Die Hard Arcade review - SNESdrunk 

That one dislike is from Bruce Willis.

The fact that this was a completely different game, then the Die Hard License was applied to it, and they replaced the main character with John McClane... makes it exceptionally accurate of a portrayal of Die Hard. Several of the Die Hard movies started exactly like that.

Oh man, this was at my local 7-11 when I was in college. Many quarters were spent and many slurpees were consumed. Damn, I need to play this again.

This is what Michael Scott had in his head when he wrote “Threat Level Midnight”

One of the best Saturn games available, a pity that Sega didn't include more extras besides that simple submarine game to get more credits.

Love this game, even bought the Sega ST-V version of it recently. But always found it odd that Dynamite Deka 1 was so much influenced by Die Hard they bought the license, but Dynamite Deka 2 was obviously influenced by Speed 2, yet stayed the same.

Wow...I remember this game from back in the day when I was working at a cafe across from an arcade. We gave the owner free food and he gave us free credits after hours when he was closing up. Great times!

Literally picked this up for my Saturn last week! Such a fun game, great review. 👍

1:24 Steiner Screwdriver. Clearly the developers were wrestling fans

My favorite part of Die Hard is when John McClane busts out the Steiner Screwdriver on Hans Gruber

“You can also give enemies a good old fashioned axe to the face. What is this, Burn After Reading?” Respect.

One of my favourites for me Saturn. For the time, in the late 90’s, it was my Streets of Rage 4. Missed out on Dynamite Cop on the Dreamcast tho 😞

I marked out to “...like Paul London”. Good stuff.

Total length of video: 335 secs. Total length of "SNES Drunk": 6.5 secs. 1.94% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".

I have never heard a Burn After Reading reference. Like ever. I loved that movie!! Very cool, man

You forgot to mention that this is a “Christmas game”

After that Marty Jannetty comment I can't ever unsee in my mind the dude flipping around with tassels on his wrists. I know they're not there, but my mind is filling in the blanks for me.

I vividly recall feeding quarters into the arcade machine playing and beating this game!

This game was developed as Die Hard Arcade originally, by Sega STI, and it was localized into Dynamite Deku for the other markets. It was always meant to be a Die Hard themed game. The arcade game uses Sega's ST-V Titan hardware, which is basically the Sega Saturn in an arcade board. The Saturn port is basically identical.

I love your reviews so much. You truly cover hidden gems that aren't talked about on other channels.

I had this game for the Sega Saturn and I loved it. I thought of it as Die Hard cranked up to infinity. XD

1:20 the Steiner Screwdriver!!!! "You aint getting up from this one"

I remember playing this years ago, as well as it's sequels but I finished Dynamite Cop more than this game. Also this was actually a collaboration between AM1 and Sega Technical Institute. Also the main character in the Dynamite Deka one is named Bruno Delinger (not John McClane), the second playable character is named Cindy Holiday (not Kris) and the villain is named Wolf Hongo. Caroline Powell, the President's daughter in this game, would later be the third playable character in Asian Dynamite. The sequels, Dynamite Cop (for Sega Model 2 and Dreamcast) is set in a boat and has 2 new playable characters, while Asian Dynamite (for Naomi) has a feature where the characters change costumes once they pick up powerups, although Jean Ivy from Dynamite Cop was replaced with Caroline and adds a new character. The PS2 Sega Ages release of Dynamite Deka has an Easy mode, Altered Beast Mode, Deadline Mode (which has Segata Sanshiro playable) and the playable recreation of the old Sega Periscope arcade game (and its also on the Japanese PSN for PS3). Do a video on House of the Dead spinoff Zombie Revenge, since it was inspired by this game.

The quicktime events in this game are so hilarious.

A rocket launcher that looks like a portable stereo? Gives a whole new meaning to the word "boombox"

This may seem like a small thing but you saying "Have a great rest of your day" at the end of your videos always makes me feel better about actually going into the rest of my day.

Great video!! Great game!!! These fights and cut scenes bring back so many arcade memories. Thank you for that! What I wouldn’t give to be able to play this at home today.

Love the intros to your videos... I've come to wonder if every Snnnnnnnnnnnnnnesdrunk intro is original, or if there are doubles... Great vid, as always!

This game was so ridiculous it's alot of fun with a friend. Dynamite cop was great fun for dreamcast. Your review made me smile. Thank you Snesdrunk

Oh man, when I was a kid, the laser tag place had the Gauntlet reboot, Dynamite Cop, and HYDRO THUNDEEEER. Many quarters were lost. But Dynamite Cop was always my favorite, just 'cause you could rip a payphone out of the wall and swing it like nunchucks.

