Locked Away Sega Arcade Games Part 2

Another episode of Sega arcade games that have never had an accurate or faithful home port. I chose a few 3rd party arcade games that were done on Sega hardware for this one.
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Episode Notes:
1. Model 2 games captured via Nebula Model 2.
All other games via MAME.
2. I do not generally consider ports to much weaker hardware as grounds for saying a game received a home version. A port should capture the overall look and feel of the game its based on. Like say Sega Rally on the Saturn.
3. Games covered here:
Pilot Kids
Over Rev
F1 Exhaust Note
Air Rescue
Dark Edge
Holosseum
Slip Stream
GP Rider
Aurail
Laser Ghost
4. Opening monologue music is Credits from Super GT.
Ending monologue music is Heat Waves from Super Monaco GP.
5. If you like this content, please let me know you want a part 3!

[@alonofisrael4802]

the sad part is that dreamcast had the power to make a great 60fps homeport of all sega arcade titles

[@SegaLordX]

Could have done everything here with ease.

[@drunkensailor112]

Unfortunately Sega lacked the developer amount it had on the Saturn.

[@BlueflagAlpha]

Missed opportunity

[@JordanGingold]

yeah they were too busy making a sonic snowboarding game instead..good call

[@sloppynyuszi]

Well if VF3 is anything to go by, it wouldn’t be totally with ease, but good ports were definitely a possibility. Not sure why we haven’t got an AM2 arcade pack that includes a lot of these though for today’s consoles.

[@khristkannon1172]

"The Arcade was King, and always will be." Man oh man how true it is.

[@trevagraham1605]

Khrist Kannon I couldn't agree more. I love all of my consoles, old and new but nothing beats going to an arcade. Just the smell alone is phenomenal.

[@BobbyHo2022]

then i go into the arcades of today and just cry at the crap they have there. Nothing like the cutting edge stuff I'd see growing up.

[@DrGamelove]

No one: Sega: have some more Genesis compilations for the fifth time! Me: that’s great and all but... listen to my man Sega Lord X and give us some of these. Laser Ghost would be amazing on 3DS.

[@TheDeathOfLucifer]

Fifth time? lul

[@DrGamelove]

Y2K Savior honestly, it would be close to that, probably more. They been pushing Genesis compilations since Saturn. Hell, technically the Genesis had a Genesis compilation on it, lol!

[@MrSammersELsoho]

Alot of these games would be great on 3DS i honestly would buy a conesole version of the System 32 i reckon SEGA could have a Huge comback if they started selling Console versions of their arcade Hardware and even sell Cart Compilations or an online store it would be SEGA's triumphant Return into the console market they have so many timeless games and its good because arcade hardware was for a very long time bespoke tough stuff to make happen but we are in a great era with FPGA emulation super scaler tech is Art to me its so amazing id love to see some indie dev make a modern super scaler game in high definition with amazing sprite work at 60fps++ it would be amazing.

[@Shikaku11373]

The arcades where king. I miss that time period.

[@RichardCraig]

This video has totally lit up my brain with all these System 32 games! It's such a great representation of what the Saturn was going to be before Sega's "oh crap" moment when they heard about the Playstation.

[@BingoDobber]

Thanks for this! I can now see how Sega could have thought the sprite hardware of the Saturn was the future - and imagine if the Saturn had launched with a home version of Slip Stream, things might have been a bit different.

[@atomiswave2]

Yeah 3d didn't work as well on Saturn.

[@paulj5336]

I love the slick frame rate of Sega arcade super scalers. Reminds me of being a kid again.

[@dbnpoldermans4120]

All in favor of requesting a part 3, raise your left foot So glad you made a part 2. You're the king!

[@shinkazama3959]

"Arcade was king, and always will be" Amen to that ;)

[@MrCalverino]

model 2 are my favorite style of graphics EVER...VIRTUA FIGHTER 2 IN 94' WAS JUST LIFE CHANGING

[@ShinOnigashima]

Just to add on Slipstream: it was also released in Mexico and was to be distributed throughout Central America and Spanish speaking South America as well. There is an Hispanic version of the game, along with the Brazilian one, and there were a lot of left over PCBs at Capcom Mexico when they shut their doors down, 16-ish years ago.

