The music on the truck/train levels is one of the best background tunes on any arcade game, an absolute banger. Great choice of a legendary arcade game to cover, Patman!
@xxHUNGRY4THETRUTHxx It's very similar but not exact. It's just the main melody and the phrases end differently. The rest of the track is completely different. I would call it inspired by, not quite the same thing.
Played this one a lot in the '80s. It was the loudest game in Aladin's Castle. Robo Cop 2 also showed this arcade game in the background. You can hear the dogs barking in the film. I also believe the game Guacamele 2 makes fun of the game, showing the scene at the beginning.
I was gonna comment the same thing. Not 2 day's ago I was checking out the games on the Nintendo Switch online service, and was wondering if they'd put this game on there. Then the Pat dude uploaded this🤣
Ive always wanted a modern remake of this game with a more in depth moveset and modern graphics. It was one of my favorite games as a kid, it was like playing an 80's action movie.
Another stellar documentary from the Patman! Thanks for the video Patman. Bad Dudes is an arcade classic and hearing that ''I'm BAD" brings back awesome times back in the arcade days in my local mall in 90's
One of my favorite games of all time. Me and a friend of mine used to fill this old arcade machine with quarters when we were kids. This is one of the granddaddies of beat-em-ups, and I'm so thankful I got to enjoy it when I was young. When it came out on the NES, we were so excited and rented it from our local Gas City gas station. I remember playing this for hours and hours on his old NES. Good times. Great memories. Thanks again for the excellent trip down memory lane. Your channel is one of my absolute favorites on RUclips. Please keep doing what you're doing. 😊
Putting quarters on a machine is something every retro gamer from the early 80s has some sort of familiarity with. I can recall doing it with Pac-Man and the entire marquee was filled with quarters :-) thanks for sharing your members. Thanks
I played the Amiga Version in my Childhood. My Buddy and me loved all those Ninja Movies of the 80s and often played Ninja in the Garden, so this Game was perfect for us.
Me too! I was pretty much the only kid in America with a commodore Amiga 500 and everyone loved my version way more than their crappy nes version ....minus the loading times. Some of those were pretty rough.
For some reason the arcade I went to in the late 80s apparently had the Japanese version. I distinctly remember the Dragon Ninja title screen, and the different sound effects. All these years I thought I was crazy and I had just been remembering it wrong! Thanks for clearing that up for me!
When I had the Amiga version back in the day I was always disappointed that the voice samples Were missing when everything else as far as audio was pretty close to the original. Little did I know that they were there just from the Japanese version. Pretty cool
I remember I had just seen a couple of The American Ninja movies and after seeing this in the arcade I became obsessed with it. When it came out on the NES we rented it constantly but could never find a store actually selling it.
Bad dudes…can still remember playing it and beating it in the arcade…one of the first beat ‘em ups you could go into an arcade with $2-$3 in quarters and beat the game. It was awesome. Loved it on the nes also
I would walk to the bowling alley with my brother just to play Bad Dudes! That was back in the ancient days. Then we rented the NES version too. I'M BAD!! Great video as always, Patman!
Patman, you are the best! I watch your every video and eagerly await for the next one. I especially like the groundwork and meticulous information search for each game. Don't ever stop! 😄
I loved this arcade game when it came out played it prettymuch every weekend at our local pizza joint. I later got it for the nes. Thanks Pat for making me remember the good times from back in the day. I appreciate it
Now I gotta hook up my pandora bootleg and play king fu master. I used to love playing that game as a kid. Can always count on you for some awesome nostalgic moments
The Commodore home version is very unique with the small sprites and characters and chip beat music tunes. Great review of this series and arcades, Patman, thanks! I like some of the unique abilities to lift and toss objects.
I played the NES port & the soundtrack is one of my favorites of the 8-bit era. It was fun game, I still remember watching the ninja multiply on the 3rd level blew my mind 🫨 good times!
I spent a lot of quarters on this game and was so dang happy when the NES version came out. I always played alone so it didn't bother me on the lack of coop. I loved that NES vesion and beat it many times just like I did on my arcade emulator nowadays! It was as a faithful port as one could ask for on 8bit!
