or it is impossible to make. I remember I was like the only person as a kid in my local arcade who figured out how to make that jump, and people would pay me tokens to make that jump for them and teach them how to do it.
Brilliant, unparalleled game. Used to play this game a lot in the 80s. I was able to play it again in the mid-90s, thanks to a standalone emulator that seems to have been forgotten by Google, an emulator called btishgar.
Que juego más medieval y feudal...el ambiente la música todo...tiene aires de novelas de caballerías..reyes...druidas adivinos..magos..castillos..me huele al rey Arturo.. Lancelot..el mago Merlín...😎👍
My fav arcade game, a port of sorts, came out on the pc engine, but they reskinned it with Journey to the West stuff & called it Sonson 2. It's especially obvious from level 2 & onwards, they didn't even bother to change a bunch of the enemies, and the weapon upgrades are identical, with the exception of them being at the end of a stick. It looks at a children's game at first glance, but is in fact way harder than BT, as you only have 1 life & no continues. Fans of BT should def check it out.
my late uncle was a huge video game fanatic. he actually bought the arcade machine of this game from a Rocky's roller skate derby and had it in his basement along w a few other medieval types like Rastan , rygar and Golden Axe. i spent my formative years playing this game. This brings back so many memories.
I used to hate walking to find this the only game a place had. Not because it was bad. It was just hard and I was shit at it and it was definitely the most popular game around the traps at one stage.
I remember I thought this game was too easy until one day I found my "easy" game a lot more difficult. The owner of the cabinet set the difficulty to hardest which made everything more expensive plus some other surprises. Took me many quarters to make it feel easy again. Then one day I saw this game again but it was called Black Dragon and it seemed even harder but that was not seeing the game for more than decade. I used to play only to hear the background music.
+Rebecca Brown Most people couldn't. I never made it past level 4 (maybe level 5) on this game, even if I blew my entire allowance on Continues. All long arcade games were that way... I knew a guy who could play Gauntlet all day on one quarter. The arcade had a love/hate relationship with him, because they knew the Gauntlet machine wasn't going to make any money that day. On the other hand, he ALWAYS drew a crowd, who would then blow their money trying to get as good as him...
@44:29 how do you make that jump? That's the one that always got me back in my day. no many how times I tried to run at it...whatever. Always ran out of time. Tried it again on mame and still can't make it lol. how do you bloody well do it!!?? :)
i'm confused by something. if you have enough for the level 4 weapon, then why did you buy the level 2 or 3 weapons? and if it's that you can't buy the level 4 until you buy the level 3, why were you putting it off so long?
He is trying to show that he can play with the lowest level weapon, which makes the game hard. There is a point when a weapon is no longer very effective, so he upgrades at that point.
Those are antidote jar. If the man eating plants touch you, you become poisoned and, without antidote, you won't be able to trow daggers. The old man sells them.
![Arcade Longplay [130] Willow](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/LumZP0rpoDM/mqdefault.jpg)
![Black Tiger Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/N2PqVAo7NAc/mqdefault.jpg)
![Arcade Longplay [461] Karnov](/img/1.gif)
You have returned peace and prosperity to our nation. Thank you Parzival
I cried when his last words were “thank you for playing my game”
You're welcome :)
I'm reading the book right now
@@pascualgimeno6804 Same
same ;)
I am 41 now, I have been looking for this game since I last played it when I was about 11, Thank You
Pete have you read Ready Player One? If not I highly recommend it
Same here bro
As for me I was 9 when I played this game. (2000)
@@deAndaJake I will check that out.
Capcom classics collection has this game. Look it up sometime!
It’s so crazy to actually hear this game’s soundtrack so clearly, because back in the day it would be drowned out by all the other games in the arcade lol.
Fun fact: This was one of Ernest Cline's, author of Ready Player One, favorite games.
Andy The Red Lantern I didn’t know that until now but thanks for sharing the common knowledge.
that's awesome
thats my favorite game too i didnt know that
mine too
@Andy The Red Lantern I came because of rpo only!
This game looks great even today, 30 years later. I think this is one of the greatest games in terms of level design and atmosphere. It reminds me of those disturbing places described by Lovecraft in his stories.