[@SegaLordX]

Thanks for the info. Segaretro had Brazil as its only official release, but I have seen a few tidbits elsewhere that made me think it had other versions.

[@BrasilGT]

Adding another info: The brazilian release came as a prototype first (my board was one of these) and without an official cabinet.

[@Lightblue2222]

Thanks for making these videos. I hope Sega is watching!!

[@Telepathy-cn2bj]

LightBlue2222 M2 needs to take a look at these and then pitch SEGA!

[@adny02]

"Lost Model 2 pack of arcade games..." Take my money, please! And Model 3!

[@darinherrick9224]

"The Aracade was KING...and always will be..."

[@bogd555]

WOW! This video was pure gold. I didn't know about most of these games. A "3D" fighter made out of scaling sprites!? Now I've seen it all.

[@zenitpro]

As a South American guy - I'm Brazilian, I had the chance to see and play Slipstream back in the day. I remember being blown away by the overall quality of the game. Two games that I didn't see in both lists of locked away arcade treasures were A.B. Cop and Rad Mobile, but I'm not entirely sure if they ever had home ports, though I'm pretty sure there weren't.

[@ZX3000GT1]

Rad Mobile has one, in Sega Saturn, called Gale Racer. I'm more confused with the fact that F1 Exhaust Note was there instead of F1 Super Lap, which is the same game except slightly better visual, 8 player multiplayer, OT (Boost) feature, and actual F1 license.

[@PopeTheRevXXVIII]

Sadly Sega seems content to rerelease Genesis games until Christ's return.

[@Captain_Neckbeard]

Like Nintendo with the NES games. I mean I don't blame anyone for getting roms, considering these companies give no other options.

[@PopeTheRevXXVIII]

@@Captain_Neckbeard You can get some of Nintendo's Arcade games in the eShop

[@shaggymcdaniel3216]

Al Capawn I still play my DC and Saturn too. What’s interesting though is that I’ve found a lot more Saturn games that I like than DC. It was the DC at first for sure.

[@PopeTheRevXXVIII]

@@shaggymcdaniel3216 I just got a Japanese Saturn because all I'm buying right now is Japanese Saturn games, having a US Saturn seemed redundant.

[@shaggymcdaniel3216]

PopeTheRevXXVIII It is unless you purchase an Action Replay cartridge, which I’m sure you’ve heard about.

[@shaggymcdaniel3216]

If anything is a hidden gem, it’s SLX’s awesome channel. Most all of the others are just plain boring. Keep it up man.

[@13Bizz]

Top Skater was fun at the arcade with its skateboard

[@Sieghardt]

Aw man I forgot about half of these games, at this point I'm just hoping they get put in Yakuza as a minigame someday

[@goatbone]

Wow, Dark Edge looks incredible. I didn't know a game like that existed.

[@TechnicolorDojo]

6:54 Nightmare Fuel.

[@renrezcrypto6155]

Eles são estranhos e assustadores

[@Telepathy-cn2bj]

Awesome video!! That Capcom racer looks amazing, solid!

[@daveanderson9895]

Dark Edge looks incredible!

[@cebedecebede]

Such dedication about the subject inspire respect! Thanks for all this knowledge. Sega projected a way of making videogames, that is truly art. The visual, the sound, the gameplay...:the aesthetic is mind blowing! and you’re right, the arcade is king, kind of the essence of sega (ok I’m stoned)

[@mctwain5319]

Sprite drivin tech is still amazing till this day! Segas Model arcade amd Saturn System32 was phenomenal! The art direction also magnificent.

[@mikhailbuczek8675]

Dude, I love your channel so much. There's arcade games I BARELY remember from my childhood - games I"ve been trying to figure out the names of so I could try and emulate them, so I could play them again, and I always find them on here. I've had the intro of Laser Ghost stuck in my head for YEARS - there was a cabinet of it in the officer's club in my dad's navy base. All I can remember is the freaky intro of the goblins snatching people up, and I've been searching for what the hell that game was forever.

