"So what's your plan to infiltrate the gang, detective?" "Walk up to the first one I see, hit him with my hair and then wail on the rest with a big-ass stone pillar that I rip out of the ground." "A sound strategy. Personally, I would have thrown a flaming motorcycle at them, but I can see that you favor the subtle approach. "
That's not good while she is in the fight. She makes a good demolition worker or a construction worker. It's amazing that the enemies get up after being hit by the steel beams.
"Don't worry, we've placed one of our agents deep undercover in the gang" "You mean the girl who is throwing steel girders and motorbikes at them? She's very good at blending in! I'm pretty sure they're never going to suspect of her being a cop." Leaving the not very fitting title out, this is a wonderful beat'em-up. A hidden gem I never saw in the arcades when I was young, and only knew years later thanks to MAME.
My guess is that the game was called something else in Japan and this is actually about post-apocalyptic vigilantes or something. Edit: Skipped to the end. Okay, nevermind, they are cops. They aren't undercover, they don't investigate anything, but they are deffo cops. Nothing is real. All is a lie.
" Oooops i forgot i should be undercover tehe. My bad, better get rid of anyone who noticed uwu " ~~ GRABS GIANT CONCRETE PILLAR AND STARTS SMASHING RANDOM CITIZEN ~~
@@democraticsocialist2634 i already know about that, tho Final fight wasnt as successful as Street of Rage which why theres so many old games of it, and kept branching on other platforms
Fun fact: Rosa is an ex-vigilante (reference to Vigilante), and her partner and lover, Tomas is a nod to Kung-Fu Master. Also, the way the police van moves in the ending is a reference to Moon Partol.
*THE MOLEMEN!* Damn, I forgot the time when games were just pure nonsensical fun where the "GO" icon arrow gets squeezed into dust by a fist just to show badass of a game this is.
@Fearless Composer could be other factors, though. Like I haven't watched the video in full screen. But I noticed years ago that that "insert coin" messages were kind of insistent, but I never noticed them before. Perhaps it's that I grew up with that video games
Imagine having to write a police report detailing how you got ambushed by a gang of mole themed thugs who burrowed up from the ground and kicked them so hard they exploded.
I was about to saying dressing as a martial artist isn’t a good cover but then I realized they were trying to join a martial artes based gang so it was actually a genius level play. It’s like they wrote the book on being an undercover cop
As refreshing as it is to have Rosa look as dingy and dirty as the rest of the world and other characters, deep down I wish she had one of them outrageous skimpy 90s beat em up outfits as an alt or something. I also love IREM, In The Hunt is one I really dig. Their artist was amazing and I'm glad they went on to Metal Slug. I also love these post apoc/cyberpunk beat em ups the most, they always feel like an old 1988-1992 anime OVA.
Lifting a steel beam from the ground: reference to Kenshiro vs Kobra Father. I wonder how many videogames and animes were influenced by Hokuto No Ken...
It got bogged down by other arcade games. This is fun but I dont think its going to hold up with tmnt and simpsons. For one the first Boss will fling you to that trash compactor and no matter how good you are at the buttons you have 90% of escaping provided you know what it is but for first time players they tend to die there...a lot Still I like this game that I also want a sequel or a remake
Many amazing arcade games were developed and lost to time. It was hard for them to get popular since they were expensive and usually the people who could afford to buy Arcade Cabinets weren't willing to risk a lesser known title over a guaruteed money-maker like Street Fighter II or something
It was released after the decline point of the genre. The beat-em-up craze started in 1987 with the release of Double Dragon, soon followed by other hits like Golden Axe and Final Fight. In 1991 Street Fighter 2 dropped. Mortal Kombat came out a year later. By the time this was released fighting game tastes had largely shifted toward toward the "tournament" style fighting games. With strong competition in its own genre from licensed cabinets like X-Men or The Simpsons (and various Japanese favorites like Eight-Man) it was easy to overlook. Undercover cops is quality stuff, but it lacks familiar, beloved characters or a real stand out, first-of-its-kind gimmick. Irem only had 2 or 3 big arcade games left in it before it hit some bad years. Irem never returned to being an arcade superpower or A-List console developer. In the mid 90's most of their best developers formed a new company, Nazca, who developed the popular Metal Slug series.
