Good to know The Gunsmoke port is still ball-bustingly hard. I remember finishing it on the NES when I was young before I ever tried it in the arcade. Then our local Shakey’s Pizza got the cab, and boy was that an unpleasant surprise. I didn’t finish the fucker till I was in university and played it on MAME. Also thanks for doing the dirty work for the community and doing these lag tests, SJ. I know they’re a pain in the ass and really time consuming, so seriously, thanks for doing the shit work for all of us.

I just love Magic Sword. There's something magical and simple about this action game. I love the early 90s fantasy vibe that modern games don't have anymore. I loved it.

I love Capcom arcade games. Their sprite work was so beautiful.

The second arcade stadium has a higher CERO age rating in Japan (ironically it is lower in Europe). They would not be allowed to include games with a higher age rating as a DLC for the first Stadium. I think that’s why they went with a separate collection.

Fun personal fact... at 10 years old - in my local arcade everyone was kaning street fighter 2... whereas I absolutely was besotted by 3 wonders! - so much so I was bullied over it with taunts from older lads shouting "midnight!!" In a stupid voice whilst gobbling on me... harsh memories but I adored the game.

Edit: around August 19th, 2022, this collection works flawlessly without the preview video rendering issue I mentioned. Likely a Proton update did the trick FYI for Steam Deck owners, the collection works on the Steam Deck day one using Proton Experimental. One minor issue that is ongoing is that the preview videos when selecting the game is bugged at the moment, but it will likely get fixed in the near future. Thank you for this thorough review! So far, haven't had the time to explore all the games but I somehow enjoy Block Block more than I anticipated.

They are still missing "The Punisher", "Alien vs. Predator", "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs". Its a crime in my opinion and all because some greedy corn hole executives refuse to stop being duche bags. Thank you for this video, you are appreciated El Adicto.

Hot damn, this is the exact kind of review I've been looking for for this collection! Thanks for the in-depth info - I really wish there wasn't so much overlap with other Capcom collections in this one, most of the big hits are simply superior in those other versions, especially the fighting games.

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The fact they didn’t incorporate this with the first one really is frustrating. Now we have two fake virtual arcades to visit by the same company.

Eco Fighters is sooo good‼️ I’ve been playing ALOT of old Arcade Games on my Moded OG Xbox that has MAME ‼️ I LOVE playing MAME so much that I purchased a Arcade Stick just to play the Shmup’s & Fighting & Beat’em Up Games I can‼️ Just discovered your channel & the name alone deserves a Sub😊

YES, I was waiting for this! Its 20:40 hours here in Europe. You’ve made my sunday evening.

Fantastic review - I really enjoy the passion and level of detail. One thing I really appreciate about this collection that you didn’t mention was how each game has multiple leaderboards to chase. For example 1cc score, game complete time, and special challenges that bump the difficulty. This adds incentive to “get good” to climb the ladder.

Looking forward to this . Really appreciate all the work you put in Junkie .

I just want to say I F××king LOVE this channel I was years back looking for shmup/shooter channels and apart from Stg weekly that eventually came along I needed more and shmup junkie.......Honestly this is my number 1 channel I really appreciate the effort really you are the man ! Looking forward to anything you do and even have notifications on which I never do for channels. Thank you

So glad you got to enjoy and review this one with your boy 👏🏻 Currently doing a lot of gaming with my little guy as well so here's hoping to play some of the classics at some point later down the road. Another awesome review 👏🏻 There's definitely a few I'd like to check out and I'm going to download the collection later tonight 😉

Vampire Savior and Slam Masters :OOOO Yes I am a 90s kids, Schmups, Fighters and JRPGs (classicaly ones)

Excellent video 👍thank you for covering the Fighters aswell (my number 1 genre). Your son pulled off some cool combos and cross ups on Alpha 3 😁 and he mains Sakura, respect 👌

31:19 just as an FYI Street Fighter II came out in 1991, not 1987 which was the first games release year. I played it back then and was shocked years later that it got a sequel that proceeded to blow me away.

PSA for those who are planning to tackle Eco Fighters: Be careful with your right analog stick if you want to use the laser sword as your main shot type.

Vampire Saviour is an astounding game - they did so much in that series that was new and I'd love to see a new one, I still play it on the Saturn. Fun to see the proud dad moment on SFZ2. It's a real shame Capcom don't do rollback online play for this - and I'd love to be able to download superplays. After watching this I had to load up and play eco-fighters, jeez is that last stage hard.

Black Tiger surprisingly still holds up, gorgeous colors and art.

Killer detailed review of the package! I have the entire first one on Xbox and quite enjoy it. I'm glad to see they're still putting in the effort with the sequel. Will likely grab this one soon too.

