90s Arcade Games - Austin Eruption
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- Опубликовано: 5 мар 2020
- The Simpsons, Street Fighter 2, Virtual On... Primal Rage? Video Game Arcades in the 1990s were a bit of a Silver Age, but that doesn't mean there weren't a ton of awesome games! While some might get ported to the PS4s and Nintendo Switches, not all of em do. However, here's a brief history/super biased look at games I played as a kid!
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What are some of your favorite Arcade Games from the '90s?
Totally forgot to talk about Dance Dance Revolution.
you know
probably the most dominating arcade game of that era
but that's okay, it makes a cameo
Metal slug, time crisis, Tekken 3, house of the dead, die hard arcade, carnevil, crazy taxi, crusin' world. These were the series that take me back to the arcade days hard for me. Really Shocked that you didn't add silent scope to the light gun section. Also really wished there was a sequel to Crisis zone where you were a swat soldier using an mp5 light gun model. Overall amazing times growing up in that era.
Carnevil ! Most crazy game I ever played in an arcade.
When on a indoor ice rink field trip a grumpy teacher told us to stop playing area 51 and she then unplugged it😂
LA Machinegunners. I have beaten that game SO MANY times. I still can feel the insane vibration from that gun!
Also, Virtual-On. God, I remember growing up willing to sell my friggin legs to go to the arcade I knew had it (SEGA City, BTW).
I'm absolutely all about the X-men arcade game. I know there's better beat em ups out there, but damn is that game fun, and nostalgic for me.
Also, it's not 90s, but if you haven't had a chance to play Tim Crisis 5. It's phenomenal
Did not once mention this (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ ( \o°o)\ beautiful arcade classic. _unscrubsibe_
(Cho chabudai Gaeshi)
here on mexico arcades still a big thing thats why they meme us about how we play to much king of fighters 2002 or metal slug
Can also confirm that. SNK hit it big in Mexico. It's why a lot of mexicans were happy Terry was in smash
Amo Metal Slug. Desagraciadamente, en los cines, están quitando las maquinas y poniendo juegos de celular.
jose ramiro reynoso ruiz tambien aqui en los Estados Unidos, aunque aun hay lugares con juegos retro de donde soy yo. Afortunadamente, yo tuve la chanca de visitar arcades en ambos E.U. y México.
Was in bcs... Or just in my town.
There cannot be too much metal slug.
The giant marvel vs Capcom 2 machine at my roller ring in Jersey was my home
why bro? you a hobbo?
I loved that one!
I also had a Roller Ring near my neighborhood in Jersey. Whenever the older kids ran outta quarters, I'd use my 50 cent pittance from my mom to play MvC2 for the 1 round I was decent enough to play through.
I used to live literally a block away from a food mart that that had one a long with a run and gun cabinet that they eventually switched out for a run and gun 2 cabinet and it was magical.
*_Actually,_* the Die Hard license came first. Sega Japan had some fancy new arcade boards but no game for them, until serendipity stepped in with Sega America purchasing the license to Die Hard. Unfortunately, the licensing deal didn't extend to Japan, so they had to Doki Doki Panic the thing over there.
Who else here kept seeing the terminator salvation Arcade machine literally everywhere.
It seemed like the only thing besides DDR and the Ms Pac-Man/Galaga 2-in-1 that I could consistently find at a movie theater.
Nathaniel Foga yep
Yes
i only really knew one arcade back in the day. so yea
Chuck E Cheese and Dave and Busters has hundreds of those cabinets
It's kinda sad to see the almost complete death of American arcades.
I almost wish someone would revive them.
Hard agree on this. There's something special about the arcade atmosphere, especially when playing a fighting game, light gun game or a beat em up with people and drawing crowed because of hype.
I have them all on my pc.
Have you ever tried to look for Round 1 arcade's across the USA? There is a few in Texas but currently it's in Dallas right now. It have lots of arcade games from Japan! I drove 3 hours just to play Maximum tune 5 there...
