Wow, that was fast. Yeah, when I uploaded this that info wasn't on there. If you look at the edit history of the page, that info was just added today. Good job, guys :)
I know a VERY old video and this comment will get completely ignored, but, as I am not a prolific games as you are, then, no, I never recognized any of the backgrounds you mentioned. I have not played a DOS game in over 30 years and then it was only Alley Cat (which I still think you should do a video on,) Wolfenstein 3D (which bored me to tears,) and Leisure Suite Larry In The Land Of The Lounge Lizards, (which I loved and, to this day I think is the best game title ever!) But this looks like a really good shoot 'em up. And I do love a good shmup.
That's the one I was talking about later in the video, but couldn't remember the name of! They have the machine at the Galloping Ghost Arcade I've been going to recently.
The pheonix bomb is from Strikers 1945 II, though I can't remember which plane, I think it's from the Shinden. Great video as always, will be keeping an eye out for these guys!
The phoenix reminds me of the cartoon series Battle of the Planets. Not seen it for years, but I'm sure their ship turned into a phoenix. Did they also rip stuff from anime?
Reminds me of some really cruddy Korean shmup I once played on MAME called Turtle Ship. I remember that game using assets from Side Arms: Hyper Dyne, a color-inverted, sideways facing sprite rip of the second boss from R-Type, and I think also few things and the basic gameplay idea from Salamander/Life Force (both side-scrolling and vertical-scrolling levels). You might also want to check that game out as an idea for a future video...
The special bird shaped fire weapon is a direct copy of the Phoenix ship in Fire Phoenix mode from the cartoon series Battle of the Planets, aka G-Force.
Wow... I'm 2 years behind. How the HECK did I miss this channel versus a few repetitive, angry vid/console/tech channels? Comad got away with thievery, but even the fighter jet looks like it was shrunk from sprites out of After Burner....
There was a similar Korean arcade shooter called Mission Craft made in 2000 that took most of its graphics from the original StarCraft (title screen, most if not all the characters, backgrounds, buildings, and ships)
There was a great article about video game culture in korea on hardcoregaming101. It talks a lot about how piracy was rampant there, up to the point where companies would just change the logo on the intro screens to games to sell them as their own. This didn't surprise me at all.
There are a bunch of Hong Kong - Korean - Taiwanese bootleg arcade titles that cannibalize other games sprites. There is actually a shooter that uses the Star Craft (1) sprites iirc. There are even ones that do the reverse like 'Hard Times' that take an entire other game engine (in this case the Cabal style target shooter 'Blood Bros') and overlay their own graphics on top.
In the 90s the Koreans seemed to be notorious for ripping off graphics, sounds and gameplay. There was another game "Magic Bubble" by Yun Sung that not only ripped off the gameplay of Puzzle Bobble, but also stole its graphics blatantly and many Disney and other images for its backgrounds.
Spotted some syndicate cars at the same time as you pointed out the Tyrian sprites during the last level that you played. This game really looks like something that you would expect from a small less honest eastern European company only developing of the local market. I've seen a handful of, eh, interesting games from that region Anyway, ever considered doing a special on Limbo of the Lost? The European version is still relatively easy to find, and cheap (the US one is really expensive though).
The blue skies at 4:35 look really familiar. I was going to say I'm seeing elements of the Photoshop cloud brushes from Obsidian Dawn, which are the standard go-to for PS artists who need puffy white clouds, but I don't know if they go back to 1996.
I noticed those blob car looking things in stage 4 are ripped from Syndicate and the ship does bare a striking resemblance to one of the ships from the arcade game, Samurai Aces.
thr second boss is the !st "Governor" boss from Treco's "Atomic Robo Kid" ( flexing heads altered slightly ), the large drone enemies look to be background assets to Turrican 2 altered, and the 3rd boss is the front of the Raiden 2 carrier cut and slightly altered and doubled.
Lol that is Hilarious man. Though Ive played all those games that its clearly RIPPING-OFF I still dont think Id put 2 and 2 together lol Great Stuff Clint
Wasn't the music from ChaseHQ ? "This is Nancy" screen? Futuristic car = Syndicate I have a feeling that the Korean market would be like the Japanese market. There was next to no PC gaming in the 90s- nothing until only recently with Steam giving easy access to games (that arent ridiculously overpriced!)
