Said it before, I'll say it again... this is the sort of content I've always wanted people to do around shmups. Keep up the good work Alex!
@GojiGuy Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Means a lot to hear!
@shmups_hobby Жыл бұрын
Agreed!
@ShmupsBR Жыл бұрын
About lost shmups, you could cover Death Ephemera, from Akira Goya. It was definitely released, but nobody seem to have it. I mean, apart from one youtuber.
@GojiGuy Жыл бұрын
Oh wow that's pretty interesting. I'll have to check that out, thanks!
@packpock436911 ай бұрын
Dodonpachi Campaign that shit blows my mind a few got a custom PCB. We have never seen it thru probably can't show it the people that got them.
@Acidonia150reborn11 ай бұрын
What about Duality ZF 双攻 (was Planned for Xbox 360 and PC) and was hyped alot in Xbox Live Indie game channels. The Developer made other STG'S only for Xbox 360 but this vanished none ever got PC ports either. Lots of gameplay and trailers of it Exist of it online. Even one of the Serious Sam games had a Duke Nukem forever stlye joke of the game inside it.
@valen017911 ай бұрын
That's too bad for Zodiac, but you can't compete with the pedigree of Thunder Force IV. That game was amaaaazing!
@GojiGuy10 ай бұрын
Yup! Certainly tough competition
@Verticen_ Жыл бұрын
Excellent Video! Good, though-out visual effects & editing. 4:45 I played this in North America back in the day, but I imagine I was one of the few, as the USA release was priced too high for the English E-shop market and had little marketing. _Kokuga_ maybe could have been an early E-shop hit if it had "played its cards" better. An interesting fact about _Kokuga_ is that the 'BGM6' ("黒風") theme is likely an self-homage by Namiki to 'Live to Fly' from _Thunder Dragon 2._ 6:42 lolol "vectors are 180 degrees" A runner-up game that's adjacent to lost shmups I'd suggest is Taito's _Outburst4D_ unreleased arcade game. Footage exist, but no rom; kinda neat.
@GojiGuy Жыл бұрын
Thank you! And hey, I'm a huge fan of Taito so I'll definitely have to look into Outburst4D.
@opaljk48359 ай бұрын
If Ubisoft were worried about the mega drives life cycle ending, they were sure jumping the gun. TF4 came out in 92. Idk if Sonic 2 was even out by then. Maybe that same year.
@GojiGuy9 ай бұрын
It dropped in 93 in NA/EU and lots of new hardware was being announced and released by then. Genesis was 5 years old by then so I do get it, but I think it was a premature call for sure.
@flottenheimerАй бұрын
Man, I've wanted Ubusuna for so long... and the next stg from Crimzon Clover World EXplosion developer Yotsubane - Garukilla (CC is just so good that I want more). Great video!
@GameBoyGuru Жыл бұрын
Excellent video! Given the popularity of the genre in the late 80's and into the earliest part of the 90's, I suspect there are a lot of other lost games like this. I mentioned Variant Schwanzer on a podcast recording, because apparently someone owns a PCB of that unreleased Seta shmup, and has had it on location at one of the Mikado arcades in Japan, but as far as I know, that's another one that hasn't been dumped. Also, it's wild to think of Ubisoft making a shmup, and perhaps even wilder that they canceled it because Thunder Force IV was such a beast of a game.
@GojiGuy Жыл бұрын
Thanks! I haven't heard of Variant Schwanzer I'll have to check that one out. And yeah, Ubisoft making a shmup is a weird sentence. Fwiw it seemed like it would've been pretty euroshmuppy like the game that inspired it, but I still would like to try it some day.
@KnjazNazrath10 ай бұрын
>Lost DDP game The Electric Underground has entered the chat
@GojiGuy10 ай бұрын
LOL! Mark has talked about it on his channel!
@freeckycakeOG3 күн бұрын
Keep up the good work. Always on the hunt for this type of storytelling as I do the same too!
@RetroGameShowcase11 ай бұрын
Bruh... how can someone mix two of my favorite things like this??? Subbed
@GojiGuy11 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@Prickly_Angler Жыл бұрын
Very interesting video ! I'd argue that some of the games you've shown aren't exactly lost. Ubusuna will most likely be released imo (just have to be patient). DoDonPachi Campaign is in the hands on the people who won the contest, it's just that it was never meant to be released (like other limited Cave PCBs). I know Shou desperatly wants WTN to sell it to him, but he won't, and in any case I guess dumping the rom might cause legal issues because Japan and all. To be frank I feel that it not getting a release is karma for everyone who has been shitting on the Saturn port (which is about as accurate/inaccurate as Darius Gaiden's port) for decades lol. Also it's funny you mention Zodiac and Stardust as I actually saw Laurent Cluzel discuss the games (among other things) at a seminar last december. I was quite impressed by the game's graphics, lore, and mechanics (especially the right to left scrolling) but I cannot remember exactly what he said sadly... As a shmup and Taito fanboy I think it might be interesting to do a video about obscure Taito shmups (R-Gear, Metal Black Tarabar, Darius Gaiden Extra, etc.) :)
@GojiGuy Жыл бұрын
Well, thankfully R-Gear is "not entirely lost" now I guess! Haha Yes those are great choices. I'd really love to see what Zodiac is like.
