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BEST Arcade Action Games (You Never Played)

Shmup Junkie

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Discover 10 of the BEST Arcade Action Games you've never played! The Best Obscure and rare Beat Em Ups, Run n Guns, Shoot Em Ups and more. Arcade games that never saw a home port requiring MAME emulation to even play, yet are some of the best around. From Konami to Sega to Indie devs, you won't believe games this good would remain obscure. Arcade style retro games that remained console exclusive on NES, MSX, and NEC's PC-98 computer, or saw rare ports to the Sega Saturn and Playstation. Discover them all!
#retrogaming #arcade #konami

Chapters:
00:00 - Discover New Games
01:06 - We RIOT
04:34 - The BEST Beat Em Up You've Never Played
08:21 - Arcade MECHA Action Wolf Fang
13:41 - The BEST PC DOS Shoot Em Up EVER MADE!
19:11 - SmashTV meets PINBALL
21:57 - The BEST KONAMI Shooter You've Never Played
25:53 - The BEST NES Shooter You've Never Even Heard Of
29:04 - The BEST NEC PC-98 Shooter of all Time
32:20 - The KONAMI ALIENS Game that Disappeared
36:56 - The Best DOUJIN SHMUP Trilogy on PC
40:43 - But Wait! There's MORE

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LINKS to awesome gameplay featured in this video:

Guardians Denjin Makai II 1CC by ICONOCLAST
Guardians / Denjin Makai II - Girulian 1CC

Sideline 1CC Clear (4 Loops) by BareKnuckleRoo
SideLine - 1cc/one credit clear (Normal Di...

Sideline Complete Game Guide by BareKnuckleRoo - CHECK IT OUT!
https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic...

Over Horizon NES 1CC by AKTANE
Over Horizon (Famicom) - 1CC

Flame Zapper Kotsujin HARD 1CC by Danmakuman
Flame Zapper Kotsujin - 1CC - Hard

Flame Zapper Kotsujin Score Attack VERY HARD by M. Knight
Flame Zapper Kotsujin 骨塵 - Very Hard Score...

Aliens NO DEATH 1CC (2 Loops) by ICONOCLAST
Aliens (1990) - No Death 1CC (2-ALL)

Alltynex Second 1CC Pass the Shmup Duo by QuakeDoomNukem
Pass The SHMUP DUO - Alltynex Second (Norm...

KAMUI All Clear by JAIMERS
KAMUI - ALL Clear 35.5 Million

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20 Comments

@RodrigoGarciaCarmona 4 years ago

Before I played the video, I saw the title, and I though to myself: "I'm a very knowledgeable person about these kind of games, of course I'm going to know all of them. Yes, most people didn't played those, but not me." And then, I saw the video, and I was AMAZED. I only knew two of the games! So, hats off for this great video. I'm so happy to be able to discover new awesome games that I didn't know anything about... Keep up the good work!

@Pensive_Scarlet 4 years ago

What you expect: Six degrees of Kevin Bacon
What Riot throws at you without warning: Six facsimiles of Kevin Bacon, all trying to kill you

@kwxjibo 4 years ago

I just want to take the time to say that your channel is amazing.
I grew tired of most video game channels on YouTube, but you have something the vast majority of them don't : a true artistic mind. You always go deep into the games you play, your critics are spot on, it feels like you soak up every little detail those games have to offer.
I often feel like people talk about games without actually having taken the time to truly understand their value.

I deeply enjoy your work and just wanted to share some love !

@ShmupsBR 4 years ago

Manbow was the last game Konami did for the MSX, they went through some major internal changes after its release, it was a love letter to the fans and a farewell to the platform where they learned how to make games for a home audience. There would be no Konami on the famicom without the MSX era. The only thing I missed on your text was mentioning how big the MSX was in Brazil as well, since most of us had this platform years before the NES. So it's not wrong to say the MSX was the NES for a big part of the Brazilian audience.

@HighSpeedEnthusiast 4 years ago

Much like yourself I am a retro gamer at heart and anything with pixels I am immediately drawn to it. In my mid-40s now and collecting everything that I wanted and couldn't afford as a child finding such a fantastic comprehensive list like the one you've provided with this video like you said is like finding a pot of gold! Going to find at least 2/3 of the list and give them a try. A fantastic explanation of what the games have to offer with play control and mechanically. Possibly one of the best videos I've seen so far for retro gaming 🤘

@elbitxo5945 4 years ago

SideLine was lost for many years, it saw only a limited realease on Poland in the West, and only an obscure demo was out there until 10 years ago. The Spanish magazine Retromaniac talked about it in 2012, making the shmup community curious about that unknown awesome game. Even having only access to the demo, people were so enthusiastic about the game's quality, less than a year later Keitai's Neil Lei arranged an interview between the magazine team and the original lead dev of the game, Jimmy Hwang. He was surprised people loved the game so much, so he granted permission to play and emulate it for free instead taking the opportunity to commercially release it elsewhere.
So, this game reached (god knows how) Spain on a bootleg CD in 1996, and was distributed hand to hand. The memories about that awesome unknown game demo were so strong, 15 years later one of the kids who played it back then wrote a passionate article about it, firing up the shmup community interest, leading to selfless people to find the whole game and reach the original developer, that was happy to allow the game being available again, this time for everyone to enjoy it fully for free.
I really like this little story, it speaks great things about the shmup and retro gaming community.
Here the original article (in Spanish, but auto translation will do):
https://retromaniacmagazine.blogspot.com/2012/07/side-line-el-matamarcianos-perdido-para.html
and the interview a year later:
https://retromaniacmagazine.blogspot.com/2013/10/entrevistamos-en-exclusiva-jimmy-hwang.html

@eioneus 4 years ago (edited)

In case anyone doesn’t find Riot or Guardians, I found them by these names:

Kamniari Kishi Riot
Guardians: Denji Makai II

And by the way the first part (Denji Makai) is pretty awesome as well.

Great video!! Thank you very much!! Keep up the good work.

@destinyhero4795 4 years ago

10 minutes into the video and that's it. Subscribed.
Epic list !

@jonathan_f2 4 years ago

Watching your videos is like a flashback to my childhood while playing games in random arcades, smokey bowling alleys or at some random convenience store! Back then you really had to be good at the game, because you would line up your quarters on the arcade cabinet while waiting in line with other gamers. Honing your skills meant longer play time!

@paulduetfool 8 months ago

The Aliens arcade game brings back so many memories. That was one of those games that had people standing in line to play. I was one of those kids waiting in line with a pocket full of quarters.

@rickylovesyou 3 years ago

Bro, shmups for life! but you doing other genres is absolutely right up my alley. Awesome !

@Wolfdragon92584 4 years ago

These are just the kind of games I grew up being addicted to!!! I still remember being 6 and my grandma taking me to a roller rink to teach me how to skate, only for me to get distracted by the giant Metal Slug and X-Men arcade monitors!!! Soooo awesome!!

@AlbertoMonroy-lq2vw 2 years ago

This channel has become my Jam, so full of quality and the commentary on these games is so deep, Shmup jumkie seems like such a cool and genuine guy and his love for gaming harkens to that feeling of the 90s and 2000s when people actually became surprised and stood in awe of new games. Congrats for this channel!.

@pinkueiga1867 4 years ago

Amazing to see the Alltynex trilogy getting some love. Giving how much you loved Eschatos and its use of set pieces, I need to say that Reflex is one of the greatest attempts on telling a story only through set pieces and the mechanics (that will change in the final part of the game), without using a single line of text. To have an entire video in the future dedicated to the trilogy, can be nuts. And also great picks for the MS-DOS and PC-98 section! 💟