Yay, you got my suggestion! :D The C64 was pretty bad at racing conversions too, Chase HQ and WEC Le Mans being particularly bad. Also, Gamevoy Advance, their ports of Marble Madness and Klax were literally cut in half as they were only given 5 weeks to develop them.

The funniest part of the bad STUN Runner ports is how the speedometer reads 500 mpg when in reality you’d be lapped by an old lady pushing a shopping cart full of cans of cat food.

I just cracked the hell up laughing at the skeletons holding several chicken drumsticks threateningly in Rastan on the Amstrad.

I LOVED the C64 port of Contra as a teen! To get around the spacebar thing, I played with the C64 on the ground while I sat on the couch, and used my toe to tap the spacebar. ;-) Some next-level thinking there. I played a bunch of games that used the spacebar for a secondary function this way. Commando comes to mind. Love that Rob Hubbard version of the theme!

Awesome PQC thank you for all the content!!! All those years of playing beat -em- ups produced on hell of a tough guy! Best to you and your family!

One, two, three, four…………. Just kidding!! Happy New Year bubba! Love your channel Pat!

Dude you are the best. That’s why I’ll holding off on my big collaboration video until you are in. Reminder it’s on guilty pleasures. One minute long is perfect. Please and thanks. You are still my favorite KZfaqr 😊

Thanks, Patman. These games were so bad, I had an existential crisis, crawled under my desk, curled up into a fetal position, and finally emerged eight hours later, smelling strongly of urine and Taco Bell.

I know that the topic of this vid is "Worst Arcade Conversions Ever, but when QC mentioned Contra, I thoroughly enjoyed the NES version. But I recommend the Famicom version even more. The Famicom version actually has cut scenes and a map showing where you are.

Patman, you outdid yourself with I quote " queeferoo". I nearly spit my dinner out with that one. Best retro chanell ever. Take care man.

I was just putzing around with Captain America for Genesis on my Wii U this past week. Aside from the missing animation or smaller scale energy bolt for Iron Man's special attack (which is what drew me to this game in the arcade), it's actually pretty comparable to the arcade game.

Thanks for another great piece of nostalgia! I’m absolutely up for more episodes in this series. I sure do remember the disappointment when I bought Outrun for the C64 and later the Amiga, just as you did. Afterburner was another less splendid conversion too I recall… 😅

12:32 When he said "HYPMOTIZED" I almost fell out my chair LMAOOOOO.

Love you Pat! You will always be the fifth horseman in my mind

The jumping in the original contra arcade game is just aweful

Your best gaming video. This is such an important subject. Because we all had a lot of bad experiences of bad evenings after school playing are new games. Hoping they would be fab. Please do far more. Eswat, Street fighter, 1943, (spectrum), Pac-Land, Crackdown, and Shackled. All had some bad conversions.

The Spectrum version of S.T.U.N. Runner is indeed an excellent aid for putting people into a hypnotic trance.

Karnov is a 100% PERFECT port, from Speccy to C64 ofcourse, it even replicates the colour clash!!! a masterpiece.

I've got Patman fever. I'm going outta my mind. Another awesome video to watch. Thank you, good Sir. Pat is the man. Happy New year to you and your family.

Excelent series. We need more bad ports. Please!! Great video

I like to more think that you're dogging the people that made these games. IM JOKING! Hahahah! It's a joke to make people laugh, relax! I'm glad that everything good and bad works together to bring us all so much joy today. Great work on this video and the last as well. Super fun and entertaining. Best wishes in the new year. Godspeed!

Hi Pat, love your stuff. Great Work!

It's like if these conversions were rushed during development or something. Great video, Patman!

I really feel for the developers who had to make some of these arcade conversions on machines that were years out of date! I just couldn't imagine the dedication it would take to make a late 80s or 90s arcade game work on something like the C64 or Spectrum! Those guys must have PTSD from the experience.

The diner district in the Amiga port of Outrun is still hilarious. Do a shot every time a diner shows up on the horizon! Just kidding, you'd be swallowing constantly from the minute the stage begins until the second the race ends.

The Amiga Outrun intro is hilarious, at least.

Karnov C64 definitely struggling there. That is some interesting music in the Rastan version, yes. That Outrun on Amiga looks rough. No scaling ability it seems and poor scrolling the Amiga suffered with, resulting in slow input feedback. Thanks for the history, Patman!

Yes bud, let's have another compilation like this!!

Master system version of rastan was awesome too... The intro for the Amiga version of outrun is comical.

On point Pat as usual. Greatly enjoying your videos 🎉

Just like KZfaq videos, there are more, so much more, bad games than good. I thank the stars this channel is an absolute gem! Excellent stuff 👍👍👍

Great video man! waiting on the 3rd part! cya there!!!

Happy new year. Wish you the best for 2023! Thanks for your videos.

