100 Obscure Arcade Games - Late 80s Edition!

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It's hard to imagine, but there was a time when the arcades were THE dominant source of video game entertainment; sadly, of the many thousands that were produced, many are long forgotten.
In this video, I've collected 100 arcade games which are obscure; maybe because they were never ported to home systems, or maybe they were exclusive to certain territories.
In recent years, you may have seen some of them in "retro compilations", or even on the Wii Virtual Console. Some of these are more interesting or quirky than "fun" - but there are some real hidden gems in here as well.
In any case, to celebrate, here is a steam key! 9W0H4-QBCAY-WTIDC - as usual, if you claim it, please comment and let us know what it was!
001 - Aaargh - Arcadia - 1988
002 - Act Fancer - Cybernetick Hyper Weapon - Data East - 1989
003 - Bakutotsu Kijuutei - Namco - 1988
004 - Battle Shark - Taito - 1989
005 - Black Panther - Konami - 1987
006 - Block Hole - Konami - 1989
007 - Bonze Adventure - Taito - 1988
008 - Buccaneers - Duintronic - 1989
009 - Burning Force - Namco - 1989
010 - Champion Wrestler - Taito - 1989
011 - China Gate - Technos - 1988
012 - Chopper - SNK - 1988
013 - Chuka Taisen - Taito - 1988
014 - Crazy Climber 2 - Nichibutsu - 1988
015 - Crime City - Taito - 1989
016 - Crime Fighters - Konami - 1989
017 - Cue Brick - Konami - 1989
018 - Dead Angle - Seibu Kaihatsu - 1988
019 - Deep, The - Wood Place - 1987
020 - Demon's World Horror Story - Toaplan - 1989
021 - Devastators - Konami - 1988
022 - Devil World - Konami - 1987
023 - Diamond Run - KH Video - 1989
024 - Don Doko Don - Taito - 1989
025 - Dr. Topper's Adventures - Kaneko - 1987
026 - Dragon Punch - Dynax - 1989
027 - Dragon Unit Castle of Dragon - Seta - 1989
028 - Dynamite Duke - Seibu Kaihatsu - 1989
029 - Enforce - Taito - 1988
030 - Extermination - Taito - 1987
031 - Exterminator - Gottleib - 1989
031 - Exzisus - Taito - 1987
032 - Fast Lane - Konami - 1987
033 - Final Round, The - Konami - 1988
034 - Finest Hour - Namco - 1989
035 - Gang Wars - Alpha Denshi - 1989
036 - Garyo Retsudent - Data East Corporation - 1987
037 - Ginga NinkyouDen - Jaleco - 1987
038 - Gold Medalist - SNK - 1988
039 - Gondomania - Data East - 1987
040 - Gorodki - Terminal - 1988
041 - Hachoo - Jaleco - 1989
042 - Hard Head - Sun A - 1988
043 - Hippodrome - Data East - 1989
044 - Hot Chase - Konami - 1988
045 - Hyper Crash - Konami - 1987
046 - InsectorX - Taito - 1989
047 - Kabuk-Z - Taito - 1988
048 - Kageki - Kaneko - 1988
049 - Kitten Kaboodle - Konami - 1988
050 - Konek-Gorbunok - Terminal - 1988
051 - Kozure Ookami - Nichibutsu - 1987
052 - Kuri Kunton - Taito - 1988
053 - Kyros - Alpha Denshi - 1987
054 - Legend of Hero Tonma - Irem - 1989
055 - Legend of Makai - Jaleco - 1988
056 - Legion-Spinner-87 - Nichibutsu - 1987
057 - Mad Gear - Capcom - 1989
058 - Main Event, The - Konami - 1988
059 - Marchen Maze - Namco - 1988
060 - Maze of Flott - Taito - 1989
061 - Metal Freezer - Seibu Kaihatsu - 1989
062 - Metal Hawk - Namco - 1988
063 - Mirai Ninja - Namco - 1988
064 - Mustache Boy - Seibu Kaihatsu - 1987
065 - Mutant Night - UPL - 1987
066 - Night Striker - Taito - 1989
067 - Ninja Kazan - Jaleco - 1988
068 - Ninja Kid II - UPL - 1987
069 - Ninja Mission - Arcadia -1987
070 - Pig and Bombers - Jaleco - 1987
071 - Plump Pop - Taito - 1987
072 - Poker Ladies - Mitchell - 1989
073 - Psychic 5 - Jaleco - 1987
074 - Psycho-Nics Oscar - Data East - 1987
075 - Python
076 - Rabbit Punch - V-System - 1987
077 - Racing Hero - Sega - 1989
078 - Raimais - Taito - 1988
079 - Reikai Doushi - Home Data - 1988
080 - Rompers - Namco - 1989
081 - Shingen Samurai-Fighter - Jaleco - 1988
082 - Skull & Crossbones - Atari Games - 1989
083 - Sky Robo - Nichibutsu - 1989
084 - Snezhnaja Koroleva - Terminal - 1988
085 - SOS - Terminal - 1988
086 - Spark Man - SunA - 1989
087 - Special Project Y - Konami - 1989
088 - Star Guards - Bally Midway - 1987
089 - Street Smart - SNK - 1989
090 - Super Ranger - SunA - 1988
091 - Shadowland - Namco - 1987
092 - Tough Turf - Sega - 1989
093 - Trick Trap - Konami - 1987
094 - Tricky Doc - Tectri - 1987
095 - Trio The Punch - Never Forget Me... Data East - 1989
096 - Ufo Senshi Yohko Chan - Sega - 1988
097 - Viper - Leland - 1988
098 - Wild Fang - Tecmo Knight - Tecmo - 1989
099 - Wit's - Athena - 1989
100 - Wonder Momo - Namco - 1987

