In the stand-up arcade version of this game, my little brother was able to make it to the rank of Brigadier General on ONE quarter. That was 24 years ago, and I still feel pride at his skill.
Ah man, really brings back memories. Growing up in the 90s I played this all the time with my best friend. His mom refused to let him put in his initials and for years I never knew why. His name was Frank Andy Grant . . .
Oh, man what a game. I remember playing this along with House of the Dead at my laundromat near my school. That time we also had Tekken 2 and NFL Blitz. Good times, good times. By the way, on 13:19, I'm just realizing that this dude crashed into a wall for no reason.
I'm sure you know already but start a new game then use ONLY 3 bullets to kill the first 3 good guys (blue uniform military personnel), after this the screen is shown from the perspective of one of the aliens. This game was really cool.
I plunked so many quarters into this until I could literally last forever in this game (the game resets and you keep fighting until you die. The get a life stage helps you keep going.) They definitely need to re-do this badassedness in HD. With game guns and online support for 3 and 4 players. Brings back memories :-)
@@booker9879 yep, Maximum Force(which Atari Games/Mesa Logic did shortly after this game). I had always yearned for an N64 version, but due to that system's cartridge format at the time, the publisher and Atari's parent corporation at the time(Williams/Midway) thought it wasn't worth doing it on console. IMO, they should've looked at how Capcom did Resident Evil on the N64 and figured out a way pull off that same trick.
leaderstragg Yep! S.T.A.A.R. will encounter the Kronn Hunter and treat him as a neutral. Peterson gets infected and transformed, but retains his consciousness, knows Kronn and retains English. Hunter becomes an ambassador for loyalist Kronn, with Peterson as his translator.
I remember never being able to get the tank top secret level, but being able to get every other secret more or less; the screen would scroll too fast for me to hit all the windows. Same thing with the get a life level. Some of the secret levels seem different compared to the arcade version; the arcade had a shake your buddha level. You also didn't unlock the kronn hunter mode. One thing I also loved about this arcade game was that the better you did (like the higher your accuracy was and the more bonus items you hit), the more enemies would appear and the faster they'd shoot at you; sorta like a built in difficulty gauge.
It's a tricky battle, I'll say that. But I've managed to beat the final boss ship a couple times because I've seen a few other people on RUclips do it first. The key: aim for the ship itself and try to ignore as many of the alien soldiers as possible. Harder than it sounds though.
I own the the stand up Arcade game of this, Maximum Force, and A51: Site 4 and can attest, it’s possible and dare I say easy to take down the mothership if you follow Cooksy’s strategy. The Alien Queen in the sequel Area 51: Site 4 on the other hand is crazy difficult!
Kronomorphs used to terrify the shit out of me as a kid. When i got the PS1 version and found out in the manuel they birth like Xenomorphs on steroids. Slowly grow into your body and bones then litterally explode out of you...jesus christ didnt help with the childhood trauma.
Very nice. Played that arcade so much as a kid. If I remember correctly, I believe in the very beginning if you shoot only the humans and nothing else. It gives you predator heat vision for the rest of the game.
@@mostverticalproductions4808 little off topic, i just played through area 51 the ps2 one and theres litterly area 51 arcade cabnit in the game.. in area 51 lol
Great vid. Never seen someone play this game without getting hit. I play the arcade version myself. Haven't had the ps1 version since the game was ported there. There seems to be extra secret levels in mine that you didn't do and some in yours that I don't see in the version I play through. Maybe it's a matter of execution but I'm wondering why they would program the two differently but be so similar in the other 99 percent of the game. Either way. Loved the video. One of my favorite games of all time. I play it a few days a week multiple times.
There definitely is something off about this video. Some secrets missed, I think, but it’s been a long time since I played it. And the RNG gods were never this generous. There was one moment in particular, at about 23:20, where two aliens on opposite sides of the screen were blasted at the same time and no grenade was spent. I kept rewatching it and that alien on the right side shouldn’t have been killed
Interesting! After so many years whence i first saw this game in the cabinets as a child, only now I'm discovering, that, although the soundtrack is mono, the special effects are stereo!
