Road Blaster longplay (arcade game, 1985)

[@kixxalot]

This looks amazing, it's a real trip. If I had seen this as a teen in the 80s it would have blown my mind. With todays technology, wouldn't it be cool to have a real free agency 3D game with these kind of non-photorealistic anime graphics and physics? To be really immersed in an 80s anime world, with all its quirks.

[@Renzo-cn4zw]

this game reminds a 80s anime style from street races in gta vice city

[@DouglasNeves]

Totally, I used to go the the arcade near to my house every weekend just to play this

[@BIGgamez78]

Looks like Cliffhanger and Dragon’s Lair.

[@StormsparkPegasus]

@@BIGgamez78 It's the exact same tech as Dragon's Lair, yes.

[@RavenTravelStudios]

Masterpiece. This game was done by Yoshihisa Kishimoto (Kunio Kun, Double Dragon...) - the ending is so simple but so powerful.

[@thatgeek8064]

Its really a shame you can't find the soundtrack of this game anywhere. The music is so good

[@AlexVideoPlayer]

Still nothing, right?

[@speedymatt1236]

If you’re looking to play this game, I just played it at Galloping Ghosts! This is game 1000!

[@truelazerlight]

Anime time-space: everything miraculously slows down when you're about to hit something. Anime driving: small corrections of your direction are impossible. You have to turn the wheel completely at least 3 times or not at all. Anime driving 2: You're only allowed do drive at the following speeds. 137 kph, 221 kph, 30 kph. Anything else will end in the universe imploding. Anime agriculture: You need at least 356 harvesters.

[@前田亜理紗]

やはりこの当時の日本のゲームクリエイターは神だ😍

[@AndrewNewZealand]

One of the first video games to have a hard rock soundtrack with real guitar, real drums etc. It was recorded by the Japanese rock group Jaywalk.

[@abooogeek]

Nice, I liked though the inclusion of their English song that you can hear on the Mega-CD/Sega-CD port.

[@JohnnyUndaunted]

I know this is three years too late, but J-Walk had nothing to do with the OST for the AC version. They only did the one song they used for the Japanese Mega CD port made years later.

[@Blackholelord]

I will state that this could have made a great anime movie. In a odd way, watching this felt like a movie.

[@CommodoreFan64]

Yeah because that's really what it is when played threw perfectly.

[@hueyfreemanhisanimatedfrie925]

Blackholelord Blackholelord why animé, I thought of it as being a cartoon like he-man or bravestarr.

[@osakatales9228]

@@hueyfreemanhisanimatedfrie925 It literally is an anime lol.

[@JW666]

I agree, an awesome rated-R old school anime a'la Mad Max style! =)

[@hexkwondo]

I can't even begin to describe how awesome this is. I used to do dream about playing games like this when I was a kid.

[@MattOwnby]

Ahhh the final stage of that game is so awesome. I love it. And it was fun seeing you use my emulator to record this video. Thanks! :)

[@speedymatt1236]

Who’s here from the Galloping Ghosts Arcade after seeing that this is game 1000?

[@kuleastronaut3.013]

Isn’t that in brookfield, Illinois?

[@speedymatt1236]

If I remember correctly, yes.

[@zazelby]

I was really confused for a second, because I thought this was the 1987 game RoadBlasters, and I was going "I don't remember it looking like *this*" :D

[@sheenufilms]

Japanese Mad Max

[@Wintericecrystal]

Literally. The guy's outfit is practically the same.

[@RisadaDiabolica]

That would be Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star).

[@user-dl3xi9ec6k]

まぁ似てるけどw

[@animeweeb1.027]

His car looks like kitt from knight rider

[@willia3r]

@@animeweeb1.027 I thought of the 1980s cartoon Turbo Teen. Sports car heroes was basically the fad back then.

[@rotesil]

the game´s homage in Double Dragon, stage 1 (in garage)...

[@bloodnchocolate]

6:15 "You killed a helicopter... with a car?" "I was out of bullets. And I did it over 22 years before Bruce Willis."

