GI Joe review [Arcade] - SNESdrunk

Konami's GI Joe arcade game is a great time, especially with a couple extra players...
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[@SNESdrunk]

Ay you kids get off muh ice, yew little wankas!

[@jasonblalock4429]

Hey kid, Imma computah! Stop all the downloadin'!

[@legatomodi3522]

Last one theres a penis pump!

[@urBFFbrighid]

Alright, give im the stick. No DON'T GIVE IM THE STICK. *ŌŌŌŌŌŌŌŌŌŌŌ*

[@legatomodi3522]

Detector is now going.... and you tell me to do things I don't.. running

[@masterrserch3971]

I'll take a pork chop sandwich if ur handin em out?!?!

[@goatbone]

I don't need SNES drunk to hope me a great rest of my day. I only need SNES drunk to say 'PORK CHOP SANDWICHES.'

[@MrRudePolite]

Hopefully he reconciles himself in the next video

[@mrmacross]

Correction: Hawk is not a playable character. Duke, though, is.

[@whosaidthat84]

I was BAFFLED that SNES Drunk flubbed that line. He's a hardcore GI Joe fan and Hawk hardly showed up compared to Duke. Mistakes happen 😂

[@templarthade]

"Help kid, I'm a computer. Stop all the downloading." Fensler Films are eternal.

[@SNESdrunk]

Help computer.

[@ComicConScott]

@@SNESdrunk Nice catch Planko Nino but too bad your ass got saaaaaaaaaacked!

[@shalpp]

@@SNESdrunk aw nah wassup dog

[@Gappasaurus]

“Hey aren’t you Buzz Lightyear?” [whispering] “I love your movie.”

[@7thangelad586]

Scott Brooks *blancho

[@MrElbowsmash]

The other half of the battle is playing it in any way you can.

[@megaben99]

knowing is half the battle.

[@MosoKaiser]

And the other half is violence.

[@grungyperry7530]

Hack a PS classic and buy a USB dongle for multiplayer

[@Philinleshed]

MAME emulator + Xbox one controller...the MAME rom actually runs fairly smooth

[@madgigahz]

The other half is actually extreme violence.

[@tonythepokemonguy751]

“Who is under the hood, Lloyd Christmas?” Well played sir

[@benyyz]

"pork chop sandwiches!" lol

[@SNESdrunk]

My god did that smell good...

[@legionarybooks13]

Who wants a body massage? 🤣

[@ronaldmcdonald1458]

f,f,f,ffi,fi,fi,fi, fire!

[@ronaldmcdonald1458]

@@SNESdrunk old school lol

[@twenty1stpilot]

This whole game is you running through Cobra forces just to get to that kid's house for porkchop sandwiches

[@lhfirex]

The intro this time sounded just like the cartoon's G I JOE. Clyde the dog does some amazing work! (I'm assuming it's Clyde that makes the SNES drunk sound for the intro, and that's why they're so magical)

[@FooMantis]

"I don't wanna die; I just wanna ride my ... moooooter-cycle!"

[@wh8787]

Well I don't waaaaaanna pickle... 'what, the...?' I just wanna ride my moter sickle.

[@cloudsleyfalconbridge]

A "My dinner with Andre" reference? Inconceivable!!!!

[@opaljk4835]

My diner with Andore

[@cbarger2327]

It’s so strange because yesterday I looked up Wallace Shawn on IMDB to see if he is still around (he is and still getting work at 77) and I ended up going down this rabbit hole of reading a bunch of reviews of My Dinner with Andre.

[@danielkersten9502]

Came here to say this. Well played

[@wolfman11983]

Holy cow I missed this in arcades. This game looks amazing.

[@bryin7]

This is easily one of my favorite games from my childhood. Pretty sure my brother and I sunk enough quarters in it to pay off the machine by ourselves.

[@thecorrectoification]

If I'm remembering correctly, that laser sound is the exact same sound as the Enterprise firing a photon torpedo sound in Star Trek a Final Unity by Spectrum HoloByte for PC. On SNES it was Future's Past and on Genesis it was Echos from the Past. But Sega made their version themselves instead of Spectrum HoloByte making it. I'm like 99% sure that's the photon torpedo sound.