@@sidekick4 How is it boring? Do you need flashing lights for your adhd? My pc has lots of rgb.
Jajuan Mays
There’s one In Illinois
There's a laundromat in my neighborhood that has an old SNK cabinet with one of the Metal Slug games. Still surprised to see it, every time I go there.
The man who sings the “DAYITOOOONNAAAAA” jingle is the voice actor of Kage-Maru from Virtua fighter
Austin 100% blew away my expectations. Very, very happy with the video. Cheer this man!
as a guy who grew up in arcades in the 90's I appreciate the heck out of this video fighting games, light gun games, and beat em ups were my jam with the favorites being street fighter 2 time crisis and final fight nice video thanks for bringing back the memories
*"Hey Look, It's Flappy Bird, Sick."*
I could just see people waisting their quarters on that just to get a descent score lol! 😂😂😂
I legit want Konami to release a collection of their licensed games. Especially the Simpsons arcade. That’s a game with a good soundtrack to boot that deserves to be given more remixes.
Now that Disney owns the Simpsons, it just might be next to impossible without mishap...
Still sad they took Ducktales off of online stores, even if it came back a year later it seems like Capcom fought to keep it up. Disney's licensing is really abusive and absurd.
Unfortunately you had to pick up The Simpsons Arcade when it came out on PS3 and 360 for that very short amount of time before it got delisted. You could always buy a Pandora’s Box though! Those are great!
Or a rasberry pi modded arcade 1up!
I'm getting one of the arcade one up machines and modding it with every arcade game ever. It costs about 300. Totally worth it.
It's more than likely that SImpsons arcade never got a home port because Acclaim had the exclusive rights to publish Simpsons games on consoles.
I miss arcades so much, when I went to japan and walked into the sega arcade in Tokyo I could have died and been happy.
I enjoyed that game where you were in two seater yellow raft as the whole raft moved around like crazy as you would row!🤩 Rapid River by Namco!
Thanks for including the chainsaw guy from the CARNEVIL Arcade game.
Mk2 and sf2 felt like watching esports in the 90's arcade at the local swimming pool.the crowds and volume was something unforgettable!
Keep up the incredibly original vids⛄
Oh if I could count how much I spent on those Initial D machines.
And now I still can't get Eurobeat or of my head.
"INTO THE HEARTBEAT!!!!"
Gosh those tunes are so good.
Thanks for this, 1994 & 1995 were some of the best yrs in the arcade for me, Virtua Fighter 2 and Killer instinct still blow me away
I remember when I first saw the Simpson's arcade machine in the 90s. It was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen, the graphics and the video, the gameplay was addictive to match it. I actually got myself in trouble because I cleaned out my father's coin jar for my return to the arcade the next day. But it was worth it, I had to see it through to the end.
After that though. I figured out, all I really need to do, is watch other people play games and when they walked away I'd take over. Rather than start over every time. I got more out of my time at the arcade that way.
Also. The smell at the arcade, it was fresh paint and new cheap office carpeting, and faint cigarette smoke. Depending on where in the arcade, that mix was weaker or stronger, near the pool room, and near the snack counter.
I can't imagine not having the things I did growing up. It was a special time, 80s into the 90s.
The arcade my mother managed had the first Virtua Fighter in '93. They had to higher security guards as bouncers to keep the people (who were literally lined up out the door) under control.
I'm in the weird part of NJ with at least one really good arcade and at least one Barcade in a 35 minute drive depending on which way you go
I'm happy for that. MvC1 and San Francisco Rush were my jams back in the 90's though.
As someone who was a teenager back then it cannot be overstated how huge SF2 was. Some arcades/bowling alley would have 5 or more of those cabinets and they all would have a crowd around them
As someone who never really went to an arcade as a kid, this is a fun insight.
Me too kid
I worked in a mall arcade in the late 90s, it was the best. Many late-night tournaments of Marvel vs Capcom 2, Soul Calibur 2, Tekken Tag Tournament, etc. So much Crazy Taxi and Jambo Safari. Also everyone that worked there - everyone - smoked the jazz cabbage. Good times.
