Arcade Longplay [390] Knights of the Round

[@colinbradfield72]

Whoever came up with the idea to level them up was a freaking genius. Added so much to this game

[@prossnip42]

This is why this is one of my favorite beat em ups period. Like the gold pieces and the money aren't just pointless score boosts, they actively make your character stronger and more dangerous and the game compensates for that by throwing harder enemies at you if you level up too early

[@Reirainsong]

No tale of medieval chivalry is complete without samurai, dastardly Italians and a massive steampunk robot.

[@RaineyHayes]

+Reirainsong And don't forget tigers. I'm sure they were common in the British Isles at that time.

[@Pichustrikesback]

+RaineyHayes they migrated just like the coconuts and swallows did.

[@GeronKizan]

+Joseph Schreiber Aren't European swallows non-migratory?

[@Pichustrikesback]

+Geron Kizan there were African swallows.

[@sdegroot1]

Well you have to know these things when you're a king, you know?

[@seanwilkinson3975]

I loved leveling up and seeing your knight's mundane armor and sword/axe grow in size and become shining silver and gold. Very much like The King of Dragons and Golden Axe. Great times, playing with friends and shoving quarter after quarter into the machines.

[@edwardgaines6561]

@Bruno Lima Future Trunks: "So...you wanna see my sword huh?" 😏

[@22steve5150]

Yeah, I remember there used to be lines for this game, and crowds watching good players play it at the arcade.

[@iandirish]

I used to play this with my nephew, and, being seasoned with this game, I protected him most of the time and gave most of the gold and foods to him. Such a great uncle i am

[@alexandergodfreykleinhans8059]

Excuse me, sir. You dropped this👑

[@LPetal86]

"Fat Man"... "Sword Man"... I miss these old arcade games. Thanks for sharing the memories with us who remember the good times :')

[@Just_a_Lad]

Yeah, nowadays it's not political correct to call a fat guy "fat guy"

[@calcyiteslashmaster2174]

This guy was incredibly competent already, but when he got to 10:29 and discovered he could turn his horse to face backwards as well as forwards... then he was unstoppable

[@frozenray0079]

Capcom always delivered on the dope music.

[@wansimon2266]

+justin williams What about mega man,devil may cry,street fighter,ace attorney,etc.Those games music are awesome.You dumbass!!!

[@edwardgaines6561]

@@wansimon2266 No you Briar-hopper, Capcom rules all!

[@gplayer8508]

lol, the music of Knights of the Round was far better than Warriors of Fate in which one could hardly listen to what the game was playing in the background. it mimicked western-style music so obvious that one could identify organ sounds on many occasions/stages, such as the king's castle, etc, etc. One could hear this kind of organ sounds in some other games released back in the 90s'. For example, Final Fantasy 6, which was released on Super Nintendo. It was a common phenomenon at the time. Remember that there was an electronic keyboard boom in the 90s as well that was related to mimic the biggest instruments in the world, organs. Back to the BGM, on the contrary, the BGM of Warriors of Fate was just a mess. It couldn't be called music, maybe the worst BGM I had listened to at the moment. It literally sounded like a Chinese-style opera, lol, imagine, a storyteller was telling a story of "东风吹，战鼓擂，现在世上谁怕谁"，"打，狠狠打!"，于是 一通乱战，史称“三国志/演义"😂😂😂; So one could bearly hear any pleasing piece in the BGM, especially in a noisy arcade game center. It could be the reason why Capcom introduced or stressed sound effects in the 16bit sound source that the game boards could offer, such as attention-drawing voice acting, powerful drums, sounds of swords slashing flesh, and hammers crushing enemies' body, etc, etc. But, the gameplaying system of Warriors of Fate was far more advanced, deeper than Knights of the Round, in which Capcom embedded many designs of the newest, most successful, epoch-making game they developed ever in the 90s', Street Fighter 2. On the contrary again, the most useful gameplaying strategy in Knights of the Round was normal attacks(plain A/attack), which wasn't too far from Final Fight, the originator of beat 'em up games.

[@Ganondorfdude11]

The Engrish in the opening is brilliant. "Only the Holy Grail can release this world from attain the chaos. You should be able to find it because you were able to sacred sword." It's like a Polandball comic or something.

[@DANTVSVERGIL]

Did you even sacred sword bruh?!

[@aaaaaaaabre]

Chris Mullen DIFFENCE, PLS!

[@PsyrenXY]

Chris Mullen Help each other and find it. BRAVE MEN!

[@BologneyT]

Немања Грочић Hehe, but I thought that misspelling might have been "accurate" just because I heard a long time ago there were no rules for spelling in English. Just grammar. WHICH THIS GAME DOES NOT HAVE, LOL! XD lol the "Engrish".

