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Not hungering for this: Operation Wolf & Airwolf | NES Works 123 

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I keep typing "Worf" instead of "wolf" with these games, and I can't tell you how much more interesting those games would have been than these cartridges. Both of them fall short of their potential in very different ways. Airwolf, for example, is a first-person helicopter-based game that attempts to give players an interesting, immersive take on the experience of flying a combat and rescue chopper-think Choplifter in 3D-but totally fumbles it. Operation Wolf, on the other hand, suffers from the NES's technical limitations and fails to deliver the intense, high-energy experience of the original arcade game. As the Klingons say, perhaps it is a good day to skip these.
This video contains a fair amount of strobing lights due to the emphasis on light gun games, so sensitive viewers should approach with caution.
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@CharlesWorkPPL
@CharlesWorkPPL 5 месяцев назад
Inside you, there are two wolves. One has a light gun, the other is a helicopter.
@theantithesis1
@theantithesis1 5 месяцев назад
Do they sniff each other's butts?
@2dskillz
@2dskillz 5 месяцев назад
My neighbor had an Airwolf cart. As kids we thought it was some kind of game for grown-ups as it made no sense to us. So many bad games got away with that assumption back then.
@ChristopherSobieniak
@ChristopherSobieniak 5 месяцев назад
True, it was always made for those just a few year's older than us.
@Frigidevil
@Frigidevil 4 месяца назад
My dad had Silent Service and that's exactly what I thought too! 'This is a boring war game for grownups'
@2dskillz
@2dskillz 4 месяца назад
@@Frigidevil Yes, this title is in that list for sure!
@Djungelurban
@Djungelurban 5 месяцев назад
Airwolf may have alot of faults and shortcomings, both as a game and a show... But the tv shows' theme song? Absolutely undeniably top tier...
@JeremyParish
@JeremyParish 5 месяцев назад
That's how they get ya
@jasonblalock4429
@jasonblalock4429 5 месяцев назад
My recollection is that the ONLY thing I liked about Airwolf on NES is that it had a decent version of the theme song.
@pragmax
@pragmax 5 месяцев назад
It's a little known fact that CBS pioneered the high-concept launch of a theme song with a TV show and video game to help market it. This would later open up the market for MTV to launch a network with nothing but "music videos".
@ChronCube
@ChronCube 5 месяцев назад
Your titular Duran Duran reference does not go unnoticed or unappreciated 👌
@IntoTheVerticalBlank
@IntoTheVerticalBlank 5 месяцев назад
Exactly
@MrERLoner
@MrERLoner 5 месяцев назад
Jeremy is NOTORIOUS for subtitle in-jokes
@murphiverse
@murphiverse 5 месяцев назад
@@MrERLoner Well played!
@blarghblargh
@blarghblargh 5 месяцев назад
Doh! The joke went over my head. Don't say a prayer for me, now.
@AltimaNEO
@AltimaNEO 4 месяца назад
Wild Boys!
@disbez
@disbez 4 месяца назад
My memory of operation wolf is when my friend rented it and his uncle who served in Nam was over and wanted to play with us. We just assumed the game took place during the Vietnam war and when the civilians were on screen the uncle would always intentionally gun them down. We told him that you’re supposed to not shoot them, and he replied with “she’s with the enemy! She’s holding a grenade!” It wasn’t until much later in life did I realize how messed up that was.
@robertlauncher
@robertlauncher 5 месяцев назад
The irony of the name Acclaim is beautiful
@johnnygrind77
@johnnygrind77 5 месяцев назад
My dad was drafted to Viet Nam and his brother willingly enlisted. I had as much fun playing these games as a kid as I did hearing about the horrors of the war/conflict...
@junkhead1979
@junkhead1979 5 месяцев назад
Just a little correction, The movie Commando was about John Matrix rescuing his daughter, not hostages. He did kill the shit out of a lot of people though. lol
@JeremyParish
@JeremyParish 5 месяцев назад
Technically his daughter was a hostage, so I'm accidentally correct
@junkhead1979
@junkhead1979 5 месяцев назад
@@JeremyParish Eh.............................. Ok I'll let it slide. :P
@ValkyrieTiara
@ValkyrieTiara 5 месяцев назад
​@@JeremyParish I have it on good authority that this is the best kind of correct.