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@GaryRetroGamer 4 года назад

Note: Game #92 is "Tough Turf" by Sega (1989). Thanks @Luigi Dennis for pointing out the missing caption. (The entire game list is in the description)

@indiangamingfactshistory4642 4 года назад

My gosh i m 2000s born i didn't know much about old arcade games but i can probably say that most of the games graphics are way ahead of that era. I mean look at the marchen maze graphics looks same like today's android games.

@DrWho2008t101 3 года назад

I remembered this as if it was yesterday. Thanks for the video!

@dogus.utoopia 5 месяцев назад

No se puede copiar.👎🏻

@thereasonforyou6728 3 года назад

This video is one of the most precious and rare on youtube !

@hugoclarke3284 Месяц назад

What a collection. It's baffling to see what people had already achieved by my birth in 1989.

@alexandreandrade5365 4 года назад

Thank you for moving from the 5 secs format! It's so much more enjoyable now to watch.

@billcook4768 4 года назад

Will somebody please build a time machine? I know there are ways to play these games today, but I want to be in an arcade with the background sound of 20 of these at once.

@paulchaplin2032 4 года назад

Agreed. Even though i built my own arcade machine with MAME installed there was nothing like being in an arcade parlour with all the lights and sounds

@DrWho2008t101 3 года назад

there are still arcades .. it's just that you dont put quarters in .. it's a free play but you have to pay the admission like $10.

@AMMAZZARE 2 года назад

I know what you mean. It’s not that same playing these games at home. Need that dark room with black light responsive carpet and all 100 machines making beeps and boops. Fortunately there are lots of retro arcades popping up all over the place.

@scottfitzpatrick1939 6 месяцев назад

A pilgrimage to the fun spot arcade museum in New Hampshire is an incredible trip.

@carloschu7127 3 месяца назад

There are games that can be download and play under DOS enviroment.

@adol929 4 года назад

Awesome list! Thank you!

@classickid2185 4 года назад

Great list! I seem to know and have played most of these games listed here.

