Best 90s Arcade Games Never to Get a Super Nintendo Port - SNESdrunk

I'm not naive enough to think a SNES port would be the same as the arcade game, but it's still fun to think about.
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[0:00] Intro
[0:40] X-Men
[1:15] The Simpsons
[1:42] The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy
[2:18] Ninja Baseball Bat Man
[2:51] Armored Warriors
[3:13] Metal Slug
[3:41] Elevator Action Returns
[4:11] Nitro Ball
[4:48] Dead Connection
[5:10] X-Men vs. Street Fighter
[5:50] 2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge
[6:13] Aero Fighters 2
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[@kabiebebe2332]

There's a metal slug clone in the snes . But not good

[@worthamthevoice2233]

I remember pumping my allowance into the X-Men arcade. This kid was playing and said "I'm out of money, see ya later" I said "oh no, I got about $8 into this game!" I kept paying our continues until we beat it. Prob spent about $15-20, beat it, and left broke, but what a time!

[@keiv54]

I also remember that time I got into my local arcade. They only got toy crane and basketball machine. At that point, I realized that I live in a shitty place, lol.

[@Fakan]

Same for me. Me and two friends at Aladdin's Castle at the mall, on the six-player version, played until we beat the game. Highlight of my childhood, back when you just assumed you weren't meant to beat these games. =D

[@Barney_rubble983]

Good old days 😆

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

You sound like a top bloke! I would do the same thing at the arcades if someone ran out of money.

[@Sephiroth144]

NICE

[@michaelphillips7556]

I would always play that X-men game everywhere i went. That arcade machine was popular back then.

[@dede9806]

It sucks today... Believe me !

[@cable7152]

Outside of Caldor near me had one

[@krisfrederick5001]

Hell yeah, 6 player at the mall arcade. Dazzler had a good special, wasn't that bad.

[@Xuevium]

It was awesome... i always played as Nightcrawler

[@cazamilfs8945]

Michael Phillips You used to play with My stick every now and then ya know

[@anthonycarter1528]

It's like Konami just said no to everyone's childhood loves.

[@CanadianPenny]

"What's a batman?" "You know, a batguy."

[@nateemond197]

God I loved that Simpsons game as a kid. Every pizza place I went to on Cape cod seemed to have The Simpsons. XMen was another awesome game.

[@FoxItAll]

Dazzler was my first pick. that ranged AoE ability was great.

[@kh7955]

Same here

[@worsel555]

Alien vs Predator was one I always hoped would show up on the SNES back in the day, yet another game in the later end of the SNES life. I believe that there was a 32X version in development but it got canceled.

[@chancepaladin]

AvP and Dungeons and Dragons mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[@Shrapnel82]

There was an AVP SNES game, but it was very different from the arcade. It still was a 2.5D brawler, but you only played as the Predator, and it was much slower paced. It also lacked a lot of content.

[@TheTrueBro]

Shrapnel82 it was made by a different company. Not Capcom related

[@birdfanboi]

Dazzler is awesome btw, she may not be the most popular X-Men character but in the game the ability to make the ground explode is very useful and powerful not to mention broken since the user can spam it over and over again.

[@BARONXAVIER]

THE PUNISHER,BUCKY O HARE, GI.JOE and CADILACS AND DINOSAURS.

[@chancepaladin]

Def the Punisher, ommggggggggg ;o

[@steev.homohumanism]

I played Elevator Action Returns when I was like 7yo, after the passage of time I wasnt sure if it was a fever dream because I couldnt find it again. Glad to see it was real and someone had heard of it.

[@Bu11et9583]

Elevator Action Returns got a Port to the Sega Saturn in Japan

[@traceytaggart1740]

Both the release of X-men and The Simpson’s Game on the Xbox Arcade was the greatest nostalgia trip I ever had. If only Sega had brought out Star Wars Arcade.

[@Pelcurus]

Stuck with Dazzler? She was my second choice behind Nightcrawler.

