There was a TV show called "Video Power," that was mostly about gameplay tips for Nintendo games, but there was a cartoon segment in the middle. The show was sponsored by Acclaim, so it was based on their games, "NARC" in particular.
@miracleink548Ай бұрын
Yep. I remember "Video Power" and the animated NARC segment. Always wanted to play somebody in Tecmo Bowl if I ever got on the show so I could spam Cap Boso and go to the obstacle course for all the cool prizes 😂
@jakebello79883 жыл бұрын
"Cocaine is really popular with... the same guy."
@3dartxsi3 жыл бұрын
This is a surprisingly realistic portrayal of American law enforcement's response to the drug problem.
@DeepdarkbasementАй бұрын
It’s amazing because they still lost the war on drugs 🫠
@DigitalWolverineАй бұрын
Because it was a war against minorities, which doesn’t work, ever.
@Lightblue2222Ай бұрын
@Deepdarkbasement well yea. You saw how insane that final boss is? No way could they win against that.
@lucascoval828Ай бұрын
@@Lightblue2222 Exactly!
@Anonymousduck161Ай бұрын
@@Deepdarkbasementhard to win when the CIA and DEA are the biggest perpetrators.
@TenchiJeff3 жыл бұрын
This was an amazing documentary. I remember when this happened in the late 80s.
@rockk97533 жыл бұрын
Well its not everyday you hear about drug dealing clowns
@LIONTAMER3D3 жыл бұрын
@@rockk9753 you really think you can raise a family on clown work? grow up, kid; ALL clowns sell drugs.
@rockk97533 жыл бұрын
@@LIONTAMER3D I guess laughter doesnt make the world go round after all
@parismccoy203 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭
@AzngameFreak033 жыл бұрын
I got aids reading this comment train. Well played!
@daviddavenport14853 жыл бұрын
FUN FACT: This was the very first arcade game to feature the now-iconic "Winners Don't Use Drugs" screen.
@DisparityOfBeliefAndTruth2 жыл бұрын
Few of us listened.
@bad74maverick12 жыл бұрын
It was also the first to show blood.
@mmodnao2 жыл бұрын
“Winners don’t use Trump”
@samuelcarrasquillo45902 жыл бұрын
@@mmodnao You Mean "Winners Don't Vote For Trump"
@ozymandias17582 жыл бұрын
Bill S. Sessions or something like that? I saw that golf medallion and message so many times..
@petventures3 жыл бұрын
That final boss is some grade A nightmare fuel.
@Zontar823 жыл бұрын
Probably the final boss was just a normal human being, but after busting some many drug cartels, you get inebriated by the drugs themselves and that is what you saw on drugs
@JohnSmith-nj4zq3 жыл бұрын
It's kinda like that Smash TV boss.
@johns7833 жыл бұрын
crazy how he hardly even got hit the whole playthrough and then just chucked himself at the boss, dying repeatedly. Wonder if that's actually just the fastest way to do it...
@NisseDood3 жыл бұрын
@@johns783 Probably yes since the boss design was just bullshit and the final obstacle to really eat away all your money.
@johns7833 жыл бұрын
@@NisseDood fair assessment.
@LAVATORR3 жыл бұрын
I love that I correctly guessed the primary antagonist was named "Mr Big" just by his outfit and the fact that 75% of all mobsters were named Mr. Big in the 80's and 90's.
@cannon90093 жыл бұрын
Mr. Big Shot.
@JinKee3 жыл бұрын
they were pretty Notorious
@ncant9 ай бұрын
The main villain in Guardians of the hood is also named Mr. Big. Aaaanddd, at the end of the game it is revealed that she’s a woman!
@coolnut993 ай бұрын
The pilot episode of the sitcom classic "Get Smart" had a Mr. Big... who was a very short man. From 1965.
@joeszymanski3540Ай бұрын
@@ncantThey pulled a Samus😂😂
@ReyaitheShadowWolf3 жыл бұрын
"I guess Lou Bega had some hard time getting work after Mambo No. 5" - JonTron, 2014
@Anarcho_IngsocАй бұрын
"wow, cocaine is really popular with ... the same guy"
@Stage-FryteАй бұрын
@@Anarcho_Ingsoc”I GIVE UP!” Too little, too late, talking leg.