@swingcity79 ай бұрын
Death Ephemera
@Nathan-rb3qp10 ай бұрын
Athena also made Bio Metal on the SNES and the Dezaemon series of shmup building games.
@GojiGuy10 ай бұрын
That's a different (and much more popular) Athena! This is 株式会社アシーナ not 株式会社アテナ. They get mixed up a lot.
@Nathan-rb3qp10 ай бұрын
@@GojiGuy Oh. Thanks for the info.
@packpock436911 ай бұрын
This content was so good man. I would love to see more of this and other retro games.
@direktexe843610 ай бұрын
I found some beta screenshots of Thunder Force 4 and footage of the Thunder Force 5 beta. I also have a screenshot of Thunder Force 5 on sega mega drive
@mightybackflip1104 Жыл бұрын
great video, i love how bizzare the dinoforce story is !
@GojiGuy Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Yeah, it's such a weird one. No wonder the game never got released!
@ciox----1---- Жыл бұрын
50YW is short for 50 Years War
@GojiGuy Жыл бұрын
Thanks! Where does he explain that?
@Mingodough11 ай бұрын
I forget the name of the game but it was a jrpg on famicom that has footage and stuff, but was never released. I believe someone has the cart but it was never dumped. I saw it on a video that covered more than video games so it’s hard to remember, but damn when I saw that game I wanted to play it so bad
@shmups_hobby Жыл бұрын
Enjoyed this, can sense the heart behind it
@GojiGuy Жыл бұрын
Thanks! I'd love to make more like it :)
@EspritFidget Жыл бұрын
Great video. Thank you !
@GojiGuy Жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
@SolCresta3405 Жыл бұрын
I'm still holding out on Ubusuna. It better come this year or next year.
@GojiGuy Жыл бұрын
I'm holding out hope too... At this point I do wonder if it will stick to PS4 or not!
@SolCresta3405 Жыл бұрын
@@GojiGuy Well, I'm gonna get a PS5 just in case. Either way, we must have that game.
@SolCresta3405 Жыл бұрын
I'm also waiting for Aleste Branch... That game is one mystery I still have yet to solve.
@GojiGuy Жыл бұрын
@@SolCresta3405 yeah... M2 is already in my video twice otherwise I would've added it here!
@SolCresta3405 Жыл бұрын
@@GojiGuy Feveron School is another mystery as well, I agree. But right now, Aleste Branch and Ubusuna is the jackpot for me.
@creekandseminole10 ай бұрын
I'm still waiting for Ubusuna lol
@michielkroder40319 ай бұрын
Cool video! Look up Chimera Beast and shudder...
@GojiGuy9 ай бұрын
Chimera Beast is such an odd game! I wonder why it never released...
@michielkroder40319 ай бұрын
@@GojiGuy Supposedly it didn't do well at location tests. Maybe something to do with the main character sprite being horrendous and the ability to use cancer as a weapon... that likely was a few steps too far.
@mostverticalproductions48089 ай бұрын
Campaign Edition of DDP hasn't been dumped because Cave dipped the mask ROMs with the updated data in epoxy resin; if they're tampered with then it makes the PCB permanently unusuable. ZBL-Nai attempted to do so and nearly ruined his board, and thus has never touched it. Shoutime was in the process of finding a board but nothing came of it and he runs EXa Arcadia now. Multiple boards were spotted at one Cave Matsuri Fes years ago, so Cave likely does have either the board or the source code; they're notoriously against emulators like MAME.
@GojiGuy9 ай бұрын
If dipping the mask ROM in epoxy resin is such an efficient counter-piracy measure, why didn't Cave use it for all of their other games?
@mostverticalproductions48089 ай бұрын
@@GojiGuy because they knew ZBL-Nai or whoever would end up with the PCB would dump the ROM for this special version of the game that was made for basically one person. This wasn't meant to be sold off, dumped, or for monetary gains.
@GojiGuy9 ай бұрын
@@mostverticalproductions4808 so Cave is Ok with their other games being dumped? If anything there is even less of a reason to add copy protection to DDPC since they would know exactly who dumped it...
@mostverticalproductions48089 ай бұрын
@@GojiGuy they aren't, not their "newer" stuff at least. They sent a C&D to the Mame team when SDOJ was added. The older stuff that either has no source code or they have no interest in is free game. Likely they do have a couple of boards and the source code, but don't want to release it.
@GojiGuy9 ай бұрын
@@mostverticalproductions4808 that's my point. If they hate MAME they would have dipped all their PCBs in resin. I have a hard time believing they found the perfect anti-piracy technique and only used it on one obscure game. It's likely there is some other reason it hasn't been dumped