Chase HQ Arcade & Ports - Let's Go Mr. Driver! | Nostalgia Nerd

[@querpmuerp]

For years I totally forgot how awesome Taito arcade games are.

[@coffeecuparcade]

Love Chase HQ! One of my favorite driving games. I feel the ZX Spectrum got the best port. Looks great and plays great! Awesome video

[@corinful]

No way Sega Saturn did

[@HuntersMoon78]

Loved the Spectrum version, it's use of the sound chip and beeper is just awesome

[@jasonlee7816]

how could anybody love the Spectrum version? it crap 💩

[@HuntersMoon78]

Better than the C64 which is a steaming shit sandwich

[@EnforcerX71]

@@jasonlee7816 Obviously you haven't even played it.

[@MrScottev]

One of my all time top arcade games, this and Operation Wolf.

[@philrob1978]

The Spectrum 128 port was amazing, I saved my pocket money up to buy it when it was released after reading the Crash review. I wasn't disappointed! It's still hugely playable today in my opinion.

[@SipodshowTv]

Timewarp arcade in Bridgwater has a working Chase HQ cabinet (stand up tho). in fact Timewarp arcade has a load of awesome arcades all on free play for a very cheap entry price (something like £6 for a day of play). currently closed during the apocalypse but defo worth a visit once its open. I don't work for them, just think they are brill

[@marvbloke]

Chase HQ still one of my favourite arcade games to this day. I had the excellent ZX Spectrum conversion back in the day, and played it to death during the week before heading to my local arcades on Redcar beach with my 20p coins to try the real thing. Fast forward a few (?!) years, and I now go straight to Chase HQ when visiting the excellent Arcade Clubs in Bury and Leeds. Thanks for this excellent roundup video!

[@johnabbitt690]

Great video! I adored this game as a kid. Asked my parents to get the game for Christmas. In the run up to that fateful day, I played the demo from (IIRC) Crash magazine over and over again. Once you found the bad guy, the time was extended but as it was a demo, not by enough. Despite my attempts, I never caught the bad guy. Come Christmas Day, I played my ZX Spectrum 128K conversion to death. From first thing in the morning, all the way through the late afternoon when I finally completed it. I distinctly remember my parents complaining about the constant siren noise and I had to turn the volume down. In my eyes, it was a fantastic conversion. Errm, yeah, so thanks for the video and it certainly brings back memories for me!

[@Nostalgianerd]

Ahhhh, such awesome memories.

[@MatSpeedle]

Probably my favourite game of all time, the Sega Saturn port is a must have for fans. Without doubt the best port you can play IMHO :)

[@roboyle]

+1. It didn't get a mention in the video, did it?

[@hotcoffeebreath]

​@@roboyleit pops up on the video at 10:41 but as you said, it is not mentioned.

[@Dr.MSC.W.Krueger]

It is not a good port as far as I remember. Runs at 30 fps instead of 60, has faulty music and some weird feeling handling(I compared it to my Chase HQ PCB).

[@tomleyman8441]

awesome! played this so much on the spectrum. amazing sound!!

[@DavidB-rx3km]

I first saw this alongside Afterburner in 1988 in the cafe at Dover ferry port. Incidentally, the Afterburner game was missing the button to fire missiles on the yoke, so was a bit difficult. Also played 'Top Speed' in Pwhhelli Butlins shortly after!

[@SeekerLancer]

Kind of a shame we never got a good home port of the arcade version. It really is fantastic.

[@listerofsmeg884]

Some of the home ports were pretty decent, but would certainly would be good to see on modern hardware, or even a complete remaster as a flipped on it's head GTA style game

[@Wagoo]

The boss is giving them a big brick of cocaine (confiscated from some crim no doubt) so they can go celebrate all their good work! It is the 80's afterall.

[@Nostalgianerd]

It's funny because it's true (most likely)

[@iaincowell9747]

@@Nostalgianerd Found this out recently, Nancy is voiced by Cheryl Chase

[@mikeall7012]

your videos are extremely well done and entertaining. i never even played or knew about this game when i was a kid but i watched the whole thing, as if i had.

