The PS2's experimental webcam shooter

[@minimme]

hello hi thank you for watching, here's some related content you should check out I reckon: The Wii Balance Board horror game: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mJO4e3p5qbebjck Unboxing a 21 year old webcam: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJCrZGeHlMSBlZY

[@AgusMat-ps5xo]

you look like wismichu

[@awareclueless]

You review such interesting and forgotten games, its a blessing Ive found your channel. The script, storytelling, background information and gameplay is just top tier and there are not many channels that compare.

[@wrestlecritical6245]

'The Justifier' is such a beast name for a peripheral. You'd feel like a god holding that tacky green plastic in your hand.

[@Nandru85]

The name fits the sega genesis gun like a glove

[@TitoSausalito]

I am holding one, and I do.

[@noway9320]

You gotta see the video of Liebermann holding one in front of the US Senate.

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

​@@Nandru85 The big blue six-shooter? That thing was fkn badass 😂 Lethal Enforcers was my _jammm_

[@ManawatuFlyFishing]

I got the Japanese version, it's called the "hyper blaster".

[@FCV0511]

Whoa! I used to play this all the time in a local arcade, albeit under the USA release's "Police 911" title. I had a marathon session once and could barely walk the next day because I did at least three hours worth of squats while taking cover during gameplay. Forget leg day - just put someone in front of one of these cabinets and let 'em go! It surprised me how well the motion tracking worked in the arcade though - it was very responsive from what I recall. Cool presentation, excellent control gimmick, and a fun game to top it all off. Thanks for covering it and bringing back memories, and I'm glad they at least tried to make a somewhat faithful home version. (Also, I'd love to see you tackle From Russia with Love on the PS2 sometime. Sean Connery's last role as Bond was always a favorite of mine as a kid. I'd like to think the game held up well enough.)

[@spvrda]

Peter said he'd cover the EA 007 games after the Activision/Craig ones, so it's gonna happen.

[@FCV0511]

@@spvrda Oh boy! :D

[@sweetBabyD]

I remember beating this as a kid- my dad gave me the whole roll of quarters (probably because I needed the exercise).

[@pixlman]

Holy shit, I remember playing this as a kid at a shopping mall here in Argentina. Funnily enough it was the Japanese cabinet, so it was this super exotic thing for everyone.

[@kestrel9004]

Its so funny to me that you used a Creative webcam for this game. I used to work in that company and we had ancient products like that laying around at one of the floors of the office building. It was basically a dumping ground for either old, abandoned, or unreleased products. I swore i could have seen this camera sitting somewhere in the office. What a throwback, i didn't even know it can be used like this!

[@Krunklehorn]

Really goes to show what the industry was trying to get at with these kinds of motion control games. If the latency wasn't so high it would almost feel like playing SUPERHOT VR, only a decade and a half early. Konami probably had a ton of fun coming up with this. Thanks so much for putting the effort in to track down and play it!

[@melancholy_robot]

It's kind of surreal how despite the low resolution textures, that opening area is instantly recognizable to me as Little Tokyo in downtown LA. I wonder if they used photo scans to build the environments.

[@sukhoifockewulf]

100% photo scans, looks really great for what it is.

[@no1DdC]

@@sukhoifockewulf The aesthetic is kind of weird. It's very 1990s, completely different from most other PS2 titles in terms of style and technology. Even if we compare it to other contemporary attempts at photorealistic real cities using photo textures, like the Getaway, it clearly looks much older and lower fidelity. It does have a certain low-tech charm though.

[@JordanManfrey]

letting nature bake the lighting goes a long way I think

[@HNKMaster]

9:02 - "Men literally living like this" LMAO

[@pglagowski]

I actually do remember playing Police 911 in a local arcade. During your intro, that is what I immediately thought and it turns out I was right, haha.

[@Puzzl3man]

9:42 That smile. That damned smile.

[@jtlego1]

Holy shit, i never knew they made a console port of Police 911! This always got stuck in the back of my head as one of the weirder Konami arcade games alongside the Thrill Drive series. Never got a chance to play them back in the arcade days due to being too young.

[@minimme]

I really want to play Thrill Drive, it just looks so off the wall in a way that I love. I wish it got ported somewhere

[@jtlego1]

@@minimme Considering that series might've been where the Burnout devs might've gotten inspiration to start their own franchise, ohhhhhhh yeah I'm with you there. Its a crying shame none of its games got ported.