[@drzerogi]

Yep, and the sounds was also used in the original show. If fact it was used in a lot of '80's cartoons.

[@SonicDMonkey]

Pretty sure it's the laser rifle sound in the original X-Com as well.

[@Gappasaurus]

The sound predates all of these by decades, check out the SFX from the 1953 War of the Worlds movie: kzbin.info/www/bejne/poSUgpSmpNSNqK8m02s It was used for the green pulse weapon from the wingtips (for lack of a better term, since they weren’t actual wings) of the ships as opposed to the beam weapon of the periscope eye, which used a more iconic sound: kzbin.info/www/bejne/poSUgpSmpNSNqK8m35s If Trek & all later uses didn’t directly reuse the sound, it was definitely derived from it 🤓

[@homeycdawg]

"... and knowing is half the battle." lol nice touch

[@MegaDeox]

Look at that scaling! This is truly the future, I have no doubt about it.

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

SNK - THE FUTURE IS NOW!!

[@chooseymomschoose]

I remember this game looking dated and ugly from the moment it released in the arcade. It looked like a lower res, lower framerate version of Sega's old Superscaler games. Didn't stop it from raking in the cash through...

[@jC-kc4si]

Yeah, the resolution and total colors could stand to be greater. I'm guessing they just said it was 'good enough' and it didnt need to be as high resolution as TMNT or X-Men.

[@captaindrachma2041]

Pork chop sandwiches!

[@legionarybooks13]

Who wants a body massage? 🤣

[@captaindrachma2041]

Johnny, do you play baseball?

[@chickenalaking1319]

Chocolate donuts and grape soda

[@CalebByRamen]

Porkchop sandwiches... *clap*clap*clap* well done sir.

[@8thLife]

This game looks nuts! Sure it would have been a blast to play with a few friends in the arcade!

[@ExtraordinaryBoris]

Notice its been two weeks now. Hope we get one soon again. Love your vids. Im always anxious waiting for one. Love em.

[@JR-gl1nx]

Looks like you're gunning down an army of Phantoms.

[@akildukes7499]

It's Devastators, but with GI Joe!

[@jaymethysell5111]

And this game is better.

[@kushviper]

Ironically Purina is the company that manufactured gi joe cereal in the 80s

[@SirChocula]

You thought that these bases were the real ones?! But it was me, Dio!

[@bobsondugnott2560]

Oh my god. I have been trying to remember the name of this game for YEARS. The first arcade game I ever played! Thank you SNES Drunk!

[@khaimk4r4su]

The last second tied up everything perfectly!!!!

[@kwamfit]

your love for G.I. Joe really came through in your enthusiasm for this review. thanks Drunk!

[@johnmp3828]

Producer: it sounds like it’d be tough getting past all those purple guys Pitch guy: actually it’ll be super easy, barely an inconvenience

[@thecunninlynguist]

Would've loved this as a kid. I wish I'd seen it in the wild back then. I'd think with such a heavy hitting franchise as GI Joe was, I would've seen it.

[@jC-kc4si]

I remember one arcade had both the 2 and 4 player version of this game.

[@EdmondDantes224]

I recall seeing it at a store once. You know how a lot of stores have a little area between the front door and the real store, and they often put like crane games and stuff there? That's where I saw it. I didn't get to play it though.

[@MikeFrench101]

Hopefully Arcade 1up will release this

[@ChrisCa1601]

Or Arcade Archives. I would be happy with either publisher.

[@fearanarchy]

It is a great game. It is basically "GI Joe: One REALLY long day" ... And the final helicarrier is the one from the opening for GI Joe the Movie!! That makes it really amazing.

[@TransKingFormers]

Nice review but you got one of the names wrong its not Hawk but Duke instead

[@zerwif]

Yup, when Duke was first introduced he looked way too similar to Hawk. Over the years Hawk was the one who changed to look different.

[@TransKingFormers]

@@zerwif I didn't know that nice to know

[@thenostalgiafactor5023]

Total length of video: 330 secs. Total length of "SNES Drunk": 4 secs. 1.21% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk."

[@manc_crow]

my go to comment on every SD video. thanks for providing only the useful facts & stats

[@tjkhanks]

" 1.21 Jiggawatts!?!?!" " what the hell's a Jiggawatt?!?"

