The most GOGOON fighting game ever made! - VIOLENCE FIGHT

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[@ohsat_games]

2:37 Speaking as someone with a Masters degree in Japanese Studies: GOGOON etc. are just onomatopoeia for "dramatic" or "explosive" sounds in Japanese which look weird to us due to Japanese phonetics and spelling. Equivalents would be BLAM, KABOOM, DUNDUN (you know, the dramatic "hit the piano" sound) and so on. Most Japanese sounds look weird to us and therefore should usually be translated. In Japan, cats go NYAN, frogs go GERO and violence fighters just go GOGOON I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (and yes, this is the most useful my degree has been in quite a while, thank you very much)

[@shards-of-glass-man]

so that's why BAGOOM also exists, eh?

[@ohsat_games]

@@shards-of-glass-man Yup, that's the sound a Sonic Blast Man's fist makes.

[@abridgedversion3952]

A gogoon of a comment ngl

[@bryanstickell429]

I can confirm it is an onomatopoeia. There's a mobile Dragon Ball game called Dokkan Battle. Come to find out 'dokkan' is a sound of a clash.

[@nekoX92]

I was about to say something along those lines until I saw this comment. Thank you. :)

[@theawesomeike6085]

Remember, the first rule of Violence Fight is you talk about Violence Fight

[@matthew-epurnell1610]

you're breaking the 1st rule of Violence fight, I know this because Tyler knows this

[@C.V317]

I thought the first rule was “Lick Joe”

[@i-dont-burn-under-the-sun]

Painting the Mirror Match as the younger brother is the most videogame thing i ever saw in years.

[@GamesAndAnimes]

I think the shadow clone fight in Sonic The Fighters is over that, but more creative and ridiculous.

[@regicorp6514]

This doens't win against Battle K Road where they made a clone for EVERY character.

[@austinmeghu]

I'll just mentally add this to the Def jam fighting game lore as a prequel.

[@ae_double]

One possible origin for the sound effects might be from Masami Kurumada comics like "Put it all in the Ring" and "Saint Seiya", where he'd have sound effects like "BACOOON" and "DOGOOON" used here and there. With how popular those comics were, that might be one thing it's referencing.

[@PaulSoth]

If you grew up any time during the era of arcades, there was always at least one game you saw once and you spent the next 20, 30 years trying to remember what it was. Hell, sometimes you even wondered if it actually existed and you didn't just hallucinate the whole thing.

[@misterhappy5462]

for me it was "Gladiator". a taito arcade from 1986

[@r4umediaentertainment831]

This was definitely one of those games for me.

[@MrTheil]

I love how the plot of Violence Fight is basically the plot of Kengan Asura lmao

[@rudereckoning118]

Watching Patrick Swayze fight Mr. T was not one of my daily quests today.

[@pinkphilmingo6032]

This looks like the abandoned child of the original Art of Fighting and Aggressors of Dark Kombat.

[@Bobgriffon]

I'm pretty sure Mr.T didn't sue was because nobody had any idea this existed.

[@starnik]

I absolutely love it when you play old, more obscure games like this. GOGOON!

[@ThatGuy-tc6uv]

Fun fact: Lick Joe's backstory is that he used to be a wrestler until he got expelled from the wrestling federation he was in and he's competing here to atone for his past sins. What did he do that was so bad? Oh nothing, he just killed 13 wrestlers during sanctioned matches. Somehow.

[@angrytheclown801]

You gotta realize, when this game is set, wrestling was in fact real. There was showy fake wrestling, but you could easily find real matches. Now why you'd keep getting booked when you want to keep offing people like you're eating popcorn, that's a different matter.

[@corpuzjp]

Savage Streets please. We must see it.

[@SingerOfW]

- Who is it? - GOGOONs. - Who? - Hired GOGOONs. - Hired GOGOONs?

[@apollolux]

Dang, Matt missed this easy Simpsons reference here. XD

[@fiveways]

The first screen of the ending is pretty much the video game equal of the card at the end of Miami Connection.

