NARC: The Complete History | RETRO GAMING DOCUMENTARY

[@slopesgameroom]

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[@slopesgameroom]

Hopefully you guys like this slightly new style of Complete History! I am always trying to push myself with every major video in the editing department, audio department, storytelling department etc... In this video I really pushed myself on the audio front, hopefully, you like the way the music is all mixed together (including a little mini remix by moi) The aim is to make these videos the very best they can be. :) Thank you all again for taking the time to enjoy these videos and giving me the ability to release them on a regular basis... a true dream come true and it's all thanks to you peeps! And yes, even though I didn't mention it MR BIG is also the bad guy in the Power Team!!!! (I knew this... sillyme) Mucho Love -DJ Slope

[@Tacom4ster]

You could have talk about the Copanganda of the game and how broken the drug war is

[@Invidente7]

@@slopesgameroom Thank you. Also blaster is criminally underrated for being a direct sequel to Robotron 2084 (The last human family is dead!) But for also having a proper ending.

[@Invidente7]

@@Tacom4ster That has nothing to do with the game itself.

[@Tacom4ster]

@@Invidente7 eh I'm bored with standard reviews, now I ask for complex political essays on pop culture so I can feel smart :p

[@williamcrowe2576]

Just want to point out that in the first Ninja Turtles movie, you can see one of the Foot Clan's recruits playing on a NARC arcade machine.

[@scotthewitt9861]

Lol ik it’s awesome

[@serotoninsyndrome]

Check out the warehouse on East Lairdman Island...you'll get your answers there.

[@Tysonyar]

I've really enjoyed your "Complete History" series! Endless entertainment from the faves of my childhood. Great work man! Thank you.

[@Tysonyar]

@Mike will Gotta love YT comments section SMH

[@BSM7702]

One my best favorite arcade games grow up in the 80s early 90s. loved this alot.

[@trustno173]

I love the fact that this game has a random side villain that's a homicidal, possibly child-killing clown, and he's not a boss, there are numerous Kinky Pinky's throughout the game. You can't make this up.

[@JonGee420]

That must have been the UK release. Here in the states and even on the NES port he was Kinky Pinky the Clown

[@trustno173]

@@JonGee420 Nah, that was just me screwing up.

[@otaking3582]

Not any weirder than Final Fight having multiple pink-haired transsexual women named after a rock band.

[@josesosa3337]

I only found out about this series because and old boyfriend of my mom gave me the ps2 NARC as a gift. I remember crying and being upset at a certain level where you use a sniper to protect a politician. I realized later you can just switch weapons to make it easier. Good times.

[@Invidente7]

It has the original NARC as a bonus. I can't believe that daniel forgot about it.

[@strain42]

I remember being super creeped out by Mr. Big as a kid. Like weirdly enough nothing else in the game stood out to me as odd, but that giant creepy face gave me genuine nightmares.

[@Ebiiru]

Oh thank God it wasn't just me, dude is so freaky

[@SonJazrin]

NARC was 90's as fuck. I absolutely hated the fact that there was a dip switch setting that if you got hit with an attack strong enough to kill you, the attack would kill you then continue to drain your energy into you next life. Cheap as fuck. But I still love the game to this day.

[@misterzygarde6431]

Man I wish WB Interactive would do a game compilation for the Switch featuring Midway’s many games

[@Invidente7]

I have the midway compilation on PS3!

[@conpapi]

Could be a license to print money

[@Aragorn7884]

Yeah...and they would shove lootboxes and microtransactions down your throat 🤑🙄

[@misterzygarde6431]

@@Aragorn7884 How the hell are they going to do that if all they’re releasing would be a collection of roms? Did you think ahead when you made that joke?

[@Aragorn7884]

@@misterzygarde6431 capitalism _always_ finds a way.

[@mattmtdc]

Great video! I occasionally helped out with testing for Narc 2005 (worked at Midway mostly as a lead tester). It was definitely as boring and awful as you might think, especially because our ideas were never used - Midway was so often behind the trends and didn't put resources into making their clone attempts anywhere near as polished as the real counterparts. No surprise they are gone, aside from remnants at WB and such!

[@retro7924]

One of my favorite C64 games. The best part was crossing the Brooklyn bridge? in Ferraris and still being able to shoot and drive over the enemies. Surely this game was one of the biggest influences on GTA.

