Elevator Action is a fun throwback to the days of early 80s arcade games, and despite being made by Micronics, it's actually pretty decent. (Not often one gets the chance to say that!)
My mom used to take me to a restaurant that had a free/unlimited credits arcade in it in the late 80’s and this game was one of the machines they had. I remember that “Arabian” was right next to it - both of those games were awesome. This is a decent port for sure!
@@NintendoComplete omg I hear that... I jumped on this video as soon as I saw if cuz I was wondering how far u got lol...I dont think I ever got more than 4 or 5 buildings... there's no ending to this game, right? I used to die/game over mad quick after years of playing cuz instead of actually trying to "win," I liked to see how many guys i could just blow away at point blank range lol...in the 1st couole stages,,when the black spyVSspy guys are slow and stupid, you could walk right up to them as they're just standing there, BLAMMO, blow their head off, and just keep walkin,, never miss a stride lol... If it was a little easier or non-monotonous, it'd be a good anger reliever, just putting the gat IN their head and BOOYAAAA
I like that you did the usual nice long write up for Elevator Action in the description + summary comment. But am disappointed that you wrote nothing at all for the Castlevania: Bloodlines playthrough video. What’s up with that?
I clicked because of the thumbnail. My childhood self might actually draw this thumbnail. Heck I might actually draw this even as a grownup like myself.
My dad use to take me to the barber shop when i was a kid and this arcade cabinet was always there and i always got to play this. I had no idea what the fuck i was doing in the game but it sure was fun as hell. Watching this gives me a whole bunch of nostalgia vibes.
The Taito sequel is a masterpiece, and it's always fun to see what the first titles are like. This looks pretty fun actually, and the SFX when guys are getting crushed are funny. This is charming. I can't believe they're finally re-releasing this on modern consoles on December 1st! I can't wait!
Are they really? That's cool, I guess I got lucky with my timing then. The second one was amazing. I have it on the Saturn and it was totally worth the embarrassingly large sum I pad for it. I played it constantly for a good few weeks and loved every minute.
Remembered that game as kid I often played it in summer time during school vacation with my brother & cousin. I never had luck to finished game caused I'm always game over when I got into 3 or 4 building
@@VahanNisanian I dunno. I'd probably like those games a lot more made by anyone else lol. Maybe it was for the best, though. If Micronics hadn't screwed their games up so badly, Capcom might not have felt the need to start developing their own NES games in-house. The same goes for SNK, I think.
I swear Micronics was like just some random 20 year old dude they hired to do stuff lmfao that's what you'd think looking at how polished their releases were 🤣
For some reason, I played this on a lot in the arcade. Maybe it was the disciplined rigidity of it all, which I'm starting to realize I really liked when I was young. Games like this, Rolling Thunder, and those cinematic platformers like Out of This World and Flashback really struck a chord with me. I guess I like games that abide by their own rules and are strict about expecting you to. This probably explains why I much preferred baseball and golf games to football and basketball.
Bro, you play like a Pro. Its a awesome gameplay! I always die all lives on lv3. Im trying to beat lv4 for master this great game at RetroAchievements server... With practice, who knows...
As an Elevator Action fan I'd say this conversion is pretty good. Only problem is the difficult curve, I'd consider this a bug because from a certain point on, it's basically impossible to go any further, while the arcade version is a rather fair challenge.
Great game, though to me, this is one of the few cases where I actually think the NES graphics look better colorwise, although the arcade did the scaling animation at the start better.
Everybody that does a playthrough seems to always wait behind the red door until it kicks you out. You don't have to. You can pull the opposite direction you used to enter to exit again IMMEDIATELY! You don't have to wait for him to come out on his own.
The thing i didn't like about the sequel was that whenever you go inside a door it kicks you out after a few seconds so you can't really hide in them from enemies.
Hola Nintendo complete si yo jugaba ese juego a pesar demasiado difícil cuando jugué increíblemente porque no pude disparar pero bueno sigo jugando con ese la famliy game
