Undercover Cops - Rosa 1CC

Warning: This game is loud. Maybe I should have lowered the volume in the video editor.
Title: 0:00
Stage 1: 0:16
Stage 2: 3:09
Stage 3: 9:27
Stage 4: 14:35
Stage 5: 21:28
Ending: 40:05
Undercover Cops is a beat em' up from IREM, in particular from several of the same developers who went on to make Metal Slug. You might be able to tell since the pixel work is so good (as is the soundtrack). The game itself is pretty good too, just make sure to avoid the World version. They removed a bunch of attacks and made lots of other needless changes, so it's best to stick with the Japanese version.
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Beat 'em Ups (e.g. Final Fight): • Beat 'em Ups
2D Action (e.g. Metal Slug): • 2D Action
STG/Shmups (e.g. Dodonpachi): • STG Replays

[@planetschlock]

"So what's your plan to infiltrate the gang, detective?" "Walk up to the first one I see, hit him with my hair and then wail on the rest with a big-ass stone pillar that I rip out of the ground." "A sound strategy. Personally, I would have thrown a flaming motorcycle at them, but I can see that you favor the subtle approach. "

[@kingsouther]

Just don't blow your undercover.

[@petershen8229]

Hahha, this comment is gold

[@takezokimura2571]

@@kingsouther To be fair you would never suspect the person to be a cop from this description.

[@Karthesios]

[applause.gif]

[@les907]

Being an undercover cop for her is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@Conan_the_Based]

Fight your way across the city, beating the crap out of every villain you meet. *U N D E R C O V E R*

[@jihgfdd6688]

If there's no one left to discover you you're still undercover

[@kathleendelcourt8136]

Irem's pixel art is legendary.

[@turdmania]

im an undercover cop and this is exactly what its like

[@Svoorhout85]

I thought it meant a cop tucked in bed.

[@dimitrisbam5640]

Loll

[@robertwildschwein7207]

Being an undercover cop means throwing around trucks and hitting people with steel beams and pillars and beating up a Terminator.

[@lightforlife6818]

XDDDDDDD

[@TheRealTHD]

Get you a girl that can lift an entire steel beam from the ground.

[@DesertRainReads]

Never mind the steal beam, she can lift an entire car like it was a feather. *lol*

[@JoaoLucasK]

@@DesertRainReads With one hand!

[@Patricio4Christ]

That's not good while she is in the fight. She makes a good demolition worker or a construction worker. It's amazing that the enemies get up after being hit by the steel beams.

[@alpapers1]

Forget the beam she picked up a truck and threw it.

[@elonmartin3294]

She's a chameleon

[@kitsunez]

Why is she undercover? how is she undercover? she sure as hell doesnt seem like she's undercover

[@ChrisCrazyHouse]

That’s how you went undercover in the 90s .

[@rdubayoo]

My guess is that the game was called something else in Japan and this is actually about post-apocalyptic vigilantes or something. Edit: Skipped to the end. Okay, nevermind, they are cops. They aren't undercover, they don't investigate anything, but they are deffo cops. Nothing is real. All is a lie.

[@radicalratretro]

" Oooops i forgot i should be undercover tehe. My bad, better get rid of anyone who noticed uwu " ~~ GRABS GIANT CONCRETE PILLAR AND STARTS SMASHING RANDOM CITIZEN ~~

[@willordordona5429]

She was undercover. lol Or was before she start grabbing that jeep to use as a Frisbee

[@peposo7]

The audio said ''Juicy Cops'' during the title screen.

[@Dav_g435]

I'd call this a hidden gem. It looks like an amazing beat em up yet this is the first time i've seen it.

[@willordordona5429]

Very few arcade have these I think Ive only seen it twice on all the 10 arcade joints I went to back as a kid

[@MarkWhich]

This really just another Renegade/Double Dragon clone, I wouldn't give it a gem for originally that's for sure.

