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Absolutely Love this game! My friends and I spent an insane amount of quarters on this at our local arcades. I still play it to this day on the Capcom Classics Collection Vol.1 for Playstation.
Commando is one of the games of my childhood (amstrad cpc version) but i'd never realize Mercs was a sequeal till a few years ago. Thanks for the video, you speak so clear and slow... Perfect for the non english native like me!!
Oh, SWEET, this is one of my all time favorites! It was ported so well on the Genesis, especially with the "Original" edition, addition. Mercs is the underrated Contra to me. *After watching now, great job as always! Want to mention, the Genesis version has a rapid fire option that makes that version of the game even better.
Yeah, you can set the controller to rapid in the option screen. It does make the game tougher without a torch when playing the arcade ports on PS2 or Xbox having to smash the button. Lol, the little things like that can go a long way sometimes.
Original mode has a lot of unique playable commando, the most memorable ones are the Laser Commando and the Homing Missile Commando, good times, and i think the bosses are different too?
I'll never forget the first time I saw this game at the arcades, I couldn't get enough of it with my friends. It always stuck with me at how when the mercs get dropped off at the beach by the helicopter, the soldiers get out to secure the area and salute them with that intro music in the background. Definitely a highlight of the arcade era.
Mercs on the Megadrive was and still is my favourite Megadrive game of all time - original mode is tremendous fun. Great video as always Pat, thanks. Happpeee little viewer 😂
You gotta do Caliber .50 next, such a weird game. I played the hell out of it over a few years at a local pizza place back in the day until I could almost one credit it.
That SNES Capcom jingle at the beginning......... Along with the presentation of the best RU-vid channel ever.......... Makes me think of lots of positive things!! Especially now that summer's coming to an end!!! YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!
Count me in as one of those that didn’t realize it was a sequel to Commando until a few years ago. I played this at the local Sega’s Time Out arcade as a break between Street Fighter and MK. Picked up the Genesis version and played that a ton as a kid. I revisit it every once and a while.
One of my favourite run & guns EVER. I played the arcade version on the Capcom Generations Vol. 4 for the PlayStation 1 and also on the Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 1 for the PlayStation 2.
I had it as a 8 year old on sega megadrive and absolutely loved it , I had it all the way upto secondary school and still never got past the train boss part . I bought it again for 99p on the capcom collection as a separate on sale with progear , powered gear and giga wing ,cyberbots and these games would absolutely distroy your bank balance seriously in an arcade. I don't know about coin killer, they would send your money to hell and back and send you the bill!!! .... yeah I finished mercs eventually aged 40
Great video. This brought happy old memories, I used to love Mercs and played this with an old school friend and we pumped so much cash into it. Totally worth it.
Another great episode as always. I loved Mercs (still do) and threw a ton of quarters in that machine back in the day, and to this day I still suck balls at it. You know it's a good game when you're terrible at it for 30+ years and still play it from time to time.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries GnG is so cruelly difficult (arcade, NES port, doesn't matter) the game designers should be brought up on crimes against humanity 😂
Capcom in the 90s was unstoppable! One thing that keeps me plugging along through middle age is firing up games like Mercs, UN Squad, Magic Sword and Street Fighter II on weekends with the speakers blaring.
It never occurred to me that Commando and Bionic Commando were the same series until you mentioned Super Joe and I remembered him being mentioned in Bionic Commando.
RAD!!! we were lucky snuff to have an Amiga and this was one of my faves, didn't even realise I had the Japanese version for Switch on their Arcade compilation!!! great channel thanks for the vids!
Thanks for the nice words. I like the Amiga version back in the day but something always just seemed a bit off about the scrolling. It was still fun to play though
The local corner store, a place my parents mostly bought cigarettes, also weirdly had a Mercs cabinet for a short period of time. No other arcade machines, just Mercs in the corner opposite the video rental section. And we're talking corner store size, beyond the rental and magazines it was all just snacks. Sadly it was only there for maybe a handful of months around 90/91 so by the time I was old enough to walk down there on my own it was gone. Didn't get much of a chance to play it until compilations years later.