Hol' up -- 1:21 So these homeboys out here just chilling under a flock of crows??? lmao lol lol Mack: "Hey Frank..." Frank: "What Mack..." Mack: "How bout we let some crows try to eat us and hide so we can surprise that b!tch??" Frank: "Hooo Weeee, I dunno, she might take a while Mack...what will we do then??" Mack: "Don't worry we'll be safe just like the other guys hiding earlier..." also Captain: "So you're going under cover to break up the criminal ring??" Her: "If by under cover you mean in broad daylight and break up as in murder...then yes...I'm totally doing that..."
As the description of the video says, it was made by many of the people who developed Metal Slug a few years later. If you want to see Metal Slug before Metal Slug look up some videos from a game called GunForce 2.
wow this game is amazing. I really didn't know about this game, I love that post apocalyptic atmosphere. excellent video. I will play Undercover Cops right now.
I was like woh, she's pulling entire frickin' stone pillars from the ground and using as a weapon. And then she picks up a car lol! And the jumping butt attack is kinda weird :P But this looks great though. I love the pixel art!
Yeah, the female enemies in this game are a walking (well, hopping) nip slip. That seems pretty risque for an arcade game back then. But I noticed that they changed it for the SNES port, no nip slips there.
If this is how _undercover_ cops operate in this presumable post-apoc shithole I'm frankly scared to think of what the uniformed ones are like... Probably make the Tank Police ("well Mayor I was thinking of issuing them nuclear weapons - if they can deter war they should deter street crime too right?") look restrained. Given the hilarious weirdness of this thing I have no difficulties believing these guys made the Metal Slugs.
This was actually one of the first games made by the team who would go on to Leave Irem and develop metal slug. They also worked on in the hunt, hook, Gunforce 2/Geostorm and the metal slug creator was a play tester for R-type 2!
Well the point of undercover is to make sure no one notices you. If there are no enemies left alive, than at the end of the day it doesn't matter how much noise you make.
That palette was not very common, though. Check some games from similar period from Irem ruclips.net/video/OLIlg3Q2vIc/видео.html, focusing in brown IMHO
So she picked up what looks to be a 10 foot I-beam, and started swinging it around one handed? I'm not even going to discuss the damn stone pillar she yanked out of the ground, which for SOME REASON WAS INSIDE A PLANE INFLIGHT.
Looks like another game developed by the soon-to-be nazca, like the gun force games and in the hunt. I like how she pulls out a little tv under the stone pillar in the 1st stage and it’s playing r-type.
Irem made a fighting brawler game, cool! This looks like a fun, futuristic brawler. The character is very strong to be able to lift a car. Cyborg strength. Looks like a cool game, thanks.
single arm swinging around an i-beam she ripped out of the ground. U N D E R C O V E R - I was impressed with the i-beam until I saw her pick up a damned humvee like it was a sack of potatoes. wtf are they feeding these cops?
Note that Moguralian Beta is saying “Sayonara!” and “Konnichiwa!” when burrowing and attacking after being knocked down. I think I yet prefer what I misheard those as, helped by the cauldron in the background: “Blood is power…Bloody Skewer!”.
It seems like they own the rights to the songs, and uploading a gameplay video automatically flags it for copyright. Usually when this happens, the copyright holders just take any of the money earned from ads. This is the first time I've had anything get outright blocked from being uploaded. I'm surprised they not only released the copyright claim when I disputed it for fair use, but did so relatively quickly. I can't really complain.
I guess this game's soundtrack was released on a CD by them back in the day and that's why they have the rights to it. Though, they don't seem to have the rights to anything else from Irem or Hiyamuta, strangely enough. Also, I thought I would chime in that it's my understanding the world version was rushed to release ahead of the Japanese version. Irem later released an upgraded "alpha renewal" version to better match the Japanese version, but unfortunately, everyone seemed to have lost interest at that point. Shame they never made a sequel.
@Drew Sabastino: Ever heard of the Japanese electronics company known as JVC? Well, Victor Entertainment is a Japan-only record company that is a subsidiary of JVC. In fact, during the 1990s, Victor Entertainment released a LOT of video game music soundtracks strictly for the Japanese market, including one for Undercover Cops. I'm guessing that they tried to come after Iconoclast575 over some bullshit copyright claim regarding the game's music.
