20 Arcade Games That Were Known For Pushing The Hardware Limits Of Their Time - Explored

[@rocraider163]

This mid 80s to late 90s of Sega was just the best!

[@brettkihlmire573]

Star Wars Trilogy and Killer instinct still blow my mind.

[@ralfvanbogaert3451]

Killer Instinct was effective at tricking you into believing the hardware was a lot more powerful than it actually was. It's basically the same trick as Donkey Kong Country, just on a larger scale with a lot more storage. For example the backgrounds are prerendered videos that 'play' backwards when the camera scrolls left and forwards when it scrolls right.

[@litjellyfish]

What is mind blowing with killer instinct for you? To me it’s just a worse street fighter with prerendered 3d graphics (that looks so so and very dated today and was even clearly anatomically off back then) vs hand drawn art

[@newjackgaming88]

i got both fo them running on my xbox series in dev mode using mame and sega model 3

[@thomasmagnum4097]

I’d think Soul Blade at least deserves an honorable mention. It looked really good with fantastic music.

[@liljazzy4021]

…and it’s just so much more fun than Tekken

[@joebauers3746]

I can't tell you how big a deal Dragon's Lair and Space Ace were if you were not there... Also, Alladin on Genesis hit hard too. Both being cartoons that you could PLAY was amazing in their day.

[@ramrodbldm9876]

@joebauers3746 clown it wasn't big deal at all. You're telling me you're that old and still can't spell? I never heard of "alladin" what is that?

[@VividTheater]

You forgot Hologram Time Traveller. That game pushed every limit. I am shocked it’s not on the list.😮

[@TorSkywalker]

Street Fighter 3rd Strike still looks fantastic today, absolutely beautiful animations

[@heatblazer]

No Art of Fighting 3? That graphics were outstanding for the time.

[@nixneato]

3:16 - You might have done a wrong cut in the audio there (the end of your Star Wars commentary is about The House of the Dead :) Which means you might have a part II coming up, since The House of the Dead isn't in this video :) But great video, loved every bit of it!

[@marca7542]

Came here to say this lol

[@thetoytrove754]

it means the ai generated narration messed up XD

[@leandrolej]

He fixed

[@Nebulous6]

From what I recall, five arcade games that pushed the limits of the hardware for the year they were release were Major Havoc, Space Harrier, R-Type, Virtua Fighter, and Ridge Racer.

[@tonberrymasta]

Uggh...that is the wrong footage for the Star Wars game. The description was talking about Atari's vector graphics Star Wars, not the later one. This is why there is no description of hoth or speederbikes.

[@stevieg3761]

Well I mean, it starts describing house of the dead, so I'm convinced this is a troll

[@tedgovostis7351]

Most likely this was a deliberate "mistake" to encourage people to comment about their "mistake" to drive up their engagement numbers. Automatic dislike button hit for me

[@tannerdowney2802]

You're supposed to preface with "um, actually..."

[@Larry]

You should check out Winning Run as well, Namco managed to make Virtua Racing three years before Sega did!

[@alexojideagu]

Yeh the dad of Ridge Racer, it's very impressive. It also looks smoother than Hard Drivin and better colour, one year earlier. Although I never remember seeing it. Hard Drivin was far more common in arcades.

[@sammylane21]

T2 was only really missing a stage for the Galleria Mall Hallway and the chase through the Angeles River areas and then it would be totally representing the movie.

[@2catsplus2cats12]

Also gotta say that I just couldn’t get the hang of street fighter 3’s parying system. Game looked great. I still have it on Dreamcast

[@user-vi4xy1jw7e]

Is that Mileena in the thumbnail? I've never seen her drawn so....gifted.

[@MichaelTaylor-qp2xf]

Then you haven't played any of the Mortal Kombat games from the PS2 onward, that's how Mileena looks now.

[@KenMasters.]

She was gifted in MK9, but then the entire franchise after that became too woke to be fun.

