Starblade Arcade No Game Slowdown Playthrough (60 FPS)

[@archived527]

For 1991, this is mindblowing, in terms of both graphics and sound.

[@godheart256]

+HarmoDevil In 1991 Sonic was born

[@archived527]

Matheus José da Silva Yes, indeed. It's also hard to believe both this and Sonic came out the same year.

[@mysteriousfleas]

Absolutely this was a masterpiece for the time, and does anyone else see how much StarFox seemed to have drawn from it? That can't be accidental.

[@bkdove]

@@mysteriousfleas It's not accidental. Argonaut software's main inspiration was Starblade when building the Starfox engine on snes. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXXLf4dohttgg9E

[@jonn_mace_80_95_]

@@bkdove Nintendo and Argonaut refined some of the aspects from StarBlade.

[@SmokingSpoon]

Yup, this game hugely inspired the people making Star Fox. During lunch break, the programmers making Star Fox would go play StarBlade at the arcade!

[@vgmaster9]

If Star Fox was an arcade game, it would certainly look like this.

[@sethreign8103]

it feels almost like a 1:1 port with the visuals music and voices lol

[@DragonHeartHisMajestyX]

Man! Namco and Nintendo really were closer than ever, weren’t they?

[@puppet4978]

Tekken 5 brought me here

[@iNAZUMA_AiDAN_H]

Same here

[@JakeTheComicBookDude]

First time I played this was during the loading screen while getting ready to play Tekken 5.

[@rapidfire9999]

Same here

[@TransCanadaPhil]

I used to play this like crazy 25 years ago. Circa 1991-1992. Completely blew me away at the time, the most technically impressive game at the time.

[@drgentlewolf]

me too. did play like crazy..feeling as if to be a crew on X-wing-fighter in STAR WARS. Wow I got surprised to see that final sub-title. This is made in Japan!

[@bsgfan1]

Fun fact: This takes place in the Ace Combat and Ridge Racer Universe.

[@darkgladiator27]

The real fun fact here is that Ace Combat and Ridge Racer take place in the same universe!

[@kingofiron257]

@@darkgladiator27 today I learned something

[@gochem3013]

Seriously? That universe was called Namco Universe 21?

[@Matichuu]

So we were all racing in Strangereal?

[@AzrialAlaria]

Ridge Racer, no. Ace Combat, yeah but only AC3. That's it. You are referring to the UGSF timeline.

[@KingHaggis]

Imagine StarFox with these graphics and smoothness!

[@smallbluemachine]

You can see and hear what Nintendo stole from this. This is first time I’ve seen this game.

[@KenMasters.]

Star Fox 2 already accomplished that idea.

[@gochem3013]

Huh. It's like: Namco does what Nintendon't.

[@jonn_mace_80_95_]

@@smallbluemachine Nintendo still made a unique series of their own with Star Fox, although there are some aspects which they admittedly took inspiration from StarBlade. Stole? More like borrowed. Creators often build off each other in any field.

[@jonn_mace_80_95_]

Nintendo's STAR FOX has better graphics for sure, but StarBlade does seem to have better smoothness. STAR FOX also runs smoothly of course. It's just that StarBlade runs smoother.

[@vincently1995]

30th Anniversary of Starblade (1991-2021)

[@erwinklassen8603]

The cabinet version was set up like race drivin but had lights that would flash to coincide with hits you took from the direction they came from. It made the game super immersive. Too bad the game was a dollar to play and I would of spent a fortune to finish it.. clearly. Definitely a beautiful game for it's time.

[@RedFenril]

I can see why. Arcades would see this game as a huge money maker.

[@salsamancer]

I played this in the arcades as a little kid and it gave me nightmares i can still remember. Just floating in a black void being terrorized by flashing geometric shapes 🔶

[@cybergothika6906]

I used to play Starblade over and over, but nothing was as good as Star Fox for Snes. The vibe and the music were more pumping, Starblade was more immersive, more ''realistic'' awesomeness. What a time to be alive. I'm glad to see kids still find it amusing. Now imagine back in the days how we felt like.

[@MikhaelMaximian]

It's hard to get a feel of the curved panoramic screen, the speakers right behind your ears and the rumble of the seat from just this video though. It was quite the experience. You felt the hum of the engines and the jolt of every hit on your body. When you stepped out of the cabinet you really feel like a starfighter gunner. And yes, back then 3D graphics like these were considered lifelike compared to the standard 2D look.

[@syrus3k]

In the early 90s this arcade cabinet absolutely blew me away

[@AzrialAlaria]

HEAVY influence from The Last Starfighter (Graphics / Being a gunner on a spaceship)

[@TransCanadaPhil]

YES, I always associate this as the game version of The Last Starfighter. It has that same aesthetic look as what the movie’s CG visuals looked like. I always imagine myself as Alex Rogan going after the Xur armada in this.