[@masterkraft4746]

we had the arcade in a pub when I was a kid but I forgot the name and I've only found it now ... it is a great beat em up indeed

[@craineyfit8619]

I've legit never seen this game before

[@sdfghgtrew]

@@craineyfit8619 its on the snes too

[@pocoloco753]

I love how it doesn't matter if the enemy is a regular thug or the final boss, this chick can pick them up and slap the shit out of them regardless

[@Jamie-yp7qz]

Metal Slug: The Brawler

[@Zenith07]

More like Street Rage

[@HsienKoMeiLingFormerYANG]

The game likely cross between Zero Team and Vendetta.

[@democraticsocialist2634]

@@Zenith07 Streets of Rage is a copy of Final Fight :)

[@Zenith07]

@@democraticsocialist2634 i already know about that, tho Final fight wasnt as successful as Street of Rage which why theres so many old games of it, and kept branching on other platforms

[@gouravchakraborty9801]

@@democraticsocialist2634 And Final Fight is a copy of Double Dragon

[@BrazenScull]

Stretching the meaning of 'Undercover' a bit with this one.

[@hakeemclarkson6657]

i was gunna mention how she casually picks up the steel girder, but then she draws for the fish, and then picks up the car💎

[@andressigalat602]

"Don't worry, we've placed one of our agents deep undercover in the gang" "You mean the girl who is throwing steel girders and motorbikes at them? She's very good at blending in! I'm pretty sure they're never going to suspect of her being a cop." Leaving the not very fitting title out, this is a wonderful beat'em-up. A hidden gem I never saw in the arcades when I was young, and only knew years later thanks to MAME.

[@sdfghgtrew]

MAME is my GOD

[@NelsonWin]

Girl Power in the 90s. Such Manliness. 💪💪💪

[@kittytreats6536]

I like that the first boss is just a Terminator 1 reference. This game also has the manliest "go right ->" arrow I've ever seen in a beat'm up.

[@EightOne01]

Parcs is Scrap spelled backwards. They reappear in the last stage, as they are called T-900.

[@PoloRossi]

Anyone else notice how demanding the player two slot is? “INSERT COIN, COME ON!”

[@tubbiele2]

No, I figure I am desensitized

[@tubbiele2]

@Fearless Composer could be other factors, though. Like I haven't watched the video in full screen. But I noticed years ago that that "insert coin" messages were kind of insistent, but I never noticed them before. Perhaps it's that I grew up with that video games

[@ProtonCannon]

*THE MOLEMEN!* Damn, I forgot the time when games were just pure nonsensical fun where the "GO" icon arrow gets squeezed into dust by a fist just to show badass of a game this is.

[@Renegaiden_]

I haven't even heard of this game before, but It only took 2 minutes and 45 seconds for me to love what I have seen and heard so far.

[@NelsonWin]

Now, you have the look of a man. 💪

[@sonnychiba3468]

Wow! This brings back memories. Used to play this in my malls arcade back in the day with my brother. Good to see the classics again 😎👍

[@EightOne01]

Fun fact: Rosa is an ex-vigilante (reference to Vigilante), and her partner and lover, Tomas is a nod to Kung-Fu Master. Also, the way the police van moves in the ending is a reference to Moon Partol.

[@Gamepersonality]

What a game! Very impressed by it: the polish, the depth, the fun! How come I've never heard of this until this moment? Will play, for sure!

[@rappscallion3238]

Love how some mobs drop entire complete meals, including the plate when defeated.

[@segare-trop-vieux3932]

The sand explosion looks like a neogeo game. Really good !

[@Neetso]

Even if less cartoonish, you can definitely tell it has some Metal Slug vibes right from the start! Lol

[@hunterbasetv8338]

The King of Beat and Up´s! This games is awesome!