[@MikeStavola]

This was a real discussion I had with my mom in the early to mid 90s. Mom- You can't go to the arcade anymore. I heard they're having orgies there. Me- Naah, they're just dealing drugs out of the back. Mom- Oh, okay. As long as there aren't any orgies. I don't want you getting involved with Satanists.

[@stormwolf5848]

She must be an interesting person.

[@CeruleanChurch]

Aaaaaah the Satanic Panic of the 80's and 90's.

[@youtubekumpf1821]

She doesn’t want u having sex and feeling good, go be free and depressed

[@otaking3582]

This sounds like a conversation in a sitcom

[@A_Stereotypical_Heretic]

Uh huh...

[@meligoth]

Crouch throughout the first two levels just making arrests, milking it for all it's worth, roll in the 1ups.

[@tylerbowling]

I've been waiting my whole life for this!

[@LucasGates92]

Thanks for everything you work on. That's why I'm a Patron of yours. Keep up the great work!

[@codylamp6814]

Great video Daniel! KZbin is starved of quality NARC content. Ive been watching your stuff for about 5 years. Thank you so much.

[@sea-envy3137]

You forgot to mention The Power Team cartoon from the Video Power show. The cartoon show featured characters from Acclaim video games, although Acclaim never actually created these games, but merely published the home console versions. They included Max Force from NARC (originally an arcade game by Williams, ported to the NES by Rare), Kuros from the Wizards and Warriors series (originally created by Rare), Kwirk from the game of the same name (originally by Atlus), Tyrone from Arch Rivals (originally by Midway) and Bigfoot from the game of the same name (developed by Beam Software, and based on the famous monster truck). The cartoon show also featured a cartoon version of the host of Video Power, Johnny Arcade, as they fought against villains from the Acclaim lineup, mainly Mr. Big from NARC, although Malkil from Wizards and Warriors or Kwirk's enemies from his own game occasionally appeared as well. Cut/Paste from Wiki obviously

[@btr3k]

This was on early morning TV before I left for school - one of a handful of video game related shows on the air at the time. I always thought it was funny that it's just ONE of the Narc guys (Max Force) and that he never wears his helmet, so he never has his look from the game.

[@thoyo]

I still remember Kinky Pinky the clown and the dudes that throw hypodermic needles at you. What a game!!! 😂😂

[@slopesgameroom]

You might not like to hear what he was based on :S

[@thoyo]

@@slopesgameroom I definitely wanna know now!! 😁

[@georgehancock2307]

@@thoyo go to downtown Vancouver and you will have something thrown at you

[@thoyo]

@@georgehancock2307 😂

[@autobotstarscream765]

@@slopesgameroom John Wayne Gacy?

[@JFD62780]

...You even incorporated the Narc Rap! Epic win! XD

[@ReaverPrime]

Can't lie. Narc was a guilty pleasure of mine. As a kid, I was in love with everything involving emergency services. RoboCop was my favorite movie. C.O.P.S. was my favorite cartoon. I loved watching Rescue 911. And all my favorite characters from shows like GI Joe and Transformers were police, fire, and EMS themed (Lifeline, Doc, Law and Order, Barbecue, Prowl, Ratchet, Red Alert, the Protectobots, etc). I got the game on NES, and while it wasn't the greatest, I held on to it until I finally moved past the NES. Years later, once I was well into my own law enforcement career, I rediscovered it when I started building my MAME library. This is when I got to play the arcade version and back in love it with in its real form.

[@mashk]

i remember a programme on uk tv called Network 7 which was on Channel 4. They did a feature on this game. it used to be shown on Sunday morning and in the feature they showed footage of the dogs attacking you in the game and lots of other violent bits unsuitable for daytime tv. I think it was an early attempt to highlight 'violent videogames' but I remember thinking this looks fantastic. they also once showed a performance art feature where a bunch of naked ladies covered in paint were running at a blank canvas making 'art'. The stuff they could show on telly in the 80s!

[@justinweisel3337]

100% just heard Chris Abroad's "Journey Across Japan" theme at about 9:05

[@adventuretaco7140]

Sick intro .. your production work just keeps getting better and better G !

[@slopesgameroom]

Thanks mate... Spent longer than I'd like to admit on that intro

[@mr.x6313]

Love that Mr. T spot at the end. He’s so tough, but he’s also such a sweetheart!