[@Armaron06]

The genre for Air Rescue would be Psychological Horror because how creepy those soldiers you rescue look. How they run at you with soulless eyes and gaping maws. And then they pop into view in your cockpit and look more unsettling then before.

[@posivibez2094]

Awesome video premise! Loved seeing these obscure games. I was totally unfamiliar with all of them. Amazing.

[@TheSikThSenSE]

Laser Ghost really tickled me in the nostalgia bone! Remember many times playing that at UK Seaside Arcades back in the day! Keep up the great work man!

[@skykid4000]

The Saturn and dream cast could've easily pulled off these beautiful games. Such a shame. Thank the Lord and the SEGA Lord x for these reviews. Awesome stuff.

[@darksoulsong]

Love this channel, as I haven't seen these games anywhere else. Keep up the good work, dude!

[@CanaldoZenny]

I live in Brazil, and i went in a arcade center on a shopping mall, just to see what was there. The place was empty, few people go to the arcade to play something nowdays. Still, i found many old arcade cabinets working there, many of which were Sega games! There was Daytone USA (link system), Indy 500, Sega Ski (Model 2), Let's Go Island (2006 sega arcade, looks super fun). The other cabinets were old Namco and Midway games, like Cruis n' USA, and Time Crisis 3.

[@SegaLordX]

Sounds like a decent enough arcade. Most arcades in my area are ticket games for kids.

[@Soft15kHz]

As for F1 Exhaust Note - They could also port F1 Super Lap which basically is the same game but with aproper license, and the ability to go first person with the press of START.

[@ricosalvaje5802]

Ok lazer ghost looks incredible for a game from 1990. I can't believe how well it holds up. It looks like a Sega Saturn game

[@bonggzilla]

it had amazing laser pointer guns with 3d scopes !!!!

[@joemo604]

Arcade hardware was much more powerful than even home hardware even a decade earlier. The Sega System 24 and System 32 had much more Raw horsepower than the Saturn (although Saturn had better graphics and colors) It wasn't until the Dreamcast that it became closer to the arcade (the Naomi had more RAM and Sound Processors than the DC)

[@Rando1975]

Loved Laser Ghost!

[@ShinGoukiSan]

I worked at the Starcade at Disneyland and we had a Holosseum and a Time Traveler.

[@TurboLazer007]

Awesome video dude! I love this channel because it's a great source of information. Thanks for everything!

[@smuckola]

O Lord of all Sega, live forever!!! It might sound weird to say, but part of why I watch your channel is because I don't care for most arcade games by volume, so I want to see the other side of life. You're such an informative and analytical superfan that it gets me inside of a lot of games that I've never seen and wouldn't want to play, especially for money. I didn't grow up around an arcade with most of these games, just the key games like Afterburner, Time Traveler, and the mind-blowing Thunder Blade experience. The rest are very repetitive and derivative and they milk the shooter and racing genres really hard, but you get into all the little nuances. That's exactly what an arcade is for, to just pop a quarter into some high-tech eye candy that you couldn't get at home and walk away. It's part tech demo, like a taste of the future. Oh, also I'm no good at the racing and whatnot lol. From the 60s to the 90s, Sega was really pushing it. So I know there's a lot there nonetheless, but I never would have heard of most of these games without your channel. And it's cool to hear from someone who is *so* far into something, and knows what they're talking about. Your videos are well written and edited. I do a lot of video game history at Wikipedia, and I helped a fair amount on this en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periscope_(arcade_game) which I think you would like a lot. I wish there was a video and pictorial diagram overview of this, because it's really hard to envision or relate to. Somebody could do videos just about Sega's electromechanical past.

[@CardboardSliver]

What's really sad, is all these games had some amazing soundtracks, and save for a hand full, like Daytona 2 and SCUD Race, you can't find most of them. Like Air Rescue. That soundtrack was jammin. A small arcade in my town had that machine in the back, and I used to pop tokens in it just to hear that rocking music. Also, if Sega had put some of those early 90s "3D scaling" games on the Sega CD, instead of crappy FMV games, I bet the Sega CD would have been amazing.

