The A-Z of Namco's Classic Arcade Games: Part 2 (1986-1992) | Kim Justice

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The Namco Arcade Retrospective continues, finishing up the 80's and going into the 90's with the odd classic such as Rolling Thunder, Pac-Mania, Starblade and Final Lap, some excellent games that never left Japan, and a bunch of Scaler and full 3D titles...oh, and the small matter of Galaxian 3. Enjoy!
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0:00 Intro
1:04 Genpei Touma Den
2:20 Hopping Mappy
3:29 The Return of Ishtar
4:55 Rolling Thunder
6:34 Sky Kid Deluxe
7:28 Thunder Ceptor + Thunder Ceptor II
8:49 Toypop
9:49 Blazer
11:00 Dragon Spirit
12:08 Final Lap
13:56 Galaga '88
15:10 Pac-Mania
16:46 Quester + Quester Special Edition
18:04 Wonder Momo
19:18 Youukai Douchuu Ki
20:50 Assault ‪@MiguelRamirez-nd7ml‬+ Assault Plus
22:02 Baraduke II
23:26 Bravoman
24:58 Face Off
26:04 Marchen Maze
27:19 Metal Hawk
28:39 Mirai Ninja
29:45 Ordyne
30:59 Pro Yakyuu World Stadium
32:40 Splatterhouse
34:03 Winning Run
35:36 World Court Pro Tennis
36:33 Blast Off
37:48 Burning Force
38:59 Dangerous Seed
40:03 Dirtfox
41:02 Finest Hour
42:29 Four Trax
43:40 Phelios
44:49 Pro Yakyuu World Stadium '89
45:59 Rompers
47:08 Valkyrie No Densetsu
48:38 Winning Run Suzuka Grand Prix
50:01 Dragon Saber
51:37 Final Lap 2
52:53 Galaxian 3
55:56 Kyuukai Douchuu-ki
56:57 Marvel Land
58:16 Pistol-Shogun
59:15 Pro Yakyuu World Stadium '90
1:00:15 Puzzle Club
1:01:30 Souko Ban Deluxe
1:02:33 Driver's Eyes + Winning Run '91
1:04:08 Golly! Ghost!
1:05:19 Rolling Thunder 2
1:06:15 Solvalou
1:07:24 Starblade
1:09:11 Steel Gunner
1:10:30 Super World Stadium
1:11:25 Tank Force
1:12:29 Bakuretsu Quiz Ma-Q Daibouken
1:13:15 Bubble Trouble - Golly! Ghost! 2
1:14:16 Cosmo Gang - The Puzzle
1:15:33 Cosmo Gang - The Video
1:16:37 Exvania
1:17:42 Fighter And Attacker
1:18:48 Final Lap 3
1:20:05 Steel Gunner 2
1:21:13 Super World Stadium '92
1:22:22 Suzuka 8 Hours
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@Kim_Justice Месяц назад

What's your favourite out of this lot? Something more classic like Rolling Thunder or Pac-Mania? An adrenaline-packed bit of racing in Final Lap? Or one of the more obscure Japanese-only titles? Have a shout here in the comments, and thanks for watching :)

@kevinrhea7332 Месяц назад

Rolling Thunder ! Someone needs to reissue a cheap collection already ! Thanks Kim ! Great video as always, cheers !

@davidmartin3280 Месяц назад

Cosmo Gang: The Video for me! I played the hell out of the SNES port of it back when! Didn't see it in any of my local arcades around that time! It wasn't until MAME that I learned during the bonus stages that they we stealing energy! Great stuff!

@Bakartridge2095 Месяц назад

rolling thunder has always been one of my favorite arcade games

@josecalistro5581 Месяц назад

For me is Rolling thunder. The precursor to Shinobi?

@JamesShow Месяц назад

I am lousy at Pac Mania but I am always a sucker for that game and every port of it.

