The Arcade Experience at Home - The Complete Series 

Another series to watch with a drink and popcorn

Sega lord you grew up a little earlier than me so you got the full video game experience. I was born in 85 so my experience started on a nes home console. My Dad played galaga and pinball when I was a baby.

80 and 90 was a great time for gamers.

you mentioned your family's interest and enthusiasm for arcades. I think a big part of why I find your content so enjoyable is you sharing your lived experience with all these games. it's just great.

I reset the score counter of Missile Command on the 2600 when I was a kid. It resets back to zero after you get 999, 999 points. I thought that was a big accomplishment back then, and no one believed me when I told them I did it.

One of my favourite arcade ports was for Cyber Troopers: Virtual On for the Saturn. I only got to play the arcade version once due to it seemingly being very rare in the UK. I was working a summer job by the coast and I toured the arcades trying to find the arcade version. I went back there later on and the machine was long gone, replaced by some gambling machines. It was sad to watch the decline of the arcade, those games felt special because you couldn't take the 100% authentic version of the game home. Some of those cabinets like Space Harrier felt revolutionary. It's sad that there will be people who never get to experience such machines.

was born in '78 here I really like your videos bringing back memories from my childhood

Arcading make up many of my favourite memories from my childhood. Space Invaders was my first along with Asteroids. I was born in 69 was I was at the prime age to enjoy everything that came along. Seeing the changes from Pong to Space Harrier and Dragons Lair looking back was mind blowing. I would always keep an eye on all the new games that came along and found my favourite genre that way and it’s light fun shooters. Terminator 2,Area 51 and then on to House Of The Dead and my all time favourite Rambo 2008. I look at games like Defender and Scramble with such fond memories of them being ridiculously hard

I feel you 100%! I was stuck with an Atari 2600 when everyone else had the good consoles! I hated life until I finally got a C64

Can we take a minute to appreciate the awesomeness that was the music of the starting menu screen in the NES version of Double Dragon?

The Dreamcast especially I’ll never forget. The same graphics as the arcade, and the ability to bring your VMU into certain machines, will never forget that era ❤️

I remember spending hours in the arcades in the late 80s as a young boy watching older kids play the machines or just watching the attract modes taking on the wonderment of the sights and sounds. I truly feel blessed to be alive to have witnessed those special times. Another awesome video Sega lord X!

That part and quote from 1:39:44 and onwards made me tear up a bit. I miss those arcade times. Only Japan you can still experience the arcade scenes. And now it's time for the Arcade Treasure series to be in a full video as well. I am so looking forward to that one.

Lord Sega please! 🙏 I spent an hour yesterday listening to your golden voice. I spent an hour watching your beautiful works. Give me more than a day! /s Cool compilation, thanks homie.

Ikari Warriors was a go to couch co op game. Loved it.

Love the show, SLX! Early super Scaler hardware was very novel for its time. The scaling hardware was ANALOG! The raster scan position within the sprite was controlled by a VCO (voltage-controlled oscillator) , a part more often associated with vintage music synthesizers than graphics. To scale a sprite up, the VCO frequency was decreased, making it spend more time scanning across the sprite relative to the screen pixel rate. I think Pole Position did something similar back in 1982. Or maybe it was Turbo, I forget.

Robocop arcade was simply epic at the time,I remember the awesome fights with ig-99… or when you get the super gun, destroying everything on your path. Melee punches sounded heavy and somehow represented the movie really good

Maybe it's just a case of "correlation doesn't equal causation", but have you noticed Sega's rise and fall almost coincides with the arcade's rise and fall? They were at their absolute *best* when arcades were at their strongest, and as arcades waned, so did they.

I've already watched all parts of this but it's worth watching again as a single video. 👍🏽

AMAZING SERIES! Takes me back to my childhood. I remember all these titles at my local arcade. The Master system was very rare in my neighborhood too: the only person who owned one was an adult !! I played it 2-3 times

I'm already thinking this video looks more like a movie rather than a series, seeing as how the videos in this one whole video were edited together. I like it this way.