Such a good channel pumping out excellent videos all the time, love it

You forgot to mention that if you get to the end in Co-Op you guys battle each other to see who will become the Daughter's new Bodyguard. It is ridiculously good fun!

As the QTE showed up I instantly remembered of Dynamite Cop, which for a long time was the last beat em up I've played on home consoles since the genre was less than popular for years. It has the exact same look and feel, goofy and fun as it should be

Ah, the 90s... walking home from school, passing by the arcade room in the mall by my house... Playing Die Hard, captain commando, Tekken, Street Fighter II, TMNT, Killer instict, Mortal Kombat 2. Just pure bliss.

I hadn't thought about this game in about 20-some years, but as soon as I saw this come up, those arcade memories came flooding back.

We need more 90s themed lists. That was truly the golden age of everything.

I was playing this on my Saturn recently. Now I’m using a mode and saving my discs.

The bowling alley I spent a lot of time in during my childhood had this arcade game and I have vivid memories of watching people play it during my time spent at Youth League.

Definitely having flashbacks to Fighting Force '64' with this one. Also: "ITS TAKEN YOU SO LONG TO GET RID OF THOSE SLUT-GUYS!"

Loved playing this at the arcade as a kid! Always laughed when you would go into the bathroom and that guy was taking a leak and like crouching up and down really fast before you beat the crap out of him

I really appreciate the wrestling references. As for that suplex piledriver move, I think it's a Steiner Screwdriver, originally done by Scott Steiner.

Will check it out! Have a great rest of YOUR day bro!

Oh man, thanks sooo much for the Dynamite Cop Arcade reference. I searched so long for that game. I remember playing it as a 10 year old on a camp site back in Italy in the 90s on a arcade machine having a group of kids behind me. Man that was a blast! I couldn’t remember the name of the game though... Now I finally got it together again! ❤️

The Paul London reference made me happy

Fun story involving Die Hard Arcade: I was in 8th grade and went to the regional science fair at North Dakota State University. We got to visit the Memorial Union and in '97 they had a pretty good arcade in there. Well Die Hard Arcade was there. I ended up spending way too much time in the arcade pumping quarters into the machine and beat the game. And ended up not getting enough interviews with the judges to even have a chance to move on to state. No regrets.

Die hard arcade is how 32 bit strike retro style is done now.

"Hans Gruber and his flunkies" made me crack up haha

Good job with the Marty Jannety reference...

Let’s hear it!

I used to love seeing this one in the arcades. It felt so much like Virtua Fighter and I really liked it. I was ecstatic when I got older and found out there are 3 of these games. They are pretty much exactly alike, just with different rooms.

I'm so glad you covered this game, I would pay this all the time at my mall that had the smallest arcade section possible in the food court. I can only imagine how much money I put into that cabinet probably enough to buy it myself, good memories.

I used to play this game on the arcade several times.

This game looks hilarious. I was laughing most of the way through this video :D

Fun fact: this was the last game that Sega Technical Institute (the guys who made Sonic Spinball, Comix Zone, The Ooze, etc) ever worked on. They developed it alongside AM1 and did the animation and part of the graphics as well as the music while AM1 did most of the graphics and well as the game programming.

I put a shit ton of quarters in this at my local arcade. Loved blowing everything up.

I loved this game at my local arcade back in the day! I hope you get feeling better, sounds like you’re pretty congested dealing with a cold/flu.

There was a restaurant near Adams-Friendship, Wi that had this arcade cabinet in it's "arcade" room in the early 2000s. My cousin and I always loved playing the hell out of it because his parents were kind of strict on what he watched so I indulged him in comics, what movies they would approve, and of course video games.

We used to play this all the time at the arcade. Great memories. Thank you for this!

I just discovered your channel and I'm currently going through all the games I played as a kid and I love your overview of the games! Well done on your content, keep it up! I hope that you will come to review "Outlander" and "Rock 'N Roll Racing". Such great hidden gems!

I love the clotheslines that turn people "inside-out." Bradshaw back in the APA days is the textbook clothesline I always think about. Smaller guys could sell that so well.

I loved playing this game back in the day. There was a little arcade in the mall I used to go to when I was in high school but even then it was fading from its glory days. There was rarely anyone working there; you'd just go into this "store" and play some games. Sometimes the games wouldn't work or would eat your quarter, but there was no one there to tell so too bad so sad. This game was there though and my buddy and I would play it all the time. It was all kinds of awesome! Picking up them weapons and kicking ars with them was always the best part.

I remember this classic! Out of control!