[@pierrelaflotte8540]

11:00 That civilian guy running back and forth through the field of fire really raises up the stakes of the shootout

[@cookieface80]

Gokudo is just another word for Yakuza. So the Yakuza gang in the game named themselves Yakuza Group.

[@TheCreapler]

my little chubby self when I was young would get all sweaty playing this in the Arcade.

[@Zippy_Zolton]

A re-release or spiritual successor that retains this camera control scheme would be awesome, I'd imagine this having no delay with modern tech

[@Zippy_Zolton]

@paxhumana2015 that is a way bigger scope than a simple rail shooter

[@Kohaku233]

I actually remember playing this in a pizza place. It was so weird. I didn’t even know this port existed.

[@Helloyousilverdevil]

They used to have these in arcades and even dave & busters everywhere, it was super futuristic looking- as a kid I was intimidated by how crazy it looked. But yeah I don’t think anyone knew about this port, I had no clue either

[@TheGamedragon96]

I love this game it's so cool. It's unironically my Mom's favorite arcade game, she found it at a Dave and Buster's and was enamored by the body tracking and moving your body to take cover, said if she had the machine at home she'd use it as a workout machine.

[@ZX3000GT1]

Wait until she discovers Dance Evolution

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

I love seeing videos on obscure old games like this. Thanks man!

[@KevinCow]

I played this in the arcade as a kid and the main thing I remember is that it tricked me into doing squats and my legs hurt for days.

[@ChubbsterBrown]

Almost thought I was about to start watching a Dank Pods video seeing that Creative 2000s box in the thumbnail. Very “cash converters” looking technology.

[@monkeykidd420]

Dank pods is dope as hell love his content

[@gregoryberrycone]

the arcade version of this game is legendary. i used to love playing it at the local arcade. Somewhat unrelated but there was a really badass midway arcad third person arena shooter called the grid that used a track ball and joystick for its controls. I guess it came to mind because that era had so many unique control gimmicks, i kind of miss that

[@Dirvinator]

That really was a sick camera unboxing video

[@Dukefazon]

This is EXACTLY the kind of weird PS2 game that I'm after! :D You make me want to get a game I've never heard of before, convincing me in a mere 1 minute 42 seconds. Side note: the beard looks cool, much better than having just the moustache.

[@mukblue]

Thank you for doing a video on this. I used to play this in the arcade back in the day and loved it. But it was a total leg workout. Always wondered about the PS2 port we never got in the States.

[@mrben2514]

I adore how unique, obscure, and interesting your picks for videos are. You deserve all the views, Minimme.

[@nobideluxe348]

minimme cameo in 'Police 24/7' at 0:25 -- the perp running toward camera ... I think years of minimme thumbnails may have primed me!

[@Chipskate]

There is a pretty cool mod for Half Life 2 which adds head tracking via a webcam. You can use it to peer around edges, and it also adds a bit of immersion. The mod is called FaceOff Paintball mod. There appears to still be a mediafire link to download the mod.

[@nicholsliwilson]

Like a lot of Eye Toy games it’s a good idea in principle but… I suspect if you could place your heavy CRT at arcade cabinet hight it would improve things a bit but the input lag from the camera will always be an issue. It reminds me of light-gun style on-rails shooters on the Wii. BTW panicked noncombatants trying to run through the fire zone is a real thing both military & police services have to deal with, not quite to the extent they do in games like this but still, it happens. Interesting video, thanks.

[@SteveBrandon]

The narration in the intro movie to the game sounds like an English-speaking Japanese voice-over artist doing a remarkably good impression of John Bunnell, the former Multnomah County sheriff turned TV host best known for his voiceovers on World's Scariest Police Chases (later renamed to World's Wildest Police Videos). John Bunnell's voiceover talents were even used in a World's Scariest Police Chases videogame, for the original Playstation in 2001. I'm not 100% sure that narrator in this intro is not John Bunnell but I think I hear traces of a Japanese accent.

[@Vardi_]

Holy shit you unlocked a lost memory for me. I totally remember playing this game at the arcade when I was kid. Had no idea it had a home port, super interesting

[@RemnantCult]

I could never find a cabinet of this game that worked properly sadly. I saw it everywhere but it was always in bad shape. These machines must be expensive to upkeep.

