This is why I'm subscribed to learn about arcade games I honestly have never heard of and this is a perfect example since I had not heard of this game until you posted this video. Learned a lot and I appreciate the effort. Keep up the good work PatmanQC!
I remember playing this at my local Pizza Hut. I actually played quite a few games there as they constantly replaced cabinets with new titles. Too bad the 7800 port didn't turn out better.
Loved playing this in the local arcade as a kid. This was one of those games where you could walk up to and ask a complete stranger to play with you and they'd accept the challenge by popping their quarter in behind yours.
Just over half way to 100k PatMan!! You deserve all the success coming your way buddy. That sente system looks nice. Would love one for the house for sure!
I've never even seen this game before. I also hadn't heard of the cowboy game in the beginning of this video. I really enjoy these videos. They're laid back and I always learn something new.
Yet another arcade I'd never heard of, also what great editing in this episode as always, some amazing original photos and really crisp footage from all the games.
I LOVE your shows and channel! I wish you had DVD/Blu Rays with all your episodes on them. They're awesome for entertainment and educational purposes. Keep up the amazing work!
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Most people don't know RBI started out as an arcade cabinet. I loved RBI and when I ran into one of those cabinets for the first time I was gobsmacked. It plays just a tiny bit different than the Nintendo game and the teams are made up of all time all stars for each team not the roster of the '85 or '86 teams. Like Mickey Mantle and Babe Ruth would both be in the Yanks lineup.
I was lucky enough to work in the UCLA arcade in the mid-80s; we could play any game for free but Hat Trick was always one of our favorites . . . just a nicely polished game (best playable in the head-to-head sit-down version though)
Nice documentary Patman! Honestly Hat Trick reminds me of Activision's Ice Hockey on the Atari VCS/2600. Will be including a recommendation, and a link to your video on my channel's review video of the A 7800 Hat Trick arcade port Wednesday.
No way!!! I had no clue that this was an arcade cabinet first then a port??? I got this when it came out for the 7800 as a Xmas party gift and LOVED IT. I wish I knew it was in the arcade but I have Never seen one. Everything u said is what I loved about this game...and that was on the 7800 so I can only imagine how amplified it is on the real thing. I agree on everything u said about this game and its playability, now I gotta play the real deal!
I don't know how rare the actual cabinet was but I can recall playing it at a couple of different places growing up. The Commodore 64 version is probably the best one. I had reached out to the developer of the game while making the video and never heard back until last night in which he gave me a ton of info on the game. Stuff about how the skidmarks on the ice were a happy accident
I don't know this game and I don't have the herkey jerky version for my 7800 , but I really enjoyed this video !!!! Great research as always . You really know your stuff and now I want to play this game . And I'm not even a huge hockey fan .
Thanks again for the kind words. When I first discovered this game in the arcades back in 1985 I wasn't a hockey fan either but absolutely loved this game. Like I said, the computer is way too easy so was much better in multiplayer mode
I never played the arcade game, but I used to play this on my C64 occasionally. I was never into sports, but I liked this game in short doses. I didn't even know it was an arcade port until much later.
It is fantastic on 64 but you can't beat the arcade game. By the way, I did get to speak to the creator of the arcade game but unfortunately my videos already done. He did say that the scrapes on the ice were a complete accident but it looked cool and decided to keep them in.
I had a lot of fun playing hat trick over the years. My favorite term too. Surprisingly you didn’t cover the Escar sketch 2000 version. Friend of mine had that.
I recall reading an article about the C64 version, where they explained that the game internally runs at 120fps - polling joystick ports and updating the sprite positions twice per screen frame (NTSC, of course, displays at 60fps). As such, it may be the smoothest and most responsive C64 game of all.
@@henrilauronen7634 I'm afraid not. We're talking some magazine from the 1980s. Probably Commodore Magazine or Commodore Power Play (both USA magazines).
Those are all just custom bezels that I do a Google search for. I have to manually put them in for each video. I have quite the collection now after doing 100+ of these documentaries. Thanks
I think I fell hard for it’s successor, “Hit the Ice,” by Williams, later part of Midway. It had some of Arch-Rivals and Pigskin with it’s dirty-trickery elements.
🤩! I Didn’t Know That Bally Sente’s “Team Hat Trick” (1985) 🇨🇦 Version Was The Original Deluxe Four Player 🪙-Op 🕹 Was Released A Year After The Two Player Version Was Released In 🇺🇸! But Only 15 Units Of That 🪙-Op 🕹 Were Ever Produced! Talk About A Piece Of Ancient Retro Gaming History!
I didn't hear you mention the button could be use to slap the puck from the opponent, and that 1 coin supported 2 players (tho that may have been just my arcade...Video Roundup in Scottsdale)
I will always remember seeing this one as a kid when we would go on vacation, and being so mesmerized at how fast they skated and confused that there were no fights! Even Ice Hockey on Atari, you could slash the crap outta the other skaters HAHA
My cousin had this on the 7800. I wonder if one of these modern day Homebrew experts couldn't fix the choppy frame rate and make it more playable. They're modding and tweaking old 7800 games all the time. Seems this one could be fixed. I think it's the best looking of the three, as far as fidelity to the arcade. Even if the skates don't leave marks, you still get the Zamboni at the end.
The Hat Trick game that was at my arcade had the goal nets on the top and bottom (like tennis). but I don't remember the scoreboard being side ways. weird.
Now we are up to three dislikes so hopefully it doesn't go any further. The company actually released one game under the sente label before they were purchased by Bally. Towards the end of their life they were only releasing one game a year.
I loved hockey as lol guy in PNW My mom was still is so sweet and gave me a quarter if I was well behaved to let me play HAT TRICK at the shitty lil min arcade near the grocery store
I like this channel, though I do think that there's one thing that could make it better, and that's background music. Just a voice over silence in a video is kind of jarring, it's like listening to a DVD director's commentary at 3 in the morning after waking up from a rough sleep.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Well, what I see a lot of channels do is have music from the game they're talking about playing in the background quietly, just so there's not pure silence.
This game cheats. You could have been up two and all of a sudden you had a hat trick pulled on you. Play against your friends, the computer was skynet.
So you and your buddies had money to buy the arcade machine, install it inside your living room and play with handheld controllers (was that even an option with the arcade)? Guess you were a kid with privelige and unlimited cash growing up.
