The history of Robocop 2' and his various different video games Please visit my Patreon at / pdbowl Follow me on Twitter at / pdqc1971 Follow me on Facebook at Patmanqc-His...
I remember being 7 or 8 and my mom gave me a whole roll of quarters and when I went to the local arcade, I saw this machine and it was new. So I started playing and as I got halfway through, I realized I started forming a crowd, watching me play so I kept pumping in the quarters. I remember getting to the last boss fight and it kept going and going and as I spent the last quarter in my roll, I finally beat his third phase and beat the game. I had everyone in the arcade watching at that point. I’ll never forget that
I introduced my 5 year old son to Robocop by playing Robocop 2 with him on my arcade emulator several months ago. Cool seeing you do a breakdown on this one. Thanks!
@Larry Bundy Jr - Excellent suggestion Larry! I loved getting up early Saturday mornings to watch Robocop and Dinoriders. I still want both of these series on DVD, but they're unavailable in the States 😥👎
That's the most murican post ever. Sure, introduce your 5 year old to violence and guns and then wonder when he runs amok at a school, like it seemingly happens every week in Burgerland. smh
Robocop 2 on the NES pissed me off so much as a kid. Being stuck on the first level until realizing you had to go into the sewers to get more Nuke. The only game where I threw the controller down out of frustration.
That you referenced the WCW/RoboCop cross over really took me back. I was a huge RoboCop fan as a kid, and while I was only a casual follower of WCW wrestling and its antics, I sure remember when Sting had Robo escort him to the ring after being "jumped in a parking lot and leg broken" by the 4 Horsemen. (spoiler, he accidentally got his foot stuck in a chain link cage during a prior match and broke it himself)
I had no idea there was an arcade version of robocop 2! The nes version is the one in familiar with and it's a mess. If love to master it at some point but it's not going to be easy. I remember playing the 1st one, renting it all the time from the local video rental store. I also remember putting the 2nd one in and couldn't wait to play it. Then level 1 began and the dreams of a young person were shattered! 🤣 Awesome job with the vid Pat! 💪🔥
Awesome that you chose ‘Over The Top’ as an example for Stallone (opposed to say Rambo). I’m a big ArmWrestling fan! Another great video man! Love your personality and jokes
I’m pretty unfamiliar with the RoboCop 2 arcade game, but I love how the multiplayer takes advantage of the different color schemes he had over the two movies.
I remember playing RoboCop 2 arcade game at a local Roy Rogers in Baltomore while visiting a relative of mine. 1990-1991 was such a good year for movies along with games and part 2 is still the best sequel. Peter Weller is RoboCop....Enough said.
@@testosteroneinc.3800 that's their own damn fault for letting antifa run around cosplaying for months trying to burn a stone building. The adults need to take over
Another great documentary! I had no idea about the Japanese version with its exclusive "re-cap" level - the passion invested into that reveals how much attention the programmers paid to the film and its characters. Such a shame that it was omitted from the Western releases.
Would love to see you cover the Ocean Robocop 3 on Amiga. It was a 3D shooter and I remember having it, and found it so difficult due to the extremely low frame rate.
I had no idea there was an arcade version of the second movie until literally decades after it came out. I always well aware of the original arcade version of course but I never ever once saw the second game out in the wild.
It's so strange but I don't think I ever saw Robocop 2 the arcade game anywhere and I was a huge arcade kid back then. I never saw it in any store, restaurant or arcade. Meanwhile I saw the first arcade game everywhere for like 4 years.
Great review. I still have my NES copy of Robocop 2 but I really wish Data East had ported the arcade version to the Super NES and had it to market by Christmas of 91. With the launch of the system that year it would have been a best seller. What a shame, as the NES version was quite underwhelming in comparison.
As a point of nerd order, Robocop is not an android, he's a cyborg. Androids are robots made to simulate humans like Data, cyborgs are combinations of human flesh or minds and robotic parts or computer systems. Cyborg is a portmanteau of CYBernetic ORGanism.
