The diagonal controls made this a game I loved to hate but wanted to be good at. The Game Genie made this tolerable. I have never played the arcade version in the arcade, if I remember right the controls were a bit more intuititve for it. Winner: My memories remembering beating all 4 areas using the Game Genie lol Other Winner: NES, there are spots that do very well all concidering. I may need to play this with cheats! This game is very hard to just pick up and play. Nice job man!!!
The controls in this confused the hell out of me, and I'm already bad at skateboarding games anyways so that was a deadly combination. Haha good work, I don't think I could beat this even with a Game Genie. Thanks for watching buddy and good luck if you decide to play this again.
lol looks like a fun yet silly game. Looks pretty solid on the NES but I did notice the guy looks totally different. Dude in the arcade version looks like a while Bebop before he got mutated or one of the guys from Final Fight with the Mohawk lol where the NES guy looks like freaking Marty McFly on a hoverboard 🤣🤣Nice vid!
I'm so bad at skateboarding games but I think for its time it would have been a fun experience if you're into this kind of game. Lmao I think you're onto something. Perhaps Bebop was trying to do an ollie over a bucket of toxic waste and fell in. Now this begs the question, who wins in a fight between Bebop and Mart McFly/Doc?
@@RetroComparisons Yeah lol also I meant to say white bebop haha, I used to confuse him and rocksteady as humans lol. haha. I'm sure Marty and Doc would win, Doc would be the brains and Marty is pretty quick on his feet unless Rocksteady calls hiim a chicken lol.
I rented 720° for the NES one time based soley on seeing the pictures in my uncle's Nintendo Power, and I was so bad at it that I never rented it again. I don't believe I've ever played the NES version again even just out of curiosity. I didn't play the arcade version until Midway Arcade Treasures on the PS2. I still sucked at the game, and I could never get myself to play a lot of it. I suppose the NES version is okay, but the arcade version is much nicer looking and sounding. I do like how the arcade version looks, somewhat like the music, and love the TI speech synth that it has just like some other Atari arcade games of the time. 'Skate or die!'
I'm so glad I wasn't the only one who was so bad at this game. I admittedly already suck at skateboarding games and the controls on this made my head spin. I was lucky to get enough footage to use for even a minute and a half video. The arcade version is the way to go between the two and the speech is a nice touch which I'm sure that along with Gauntlet must have been so cool at the time but honestly I hope I never have to play this one again. I've already done it now on the NES, Dreamcast, GameCube, GBC, NES and arcade and I still suck.
I rented this game too many times, the poor controls were a representation to my skating capabilities at the time.... lol. This game is beyond difficult.
You really gotta have the arcade version with the joystick. It was 16-directional and so none of the emulated versions play right. The amount of precision it had let you flow right through the levels once you got used to it. It was so fun
Did Kyle beat it? I found this to be a super hard game because of the controls but if you can get the hang of them I think it would be a fun game to get all the way through. My only question about this game is how is this kid able to survive in a 720 degree climate?
@@RetroComparisons Ahahaha, and he did! But it took him an hour or two to get the hang of the controls. He said the young version of himself didn't get to that point.
@@RetroComparisons also am I a crazy person, or some dude who said that the arcade sound was really bad compared to the port one's has deleted his comment? o0
@@oldfan4049 I think the original arcade had a 16-way movement on the joystick so trying to get it to work with a D-Pad felt about as right as using a D-Pad for a game like Marble Madness. I haven't played on the original arcade cabinet before but I'd imagine it controls really well on there.
@@oldfan4049 I think I saw something with that but I could be thinking of a different game. I mean I don't love the music in either but I'd take the arcade music over the NES on this one for sure. The arcade music actually sounds like it belongs on the Genesis.
720 For The NES Is Awful And Weak In Any Way! The Graphics Look Ugly, The Presentation Is Meh, The Sound And Music Are Weak And The Gameplay Is Horribly Bad! Arcade Is Better In Any Way! Even That The Music May Make You Go Deaf
