According to its wiki, most of the team who designed this went on to form the Nazca Corporation, which then created the Metal Slug series. So you are correct about the MS similarities.

Dude, the tvs are actually playing R-Type, that's rad.

Bubba's football says Undercover Cops on it. That's a government issued football.

Irem made the best Beat'em up of all times Ninja Baseball Batman

The same team made In The Hunt and Gunforce 2 and then left Irem and found Nazca Corporation, which worked on the first Metal Slug games. This is why artstyle of these games is very similar.

play this as a kid at local arcade in indonesia. good memories Irem makes gunfurce and gunforce 2 and some staff left irem and make metal slug i think

It's the cops! Worse....The Police Cops!

One of my favorite beat em ups. Thank you for playing it. All that Nazca charm, albeit working at Irem at the time.

No matter if there is a giant hole in the middle of the city, from the looks of it there is plenty of city to go around. It spreads endlessly to the horizon.

I get that coming up with titles is hard, and all the good ones are taken, but who honestly saw this game and decided it should be called "undercover cops"? They aren't undercover or cops!

Irem made the classic Kung Fu on the NES, arguably one of the first side-scrolling beat-em-up's

Dr. Crayborn's back should be rated M.

I'm surprised that Matt or anyone else didn't notice that the final boss had a ding-aling that comes out of his back during attack.🤣🤣🤣

Irem has an important place in arcade history. They made the first beat em up, they made r type, and some of the teams that left Irem would go on to make capcom and metal slug. I think some of their games have a tough as nails reputation.

OMG, we are closer to the year 2043 than 2000

Mad Max was a cop in the 1st movie.

Undercover Cops! I went to a Summer Camp 20 years ago that had a bunch of Arcade Machines in the counselors main cabin that we could all play for free. Loved the shit out of FixEight and Fighting Hawk, hell they even had the OG Elevator Action and Russ'N Attack Cabinets but my fav was Undercover Cop which me and the buds would take turns beating over and over again with our high scores being read aloud at the Camp Mess Hall at Lunch.

20:54 "You bite the fry, the fry bites back, Daaaaaaymn DAAAAAAYMN DAYYYY YYYYYYYMN!!!!!!"

Yes, a lot of the same guys went on to make Metal Slug.

These cops are very much overcover, if you ask me.

I love how he's calling his own name s**t XD

Ah yes, a City Sweeper. The most noble of professions.

6:08 “You are terminated!”

Irem made R-Type, yeah. They also made Vigilante, Image Fight, Hammerin' Harry, Ninja Baseball Batman and Risky's Challenge, among other things.

came to comments to check if anyone else spotted the giant johnson in the back of the boss..was not disappointed.

It's so fun watching Matt play a Beat 'Em Up game and then opening a BitMap Book about Beat 'Em Ups to read about a game he's playing.

Interesting, this game was released in 1992, this video was posted in 2024, the characters are born in 2011-2021, and the game is set in the year 2043.

Man I love this game. I do wish whoever made this alpha version had kept the Japanese arcade names when they re-added the other stuff from it. Zan, Matt, and Rosa are way cooler names than Claude, Bubba, and Flame lol. Also, I'm sure you already know, but you could've gotten the bad ending if you hadn't hit Dr. Crayborn in time and he managed to drop that bomb.

I’m not holding my breath on the reboot. When I see an actual trailer I will believe it is happening.

That burger was obviously grilled

Dude, "Ninja Spirits" is my absolute favorite Irem game. Underrated devs.

Matt is like Indiana Jones and finds all those forgotten treasures.

If you want a weird beat 'em up, check out Trio the Punch (I didn't find it on either of your channels, sorry if I missed it and you've already played it). It's completely nuts.

"I cannot get close to her because so many motorcycles keep dropping on me." Man, I hate when that happens.

I love the asthetic of this game. Has that late 80's early 90's post apocalyptic/cyberpunk anime vibe.👍🏾

I remember finding this game on a deep emulator mame run, its fantastic, legit great art style.

i don't think they're doing a very good job of maintaining their cover.

Half the fun of these games is seeing what hideous and outlandish boss designs will come at you next.

I remember tweeting on 2018-07-04 that Bubba was born, too bad I missed the others

27:52 the police vehicle is a Moon Patrol easter egg.

I love how the arrow to move forward is crushed by a blue hulk hand.

The final boss' hunchback projectile thing was _just_ a wang.

None of these cops are undercover.

you keep playing some of my favorite beat em ups. ive discovered ones from you too. so glad you played violent storm and this.

