Crime City (Arcade) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- Опубликовано: 29 дек 2019
- A playthough of Taito's 1989 arcade action game, Crime City.
Played through on the machine's default difficulty level.
Woken from a dead sleep, "supreme law" Tony Gibson and Raymond Broady both receive a call informing them that some prisoners have escaped and are wreaking havoc in Crime City. They wash their hair, sort their weapons, and at Broady's suggestion ("Well, let's go for a kill time"), the men hit the streets.
I'm being serious. That's the intro.
Crime City is an arcade platformer, related in some nebulous way to Chase HQ, that focuses on platforming and gunplay. Adopting a gameplay style similar to games like Sega's Shinobi and Namco's Rolling Thunder, the heroes run about, laying waste to every gangster and hood they can find as they make their way to the bottom of things.
The controls are 80s simplicity at their best: you can shoot, duck, roll, jump, and high jump. The six stages have you walking from one side of the screen to the other, jumping over crates, dodging cars, and trading bullets with the enemy, and like I mentioned earlier, it feels a lot like both Rolling Thunder and Shinobi. It isn't as complex as either of those games, though. The stages aren't made up of multiple-level platforms (a top and bottom route, if you will) like we saw in those earlier titles, and it lacks any hostages to rescue or doors to duck into. Stripping it down to basics like this was one of my favorite things about the whole game - it feels closer to early 80s arcade style play with its reliance on reflexes and memorization. Because of how focused the gameplay is, I had a lot of fun playing it again and again for higher scores.
It does love its late 80s windowdressing, though. The story would be ludicrous enough on its own, but the hammy intro and its English "translation" put the game's plot in a class of its own. The lead characters look like they're straight out of Lethal Weapon, the bad guys look like every cliche imaginable from eighties action flicks, and the whole presentation is put together nicely. The backgrounds are well detailed and the sprites are big and look good, despite the super awkward animation. It isn't "impressive" for a game from 1989, but it is good looking.
Taito often showed how to take an existing idea, imbue it with personality, and tweak the mechanics just enough to make it feel like something fresh and novel, and Crime City is a damn good example of that.
But good luck making sense out of that plot. Wow. The game never seems to feel the need to explain itself, but the credits do provide some "insight." Special emphasis on the quote marks there.
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For anyone that's a fan of Taito's classic arcade titles, Crime City is a thoroughly excellent old-fashioned action game.
The prototype of Crime City is simply titled “Taito Game”. No joke.
I'm somehow not surprised lol
These 2 guys are some of the toughest badasses you'll ever meet. Normally they love trying to wreck criminal cars in Chase HQ, but this time they love jumping from car roof to car roof, while the cars are speeding along on the highway, all in the name of the law.
Because being airdropped into highway traffic is a much better idea than using a roadblock and a SWAT team, right? Lmao
@@NintendoComplete Personally, I'm more baffled by how the criminals apparently knew that Tony and Raymond would be airdropped onto THAT EXACT SECTION of the highway, AND specifically set up guard locations to try fighting them in. Maybe that was the team sent in to snatch up the first half of the bank robbery's takings or something.
"Decent people shouldn't live in Crime City. They'd be happier somewhere else."
That's actually a totally fair point. Huh.
Oh! Maaaaaan, I remember this one from an arcade, actually! I remember being on my last quarter by the time I beat it; those last few stages don't mess around (as you show yourself; pretty rare to see YOU eat a continue). For some additional mild amusement, while it's reasonably well-known that Tony and Raymond are actually also the stars of several of the Chase HQ games, Bob, Boss of Punks (or at least someone who looks remarkably similar) is also in the second one, "Special Criminal Investigation", as the first of the criminals you take down.
It’s a recreation of Lethal Weapon and Shinobi.
And to an extent, Rolling Thunder with the one-hit bullet/grenade/firearm kills.
@vgaoct91 Indeed. ;)
*OH MY GOD THIS GAME IS INCREDIBLE*
if you're a fan of rolling thunder or shinobi you'll feel right at home with this game
Martin Riggs and Roger Murtaugh star in a Taito Arcade Picture's Production
*Crime City*
Rated R for Repeatedly Inserting More Money
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This is a Chase H.Q spin-off!
Better than the Lethal Weapon games that were released at that time
I don’t think I’ve ever seen this game before. I need to play this.
Don't forget to catch hold of bank robbery and sumugglers.
Very nostalgic for me. I first played it in a local toy store over 30 years ago. Got the pcb much later. Not a bad game.
I too wish to catch hold of prison breakers
Mario with a cameo at the end.
Did... did I just see a man roll forward to kill other men?
That is AMAZING. I'd wash my hair before doing that, too. And after.
Shame this never got ported to the Mega drive, or any of the Taito Legends compilations.
Nice, I remember this game.
Which place is worse?
Metro City from Final Fight
OR
Crime City from....Crime city.
los 2 tipos del juego son de los rudos más duros que jamás conocerás. Adoran destrozar coches criminales en el Chase HQ, pero aquí les encanta saltar de un techo a otro, mientras los coches circulan a toda hostia por la carretera. El prototipo de esta máquina por lo visto simplemente se llamaba "Taito Game", tal cual
Crime city is the hottest buddy cop action game from taito
With ABSOLUTELY AWESOME graphics and STUNNINGLY AMAZING gameplay
Wow, stunningly amazing, huh? That's some seasoned adverb usage there ;P
Congratulations on the upcoming 100k subs. Wish you a successful decade.
They should have called this game “San Francisco”
Wishing you a Happy New Year NC. Keep up the great work and see you in 2020 bro. 8^)
End was the best. #Mario
Reminds me of Thunder Fox
Nice 👌
Missed opportunity for a Miami Vice game
I was disappointed that it wasn't related to Elevator Action.
Cool game
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What was the picture at the end u drew?
It was Mario!
@@NintendoComplete lol how many practice attempts did that take it must've been tough to do that in the time allotted
Miami vice
Pretty weird and short. A bit of a blind idiot translation, but you get the point.
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