@TikiRolyАй бұрын
Holy crap, I didn’t realize this joke is 10 years old! 👴🏽
@HermitKing731Ай бұрын
"He's got a picture of himself labeled me"
@dannywapbang14 күн бұрын
I love that video!
@montague49313 жыл бұрын
Not gonna lie, I would lose it if I found out someone actually went to the D.E.A. and applied saying, "Yeah, I got the high score on NARC. Sign me up."
@scotts_eАй бұрын
I pray someone had (or still does) a job at the D.E.A in part because of this weird rad game lmao
@edwardmarshall2035Ай бұрын
Pretty sure this is what Nixon envisioned when he declared a war on drugs.
@rockid79702 күн бұрын
It would be even funnier if this game was na actual government psyop, just like in the legend of Polybius
@chrissinatra12172 жыл бұрын
That last boss is so weird. That would’ve given me nightmares as a kid if I played this
@Dirty_Dumb_NAFO_Scum2 ай бұрын
I did have nightmares about this game, I played it when I was 8-9 years old.
@Jonfather13 жыл бұрын
Can you imagine the police report from this? "Suspect refused to comply with lawful commands, and began spitting out giant tongues, which then proceeded to aggressively bounce toward us."
@EnchantedSmellyWolf3 жыл бұрын
That would quiet a frantic event. Exciting and ridiculous.
@pablot-r94022 ай бұрын
And just their luck that their bodycam would run outta juice just as they encounter Mr. Big, maybe the only evidence hearing his obviously giant ominous hahahahaha before the footage cuts out. 🙂
@thardump8592 ай бұрын
Or the part where his head blows up and becomes a giant skull with a long segmented neck! And STILL continues to spit tongues! That especially is absurd.
@brookbrook29592 ай бұрын
What police report? The cop character is literally out there murdering everything that moves lmao
@ChronoWarrior1996Ай бұрын
@@pablot-r9402 body cam analog horror
@CultOfJim3 жыл бұрын
"You have completed the NARC training mission... Contact your local DEA recruiter." Um, OK, um...
@krunkle51363 жыл бұрын
Really pieced it together.
@slayerd3577 ай бұрын
"Hello is this the D.E.A.? This is Jimmy. I just beat Mr. Big." D.E.A. "SAY NO MORE."
@JaredAycock7 ай бұрын
@@slayerd357 YOU ARE ON YOUR WAY TO THE FLETC, PILGRIM. GET YOUR ARMOR & SUIT UP TIME TO BLAST SOME DRUG DEALERS AWAY. YEEEEEEE-HAAAAAA
@MrPurple6562 ай бұрын
“Oh wait you’re serious, let me laugh even harder”
@evanhanley64373 жыл бұрын
One of the most bonkers arcade games that Midway ever made.
@JudgmentStorm3 жыл бұрын
I like the arcade version more than the PS2 3D remake. The PS2 one doesn't have the Judge Dredd spirit of the original.
@orangeisthenewblack10123 жыл бұрын
Not bad graphics for a game made in 1988.
@ComputerTechnic2173 жыл бұрын
You can tell it was a labour of love
@LIONTAMER3D3 жыл бұрын
huge statement lol midway made some cracked-out games =/
@vgmaster93 жыл бұрын
@@LIONTAMER3D Smash TV, Total Carnage, Mortal Kombat, Revolution X, Carnevil.
@mattduncan38693 жыл бұрын
As soon as the final boss changed forms I realized I was finally seeing that game those kids were playing in the first Ninja Turtles movie, holy cow.
@jaobidan23583 жыл бұрын
"DEA recruitment office...This is Sgt. Richardson" - DEA "Uhhh...Hi, I'm Jimmy and I'm 9 years old...I just beat the training mission on the Narc Arcade game and it told me to contact you." - Jimmy "Well done, kid. I take it you want to kill cracked out adult males, collect drugs, money and save hookers from pimps?" - Sgt. Richardson "Yeah, that sounds pretty awesome, sir...Do I get to keep any of it like in the game?" - Jimmy "No, son...but you can have sex with the STD infected hookers...After all, this IS the 80s. Why don't you come on down to the office and we'll get you set up?" - Sgt. Richardson
@form4li7y3 жыл бұрын
Best comment I've seen in a long time! As an 80's kid I can relate to this energy.