Thank you for another great anthology! I agree with dropping it at the G5 console series; the lines between the arcade and home-based hardware became so blurred after that. Thanks for the compilation, and the continuing nostalgia trip :)

As a fellow Gen Xer, wow do I relate to these memories. I still vividly remember having my six-year old mind blown by seeing and hearing Galaxian for the first time at a Showbiz Pizza. One difference: I had a ColecoVision by the time the home ports of Donkey Kong and Burgertime dropped. Those were two of the many excellent arcade adaptions on the Coleco.

The only complaint I have there’s only one thumbs up I can give you. I appreciate the effort and time and soul you put in all your videos 👍👍

Finally I got to watch all the episodes, so what if I am at work not working...🤣. Thanks for the video man

I was born in May of 1975, Been gaming since Atari 2600 system. I was like 5-6 years old lol still gaming today my passion is 80s and 90s arcade games, love 2000s as well

Loving the series compliations keep em coming!

Brilliant series - but Dreamcast deserved some shine at the end. It was the ultimate moment that ‘arcade perfect plus’ arrived for gamers who had craved to have arcade quality games at home for so long! Soul Calibur on DC is a historical tipping point. Unfair to group DC in with PS2 and later consoles. It was ahead of its time and really deserved the finale of this series.

1971 here, i saw and play the hole thing here in Brazil, thx for the amazing content.

I remember our mall arcade in 1984 when it opened. What a fascinating experience for an 8 year old. Moon Patrol, Joust, Spy Hunter, Dig Dug, Tron, Discs Of Tron (cockpit), Crossbow, Chiller, Battlezone, Two Tigers, Defender, Missile Command, QBert, Burgertime, Dragons Lair, Chiller. Nothing else like it. I regret I wasn’t able to experience an arcade just a little earlier, because I missed out on a lot of vectors games, Sprint 2, Turbo, Space Encounters, Galaxian, Asteroids, etc. could only find an original PacMan and Sinistar at a local movie theatre which was very cool to experience those. Then there’s a whole host of less popular games of the time that I never saw or experienced. No Glob, Cosmic Guerilla, Space Zap, Cosmic Aliens, Ponpoko, Amidar, Make Trax, etc for me :(

I was the same with arcades but I was born in '82 ... altered beast was one of the first things I noticed ... also arkanoid ... double dragon ...

Another fantastic compilation! Going on my Playlist for sure

Same story for me. One of my uncles showed me this and I was amazed and didn’t even know what a video game was and here I am cheers brother.

This is one of my favorite YT channels! So glad the vids are longer! Great stuff bro 👍🏽!

Loved this series. I'm an older gamer had an Atari 2600 then a nes growing up. Remember playing at the 3 local arcades when I was teenager and wishing my NES looked and played as well as they did. Loved the Sega machines mainly Genesis and Sarturn. Those were good days for gaming.

These compilation vids are helping me get through my sessions on the elliptical haha SLX is my unofficial fitness coach

Loving these longer compilation videos. Thank you so much Sega Lord X.

Sega Arcade classics on 3DS was my first time playing super scalers at home, well worth the port.

Love the content you share with us, my first Sega system was the Saturn. I adored the games I had on the Sega Saturn, and wish I still had it along with all my games.

Lmao i remember being excited to tag along to the arcade at the big mall with my older brother and cousin just to watch them play games or watch the attraction modem. I played galaxian on a machine that also included pacman in 1998 at my local restaurant that was literally a stones throw away, throwing the stone as a 7 year old lol.

You are the best uploader ever to grace RU-vid and I take my hat off to you!

Upvoted for the narrator’s deadpan delivery of the line ‘I won’t blow smoke up your ass..’

Outstanding and robust retrospective. Your writing and presentation are exceptional. Fun!