@g04tn4d0 Месяц назад

Seriously, where do you get the energy to continuously pump out top tier content like this? 🐐😎🎉

@AdamGross-gy4mq Месяц назад

Omega-level rizz

@ramrodbldm9876 5 дней назад

Get it out of your throat

@32mlucas Месяц назад

Ordyne was released in arcades in Italy, it was my favourite game while holidaying in Italy during The 1990 world cup.

@chrisgilson1436 11 дней назад

It was also released in UK as I remember playing it around late 80s at local arcade

@nickthelick Месяц назад

Loved Rolling Thunder... One of the few games that retained it's excellent gameplay and smooth playability across all the formats that it was released on. Even the Spectrum version was good! The one I had! And later on, the Amiga version...

@tomkrawec Месяц назад

Kim, you should be on the TV doing documentaries. You're fantastic.

@ramrodbldm9876 5 дней назад

You need to quit being such a cornball. This man is not going to let you go down on him so commenting 100 times brown nosing on your knees isn't working. He won't even reply to you and say thanks lmaooooo 100+ comments and no replies 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@RetroRulzMyTown Месяц назад

I should say when it comes to Wonder Momo, it's not only a Japan exclusive, but it's also FAR more popular than you'd believe. It got a port to the PC-Engine, Namco Museum Encore(both with translations to boot), even some revisits from stuff like her teamup with Bravoman in Namco x Capcom and cameos and appearances in Shifty Look's works. Helps that IN the realms of Japan, aside from the obvious like the fanservice and sentai appeal, it's known for having a robust soundtrack for its time with Wonder Momo's iconic theme playing when powered up. Can't say I'm a fan of the game myself, but I want to at least highlight more of its appeal for those who don't know.

@TruculentSheep Месяц назад

It also uses the same game-as-theatrical-reenactment conceit as Super Mario Bros. 3, interestingly enough.

@ChibiFighter Месяц назад

Shockingly the PC Engine port also plays better too, way less delay in the controls.

@skywalkerranch Месяц назад

Kim knocks it out of the park once again.

@ChibiFighter Месяц назад

Kim this might be my favorite video series that you've ever produced and you've produced some amazing videos, I am such a die-hard fan of Namco especially during the 80s and I'm so happy to finally see someone really cover all bases for the arcade.

@michielkroder4031 Месяц назад

Sitting down with a hot beverage for this. Any serious arcade head of the 1980s has at least a few Namco favs.

@arcadianlhadattshirotsughW33Z Месяц назад

Tower of Druaga has a lot of great follow ups like a heavily updated and expanded version on the pc engine cd (with an english patch) , Nightmare of Druaga on the ps2, and a surprisingly well made anime subtitled the Aegis and Sword of Uruk, my other favorites on this list have to be Burning Force, Phelios, and Valkyrie no Densetsu.. i had never heard of Mirai Ninja

@TheHabitual77 Месяц назад

Nostalgia overload! My local laser quest has a bunch of these, including a two player final lap and Star blade. Looking forward to part 3

@jamesbruce487 Месяц назад

Fantastic video, fantastic work. Greatings from Spain! After a hard day work, and after watching the european football match, the best is to watch a video with a beer! (I usually watch them in parts) In Spain it was the golden age of arcades in the 80s-90s

@whackman47 Месяц назад

Just got a notification for this just as I’m going to bed. Great bedtime viewing and will rewatch tomorrow.

@alanchiz Месяц назад

Some interesting ones I hadnt heard of. Always interesting to get the full story of the actual arcade cabinets, which you can often miss just playing them through MAME

@Aboveup Месяц назад

Valkyrie no Densetsu is one of Namco's most beloved games in Japan, and it's for a very good reason. That game goes so hard, and it's a shame how underrated it is everywhere else.

@ynotwalk7391 Месяц назад

i don't think it's underrated so much as unknown

@Mateus_Carvalho Месяц назад

There's a reason the Valkyrie gets called up for crossovers and has her gear usually just sitting there on Soul Calibur.