[@clayicus]

My exact order, Colossus #3.

[@otaking3582]

Dazzler is first for me.

[@Amazin-ji8sn]

Open Ice was on PS1. You missed the Spider-Man Arcade game (Spidey, Hawkeye, Black Car & Namor)

[@pattyofurniture694]

I always picked Dazzler, she was my favorite.

[@brillopad6901]

I love that X-Men game, played the hell out of it back in the day on the monster 6 player cabinet.

[@bryanewyatt]

For real: I ALWAYS played as Dazzler. I just liked to. Her power of throwing a bomb was cool.

[@Wuzwrongwitdatdolla]

Whenever I played X-men in the arcade it was always Cyclops that got picked up last. Everybody I know who played that game thought he was trash.

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

He's my go to guy.🤦‍♂️😂

[@Wuzwrongwitdatdolla]

@@TheRetroManRandySavage Well at least he’s getting love from somebody lol

[@CyrusAnnihilator]

I would love to see Cadilacs & Dinossaurs and King of Fighters on a SNES cartridge! On the sports side, Windjammers (NeoGeo) could work too, and it's a really fun game.

[@SNESdrunk]

LOVE Windjammers

[@Trancymind]

What about Alien vs Predator? Oh yeah and Kings of Fighters 94 & 95. Also Samurai Showdown 2.

[@SNESdrunk]

Trancymind Alien vs Predator did get ported to SNES. It sucked, but it's there.

[@Trancymind]

I didn't know. I thought it was only on the arcade. I love the arcade version then because of the graphics, awesome sound and the legendary co-op gameplay. Thanks for the info and I love your SNES videos and your point of views of each game.

[@splotch5]

Alien Vs Predator on the SNES was distributed by Activision though...the ( awesomely superior) arcade version is by Capcom. The 2 games are beat-em ups, but couldn't be more different!

[@THEGRUMPTRUCK]

The X-Men arcade game has my favorite line from any X-Men game. Magneto's line of "X Men! Welcome to Die!"

[@goncalotordo4507]

Honestly, all of these games should have been on the Saturn if you ask me. The Saturn was awesome for 2D games :P

[@theuglykwan]

The Saturn needed 3rd party games full stop. lol

[@ricardoshillyshally3000]

Gonçalo Tordo Symphony of the Night kind of chugged on there.

[@goncalotordo4507]

Mark McDermott Yeah but Symphony of the Night was a poor port. The Saturn was the best machine of its time for 2D games, with the exception of maybe the Neo-Geo

[@ReinEngel]

Guardian Heroes... drool...

[@dede9806]

3D too.. I first played TOMB RAIDER on Saturn. NIGHTS INTO DREAMS was also impressive.

[@bsiferd]

I haven’t watched the SNES drunk in a minute. I’m so glad you’re still going.!!

[@Robert-nl3fd]

As a teenager during the 90's , when home ports of popular arcade were announced, we where already on damage control for it.

[@Satsui_No_Hado]

@Snes drunk, the Simpsons arcade game was one of my favorite of all time. I was quite bummed it never saw a port on any system until mame or tracking down the arcade edition. as always awesome work my friend.

[@BobbyHo2022]

I think Simpsons arcade was included as an extra on a Simpsons console release.

[@Doyledeth]

X-men.......... WELCOME TO DIIIIIIIIIIIE!

[@SNESdrunk]

Thank you, I feel welcomed

[@timdonovan27]

That Edward Randy game look awesome! A few of these I'd love to try. I wish Funspot would have some of these. (They have the obvious newer ones, like Simpsons, Turtles, etc.)

[@nandoretro8805]

I was see the X-Men Arcade in an old magazine of years90. Thanks for makes me remember of This!!! A epic retro game to play with my friends. Cool video. I like your channel. 😎

[@genevievelestage6029]

Nando Retro Tvkrbjhh

[@Kylora2112]

Hey, I always played as Dazzler >.>

[@Seiko180]

waifu

[@ThunderFist1978]

Great selections. and Ninja Baseball Batman has really grown on me. I first played it at Galloping Ghost in Brookfield, IL last year, and as quirky a game as it is, it's so much fun to play. I'm glad there's at least one arcade in the US that has it available for everyone to play.