@OuroborosChoked3 ай бұрын
The Last Starfighter, but NARC instead. The DEA turning little Jimmy loose to solo Compton in 1989.
@CountryBuns Жыл бұрын
At 15:50, you gotta respect the absolute terror of that random criminal dude who, in the midst of flaming body parts, syringes, and bullets flying everywhere, manages to shout out "I give up!" in the hopes that that'll save him. Bless that boy.
@oliversanchez93232 ай бұрын
Too late talking leg.
@Bobaklives Жыл бұрын
This was so incredible when it came out. You have to appreciate Jarvis' games for making the *sound* so incredible. Smash TV was the natural succession to what worked here.
@emobassist2 ай бұрын
Didnt he design pinball games for williams too
@joshdobson27373 жыл бұрын
This was always the loudest cabinet in an arcade!! 🎶 takes me back!!
@LIONTAMER3D3 жыл бұрын
the chopper sound efx were super-loud
@crimsondynamo6153 жыл бұрын
Just walk into the arcade *YOU’RE BUSTED!*
@jerrym12183 жыл бұрын
Midway knew how to market arcade games to people, mainly kids.
@Corehaven223 жыл бұрын
I like how at 16:57 the NARC finally gives in and actually does drugs.
@AndrewBlechinger6 ай бұрын
Getting that far without going down, which is called a no miss run in arcade slang, is actually really impressive. You get extra lives or extends at every 100k points, and you are expected to need them.
@vsgfilmgroup3 жыл бұрын
It's kind of amazing how few bullet pick-ups there are in a game so clearly dedicated to gunplay.
@garvensman3 жыл бұрын
I wonder if it’s related to how often you die? These games were designed to eat quarters so maybe since he wasn’t dying, the game wasn’t giving out ammo as often.
@vsgfilmgroup3 жыл бұрын
@@garvensman I did notice that bullet drops did increase as he started arresting people instead of just shooting. That may have something to do with it.
@garvensman3 жыл бұрын
@@vsgfilmgroup Makes sense
@pantheman28423 жыл бұрын
Also, you never run out of ammo for some reason.
@vsgfilmgroup3 жыл бұрын
@@pantheman2842 Not completely. My guess is that you go to that other weapon he's carrying when you run out, which is a single-shot.
@micheal79323 жыл бұрын
It's weird, this game looks like a satire on America's war on drugs. Yet, at some point, I know this game was supposed to be taken seriously.
@AL82RetrogamingLongplays3 жыл бұрын
If there was ever a game that needed the "Winners Don't Use Drugs" splash screen from William Sessions, Director of the FBI, it was this one!
@VJFranzK3 жыл бұрын
To some extent. The Williams games seemed to have an overdone silliness since this point, definitely showing up in Smash TV and MK later (Oh, OK, Williams was bought by Midway and made this game.)
@steveairport3 жыл бұрын
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays This whole game WAS the splash screen
@frankyfourfingers13823 жыл бұрын
I remember playing it as a little kid and even then I thought it was a bit much.
@paxhumana20153 жыл бұрын
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays , personally, I am pissed that no one had the fucking balls to fight the war on drugs like the people did in this game because had they done so, well, let me just say that drugs, druggies, drunks, pot heads, and other addicts would not exist and the world would be a lot better off without the assholes that ruined the lives of so many people.
@mmsizzlak2 жыл бұрын
"people can die in this game... But not dogs." "Ok they won't die they'll turn into puppies." "Young man, you're promoted!"
@Macrochenia3 жыл бұрын
This was one of only a few games that actually freaked me out as a kid when I saw it in an arcade.
@JohnSmith-nj4zq3 жыл бұрын
Yea, that bazooka blowing people up and body parts flying all over the place kinda freaks out little kids. In my arcade there was the Ninja Turtle game right next to it. Imagine a kid see what's happening the next game over. lol
@Macrochenia3 жыл бұрын
@@JohnSmith-nj4zq The grainy, pseudo-realistic graphics fall pretty hard into the uncanny valley. And then there's the final boss...