Mind blown @ after 1:33 as I guessed Sim City, first. The rest I found my jaw on the keyboard. At least they stole with style as this? Reminds me of Raptor: "Call of the Shadows", etc and it IS nice. Speaking of top-down shooters... the original Capcom 194x series (1942/43/44)... thoughts on what originals versus reboots were better and which dev companies got things RIGHT and which dev companies got them wrong?
I could swear I saw a resemblance to Battle Squadron when I saw the first few seconds of this video, even before you mentioned anything about it! Those tanks that come down onto you at the start of the game immediately reminded me of it! Even the token you get to upgrade your weapon, in Battle Squadron it changes colour while here it changes number. Some of the enemy sprites look similar too! I used to play Battle Squadron on my Commodore Amiga.
The numbered buildings at the very end on the top of the screen. Either from Tyrian or Raptor. Can't remember, played them both way to much. New drinking game? When you recognize a graphic, take a shot. :P
That phoenix fire power up reminds me of something from Golden Axe 2, but I know it isn't. The one in Golden Axe 2 is much more detailed and at a front angle.
God Phoenix is from Gatchaman btw, Its ultimate attack is to change in to a flaming firebird that can destroy everything. Choujin Sentai Jetman that was to be Power Rangers had also stolen this idea being pretty much 95% based of of it.
Some of the minor enemies remind me of Raptor: Call of the Shadows though they seem to be altered slightly, been a while since I played that one but I keep thinking of Raptor.
Hey Clint, you should try Mission Craft, an arcade shooter game that has LOADS of assets ripped from StarCraft, Strikers 1945, WarCraft II, and a few others that I can recall atm. It's playable in MAME also.
I thought the bomb was from gotchaman. but i can't seem to find video of it, i can only find video of the playstation game. was it the playstation game, because i remember using the ship and the playstation one had the team members on foot.
Isn't the Phoenix "superweapon" from....can't remember now, I was going to say UN Squadron, but I think it's from another one. I know I have seen the crafts with the "stripes" before. At 12:21 isn't that a car from Syndicate? The GAME OVER was definitely from another game too.
Because it is considerably harder to play games well while at the same time trying to constantly come up with relevant things to say. This is why a lot of people do post-commentary instead of talking while they play the game.
seems like the "car"s on the beginning of stage 4 are very syndicatey, but seem to be rather large. maybe I just never zoomed in enough on the game, though. But that would be fairly similar to alotta the art direction the background seems to be taking that level.
PC gaming has been the most popular type of video gaming in Korea. For example Korea's love affair with Starcraft. Most Korean games these days are MMORPGs. NCSOFT is Korea's largest video game publisher. Console gaming was never popular in Korea. Mainly because Japanese pop culture was banned up until 2000. PC cafes or PC bangs are extremely popular and there every where. Since PC gaming is so popular it helped drive them to create the most wired society in the world.
I could be wrong, but I swear some of those powerup-pickups look like they were taken from one of the Raiden games. They lack the colored squares in them, but the shape and look of them seems very Raiden-esque.
Hey LGR, just when i was gonna ask if you've played Tyrian Original or Tyrian 2000, the video comes to the part where the first Boss from Tyrian appears LOL! haha ;D Tyrian was awesome though! :)
This game would have been made in the 2000s, it could have been an hommage/tribute to DOS games, but this game actually being from 1996 that's just a massive rip-off. Also, the first music does ring a bell but I can't tell where it's from, but the one from the cloud level is definitely 1995s "Close to You" by Fun Factory. Song's here : /watch?v=psAmhJywWa8
Tyrians art was released to public domain though, so that's actually okay. There are several other games that borrow from Tyrian and Tyrian 2000. The other games though, no so much :)
The game, especially a lot of the enemies and their behaviour (and design) also seem to be (maybe coincidentally) VERY similar to those from Raptor: Call of the Shadow
Another bit of plagiarism but not from a game: the screen clearing attack is obviously the "Firebird" attack from Gatchaman (or Battle of The Planets if you want to be that way).
It's harder than it looks to talk and play simultaneously, you should give it a shot to see for yourself. I've heard it jokingly being called 'the curse of Let's Play' .
Games that ripped graphics from other games (and weren't clones)? The first level of Universal Soldier springs to mind (completely ripped from Turrican 2)
Wow, that was fast.
