Sunset Riders (Arcade PC) - Erin Plays

[@PositronPlays]

Hell yes! This game is definitely Old West Contra, I played the SNES version a bunch, one of those games I rented way too many times. Greedwell's 'Bury me with my money' is one of my most memorable voice clips from that era. Something about the game's style has just always stuck with me. Oh and I usually played as Bob! :)

[@ErinPlays]

"Old West Contra" is the perfect description!

[@herbcruz4697]

Positron Why didn't you just buy the game, if you rented it several times?

[@yellowblanka6058]

Herb Cruz - cartridge games could be quite expensive back in the day, it's possible that even with multiple rentals it was still cheaper than buying the cartridge.

[@leegsy]

It's not exactly rare but it is ridiculously expensive for a CIB copy.

[@Gamerextra1029]

Sunset Riders is heavily Americanized but not as much as Contra.. as a result, you get a unique blend of Western Cowboy shenanigans enhanced by subtle anime tropes and irreverent Japanese humor. There's nothing quite like it. :)

[@galacticzombie1942]

You've got good taste in games. I never beat Sunset Riders in the arcade, but I always had fun playing it. Konami was a boss at making awesome games back in the day.

[@MrFacundo7]

Nice video Erin, Sunset Riders is great! I'm sure this classic was a big inspiration for Metal Slug

[@DamaramuHQ]

Excellent choice! My friends and I spent so much money on this game and Konami's other arcade games back in the '90s! They were on fire back then, with back to back hits. I really miss the arcade scene from that time. My hometown had some of the biggest and best arcades!

[@ErinPlays]

Yeah, I really wish there were more arcades around now that could capture that "vibe" from back then. I was a bit too young to fully appreciate it at the time, but luckily I do have a few fond memories. Thanks for watching!

[@stphinkle]

Erin Plays There are still some arcades around. Not as many as their used to be but chains like Dave & Busters, Boomers, Nickel City, Chuck E Cheese, Tilt, and others still exist. Plus some amusement parks still have them. Many have shifted toward more redemption games. There are also some museums that have the old classic games. Well there is always MAME too.

[@roguerifter9724]

I actually never played the arcade game but I loved the SNES game. I remember being shocked when I discovered that it was one of the rarest, if not the rarest SNES game that I owned. I remember my grandmother getting it for me from a Kay-Bee Toys Christmas sale for $20. I also remember having to referee a fight between my twin cousins while babysitting them due to the inferiority of the Genesis version. For those who don't know the SNES game inclyded all four playable character with there being two who wield revolvers, and two who [ack shotguns allowing for two player to both use revolvers, both use shotguns, or use one of each if they wish. The Genesis version only has two character with one shotgun wielder and one Revolver wielder so in two player games one player has to use each weapon. Me, all of my cousins who played the game, and pretty much everyone I know or knew who played it vastly prefer shotguns in Sunset Riders. And they were playing the SNES version at my house long before they got a Genesis much less the Genesis port of Sunset Riders. I was going to babysit them the night they got Sunset Riders while their older brothers were on dates and their mom was out of town. All seemed well at first. There was Pizza in the fridge for dinner and they would merrily romp though Sunset Riders while I spent some time reading and playing Gameboy. Then came the discovery that only one of them could play as a shotgun wielder and the argument over who it would be ensued... To this day I'm frimly convinced that the decision to only include two playable characters in the Genesis port was made by a Nintendo loyalist on the development team who realized that doing so was the most efficient means of sabotaging the Genesis version of Sunset Riders.

[@jesperjensen7096]

Enjoyed the video - took me back to some great arcade memories ;) You should give "Blood Bros" and "Wild West C.O.W. Boys of Moo Mesa" a try as well

[@ErinPlays]

I was actually thinking about "Moo Mesa" the other day! And I'll admit that I don't know much about Blood Bros but I'll totally check it out. I'm so glad to hear this triggered some fond memories and thanks for watching! :)

[@AFK-888]

Great video! Used to have Sunset Riders on my old Arcade Cab. One of my all time favourite games for sure!

[@azzamatic4190]

By far my favourite arcade game back in the day and you could play with 4 characters that's great when your playing with friends

[@bigrob3238]

I stumbled across your videos and I'm glad I did...your playthroughs are great...💯🤙#BingeWatching

[@ShotGaming]

It's hard to pass up Cormano with that shotgun and pink poncho though

[@jamierose9095]

Cormano is the man!

[@Brenden-jo5ou]

Forreal!

[@Brenden-jo5ou]

Who doesn't love dual shotguns

[@mongoarcademan2]

One of the best run 'n gun games there ever was, for sure. I hope you do more arcade game videos! Also, I didn't find the arcade pad too distracting. Actually, you could make an ASMR video where you just play with it, haha.

