The Unreleased Arcades of Atari Games, 1985-2000

[@Kim_Justice]

Have you managed to play any of these in MAME or elsewhere? Have a shout about it in the comments, and thanks for watching. :)

[@tarstarkusz]

The game at 19:03 is known as electronia on the GP32 and GP2X and Wiz handheld gaming systems. Great game. It is extremely similar to what is shown here. It's a bit like tetris where you connect an electric outlet on one side to a lightbulb on the other.

[@n64ra]

Primal Rage 2 at Galloping Ghost 😊

[@thelefttechcat]

i've got a rom of Air Race i think Its broken AF though

[@johnparker007]

One of the only youtubers where I do my like in advance to ensure I don't forget, always top tier retro content Kim :)

[@DarthcrackbabY]

Back in 1997 i played Twisted Metal. That game gave me a memory unlocked. I knew i saw Metal Maniax way back in my preteen years. The game soon disappeared from that downtown Los Angeles arcade a week later. The memory was very foggy at best.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Primal Rage 2 is pretty fun despite not playing as the dinosaurs. From the interview I saw, Midway didn’t want this competing with their latest Mortal Kombat and so it was shelved.

[@jonbourgoin182]

Greg, fancy seeing you here! Love your channel!

[@GregsGameRoom]

@@jonbourgoin182 - Thanks Jon. :D

[@THENAMEISQUICKMAN]

You do at least get three option for the characters, although the latter two are hidden - you can play as the Avatars that transform into the dinosaurs during Super Combos, you can play as the dinosaurs and transform into the Avatars during Super Combos, or you can pick a third variation which removes your ability to use Supers at all but lets you freely transform on command.

[@billybollockhead5628]

I remember seeing that police training cabinet on some news thing (or maybe tomorrows world) once. I remember that exact cabinet being shown, and the driver being asked to drive around safely while eating a bag of crisps, drinking a bottle of soda (which was rigged to explode), etc etc... Then repeat after a booze up.. Either that, or it was a fever dream.

[@gmo6854]

The amount of care and knowledge behind these docs is genuinely mind blowing 👏

[@thegaminghellyoutubething]

would highly recommend chris tang's 2018 gdc talk about primal rage ii, there's a lot of behind-the-scenes info and he tells the story of a cancelled game in a charming and funny way, plus he also mentions a few things about other cancelled atari fighting games like cyber storm (it might've been the first fighting game with a combo counter!) and tenth degree, plus it talks about how heartening it was for him to see the game preserved and showcased at galloping ghost arcade, it's the prime source for primal rage ii info also, again, the connection between the e.t. game and the gremlins game appears to be based entirely on an atariage post that merely speculates with no evidence, is there any source on this?

[@Kim_Justice]

I swear that I've seen info about the E.T. and Gremlins games being connected that wasn't purely a forum post, but at the moment I just can't seem to find it anywhere :/ I'm now fearing this is a case of projection based on similarites between Gremlins and what the E.T arcade game was supposed to be.

[@thegaminghellyoutubething]

@@Kim_Justice thank you for your reply, it can happen, which is why i always err on the side of caution! measure twice, cut once or something like that~ butfor real check out that chris tang gdc talk, one of my all-time favourites

[@sheets75]

Guts and Glory reminds me of an arcade take on Beach Head. Basing a game on the IK games strikes me as curious for an American company because I don't remember those games leaving much of an impression in the U.S. compared to Europe.

[@Debagio]

Fabulous! Thank you for continuing to supply top quality retro content, Kim. ❤

[@BenGoodsonModular]

Ataris weird fish obsession needs to be discussed.

[@gaminglakitu]

Another great video Kim! Hopefully we can see other companies have their unreleased titles get covered as well. I would love to see a Canceled Sega Arcades video if that is a possibility

[@ThePerradox]

To call this video meaty wouldn't be close to enough. thanks a lot Kim!

[@siege-79]

Excellent video! You never fail to provide the quality content 😊

[@BURRITO44]

Great video !! You are so detailed !!!