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"So what's your plan to infiltrate the gang, detective?"
"Walk up to the first one I see, hit him with my hair and then wail on the rest with a big-ass stone pillar that I rip out of the ground."
"A sound strategy. Personally, I would have thrown a flaming motorcycle at them, but I can see that you favor the subtle approach. "
Just don't blow your undercover.
Hahha, this comment is gold
@@kingsouther To be fair you would never suspect the person to be a cop from this description.
[applause.gif]
Being an undercover cop for her is super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Irem's pixel art is legendary.
I'd call this a hidden gem. It looks like an amazing beat em up yet this is the first time i've seen it.
Very few arcade have these I think Ive only seen it twice on all the 10 arcade joints I went to back as a kid
This really just another Renegade/Double Dragon clone, I wouldn't give it a gem for originally that's for sure.
we had the arcade in a pub when I was a kid but I forgot the name and I've only found it now ... it is a great beat em up indeed
I've legit never seen this game before
@@craineyfit8619 its on the snes too
I love how it doesn't matter if the enemy is a regular thug or the final boss, this chick can pick them up and slap the shit out of them regardless
Get you a girl that can lift an entire steel beam from the ground.
Never mind the steal beam, she can lift an entire car like it was a feather. *lol*
@@DesertRainReads With one hand!
That's not good while she is in the fight. She makes a good demolition worker or a construction worker. It's amazing that the enemies get up after being hit by the steel beams.
Forget the beam she picked up a truck and threw it.
She's a chameleon
"Don't worry, we've placed one of our agents deep undercover in the gang"
"You mean the girl who is throwing steel girders and motorbikes at them? She's very good at blending in! I'm pretty sure they're never going to suspect of her being a cop."
Leaving the not very fitting title out, this is a wonderful beat'em-up. A hidden gem I never saw in the arcades when I was young, and only knew years later thanks to MAME.
MAME is my GOD
Why is she undercover?
how is she undercover?
she sure as hell doesnt seem like she's undercover
That’s how you went undercover in the 90s .
My guess is that the game was called something else in Japan and this is actually about post-apocalyptic vigilantes or something.
Edit: Skipped to the end. Okay, nevermind, they are cops. They aren't undercover, they don't investigate anything, but they are deffo cops.
Nothing is real. All is a lie.
" Oooops i forgot i should be undercover tehe. My bad, better get rid of anyone who noticed uwu "
~~ GRABS GIANT CONCRETE PILLAR AND STARTS SMASHING RANDOM CITIZEN ~~
She was undercover. lol
Or was before she start grabbing that jeep to use as a Frisbee
The audio said ''Juicy Cops'' during the title screen.
Metal Slug: The Brawler
More like Street Rage
The game likely cross between Zero Team and Vendetta.
@@Zenith07 Streets of Rage is a copy of Final Fight :)
@@democraticsocialist2634 i already know about that, tho Final fight wasnt as successful as Street of Rage which why theres so many old games of it, and kept branching on other platforms
@@democraticsocialist2634 And Final Fight is a copy of Double Dragon
Same team as Metal Slug before they moved to SNK
i was gunna mention how she casually picks up the steel girder, but then she draws for the fish, and then picks up the car💎
Fun fact: Rosa is an ex-vigilante (reference to Vigilante), and her partner and lover, Tomas is a nod to Kung-Fu Master.
Also, the way the police van moves in the ending is a reference to Moon Partol.
Stretching the meaning of 'Undercover' a bit with this one.
im an undercover cop and this is exactly what its like
I thought it meant a cop tucked in bed.
Loll
Being an undercover cop means throwing around trucks and hitting people with steel beams and pillars and beating up a Terminator.
XDDDDDDD
I like that the first boss is just a Terminator 1 reference. This game also has the manliest "go right ->" arrow I've ever seen in a beat'm up.
Parcs is Scrap spelled backwards.
They reappear in the last stage, as they are called T-900.
*THE MOLEMEN!* Damn, I forgot the time when games were just pure nonsensical fun where the "GO" icon arrow gets squeezed into dust by a fist just to show badass of a game this is.