Yeah, when I uploaded this that info wasn't on there. If you look at the edit history of the page, that info was just added today. Good job, guys :)
Seeing as this came out after all those games... the other games are FROM THE FUTURE HOLY CRAP
I know a VERY old video and this comment will get completely ignored, but, as I am not a prolific games as you are, then, no, I never recognized any of the backgrounds you mentioned. I have not played a DOS game in over 30 years and then it was only Alley Cat (which I still think you should do a video on,) Wolfenstein 3D (which bored me to tears,) and Leisure Suite Larry In The Land Of The Lounge Lizards, (which I loved and, to this day I think is the best game title ever!) But this looks like a really good shoot 'em up. And I do love a good shmup.
11:39 - Cars from Syndicate (right before he mentions 'some more Tyrian stuff')
Indeed. I was going to comment this here. The black one and the ambulance.
Somebody edited the article on Wikipedia adding info on the stolen sprites and a link here as source. Amazing!
That's the one I was talking about later in the video, but couldn't remember the name of! They have the machine at the Galloping Ghost Arcade I've been going to recently.
Ah, Clint. I can never get enough of you. And your voice.
I can't get over how phallic the front of your ship is xD
13:50
Haha, I have reason to believe you have :D
At 11:40, there are Syndicate cars on the ground. Ahh, the memories...
Wow don't know how I missed that! Probably because they look so out of scale compared to the other stuff.
Very interesting video. Kudos to finding all of this. For a game with ripped graphics, it looks like they did make a fun vertical shooter out of it.
Great video again Clint. Always makes my day, or night in this case...
The pheonix bomb is from Strikers 1945 II, though I can't remember which plane, I think it's from the Shinden. Great video as always, will be keeping an eye out for these guys!
The phoenix reminds me of the cartoon series Battle of the Planets. Not seen it for years, but I'm sure their ship turned into a phoenix. Did they also rip stuff from anime?
the music at 4:30 is fun factory close to you haha Fun Factory - Dance Mix 95 - 09 - Close To You
"Ahhh" he says, as in preparation to play well, explodes a second later, maybe 2.
Reminds me of some really cruddy Korean shmup I once played on MAME called Turtle Ship. I remember that game using assets from Side Arms: Hyper Dyne, a color-inverted, sideways facing sprite rip of the second boss from R-Type, and I think also few things and the basic gameplay idea from Salamander/Life Force (both side-scrolling and vertical-scrolling levels). You might also want to check that game out as an idea for a future video...
Thanks, LGR!
That other game from Comad you mentioned was actually Gulf War II.
The special bird shaped fire weapon is a direct copy of the Phoenix ship in Fire Phoenix mode from the cartoon series Battle of the Planets, aka G-Force.
Wow... I'm 2 years behind. How the HECK did I miss this channel versus a few repetitive, angry vid/console/tech channels? Comad got away with thievery, but even the fighter jet looks like it was shrunk from sprites out of After Burner....
There was a similar Korean arcade shooter called Mission Craft made in 2000 that took most of its graphics from the original StarCraft (title screen, most if not all the characters, backgrounds, buildings, and ships)
There was a great article about video game culture in korea on hardcoregaming101. It talks a lot about how piracy was rampant there, up to the point where companies would just change the logo on the intro screens to games to sell them as their own. This didn't surprise me at all.
The music you ask about strongly reminds me of that of the Sonic games.
great find, more arcade related videos please :D
There are a bunch of Hong Kong - Korean - Taiwanese bootleg arcade titles that cannibalize other games sprites. There is actually a shooter that uses the Star Craft (1) sprites iirc. There are even ones that do the reverse like 'Hard Times' that take an entire other game engine (in this case the Cabal style target shooter 'Blood Bros') and overlay their own graphics on top.
In the 90s the Koreans seemed to be notorious for ripping off graphics, sounds and gameplay. There was another game "Magic Bubble" by Yun Sung that not only ripped off the gameplay of Puzzle Bobble, but also stole its graphics blatantly and many Disney and other images for its backgrounds.
Spotted some syndicate cars at the same time as you pointed out the Tyrian sprites during the last level that you played.
This game really looks like something that you would expect from a small less honest eastern European company only developing of the local market. I've seen a handful of, eh, interesting games from that region
Anyway, ever considered doing a special on Limbo of the Lost? The European version is still relatively easy to find, and cheap (the US one is really expensive though).