Oh wow, I remember this from my youth! Haven't seen it for over three decades, but the art design has stayed with me.
This was 1 of Capcom's most challenging games. After a year, i managed to beat this game on a single credit. They sure don't make games like this anymore.
TimelordR yup I completed this game in the arcades back in the day with one quarter with practice of coarse.
@@mo_musashi_284 same. I love it. Back in that days us kids were really hardcore players. Games were so hard.
To be fair, a lot of kids have a lot of free time in their hands back then pfft
@@BeyondDaX That isn't a statement or a question. Oof.
I just finished this game for the first time this evening. It was and still one of my absolute favorite arcade games as a kid. This really takes me back. ☺️
I used to love watching people play this game at the arcade. I could never make it past the 4th stage. I finally beat this game when I played it on Capcom Classics for my PS2. What a feeling of accomplishment!
This was one of my favorite games in our arcade in the day.
This game blew my mind as a kid. I played it at the Roller Rink. So memorable. I couldn't remember the name. I talked to a guy who owns a retro arcade and he knew right away the game I was describing. Takes
me back to playing games w roller skates on while eating a slice of pizza 🍕
I used to watch ppl play this game in arcades, for hours...
same here. although i can see the american version is much easier
i was the one playing the game!! :)
In Japan, it is known as Black Dragon.
Or Burakku Doragon.
ブラックドラゴン
I've seen it as both in Australia .
One of my all time favourite arcade games, this and Wonderboy 2 adding the shopping/upgrade feature just seemed like it added so much at the time but what I really remember was how often I was rolling backwards while playing this game because I was usually at the local roller skating rink on a Saturday morning.
I miss the days capcom would just develop and publish video games. At least they announced some stuff recently.
I think I am in love with this game... And I had never seen it before.
That dark ages feel to it. Very barbaric.
The poses the character does at the end of the level though. Reminds me of the Village People a little.
Amazing upload! Thank you.
You might also like Magic Sword, Rastan, or Rygar.
Whoever did this run made this game look easy and it is NOT easy
I don't know what run you were watching but it looked hard as hell. I only ever made it passed the ball devil back in the day at my 7-11. Game is brutal.
He did use save states to erase blunders. Any time you hear the music glitching during the run, that's when a state is restored. That's because the FM music chip driver doesn't save the internal state of the emulated sound chip - only the registers, so the notes sound strange until new notes get played in the song.
Late 80's, if I had a quarter, I could always play Black Tiger, at the nearby Villa Roma, through to the end. The arcade console version of Mario Bros. (where you could get a million lives) made a quarter stretch into hours at the local bowling alley. With $5 at 13yo I could have a soda, nacho chips, chili dog and game all day while my mom was working.
Its easy. I complete with one live
It's not that Hard, I completed it in One Credit :P
Ah, fond memories with this one, this was one of the earliest arcade games I played.
Ready player one brought me here
Me too.
Ohhh me tooo
Me too
Me too
The concept behind Fatalis and its varients from Monster Hunter was definitely inspired by this game.
Black Dragon and Time Pilot, my go too's when I was a kid!
"Hmm...Maybe I Can Sell You Something..." Ad plays. Well done.
This is like any early version of Magic Sword!
Funny you should mention that. Magic Sword was the indirect sequel to Black Tiger.
This and Magic Sword are 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Thanks for posting. I just spent an hour trying to rediscover this game.
Wow!!...This was the first game I ever completed with one credit I still remember all the kids from the block surrounding me yes to see me play 🎮🕹️
This is one of my fav games I played in the day
This was the second challenge in Ready Player One book.
Used to play this game in college with a buddy of mine, Rick. Excellent game
Underrated game. So many great elements.
I remember playing this 8th & 9th grade, i considered it the cutting edge of arcade games and the graphics . Peobably the apex of 80s arcade games.
Played in 1989, full game with one coin, no lifes lost. We havent been killing the final dragon, we were farming skeletons to compete for high score. Fast forward to 2001, pc, mame, i still remembered every hidden spot in game. Still playing it ofc, best game ever.
Great game, I've Always been amazed by the stoned old clones.