Love this game pat man played this song nest, renting it never play the arcade. I’ve seen a lot of play theories of it but I’m having a hard time finding I’ve been looking for it but I still can’t find it so I’m interested to see your review on the arcade in the story on it. Have a good weekend. Love your channel. Been watching it for two years now.🤘🤘
My little contribution to the story. I used to 1CC the arcade game back in the day and discovered (at least in the American version) that the score caps at 999,999. I once point pressed this game and was able to achieve this score BEFORE reaching the final boss (which the Dragonninja alone is worth 400,000 points).
I got this game randomly for some birthday. I didn't get a lot of nes games back then. My buddy and I played the shit out of it for years. Love the memories of this game.
Thanks for your awesome content bro! We used to play the heck out of Dragon ninja on the Amiga. Controls were a bit off but it was like playing an arcade machine with me mates. Good times. Cheers PatmanQC, you rock!
This is the very first game that I beat at the arcades back in the early 90's; yes it almost took me 6.50 bucks in quarters (and I will always remember the exact amount until the day I die lol) because but I was that determined. Great vid Pat.
I think I played one arcade cabinet that said Green Beret and another with Rush N Attack. Of course those of us on the NES know it mainly as Rush N Attack
Data East games at that time just had a feel and look that I loved. I played the hell out of this game, RoboCop, and Heavy Barrel at the Gold Mine arcade. I just played Heavy Barrel and BurgerTime this weekend on MAME.
Kung Fu Master, Bad Dudes, Vigilante, Shinobi and Final Fight. Those days of Arcade games were just the best. And something really missing from gaming these days without that Bowling Alley, Pizza shop or Arcade environment.
It's a shame this game never got ported over to the Sega Genesis. Two Crude Dudes was pretty cool but I would have much preferred this original than the sequel. Aside from reducing some of the colors and cutting back the total amount of enemies on screen at once it could have been more than possible. Especially back then as Data East was on a roll with releasing games for the platform in the early 90s. I've read a couple people say the game was past it's prime and too old back when the Genesis was hot. If that's the case they wouldn't have released Joe & Mac 3 years later from it's Arcade release in 1994. But anyway, excellent review as always and thanks for The History of Rampage last week! 😎
@@boofuls Yeah it's habit because as a kid that's all we knew it as. Wasn't until emulation and the Internet I realized there name and regional differences 😊
A CLASSIC from my childhood!!! I played A LOT on Arcades!!! Great old times... Bad Dudes, Ninja Gaiden, DoubleDragon, Vigilante... Great games from my youth that i played on arcade...
The most memorable thing about Bad Dudes to me has to be the music. To this day I still hum the truck stage tune out of nowhere. What a fantastic classic.
I hook up my OG NES during the early time period of Covid-19 and happen to find Bad Dudes in my attic. I was playing it which quickly takes me back in time when life was simpler. Brother Patman, Bad Dudes is long overdue for a sequel and hope some VG company makes a true sequel. Another phenomenal video.
LOVE your videos! Your research, quality and presentation! TV quality! Videos should have 1mil views EACH - no less! (Best line "Did the next best thing....use them without permission!")
Not sure if i mentioned already that i had the C64version and when i lost all my lifes i left the game running and the tape was rolling and after a short time the game loaded the next levels with a full set of lives,so i continued playing. Another excellent docu Patman, awesome stuff. Some of the conversions tho are embarrasing and the publishers and programmers must have known this im sure of it, lol. Again well done Sir, you are the greatest documentist ever.
The best channel to watch while stoned is back! Great video! Keep up the great work! Edit: I just realized didn’t Trump invite a sports team to the White House and serve McDonald’s hamburgers? Wild! 😮
I was always under the assumption that the blue energy drink/can was modelled on Pocari. I remember playing this game around 1989, myself and my buddies always referred to the blue energy cans as Pocari
I remember Bad Dudes blew my mind as a young kid when I first encountered it at either a local skating rink or bowling alley. I was so excited when I discovered it was coming to the NES. My Grandmother got it for me, and I'm sad to say that the experience of the NES conversion truly paled in comparison to what I originally experienced in the Arcades.
Another great vid for another great game! It was like a playable version of an 80s ninja flick by Cannon Films or Godfrey Ho that filled cable TV and video stores at the time. I wonder if the different voice samples were to fit ENG and JPN ways of how heroes sounded in that area's action films.
