Arcade Longplay [065] Pulstar

[@RaymondTheSkyfishIncarnate]

Earth is almost flooded in Stage 1; its oceans and caves have been colonized by aliens in Stage 2; Jupiter was turned into a star in Stage 3; and Neptune had been blown into pieces in Stage 4. How depressing.

[@l1ghtd3m0n3]

Little known fact: Pulstar and Blazing Star were created by ex-IREM employees (it was confirmed) that we’re the maker of the original R-Type trilogy, so this is technically R-Type 4, just changed to not actually be R-Type since IREM still had/has the copyright on it. Blazing Star of course would be the 2D R-Type Delta considering the amount of ship options in Blazing Star itself plus the extra 3 ships in the R-9A Arrowhead, the R-9C Warhead, and the R-9ø Ragnarok.

[@paburo-san6667]

Just like Metal Slug who made by others ex-IREM employees but they made In The Hunt and Geo Storm

[@anthonywilson6611]

They also made viewpoint as well. Which is another outstanding shooter on this platform.

[@evanreppert8828]

Looks pretty cool, but boy oh boy they just did the bare minimum to avoid copyright infringement. This totally is R Type 4!

[@alienspacebat5218]

2:07 Stage 1 Frontier Station 5:21 Stage 2 Marine Cave 9:37 Stage 3 Solar Battleship 15:25 Stage 4 Spaceship Factory 20:15 Stage 5 Alien Forest 24:24 Stage 6 Organic Zone 28:51 Stage 7 The Many Moons 31:59 Final Stage The Hell Planet 39:24 Ending

[@Mkoberland]

For all those who say this game is an R-Type clone: The rumor is that after several employees who worked on this game left Irem, they worked on this one. So, there is going to be some similarities. I suppose this game could be considered an unofficial R-Type spinoff.

[@clyderadcliffe1536]

Unlike Nazca, which was formed by a bunch of pissed off ex-Irem employees; we'll never know if Aicom was the result of similar frustration. [e-mail]

[@Mkoberland]

Yeah, as I understand it, Pulstar was supposed to be R-Type 4. Irem scrapped the project, and the team took the work that they had already done and made it into this game.

[@alienspacebat5218]

clyde radcliffe I believe Aicom broke off with the support of Jaleco but they ended up bought out by Sammy. Still, these guys lasted 12 years (1988 to 2000).

[@TheBronzeDog]

Thanks for the explanation. I figured there had to be a reason for all the similarities.

[@Alienboi2005vidsandstuff]

I say it is a Gradius ripoff

[@nicolasfragapane1511]

Pulstar & blazing star are extraordinary games!!!!!

[@RetroRob360]

Viewpoint is also a great Neo Geo shoot 'em up!

[@humansrants1694]

Ya I'm hoping for Viewpoint to arrive on the Nintendo Switch.

[@NathanJennings1222]

Pulstar is the tougher of the two, but Blazing Star has that annoying "BONUS!"

[@agreedboarart3188]

​@@RetroRob360 Eh...

[@940racer]

Wow after 23 yrs i finally found the game i used to play as a kid in El Salvador , my family moved to the US, in 1995 i was 11 yrs old , after several years i tried to find the game but i didnt remember the name of the game and internet wasnt available for me at that time so no luck lol to make the story short i continued looking and once again no luck 🙄so today april 11th 2019 i decided to google arcade games from the 90's lol and i went thought a ton and BINGO ! Took me literally 24 yrs 😱but i got it ! Thank you very much to to person that took his time to upload this vid 👍👍

[@ryzmaker11]

the level of details is fantastic! watching this game is a real pleasure...

[@soldatmariano]

And playing os a true nightmare !

[@Bloodreign1]

One of my absolute favorites shmups on the old Neo Geo, along with Blazing Star. Two games that absolutely pushed you to learn them, so that you could improve and beat them, which I've never done to this day.