Some of them gives you money, some gives time (I really want to know how this last one *works!*), then... there was this sick bastard at 5:22 that was like:
_"Here is some advice..."_ _"Toincreaseyourearningsseekhiddensymbolsdiditalkedtofastwellfuckyoubye"_
This is actually the FIRST TIME I can read what he say.
-BETMARK-
This game is a straight up CLASSIC and the shop/zenny system was a precursor to Forgotten Worlds(another great game by Capcom)
amazed how big their heads are compared to the hero's. o.o
This was an old favorite of mine. If I saw a Black Tiger machine I’d always drop a few zenny into it. 😁
Crystal Key! 😎
24:19 Hey, it's Firebrand.
My thoughts exactly!
Lol true
Shit!! This was in an old shed(where the shop stored bags of coal) out the back of a local newsagent when I was a kid. We used to queue for fucking hours to get a shot, 10pence piece in hand, covered in coal dust......lol
spent many hours on this as a kid now i have found it on xbox one down loading it right now. CAPCOM ARCADE CABINET💓
I use to go crazy for this game, oh man those arcade days.
One of the best arcade game 80's!!
53:06: when you've killed all the skeletons, slain the dragon, rescued the princess, but still aren't sure if it's okay to put your hand on her back.
Seeing this brings back such good memories one of three games I could beat on one quarter this had such a dungeons and dragons theme to it👍❤️🔥
i was never so optimistic as you playing this game.. as soon as shop was available i bought whatever i could as soon as i could
Spinning skull can't be destroyed
1 quarter = pure enjoyment, yup, 1987 was the year of Black Tiger!
damn I didn't play this game in over 30yrs this brings me back I beat this game so many times
I don't know why, but the item shop music has always sounded funny to me.
This game had a later point where you had to make an INSANELY complex long-jump. One of those, "I made it this far and now I'm eternally stuck" moments in gaming where you wonder if the level designers fucked up.
Hahahaha! I've been there mate......in many games....lol
Are you talking about the jump that is in the stage before the final stage? I know for that one you MUST hold up + jump, or it is impossible to make. I remember I was like the only person as a kid in my local arcade who figured out how to make that jump, and people would pay me tokens to make that jump for them and teach them how to do it.
My dad used to play this game for hours on Capcom Collection when I was a kid lmao
Brilliant, unparalleled game. Used to play this game a lot in the 80s. I was able to play it again in the mid-90s, thanks to a standalone emulator that seems to have been forgotten by Google, an emulator called btishgar.
This was one of my favorites growing up. Thanks for posting.
Que juego más medieval y feudal...el ambiente la música todo...tiene aires de novelas de caballerías..reyes...druidas adivinos..magos..castillos..me huele al rey Arturo.. Lancelot..el mago Merlín...😎👍
Dude thanks for the video. Now I now when the coffe shop ovens.
Juan Romero what the hell did you just say?
please accept more time.. LOL
Better than gratitude
Kick ass, Black Tiger! He looks good fighting the forces of evil!
Game credits at the end missed one entry.
OASIS port by J. D. Halliday
My fav arcade game, a port of sorts, came out on the pc engine, but they reskinned it with Journey to the West stuff & called it Sonson 2. It's especially obvious from level 2 & onwards, they didn't even bother to change a bunch of the enemies, and the weapon upgrades are identical, with the exception of them being at the end of a stick. It looks at a children's game at first glance, but is in fact way harder than BT, as you only have 1 life & no continues. Fans of BT should def check it out.
RP1 brought me here. My next search was obviously going to be leopardon. Weirdly I just hit L in the search and it was top of the list.
my late uncle was a huge video game fanatic. he actually bought the arcade machine of this game from a Rocky's roller skate derby and had it in his basement along w a few other medieval types like Rastan , rygar and Golden Axe.
i spent my formative years playing this game. This brings back so many memories.
All great games! 👍
used to play this lunchtimes in college in 1990, complete game for only 10p!
I used to hate walking to find this the only game a place had. Not because it was bad. It was just hard and I was shit at it and it was definitely the most popular game around the traps at one stage.
best arcade game ever change my mind. Played it so much at the boys club that I could beat it all on 1 quarter no deaths
ghost'n' goblins, Rygar or even Toki are better. This one gets a bit too repetitve after a while.