[@MrSkerpentine]

lichard joe my beloved

[@eloso2225]

Broken English is definetely the best kind of English

[@KyleS.1987]

Lick Joe radiates powerful Rowsdower energy.

[@MrElbowsmash]

That last boss and ending were some real Trio The Punch shit.

[@ViciousOS]

As opposed to Non Violent Fight, the alltime champion of which was Ghandi

[@Weap0]

Wow, Violence Fight. I played this in the arcade. I think about it sometimes because it was such a weird name for a video game.

[@TheRichFather]

I remember growing up playing this at Time Out at the old Richland Mall in Johnstown, PA and when it first came out, you couldn't get near it because everyone wanted to play it. That being said, and I'll never forget this, I vividly remember some guy playing it one player and to say he was intense was an understatement. I remember him shouting at one point "I GOT DOGON!" Gotta love the old days of arcades.

[@Mankey619]

Sammy You Matt! For playing the most Taito of Taito fighting game of all time. This is one BOGOON day.

[@steve716]

Pretty sure "GOGOON" is a movie about aliens in an old folks home

[@steakcrust558]

an AI created game

[@apollolux]

Number one quarreler indeed. Meanwhile, still waiting for the long-awaited Bubble Bobble: The Fighters from them that totally everyone was totally begging for totally and I totally didn't make up just now for a bit. ;)

[@fakeigniz13]

This reminds me of Street Smart by SNK Same big graphics, same arena style

[@franciscor390]

They used to call this game "Dogon" where i lived instead of the actual crappy name. Hey at least it's still better than Pit Fighter.

[@kalonjirivers8902]

I remember playing this game when I was 11 years old, playing this game at a pizza parlor at the Jamaica section of Queens , NYC back in 1990. I cannot believe how jank this game used to be back then! Somehow I actually got better after beating my second born sister in a match. It was the first time she challenged me. But even before that, I was so bad at this game when I first started playing this game. This game brought back so much great memories because when my grandfather was alive, he was the one that took me to the pizza parlor located at 179th Street and Hillside Avenue where the E and F trains made the final stop at the subway.😁

[@shards-of-glass-man]

Somehow misread the thumbnail as Violence Jack and my brain skipped a beat

[@actualzafra]

Yup, there were some degree of violence in this fight. Math checks out.

[@user-nk5gc6yg1t]

The only thing I'm rooting for in a violence fight is violence 🤷‍♂

[@joeyparkhill8751]

4:31 I would 100% LOVE A Violence Fight 1UP Cabinet. Additionally, my local Pizza Hut in Centralia, Washington had a Violence Fight arcade cabinet, along with SFII, MKII & NBA Hangtime: NBA ON NBC.

[@Zillion3170]

A friend and I use to play this at a local restaurant when I was growing up. We played his game, cabal, golden axe, and Ka-ge-ki. A lot of memories.

[@yeahok1455]

Goon the sound you make passing a kidney stone in a cage match

[@bboyhanvzla]

imagine this game ported to a nintendo console, it'd be called "brutishness donnybrook"

[@emperormegaman3856]

Gogoon is a perfectly cromulent word.

[@mrninjadeegan]

BOGOGOON: Buy One, Get One, Get One, Only, Noontime

[@trtx84]

"Gogoon," of course, the nickname for diehard fans of Go-Bots.

[@mehlessmidori602]

11:46 Matt utterly destroyed by *FREEDOM.*

[@silverroddo1468]

Birentsu faito! I played this game a lot, whence i were a youngster man, along side GROWL, literally, both Growl and Violence Fight were next to each other.

[@marts8861]

Wait, the main character has to beat his younger brother in the fighting tournament finals to earn the prize money? Warrior (2011) with Tom Hardy and Joel Edgerton ripped off Violence Fight all along. How were they not sued?