[@jmyers1385]

It's hard to imagine some of these games ported to the SNES, but then you have Turtles in Time, which as far as I'm concerned is almost an anomaly of excellent portsmanship from arcade to 16 bit console. X-Men vs Street Fighter (and it's many iterations) definitely required the 32 bit bump, Alpha 2 was...rough on the SNES, and that was with additional horsepower built into the board.

[@posivibez2094]

This was great. Loved seeing some lesser known arcade titles.

[@emanuelespinoza9325]

Hey, I played as Dazzler at times in the X-men game.

[@Tacoman1218]

NHL Open Ice Challenge is a blast, my friend and I used to drive out to this crappy mall about an hour away just to play it in the arcade, it was the only place in the area that seemed to have it. Love playing it on MAME...

[@b_side8669]

I would always play as wolverine or colossus then for the Simpson’s bart or Lisa

[@nintenjoel]

Holy shit! I actually saw this video when it came out and thought it was cool... Rewatched it just now and saw you mentioned Ninja Baseball Bat Man!!!! I just played this the day of the PRGE Swap Meet, last month. After the swap meet, a bunch of us went to this barcade, called Quarter World... Guess what game was there and I loved the MOST? Yup, NBBM. Couldn't stop talking about it, afterwards... So much fun and just ridiculous. We had four players going at once, for a while and it was just insanity. Really cool going back and seeing that mentioned it, on one of your vids. You rule, dude.

[@ninjanape]

Great video ! Loved it

[@KTJohnsonkidThunder]

Here are some I can think that would be for SNES and/or Genesis: 1. Mystic Warriors 2. Gunforce 2 3. 64th Street: A Detective Story 4. Alien Vs. Predator 5. Avenging Spirit (The GB version got a port) 6. Darkstalkers' Revenge (Saturn got a port) 7. The Ninja Kids 8. R-Type Leo Neo-to-SNES/Gen/Sega CD ports that should've happened: 1. Last Resort 2. Ninja Combat 3. Ninja Commando 4. Alpha Mission II 5. BASEBALL STARS 2

[@Sayerservante]

KT Johnson Aliens v. Predator did have an SNES port.... It just was not a good one.

[@TheCheeseslice9]

THANK YOU FOR (THE LAST BLADE) SHOUTOUT! SO GOOD!

[@SamuraiSam]

X-Men vs. Street Fighter is great, but I doubt it would have worked on the SNES without some severe downgrading, since the PS1 couldn't even handle it. The tag team feature for that version (and the other two such games on the PS1) was even removed, because it was that tough to port.

[@tommykesh]

My thoughts exactly.The only way you could get close to the arcade port was with Japanese Saturn version which took advantage of the expansion port on the back.

[@floggyWM1]

ye that game def wouldnt work on snes,

[@pavy415]

SamuraiSam I think xmen vs street fighter did get ported to snes watch the youtibe video and how much of a disaster the game is

[@SamuraiSam]

No, it didn't

[@vdfritzz]

maybe the tag system would work considering the cartridge fast loading, i don't know

[@killersentra]

I remember this X-Men game. My mother would give me $2.00 to go play this game. It the first place I went in the arcade. I once found someones wallet on the bus with cash, it had $60 in it. I cashed it all in quarters and finally beat the game. I always remeber this game because we needed a stool to reach it. The game was like 8 ft high. Everyone's first pick was wolverine of course. The odd character out wasn't dazzler at my arcade... it was collosus. Dazzer was nasty..... 8 inch wide explosions from miles away. You could send wolverine in there as the slash character.... then use dazzler to pumble the boss from distance when the boss started acting up. Dazzler was a amazing character. Storm special was amazing of course as well..... collosus just horrible....slow , heavy, bulky.... special always put him at risk.