[@ErinPlays]

Arcade stick ASMR? Hmm...maybe that’s an untapped market! Haha. Thanks for watching!

[@DjFeLL]

Love Sunset Riders! I pumped so many quarters into this game back in the day at the arcade! You rock Erin !

[@schalasmagic]

I love Konami games. They made the best and hardest games. I thought that you played well, I wouldn't last that long. I really enjoy your videos, they're really informative, and fun.

[@ErinPlays]

Yeah, Konami definitely was the best in this genre. So many great games. And thanks so much for watching. I'm glad you enjoy my videos! :)

[@SkakinBaconMedia]

This is awesome! I remember first playing this at a pizza place in Apple Valley MN called Carbones Pizzeria (which that certain location is gone sadly) and I was able to get the SNES version as well as recently I got an Neo Geo CBOX/Arcade Supergun and I got a Pandoras Box 6 JAMMA board, and Sunset Riders Arcade version is on it, one of these days I want to get the actual Arcade PCB of this game! I know this is an older video, but retro gaming I enjoy immensely! And I usually play as Cormano or the other Shotgun guy! Keep up the great work! Happy gaming! 😊🎮

[@1UpJose]

Great arcade video! Was cool to see you use an arcade stick, old school. Konami makes some of the best games, Turtles in Time being one of my favorite. Awesome gameplay Erin, makes me want to play this game. That last boss reminds me of the Joker, funny Sailor Moon reference lol

[@ErinPlays]

Hmm...people seem to be mentioning Turtles in Time a lot lately, maybe it's a sign ;) Thanks so much for watching and appreciating my Sailor Moon refs, Jose!

[@yittmashups]

I used to love seeing this one in the arcades.

[@ShishiVids]

4:49 there's a fight like this in Castlevania Lament of Innocence on PS2, except you're the one dodging and rolling behind stuff! It's actually pretty tough D: And it's against a boss that looks like that rotting guy from SOTN (Beelzebub?).

[@LuffyGear2JetPistol]

Such a classic game! For the longest, I totally forgot about this game until seeing it again reminded me of how much I used to play it in the arcade! At an old Numero Uno pizzaria believe it or not. lol . Anyway, I have recently just found you and love all your videos!! Newly subscribed and happy to support you! Keep up the fun and nostalgic work!! On a side note, I see you love Disney as well, and I can't wait for my home Disneyland park to reopen!! Need Disney back in my life too!

[@jameshoneycutt785]

Ah man I used to love this game! I really like that old adcade style super Nintendo music, kind of sounds like turtles in time. Good choice in a game, Erin!

[@jarrodm9299]

Nothing like having a good ending by going off into the sunset 🌅.

[@JegoEXP]

Never played or even knew about this game as a kid. This one is definitely on my wish list for SNES! The art style and presentation is amazing, I really dig it.

[@Ultraflame64]

I'd love to see some Turtles in Time for the SNES. Favorite game on the it and it perfectly fits someone's love for arcade beat-em ups.

[@ErinPlays]

People have been requesting this a lot lately, it's definitely on my list. Thanks for watching! :)

[@phreakazoith2237]

I guess the "bury my shell at wounded knee" level pays homage to Sunset Riders?

[@kecukritiques2943]

Awesome game, I remember playing it with my friend, and we lost just as we were about to defeat the final boss XD Great playthrough, Erin :)

[@marcpaters0n]

"Bullet proof vests in the wild wild west" 😆👍

[@itamarazulai6767]

After i watched your video, I bought the arcade pcb from ebay. i am still waiting for it to arrive ,it's look like a great game. thanks

[@ErinPlays]

that's awesome, I'm jealous!

[@GuilloRamiro]

Awesome!! I have a youger brother and we were always looking for coop games back then. Sunset Riders was awesome!! Great video!! ❤👍

[@goremall]

I’ve found my new favorite channel 😻i totally forgot about this game, was so much fun.

[@JoelMMcKinney]

Boy this one takes me back. Imagine using quarters In an arcade for this one.

[@JoelMMcKinney]

Also... Contra is ONLY GOOD multiplayer. You just need the right p2

[@leqesai]

a new erinplays video. sweet! I just played this game like 3 days ago on my gpd xd. nothing like the awesome arcade games on a portable device.

[@ErinPlays]

That sounds awesome. When it comes to modern portables, I just have my 3DS :p Thanks for watching!

[@jerrymcnulty4668]

Loved this game and red heads

[@yellowblanka6058]

This game definitely has similarities to Contra, though I think it's more forgiving in general. Great game in its own right though. Great soundtrack too. Makes me nostalgic for the days of wandering into an arcade/up to an arcade machine as a kid and marveling at all the colors, sound and action. The final boss wearing the metal plate is a reference to a Clint Eastwood movie (I think it was "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", where he wears the door from a stove under his poncho to protect himself during a gunfight.

