The game drew comparisons to Taito's Operation Thunderbolt, Sega's Line of Fire and SNK's own Mechanized Attack. ACE reacted positively to the game's horror theme and story, calling it Operation Wolf meets Splatterhouse.
This was a very difficult game for an early light gun shooter. There are enemies literally all over the screen attacking all at once, it is humanly impossible to shoot them all down precisely, and it's made even harder if your arcade operator can't be bothered to calibrate the guns to be precise As far as fast paced game goes, this is perhaps a bit too fast, constantly having to pick up more ammo while the whole screen is filled with enemies using hit scan weapons to instantly hit you. I guess it's why it's a 3 player game, only a perfectly coordinated play will keep everyone alive, this is definitely not a game you can solo without continues
That's usually how it works in arcade games with multiple players, but here is not the case. This kind of design is just standard practice of SNK back then, they simply focused on the profit aspect and made the game as unfair as possible in order to get players to continue feeding it credits. Since this was around the golden age of arcades, and games like these were of reasonably high production. Your average player would chalk up their losing streak as their own lack of skills, instead of knowing it's intentional sloppy game design on SNK's behalf in order to rein in more profit for the arcade operators
"The woman said destroy the fifth one. Then she died..." Um you guys shot her in the face like 50 times. I 'm surprised she lived long enough to say THAT much! LOL!
So this came out about a month away from Laser Ghost... another three-player cabinet with mounted guns and hordes of the undead. Coincidence? I think maybe. Would definitely take this one for a spin, but I don't know any places that would hold one.
Saw this at an old movie theater in Chehalis, Washington when I was a kid. I was like "oh look it's house of the dead for Super Nintendo." I would remember it every so often but I'm so glad I finally found it because for a long time, I thought this game literally didn't exist and that I dreamt it.
Sequel, "Beast Busters: Second Nightmare" is a true replica of HotD as it is 3D. However it's very rare as its platform, Neo-Geo 64, was cancelled and is very poorly emulated.
This isn't a Neo Geo game. If you can't get Neo Geo games to work on MAME, it might have something to do with having the wrong version of neogeo.zip for your version of MAME.
SNK also brought out an arcade game just like this available through mame, forgot the name! It was a military theme instead. But it was nowhere good as this one!😎😎
First, I only have 2 AimTrak lightguns. The Sinden lightgun wasn't even around back when I made this video. For this video, all 3 players are using a mouse.
Can you REALLY blame the zombies for killing off anyone who goes in there? I mean, what do you think we living would do if someone (even a living person) came and started shooting everybody and everything in sight?
![Beast Busters Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/7EXiGONsE0A/mqdefault.jpg)
![Beast Busters Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]](/img/tr.png)
Roddy Piper, Keith David and Chuck Norris walk into a horror rail-shooting arcade game.
Player3 is efinitely Kurt Russel from The Thing 1982
Dillon, You son of a bitch!
Cool if this game as a real movie ^^
Lmao😂😂😂👍👍
Even with 3 players, Beast Busters is still a challenge! Good job, everybody.
it gets harder the more players you have - I've found it's easier overall in single player
Ahh, the Monster Monster Truck. One of my all-time favorite bosses.
The game drew comparisons to Taito's Operation Thunderbolt, Sega's Line of Fire and SNK's own Mechanized Attack. ACE reacted positively to the game's horror theme and story, calling it Operation Wolf meets Splatterhouse.
This was a very difficult game for an early light gun shooter. There are enemies literally all over the screen attacking all at once, it is humanly impossible to shoot them all down precisely, and it's made even harder if your arcade operator can't be bothered to calibrate the guns to be precise
As far as fast paced game goes, this is perhaps a bit too fast, constantly having to pick up more ammo while the whole screen is filled with enemies using hit scan weapons to instantly hit you. I guess it's why it's a 3 player game, only a perfectly coordinated play will keep everyone alive, this is definitely not a game you can solo without continues
i never been able to complete stage 1 myself despite many attempts
One stands to question if the amount of enemies is contingent with the number of players....like a difficulty balance kinda thing.
That's usually how it works in arcade games with multiple players, but here is not the case. This kind of design is just standard practice of SNK back then, they simply focused on the profit aspect and made the game as unfair as possible in order to get players to continue feeding it credits.
Since this was around the golden age of arcades, and games like these were of reasonably high production. Your average player would chalk up their losing streak as their own lack of skills, instead of knowing it's intentional sloppy game design on SNK's behalf in order to rein in more profit for the arcade operators
It's made for 3 Player Carnage.
Back when I was a child, a local Mexican restaurant had a small arcade room, and beast busters was one of the few games in there.
The only time I've ever seen this game was in an airport on my way to Spain. I thought I'd never see it again!
9:56 "It's safer near the river. Lets go!"