I didn't even realize Commando had a true sequel until I found it on the PS2 compilation.. It's basically Contra & Metal Slug but top down.. Good stuff!
How many arcade games were based on saving a kidnapped person? From the time of Donkey Kong, if not sooner, the easiest video game plot was about killing hundreds due to a single kidnapping. The president, the president's daughter, the mayor's daughter, your karate master's daughter, a princess, your girlfriend, your princess girlfriend, your cow girlfriend, POWs, a secret agent, the guy from a previous video game, Aerosmith...the list goes on. When you've got only a few seconds worth of scenes to get the plot going, kidnapping is the answer.
I used to always pop a few quarters in this one back in the day but could never commit myself to completing it because it was so easy to die. I ended up beating it on the home console and loved the Commando reboot on XBOX Live arcade.
I was expecting you to talk about how you have to assemble a super weapon by collecting all six parts. Turns out that my memory had grown rusty over the decades: I had confused Mercs with Heavy Barrel.
Played the hell out of this in co-op with buddies at a Ft Bragg satellite PX. Had a lot of fun with it, but it was replaced by Arch Rivals by the time we got back from Desert Storm😔
This was one of the games I would always gravitate towards in the arcade when I was a kid. Even if I sucked at it, it was always worth the quarter for the few minutes I could play. Is it just me, or are some of the sound effects you played from the arcade version very reminiscent of some from the GI Joe arcade game?
We like a lot of the same games, and this is no exception, such a great game. Although they should've called it it commando returns to directly tie it in to the first one.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Cool, gonna check and see if there's a video of it. I hated that arcade games had bad endings. I always felt if you spent all those quarters to get that far, you shouldn't have to lose just to have to start all over to try again to win. It tok me a second try with Operation Thunderbolt, the sequel to Operation Wolf, but finally figured it out. Also took me a second attempt for the live action first person shooter Target: Terror. I had to look up how to beat that one (shoot the remote detonator instead of the terrorist. You only get one shot).
I had Commando for the NES, but i never played the arcade version. I don't recall ever playing Merc. I really like the arcade version of Ikari Warriors. I need to get all these games for PS2
Another great video. Did you notice the MERCS logo is in the same style as the word NERDS in the revenge of the nerds movie poster? I'm pretty sure nerds came out in 84 so maybe they got the idea from that.
That super sexy cps1 hardware u showed cost me do much money because i had no idea about the suicide battery issue with it disabling the software forever. I finalized cane across the pheonixing fix and now im one happy man. Hard 220 dollar lesson learned.....over a ten cent battery
Never played MERCS, but I think I'll MAME it one of these days. Hey Patman, what about doing an episode on Pang!, Super Pang!, Pang! 3 and Mighty! Pang? (kind of a weird placement for the exclamation point...) Anyway, I think the games were called Buster Brothers, Super Buster Brothers and Buster Buddies in the States. I don't know about Mighty! Pang in the states because I only recently discovered it on MAME, but I think it is honestly the best in the series, followed by Pang! 3. When I was stationed in Louisiana in the late 90s, the PX near my barracks had Pang!3 so I got quite good at it.
This game was so good. I traded my friend Growl for this on Genesis. But you could die super quick if you didn't take your time until you know what's coming. I wonder what this game would have played like if it had a twin stick or a rotary joystick like Heavy Barrel.
Hey Patman, Does your wife know that you crack jokes about her in good fun? "Drop faster than I do after smelling my wife's SBDs." I needed a good laugh. Thank you.
Capcom had high hopes that MERCS would hold its own against the TMNT arcade game and even nicknamed it the "turtle killer". That probably was a bit too arrogant on their part but it was an awesome game, especially the flamethrower 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥👍👍👍😁😁😁‼️‼️ PS I always thought that the MERC was Guile before he went to join the hand to hand mayhem in Street Fighter 2! I guess you learn something new every day.