[@Ozziw162]

This makes me want to dig out my VR headset for some Superhot or Half-Life Alyx again… I’ve always loved light gun games, and I wish there would be something like this for VR! I know there are some alternatives, I’ve tried some, but they’ve always fell short of the old school arcadyness I crave :/

[@fconstraints]

"Wake up, honey, a new minime video about an obscure game you've never heard of just dropped." Straight into my veins, please 🙏

[@this_connor_guy]

Police 911! What a classic. When I was a kid, my dad would take me to a local arcade that had this cabinet there. This was the ONE game I could get him to play. He loved it.

[@Mamiya645]

This game is pretty cool and interesting. Just as this video and entire channel. Subscribed!

[@beat-man5167]

It looks like it's made in the late 90s. I find the look charming in a way. This game reminds me of Konami's Thrill Drive. The American city streets reminds me of the USA course, and the car windows are just textures.

[@pendantblade6361]

Turns our minime wasn't so mini to play this game properly.

[@Thepopcornator]

I think I actually played this at an arcade around 20 or so years ago-the ‘Police 911’ version. It felt quite futuristic, being able to physically adjust your position and take cover by the way you move your actual body. Kind of a predecessor to things we commonly do in VR now.

[@TPD]

i love this channel so much

[@RobinBoyBlunder]

Wow, this unlocked some memories. I remember playing this at my hometowns theme park arcade. I remember liking the concept, but the controls were janky, even for the arcade cabinet. I was constantly dying despite dodging the bullets when the time slowed down. This game ate up my tokens. I had no idea there was a PS2 port that existed. I completely forgot about this game until this video mentioned the cabinet.

[@plasmablack]

[@sagecasalini]

You are my favorite KZbinr love it when you drop new stuff!!

[@anicepop]

I am always excited for a new minimme video! Wonderful work as always!

[@sirderpington7704]

I played this in an arcade and I do remember me having to dodge and weave real hard. and I had to take this half crouching thing and my legs was sore for a day after that lol. but it is pretty fun.

[@ebookjapan8054]

The Police 911 arcade game actually works really well and is a lot of fun. Surprised they were willing to attempt a console port of the game. This and the OG Silent Scope with the full rifle are my two favorite arcade games ever.

[@IcyXzavien]

what an interesting concept for a rail shooter., especially for one released in the early 2000's. I think the only analog for something today is vr rail shooters.

[@HopscotchPlus]

Oh man! This really unlocked a memory for me. I used to visit a caravan park near a seaside, they had this in the on-site arcade. Brilliant stuff in the arcade, never knew it got a home port. Cheers!

[@nickd1978]

Cool video. We had Police 911 in a local arcade. It was difficult and exhausting, the motion sensing wasn’t great as you demonstrated.

[@trevortrevor4209]

I wish Sega, Konami and Namco could port their rail shooters on VR headset.

[@Mantis_Toboggan_TrashMan]

It's crazy thinking how far we've come with motion controls. I recall the hype of the Wii and the Kinect before we figured out they didn't really work. But today's VR tracking is super impressive. It really feels like fluid motions.

[@brokenstyx]

This video is AWESOME, thank you - i played the arcade version in like 99 or whenever here in the UK, it was a bit painful xD i had no idea it was on ps2!

[@Gio954]

the dedication that went into finding the stuff to make this video, never change man

[@AssaulteedOne]

The Keisatsukan 2 is soooo fun in arcades! The motion tracking is sublime & had so much time avoiding & ducking in and out of cover. You can get so into it that you really need to stretch & prepare yourself - it's very easy to cramp up playing it haha It all depends on how well these old arcade machines are kept & maintained, but the one I played in Akibahara was definitely awesome

[@NotVance]

LOVED playing Police 911 back in the day at my local movie theater & definitely played Mocap Boxing as well. I get wistful whenever I see a movie & that machine is no longer there. This might be a Mandela Effect but I remember seeing a listing for Police 911 for PS2 in an issue of EGM or Game Informer growing up & wished I had a copy...

[@planescaped]

_googles police 24/7 camera and a good gun to use with it_ Anyone hear sirens?

[@TheDavidCarfagno]

This was my favorite arcade game. I have such fond memories playing this with my dad at Dave and Busters.