There's another secret room. Im not 100% sure how to replicate it. But you get to it in the area between 17:22 and 17:23. It takes you to an area where you shoot watermelons. After playing this game countless times on PS1 as a kid I found it last night on an arcade version my partner and I happened across. Ive literally not been able to find it anywhere on the internet. Maybe it happens if you shoot the dark grey things (bombs?) on the floor at the bottom? Also wow. I thought I was hot crap at this game 0.0 Edit: Ok, I did find it on the internet. Apparently the room is called Mellon Head. You get to it by shooting the windows, I think. I think its also only for the Area 51/Max Force combo arcade machine. This is the video where I found this ruclips.net/video/U_RXBNNBRPw/видео.html
I never was able to get the secret areas. Of course I grew up in the 90's (Anyone here born in 92?) and the only way you knew about secrets in games was either through cheat books or through playground rumors. I miss those days.
Sgt maj with one ribbon.when i played I had 2 ribbons at ssgt 4 ribbons at sgt maj by maj I had them all.So I think it goes how good of shot you are.But I’m old now I probably would be lucky to get 3 or 4 ribbons with my bad eye sight
bruh thats exactly where i played it for the first time. then Cici's closed and another pizza place called Sicily's Pizza bought the arcade machines and they were there.
where can i get a working rom for this game??? i've downloaded the rom and chd from almost every website and none of it seems to work. it says ''no area51 roms found'' when i try to play it, im using the latest mame emulator.
i downloaded this game off an abandonware site and it opens in a small window and won't fullscreen. Using windows 8, 64 bit, any advice. I tried changing properties but didn't help. I obviously cant install the windows version as it doesn't work on 64 bit even though i have all the files on a cd i burned off an iso image.
Arcades for me. I remember seeing this game at a Taco Shop in my neighborhood. Those were the days of traditional arcade gaming before the cabinets got too large.
What's your ETA for Evac copy them but who are they. Radio control to ground radio control to tower radio control to air radio control to stealth nuke Ion beacon cannon controls.
It’s referring to how many shots in a row directly hit a target. Be it an alien or something destructible in the environment. Your first “wasted shot” that doesn’t deliver damage to a creature or the environment ends your streak.
1. What is with that green K ranking? Saw it as a kid back then and still don't know what it is. 2. This was either tool assisted or idiot savant work, nobody is that perfect lmao
In the stand-up arcade version of this game, my little brother was able to make it to the rank of Brigadier General on ONE quarter. That was 24 years ago, and I still feel pride at his skill.
Ah man, really brings back memories. Growing up in the 90s I played this all the time with my best friend. His mom refused to let him put in his initials and for years I never knew why. His name was Frank Andy Grant . . .
Oh ho ho I get it. Lmfao
hahahaha
"COME ON. STAY LOW." Love the 90s games.
Me, too.
I’ll live on die on those games I may not have been born in the 90s but damn glad for arcades as a kid and still glad for these games
>pinup easter eggs
>FMV campyness
>midi ost
classic
I had no idea about most of these secrets! I just remember having a blast playing this at arcades in the 90's when my family went on holiday
As a kid I always thought the female soldier was Jill Valentine from Resident Evil! I guess it's the beret, blue uniform, and the STAAR logo! 😁
I had a 906 streak on this game back in 1996. My proudest accomplishment in life. :p Could get through the whole game with two quarters,
13:17
Just casually abandoning the driver who saved you to his death
He was dead already.
My grandfather baught a sega just for this and that cop one, he would lay on his belly on the bed and play. Was stioc and hilarious at the same time.
Oh, man what a game. I remember playing this along with House of the Dead at my laundromat near my school. That time we also had Tekken 2 and NFL Blitz. Good times, good times.
By the way, on 13:19, I'm just realizing that this dude crashed into a wall for no reason.