What a GREAT video. One of gamings best. You got everything right of my sentiments growing up and Experiences of the ups and downs of the arcade into Console gaming. Never has an 1 hour and 40 mins ever go so fast. BRAVO!!!!

I honestly think we took the same lane in gaming life.

Sega Lord X thanks for making another collection for all of these great videos yours truly Sega Mega Zero

Amazing arcade retrospective! Thank you so much!!

man, I miss arcades....the glowing screens...abundance of quarters...the digitized sounds filling the area. Ah, good times. Good times.

My favourite arcade game has to be bubble bobble. The theme song will keep playing for days in your head. And gameplay is quite addictive that you'll wanna continue

I have a nearly exact timeline and experience as you. This was a great video, enjoyed the trip down memory lane.

You are so good at doing these long form videos. Your narration alone is worth the time.

Just rewatching this entire video today. Funny how the Master System was not popular in the U.S. and finding one in the wild was quite rare. Well in PAL regions it was quite the opposite, the Master System was very dominant here and finding a kid that had an NES was very rare. The PAL NES was manufactured by Mattel from memory. Later on in the video during the 32-bit era, it was interesting to see the Saturn and PS1 get shout outs for some of their arcade to home conversions. I never had either growing up in the mid 90's. After the Mega Drive, my family bypassed both of those consoles and jumped on the N64 and then briefly Dreamcast to XBox and XBox to Gamecube, Gamecube to PS2 and then I returned for life to the Mega Drive as by 2003 I discovered that it was my one true console for life and I then started tracking down the Mega-CD extension and other add-ons.

Fascinating video! It’s always cool to look into a different time, and the progression of tech is really interesting to watch. I’ve really been enjoying this channel; it reminds me why I started buying retro games in the first place

I remember playing Double Dragon at Network Video (family-owned video store in my neighborhood) and Winn-Dixie had a Playchoice 10. Even the local Quik-Stop had an arcade cabinet (can't recall what title). Better times, gone forever.

There was a public house near where I lived called "the engine" (with images of a milling engine on the signage, cheers) and they had arkanoid in an upstairs room ... so cheers !!!

You are completely killing it with the content! 😊

I was obsessed with playing the arcade spy hunter. I remember they had it at Jamesway, along with TMNT and double dragon. God ol days man.

80s kid here, and I had The Nes, Snes, Sega Genesis, Turbo Grafix 16 and the Game boy and they are the only ones that Have Nostalgia attached to them at least for me. The Games of today don't bring the memories like the older ones do. The graphics of the 80s and 90s consoles are something that you had to grow up with and experience them for yourself to appreciate.

I watched this entire video just agreeing with you! I enjoyed going to the arcade with my family from tmnt, house of the dead, terminator, Daytona, mortal kombat, tekken the list goes on and on! I enjoyed it. This video and the content was awesome. Each home console had its own unique style and sense of competitiveness. Video games gave us some great memories. Thanks SLX! Great content as always!

Wow the sound fx on the arcade defender are mind blowing and powerful

Great job SLX! You should be proud of your work.

Ahhh 75'. You are my older brother in spirit. Great content!

I’ve noticed the 3DO barely had any shmups. Like horizontal or vertical scrolling shoot ‘em ups. While the PC Engine, Saturn and PlayStation ate it all up, the 3DO had none. If we were to get some back in the day, we would’ve got Raiden, Truxton II, Dogyuun, Grind Stormer and Mahou Daisakusen (which should’ve saw a release on the Saturn and PlayStation).