[@michaelmacorso4479]

Thank you foe showing love to violence fight. My great uncle work on that game n deserves more love.

[@sheppertonstudios8253]

I remember our local pizza place used to have Violence Fight back in 1990-1991 and my then girlfriend and I used to play it while waiting for our order to be cooked. The one that always made me laugh was on the intermission screen that said "SAMMY YOU!!!"

[@someonenow1]

YEAAAAH!! SCORE A POINT OVER LET'S GOOOO

[@HazzardousEco]

And here's another McMuscles vid to go in my Flophouse Playlist =) Also, one of my favorite Taito arcade games was also the one I was scared of as a kid, and that was Space Gun. I do hope that gets covered here one of these days

[@jesusramirez4537]

im 46 now. seeing this on u tube made me remember this game. I was obseesed with this game.

[@r4umediaentertainment831]

There was a version this in the arcades where Ron Max would legitimately give you the finger if he beat you.

[@abridgedversion3952]

Gogoooon! is 1950s slang for Badowww!

[@tarekmoneimsaid]

6:38 ah yes, the obscure game that no one believes exists... I have a kind of similar story. I think it was around 95 or 96, I was in vacation with my parents and the hotel had this arcade cabinet with Time Killers in it. I played a single game and was immediately decapitated. Thanks to a combination of terrible graphics and poor eyesight, I thought the UI, stage I played in and the characters in that game sort of resembled the ones in Street Fighter (I certainly confused the chainsaw-wielding punk for Guile). So I went back home and told everyone I knew at school that I had played Street Fighter III and that it featured weapons, blood and decapitations. In my childish mind, it made complete sense for Street Fighter's next iteration. Obviously, no one believed me :D

[@kutulukutu]

When I was a kid, my grandparents would go to this old Mexican restaurant in Leucadia, CA (Juanita's.) They had this game for ONE week and got rid of it. I remember a scummy, gross and sex predator feeling character giving you like the bird if he won. Lick Joe. I was so happy to rediscover Violence Fight and I'm glad you could, too.

[@JamesJohnson-tr1gu]

I watched Return To The Blue Gogoon like twenty years ago lol

[@twitchykun]

Master Betty needs to be in VIOLENCE FIGHT

[@johnsensebe3153]

I know this comes very late, but if the power bar in this game works anything like the one in Taito's wrestling game, Champion Wrestler, you have to waggle the joystick and rapidly tap buttons to get it up. The power bar, I mean. I'm gonna try this on my totally legit arcade cabinet later.

[@Endocrom]

It's like you took Any Which Way But Loose and replaced Clyde with a tiger.

[@Ktotwf]

World Trade Center on the background. In the 50s.

[@abyssalwolf]

Savage Streets is a dope name

[@yeahok1455]

Go gon the sound you make when you fight someone while eating a rotisserie chicken

[@nicksrandomreviews]

"Dogoon" is actually the name of a training drill boxers would do in the 1940's. It would involve their trainer eating fifteen times the normal amount of fiber the day prior, and then doing a handstand in the gym, projectile shitting into the air, where the boxer would have to try and catch each nugget before it hit the ground. Very cool of Taito to reference it in their game.

[@mrmagpiepromotions]

The sprites in this game are amazing.

[@mrpalmer3978]

This is truly the fighting game of all time

[@Boonehams]

As jank as this game is, that title logo is money.

[@The-Khandor-of-Kalakuta]

I remember playing this in the arcade when I was little, but all I could remember for the longest time was the bonus round with the tiger...it was the only thing that stuck in my mind about that game

[@demgutts]

Loved this game back in the day

[@exiledPostman]

This is one of the funniest fighting games ever made.

[@Retrobitchass]

If Lick Joe isn’t a guest character in Tekken 8 I’m praying for its downfall to be honest

[@lilwyvern4]

There's actually an updated version of this game called Solitary Fighter. I don't know much about it, other than Tony Won being a playable character. I first learned of this game through Saltybet. For a while, someone would always request exhibitions of Tony Won and Ron Max versus whatever. It was called the Violence Fight World Tour.