Girl Power in the 90s. Such Manliness. 💪💪💪
I haven't even heard of this game before, but It only took 2 minutes and 45 seconds for me to love what I have seen and heard so far.
Now, you have the look of a man. 💪
Anyone else notice how demanding the player two slot is? “INSERT COIN, COME ON!”
No, I figure I am desensitized
@Fearless Composer could be other factors, though. Like I haven't watched the video in full screen. But I noticed years ago that that "insert coin" messages were kind of insistent, but I never noticed them before. Perhaps it's that I grew up with that video games
Imagine having to write a police report detailing how you got ambushed by a gang of mole themed thugs who burrowed up from the ground and kicked them so hard they exploded.
I love it when a female character in a beat'em'up looks like she could tie a knot in a steel girder. 😍
I was about to saying dressing as a martial artist isn’t a good cover but then I realized they were trying to join a martial artes based gang so it was actually a genius level play. It’s like they wrote the book on being an undercover cop
As refreshing as it is to have Rosa look as dingy and dirty as the rest of the world and other characters, deep down I wish she had one of them outrageous skimpy 90s beat em up outfits as an alt or something.
I also love IREM, In The Hunt is one I really dig. Their artist was amazing and I'm glad they went on to Metal Slug.
I also love these post apoc/cyberpunk beat em ups the most, they always feel like an old 1988-1992 anime OVA.
What a game! Very impressed by it: the polish, the depth, the fun! How come I've never heard of this until this moment? Will play, for sure!
Ikr? It reminds me of Teen Titans Battle Blitz.
Wow! This brings back memories. Used to play this in my malls arcade back in the day with my brother. Good to see the classics again 😎👍
Love how some mobs drop entire complete meals, including the plate when defeated.
The sand explosion looks like a neogeo game. Really good !
Even if less cartoonish, you can definitely tell it has some Metal Slug vibes right from the start! Lol
Lifting a steel beam from the ground: reference to Kenshiro vs Kobra Father. I wonder how many videogames and animes were influenced by Hokuto No Ken...
'Round that timeframe? *Very* many.
There's also the Alpha Renewal Version, a very rare version of this game that fixes the issues the World/US version has.
It's just the Japanese version in English.
I remember she was a redhead
And we didn't have a sequel of this awesome game because...? I still wonder why.
It got bogged down by other arcade games. This is fun but I dont think its going to hold up with tmnt and simpsons.
For one the first Boss will fling you to that trash compactor and no matter how good you are at the buttons you have 90% of escaping provided you know what it is but for first time players they tend to die there...a lot
Still I like this game that I also want a sequel or a remake
@@willordordona5429 Irem made quite demanding games, I guess. But I can't generalize, I'm not expert
Many amazing arcade games were developed and lost to time. It was hard for them to get popular since they were expensive and usually the people who could afford to buy Arcade Cabinets weren't willing to risk a lesser known title over a guaruteed money-maker like Street Fighter II or something
It was released after the decline point of the genre. The beat-em-up craze started in 1987 with the release of Double Dragon, soon followed by other hits like Golden Axe and Final Fight.
In 1991 Street Fighter 2 dropped. Mortal Kombat came out a year later. By the time this was released fighting game tastes had largely shifted toward toward the "tournament" style fighting games. With strong competition in its own genre from licensed cabinets like X-Men or The Simpsons (and various Japanese favorites like Eight-Man) it was easy to overlook. Undercover cops is quality stuff, but it lacks familiar, beloved characters or a real stand out, first-of-its-kind gimmick.
Irem only had 2 or 3 big arcade games left in it before it hit some bad years. Irem never returned to being an arcade superpower or A-List console developer. In the mid 90's most of their best developers formed a new company, Nazca, who developed the popular Metal Slug series.
They blew their cover 🥸
The King of Beat and Up´s! This games is awesome!
Hol' up -- 1:21 So these homeboys out here just chilling under a flock of crows??? lmao lol lol
Mack: "Hey Frank..."
Frank: "What Mack..."
Mack: "How bout we let some crows try to eat us and hide so we can surprise that b!tch??"
Frank: "Hooo Weeee, I dunno, she might take a while Mack...what will we do then??"
Mack: "Don't worry we'll be safe just like the other guys hiding earlier..."
also
Captain: "So you're going under cover to break up the criminal ring??"
