Arcade Longplay [235] Time Gal

[@STBill]

I remember those hoover bikes. They were all the rage back in 2001.

[@shis1988]

Hell I remember the hoverboards in 2010 and NYC being so technological! ...please get the reference...

[@pikabluebear9941]

@@shis1988 I thought they were from 2015!

[@crocodile2006]

Now we ride Dyson bikes...

[@andysee6996]

I remember seeing commercials for those as a kid. I wanted one, but they ended up getting recalled after a man got killed going 70 M.P.H. on a highway. If you ask me, that was a lawsuit waiting to happen.

[@Naiki_Eri]

@@andysee6996 ikr

[@JamesOnen]

I really love 80's Anime female character designs

[@codeninja100]

I love how this style is comming back Steven universe was influenced by this old anime style

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

nicholas cato More or less created by guys who lived through this period.

[@codeninja100]

yeah I love seeing this early Akira Toriyama style influencing North American animation

[@jesusislord7632]

+James Onen hi

[@KaminariHouse]

Yup, and all the detail in the styles too. Don't see that from modern anime too muvh.

[@Snev]

2010 was one hell of a year. My best friend died aboard a derelict spaceship being struck by meteorites. I still can't get over it, even after half a decade!

[@JoeyLamontagne]

2010 and 2001 were such hard years for all of us

[@angelferrerias4071]

Actually those were giant meat balls

[@ingodwetrust7881]

@@angelferrerias4071 lmao

[@AlwysBclosing]

Tell me about it, I’m stuck in the Terminator 2 timeline where skynet initiated judgement day in 1997. Try living the last 25+ years in a self imposed post apocalyptic delusion

[@BackyardEpicMovies]

Considering all the danger around her, at least she sounds like she's having fun.

[@HitsujiMamoru]

Ah! 2001... I remember it like it was today : all those jet-propelled bikes and beam sabers! They were cheap to buy too! ...Glorious late 80's lol

[@LeapingRobotDragon]

Why do the Japanese always have the better childhoods?

[@unknownunknownseries2098]

*BUT 2001 IT'S THE YEAR WHEN I BORN!!!!!*

[@LuckyLeverVIEJO]

11:19, Pokémon!

[@1995ToyotaCresta]

Funny to think how the mid-late 1980s expected us to have hovering vehicles in 2000 and after (I'm looking at you, Back to the Future)

[@timothymattson5369]

I'm shocked that they captured 2010 so accurately. Really takes me back.

[@somecynic808]

Time Gal: *Sees a bunch of dead bodies and is in danger of being next* Also Time Gal: “EHEHEHEHEH!!! :D”

[@diegocrusius]

love the japanese 80s retrofuturism

[@ToniG4]

me too! and Japanese 90s to 2000s futurism

[@hexkwondo]

The Japanese had so much hope for us in the 2010 era. I'm very sad that we failed them.

[@dreamguardian8320]

It was way better than the anime we get now, with the combination of 3D, like what they did with Berserk and Dragon Ball Super Super Hero.

[@roflmows]

truly amazing how much work, effort, and expense went into creating 17 minutes of video game back then :)

[@youtubesuresuckscock]

It's actually 0 minutes of video game. It's not a video game. Just a poorly animated cartoon.

[@crazyclimber80]

She enjoys herself a bit too much for narrowly avoiding death every few seconds.

[@AstralStriderZ]

crazyclimber80 Not only avoiding death, but actually taunting the enemy to attack her...

[@handsomebrick]

Either she's trying to keep herself from being driven insane by the constant action and danger that surrounds her with no chance of respite or escape, or she's been driven insane already.

[@Treychik]

@@handsomebrick probably the latter

[@scotthoopes4090]

I love the sound during the Time Stop choice screen! Sounds soo menacing & scary!

[@therabidscorpion]

Can confirm the depiction of the 2000's in this game is eerily accurate.

[@blacksamurai76]

You can't catch me, you can't catch me squish.