[@gochem3013]

6:13

[@animejunky2003]

Totally 80s vibes

[@colonelsandwich641]

This looks like it must have been a nightmare to animate.

[@AstralStriderZ]

ColonelSandwich That's the cost of making masterpieces like this...

[@houstonhelicoptertours1006]

Not really, thanks to the experienced people at TOEI Animation.

[@VyxtheBat]

@@houstonhelicoptertours1006 I KNEW IT LOOKED LIKE SONIC CD...

[@meyers0781]

Anime at the time tend to be more fluid especially how they didn't rely on CGI except for lighting effects.

[@BloodySoulSword]

So much memories ... I was just a little guy but played it for hours :) Thanks for your wonderful video

[@tf2whackyengineer]

10:20 This is basically like an arcade version of the Naked Gun intro.

[@skenum]

The authors were inspired by this film. They even wanted to make the protagonist look like a gray and a mature man, who is obsessed with sexual problems.

[@setsers1]

tf2whackyengineer WHAT?!😂

[@kevintang5366]

10:20?

[@KazuyaMithra]

I love Toei's animation here, its like a classic episode of Transformers

[@blastprocessing1]

The animation reminds me of Hokuto no Ken all day long.

[@ocha-time]

mrnachocheese May have been same studio.

[@setsers1]

OchaTime IT IS!!! FUCKING TOEI ANIMATION

[@katenunyabizness9221]

Around the 8:20 mark, right after the skull and crossbones on the wall, there is a wanted poster for Tochiro Oyama!

[@brandonthetoyandgamecollector]

used to have this game on my phone before they took it off the app store. It was pretty cool and very addicting, it took a few hours to beat but it was satisfying to beat a game like this. I personally like this arcade version

[@laffer35]

@AmigaOmega Yes, it's done in Daphne, the game works perfectly there. It doesn't have any recording functions though so you have to use FRAPS or similar programs to record stuff.

[@hyperx72]

my first thought of the intro: Akira car version

[@milkyway1767]

Road blaster brings back memories. I used to playing this game about 35 years ago.

[@hotfightinghistory9224]

Oh my GOD! Lord, if you had this cabinet you would be a god of the laserdisc gaming community...

[@EZtalkman]

I love the spelling of "Indicator" as "Indicater" on the bottom box! Another minor case of "lost in translation!" :-P

[@SephTeach]

trying to guess the plot: the hero is an ex-member of that car gang, who decided to stop this life. He got married to the woman he loved, but the gang leader wanted him dead because he left them(maybe she was in love with him too)

[@alexk8792]

Actually, the hero is an officer of the Special Car Police (SCP for short, also known as the Mobile Armored Task Force - MATF in the European Mega CD version of the game, or STOP - Special Task Operations Police in the North American Sega CD version, or SMP in the LaserActive version of the game, titled Road Prosecutor), a law enforcement agency to take on violent vehicular gang activity. In response to the SCP, the gangs all conglomerated into a crime syndicate called RRR (called the Black Crows or Black Birds Gang in Road Prosecutor, or SCUM - Secret Criminal Underground Movement in the North American Sega CD version), which is lead by that evil woman. Now, the officer had gotten married and was going on a honeymoon with his wife, but the RRR attacked them, and ran them off the road. He survived, but his wife didn't make it, so he went vigilante and pilots the red LX-5 car (chassis no. 000) to take revenge on RRR. In Road Prosecutor, the protagonist is named John O'Hara, and the evil woman who leads RRR is named Suzie. In the manual of the Sega CD version, the officer's wife is named Cindy. (And yes, I know it's an old comment I replied to)

[@willia3r]

@@alexk8792 that's okay, I read it, didnt know there was an actual plot to this game, seeing how the production team went out of their way basically not show the hero's face.

[@1983parrothead]

Mad Max is popular in Japan, because many Japanese citizens like Australia. In fact, some other video games and anime feature Australian references. And Road Blaster was created by employees that later founded Technos Japan.

[@MrStabby19812]

I allways loved how you rip the car roof off in stage 7 and its fixed in stage 8

[@tyleraronne473]

Wow the arcade quality is worlds better.