[@rolfthewhatever]

I got to play the arcade version once in the states, and it was the most intense thigh workout I've ever had. They burned for two days.

[@axelprino]

The moment I saw a picture of the arcade cabinet I went "ah, that one", even tho I never played on it because it looked hard AF I definitely remember seeing that at an arcade back in the day, but I just played Time Crisis instead. Fascinating that they adapted it to the PS2 back before the console even had an official camera accessory.

[@MiloTheMightyDude]

I'm just imagining that attract mode set to "Bad Cops! Bad Cops!"

[@bluelblock]

Oh my god, Police 911 2 was one of my FAVORITE arcade games! I played it so much I could barely walk the next day!

[@summersetbanjo7440]

I remember this being in my local bowling alley in 2008. sadly it wasn't there long as it got replaced by Target Terror Gold.

[@IIIdelinquentIII]

We have the same wooden dining chairs in our house

[@hayterfan]

This game was basically the reason I went to CiCis pizza. I think it also had a SWAT based sequel, that or I'm thinking of something else.

[@trontosaurusrex9532]

Oh man I loved Cici's as a kid. Still remember that delicious dessert pizza.

[@some-replies]

Terrible pizza but a sweet arcade. Mine had Crusin the world

[@gnardawgyt]

Super novel game and great video! I loooked into light gun shooters a few years back, thought it might be fun to have a setup for one friends come over, but ultimately decided the short game lengths didn't justify the price. Big Time Crisis and House of the Dead fan though!

[@SALIM86]

I have this game I managed to find the famous hyper bluster😂 and 2 web cams is a great game

[@jazz8000]

oh no hes hot

[@CC-qx7hk]

Ive played the arcade version, it was pretty fun. There was also another game like it but it was about boxing. Instead of taking cover, you were dodging punches. It also had the heaviest damn fake boxing glove peripherals which were also wired. Dunno if its also Konami tho, but considering the cabinet and foot placement mat I sort of figured it was

[@mementomori771]

A very intresting game thanks for covering it mini

[@jorge69696]

I have a weak spot for low geometry characters with photos as face textures. Reminds me of Max Payne 1.

[@bigbadron]

man, i remember playing that at the New York, New York Casino arcade in Las Vegas. i might be mistaken, but i feel like they had the sequel at one point, but it wasn’t localized. they also had Mocap Boxing, and i remember enjoying it.

[@TonyGearSolid]

Back in the early 2000s local arcade/amusement center had the arcade cabinet for Police 911 and an imported cabinet from Japan of the sequel. They were my favorite games to play whenever I went there, but unfortunately they weren't maintained very well and the gun for one of them stopped working. I've always wondered why Konami never released a port for the Wii, or even the PS3 with PlayStation Move and PS Eye support.

[@stekenney]

Had no idea this port existed but we had the arcade game in my town and I played it all the time. I couldn't believe the tech behind it.

[@CommunistJugular]

I was just thinking, "I wonder when minimme will upload again" 🎉

[@flippedoutkyrii]

Yooo I remember playing this at an Arcade a few years ago. It was tight as hell, like a Japanese remake of Heat. Probably the most immersive light-gun games I've played since Crisis Zone!

[@joseph3000games]

Great video! Police 911 2 is my favorite arcade game, and I now own a cabinet of it. It uses ultrasonic sensors rather than optics and plays flawlessly. I also have a Police 911 PCB, and to me the game feels slightly more clunky than the sequel.

[@grantcrawford3170]

I recently got an original PSVR and this reminds me of its camera tracking system, especially in cover shooters like Blood & Truth. There are a few games on there I think you'd find interesting actually, it's easily the most minimme-esque VR thing

[@solidvault3698]

This game unlocked a hidden memory when i used to play it in the arcades!

[@unbearifiedbear1885]

The arcade version of this game was pretty baller... never tried the home console version, cheers for the vid ❤

[@Natervader13]

Holy SHIT dude I've played that old cabinet before. I totally forgot about it but as soon as I started seeing the mugshot things with the black tape over the eyes it clicked. Next thing you're going to show is going to open my third eye at this rate.

[@RetroSegaDev]

You visited the UK! Hope you had fun :D

[@novelezra]

The best My Name is Earl cosplay ever done.