[@witherblaze]

You can't catch carmen, can't catch waldo.

[@somecynic808]

Time gal: Almost dies Also time gal: WEEEE AHUHUHUHUH! :D

[@andywatson7994]

When she was in 2001 and 2010, I thought to myself, "Wow, this game is really dated." I remember when I was growing up in the 80's that we thought we would have hover vehicles by the year 2000.

[@girlgarde]

Andy Watson Yeah, they seemed to think that World War III would break out in the 1990's and that in 2001, Hoverbikes would be widely used.

[@cjgg4885]

Andy Watson 1980's: We will have hover vehicles in the future. 2017: Is PB&J RASCIT!?

[@feliciak9968]

CJG G that’s really funny but true. We put men in space, but now our greatest fear & mission to change is gluten.

[@pbonfanti]

I thought the same...

[@lovethatdamnhausen931]

It's funny because in 1993 I predicted that the future would not change much and just have some technological differences, but nothing that would be as sci-fi as the movies and cartoons portray. Here I am in 2023 and I was right

[@renn__e__7912]

This is probably the Dragon's Lair Anime

[@ZorotheGallade]

"Anime was a mistake" --Don Bluth

[@Rgoid]

More like Space Ace.

[@nikitawineberger8973]

@@ZorotheGallade is that his actual quote?

[@ZorotheGallade]

@@nikitawineberger8973 It's a meme

[@dreamguardian8320]

@@ZorotheGallade Did he really say that?

[@cassandrajenkins9095]

Love the old style animation in this. I also get a kick out of how much fun she having when everything wants her dead. " Ha ha! Bang Bang you cute little monster you❣ Be funny if it took her head off.

[@cd2220]

cassandra jenkins Or when she's on the WW2 airplane and she's just laughing and having a good time while the pilots tumble to their deaths o:

[@ZacharyNoah]

Fun Fact: Toei Animation, which provided the animation for Time Gal, also later became most notable for producing the Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon anime franchises. Toei Animation also produced the animated cutscenes for Sonic CD, in association with Studio Junio.

[@Головастик]

this is generally an ancient studio, they have been making anime since the 60s

[@n0wheregrrl]

An odd weakness of hers is her compulsive need to pick up a sword every time there's one handy for her to use, even though she clearly has no real skill with swords and gets disarmed almost immediately every time she tries to use one. She's literally walking around with a futuristic laser pistol that she's clearly skilled with at her hip, but a perfectly normal sword that she doesn't even know how to use always looks to her like just the thing to go for to defend herself.

[@Minchken]

Probably a moment of impulse or she didn't want to reveal advanced tech unless it would afford her life.

[@n0wheregrrl]

@@Minchken I mean ... literally everything is trying to kill her all of the time everywhere, and one missed cue is enough to end her. I think it's safe to say her life is on the line?

[@Minchken]

@@n0wheregrrl Before that guy she was dealing with monsters. I honestly think it's a spring of the moment imo.

[@theblocksays]

It's nice to FINALLY see this game as it would look in arcade screens in Japan and not that ugly shrunken Sega CD screen.

[@gryndkor]

80's anime still rocks.

[@dreamguardian8320]

I was lucky and glad I was born during the 80s.

[@gemlover7523]

Dragons lair / space ace: we are the coolest arcade games! Time gal: hold my beer 🍺

[@soulfreaz]

what's funny is what the devs thought the world would be like in the 2000's and here we're still wiping our asses with paper.

[@djmocha7]

Paper? You don’t have 3 seashells in *your* bathroom?

[@MoonlightDusk]

What actually happened is a liberal hell hole.

[@soulfreaz]

@@MoonlightDusk I'll bet you try to sleaze politics comments into food videos too.

[@MoonlightDusk]

@@soulfreaz @John Eight I bet you all make personal insults in every kind of video.