[@kdel4272]

We need a remake of this game

[@r4umediaentertainment831]

Wow. The Lee Chen character is definitely modeled after the fake martial artist from the 70’s, Count Dante, and Lick Joe (that fuckin’ name…) is modeled after Tank Murdock from the Clint Eastwood movie, “Every Which Way But Loose.”

[@Andrew_TS]

I think if this was Taito's Street Fighter predecessor, Pit-Fighter is the crappier American knockoff of this game.

[@fiveways]

Did your game Savage Streets feature Linda Blair with a crossbow?

[@ohsat_games]

Nice. Appreciate that reference.

[@PhazonDude]

Appreciated.

[@JustinJTime]

Wow, so I looked into this game and compared it to Pit Fighter and I thought maybe THIS game ripped it off but no, Pit Fighter came out a year later. So in a small and odd way you could say that this game helped create Mortal Kombat.....THINK ABOUT THAT. 😆

[@MrBeardsley]

I know “bogan” is a somewhat derogatory term in Australia and New Zealand, but it’s basically their equivalent of “white trash” or “redneck.” Not sure about BOGOON though.

[@adamfrazer5150]

"You hear what happened to Scruffy ?" "That little punk ? Who cares what he got up to." "Yo - you might care man, if you knew the little bastard got drunk and took a wrong turn - bro pissed off the wrong crew, got himself straight BO-goon'd. " "Same as Ass-Crack Joe. Sad day fam." 😳

[@worldholder99]

MY BOY BLUE!!!

[@Raiderpool510]

Lick Joe kinda reminds me of Jack Turner in Art of Fighting

[@jayernesto8891]

The Twin Towers in 1950's Los Angeles 🤣😂😆

[@davidromeroblaya7920]

The Engrish is strong with this one.

[@quez2564]

This game needs to be in the onomatopoeia hall of fame......if such a thing exists

[@ChekhovsGun]

BOGON and GOGOON might be the ringing of a bell or gong?

[@GamesAndAnimes]

The game looks fine. For me is "Doomsday Warriors" on the SNES a "worst fighting game" candidate.

[@DemonChildCC]

This game feels like pit fighter..

[@ilyagarmash6203]

For some reason - the version that you have played is different. I've played it on a website, but Lick Joe, instead of showing his fist - Flips the opponent off

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

God i played the ever loving shit out of this when the fun fare came round to my town....

[@CJMoody]

Square Enix owns Taito now? I guess I know who to ask for a remake of Graffiti Kingdom then.

[@MrElbowsmash]

ININ Games has been doing amazing remakes of Taito games, actually.

[@ninjacat230]

if you are looking for weird taito stuff, look no further than pu-li-ru-la

[@GANGRELION]

Best of Best when?

[@erikbrynildsen7067]

I would love you to try one of the Darius games, I recommend Darius Gaiden. It’s available on Taito Legends 2.

[@Amialythis]

This game would be cooler if you could throw dudes off the pipe in the city level

[@devingiles6597]

Hey, Matt McMuscles. Can you please do a playthrough of Kaiser Knuckle? It is a fighting game from Taito, released back in 1994.

[@erickrene5600]

2 palabras, parodia y japon

[@armenimann]

Wait so his name was Bat but by the end of the video it changed to Bad?? How did that happen?

[@captain0080]

Zakatoom!

[@redacted2275]

-Dad- Bad Blue walks like he needs to pee. (edit: 6:12 PETA no like)

[@armenimann]

You mean BaT Blue?

[@Krs55]

Wasn’t there a sequel to Violence Fight?

[@DeusExMachino]

Yeah solitary fighter which is coming out on the switch somewhere on mid August under Taito milestones 2

[@solomon5726]

DOGONNNN

[@Retrobitchass]

The end message thank you for the playing 🥲