Best IREM Arcade Games

[@DaedalosC9]

Irem had some of the most beautiful pixel artworks on videogame history

[@micahwendell]

00:33 IPM Invader 00:47 Head On 1:10 Space Beam 1:29 UniWar S 1:50 Red Alert 2:15 Moon Patrol 2:48 10 Yard Fight 3:20 Traverse USA 3:52 Tropical Angel 4:17 Kung Fu Master 4:48 Lode Runner 5:21 Wily Tower 6:06 The Battle Road 7:08 Horizon 7:36 Lot Lot 8:02 Spelunker 9:20 Kid Niki 10:00 Youjyuden 11:15 Spelunker 2 11:54 Battle Chopper 12:34 R-Type 13:20 Vigilante 14:05 Image Fight 14:43 Meikyuu Shima 15:30 Ninja Spirit 16:17 Dragon Breed 17:01 X Multiply 17:33 Legend of Hero Tonma 18:25 R -Type II 19:19 Air Duel 19:45 Major Title 20:27 Pound for Pound 20:50 Hammerin' Harry 21:35 Dynablaster 22:09 Blade Master 23:09 Cosmic Cop 23:41 Gunforce Battle Fire 24:14 Lethal Thunder 24:53 Lightning Swords 25:58 Hook 26:59 Mystic Riders 27:48 Bomberman World 28:35 Undercover Cops 29:45 Major Title 2 30:27 R-Type Leo 31:25 Air Assault 31:58 In The Hunt 32:33 Perfect Soldiers 33:02 Risky Challenge 33:37 Ninja Baseball 34:41 Dream Soccee '94 35:36 Gunforce 2

[@gilardes]

These guys are legends. Everything they did was a work of art and a pure labor of love.

[@paulduetfool]

These videos are so freaking cool. no lame voiceovers, no BS... just original gameplay with audio. Bravo.

[@rottree]

Please keep uploading this kind of post. As a huge fan of old game, I really enjoy watching your post. Thank you!

[@yazjes6436]

Temazo de entrada del juego R-type Arcade!! Infancia regresa!😢😢

[@chrislopez1918]

Irem had some great games in the 80's & 90's they were awesome

[@supercyborgtaikaininja8528]

que juegazos hizo IREM . soy un fan de esa compania .

[@adamwebb8114]

Always best in chronological order. Irem was huge in orchestrating the selection during the early NES years

[@Rompastompa71]

As a long time gamer, way back in the early 90`s, I always looked for games by Irem.They have always had the games I liked and it seemed like they gave Capcom some serious competition. I had no idea they made so many games and no to mention coin ops too. Great video.Keep them coming.You just earned a new subscriber.

[@KishorTwist]

I think Irem and it's immediately R-TYPE in my mind. I love the "gritty" visuals in Undercover Cops, In The Hunt, Cosmic Cop and Gunforce. Ninja Spirit into a modern action-rpg would be incredible!

[@Induna123]

Played a lot of these games in the arcade. Love the retro look with the scanlines. Great stuff

[@mcruded13]

Kung Fu Master really needs to come to Arcade Archives on the Switch..

[@JaimeSalcedoA_72]

Gun force 2 es como un Metal Slug, pero hecho por Irem. Una compañía de videojuegos realmente mítica. En su haber están algunos juegos legendarios como Kung-Fu Master, Vigilante, o R-Type, entre otros. ¡Excelente recopilación... Saludos!

[@GbrielValdez]

Los que hicieron Gun Force después se fueron de Irem y fundaron Nazca los que hicieron el primer Metal Slug

[@JaimeSalcedoA_72]

@@GbrielValdez ¡Gracias por el dato! Con razón se nota que tenía una apariencia y estilo gráfico muy similar... ¡Saludos!

[@daviddefortier5970]

In the hunt was one of my favourites back in the day. I never got to see ninja baseball or gunforce2.. wish i did

[@tynao2029]

IREM is one of the most influential game devs of all time

[@realgouken]

Fenomenal!! He jugado un buen de esos maravillosos juegos, de hecho, los sigo jugando ahora, tengo varios de ellos, no es nostalgia, es actualidad... Está en nosotros decidir eso.

[@fl00d69]

Phenomenal art style and animations on some of these games!