[@katenunyabizness9221]

Love the easter egg at 8:30 right after the skull and crossbones on the wall, we get a wanted poster for Tochiro Oyama!

[@laffer35]

@Slash0mega That's what you control, the crosshairs. Makes it more difficult than simply pressing left or right when the arrows flash as it has to be positioned right in order to have enough time to move it to the required location in many instances.

[@1xWertzui]

Mad Max: The Anime: The Arcade Game OR Test Drive: Japanese Edition

[@brass_fox]

Is it me or I just love that Stage 1 music?

[@superbroly64DS]

A FMV masterpiece

[@jasontodd8071]

The plot reminds me of ep 4 of Bubblegum Crisis OVA : Revenge Road with a Riding Bean OST.

[@pancudowny]

The Japanese sure have an odd impression of what the 3rd-gen Trans-Am is--Wait... Isn't this the car from Double Dragon?

[@th3SyLvEsTeR]

nuts that this came out around the same era as the nes. Sick

[@mikejimkoski5520]

We need ROAD AVENGER VR !!

[@MisterMelange]

Gee, you sure seem to endanger the lives of lots of civilians in your pursuit of revenge in this game. Which is exactly the kind of behavior the gang members were engaging in!

[@khhnator]

you say that to the guy hitting helicopters with his car

[@joshuarobinson8529]

It takes the tactics to beat the tactics. At least he's somewhat more considerate.

[@RaposaCadela]

He's the road avenger, not the road protector

[@XX-sp3tt]

While he's clearly a vigilante, at least he goes out of his way to avoid running over innocent people, proving at least he's still a human being.

[@manuelink64]

i love this game so much, i never play in the arcades, but Daphne save the day... I'm still trying to reach the end level :-(

[@田中誠-t9d]

小学生のときゲームセンターにあってめちゃくちゃカッコよかった、 ゲームセンターでもう一度やりたい！

[@timothypierce5303]

This game reminds me of the opening credits of Naked Gun the movie. I'm disappointed you don't drive up a roller coaster at some point. Also: "Hey man. You just f*cked up your Ferrari. "It's not mine. And neither is this!"

[@TravisFebruary]

😂

[@johnmcclain2848]

We used to expect so little from video games

[@scottjulie27]

HUH!!!! I didn't know there was an arcade version of this before the Sega CD!!! :))) Well, I think Sega CD did a phenominal job adapting this game. I also think the music on the Sega CD version is better.

[@geovani60624]

no, this one is better

[@deathstrike]

Actually you are right, the Sega CD ending had a MUCH darker and better saxophone playing in it. It actually was more somber, and more fitting to the ending in its bittersweet tone. The ending for this one actually sounds upbeat considering the guy lost his wife and killed pretty much everyone.

[@CommodoreFan64]

You also have to remember at this point in time Laser Disc, and even the audio was still in analog stereo, or dual mono if the disc had dual tracks. it was not till the very late 80's and 90's when they started to code digital audio onto the disc themselves, and then not even all players could decode the better digital audio, so the audio on the SEGA CD is pure clean Digital redbook CD audio if I remember correctly which is why it sounds better overall.

[@scottjulie27]

Commodorefan64 I do admit that the Laserdisc arcade games were way better regarding video quality,

[@canaconn2388]

scottjulie27 check out the snes port

[@valcondrious2821]

I remember playing this as a kid on the Sega CD. Always would die just after swapping over to the vans. I had no idea how close I was back then to finishing the game, and I'm kind of glad as I think the 8 year old me would have been very upset to find out.

[@jpndpersonalchannel]

SEGA's Mega CD called it ROAD AVENGER and PIONEER's LaserActive Mega LD called it ROAD PROSECUTOR

[@andlinux]

I didn't know they could make such beautiful games in 1985.

[@pedroamaralcouto]

Then you never heard about Dragon's Lair. 😜 It was released in 1983. The CD was manufactured in 1982. Those games are essentially videos recorded on CDs, that are picked according to some input. I assume it's harder to make the animations than the programming code.

