“I'm gunna get you eventually. Everybody wanna knock Gildo down. I'll go straight to Sheena and I'll be there yes I will. This world is very difficult but i've got nothing to lose, now. There's no defeat. You'd sooner die; challenge the begining of the end. 'Till I rescue Sheena I'm never gunna stop. Believe my power; Now I spend my time fighting all around. I'm a tough guy; do it man. You'd think you can beat us We got the look! Oh so fine! Just wait, I'll get even with you.” Best rap ever
Wade`s outfit and fighting stance is a parody of kenshiro from fist of the north star as is the first song you showed with lyrics. It's good goofy stuff I remember playing this as a kid and having alot of fun.
Dude, whenever you release an arcade game review(s), I open up MAME and immediately add it to my favorites list. I have so many gems on there now thanks to you. I'm a gracious fan, and I hope you always have a great entirety of your day.
I remember playing and finishing this back years ago, and also one of the bosses is actually disguised as a Power Loader from Aliens (since Konami also made the Aliens arcade game), and this is actually the third in the Crime Fighters series of beat em ups. Kenichiro Fukui (known for the Einhander music) is one of the sound designers of Violent Storm, as well. The David Lee Roth-sounding track is named Who'll Be The Hero and the rap is titled Feel My Power, though.
This was actually Konami's very last beat em up, so it feels like they just gave it all their all. Sick music WITH lyrics, fun gameplay. Poking fun at themselves and other developers. It's just tons of fun and Konami left a bang with this game in the arcade. It's too bad this game just disappeared after all the arcade hype.
What Konami could've done was take their beat 'em ups another step further in the world of 3D. Just like how they did with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1, 2 and 3 in the 2000s for PS2, XBOX, GameCube and Game Boy Advance.
SNES drunk keeps proving why emulation is necessary, with all of these awesome classic games he discovers that aren't available or preserved any other way.
The amount of appeal this game oozes. This game was designed to pull you in while you walked past the arcade cabinet. The over the top style, the music with lyrics, everything about this game screams PLAY ME! Its a shame this game hasn't had a revival on some console or through steam. This game has so much character, so much love heart and soul was put into this game. Its criminal that it hasn't had a re-release.
OMG Wade Duck! I can't believe you mentioned that! I loved U.S. Acres and thought it never really got credit for being anything more than something to pad out the hour long Garfield show with the catch all "and Friends" to be added to the title. Oh, um, but yeah, the game. This looks crazy as hell in the best possible way. And something I love about your reviews is that you highlight the music when it deserves to be, and this music is just as off the rails as the game looks.
@The Deadpool Who Chuckles. Dude, where are they showing that? Would love to show my step daughter. I turned on a modern garfield cartoon and we both hated it.
"Violent Storm, a storm of violence yeaaaaahhhh~" I wasn't expecting a U.S. Acres reference today, but I'm glad I got it. I really gotta play this sometime
I think this was my first ever SNES Drunk video--I was trying to find out more about beat-em-ups. Binging these videos has become something that keeps me sane over the past month or so, so thank you for putting out so many and keeping them such great quality. It's always a nice time watching a video on this channel, and I feel like I've learned a lot. I technically was "there" (alive) for the whole SNES era but we didn't have any video game consoles at my house until I saved up and bought a GBA. It's cool to see some of the things I didn't experience as a kid!
Violent Storm is a favorite of mine because it encapsulates what I want to experience in gaming. Its just a goofy, lighthearted good time, that also happens to feel just about perfect control wise. It may not quite measure up to some of the heavyweights in the genre, but no other beatemup makes me feel so loose and satisfied after playing it.
I played this one a couple of times when I was visiting my grandma in another town. Always regretted that it hasn't got a console port, because it was a lot of fun and goofy just as you mentioned. Kudos for the singing and mentioning Wade the Duck, made me wish for a beat em up starring the U.S. Acres gang
i love how many games cross over between SNESdrunk and VGjunk, two of my favorite sources for finding out about obscure classic games. Every time i see one of you cover anything the other has i get this little feeling of glee like a game i love getting a port to another console with enough different that i get to check it out and enjoy it all over again.
This video reminded me of an arcade game I played as a kid. I went to search for it despite only really remembering the final boss only to realise that it was this game I was remembering. Something in my subconscious must've recognised things I couldn't.
I was recently thinking to myself "I wonder is SNESDRUNK will cover the "Crimefighters" Trilogy of games?" Good to see at least the 3rd one/coolest one has been represented here.
I remember pumpin coins into this cabinet back when it came out and i loved the whole throwin pigskins at people on the train stage. God this took me back ty.
I did it! Finally did it! I've been following you a couple of years now, but never watched your videos in order, so I took the oportunity of being in quarantine and watched your list From Oldes to Newest, and oh man, it was a blast! Many afternoons, but I enjoyed everything, even watching episodes I watched no so long time ago. I really love it when you say "Wade... no, no THAT Wade" xD and sometimes when you say "right up your ally" just cracks me up hajahahaha I had more things that I thought to tell you when I finished watching this, but that'll do. Thanks for everything Drunk, say hi to Clyde for me, and have a great rest of your day!