@NathanHassall 2 года назад

I found some games I thought id never see again..thank you so much!!

@eireian4939 4 года назад

Great work as always Gary..👍😊

@TheBruuz 2 года назад

Omg, some of those really brought me back. It's insane that somewhere in my brain that knowledge was still there, but hasn't been accessed in over 30 years. I expect my nose to bleed any second...

@redr0scoe 4 года назад

Great work!

@lluispoloisern677 4 года назад

Thanks, mate. Some of them I played when kid and I couldnt remember the name!

@CrazyFriendlyGamerAlex 4 года назад

Man, so many arcade gems^^ Great list as always;) 2:04 What a weird looking game:D

@leebrandon3842 3 года назад

awesome video. all i play mostly is retro arcade games from the 80's early 90's. always looking for hidden gems and this will help. I just beat "bonze adventures" and i just saw it on ur list, lol. that game was killer.

@leebrandon3842 3 года назад

oh yeah...i just saw "legend of makai"...im playing that game right now and it is so freakin awesome. i love it.

@boyonthephone1 4 года назад

Absolutely loved your upload. Now, time to fire up the raspberry

@longballplease 4 года назад

Thanks for this, gary

@amazingdany Месяц назад

DEAD ANGLE!! Exactly the old arcade game I was looking for! GGWP 🙏

@marinoscarpa895 Год назад

Some of theese games I thought I forgot but come back like ptsd memories

@David_a_journeyman_curmudgeon 3 года назад

Dude thank you!

@DSAmage Год назад

Kein einziges habe ich gekannt :) Top Retro Vupes *thx*

@yaywhewclips242 3 года назад

Nice work

@CrazyFriendlyGamerAlex 4 года назад

14:53 "Zmeika":D Quite a tough game and almost on all cellphones back in 90s:D

@gallowaygaming75 4 года назад

Great video love arcade games so will try few of these on mame emulator 👍

@PastoKage 4 года назад

Good Stuff, keep it up!

@rmetcheverry Год назад

I remember playing several of these. Nº4 (Battle Shark) looks a bit simpler but was much cooler on the actual arcade. The gimmick was that the controls were a periscope sight that you had to look trough, and you controlled the sight by turning the periscope to its sides and up and down with a set of joysticks on each side.

@chiissu 4 года назад

Good list. I was born in the late 80s and missed most of these but I do have and beat Burning Force and Street Smart on the Genesis Ports.

@Welux 4 года назад

Awesome content ;p

@marcelotorricomendez7723 4 года назад

Awesome!!

@Bryan-lu4du 3 года назад

Some of these look like a lot of fun

@FreakyLynx 2 года назад

There’s one arcade game I’ve been trying to remember. I know you played a caveman, it had like a birds eye pov. I think you started throwing rocks but could upgrade to throwing torches, and you could find a dinosaur (triceratops?) to ride. And the board you could go all around, not just continuously forward but more like an open area.

@Tigerlord4835 Год назад

Sounds like Boomer ranger, don't remember who made it, though.

@MyBrothersKeeper101 3 года назад

Loooooove the content 🤘🤘🍻

@nvgamezone 4 года назад

cool video bro

@JopieHaargel 4 года назад

Some of these remained obscure for a reason...

@treeboyx 7 месяцев назад

Ninjas....so hot in the 80's. Also, the company Taito was prolific in their game production.

@megatron8461 2 года назад

I think Metal Hawk is the most masculine sounding title Namco ever did. And I love it!!

@jeronimolegua6606 Год назад

Ninka Kid II brought me here. Greate games, but still missing Choplifter, Bomb Jack and Commando.

@jeffnowell8793 4 года назад

Good list, some of these games I've never heard of. But some others aren't nearly as obscure.