Awesome review as always including the lag tests! I think im gonna pick up black tiger :)

Thanks @shmup junkie for this comprehensive review! I wish they included all the AD&D games.

Amazing review, , you covered these games so well, and went above and beyond with the presentation, I am hyped to pick this up , I loved the first collection and this one looks great too. Thank you for all you do, I really had a good time watching this.

Your reviews always rule! Thanks!

I’m almost 41 and grew up in Ontario Canada. I say that because I feel like these collections were made specifically for me lol There’s something about the visuals, sounds and overall vibe that resonates deeply and causes serious nostalgia for me. I love it. I enjoy this second collection more but I can’t say why exactly. Really excellent videos man I appreciate all the breakdowns and details.

I like the idea of emulators looking like arcade stadiums, like you can customize them as you want, and its really nice to collecting roms like this, even when we hasnt had any real arcade cabinets with any popular franchise like Metal Slug in our country...

I'm still waiting for a physical bundle launch, but it's not looking like it's gonna happen. Thanks for the analysis and lag check!

And I thought I was crazy when some of my other controllers (even wired) seemed a bit off compared to the joycons with input latency. I really hope they look into fixing this. Thanks again good sir, for your in depth reviews!

Been looking forward to this, I’ve watched the first review at least 3 times.

Sorry to hear about Gun.Smoke, I was also looking forward to that one, although I haven’t bought the game yet. But the primary draw for me from the beginning was Black Tiger, which I remember from my childhood where I played it at a skating rink. Never played since, glad to hear it still holds up.

Thanks a bunch for another in depth analysis, a joy to watch and listen to. I also mainly bought the original for the shm’ups so may pick up Eco Fighters and leave it at that. Personally I had my fingers crossed for Area 88 / UN Squadron in this collection as Carrier Air Wing remains my most played game on the 1st collection by a wide margin.

Man this review is spot. That explains why I was freaking frustrated when I played Stryder on the Genesis. It was identical to the arcade but not exactly. Especially, the sound quality as well. The arcade was 32 bit. That explains why I felt the Genesis version was freaking hard! I was so frustrated by the controls. I thought it was just me but when he explained how the arcade controls were smoother than I was shocked. Also, didn’t know there were missing animations as well.

Awesome video and review!! There are so many games here I have missed out: Black Tiger (as a GnG fan I can´t wait to play this one), Last Duel, Eco Fighters and Midnight Wanderers. I am glad to see GunSmoke included here although the arcade og is a very difficult game, thus I prefer the NES port LOL. I am a casual player too when it comes to fighting games so it's nice to see several great games included...and beat em ups that I enjoy til this day.

Thank you again for the awesome video. I have the beat-em-up, Stadium 1 and SF anniversary collection already on the Switch. Little bit unpleasantly surprised about the lag. Maybe I'll get this one on the PS4. Hopefully the lag is less annoying, since I only play with third party arcade sticks. There are some good games on it, that I would love to play. Getting my ass kicked with GunSmoke is one of them :-). Played Black Tiger this weekend on Mame, and it's a great game too. I do have memories of tiger road, but then on the C64. Saw the aswesome pictures of the arcade in the magazine and kept imagining the C64 was just as good 😂 .

Excellent work as always! There’s not much in this collection for me personally, I already have the Street Fighter Anniversary Collection and Dark Stalkers 3 in my collection, although I might give Eco Fighters a try. Would love to see you review all NeoGeo shmups, or maybe all the ACA shmups on Switch, or how about all of Cave’s shmups?! Keep up the good work dude!

While I love shmups the most, this collection does have some real bangers. Absolutely love Black Tiger and Magic Sword. Both are still so fun to play.

As ever, Shmup Junkie you delivered a fantastic overview of the collection. I'm holding off buying this for just a little longer as I have way too much in my backlog - Pocky and Rocky Reshrined is arriving in about 10 days... I wonder who recommended that 🤔 Side Arms was always a favourite for me in the arcades and it's great to see Last Duel get some time in the sun - I used to play the Atari ST version way back in the early 90s and loved it. I used to play Gunsmoke in the arcades as well because I liked the western theme, though I preferred Iron Horse because it wasn't so brutal. I should try the NES version of Gunsmoke to see how I get on.