@joedent3323 Месяц назад

Absolutely Brilliant! Cheers Kim :)

@nickthelick Месяц назад

Really, really lastly... Just to say, love your videos/content, Kim! As it's been mentioned before (probably a few years ago now!), your (not so) mini documentaries about the developers from yesteryear are spectacular, and are everything that Charlie Brooker ever dreamed of making. For real. Take care, Kim... Much luv to ya, dude... ✌🏻😘👌🏻

@djackmanson Месяц назад

Babe wake up, Kim Justice just released another 84 minute doco.

@hv1225 Месяц назад

This was one of my favourite youtube channels before it doing content equivalent of reading through the phone book.

@Debagio Месяц назад

Yay, thank you for part 2 Kim! ❤

@djvoid1 Месяц назад

Can't go past Wolling Funder :) thanks Kim!

@mrbedford Месяц назад

Looking forward to this, seems I've missed a few videos these last few weeks, and as always i'm sure it's a BANGER!

@mentazm Месяц назад

Super World Stadium '92 actually adds the real NPB teams, it's huge

@cartmann94 Месяц назад

The racing games (the Winning Runs and Final Laps) deserve to be given a Capcom Arcade Stadium treatment rerelease. The good news is that most of the other games on this list are available on the Arcade Archives. Especially Legend of Valkyrie.

@roartjrhom4932 Месяц назад

Really, really love these videos! Thank you so much. 🙏🙏🙏

@jamesw3546 Месяц назад

Another awesome video. Love the reference to The Day Today, too. 😆

@mattw8332 Месяц назад

Oooh Dragon Spirit! I think I had that as part of a compilation package for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum around 1990. 🤔 Not enough Baseball games! 😜

@Unquestionable Месяц назад

Been playing Project X Zone during my downtime at work lately, a crossover strategy RPG/beat'em up sort of, and I adore when it uses the more obscure stuff which doesn't get referenced enough by their parent companies. Tons of Namco stuff as their company is one of the big representatives in the title so it's great to see a lot of the origins of those characters in this video.

@bartdunbar5108 Месяц назад

Galaxian 3 and starblade are my favorites, great video

@FezTheSpaceBiker Месяц назад

Fun Fact about Namco's Film division: To my knowledge Namco Films only produced two films; Mirai Ninja's adaptation and, weirdly enough, Troma's Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD.

@TruculentSheep Месяц назад

Excellent video, with plenty to look up and try on both MAME and Arcade Archive.

@YiyiOta Месяц назад

Superb video as ever Kim. Thanks so much for all the work you put in!

@big_ry82 Месяц назад

Lot of games here inhave not heard of/played. Thinks for bringing them to my attention. Going to be busy adding them to my steamdeck.

@IanWitts Месяц назад

1:01:59 My OCD went into overdrive when the opening move to the second level on Souko Ban Deluxe happened! 😂 Brilliant video, Kim. Thank you.

@sadgenius Месяц назад

Galaga '88 will always exist in the Roller City in Southend of my heart (next to New Zealand Story and Arkanoid II The Revenge of Doh)

@kumquatqueen5975 Месяц назад

The tank's evasive roll in Assault reminds me a lot of the Starfox 64 tank.

@alexandreturcotte6411 24 дня назад

I have played Rompers and Splatterhouse. (On an emulator arcade who didn't asks for money and an actual Namco compilation respectivly). I did knew of Splatterhouse a lot (Thanks Derek from SSFF fame, among other people), but I never knew about Rompers before playing it. I can confirm both are a good time (even if I didn't got far in either).

@Chimpdonger Месяц назад

Great video Kim, i think you are onto something here with these arcade histories, more please !! x

@TheSecondIDare 28 дней назад

Your videos are fantastic. Great work.

@EpicallyCasual Месяц назад

*settles in for the next hour and a half*

@roryhession Месяц назад

Kim as always brilliant vid - I didn't think anyone else had seen Blazer!

@mustaffaleak9247 Месяц назад

Awesome as usual. I've watched this over several days - as I usually do since I've the attention span of a gnat with serious ADHD issues. Nevertheless, very enjoyable. I appreciate all the hard work. Looking forward to part 3.

@richardgadberry8398 Месяц назад

Starblade. Brings back memories of the old Family Fun Center in Auburn, Washington.