[@Marathon_Gaming]

Ah man would have loved a Beavis and butthead arcade beat em up 🤩

[@YokiBrewster]

Its been a while seeing a kim justice video on my feed. But looks like I got a video to save for my holiday/nostalgic binge this month 🥰🥰🥰

[@tarstarkusz]

19:03 This is one of my favorite games on the GP32 and GP2X known as Electronia. There are a few videos of the game in play on youtube.

[@exidy-yt]

Hehe, I still have a First Edition GP2X tucked away in my closet. It was a very impressive emulation machine for the time, I couldn't OC mine all the way to 333MHz so it couldn't quite pull off PSX games but everything else was good. I should bust it out and see if it still is working.

[@tarstarkusz]

@@exidy-yt Mine won't go over 220mhz. Though gp32x website is gone, the software is archived on a site called openhandhelds Full archive of the gp32, the gp2x, the wiz, caanoo, pandora and the dingoo digital a320.

[@tarstarkusz]

@@exidy-yt Are you sure you have the GP2X and not the GP2XWiz? I am unaware of any GP2X going to 300, let alone 333. The GP2XWiz will go that high. Mine won't go over 220mhz. Though gp32x is gone, the software is archived. Full archive of the gp32, the gp2x, the gp2xwiz, caanoo, pandora and the dingoo digital a320.

[@exidy-yt]

@@tarstarkusz Definately a GP2X. Complete with 'first edition' sticker. I certainly got the numbers wrong then, it must have been 233MHz that some units could max-overclock to but mine wouldn't go the full way without crashing, It was likely comperable to yours. Sorry for the confusion! It's been a long time.

[@billybollockhead5628]

Just tried Dr Sparkz. Even with the dip switches set to easy and the cabinet set to easy, and with infinite continues.. i cant get past the right shoulder pad... shame i wanna see what the robot does. It's ROCK hard! The speed up on it is insanity!

[@barryschalkwijk9388]

A fresh Kimmie vid! Air race looks mindblowingly better then hard driving though. that artstyle is gorgeous.

[@barry-allenthe-flash8396]

Hard Drivin' Airborne strikes me as particularly interesting thanks to Rush 2049. Why was NO ONE else interested in flying cars besides Atari? I mean, I'm glad they eventually got around to making a game based on that with Rush, but dang.... I feel like there should be at least a HANDFUL of racing/flight game attempts out there, not just from Atari. It's such a good idea!

[@Nov-5062]

Beat Head could've been a timeless classic

[@Imgema]

The later digitized fighting games like Primal Rage 2 looked great to me because they used a lot of animation frames. Shame they vanished completely.

[@big_ry82]

Addicted to Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Came to bed, first game watched is Indy. I can't get away.

[@WilliamBurns-ip9bn]

Sparkz looks a lot like Gorby's Pipeline on the Famicom.

[@EpicallyCasual]

I may sometimes forget to comment and like, but I never forget to watch :)

[@MikeStavola]

I played the AMOS system before. It was really neat.

[@discountfeces]

that looks like so much fun. we used to have a race driven arcade at a corner store when i was really little. I really want to try it again someday now that i actually know how to use a clutch

[@mightyfilm]

If "Fishing Frenzy" feels like it should be a ticket redemption game, well, that's because there is a similar game with a similar title that actually is a ticket game. Difference is, it's completely simplified for little kids, with a cartoony style and cheaper looking graphics. It looks to have been made sometime in the 00's. I want to say it was produced by ICE, which basically is in the business of making kiddy ticket games like that. There's one at a beachside arcade several towns over that's on its way out.

[@ChrisHopkinsBass]

At least Indy didn’t have to rescue the Sin Cara stones!

[@WhatHoSnorkers]

Superb work!

[@stevensgoodallsg]

Great vid Kim

[@LuckyPunkProd]

Dr. Sparkz' Lab looked very similar to Taito's "Tube-It", a.k.a. "Cachat", in that it had practically the same concept.

[@majinbrawly81]

"Ahtawii"? Kidding aside nice vid

[@RolandoRatas]

Damn I never knew there was a third in the International Karate series planned.