I don't know who currently own the right to this, but the undercover cops should be a team in KOF. It was made by the people who would later go on to make Metal Slug (which should also have a team in KoF). come on, there's three of them even, it just fit so well.

So the karate man’s origin is basically Con Air?

I can always count on you to bring us some awesome lesser known knucklebusters~! Always makes for a perfect video before bed. Also absolutely yes to monster final bosses! As a monster girl, I'm disappointed when they don't show up!

WHERE IS THE FUTURE we were PROMISED in 199x???

i remember when the first emulator to run this game appeared, it also ran In the hunt

Claude's portrait looks like Kenny Omega. City Sweeper indeed

"moguralien" nice name i like it ["mogura" = japanese for mole]

The cop van at the end even hops like the Metal Slug.

I never played this game but it only took me one peek to want this so hard on newer consoles! I pray to Strictly Limited to make this into one of their Irem collections.

This beat em up reminds me a lot like Metal Slug. Maybe its the graphics that I'm seeing in this game, but there's one awesome thing about this game. Here we get to use a big salmon for a weapon.

Irem also makes Ninja Baseball Bat Man, Which is insane and awesome.

here's something obscure: Ane-san (1995) (PC-Engine) edit: or Calisto Protocol, yes that is a Beat 'Em Up game, like Night Slashers, it's a Beat 'Em Up with Horror Elements.

Man, that projector flicker was giving me a headache in the opening

I like how Flame is an ex-female vigilante and not a female ex-vigilante. Very progressive.

i love this game. There was suppose to been an manga and anime movie for it by the same people that did dominion tank police and ghost in the shell but it never happened. we got the game by them at the very least. I love this game unedited and play it often. so much fun to play with friends as well.. so brutually vilonet in a great way.

There definitely needs to be a renaissance of weird beat-em-ups that aren't just clones of Final Fight and Streets of Rage. I get it, moseying down city streets punking punks is easiest to conceptualize, but have some fun with the settings and enemy types.

PatmanQC did a video on this game 7 days ago.😅

OMG I used to play this at the airport… I could never find it on MAME because I never remembered the name and I’ve been looking for it since Arcade emulators became a thing… now after 30 years I finally know the name of this game LMFAO.

When Matt mentions pausing the video to check out the flying peach, there's a few things of note when you pause the video at the right moment. Definitely some nip slips on the hopping lady enemies, and when flame does her air kick with her legs spread wide (e.g. 17:29) there's a LOT going on...

Oh yeah!!! I played this one on Super Famicom! Is a good one!

Irem also made Rocky Rodent. Remember that? I guess every video game company wanted to rip-off Sonic, after the huge sucess was having.

In the Hunt is possibly the Irem shmup your thinkin' of. The sprite work has a very similar look to this, and of course Metal Slug.

Okay i need to play claude picked up a motherfucking humvee like it was nothing

Hey Muscally Matty, what's your favorite beat em up series? Streets of Fury or Fatal Rage!?!?

Zan Takahashi aka Claude Matt Gables aka Bubba The hotness Rosa Felmonde aka Flame

No way Dr.Crayborn escaped in the end

I think they should’ve named both the people and the Street Sweepers

So, basically, this game is part of the same world as In The Hunt, Air Duel and Gunforce II. Some terrorist organization called DAS are the villains in all these.

It may not be an old obscure title but have you ever tried Mother Russia Bleeds

Maybe not worth it's own video (maybe in a compilation), but Deathwish Enforcers might be something in this vein, you play legally distinct Dirty Harry, Charles Bronson and some others cleaning up the streets, and by the looks of it, it gets crazier the further you go.

There’s a typo in the video title. Says “mashing” when it should say “bashing”

So I believe this was made by the same people who made Metal Slug, and I would much rather they remake that before this

Yo jugaba este Game 🤩🤗😎!!!!!

The revenge of the Zoomers.

That's Irem quality right there! And of course... MORE FOOTBALL MANS!

Love these beat em up videos, you should check out The Legend of Silk Road, it's an arcade beat em up from South Korea and despite looking super goofy the gameplay is legit.

Wow, this game has the absolute chuddiest writing.

i do not like fmakes hip attack what so ever... it looks really stupid in this case... the only grip about the game is that otherwise the tag moves in two players are awsome

If you pause right after you throw one of the female enemies, you can see that they actually animated their areolas. Incredbile that they got away with that back then.

Trying to think of underrated gem or hidden stinker perfect for flop house games ummm lord of the rings third age just seeing Matt make final fantasy x jokes would be great, or the last of us knock off switch game that got took off the switch store that might be good hidden stinker

the manga is... not good.