I never knew this started off as an arcade game until about 4 years ago and I played at Hyperspace 80s Arcade, in Lakewood. Was pretty good for an arcade game, the twist nob made it a worthy game for sure. Otherwise I have only played the NES and 2600 versions as well as random variants. The NES held up way better than expected. Actually I am learning the NES is better visually than I remember as a kid. Winner: Arcade The other winner: Hectic times with playing this or other variants and trying super hard to hang in there lol! Nice showing of a game with a simple concept that is hard as hell to.play. This season is going to be badass.
I didn't know this was an arcade game either until recently. Much like Contra I always associated this as a NES exclusive. Both versions are great but with it being so hard I can't imagine how many quarters it would have taken to get even to level 3 in the arcade so based on that merit I think I'd take the NES version as the winner. Without that factor maybe a tie? Oh yeah this season is already shaping up to be quite fun with a lot of quality games and some that I've always wanted to try out like Chiller.
The NES version is excellent. It plays pretty well with the D Pad but I would be curious to see how it is with that controller. I'm sure it makes it even better if it's anything like the 2600 paddle for Breakout, Kaboom, etc.
@mcloudegaming Those paddle controllers were great but they must have broken easily. My brother and I used to buy boxes of 2600 stuff dirt cheap in the mid 90s at tag sales and almost every one of those paddles didn't work.
Lol! Airing the sequel tomorrow while also using the D-Pad, oh you better believe that's a paddling. Holy crap I didn't know there was an add-on for the DS version. I really want that now but looking at the Ebay prices..maybe not. I wonder if that works for any other game? If there's a Kaboom! DS I'm gonna have to drop some $$.
@@RetroComparisons Oh yeah for sure dude. The DS one is awesome and even came with a paddle thing but sadly it was for thr Japanese version only so the only way to get it is via online e bay or something. Its cool it plugs into the GBA slot on the bottom and acts like its own controller. Theres vids on it on here pretty cool. I played this version, snes, GC, DS etc I recently bought the arkanoid ultimate collection or whatever its called few months tha back on switch. You're welcome always solid vids!
@@RetroComparisons Yeah its pretty cool snd apparently can be used for bust a move too. I just looked it up Amazon sells the bundle with arkanoid but costs a few hundred bucks lol 😆
Wait a minute....!?!?!?!?!?! Why on earth the port of the original game had proper sounds whilst the port of the sequel had a mess of a cowbell instead? o0
Although I vaguely had heard of Arkanoid, I didn't play any version until many years later in the late 90s via emulation, I think I first tried the NES version in NESticle or maybe the SNES sequel after a friend reminded about the game. I don't remember actually seeing an Arkanoid cab. I did have a shareware knock-off for DOS called Bananoid. Tthe only game in the series I own is the Arkanoid vs Space Invaders android game (which I enjoyed). I do enjoy a good brick-busting, break-out game, but I just don't buy many of them. The arcade version of Arkanoid is nicer than the NES port, but it's a good port. I would certainly have had fun with the port had I had it (and preferably the paddle controller it came with).
I've always heard about how great this game is but it wasn't until a few weeks ago when I finally got to try it out and I think it lives up to the hype. Some of my earliest gaming memories are of playing Breakout and Super Breakout on the 2600 so this is right up my alley. I remember having a really fun game in this vein on my Blackberry back in 2010 and probably wasted too much time on it back then lol. I'd be interested to see the Arkanoid vs Space Invaders game, that also sounds like something I'd love. I think the NES version of this is excellent and is almost as good in every department but exceeds the arcade in the sense that it's so hard you'd probably waste so much money trying to beat it.