@makaveli4205
@makaveli4205 5 месяцев назад
Commando kicks ass
@robintst
@robintst 5 месяцев назад
Had a running gag with my best friend for years, he hated Operation Wolf, unreasonably so, and every time we saw it somewhere I'd say "Look dude, it's your favorite game!"
@makaveli4205
@makaveli4205 5 месяцев назад
Operation wolf arcade game is pretty hard. Never got very far in it.
@Choralone422
@Choralone422 5 месяцев назад
I'm glad you spoke about the specter of Vietnam being large in the public consciousness in the 80s. Growing up back then it really loomed large at times through media and local events where I grew up. My own father and many uncles served during that conflict. During the 80s especially it was always something that was just there and had to be acknowledged and processed.
@ChristopherSobieniak
@ChristopherSobieniak 5 месяцев назад
I been through that.
@jamesmoss3424
@jamesmoss3424 5 месяцев назад
Airwolf is an amazing 80's TV 📺 action series. 😀👍🎮
@MRX-cw1cy
@MRX-cw1cy 5 месяцев назад
As a person who likes the TV Show of Airwolf I was excited they made a game for the NES and then I played it I was disappointed Then years later I found out there was Airwolf for the Famicom and I felt we got the short stick again
@MCastleberry1980
@MCastleberry1980 5 месяцев назад
The kid that lived across the street from me had Operation Wolf and it was like, his favorite game. My biggest memory, for some reason, was that he always abbreviated it as "OPW" when talking about it.
@rowtow13
@rowtow13 5 месяцев назад
That's the same number of syllables! Argh!
@JeremyParish
@JeremyParish 5 месяцев назад
Not if you pronounce W as “dubya.” Check and mate, friend.
@Dwedit
@Dwedit 5 месяцев назад
The speedrun of Airwolf is entertaining to watch. Some shooting sounds, then you hear more of the Theme Song, then some more shooting sounds, then more of the theme song... WR is under 40 minutes.
@catsaregovernmentspies
@catsaregovernmentspies 5 месяцев назад
I remember rhe neverending Vietnam movies and games in the 80s as well as the military propaganda. It was probably what lead me to serve 4 years in the Marines. Only in my 30s did I wake up and look back on everything with open eyes. Propaganda is powerful on the unaware.
@TJ-vh2ps
@TJ-vh2ps 5 месяцев назад
After reading the video description, I had a majestic vision of "AirWorf": the Space Jam sequel we never knew we needed! XD
@beipiaosaurus
@beipiaosaurus 6 дней назад
No no, AirWorf is clearly the sequel to Air Bud. "Nothing in the rules says a Klingon can't play basketball."
@Retroman8077
@Retroman8077 5 месяцев назад
Infiltrate the enemies secret artillery base......God I loved that Uzi
@gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730
@gfhrtshergheghegewgewgew1730 5 месяцев назад
oh wow, i never would have thought that the illustrious beam software would come out of the console gate with an unfortunate mess like nes airwolf
@JazGalaxy
@JazGalaxy 5 месяцев назад
This was fascinating. The discussion of Vietnam expressions in media puts a fine point on a general feeling that I had growing up in the early ups but couldn’t put a name to.
@8bitjoystick
@8bitjoystick 5 месяцев назад
I also was struck how Choplifter for Sega Master System seems to be an artistic statement on the brutality of war. It seemed to be all about trying to convey the writhing futility of it all. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZUGPhhmErQI.htmlsi=nDt8D1LWYUmwjbxZ
@JeremyParish
@JeremyParish 5 месяцев назад
And don't forget Missile Command, and The End... a lot of bleak nihilism manifesting in media during the latter Cold War era. I can only imagine what present-day media will look like through the lens of retrospection, assuming there's still a human race in 40 years.