[@Nostalgianerd]

Thanks very much. Glad you enjoyed it :)

[@h15c0r3r]

I had this on my ZX Spectrum and absolutely loved it at the time. 😊

[@iphatbass]

I played Famicom version and it was awesome! It's still one of my favorite games!

[@RobLlewellyn1]

Oh man. I'd forgotten all about this. It's going on my new cabinet build tonight! Thx for the reminder...

[@itsaPIXELthing]

One of my favorite arcade games ever! Also loved the Spectrum port! Awesome video! Thanks for this, Pete!

[@Nostalgianerd]

Thanks for your kind words. I agree though, it is an awesome game

[@Ralkila]

i love when someone know more than me at videogames, it is not hard but neither is easy, dayum bro i like technical and detailed video reviews

[@Tigerman1138]

Did you take the line about the 144Mhz band about being in the ham-radio band from Wikipedia? I am the one who wrote that line on Wikipedia :)

[@danmoney9932]

Good memories. My 9 yr old self was highly motivated to get a ram Pak for my 464 so I could have the speech and the arcade "credit" noise! 🤣

[@denblackie-superneoturbome9802]

good video ! I only played the sit down arcade machine, there is one at Bonami computer game museum in the Netherlands. really cool, you can even plug in headphones.

[@electronraygun6346]

My favourite racing cab for sure! I also played the Amstrad CPC port to death! A great 8bit port and the sampled speech was outstanding!

[@gamesessions]

Great video and really enjoyed the format and flow of this one too :)

[@charliellorente]

I remember playing Cisco Heat at the arcade when I was a kid. So much fun when you have guns!

[@JIMBO8472]

no one ever talks about Lucky and Wild. that was pretty much Tango and Cash the game.

[@darreng1052]

Down here on Hastings seafront there were 2 sit downs, one had a proper flashing police light on the top!

[@mrdsjenzie]

ADOOOOOOOOOOOORED the spectrum port and played it a lot, also completed it too :> one of THE best coin-op conversions for the wee black supermachine funnily never liked the arcade version much, felt too slippy for me

[@AndreiNeacsu]

I played the ZX Spectrum version back in the day. It was good and fun. Close to my house was an arcade with the game, and it felt similar enough.

[@Tim_3100]

mame is probably the best way to play this game now and its still fun

[@jazzygeofferz]

Remember Lucky & Wild? One player was the driver, the other worked a gun, or if you felt brave you could stick 2 credits in and do both yourself.

[@GeordiLaForgery]

Played many hours of this on tha A500, great tribute.

[@billschlafly4107]

I played this relentlessly while being processing into the Air Force. They had a machine in the MEPS (military entry processing station) building. Hurry up and wait...smoke em if you got em....or play em if you got em quarters.

[@mymomsaysimcool9650]

This game and Heavy Barrel I played the most at the local Hop In (convenience store chain here in south east US).

[@jasonvoor480]

Butlins holiday camp Skegness wow I spent my all week on this arcade game and choplifter. Probably spent enough to buy the cabinet off them

[@rojman123]

I beat this game on one token! Greatest accomplishment of my childhood.

[@Bedsitdweller]

I remember watching the Classic Car Show on ITV2 a few years ago and they said a good condition Porsche 928 now costs less than a Chase HQ arcade cabinet.

[@zemaj0]

great video I used to love chase HQ in the house yet then I got the Atari ST version and I love that too

[@unocarb]

I played this at the arcade..in the car shaped cart, fun as hell

[@davidbarley8096]

Is the Police Chief's name at the end really ....... Anus? (11:35)

[@manpetepetrop8034]

Aaahh!! Chase HQ, that was one of my best Amstrad CPC games of all time, only three other driving games were good though on Amstrad : Continental Circus , Wec le mans, and in my opinion buggy boy. But this game was my best by far, i 've only saw it once on arcades in '92 if i remember correct and was blown away!!

[@meetoo594]

The guys who coded CPC wec le mans also produced burnin rubber on the GX4000, probably the best 8 bit pure racing game. Burnin rubber is pretty much the same game as le mans but running on better hardware.