I always do appreciate some of these arcade collections, just cause I've missed out on so many of these games. There was an arcade in my local mall when I was a kid, but I was never allowed to play there, and by the time I was old enough almost all arcades in the country had closed down lol

Another great video Junkie! The second collection definitely has some games that make this collection an easy grab for individual games. Eco Fighters, Saturday Slam Masters, the Mega Man titles, and Three Wonders are all ones I really wanna play. I also very much appreciated that you did actually take a look at the fighting games in the collection. I know you say that you find it hard to get to grips with them but many people in the community are always willing to help others learn. It's why I would recommend most people who wish to play any of the fighters to get the recent Capcom Fighting Collection, as it has basically all of the games in this collection, but with training modes, online play with rollback, mappable supers to single buttons, and a load of extras. If you still aren't interested in them like that, then I'll respect it. I do kinda feel the same way with shmups honestly lol (I watch you and other KZfaqrs more than I have played actual shmups) but never be afraid to try and learn! It's how I even got into shmups thanks to you!

I was hoping this collection turned out well, thanks for giving me something to watch about it, friend!

Really cool that you got to capture a lot of gameplay with your son, arcade games are pretty much always more fun co-op. And here I was thinking I was going to get out of this one without damage to my backlog but no, Last Duel is a must play for me. I love shumps that let you speed things up and the ground segments look like a lot of fun.

Awesome video! I was actually on the fence for these games, the frame of lag seems to be around 4-5 for most games, which is not awful but could be better IMO. I think I'm gonna get some of these titles like Eco Fighters which I played a long time ago on emulator and arcade but for other games like King of Dragons or Knights of the Round I'll play them on the Capcom Belt Action compilation that I already have instead. That's pretty cool that your son likes to play games, I hope mine will like games as he grow up.

Thanks for the Awesome detailed reviews of each one 🤗

Nice Capcom arcade Compilation here Sir. I like them all 👍👍👍💖❤💖❤💖❤

Gun.smoke arcade has a great nostalgic value for me. I got so good at it i could reach level 6 on one life, LOL!!! I could beat Black Tiger and Sidearms on one credit. Tiger Road, Last Duel and King Of Dragons were also faves of mine back in old arcade days. I love this reviews you do, fella. Your passion just leaps from the screen. Keep em coming!!

Will watch later, I have to finish Rambo3 now :D Tbh having all capcom compilations from before, I couldn't find a single game I am interested in. And even if I would buy 1 or 2, having them separately is the worst idea capcom could have came up. On the other hand if this was a physical collection...... I know myself :D

I have been looking forward to this review! Great work as always my dude!

I came here to tell you thank you very much for reviewing all Sega Genesis and Sega CD shooting games that video is really a lot to me!! you kinda make that video for me!! thanks a lot bro keep up the good work for amazing content.👍👍

Good job and great review from Italy! Ciao

absolutely great video, so much time invested, 2thumbs up! i hope this comes out physically as i don't buy digital games as a collector

Lol you hit the nail on the head these games should have been released as DLC packs for the first Capcom Arcade Stadium and I am quite surprised that no one else touched on this afaik

Great video, I'm kind of tempted by Streer Fighter tbh, I don't have an easy way to play Super Turbo on the telly

back then i remember they had street fight2 at grocery markets, gas stations, pool hall , bowling alley, malls and even laundry mats

I d say Gunsmoke is a hidden gem on this one! Fun fact, Gunsmoke has an OBSCURE and little known sequel called Red Dead Revolver by this little known English game studio, Rockstar I think they are called ;-) Also wtf is going on with the arcade stick lag?! That s crazy.

Great review! I didn’t know anything about Last Duel, so I think I’ll check that out. Personally, I love Knights of the Round. Not the best game, but it was a big part of my life for a time.

What a wonderful indepth review. Thank you very much.

Excellent video mate, sorry it took so long to get to it, real bad week, Thank you mate, this video ultimately cheered me up and brought many a smirk to my face, and even a couple of chuckles. Excellent edit, information, overview, and top entertainment. I actually invested in this game on release day as last time I waited forever for a price drop, and because of all the fighters included, as well as Tiger Road, which I loved on the arcade. I totally agree with your review, very fair and excellent coverage. It's nice to see Black Tiger again, which is damn tough, but a beautiful game I mostly played on SNES but of course the arcades. I was pretty excited for Gunsmoke (appreciate the NES tip) but like you say its hard, real hard, and the controls in themselves don't help it, it would have been nice if they had updated the controls and made it more top down shooter style mechanics with left and right analogues for movement and shooting. I was disappointed that it's a separate game as I was really looking forward to modifying my arcade in the original Stadium with all these new titles. I think Capcom really missed a trick there but do like that they added the ability for gamers to buy what they want for gamers on a budget or specifically interested in certain genres. What Stadium 1 did for Shmups, Stadium 2 does for fighting games for me. Hopefully non fighters will fall in love with the amazing fighters on offer here. This is now my favourite was to play Alpha 3, Im in love and can't afford that Saturn version. The Darkstalkers games here are a great addition as well. The only thing I'd add is that if you have already invested in CAPCOM BEAT EM UP COLLECTION and CAPCOM FIGHTING GAME COLLECTION you will already own almost a third of the games. With that said though I can never have enough versions of King Of Dragons, Knights Of The Round, Darkstalkers, or Street Fighter (and yes the orignal does suck but fans have apparently fixed that now). Excellent review dude 10/10.