Her: "If by under cover you mean in broad daylight and break up as in murder...then yes...I'm totally doing that..."
This game is literally Metal Slug's graphic style combined with Streets of Rage's gameplay.
As the description of the video says, it was made by many of the people who developed Metal Slug a few years later. If you want to see Metal Slug before Metal Slug look up some videos from a game called GunForce 2.
hngdman Don’t forget In The Hunt!
I honestly thought this was some new indie game ready for me to purchase on my Switch
Wait for Hamster to get to it.
I WATCHED LIKE 1 MINUTE OF THIS GAME IVE NEVER HEARD OF AND ITS SOOOOO COOOOL
wow this game is amazing. I really didn't know about this game, I love that post apocalyptic atmosphere.
excellent video.
I will play Undercover Cops right now.
The villain group D.A.S., is also the same group in _Air Duel, In The Hunt,_ and _GunForce II_ .
i didn't realize how attracted frogs and baby birds were to street fights
the way she uses her hair to fight, reminds me of sindel
This beatemup has the most ridiculous weapons of them all. MAGNIFICENT!
I was like woh, she's pulling entire frickin' stone pillars from the ground and using as a weapon. And then she picks up a car lol! And the jumping butt attack is kinda weird :P But this looks great though. I love the pixel art!
I love how she easily lift on a Pole or a Jeep and keep walking like nothing.
Not to mention destroy a steel door with just her butt!
*Picks up a whole Jeep* Seems legit LOL. Love this game
With one hand, no less
Nip slip when the hopping girl enemies hit the ground.
Yeah, the female enemies in this game are a walking (well, hopping) nip slip. That seems pretty risque for an arcade game back then. But I noticed that they changed it for the SNES port, no nip slips there.
I need a woman on my team like her
If this is how _undercover_ cops operate in this presumable post-apoc shithole I'm frankly scared to think of what the uniformed ones are like... Probably make the Tank Police ("well Mayor I was thinking of issuing them nuclear weapons - if they can deter war they should deter street crime too right?") look restrained.
Given the hilarious weirdness of this thing I have no difficulties believing these guys made the Metal Slugs.
Looks fun and faster than most beat em ups. Ost sounds good and the art style looks alot like metal slug
This was actually one of the first games made by the team who would go on to Leave Irem and develop metal slug. They also worked on in the hunt, hook, Gunforce 2/Geostorm and the metal slug creator was a play tester for R-type 2!
I Love this Clasics Arcade Games Beat n Up,90's is a dream see this art ii 😍
01:11 Man no mercy against enemies...
What!!! The size of this club 😝🤣
Well the point of undercover is to make sure no one notices you.
If there are no enemies left alive, than at the end of the day it doesn't matter how much noise you make.
You can tell this was another predecessor to Metal Slug. If it were a beat em up. Irem knew their stuff!
The small pick up monitors show the first boss from R-Type. Nice detail.
Rosa is strong AF. Pulling out steel beams to beat people with... Jesus!
damn, this art style looks dope.
Thank You Nazca Corporation!!!.
When she pulled that steel beam out of the ground it reminds me of Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star.
I love how it doesn't matter if the enemy is a regular thug or the final boss, this chick can pick them up and slap the shit out of them regardless
God dang!! The animation is fluent and smooth. What a stuff of legend here.
Dayyyum i remember playin this on arcade back when i was a kid..
Yup, this is going in the Hidden Gems list for sure.
Dude, I was searching for the name of this game for 20 years, and youtube just "is that your card" me.
Very nice gameplay
You know the game will be good when the female character is beating the enemy with headbutt and steel beams.
First time seeing this one thought for sure i've seen & played every beat'em up games guess I was wrong.
This game has some great graphics. Sorta looks metal slugish. A beat em up with metal slug graphics would be amazing.
Wow "GUESSING COP" has really great audio for a 90s arcade bup
Holy suspension of disbelief, Batman. Did she just toss a rusted Hummer SUV like it was nothing? Where is her Justice League application?
Why can't today's 16 bit indie games have this "washed out" look ? Everything now looks so "clean"
That palette was not very common, though. Check some games from similar period from Irem ruclips.net/video/OLIlg3Q2vIc/видео.html, focusing in brown IMHO
Alot of indie games are "unclean" no need to try and trash talk developers keeping this scene alive ....