@MrDarkisle3 жыл бұрын
Always loved that 80's swagger walk the main character had 😂
@slayerd3572 жыл бұрын
"Hi is this the D.E.A.?" "....uh yes it is. Can I help you?" "I just beat N.A.R.C. an-" "Stay where you are, we're sending the helicopter to get you.....AGENT."
@MarkWhich3 жыл бұрын
I remember been so impressed of those graphics we can't possibility get any better than this.
@MaximumCarne3 жыл бұрын
It still looks kickass
@Tycini13 жыл бұрын
And we didn't
@signorpaldoni3 жыл бұрын
I hated those graphics, just like I hated MK Pit Fighter and many others like that. Felt fake and unrefined to me, I preferred classic pixel art.
@mk2mister2 Жыл бұрын
Me too. I loved digitized graphics when they were used.
@SusieUndertale2 ай бұрын
@@signorpaldoni High quality pixel art is unbeatable, but the style of this game is something I could only describe as "a glorious shitpost" and I'm so glad it exists
@VB-32 жыл бұрын
Behold the first 32-bit arcade game...an American documentary.
@MiguelGuillermoSanchez2 ай бұрын
I just love that the first "Winners Don't Use Drugs" game was a violent shooting game. This is why drugs won the War on Drugs.
@KyosukedonoАй бұрын
Government corruption is bullet proof.
@justinbisonette19473 жыл бұрын
This is what I feel like Cartman saw in his mind during the Hall Monitor episode.
@megamayo25003 жыл бұрын
From the makers of Mortal Kombat. This game was hilarious.
@LIONTAMER3D3 жыл бұрын
pure crack rocks is what it is
@rockk97533 жыл бұрын
@@LIONTAMER3D dont you mean k.r.a.k.?
@LIONTAMER3D3 жыл бұрын
@@rockk9753 i mean nuke =/
@Damian_19893 жыл бұрын
"This would've put a tear on Ronnie Reagan's eye"
@omniultimate3 жыл бұрын
the ending music is a YTPMV before it was even a thing. Midway was truly ahead of the times
@johnlewisbrooks3 жыл бұрын
'Congratulations! You have completed the NARC training mission!' Ok, I've been shot, stabbed, injected with God knows what, blown up, bitten, and attacked by a PCP fueled zombie and its only a TRAINING MISSION?
@A.R.773 жыл бұрын
First time I seen this game a pro happened to be playing and I got to see the whole thing to the end. Seeing the head thing at the end earned a serious "What the flying hell?!?". Very unique, loved it.
@Davtwan3 жыл бұрын
That’s the first time I ever saw someone get to the end of The Bridge with the car intact. Great job! (I also didn’t know you can actually leave the car whenever you want.)
@tyeefahmonk41463 жыл бұрын
Actually this is the stage where you can rack up your points. Anything else makes the game boring especially with little to no busts
@EternalRoman3 жыл бұрын
I never played this game as a kid, but I did see it played on the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and was very curious about it. It seems to be very hard even for an 80s standard arcade game.
@EternalRoman3 жыл бұрын
@@swampfoxIX It does show to be one of the 80s staple arcades, or at least one of the mayor ones with such graphics from the late 80s.
@jeffjackson96793 жыл бұрын
Eugene Jarvis made it, and he was known for making some great, but very hard arcade games back in the day (Defender, Stargate, Robotron etc.)
@EternalRoman3 жыл бұрын
@@jeffjackson9679 Wow, then that makes a whole world of sense. It also solidifies its stamp as an 80s standard game. Defender was one of the very first games I played as a little kid where I was learning to even write LOL.
@jeffjackson96793 жыл бұрын
@@EternalRoman Hated that control layout on the arcade version though, esp. for a game so hard to begin with. My hats off to anyone who could coordinate themselves to play that game.
@EternalRoman3 жыл бұрын
@@jeffjackson9679 You mean in NARC? Cause I could still complain about DEFENDER though I still love it. I learned to play it well in the old Atari 2600 when I was a kid, then when I saw it on the arcade and tried my luck I had my butt handed over to me LOL. ROBOTRON was a game that I never got into, and when as a grown up I saw the controls a year ago I was glad I never got into it. I used to confuse it with BESERK and I had the same issue with PITTFALL and JUNGLE HUNT whom I used to get them mixed up smh.