[@OuroborosChoked]

Whoa, when I was a kid, I had that jet from the airstrip level... the one with the delta wing and the ring at the tail. The Cobra Condor. Neat that they used real toys as in-game vehicles.

[@legitwaffal]

What a great way to wake up today

[@misterj8815]

Your best vids are the ones where you're so enthusiastic, sounds like you had a blast with this one haha

[@CelticShae]

Knowing is half the battle! The other half is violence.

[@radias2922]

You sounded quite energetic and happy in this video, and that's amazing

[@radias2922]

Indeed, I don't know what's up with him

[@jmbenetti]

I hope he's ok. I really love his content and I hope he's doing well.

[@radias2922]

@@jmbenetti ye, same here dude, one of the best snes youtubers

[@muhanc.a.9299]

Coin goes into the arcade machine Shoot, Shoot, Shoot Credit Shoot, Misile, Shoot Credit Rinse and Repeat I love this game. Never noticed Purina was behind Cobra Commander supporting his criminal operations.

[@muhanc.a.9299]

I recall seeing this game with 4 arcades next to each other playing the game. For a 12 years old kid this game was like the Nirvana of the WTFs

[@hamstrungharry259]

Emulation is still pretty bad on this one unfortunately. I have the arcade pcb and the graphics are definitely not as glitched out.

[@JamesBondSPY007]

I was gonna say...for 1989 this woulda been good, but pretty bad for 92'.

[@whosaidthat84]

Yeah I have a SNES mini and the game glitches out big time. Golden Axe: Return of Death Adder is probably one of the worst emulation jobs I've seen

[@hamstrungharry259]

@DemonSlayer ByKnight The Baroness and Destro boss fights, how do they look on your xbox? They're pretty glitched out in this video here.

[@ProjectGenesisMusic]

@@whosaidthat84 runs perfect on all my stuff including snes mini. Maybe you have the wrong rom or emulator

[@jessragan6714]

Didn't Konami release a similar game without the G.I. Joe license called Devastators? They did the same thing with Metamorphic Force, which is like 80% X-Men and 20% Altered Beast. Also, since we're on the subject... BREATH MINT! CANDY MINT!

[@Justforvisit]

1:33 That "Laser Sound" is ripped RIGHT out of Star Trek, firing of a photon torpedo :D

[@DrMooCowz]

I played this one at a Godfather's Pizza many years ago. I feel like they had 4 arcade machines total with this one being the one I can remember the most!

[@deathsnitemaresinfullust2269]

Loved this game as a kid, always wanted to see the end. Eventually years ago an arcade i lived by started a promotion were Saturdays from 8am-12noon $5 gave you free arcade games, $1 pizza slices, half off Lazer Tag and 75% off mini golf. So once the doors opened at 8 every time you walked up to a game we'd tap the credit button like it was killing a boss and then play through the whole game. SNK vs Capcom was new, DDR was still kinda popular while Guitar Hero was just taking off, initial D was fresh, NFL Blitz Gold, Gauntlet Legends, also this Quake\Unreal Tournament looking shooter that had 8 or 10 cabinets linked for live multiplayer "Death Match" competitions....🤯 then they stopped that special and have since focused more on the Water Park that has been incorporated.😐 It Was a Glorious 2years.😄👍

[@Davtwan]

I love how close the revival voice clip sounds like *YO JOE!!* It’s that pure 90s cheese that we all love.

[@hermitcard4494]

5:10 OMG, those sweet full carnage war sounds 😍

[@7thangelad586]

Where are you, SNES Drunk? I hope you’re well.

[@Christen4u8118]

Great memories with this game. Remember playing this game when I was a kid at showbiz pizza.

[@Hravokh]

porkchop sandwiches!

[@jd213_]

Wish Konami had done a Transformers game, but GI Joe got all the good media back in the day: more cartoon episodes, more comic issues, 2 pretty good NES games (vs two crappy Transformers Famicom games)... more Transformers stuff is out now so they got their revenge in a way, at least.

[@PabstOban]

This is such an underrepresented Arcade game. I can’t help not playing though this every time I play it. Great drinking game too as you die a lot and dying = drink! What’s also really awesome is it captures the same generation of GIJoe toys from my childhood.