[@beelzeburbia]

1:14- "...because you were able to sacred sword." Incredible.

[@destroyerofworlds8240]

r/engrish

[@suleymanbabak1973]

How do I sacred sword?

[@MorseCodeStutters]

All your base are belong to us

[@ChuckPalomo]

It's historically accurate, verbs weren't invented till the late XIX century.

[@HaruFae]

remember, always diffence

[@lz7ification]

A mecha armor, a samurai and... uhh... Garibaldi in middle ages England... it made perfect sense back in 1992.

[@ChuckPalomo]

You're telling me Garibaldi wasn't part of the arthurian mythos? my whole life is built on a lie.

[@lakonikos8791]

Things made sense in 1992. Now they just don’t.

[@CommanderTato]

@@lakonikos8791 Better times man, when creativity didnt had chains to limit it.

[@Macadamienutz]

Truly amazing pieces of art. Capcom side-scrollers were amazing. Colorful and beautiful.

[@schiz5674]

Great game and literally flawless gameplay. In my opinion, Capcom were simply the best when it came to beat 'em ups during the late 80s, early 90s. Both side-scrolling and 1v1. There were other big guns back then too but no-one touched Capcom after Final Fight and Street Fighter 2 respectively. Although Technõs' Double Dragon will forever be founder and the great grandfather of them all.

[@sperrin]

Double Dragon wasn't the first beat 'em up though.

[@Bloodreign1]

The founder is Renegade, or in Japan known as a Kunio game, it is the real grandfather of belt scrolling beat em ups.

[@AmeenKOM]

These games always bring me back to my childhood, playing video games(arcad in this particular case) was my addiction and I was so good that I bit almost all of them(the ones I liked back then) only with one coin, especially since I didn't have money and I would hardly earn 1 coin. I long for that era where everything was simple but full of joy ^_^

[@gamerzero7735]

Always cut big treasures and big food. You'll get more points and/or health that way. This game is the rare exception where the whole is NOT greater than the sum of its parts.

[@jeremyblackwater439]

This is a great tip. I use it all the time now. Thank you.

[@addisonfung5009]

There are chances that you may find items that give you an Instant-Level Up, or even an Extra life!

[@creatorqwerty4090]

Ohh thank you

[@FPS.Games.Archiv]

I have played this game as a child so often. Did it often to the last level, but the boss I never defeated. Asked me as a child what probably comes after, did not know that he was the end boss. Respect!!!! Well done!!!

[@rang3r34]

Loved this game!

[@magic4478]

me too but is bery hard

[@NeoPhoenix-99]

@@magic4478 It doesn't look that Hard.

[@Jack_80]

@@NeoPhoenix-99 games never look hard when you're watching someone who has played a lot of it and is very good at it. i've been playing the snes version on normal and have yet to beat it. it gives you 18 lives but some of the bosses are very tough and eat through those lives.

[@crisantita]

Same...

[@TheBlackPigeon]

As a fan of Arthurian Legend, I always took great pleasure in stepping into the shoes of Bishounen Anime Lancelot, as he put the numerous scoundrels of Britannia to the sword. Always a pleasure to watch playthroughs of these games. Warms an old man's heart, it does.

[@Nehfarius]

+TheBlackPigeon To be fair, Ye Olde Brittania had a great many scoundrel to put to the sword even without that nefarious Garibaldi's influence. Though I'm not quite sure where in the tales said nefarious villain contracted a hired hand from the Far East...

[@Nehfarius]

@Wilson Nascimento That does make sense. And it makes for a very interresting tale!

[@edwardgaines6561]

If you like anime mixed with dark medieval fantasy, _Berserk_ might be right for you. Unfortunately the author has recently passed away, leaving the work unfinished.

[@ZorotheGallade]

"Only the holy grail can release this world from attain the chaos. You should be able to find it because you were able to sacred sword. Help each other and find it, brave men!"

[@Kaiyanwang82]

I have a memory of me and other two kids spending a relatively hefty amount of pocket change to finish this one - we did! We were so pleasantly surprised by the "level up" and new armor! This is such a nice memory.

[@lakonikos8791]

This stage clear music... so much epicness in a simple tune

[@HiAdrian]

Yet another gem. Thanks for bringing us all these classics.

[@rodrigoarenasi]

My favorite game, thanks for uploading this. I haven't seen it since 1995.

[@juncho1977]

God, Capcom made the best beat 'em ups!

[@edwardgaines6561]

juncho1977 Naw, Konami was slightly better.