[@domdellamorte]

Your videos are fantastic. Well produced and to the point. Keep em coming.

[@el_benja]

Red Alert gave me anxiety every time I played it. The little nukes falling and total destruction at that age.

[@AReallyLongAndUnremakableUser]

Moon patrol was the first game ever to a have parallax scrolling background.

[@jaimericaldi8988]

Buenos juegos gracias por el aporte saludos desde Argentina

[@clmariano]

Kung Fu Master. My favorite game of all the times.

[@jackylee5850]

Irem is very influential in the Japanese game development industry. Without them, we wouldn't have Aicom and Yumekobo, which meant no Pulstar, Blazing Star, and Prehistoric Isle 2. There'd be no Nazca and no Metal Slug. These guys sure gets around They don't seem to understand the meaning of "easy", that's just not their development style. If an Irem game is easy, it means they've screwed up. A true Irem game has to make you want to rip your hair out in frustration

[@SeaToSkyImages]

Irem were always a master class of pixel/sprite work, but they really started to pull away, and become the best of the best in 1990.

[@cuclis]

Como compañía tal vez de las menos conocidas, pero con grandes clásicos en su catálogo. Y todos muy buenos.

[@sikeyimboyleisi]

IREM games are always one step ahead from the competition. Always going that extra mile

[@MEGAMIGA]

They released many killer shoot 'em ups

[@4h0w1e6]

IREM games all had excellent pixel artwork. Even all those early 80s shooters looked better than their competitors' games.

[@ShinyArjunSingh]

Nice one,Subscribed. Please keep it comin...

[@dnachistatrax1029]

Kung Fu / Vigilante & Ninja Spirit are my favorite Irem game's

[@theannoyedmrfloyd3998]

Simple Logic Itspopnotsodabitch *games - no apostrophe

[@miked4377]

irem is a great great company!! these games are awesome...i want all of them...original cabs amd all.....or at least a few...

[@miked4377]

ok one ..i would take spartan x and be happier than a pig in shit...

[@Theshark15z]

From the beginning it looks like IREM was just imitating Taito and Namco but didn't really start finding their identity until around the mid 80s. Irem was known for; Lode Runner, Kung Fu Master, the first of the beat em' up games, R-Type, Bomberman, Ninja Spirit, Image Fight, X-Multiply, Gunforce Battle and In The Hunt, which were precursors to Metal Slug.

[@MrXabungle]

It's crazy how the guys at Irem would branch off and create Metal Slug 1 to 3 then just disappear with scarce information on them.

[@omaewamoushindeiru5072]

Kung Fu master and Dragon Breed i love it

[@keefeeweefee.8714]

Love irem games especially the r type series and x multiply. Would love to see r type Leo on arcade archives one day as that’s one I’ve never played but it looks awesome.

[@gingataisen]

Best spritework in the industry, bar none.

[@user-zn7tj3xc7k]

Mythic kungfu warrior... Classic moon patrol... I played hammering harry a lot, too... Bomber man....

[@user-zn7tj3xc7k]

And the rtype too, obviously

[@evaangelina9545]

Ke tiempos akellos... otro mundo era en verdad.

[@AISICAO]

Awesome video, I love it!

[@MysticGargoyle]

I hope there will be some kind of Irem Collection for either the PS4 or the Switch

[@245-TRIOXIN]

There are Irem games on ps4. Can't believe they haven't put the Gunforce games and Kung-Fu Master on there yet though.

[@rudyz3534]

I think irem arcade collection is gonna be out on PS5

[@ajsingh4545]

I've already made a collection of arcade games on retropie 3 along with other consoles. No need to wait. Plus it in your TV, tinker with scanlines and aspect ratio, plug in a controller of your choice and you are good to go. It will take some effort to set up but the device only costs 100 soemthing with 128 gb sd card. Can't go wrong. All in one place. I'm just using this video to learn up other IREM games that I can add to the arcade collection on Retropie. haha

[@winnebagofaygo]

AJ Singh hey asshole, fuck your emulations. We want legit re-releases. I hate comments like yours. Developers see that shit and then figure what’s the point of doing a solid port if these jerks just download everything anyway. Keep that shit to yourself.