@Redjakk3 жыл бұрын
Where does Mr. Big get his hats? Does he commission a haberdasher to make him a size 1200 Fedora? Does he send his measurements to a prop manufacturing company?
@misham25633 жыл бұрын
I was a small boy that stopped to watch somebody fight Mr. Big the last boss as a head and my mom watched with me as Mr. big’s head blew up. We were both disgusted and just walked away. Def made a impression!
@lsb26233 жыл бұрын
this is hands down the most accurate representation of America ever produced.
@jonathantan24693 жыл бұрын
Not really. The streets in this game are cleaner than real life LA. And no homeless tents...
Kinky Pinky was how we got Sweet-Tooth and Dr. Roxxo.
@MrMedictom Жыл бұрын
I noticed at the end when the top players scrolled by there was one listed as 'JEH'. I'm wondering if this was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
@SmumplytheF2P3 жыл бұрын
"Like Skyrim with guns" 11/10 -IGN (2014) "Metal Slug, but you shoot meth addicts" 19.8/20 -Gamespot (2001)
@TheUPChannel3 жыл бұрын
I loved playing this game on the original Xbox, especially when you get to face Mr. Big in his final form. *_"You die, cop!! HAA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAAA!!"_*
@lcplaztec3 жыл бұрын
Millennials are too young to remember, but I recall like it was yesterday hearing on the news when Max Force and Hit Man took down the giant head on a hovering platform with flamethrowers for eyes and solved drugs in America forever. Of course, I was blasted out of my mind in the 80s, so I may be misremembering.
@form4li7y3 жыл бұрын
I loved dumping my quarters into this at a local theater when I was a kid. Seeing this video is giving me the urge to emulate. I wonder how it holds up.
@-wicksman-50093 жыл бұрын
Can I just point out... he jumps from a moving helicopter and lands on his feet....... everything else in this game I can believe :D
@JohnSmith-nj4zq3 жыл бұрын
He got them Air Jordan's. Of course he can jump off a moving helicopter.
@rockk97533 жыл бұрын
@nemo pouncey lol
@JaredAycock7 ай бұрын
this whole game is unbelievable. it's so wild how this was supposed to be taken seriously as a campaign to stay away from drugs
@gooeydude57427 күн бұрын
Maybe he’s part cat?
@tjlomin1466 Жыл бұрын
This game was so fun back in the day..
@WaldoBagelTopper3 жыл бұрын
Despite the wackiness, this game was truly was amazing on the arcade- and that never translated to any port ever. Because they couldn't port the voices, which provided tons of context. They couldn't port the police radios. They couldn't port the bad ass music.
@HideAndRead3 жыл бұрын
Might be some of the best gore on the NES though
@Spagyr3 жыл бұрын
@@HideAndRead it was a pretty amazing nes game actually.
@MaximumCarne3 жыл бұрын
Now why can't we get it on systems today? 😢
@muz47043 жыл бұрын
Oddly enough I remember playing this, or something very simialr to it on Atari 1040 when I was a kid
@tankfist25933 жыл бұрын
I played the hell out of this on NES and I gotta say the NES soundtrack is way better.
@dadrumma86083 жыл бұрын
For all the monsters, demons, zombies, etc. that you see in horror games, nothing is quite as uncanny as the head of a mobster with three chins armed with tongues and a roomba. The fact that he looks like a clay model that was scanned into the game definitely helps with this.
@AmaryInkawultАй бұрын
Can we take a moment to appreciate that these devs had enough sprites to animate a baggie of drugs falling to the ground with a plap
@jdonnelly19772 жыл бұрын
PROTIP: level one, stay crouched the ENTIRE time and arrest as many people as you can. No one will hit you and you'll rack up a ton of extra lives for the rest of the game.
@dukejpc3 жыл бұрын
I'd like to know how many kids called the DEA recruiters after finishing this.
@bradybrapples3 жыл бұрын
i mean, there had to be at LEAST one, right?
@rockk97533 жыл бұрын
The kids that wanted to stop drug smuggling clowns haha
@cesarvelazquez59753 жыл бұрын
I would play this at the mall when every mall had at least one bad ass arcade, I miss the 80s,and 90s
@silvertherockwreckingoni97853 жыл бұрын
It’s just as good as JonTron said!
@Skinn-Tuh-Lor3 жыл бұрын
“NOT…EVEN…ONCE!”