@danboid Месяц назад

Excellent video Kim! Assault is in my top 10 arcade games ever and maybe SplatterHouse would be in my top 20. I missed out on Metal Hawk at the time which looks like fun and the arcade version of Marvel Land looks much better than the MD version I'd played as a kid. I wish I'd got to visit Wonder Eggs, which is the best name for an amusement park or arcade ever.

@stylepartner5123 Месяц назад

Thanks for this Kim. Have a great weeekend

@anactualmotherbear Месяц назад

Great episode as always.

@David-no7zi Месяц назад

Ah Kim you have made my weekend, thank you!

@jessragan6714 Месяц назад

Despite all the extra bells and whistles, the late 1980s output of Namco didn't have the timelessness of its early 1980s output. Also, Namco's stuff starts to feel indistinguishable from Taito's in the late 80s and early 90s. You mentioned Mirai Ninja (Legend of Kage), but there's also Youkai Dochuki (Bonze's Adventure) and Cosmo Gang (Attack of the Lunar Loonies). Half the time you don't know where Taito ends and Namco begins. Anyway, great series of reviews! I should have mentioned that when you posted the first one... my apologies.

@jaynotmusic Месяц назад

Great vid Kim

@racejase979 Месяц назад

“Oh, bloody hell!” 😂😂❤

@ynotwalk7391 Месяц назад

i still find it bizarre how far ahead sega was when they released their super scaler games

@SRDhain Месяц назад

Rolling Thunder,Pac Mania & Splatter House. All three had great music, which mattered when you wanted to put another credits' worth of coinage in, to try and get further / finish the game

@mamehaze Месяц назад

Blast Off feels somewhat unfinished. If you're holding the start button and insert a credit during the attract mode, it breaks the game, giving you an invalid stage to play on. Apparently that can be reproduced on the PCB too, not just MAME (although I haven't personally verified it)

@mamehaze Месяц назад

MAME does have a pretty good emulation of the original Cosmo Gang btw, it's done using MAME's internal artwork system and clickable / movable parts. The gameplay is basically intact even if you're playing it with a mouse.

@billiondollarman3847 Месяц назад

GALAXIAN 3!! NAMCO went All out Huge!👾👾👾🕹️

@MrBillybobyeah Месяц назад

I remember the smaller 6 player Galaxian 3, such a great and unique experience

@gmo6854 Месяц назад

Fantastic stuff

@AuberaunPsychology Месяц назад

I'm pretty sure the audio in Winning Run is messed up in MAME, I believe the cars actually sound pretty much the same as an older Indycar in the actual cabinet to my memory

@sanny87 Месяц назад

Thank you for the excellent content.

@jamestillett3002 Месяц назад

I have most of those Games Thanks to Hamsters Arcade Archives on the PS4/5

@mandlecreed02 Месяц назад

Also : at 54:17 - is that a very young Joe Lo Truglio of Brooklyn 99 fame sat at the Galaxian 3 cab on the far right? 😅

@Vancegeoffmen2 Месяц назад

For what it’s worth, the pc engine port of Wonder Momo handles a bit better than the arcade version and graphically a near 1:1. I had played the port first, and was taken a back of how frustrating the arcade version was. Fun stuff.

@mandlecreed02 Месяц назад

Isn't Valkyrie No Densetsu somehow linked to Xandra's Big Adventure/Whirlo on the SFC/SNES? I'm SURE it is. Imma go info hunting 😅 great video as always!

@ZEUSDAZ Месяц назад

Nice video buddy.

@while_coyote Месяц назад

I love these videos

@SeanONeill-ef5vb Месяц назад

Obviously Rolling Thunder stands out but didn’t realise the sequel was an arcade game. Just thought it was a console sequel. I did enjoy the Suzuki 8hr racing game

@heavysystemsinc. Месяц назад

The port of Starblade on Tekken makes it worth the admission price alone, even if you don't like fighting games cause it's just so fun and stays at a locked 60fps. I'd say the only downside is analog controller aiming. I do wish there was option to use something different, like a mouse maybe.