[@Yomommalinkmugen]

I have Yu Suzuki and Sega to thank for my love of F1, MotoGP and all things motorsport. I even have a Sega decal plastered onto the swing arm of my Yamaha R6!

[@mikeymike3240]

That was a fantastic video experience man. Really enjoyed the arcade games, very lively and playable.

[@sergiocecilio5938]

man these would have enriched so much both saturn and dreamcast libraries!! Great content Sega Lord X!

[@MrSammersELsoho]

Keep doing these Lord they're so Great.

[@CoolHandJames]

Great video dude. Love your content.

[@yanceyboyz]

That capcom racer is a thing of beauty!

[@Cafeman_2D]

Thanks SLX! I never saw many of these before this video. Love the Super scaler stuff.

[@RaposaCadela]

This was great, dude!! Thank you!

[@Migdo14]

I used to play Aureal in the arcade,very cool game to play.

[@jameswalt1]

Thanks for doing God's work 🙏

[@bananonymouslastname5693]

I still haven't played Holosseum, but I did get to play Time Traveler, and that illusion was awesome. You're exactly right about getting to play the real thing on an arcade cabinet being the experience of choice when available. I have quite a few cabinets and pcbs, but a lot of Sega's stuff is sure expensive to track down. Yeah, stuff like Hang On or Outrun isn't too bad, but sweet lord do a lot of those system 32 games get up there in price. I'd love to get more super scaler games to play in my cabinets, but for now the closest I can do is play my GI Joe board, which is really great, but man...would I ever enjoy a nice system 32 setup.

[@AnthonyRiddle]

Slipstream is in a league of it's own when it comes to super scalar boards

[@ZenithfilmsUK]

Another Sega Lord X Sega Arcade Games Video. Another reason to bust out ALL the emulators lol ;) Nice one dude, didn't know a few of these, have plehed them now though =D

[@miamiheat33162]

Great video. Really enjoyed this one

[@IamMarkSmith]

The problem with “Holoseum” is that it was Laser Disc based. I heard they were not up to the abuse of daily Arcade play. I saw a history documentary on that game. It is very fascinating. One exists in one of the video game museums here in the U.S. however from what they said in the documentary parts to repair it are next to I possible to come by.

[@SegaLordX]

It’s Time Traveler that’s laser disc based. Holosseum is System 32 using a projector.

[@IamMarkSmith]

Oh yes you’re right! I got the two completely mixed up 😂. Thank you X!

[@mashakos1]

I appreciate your mention of emulation. Without the efforts put behind emulators like MAME, Model2 and Supermodel all we would be left with to remember these great classics would be old magazine scans and vhs recordings from 90s arcades

[@SegaLordX]

If emulation were stamped out, the loss to the gaming community would be profound. It truly has preserved 1000's of games that would otherwise be lost.

[@mashakos1]

@@SegaLordX yep. Like you said it's not anywhere close to the experience of playing inside a deluxe arcade cabinet but it's the closest we'll get in modern times. btw I have to thank you for mentioning laser ghost. I was trying for quite a while to remember this lightgun game I played as a kid with bosses that had extending arms and necks, turned out it was this game! Was quite a pleasant surprise to rediscover this game out of the blue in your vid :)

[@superjuca55]

WOW, GP Rider's sprite hills and elevations on the track side look incredibly 3D, and it's even more amazing a 1990 X-board game. Technicaly the most impressive game, IMO.

[@gmarzzz]

Wow, most of these games were unknown to me ! Thanks for your video, always a pleasure to watch.

[@SegaLordX]

No problem bud. Glad you liked it.

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Loved all these even today - i play them on mame on my phone regularly.

[@kanekaosaard7449]

Slipstream and Overrev look great. I have a feeling Slipstream was only ported to South America to cash in on Japan's love of Brazil's F1 legend Ayrton Senna. Why it didn't come to Japan remains a mystery, but that's my guess... Japan in the 80s and 90s was crazy about F1 and Senna was a big reason why I believe.