@ChristopherSobieniak
@ChristopherSobieniak 5 месяцев назад
​@@JeremyParishThat too.
@mattirealm
@mattirealm 3 месяца назад
The political content in this case..............was most welcome! Robert McNamara admitted later in his life that the war between North and South Vietnam was a civil war and really had nothing to do with communism. While that was good of him, he never did admit his huge part in the war, in the documentary Fog of War. As a kid growing up in the 80's, this content really hits home as it was my parents generation that were in Vietnam (I had two uncles that served). I also remember renting LOTS of NES games and your channel really hits the nostalgia hard for me. GIJOE, of which I watched as a kid, was pretty silly with the huge battles and very little killing and death, but I get it that it was a kids show. I think Aliens is a good commentary on the Vietnam War, not clunky at all, unlike some other films we saw in the 80's and 90's.
@dreamlandnightmare
@dreamlandnightmare 4 месяца назад
18:06 - I actually remember seeing "Flashing lights can cause seizures in photosensitive viewers" warnings in video game manuals long before the Pokemon incident.
@jsebastian9547
@jsebastian9547 5 месяцев назад
As a kid, I loved the airwolf show... I got the game for the nes before I even had an nes. For months 6 year old me was so frustrated I couldn't play it in my atari 2600, until I finally got an nes for Christmas. I finally popped it in and within minutes, holy fuck was I disappointed.
@texturem0nkey
@texturem0nkey 3 месяца назад
this sounds tortuous
@SolCresta3405
@SolCresta3405 5 месяцев назад
Operation Wolf, a real classic. In fact, there’s an all-new installment of the series right now.
@bulldog76472
@bulldog76472 5 месяцев назад
Personally, I love it when a plan comes together.
@w.ravenowens5248
@w.ravenowens5248 5 месяцев назад
Punchout uses start as an action button.
@texturem0nkey
@texturem0nkey 3 месяца назад
True, but sparingly, so it works just fine.
@absolutezeronow7928
@absolutezeronow7928 5 месяцев назад
It's definitely good that you added context to these two games, and yeah the shadow of the Vietnam war was very influential on 1980s media. I don't like Beam, and you'll come to the game that I hate Beam for soon enough. And Hydlyde next time? Fun times.
@PTRF_One
@PTRF_One 5 месяцев назад
I'm not sure if it's good or bad that my immediate thoughts jumped to Dash Galaxy, but I'm sure Beam has made many upcoming games that are just as terrible!
@absolutezeronow7928
@absolutezeronow7928 5 месяцев назад
@@PTRF_One Dash Galaxy is bad, but I meant Back to the Future.
@paulpetroleum
@paulpetroleum 5 месяцев назад
Here in the UK Beam were great in the early days of the C64 and Spectrum. They were called Melbourne House at that time and had some fantastic games like The Hobbit and Way of the Exploding Fist.
@rubberwoody
@rubberwoody 4 месяца назад
inside your NES, there are two wolves...
@roguerifter9724
@roguerifter9724 5 месяцев назад
I always wondered why there was no A-Team Nes game. There was a 2600 game but no NES game. Watching A-Team with my parents is among my earliest TV memories along with V, Mission Impossible, and Star Trek both the original series and the original animated series. What's really wierd is while I owned Operation Wolf on the NES and Operation Thunderbolt on the SNES and I love the Terminator 2 Arcade game and Revolution X I never played the Operation Wolf arcade game until 2017.
@ginormousaurus8394
@ginormousaurus8394 5 месяцев назад
The A-Team was cancelled in 1986 due to declining ratings during its fourth and fifth seasons, so the series was past the peak of its popularity as the NES was being released nationwide in the U.S. However, the NES did get games based on Airwolf and Knight Rider years after those TV shows were cancelled.
@roguerifter9724
@roguerifter9724 5 месяцев назад
@@ginormousaurus8394 Yeah, and I don't know about everywhere but where I lived A-Team was remembered a lot more then Airwolf. I think I was eight or nine when I first saw Airwolf. A-Team was rerunning regularly when I was a kid. Also the first Adams Family based game came before the first movie and decades after the TV show ended.