I'll watch this and then spend the rest of the night on MAME. Cheers for the video.

prior to emulation becoming mainstream (starting on the PC but also being ported to some of the more powerful consoles and in various raspberry pi type devices and now of course the infamous Arcade1ups and various other plug and play type things before and since), there were some great pc ports of arcade games, and the sega saturn, sony playstation and sega dreamcast brought out a lot of good quality conversions. the best way is still on a PC, but if I could afford an RGB style monitor and jamma supergun that would be pretty awesome, since owning your own retro arcade seems like a real money losing hobby (although totally awesome if you can swing it and share it with others!). of course the big elephant in the room is the NEOGEO because the hardware was basically the same in the console as at the arcades. it's a shame I couldn't afford one as a kid (most of us couldn't) but in recent years I finally got the mini as a gift and that was a real milestone in collecting what eventually became a great library of games (not just street fighter ii ripoffs although SNK was very good at those too!)

I had the same experience with Sega Genesis. I was an early adopter. My Genesis came with Altered Beast. I knew the moment I saw that non-scaling explosion that the console was gonna do me wrong on Out Run, Space Harrier, etc.

The n.e.s. version of Contra was and still is one of my favorite games, i once took an elastic band and some pennies and wrapped it around the controller to hold down the fire button and positioned my guy just so at a point were an enemy comes and i learned if i stand in a spot continuously firing the enemies would keep popping up. i did this on the 1rst stage and it was at a point(literally the first segment of the 1st level)were there was only one spot the bad guys would keep popping up so as long as the fire button was compressed my guy would be fine,lol no time limit helped to so i did this one day in the morning before school so when i came back id have all these free extra men built up and it worked beautiful. i had earned 120plus men (127or147,i can't remember)and with all those credits i fought my way thru and finally completed the game which goes back to 1rst level after the credits and i think its a little harder, i put so much time into that game. Another old n.e.s. game:Castlevania 2 simon's quest i think, was amazing to me and my favorite instalment to the franchise. i thought the vast scope of cites terrain and castles along with caves and other environments with many characters all with different dialogue exclusive to each one was a nice touch.

You had all my arcade great time back. Thank you.

Respect your content Sega lord always enjoy your insight of games on everything you do for the video game community

We must be of the exact same generation Sega Lord X, when you narrate your personal perspective and experience it's like a flashback in time. There was nothing like growing up in the 90's.

Back in the 80s about the time I convinced my dad to get us a used Atari 2600, my friends family got the new Colecovision, which had awesome ports of Donkey Kong, Zaxxon and some others. It has an great port of Ladybug too, which was a souped up pac man with some cool twists. Thank you for the awesome content. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Love the channel my friend:)

I miss when arcades were inside of convenience stores. That era is long gone now.

I have beaten Defefender for tha Atari 2600 (it's the only game I've beaten in this console). It lasted around 5 hours and a half and ends when you reach 1.000.000 points and the counter restores to zero. I remember starting playing it at around 10:30 a.m and beat the game at around 4:30 p.m. My mother wanted to watch her tv shows and asked me from time to time if I have ended the game and I replayed "just a moment, gimme 5 more minutes"... and then so on until I reached 999.999 points and when I hit the next ship the next number in the counter was 0. I was like 7 or 8 years old.

AWESOME VIDEO!! thank You! All this also brings me back memories

Wow this looooong!!! 👏 I didn't know what I was getting my self into, glad I did 🙃 😅 🙂

The first time i remember playing arcade games at home was the Atari and Midway compilations on PS1 in about 1999. Its incredible how many different ways we can play arcade titles at home these days. Space Invaders, Pong,Pac Man, Missle Command,Frogger, and Joust were the earliest arcade titles i played at home. Great series keep em coming.

Great job! I feel like we need this series to include Dreamcast though, particularly as it had so many arcade games ported to it. Also surprised to see no mention of Killer Instinct.

What a nostalgic trip! Thanks for this vid!

Have you seen the Arcade 1UP outrun compilation? It is gorgeous.

Sega Saturn also had a rough start when they decided to launch the console without much pre warning. It led to some companies like Kebee Toy Store to outright dump support for SEGA sadly.