People give this game shit, but it has wormed its way into everyone's memory whether they played it or not. NES "I'm Bad" is a legendary sample, and a digital Wilhelm Scream to everyone who knows it. Great choice Patman!
i was literally just playing this game today one of the best arcade beat em up side scroller action games' in the 80s UK was called Dragon Ninja. this game should defo of had a remake.
Loved playing this in the minit-mart as a kid. Tried playing it the other day & only had the patience to get past the 1st level. Sadly, most of the beat 'em ups haven't aged well for me & bore me to tears after about 10 min. Playing with friends was the part that made them so much fun... "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"
LOVED Two Crude. Didn't know it was a sequel to Bad Dudes. Remember beating it at a local comic book store in my teens. Also the WWE tag team The New Day has t shirts that have a logo similar to that of the Bad Dudes arcade logo.
FYI @patman the BLUE soda can for Japan could more likely represent Pocari Sweat, which is much more popular than Pepsi there. Thanks for the fun videos as always!
One of the first few games I played in the arcades back in the 80s, and one of my personal favorite NES games too. Man for years I've been trying to find out who the illustrator that was responsible for creating a lot of the marquee and bezel artwork used for a lot of arcade cabinets, including this game.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I found out who he is. His name is Frank Cirocco. He's done work for Marvel among other works. If you look up his artwork you'll see what I mean
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Did for sure, should've been longer tho! Motivated me to dust off Mat Mania, SNS Masters and Champion Wrestler. Edit : Valley not Johnson. I was listening to a Mike Johnson audio and wrote that incorrectly 😆
I grew up with the C64 version (connected to a screen who was capable only of displaying colours in shades of green, like a giant Game Boy), but the original Arcade version was one of my favourite games of all time and the reason why I am in love with Data East productions nowadays! I picked up a Data East Arcade Collection on Evercade just because of it (and Tumblepop also).
Patman can you do a history of San Francisco Rush and its sequels. One of my favorite racing games that I wish would get a collection for switch. Would love to see you talk about those great racing games. Have a good one.
I always thought the Arcade game was called, Two Bad Dudes. Then the NES was just called, Bad Dudes because you could only play as one player. I was looking for this game for years, but it wasn't until fall of 2023 when I got the Data East Collection on my Mini EverCade. Then I realized I've been looking for the wrong title all these years: it was just Bad Dudes! It is always fun to watch your videos especially the sound part of it. We just take for granite how good it is now a days, but back then it was really just a bunch of different tones of beeps that I lived thru. Ha-Ha?
Thank you also for mentioning the movie Running Scared. Juts watched it. Buddy cop movie. That was awesome. One joke after the other, good action, filmed between freezing cold Chicago and warm Florida Keys with all the ladies in bikinis. Cannot get more 80-ish than this. 😎
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Really underrated movie. I love 80s action flicks. How could I not know of this one? Only thanks to PatmanQC mention the movie I now could enjoy it.
Thanks for the vid. If you ever make it to Japan I'll take you to the vintage arcade I go to that has a bunch of side scrolling BEU games that never made it stateside.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries no problem. There's also a place out here that sells vintage games called "Super Potato" because this is Japan and of course there'd be a place called "Super Potato".
Another fine video! It's a shame the movie didn't happen, as I always felt there are few classic arcade games that could translate as well into a campy low-budget flick! I ordered Bad Dudes for the C64, but it got delayed for over 6 (maybe 8?) months. When it finally arrived, I'd completely forgotten I'd ordered it, so it was a pretty awesome surprise.
I think the blue cans in the japanese version of the game look a lot more like cans of Pocari Sweat than Pepsi. Also fantastic and informative vid as always!!
I played Bad Dudes back in the day. Bad Dudes has a perfect story. Plus, the action is flawless.
Yes, perfectly cheesy. I love it
Don't let this distract you karnov
Is a villain now.😂
The guy running on fire tho.😂
I love Karnov, pretty cool to see that other people do as well
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That NES "I'm bad" scared the mess out of me when i first heard it.
LOL at least it was in there I suppose
Really?😂 me and my friends found it amusing and did imitations of it
The music on the truck/train levels is one of the best background tunes on any arcade game, an absolute banger. Great choice of a legendary arcade game to cover, Patman!
So awesome that part of it's melody was stolen for Richter Belmont. Appearing in Castlevania: Rondo of Blood & Symphony of the Night.
