I loved Kung Fu Master, and when as a kid I found Vigilante in my local Roller Skating rink I almost DIED from happiness. It was one of the fist arcade games I finished. Totally worth it.
Same. Even if the video is something im not interested in which is rare. I appreciate content from other guy's that were there. I can't stand someone who wasn't born yet talking like an authority on retro stuff.
Kung Fu Master is one of my all time favourite arcade games - huge nostalgia so naturally that and Vigilante were 2 pcb’s I had to pick up. Love my scrolling beat em up’s! Love the channel too - thanks for all the awesome content
*PatmanQC* thank you so much for covering this forgotten gem from the arcades of yesteryear. Fun Fact: as a kid, I used refer to nunchaku as "numbchuks" instead of nunchuks... my reasoning was that if you got hit anywhere on your body by this weapon, it would instantly go numb! 😂😂 kids say the darndest things
So glad you mentioned the FM enhanced sound on the Master System version. For anyone who doesn't know, Tim Worthington sells a FM unit that can be installed inside a non Japanese console. He also includes a region switch, which thankfully allows you to use the paddle controller as well! etim.net.au/shop/shop.php?crn=202&rn=538&action=show_detail
I loved the SMS version back in the day, that FM soundtrack is brilliant. Sorry if mentioned already but the Arcade version of Vigilante is available on PS4 Arcade Archives and Nintendo Switch.
Great video as always! That PC Engine port is awesome. Madonna was renamed Maria in certain ports, but in the eighties the mass media told everyone that Madonna's real name was Maria, so to me all this really just makes me think that the game designers' idea all along was that you have to save the singer Madonna.
Awesome documentary man I remember playing this game when I was a kid I really got my butt kicked playing this game so it brings back a lot of memories so thanks.
Love this. The youth club in the village had this and the fish and chip shop owners son used to pump money into the machine so he could finish them. It was the only way to afford seeing the end of the games. This one cost him a fair bit due to the hole in the girder.
When I first played Vigilante was in 1988, It was in Coney Island NYC, my parents took me to celebrate getting my Green Belt in Goju Ryu karate, when I played this game at the El Dorado arcade, I was mesmerized by its pure honesty as portraying NYC as a violent shithole. Playing a character fighting off thugs with Martial arts kind of made me think this was normality. Because it was, NYC is now like this more than ever, a sequel to Vigilante is long overdue lolz, also the following week two thug kids tried to steal my Diamondback BMX bike, I punched one in the face with a karate punch, and the other got an elbow, I thought to myself holy shit real life is here, and it might get tougher. Great game, awesome video Patman!
Thanks for another enjoyable video. :) I played this a little in the arcade and had it on the Wii Virtual Console as well back then. The part where you called the MSX port "A+" after listing all it's faults made me laugh out loud! :D
Good video. Vigialnte is a punishingly difficult game but still enjoyable, and very possible to 1CC. The first boss can be dealt with rather quick... knock him down, then come in close and crouch, then spam P+K until he's gone. One neat thing I noticed is that the final stage BGM has the Kung-Fu Master theme for its bassline.
All those years ago when I first saw and this game at this theme park in Toronto called the C.N.E, I never took note of saving a girl named Madonna. This arcade cabinet sat right next to this weird arm wrestling cabinet. I was impressed to learn that this was the sequel to Kungfu master, which sort of explains why the wimpy thugs of this game try to hug you to death. Now about that strange Arm Wrestling game. I was wondering if you could do a Patman special history on it. I do not remember the exact title of this game, though I believe that 'Arm Wrestling' is part of the title. The strange part is the control: a large, hard grey, plastic, open hand for you to grapple with (right hand only) and a button with the word 'Power' over it. If I recall, the strategy to winning a match in this game was to squeeze the hand and try to yank it down, although the hand itself never moves, but the cartoon of your opponent on the screen senses your strength. You are then prompted to press that Power button at some point, and depending on the timing at the instant you pressed it, or depending on how quickly you tap it several times, you will get a little burst of strength and sort of distract your opponent on the screen from trying to pull your hand down. Like I said, it's a strange game. Maybe this game was exclusively for the Ex (slang for C.N.E) or maybe I did see it one other time in an arcade elsewhere. It was so long, I can't remember. Thanks again for the Vigilante lore though. I think I did Mame it already, but when I have the time to buckle down with Mame again, I will be sure to look for it and check it out.😎
I was really into these games at the time, with Double Dragon, Kung Fu Master and the Renegade series. I picked this up for my birthday on the Spectrum. I remember at the time not having a clue what Vigilante meant, but it was a beat 'em up so I was in.
