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    Hey folks,

    This is my newest video of a NEO GEO game-- this is the deceptively deep (a little TOO deep) vs. fighter NINJA MASTERS by ADK/SNK from 1996. I'm in the midst of my "Flashback" episodes that are a sort of time capsule, and this encapsulates the year 1996-- I was lucky enough to actually attend the Olympics in Atlanta! At any rate, this game features (surprise) a number of ninjas to select from and features many moves, special meters you fill up that allow you to do MORE moves, and certain finishing moves, desperation moves and moves you can pull off when the opponent has low energy. A bit too much for my simplistic tastes in fighting games.

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    Hey folks,

    My newest video is another "Flashback" episode which takes us back to the final year of the 20th century.. 1999! And I also review CAPTAIN TOMADAY, a weirdo shmup for the NEO GEO. You play as an anthropomorphic tomato (!) that doesn't shoot his enemies but punches them with both hands (!). Fortunately you don't have to alternate button presses, you can just hold them down to rapid-fire punch. If you repeatedly punch with one hand, you'll charge a stronger punch with the other. The usual power-ups (option, weapon power-up, bonus points) are found by shooting tomato paste cans! Totally nutso; if you like that sort of thing check it out.

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    Hey folks.

    Sorry this may not 100% fit but this was LICENSED to SNK, and made by Alpha Denshi. It's a crappy beat-em-up (though an early one) called GANG WARS. This game is technically ghastly at times and not terribly impressive graphically. Choose form one or two characters and go to work to clean up the streets of criminals and rescue a young girl in distress. You can pick up and use weapons like clubs, bottles, concrete blocks, and later posts and flamethrowers and machine guns-- or can you?? Sometimes a weapon gets knocked into a place where you can't seem to pick it up, and you should be able to reach it! Pass.

    By the way, this is my 8th "Flashback Episode", where you look back at the year the game was made (1989). Hope you find some nostalgic enjoyment!

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    Hey all,

    My newest NEO review is of POP 'N BOUNCE, also known as GAPPORIN. It's a cutesy basic ARKANOID clone with some similar power ups released from breaking blocks. The "blocks" are actually cutesy animals-- pigs, kittens, squids, octopii, etc. One cool addition is the ability to make the game a hell of a lot easier by lighting up ATTACK at the top. My Flashback series continues with this review-- I look back at events and such of the year the game came out, so this is 1997. Titanic, Weapons of Mass Destruction, South Park, Bill Clinton, Princess Diana and more are looked back upon. Enjoy this time capsule!

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    So I assume these are on MAME?

     

    I have vague memories of playing Death Race at the carnival (Which came through town once a year for "Frontier Days") and seeing that cool marquee and maybe side art (?)...Obviously it was a long time ago. I'm thinking sometime in the 1970's.

     

    I also always used to play that shark hunting game like you see in Jaws...The name escapes me, but when you kill a shark a very cool graphic plays...Something that looked way too realistic for the time. I read much later that it used a spinning disc, paired with a strobe light or something like that every time you killed the shark...

     

     

    Update/Edit: The Shark game was called Killer Shark (SEGA 1972).

    Death Race was only playable through an emulator that can deal with Discrete Integrated Circuit logic-- here's the link:

    http://fabslab.itch.io/death-race

    I don't know much about the Jaws game-- it sounds like an electromechanical game where you physically use a mounted rifle to shoot at lights (or in this case sharks). Just like a billion other arcade games at the time before the video revolution took over. And thus, not really worth emulating IMHO.

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    Hey folks.

    This was my first in a series of 20 straight "flashback" episodes I want to do. It was for the game GALAXY FIGHT, and for each of the videos in this series I look back at the year of a game for each video and look at news events, films, tv debuts, sports, music and celebrity passings of the year. This year is 1995, which was when Galaxy Fight occurred. Galaxy Fight is a rather blah vs. fighting game in my opinion. Select from 7 different futuristic fighters with a zoom in/zoom out feature similar to Art Of Fighting. No special weapon meter in this one, which was appearing in all the vs. fighting games around this time. Just kind of dull to me. If you like my flashback episodes, good news! I'm making many, many more!

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