@@xxHUNGRY4THETRUTHxx Really? What part of SotN? I would have thought I'd have recognized that so super curious now, thanks!
@@exidy-yt When Alucard fights Richter.
It's also Stage 1 Theme in Rondo of Blood.
@xxHUNGRY4THETRUTHxx It's very similar but not exact. It's just the main melody and the phrases end differently. The rest of the track is completely different. I would call it inspired by, not quite the same thing.
@@pbabiesinspace6112 Cool, thanks both of you.
Great documentary, bro. As always. Played this arcade in Moscow, Russia. 1993 year. Warm memory. ❤
Was you a bad dude man🤣
Wow, very cool. Thanks a ton
I had this game on the NES as a kid. One of my favorites games I finally beat as an adult.
So you wasn't a bad enough dude either? Yeah well I feel ya😮💨
Fantastic
Played this one a lot in the '80s. It was the loudest game in Aladin's Castle. Robo Cop 2 also showed this arcade game in the background. You can hear the dogs barking in the film. I also believe the game Guacamele 2 makes fun of the game, showing the scene at the beginning.
I just played this yesterday with my son on my modded Marvel 1Up Countercade. Your timing is impeccable, my friend!
Perfect timing, thanks a lot
I was gonna comment the same thing. Not 2 day's ago I was checking out the games on the Nintendo Switch online service, and was wondering if they'd put this game on there. Then the Pat dude uploaded this🤣
LOL You were glad I did@@Roger-fs5yo
@@Roger-fs5yoi had been thinking about this game also the last few days
Ive always wanted a modern remake of this game with a more in depth moveset and modern graphics. It was one of my favorite games as a kid, it was like playing an 80's action movie.
Oh yes, surprised it never got made
We should get the team that did Streets Of Rage 4 and the Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge to do it. I know I'd buy it.
@@Unanything81 Absolutely. SoR is my next switch game but me and my 5yr old twins are rocking Ninja Turtles and we love it.
@@Unanything81id buy it also. bad dudes is awesome
Another stellar documentary from the Patman! Thanks for the video Patman. Bad Dudes is an arcade classic and hearing that ''I'm BAD" brings back awesome times back in the arcade days in my local mall in 90's
Thanks buddy, always brings a nostalgic tear to my eye as well
One of my favorite games of all time. Me and a friend of mine used to fill this old arcade machine with quarters when we were kids. This is one of the granddaddies of beat-em-ups, and I'm so thankful I got to enjoy it when I was young. When it came out on the NES, we were so excited and rented it from our local Gas City gas station. I remember playing this for hours and hours on his old NES. Good times. Great memories. Thanks again for the excellent trip down memory lane. Your channel is one of my absolute favorites on RUclips. Please keep doing what you're doing. 😊
Putting quarters on a machine is something every retro gamer from the early 80s has some sort of familiarity with. I can recall doing it with Pac-Man and the entire marquee was filled with quarters :-) thanks for sharing your members. Thanks
I played the Amiga Version in my Childhood. My Buddy and me loved all those Ninja Movies of the 80s and often played Ninja in the Garden, so this Game was perfect for us.
Me too! I was pretty much the only kid in America with a commodore Amiga 500 and everyone loved my version way more than their crappy nes version
....minus the loading times. Some of those were pretty rough.
Wasn’t the amiga version the one, where the Dudes kept yelling „Hopp! Hopp! Nuhhhhh! Hopp nuuuhhhhh!“??
"My Buddy and me...". Now you've reminded me of the My Buddy doll commercial.
@KasumiKenshirou don't forget about about weird neighbor😧
i believe you didn’t play Amiga Dragon Ninja it was inferior lazy Atari ST port
For some reason the arcade I went to in the late 80s apparently had the Japanese version. I distinctly remember the Dragon Ninja title screen, and the different sound effects. All these years I thought I was crazy and I had just been remembering it wrong! Thanks for clearing that up for me!
When I had the Amiga version back in the day I was always disappointed that the voice samples Were missing when everything else as far as audio was pretty close to the original. Little did I know that they were there just from the Japanese version. Pretty cool
The ending is different too
I remember I had just seen a couple of The American Ninja movies and after seeing this in the arcade I became obsessed with it. When it came out on the NES we rented it constantly but could never find a store actually selling it.