[@andy2more475]

That was fun! Just like being at the arcade with the button mashing. Loved it.

[@algol291]

I want to play this version. It's way better than the SNES port. The 2nd level is so much more coherent and easier to get through in the arcade version.

[@Moonfreeze]

Great video! Art style kind of remind me of Cadillacs and Dinosaurs. Maybe you should try that one?

[@ErinPlays]

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is great! Thanks for watching :)

[@williamandres1042]

I used to play this game a lot on SNES. Very good video.

[@devast2]

Love this game. Definitely a go-to when I have a friend over who wants to play. I wish I had kept my SNES cart from when I was a kid, pretty pricey nowadays.

[@jaredt2590]

Steve's my guy too. I like how the pistol shots do more damage.

[@dongeraci8599]

What did the 3 legged dog say when he entered the saloon? "I'm lookin' for the man who shot my paw"

[@ThunderFist1978]

So cool that this game is now part of Arcade Archives! Even if it is slightly censored.

[@philliphagen6290]

I used to play Sunset Riders back in the day.

[@MewsHeart151]

12:50🤔I love your reaction because I was thinking the same thing lol all those other bullets just weakened him

[@Soily9]

Great video Erin. This game is very fun and looks good, and has great "cartoonish" animations, but, really, what kind of parents name their kid "1UP Steve" ???

[@JohnnySDS]

I would recommend the arcade game Spider-Man The Videogame. A fun beat 'em up.

[@leodziurka7709]

One of my favorite arcade games I downloaded the sound track has some pretty epic stage music

[@plurp7]

I'm totally gonna download this game and fire it up on MacMAME. Wish I have that awesome arcade stick to play on, but I will settle for my SNES dogbone controller via USB adapter:) Awesome game girl!! Thanks for posting:)

[@MabiVSGames]

Keep up the videos! Can't wait to watch more, :D

[@Synthwave89]

I love this game! I used to play the Genesis version mostly, but I hated that my bro always had the OP gun (that dang cormano).

[@treedeblue]

She's fun!

[@dooshmasta]

I love that Konami sample used in so much of their music. I gotta look for it.

[@dooshmasta]

Especially in the boss fights.

[@jorgelobolonely17]

awesome video and awesome videogame! love it!😉

[@leodziurka7709]

Still a favorite to this day any version

[@walter5266]

SUNSET RIDDDDDDEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRS. i played this at the only arcade to survive the cabnitcuast in my area.

[@masshuudojo]

Always prefered the 2 shotgun guys for the better hit range, specially the mexican one who changes the hat after a certain boss. :D

[@maximk9964]

I never played sunset Riders so I can't compare, but I played a lot of Contra with my brother and it works pretty well as a two player game, but you do need to have some coordination (like on level 3 if someone jumps too high and the other person is low you can kill them with screen-bottom) But if you play it together a bunch (which you'd have to, it's Contra, 10 minutes to beat, 3 months of everyday playing so that you can) it's actually a lot help to have another person, and if you both have spread, most bosses never get to finish their initial animation. Also on Super C that laser showerhead that I hate is a lot easier with two people as well

[@ShishiVids]

You played this on MAME? D: 0:10 😍😍 ERIN HAS A USB ARCADE STICK!!! You know they make arcade sticks with silent buttons now, and they even replace the stick part with buttons on a new stick called a Hitbox I believe. So it's like a D Pad on an arcade stick lol. There's been some controversy about those because it gives some advantages in fighting games although its much harder to use!! :O

[@ErinPlays]

That’s interesting! I like the loud clicky tho ha. But yeah it’s not too awesome for videos I guess.

[@ShishiVids]

@@ErinPlays I don't mind the clacka clacka either. At fighting game tournaments it gets CRAZY :D

[@skijumpnose]

Konami always made awesome games,i always played as Cormano in this,this video makes me want to play it again lol

[@StockRoom209]

nice game choices..classic arcades..ps: I will change my facebook picture to paco loco 13:00

[@PlasticCogLiquid]

One of the best games ever! I love SSR

[@timothylordan7453]

I remember buying this for the SNES in the discount bin

[@derpsmcghee8007]

The soundtrack reminds me of turtles in time...... Love that game.

[@shortbus1127]

She kinda reminds me of April Oneil is this video😍

[@chuckobscure]

I like the Genesis version. This and SNES have way to much pink. :P

[@NMC_1980]

"This, level is problematic" Everytime I hear someone say this about something that happened in the past, it kills my soul a little each time. There is nothing problematic about that level in my opinion, it was what it was.