[@xplics]

Great video and you hit a lot of the great ones!

[@SNESdrunk]

Thank you for watching

[@robertdredden5474]

Man brings back some really good memories seeing this

[@XAzzuroX]

really loving your channel like a lot. I never knew about this other elevator game or the mafia one. I got a mame emulator on my PS3. your chanel gives me ideas.

[@SNESdrunk]

Thank you for watching!

[@DementedDistraction]

Don't be so quick to dismiss Dazzler - she took on the Juggernaut all by herself and came out on top. And with regard to X-Men vs Street Fighter, the Playstation could barely handle it; they had to severely cut down on all of the character animations and completely eliminate the 2v2 tag feature in order for the Playstation to run it. So yeah, a SNES port just wouldn't be possible.

[@HybridAngelZero]

An odd thing came to my mind when you mentioned a SNES port of X-Men vs Street Fighter is that not one single game in the Marvel vs Capcom lineage has EVER been on a Nintendo platform. Tastunoko vs Capcom and Capcom vs SNK, yes. But not a single Marvel vs Capcom.

[@cable7152]

Holy shit, a rush of flashbacks came through my mind with the mention of the Simpson's arcade game, the baby blue and bright pink joy sticks, holy shit, I totally forgot how amazing that game was.

[@ZeeZeeBun]

Metal Slug could've worked on SNES if the cart had enough storage and they slipped in a co-processor, may have still had limitations as the Neo Geo hardware stood head and shoulders above both the SNES and Genesis, despite coming out around the same time. (With a pricetag to match...)

[@brillopad6901]

The best thing about the SNES was the RPG's anyway, I still go back and play all those old games today. Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, Chrono Trigger, Breath of Fire 1 & 2, Lufia 1 & 2, Paladin's Quest, Brain Lord, Robotrek, Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, Earthbound, Illusion of Gaia, Soul Blazer, The 7th Saga, Y's III, Ogre Battle, Eye of the Beholder, Super Mario RPG. The ones I have never played but really need to on emulation is Terranigma and Dragon Warrior 5 & 6.

[@AnthonyRiddle]

I do believe The Simpsons would've been a pretty close arcade conversion on the SNES

[@SameNameDifferentGame]

Nice to see Edward Randy get some love!

[@mayssm]

I always picked Colossus because he was one of my favorite X-Men, and I love going, "Raaaaagh!"

[@w00dyp0p]

I'm always amazed by the good arcade games that never received home ports (let alone SNES ones), like The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy. That game looks awesome! As for X-Men vs. Street Fighter, there's no way the SNES could have done it justice. (Since, as you mentioned, SNES got SFA2, maybe it could have handled X-Men: CotA decently?) I was awestruck the first time I saw XvSF running on Saturn. It was the game that convinced me to get my Saturn modded. Still impressive to this day. Great episode!

[@johnlacy3611]

w00dyp0p modded Saturn

[@johnlacy3611]

w00dyp0p ???

[@quentinhill4264]

I love the intro....."SNNNEEESSS DRUNK" hahhaah oh man

[@311Andy88]

Great video! Where do you safely find your rom's to play on an emulator?

[@sammylane21]

X MEN THE ARCADE GAME miss informs us all...for the longest time I thought Colossus's power to yell and send his metallic skin to hurt his enemies and Cyclopes sound like he is shout "Ice Cream!",haha!!While I'm here,I used to think Raiden would fly because it sounded like he said "Santa Monica!!",but it is just gibberish.I was excited because I lived IN Santa Monica and thought it would make me fly too,haha!!Silly me,all I need to do to fly is say "Up!Up! AANNDD AWAY!!

[@wayner396]

Alien vs predator would have also been a fun beat em up port

[@davidtran9232]

From your description of Armored Warriors I think you'd enjoy a Genesis beat'em up called Cyborg Justice. I really enjoyed it with my brother way back when. I'm also surprised it seems no-one else really talks about it.