OMG build a time machine I wanna join in on the hype
@Leon Jones NOOOOOOOOOO! I mean I'm ok with DLC as long as it isn't scummy but laugh matches is just a bad time.
@Leon Jones And you have to deal whit entitle gamers who like to whine and beg for nuff.
YEAR 2019 WHAT
THERE WAS A TEKKEN 3 CABINET IN MY MALL
DAYTONAAA
NukeDukem 614 Lol that was the exact same thing i thought too! I’m guessing he started this back then?
Theres a retro arcade and toy shop in my mall
Austin you brought back some great memories from my childhood with this video. Thanks for making a video capturing this special time.
90's arcades are the biggest thing I miss from my childhood. There was a time when they were my absolutely favorite place to be. There was something magical about the arcade, back when arcade games were several steps above anything we could get at home. I miss those times. I think it was because everything costed money just to try it out, so there were always so many games I could never play, and they all seemed so mysterious and wonderful.
Man, you could hear "Daytooooonnnaaaaaaaaaa!" no matter where you where in the mall. It was louder than every other game.
Just gonna come right out and say it...
Metal Slug > Contra
✊🏿
Agreed.
Exactly.
Hell yeah
Well, about 9 years more advanced so yeah
Time Crisis 2 was amazing. I remember beating it multiple times on one quarter. My friend and I would go through it at the arcade before going out to the bar. It was an amazing time.
Whenever I think of light gun arcade games, I always specifically think about CarnEvil. Probably because it never got any kind of home console release, so I literally ONLY remember it as an arcade title, and it makes me super nostalgic. I love those creepy carnival vibes.
I played so much arcade games back in the day. My favorite was Cadillacs and Dinosaurs which is a beat em up. I was playing that game so much that I was able to reach the final boss with using only 1 coin. And you know how much hard were the arcades. I remember other kids were watching me play and couldn't believe I was that good. And in that game you started with only 2 lives only too! Fun times.
I have fond memories of playing awesome 90s arcade games like Aliens vs. Predator, Metamorphic Force, Virtual-On, and Primal Rage.
Man, 90s arcades were a magical thing back then. I miss GameWorks. Now we have places like Round 1 in my area that will scratch that itch, though it's modern arcades and not the old classics, but take what you get I guess. Good thing there are barcades that house the old arcades.
Omg thank you so much for the ending "GAME OVER YEAHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Great video Austin definitely brought back some nostalgic memories
I miss playing CarnEvil at my local bowling alley. They changed out cabinets all the time when their rentals were up, and I was totally gutted when it was gone.
THAT GAME GAVE ME NIGHTMARES WHEN I WAS LITTLE...LOL
“Some way to play Alien vs. Predator”
Capcom: *Laughs in Europe-only oversized fight stick logo machine*
Loved this video, this brought me back
from Samurai Showdown where playing as Genan and slashing Galford 's dog in half then switching to metal slug because i thought it was cool and had no idea what it really was
to me and a buddy playing turtles in time until we beat it in a afternoon
The Simpsons one was fun spent alot of time on it
Sunset Riders was one of my go to games as i loved to just play that game in my youth as i went to a bowling ally every saturday and they had a arcade with Sunset Riders, Stret Fighter 2, the T-2 arcade game, couple random games i dont remember and a game i wa never allowed to play Mortal Kombat 1 + 2
also a bowling game that i still have fond memories of
then couple years later I was on a trip with my parents and to keep me busy they'd give me about $40 to spend in the arcade, and id be there for 3-4 hours
and one time i played and bear that 2nd Die Hard game you mentioned, i beat it on only 3 quarters
couple of my other fav games
the xmen arcade
WWF Wrestlefest
Spy Hunter
NBA Jam + NFL Blitz
also a game to this day i would buy in a heart beat The Adams Family pinball game ( i think i have put over $200 in that machine in my life)
also there was a game called Time Traveler it was a Hologram game
great video, i found this a fun watch , also as an aside I run a podcast and id love to work with you in some shape
I don't know what it is but I am really loving all this nostalgia going on lately for the good old arcades.