Can’t compete with your nostalgia, but while I love it I don’t think it’s the best ever. A little repetitive.
Ps2 capcom collection yes I'm playing it. ❤❤❤❤
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I loved tis game and i STILL LOVE IT!!!!!
I remember I thought this game was too easy until one day I found my "easy" game a lot more difficult. The owner of the cabinet set the difficulty to hardest which made everything more expensive plus some other surprises. Took me many quarters to make it feel easy again. Then one day I saw this game again but it was called Black Dragon and it seemed even harder but that was not seeing the game for more than decade. I used to play only to hear the background music.
This is a legendary game and the music is freaking fantastic ….
Only one of two games i ever finished on a single credit, a utter classic. (the other was outrun btw)
I wonder if Arthur from Ghosts and Goblins is a descendant of the barbarian hero?
1987, Capcom (Romstar license)
Black Tiger
Un gioco degno di Capcom Arcade Stadium. Insieme a Tiger Road, due dei miei Arcade preferiti Capcom.
I spent so many coins on this one - together with WOnder Boy and Yie ar Kung Fu - my favourite
ready player one brought me here.... and i love it
hell yeah!
They start showering you with zenny just when you have already bought every useful thing in the shop and don't have a lot of use for money anymore.
My god, it's full of stars...
When u can play for hour, not very profitable.
+Rebecca Brown Most people couldn't. I never made it past level 4 (maybe level 5) on this game, even if I blew my entire allowance on Continues.
All long arcade games were that way... I knew a guy who could play Gauntlet all day on one quarter. The arcade had a love/hate relationship with him, because they knew the Gauntlet machine wasn't going to make any money that day. On the other hand, he ALWAYS drew a crowd, who would then blow their money trying to get as good as him...
was very easy game i play always till the end
Capcom is 1 of the greatest video game companies. They been making hits from the 80's to this day.
Always felt like this was a precursor to Magic Sword.
Animation reminds me of Magic Sword with the two hit mechanics of Ghouls and Ghosts.
I love this game!
This and Magic Sword are comfy
i use to play this game back in school days! my record was 1.010.050
I'm wondering if Black Tiger is connect to the "Breath of Fire" series as it mention Zenny as the name of its currency?
@44:29 how do you make that jump? That's the one that always got me back in my day. no many how times I tried to run at it...whatever. Always ran out of time. Tried it again on mame and still can't make it lol. how do you bloody well do it!!?? :)
Forget that. Just sussed it :)
This game was made in 1986 unbelievable
That was 54 mins,we're talking about serious longplay here,thats why i never met anyone who mangd to finish this
Some of the end music sounds like the opening to Donkeu Kong Country.
Anyone ever discover what the hidden items like the elephant were for?
I didn't know they made a game about Eddie Guerrero's time in Japan! #NoOnesGonnaGetThat
I recommend this game really.
Do it on Arcade the same why the longplay
How does Castlevania get so much praise when games like this are around?
i'm confused by something. if you have enough for the level 4 weapon, then why did you buy the level 2 or 3 weapons? and if it's that you can't buy the level 4 until you buy the level 3, why were you putting it off so long?
He is trying to show that he can play with the lowest level weapon, which makes the game hard. There is a point when a weapon is no longer very effective, so he upgrades at that point.
that makes sense.
When I playing this game in 80’s lately I was always get lost in round 7…that’s sucked…
Great game , nice played. TY!
Excellent
Hai , i have fun to watch you playthru . May i know what is blue jar at bottom for and how to refill it . Thank you .
Those are antidote jar. If the man eating plants touch you, you become poisoned and, without antidote, you won't be able to trow daggers. The old man sells them.
@@giampierogiorgianni9167 i feel sad .... thank you very much .......... this is HARDEST game ............
@@jasonsamamaju280 my pleasure 🙂
@@giampierogiorgianni9167 love you so much
The Character should be represented in Marvel vs Capcom 4
looks like ghost vs goblin but much more fun and responsive.
How do I increase the vitality bar?? Mine stays always with just 2 points.
Wish this game was made for consoles.
I like this game I have read the book Ready Player One I have on an emulator called Retroarch
i've watched the whole thing and you missed 80% secrets