Super High Impact Arcade

[@shimsham6]

Such a great arcade game from the 90s! Easy to learn and so much fun to play! Midway knew how to make such entertaining, humorous, over-the-top portrayals of sports so that anyone could enjoy them, even if you weren't a fan of sports you could still have a great time.

[@InsertCoinArcade]

Super High Impact is an American football arcade game that had been released by Midway Games in 1991; it runs on Midway's Y-Unit hardware, and, as the name suggests, it is the sequel to Williams Electronics's High Impact Football (which was released in the previous year).

[@Lawless66007]

It’s crazy to hear Mortal Kombat sounds in this. I was so used to the SNES version.

[@jasonmartinez5116]

Same composer too (Dan Forden)

[@tehshingen]

It’s crazy to play this game as a MK fan for another reason - it’s basically a team of Ed Boons versus another team of Ed Boons. So many Noobs and not a Saibot to be found!!

[@JerBuster77]

Well no surprise since Boon worked on this before MK1.

[@Green-Raccoon777]

Ed Boon and Dan Forden were even playing this when Dan came up with a taunt that would eventually become "Toasty!"

[@MarcSola7]

3:57 "Somebody get a body bag!"

[@DoeRecompense]

My second favorite football franchise after Tecmo Bowl. Needs a PS5 port!!

[@ThunderFist1978]

They would have to remove any licensed music, most notably "Gary Glitter's Rock & Roll Part 2".

[@foxmccloud7055]

3:45 5:32 10:29 16:24 "EAT THIS!!!!" "FIGHT!!!!!"

[@JBM425]

I enjoyed the celebrity lookalikes in the game such as the Mike Ditka coach and the Jimmy “Mouth of the South” Hart announcer (the cheerleader even looked a bit like Miss Elizabeth from pro wrestling). If this game were made nowadays, I’m not sure corporate sensitivities would allow for the fight scenes, knee injury (“Oh, oh, my knee”) or the hard hit that exploded equipment off the receiver… but those are what made the game so fun!

[@HYMN_666]

The announcer even sounds a bit like Vince McMahon!

[@ElbowDropMO]

The announcer is actually Pat Lawlor, one of the lead designers in Williams’ pinball division at the time. A ton of staff in Williams/Midway would make cameos like that to save on hiring actors, and to just throw little easter eggs in (for example, Ed Boon, lead designer of Super High Impact and eventually Mortal Kombat, would lend his voice to other Midway/Williams pinball & arcade games). Rare would do similar things with their games; almost all of their voice actors for their SNES/N64 games (even characters with a ton of voice lines like Conker or Joanna Dark) were just team members in other departments.

[@troythompson7140]

Oh my knee!!!!!!!

[@KarlSturmgewher]

I want this on Arcade Archives. Hamster would have to talk to WB about it though... Close to kid friendly, if not for the fight mini game.

[@ThunderFist1978]

They would have to nix “Rock & Roll Part 2” by Gary Glitter from the soundtrack, so it wouldn’t be Arcade perfect. Not that anyone would want to be associated with Gary Glitter these days. Plus, Hamster doesn’t seem to license American games, except maybe for Qix.

[@kitestar]

Oh cool, it has the record keeping that other midway sports games used to have

[@dreal2931]

What emulator can I play this on because this is my Game

[@becomeanolive1637]

MAME or the SNES / Genesis version on Console Clasix

[@LuminalVerse337]

toasty!