100 Obscure Arcade Games - Late 80s Edition!

[@GaryRetroGamer]

Note: Game #92 is "Tough Turf" by Sega (1989). Thanks @Luigi Dennis for pointing out the missing caption. (The entire game list is in the description)

[@indiangamingfactshistory4642]

My gosh i m 2000s born i didn't know much about old arcade games but i can probably say that most of the games graphics are way ahead of that era. I mean look at the marchen maze graphics looks same like today's android games.

[@DrWho2008t101]

I remembered this as if it was yesterday. Thanks for the video!

[@dogus.utoopia]

No se puede copiar.👎🏻

[@thereasonforyou6728]

This video is one of the most precious and rare on youtube !

[@hugoclarke3284]

What a collection. It's baffling to see what people had already achieved by my birth in 1989.

[@alexandreandrade5365]

Thank you for moving from the 5 secs format! It's so much more enjoyable now to watch.

[@duranduran6456]

This is a phenomenal list of games! Thank you!

[@TheBruuz]

Omg, some of those really brought me back. It's insane that somewhere in my brain that knowledge was still there, but hasn't been accessed in over 30 years. I expect my nose to bleed any second...

[@billcook4768]

Will somebody please build a time machine? I know there are ways to play these games today, but I want to be in an arcade with the background sound of 20 of these at once.

[@paulchaplin2032]

Agreed. Even though i built my own arcade machine with MAME installed there was nothing like being in an arcade parlour with all the lights and sounds

[@DrWho2008t101]

there are still arcades .. it's just that you dont put quarters in .. it's a free play but you have to pay the admission like $10.

[@AMMAZZARE]

I know what you mean. It’s not that same playing these games at home. Need that dark room with black light responsive carpet and all 100 machines making beeps and boops. Fortunately there are lots of retro arcades popping up all over the place.

[@scottfitzpatrick1939]

A pilgrimage to the fun spot arcade museum in New Hampshire is an incredible trip.

[@carloschu7127]

There are games that can be download and play under DOS enviroment.

[@CrazyFriendlyGamerAlex]

Man, so many arcade gems^^ Great list as always;) 2:04 What a weird looking game:D

[@CrazyFriendlyGamerAlex]

14:53 "Zmeika":D Quite a tough game and almost on all cellphones back in 90s:D

[@rmetcheverry]

I remember playing several of these. Nº4 (Battle Shark) looks a bit simpler but was much cooler on the actual arcade. The gimmick was that the controls were a periscope sight that you had to look trough, and you controlled the sight by turning the periscope to its sides and up and down with a set of joysticks on each side.

[@lluispoloisern677]

Thanks, mate. Some of them I played when kid and I couldnt remember the name!

[@ShallRemainUnknown]

Arcadia games Aargh! and Ninja Mission (they had futuristic racing battle pods one, too) were running on Commodore Amiga personal computer hardware!

[@classickid2185]

Great list! I seem to know and have played most of these games listed here.

[@megatron8461]

I think Metal Hawk is the most masculine sounding title Namco ever did. And I love it!!

[@leebrandon3842]

awesome video. all i play mostly is retro arcade games from the 80's early 90's. always looking for hidden gems and this will help. I just beat "bonze adventures" and i just saw it on ur list, lol. that game was killer.

[@leebrandon3842]

oh yeah...i just saw "legend of makai"...im playing that game right now and it is so freakin awesome. i love it.

[@NathanHassall]

I found some games I thought id never see again..thank you so much!!

[@JopieHaargel]

Some of these remained obscure for a reason...

[@KishorTwist]

DEAD ANGLE!! Exactly the old arcade game I was looking for! GGWP 🙏

[@FreakyLynx]

There’s one arcade game I’ve been trying to remember. I know you played a caveman, it had like a birds eye pov. I think you started throwing rocks but could upgrade to throwing torches, and you could find a dinosaur (triceratops?) to ride. And the board you could go all around, not just continuously forward but more like an open area.

[@Tigerlord4835]

Sounds like Boomer ranger, don't remember who made it, though.

[@boyonthephone1]

Absolutely loved your upload. Now, time to fire up the raspberry

[@adol929]

Awesome list! Thank you!

[@chiissu]

Good list. I was born in the late 80s and missed most of these but I do have and beat Burning Force and Street Smart on the Genesis Ports.