Considering that they were porting games from vastly superior hardware to platforms like the C64, these conversions are actually impressive in their own right. The majority of the ports shown here are going from Arcade Games that use 68000 or better CPU's to a 6502/Z80 platforms that didn't have dedicated hardware for things like scrolling. Arcade games also used multiple CPU's, better dedicated audio hardware (i.e. CPU and ROM just to run the sound). These 8Bit conversions are pushing the limits of their hardware a lot of the times. Yes, they could be better but when you've got a dead-line quality suffers.

I enjoy all your videos. Please continue the series.

31:34 Yes PatmanQC do some more of one of the worst conversions games ever please I'm looking forward to other episodes until then keep reviewing and stay strong PatmanQC!!

It's amazing and shocking how bad games can get and still be published. So many games look so bad that I can only wonder how the hell they managed to sell AT ALL. Amazing video! (May I ask, have you ever done a documentary on Pipe Dream/Pipemania?)

“Rastan himself looks like he’s been dipped in milk chocolate” 😂😂😂

It really depended on the port as it could be quite random which computer got the better port. Amiga and ZX Spectrum got as many wins as fails. Thanks for the video! 👍

There are actually two different C64 versions for OutRun. The main programmer of the UK version was able to go back and make a few refinements with the US version.

Patman I've been going through your archives and you have a great Channel keep up the good work have you ever done a video on the Thunder Force Series all the great side-scrolling shoot them up so that came out on the Sega Genesis

More please. I worked in a UK indie computer retailer in the late 80's and the amount of kids that we had buy these conversions, then had their mum or dad try to return for a full cash refund - was painful (we usually gave them credit - what were we, monsters?).

2:32 First appearance of the Companion Cube from Portal??? ❤ 📦

I like how the BBC Micro version of paperboy has the sprite turning for going left, but going right it just slides over.

the 128k Spectrum Rastan has very good music, and UK computer mags liked it. I found it enjoyable, and have good memories of it. It is a little bit of a shame about a few things about the the C64 Rastan. But It does looks pretty good, plays well, and fab music.

Lol, good choice, putting comic book guy in the thumbnail XD

Honestly, you can't complain about the C64 port of Chase HQ, before you've tried Cisco Heat :D Also, while the framerate is quite ok, they managed to create very nice sense of lack of speed in the C64 port of Enduro Racer. Also, is the C64 version of Robocop supposed to be based on the arcade version? At least they are very similar. Yes, it's very far from the worst arcade conversions, but there's an interesting detail, that could make it "honorary mention", if nothing else: The developers were in a hurry, having to get the game finished for christmas season (Where have I heard this one before?), but the last level just wasn't working properly at all. Their solution? Make the time limit for the second last level so tight, it's impossible to complete!

What is going on in Paperboy with the perv who has his hands down his pants in the BBC Micro version at 20:18? How did they not see what this looks like?! Lol.. Also the Apple II version of the same game is atrocious! I cannot believe it's legal to release crap like that! Thanks for these, I love seeing and comparing the games across the different systems. Keep up the great work!

Another great video Patman and I would love to see more of these worst ever videos 👍

please continue this series. i appreciate the work you put into this channel, and am always happy when i see a new upload :)

That spectrum tunnel makes me think of the radical hypno high scene in 'Motel Hell'.

Great great video, Pmqc But did you have to show Rainnn “will whine for relevance” Wilson ugh

As a kid in these times, few things were as disappointing as arcade conversions.

I was really happy to see a part 2! I love your videos!

This isn't exactly major childhood trauma being dug up here, but definitely major childhood disappointment.

I was like what do you mean they are running slow? Then remembered I have you on 1.25x speed.

You can become a fire breathing Russian by drinking fireball whisky lol

Perfect way to start my day

You should warn for epileptic seizures for those at risk.

7 seconds to get me laughing, a new record

I had Karnov on my IBM 286. I am glad you didn't call that version out. It truly was pretty good even though it was definitely not even close to the arcade.

Omg, I can't believe everyone freaked out on you about your opinions

I know they're not great, but I have fond memories of Outrun and Paperboy on the C64 as they were all I had growing up.

I'm pretty sure that the game covered in this video that I own the most ports/conversions of is Paperboy. I have it for the Lynx, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, NES, SMS, and Genesis. Well, I also have Paperboy 2 on the SNES. I like the SMS and Genesis versions the most. As for S.T.U.N Runner, I only have it for the Lynx. The Lynx was a powerful system for its day.

Even the arcade version of outrun only managed 30fps. Think it was a game boy or 3ds version that ran at 60fps first

What were they thinking?

Wow! I had to turn my head for the ZXSpectrum Stunrunner, that was a new level of awful, I was getting sick in those "tunnels"

What i hated the most about the Captain America and the Avenger's SNES port was enemies having invincivility after being knocked down.

Okay you had me spit out my monster at the "Sniffing glue" comment. And here I was talking to my old Navy buddy about "Airplane" Side note...Stop being so happy with "crappy little games". You need a drastic "shameful" or "disgusted" face. Still a good video though.