[@Loader2K1]

Toei Animation did the animation for this game as well as Road Blaster (a.k.a. Road Avenger) and I believe Ninja Hayate (a.k.a. Revenge of the Ninja). Coincidentally, this game was originally released in 1985, the same year as Fist of the North Star/Hokuto No Ken (which Toei also produced) was running on Japanese TV, and a low-level villain from the show makes a cameo as the one-eyed leader of the Mad Max-style thugs riding the hover bikes trying to kill Reika.

[@MHb_CCCLXV]

(2:08) BC 65,000,000: Ecchi. (5:38) AD 500: Oppai. (6:33) AD 666: Triple 6 and grim reaper. (7:58) AD 1941: WWII era. (15:03) Yoko Littner from Gurren Lagann dancing in credits. (17:09) Classic arcade ending.

[@Bloodreign1]

Not sure why they added an updated dancing version of her in for, it's not in the original arcade release.

[@helrem]

@@Bloodreign1 dou

[@t4d0W]

"Why did she dematerialise when she killed cavemen? One of them was her grand grand... father?" Its correct to assume I guess since the game subscribes to the theory of if she killed one of the earliest forefathers of human kind, then she would cease to exist.

[@DRACOFURY]

Time Paradox

[@JediKnightIlona]

Not just her but also likely all of mankind.

[@trewashington787]

@@DRACOFURYscary

[@marcopimentel1152]

the bad guy was next to her,he shoot the yellow beam

[@DeeDee-rx3cb]

i love the sound when she begins in another time period.

[@Andrew-ze6kq]

That CG Taito logo looks really impressive! And this was in 1985!

[@jackmcslay]

Funny how everyone's reaction to a woman with little clothing appearing in thin air is to try to stab her in the face.

[@nackteHintern]

A time traveler appearing is just Monday for them.

[@OptimusGamer1981]

I can't believe I was only 4 when this came out. I always loved these games, I wish this genre would make a comeback.

[@fums63]

love how they play that clip of the guy laughing every time you die

[@OutsandingMan2007]

Is it me or did I just hear a lot of the Godzilla monsters in the background in this game ? This by far one of many Japanese animation/game plays they made back in the day. I feel Time Gal need to be more on Animated TV series more so then in a game if they had not done it already. Thanks for the upload cubex55 as always can not wait to see more of your videos.

[@figment1988]

Yep. Taito did use samples from Godzilla

[@girlgarde]

I remember the great war of 1990, the hoverbike gangs of 2001 and the meteor strikes of 2010, truly dark and scary times in Human history....

[@RolandTemplar]

apparently japan was inspired by dragons lair gameplay sistem

[@a2pha]

Actually I heard this came before Dragon's Lair.

[@Guessnought]

I have SEVERAL questions. Why is she having so much fun dodging death? Why is everything in every time period trying to kill her? How does she jump so high? Doesn't she ever get fatigued?

[@garrettsattem4799]

It’s anime. That’s all I could figure out.

[@STBill]

She's a total badass, that's why.

[@alexeyeliseev6322]

It's ANIME RURUZ I guess

[@corjonbett]

Incidentally, if you're wondering why everything is trying to kill her, she's spending most of the game as punishment for working with the big bad. It's only after she survives all of that that she is permitted a chance to try to stop him, I think.

[@animeFAN00111]

+corjonbett "The game is set in a fictional future where time travel is possible. The protagonist, Reika, travels to different time periods in search of a criminal, Luda, from her time. After successfully tracking down Luda, Reika prevents his plans to alter the past."- From Time Gal Wikipedia article,

[@Bloodreign1]

She was pretty much a time cop, though come time that Castle of Shikigami III came about, she was a time criminal. That's right, she is one of the games selectable characters, just wish the game had an option to keep the Japanese voices with English subtitles, though I doubt they got the same young lady to voice her in Shikigami 3 that they used in Time Gal.

[@Singformefriend]

2001 was such a cool year.

