Strikeforce 1991 Midway Mame Retro Arcade Games 

So there is at least one other person who's played this kickass game. Thank you. Strike Force had the unfortunate luck of being released during the Street Fighter 2 craze. As a result, almost no one played it. I've only ever seen one actual Strike Force arcade cabinet. I loved the game immediately. That was in 1993. If it wasn't for MAME, I'd never had gotten to play the game again.

I've been trying to find this game for 25 freaking years! This thing ate hundreds of my preteen dollars at Agincourt Mall in Scarborough.

A worthy successor to Defender and Stargate if it hasn’t been said before.

about this game, Originally, it was going to be called Saurian Front (which is mentioned in the story demo), with the intention of it getting some kind of cheesy 1950's B-Movie feel, but Midway's marketing hated the name, so the staff tinkered with other names such as Solar System and even Offender (which acted like a nod to Defender), until they finally chose Strike Force as the final title.

Strikeforce is a very kool and addictive game. Fast action paced and crucial gameplay. Great and Underated. #NoDoubt

This was the only arcade game I ever played where the best strategy to play the game was to lose two of your lives as quickly as possible at the very beginning of the game.

A trilha sonora é formidável. Nostálgica dos anos 1990 num nível absurdo.

I played this game once back in college and loved it. It was like Defender 3.

One secret to this game: go to the level where there are the ships that have the cockpits that temporarily slide open revealing the alein pilot inside. Deposit two or three of the men on the ground. Drop a bomb near the men so as they fly up into the air. If one of the men is lucky enough to land a shot inside the enemy ship's cockpit while it is open you will see the entire game explode all around you as you level up 20 ships and astronomical points. By then the game's level of difficulty has increased in tandem with it's level of intensity and enjoyment. I don't know if this 'secret' or trick is feasible with any home or secondary versions to be had but I pulled it of a few times at an arcade in Seattle's University District in the mid-ninties.

This is a pretty awesome version of Defender, a little chaotic with the particle effects, but pretty awesome all the same. Great video! I realized what this game is: It's the insane baby of Defender and Total Carnage. So totally insane, this needs to be in a compilation.

Gracias por subirlo tengo 27 años buscando este juegazo, tenía 12 años cuando lo conocí y no recordaba el nombre, gracias te has ganado un suscriptor.

To this day the title screen goes so hard🔥 would absolutely put it on my wall

This was my lunch hour entertainment in Montreal in 1991 or 1992. At my campus arcade in the early 1980s, Defender and Robotron always had a huge line up. The most frantic game where you could get a lot of play time was Space Dungeons. This was two joysticks. I got _insanely_ good at this game. The highest score you could register was 999,995. But it also displayed your level. I think you got the max possible score around level 20. One day we decided to see what happened after level 99. I think we had to play to a score of 6,999,995. I showed up when the campus arcade opened at 08:00 on a Saturday morning, discovered that the machine already had a couple of credits, and started grinding. By dinner time I had maybe a few hundred spare ships, so I left it under the control of a couple of buddies. You could only see at most five spare ships displayed at the top of the screen. When I got back from dinner, there were only three ships left! If you got unlucky, you could have a couple of really quick deaths. There was this thief that would collect the guards. You would zip into a new room and accidentally shoot the thief before you realized he was in there. Then ten guards would suddenly materialize and instantly send a hailstorm of lethal yellow dots in your direction. They were slow moving, but they are coming from 10 different directions, and finding a gap to slip out was plenty difficult. Each of the guards was exactly halfway between your ship and a unit of treasure at all times. Effectively, how you moved your ship precisely moved the guards as well. But the room has ten guards and ten pieces of treasure. Which guard goes with which treasure item? Until you sort that out, you really don't know what to do. You can mentally trace a vector to each guard and double the length. But you can't, because all ten are shooting at you simultaneously! You simply don't have time to do anything but dodge like crazy. And sometimes there's no possible exit. So I grabbed the controls with a vengeance and sweated my way back up to ten or twenty spare ships. What was tricky at this point was actually dying with the score at 999,995. Fortunately my buddy was a math genius (not a figure of speech, he was a literal math genius, with multiple Putnam fellowships to show for it). He had somehow intuited how many points you got for every different thing you could do. He informed me that we needed to shoot one unit of X, one unit of Y, and then impale our-self on a purple spike of a big wagon wheel (these were the relatively harmless meat shields that soaked up all your firepower). I couldn't have done it without him. But we managed to die with a score of 999,995 on level 00. The game had rhymes when you leveled up for the first ten levels. "Have some fun on level one" etc. Perhaps we were the only people to ever see this, but there was an Easter egg, as well: "You're the hero on level zero." The arcade was closing in twenty minutes, well into the late evening. We had played maybe 14 hours continuously on one credit I hadn't even purchased to achieve level 00. So that's the legend of my ambitious but misspent youth. After that pinnacle, most games bored me quite a bit. But in the early 1990s, two games showed up that got me going again. _Strikeforce_ was one, and _Smash TV_ was the other. I remained insanely good at dodging shit in close quarters. My left hand was a work of art. My work colleague at the time was also pretty good at games, and we did fine playing separate ships, but he wasn't in my league at self-preservation. Eventually we decided he would turret-up and we would co-op. His name was Will, but I referred to him as Weapons Officer Bob. What WOB was really good at was sequencing different weapon types. I could call out a weapon we were going to need five moves later as I began an aggressive dive into the belly of the beast, he would kill everything with multiple different weapon types selected at high speed, and then always be standing by with the master weapon at the critical moment. I would say something like "ready the bombs" and he would instantly know what dangerous adventure I had in mind. You had to play pretty aggressive, because time was not on your side. Playing in tandem, we cleaned out the entire solar system on many different occasions, without ever needing a glitch or funky game mechanics. Eventually the planet with the giant helicopters was the only planet that really scared me. These were so huge, if you had six on the screen at the same time you could feel the phone booth closing in around you like a wet flannel shirt on Venus. And they weren't easily killed, either. They soaked up a _lot_ of damage. The concept was you are side scrolling on a circular planet (you could go all the way around). You could see three helicopters massed together on the right side of your screen, and flee to the left. But soon you run into other helicopters, which take a long time to kill. And long before you finished this task, the other three catch up from behind. The secret was to go straight at the ones you could see, even when horribly outnumbered. You just _had_ to kill a few of them before you found yourself on a screen with six at a time. What made this game more fun than Smash TV was that it had a fair difficulty progression. On Smash TV, you get into the second set of levels, and the game goes "okay, we're taking your quarter now, do you want to pay to continue?" Certain screens were wiping me out in 5 to 15 seconds, routinely. And I was pretty good at this shit. Tanks would show up at three of the four sides of the screen at the same time, and all fire missiles at you at the same time, while you're deeply engaged in a central melee barely a notch down in intensity from _Robotron._ Another thing I have to say is that the particular cabinet I played had the brightest and most lurid colours I have ever seen in arcade. There was a saturated teal that practically glowed with Gandalf's secret fire. The palette wasn't precisely neon. I guess you would have to call it hypersatured pastel neon. That was fun, too. When I walked out of the arcade into the daylight, the screens would still be swimming in my vision for the first block. Even the afterimage was lurid.