[@gibsonfred1176]

@@edwardgaines6561 Neo-Geo but I love them all...

[@edwardgaines6561]

Gibson Fred You're right! Everybody dog-pile on!

[@hamboba4434]

i loved this game so much. i used to play it on the arcade and Super NES all the time. graphics still look great. this game was ahead of its time.

[@sovereignrises2819]

Hamlet Bobadilla that was the age where pure art and talent went into making games, not like today.

[@dakotafrank1931]

I love that this basically is the video game version of the movie Excalibur including likenesses of the actors.

[@Elyseon]

Remember that one time King Arthur and his knights fought against a suit of Japanese armor? Now you do!

[@alucard624]

Played the heck out of this game when there was an arcade at the college I went to back in the day before they remodeled the student union building and demolished the arcade and bowling alley there. Lots of good memories playing this game. The music takes me back to freshman year and playing this a lot along with the Spawn arcade game.

[@hashimotokobayashi2244]

Loved this game and the out of place enemies made me love it even more 😄⚔️🛡️

[@Caesar_Himself]

I loved this fucking game. Used to throw my pocket money into it like a sailor in a brothel.

[@SomeBody-rm6hf]

I loved this fucking brothel. Used to throw my pocket money into it like a gamer in an arcade.

[@notamobilesprout4175]

I loved this fucking pocket money. Used to throw my game into it like a brothel in a sailor

[@SomeBody-rm6hf]

@@notamobilesprout4175 I loved this fucking sailor. Used to throw my brothel into it like a pocket money in a game.

[@gianangelomunizagavazquez8282]

capcom is the master of beat em ups

[@edwardgaines6561]

@@SomeBody-rm6hf These analogies are getting out of hand. 🙃

[@andriasiswanto]

I remember when I was kid, To play this game until the end, I spend maybe 20-30 coins. But in this video, you make it look so easy..

[@SaitohYatate]

Back as a kid I used to play this game at the Excalibur in Las Vegas, quite the appropriate setting for KotR. Fun times indeed.

[@devblue510]

that ending music is awesome!

[@Calamaistr]

wow.. i used to play this in arcades on fairs. :D completely forgot about this beauty. glad i dont have to lose guilders anylonger to see the next level :D

[@rexjohnsonsaludares7718]

I'll remember my childhood. I'm Appreciated this vid. Thank you!

[@SomeBody-rm6hf]

Definitely one of the best damn arcade games ever.

[@MsBigB777]

Ah, the 90s, that's when Capcom know how to make great arcade games to keep the audience greatly entertained.

[@leonardomecocci2725]

My childhood ❤️, thanks for sharing!

[@sarkasmdaimyo2572]

Capcom hands down had the fighting/beat'em up genre on lock back then, shame they didn't dedicate this in fighting/beat'em up arcade classics.

[@edwardgaines6561]

But what about Konami?

[@gchijioke12]

Not true. Konami were the arcade beat ‘em up kings back in 90s.

[@edwardgaines6561]

@@gchijioke12 I'm inclined to agree! At Wal-Mart, they're actually selling an actual arcade cabinets of TMNT by Konami, for $400. I'd say that's staying power!

[@danielkelly6523]

Igs had the amazing Knights of Valour series, and Denjin Makai II is probably the best pure side-scrolling beat 'em up of all time.

[@RBEO22]

I know you're busy fighting this samurai for some reason...but here's some gold!

[@jklugman8811]

I was totally addicted to this back in the day. Never completed it though...

[@THEREALGAMEMASTER-gz5xg]

2000 Kids: ghost busters 2009 is so nostalgia me: Knight of the round hold my beer

[@ManelRuivo]

the only beat em ups that look gorgeous to this day are the ones from capcom! they made these with such care! king of dragons... final fight... captain comando... cadilacs and dinosaurs... punisher... theyre classics that will never fade!

[@Pythoner]

King of Dragons was lame, Punisher wasn't much better while Capt Commando was good but still wouldn't say it's the same level as this one, never mind Final Fight or Cadillacs & Dinosaurs

[@ManelRuivo]

@@Pythoner these games paved the standard for beat em ups! What are the good ones for you! Don't say streets of rage because they come after the final fight success, although they stand out because of the soundtrack.

[@Pythoner]

@@ManelRuivo If you read my post properly then you'd indeed realize that I hold Final Fight and Cadillacs & Dinosaurs in very high regard, with Knights of the Round getting an honorable mention. As for others, in no particular order; TMNT: Turtles in Time, Streets of Rage series, Die Hard Arcade, Batman Arkham Asylum, Golden Axe series, Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara, Sengoku series, Warriors of Fate, Splatterhouse 3, Captain America & the Avengers

[@pepomega]

@@Pythoner I liked more the punisher than cadillac and dinosaurs. In the punisher you have a lot more moves to do.