[@youtubekumpf1821]

Addiction is spending hours on a hobby everyone tells you to get because otherwise you’d stare at the walls of your house all day doing nothing? I’m sure they would call u addicted for staring at walls for hours

[@Sedric-and-Charlie]

Can't believe you didn't mention that the Pixies released a cover version of NARC's theme

[@CeruleanChurch]

Excuse me but what?

[@luissopelana]

Seconded.

[@SotNist]

This beat at the beginning is fire.

[@stoozdee]

For real. I commented the same

[@genekwagmyrsingh9433]

17:14 Kwak Stop - no idea what they're referring to here, thank god i've been protected from the drug references!

[@TVsMrNeil]

When I see those old anti-drug PSAs, I often wonder how many of these people were actually doing drugs themselves.

[@LusRetroSource]

I loved the NARC NES commercial back then. Really made me want to get the game.

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

I had NARC on the Speccy, well at least the demo. Thought it was ace, letting rip with the rocket launcher and that. Fascinating video, no idea about the later NARC game.

[@DanielHuman1996]

I thought "Crime Wave" by Access Software/US Gold was a sequel to Narcs. (It ripped the visuals and had the best PC speaker sound!)

[@Hellwyck]

"Shooting up", "the most lines" ... are these deliberate drugs puns?

[@nicolemonrue]

This is so strange whats going on with me LOL... I was feeling nostalgic and started looking up NARC to see if it was on any console to play and I found out PS2 had a compilation called Midway Arcade Treasures and on the 2 edition of the games they have NARC on it. The game was running for like $100 no joke, BUT I found a guy in Kansas who sold the game to me for $20 ...so I've been playing NARC for the past couple of days...and then this comes out lol....so coincidental!!

[@patricklacey4946]

That intro was in fire, And great video as always, one of my favorite classics

[@nessentialsunlimited]

The Music in this 😍 great work DJ Slope. Your video’s are always worth our time. Please let us know where to get these tunes.

[@slopesgameroom]

The majority of these choons came from epidemic, The mini remix... That was all me

[@nessentialsunlimited]

@@slopesgameroom very very nice work. The effort to raise the quality of your videos was immediately noticed when I checked this out. Then I read you comment about trying to improve and it was very apparent pretty quickly so keep up the great work.

[@nessentialsunlimited]

@@slopesgameroom it’s now recommended to listen to your videos with headphones 🎧

[@Roadent1241]

Cheboha Wolf Genuine question, how much are you missing if you can't? Like if you're stuck in one sided or both sides in one ear?

[@TV-Tony]

This channel kicks so much ass. Very detailed in your histories and really enjoying your playlist.

[@slopesgameroom]

Ahhhhhhh cheers matey :D

[@halberdierv2]

8:49 i can't help but hear Journey Across Japan wherever i hear that song.

[@williambargery5855]

Awesome video slope keep at it man !

[@mattcrowell5875]

Another bopper of video. Keep it up!

[@slopesgameroom]

Thanks bud, glad you enjoyed it

[@adamfrazer5150]

@14:00 as cheesy as Brooke Shields' commercial might seem to us, compared to the absolute crap or lies or both that they were shoveling at us in the 90's, it's actually one of the few commercials that doesn't treat you like a moron AND caring about yourself is far more sound an argument than say "Winners don't use drugs".

[@goldend-pad5257]

NARC one of the most iconic arcade games ever imo.

[@vauxaholic]

Ahh the good old days 👍 would love to see a Dizzy complete history video 👀

[@slopesgameroom]

Already done it mate :D

[@Entertained45]

First time on your channel, good stuff, thanks.

[@LusRetroSource]

You can definitely see the inspiration to Smash TV. When I see NARC in action, I also get Smash TV vibes.

[@georgieramone]

Great video! I used to love this crazy game as a youngster

[@milkapeismilky5464]

I played the hell out of Narc on NES, but really enjoyed the unfiltered game on MAME on my home multi cabinet!

[@Boojakascha]

The early offering of Williams wasn't limited to pinball machines! They offered lots of electro mechanicals such as gun games.

[@Armaron06]

The gameplay of Blaster is so amazing that the glass of the CRT monitor randomly explodes in people's faces.

[@JasonMontell2501]

Never clicked so fast in my life

[@horatiohornblower741]

Whoop whoop slopes on

[@rexrodecolt]

Wow great video, seriously, .Pretty great stuff & game!