I was born in the late 60s so Pinball, analog games, as well as some of the first videogames were part of my childhood and boy was it a special time. It's memories I will cherish forever. It's a shame today's kids will never experience some of the original tactile experiences like looking through a periscope in battle-zone or shifting back and forth driving a car in outrun or physically rolling around in afterburner! I've lost all my original consoles unfortunately through a move but am happy with an android box like super console x that's replaced all of my videogame library. Though admittedly I've moved on playing modern games like Destiny 2 on xbox. :D edit: I remember when activision and Imagic hit the scene it felt like they upgraded my 2600 with games like boxing and Demon Attack which was as close to galaxian you could get at the time!

What a great video to watch on a relaxing Saturday while playing with my bunny.

Awesome thanks segalordx great work Sir

My grandmother Meredith was a space invaders junkie/champion back in 80/81? Somewhere her trophy sits waiting for an heir. 👍😎

😅We gotta be near the same age. I had very similar experieances in my youth except for never owning an NES. In my part of Canada the Sega master system got there first and had a hold for a long while before the NES made it here. A year or 2 later then in the States. For my brothers and I it was in this order: the 2600, colleco or intellivision (i don't remember exactly which) the master system, the 7800 (what a mistake!), the genisis, the sega CD, the supernintendo, Saturn (boy did we LOVE the saturn), PlayStation (ff7 my little brotherHAD to have it), Dreamcast, got my first PC for wing commander 3 and 4, Ps2 after the dreamcast died, gameboy advanced, both my brothers got xboxs, xbox 360, gameboy 3dsXL (what a great system once the price went down and they added the 3d controls!) and then xbox 1 before moving to PC and a switch for everything. Considering how much I love jrpgs it was a bit perplexing I didn't become a Sony fanboy.....maybe I was jrpg'd out after the PS2 but it was probably my love of Halo that kept me on the box. W#hich is sad cause since 343 took over Halo I've not enjoyed it like I used too. I didn't even buy the latest Halo because there was no coop play. If I cant play the campaign with my brothers I just don't want to play it.

What impress me as a Chilean child in the 80, it was you found easily "original arcade" and not those generic cabinet ... Monaco GP, Star wars, karate champion, space invaders, defender, joust, etc... But I was a poor boy, so my first experience arcade to console was TMNT XD

Good timing, I was just browsing through your channel for something to watch.

Lordy made a long one for us to enjoy, thank you Lordy!

I had a very different experience. I did discover Space Invaders first, on a small tabletop game machine. Then I never got to know the original early arcade games, but I played most of those on the Apple II without any basis for comparison, and I was completely absorbed in them!

Being born in 95, I really only caught the tail end of arcades and arcade ports. I wish I could have experienced more of the spectacle that is playing an arcade port at home. I only got to experience it a little bit, like playing Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter at the car wash while my moms car was being cleaned inside and out, I remember so vividly wanting to own that game so bad, then one day we came across it at the store for the PS1 and my mom bought it for me and I got to play it as much as I wanted! Man, what a time!

Its always nuts to hear about video games from a dude that's been in the medium before I was born. Like peeking into a new world

grandioso ,bestial ,que gran trabajo has hecho desde el minuto uno hasta el final,que recuerdos ,por eso sigo jugando a todos esos juegos hoy en dia ,desde Bilbao "Basque Country" saludos y gracias

What a great work you made here ! Reminds me old games I had forgotten like Spy Hunter ! Thanks so much for that 🥰😇🤗👍🍺

Mid 70's? You're as old as my arcade loving dad as well. He used to skip school every year to play the new games, got addicted to Raiden when that came out. Mom did the same thing for Street Fighter 2.

Good stuff man. Keeping the classics alive 👾

Very much looking forward to watching this

Funny, I had a friend named Robert who owned a Vectrex and when his family moved to Texas in 89, I never seen another vectrex in my life again.

We had 5200. My cousin had Colecovision. I was so jealous that the Donkey Kong port for Colecovision was so much better.

Your one of the best to do it my friend great job as usual