[@avalond1193]

great fun game I love the sega cd version but had to get the arcade perfect sega saturn port according to the saturn manual the time gals name is Layka. the girl who modeled for her reika is shown in the manual she looks really cute

[@kamenanew9867]

That's neat. Cool!

[@Bloodreign1]

Layka, supposed to be Reika since there are no L's in the Japanese alphabet.

[@CrossoverGeekDA]

This game is a cultural predecessor to games like Heavy Rain and Until Dawn.

[@joshuarobinson8529]

The last prompt was the good one. It's classic to have a villain cause their own downfall.

[@Andrew-ze6kq]

She's being chased by Godzilla in the first stage! I also like how the dinosaurs have Rodan and Mothra roars! Great little homage Taito and Toei!

[@BattleFroad]

Remember if time gal appears DESTROY HER WITH NO HESITATION!

[@paolol.110]

0:00 First Taito game to use the 3D logo.

[@Bloodreign1]

Which means this is not the original arcade release as the year the game came out, the triangle with wave and moon logo wasn't used by Taito yet, not until 1988. This could make this the Mega LD version, which is pretty much the same, but released later on. Taito was still using the plain red Taito logo until 88.

[@EmeraldoTheDragon]

Given how much fun Time Gal sounds like she's having all throughout, despite everything trying to kill her, this is pretty much "Hahaha, I'm in danger!: The Game"

[@mark12380241]

anime + videogame = win

[@SimplepediaDe]

they predicted the gulf war

[@billkeithchannel]

predictive programming

[@andressigalat602]

Well, sadly, you don't need to be much of a precognitive to say "in the next decade, there will be war somewhere in the world" and be right about it. Not in the '80s and neither today.

[@shaolinlueb]

I love how all the monsters have the same sound effects as the monsters from Godzilla. Love this

[@Cerenth]

Ah, yes. I remember the heady year of 2001. Where we all had mohawks, wore bondage gear and rode hover bikes. And 2010 was a special year too, when the meteorites smashed into the Death Star we built. Let us never forget those brave men, women and androids that lost their lives that year.

[@mikechicago6200]

I miss these animated vid arcade games same as Dragon's Lair and Space ACE!

[@bobstayoffthegrass8556]

My dad served in the military at some time in the 90's, I'm sure. Now that crazy story he's been telling me about a green haired girl almost killing him makes sense...

[@helrem]

Macross reference?

[@ValentinesEve1996]

At 0:00, how come the game has the current Taito logo? The current Taito logo was not used until 1988 and Time Gal came out in arcades in 1985. Three years before Taito changed their logo to the one they still use to this day.

[@hawkshot2001]

2001 was a great year for hover bikes. It was also the year Earth elected its first amphibian president. Much respect to the gentle-suggestion-frog!

[@arseneleclerc3707]

I see this game predicted a very bright future for all of us

[@HowlingMoonCinemas]

I think the dates are just part of the humor. We know we won't be seeing any anti gravity or super mecha technology until at least the year 3000 A.D..

[@asaelpolanco8151]

That should be on the top 10 arcade anime laserdisc games of all time.

[@Bloodreign1]

Reika would appear much later on as a playable character in Shikigami III, aka Castle Shikigami III. It was a nice touch to have her in the game.

[@TwilightLink77]

Bloodreign1 If Project X Zone 3 does happen with Square Enix included I could see Reika being a solo unit summoning Taito characters.

[@Bloodreign1]

She really needs to make a full comeback, she's a likeable character with a bubbly personality.

[@josuegtr1034]

@@Bloodreign1 100% agree

[@Bloodreign1]

In 1985, Taito used their red Taito logo, yet this game amazingly had the logo used from 1988 to the present. I find that kind of odd for some reason.

[@Bloodreign1]

Bloodreign1 OK I see why, this seems to be a hack of the original.

[@johnschatz9829]

So according to some poking around I did on KZbin just now, this isn't the original arcade version of Time Gal, but somebody's "homebrew port" with his own remixes of the Sega CD version's title song thrown in and a 3D dancing animation over the credits.