[@GuerreiroAventureiro]

nostalgia i remember playing this alot in tekken 5

[@1ndr44ever]

took me almost 15 to 20 years to find the name of this game. oh the memories

[@matthewsykes4814]

Jesus christ......I lost pocket fulls of coins to this shooter, I can still remember being sat in the game, speakers each side of my head as I fuck up and pump more coins into the damn ed game.......wonderful, fucking awesome game

[@MicoV94]

Starblade is Namco 90s game, fun facts, Starblade appeared since the start of Tekken 5

[@animationman7772]

Thank you Tekken 5 for giving interesting game too

[@mikeycourington2011]

I love Starblade. But the logo in the corner is distractingly annoying. I'll watch a different playthough instead, thank you.

[@brunoblivious]

This comment is a year old, but it's still fresh.

[@TeamSilvertail]

This game was surely ahead of its time, who knew video game graphics in the early 1990s could be this phenomenal? I honestly would love for a GameCube rerelease of this game, or a rerelease in general.

[@turbostatic1]

(Early 90s)

[@TeamSilvertail]

@@turbostatic1 Oops, thanks for pointing that out.

[@AzrialAlaria]

Tekken 5 on the PS2 had the entire game on it. You just have to find a secret room in the story mode game to unlock it.

[@Mario_N64]

Namco and Sega were on the cutting edge of technology back then. Sega even worked with the military.

[@kennyl3820]

OMG..... I played it when I was 5 or 6 in the arcade and now I finally find it! Thanks for uploading!!!!

[@SeeOHZee]

Fun fact: Before Shinji Hosoe was Samplingmasters MEGA for Ridge Racer he was the composer for Starblade as seen in the end credits.

[@TransCanadaPhil]

It was way back in 1991 when I first played this at "MagicLand"; an arcade in Winnipeg, Canada that I realized just how important high-frame rate 60fps was for gaming. Yes way back in 1991; you can see it here. In terms of performance, this just absolutely annihilated any other Console, or High End PC game. With arcade games like this and Virtual Racing & Daytona coming in the early 90s it totally spoiled me. I could never see what was so impressive about games like Doom, or Quake on the PC or the PlayStation in 1995 or even the N64 in 1996 when I had already been playing games like Starblade, and the various Sega arcade games for years by that point. That whole generation of mid-90s consoles actually felt like a huge disappointment to me as I felt they still couldn't match the performance of these early 90s Namco and Sega arcade games.

[@teddym2808]

interesting that the arcade is still so much crisper visually than the PS1 game which was a few years later..!

[@HSimon1981]

This is team leader, this is team leader

[@LondenTower]

1:48 that warp effect looks really cool. (i didn't know this, but it looks very similar to the hyperspace effect from star wars)

[@ozymandias1758]

I love the Sound of your ship travelling at warp speeds.. really sounds as if the laws constraining FTL travel are being bent, then Broken as the ship hurtles through space. Remarkable game for it's visual 3D effects for its time.

[@johntorres1186]

It's like The Last Starfighter movie& Star Fox 64 all rolled into one

[@fvm8906]

No.

[@turbostatic1]

When Arcade cabinets were 👑

[@jpnasc78]

This is a masterpiece.

[@dastalinstarblade4618]

To think I've been using Starblade as a flagship name/ surname without ever even hearing about this game. Really should see if I can't find an emulator or something for this!

[@trevormarshall8553]

Used to play this every time I'd play Tekken 5

[@kienphucnguyen2001]

I’ve first seen this game when i launch tekken 5. I was like “wtf am in the wrong game?”

[@kawaiiprincess3607]

I imagin this is as close to a Star Fox arcade game as we're gonna get.

[@FrLi_Marcos]

I remember play this when i was 4 years old. Playing this with a mirror arcade cabinet make it more impressive.

[@RogueBoyScout]

This was as close as to The Last Starfighter as a game as we got.... SO glad to have it [yes i know there is a freeware. But it's not the same as having a cockpit]

[@tHeWasTeDYouTh]

AMAZING, love the 60fps

[@Andrecio64]

i can feel there's an experienced player doing this playthrough

[@BenJabituya]

The closest thing we ever got to the Starfighter video game as featured in “The Last Starfighter”.

[@sethreign8103]

We need more games like this

[@KenMasters.]

Star Wars Ep. IV, V, & VI should be the one to thank for games like this.

[@gochem3013]

Gee. For a 60fps, it feels like a GameCube Game.

[@iNAZUMA_AiDAN_H]

Or a PS2 game of course

[@themetavirus]

@@iNAZUMA_AiDAN_H Starblade was featured as a bonus for Tekken 5, which is exclusive to the PS2.

[@ty2d2-tn]

@@themetavirus Starblade was released for 3DO, I had it but could not beat it before the disk got too scratched up to play it anymore.

[@gochem3013]

How did PS2 can handle old games from 4th and 5th gen?