[@vanitymirrorss]

As refreshing as it is to have Rosa look as dingy and dirty as the rest of the world and other characters, deep down I wish she had one of them outrageous skimpy 90s beat em up outfits as an alt or something. I also love IREM, In The Hunt is one I really dig. Their artist was amazing and I'm glad they went on to Metal Slug. I also love these post apoc/cyberpunk beat em ups the most, they always feel like an old 1988-1992 anime OVA.

[@PLATOON72]

Lifting a steel beam from the ground: reference to Kenshiro vs Kobra Father. I wonder how many videogames and animes were influenced by Hokuto No Ken...

[@broadbandislife]

'Round that timeframe? *Very* many.

[@rogerhirasawa8072]

wow this game is amazing. I really didn't know about this game, I love that post apocalyptic atmosphere. excellent video. I will play Undercover Cops right now.

[@elonmartin3294]

I need a woman on my team like her

[@neogeo1159]

the way she uses her hair to fight, reminds me of sindel

[@sephytcd8349]

I WATCHED LIKE 1 MINUTE OF THIS GAME IVE NEVER HEARD OF AND ITS SOOOOO COOOOL

[@Phucketmcsucket]

Imagine having to write a police report detailing how you got ambushed by a gang of mole themed thugs who burrowed up from the ground and kicked them so hard they exploded.

[@mistercharalcorporation496]

Thank You Nazca Corporation!!!.

[@quesocoatl21]

This game is literally Metal Slug's graphic style combined with Streets of Rage's gameplay.

[@hngdman]

As the description of the video says, it was made by many of the people who developed Metal Slug a few years later. If you want to see Metal Slug before Metal Slug look up some videos from a game called GunForce 2.

[@PoloRossi]

hngdman Don’t forget In The Hunt!

[@fcukgogle9213]

Thank fk for KZbin, I had all but forgotten this gem of a game...

[@haomaru05samurai24]

I Love this Clasics Arcade Games Beat n Up,90's is a dream see this art ii 😍

[@SinOfAugust]

This beatemup has the most ridiculous weapons of them all. MAGNIFICENT!

[@Clovershroom]

There's also the Alpha Renewal Version, a very rare version of this game that fixes the issues the World/US version has.

[@TalkSickMass]

It's just the Japanese version in English.

[@surenotejas3163]

I remember she was a redhead

[@nolanhistory77]

Nip slip when the hopping girl enemies hit the ground.

[@andressigalat602]

Yeah, the female enemies in this game are a walking (well, hopping) nip slip. That seems pretty risque for an arcade game back then. But I noticed that they changed it for the SNES port, no nip slips there.

[@kazuhirala]

I honestly thought this was some new indie game ready for me to purchase on my Switch

[@SkyknightMu]

Wait for Hamster to get to it.

[@Humstuck]

damn, this art style looks dope.

[@marcar9marcar972]

I was about to saying dressing as a martial artist isn’t a good cover but then I realized they were trying to join a martial artes based gang so it was actually a genius level play. It’s like they wrote the book on being an undercover cop

[@-RAZALAS-]

And we didn't have a sequel of this awesome game because...? I still wonder why.

[@willordordona5429]

It got bogged down by other arcade games. This is fun but I dont think its going to hold up with tmnt and simpsons. For one the first Boss will fling you to that trash compactor and no matter how good you are at the buttons you have 90% of escaping provided you know what it is but for first time players they tend to die there...a lot Still I like this game that I also want a sequel or a remake

[@tubbiele2]

@@willordordona5429 Irem made quite demanding games, I guess. But I can't generalize, I'm not expert

[@theedwardian]

Many amazing arcade games were developed and lost to time. It was hard for them to get popular since they were expensive and usually the people who could afford to buy Arcade Cabinets weren't willing to risk a lesser known title over a guaruteed money-maker like Street Fighter II or something

[@rollinlikebuer9059]