[@santhaignergameplay9455]

40:36 Kaoru Yamazaki: Don't wake me up now, I haven't rested yet. Naomi Yamazaki: It's been 3 years since you've been sleeping. Background alert sound: You fail it , You fail it, You fail it, You fail it, You fail it ,You fail it, You fail it, ... (Note: in Blazing Star Naomi is missing, this was just a joke to make it clear.)

[@hypemugen]

jeez, when i was 7 years old, i remember playing this in an arcade machine, I would get so sad when the continue screen came up. I was like: nooo!! I need a coin or else she's gonna die!! DX

[@VarthRock]

The music is the best thing in this game.

[@radagastaddams3703]

at the end that devil face/hermit crab combo sure blew up big time. amazing enemy designs & epic music.

[@paulolameiras861]

Best R-Type clone. This game looked incredible for 16bit standards!

[@guaxinimsabotador8643]

24 bits

[@paburo-san6667]

@@guaxinimsabotador8643 32

[@erza2399]

​@@paburo-san6667 64

[@anthonywilson6611]

It looks super easy when someone else is playing, right?! Until you pop in a quarter and 45 seconds later, you get a game over screen. This is one of the hardest shooters I've ever played. And ive played Gofer No Yabou on the X68000. Fantastic game though. The way it looks and sounds, ill never get over it. Top tier stuff right here.

[@darrenclements6028]

Pulstar is legendary with ABSOLUTELY AWESOME graphics and STUNNING gameplay

[@worsethanhitlerpt.2539]

I dont like the way the graphics are presented but the number of colors is amazing shit

[@MNanme1z4xs]

makes no mistake this game was wicked hard

[@MeatMaggot]

One of the very few games with CGI rendered graphics (although there's still more than enough hand-drawn spritework in the game), that actually looked (and still look) GOOD.

[@TimelordR]

Congratulations on surviving that heinous mission!

[@mikeyjames3065]

Pulstar was so awesome. I too I remember reading in Die Hard GameFan and other places that Pulstar was going to be R-Type 4. The sequel, Blazing Star, was also developed by Aicom but under a different name, Yumekobo. Although the gameplay was much faster paced than R-Type and Pulstar. Interestingly, Blazing Star's development name was "Pulstar Blast". Also, for those that haven't played it or heard of if, LAST RESORT on Neo Geo has a lot of graphical similarities to R-Type II. I wouldn't be surprised at all if some of the Irem staff that worked on R-Type II also worked on Last Resort at SNK.

[@JohnDuff_59]

+Mikey James The real R-Type 4 is R-Type Delta.

[@MarxasThomas]

lightsouthaha released for ios and android, they both were released on the switch as well!

[@Radwar99]

@OpticalFascism How is it a rip-off when it's the original Irem team that made R-Type who made Pulstar? Infact it was originally named R-Type 4 but was renamed Pulstar when the team moved to Aicom.

[@Bloodreign1]

To the people that say this is an R-Type rip off, Aicom was comprised of former Irem members who worked on R-Type. This is more an homage game to that series than ripoff.

[@Mateoski97]

Would've been interesting to see if this were actually R-Type IV. I wonder what that would've made R-Type Delta or R-Type Neo.

[@johngavalas712]

You mean R-Type Leo

[@rogergagne3970]

Lot of R-Type with some Gradius/Salamander thrown in here and there.

[@XGluon]

I know that your comment was posted 2 years ago, but... The fourth boss' name isn't "Eternal Centipede". Its official name is "Kira-Ge-Woiare".

[@AndreLimaYT]

Great video. I am very fan of Pulstar, since its launch.

[@NARFNra]

What I meant is, that certain graphics that LOOK deadly aren't. Examples include the debris that the second boss throws around, and the fire prominances in the third level.

[@Winterreise189]

An R-Type clone that's actually almost exactly like R-Type? Sign me up! Don't mess with perfection.

[@humansrants1694]

Same devs too.

[@RGBArchive]

That intro is awesome.

[@wendellsoto1638]

Pulstar actually was the biggest side-scrolling shooter in its day clocked at 305 megs for the Neo * Geo. 6:06 p.m.