The blue skies at 4:35 look really familiar. I was going to say I'm seeing elements of the Photoshop cloud brushes from Obsidian Dawn, which are the standard go-to for PS artists who need puffy white clouds, but I don't know if they go back to 1996.
I noticed those blob car looking things in stage 4 are ripped from Syndicate and the ship does bare a striking resemblance to one of the ships from the arcade game, Samurai Aces.
Recognised Tyrian immediatly as soon as claws appeared ;)
really entertaining, it's like a guessing game :D
thr second boss is the !st "Governor" boss from Treco's "Atomic Robo Kid" ( flexing heads altered slightly ), the large drone enemies look to be background assets to Turrican 2 altered, and the 3rd boss is the front of the Raiden 2 carrier cut and slightly altered and doubled.
Lol that is Hilarious man. Though Ive played all those games that its clearly RIPPING-OFF I still dont think Id put 2 and 2 together lol Great Stuff Clint
The game loops the final stage. No ending.
I am just surprised the developers got away with this without getting sued from the other companies for copy right infringement.
Yeah, the "Fiery Phoenix"
The Limbo of The Lost of its time.
Wasn't the music from ChaseHQ ? "This is Nancy" screen?
Futuristic car = Syndicate
I have a feeling that the Korean market would be like the Japanese market. There was next to no PC gaming in the 90s- nothing until only recently with Steam giving easy access to games (that arent ridiculously overpriced!)
Mind blown @ after 1:33 as I guessed Sim City, first. The rest I found my jaw on the keyboard. At least they stole with style as this? Reminds me of Raptor: "Call of the Shadows", etc and it IS nice. Speaking of top-down shooters... the original Capcom 194x series (1942/43/44)... thoughts on what originals versus reboots were better and which dev companies got things RIGHT and which dev companies got them wrong?
haha I'm addicted to those type of arcade games. Pirated or not LOL
This is basically a Best Of game. A Best Of of other games.
11:39 Oh, and those black windowed vehicles are from the old Syndicate game.
I really like the idea of a Sim City shooter for she reason, shame Maxis didn't include this as an official mini game...
I could swear I saw a resemblance to Battle Squadron when I saw the first few seconds of this video, even before you mentioned anything about it! Those tanks that come down onto you at the start of the game immediately reminded me of it! Even the token you get to upgrade your weapon, in Battle Squadron it changes colour while here it changes number. Some of the enemy sprites look similar too! I used to play Battle Squadron on my Commodore Amiga.
The numbered buildings at the very end on the top of the screen.
Either from Tyrian or Raptor. Can't remember, played them both way to much.
New drinking game? When you recognize a graphic, take a shot. :P
yay new video!
The Phoenix looks kind of like the ship power up from the 70s Gotchaman G-Force cartoon.
Marty, get in the car! *Does a pose* Its to time to GO BACK TO THE FUTURE!
"Pod Cars" from the game syndicate in the back ground on stage 4
That phoenix fire power up reminds me of something from Golden Axe 2, but I know it isn't. The one in Golden Axe 2 is much more detailed and at a front angle.
Any chance of a review of the original "Raiden"?
when you finish the arcade season, make sure to grab Limbo of the Lost
God Phoenix is from Gatchaman btw, Its ultimate attack is to change in to a flaming firebird that can destroy everything. Choujin Sentai Jetman that was to be Power Rangers had also stolen this idea being pretty much 95% based of of it.
Some of the sound effects seem to be lifted straight out of Carrier Air Wing (1990, Capcom)
Some of the minor enemies remind me of Raptor: Call of the Shadows though they seem to be altered slightly, been a while since I played that one but I keep thinking of Raptor.
Surely there's a lot of stuff from the Aero Fighters serie(the bomb, the explosions, sounds etc...)
Hey Clint, you should try Mission Craft, an arcade shooter game that has LOADS of assets ripped from StarCraft, Strikers 1945, WarCraft II, and a few others that I can recall atm. It's playable in MAME also.
I thought the bomb was from gotchaman. but i can't seem to find video of it, i can only find video of the playstation game. was it the playstation game, because i remember using the ship and the playstation one had the team members on foot.
The second stage music does sound like Hold On by Loft.
Isn't the Phoenix "superweapon" from....can't remember now, I was going to say UN Squadron, but I think it's from another one.
I know I have seen the crafts with the "stripes" before.
At 12:21 isn't that a car from Syndicate?
The GAME OVER was definitely from another game too.