@MaxSpender 4 года назад

I thought I recognised some of these, like Bonze Adventure & Legend of Hero Tonma. I must have played them years ago on a PC Engine emulator. And I had no idea that an obscure game I played quite a lot on the Spectrum, called Ninja, was actually an Arcade port of Ninja Mission. Live and learn.

@GaryRetroGamer 4 года назад

Aha! Excellent eye on "Ninja". It was actually the other way round; "Ninja" was a big hit on home computers (Speccy and the other 8 bits) in 1986. In 1988, Mastertronic introduced their "Arcadia" line of arcade systems - which were essentially just Amiga hardware packaged inside an arcade case. They made the decision to port some of their early titles ... like Ninja ... to this new arcade system! So, the arcade "Ninja Mission" is actually a port of the older 8-bit titles!

@MaxSpender 4 года назад

Gary Really? I was right when I said Live and Learn. 😂

@karinar540 4 года назад

Good video

@EricBarbman 8 месяцев назад

n° 98 was one of my favourites... Tecmo Knights / Wild Fangs... You could decapitate your foes in such satisfying ways... And it was quite easy, which was rare for an arcade game.

@mistery8363 7 месяцев назад

0:20 my fave childhood game!

@jaymz_rg1003 10 месяцев назад

I'm trying to find this one arcade game I used to play at a Boys and Girls club in the early to mid '90s. All I remember is that it's a side-scrolling (like the first Super Mario games) game that starts on a mountain cliff with a waterfall in the background. I think it was set in medieval times, but I could be wrong. I tried Googling it, but no luck.

@ShallRemainUnknown 2 года назад

Arcadia games Aargh! and Ninja Mission (they had futuristic racing battle pods one, too) were running on Commodore Amiga personal computer hardware!

@vptmgnt 4 месяца назад

3:27 I think I've heard this exact explosion sound on kirby and the amazing mirror, i think it plays when you crash as missile

@vptmgnt 4 месяца назад

I don't really remember bruh

@brandonsanchez8197 3 года назад

Taito uses the same text font as Namco and presumably Atari. I love it.

@joels5150 2 года назад

Rabbit Punch/Rabio Lepus is an all-time favorite for me, even though I never even made it to level 3

@loungejay8555 4 года назад

Number 66, Night Striker, looks nothing short of awesome.

@bashirjohnson4120 2 года назад

Back then these games are very good and still in my opinion I'll enjoy them all which they need to come to consoles

@chancejames3623 9 месяцев назад

There’s an arcade game from the mid to late 80’s possibly 1990 that I can never find the name of. Scrolls left to right, platformer starts in an out door grassy area jumping over pits then into a pyramid moving bottom to top. I never could get past the pyramid indoor area. Character you controlled could’ve been wearing a red cape . If you’ve any ideas would be appreciated . Great video helped me remember 6 or so from my youth. Especially Insector X !

@Poetryguy1682 4 года назад

I like this video.

@hotdoggington6962 2 года назад

Thumbs up if you've never forgotten Trio the Punch

@SantaDog81 4 года назад

29 is quite spicy indeed.

@OldNerdPlayingOldPCGames 4 года назад

Big like Gary

@interesting_output 2 года назад

"Block Hole" is the international name of "Quarth". Obscure for the arcades, indeed. "Battle Shark"? We actually had that in one of the local arcades. It was tough as nails. "Crime City" runs on the "Rolling Thunder" engine, that one was also a rare bird. "Mad Gear" could also be LED Storm? "Night Striker" is at the bottom of the top ten most quarters spent in the arcades. The tech behind the game was impressive. The game itself? Tough as nails. Trivia: "Dynamite Duke" did terrible in the arcades, however, Seibu Kaihatsu immediately turned their losses around with their subsequent offering "Raiden", despite using weaker hardware, and it would be the start of a classic series of games for them.

@petrikov Месяц назад

when i see collections like this, i feel no need whatsoever to pay 70 dollars for a mtx ridden game anymore.