This game was pure 1980s. Thanks
Bad dudes…can still remember playing it and beating it in the arcade…one of the first beat ‘em ups you could go into an arcade with $2-$3 in quarters and beat the game. It was awesome. Loved it on the nes also
Pretty awesome, I never beat it in the arcades
I would walk to the bowling alley with my brother just to play Bad Dudes! That was back in the ancient days. Then we rented the NES version too.
I'M BAD!!
Great video as always, Patman!
I see you are a man of culture, PatmanQC! The white castle burger choice is what hooked me in!
LOL, I absolutely love it
Patman, you are the best! I watch your every video and eagerly await for the next one. I especially like the groundwork and meticulous information search for each game. Don't ever stop! 😄
Thanks so much for the kind words, glad you appreciate and enjoy the videos
All of your videos its a enormous contribution to the history of video game
Now that is very nice of you to say. I'm glad you enjoy my videos
I loved this arcade game when it came out played it prettymuch every weekend at our local pizza joint. I later got it for the nes. Thanks Pat for making me remember the good times from back in the day. I appreciate it
Absolutely, thank you so much for watching.
Now I gotta hook up my pandora bootleg and play king fu master. I used to love playing that game as a kid. Can always count on you for some awesome nostalgic moments
The Commodore home version is very unique with the small sprites and characters and chip beat music tunes. Great review of this series and arcades, Patman, thanks! I like some of the unique abilities to lift and toss objects.
You and mee both, yes love that Sid music on the 64
I've played this game a thousand times over the course of decades and I NEVER knew there was a charge punch!
😲
Glad my silly little video could help :-)
@ 6:49 the Japanese can is not referencing Pepsi, it's Pocari Sweat - famous Japanese sports drink. Great video!
Thanks a ton, I never even knew this existed. It looks almost identical
I played the NES port & the soundtrack is one of my favorites of the 8-bit era. It was fun game, I still remember watching the ninja multiply on the 3rd level blew my mind 🫨 good times!
I spent a lot of quarters on this game and was so dang happy when the NES version came out. I always played alone so it didn't bother me on the lack of coop. I loved that NES vesion and beat it many times just like I did on my arcade emulator nowadays! It was as a faithful port as one could ask for on 8bit!
I loved it growing up. Not as good as the arcade obviously but it was still a lot of fun
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Totally agree!!
Love this game pat man played this song nest, renting it never play the arcade. I’ve seen a lot of play theories of it but I’m having a hard time finding I’ve been looking for it but I still can’t find it so I’m interested to see your review on the arcade in the story on it. Have a good weekend. Love your channel. Been watching it for two years now.🤘🤘
That's awesome! I appreciate your support. You should check out the arcade game if you've never played it, it's a whole different level
My little contribution to the story. I used to 1CC the arcade game back in the day and discovered (at least in the American version) that the score caps at 999,999. I once point pressed this game and was able to achieve this score BEFORE reaching the final boss (which the Dragonninja alone is worth 400,000 points).
Holy cow that's fantastic
I got this game randomly for some birthday. I didn't get a lot of nes games back then. My buddy and I played the shit out of it for years. Love the memories of this game.
I don't know why people tend to pooh-pooh all over it, I thought it wass pretty good
Thanks for your awesome content bro! We used to play the heck out of Dragon ninja on the Amiga. Controls were a bit off but it was like playing an arcade machine with me mates. Good times. Cheers PatmanQC, you rock!
Thanks a lot, I enjoyed the Amiga version back then as well
This is the very first game that I beat at the arcades back in the early 90's; yes it almost took me 6.50 bucks in quarters (and I will always remember the exact amount until the day I die lol) because but I was that determined. Great vid Pat.
Side note: I refuse to refer to that game as Green Beret. Rush’n Attack is such a perfect title it should always be used.
It will always be Rush'n Attack to me a well....Political correctness truly is a sad cancerous thing!
I think I played one arcade cabinet that said Green Beret and another with Rush N Attack. Of course those of us on the NES know it mainly as Rush N Attack
Will always be Green Beret to me in Australia
Will always be green beret for me, tho i admit rush n attack does sound better, and i always thought it was pronounced russian attack lol.
Always be green beret here in the u.k.
This is the episode I waited for bro , 💪🏽 great job
Thanks buddy
Data East games at that time just had a feel and look that I loved. I played the hell out of this game, RoboCop, and Heavy Barrel at the Gold Mine arcade. I just played Heavy Barrel and BurgerTime this weekend on MAME.