[@ErikKnepfler]

the Dragon's Lair of driving games... very ambitious

[@sennacorps]

That ending song... Makes me cry :'(

[@jayden6538]

i want a high quality version of the opening music without the guy talking over it because the music in this part sounds great. unfortunately i do not think we will ever get to hear this track without the guy talking over it.

[@gochem3013]

Data East 1984: You play as a helicopter. Data East 1985: You play as a car.

[@Frankomatic]

Wow, I like the nice clear visuals of this one a lot compared to my old Sega CD copy. I like the Sega CD's opening theme better though.

[@nickcadwell1094]

I still bet the main character is Billy Lee. Man Marian can never seem to catch a break.

[@trzy]

My father-in-law is a generative AI artist. It is difficult to get his attention when he watches 20th century cartoons because he is lost in wonder. We were playing Road Blaster together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to animate it today. I will never forget his answer… 'We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.'

[@Butterstix2014]

He’s just running into everything this game is fucking crazy 😭

[@monolyth421]

I'd love a version with the cop car from Naked Gun

[@BagOfMagicFood]

This game is like what The Last Stand would be if Gabriel Cortez were the hero.

[@VicGeorge2K6]

"My Car Fu is better than your Car Fu."

[@rolingthunder8612]

Yoshihisa kishimodo, who made both this and cobra command, went on to create double dragon. in fact, the car from this game can be scene abbandanned at a parking garage at the very start of the first double dragon.

[@Nov-5062]

Indeed. Kishimoto had a great passion for games. His work is very inspiring.

[@TheChoujinVirus]

TURBO-TASTIC!!!

[@infectedflinch]

Brilliant! I have this on the Mega CD but this seems a lot nicer to look at. You don't get many games with saxaphone endings do you?

[@off9443jp]

Amazing Quality!!!! Thanks for upload. I enjoyed it very much. The arcade version is the best. How did you record this movie?

[@allnamesaretakenful]

I'm a sucker for Cel Shading.

[@ossyni]

1985 ?? not believe ! 10/10 game !

[@off9443jp]

STAGE9　15:09　Stage music is Demo music.Feel so good. This is Radio T.A.T.A!!

[@alexk8792]

*D.A.T.A.

[@Rick-Raven]

The best version of this is of course the Arcade and the 2nd best version would be the SNES.

[@hueyfreemanhisanimatedfrie925]

I thought this would be like a 80s cartoon series for the USA like Captain N: the game master or he-man.

[@BobbyNewb]

Goddammit I can't make the point at 3:14, don't know if I'm hitting the gas too soon or what...either way it's a terrific game, far ahead of its time, and I must finish it. HELP ME, Road Blaster players of times past!

[@haavar90]

awesome game! looks pretty Cool indeed

[@Dannzt]

I wish my car had an "indicater" 🤣

[@laffer35]

Sorry for the (very) late reply, but yes - you have to aim for the boxes when turboing in this one, it can be pretty frustrating at times.

[@figment1988]

true. but if there's one thing i like is the campy theme in the Sega CD version which reminds me of Bruce Springsteen.

[@kimutl666]

これ好きでよくやったよ😃 ハンドル壊れるほど回した😅

[@WanderABit]

Thank you for sharing. This particular footage is taken from what machine?

[@Kerannnng]

Somebody found a way to port this on SNES and it looks exactly the same....lol

[@solarflare9078]

Not exactly. It runs in a lower resolution than the arcade game due to the SNES's hardware limitations, though it is a great port for the system, even if it uses an enhancement chip.

[@Tigerman1138]

Reminds me of “Cobra Command.”

[@figment1988]

They were both animated by LX Studio which is really Toei Animation

[@khhnator]

the best FMV game ever made

[@Frankomatic]

Couple of more notes and a question or two, since I never played this version: After watching the whole thing, I think I actually like the Sega CD version's soundtrack better in general. It looks like the SCD version has a few prompts that weren't in this one at all, I can't really think of a good reason to do that. (I noticed at least one spot in the last level had a brake in the SCD that wasn't here, I think.) Do you have to aim for the boxes when turboing in this one?