It was released after the decline point of the genre. The beat-em-up craze started in 1987 with the release of Double Dragon, soon followed by other hits like Golden Axe and Final Fight. In 1991 Street Fighter 2 dropped. Mortal Kombat came out a year later. By the time this was released fighting game tastes had largely shifted toward toward the "tournament" style fighting games. With strong competition in its own genre from licensed cabinets like X-Men or The Simpsons (and various Japanese favorites like Eight-Man) it was easy to overlook. Undercover cops is quality stuff, but it lacks familiar, beloved characters or a real stand out, first-of-its-kind gimmick. Irem only had 2 or 3 big arcade games left in it before it hit some bad years. Irem never returned to being an arcade superpower or A-List console developer. In the mid 90's most of their best developers formed a new company, Nazca, who developed the popular Metal Slug series.

[@mmhmmmyearight7183]

They blew their cover 🥸

[@anubisawakened3250]

LOVED this game. You got your quarters worth!

[@SpinDoctor91]

*Picks up a whole Jeep* Seems legit LOL. Love this game

[@JoaoLucasK]

With one hand, no less

[@Luigi-xg7hx]

I love how she easily lift on a Pole or a Jeep and keep walking like nothing.

[@paulgibbon5991]

Not to mention destroy a steel door with just her butt!

[@ronaldjuvenile9329]

Dayyyum i remember playin this on arcade back when i was a kid..

[@paulskerritt5247]

When she pulled that steel beam out of the ground it reminds me of Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star.

[@kanzenchowa9868]

2:40 terminator 1 reference.

[@MrTrellheim]

I love it when a female character in a beat'em'up looks like she could tie a knot in a steel girder. 😍

[@israeloliveira2083]

01:11 Man no mercy against enemies... What!!! The size of this club 😝🤣

[@FloatingSunfish]

Yup, this is going in the Hidden Gems list for sure.

[@FreakyLynx]

Never heard of this before but it looks fantastic.

[@johnphilliptecson3793]

Hey guys it’s 20 days before Rosa Felmonde’s 1st Birthday guess predictions happen so fast aren’t they ?

[@minhha8981]

God dang!! The animation is fluent and smooth. What a stuff of legend here.

[@user-gi4nu4fk8s]

懐かしいなぁ。よくゲーセンでやっていたなぁ。

[@Beujah]

Mais il est trop stylé ce Beat Them all, j'en avais jamais entendu parlé !

[@ducktail4068]

Looks fun and faster than most beat em ups. Ost sounds good and the art style looks alot like metal slug

[@PinBBro]

This was actually one of the first games made by the team who would go on to Leave Irem and develop metal slug. They also worked on in the hunt, hook, Gunforce 2/Geostorm and the metal slug creator was a play tester for R-type 2!

[@derrickhaggard]

I loved this game.

[@aburamemarques]

Dude, I was searching for the name of this game for 20 years, and youtube just "is that your card" me. Very nice gameplay

[@broadbandislife]

If this is how _undercover_ cops operate in this presumable post-apoc shithole I'm frankly scared to think of what the uniformed ones are like... Probably make the Tank Police ("well Mayor I was thinking of issuing them nuclear weapons - if they can deter war they should deter street crime too right?") look restrained. Given the hilarious weirdness of this thing I have no difficulties believing these guys made the Metal Slugs.

[@skinmanikin]

awesome graphics

[@T-Bonez]

First time seeing this one thought for sure i've seen & played every beat'em up games guess I was wrong.

[@Zoulz666]

I was like woh, she's pulling entire frickin' stone pillars from the ground and using as a weapon. And then she picks up a car lol! And the jumping butt attack is kinda weird :P But this looks great though. I love the pixel art!

[@hikari67]

The food drop luck in this run dude !

[@jhonnynintendista4408]

Lembro da minha infância eterna saudade....

[@tattooeddragon]

I love how her signature move is spreading her legs to the camera.