[@desktorp]

it's not the same experience without the cockpit. The original had like a parabolic glass enclosure over the screen, so it felt like the action was stretching around all sides + the speakers were in the chair, right next to your head.. the only way you could be more fully immersed in the experience is if it had doors that totally shut out the outside world. I could only make it about halfway thru before I would give up because I didn't want to spend all my money on one game.

[@AzrialAlaria]

It kind of looked like a gunner pod with the edges of the monitor kinda warped a bit. Definitely looked cool in person!

[@deceiver444]

There wasn't many games more impressive than this one when it was launched in late 1991

[@beeblbrox1687]

Yeah... basically what the other guys said. Shame so few people seem to know about it :-(

[@Dee15gon]

17:07. Suddenly... music starts playing!!

[@frog24get]

This game is great and Nintendo apparently thought so as well!

[@gunma747j]

What is the best analog configuration of this game?

[@mariobros237]

What exact setting did you use? my audio stutters HARD

[@philb9015]

Is this a prequel or prototype to Galaxian 3: Project Dragoon? Because the gameplay and backstory look very similar. Since they're both made by Namco, i'll assume they're connected somehow.

[@bigjawed]

This game was originally going to be a single player version of Galaxian 3, But due to feedback from players, it was made into an entirely different project.

[@AzrialAlaria]

This game exists within a Namco series called UGSF (United Galaxy Space Force)

[@titan-1802]

The Game was originally suppose to have a Sequel, but it sadly was cancelled.

[@anass733]

ATTACK THE STARBOARD GEOSWORD

[@AzrialAlaria]

Over

[@ozymandias1758]

I'll attack to Port..

[@mannyamador2446]

Happy 30th anniversary Starbalde

[@TBPony]

My entire world is changed since i just now saw this, the gameplay the scramble launch thing and even some of the enemies are almost looking directly placed jnto star fox

[@mattiaparlato4432]

The original arcade version run at 60fps?

No, it drops FPS depending of how many polygons are loaded, the description says that "This is overclocked"

[@thestarglider]

How did you manage to get better control over the game? For the life of me I cannot seem to reduce the sensitivity of my analogue joystick so that it's not darting all over the place as I play the game!

[@DracMonster]

Stu Buckland pretty sure they're using a mouse.

[@SamFey]

So this is where Star Fox and Silpheed developers got their ideas from.

[@MobileDecay]

I actually just finished this on my Raspberry pi hooked up to a projector. Can't believe you can now play this on a pi. Lol.

[@RupertBreheny]

The Rez is strong in this one.

[@Jedigrandmaster6637]

This reminds me of galaxian3

[@Jedigrandmaster6637]

This came out after galaxian3 but it uses the same enemies

[@AzrialAlaria]

It's part of a Namco series called UGSF (United Galaxy Space Force) Galaxian 3 is also part of it along with MANY other Namco games!

[@ScoopexUs]

Looks cool except you made the blunder of stretching the picture before recording. You really don't see that the picture is stretched???

[@okaru353]

17:56 Ending

[@branislavweber7635]

Tekken 5 intro minigame.

[@Mai_Shiranui123]

Looks in Star Fox

[@cmgyt5724]

11:43 Andross's lair ? Jeeeze

[@rapidfire9999]

1:05 Press Start on Tekken 5.

[@bradroberts4202]

This game needs a remake ✅

[@mrluthfians01]

oh it's tekken 5 mini game

[@alster724]

Galaga Wars brought me here

[@ultimatealdo1922]

It almost reminds me a bit of Titan a.e we’re have ride a ship and defeat the Drej

[@CallsignAegis]

What is the red eye

[@ozymandias1758]

A mechanized weapon planet, similar to the Death Star. Capable of generating an intense planet destroying energy beam.

[@CallsignAegis]

@@ozymandias1758 bro its old I had it

[@jayeisenhardt1337]

There is one called Space Lords 1992 that is like this but without the bigger ships. Small waves of different clans all fighting each other. Second gunner seat. Dunno 4 max 8 players if each has a gunner crewman. The 2man teams are all mercs tho out for themselves. Inside I think are are space dust clouds, I dunno about wormholes, warp, nukes and small asteroids planets that clutter the space where you fight. I think as ya get exp ya level up weapons shields speed probably but I don't remember. So long ago but I played it at the nickle arcades forever and a day.

[@jayeisenhardt1337]

Seems there are cloaking too. I forgot about it but seen a vid on youtube. Cloak button to add copilot, which would be the gunner. That looks to be a fun multiplayer type online game these days if there ever was a remake.

[@scooby3030]

the arcade sit down machine was the best there was this and some others firefox and mac3 i think it was called

[@autobotlaserbolt2128]

If you wanna make this more epic just play "Ride Of The Valkyries" or "Mars Bringer Of War" Over this video

[@Alextables]

... Bios for mane?

[@MammaApa]

DO A BARREL ROLL!

[@poshpaul55]

Twitter brought me here

[@joetanjm]

Spent a fortune in thie back in the day. lol