[@EarthwormHam]

LOL was planning on commenting "porkchop sandwiches" from the very beginning. Glad you're on the same page!

[@negaducksays9368]

I spent ALOT of time in arcades as a kid in the late 80's and the 90's. How did I not know this game existed?!

[@notmegaming9038]

That laser sound effect was also used in the Star Trek 25th Anniversary game for the torpedos

[@LorenHelgeson]

I was really big into G.I. Joe as a kid. I would have put so much money into this game if I knew it existed.

[@JeffreyOsb]

The Real American Hero!!!! Also, that laser sound is a straight up Photon Torpedo from Star Trek XD

[@brianjl7477]

"Black market dog-food racket" is such a Cobra style plot!

[@smallmj2886]

This was pretty popular in the games room at my university back in the day. 4 player made it extra fun.

[@RTPJu]

Its amazing to see some of my favorite toys shooting each other lol

[@TheReNesance]

Intense is certainly the optimal word, dang.. I didn't watch a ton of G.I. Joe, but I still think I'd enjoy the hell out of this, especially playing with friends. Nice work as always, sir.

[@mondomoleno.3404]

I always use "Knowing is half the battle!" at work and everyone just gives me funny looks because I was the only one who saw GI Joe as a kid.

[@Unaliq]

This game reminds me of an arcade game where two commandos infiltrate enemy bases but have a fuck ton of enemies on screen with tanks and copters thrown in to give it an extra challenge. Oh! You can also hide behind sandbags as temporary defenses! I just can't remember the name of the game but will remember the gameplay

[@Unaliq]

@@marc1851 Awesome! Thank you!

[@lvalledor3440]

Even though GI Joe originally started with 13 Joes. I believe only a small handful of them have greater significance becoming "fan favourites". I've noticed that Duke, Snake Eyes, Scarlett & Roadblock are shown to be featured the most on games, comics, the shows & even the live action movies. From this 1992 game up until the latest game Operation Blackout together with the 1st Wave of the "Classified" toyline still features these 4 Joes even after almost 30 years. I don't know about you but I'm personally convinced that Duke, Snakes Eyes, Scarlett & Roadblock are the "Main Joes". After all they've always been "fan favourites". They certainly are my favourites along with other majorly significant Joes such as Flint & Lady Jaye.

[@TheBrendon67]

“Scar..., Scarle..., Scarlett??? Oh, Samsonite, I was way off!!!”

[@kamenrider7203]

I think in the 1982 comics or toyline art, the shade for Baroness’ uniform was a really dark purple-ish color.

[@EvaFull]

Also in the 1st mini series special. Can’t remember if she wore the suit in the 2nd mini series that aired a year later.

[@kamenrider7203]

EvaFull yeah I was also thinking I watched her in a purple one istead of a black uniform, that may be it.

[@thelegendinhisownmind7038]

Waiting for a new video Snes Drunk. It's been almost a month. I hope everything is going well buddy.

[@lilgazib]

I’ve been wondering what’s up to and just saw this on Twitter “Hope everyone is doing well today. Regarding the break from youtube: it's gonna be a while. I'm working on some bigger vids like NES ROMhacks, English-friendly Famicom games, some N64 stuff & SFC games like Far East of Eden. Thanks for your patience and enjoy the rest of your day” I’m going to enjoy the rest of my day now :)

[@Sakura_Matou]

@@lilgazib Thanks! Great to hear everything is ok and he is just taking a break.

[@wh8787]

The detector detecting, you told me do things, I dun runnin'

[@silentfanatic]

It's weird that they have all of these 1990-era designs but Destro still looks like he did in 1984. RIP gold helmet Laird McCullen.

[@CJ-jh9ri]

Probably the most popular cabinet at my local Chuck E. Cheese back in the 90s as a kid.

[@aaronroy9462]

i love your morning videos man. perfect start to a day.

[@nugboy420]

1:46 omg “go go” and that face omg again haha

[@nobleaj8]

My Dinner with Andre. I'm DYING.

[@mattpike7268]

Not gonna lie, I would've been mildly irritated if you had forgotten to say the knowing is half the battle quote. It's an unspoken law that the quote is mandatory in a GI Joe vid.