[@NathanJennings1222]

Alotta 'by the skin of your teeth' moments in this play through.

[@XGluon]

In case anyone's curious, here are the names of the bosses(excluding the Stage 1 boss), according to the stage intros exclusive to the Neo-Geo CD version: Stage 2 Boss: Galla Naga Stage 3 Boss: Carellpi Stage 4 Boss: Kira-Ge-Woiare Stage 5 Boss: Eira-Beera Stage 6 Boss: Ibuprowfent Stage 7 Boss: Kuuka Final Boss(Form 1): Mentos Final Boss(Forms 2 & 3): Bhi

[@zedruiz8363]

Amo este juego junto con el blazing star 😍😘

[@PrimitiveBaroque]

My fave shmup of all time. It's plainly an R-Type clone but it's full of imagination. Reminds me if Alien Soldier was made into a shmup.

🇫🇷💘⚘🕹🎮trop beau un régal pour les yeux 🇫🇷💘⚘🎸🎶

[@NARFNra]

It was, in fact, designed by people who used to work on R-Type.

[@calixtocabrera1817]

This forming an integral part of a stratagem, its essential to me...

[@theraptorus]

Love the stage 2 music track.

[@Bloodreign1]

Thanks for this one Schlauchi, haven't seen you around IRC in a long time though. Pulstar is quite underrated, sure it's an R-Type ripoff, but it's also done by former Irem employees who worked on the R-Type games of old. It's more an homage to that series really.

[@Mkoberland]

Aw man, where was this game when I was a kid?

[@l1ghtd3m0n3]

If only R-Type Final referenced this and Blazing Star.

[@Alienboi2005vidsandstuff]

This R-type gradius amalgamation Looks...amazing.

[@Zero56715]

Why does this version not have the difficulty number above the charge meter?

[@ironkong26]

i love smups... but i'm terrible at them lol. makes no sense

[@MarxasThomas]

ironkong26 same:D

[@booggaboo5386]

You not by yourself

[@NCC-0000]

After all this years playing lots of shmups and not getting any better at them, I just enjoy them as much as possible. Their plots, their soundtracks, the sceneries, the gameplay, but not trying to turn into a Replay Burner :V

[@craiganderson7085]

Got this game for Christmas 1995! for my Neo-Geo. Great memories. Still looks cool;

[@JamesEmirzianWaldementer]

40:41 "Hmmmm? Another waves outcomes?"

[@pjomayo]

This is what RType 2 should have been.

[@maskedbadass6802]

Of course you had to include the epic intro music.

[@อัครเดชนาคพิทักษ์ไไันามน]

😢😂❤❤🎉😢

[@Chanman886sGaming]

i can never beat this game its such a pain in the ass lol

[@metalwolfzx]

also have done a longplay of a game named eve of extinction?

[@metalwolfzx]

is this the cd version? if not can you do a video of it.

[@laurent8789]

Extraordinary !

[@ilovepekomomo]

wonderful game!!

[@marleymcleay9228]

I definitely prefer this to blazing star!. primarily artistic preference, but also calmer play style!

[@humansrants1694]

And no annoying Bonus!

[@andluizsilva]

What emulator did you use to record it ?

[@jasoncrandall5320]

Some of the animation seems phony next to the hand-drawn backgrounds

[@CrazySandtrooper]

This game is awesome. Second only to R-Type!

[@TronPachioftheDynamo]

This is a BLATANT R-Type clone down to the power up dispenser. Still good, bro.

[@anng6283]

This looks fun, is there emulator that I can play this on Mac?

[@anng6283]

@Grahamhg Thanks, will give it a try.

[@marceloho1984]

_Project Dino_ Where did I see that letter? ... Oh! From the Alfredino Ferrari *Dino 246 GT*

[@gunbuckybucketman4578]

Why don't you use your Force pod? XD

[@gunbuckybucketman4578]

Houston Helicopter Tours Inc. :'^)

[@lichin86]

我在懷疑,那些敵人不是人類,是異形,異形寄生人類身上,在用人類的軀體發展自己的一套外星武器

[@Alienboi2005vidsandstuff]

10:21 Ah yes,a Gradius parody

[@gigaslave]

AKA Grazing. Hitbox = smaller than ship, so you can have bullets going through the wings without dying horribly.