@ginormousaurus8394
@ginormousaurus8394 5 месяцев назад
@@roguerifter9724 Fester's Quest came about because the game's producer Richard Robbins was a fan of The Addams Family and had a dream about a game starring Uncle Fester. There were some other unusual choices for licensed properties that were adapted into NES games. Konami released an NES game based on The Lone Ranger in 1991, ten years after the movie The Legend of the Lone Ranger bombed at the box office, though players might have been familiar with the 1950s Lone Ranger TV series that was still being shown in syndication.
@w.ravenowens5248
@w.ravenowens5248 5 месяцев назад
If I remember correctly, it was because Mr.T had to be licensed separately from the rest of the cast of A-Team by this point, covering his involvement in Wrestlemania.
@ginormousaurus8394
@ginormousaurus8394 4 месяца назад
@@w.ravenowens5248 I wonder if licensing issues involving Mr. T's likeness is why Clubber Lang doesn't have a beard when he's shown before and after a fight in the Rocky video game for the Sega Master System, although Lang appears to have a beard during the fight.
@aaronmoore6275
@aaronmoore6275 4 месяца назад
Love your stuff. Intelligent, funny without all the things that make other retrogaming channels nigh intolerable. Great Stuff!
@sarysa
@sarysa 5 месяцев назад
This video may have the best one minute summary of the Vietnam War I've ever heard, with a deliciously timely barb to cap it off.
@rabiroden
@rabiroden 5 месяцев назад
The Bandai Hyper Shot was a machine gun style lightgun for the Famicom. It had kickback and a speaker and took giant batteries. And the singular game developed for it, Space Shadow, is absolutely a flickery flashy epilepsy inducing mess. It shouldn't exist, and trying to import one will probably get you investigated... but damn, it's cool. Would've been a perfect fit for Operation Wolf.
@JeremyParish
@JeremyParish 5 месяцев назад
The guy who runs the interactive museum at Long Island Retro Expo has been working to modify his HyperShot to work with other games!
@mightypotato
@mightypotato 5 месяцев назад
I had both of these as a kid. I loved Operation Wolf and played the hell out of it. Airwolf…has a good theme song. I beat it once as a kid. When I learned it just keeps going after the “last” level of 20, I turned it off and never went back to it.
@MiguelPaulettePerez-bj8ml
@MiguelPaulettePerez-bj8ml 5 месяцев назад
I've watched you weekly for a few years now J.P... I appreciate your comfort with candid commentary these days...
@vincentgood2234
@vincentgood2234 5 месяцев назад
My cousin had Airwolf when we were kids. I think we tried to play it 4 times over the course of 5 years, "tried" being the key word.
@plaidstation
@plaidstation 5 месяцев назад
Beam put out a pretty decent cricket game for the NES exclusively in Australia in 1992. So they’ve got that going at least, I guess
@JeremyParish
@JeremyParish 5 месяцев назад
Always playing favorites with the home market
@Cameront9
@Cameront9 4 месяца назад
Air wolf has the best tv show theme song
@ChristopherSobieniak
@ChristopherSobieniak 5 месяцев назад
This wholly explains my childhood.
@bryanjensen2614
@bryanjensen2614 5 месяцев назад
Airwolf is where we learned to Jan Michael our Vincents.
@125scratch2
@125scratch2 5 месяцев назад
Daiei actually possibly developed a number of arcade games in the early 80s, most of which were distributed by Taito in Japan, including Fitter/Round-Up, Dock Man/Port Man, Super Mouse, Macho Mouse, Super Rider, and Pit & Run: F-1 Race
@KLGChaos
@KLGChaos 5 месяцев назад
I remember Operation Wolf... think the furthest I could get legitimately as a kid was level 2? Maybe 3? Hard to remember 35 years ago.
@alexanderdiogenes8067
@alexanderdiogenes8067 5 месяцев назад
Man, I had Airwolf for NES. I don't know why. That was a rough putt.