[@gmo6854]

Fantastic work

[@orderofmagnitude-TPATP]

Brilliant topic continuation! Great timin too as

[@weebnerdgaming4908]

For Freeze Puyo Puyo made waves and inspired many of its clones. Not its color-matching chaining play specifically, per se, but puzzle fighting games where the better you perform, the more junk you can send to your opponent. So it wasn't a bad idea for Atari to capitalize this market at the time.

[@XenonXyanide]

'Hard Drivin' Airborne' had a well-used/battered cabinet in 'Wet n' Wild', an indoor water park which is located at North Shields within the UK. Absolutely, 100% sure of this, because I played it in 1998 during an Xmas School trip. I remember the metal floor in the cabinet being sticky, from all the soft drinks being spilt on it, and the sticky steering wheel. 50p a go, played it twice, and didn't like it due to the sluggish controls. But, it stuck with me because it's the only place I have seen or heard of it, until watching this video and memories came back. I wonder why that place had it, over my local arcades? Really strange how these things work out.

[@libman2006]

"Up to 3 players can roll their balls around on the cabinet at the same time" lol

[@_The_Jim]

Cracking video kj

[@jasonrockley3724]

Cheers Kim.

[@Roger-fs5yo]

You can play that Beavis and Butthead cabinet at the Galloping Ghost up in Chicago. To everybody's knowledge it's the only cabinet of it to exist. They also have an original cabinet of that primal rage 2💁‍♂️

[@neat3468]

32:01 Freeze reminds me so much of Pang3 graphics

[@cabbitkisser2620]

i remember seeing primal rage 2 years ago in the arcades. it would been nice if the game came out to the home console

[@ShadowbannedSounds]

When games like Pit Fighter first hit the arcades I was mesmerized, but boy did that gimmick age badly. Still , I do have soft spot for them. Ambitious for the time.

[@elphive42]

You mentioned a Laserdisc shooting game being distributed with the AGC Mobile Operations Simulator. Any chance that might share some footage with Atari’s COPS, a Laserdisc shooting & driving game from 1994?

[@evanhanley6437]

Primal Rage 2 looked really cool.

[@gmo6854]

Love the gremlins car that can only turn 90 degrees

[@miaouew]

I'm glad Primal Rage 2 never came out. Looks like Clayfighter, looks absolutely ridiculous. They could have made an even more awesome dinosaur game with new dinos and they went with THIS?!

[@billybollockhead5628]

Hard Drivin' Airborn? Just when i think i know loads about everything Atari (as an ex-employee of them), something comes along that i'd never heard of.. Thanks!

[@Mrshoujo]

Which of these have MAME accessible ROMs?

[@ricksanchez6538]

Cool as always

[@ThunderFist1978]

I was about to express surprise that you didn't mention the laserdisc version of Road Runner, which only one prototype is known to exist of, and which I always thought was an Atari Games release, but I just now learned that it was Atari, not Atari Games, that worked on the laserdisc version.

[@therealobanir]

It was covered in the previous vid to this, 1976-1984.

[@duhmez]

These are nnot arcades. A burger is not a restaurnt. Arcade is a place. These are arcade games.

[@acertainshape]

Oh shut up.

[@Zontar82]

34:09 sorry but I disagree, in 1996 there were still bangers of fighters in 2d, mk 3, ssf turbo, the alpha series, the snk fightewrs (kof fatal fury etc)

[@redmercer4158]

Cyber Storm is basically Bloodstorm Without Blood

[@doozeruk2000]

ACG Mobile operations simulator for US police training is such a funny revelation... I'd guess now they just use GTA 5 😬

[@mehere3013]

pitty there wasn't a book on arcade games , and all the cancelled games

[@asparagustrevor]

There's one way in which Vicious Circle was better than Killer Instinct - KI didn't have any characters named 'Bolok'

[@lilliputmoss]

Hadn't heard of the majority of these, I ditched MAME for Final Burn so long ago.. might need to boot it up for some.