[@dannymormone]

Great Video, its also one of my all time fave racers and I'd love to play it again. I just don't understand why Taito refuses to release this as it's not like they're not releasing almost everything else recently and in the last few years, I even bought the Egret II Mini arcade in the hope of it being on there, and it wasn't even on the extra SD Card package which in total cost me nearly £600.. So I am a bit amazed by this, especially as it was so popular! Would love to know the reason why Taito !!!

[@avidtubewatcher]

My favourite game “let’s go mr driver” when I was a kid

[@retrogamerecluse]

This video made me remember how much I loved Chase HQ on the Master System - one quick purchase for £5 on Amazon and I'm reliving my childhood with Nancy! (May even invest in a Bad Influence T-shirt - wonder what happened to Violet?)

[@hazxman]

I still say "Let's Go Mr Driver" when I'm late to go somewhere and know I need to speed 😂

[@paulanderson79]

I believe the car in the arcade version is a Porsche 928 S4.

[@connectorxp]

Remembered playing this game on a Famiclone, the japanese intro was the best part of it.

[@rekall76]

aah, one of my favorite gameboy ports 😸

[@fillphat]

very similar was the later road rash...i played that to death..and even found a disc on ebay lately...and still rocked it...:)

[@josephfanning1241]

I feel like Lucky and Wild is a spiritual successor to this game.

[@dcflake5645]

Don't like to brag but I've played the sit down cabinet and I had this for the Spectrum and Amiga back in the day. :)

[@robertt9342]

I don't recall ever seeing this game in arcades where I live.

[@wraithcadmus]

I was about to mention Air Bike Cop, but it turns out that was Sega. Very similar gameplay, though you had to ram a certain number of mooks before the criminal would spawn rather than a straight chase.

[@Matty112uk]

What a cracking video! Keep'em coming!

[@ZspotMotorsport]

No mention of the Game Gear port? I loved this game as a kid.

[@phill80]

I owned Chase H.Q. on the Spectrum 48K back in the day, with its yellow and blue palette. My friends all owned Amiga 500's at the time and this was my only way of feeling like i could play that awesome game at home. It was also one of the very few titles that had digitized speech on the Spectrum. Frame rate was dog but i loved it non the less.

[@jdgonzo1982]

This and Road Blasters were my arcade favorites in the 80's...i think i preferred Road Blasters just that little bit more though...

[@RobM42]

I played this game to death on the Atari ST.

[@backofficeshow]

Recently discovered chase HQ on the super Nintendo, it's absolutely addictive, a great port!

[@Nostalgianerd]

I need to give it a proper whirl really.

[@backofficeshow]

+Nostalgia Nerd Please do, I really didn't think I would like it, especially the first person view, but it's really good.

[@005AGIMA]

This is a must have in my man cave. I played a sit down I think in Western supermare on the pier. I had the Amiga port but I found it, like Amiga outrun, to be pityful and disappointing sadly.

[@FictionFactoryGames]

Great rundown on one of my favorite games, but the 'driving into the screen' effect with the weird blurry doubled sides is kinda disorienting. If it's 4:3 don't be afraid to leave the sides blank, or maybe find the game's marquee art to fill that in! Thanks for the video.

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

Best cars come out of Norfolk. Lotus Esprit > Sinclair C5. What happened to the guy's tache? I'm sure he had one in the artwork but not in the cut scenes on the arcade. Good job, sir!

[@joebill3400]

Great review, once again.

[@Scorpionbe]

I'm still looking to find the saturn version to this day

[@derenkeika]

Ocean simply knocked this out of the park on the Speccy!

[@Nostalgianerd]

Agreed, Jobs a good'un. It's blatant when a development team put pride into their work, even against the tide of corporate deadlines.

[@russelledwards001]

arcades on the seafront in Portsmouth. never saw anyone smacked up like zammo though...