Morgan Freeman: "It was not, in fact, safer near the river".
So playing this game is like living an ordinary day in San Francisco.
Don't say that!
At least the city in this game allows you to carry a gun to defend yourself.
@@Batben90 and there isn't homeless people's turds laying around. Also, you don't have to put up with a commie leftist governor and his crazy aunt.
Well things got worse. He beat the recall. And Huntington Beach has a nasty oil spill.
"The woman said destroy the fifth one. Then she died..."
Um you guys shot her in the face like 50 times. I 'm surprised she lived long enough to say THAT much! LOL!
Don't forget, she was a CIA agent!
Man! I had forgotten this game! I'm so glad I found it!!
this game game used to scare me at the arcades.
....
not gonna lie... it was freaking me out just now..! 😖
Yeah, it was pretty brutal back in the day, especially if your 8 years old.
Yeah! Same feeling - but somehow I always felt curiosity and desire to play it!
those mutated creatures gives me goosebumps
It was only 2D and you shouldn't be scared... The one freaked me out was HOtD series..
Pansy.
The Walking Dead... if it took place in 1989 and everyone had Uzis.
So this came out about a month away from Laser Ghost... another three-player cabinet with mounted guns and hordes of the undead. Coincidence? I think maybe.
Would definitely take this one for a spin, but I don't know any places that would hold one.
michael jackson once said in an interview that this is an amazing game.
MrDerOutsider Really? I didn’t know he was playing that game!😯
Michael actually had the cabinet and he would bring it with him while he toured.
Amazing, I thought sure this guy was pulling our leg, but I looked it up, he's right lol
It might be the closest idea representation of his music video Thriller.
This rail shooter was way head of it's time which is awesome.
Saw this at an old movie theater in Chehalis, Washington when I was a kid. I was like "oh look it's house of the dead for Super Nintendo." I would remember it every so often but I'm so glad I finally found it because for a long time, I thought this game literally didn't exist and that I dreamt it.
Ha, this is basically "Operation Wolf" with zombies. I remember playing it once since I was amused by the sight of zombies shooting guns.
"We've come to solve the mystery"
*starts shooting up the whole place*
Pumped a LOT of quarters into this one.
This was Michael Jacksons favorite game. He kept a cabinet on his tour bus.
This game is making House of the Dead look like Duck Hunt
its bad enough they are zombies,but these are gun wielding zombies zOMGWTF!?
*mutant. That one boss turned into a dog.
Even the bats have guns!
Kinda like the south.
It’s strange
Remind me never to call you guys during a hostage situation.... 😐
23:49 Isn't that the same evil laugh that they used for General Morden in the Metal Slug games?
Yes it is
The accuracy of these 3 gun wielding psychopaths make me feel kinda bad for the monsters.
No, it's one guy using three uzi's at once, LOL.
The final boss's first form reminds me of Hojo from FFVII
Putt-Putt Golf arcade floor 1991. Great memories.👍🔥🔥🔥
The new arcade games at Brunswick zone XL in Naperville.
You know, this game got me to thinking, just who exactly knew that The Blue Man Group performances would have such an adverse effect upon people?
I never knew SNK made an arcade rail shooter before! 😎
They also made Mechanized Attack.
so what did 'destroy the fifth one' mean?
It was a clue to destroy the eyestalks on the alien leader's "throne".
2d house of the dead 2
Half way between Operation Wolf and House Of The Dead. Space Gun is half way between Operation Wolf and Aliens
Sequel, "Beast Busters: Second Nightmare" is a true replica of HotD as it is 3D. However it's very rare as its platform, Neo-Geo 64, was cancelled and is very poorly emulated.
これめっちゃ懐かしいやつ！
小学生のときショッピングセンターのゲーセンでやったなぁ
小学生の頃この台の前に立つのも怖かったし、ゲームオーバーってプレイヤーキャラがゾンビに掴みかかられている絵面でしたっけ？トラウマでしたｗ
The announcer sounds like he comes from Street Fighter One
Hardest and very frustrating game his light gun games
Was there any way to save the C.I.A agent for a different ending? Or would it be the same ending regardless?
I don't think there's a way to save her and I don't think there is another ending.
@@arronmunroe Thank you :) was just curious.
like if john carpenter made a video game in 1989 :)
The sound in this is class
Oh damn, now the zombies have *guns*
what kind of ending is that?
SNK had a sick sense of humor. There was also a "twist ending" in another of their games, Cyber-Lip.
Kinda interesting that some zombies' design look very similar to those in Metal Slug 3.
Because Game was created by company before they create Metal Slug
@@ВаляКонарева-ж8т Yeah I'm aware of it
same goes with Irem's shadows on earlier Metal Slug games
Игра легенда играл в неё в 1991 году на аркадном автомате в Санкт-Петербурге
Well that ending sure looked scary
totally
Ambiguous ending...🧟♂️
the first boss was werewolf zombie? wtf xddd
Feels like this game was based off a movie...