[@ddewittfulton]

I remember dedicated arcades becoming pretty scarce in the late 80s. In general, malls became a lot less "teen friendly" by the 1990s. We found various 7/11s that had the games we liked. Xenophobe... Gauntlet... Altered Beasts... they were scattered around town. Usually we'd be on comic book sprees to our local outlets and then to the video games at the 7/11s. Then we got girlfriends. LOL!

[@MaxSpender]

I thought I recognised some of these, like Bonze Adventure & Legend of Hero Tonma. I must have played them years ago on a PC Engine emulator. And I had no idea that an obscure game I played quite a lot on the Spectrum, called Ninja, was actually an Arcade port of Ninja Mission. Live and learn.

[@GaryRetroGamer]

Aha! Excellent eye on "Ninja". It was actually the other way round; "Ninja" was a big hit on home computers (Speccy and the other 8 bits) in 1986. In 1988, Mastertronic introduced their "Arcadia" line of arcade systems - which were essentially just Amiga hardware packaged inside an arcade case. They made the decision to port some of their early titles ... like Ninja ... to this new arcade system! So, the arcade "Ninja Mission" is actually a port of the older 8-bit titles!

[@MaxSpender]

Gary Really? I was right when I said Live and Learn. 😂

[@brandonsanchez8197]

Taito uses the same text font as Namco and presumably Atari. I love it.

[@DSAmage]

Kein einziges habe ich gekannt :) Top Retro Vupes *thx*

[@marinoscarpa895]

Some of theese games I thought I forgot but come back like ptsd memories

[@Bryan-lu4du]

Some of these look like a lot of fun

[@jeronimolegua6606]

Ninka Kid II brought me here. Greate games, but still missing Choplifter, Bomb Jack and Commando.

[@eireian4939]

Great work as always Gary..👍😊

[@EricBarbman]

n° 98 was one of my favourites... Tecmo Knights / Wild Fangs... You could decapitate your foes in such satisfying ways... And it was quite easy, which was rare for an arcade game.

[@redr0scoe]

Great work!

[@David_a_journeyman_curmudgeon]

Dude thank you!

[@treeboyx]

Ninjas....so hot in the 80's. Also, the company Taito was prolific in their game production.

[@joels5150]

Rabbit Punch/Rabio Lepus is an all-time favorite for me, even though I never even made it to level 3

[@mistery8363]

0:20 my fave childhood game!

[@jaymz_rg1003]

I'm trying to find this one arcade game I used to play at a Boys and Girls club in the early to mid '90s. All I remember is that it's a side-scrolling (like the first Super Mario games) game that starts on a mountain cliff with a waterfall in the background. I think it was set in medieval times, but I could be wrong. I tried Googling it, but no luck.

[@Welux]

Awesome content ;p

[@interesting_output]

"Block Hole" is the international name of "Quarth". Obscure for the arcades, indeed. "Battle Shark"? We actually had that in one of the local arcades. It was tough as nails. "Crime City" runs on the "Rolling Thunder" engine, that one was also a rare bird. "Mad Gear" could also be LED Storm? "Night Striker" is at the bottom of the top ten most quarters spent in the arcades. The tech behind the game was impressive. The game itself? Tough as nails. Trivia: "Dynamite Duke" did terrible in the arcades, however, Seibu Kaihatsu immediately turned their losses around with their subsequent offering "Raiden", despite using weaker hardware, and it would be the start of a classic series of games for them.

[@bashirjohnson4120]

Back then these games are very good and still in my opinion I'll enjoy them all which they need to come to consoles

[@chancejames3623]

There’s an arcade game from the mid to late 80’s possibly 1990 that I can never find the name of. Scrolls left to right, platformer starts in an out door grassy area jumping over pits then into a pyramid moving bottom to top. I never could get past the pyramid indoor area. Character you controlled could’ve been wearing a red cape . If you’ve any ideas would be appreciated . Great video helped me remember 6 or so from my youth. Especially Insector X !

[@jeffnowell8793]

Good list, some of these games I've never heard of. But some others aren't nearly as obscure.

[@Rand0_GUY]

Dang, I never knew Atari games were THAT good! There is only one Atari game featured in this list, while the other publishers had 5 or more obscure games. They deserve some sort of reward for that!