@davidfulton179 11 месяцев назад

I remember dedicated arcades becoming pretty scarce in the late 80s. In general, malls became a lot less "teen friendly" by the 1990s. We found various 7/11s that had the games we liked. Xenophobe... Gauntlet... Altered Beasts... they were scattered around town. Usually we'd be on comic book sprees to our local outlets and then to the video games at the 7/11s. Then we got girlfriends. LOL!

@sphinxgamer4159 3 года назад

If you guys want to check out some cool really old school arcade retro games then come over and check them out.

@Jac2Mac 3 года назад

Block Hole is Quarth, the European arcade version of this puzzle game which oddly enough never got a US release in arcades as did many of Konami's greatest late 80s arcade games.

@RiayToons 3 года назад

Great games! It has Bonze, Wonder Momo and Rabbit Punch but it does not have the shoot e'm up game I am searching for: "Bialik's Adventure"!

@Metal_Dinosaur 4 года назад

Ninja Spirit has one of the best soundtracks of all games facts

@Rand0_GUY 3 года назад

Dang, I never knew Atari games were THAT good! There is only one Atari game featured in this list, while the other publishers had 5 or more obscure games. They deserve some sort of reward for that!

@MrBranh0913 3 года назад

Atari was an American company. So they could get really good distribution within the states. Some of these games seem like they’re more stuck in Japan rather than obscure. So I’m assuming it was harder for them to bring some of their less successful game’s here

@kemikamiku375 3 года назад

People hardest find the reveal information about arcade game biographies wiki info, Yet still going around the rarest arcade game titles this year decades

@Shoko7Lee 10 месяцев назад

Dragon Punch goes hard. 💀

@blacksunshine7485 3 года назад

3:03 The dude in Crime Fighters is getting the shit kicked out of him so bad its hilarious

@plasmaastronaut 3 года назад

glad u put a name to act fancer, a curious game i played when i was young. but there's another one not in here that should have been. a simple looking game where a man in space/scuba suit descended levels that were more and more packed with enemies that u had to shoot. Also it helped if u grab little one eyed friend floating aliens. played it a few about 30 years ago but can't remember the name.

@Tigerlord4835 Год назад

Sounds like Namco's Baraduke

@plasmaastronaut Год назад

@@Tigerlord4835 thanks. been waiting for 35years to know. played it in the arcade when i was about 9yo.

@Tigerlord4835 Год назад

@@plasmaastronaut You are welcome!

@Tigerlord4835 Год назад

A good number of these games can be found on modern consoles under Hamster's Arcade Archives.

@luisgarza1989 5 месяцев назад

Bucanners is vigilante,🤣🔥, and gang wars is ninja combat.

@jons9239 4 года назад

8:30. PYA!! PYAA!!

@CrazyFriendlyGamerAlex 4 года назад

16:43 And again Russian folktale is on the list: How come I've never played these games when I was a kid?:D

@GaryRetroGamer 4 года назад

Another viewer who grew up in the former Soviet Union mentioned they had seen those games all over the place. But when I lived in Moscow as a child, I never saw any!

@paburo-san6667 2 года назад

it's so weird to me see names like Namco or Taito as "obscure arcade games" developers

@JoseSoto-vh5zv 4 года назад

Hi! I claimed the key. It is a sniper elite III thanks!

@GaryRetroGamer 4 года назад

Oh awesome! Thank you for letting us know! And I hope you enjoy Sniper Elite III!

@projectmayhem6898 2 года назад

[8:01] Hey, you, get off of my cloud!

@8-bitsteve500 2 года назад

Strange how arcade games looked great in the late 80's, but lacked the pure gameplay of the games in the early 80's.

@LuigiDamis 4 года назад

Awesome video! But it lacks the 92th game's name and developer

@GaryRetroGamer 4 года назад

Thanks for letting me know. I'll post a comment and pin it.