It's very unlikely the status panel on the GX4000 was a performance thing, the hardware is more than capable of scrolling the entire display at 50FPS (It had hardware support for doing so). More likely it was just a way of reusing the ST assets (a machine which probably did have it to help performance). Unless the game was originally designed for the old school CPC models, but that seems unlikely too given how much it uses of the new functionality in the GX.
The first Robocop movie scared the crap out of me as a kid!! I was able to watch Terminator, Predator, and Aliens no problem, but Robocop struck a nerve with me...
Patman, do you ever do old PC games? I was recently reminded of a very unique and excellent late-90's PC game called TIME COMMANDO.. it's a pre-rendered beat'em up on rails(!?) Where you brawl through various historical periods. It's by Adeline Software Int'l, of France, the guys who went on to form Infogrammes and did Alone in the Dark, among others.
Your videos are awesome. I would love to see a documentary of vs super mario bros it's an arcade game made by Nintendo that I played in 1999 when I was 5 years old that's the 1st game I played. Please make a documentary video of vs super mario bros. Best regards Nikita.K
I’ve really wanted to use the stage 1 music for a RU-vid project I’m doing... but it doesn’t loop correctly. I wonder if there isn’t anyway it could be fixed...?
Another great video, and I been trying to figure out where have i heard your voice, today I realized, from the NFL Football '94 Starring Joe Montana, I say this in good way, I think your voice sounds similar to the voice un the game🙌 but maybe it's just me... Thank you for your hard work as always🙏
Wow, I had no idea that the arcade version of Robocop 2 was 'different' from the home versions Ocean pumped out. If I had seen it anywhere I would have enjoyed it better then it's prequel.
Fun Fact: Both Robocop 2 & Robocop 3 Movies Were Written by ''Dark Knight Returns & Sin City'' Writer Frank Miller. More so, Miller had a Role in Robocop 2 as a Guy Named ''Frank the Chemist''.
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries No Problemo. Though it Retrospect . The Film Director's hired Script Doctors to Dissect Miller's Screenplays to a Point Where his Original Concepts of 2 & 3 Became Nothing with What he Envisioned. Though in 2004. His Original Screenplays for 2 & 3 got turned into a Comic Book Mini-Series called ''Frank Miller's Robocop'', BTW Your Arcade History Videos are Phenomenal!!!
I remember being a teenager when I found a Robocop 2 Arcade Machine at one of my local Stores... I Bloody Loved it and was determined to beat it - I did, but it cost me a lot of Cash! Thing is, I know the Cabinet was NOT a Genuine Data East Cabinet... They had just bought the ROM Boards and changed them over as it was a small "Mom and Pop" store for all you Americans who don't understand our English Vernacular... And I was Sure there was a fight against ED-209 and Dick Jones before the main game started!!! And now I know that I was not misremembering! THERE WAS! But it was Japan Only! So wherever they got the Arcade Board - It was obviously a Bootleg or "Stolen and Translated" board... Which may also explain why it did not stay around long...
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Funny that... I have NEVER seen a True Robocop 2 Cabinet either! Maybe the Board was a conversion kit to fit any pre existing Cabinet to save on costs. Heck, wouldn't be the first!
I never had a chance to try this one. Good thing we have MAME! As for Robocop 2, all I've seen of it really is the murder of Officer Duffy. Now THAT was brutal!
Detroit vs Memphis ... worked a lot in both cities but not lived in them. Detroit, pretty sure I saw a drug deal go down in a nice Kroger Marketplace parking lot. Memphis saw a fist fight with a car's hood open and the engine on fire
Robocop Is one movie series that I would love to see get the Halloween only the first movie is cannon treatment. 40 years later an obsolete Robocop is taken out of mothballs to clean up Delta City that has become a failed company town like Gary Indiana.
Okay tell me it's not just me.... But don't those hostages on the Amiga version look like Hitler in a letterman jacket? Also, for the NES version, I'm glad they put in my favorite part of the movie, you know, the part where Robocop swam in watermelon soda while doging mini tornados....