@DSMTheEditor
@DSMTheEditor 5 месяцев назад
I have both of these!...They are definitely more useful as "oh that looks neat on the shelf"
@doctorhino8736
@doctorhino8736 5 месяцев назад
So glad it wasn't just 8 year old me that couldn't get that damn zapper to work with operation wolf. I felt so defeated everytime I tried.
@Syntox
@Syntox 5 месяцев назад
Really appreciate the historical context added to the analysis of these particular games and the decade they were made in. Propaganda is a hell of a drug and usually makes for a shitty NES cart
@daviddalrymple2284
@daviddalrymple2284 5 месяцев назад
The microcomputer roots of Airwolf's developer certainly show through. And not in a flattering way.
@grasslandgraphics
@grasslandgraphics 4 месяца назад
Seems like that could have been an awesome light gun game if they had dialed in the responsiveness
@mendez704
@mendez704 5 месяцев назад
"There is no jappy ending in either side, beside the fact that Henry Kissinger is finally rooting in hell". That is another reason I love your channel...
@heavysystemsinc.
@heavysystemsinc. 5 месяцев назад
Also the western studios as they are called, often were 2 or 3 people given 3 months to deliver a finished product. This also greatly affects quality.
@JeremyParish
@JeremyParish 5 месяцев назад
Same with lots of JP teams. That was the way of things back then.
@fandabidozi3191
@fandabidozi3191 5 месяцев назад
Me and a friend used to play strip Operation Wolf. 🤦🏻‍♂️
@trogdo
@trogdo 5 месяцев назад
Nice shirt dude
@makaveli4205
@makaveli4205 5 месяцев назад
The operation wolf arcade game is really hard. I could never get very far in it.
@pacmancdi
@pacmancdi 5 месяцев назад
Airwolf is an awesome TV show. One of the best of all time in fact. Don't let the shitty video game adaptation scare you from watching it
@JeremyParish
@JeremyParish 5 месяцев назад
Where do you stand on the USA Network season
@pacmancdi
@pacmancdi 5 месяцев назад
@@JeremyParish I thought the new cast had really good chemistry and some of the stories were pretty good. Of course the budget took a major hit but overall I liked it better than season 3 because it felt like CBS was trying to dumb the show down for children a bit.
@ginormousaurus8394
@ginormousaurus8394 5 месяцев назад
I wonder why Acclaim published NES games based on Airwolf and Knight Rider a few years after the TV shows were cancelled.
@rootbeer_666
@rootbeer_666 5 месяцев назад
Don’t forget Laos, the most heavily bombed country on earth
@JeremyParish
@JeremyParish 5 месяцев назад
Not a hell hot enough for that man.
@MaidenHell1977
@MaidenHell1977 5 месяцев назад
I've genuinely been brought to tears here. Thank you so much for this video and that well said introduction.
@crimsonharvest
@crimsonharvest 5 месяцев назад
Appreciate the relatively, for Jeremy, scathing fire here at the start.
@chall6761
@chall6761 4 месяца назад
Thank you for ackowledging Larry.
@JeremyParish
@JeremyParish 4 месяца назад
Larry Hama? My friend, he and Douglas Adams taught me everything I know about the universe at age 11.
@chall6761
@chall6761 4 месяца назад
@@JeremyParish More than you even know.
@melasn9836
@melasn9836 5 месяцев назад
Literally all I knew about Airwolf until now was the joke in Achewood.
@decoyoctopus
@decoyoctopus 5 месяцев назад
I dunno what surprises me more that Acclaim technically still exists as a zombie brand under another company or they made another Operation Wolf game recently
@larryb5677
@larryb5677 5 месяцев назад
I loved watching Airwolf as a kid. Glad I didn't get suckered into getting the NES game. I suffered enough with Top Gun!
@ricksloan5588
@ricksloan5588 5 месяцев назад
The mushy buttons worked for MTPO.