I saw Black Tiger and Gun.Smoke in the intro....SOLD

Great review, thank you! =)

very thorough review. I enjoyed it. thank you!

Gave in and picked up this collection yesterday, mostly for the arcade Mega man games, being a big Mega man fan, but living in Europe this is the first time they’ve been officially available over here. Good to know everything runs pretty solidly and avoided the controller issues as I picked it up for PS5.

Excellent video as usual junkie!, yesterday I downloaded the Capcom Stadium Collection 2 on my XBOX Series S and I really enjoyed Son Son even though is an older game it was fun. I see you are reviewing the Switch version, not sure if the switch has the same online features as the Xbox one but it has some cool online mechanics, special challenges and online ranking system for each game that makes it kind of addictive which was totally unexpected for me. I agree the first collection has some of the best shooters and the second one is more oriented for the fighting games, maybe we will get a third collection and I suspect it would be more oriented towards CPS3 and some other missing classics like Cadillacs and Dinosaurs or The Punisher but somehow I suspect there's license issues with those games.

100% agree about the brutality of Gunsmoke. Obviously designed as an arcade quarter eater! Even on my emulator abusing save states and unlimited credits I’ve been stuck on the ninja boss for years! Somehow you have to get to him with the horse! Lol

Nice!! Was looking forward to this! So far I've just got the shmups you enjoyed the least LOL (Gun.Smoke and Savage Bees). I'll add Eco Fighters soon though (^.^)

Awesome video. !!! You are the best game content creator !!!! No one comes close. !!!!!

And i put in 3+ hrs today on 2nd stadium and got on the 3rd savage bees loop. Still so fun

I'm a little younger than you, so for me it's King of Dragons that reminds me of playing in the arcades in Vegas while my dad was in the casino. Loved it enough to buy the SNES port when it came out.

Another awesome video. Cheers

Just finished watching (through a few distractions during cooking) and I’m in complete agreement with your overall verdict. I totally agree that the first collection was, overall, the better of the two but there no denying the quality of titles on show on this second stadium!! I’ve always been a huge fighting game fan but loved playing these single player, as at home with a friend that sucked at Street Fighter, was the only way to play…..(kinda want to take on your son as he looks pretty decent and had a hell of a finish 🤣🤣) The shmups however are limited in this collection but of a good quality (except for Gunsmoke which is stupid hard) especially Eco fighters, which I played lots on emulation and Sidearms which I have on my Pc Engine GT and still love to this day!! I’m a massive fan of King of Dragons and Magic Sword and I’m totally with you on the reviews you gave, I played these so much and are a lot of fun to speed run, especially Magic Sword as you can skip floors to complete quicker. Either way I’m glad we have the same level of nostalgia for these games because they shaped my childhood and I love every minute I relive that!! Amazing video and I can’t recommend this enough to everyone!!

Thanks for the overview. Just downloaded this and the first one since they are currently free with the new PS plus system. Though I've heard of some of the games, many are a bit before my time so it's good to know which ones are worth purchasing, even though they are only £1.50 each. One thing though: SF2 wasn't released to arcades till 1991, the (rubbish) original game was a 1987 release.

Good video, Junkie! I assume we'll see this on PC and PS4, so if might be worth waiting on those releases before diving in. I went all in on the original release on Switch, and the latency makes it more fun for casual play than a serious approach. I see you didn't mention Led Storm. Don't sleep on that game. A local restaurant in my hometown had that for a little while when I was a kid, and I had a ton of fun with it. It's an overhead racing game with a jump mechanic like Last Duel, but no shooting. But you collect fuel as you go along, and I think it's overall underrated. Definitely an early combat racing experience, but good stuff.

Since my mame days of early 2000, cps1, cps2, and cps3 were king and followed me throughout the emulation days on the psp and psvita. So, when this compilation came, I bought the best that capcom had to offer. In addition, I also bought the Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle, capcom fighting collection, and the street fighter compilation. Capcom is just king of the arcade back in the late 80s and mid-90s.

Another great vid and hearing you talk about your son was nice. Mine has always been better than me at some genres too. How was the input delay on the fighting games? Nothing egregious on any I'm guessing?