I will always for the rest of my days have a special place in my heart because of the arcades. Anytime I see an arcade machine especially if it's one I haven't seen before in some random pizza place I stop at on a trip somewhere . I recently stumbled across a Jurassic Park 3 machine on a trip to Nevada. I felt like I found a gold nugget.
My only arcade experience was having to dual wield some shooting cabinet game because nobody wanted to play with me and I had $20 in quarters to spend before I could go home
Yeah but playing a light dual wielding makes you look like a badass
DDR, Street Fighter, and Area 51 are unforgettable, but when you hit that Daaaaaytonaaaaaa a memory unlocked. I remember hearing that as the backdrop at my favorite skating rink. Like yeah I would hear the Cha Cha Slide or Ice Ice Baby, but like a hot knife through butter that Dayyytooonaaaaa would just pierce your ears.
The 90s beat-em-up was by far my favorite arcade genre. Talk about warm, fuzzy nostalgia feeling. Vendetta, anyone?
I remembered this as if it was yesterday. Thanks for the video!
I remember being a kid at a campground that had metal slug 3. In the small arcade and one day when I went to play it the door was unlocked letting me put my quarters in and take them out giving me unlimited continues. I remember not stealing the money but I didnt waste any of mine either and didnt tell the manager until after I was done the game but I actually beat it and fell in love with the series. If ur a fan u gotta get the metal slug anthology.
Bruh, I've been waiting for a video like this for so long
This is the first video I've seen of yours, and it was pretty excellent. Subbed.
GREAT VIDEO,,,,,
BRINGS BACK MEMORIES FROM 25YEARS AGO BRO
Austin,I like your videos cause you always happen to talk about games that I feel only I have played in friend groups (such as God Hand or Primal Rage and even mystical Ninja) its super cool
Also that Rocket Launcher voice line killed me. Me and my brother would make fun of it all the time haha
My arcade games of choice were any SHmup/bullet hell (Raiden, anyone?), DDR, Gauntlet Legends, and Puzzle Fighter...
I think this video needs a part II....
Raiden and Gauntlet legends were so much fun. RED WARRIOR NEEDS FOOD BADLY
I practically lived at the arcade when Mortal Kombat came out....always a huge line, winner stayed on....good times
You have the best content Austin, hydro thunder, area 51, time crisis 2, classics
I can't believe it took me to the end of the video to realize your were filming in Pinballz. That's my favorite arcade and this video was reminding me of it. Now I gotta go soon.
I'm very lucky theres literally an arcade nearby that just opened up last year and I went in for 5 minutes and saw a whole wall of pinball machines and awesome shooters and even dance dance revolution right by the front door which is nostalgic cause that arcade place was also my favorite video game store before they closed
I remember being very young and playing the AVP arcade machine. I would kill to play it again.
i use to love when a new fighting game would come out and it would be a crowd around the best player
As much as I loved house of the dead and time crisis, my favorite light gun games back in the day were the point blank series. Shooting gallery mini games in a randomized wario ware style structure. Lot of fun.
Steer Fighter 2 was one of my favourites as a kid. I remember always trying to beat my older brother.
Some of these games were buried deep in the recesses of my mind & thought to be a fever dream
Very nice video
Keep the good work!
One little detail though is that Killer Instinct was first released on arcade and then one year later was ported to the snes!
Nothing beats 8 player Daytona at the arcade I worked at. People would always be playing it. While I do miss the job, i don't miss the 40 or so different attract songs playing at the same time.
I had completely forgotten about Dynamite Cop until seeing this video. I grew up in the Bronx where we didn't have dedicated arcades but many of the local businesses had cabinets.
i also remember playing area 51 and that aerosmith one, also at the movies haha. also dealing with driving type games, afterburner was the coolest sit down game ever. anything that shifts side to side like you are in the jet when you play it will always be awesome.