I always thought he was dead, or at least hurt. Still an epic way to say goodbye.
After all these years of playing this game I've never seen the Tank Top easter egg O_O wow
Me too!
I was just thinking about x marks the spot p
me either that’s crazy
I'm surprised you didn't save that lady that was getting chomped on in the Chow Palace
I'm sure you know already but start a new game then use ONLY 3 bullets to kill the first 3 good guys (blue uniform military personnel), after this the screen is shown from the perspective of one of the aliens. This game was really cool.
Reading Rainbow 😮‼️
Kron Hunter!
I plunked so many quarters into this until I could literally last forever in this game (the game resets and you keep fighting until you die. The get a life stage helps you keep going.) They definitely need to re-do this badassedness in HD. With game guns and online support for 3 and 4 players. Brings back memories :-)
Steel talon's, lethal enforcer and this game with the bonus of another shooting game in the cabinet
@@booker9879 yep, Maximum Force(which Atari Games/Mesa Logic did shortly after this game). I had always yearned for an N64 version, but due to that system's cartridge format at the time, the publisher and Atari's parent corporation at the time(Williams/Midway) thought it wasn't worth doing it on console. IMO, they should've looked at how Capcom did Resident Evil on the N64 and figured out a way pull off that same trick.
Used to play this game at the arcade every Saturday!! One of my favorite alien games🎮🎮👽👽👽👍👍
Fridays nights at movies 8 as a youngster...brings back lots of memories.
This game needs an ACTUAL remake! I think it had a really interesting premise!
My thoughts exactly! Currently working on a fan adaptation of sorts.
@@dhwwiiexpert Interesting... Will it have The Kronn? Or perhaps a new menace to contend with?
leaderstragg Yep! S.T.A.A.R. will encounter the Kronn Hunter and treat him as a neutral. Peterson gets infected and transformed, but retains his consciousness, knows Kronn and retains English. Hunter becomes an ambassador for loyalist Kronn, with Peterson as his translator.
@@dhwwiiexpert I thought The Kree were an alien race from MARVEL comics!
leaderstragg I meant Kronn, oops!
I still to this day wish they'd make a proper remake to this
Can't say I'm surprised by the anticlimactic ending but I was still hoping for a better final boss
I remember never being able to get the tank top secret level, but being able to get every other secret more or less; the screen would scroll too fast for me to hit all the windows. Same thing with the get a life level. Some of the secret levels seem different compared to the arcade version; the arcade had a shake your buddha level. You also didn't unlock the kronn hunter mode.
One thing I also loved about this arcade game was that the better you did (like the higher your accuracy was and the more bonus items you hit), the more enemies would appear and the faster they'd shoot at you; sorta like a built in difficulty gauge.
Shake Your Buddha apparently had to be removed from later versions due to mass complaints by Buddhists.
James Kirk #ReligionRuinsGoodThings
Nicely done! I don’t know anyone who’s ever beat this game by blowing up the alien space ship at the end!
It's a tricky battle, I'll say that. But I've managed to beat the final boss ship a couple times because I've seen a few other people on RUclips do it first. The key: aim for the ship itself and try to ignore as many of the alien soldiers as possible. Harder than it sounds though.
I own the the stand up Arcade game of this, Maximum Force, and A51: Site 4 and can attest, it’s possible and dare I say easy to take down the mothership if you follow Cooksy’s strategy. The Alien Queen in the sequel Area 51: Site 4 on the other hand is crazy difficult!
Kronomorphs used to terrify the shit out of me as a kid. When i got the PS1 version and found out in the manuel they birth like Xenomorphs on steroids. Slowly grow into your body and bones then litterally explode out of you...jesus christ didnt help with the childhood trauma.
Hey! You're missing the Gone Fishin' secret room!
13:16 Well I did my job, time to die.
Maybe he jumped out of the vehicle a the last second?
@@leaderstragg No, you watch him stay in the car as it explodes.