[@Ultimateunit34]

Dang, she enjoys being chase etc. Very fun to watch a second time! Go Time Gal, wherever you gone to... Lol

[@infinitygenealpa]

Is this really the arcade version? The arcade version came out in 1985, and Rastan and Chase H.Q., which are mentioned at the high score screen never came out until 1987 and 1988 respectively.

[@STBill]

Coincidence? I think *NOT!* Illuminate confirmed.

[@000jimbojones000]

Yes and no... This is played on Emulator with the original Laserdisc Data + Added things like the highscore and the ending scroller. The end scroller with the 3D girl also isnt on the original Arcade disc.

[@ethanstoeckel3901]

Now I wish this was a actual anime tv show

[@RetroGaming-gp2ef]

10:15 10:57 Is this really what the 80s thought the 21st century would look like?

[@arcdecibel9986]

That's what it WOULD have looked like, if most of society hadn't decided that solar panels and being gay were a better path to the future. Now we have to wait longer for cool stuff.

[@ClumsyVash]

Lmao wtf was that ending 😂😂😂 ZA WORLDO AND INSTANT TRANSMISSION 😂

[@n.d.engleson6499]

I swear to God that’s Sailor Moon dressed as Sailor Mars.

[@fandubsfeitos1474]

Pequeño error histórico: languerra del golfo fue en 1991, no en 1990

[@gazzgaspay4841]

that is some beautiful animation, even todays standard. Look at those camera movement on 6:33

[@AlferiusNiON]

Este juego tiene el mismo estilo de animación que el anime llamado dirty pair !

[@TheomanZero]

The ending credits caught me by surprise.

[@joshuajiron4114]

She looks like a adult version of Rem from Dream Hunter Rem. The animation give me same vibes to those OVA.

[@paponwappen7165]

scene 2001 2010: Full of space punk Me living in 2020: WHY U NO HAVE space punk YET?

[@lid1222]

I love this game so much. I played it for a long time

[@inkmage6376]

This game always had my brothers and I cracking the hell up back int he day lol

[@FishCatsHistory]

The funny thing is that this is essentially the same gampley of any action game today. Real time cutscenes have come a long way. Whether gaming is better or worse off is another question.

[@JoseBronxRican]

Already weird seeing Japanese audio with English menus, but at 15:04 suddenly my Historical Accuracy Detector is in the RED ZONE. Not exactly seeing "1985 Arcade Game" here, so clarification on the port (I'm guessing port) would've been nice, no matter how "exact" everything else is.

[@sikthehedgehog]

I don't remember, but if it's anything like Road Blaster, the original probably either had no staff roll or had something that may have as well not be there (when Wolfteam did the Sega CD ports they'd completely redo the credits because the originals were just outright awful) No idea why this longplay has that changed since every other longplay sticks to whatever awful ending games have, though.

[@JeiJohnson]

Was the year 2001 always that futuristic?

[@Nelson_Win]

Jei Johnson because the game was published in the 1980s

[@many_lives4925]

Everything is trying to kill this woman but she having the time of her life it sounds like 😂

[@mustardstain]

She reminds me of Lum from Urusei Yatsura.

[@Ragalo100]

+gabo Reika Kirishima the time girl is modeled after her.

[@Iamacardinalfan]

+gabo She reminds me of Kei From the Dirty Pair. But Lum could be easily used as well.

[@Iamacardinalfan]

+Michael Einhaus errr, I meant Yuri. Been awhile since I have last seen it.

[@Rlotpir1972]

I never knew this came in the arcades in 1985. Had the Sega CD version, was not too keen on the limited animation frame rate (6 frames per second).

[@Duke_Togo_G13]

Robert Lopresti it was a Japan only arcade release.

[@rachparov]

Do you rememver that huge lie aboout year 2000 ? I love how they trolled us making us beleive that this is what it' was supposed to be.