Some of the Out Run conversions on old PCs were poor, but, growing up, I played Out Run on the C64 with Splash Wave as the track of choice.

Thanks!

I still have my copy of STUN Runner on the Lynx. That is a really good port as far as home console ports go.

Yay just in time for a slow weekend shift !!!

How old are you Patman? Listening to your videos, I keep thinking maybe you're younger than I thought.

The Commodore 64 was my first go to 8 bit gaming system as well growing up. My parents purchased one in '83 and I loved the great games on it! Crazy thing is I still have that same computer and it still works to this day! I didn't realize that Karnov and Outrun were so terrible on the Commodore 64. I know Afterburner wasn't too bad of a port. lol And yes please continue with this series.

Do you remember General Chaos on the Sega Genesis.... I love that game back in the Day....

Please continue the series.

Holy Guacamole, S.T.U.N. Runner blew dead bears on the Amiga. So glad I missed it. :)

Yes, more please!

Worth noting there was 2 conversions of outrun for the c64 (I only discovered this recently, not sure why they did a second version, it was licensing or to try and address playability in the first one). Amstrad version of gryzor was good but flip screen. For these really slow fps games like stun runner, hard driving, outrun etc there might be a good video in playing these in overclocked emulation, particularly for the atari st where 3d stuff was generally handled better from a hardware perspective.

The clouds in Outrun repeat themselves, I have never seen clouds actually do that

While I'm old enough to have been there, we always had consoles (Atari, NES...) rather than PCs so I missed out on all kinds of queefy goodness.

Bland colours on the C64 are what they are. A more legit complaint is maybe a poor choice of bland colour usage. Paperboy is pretty decent for the C64. Outrun is not as nice looking as it could have been. Turbo Outrun for the C64 is an improvement.

Happy New Year thank you

no port on any arcade game is 100% perfect you cant beat the arcade version but because of emulation wich is brilliant. now we can criticize how games where back in the day but that is what we had to be content with. even if some machines only had1 fire button. the spectrum tried its best, great video pmqc😁😁😁

Gryzor on the Amstrad CPC was actually pretty good (if memory serves me) and it was ported by the legendary John Brandwood, who also did Renegade. The games you did present are as it says on the box, pretty painful to even watch you play 😅

The Apple IIGS did not have a true 16-bit computer. The 65816 CPU is an 8/16 bit processor. Also regarding the Commodore Plus/4 game, it's actually a Commodore C16 game, so it's a 16K game, not a 64K game, so would also be limited by that fact.

Really interesting on a technical level seeing those ports of Paperboy. The BBC Micro one was a struggle, for sure. And those "tombstones" in the front yard are weird in the NES one!

I like it when you video about games you like, like bowling. Can you find a rollerball arcade version?

I like these videos. It makes me feel slightly blessed I never had to deal with so many dogshit ports of those games haha. I mean, I crap on the NES for not living up to the arcades (but knowing they couldn't so I wasn't really that mad of course lol) but WOW most of those ports are embarrassing. I also love knowing the reasons why they were so bad. I have so much more sympathy for them knowing they didn't have a choice in the matter. I can understand not many of them getting back to you but it's fun when they do and knowing the behind-the-scenes reasons for what happened!

The background intro explains why there are no mentions of arcade conversions on the Atari 8bits. Although this video makes me glad I stayed away from the c64 line back then.

Biggie smalls got hypnotized playing the zx spectrum version of stun runner lol

You really have to do Ghosts 'n Goblins on C16+4, it really is the worst ever!

Rastan for C64! I remember trying and trying to beat it. In my opinion the graphics and music were great, but the gameplay was a mess. I remember beating a few levels, but I don’t recall how far I got. It was always cause for celebration getting past the first level. Very frustrating.

From what I heard from James "AVGN" Rolfe, Paperboy was the first American game published for the NES. Just a little trivia (and possibly a reason why the port wasn't very good).

1:35 I Love Contra and Super Contra from Konam the games was on the Famicom and the good old NES but there's some good conversions and some very bad conversions out there in the wild and Yes That's What She Says!! 1:43

Wow, the Amstrad version of Rastan must have made kids wonder if something had gone wrong with their system. I wonder if some people took the Rastan cart out and put in a better game they already had to see if the sound was still terrible. :) The BBC Micro version of Paperboy is unbelievable. Worse than early Gameboy games. Some of these arcade ports are so terrible that they sent us back to the arcade. People who were worried that home consoles would kill the arcades didn't have to worry at first because the ports were so terrible that we preferred to go back to the arcade. Any game more complex than Asteroids, Space Invaders or games like that didn't get a port that really rivaled the arcade cabinets until the NES days, though not every NES or even SNES or Genesis port was really worth getting. It was a minefield of quality or the lack thereof. Entertaining video with some versions that even I haven't seen before, or in a very long time.

Love it. Part 3 pleeeeeeeeeese.

I can definitely support seeing more in this disaster train. :D

3:36 Oh sweet Jesus...