@2:35 descent ost sounds like 95% sure :P
The hovercar at 11.40 is from Syndicate.
The start of level three looks like it has the cars from Syndicate (and largetly out of palce since they're HUGE in this game).
Arcade pirates!
i found tons of infos about this game.
here the wiki with every game they used stuff from
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Attack_%28video_game%29
Yes, that's the Wiki article that was made as a response to this video :)
This very page is listed as a reference!
oh ok :D well i tried ^^
Because it is considerably harder to play games well while at the same time trying to constantly come up with relevant things to say. This is why a lot of people do post-commentary instead of talking while they play the game.
Music from Raiden in stage 2, Bomb from the anime Ninja Science Team Gatchaman.
I have a question, do you do reviews of console games? If you do, could you do a review of Ikaruga?
seems like the "car"s on the beginning of stage 4 are very syndicatey, but seem to be rather large. maybe I just never zoomed in enough on the game, though. But that would be fairly similar to alotta the art direction the background seems to be taking that level.
PC gaming has been the most popular type of video gaming in Korea. For example Korea's love affair with Starcraft. Most Korean games these days are MMORPGs. NCSOFT is Korea's largest video game publisher. Console gaming was never popular in Korea. Mainly because Japanese pop culture was banned up until 2000. PC cafes or PC bangs are extremely popular and there every where. Since PC gaming is so popular it helped drive them to create the most wired society in the world.
If i'm not mistaken, the explosions are from Metal Slug.
I'm sure that the sound that plays when you pick up them power ups is from UN squadron
LGR at 7:43 or mostly throughout the game you are shooting at wing commander kirathi
ships from WC 1
In the intro and @ 11:37 you can see Ambulance and commun cars from Syndicate
Its two game in one! Guess where graphics are from and shoot the enemies at the same time!
I could be wrong, but I swear some of those powerup-pickups look like they were taken from one of the Raiden games. They lack the colored squares in them, but the shape and look of them seems very Raiden-esque.
Cars to the bottom right at 11:40 are taken straight out of Syndicate DOS.
For some reason, seeing your "skill" at shmups makes me want to see a video of you playing Tyrian 2000... on Lord of the Game difficulty.....
Hey LGR, just when i was gonna ask if you've played Tyrian Original or Tyrian 2000, the video comes to the part where the first Boss from Tyrian appears LOL! haha ;D Tyrian was awesome though! :)
They've taken the Kiralth ships from Wing Commander
This game would have been made in the 2000s, it could have been an hommage/tribute to DOS games, but this game actually being from 1996 that's just a massive rip-off.
Also, the first music does ring a bell but I can't tell where it's from, but the one from the cloud level is definitely 1995s "Close to You" by Fun Factory.
Song's here : /watch?v=psAmhJywWa8
The cloud section was Tyrian again.
There is a lot of Tyrian 2000 in there
Tyrians art was released to public domain though, so that's actually okay. There are several other games that borrow from Tyrian and Tyrian 2000. The other games though, no so much :)
The game, especially a lot of the enemies and their behaviour (and design) also seem to be (maybe coincidentally) VERY similar to those from Raptor: Call of the Shadow
Another bit of plagiarism but not from a game: the screen clearing attack is obviously the "Firebird" attack from Gatchaman (or Battle of The Planets if you want to be that way).
random question wikipedia alredy haves this info on the graphics uploaded. you did it? or just a fan who watched the video ?
It's harder than it looks to talk and play simultaneously, you should give it a shot to see for yourself. I've heard it jokingly being called 'the curse of Let's Play' .
Maybe you could look those sprites up from google image search? Its sometimes amazing what it can find.
The cars in the last stage are from syndicate.
The musics seems also from Tyrian
Some of those enemies look like they're from Raptor.
Games that ripped graphics from other games (and weren't clones)? The first level of Universal Soldier springs to mind (completely ripped from Turrican 2)
I wanna import my saved city to this game so I can burn it to the ground before bankruptcy hits it!!!
Edited the wiki page to reference this video :)
back that healing thing at 11:37 was From metal slug i think i forgot it :) maybe metal slug :D thats my old fav game metal slug
The second level floating islands... maybe from some SNES RPG game?
here's a hint: it did but google IMAGES didn't exist then.
100% correct!
I think the yellow ship sprites are from Wing Commander.
Don't know why, but I think I would like to see an lgr play's with duke as a side kick.