@bereanathlete723 Жыл бұрын
I use to love playing this at 7/11 when I was living in Vancouver as a kid back in 1987.
@err0rc0degames27 күн бұрын
The cop's walk cycle is oddly sassy
@saintkupo71642 ай бұрын
The dogs getting shrunk and then running away is kinda adorable.
@TrentCantrell3 жыл бұрын
DEA agent: "So what makes you think this is the career for you?" 80s kid: Opens his trunk to reveal a bunch of swiss cheesed gang bangers.
@MrMedictom Жыл бұрын
Mr. Big kind of resembles an evil, 'wish' version of Steve Harvey. "Survey says...shoot the dude in the wheelchair!" I seriously LOL'd when I saw it. And the way he crawled off looked hilariously perverted. Still laughing about it...
@RoqueFortStu3 жыл бұрын
love the sub-level where you get points for picking up cannabis plants, and a ganja bonus at the end! Wonder if it foresaw that cannabis would be somewhat legal in many places, thirty plus years later
@albireotheredguard15992 ай бұрын
Mr. Big is Skibi Toilet's ancestor!
@JH-pe3ro2 ай бұрын
While looking up technical information about this game I learned about the Texas Instruments TMS34010. The Williams games starting with NARC and continuing all the way through the Mortal Kombat and NBA Jam era were all using this chip, which is both a 32-bit CPU and a programmable DSP - that's why the graphics are particularly advanced for 1988. It could be described as a form of early GPU. TI attempted to sell the chip to console makers and as a PC hardware add-on; the latter did result in some products, but the industry moved towards the VESA SVGA standard instead. In an alternate universe where it had wider adoption it could have become a defacto standard for gaming graphics like their previous TMS9918.
@littlebigcomradeАй бұрын
This game is so violent oh my god. I like how this is the brutal response that the narcs use to stop drugs, just violate the laws of man.
@bagdaduk3 жыл бұрын
I remember playing this at the arcade and wishing it was released on Amiga. Then many years later I was walking through an outdoor market and someone was selling it In a bargain basket!!!! Fun fact, at the first level. If you just stand there and keep shooting the enemies, these flies spawn in etc...
@robertjohnson62253 жыл бұрын
They show the skeletal phase of the final boss of this game in the TMNT movie at the footclan's hideout... I never knew that the game they were playing was NARC until watching this video.
@robeyhairston32983 жыл бұрын
It showed the game name in the movie. Right on the arcade cabinet. Rewatch it man.
@zack4president3 жыл бұрын
That walk animation tell you all you need to know.
@DerivativeWorker2 ай бұрын
Mr Big's biggest achievement was making a hat that fits.
@angeldeb822 жыл бұрын
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the 1990 movie) brought me here because I saw the final battle with Mr. Big's skeleton in the film! :D
@theswapmeetflea3 жыл бұрын
Ah yes, one of the many Arcades that the Shredder had in his hideout, nice.
@Yabuturtle2 ай бұрын
I find it strange that this had quite a bit of gore and sexual references but it's only after Mortal Kombat that parents decided to do something about it. xD
@ryannixon41383 жыл бұрын
"Too little too late, talking leg."
@SpyAlelo6 ай бұрын
Who knew Steve Harvey would be the final boss for NARC
@GBglide3 жыл бұрын
Wow, I haven't played this in ages. I forgot how Mr. Big looks like Lou Bega on crack. I can just hear an off-key demonic voice singing Mambo #5. :P
@barmbailey693426 күн бұрын
🤣🤣
@vin18823 жыл бұрын
Anyone else remember Max Force (the blue N.A.R.C.) was one of the characters on the power team cartoon show?
@treseancann1261Ай бұрын
I first played this on Midway Arcade Treasures 2 on the GameCube back in 2006. Memories.
@JanusHoW3 жыл бұрын
I find it slightly heartening that the dogs just turn into puppies and run away when they're shot.
@colinmcdonald24993 жыл бұрын
Yep... You can murder surrendered winos with an incindiary rocket to the back , but no dogs were harmed on this mission!