When you were at Magfest, did you get on Area 51? Since endless lives were available I played the game using dual guns! (And this was on Thursday when the crowds were low so I wasn't monopolizing the machine). Also got Ryan from Treesicle to play X-men with me! Colossus Roar FTW!!!
Loved the video and the game over yeaaaaaahhhhhhhhh! At the end. Sega with their wink wink cheesiness! I remember that. I also remember laughing so hard at the Daytona USA soundtrack for the Sega Saturn in 95
Mad Respect to you bro for using the Most Popular Arcade Hangout in the Philippines, TIMEZONE 0:39
Light Gun games are on their way to making a huge comeback, thanks to efforts like Sinden Light Gun on Kickstarter. Being able to play LG games on HD LED TV's without cameras or sensor bars is going to be incredible. Can't wait!
I have a Arcade in my town called Extreme Fun Center, & the only new arcade game that is interesting to me there is Mario Kart GP. The others ones were either gambling your money away, bizarre simple Flappy Bird like games like popping bubbles, dark & edgy light gun games, air hockey table, a weird laser dodging room, & a go kart track. It is definitely better than most arcades out there, & it is pretty popular with families that have younger kids & gives them something to do during the winter, which I am glad. The 90s arcade games were there in their own section. The games they had there were a bloody light gun game, & The Simpsons & Crazy Taxi that Austin talked about. I tried playing Crazy Taxi with the steering wheel, but I am much more used to playing with a Dreamcast controller. LOL.
I have always loved arcade games even when i was a kid, born in 1998 but i have played a lot of different arcade games, there were a few in my older dentist office, played the Simpsons the most, it was on free-play so i was able to play as much as i wanted as i waited for a check up or whatever, and had a good amount of parties at arcades, be it chuck e cheese's, johns incredible pizza, or laser island, always had fun, my favorites were always the light gun games, and a beat-em-ups, though i think i can name more shooter games than beat-em-ups, as i remember only playing the Simpsons, or the TMNT ones in my dentist office, sadly never played many fighting games or other type of games, a few racing games though like Arctic shown at 26:20 but have always seen DDR but never tried it myself, now i am still into arcades but have not gone to them as much as i want, most i have been to so far now is Big Al's, but will always like to go to more, and more often to just have fun or whatever, even earning tickets can be fun
God i just remembered another weird arcade game i played, it was a weird bowling like game, using a ball to control the bowling ball it self, and had lots of weird levels, but can never remember the game name, if i saw it in action, like with many other games, i will be able to know if i played it or not
I think there could always be a part 2 to talk about more types of games, there are just so many non-ticket or redemption games that can be talked about, there are a lot of Rhythm games i think has not been talked about as often as others, i think that is more of a Japan thing but idk for sure
And i do agree, there really should be some re-release of arcade games, but its hard to get the licenses to some like the Simpsons, luckily there are... other ways of playing arcade games
Puzzle Bobble is one of the most crazy addictive games there are. I got it on switch for like £6. Can't stop playing it. The switch has so many arcade games like that
I love your videos Austin. "Rocket launcher" aha brings back many memories it dors
I re-bought Crazy Taxi when they ported it to Steam. Imagine my disappointment when it was the PS3 version without the product placement or Offspring. Hell, that game got me into The Offspring and now I own all of their albums. 'Ixnay On The Hombre', which most of the tracks for Crazy Taxi came from, is still my favorite one.
I think my local bowling alley still has Area 51. Still did last I was there, at least.
"Fist of the Northstar" arcade punching game lol Only got to play it a few times when I was on vacation but it was fun.
House of the Dead 2 is an all time favorite, great video Austin!
What an awesome trip down memory lane.
I grew up in bowling alley arcades on pinball machines and fighting game cabinets. There was such a "mystique" around the FG cabinets.