[@Scautura]

There is no way the Chicago Pushers are driving a 959, more likely they're driving a 911 (930, note the "whale tale" spoiler rather than the "hoop" from side to side that the 959 has). Yeah, I'm a car nerd! I was going to complain that you didn't mention the Amstrad version, but that's only in the text, so I'll let you off of that one. 😛 I played a sit down unit way back in the 90s. I don't remember where, but I remember the stand up unit being a staple of most arcades for a long long time. It's a pity there are so few still around.

[@RetroMMA]

No kidding! The 959 had very low production numbers [300?] and was extremely expensive (even at the time). I actually saw one on the highway in Las Vegas a few years ago and tracked it until the point it would have been creepy. :D

[@Nostalgianerd]

You're right. It's clearly a 911, my bad. The Amstrad version is fully texted up with it's own lower third... I can only presume you were swigging a sip of tea at that point and missed it.

[@10p6]

I loved this game. When I got my Jag I dreamed of a conversion as it could have done an arcade port, but..

[@thefurthestmanfromhome1148]

It didn't even get the annouced port of Cisco Heat

[@meetoo594]

I remember playing a game like this in the late 80`s that had 3 monitors and a second player had a lightgun. It was a huge sitdown thing, cant for the life of me remember what it was called though. It was pretty bloody good iirc.

[@ryuhaneda]

meetoo594 I believe the correct answer is Lucky and Wild, a cooperative arcade game. One player played the wheelman and the other had the pistol, although I'm not sure if they both were armed.

[@meetoo594]

Thank you, thats the one. It had both players have pistols btw. Interestingly, I cant find any details of a 3 monitor version so maybe im misremembering that part.

[@SoilentGr33n]

There were two guns on the cabinet. The driver could shoot and drive but usually you would have one guy just driving and another operating both guns. Now THAT was a hell of a game.

[@leefenton9477]

Is there anyway I could download a copy

[@DavidB-rx3km]

Great videos, and no swearing! :)

[@RossTheNinja]

Smashing them frantically from behind eh? Fnarr Fnarr

[@Leedleleedle101]

5:33 just a side note, that’s a 911

[@ibrahimilyas5188]

ı wonder What is the name of the program used to improve the image quality of the game in this video?

[@ralang999]

ahhh, I see that the Eastern Bloc spy has disguised himself as a gang member from a side scrolling beat 'em up!

[@DarrensToychannel]

I loved this game

[@OhFishyFish]

Got to love those "turbos" in many 80's and early 90's games, somebody should have told them it's not how it works. :)

[@Nostalgianerd]

It's funny, my Mrs. actually thought that real turbo cars had an actual turbo button.... Like you press it and the car just launches forward at high speed XD... She asked where it was when I got a turbo Diesel.. couldn't make it up.

[@darrenleonard]

Love this game!

[@colinjohnston8519]

Totally unrealustic! A 928 couldn't touch an Esprit! ;)

[@dustL00P]

Just come across your channel and it is fantastic! What is the program/overlays you're using when showing the arcade cabinet emulation? They look outstanding!

[@Nostalgianerd]

It's just something I mocked up in video editing :)

[@felipegcs]

wow what frontend did you use in the outrun and chaseHQ mame footage? looks awesome

[@Nostalgianerd]

I created it myself in editing. I wanted to try and create an "authentic experience", so I grabbed a suitable arcade background image, slapped the cabinet artwork on top and edited in the steering wheel and flashing lights ;D

[@Michirin9801]

Great video mate! I didn't know much about the Chase HQ franchise until now, I had only played the PC engine and Spectrum conversions of the game, as well as Super Chase HQ on the SNES, but that's about it... The arcade version looks mind-blowing! Too bad I never found a cabinet... Oh yeah, I also tried a bit of the X68000 version, but just a little bit, I couldn't stand it, it was awful...

[@Nostalgianerd]

Yeah, the X68000 was all a bit off. The car was fixed to base of the screen like one of those rolling road kids toys (Tomy Dashboard style)

[@jasonlee7816]

+Michirin9801 why couldn’t you tolerate Chase HQ on Sharp X68000 computer?