[@AcornElectron]

Remember playing it in Blackpool when it was new. 10p a credit. Keep up the good work DJ and stay safe.

[@slopesgameroom]

You too my man, massive respect for that memory jog :D

[@AcornElectron]

@@slopesgameroom 10 became 20 which turned into ten bob a do. When it got to £3 to play 360 G-Loc in the full machine and £2 a throw for VR stuff I was like, take my money. 🤣🕹 92…. Good times.

[@chadmolitor6691]

That typical FBI "say no to drugs" screen is my work computer's background at the moment 🤣🤣

[@DaRealHananas]

If you will do quickies, i would love to see one for Konami's Knightmare.

[@theodorehsu5023]

The big trick is to bust 50 villains that you CAN bust for 250K (and 2 or 3 men/rockets depending on where you were pointwise at the end of a level). Joe Rockhead and Kinky Pinky needed blasting with rockets. Joe could also get taken out by the car's machine guns, while Kinky could become Killer Clown Pancake after flattening him with the car (Joe could take a hit from the car). After you rack up 50 busts, though, you HAD to blast everyone else (the game only allowed for no more than 50 busts/level) Brown-coated pushers had needed ammo, grey-coated ones had needed rockets. 100K got you another life and a rocket, so taking anything for high bonus later was a must. KZbinr "JimmyQballs" had 2 NARC videos where he showed himself using the car as a ramming weapon against grounded choppers on the bridge level (and jumping before contact).

[@everydayman2]

I don't even have to watch this video to like it! I had totally forgot about Narc! :)

[@Dun-N-Dusted]

another informal and interesting episode, Thank you again Daniel!

[@Wpit2]

Great work as always

[@featuremusic8354]

Awesome! Can’t wait to watch this.

[@slopesgameroom]

Hope you like it

[@Britelite0304]

Hey, where did that 48 hours poster come from? That can't be what they put in theaters?

[@martincann5052]

More likely it was a VHS cover, that seems to have allowed more leeway as to what you could put on the box cover. See the box art for Peter Jackson's first film, 'Bad Taste', which did something similar.

[@EverythingGeek]

This is so nostalgic

[@djassassinuk]

i've been experimenting with old coin op emulation lately and thought I would have a go at finally completing this game being that I now had unlimited credits .... However, Just like the Terminator 2 coin op there is a level that has an intermittent goal that when it triggers derails your progress and kicks you back a level ... Sooooo ... I still haven't completed NARC after all these flippin years!!!! :D

[@stoozdee]

The intro beat hits hard 🔥

[@mightyfilm]

NARC (or the NES version anyway) was also somehow considered family friendly enough for the characters to make their way to the cartoon series "The Power Team." Essentially Captain N in reverse, the video game characters came into the human character's world, and ONLY with Acclaim published video games. Completely forgivable that it didn't make it into the video. It's obscure because it's completely forgettable. The only thing I can even remember about it is a robot version of a character from Kwirk malfunctioning and saying "I'm Blotten Bladdy Bladish" because it cracked me up as a little kid.

[@krismckasson]

Gacy used his construction company to lure his victims, not his Pogo the clown persona.

[@conorl1894]

100%. The clown thing was basically an insignificant footnote the media matched onto in the case

[@pferreira1983]

This game really passed me by probably because it was never sequealised or got console ports. Looks like a lot of fun. 👍

[@solonsaturngaming3727]

Also for Gacy it wasn’t known to kill in the clown costume as he was known to be a clown and since then it came over to his character.

[@DanielHuman1996]

Playing NARC as a teenager was an awesome experience, but it was very hard!

[@otaking3582]

3:12 BASIC? I thought you just said it was Fortran? * Ba dum tss*

[@13Hyrule]

Wasn't expecting to hear the Journey Across Japan theme.

[@konstantinkoverchenko9587]

Narc was such is such an awesome game! The ps2 update was hilarious!

[@georgehancock2307]

Always entertaining and I find your accent relaxing

[@MrDalevich]

I did have the Atari ST port of this, it seemed pretty close to the arcade. Even had the slightly shaky "you're busted!" in the game. The design of the game totay reminded me of The Exterminator, the utterly bonkers film about a Vietnam vet with a flamethrower exacting a fiery revenge on....someone bad....and cleaning up the streets while he does it.

[@natemo82]

Somebody really really needs to make a film adaption off this game. May be the best video game movie ever.