@iwanttoseemrshow
@iwanttoseemrshow 5 месяцев назад
Make it so Mr. Airworf
@jayjasespud
@jayjasespud 5 месяцев назад
I am extremely bummed Nightshade never got a sequel.
@timlom5522
@timlom5522 5 месяцев назад
The Vietnam preamble for this was really good Jeremy, one of your best.
@osurpless
@osurpless 5 месяцев назад
Yep, a la George Carlin: “We left a few women and children alive in Vietnam, and we haven’t felt good about ourselves since!”
@TeruteruBozusama
@TeruteruBozusama 5 месяцев назад
I kinda want to make a retrospective/video on a Norwegian family show that was almost dubbed into English if I understand correctly. It started in the 70s, and this episode makes me wonder... Did they jump from teen and adult content mainly to making that as a distraction from the bleak news?
@MrERLoner
@MrERLoner 4 месяца назад
You could say that one of these Wolf titled games is" Garoubage"
@JeremyParish
@JeremyParish 4 месяца назад
Nice
@Retroman8077
@Retroman8077 5 месяцев назад
Ernest borgnine baby
@darktetsuya
@darktetsuya 5 месяцев назад
yeah why couldn't Acclaim have waited until AFTER doing airwolf to shift away from localizing Japanese games?! even with all its issues, I'm pretty sure it would've been a step up from the game we DID get. also yeah I mostly remember playing operation wolf on d-pad vs. the zapper. I remember it being a fun one.
@massivepileup
@massivepileup 5 месяцев назад
Weirdly, the home computer Airwolf games were sidescrollers. I don't know why they wanted to go fany for the NES of all systems.
@egocide9034
@egocide9034 5 месяцев назад
2:48 my man Broccoli
@brandonb6005
@brandonb6005 5 месяцев назад
I’m glad you covered the arcade game and its Famicom adaptation, since I was very familiar with the arcade game and had originally hoped it would be a port of that. Not so much. Operation Wolf? Reasonably good with what it does, but it became clear quickly that the zapper was unusable. It is a decent enough port but pretty meh compared to a lot of the games coming out around that time such as Castlevania 2, Blaster Master, Bionic Commando, etc.
@mindcrome
@mindcrome 5 месяцев назад
If you saw rainbow colors on your cart sticker, you knew it was most likely was going to suck (Accalim was slightly better then LGN)
@IntoTheVerticalBlank
@IntoTheVerticalBlank 5 месяцев назад
No just that, but "Wild Boys! Wild boys never chose this way".. and also "Don't play that game".
@Belgand
@Belgand 5 месяцев назад
I would have expected a clip from Teen Wolf, but maybe that's waiting for a game developed by Wolf Team.
@qwicy
@qwicy 5 месяцев назад
"America was working through some stuff." : damn it I'm crying right now.
@ChristopherSobieniak
@ChristopherSobieniak 5 месяцев назад
That was the reality.
@hemangchauhan2864
@hemangchauhan2864 5 месяцев назад
As a foreigner, learnt so much about USA and Japanese culture/history from your videos
@jonothanthrace1530
@jonothanthrace1530 5 месяцев назад
I had to check whether Airwolf was a long-delayed 1986 Bandai game given the cheap-looking graphics.
@theirishcowboy
@theirishcowboy 4 месяца назад
well, at least airwolf takes the target off poor kung-fu heroes for this channel 😅
@JeremyParish
@JeremyParish 4 месяца назад
Nah, I've already committed to my KFH smear campaign
@milkcarton6654
@milkcarton6654 5 месяцев назад
The Punisher on NES did far better than Operation Wolf at translating that type of game to the NES. Sorta similar was also Cabal which as memory serves wasn't half bad either. Of course both of these games actually displayed your character on the screen and weren't straight FPS.
@makaveli4205
@makaveli4205 5 месяцев назад
I played cabal arcade game all the time
@jimbo2195
@jimbo2195 4 месяца назад
the amiable video game nerd
@JeremyParish
@JeremyParish 4 месяца назад
Don’t be fooled, I’m less jolly than advertised
@abraveastronaut
@abraveastronaut 5 месяцев назад
Air Worf................................