Intro gets longer and I love it it makes me laugh each time. Also when watching your older vids(4 years plus) theres no difference which is a good thing. You haven't sold out to raid or anything like that I greatly appreciate that hate watching vids where they sell out so keep up the awesome videos.
I love the size of those character sprites! I think it’s a missed opportunity that Turtles never got Konami built sprites that large and even larger boss sprites in their beat ‘em ups. Sprites! Great Stuff!
I had pleasure to play it on real cabinet as a kid. One of most rewarding arcade experiences for sure. It's silly how such gem slipped through retro compilations on modern consoles but maybe there are some copyright shenanigans involved.
I have never heard of this game before but did grow up during the arcade era. Everything about it screams Final Fight even down to the sound effects. Thanks for the great content and awesome review. 😃✌🏽
Want to know the plot hole of those two games? Crime Fighter 2 takes place in the present of 1991 where Crime reigns over Dead End City again while Violent Storm takes place in sometime in the 1990s (like Final Fight) where World War III ended and brought an Apocalypse.
1:35 no shit am I a fucking psychic? Some reason I sensed I had to comment about it. Since for some reason every day the past 3 weeks to a month my feed has had SNESDrunk as my first video other than my late night talk shows. It’s crazy. So I am glad I picked this video to comment this on, tho I doubt anyone will see this. 😢
2:25 In Disney's Silly Symphony classic "Three Little Pigs", in the smart pigs house there is a picture of a football on the wall titled "Uncle" (or father, I don't recall). I guess these used to be made (and possibly still are made) of pigs leather. Or maybe they just made the dam piglet spirits and then decided against giving your enemies a face full of bacon.
I just logged in to RU-vid to look for stuff on Violent Storm, and before I even do a search, this is the first thing that was recommended to me. Coincidence? Yes.
HOLY CRAP! Having played this game at the time, I would had JIZZED MY PANTS with those giant sprites and the INSANE amount of voices! Look like a Super Nintendo game if the Super Nintendo CD add-on would had been made.
I love the Konami licensed beat-em-ups and I hope 1Up Arcade can do the other non-Turtles games as cabinets some day, but man would I love a collection of Violent Storm, Metaphorical Force and Monsters Maulers, or even a Capcom Belt-Action style collection for consoles. I was very disappointed years ago, I was going to buy an arcade cabinet off of someone who told me the machine was Violent Storm, but turned out to be Vigilante instead.
One of the things i stumbled when i made my research for this awesome beat em up,was the fact that was some kind of continuation-spiritual successor from Konami's series of the vendetta games aca crime fighters if you remember those as well! This is one of my favorites in the genre and in some parts even better from final fight as a whole.Better build as a quality and not that cheap as well,but you are talk to someone that likes a little better even streets of rage so that's that! But it is forgivable since the one released in 89 while the other in 93 so there's that as well and can't help love final fight as well allot!
Not only is this is one of my all-time favorite beat-em-up games, but all-time favorite video games hands down! And strangely enough, the beat-em-up thugs here have at least 5 to more attack patterns than the usual ones in other games, making them less-than-boring and more interesting to fight.
Wow, I missed this one back in the day - a damn shame, as it looks great. Kinda reminds me of the goofiness of Godhand, a bit. Hope this gets a PC release someday. Thanks for covering it!
Kudos to you for the Wade Duck reference. I always loved Garfield and Friends back in the day. The cheery tone and weird music hurt this game for me as it's not my style. I don't mind the goofy stuff in the game play. I believe this game is in the Crime Fighters series which also had some funny stuff in it. As for the boss issue, that's something Konami liked to do. I've found that they would briefly make bosses invincible for one hit in X-Men when their energy was almost gone, giving them a chance to get a free hit on the player, which would often do enough damage to take a life right before beating the stage.
I've never heard this game mentioned before, but now I have to play it. Reminds me of the arcade game "ninja baseball batman" -- it's a baseball themed brawler that is completely bizarre and lots of fun.
Football = pigskin. :P Also, I think I see what you're doing with your intros ever since that amazing one. Making them juuust long enough to piss off the idiots that hate it and hopefully make them leave. Major props. Oh, and I need to try this game. Love the style of it.
This, X-Men Arcade, Metamorphic Force, Mystic Warriors, and Ninja Warriors were all in a nice neat little row in the Alladin's Castle in my local mall when I was young. I have fond memories of this game because of Alladin's Castle. I really wish Konami would pull their collective head out of their ass get back into games. Nostalgia sells big right now and Konami could make a quick buck releasing an arcade classics collection like Capcom did.
No Boris Badinoff? Also YES Wade Duck from US Acres! Love the funny stuff, your music and that...I guess you called it synth bass(I'm not musical), arcade music perfection!
Great Channel, solid. 👍 I was looking for a Streets of Rage play style beat em up and wasn't disappointed in this amazing game...very cool and odd at the same time.
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