Saturday Crapshoot: American Laser Games

[@BlackburnBigdragon]

I swear, I would kill to have "Mad Dog McCree", and "Space Pirates" as actual TV shows, or movies, produced with the exact same directors, actors, and budget! I would watch the hell out of these shows!

[@DwightKoh93]

"Oh, you missed that one! Try another!" "Oh, you missed that one! Try another!" "Oh, you missed that one! Try another!"

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

“You’re looking for trouble stranger?” These games were such a riot back in the arcades back when people went to arcades. I wonder if they’ve got these in Dave and Buster’s.

[@GaryMillerNL]

I love Mad Dog McCree 2 as a kid!

[@TenBensons]

Should do a 'where are they now?' article, for the main actors.

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

The character actor who played smallpox in “Who Shot Johnny Rock?” Was Bruce Watson, who is the nephew of Gene and June Lockhart, Who played psycho roles in the 1970s, Including the trashy the Swinging Barmaids, And he acted in episodes of Star Trek as a crew member that doesn’t come back. Sadly, he took his own life in 2009.

[@adampeters875]

If that concrete structure at ~13:00 looks vaguely familiar, it is the John Robert Dam in Albuquerque...used many years later in Breaking Bad as the pick up point for Walt.

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

2:04 I believe that was Crime Patrol, Mr.

[@pcgamer]

Glad you enjoyed it! :-)

[@Robmeisterflex]

Omg I remember Mad Dog McCree! PCGamer, I love you for allowing me jump up and down on my chair screaming at the top of my lugs "I REMEMBER THAT GAME!! I USED TO LOVE THAT GAME!" PCGamer, bringing the joy of gaming back to us 90's kids.

[@pcgamer]

Thanks! Though wouldn't expect them too regularly - they take forever :-)

[@thefonzkiss]

Image ratio fail, these games were 4:3.

[@FlutterBug]

And in 2012, Mad Dog McCree was ported to the 3DS, much to everyone's confusion...

[@farmzombie]

Remember: Winners don't use drugs!

[@bytex666]

Sure is cool hearing Richard's voice after reading his PCG articles for so many years.

[@Athelus1]

Love Cobbett's column, and i'm kinda surprised how good the videos with him in are- we need more!

[@OneUponADime]

This was a nice trip down memory lane.

[@pinkduvetdiva]

1:17 - what, no Oscar nomination for the Prospector?

[@xym07]

Isn't there a PS3 version of Mad Dog McCree?

[@christopherfrench5636]

I actually have met and talked to one of the actors from The Last Bounty Hunter. Bruce Miles is a VO artist who played Nasty Dan in TLBH.

[@fonzi0243]

fantastic video! Really enjoyed it, thanks!

[@TexasBulldog74]

oh man i miss Mad Dog McCree! LOL... I loved that game but i guess i was only 10yrs old at the time HAHA

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

12:44 Oh look, there’s kids in cages.

[@JStryker47]

When I first saw an ad for Who Shot Johnny Rock, I was under the impression that Red was the protagonist - since the picture showed her holding a tommy gun.

[@GodofBoris]

are all these games on psn i purchesed mad dog mcee 1 and 2 , the last bounty hunter, dragons lair, dragons lair 2, and space ace are others there?

[@Chubzdoomer]

This video was hilarious! Keep up the great work.

[@HawaiiKnut]

16:35 Don't diss the lava lamp >:(

[@chestercopperpot9294]

Hunt down Madison High. It's wasn't released but it's out there.

[@Chronische]

You loved Mad Dog McCree? Why?

[@JunkerDC]

I loved those games

[@carlingman07]

I used to like these games on cdi,still do.

[@unixsuperuser]

Memories

[@samuelward4410]

"I GOT HIM!!!" *bam* Death.

[@Flusterbomb]

Great fun :) Thanks PCG!

[@killingmunch]

Fucking died with Helios joke. And I re watched the cop girl going by the voltage like 20 times. I love PCGamer, so much

[@Robmeisterflex]

Because it was one of the best shooter arcade games at the time. I was a kid like.

[@n4than]

I still have Mad Dog McCree on CD. Windows 3.1 woot.