@sinister-oni41773 жыл бұрын
Midway or Warner Bros that owns them, seriously needs to make a new Midway arcade collection. I'm surprised they never thought of doing so again. Only the xbox one has the 360/PS3 version which lacks some of the other Midway games that were on Midway arcade treasures 2 and 3. Cause I would love to play Narc again. It was nuts with how over the top it was presented. lol
@KarlSturmgewher2 ай бұрын
18:30 I would give that final boss the Evil Witch's death scream from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.
@TheVampirePredator Жыл бұрын
License plate: Say No, Or Die That about sums up Reagan’s 80s…
@zackwoods5077 Жыл бұрын
I love how the whole point of this game was to be against drug use, but I'm pretty sure drugs were involved in the design of the final boss.
@TheMisanthropistTMАй бұрын
Mr. Big also known as a Primus music video asset.
@johnclark9262 жыл бұрын
Holy shit, >720p resolution in 1988. It’s surreal seeing the original arcade versions of games and finding out that a random few were relatively high definition. Imagine if the evolution of games took a different turn and during the 7th generation of gaming, there was a flood of games with HD resolution but they all used digitized photos of people lol
@jackdoe5523 жыл бұрын
I loved this game so much. Eventually got to where I could beat it on a single quarter. You gotta bust all those dudes for max points, but kill the freaks like the clowns and PCP heads.
@Nickle_King26 күн бұрын
Really love the final boss. Terrifying biomechanical thing.
@guyhawkes11472 ай бұрын
Man i LOVED this game as a kid. I had an arcade collection with this on it and it was the only game i played 90% of the time!
@CraftyArts2 ай бұрын
"Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did." John Ehrlichman, architect of the war on drgus policy, got to have a full political career his entire life
@RightClickAnxiety27 күн бұрын
There should be a secret "I can't breathe" move.
@trollsome23 күн бұрын
The final boss looks familiar. He reminds me of that one claymation video on KZbin
@noaht51913 жыл бұрын
They really nailed the future with this one. It was like a prediction.
@100percentSNAFU Жыл бұрын
If you could beat this game on less than a buck, you were pretty darn good. It was of course much easier if you had two players playing. Played this alot with a friend in the arcade when we were like 11 or 12 years old and tge game was new. We got good at it and could beat it on a buck between the two of us. "SEE" and "ROB" held the all time high scores on this machine at our arcade i believe until its demise.
@rootbeer_6663 жыл бұрын
I had the LCD version of this game. It was wretched-as nearly all LCD games tend to be-and I promptly smashed it with a sharp rock after I finally beat it.
@thelrrh3 жыл бұрын
More like LSD version amirite?
@lewisjones50163 жыл бұрын
At least in '88 the depiction of arresting procedures are very accurate ('bam bam bam' freeze)
@MrMedictom Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I noticed plenty of times when the dealers said, "I give up!" only to be shot in the back a second later.
@samhershey46443 жыл бұрын
Narc Base command: "Mr. Big's Office is impenetrable" (Players breaches it in mere minutes) Player: Misses half the plants during "Harvest Time" even after all enemies are gone Also Player: Makes sure to grab EVERY gold bar in "Jackpot"
@ZeroHourProductions407Ай бұрын
That's because about half of them are rigged to explode on contact. A TAS would be able to just avoid the booby-trapped weed, but a player is expected to guess. Just another of those mechanics to have the game munch your money. No point in putting explosives on the currency after you defeat the kingpin of the whole organization. The only being expected to touch those gold bars was Mr Big himself, and you just finished killing him to get to that room.
@Scallycowell3 жыл бұрын
“Ganja Bonus” Lmaoooooo this game was wild
@seventhseventhnineteen2215 Жыл бұрын
Did Dog the Bounty Hunter base his look off Dr. Spike or something?!
@mr.voidout47392 ай бұрын
Drugs:🚫 Extreme, lethal prejudice: ✅
@sketchysketchist3 жыл бұрын
>Beats game about the war against drugs, where you take out a fat man's head to end drugs. >Become the Highest narc! Congrats, you became what you swore to destroy!
@INFAMOUSGHOST233 жыл бұрын
Jeez that final boss is jacked! Imagine wasting all the quarters in your pocket trying to kill him with all that touch damage
@marceltiel79192 жыл бұрын
Awesome gameplay.... When I saw this cabinet in the wild for the first time as a kid and returned home to my C64 this game blew my mind for a long time...