[@mjrleaguesweetie]

oh man, Laser Ghost, forgot that existed. I used to play that at the arcade in the Comtemporary, at Disney World, when I was a kid. The gun had a little window on it that you could look through and it looked like actual laser beams were coming out of it and hitting the screen. So cool.

[@FiendTheKing]

That Slipstream game was fucking gorgeous.

[@matthewbown1072]

Great videos sir I salute you,why do we keep getting Mega Drive/Genesis collections all the time.I love that console,but come on Sega you have so much more.Still have my PS3 with Daytona,Virtua Fighter 2 and Nights.Virtua Racing on the Switch is fantastic,come on Sega Ages do some more arcade ports

[@vivekmantripragada832]

I really love all Sega games both arcAde and consoles!! Again what a wonderfull introo!

[@sausagesausage]

God bless you dude, doing the SEGA Lords work.

[@ferhound]

I been in a lot of arcades during the 90s in here Argentina, never saw Slipstream. Excellent video.

[@bonggzilla]

sega arcade racer are mostly unplayable without racing wheel

[@fireheartis1]

Man if SEGA would have stuck with 2D on the Saturn and did some awesome System 32 games it would have sold way better.

[@SegaLordX]

I think Sega should have embraced the Saturn’s 2D power and not ran from it. It was never going to outsell the PlayStation, but it could have found a great audience all the same.

[@fireheartis1]

@@SegaLordX I agree whole heartily. SEGA had something that the PlaYStation didn't, but yet they freaked out and incorporated a 3D engine they didn't need. Astal was my favorite Saturn game of all time, and it didn't need polygons to keep me interested.

[@DrGamelove]

fireheartis1 you could argue that with Nights too. The free roam sections sucked and the core of the game was 2.5D and didn’t really need polygons.

[@andrewmaasch1724]

Yep - keen on a part 3 to this video series, SLX 🖒

[@SegaLordX]

Good to hear. I enjoy doing them.

[@filipmartinez1162]

Holy shit Dark Edge looks badass.

[@DouglasTitchmarsh]

Great series, more please 👍

[@lukegregoryCOHBL]

Love the idea of a sega classics VR 👍

[@NekkiBB]

Of course we want a part 3! and then a Part 4!!

[@dest151]

That fighting game was freaking amazing!!

[@razzledazzle4934]

Another great video man

[@TrollDecker]

"Nightmare Fuel" strikes me as the best descriptor for those CGI soldiers. x.x

[@alexj0101]

Great showcase. Impossible not to agree. These arcade games are integral to why the Saturn is popular today for the arcade ports it received then.

[@Antonio_Ortiz]

6:58: my nightmare. Also, never heard of Dark Edge before. Wow, that visual style is pretty awesome. Would've blown my 10-year-old mind.

[@fearlessjoebanzai]

Wow! Slipstream looks incredible. I can't believe that they never released it elsewhere. Good find!

[@gtrzdaddy]

Man.. all these super scalar 2d sprite based 3d games were so much more fun than any 3d polygonal games these days. The Capcom's System 32 game is simply mindblowing. Why was this only released in S America?

[@SegaLordX]

Seems it was targeted to Brazil and a few other countries because of the popularity of F1 racing. No sure why it wasn't brought to other areas. Cost to translate maybe?

[@gtrzdaddy]

@@SegaLordX Makes sense... But still what a shame.. such a gem of a game never getting a release anywhere else.

[@outexyt]

Great video, thanks!

[@goatbone]

The characters in Air Rescue are so disturbing. Probably best it stayed in the arcade.