This game blew my mind in the arcades. Lots of fun back then. Happy to hear it still holds up

Exactly as you say, I remember playing this in the arcade when I was about six years old and thinking that the anti-tank missles were exploding boom boxes.

I remember playing this game. I used to play it on the arcades when I was a kid. If I recall once you beat the boss on Co op, you get to fight each other at the end.

I used to play that game in a video game rental store with my big brother as a kid. I was both extremely confused and thrilled while playing it.

I found an arcade outside of Chicago last year called Galloping Ghost, I believe it’s one of the largest in the U.S. but holy cow, did they have every arcade game from my childhood! I searched up and down until I found Die Hard Arcade, played start to finish! What an incredible game

Would love to see more obscure movie based arcade games!

90s movie arcades great times!!!

Played this as a kid for Sega Saturn and it's super fun with friends. Thanks to it was insta-love with Oni years later because of the similarity with it.

That move at 1:22-1:25 is a move Scott Steiner use to do called the Steiner Screwdriver.

A place next to my old house had this game, me and my friends always played this one at the end of a arcade afternoon... Oh nostalgia...

Well done SD for doing a 5plus minute Die Hard arcade review and not mentioning "Bruce Willis" once. 👏

From the most exciting time gaming! Just keep putting your quarters in and enjoy!

Played at least 200 hours of dynamite cop on dreamcast.. good memories

I love playing this arcade game when I got out of middle school every afternoon at the store across the street from the school.

Wow when I remember this game and when I beat it too with one of my homies. When Good Times was still around in Somerville which is a home depot now. Also took a field trip to GoodTimes when I was in middle school

John McClain with the Claymore Kick.

Giving criminals the Steiner Screwdriver is definitely a HUGE plus!

I cannot tell you how much I miss these ridiculous Sega Arcade games like this. Something about their arcade games just standout so well and were so much fun.

This was my favorite arcade game as a kid. There were other good ones, but I wanted to play this game every time I saw it.

I can't even fathom how many quarters I've sank into this arcade game over the years. Definitely one of my favorites.

Used to play this often at the arcade, have vivid memories of the demo play in a smaller casino in Lake Tahoe (think it was called the Horizon)...honestly didn't realize it *wasn't* a licensed game until Project X Zone when they had the Dynamite Deka character in it, haha (better late than never).

1:20 - That was a Steiner Screwdriver, lol

Die Hard Arcade is the most fun arcade beat em up to 1cc because it’s short but the dmg is super high, you can pick up health up to 200% life bar, and resource management is important with clips and mags to hold for hard enemies and being able to hold guns from room to room to star tough groups with an advantage. I used to play this tons as a kid and I thought there was no way it would be as good as I remembered but it’s actually way better than I thought and probably the best 3d beat em up ever

I remember playing this at the local Wunderland and on the Saturn!

This was at one of the local grocery stores when I was a kid. I absolutely loved it!

Halarious. We need more rediculous weapons in beat em ups, and random ass tornado kicks!

Definitely I will check it out any way I can.

I used to play this game at the TILT arcade in the Fashion Square mall in Orlando, FL allllllllllllllll the time

"Now I've got a machine gun. Ho! Ho! Ho!" -John McLane.

4:10 Oh man, Dynamite Cop... if you’ve never seen LaserFrog’s review of that game, it is MUST SEE 😆

I'm going to an arcade in Roseville, MN tomorrow that has this cabinet. I'm not sure how far you live from Roseville, but if you've never heard of the place, it's called Starcade, and I guess it's only been open a little over one year. 👍

VERY underrated series of games back then -- it really made me want a dreamcast when it was being shown in import only shop - that and the time I spent playing this one in the arcade.

Weird. By 1996 beat em ups were long extinct, tournament fighting games were in vogue (Primal Rage, Killer Instinct, MK, SF2, etc.) Even TMNT gave up on beat em ups and were making tournament fighting games.

Props for referencing both pro wrestling workhorses and mid-tier Coen brothers films!

Me and a friend both binge watch all the SNES Drunk videos! I was a Nintendo kid, he was Sega, so we got the best of both words. He wasn’t a shooter fanatic but when we were real little he loved aphelion and we played that a lot. I’ll admit I always liked seeing the princes in the mirror pool after the level as a 8yo boy. Lol. Cover Phelios SD!!

2P should've been Sam Jackson's character from Die Hard 3.

“A villain trying to steal the treasures stored in a skyscraper’s safe? Close enough.” This is one of those games I hope to play someday. There are _so_ many moves and weapons. It’s like beat ’em up nirvana~

The side headlock vertical suplex driver was a Steiner Driver you witnessed.