All fantastic games
"HEAVVVVVYYYY BARRELLL.....!!!"
Kung Fu Master, Bad Dudes, Vigilante, Shinobi and Final Fight.
Those days of Arcade games were just the best. And something really missing from gaming these days without that Bowling Alley, Pizza shop or Arcade environment.
Days long gone by unfortunately
It's a shame this game never got ported over to the Sega Genesis. Two Crude Dudes was pretty cool but I would have much preferred this original than the sequel. Aside from reducing some of the colors and cutting back the total amount of enemies on screen at once it could have been more than possible. Especially back then as Data East was on a roll with releasing games for the platform in the early 90s. I've read a couple people say the game was past it's prime and too old back when the Genesis was hot. If that's the case they wouldn't have released Joe & Mac 3 years later from it's Arcade release in 1994. But anyway, excellent review as always and thanks for The History of Rampage last week! 😎
It's also known as crude busters 😊 or two crude
@@boofuls Yeah it's habit because as a kid that's all we knew it as. Wasn't until emulation and the Internet I realized there name and regional differences 😊
in the 1980s random ninja attacks were a big problem, thankfully due to the abundance of bad dudes they were eventually defeated
LOL indeed
A CLASSIC from my childhood!!! I played A LOT on Arcades!!! Great old times... Bad Dudes, Ninja Gaiden, DoubleDragon, Vigilante... Great games from my youth that i played on arcade...
Today I learned that you could do a charge punch in Bad Dudes. It is one of my favourite games. Though I played the NES version of it.
I thought it was a pretty good conversion
Back when the manual would give you great artwork but tell you how to do absolutely nothing 😅
The most memorable thing about Bad Dudes to me has to be the music. To this day I still hum the truck stage tune out of nowhere. What a fantastic classic.
Yes it was, I loved the 64 music as well
I loved this arcade. It was called DragonNinja in our parts. Loved playing this game with my brother. Awesome memories❤. Thanks for the video man
thanks for the trip down memory lane,as well as learning new stuff! That 12:36 inclusion/comparison was a nice touch.
5:38 8:55 The death sound of the dog is just super hilarious 😂😭 Thanks Patman 😆😂
I hook up my OG NES during the early time period of Covid-19 and happen to find Bad Dudes in my attic. I was playing it which quickly takes me back in time when life was simpler. Brother Patman, Bad Dudes is long overdue for a sequel and hope some VG company makes a true sequel. Another phenomenal video.
I agree, simpler times. Thanks a lot my friend
LOVE your videos! Your research, quality and presentation! TV quality! Videos should have 1mil views EACH - no less! (Best line "Did the next best thing....use them without permission!")
Wow, thank you! So nice of you to say glad you enjoyed the content. Cheers.
Is Patman a bad enough dude?
I think so.
LOL thanks
PatmanQC is truly a BAD DUDE! Another wonderful video :)
Thank you my friend, thanks for watching
the laundromat my parents went to when I was a kid had Bad Dudes, DJ Boy, and WWF Wrestlefest , made laundry day fun for me at least
Oh my goodness, the laundromat we went to had Ms. Pac-Man and something else but nothing ever as cool as a wrestlefest
Not sure if i mentioned already that i had the C64version and when i lost all my lifes i left the game running and the tape was rolling and after a short time the game loaded the next levels with a full set of lives,so i continued playing. Another excellent docu Patman, awesome stuff. Some of the conversions tho are embarrasing and the publishers and programmers must have known this im sure of it, lol. Again well done Sir, you are the greatest documentist ever.
Excellent info on the 64 version. Glad you like my content, thanks a ton my friend
The best channel to watch while stoned is back! Great video! Keep up the great work!
Edit: I just realized didn’t Trump invite a sports team to the White House and serve McDonald’s hamburgers? Wild! 😮
LOL, thanks a ton
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I always smoke weed when watching your videos! I’m glad I did!!
Had a lot of fun with the Amiga game, it felt almost Arcade perfect back in the day.
People tend to crap all over it for some reason. I liked it back then, it just needed a bit smoother frame rate and two button controls
did Amiga Dragon Ninja port feel it is almost arcade perfect even though it is a lazy Atari ST version?