[@zackdufois]

Armored Warriors is one of my all time favourites!

[@racerxgundam]

most underrated beat em up i ever played

[@dawg338]

One reason you never saw these on SNES like The Simpsons is because different companies had different rights. Konami had arcade rights to the Simpsons, but Acclaim had the SNES rights.

[@turnupthesun81]

I bought The Simpson’s, Final Fight, X-Men, TMNT and a couple of others when they released them on the X-Box 360.

[@pizzacrumz1777]

X-Men, The Simpsons and X-Men Vs. Street Fighter could have had an original exclusive port made for SNES hardware like how sega's Turtles: Hyper Stone Heist was made for Sega's hardware. But The developers probably did not think their was enough demand for them, Capcom and Konami are Japanese companies and those franchises weren't popular in Japan. They would have been Blockbuster hits if they made them though, too bad! :(

[@TheGameGrinder]

Great list! The Simpsons and X-men for sure.

[@TheGameGrinder]

***** Maybe so, but they are still quality none the less.

[@StarBoy62]

I'm so lucky that I got X-Men and Simpsons on XBLA before they got taken down.

[@TheGameGrinder]

I got mine on PSN a few years back.

[@Musicradio77Network]

“The Simpsons” for the arcade was one of those Disney themed arcade games which is now considered as a Disney game.

[@LemonTree9280]

Having so many Metal Slug games on the Switch is wonderful

[@UserUser-oy8ch]

oh hell! dead connection looks like that older game shoot out,awesome

[@scottspencer6036]

I go to arcade conventions (mostly for pinball), but now I'm dying to play Cliffhanger, Armored Warriors, and the elusive Ninja Baseball Bat Man

[@jeremym9011]

I agree with everything on this list. However, one game I would include that would see sales of the Super Scope skyrocket would be an arcade port of G.I. JOE from KONAMI.

[@malafakka8530]

Ah, the good old times, when creators could experiment with the craziest of ideas. Thanks for the video.

[@hjames78]

I used to love these types of games! I don't remember that baseball one tho. It looks fun

[@justinhurd8270]

I love that u own them all on the pandora 6s

[@Vospi]

Great idea for an episode, great writing and just a great post overall. (Should've been ported to SNES with minor restrictions, three playable characters less and without digitized voice, cause cartridge would've been enormous and noone would buy it.) No, seriously, one of the videos I liked the most. Thanks a lot.

[@louis1443]

Great video

[@dr.vicious5374]

X-Men vs Street Fighter was on PS One but even the PS One didn't have it all together being that it didn't have the RAM processing necessary to give the complete Xmen vs SF experience.

[@akufromthefuture7159]

Growing up in the 90s, i played these in the arcade and Chuck e cheeses Loved it

[@michaelromeo9567]

The weakness of The SNES was the nuber of sprites that the CPU could Display and the frame per second. I remember The adaptation of Thinder Force on SNES and the Slow downs in the lava level at the moment you press the fire button. It was like "ok the game can barely do it but don't shoot please! too much sprites."

[@fireflocs]

Nitro Ball would have been a great match for the SNES. Could not agree more on that one.

[@trunks10k]

I get what your saying.. hypothetically but just the sheer amount of things they had to do to shrink alpha 2 onto a cart and how hot it got. So imagine what it would of taken to port a 2v2 fast action fighting game onto SNES basically a miracle.

[@TheMightyMcClaw]

I never noticed it before, but Storm and Colossus basically have the same outfit in X-Men.

[@tysoncarpenter8628]

One of my good friends growing up had a arcade machine in his house. Except it wasnt just any ol arcade machine. His mother worked on and repaired them. So his dad and mom built said arcade machine and the games could b removed and a different game put in. They had 100s of the big ol game boards! Cadillacs and dinosaurs The Simpsons Game there 1942 Michael Jackson Moonwalker basically any arcade game that was out in the wild he had a mother board game for the arcade cabinet that is father and mother built. They made the buttons and joy stick so u could put it on your lap lay down or sit in a nice cumphy chair to play. Instead of a controller u had this big ass thing in your lap. But it was really awesome!!!!!