[@powwow360]

Ha yeah I thought they were enemy zombies or something

[@uncletom1971]

Thank you LordX. Great review of some of our worlds greates arcade videogames. I should fill you in on a certain detail that made Laser Ghost such a great game. If you google its cabinet you will see the guns are like a little box, or a screen. This is because there was a hologram of a laser beam inside. And when you fired it flashed accordingly, it produced a really awesome effect for the game which have, to my knowledge, not been replicated. Also, even though SEGA designed their own boards and hardware, regarding the Model2 they had plenty of help from Martin Marietta who I understand provided the 3D-chips and texturing for SEGA's boards. The later Model3 was a developement of the Model2. SEGA never manufactured their own 3D CPUs, only IO-chips and simpler ASICs.

[@klaudijevtrkaciteritorij4301]

i was remember arcade game F1 Exhaust Note,i play it in Hotel on winter time in Italy,it's been amazing play this game with my brother

[@jeffreyszeto2978]

Yes to a Part 3 please! I would vote for Brave Firefighters as one of the games to be covered. Please keep up the good work!

[@SegaLordX]

Thanks for the feedback.

[@melvinblackburn195]

Keep doing what you are doing. Maybe some of these great games will soon be playable for all, as intended. As for that last bit about the arcades, I couldn't agree more.

[@ravagingwolverine]

Nice look at these games. I always was curious about Slipstream since learning of its existence. It does look very good in action. I like the way the camera follows the car around turns. It's smooth and not jerky or jarring. The draw distance is pretty good too. OverRev looks pretty good as well. It also looks smooth in its motion. I've played racing games where the camera seems more locked to the car than the track and it can get me dizzy in a hurry. These games look more my style. I played GP Rider and Aurail a few months ago to try them out. GP Rider is quite tough, but it handles so well. Its graphics remind me of some Saturn games. Aurail is pretty neat. The first-person parts were a bit odd at first as it wasn't initially clear what was going on. I thought the game's difficulty spiked really fast though, which hurt it a bit.

[@lucentv]

You know, I always wonder if Sega's scaler hardware could possibly run a Wolfenstein 3d engine purely using sprite scaling. Maybe a little extra chip to do the warping to get the walls right.

[@CreativeWM_Personal]

That be a cakewalk dude try getting doom/quake to run on one of those things.

[@sonicmario64]

I'm surprised you didn't bring up Ghostbusters when reviewing "Laser Ghost", since that was actually the very first thing that came to my mind after checking out the game, especially since many of the ghostly creatures in that game looked like they belonged to the world of the Ghostbusters!

[@uniqutilities2831]

Another great video. I never heard of any of these... I feel like you should have a Patreon....

[@SegaLordX]

Haha, actually I do.

[@MrSammersELsoho]

Why did super scaler tech stop imagine what could be done today with higher definition sprites this shit is modern Art its so beautiful im so happy its real.

[@gsxerwhite]

Hard Drivin was my shit. I blew so many quarters trying to complete the track

[@euroretrogamer204]

Great stuff, as always! Try F1 Super Lap over Exhaust Note. It is a (even) better looking and playing version of of Exhaust Note. Imho it's one of the best arcade F1 games.

[@Silvergun_Raven]

Would be awesome to see JoshProd scoop these up and release on the Dreamcast.

[@atomiswave2]

Sega Lord you have great output

[@kennykij1]

This channel is the best

[@SuckerFreeGear]

I remember Holosesseum back in 92 when I was a kid, it was pretty cool and looked awesome. Problem was it cost 4 quarters back in 92 for a single game and compared to Street Fighter II it sucked. Maybe if they dropped the price to 25 cents and had special moves it maybe would have done well. I always saw the machine empty as in no line or players.

[@NewportBox100s]

Laser Ghost looks awesome and is so obscure! 🦄🦄🦄

[@darkman4811]

That game, Dark Edge, I've never seen a fighting game like that before. Pretty damn impressive looking.

[@GoreGraveBass]

The clouds on the walls in Pilot Kids look nearly identical to the clouds that appear in Toy Story. I wouldn't be surprised if they used that movie as an influence.

[@BaneMcDeath]

I was watching this and you talked about Laser Ghost and VR. You know, I think VR and a VR gun would solve all the light gun issues (to a point) for the older games using light gun tech. I know Nintendo has been using some sort of sensor for some of their wii games and such but VR... damn! Might be onto something there.