[@chazponseca3562]

Fact: The Road Avenger game got a Novel adaption and is written by Mary Margaret Park.

[@bouncingbluesoul5270]

It was never released

[@alexk8792]

@@bouncingbluesoul5270 How come? What happened?

[@bouncingbluesoul5270]

@@alexk8792 Legal issue with the publisher

[@alexk8792]

@@bouncingbluesoul5270 Oh, I see. What kind of legal issues?

[@bouncingbluesoul5270]

@@alexk8792 No idea. But that's apparently why it's never been released.

[@scm64entertainment44]

What if people make an arrangement of the 1985 arcade intro theme. The one from the 80s. Not the Sega cd version even thought that one was better. I was wondering if anyone can arrange the arcade version of the intro theme.

[@T0ffik1]

holy shit this looks like cartoons from back in the day. I casn see its more of a "fabular" approach and not real racing game, but still it looks great now (with the nostalgia) and in the late 80's it must have been just God like epic looking.

[@サンダークロウ]

ロードブラスター､メガCD版では良くプレイしていました。オープニング曲ノJウォークの､良さに､ハマっていましたよ。それ故に、とらのあな限定で、同人ゲームとして、発売されたら､購入して､プレイしまくりました。メガCD版よりも､難しく､ゲームオーバーに、なりまくりでしたが、盛り上がった、LDゲームでしたわ。

[@Chr1sRocky]

Cool game! How do you download the mp3 OST soundtrack?

[@ruipinhal3385]

Its the double dragon car and is garage open,one of the programers is the same of double dragon!!!!!

[@อาศยาเจนตวนิชย์]

(3:53) Gallo Funny Scream!

[@thezeropike]

I'm no stranger to the ways of Japanese manga and anime, far fetched stories. But this one takes the cake. What the heck is the deal? why is everyone after you so bad? why are they flying low with choppers? why is there seemingly no problem driving through a massive arena sized storm sewer? I'm more baffled then anything after watching this. But Otherwise. good skills man, your really good at this :)

[@alexk8792]

(I know it's an old comment, but...) The story is that in 199X in America, vehicular gang violence was on the rise due to developments in motor technology, so the government started up the Special Car Police (SCP) to take on the criminals. However, in response, the gangs unified and formed the criminal syndicate RRR to take on the SCP. The player character is one of the SCP's top operatives, as he never lets his target escape. Seeing the threat he poses, they attempted to murder him on his honeymoon by running his car off the road, but he survived, with his wife having perished in the crash. The player character now seeks vengeance against RRR, driving the powerful monster machine known as the LX-5.

[@shermanbrown419]

@@alexk8792thanks

[@alexk8792]

@@shermanbrown419 NP

[@adalgisoarzuaga6897]

Sega siempre saco mejores juegos y arcade. Esto es muy avanzado para la época.

[@TheMr8bitmaster]

@laffer35 hi what do you use to record the longplays ..thx

[@docgeo666]

Does anyone know the name of this song? 2:23 I've been looking for her for a long time

[@satellaguy]

This game is basically John Wick before John Wick.

[@BBPatterson12]

My lord, this is one of the most gloriously cheesy FMV games I've ever seen! It takes a special kind of anime to have no clue as to what is happening while still having one helluva good time.

[@sosadday6819]

can tell my kids: thats how people live in 80s

[@wilder9777]

Good video i love ARCADE

[@imperialjoe8023]

Is the soundtrack for this game available?

[@DAEGUKJW]

Remind of Super Spy Hunter and Battle Formula Nes :D

[@whoopdiddydo]

I don’t get the crosshairs. Obviously for something like Cobra Command but this is strange. My arcades in 80s had all the other laserdisc games don’t know why we never got this.

[@nrdesign1991]

"INDICATER" - Murrica!

[@AllPro777]

The game was made in Japan... by Japanese developers...

[@nrdesign1991]

I know - Just found it funny.

[@setsers1]

18:55 JESUS

[@charleschandrablazinger6515]

Road Blaster story: The Bastrud just killed your lover and you have to revenge them by smack their car with your super car.