@MrERLoner
@MrERLoner 5 месяцев назад
To play this is to. Err....wolf
@ProBreakers
@ProBreakers 4 месяца назад
I really dont wanna ask why that woman was running around the war zone in a bikini 😬
@JeremyParish
@JeremyParish 4 месяца назад
She clearly felt that a humanitarian crisis is no excuse to let your tan slip
@solomonstillthebest5737
@solomonstillthebest5737 5 месяцев назад
I'm immensely disappointed you didn't make an "Inside you are two wolves" reference. No thumbs up from me today.
@ShadowVFX
@ShadowVFX 5 месяцев назад
Wow, harsh words for Airwolf. By no means is it a great game, but you slammed it HARD. It sounds like you had a really difficult time utilizing the mini map during the combat. This is a key (critical) aspect of playing the game. Once you learn to check the map and use it for assisting wayfinding, it's not that bad at all. I mean, is it really any worse than Top Gun? At least this game offers more play variety (even if quick, brief and janky) than Top Gun. You make it sounds like literally one of the worst games on NES, which is FAR from the truth. For what it's worth, as a child I was extremely disappointed when I got this game. Not because it was such an awful game. But because I had played the arcade version of Airwolf at a local fun center and was hoping for a similar shmup-style game for my NES. Instead, I basically got a slightly different version of Top Gun. Oh well, at least both games had a radical theme song.
@Dwedit
@Dwedit 5 месяцев назад
Yeah, the minimap is where the actual gameplay takes place. The cockpit view and plane shooting stuff is just a distraction from the minimap.
@JeremyParish
@JeremyParish 5 месяцев назад
Yes, you have to use the mini map. That’s what makes the narrow channel passages so annoying-the map isn’t price enough at that scale. And it’s ridiculous that the movement of on-screen elements don’t correspond at all to your actual orientation. You rotate 180° on the map and targets rotate 10°. It’s a bad game!
@lasskinn474
@lasskinn474 5 месяцев назад
the yellow face casting didn't look too bad on that clip. the dude sitting in the chair looks well enough like a genuine domestic south asian kareoke bar patron.
@JeremyParish
@JeremyParish 5 месяцев назад
I didn't show the egregious stuff, because who really needs to see that? The same episode features a character played by a child actor who is very obviously a blonde white kid in badly applied olive-tone makeup acting opposite actual South Asians. Even on VHS, it's pretty appalling.
@lasskinn474
@lasskinn474 5 месяцев назад
@@JeremyParish well it would make the point more if the guy on point didn't look like the guy at the immigration office didn't look like well a basic grumpy middle aged dude, my neighbor or the guy at the immigration office. of course it shouldn't have been hard to find actual south east asians in LA in 80s. actually casting what is actually south east asian even now might be hard(edit: because if you let south east asians do it you don't end up with reality). the people on local sitcoms are tuned up to look like upper society koreans, dark is equaled with poor and non glamorous and they live with the idea that you can change your skincolor too. there's one burger king in the city I live and 30 "korea clinics"...
@TheXYZStrain
@TheXYZStrain 5 месяцев назад
Vietnam and Cambodia is southeast asia not south asia
@steuph1976
@steuph1976 4 месяца назад
And yet, it's far from being the worst game based on Airwolf.
@michaelcirco3948
@michaelcirco3948 5 месяцев назад
Afghanistan truly was Vietnam II. That's part of why Trump's America First rhetoric appeals to the same Reaganite types, esp in Gen X.
@wargameboy72
@wargameboy72 5 месяцев назад
I also have a real distaste for Trump and all his small mindedness. The man is the true definition of human garbage!!!! But also implying all Gen X people are the same is also small minded.
@VahanNisanian
@VahanNisanian 5 месяцев назад
Jeremy, any idea why Beam Software wasn’t credited for their work on their first NES game, 𝘈𝘪𝘳𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘧? And I have a hunch Beam intended it to be played on a PAL NES, in which the theme is played slower in A Minor, just like in the TV show.
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