@jasonrockley3724 Месяц назад

Awesome. Cheers Kim. Gonna pick up a couple of boozes and get stuck in later.

@RespectTheLogos3 Месяц назад

These British giants have not been covered fully: Argonaut Software (Starglider, Star Fox, Croc and Harry Potter) Creative Assembly (FIFA, Total War and Alien: Isolation) Rare (Donkey Kong, GoldenEye, Banjo-Kazooie, Conker and Sea of Thieves) Probe Entertainment (Primal Rage PS1 port and Die Hard Trilogy) Climax Studios (Licenced games from Hot Wheels to Robot Wars. Also original game Sudeki.) Rebellion Developments (Comics, Pinball and Sniper Elite) The Sales Curve (SCI) (Speccy ports of arcade titles, Carmageddon and Conflict: Desert Storm) Hewson Consultants (Uridium and Paradroid) Denton Designs (Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Speccy ports of arcade games) Criterion Games (RenderWare, Burnout and Black) Elite Systems (Speccy ports of arcade titles) Frontier Developments (Elite Dangerous to Planet Coaster)

@stuntpope Месяц назад

I'm really suprised Namco had no beat em ups around this time (or ever, thinking about it) Everyone and their mothers wanted some of that Double Dragon/Final Fight money

@remka2000 Месяц назад

Valkyrie no Densetsu ! It's been a looooong time 😅 There is a Pc Engine version that is pretty faithful to the arcade too.

@VBrancoPT Месяц назад

Good ol' Namco.

@thegaminghellyoutubething Месяц назад

you mention that youkai dochuuki, ordyne, phelios and tank force were all japan-exclusive but all absolutely had, at the very least, english-language boards produced (your footage is from the english version of phelios- the japanese version has jp text and voices) and some are included with the arcade archives releases, although not all (tank force has a world-only four-player revision not released in japan, and youkai dochuuki's aca release has an english revision with the original title- shadowland is a name that appears in the namco museum series and other materials, and iirc a board exists using that name on the title screen, but not for the aca version) obviously those boards alone aren't bullet-proof evidence, but this came up as a subject of discussion when cosmo gang the puzzle came out on arcade archives as it had an english rom but wikipedia (and probably some fan wikis) always had it listed as japan-only. i've found it's definitely better to err on the side of caution before declaring an arcade game japan-only, especially since, depending on how strict you are with the definition, some arcades would just import them (and ignore the warning screen) and arcade history is spottily-documented as it is also, bakutotsu kijuutei's arcade archives version has the game set to two lives by default and not one but i'm still a little unsure if that's the intended behaviour. aca does tend to be more accurate than mame in some aspects (the controls for wonder momo were messed up in mame until recently, the aca version had them correct) anyway, i still think adding sources lists to your videos would be extremely helpful for viewers, there was a brief mention of a fan wiki referenced but i think having that kind of thing available is useful for everyone

@Kim_Justice Месяц назад

Adding source lists is definitely something I need to do more of, yes - as a matter of fact, I found the info about Puzzle Club on a certain GamingHell website. So thanks for that :) specifically www.gaminghell.co.uk/Megapanel.html

@thegaminghellyoutubething Месяц назад

@@Kim_Justice this is why it's important to source things, i hadn't considered that the megapanel / puzzle club connection info was taken from my website, and had i not brought this up i wouldn't have been credited. thank you for adding the links but please be a bit more considerate in the future. other sites and people can make videos like these more infomative and i'm all for that, as long as credit is given where it's due. thank you.

@heavysystemsinc. Месяц назад

Also I will slightly disagree with your assessment of Golly Ghost being the 'top' Namco ticket gun game. I think that title belongs to Quick and Crash. I can't tell you how many quarters I threw into that machine, caring not even about the tickets or redeeming them, but for the sheer chasing of the high score (best time) and the absolutely amazing magic trick of the final target being a cup that shatters into a dozen pieces when you shoot it. In reality, it was a big solenoid that flips with one side being a tub housing broken pieces of a coffee cup, and the other side is a real coffee cup...it spins so fast from the cup to 'no cup there' that it violently tosses the pieces all over the cabinet and feels like you just destroyed that thing with your light gun. So satisfying and when coupled with the time and 'crack shot' style game play (It's akin to Duck Hunt, except you get a total amount of bullets for the entire 5 stages...you run out of bullets, you immediately end the game), it's just...man, it's so fun.