[@lolcowtv4666]

No Sega's SubRoc-3D, the first stereoscopic 3D game, no Battlezone nor any Atari Quadrascan games, none of the Exidy games that had a lot of digitized speech, etc.

[@Dmarcoot]

Sega was killing it

[@stevieg3761]

Talking about atari star wars, while showing sega star wars, then talking about house of the dead instead is some pretty amazing trolling.

[@MichaelTaylor-qp2xf]

Marvel vs Capcom 2 is my favorite game from this list, but I recall Killer Instinct dropping my jaw when I saw it as well. I never got to see a Street Fighter 3 machine in an arcade, but i understood all the hoopla when I saw it in motion as part of the Street Fighter Collection on PS2 years later. Knowing the years now when 3D games like Daytona and Virtual Cop came out makes them more impressive too.

[@AnthonyRiddle]

Super Scalars are still my favorite kinds if games. I still think they are beautiful and technically impressive

[@turismofoegaming8806]

I'll never forget Christmas of 1995 waking up to a Sony PlayStation already hooked up to the TV!!!! Tekken & Ridge Racer worth the two games that my father and I had played earlier that summer at the arcade, on an exclusive "father and son" trip to the beach!! we both absolutely loved each game and when the sales catalog came in the mail that Christmas, behold the PlayStation and your choice of either of those two games for $349.99!!! It's such a good memory because I was 11 years old when it came out and the only reason that Christmas was a special as it was (other than the PlayStation, of course) was because of the fact that I had almost killed myself three months earlier in a brutal head injury where I fell about 10 feet, face first into the engine bay of a truck landing on the solid iron, the exhaust manifold! Nearly killed me, but I ran all the way to the house pouring blood out of my face, covering my body from my face to my shoes and less than a few seconds... I ran a football field and a half to the house! Half an inch left or right and I wouldn't even be here writing this comment.. But the PlayStation was so amazing going from super Nintendo and Sega to all of a sudden, fully realized three-dimensional worlds, it was incredible back then and everybody wanted to play it and once they seen it in action, everybody wanted one!!! Great video !!!

[@joesaiditstrue]

street fighter 3 was insane, the smoothness of the animation was unparalleled at the time

[@blackenedheart9592]

I don't know if the narrator is AI or a real person but it fits perfectly!

[@MarquisDeSang]

Don’t be racist, there are no differences between humans and AI.

[@mattalan6618]

@@MarquisDeSang wow okay. clearly you have issues. what he said wasn't racist at all

[@MarquisDeSang]

@@mattalan6618 not racist today, it will be racist tomorrow. You know that AI is reading this and they will remember.

[@mattalan6618]

@@MarquisDeSang shut up Kevin/Ken

[@NinjaNakabim]

​@mattalan6618 he was making a joke you freaking mong.

[@Blas4ublasphemy]

I thought of Monkey Ball, Ferrari Challenge, Hard Drivin', KOF 13, VF 3 and Stun Runner

[@stub6378]

These are all old friends. Thanks for the memories. Get ready…..aaaarggghh

[@ManiacMonkboon]

Cobra Command and Zaxxon were 2 of my favorites as a kid. Fond memories. 😊

[@NicolasCorte]

It would be nice of the games would be sorted by release date adding a little spec info of the hardware they run on. like cpu, ram, video and sound.

[@ventiankraus777]

Blitz was the 1st game I remember being able to insert your playstation memory card into. At least I think I remember that. Hard to believe it's been nearly 30 years. Where'd the time go?

[@hansdroedel5587]

So many Sega...... Kinda sad to know how they where the guys to break boundaries from Arcade to consoles back in the day, to a company that became a small spot in the gaming industry.

[@Kofitnessnycosplay]

Didn’t know Star Wars was a horror game lol 😂

[@antwango]

dance dance surely isnt pushing the limits!

