[TAS] NARC Arcade in  

====Description==== Narc (stylized as NARC) is a 1988 run and gun arcade game designed by Eugene Jarvis for Williams Electronics and programmed by George Petro, Todd Allen, and Eugene Jarvis, with art by Jack Haeger, John Newcomer, and Lin Young. It was one of the first ultra-violent video games and a frequent target of parental criticism of the video game industry. The object is to arrest and kill drug offenders, confiscate their money and drugs, and defeat "Mr. Big". It was the first game in the newly restarted Williams Electronics coin-op video game division. Shortly before its release, Williams acquired the video and pinball divisions of Bally/Midway. From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narc_(video_game) For more information on this game and to read what I found doing this TAS, click on the description section above.

Happy 35th Anniversary to NARC!

"We got it."

Oh wow, you actually did one of the most notorious arcade games ever. Big thumbs up! 😀 Bleat "violent" or "disturbing" or "kid unfriendly" all you want. One thing and one thing alone defined post-crash American arcade games: _expensive._ If you wanted to make any progress, you had to spend, spend, and spend some more. This is a prime example. Unless you have Hakurei shrine maiden-caliber dodging abilities (Never pass up an opportunity for a gratuitous Touhou reference! 🙂), on every level except 3 and maybe 1, your life expectancy can be measured in footsteps. The fact that there are four buttons and threats frequently jump out of nowhere (sometimes literally) don't help either. And then there's the little matter of those extremely vital blue and green safe cards popping up _at freaking random._ The headquarters is just a death zone, where for most players the cycle is invincibility period, get shot full of holes, repeat. Ooh, ooh, the dogs! I _hate_ those miserable fleabags! As soon as one gets on you, it's too close to hit with either of your weapons, plus they're too fast to outrun, so dying is _completely unavoidable!_ And of course no discussion on "SNK Bosses" is complete without a mention of Mr. Big (no relation to SNK's actual Mr. Big, of course), who's quick and super deadly, and has the little complication that oftentimes you don't even know _where_ to hit him to do damage! That went on a little longer than I expected. Ah well. Another fine effort, Prog61. I was going to ask if you could do one that prioritized speed _or_ points, but really, trying to do anything with this brutal game is painful enough.

There will never be a sound more satisfactory than it counting up the score from the gold at the end.

You're *_B U S T E D !!_*

Ah yes, the laser gun and car that both painfully turn full grown dogs into puppies

This is only Willams Type Z Board used in this game. it features high resolution Single pixel (512x400, like blockout gpu) Screen, Which has higher resolution than other games (except system 573).

"Too little too late talking leg"

Where the hell are ya? We're on our way.

Awesome. I’d love to see a no damage run as well.

imagine an updated version with fentanyl and tranq

A casual stroll through Chicago, Illinois.

I wonder if there's ever been a "bust everyone" run of this game...

The art style and gameplay is strongly reminiscent of Crime Wave (early 90s DOS side scroller with similar gameplay, plot, and parental violence concerns). My copy came on floppy disks.

Big fan of your TAS videos, you do amazing work!

Dude. You're a TAS wonder. You've already knocked some off Midway's hardest stuff. Have you tried Total Carnage or Smash TV?

11:22 Certified Hood Classic™️

I love the bold faced audacity of an illicit drug dealer leasing a business lot to call it the *Krak stop* 😂

One more thing... anyone get the notion that Williams only ever wanted a cutting-edge shoot-'em-up and the "War on Drugs" was just something that got slapped on? I mean, here are your mission objectives, per level: 1. Grab the red -doormat- safe card. 2. Blow up enough enormous boiling vats to draw out the Doctor Spike Rush carrying the blue safe card, neutralize him, grab the card. 3. Cross the bridge. 4. Grab the silver safe card. 5. Collect enough "ganja" pots to draw out the Sergeant Skyhigh carrying the green safe card, kill him, grab the card. 6. Reach the top level of the building. 7. Apprehend the ever loving crap out of Mr. Big using a total of three rockets. (Bullets _do_ damage him, but it's super hard to land enough shots to take him down.) 8. Demolish that huge... _thing._ 😬 Confiscating drugs isn't required. Confiscating drug money isn't required. Arresting _anyone at all_ isn't required. Killing anyone besides your four primary targets isn't required. Destroying even one enemy vehicle isn't required. Keeping the ladies out for a stroll alive isn't required (you can _kill them all_ with no harm done besides the lost points). Looting the treasury, you'd better _believe_ that isn't required. Enforcing drug policy has the same status here as rescuing the prisoners does in Jackal... completely optional, only if you really want the points.

Both the arcade and Nintendo versions gave me hell. You walked in like it's nothing. I'm so sad.

This TAS feels cursed not going for the highest score you could instead going for speed The first level itself was incredibly cursed

Has hints of smash tv

Made a hard arcade look easy...

Havent played this since i was 10. I dont know how many quarters i dropped in this bitch.😅

Huh I thought the PS2 version was the original lol..

It's been years since I felt uncomfortable because of a video game. Since then, I completed some of the most violent titles, such as - Bulletstorm (possibly some people will disagree with me), Manhunt, MadWorld, Splatterhouse, Mortal Kombat... And here comes NARC. I heard about this game for the first time in the JonTron episode. Since then, it made me not like this game at all. Throughout the entire TAS run, I felt so uncomfortable, and horrible. It looks like a great game, but no matter how I look at it, the design, enemies, overall theme, and main boss - I would not be able to complete the game or even complete the first chapter. Well, at least the run looked cool. Expecting for more!

WTF HAX

Boring nothing too see here, no skill, just a cracked version, sorry.