Been looking forever for this game!

i used to rock at this game!!! the yellow star shot..kick ars3....

One of the best obscure games ever made. Shame it wasn't popular by the time its released.

The only thing I remember about this game was the opening and how much that stood out to me when the close up of the green lizard monster is holding that colonists and for some reason he turns into a small green lizard monster and seeing his shredded orange jumpsuit over his new form.. o.o

Wow, never heard or saw this game back then.

I always loved to use the fire bomb to destroy the walkers after taking their legs off, launch bases and the fortresses that pull you in... and of course, the hordes of Saurians. Nothing more satisfying than seeing them run around as they slowly but surely burn to death.

He had spent years looking for this game! and here I found it! That alone, I subscribe to your channel and give a like! xD

I've been wondering for years what this game was called. I saw it only one time, at a shopping center arcade in either 93' or 94'. I had tried looking at a few compilation videos of arcade games, but they never seemed to include this game. The only reason I learned the name is because of a RU-vid guy who calls himself "Shmup Junkie". He had a few seconds of footage towards the end of his "Best ARCADE Exclusive Games" video. After featuring a number of different games and talking about them, he had montage at the very end where he showed a few seconds of gameplay for several games, Strikeforce being one of them. I doubt I would have ever found it had I not watched that video. It's old, I doubt it was exceptionally popular, it has a generic sounding name, and like someone said below, it first came out during the Street FIghter 2 craze in the arcades. All factors working against me when trying to locate this odd game. I had an inaccurate memory of it being a lot more violent than this, having lots of blood during the dismemberments. I remember thinking at the time that even spaceship games were going to start having blood and gore due to the popularity of Mortal Kombat. I was never good at making accurate predictions.

Better than No Man's Sky

90's version of Defender!(MIDWAY=WILLIAMS

Thanks for uploading

Spent days trying to remember the name of the is game so classic

Precisam disponibilizar a OST desse jogo. Muito foda!

Whats not clear from the video is that two-player is a coop game... one guy flies the ship and the other is the guuner-pod attached to the ship - and you can switch roles. It's a great game. Played many many times at the Rutgers student center circa 91

Very definite nod to Defender there I feel...

First game deved by Williams under the Midway brand after they made Bally pinball and slots only!

Oooohh supieras el tiempo que gaste buscando este juego hace mas de 10 años que lo jugué mi pc murio y nunca pude encontrar su nombre aaaahhh es un peso menos

Better than Defender and Stargate cuz controls doesn't involve pressing a button to face to either the left or right side, another for moving forward, and the joystick not being for moving up and down but actually on all 8 directions.

still waiting for the game's soundtrack to be uploaded to the internet becuz it literally isn't there yet.

MEGABOMB LOADED

Llevo años buscando esto

THE MAKERS OF 'NARC'

(c)1991,2024 Warner bros Discovery inc.

ネームエントリーのパワーバラードが地味に聴ける

Midway Games Software (Now Warner Bros Games)

Never played this, it looks really good.

The screams in the intro sounds like Jacksepticeye

defender 2.0

what is transforming good for?

45:31 - Rekt.

Screw that I WANT to be a lizard man

Where can I play this in a browser or online?

How did you get this to work? Which version of mame?

Alguém, por favor, disponibilize a SENSACIONAL OST desse jogo!

::gets to 2:28:: Okay, class. We're now going to have a surprise test on what you just learned. >___o

The game with the least amount of marketing and promotion ever.

midway's defender😂😂

Por favor, alguém faça um OST desse jogo e poste aqui!

download link!!!??? please link de descarga plox 😀

Too much explosions

Thanks for uploading