The enemy on fire, was one of many inspirations for the Scott Pilgrim vs the World game
Excellent, didn't know that
I was always under the assumption that the blue energy drink/can was modelled on Pocari. I remember playing this game around 1989, myself and my buddies always referred to the blue energy cans as Pocari
You’re still the best PatMan!
No my friend, you are:-)
I just found your channel and instantly subscribed keep these coming forever!!!!
Awesome! Thank you!
Had the NES port of this game. A staple of my childhood.
Indeed, lots of fun
I remember Bad Dudes blew my mind as a young kid when I first encountered it at either a local skating rink or bowling alley. I was so excited when I discovered it was coming to the NES. My Grandmother got it for me, and I'm sad to say that the experience of the NES conversion truly paled in comparison to what I originally experienced in the Arcades.
Another great vid for another great game! It was like a playable version of an 80s ninja flick by Cannon Films or Godfrey Ho that filled cable TV and video stores at the time. I wonder if the different voice samples were to fit ENG and JPN ways of how heroes sounded in that area's action films.
Good question on the voices. Makes sense, thanks
Absolutely one of my favorites
Thanks Pat man
One of mine as well, thanks
People give this game shit, but it has wormed its way into everyone's memory whether they played it or not.
NES "I'm Bad" is a legendary sample, and a digital Wilhelm Scream to everyone who knows it.
Great choice Patman!
Nice, a Wilhelm reference. Comment of the day. Thanks buddy
i was literally just playing this game today one of the best arcade beat em up side scroller action games' in the 80s UK was called Dragon Ninja.
this game should defo of had a remake.
I agree, more moves more enemies etc.
Loved playing this in the minit-mart as a kid. Tried playing it the other day & only had the patience to get past the 1st level. Sadly, most of the beat 'em ups haven't aged well for me & bore me to tears after about 10 min. Playing with friends was the part that made them so much fun... "I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"
Definitely one of my favorite games, thank you for sharing 🙏
Absolutely, thanks for watching
They had bad dudes at the local grocery store when I was a kid. . Loved this game perfect action and great music. I could clock it with one credit.
I thought you did this game already. That's cool, though. It's one of my all-time favorites and good to see again.
LOVED Two Crude. Didn't know it was a sequel to Bad Dudes. Remember beating it at a local comic book store in my teens. Also the WWE tag team The New Day has t shirts that have a logo similar to that of the Bad Dudes arcade logo.
Awesome video
Thanks!
Fun and informative as always. Patman is the real bad dude!
LOL thanks buddy
FYI @patman the BLUE soda can for Japan could more likely represent Pocari Sweat, which is much more popular than Pepsi there. Thanks for the fun videos as always!
Thanks for the info,I had no idea it even existed but it does look exactly like it. Thanks
Welcome man. Tastes better than it sounds!
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I always enjoyed playing the NES version of this game. It was cool to be a rude, bad dude with an attitude 😎. President Ronnie 4 life.
LOL good call
One of the first few games I played in the arcades back in the 80s, and one of my personal favorite NES games too.
Man for years I've been trying to find out who the illustrator that was responsible for creating a lot of the marquee and bezel artwork used for a lot of arcade cabinets, including this game.
Not really sure
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I found out who he is. His name is Frank Cirocco. He's done work for Marvel among other works. If you look up his artwork you'll see what I mean
Loved this game, miss those good old days 😢.
You and me both my friend
Loved the game, loved the documentary! Great work!
Thanks a ton!
freaking great Game! One of my all time favorites!
Mine too!
Good video 👍
Loved this game, played the hell out of it. It was actually pretty easy for an 8 year old. Great video as always.
It was so much fun, thanks a lot
Another great video Patman!!
Thanks a lot
Y'know, I never knew about the charge-up punch until watching this video, heh.
Let my silly little video can also be informative
I used to have the original arcade cab a few years back. Still worked great. Completely regret selling it.
I love this game!!! One of my favorites of all time!
One of mine as well, it's a classic
The history of bubble bobble would be awesome 🤞 I'm restoring an arcade cab at the moment
Listening to your Jim Valley episode right now. 😎
Hope you enjoyed it
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Did for sure, should've been longer tho! Motivated me to dust off Mat Mania, SNS Masters and Champion Wrestler.
