Killer Instinct was effective at tricking you into believing the hardware was a lot more powerful than it actually was. It's basically the same trick as Donkey Kong Country, just on a larger scale with a lot more storage. For example the backgrounds are prerendered videos that 'play' backwards when the camera scrolls left and forwards when it scrolls right.
What is mind blowing with killer instinct for you? To me it’s just a worse street fighter with prerendered 3d graphics (that looks so so and very dated today and was even clearly anatomically off back then) vs hand drawn art
I can't tell you how big a deal Dragon's Lair and Space Ace were if you were not there... Also, Alladin on Genesis hit hard too. Both being cartoons that you could PLAY was amazing in their day.
Uggh...that is the wrong footage for the Star Wars game. The description was talking about Atari's vector graphics Star Wars, not the later one. This is why there is no description of hoth or speederbikes.
Most likely this was a deliberate "mistake" to encourage people to comment about their "mistake" to drive up their engagement numbers. Automatic dislike button hit for me
3:16 - You might have done a wrong cut in the audio there (the end of your Star Wars commentary is about The House of the Dead :) Which means you might have a part II coming up, since The House of the Dead isn't in this video :) But great video, loved every bit of it!
T2 was only really missing a stage for the Galleria Mall Hallway and the chase through the Angeles River areas and then it would be totally representing the movie.
Marvel vs Capcom 2 is my favorite game from this list, but I recall Killer Instinct dropping my jaw when I saw it as well. I never got to see a Street Fighter 3 machine in an arcade, but i understood all the hoopla when I saw it in motion as part of the Street Fighter Collection on PS2 years later. Knowing the years now when 3D games like Daytona and Virtual Cop came out makes them more impressive too.
Yeh the dad of Ridge Racer, it's very impressive. It also looks smoother than Hard Drivin and better colour, one year earlier. Although I never remember seeing it. Hard Drivin was far more common in arcades.
So many Sega...... Kinda sad to know how they where the guys to break boundaries from Arcade to consoles back in the day, to a company that became a small spot in the gaming industry.
Blitz was the 1st game I remember being able to insert your playstation memory card into. At least I think I remember that. Hard to believe it's been nearly 30 years. Where'd the time go?
No Sega's SubRoc-3D, the first stereoscopic 3D game, no Battlezone nor any Atari Quadrascan games, none of the Exidy games that had a lot of digitized speech, etc.
If you had T2 I think it's criminal you didn't have Revolution X. I believe it was a graphically superior cabinet with better digitization and audio. Plus it was as fun to play if not more so.
Ahhhh Space Harrier I played that game to death when it originally came out in the arcades sitting down in the hydraulic cabinet I would put in 50p and complete the game. Now nearly 40 years later I can still complete this game nearly from muscle memory😁
I used to go to this arcade at this big ass mall back in the day that had an entire wing of Daytona cabinets all linked together. There were probably 20 or so. It was really impressive to watch back in the day, and I have that theme song engrained in to my mind. I also used to go to this shitty pizza place, which was the only place around that had a virtua fighter cabinet. It was the only reason to go there.
I would just like to acknowledge the arcade hackers who made a bunch of us broke kids day by hacking the arcade machines making them free to play. That was an epic thing to do for a bunch of broke kids back in the day. We didn't know who you were but we never forgot you after that day. Thank you for one of the most memorable days of our lives.😊 Oh, yeah. The owners were pissed!😂😂
I think a nod to Atari’s OG trilogy of on-rail raster graphics games-one each for the _Star Wars_ (before _”A New Hope”_ was a thing), _Empire Strikes Back,_ and _Return of the Jedi_ films-on which Sega’s _Star Wars Trilogy_ obviously drew SO MUCH influence, including shooting the tops off towers mechanic. _Trilogy_ looked _awesome,_ but for their times, the Atari trilogy played _and_ looked better, to take nothing from Sega’s awesome “love letter.” (God, I hate that term... )
Scary how a lot of modern gamers and gaming journos don't even recognize half of these. SEGA made such a huge impact on gaming especially, but never get credit for their innovative bangers included here.
Daytona USA one of the loudest arcades I've been heard, any arcade I played on back in the 90s you could always hear that one Noticed how most where from SEGA thou and look how they ended up in the end
great video!! Just my opinion, but showing off each game in accending order by year would have tracked better. Still gave thumbs up, and still enjoyed the video!!
The star wars you are showing is NOT the 3 color vector game, as you say. It is the much later Star Wars Trilogy from 1998, that though pretty, is not considered ground breaking.
Does anyone remember a light gun game that took place in the wild west? They used real video of guys shooting at you in a saloon and there were parts where you shot bottles. I can't remember what it was called but I loved it. It was probably late 80s early 90s
Virtua Fighter wasn't the first game to have fully 3D characters by a long stretch. Check out "Hunter" on the old Commodore Amiga. Although, when I first saw Virtua Fighter in the arcade, what really stood out was the smooth 60Hz framerate and realistic animations.
@@METAL1ON You've got me on Astron belt (Released in Japan, before Dragon's Lair) - But Dragon's Lair was the first North American Laserdisc arcade game. Yes, there were a collection of other games as well, but they were all released after DL (outside of Astron Belt in Japan) - So again, like I'd said; people hadn't seen it before. And it stuck with people. For as bad as the game is; a LOT of people remember it.