I didn't even know there were secrets. XD Area 51 meme brought nostalgia and gamer stuff back.
5:25 never seen that one. Niceeeee
Very nice. Played that arcade so much as a kid. If I remember correctly, I believe in the very beginning if you shoot only the humans and nothing else. It gives you predator heat vision for the rest of the game.
And you play as an alien i believe!🙌
@@snowydayssduhh9771 the Area 51/Maximum Force duo later removed the heat vision and made the graphics normal.
@@mostverticalproductions4808 little off topic, i just played through area 51 the ps2 one and theres litterly area 51 arcade cabnit in the game.. in area 51 lol
Yup. Alien Hunter mode. That is the green splotch on the rankings.
What's missing is the other game on the cabinet.... good to know I'm not the only one hitting all the Easter eggs
Great vid. Never seen someone play this game without getting hit. I play the arcade version myself. Haven't had the ps1 version since the game was ported there. There seems to be extra secret levels in mine that you didn't do and some in yours that I don't see in the version I play through. Maybe it's a matter of execution but I'm wondering why they would program the two differently but be so similar in the other 99 percent of the game. Either way. Loved the video. One of my favorite games of all time. I play it a few days a week multiple times.
There definitely is something off about this video. Some secrets missed, I think, but it’s been a long time since I played it. And the RNG gods were never this generous. There was one moment in particular, at about 23:20, where two aliens on opposite sides of the screen were blasted at the same time and no grenade was spent. I kept rewatching it and that alien on the right side shouldn’t have been killed
Iconic game. I remember playing many hours at my local arcades and pizza joints. Now I have my PS1 copy lol
Interesting! After so many years whence i first saw this game in the cabinets as a child, only now I'm discovering, that, although the soundtrack is mono, the special effects are stereo!
I like how i haven’t found one playthrough where someone is shooting every single breakable object.
There's another secret room. Im not 100% sure how to replicate it. But you get to it in the area between 17:22 and 17:23. It takes you to an area where you shoot watermelons. After playing this game countless times on PS1 as a kid I found it last night on an arcade version my partner and I happened across. Ive literally not been able to find it anywhere on the internet. Maybe it happens if you shoot the dark grey things (bombs?) on the floor at the bottom? Also wow. I thought I was hot crap at this game 0.0
Edit: Ok, I did find it on the internet. Apparently the room is called Mellon Head. You get to it by shooting the windows, I think. I think its also only for the Area 51/Max Force combo arcade machine. This is the video where I found this ruclips.net/video/U_RXBNNBRPw/видео.html
I knew I wasn't imagining things!!! I saw another random person in the arcade get it in the early 00s, and had since only seen it that one time.
@ 4:53 , Oh no it's amazon workers on forklifts carrying hazardous materials! Theres no deadlier warehouse combination known to man!
I never was able to get the secret areas. Of course I grew up in the 90's (Anyone here born in 92?) and the only way you knew about secrets in games was either through cheat books or through playground rumors. I miss those days.
The glory days
I was born in '92. Kron Hunter was always my favorite feature. I've only seen Melon Head once and not by me.
Is this one of the few arcade games without an end credit (staff roll) sequence if a game is completed?
Wait! Lady in blue dress with gun has a pin up!?
How did i just find out about this!?
Alright boys here's the strats we gon follow for the area 51 raid
This deserves a 1st person pov remaster!
the house of the dead is getting a remake on switch. i hope that will cause them to do more remakes of the older fps arcades, and eventually this one.
I can't believe you're a 4-star general now and all it took was a few hundred confirmed kills of aliens.
Sgt maj with one ribbon.when i played I had 2 ribbons at ssgt 4 ribbons at sgt maj by maj I had them all.So I think it goes how good of shot you are.But I’m old now I probably would be lucky to get 3 or 4 ribbons with my bad eye sight
funny. Area 51 at my local arcade looped endlessly.
Does this mean whether the game is endless or not can be changed through dip switch setting?