[@dru713281]

Primal fear and dark stalkers were just as good as X-men vs street fighter!

[@one7decimal2eight]

you missed these: The Punisher. Crime Fighters. A true Arcade port of Double Dragon and Double Dragon 2. 3 was hot garbage. Rabbit Punch. Rastan.

[@pandahsykes602]

I remember going to the nearest Roll On America to play that simpsons arcade game ... so much fun lol . Also it would have been able to be a 4 player game in SNES with the 4 player super multi tap!

[@MrFarnanonical]

the problem with old beat em up is they're all done in the classic square aspect ratios. When they make the characters a third the height of the screen it just makes your field of view too narrow. I bet the genre would actually be fun today if it had a good aspect ratio that was sufficiently zoomed out.

[@graspfire9764]

I never even heard of hit the ice ... I would have been playing that for sure!

[@corvusala]

X-Men VS Street Fighter had the same voice actors as the 90's X-Men cartoon. Reason enough to play it :)

[@lordbeebus9842]

Check out those mullets. Open ice was fun the hockey nba jam.

[@UserUser-oy8ch]

I loved elevator action when I was a kid so now I got the Saturn Japan version on my phone

[@chaser5616]

Wow elevator action has a sequel and it was 2 player co-op, Wow

[@chaser5616]

+Brad Tyler thats good to know. :)

[@phatmantv]

I've never heard of Cliffhanger or the Ninja Baseball game but will look for the emulator.

[@stucazzo2000]

It would be great if someone made a Repro Snes cart of the original TMNT Arcade game.

[@WalterWhite-gw3vm]

I use to love going to the arcade to play that X-Men game

[@jplaya2023]

yeah imagine a 4 player snes port using the multitap on the snes. that would've been great. but i think SNES beat em up you could only have 3 enemies on the screen at the same time. so put it on genesis. Imagine a 2 multitap 6 player x men port on genesis. tthat would've been insane

[@MateDrinker33]

4:26: Talk about Smash TV on crack...

[@IIIININ9IIII]

I've been thinking for awhile now about this idea and I wonder if anyone knows of an existing device that does this already, or if there is something in the works or if its even feasible. What if there were a device that fit like a SNES cartridge into your SNES that came either preloaded with X amount of games that weren't available to the SNES during launch or something that you could add games to via SD card updates? I know something similar to this exists but I can't remember what it's called and I think it only works for Super Famicom games that didn't get a US release. It would need some kind of graphics enhancer and maybe something to boost processing speed if that's possible, but I just think it'd be awesome to play arcade games or other 16 and 32 bit games not native to the SNES on original SNES hardware through the use of such a device.

[@gelmir7322]

For me: Samurai Shodown 2 King of Fighters 96 Cyberbots Alien VS Predator Dungeons and Dragon Tower of Doom In the Hunt

[@olcloudy1618]

Hey S in ES drunk how are you? Just wanted to say I really love your videos I noticed you started doing Sega drunk and I think it would be fantastic if you did a PS drunk pronounced “ piss drunk”. If not that’s cool peace and love

[@johngiron3704]

These should be fan made carts!! I'm sure someone out there can pull it off!! I'd buy these! 🙌🏼👏🏼

[@jonpower9728]

Those suppressed memories of countless coins lost to continue playing these games is resurfacing again😭

[@letsbegin-nerdbunker]

Someones never played gauntlet, lol

[@Boonehams]

Man, Dead Connection is such a hidden gem. Not enough people talk about it, and that's a shame.

[@cheffdonty]

Dazzler is beast. Still chasing that 1cc tho.

[@Ay_Minus]

I was the one always stuck with Dazzler, that's why until this day when I play a ROM of x-men that I kick major ass with Dazzler!!! My favorite!