[@kbxthegamemaster06]

Me too man 😀

[@MANU11178]

La música del inicio precisamente es de un arcade de toaplan. Out Zone

[@isaiasgarcia3321]

Buenos juegos de irem de la epoca

[@huberttarnowski4980]

Nice compilation :)

[@kh7955]

Dragon breed needs a rerelease. Looks insane

[@mistercharalcorporation496]

Adiós vieja Irem Corp (1974-1994)

[@aronthunder010]

Gunforce el primer metal slug gracias por recordarmelo

[@ericabrew5295]

Yeah! Ninja Spirit!

[@samcoupe4608KB]

Some truly games there...

[@orlandeuce6567]

the originators of the METAL SLUG look

[@Teremei]

I've been using your videos to fill up my rom list for my atgames legends I have coming in. Thanks so much!!

[@Mugabe12341]

Those dream soccer.94 tackles 😭😭

[@noiselabproject9659]

nice, no nasty blocky digital pixels in this presentation but pixels with scanlines, bloom n shadow mask etc so it looks nice as it was on a CRT, when will youngsters who werent there learn that their hipster pixel art games arent retro really and just look shite

[@snkneo-geo933]

These old arcade games got more appeal to me than my Series X game's!!!

[@allubis8950]

These games were so underrated, I love them so much.

[@Sam-Lawry]

R-type 1-2-Leo...In the hunt..Cosmic cops.. Some real greatest classics. (If someone knows where I can have Troubles witches neo and King of fighters 2002 U.M on Xbox360..they are not available...thanks).

[@DeadGreen1]

En mi país, eran raras las arcades, la envia que le tengo por haber jugado muchos buenos juegos.

[@chilly6470]

R-type Delta is my favourite game....... It took ideas from X Multiply and perfected them

[@BigRico.]

Wow, nice job thanks!!

[@Krystalmyth]

15:27 People sleeping on Ninja Spirit. If you haven't played this game you really need to. This player is doing a terrible job showing it off. Has four unique weapons with 8-Way directional weapons you can switch to at all times. You can throw or set the dynamite, throw ninja stars (with clones for full screen spammage) spin the grappling hook around the entire screen, or swing upward and stab through the floorboards with the sword. All in realtime.

[@LiquidDIO]

Agreed, a definite gem.

[@DrunkJester]

Does anyone remember a arcade game Ninja Spirit it was also on the Amstrad,commodore 64 and amiga a side scrolling action game.

[@Gambit771]

One of the few games I was able to complete on the Amstrad.

[@Renzo-cn4zw]

34:49 dream soccer 94 was basically the 90s arcade version of Red Card by midway i see a soccer player using the liu kang flying kick

[@245-TRIOXIN]

Kung-fu Master needs to be released on console. And the Gunforce games.

[@sobesons]

Muy currado.

[@daniel18gamerdw]

I had absolutely NO idea that Hammerin' Harry was a IREM game

[@김연권-f2j]

a company with excellent dot graphics

[@user-yu2fv1zn4v]

los juegos Shoot 'em up de esta compania si que eran DIFICILES

[@TROldSchoolGamer]

Irem siempre presumió de tener los juegos más difíciles, un traga cinco duros que no veas xD

[@AdamJ617]

The games from before the late 80s, or at least a good chunk of them were notorious for the ‘5’ character being condensed.

[@F72762]

Some of these games remember me of the design art of Metal Slug, even some sounds are the same. Like in 28:28, 31:55 and 35:30.

[@Krockman0]

Irem 2 years later become Nazca Corporation... the same team has build Metal Slug. In Metal Slug 2 Nazca was purchased by SNK. So Yes. Irem is the same team as Metal Slug.

[@АхилесЭакидов]

Начиная с момента, когда в видео показывают вторую половину 1980ых - столько знакомого и приятного!

[@ссыкушкаРокси]

да вот это время было.....пиво натуральное,пизды небритые.кайф

[@chengaev]

Сильно удивлен, что такая сравнительно малоизвестная контора делала столько знаменитых хитов.

[@АхилесЭакидов]

Это да - из тех времён обычно вспоминается Капком, Конами, Сега и масса других, а не Айрэм, но тут уж как говорится - птичка по зёрнышку клюёт!

[@OfficialTruDru]

I like Irem Games miss it.