[@theriverhudson4005]

Love this game! Too bad people want 80 damn dollars for the SNES cart.

[@ulisesgomezd.3405]

Now you've played Sunset Riders, another arcade game from Konami which you sould try, is "C.O.W. Boys from Moomesa"", they're really Cow Boys.

[@OneManPowerTrip]

"Bury me wit meh money!"

[@StockRoom209]

oh btw ..with the red hair and your yellow top you reminded me of april o'neil...while playing classic konami games..maybe one day when you feel like it, play tmnt arcade game.

[@ErinPlays]

haha, tmnt is definitely on the list. Thanks for watching! :)

[@StockRoom209]

thx for replying!

[@SonicBlast82]

Bonus shooting : OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OH OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOH!! 😂 PD : Cormano 🤘🤘🤘

[@alejorag]

Instalike because Steve is my boi too

[@peppigue]

This game screams arcade. I love the colors. I'm Norwegian, and we had arcades, but they were forbiddingly expensive. Iirc it was common for a credit to cost 10 kroner/crowns in the nineties, which would be like $1.5. Did you typically get one credit for a quarter in the US?

[@Ramonegghead]

The Snes version is very similiar to this one, i didnt know that.

[@heisensaul5538]

yeah the one level with the Indians is well quit problematic. I know in the Snes version they changed the name of the Chief from Scalpem to Wigwam.

[@ashleyp3662]

Erin is a Gangsta!!👍👍🎅🎅

[@TheSegacampGamerandWerecamp]

ooooooooooooooh lucky I like to play to play the Genesis Port someday on my Twitch Channel but I just haven't got to it yet!

[@dustinsmith3688]

I'll be your 2up Billy any day

[@nooyawker377]

The guy at the end reminds me of Tony Montana

[@Intoxicatious]

These rewards are hilariously ludicrous. $20,000!? That's like half a million today. The characters could probably retire by the end of the game.

[@ErinPlays]

Right? Apparently being a sunset rider plays extremely well! Thanks for watching :)

[@ytdavasquez]

Erin Plays and that is why you never saw a sequel to it. Though there should be one called Info Wars.

[@rgbinc]

all the bosses are t-1000 sent back to stash gold and supplies to monopolies the world

[@yoshiike1]

Awesome

[@ashleyp3662]

I played this at an arcade like a month ago

[@ashwilliams4292]

17:43 Clint Eastwood reference... Lol

[@gavinpickens73]

Sunset riders has gotten expensive. Wish i would have kept my copy.

[@Hustler1856]

Patron price is really reasonable.

[@kefkarothsephka7708]

my teenhood here

[@charvelgtrs]

Are you using Mame or was this released on Steam?

[@ErinPlays]

charvelgtrs I used MAME. Thanks for watching! :)

[@Antronix3]

10k dollar bounties in what looks to be 19h century wild west? That seems too high lol

[@johncribbs8382]

i think you should give 2 player contra a shot

[@ErinPlays]

John Cribbs Yeah I should. Maybe sometime down the line I'll convince a friend to play it with me for a video. Thanks for watching!

[@lucag.lisickza425]

did u use an emulator to play those arcade games? the arcade stick is a sanwa?

[@ErinPlays]

I used MAME and the arcade stick is a Qanba.

[@Jkoziol72577]

Its more like a western version on METAL SLUG

[@Perkinson78]

Sailor Moon arcade beat'em up next ...................??????

[@ErinPlays]

Perkinson78 some Sailor Moon games are definitely coming in the future! :)

[@jamierose9095]

1-800-HENCHMEN

[@8bitDNA]

Erin, how did you play this game? is this on steam?

[@ErinPlays]

Hi, I played it on MAME. :)

[@johnnyfountainS]

I never got an arcade stick.

[@devast2]

Started with 254 lives, ended with 138. Does that mean it would have cost you 116 quarters..?

[@ErinPlays]

devast2 I believe there's 3 lives for every quarter, and the beginning of this video is made up of 3 different play throughs so I can't say for sure. Either way, I do die a lot but not 116 quarters worth! Haha

[@devast2]

Hah. Bury me with my... quarters

[@stphinkle]

Is that game running on MAME, the arcade emulator?

[@ErinPlays]

Yep!

[@Seanmm8855]

are you gonna be playing switch games at all?

[@ErinPlays]

It's definitely not out of the question! I'm sure sometime in the future if I find a game that I think would make for a fun video.

[@youdontknowme5123]

Still bad jump skills, beauty...

[@dapoet2000]

Does the horse have a name

[@tonyj9091]

Am download that n think of the pretty girl with glasses

[@locobandito7389]

What happened to my comment?