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

What’s really cheesy about these ALGs Is, for example, in the game crime patrol, there’s an exotic dancer that’s dancing while the heavies are taking crack shots at you. Rather than running away, she continues her dancing while gunshots are being fired in the strip club.

[@lr4165]

There was humorous dialogue throughout the ALG games. They weren't meant to be taken seriously.

[@spiderjerusalem100]

More videos like this please, i'll love you long time.

[@davidmunns135]

I saw Who Short Johnny Rock in an arcade once however I didn’t have enough pound coins to play

[@FeamT]

2:29 That stings... So blunt. ..But I agree.

[@pcgamer]

Aw, thanks :-)

[@diegowushu]

Jeez, that was awful. It kind of makes me glad that the only arcades we got here in the country were the REALLY popular ones, like Tetris, SF, MK, T2 or Daytona USA. Good times.

[@KridkornTangthanasirikul]

WSJR is the most hardest among others.

[@mingyaowu7720]

Nice review. I cannot stop laughing!. This really the laser games trend back then 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Steppenwolf27]

Which one is the funeral-home scene from?

[@SaraHouck461]

Matthew Raiche It's from Who Shot Johnny Rock. My parents used to have that game because it falls into those whodunnits that they were and still are heavily fascinated with.

[@thanksfernuthin]

Gee, I don't know. That car/dune buggy in the space one was KICK ASS!!! (me want one).

[@arxzo7122]

10/10 graphics, would play

[@Anziously]

YES! I love crapshoot

[@the9-2-5outlawdoestech9]

Brian Keith, Dana Plato, R.Lee Ermey, Burgess Meredith, Margot Kidder and Corey Haim all have At least one thing in common. At some point in their lives, they decided to act in full motion video games, and they’re all dead.

[@lr4165]

Erika Eleniak (Panic in the Park, 1995) is still alive.

[@Khasym]

Oh yes. For every Street Fighter, Time Crisis, and Out Run, there's a Mad Dog out there, just waitin to become a black hole of pounds or quarters. :-)

[@JosephusAurelius]

I want to buy the game

[@Fawp]

American Space Laser Pirate Games.

[@Gridseeker]

Thankgod the old and beloved Konami (NOT THE CURRENT ONE) brought Lethal Enforces, then Sega came with Virtua Cop, Namco with Time Crisis and again Sega with The house of the Dead.

[@Coolman13355]

Lethal Enforcers seemed so cool back in the day.

[@bpcruiser]

The endings were so shitty on all of these.

[@joel8558]

Panasonic 3DO eu tive um

[@Coolman13355]

Yeah, the pc versions didn't have the greatest video. Plus, I liked Johnny Rock.

[@KilgoreSaunders]

Richard is fucking hilarious.

[@jonathantremblay2350]

Yeah you found some glitches now what? Are you gonna invint back the genre? 8 million vs you = 32k $. wow

[@ZHU_SQR]

@ 17:00 ursula says what

[@pcgamer]

Technically, my voice sounds far better, much cooler and doesn't um as much. But it seems the inside of my head has better acoustics than the world.

[@Chronische]

You didn't have access to something rad like Area 51 or Carnevil? Sucks, man.

[@wilm210]

SAVE URSULA!

[@DarkArtistKaiser]

Wow. That is some of the bullshitiest ways to get killed in a game like this. How is any of that even remotely fair?

[@GreatWestern175]

Not to mention the acting is atrociously silly. The Mad Dog and Last Bounty Hunter games could just be seen as a piss poor inferior western games compared to the likes of Red Dead Redemption 2

[@RoyStantz]

Yes, just put John Marston in either Mad Dog or Last Bounty Hunter, and watch the body count skyrocket.

[@TheGoldElite9]

Plez respond

[@colorfuljosh]

p-please respond

[@Khasym]

Probably in another country, under another name, so that they will NEVER BE LINKED TO THESE GAMES!!! :-)

[@szewei85]

Johnny Rock is still my favorite ALG titles ever. At least the action is very believable. I dont like Mad Dog. So i still never liked red dead redemption. Hahahahaha.

[@VooDooEf]

that girl is looking quite phapable i must say

[@pcgamer]

Aw, thanks :-)