See I'm probably a very lucky person. Where I live there's a place not far away called fun spot, which has three floors of arcade and ticket games, a little pizza parlor, a bar, and even mini golf and a bowling alley right inside.
If I don't feel like traveling for an hour, there's always the Dave & Buster's that just opened up where I am.
The arcade scene seems to be coming back, and I love every minute of it.
This was beautiful.
The light gun game I loved was Mad Dog McCree. One of those rail shooters with digitized real people that even performed death animations, but it was also set in the wild west. Oh and WWF Wrestlefest was another favorite 90's arcade game.
The Jurassic Park '93 arcade Sega motion cabinet is always my go to arcade game as a kid and the first cabinet I beaten as a kid
Well, Taito sort of made a new Puzzle Bobble game recently on the Switch as a cross-over with the Touhou series called Touhou Spell Bubble.
Lol, the Aerosmith game haha you bought back so many memories I almost forgot about game.
Holy shit you caught me off guard with Die Hard Arcade. That just resurfaced some good memories.
“Looking like a boss fight from Kingdom Hearts” lolololololol.
So many memories. I seen games I havent seen since I played them on arcade. Like area 51. I remember the old arcades.
Ok, quick story bit. I live in a city that has a maritime ward (essentially a subdivision of the city, separate from the main part but still under the same administration), which means that all of my summers as a kid were spent at the sea, the beach resort my family went to had a big-ass arcade section where I spent a lot of money on three games specifically: Soul Calibur, Crazy Taxi (which I loved so much I practically screamed when I saw the PC version of Crazy Taxi 3 in stores) and a quaint little game from a Spanish developer called "Radikal Bikers", one of the most 90s things ever.
Take, if you will, Road Rash, but 3D, with scooters which apparently hide rocket propulsors, and it's about racing against an opponent to deliver pizza through 3 major Italian cities (Rome, Milan and Naples), collecting explosive shoes to kick your opponents with, rocket fuel, and special extra ingredients for your pizza.
That five year old Wii U still whispers to me in my haunted dreams
My saturn ran for days because of the endless fun of die hard arcade : D loved that shit
When I bought Time Crisis back in the day, I put my Namco arcade stick on the floor and pushed the face buttons with my foot, as a pedal. Try it (with your shoes off, if possible), it works better than you'd think! I guess Namco had something like this in mind when they allowed to use a controller in the second port to duck.
All shoot'em up and beat em ups from the 90s are still my favorites
The first arcade game I ever played and even got an n64 port of was cruisn' USA. I was born in 1993, so I got to play quite a few of these.
Great video.
Great video
IK+ is still one of the best fighting games.
Thanks for the great video.
So glad that D&D: Shadow Over Mystara got a mention. Loved that game.
I noticed the cup. Culvers is amazing!
There was a ROM (I guess?) on a CD or hard drive that got passed around my middle school, with the first 5 Metal Slug games on it. I spent dozens of hours with those games and that’s something I’m thankful for.
Austin Eruption, my favorite Arcade game I like is Marvel vs Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes. I used to play that game at a nearby Burger King near where I live. It used to have an arcade cabinet there before the arcade at BK close down and currently replaced by a barbershop.
this is actually a great video
That's one nice Haman back there.
I have the strangest memory of the Simpsons Arcade game. My family was on vacation in Virginia in 2002 or whatever. We were at some sort of thrift store and in the back of the store, there it was. It was very out of place and I didn't believe it was real for years afterwards until I found out more of the machine on the internet. Its some good shit and is definitely going into my dream arcade bar.
I used to own time crisis and the gun for the home console. Normally you had to push a button on the gun to move in and out of cover, which really affected the immersion and was a bummer compared to the foot pedal on the arcade.
But I figured out that you could plug in a regular controller into the second player port and pushing the buttons would work for moving in and out of cover.
So I would stand up, shoot with the gun, and use my foot to push the buttons on the second player controller which I placed on the ground.
That set up made the game just as fun and immersive as the arcade version. Although you have to be aware that your second controller would have foot juice on it!