[@fabledaxeman07]

This game looks fkin awesome!!!

[@mikedski9698]

Blast The Aliens In PULSTAR! The Neo-Geo Arcade Hit From Aicom!

[@KSNaethos]

I love this and I want to play it again...the one problem is the fact that I can't find a single mame or neogeo rom for this game with everything in it.

[@D313370r]

Its not a rip-off of R-Type, its a "spiritual sequel."

[@Chiavaccio]

Awesome!!!!☺☺

[@tarokawada1009]

omg, this is so hard, impossible to win

[@ZearouAyedea]

At approx. 36:06, the shot looks like it hit the fighter, but I guess it actually hit the bottom IO.

[@edmega332]

I wish I knew a girl who had natural green hair.

[@Itz_Kanozo]

Pulstar only one player? I thought it is for 2 players

[@Samsgarden]

This is pretty much the R-type that never was.

[@hawthornrabbit]

Even if this was a rip-off of R-Type (and it isn't, it's a homage) it's still incredibly awesome.

[@Amphok]

rom for this plz?

[@jean-pierrejipi5720]

Amphok You can looking for pulstar mame or roms mame

[@Aaron-jn9me]

Man, I was hoping for 1 million points.

[@Qirex2097]

this is indeed one hell of a rip-off but you have to admit that the graphics are awesome!

[@GoldenJoe]

Not a big fan of prerendered sprites, but it looks like a pretty good r-type clone.

[@marioghernandez4960]

+Random Guy From Texas Who?!

[@NARFNra]

I meant to rate this comment down, In this game, certain graphics would make the game almost unwinnable. Thus, your ship "phases through" those items that appear after bosses or as part of fancy graphics. Trust me, I beat this game before. Also, the Eternal Centipede(fourth boss) is in the background, and does not hit you until it goes into the foreground.

[@Shendu1010]

Cool.

[@gulyasdavid6170]

look cool.. r-tpye best clone

[@RWB1980]

cool game

[@iori97combo]

nice game

[@TheEzco]

I remember playing this in arcades and being insanely hard. Only got through first couple of levels. Looks so easy on the video.

[@lichin86]

第一關的魔王外表比較恐怖,這遊戲的魔王都會發出嗚嗚的恐怖聲

[@topdecker1334]

i dont believe that this is a 16 bit console

[@ruffback]

Hmmm.. was never that enamored with Pulstar. The graphics were just too garish and cheesy compared to the original R-Type 8 years prior - they looked like a Mega Drive shooter on steroids. Last Resort was cool and atmopsheric but also fell well short of the first two RT coin-ops.

Damn R-weapon. Sounds like a fart!

[@ZearouAyedea]

38:43 This is getting old already... EAT VOYAGER!!

[@mikedski9698]

💯👍

[@mechanicsense]

looks like no sprite collision cheating.

[@enkauf1628]

This game is awesome, but why didn't you include video filters? In the original pixels no. Sad. We teach a new generation to appreciate retro games.

[@NARFNra]

Um... The T weapon, the R weapon , the ring weapon, the fact you cannot launch your force, bosses have very little relation to real R-Type bosses(except for the Gomander-like stage 6 boss) the missile type is different... Tell me, have you ever actually played this game? The bullet patterns and music is very different, many of the enemies(though not all) are not at all based on R-Type, and it was worked on by ex-Irem people.

[@tinhanh7cha]

look like R-type reborn

[@StarDestroyer83]

Unbeleveable. his Fighter has not a scratch :)

[@sega20x80]

Better than R Type.

[@sega20x80]

Thunder force with R Type equals Pulstar.

[@jballs5434]

It's R-Type, but prettier!

[@Korgi_Polymer]

a cough..rtype.. cough!!!

[@walter0bz]

pulstaR-type