[@nobodyknowsforsure]

Hol' up -- 1:21 So these homeboys out here just chilling under a flock of crows??? lmao lol lol Mack: "Hey Frank..." Frank: "What Mack..." Mack: "How bout we let some crows try to eat us and hide so we can surprise that b!tch??" Frank: "Hooo Weeee, I dunno, she might take a while Mack...what will we do then??" Mack: "Don't worry we'll be safe just like the other guys hiding earlier..." also Captain: "So you're going under cover to break up the criminal ring??" Her: "If by under cover you mean in broad daylight and break up as in murder...then yes...I'm totally doing that..."

[@TwesomE]

One of the Best distopian beat em ups,maybe the one!

[@ChuckPalomo]

Good ol' Irem

[@flightlesscoffeebirdboy9655]

First seconds of the selection screen, "You See Kapp"

[@JoaoLucasK]

Yoshi Cops

[@50percentGrey]

In the case that it's a female character being played, sounds more like "Here she comes!"

[@IAmVictoriousXD]

I Thought It Was Jessica

[@MrFreE3D]

Incredible.

[@shamaYahu8635]

The graphics are intense!

[@Thr33Sh33ts]

You can tell this was another predecessor to Metal Slug. If it were a beat em up. Irem knew their stuff!

[@iamgaijin88]

the predecessor of metal slug.

[@KickieB]

great music

[@felipev8927]

Great game !!!

[@yeahr2343]

埃っぽいイメージがいいな。 足に巻いてる砂除けの布憧れたわ～

[@venomfang8560]

Damn. I definitely missed out on this as a kid

[@jaimdiojtar]

20:45 hilarious death! i couldnt stop laughting

[@Regalert]

Stopped when she grabbed the car...

[@roughdude6575]

You know the game will be good when the female character is beating the enemy with headbutt and steel beams.

[@joansena3056]

I like how they add some metal slug sounds in .

[@aeixo2533]

Animation... so smooth...

[@amanloop]

Nice beater with IREM's trademark artwork of the era

[@GLEclipseGaming]

This game has some great graphics. Sorta looks metal slugish. A beat em up with metal slug graphics would be amazing.

[@kiki-eg5ef]

ファーストステージの導入までの曲の流れ、たまんねぇな

[@SkyknightMu]

Note that Moguralian Beta is saying “Sayonara!” and “Konnichiwa!” when burrowing and attacking after being knocked down. I think I yet prefer what I misheard those as, helped by the cauldron in the background: “Blood is power…Bloody Skewer!”.

[@cannonfodder4000]

Same team as Metal Slug before they moved to SNK

[@chumpyman]

Ive never heard of this game before but it looks fun.

[@ArcanaEnchanta]

My Favorite Character In This Game

[@fttommy]

Rosa is strong AF. Pulling out steel beams to beat people with... Jesus!

[@marcusbullock630]

2:15- that's the same lil chick that sometimes appears in metal slug as an item

[@zefizzypop5020]

Wow. An arcade game that rewards you for 1CCing? Thats awesome.

[@nikolairagnarov9979]

Rosa - must be a Nanto-Seiken succressor xD

[@BlackArroToons]

Irem made a fighting brawler game, cool! This looks like a fun, futuristic brawler. The character is very strong to be able to lift a car. Cyborg strength. Looks like a cool game, thanks.

[@EightOne01]

Don't forget Cross Blades!/Blade Master and Hook.

[@nimaiiikun]

call me crazy but it reminds me a lot of metal slug. the art, colors, etc.

[@hewhoshallnotbenamed8228]

This was my favorite game in the Arcade.

[@rageofheaven]

So she picked up what looks to be a 10 foot I-beam, and started swinging it around one handed? I'm not even going to discuss the damn stone pillar she yanked out of the ground, which for SOME REASON WAS INSIDE A PLANE INFLIGHT.

[@EightOne01]

The villain group D.A.S., is also the same group in _Air Duel, In The Hunt,_ and _GunForce II_ .

[@LunarAntic]

Wow "GUESSING COP" has really great audio for a 90s arcade bup