[@MrBranh0913]

Atari was an American company. So they could get really good distribution within the states. Some of these games seem like they’re more stuck in Japan rather than obscure. So I’m assuming it was harder for them to bring some of their less successful game’s here

[@yaywhewclips242]

Nice work

[@Jac2Mac]

Block Hole is Quarth, the European arcade version of this puzzle game which oddly enough never got a US release in arcades as did many of Konami's greatest late 80s arcade games.

[@blacksunshine7485]

3:03 The dude in Crime Fighters is getting the shit kicked out of him so bad its hilarious

[@MyBrothersKeeper101]

Loooooove the content 🤘🤘🍻

[@loungejay8555]

Number 66, Night Striker, looks nothing short of awesome.

[@arberreka2242]

Thanks mate, useful.

[@giovanniamore7532]

fabulous !!!

[@projectmayhem6898]

[8:01] Hey, you, get off of my cloud!

[@Tigerlord4835]

A good number of these games can be found on modern consoles under Hamster's Arcade Archives.

[@kemikamiku375]

People hardest find the reveal information about arcade game biographies wiki info, Yet still going around the rarest arcade game titles this year decades

[@ThunderFist1978]

So, nobody knows what company made Python, but judging from the other games of theirs that we have seen here, I am guessing it’s probably Terminal. It has the same grating sound as several of Terminal’s other games shown here. You also left out the developers and year info for UFO Senshi Yoko-Chan. I suspected it was a Sega game, and thanks to the description, I saw I was right.

[@RiayToons]

Great games! It has Bonze, Wonder Momo and Rabbit Punch but it does not have the shoot e'm up game I am searching for: "Bialik's Adventure"!

[@Metal_Dinosaur]

Ninja Spirit has one of the best soundtracks of all games facts

[@rebellworldwide1776]

Hippodrome!!! MAN THAT GAME WAS EPIC WHEN I WAS A KID

[@SantaDog81]

29 is quite spicy indeed.

[@nvgamezone]

cool video bro

[@sphinxgamer4159]

If you guys want to check out some cool really old school arcade retro games then come over and check them out.

[@CrazyFriendlyGamerAlex]

16:43 And again Russian folktale is on the list: How come I've never played these games when I was a kid?:D

[@GaryRetroGamer]

Another viewer who grew up in the former Soviet Union mentioned they had seen those games all over the place. But when I lived in Moscow as a child, I never saw any!

[@plasmaastronaut]

glad u put a name to act fancer, a curious game i played when i was young. but there's another one not in here that should have been. a simple looking game where a man in space/scuba suit descended levels that were more and more packed with enemies that u had to shoot. Also it helped if u grab little one eyed friend floating aliens. played it a few about 30 years ago but can't remember the name.

[@Tigerlord4835]

Sounds like Namco's Baraduke

[@plasmaastronaut]

@@Tigerlord4835 thanks. been waiting for 35years to know. played it in the arcade when i was about 9yo.

[@Tigerlord4835]

@@plasmaastronaut You are welcome!

[@gallowaygaming75]

Great video love arcade games so will try few of these on mame emulator 👍

[@PastoKage]

Good Stuff, keep it up!

[@karinar540]

Good video

[@leebrandon3842]

how does "diamond run" have the same music as "ghosts n goblins"?? is that right??

[@8-bitsteve500]

Strange how arcade games looked great in the late 80's, but lacked the pure gameplay of the games in the early 80's.

[@luisgarza1989]

Bucanners is vigilante,🤣🔥, and gang wars is ninja combat.

[@Shoko7Lee]

Dragon Punch goes hard. 💀

[@lilwyvern4]

There's a profound difference in the quality of the games between the first and second world, aren't there? The Russian games were audio-visual nightmares which looked like they fell from hardware a decade prior. This video no doubt found me after AVGN's newest video where he covered a lot of these Taito games.

[@hotdoggington6962]

Thumbs up if you've never forgotten Trio the Punch

[@petrikov]

when i see collections like this, i feel no need whatsoever to pay 70 dollars for a mtx ridden game anymore.

[@paburo-san6667]

it's so weird to me see names like Namco or Taito as "obscure arcade games" developers

[@OldNerdPlayingOldPCGames]

Big like Gary

[@marcelotorricomendez7723]

Awesome!!