Another high quality video,props bud. Actually made me interested in the collection,keep it up🤞

Great video!

I really like Magic Sword but it feels at least 10 levels too long. Maybe 30 or 35 floors would feel fun and not be too repetitive. Another excellent video Shmup Junkie! Thank you for your enthusiasm and passion.

Great review as always. I have the first one and while there's no standout game I must have like Progear had done, collectively I think there's enough to just get the whole bundle. I am annoyed at having a separate app and I know the price will have a sale yet I want it now, tough choice to make.

Thanks for the great review round up! It's so weird that they released it like this. There must be a financial reason to release a second "volume" like this instead of adding on to the first game. I guess it must sell better or at least benefit from being a new release in the store. Even so, you'd think they'd at least make the two link up so you can have everything in one place :/

Hmm…dad on the shooters and son on the fighters - sounds like a FighterJunkie channel in the works 😉

Nice. Great games here. Wish there was a Williams arcade classics and Midway classics out for the ps5.

Your reviews are so good. Maybe you can expand to Arcade Junkie, Sega Junkie, PCE junkie, etc?

Really coowl to see where some of the OG Marvel vs Capcom support characters come from in their own titles. Here's hoping the next Arcade Stadium volume brings in the VS fighter series.

Totally agree about Gun.Smoke. Was expecting the same game as NES but was disappointed.

I wish there was a legit Screen saver mode for the virtual Arcades in this series that alternates between viewing the overall arcade and the individual machines’ demos

I just bought Capcom Fighting Collection. And it came with a download code for Capcom Arcade Stadium 2nd. It was a total surprise. I had no idea what this was. It's so awesome. The switch is slowly turning into my favorite system's with all the arcade style ports from the 80s and 90s.

That was some absolutely lovely Alpha 3 play!

thank you, Junkie, for an interesting video! these classic arcade games are something of a wonderland, obscure yet especially appealing

So true in regards to Gunsmoke, it's such a cool and unique game and a potentially great one sadly though, it's just about ruined by the difficulty. Despite this I love the game and really wish Capcom or a creative and talented hacker would adjust the code to make it a fair game because it would make it ten times more fun and excellent!

Excellent video as always, thanks! How are people approaching these games, credit feeding on first run then being more restrictive? Using in the inbuilt challenge runs? Personally I give myself 5 credits and see how far I can get.

been looking forward to this one! bought the entire set as soon as I could, although about 90% of the time has just been me trying to raise my rank on the leaderboards trying to get the one-credit clear on Black Tiger! Capcom definitely had a thing for fantasy stuff back in those days, black tiger, magic sword, king of dragons, knights of the round, and yeah the D&D Mystara games (which WOTC *does* own the rights to now so I guess that assessment was accurate, haha.) The fighting games were cool to see, but aside from having the various viewpoints of the arcade cabinets you're better off playing those over on Street Fighter 30th Anniversary or the newer Capcom Fighting Collection (which has HSF2 anyway, but with online play!) this was definitely a great breakdown of the included games!

Always love your videos. I agree the first collection is also my favorite. I am just happy I to be finally playing Black Tiger on the Switch. It's one of my childhood favorites. I think I am all fightered out with the fighting games and no longer play them anymore. So it's good we can buy what we want. Did you skip over the sports game or did I miss that one?

It took me a long time around to watching this video but had some time today 😎. Yeah! I remember captain planet! 🤣. Awesome review by the way! I wasn't sure whether to get this one but it looks like there's some awesome games here!

I like how you brush the enemies in Eco Fighters xD

Great video bro.

From what I understand, MAME and ROMs are the answer to the lag issues.

Good overview of this collection; I feel the same way that you do, I don't care for this collection of games nearly as much as the better offerings on the first in the series. Not just keeping them in the same arcade and combined with the first stadium title also is kind of perplexing. I'd like to have them all together, like I do with the Sega Mega Drive and Genesis Classics on Steam. Breaking them up into three subsets would have been a desired option as I could get some of them on publisher sale that way; they never seem to discount the individual games and they doubled the price of each to four dollars for this collection. Really the only ones that I am all that interested in are Eco Fighters, Slam Masters, maybe one or two of the fighting games, and King of Dragons, and that last one I already have on the beat em ups bundle but would double dip for a cheap sale price. Games like Magic Sword look good upon first impression but get repetitive fast and I always wanted that one to have more outdoor environments like stage 1 instead of the majority of the game taking place in a tower.

Nice video! I love your enthusiasm for these games! Question: Do you know what the input delay data is for Gamecube controllers? I felt comfortable with what I played with my Gamecube controllers (especially Eco Fighters), but I'm curious as to what the data is.