[@juanortiz9123]

Never been a big fan of G.I.JOE but this game is a big classic of my childhood. It was common seen it in many arcade places :)

[@MarquisDeSang]

the red and white grid is an omage to the Commodore Amiga 3D ball demo. The Arcade PCB is actually an Amiga 500.

[@AJR-zg2py]

I imagine Baroness is wearing purple because she would be hard to see against the gigantic plane if she was wearing black. A contrasting color helps separate her from the plane taking up most of the background. It was definitely a "quality of life" choice made by the dev team.

[@BubblegumCrash332]

I'm in love with that Sunbow 80s cartoon style. More artist should animate in that style it's the perfect mix of western and Anime style

[@ggbetz]

I always g bought sunbow was at least half sunrise

[@BubblegumCrash332]

@@ggbetzSunbow originally contracted animation by Toei Animation from Japan. They did alot of Anime like Dragonball Z, Sailor moon and many others

[@ggbetz]

Lots of subcontracting happened then and now. But thats cool, thank gou!

[@alucardvania986]

The awesome laser sound is also in Beyond oasis, or at least something incredibly similar. Sounds amazing.

[@6sKi6z6]

This was always one of my favorite games to play in my local arcade. It does the typical final boss fake out by having a Cobra Commander robot fight before you fight the real one.

[@journeyman1218]

My dinner with Andre reference. I salute you sir.

[@harleybenton6805]

The intro singing is getting better... I like the melody :D

[@initial_C]

I'm not much for GI Joe but I love 90s Konami arcade games and screen filling explosions.

[@stevieavail5773]

I loved this game as a kid. Probably my favorite rail shooter.

[@Lowlight23]

I absolutely loved this one and wish it came home somehow. Hey, ArcadeOneUp... how about some Joe love?!?! 😉

[@starlightwitch12]

Apparently this game uses the same perspective as Devastators and it runs on the same hardware as Lethal Enforcers and the Bucky o Hare arcade game. The Super FX chip could have handled that scaling if this had gotten an SNES port though. Too bad Storm Shadow isn't in this game since Snake Eyes is playable. (Also FYI the first G.I. Joe figure was actually a WWII soldier complete with accessories.)

[@hamstrungharry259]

Devastators and Lethal Enforcers but not Bucky O Hare, that one shares its hardware with Mystic Warriors and a bunch of other beat em ups.

[@wileyschmitt]

"Body massage..."

[@7thangelad586]

! Don’t mind if I do.

[@zrayburton]

It’s the body massage machine, GO!

[@jonarmstrong4399]

my brother and I use to hit the arcade alot in the late 80s thru the mid 90s and I never saw this game in the arcade.

[@worsel555]

Remember, knowing is half the battle. The other half? Red and Blue lasers.

[@the_war_doctor]

That laser sound is pretty close to the old school photon torpedo sound.

[@kwu2242]

Your analysis is spot on. This was a great game and not exceedingly hard, so it was still enjoyable

[@DaniJam05]

This game is one of those games that just looks genuinely fun

[@garrygarrettson4154]

Dude long time fan and its 2:42am and everything was quite in the house until my wife got mad at me for laughing really loud when you said pork chop sandwiches.

[@eyokfla]

This is like the Second Stage of CONTRA (NES version)

[@Kr0nicDragon]

Man I remember finding this in some obscure arcade a helluva long time ago and it blew my friggin mind

[@ProfessorHurt]

Anytime I go to the Galloping Ghost arcade this is the second game I have to play there. Insanely fun.

[@hneugiii1245]

I love this game. Played it once in an arcade as a kid and could never find it again. I was so happy to find it on the Pandora's Box. It's a great game to just sit back and relax with.

[@BeegtymeRawkstah]

4:10 cobra commander has 5 fingers and a thumb lol

[@T4KUM4KUN]

Thank you for making and I hope you have a great rest of your day.

[@longann7560]

I Still love and play this game from time to time !

[@Sly88Frye]

Awesome! SNESDrunk in the style of G.I Joe!

[@willmistretta]

I found a copy of this cabinet only once so far, at an arcade in Astoria, Oregon. When I went back there last winter, it had closed :(.