[@pbjandahighfive]

The way I imagine the tracking works is that it takes a screenshot of you when you first start the game in the neutral upright position and then probably takes a new low res picture once every 1/30th of a second or so (possibly every 1/60th, though judging by the delay I'd say 1/30th is more likely) then the game runs a depth and edge detection algorithm to break everything down to that simple black and white image where it proceeds to find the difference between that original picture and the "current" picture and then moves the tracking dot correspondingly by trying to stay aligned with the closest approximate white color value above a certain point in the picture relative to where the highest white value is currently located in the image which is why it doesn't stay perfectly centered on your forehead and the tracking dot kind of sways back and forth from side to side on your head depending on the direction of lean. I could go into more detail as to why the game works better closer than further (which likely has to do with the capture resolution and depth detection issues relative to that) but I think I've said enough to give you a general idea.

[@PillarOfWamuu]

I played this in the arcade all the time. It was the absolute best lightgun shooter

[@oddball_the_blue]

I always wondered if it worked with the webcam like the arcade cabinet. That this needs so much faffing around to work is really something else.

[@samtalbot-cross2621]

Owned this and have absolutely zero memory of ever playing it, and didn’t realise it was a light gun game. Guessing it also ended up in the CEX pile I sold earlier this year.

[@NumberOneHorseDrowner]

Konami was just out there trying anything and everything, not worrying about if it made financial sense. At least it gave the impression that they were trying to impress and surprise people. It's funny how as gaming became a bigger market we got less of that. There should be more money to experiment now than there used to be.

[@kevinbriseno3209]

Just picked up a creative labs Webcam a few months back as well. It was a fun little scavenger hunt looking for a compatible one lol. This game is seriously soo far ahead of its time. I need to put in some more hours and actually beat it

[@jackychang9148]

Did you manage to get a PD1030? I'm not getting any luck. I'm hoping yours happens to be different but works.

[@rofalmatt]

this is so rare it should be in a museum

[@JakeSpencerDesign]

When I first saw the Red Steel trailer, I believed it was real specifically because Police 911 2 had shown me a glimpse of that future. I'd surely be more critical now, but 20 years ago, I found its motion tracking mind-blowingly accurate.

[@sukhoifockewulf]

This actually looks amazing. From the photo scanned backdrops, to the motion tracking and 90's cop aesthetic, I wish it wasn't so obscure.

[@AustinOopiemanOberkramer]

im impressed with how well it tracked you

[@jac_238]

Here in the us, this was called Police 911, loved playing it in Arcades but never knew it got a console port

[@graphicsgod]

This looks amazing for its time! I had no idea of this game.. I wish this could have been remade for PS3 and the camera that came with that. Or for the 360 and for use with the Kinect.

[@strain42]

HyperBluster is my new band name

[@Overlai]

when i was a kid i thought the police 911 arcade cabinet was awesome. now i'm looking at it and hating the flashing.

[@HezJP]

Damn those scenes in Shinjuku and the station look spot on to real life lol 14:28

[@atrocity3010]

It's nice to see this unique game get some attention. I had a heck of a time getting the PAL PS2 version to work (doubly so because I'm American and only have NTSC TVs). Once it's set up it's fun to play and appreciate the fact that it all kinda works (only with a very specific model of webcam). It's also nice to play a decent console Time Crisis-style game that isn't Time Crisis - there aren't a whole lot of them out there. I got a chance to play the Japan-only sequel Keisatsukan 2 at an arcade in Akihabara last year. Sadly I only found this arcade on my last full day in Japan so I only got to play it once. Still I was impressed by how well the camera tracking worked - much better than the janky PS2 implementation seen here.

[@jaypostromboli-jpgamertv-457]

The Keisatsukan 2 came out in the US as well, as Police 911 2. I remember playing it in an arcade years ago. I don’t think it got an EU release though.

[@atrocity3010]

@@jaypostromboli-jpgamertv-457 Oh ok, I didn't know that. I never heard of it so I thought it must've never left Japan.

[@diamondhamster4320]

OMG this type of game but entire game-room with soft-floors so you could Johan Wick around ang giant IMAX sized theater for a screen. Somebody needs to make it happen.

[@Eucheon]

Oh I remember playing the arcade version at a Six Flag amusement park back in '06 on a class trip. Didn't know about the port at all.

[@thrice1987]

It's a very cool concept that luckily could be replicated (and much improved) with current VR technology

[@marrow94]

So this video is actually longer than the game