[@jons9239]

8:30. PYA!! PYAA!!

[@LuigiDamis]

Awesome video! But it lacks the 92th game's name and developer

[@GaryRetroGamer]

Thanks for letting me know. I'll post a comment and pin it.

[@JoseSoto-vh5zv]

Hi! I claimed the key. It is a sniper elite III thanks!

[@GaryRetroGamer]

Oh awesome! Thank you for letting us know! And I hope you enjoy Sniper Elite III!

[@TheCubicleReview2]

Lots of games I have never seen but not the game I am looking for. A vertical scrolling shooter where you had 2 attack buttons, one for air targets and one for ground targets. The ship was black or grey jet I think, and it had a similar look to Terra cresta but from what I have looked up it is not a Nichibutsu game, I ASSUME this game would have come out around the same time.

[@Tigerlord4835]

Sounds like Namco's Xevious

[@TheCubicleReview2]

@@Tigerlord4835 I found it, XX mission

[@Tigerlord4835]

@@TheCubicleReview2 That one is obscure, and it's on Hamster's Arcade Archives

[@diegocrusius]

Street Smart was ported to Sega Genesis

[@toryficarola]

So uh.....what's Dragon Punch about, anyway? And Mitchell too?

[@Doubleback11]

Hi Gary i'm looking for a vertical shooter, years within 87-90 about, i Remember First or second boss with a rhomboidal shape, maybe you can help me

[@Poetryguy1682]

I like this video.

[@davidlewis1787]

Can anyone help? Trying to track down name of Robotron type game from 80’s where walls closed in on play area ... cannot find anything on it..please help

[@leebrandon3842]

i played an arcade game that you were flying in the air and you had to break away a mountain or something like that and every piece u broke away revealed a woman behind it. eventually when u break it all away it was a totally naked girl. wtf is the story behind that?? it was so bizarre.

[@singleandunemployed]

does any one remember that game where are a red guy running and you shot monsters and umped on a dragons head

[@drewlomite]

No love for "ThunderJaws" ?

[@baigandinel7956]

11. China Gate -- Damn, it's just like being in China IRL.

[@YAWN....]

you should activate the THANKS button...

[@waynelarbalestier]

Crime fighters was not obscure as main event . They were popular arcade games

[@Judgedredd95]

59. Rock n roll racing 60. GTA

[@Bigtimecharlie1349]

Most of them are from Japan so most people have never heard of them❤

[@FofukiGuJi]

Japanese games in '80 = Europe games in '90

[@Carlo_S1]

Can someone tell me the name of a rare shooter in wich you could choose between a group of amazing characters, one of them was a chimpanzee

[@dogus.utoopia]

2:17

[@CrazyFriendlyGamerAlex]

9:57 Even Russian folktale got it's own arcade game but the sounds are kinda.....irritating tbhXD

[@josealejandrofernandezvasq7400]

hola gamers soy de colombia,hace años estoy buscando un juego de arcade de los 80 y 90 el cual trata de un guerrero con armadura el cual inicia con este llegando a una isla en una balsa,a medida que avanza nos toca combatir diferentes criaturas con nuestra espada tambien nos proporcionan tres poderes,una bola de cristal,un zafiro morado y un rayo estos tres poderes se pueden usar individual o combinados tambien recuerdo que el primer encuentro es con cuatro hechizeros y a medida que avanzamos podemos entrar a un pueblito a obtener mejoras y aumentar el nivel de vida esto lo hacia en la iglesia del pueblito,otra pista es que el personaje se ve desde arriba como el guerrero del juego out zone quisiera ser mas preciso pero es lo unico que recuerdo de este espectacular y dificil juego,pues ni yo ni los que lo jugamos pudimos terminarlo,espero que alguien me de el nombre para asi poder lograr terminar gracias

[@brandonsanchez8197]

Did they just steal Ghosts n Goblins at 4:27 ?

[@JopieHaargel]

That one is more like Boulder Dash.

[@rianerick6510]

Is the false Diamond rush java

[@Amanda-pz3se]

I was thinking the same thing about that.

[@emodesgracado3554]

ele gosta

[@AlexKarel-bh3yy]

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