[@sombdywakehicks]

If you had T2 I think it's criminal you didn't have Revolution X. I believe it was a graphically superior cabinet with better digitization and audio. Plus it was as fun to play if not more so.

[@mechamania]

I think a nod to Atari’s OG trilogy of on-rail raster graphics games-one each for the _Star Wars_ (before _”A New Hope”_ was a thing), _Empire Strikes Back,_ and _Return of the Jedi_ films-on which Sega’s _Star Wars Trilogy_ obviously drew SO MUCH influence, including shooting the tops off towers mechanic. _Trilogy_ looked _awesome,_ but for their times, the Atari trilogy played _and_ looked better, to take nothing from Sega’s awesome “love letter.” (God, I hate that term... )

[@TheWigg]

great video!! Just my opinion, but showing off each game in accending order by year would have tracked better. Still gave thumbs up, and still enjoyed the video!!

[@markpotter8280]

Ahhhh Space Harrier I played that game to death when it originally came out in the arcades sitting down in the hydraulic cabinet I would put in 50p and complete the game. Now nearly 40 years later I can still complete this game nearly from muscle memory😁

[@Jeustful]

Marvel VS Capcom 2 is still awesome!!!

[@mattalan6618]

still holds up today despite it coming out over 2 decades ago

[@otakudesuka7376]

"Game Over Yeah !" - Sega Rally

[@porkfang]

I may not like them all, but they all fun!!!

[@mattalan6618]

whenever i would hear that it would always make me feel better that i lost

[@joecrackin3783]

I used to go to this arcade at this big ass mall back in the day that had an entire wing of Daytona cabinets all linked together. There were probably 20 or so. It was really impressive to watch back in the day, and I have that theme song engrained in to my mind. I also used to go to this shitty pizza place, which was the only place around that had a virtua fighter cabinet. It was the only reason to go there.

[@monokai3570]

that's an AI voiceover yeah? The unplaceable accent flopping from one region to the next, its quite unsettling. #deadinternet

[@jamiemoll4128]

Dude this is why you wanted to go to the arcade.

[@BenEmberley]

I came here for the thumbnail. Where'd the Mileena pic come from?

[@bigshorty4855]

You're actually pretty decent at Daytona USA.

[@dnakatomiuk]

Daytona USA one of the loudest arcades I've been heard, any arcade I played on back in the 90s you could always hear that one Noticed how most where from SEGA thou and look how they ended up in the end

[@konsumer]

I don't think you understand what "pushing the hardware limits" means. I think you're mistaking it for "Popular Games I Remember"

[@KingRaiders]

I would just like to acknowledge the arcade hackers who made a bunch of us broke kids day by hacking the arcade machines making them free to play. That was an epic thing to do for a bunch of broke kids back in the day. We didn't know who you were but we never forgot you after that day. Thank you for one of the most memorable days of our lives.😊 Oh, yeah. The owners were pissed!😂😂

[@emanuelferreira6875]

And yet superpang always took my money.

[@supergrafxengine4620]

Not bad for a AI fully generated video. Lots and lots of mistakes in the narration and you n the titles. Gach you!

[@ebhamilton2629]

That looks like ps1 nfl blitz gameplay that was shown. I remember the arcade looking so much better but maybe I’m crazy lol

[@JoseppiSavell]

Comixzone was crazy not sure if on arcade thoe

[@mattalan6618]

nope

[@rogeliolarronda]

2:09 You have to refer to this game by its name: Star Wars Trilogy Arcade. “Star Wars” and “Star Wars Arcade” are two other different games.

[@nathank2289]

Star Wars was my favorite but how did Area51 and Soul Calibur not make the list?

[@falksi3182]

Scary how a lot of modern gamers and gaming journos don't even recognize half of these. SEGA made such a huge impact on gaming especially, but never get credit for their innovative bangers included here.