@puppetgeneral39 10 месяцев назад

So, Aaargh was the predecessor to Trogdor right? Has anyone asked the Brothers Chaps about that?

@lilwyvern4 3 года назад

There's a profound difference in the quality of the games between the first and second world, aren't there? The Russian games were audio-visual nightmares which looked like they fell from hardware a decade prior. This video no doubt found me after AVGN's newest video where he covered a lot of these Taito games.

@FofukiGuJi 2 года назад

Japanese games in '80 = Europe games in '90

@davidlewis1787 4 года назад

Can anyone help? Trying to track down name of Robotron type game from 80’s where walls closed in on play area ... cannot find anything on it..please help

@diegocrusius 4 года назад

Street Smart was ported to Sega Genesis

@rebellworldwide1776 11 месяцев назад

Hippodrome!!! MAN THAT GAME WAS EPIC WHEN I WAS A KID

@leebrandon3842 3 года назад

how does "diamond run" have the same music as "ghosts n goblins"?? is that right??

@TheCubicleReview2 3 года назад

Lots of games I have never seen but not the game I am looking for. A vertical scrolling shooter where you had 2 attack buttons, one for air targets and one for ground targets. The ship was black or grey jet I think, and it had a similar look to Terra cresta but from what I have looked up it is not a Nichibutsu game, I ASSUME this game would have come out around the same time.

@Tigerlord4835 Год назад

Sounds like Namco's Xevious

@TheCubicleReview2 Год назад

@@Tigerlord4835 I found it, XX mission

@Tigerlord4835 Год назад

@@TheCubicleReview2 That one is obscure, and it's on Hamster's Arcade Archives

@bobius77 4 года назад

Hi Gary i'm looking for a vertical shooter, years within 87-90 about, i Remember First or second boss with a rhomboidal shape, maybe you can help me

@Judgedredd95 7 месяцев назад

59. Rock n roll racing 60. GTA

@drewlomite 3 года назад

No love for "ThunderJaws" ?

@toryficarola 4 года назад

So uh.....what's Dragon Punch about, anyway? And Mitchell too?

@singleandunemployed 4 года назад

does any one remember that game where are a red guy running and you shot monsters and umped on a dragons head

@Bigtimecharliepotatoes 3 месяца назад

Most of them are from Japan so most people have never heard of them❤

@leebrandon3842 3 года назад

i played an arcade game that you were flying in the air and you had to break away a mountain or something like that and every piece u broke away revealed a woman behind it. eventually when u break it all away it was a totally naked girl. wtf is the story behind that?? it was so bizarre.

@YAWN.... Год назад

you should activate the THANKS button...

@waynelarbalestier Год назад

Crime fighters was not obscure as main event . They were popular arcade games

@dogus.utoopia 5 месяцев назад

2:17

@baigandinel7956 4 года назад

11. China Gate -- Damn, it's just like being in China IRL.

@AlexKarel-bh3yy 2 месяца назад

💚💚💚💗💚

@josealejandrofernandezvasq7400 2 года назад

hola gamers soy de colombia,hace años estoy buscando un juego de arcade de los 80 y 90 el cual trata de un guerrero con armadura el cual inicia con este llegando a una isla en una balsa,a medida que avanza nos toca combatir diferentes criaturas con nuestra espada tambien nos proporcionan tres poderes,una bola de cristal,un zafiro morado y un rayo estos tres poderes se pueden usar individual o combinados tambien recuerdo que el primer encuentro es con cuatro hechizeros y a medida que avanzamos podemos entrar a un pueblito a obtener mejoras y aumentar el nivel de vida esto lo hacia en la iglesia del pueblito,otra pista es que el personaje se ve desde arriba como el guerrero del juego out zone quisiera ser mas preciso pero es lo unico que recuerdo de este espectacular y dificil juego,pues ni yo ni los que lo jugamos pudimos terminarlo,espero que alguien me de el nombre para asi poder lograr terminar gracias