[@MrThunderwing]

I absolutely love this game! I was disappointed that a home version of the new (well, not that new anymore) arcade version of Chase HQ 2 never got a home port. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that some enterprising coder might some day release a hacked version of it onto the internet. How's about doing a Hydro Thunder retrospective next?

[@MrThunderwing]

Welp, that thing I said I was hoping for in the comment above has happened. The arcade version of Chase HQ 2 from 2006 has been cracked and is now fully playable on PC. P. S. I can't believe I hadn't put this in my original comment, but great video BTW. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

[@CobraBlade]

The Commodore 64 version has aged pretty badly… but loved playing it back then.

[@curiousorange7723]

I thumbed up soon as u asked if that was the voice of George Takei And then you used the term " smashing them from behind"!

[@basscadet75]

The Saturn version right at the end actually looks pretty sweet, I may have to look for that :) What is the front-end you're playing on that looks like an emulated Chase HQ cabinet near the start (complete with flashing lights)? Is that some MAME thing? I do play MAME but I haven't seen anything like that.

[@RETRONuts]

Can you please tell us 3:22 ,or did you make that yourself,like how the wheel turns..??

[@Nostalgianerd]

The Saturn version is very nearly arcade perfect. It came bundled with Special Criminal Investigation in Japan.... nope, it's not a Mame front end, I made it for the video. Same with the Outrun setup. :)

[@MM0SDK]

I loved this game. "This is Nancy at chase headquarters, we've got an emergency here"... or words to that effect. Remember it well. lol Oops... must watch videos before commenting.

[@Evomcpot]

I still play this on mame

[@johnyluci21]

Is the gbc one good ?

[@jafreck]

What emulator is being used at the beginning of the video that makes it look like you're playing in an arcade?

[@jazzx251]

probably MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) - it's absolutely fantastic. over 10000 arcade games are working, including ALL of the classics.

[@deloreanfan81]

There was a game similar to this except you could shoot a gun...I don't remember the title

[@Tempora158]

Taito is pronounced like TIE-TOE, because it's written as タイトー, which is derived from 太東, from the company's original name 株式会社太東貿易

[@Nostalgianerd]

Noted.

[@MadDogsVlog]

Temora is correct but most kids playing these games back in the day pronounced it as tay-toe. Kind of like how most people back then pronounced gai-den as gay-den. Just thought I would put that out there for all those that weren't around in the a 80's (a time when we didn't have the internet to correct us). ;)

[@cakestalker]

I was just going to make the same comment. Easy rule of thumb.. if it's a foreign word then A is pronounced "AH" as in A-labama, E is pronounced as in E-nigma and I is pronounced as in I-mprove. Basically the pronouncation of E and I is switched compared to how they usually are in English.

[@MrWolfTickets]

the voice samples are so weird- maybe the esl sound of "ok, mr driver". it's charming, though the 'geez' and 'oh man' just remind me of how bad I was at this game ☺

[@adamphillip5305]

I wish that 2006 sequel got a home port

[@Nostalgianerd]

I wish that every day of my life.

[@ShapeyFiend]

It's really fun. There was another pretty decent ChaseHQ-esque game from that era maybe a couple of years earlier I'm trying to remember the name of as well. It was made by Jaleco or Gaelco or one of the less prominent names and I think it was motorcycle based.

[@StRoRo]

Everybody knows it the coastguard who police the police.

[@gio048]

Cool video🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

[@GEKKOGAMES_RETRO]

Yeah, the portings was very bad ahahah... But i loved the arcade as i play it on Mame!

[@davethomas1241]

I us to love this game

[@adenanthony5257]

5:55 it's a rear engined car mate.

[@Kevinacharles]

Aden Anthony The 928 was front engined. The 911 is rear engined.

[@SoilentGr33n]

He means the Ferrari is rear engined, so the hostage can't be there.

[@TMS5100]

so... mangled --_--); @0:30 taito - tie tow @0:41 hiroguki sakou - hee row goo kee sah kow

[@Nostalgianerd]

I can only hope my disastrous pronunciation didn't ruin the remaining 12 minutes of video for you. If indeed you managed to hold on for that long afterwards.