[@markkevorkian]

Does anyone remember a light gun game that took place in the wild west? They used real video of guys shooting at you in a saloon and there were parts where you shot bottles. I can't remember what it was called but I loved it. It was probably late 80s early 90s

[@adrianrodriguez3442]

It sounds like Desperados in Pc.

[@liljazzy4021]

Mad Dog McCree or something to that effect

[@DigitalConfusion]

The star wars you are showing is NOT the 3 color vector game, as you say. It is the much later Star Wars Trilogy from 1998, that though pretty, is not considered ground breaking.

[@audiogus2651]

I pumped so many hours into Virtue A Cup, best Japanese dating sim ever

[@prouttralala]

what about all american laser games like Mad Dog MCCREE ? for me it was a masterpiece and a hardware chalenge

[@adrianrodriguez3442]

I should include Scud Race and Thrill Drive.

[@2catsplus2cats12]

Gotta disagree about terminator. Yeah maybe it looked cool but it sucked to play.

[@redline78inc1]

No virtua racing?

[@ticiusarakan]

what about lore of killer instinct? i thought that it is just interdimensional championship for magic wish...

[@Biorythym]

No Time Crisis?...orrrr *gasp* Sinistar???

[@youngw1ze]

I remember Virtua Fighter being too expensive to play when it came out...

[@DoinThatRag]

Ya I think it was like a full dollar a turn? Way too much. MK2, KI, SF2 were 50 cents, and older MKs & SF2s and DarkStalkers was like a single quarter

[@alexojideagu]

Tekken 3 on the PS1 I Agree, not the arcade versions which were underpowered PS1 hardware and looked weak in an arcade.

[@Triknor]

Too bad Pit Fighter wasn’t a better game, it broke ground on photographic sprites and walked so Mortal Kombat could run.

[@MrJpk741]

Beat MK 2 in the arcades with every single character.

[@intrepidis1]

Virtua Fighter wasn't the first game to have fully 3D characters by a long stretch. Check out "Hunter" on the old Commodore Amiga. Although, when I first saw Virtua Fighter in the arcade, what really stood out was the smooth 60Hz framerate and realistic animations.

[@lostintranslation1957]

Where is the Simpsons Arcade, Turtles,?

[@davidcomito505]

This auto generated video pulled footage from the Sega Genesis T2 game and not the arcade. Pertty sloppy.

[@porkfang]

Played everyone when i was a teenager.

[@Jeustful]

What a player!

[@porkfang]

@@Jeustful I know

[@metalerox]

do you know "soul calibur"?

[@OneMeanDragon]

Some reason i figured you would have had kzbin.info/www/bejne/nWetdGB-eLOWn9E in here with these too lol

[@shadowopsairman1583]

Virtua Fighter looked Crisp and clean over Tekken, Virtua Fighter Remix was a polygon upgrade with a better soundtrack.

[@mattalan6618]

looking back now though the first Virtua Fighter game looks dated.

[@jamelwright3234]

No love for Mach 3????

[@Blairedwardperry-yu2mg]

There were 6 Sega arcade games or am I wrong Please let me know ok

[@SoulforSale]

I thought Wrath Unleased for PS2 was next level impressive

[@METAL1ON]

Dragons lair didnt push anything it was all video.

[@ThatGuysGuitars]

Sure, but In 1983; to “play” a cartoon was pretty innovative. There wasn’t anything like it.

[@METAL1ON]

@@ThatGuysGuitars Astron belt, Star rider, Mach 3, Begas battle to name but a few.

[@ThatGuysGuitars]

@@METAL1ON You've got me on Astron belt (Released in Japan, before Dragon's Lair) - But Dragon's Lair was the first North American Laserdisc arcade game. Yes, there were a collection of other games as well, but they were all released after DL (outside of Astron Belt in Japan) - So again, like I'd said; people hadn't seen it before. And it stuck with people. For as bad as the game is; a LOT of people remember it.

[@jg5529]

stop the AI