First time I heard of this game was during a conversation w/some of the creators of the ready player 1 movie. They were all talking about what games they grew up playing
I always had love for Vigilante, didn't see it in most arcades though. Just at one arcade & a movie theater "arcade" area. I could never get past the dumpster area twin bosses. Plus didn't the boss stage health replenish too & always remember the taunting: "hey, come on", lol. My cousin had the turbografx 16 version and still couldn't beat it.
Got a good laugh at how the arcade footage was mostly you dying. Pretty much mirrors my own experience with this game LOL. It was still pretty fun for a quick pick-up-and-play once in a while, but for 10/11 year old me it was legitimately hard.
i used to play this machine a lot,for some reason for me it was easier than the others,its weird this game havnt gotten the remake treatment or atleast someone mention it ,this channel been the only one that remembered it,btw im tryn to remember the name of a game ,it was a side scroller but your guy have a sword kinda like a lightsaber and everybody had like a punk futuristic style,i know i just described many games of the time but i cant remember a thing to set it apart, some kids called it double dragon with a sword lol
Loved this I remember this game in a local Laundromat I use to go to as a kid in the late 80's. I hope in a future Episode you can do a History on the Japanese Ported Arcade game from 1989 called D.J. Boy.
Renegade is still my favorite old school arcade fighting game. It basically gave birth to the street fighting genre like Double Dragon. I love the level where you fight hookers and a giant fat one is the boss. Cracks me up to this day when she gets ahold of you. Proceeds to slap the crap out of you and dwarf tosses you anost half the screen and says "Get Away" lol
Oh wow i remember that vigilante game 😂 Glad to know you are fine patman! 🇬🇹 That combatribes arcade was really hard to beat ☹ I still hope you can do a video about Desert Assault by Data East 😌
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries we went nuts with my friends with that arcade, we used to play it a lot. Hope you can check the game with this link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C8JxtGeGBoA.html
@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries The likeness of the sprite to Charles Bronson isn't necessarily that far off. It's close to a younger, mustacheless Bronson. But that would have been one expensive Mustache Bill Irem would have had to pay. Almost as much as CBS's Mustache Bill for Tom Selleck's during the Magnum P.I. days.
Actually....I would say the arcades went through two golden ages. I was around for the mid eighties catching the end of the first and all the way through the second. (Or) Would you say it was one giant golden age? Say 1981-2000 perhaps? At any rate, I, too, love the belt scrolling beat em' up genre. My favorite game in the beat em' up genre has to be Streets of Rage 2. Before that, I couldn't get enough of Double Dragon 1&2. While I enjoyed beat em up's like Kung-Fu, I preferred the more open games like The Punisher and D&D Shadows Over Mystara (remember them?). Great video! Addendum- Now, if we're including 3d polygonal graphics then I'm all about Die Hard Arcade and Dynamite Cop 2. They were absolutely incredible and I loved being able to use guns as well.
I think I remember seeing that game once or twice at Aladdin's Castle back in the day. Of course we were all bonkers for the original Double Dragon when it was first released!
As a kid going to the arcades, Vigilante was a very fun game same time the game's difficulty got hard really fast after the first stage and beyond and it definitely drained people's quarters fast.
Vigilante was f'in impossible. Even on an emulator and infinite tokens, the amount of damage bosses take, and how many quarters you would have had to spend to beat it is obscene.
Try the Sega Master System version of Vigilante. Not as good looking, but still looks really nice and it's a lot easier than the arcade and Turbografx-16 versions (still challenging, but much more manageable and more fun).