@125scratch2 Месяц назад

17:46 That's Ki

@hardkoregamer1981 Месяц назад

Kim are you going to do a video on retro vector arcade games?

@DiAL033 Месяц назад

Marchen Maze: I wonder whether they meant Märchen (german for fairy-tale) here, or if marchen means sth different in japanese and it's just a coincidence

@lilwyvern4 Месяц назад

It takes some cojones to release a 28 player, full motion arcade game. That's saying nothing about the sheer quantity of classics on display, but just imagining how completely nonviable that is in today's world, it's sort of refreshing to see that level of ambition revisited. Would've certainly loved to have tried it myself.

@jessragan6714 Месяц назад

Masunobu Endo is my favorite marijuana strain.

@BenGoodsonModular Месяц назад

What's the first game you think of when you think of Namco? For me, it's Ridge Racer.

@Northlander72 Месяц назад

Pac Land, probably. I have been around since some of the earliest arcade games were released because I'm old, but I think it was around the time of Pac Land that I started paying attention to which company made what. More so since I generally preferred the stuff made by Capcom or Taito rather than Namco, and it was only when I started picking up the Namco collections on the PS1 when I also started to take note of Namco as a company that made great games. That being said, the very first game I ever played of Namco's was probably Dig Dug. Which I guess would be my favorite early gen Namco game.

@Zumii Месяц назад

Time Crisis

@JuliusHowe Месяц назад

I think this might be my first ever first comment

@thomas-ol3ni Месяц назад

Wasn't Dragon Spirit a Taito game?

@SeanSeanson Месяц назад

Lets gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

@jbmaru Месяц назад

Well that first game came out about 5 years before Earnest Evans...

@Kim_Justice Месяц назад

I didn't word that great, I meant that Earnest Evans may have been influenced by Genpei Touma Den.

@jbmaru Месяц назад

@@Kim_Justice Oh I see, thank you for the reply.

@Mando5 Месяц назад

❤

@nickthelick Месяц назад

Last comment from me: As a young child (from 6 upwards!), even at that young age I was very aware that "GRAPHICS DO NOT MAKE A GAME!" I never understood how so many of my friends would end up buying games that were absolute shite, all because they liked the way the game looked! I already knew that a game could look like shite but be immensely playable and addictive. But so many kids I knew totally bought into a game's looks and would try to convince themselves that their new game that they just bought was the mutt's nuts! 🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️ "Nope, sorry mate... I *_DON'T_* want to borrow your 'Rise Of The Robots' in exchange for my copy of 'Syndicate'! Nor 'Speedball 2' either! I'll keep hold of them both, thanks!"🤦🏻‍♂️ 🖕🏻😉👎🏻

@sailorpacmoon2563 22 дня назад

You haven't done namco classic collection vol 1 and 2.

@Kim_Justice 21 день назад

They'll be in part 3. :)

@CondemnedToBeMe Месяц назад

❤❤❤❤

@derekchapman5167 Месяц назад

1:24 of entertainment and the only fault I could pick out of it all was the pronunciation of "beta", that being "bee-ta" and not "bay-ta"; for that reason I consider myself to be a massive twat. Keep up the good work!!

@joedent3323 Месяц назад

16:53

@THENAMEISQUICKMAN Месяц назад

How dare you say Wonder Momo is lousy?! She does the heckin' MGM lion roar with a yawn when you put a credit in! THAT IS ENOUGH TO EARN FIVE OUT OF FIVE. WE WILL BE HAVING WORDS. YOU'RE GONNA SEE FOR THE WONDER MOMO SLANDER. ... okay, yeah, the game is pretty mediocre. But I love it anyway lol.