[@RinOtonashi]

10:18 Oppressor Mk2 from GTA Online

[@Loader2K1]

Think of Reika as Lum from Urusei Yatsura and Yuri from Dirty Pair fused into one.

[@PacGuy765]

1:21 I see a Chase HQ cameo XD

[@1985dossantos]

Hahahahah, On 1985, they had a strong imagination.

[@Andrew-ze6kq]

Seems like SPCINVRS, BUBBOBLE, JUNGLHNT, DARIUS, and ARKANOID didn't get high enough scores.

[@blastprocessing1]

Hover bikes in 2001 AD? Did I miss something?

[@unknownunknownseries2098]

Me too, only if i'm born only 14th day of june. *DO NOT SAY FOR NOTHING, NOT ANY ELSE, NOR MAJIN ISUKI!!*

[@KaiMangaKnight]

7:58 Wait! Hold on! This just blew my mind... So you're telling me that Time Gal was responsible for Pearl Harbor's destruction? And yet America is still at war with Japan? Not sure whether this is considered a Bootstrap Paradox but it's still blew my mind thinking about it😶 11:58 Sounds like she's singing "I just can't get you out of my head" by Kylie Minogue... and that song came out years later after this game😅

[@1983parrothead]

The differences between this and Dragon's Lair are: * Developed and released only in Japan until the Sega CD era. * Female protagonist instead of male. * Japanese anime-style instead of American cartoon-style. * Time travel/futuristic plot instead of medieval/fantasy plot. Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp later used its own time travel plot.

[@MajinZarak]

You know, that year when huge scythe-wielding zombies rose from the grave to fight scantily dressed heroines. That was some crazy year, I tell you :P

[@carlosrios8837]

More imaginative than most modern day animes.

[@Ambaryerno]

I assume that the dance at the end was a later addition on a compilation, or something, because that animation is WAY too advanced for 1985.

[@Bloodreign1]

It definitely was something likely tacked on by some Japanese hacker within the last 10-15 years. By no means is this the original arcade release from 85. This has to be the Mega LD release as the PS1 and Saturn versions have a transition screen before she enters a new time frame. And definitely not the Mega/Sega CD version for sure. Far as I can remember it was only released for the Amiga CD32, MSX (I believe this was the Mega LD release), Sega CD, Macintosh, LaserActive, PlayStation, Saturn, iOS, Android.

[@Ambaryerno]

@@Bloodreign1 I hate when they do crap like that on rereleases. Like replacing all the in-game cutscenes in FFIV with (bad) FM in the 1997 Playstation version, or the Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition the CGI cutscenes and replacing them with much more static animation.

[@WhoamIbutwhoareyou]

I remember this along with Dragon's Lair. Miss 'em.

[@Zaslanetz]

I like how tanks just explodes then they softly bumb into each other. That's how it works.

[@helrem]

What I find strange is that she arrives in a timeline and then everyone tries to kill her as if they just had a reaction

[@dpurves28]

This is strangely fascinating to watch.

[@TMS5100]

of course you went for all the ecchi death scenes XD

[@unknownunknownseries2098]

Me? I'm not done nothing!

[@MANOFGOD9000]

This was cute. I miss the older style designs.

[@yamchayaku]

I like how the 2000s were portrayed in this game. Too bad humanity was so bad at keeping up with the prediction. I blame how our all of leadership held all of us back.

[@sakurya972]

she had fun lol

[@PlanetZoidstar]

3:44 - What exactly kills her here? She just sort of gets disintegrated by a random yellow energy.

[@dumpling5]

Those were her ancestors thus causing her not to exist.

[@meleemastermaa1449]

14:20 ZA WARUDO!

[@unknownunknownseries2098]

Jojo's bizzare adventure RIP-OFF (Don't judge me if i'm thinking "Jojora's bizzare adventure")

[@Nelson_Win]

Every time she Za Warudos