It's like Operation: Wolf meets Splatterhouse
Before Racoon City!
Recuedo haber jugado este juego,fue un exito hace años.👍
This game was only enjoyable if your arcade made the game playable for free
one of the games that you will spend more token in arcade specialy the terminator
懐かしいなあ(´▽｀)
ガキの頃に友達と3人同時プレイやりましたけど、自分の弾着エフェクトが何色か(自分が何処を撃ってるのか)時々わからなくなるんですよね(笑)
14:32 LUCKY!! ⚕️
LOL let Dee and Mark have some ammos man
Lol, yeah he's "that guy", hogging the power up's.
Is this running on a New Geo? Have this on my mame emu, so it may not be, because I can't get Neo Geo from that!
This isn't a Neo Geo game. If you can't get Neo Geo games to work on MAME, it might have something to do with having the wrong version of neogeo.zip for your version of MAME.
Hope they bring this to the Switch!
That would be nice.
Kinda good game tho, but you should try BEAST BUSTERS 2: Second Nightmare!
I really appreciate it! Just letting you know!
I believe the sound emulation still isn't too great on that game, but I will try it after it improves.
Can you play the sequel of Beast Busters?
Last time I checked, the emulation wasn't very good.
I never heard of this game. It looks like an early version of "Area 51"
arrounmunroe here we go.
Was that the bad ending or something
I don't think there are any other endings.
Nope. It's a "twist ending" made by SNK, just like the one in their NEO-GEO game, Cyber-Lip.
How in the world did you get this game to play extra sounds?
I have no idea what you mean by extra sounds.
@arronmunroe It wouldn't play extra sounds when I played that game.
(Source: m.ruclips.net/video/nasr9chaWwM/видео.html
Video by Wounded Turtle)
“Then I started blastin’ “the game
anybody have any ideas how I can possibly play this game again on PC ?
It's playable on PC with the emulator MAME. It's also available on Steam as part of the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection.
SNK also brought out an arcade game just like this available through mame, forgot the name! It was a military theme instead. But it was nowhere good as this one!😎😎
It was Mechanized Attack.
And Nam '75 on SNK's Neo Geo.
What year was this game released?
1989
Snk and his "happy endings" of these days ..
14:33 The elusive "E bottle"!
Hmmm..... arron! You only have 2 sinden lightguns but how you can do 3 player?
First, I only have 2 AimTrak lightguns. The Sinden lightgun wasn't even around back when I made this video. For this video, all 3 players are using a mouse.
Are they really the monsters? It was you guys who started shooting
That's one hell of a Bolivian army ending.
Sooooooo the three heroes have been abducted by aliens in the ending ???
it was them that caused this
Can you REALLY blame the zombies for killing off anyone who goes in there? I mean, what do you think we living would do if someone (even a living person) came and started shooting everybody and everything in sight?
"But sir, they are just protecting theirselves(zombies)😭"
Just an average day in America.
This game is very very difficult to play.
No joke. 🧟♂️
Why do the Zombies all have guns? Even the Bats have guns. Did Florida or Texas had a ZOmbie Outbreak?
2015 ARRON
The last boss's laugh is from metal slug
This game came out in 1989. Metal Slug's first game was in 1996. If anything Metal Slug took the laugh from Beast Busters.
2015 ARCADE
7:07 7:14 7:39 Characters demise pictures look like zombies made them pick up soap in a shower.
Operation Wolf/Thunderbolt with zombies.
Although this is a great intense game, but zombie carrying a gun and operating vehicles are not logical.
Play in FC, stuck at test screen :(
三人同時プレイなら長く持ちやすいですね。毛利元就じゃありませんが三本の矢も一緒なら容易には折れないとは、これのような気がします。
What the hell just happened in the ending???
Can you imagine programming this shit? Fucking hell.
So, alien robot zombies?
Final context please
Retro version of The House of the Dead (Sega)
Action Movie be like:
1989 SNK
Zombies with the gun
昔は何も思わんかったけど、今考えると、ゾンビが全員武装してるのに違和感が…。
aka Undead Mechanized Attack.
dis is such a nice but difficult game. love the atmosphere. Can someone rip the sprites so I can do a wallpaper of all the creatures? lol lol lol.
OH YEA I BET THIS WASNT AT THE HARDEST SETTING?!
It was on normal, which is the default setting.
ARCADE
36 credits?
Good
😡 NOT BAD
Nice graphix and gorefest but boring af
Would be fun an AES version with a NEO GEO type plastic gun
Damn, older SNK games had a lot of women dying.
Apoco los pinches zombies también traen pistola