[@georgeangelis5831]

Major Title@19:55...I see where SNK got their idea for Neo Turf Masters

[@excelsiumesportdireitodesp4420]

how many videogame brands your youtube page remembers me - Jaleco Corp, LJN rainbow symbol, corp Acclaim, Brøderbund (Prince of Persia) becomes Irem Corp

[@pablorios3826]

Ninja Spirit best game ever!!!

[@x-crisis]

Battle Chopper must have been the inspiration for Psygnosis Blood Money

[@csairbrushartwork]

That and a bit of R type

[@andyc.564]

I just got this IREM Uni wars videogame on a cocktail arcade machine, do you guys know if all the motherboard none jamma are comparable for the pre 1985 era ? Great video !

[@AR-xd3dp]

How many versions of Lode Runner did these guys make

[@johnconnor5725]

Cómo se llama el parámetro de MAME para que los pixels dejen rastro de luz?

[@TROldSchoolGamer]

Creo que son 2: halation amplitude y halation blur width

[@johnconnor5725]

@@TROldSchoolGamer Ok, muchas gracias!. Y hay alguno más que creas que valga la pena?

[@RockAngelOfficial]

Yo nunca jugue títulos de IREM (sólo jugué CPS1 CPS2 CPS3 NEOGEO y MIDWAY) pero varios de esos juegos se ven geniales, y los jugare en algun emulador.

[@rockoorbe2002]

17:16 I've never played this game but i kinda want to because it looks like a R-Type/Gradius hybrid.

[@captaincommando2602]

The most iconic game of the company: R-TYPE.

[@axilmar254]

And the best side scroller shootemup ever. Graphics, sound and gameplay matching perfectly. I still occasionally sing the r-type tunes (along with puffin's of course).

[@hardcoredelta]

Would love to see a irem anniversary physical disc with the majority of these games on the ps4..

[@Craudio171]

Undercover Cops is inspired in a manga?

[@Alienboi2005vidsandstuff]

0:00 I bet R-type is on the list 12:32 KNEW IT!

[@bam220052005]

how to get these games working cant seem to play any of them great video by the way

[@masseffect7442]

can you tell me what is your mame config...shaders..etc? thank you

[@edgarhh6845]

Wow nunca pensé que hayan sacado un juego de fútbol

[@mohill1003]

And a lot of great clones of games I never knew existed

[@emanuelminer5824]

amigo, como pongo los bordes desenfocados esos que usas de overlay?? para que aparezca el mismo juego pero desenfocado en los bordes...

[@mistercharalcorporation496]

Porque no haces uno de Way Forward Technologies desde sus primeros juegos

[@vash2086]

El Lode Runner tiene mas versiones que el Street Fighter 2 XD

[@MrRockfish01]

What shader are you using, looks really good 👍🏻

[@TROldSchoolGamer]

Video Mode: BGFX; crt-geom deluxe (delta 2_4x2) and also sometimes HLSL GLSL

[@Krystalmyth]

CRT-Geom is literally the only shader anyone should ever need.

[@condor.67]

beautiful =]

[@ronjeremy992]

Not sure if you'd be able to help me out on this. But I can't think of the title of the arcade game. It was probably early 90's and in this video game I think the character might've resembled the captain that's always after Lela in Future Rama. So in the game the character would hop (I don't recall it being running) and their would be different areas to explore but you had to I think blow up a certain amount of bombs or fridge looking items to beat the level. Every few levels & you'd fight a boss. And I think his weopon was some sort of gun. That's all I can recall. I've stood in front of a mame arcade going through the alphabet and couldn't find it. Please help or am I crazy and made it up in my head 😥😪😓😭

[@jamesburchill7522]

Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum. It was an NES game.

[@Santiago.M.A.]

Hola, ¿qué shader utilizas? Se ve muy bien.

[@GarthTheDestroyer]

32:57 MELT DOWN WINS Melt Down: "FUCK!!"

[@MechaFenris]

MOON PATROL :) Sorry, I'm a year late.

[@matthewb9955]

Could have made due with 1 game from each series, I'm at 15 minutes and already there have been 4 versions of Lode Runner.

[@user-yu2fv1zn4v]

Undercover Cops Estara inspirado en street of rage

[@GbrielValdez]

Undercover cops tiene estética cyberpunk nada que ver con street of rage

[@Yantryman]

SNES mini here i come!