Edit : Valley not Johnson. I was listening to a Mike Johnson audio and wrote that incorrectly 😆
I grew up with the C64 version (connected to a screen who was capable only of displaying colours in shades of green, like a giant Game Boy), but the original Arcade version was one of my favourite games of all time and the reason why I am in love with Data East productions nowadays! I picked up a Data East Arcade Collection on Evercade just because of it (and Tumblepop also).
Tumblepop is really good as well
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries yeah, it features an awesome design and a very well balanced difficulty despite its arcade nature.
Patman can you do a history of San Francisco Rush and its sequels. One of my favorite racing games that I wish would get a collection for switch. Would love to see you talk about those great racing games. Have a good one.
I always thought the Arcade game was called, Two Bad Dudes. Then the NES was just called, Bad Dudes because you could only play as one player. I was looking for this game for years, but it wasn't until fall of 2023 when I got the Data East Collection on my Mini EverCade. Then I realized I've been looking for the wrong title all these years: it was just Bad Dudes! It is always fun to watch your videos especially the sound part of it. We just take for granite how good it is now a days, but back then it was really just a bunch of different tones of beeps that I lived thru. Ha-Ha?
Probably confused it with Two crude dudes, another Data East game.
Absolutely, but at the time we love to what we had so we enjoyed the heck out of it….At least I did
Thank you also for mentioning the movie Running Scared. Juts watched it. Buddy cop movie. That was awesome.
One joke after the other, good action, filmed between freezing cold Chicago and warm Florida Keys with all the ladies in bikinis. Cannot get more 80-ish than this. 😎
I'm surprised Billy Crystal was so good in that movie. It's really good and since making this video it's back on myy Amazon prime playlist :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Really underrated movie. I love 80s action flicks. How could I not know of this one?
Only thanks to PatmanQC mention the movie I now could enjoy it.
I think the cans are blue for Pocari Sweat. It’s like a Gatorade.
Yes, never knew this existed
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries it's even got the swirl :D
Fun video!! Thanks pacmanqc
Absolutely, thank you for watching
I remember first playing this on in arcade at Walmart of all places, way back before all the Supers popped up. Classic all around.
Absolutely, it's a classic
Thanks for the vid. If you ever make it to Japan I'll take you to the vintage arcade I go to that has a bunch of side scrolling BEU games that never made it stateside.
That sounds pretty cool, always wanted to visit Japan. Thanks for the invite :-)
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries no problem. There's also a place out here that sells vintage games called "Super Potato" because this is Japan and of course there'd be a place called "Super Potato".
Another fine video! It's a shame the movie didn't happen, as I always felt there are few classic arcade games that could translate as well into a campy low-budget flick!
I ordered Bad Dudes for the C64, but it got delayed for over 6 (maybe 8?) months. When it finally arrived, I'd completely forgotten I'd ordered it, so it was a pretty awesome surprise.
Thanks a lot, it would have translated pretty well into movie form in my opinion. I never knew there was a delay on the 64 version, thanks for that
To be honest, I don't remember if the game itself was delayed or was just out of stock where I ordered it. But either way, I had a lot of fun with it.
My Bad Dudes was the one I played as a kid in the 80s on my Amstrad CPC 6128 😊
Only really played the NES version. It was ok for what it was, didn't even know it was an arcade port til a few years later after playing it.
It was pretty popular in the arcades around here
The most graphically detailed, most story-rich, most advanced game of all times.
i loved this arcade cabinet. remember seeing it in paris orly airport back in the days.
Very cool, what a place to see it
Loved this game. Fighting on top of a tractor trailer was awesome. When matrix reloaded did it over a decade later I freaked out
You know I never put that together until just now. Good call
Loved this game in the Arcade and on NES back in the 80's.
So did I, lots of fun
I remember a full page magazine ad for Bad Dudes, where they boast that its available on more platforms than Double Dragon.
LOL that some boast
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries It's a hilarious one too, given that the "more versions" in question are some of the stinkers.
An arcade favortie of mine, also the NES doesn't deserve the hate it gets. Good video 👍
I agree, thanks so much
I think the blue cans in the japanese version of the game look a lot more like cans of Pocari Sweat than Pepsi. Also fantastic and informative vid as always!!
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Duke Nukem: Are you bad enough to chew bubble gum and kick ass?
LOL I can see that