[@billranes1214]

I see a distinct lack of Aliens vs.Predator in this conversation

[@taemeister9302]

One of my all-time favorites arcade game. Reminds me of middle-school year after school at Stuffed Pizzas. THis game was right next to Street Fighter II Championship Edition

[@silafuyang8675]

One of the best games ever.

[@niloguerrero_]

I finish it with just 1 coin drop. Here in arcade. I love those days when all the people around you watched your gameplay. Hahahaha! This is endless

[@unidaspandemia9936]

when I was a child I didn’t have too much money to play this game (loved arcades, and The punisher).. now I have money and I play it on my SNES mini..

[@SuperScarecrow33]

I remember ( i was 16 years old )1 coin and all game defeated--Lancelot ...good times -no internet ..lol

[@Chronologo]

Anybody noticed the way Percival changes his look is almost the same as Rob Halford from Judas Priest? Going from blonde to bald with brown beard.

[@CommanderTato]

Looks like they age in the latter level ups. Percival is the most noticeable, he got battle hardened his skin can tell that.

[@MidNightKamisama]

A Masterpiece of arcade

[@Stabbytabbycat]

I had a recovered memory of playing this in the arcade back in the day. Fun times.

[@edwardgaines6561]

Recovered?

[@RazielBG]

Invincibility hack confirmed. 24:59 wizard grab fails from behind. 33:49 phantom's flames pass through and knock him back as if blocked

[@michaeldias9232]

Ok yes fake

[@saarland2china]

Could this be the BEST Arcade game ever made?

[@Pythoner]

Not by a mile. But it's good

[@Fiddlestickz1]

This is one of my favorites, excellent game!

[@johneygd]

Awesome game with awesome graphics,music & sound effects. Just like the 90's this game kicks ass!!!!

[@EBlueProductions]

Used to play on arcade machines. Good memories with this game.

[@patrickbateman3610]

I love how 90's this game is. Having an enemy called "fat man" would be unacceptable today. He/she/they would be called "brave nonbinary."

[@edwardgaines6561]

You cam blame the Baby Boomers and single mothers for the weakening of society.

[@gvtrivia6780]

my uncle had the arcades place. this was one of the 50 arcades at his place. amazing game

[@MrGabri3]

The laugh of the Tall Man beating me, still haunts me..

[@1StIwY1]

One of the best 16bit beat'em up of videogames history. This reminds me The King of Dragons

[@megac4]

King of Dragons is a good game, this one is weak.

[@1StIwY1]

@@megac4 KoD is better, but this is not garbage at all

[@megac4]

It is not garbage, true, but not comparable. This one even has better graphics and all but technically lacks a lot, has a bad damage system (balance between how much you damage with your attacks and how much damage the enemy does), the enemy has some invulnerabilities (pretty abused by the AI) and the controls are too clunky to be practical (specifically, the block move but not only). The game has everything to be a fantastic game. The quarter muncher greed ruined it.

[@Yapostadodat]

If only I had videos like these as a kid I could have saved THOUSANDS at the arcade, of course I would've missed out on that sticky joystick and blaringly loud atmosphere.

[@24framedavinci39]

Yapostadodat Don't forget the arcade hot box as all the adults chain smoked and drank beer.

[@Yapostadodat]

Yea, we used to have to sneak into bars to play the cocktail versions of some games. Those were the days; when you had to go OUTSIDE to play video games!

[@ldu306]

Music of 2th and 5th levels are awesome!!

[@rang3r34]

Love this game!

[@Wishbone4evr]

Oh cool! One of King Arthur's knights gets to fight an evil samurai ^^

[@megatron8461]

King Arthur is my favorite. A medieval beat-em-up that’s culturally diverse, and really into it.

[@HouseMusicNinja]

The ost for this game was amazing... No, is amazing!

[@ctmmd3051]

And everyone lived happily ever after... ...or at least until Lancelot goes after the queen. The End XDDD

[@ZorotheGallade]

And Arthur gets moidered by the bastard son he conceived with his own half-sister.

[@ctmmd3051]

ZorotheGallade hahaha, yes, I forgot that XD

[@reijiminato8762]

Excalibur movie, anyone?

[@cybercity007]

This is one of the best game i ever played on nintendo with my brother :)

[@vanillaicecream9126]

one of the best game from me kids time ....and is still awesome

[@knuclear200x]

Knights of the Round...the round what? the round robin? the round ball? the round candy? the round the clock? tonight?

[@Romanov117]

This should have to be reviewed by JonTron or AVGN.

