Moon Patrol 1982 Irem Mame Retro Arcade Games 

Man I was 8 years old. Sneaking up late nights to play my atari. The memories are unreal. It's like it was another life.

The first game designed by Takashi Nishiyama, who would later become the creator of Kung Fu Master, Street Fighter and Fatal Fury. He is truly the Miyamoto of arcade games.

It's hilarious how I still remember this catchy little tune of the arcade game after all these years.

This game reminds me of my uncle. This was one of his favorite arcade games, I teached him how to use emulators and installing Mame roms so he could play it some time to get the memories. Unfortunately, last year in 30th of June he passed away because of a heart attack. I started having depression since then. Fortunately I'm feeling better now, but his death won't get out of my head.

Growing up in Yugoslavia in the 80ies, this game was total badass, we would always playing in pairs, one kid steering and jumping, another kid as a gunner. That way two kids play for the price of one game, team work hehe

fun fact: It's designer (Takashi Nishiyama) would later be one of Street Fighter co-creators and also would be an important member of SNK Neo Geo era, producing and idealizing many games, such as Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting and The King of Fighters. Later on he left SNK to create Dimps (3rd party developer of many Bandai-Namco games and SF4/SFV), which he's the president until this day.

After all these years, I finally got to see how the game ran its course. Thanks for the memories.

I was completely addicted to this game when I was a kid in the 80s. It's great to read all of these comments and to think how the game was played at the same time in different parts of the world with the same enthusiasm, never thought of that back then when I played, spending lunch money, it, was never enough, and I was gooood :)

Desde niño que lo jugué por primera vez siempre he amado este juego. Ya tengo 46 años. Nunca lo olvido.

I'm 46 and I totally remember this in 1983.

My favorite rage quit classic. I remember this being so hard.

I always loved how the rover holds its wheels up when jumping. It's kinda cute 😅

one of my fav classics . i loved that suspension!

It was my first computer game played. I used to steal coins from my dad and run to a nearby game's saloon. OMG... it looks exactly as i remember. Tears in my eyes.

There was a local department store (Roses) I used to walk to just to play this game. This was back in the days when virtually every store had some sort of arcade game. I could clear the first course, but I never got anywhere near this far.

Man this music haunts me from when I was a kid lol

As a kid, I remember feeling pretty cocky finishing up the regular course, and then getting utterly humiliated in the Champion course.

Nostalgia pura! Varias fichas nos fliperamas da Penha Z/L ! Que tempinho bom du karaio

This game swallowed up so much of my pocket money, and it was all over after 3 minutes, tops.

Was briefly in a band, we played this music. Best video game ditty of the day

1 of the best classics I had it on my Atari also

ＭＺ－７００で遊んでましたね～。思い出深いゲームです。ゲームミュージックに興味を持ったのもこの作品やラリーＸ辺りでした♪

I clocked this game as a kid at our local cafe.... proud moments indeed.

Love the music

i had this on my Commodore VIC-20 and played the hell out of it.

One of my favourite in the 80s. I lost a fortune playing it in the games room in my neighbourhood in Poland. Some curiosities: - I was able to pass rolling balls on full speed in O-T section, as well as tanks in T-Z - Sometimes we were able to reach 58 seconds in A-E section of the beginner course. Normally driving at full speed all the time gave you 59 sec. but jumping during the start gave you this extra second (or maybe it was a different trick?) - We were always curious what was the algorithm of awarding points after shoting a small space ship that you needed to jump over (A-E section in the champion course). From 500 to 1000 points but was it pure random? - The guy that owned the games room saw that we excelled at Moon Patrol spending more and more time on a single credit and once he disabled the low speed, so that you could drive only at medium and fast speed. What a mean guy! I.e. it was impossible to pass the second minefield in J-O section because the mines were too close to each other to jump over on medium speed. But we managed to jump in the critical moment two mines at a time at full speed! :-) Hey, any other tricks?

I was 13 and played this with my class mates after school every day. When i hear the sounds and music i feel like i am 13 again. Now 46 and will never play this with my buddies anymore😢 Thank you so much for putting here this video🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇

The sound of the cannon was amazing.

Atari 800XL and arcade machine. The two platforms I used to play this jewel

I love the soundtrack.

I always had trouble with this game but I still loved it...Great memories

As a kid I never could go beyond level 1 :( and I had like 2 coins... Yet I was amazed by the graphics on this one (in it's arcade box) ...it was situated in a crappy gas station somewhere around a route to go to the coast.

Used to play this game a lot at the local Loblaws back in the 80's whenever my folks would go grocery shopping in Newmarket.

I used to get so sweaty in the 80's playing this in arcades. Love the music still!

I don't think I got this far ever. Nice work.

Most advanced aspect of this game - making the tires follow the shape of the ground.

Dude thanks for refreshing my childhood memories

I've totally forgotten this game until I just saw the video. It was great for its time!

Loved this game and the tune is still in my head

I have never seen such a serious play vid of a retro game. Wow!