I love how her signature move is spreading her legs to the camera.
First seconds of the selection screen, "You See Kapp"
Yoshi Cops
In the case that it's a female character being played, sounds more like "Here she comes!"
I Thought It Was Jessica
So she picked up what looks to be a 10 foot I-beam, and started swinging it around one handed? I'm not even going to discuss the damn stone pillar she yanked out of the ground, which for SOME REASON WAS INSIDE A PLANE INFLIGHT.
2:40 terminator 1 reference.
One of the Best distopian beat em ups,maybe the one!
2:15- that's the same lil chick that sometimes appears in metal slug as an item
Nice beater with IREM's trademark artwork of the era
20:45 hilarious death! i couldnt stop laughting
The female enemy's nipple pops out from under her crop top as she's getting up after being knocked down. That's some silly detail there.
the predecessor of metal slug.
Looks like another game developed by the soon-to-be nazca, like the gun force games and in the hunt. I like how she pulls out a little tv under the stone pillar in the 1st stage and it’s playing r-type.
懐かしいなぁ。よくゲーセンでやっていたなぁ。
I enjoy the fact that they made her tomboyish with no sexy clothes but the jiggle is at max.
call me crazy but it reminds me a lot of metal slug. the art, colors, etc.
Hey guys it’s 20 days before Rosa Felmonde’s 1st Birthday guess predictions happen so fast aren’t they ?
Rosa - must be a Nanto-Seiken succressor xD
Never heard of this before but it looks fantastic.
Wow. An arcade game that rewards you for 1CCing? Thats awesome.
Good ol' Irem
The music composer's girlfriend left him because, quote, "he'd never settle down."
I like how they add some metal slug sounds in .
Irem made a fighting brawler game, cool! This looks like a fun, futuristic brawler. The character is very strong to be able to lift a car. Cyborg strength. Looks like a cool game, thanks.
Don't forget Cross Blades!/Blade Master and Hook.
single arm swinging around an i-beam she ripped out of the ground.
U N D E R C O V E R
- I was impressed with the i-beam until I saw her pick up a damned humvee like it was a sack of potatoes. wtf are they feeding these cops?
Hold up there’s cops in this game?! They must be undercover because I can’t spot them
Note that Moguralian Beta is saying “Sayonara!” and “Konnichiwa!” when burrowing and attacking after being knocked down. I think I yet prefer what I misheard those as, helped by the cauldron in the background: “Blood is power…Bloody Skewer!”.
awesome graphics
Ive never heard of this game before but it looks fun.
LOVED this game. You got your quarters worth!
Stopped when she grabbed the car...
Thar helicopter didn't look so big from the outside. Must be that new tesseract technology 🤔
埃っぽいイメージがいいな。
足に巻いてる砂除けの布憧れたわ～
If this was undercover, I wonder what the more upfront approach would have been?
What is Victor Entertainment and why do they care about a relatively obscure, 25 year old game.
It seems like they own the rights to the songs, and uploading a gameplay video automatically flags it for copyright. Usually when this happens, the copyright holders just take any of the money earned from ads. This is the first time I've had anything get outright blocked from being uploaded. I'm surprised they not only released the copyright claim when I disputed it for fair use, but did so relatively quickly. I can't really complain.
I guess this game's soundtrack was released on a CD by them back in the day and that's why they have the rights to it. Though, they don't seem to have the rights to anything else from Irem or Hiyamuta, strangely enough.
Also, I thought I would chime in that it's my understanding the world version was rushed to release ahead of the Japanese version. Irem later released an upgraded "alpha renewal" version to better match the Japanese version, but unfortunately, everyone seemed to have lost interest at that point. Shame they never made a sequel.
@Drew Sabastino: Ever heard of the Japanese electronics company known as JVC? Well, Victor Entertainment is a Japan-only record company that is a subsidiary of JVC. In fact, during the 1990s, Victor Entertainment released a LOT of video game music soundtracks strictly for the Japanese market, including one for Undercover Cops. I'm guessing that they tried to come after Iconoclast575 over some bullshit copyright claim regarding the game's music.
I'll... use this pillar as weapon INSTEAD!!
(pull out a pillar on the ground)