I am currently attempting these secret rooms right now. Never knew they existed.
If you’ve never played this, were you even at a CiCi’s pizza?
bruh thats exactly where i played it for the first time. then Cici's closed and another pizza place called Sicily's Pizza bought the arcade machines and they were there.
another game they need to bring back and upgrade in HD is lethal enforcers 1&2
Para sacar las áreas secretas es necesario un orden en los disparos?? O solamente rompiendo todas las ventanas, cajas y barriles??
where can i get a working rom for this game??? i've downloaded the rom and chd from almost every website and none of it seems to work. it says ''no area51 roms found'' when i try to play it, im using the latest mame emulator.
STAY LOW
I was a pro at this game,I still have it on the PS1 buried somewhere
i downloaded this game off an abandonware site and it opens in a small window and won't fullscreen. Using windows 8, 64 bit, any advice. I tried changing properties but didn't help. I obviously cant install the windows version as it doesn't work on 64 bit even though i have all the files on a cd i burned off an iso image.
I had played PS1, nostalgic.
Arcades for me. I remember seeing this game at a Taco Shop in my neighborhood. Those were the days of traditional arcade gaming before the cabinets got too large.
I didn’t know you had so much free time on your hands
Why does the music lowkey slap? Lmao
What's your ETA for Evac copy them but who are they. Radio control to ground radio control to tower radio control to air radio control to stealth nuke Ion beacon cannon controls.
There are a number of secret mission missing.
There are?
Yeah like what?
Renegade command and conquer First decade generals electronic arts had a scene like this the zombies where called initiates zombies.
so my question: is it even possible to achieve 5 star general in a single playthrough of this game?
I always considered this set in the resident evil universe.... Due to the "Starr" uniform's
I played that since I was a Young boy.
Awesome play !
ザ・ハウス・オブ・ザ・デッドやヴァンパイアナイト
Thanks Star
Thanks Recon
Didn't I already work with and for you though.
8:52 tf? It's like there's a hidden place at top right of the screen that teleportd the target back to bottom left
Star equals S. T. A. A. R. Z
See.
Thanks partner
Bruh I never knew of these secrets!
21:23 Is it even possible to get the Access Granted?
Thanks bunny ranch and area 51 in Nevada las Vegas.
What does it mean exactly "streak"?
It’s referring to how many shots in a row directly hit a target. Be it an alien or something destructible in the environment. Your first “wasted shot” that doesn’t deliver damage to a creature or the environment ends your streak.
You always had that friend who played with both guns 😂
the only thing thing that sucks is that I'm trying to do this at my local arcade
They report and request also evacuation. Follow procedures.
21:20 I did when I was younger and I could not figure how I did it
I remember okaying this!
Now do the pool party from maximum force . I could never get that secret stage
What about the alien mode from shooting all the humans
They always give another star.
What about the melon head Easter egg?
Gee...wonder if you've ever played this before
spas12のターミネーター
Made it through head quarters and secured head quarter's.
Hard as rock to make it through
16:37 We don't have firepower... but we have old PC monitors instead.
Lol I can't tell you how many times I accidentally shot the blue swat guys especially the hot female one I was like dammit not again
2:41 WTF?! 🤨 THEY'RE ALL TAKING NUMBER 1'S AND 2'S 💩
I would like to watch it on full hd
Thanks wafers
Thanks aye work twerk it good.
1. What is with that green K ranking? Saw it as a kid back then and still don't know what it is.
2. This was either tool assisted or idiot savant work, nobody is that perfect lmao
must be a pain in the ass to play with arrow keys
you use the mouse lol
@@VirtualVernon nahhh you use WASD😂
You forgot Shake Your Buddha! In that room you get to shoot at the developers of the game! 🤦
really missed during that time..
See I have my own code names for extras.
Area 51 for Nancy.
4:26 wtf,??
Someone remember BROOD.
This one has female though.
Tim seems like a real cheater. I want this under a formal investigation from the government.