[@billkeithchannel]

I think that was the TV show Nasty Boys based on the real black ops drug unit in Los Angeles California.

[@munchiestinsandwich2465]

Great video Thanks man

[@Mgalens]

i mainly remember learning of this game because of its absolutely bonkers end boss.

[@WoWzerGamer]

I remember playing the PS2 Narc game, and the end boss being hard to beat. Not a perfect game but still had fun anyways.

[@bransonbenson9520]

1/2 of the time: Eugene Jarvis backstory..1/2 of the other time: Narc development history

[@deusmachinaex]

8:45 are we gonna get a Slope's Game Room and Abroad in Japan crossover?!

[@thebiolithic]

NARC rules, it was creative compared to the pacmans and marios of the day, and it had guts to follow a theme through. Plus, its funny. What if a game came out today featuring a hero cop named Max Force. I'd love to see the backlash on that. Thanks for the video

[@Ebiiru]

I love playing this game because literal clowns would throw needles at you but they could not condone actually killing the dogs they would just explode into more puppies

[@GregsGameRoom]

The NES port is rough. Last time I played it I went straight to the arcade version to wipe that bad memory away. It’s just... weak.

[@btr3k]

Lots of NES ports got by just on their name alone. I'm thinking of Paperboy in this category as well. The Narc NES instructions do have a laugh though, in its description of your mission - "We'd send in the army's special operations division, but that would just send up flags. We need to act more covertly. Which is why you two have been chosen to go in there and spearhead this operation." Yup, walking down the street gunning down everyone in sight - nice covert handling of things, guys!

[@darktetsuya]

okay before we even get to NARC I remember hearing the 'Blaster' story about the monitors, there was a short video with Eugene about it in the trivia section of Midway Arcade Treasures 1! luckily I think the only casualty was a Nintendo Donkey Kong Jr. I did enjoy the NES port of NARC, although I know it was a far cry from the arcade original. I do remember that weird phase midway had trying to reboot their classic arcade franchises (NARC, LA Rush, and AREA 51) I don't think any of them turned out any good though.

[@adventuretaco7140]

Hell yeah DJ SLOPE!!

[@johnv7317]

I wonder Eugene portrayed Mr. Big in the original NARC? Much like Ed Boon voice the villain General Akhboob.

[@trailersic]

Someone snitched that this video was up

[@adeelchowdhry4284]

Great video

[@nickalkire1187]

21:15 Temper, Mr. T!! TEMPER!!

[@tacotoosday42]

The favorite game of young foot soldiers to be

[@colinmcdonald2499]

19:04 " ... beat off the typical path and bust bad guys.". That was done on purpose right? Haha!

[@Invidente7]

The PS2/XBOX remake is worth due to it's so bad it's good nature, I mean you chase a car IN FOOT, and it has lines like "You have the right to remain STONED!" and "NO MORE D*CK!!!!" And it has the original NARC as a bonus!

[@GameBoothUK]

I can’t explain the nostalgia triggered by Worms over the ending haha

[@Juicelee777ssj]

My memory may be messing with me but I seem to remember the main character from narc was in the Captain n cartoon

[@waffleman6666]

So happy to have lived threw the video game era im 33 now and my best memory are at grandmas and grandpas playing nes have my grandpa use rubning alcohol and then useing a game to jam the game i wanna play down usally master blaster or this game where u were a spaceship that would battle to a planet and then be a girl who had to walk around like zelda shooting stuff cant remember the name of that game to save my life had a scary wrinkle eye with the ship in the middle ahhh grEat times

[@Ebiiru]

I love this game it's one of my favourites, but the thing is there aren't any modern remakes so not many younger Generations are playing this game. So if I want to talk about my favourite game I have to talk to some 40 year old dude 😬 ( btw I'm 15 so it's extra weird)

[@johnathan1453]

Loved this game, it was so exciting if your small town got it. Played till we broke the buttons.

[@raymxslappedyall3660]

in 1990s turtles movie thugs are playing narc and fighting a boss with a long neck with a scull,was that boss not in the nes version?

[@LEAFNINJA69]

The intro music slaps

[@Kumimono]

"Mom, I want NARC for my home computer!" "But we already have NARC for your home computer." NARC on his home computer: (Is actually Crime Wave.)

[@codylamp6814]

Crime wave is shit lol!