[@General-RADIX]

I wonder if Tenth Degree could've paid off for Atari, whether as an arcade game or ported to the Dreamcast and/or PS2. (Singling that one out as it reminds me of Dead or Alive 2 in some respects.)

[@fakkel321]

I know alot dont like Pitfighter :D but i loved every fighting game i had on the amiga and pitfighter was one of them. Played it alot vs my friend.

[@sheets75]

My friends and I loved Pit Fighter just for how grungy and exploitative it was. Leaving aside what you think of the gameplay, there's something utterly hilarious about trying to translate an underground fighting league, complete with hookers and guys in gimp suits, to a video game. It's the sort of thing you don't really see anymore because the industry developed aspirations of dull respectability.

[@fakkel321]

@@sheets75 I love it. Its so over the top "Like many 90's B movies" and i agree now we only have polished political correct media sadly.

[@ToadSong-oq8yp]

BOLOK? best character name since Hoar from Teras Kasi right there

[@jeremyhall2727]

I wanted the butt head one so bad 😢

[@gigteevee6118]

I was exited to discover there was a playable sequel to Marble Madness…until you showed the truth 😢

[@therealobanir]

As a multi player game, it's decent. But as single player effort, it just doesn't stand up to the original.

[@mjdf122]

Next video you make/review on the Kim Justice Kings Road Wrestling channel since you did JWP Thunder Queen Battle in Yokohama 1/I may you please make/review the JWP Thunder Queen Battle in Yokohama 2/II I appreciate you I’ve seen and have all in gaming and wrestling from 1980-Now what a life throughout the decades

[@justsignmeup911]

I've got to side with the stingy bosses. The only game that I think would make money is the Beavis and Butthead game.

[@JackTheGamer3]

It took me 2 days to fine this

[@ethelchip3620]

I'm most interested in gremlins, AMC mobile operations simulator and hot rod rebels. Dump them all!!

[@patrickbaker9870]

I like how the game play for the 3d streey racer, has the car going all over the place. Cause thats what is was like playing it. So nails hard and frustrating to control. They looked like they were from the future of gaming, which made the awful experience of actually playing them, that much more miserable. Same for dragons lair and that hologram "game"

[@antusFireNova]

Is it just me or is the indiana jones game very similar to one of the NES games?

[@Kim_Justice]

There was a version of Temple of Doom for the NES which I think is very similar, although the stage layouts are different.

[@nightbeast8105]

Atari was such a mismanaged company after Warner took over. The 8-bit computers were years ahead of everything at the time and wasted (a 5200 could have been done in 1979 for example) older siblings to the Amiga no less. Looking at those late racing games towards the end though, why didn't they do another Pole Position using that tech? you'd think it was a no Brainer.

[@barryschalkwijk9388]

I miss Uniracers :( fucking lawsuits.

[@heavysystemsinc.]

Dr. Sparkz is too hard to understand? Are you sure they didn't get a cease and desist from Taito for ripping off their game? Or did Sparkz come out before Cachat/Tube-It, which was 1993? Taito at the time would've been the larger company as Atari Games was pretty shoestring at this point comparitively.

[@WilliamBurns-ip9bn]

Takuma Shoten's Gorby's Pipeline came out two years earlier with identical gameplay.

[@1sinister80]

Atarwi parewent company brwoke up? How sad.

[@TheRealJPhillips]

Damn, Atari was paying ppl to develop straight TRASH. 😩

[@Boogie_the_cat]

Vicious Circle is the 90's in a nutshell. I can't imagine that instead of hitsparks, having the entire screen flash would have tested well with epileptics. The best Beavis and Butthead documentary (featuring copius Mike Judge) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qmrCqJdpZsuNl5Ysi=97mQ-zlE2vZfiK80 Also, a great bit where those involved in MTV talk about the location testing they did with small screenings of episodes: "too long, didn't watch" = the guys loved it, but the hirls hated it, except in New Jersey where the girls also loved it. 😂 Freeze looks super cute.

[@wingedyoshi]

Holy crap I didn't realize Hard Drivin' Airborne and Danger Express were unreleased. I played them at California Extreme.