[@calein1]

round ass, probably

[@gweromonitor4419]

Rochester, don't be an idiot. It's clearly round ass.

[@haseo8244]

knuclear2010 weeb

[@HouseMusicNinja]

LMAO to these comments!😂

[@fsantolaya]

In this game; Parceval with beard, reminds me a lot to the old Kratos. Is in physically aspect, very similar to him. 38:05 Arthur: Excalibur, hope! Rest of the Knights: Hope!

[@flatshade]

Good one. I always found the SNES port of this severely lacking, especially the watered down audio.

[@lakuslhah2417]

"Hwyueeeeeeah" - Soldier

[@kirko1996]

Well said

[@MegabombGamer-rb5kh]

Yeah, the constant beeping every second the timer goes down isn't going to be annoying AT ALL.

[@jez9999]

That's why it cuts out after 5 seconds lol

[@Thunderfang-jc3wy]

I loved this game so much I played all the time at the arcade in my old neighborhood

[@artsocorro5066]

One of my childhood games in Arcade. lol

[@lonewolfxloyal6332]

This is the best game I ever played ^_^

[@edwardgaines6561]

In a perfect world, Capcom would've made a beat 'em up out of Miura's Berserk! 20:04 Balbars, dude. 31:47 Steampunk Mecha! 39:05 Congratulation!

[@marra5203]

HIT THE TREASURE CHESTS FOR MORE POINTS, GODDAMIT!

[@chroik]

If you hit the golden one....youll get 3x 180 instead of 600. I know this game very good, even now, i can finish it on one coin :)

[@p6mkq]

@@chroik I hate the first boss.

[@addisonfung5009]

Possibly Extra lives.......?

[@mang_oci8721]

Games like assassins creed today must be inspired by kind of this game

[@thefunnier716]

Please elaborate

[@DudeWatIsThis]

20:05 Remember that part in the books where Lancelot fought a Space Wolf?

[@CyberDragon10K]

The Tall Man laughs like a girl. And all the animals explode. _What._ xD

[@aussiejinjo]

>set at the time of the legend of the holy greail >all the characters are dressed in 14th-15th century plate mail armour

[@Flashlight237]

Doesn't look too farfetched; only at least a century apart.

[@zoesdada8923]

aussie jinjo obviously you've never read the book, seen the movie or studied the Arthurian legends.

[@jessicaslater4243]

Not to mention the samurai. The armor he's wearing didn't come into use until after 1100 AD, and the katana wasn't invented until the Kamakura Period (~1100 - 1300 AD) while the Arthurian legends took place around 500 AD, over 600 years earlier.

[@edwardgaines6561]

@@jessicaslater4243 Oh...so we have a few anachronisms huh? It's still cool though.

[@kirko1996]

Doesnt matters, bro. We just wanna help arthur in his mission to recover the holy grail and save the kingdon, not to save the history.

[@GiselleDias-u2v]

❤ o melhor de todos os tempos te amo filhos e meus netos e sobrinhos😅

[@aes330]

one of the best games! :)

[@smoothknyte]

Pretty cool. The sound effects are also found in Boorman's Excalibur movie.

[@carloswater7]

This might be an old game but, it still a good game to play.

[@synthpopfreak5042]

Chaining enemies the 'same', would've been just, perfect! Anyways, NICE RUN!

[@matdemaz]

I could never beat this when I was a kid.

[@niceguy60]

Glad I bought the arcade board of this.

[@sandromarmelo3008]

10 year old me loved this game to death, together with Vendetta and 64th street. 38 year old me still does. Maybe even more now. So nostálgic. Btw level 2 boss gives Ganondorf vibes

[@MrGouldfish44]

somehow i missed this game in my childhood! i have been seriously deprived!

[@jez9999]

I loved this game - they had it in my local leisure centre. However Americans, be thankful you only had to pay a quarter per credit. We had to pay A POUND PER CREDIT (that's like 2 dollars)!

[@hengkygunawan300]

I love that even though the enemies is literally 1 cm away they can't touch you as long as they are not at the same horizontal axis.

[@jasongood6550]

Hannamen RIP brother...my Guitar HERO

[@marakarthegreat]

🎶We're knights of the round table🎶

[@DragonAurora]

Bradford: You....STOLE MY HORSE!!!

[@nicky032096]

Use to play this with my cousin lol great video game!

[@MrLocazo212]

Imagine if netflix do a show like castlevania but for Knights of the round?

[@aliengrey772]

The art and music reminds me of Strider.

[@erj9081]

7:25 wait, Braford... Buraforudo? Bruford? From JoJo? Where's Tarkus?