This music was everything.

this Game was Adopted for Hasbro in Japan to make a Transformers game, Mystery of Convoy.

impressive, i now have MAME on my Raspberry pi...so i will give this game some serious attention now lol, i was pretty handy at it back in the day

I played that game in 1982 in the arcade hall!

Favorite arcade game by far

Nintendo switch brought me here. Damn i had forgot about this game

I never noticed how dope this bass line is...funky.

At 8 bit computers I remember what I did with that game :D Forever classic! Those mines on L and K were so hard hahaha Or 2 craters closest to each other and a little ground between them only for my vehicle :D Good old times but I really want to play and watch the first Moon Patrol as I remembering it. Black and white screen! God this game have a place in my heart

Unbelievably amazing play!

if the stick was knackered this was a nightmare to play later on. same with scramble too.

Che spettacolo...indimenticabili I primi games della mia vita... Avevo solo 11 anni... Come passa il tempo 😢💖

OMg I loved this game :) It was hard too.

I'm 27 and I totally remember this in 2001

my family went into debt with the yakuza when we tried to bring back moon patrol from being stationed overseas

When we played this in the arcades everyone crowded round to watch, and then once we finished we watched the next person, we were the Twitch streamers of our time and we didn't charge anyone 😁

I played this at “show biz pizza”! Before it became a CEC!

I wonder how many people it took to write one of these in 1982 before I was even born and internet did not exist

Geez, I have not seen this game since like 1986!!!

これ30年前に今はなき越谷駅近くのイトーヨーカ堂の屋上にあって30円でできましたよ

My mom would bring me to Ben Franklin craft store back in the early 80s. I would stand on a milk crate and she would be the jump or fire and I would do the joystick. I was about 4. She said people would look on in awe that I was playing this game. How times have changed.

Excellent play. Total moon patrol mastery!

I sucked at this game. I sucked at a lot of video games. Maybe that's why I'm having such a fucked up adulthood.

Someone said this tune was the inspiration of the paperboy theme, I kind of hear it!

I just noticed something after many years it never dawned on me that the song for this game is almost identical the James Brown's Soulful Christmas song

Oh My god What have u reminded Me,Love the time & games

I remember playing this on an arcade cabinet back in the day. I could never get too far because the older and bigger kids would shove the smaller kids out of the way so they could play

That’s some pretty ambitious enemy diversification for 1982. The parallax too, it’s clearly cartoon inspired.

Still looking for a freeze frame victory jump at a bonus. You Can Do It! -Tony Little.

I played this game in the arcade way back in the old days, and in every one there was a jump I could never do. It had two craters right next to each other so there was just a point of land between them. The gap was too big to jump. Land too far left, fall back and die. Too far to the right, and you fall forward and die. I don't see that jump in any of the playthroughs. Were the arcade machines rigged to make the player lose?

Friday and sat nights at the local store. Had this game Defender and pacman there was always at least 8 or 9 kids lining up to play

Took me so long to find the title of this game! Finally found it!

never beat that third stage as a kid- oh yes I did - I remember the rolling boulders now. It's funny, I remember the black car coming at you but not the yellow turretmobiles

WOW you just solve one of my childhood mistery. What is on the end of moon patrol game. Thank you.

1:41 LOVE HEARING THIS AFTER A HARD LEVEL!

todo meu dinheiro era para esse jogo, vicio total, perdia aula para jogar, fui reprovado todo ano por causa desse jogo

Thus is my child hood, excited as hell

Got this on Game Boy Color, PlayStation and Dreamcast!

This game kind of reminds me of the dexters lab version where dee dee and her friends lee lee and mee mee get teleported to the moon and have to get back home.

Love this game I would leave home for school early so I can play this before the school bus came good times

I remember playing this game....It was awesome!!!

Old Times.. Great Times..!!

Still looks fun.

How come nobody is talking about the groundbreaking 3 layers of parallax scrolling?

is this the new cybertruck?

I just had to see how the heck you pass the J point in the champion course.. excellent gameplay!!

これ探してました～ありがとう🎵

love me some moon patrol

Bellissimo Moon Patrol. L'amavo!!

Jesus...I never play the modern FPS and the likes of “Call of Duty”, but to today’s children we must look ancient.

Love this game my favorite in 1984 !!!!!!

Broke the reset button on my Atari 500 out of frustration with this game when I was 12

All these flying lemons and blueberries as enemies !

I love this game!

I only played this a handful of times back in the arcade, but I played the Atari 2600 version a ton of times. (And watching this video, I can see that the 2600 version was pretty accurate, aside from graphics and exactly one missing enemy)

I played atari 2600 version but this looks great also!

i can’t believe they are selling this on the switch eshop for $8 THE SAME PRICE AS SUPER MARIO BROS AND PUNCH OUT!

yea youtube do it to my gameplay videos too, they must re-encode the videos as it uploads them.

Love the game

Tolles spiel was für früher am Automaten oft gespielt haben.

And to think this was the inspiration for the vehicles in “Armageddon.” I am kidding, but who knows?