Let's count down 20 of the strangest arcade games that were ever setup to take your quarters. I've scoured hundreds of games to find ones that really bring something unique to the table and haven't really been emulated since.
I noticed that in game #15 (Jue Zhan Tian Huang), a note pops up in the video mentioning that Vega is incorrectly named Balrog. In Japan, what we (in the US) know as Vega IS known as Balrog. The character that US folks know as Balrog is actually called M Bison (for Mike Bison). The US M Bison is known as Vega in Japan. When they brought SFII to the US, they were afraid of legal issues from Mike Bison being too close to Mike Tyson.
yeah it wasn't a straight swap Vega became M. Bison, Barlrog became Vega and M. Bison became Barlrog. , also Street Fighter actually featured Mike who would become Barlrog.
Acutally, it has multiple reasons about SF II Shadaloos name swap: -M.Bison to Balrog (Avoiding a lawsuit with Mike Tyson) -Balrog to Vega (Vega is a spanish surname, so they thought that could be fit with the character) -Vega to M.Bison (Vega wasn't a threatful name for the main boss, so they changed it with M.Bison)
10:18 The game is actually correct--Balrog is the Japanese name for Vega. Vega, Balrog, and M. Bison are the names of the same three characters in both Japan and the US, but the same names are not used for the same characters on both sides of the Pacific. In Japan, the boxer was supposed to be a Mike Tyson rip-off (the masked guy was named Balrog and the final boss was Vega), but Capcom didn't want to use the same reference in the U.S. for whatever reason, so instead of just renaming the boxer, the swapped the names of three characters so the Bison name wouldn't be on the boxer. Yes, I know it makes no sense.
21:48 Yo WTF!? The fact that this problem was so common and widespread that a depiction of it was included in the form of a lighthearted game mechanic is just wild. That's like if while playing Paperboy on NES you had to ride around dodging flashing creeps in trenchcoats or driving around in white vans.
Fun fact about #3 and SMB: We all know about hidden 1-up mushrooms, but unfortunately our knowledge about their placement ends somewhere about World 1-2.
Exterminator was also Gottlieb's last arcade game. It was enormously expensive to produce- not just because of the digitized graphics but due to its use of two TMS34010s which were 32-bit CPUs with special graphics instructions based on the architecture of the TMS320 DSP.
Vega is not incorrectly named Balrog, in the original japanese version of street fighter 2 this was his name... fearing a possible lawsuit from Mike Tyson, 3 of the 4 emperors swapped names... Vega became M.Bison, M.Bison became Balrog, Balrog became Vega.
Calorie Kun vs Moguranian runs on Sega System 1 hardware. Flicky is perhaps the best known game on this hardware, which has the ability of displaying 2048 colours simultaneously out of a palette of 4096- quite incredible for the time.
"Vega is incorecttly named Balrog", no that's his proper name actually. In the Japanese original Street Fighter games(still to this day) Vega is actually named Balrog, M-Bison is named Vega, and Balrog is M-Bison. They changed the names around originally in America to avoid lawsuits from Mike Tyson(because Balrog was a boxer and M-Bison sounds like Mike Tyson). So any Japanese game with street fighter characters in it will have the original names on them. The North American names that we know and love are the actual incorrect names, as weird as it sounds.
Wait, you put Rock N Rage 1 slot higher than Zunzunkyou No Yabou? The former is about time-travelling rock musicians trying to rescue their lead singer from a demon. The latter is about two Buddhist statues going around the world destroying everything with swastika fireballs until they fight and destroy the Earth itself.
I don’t know if anyone remembered this arcade game where it took place in the ocean with a pirate ship and it had a guy with a blue suit and hat who was a host. I remember it back in The 90’s when it was at Chuck E. Cheese’s. Does anyone remember it? I don’t know the genre but it had the results initials screen when the ship is leaving on the screen.
I remember an old arcade Japanese game, maybe dated 1986, where you control a Japanese man punching other japanese men and collecting something in an urban maze with a fixed screen like Pac-Man... It had Japanese traditional background music maybe enka song and it was very weird to me... Unfortunately I don't know its name, maybe it was written in kanji: I wish someone could give me a clue since I think it's not present in Mame! Please help 🙏
great list you've got here... that said: WHERE'S TAITO'S "PU-LI-RU-LA"??? you just CAN NOT make a weirdest arcade games list and leave out Pu-Li-Ru-La, y'know! other than, keep up the great work!
Does anyone know the name of a game that had you control a green space ship and before the stage starts you see two astronauts in the bottom middle of the screen approaching the planet? And in the planet, the stage was purple.
Does anyone remember I believe it was a flash game that when you failed the character killed themselves. I can not remember the name or what the point of the game was.
