You and me both

These were great times man, stepping into the smokey arcades...coins held tight in sweaty palms...playing awesome games such as Operation Wolf, Double dragon, Bad dudes, Vigilante, Afterburner etc. Etc. And returning home to the Commodore 64 at that time 😉

Yep...

There once was a computer animated video in the internet I wanted to refer to. But link is gone so I upped it here at kzfaq.info/get/bejne/haiBdJlqv9yUfKs.html but had to remove audio. Hope it's still enjoyable.

100%

LOL it seemed like every arcade game that came out at that time the graphics just kept getting better and better

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries i think the graphics are still awesome

​@trev1976 I think the art style is very unique. They really nailed the old Saturday morning cartoons vibe. I can't say I have ever seen another game with a similar look. I just wish the controls weren't so freaking strange. Even though I started gaming in 1986 I had never had the chance to play Pac Land until very recently... Pac Land is one of the games that came packed with my Core Grafx Mini. I tried to get my head wrapped around the controls to no avail. I just wanted to use the D-pad to run and buttons 1+2 to jump. I made it in a few sections and put it down before I rage quit. ;)

It's a shame the U.S. version has never had an uncut release at home. First Pac-Man ceases to be drawn like in the North American cartoon, and they also get rid of Chomp Chomp an Sourpuss, and now more recently, Ms. Pac-Man has become Pac-Mom thanks to AtGames.

@ThunderFist1978 I didn't even know that....wow. That does suck. Is it still like that? Do we still not have the full version?

Good point

He admitted this game inspired super Mario bros

I agree hundred percent

I appreciate that, thanks. I thought about starting a second channel just with general retro content in mind so we'll see

I'm not ashamed to admit that I DID rock out to it and I don't care what anyone says. It's a great album and worth a listen. I love it.

I never had the whole album but I did have the single

I have a signed cd of that one.

@@Emudude1963 Nice!

I have the full version on CD!!! Did not know about it when Cassette Tape was around but I'm glade they put out a CD version! Still cheap if you want a copy of it today!

Thank you, LOL those poor poor toddlers

My thoughts exactly

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Having a similar control scheme to Super Mario Bros would have made the game a LOT BETTER!!

We had a joystick here in the UK, buttons would have made it much easier going over water thats for sure.

@@Lennymcgra I have never seen a version with the joystick before aside from the home versions. Very cool

Was it the temple of doom?

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Only my favorite in the franchise! "Indi COVER YOUR HEART!! COVER YOUR HEART!"

How nice of you to say, thank you so much :-)

Thank you can glad you enjoy them :-)

Glad you enjoy it! Thanks

Absolutely, I still love this game

Yes it was

It's almost as if you're in an actual arcade

I appreciate that, thank you

Wow, thanks! I appreciate the nice words and glad to enjoy the content so much.

Thank you very much

It is really well done that's for sure

Glad to help! Thanks

Fantastic, we are very close in age so sure we have a lot of the same video gaming interests :-)

Thank you

Thank you so much for the nice words

I have never seen a Prof. Pac-Man in person

It blew me away as well because I love the cartoon so much

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries not sure if its annoying when non patreon people suggest games they would like to see you cover, bit seeing this video reminded me of pack rat because it was right next to it in the arcade.

Thank you so much

I've been playing this game for the last couple of days and editing the video the last three or four So that tune is still jangling around in my head….It always has been actually LOL

It sure was

Thank you very much. I've done three arcade conversion videos and I'm sure I'll get back to at some point.

Your Very Welcome, Mr. Patman.. 😉👍

Thank you, was not aware of it being included in the 1up versions. I still have my board game along with donkey Kong and qbert But I'm sure they are all missing pieces LOL

Thanks a lot :-)

LOL, thank you so much

Awesome, thank you!

That's nice of you to say, thanks. It is hard, and he gets really difficult on the later levels

Absolutely, I grew up with the 64 version as well and it was really good

Absolutely, thanks for watching

Thank you. I enjoyed the Amiga version back in the day but that was before I had a chance to play the PC engine version

It's entirely possible

Thanks a lot, I really do appreciate it

Glad you enjoyed it, Thank you

I have never seen a joystick version in the arcade. Thank you very much

I was going to comment that the versions I remember growing up were joystick ones, I never realised until this video that they weren't the originals! Although I really enjoyed the games, young me had terrible trouble with the long jumps too!

LOL, my thoughts exactly

Thank you so much, but I could be of help

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries to respond on M567dk, I think it’s pretty obvious the game was based on the 80s cartoon, because when you give Pac-Man a world to live in, the first thing to come to mind would not be the “Ghostly Adventures” series where he’s a gluttonous teenage jerk, rather the Hanna-Barbera series where he’s an adventurous family man. That being said, Yoshihiro Kishimoto did the right thing to adapt concepts from the TV series, as it made Pac-Man feel like a three-dimensional character compared to how he was treated in Ghostly Adventures. He wasn’t just thinking about food, he also cares about his family, he had a job to protect Pac-Land, and his chivalry is what made him be a hero.

If I hadn't split up Batman returns the video would've been over 90 minutes. At any rate, glad you enjoyed this one thanks

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Oh yes I completely understand, and I did certainly enjoy the Sega CD version of Batman Returns, it reminded me of just how good this device was (In UK it was Mega-CD). As always I appreciate your time to reply and I still look forward to your videos. Thank you.

@@sonicr360 Absolutely, thanks

Thanks, I already did. Check my archives

Thanks for the visit, Thank you

Thank you very much

Thank you, glad I could help :-)

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Cool,patman. Which will be next one? Wonderboy arcade

@@miguelleandri2435 already covered it check my archives

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries is Good to Know it,I will see👍🎮👍

LOL

Never played it on the ST back in the day but I did enjoy the Amiga version even though it wasn't perfect

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries beggars couldn't be choosers back in the day! 😂

That diving board terrible when I was a kid LOL

Excellent, I didn't know that. Thank you

Sounds just like me, thank you very much

It is, especially considering how old the game is

OMG I hated Karnov on NES…

Excellent ideas

One of those secrets they don't tell you similar to Mortal Kombat

Yes, check out my baby Pac-Man video if you're curious. Thanks

Glad you enjoyed it!Thank you

Unfortunately, there wasn't any version that had really bad sound so it wasn't applicable :-) good call though him

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I've always been a sucker for video game music, and I must agree that all versions had great sound. I've been becoming more and more of a fan of the TG-16/PC-Engine soundtracks, actually, and this one didn't disappoint either!

@@johnnygrind77 The PC engine has some really good soundtracks

Seems like a lot of times Amiga users got the hose when it came to arcade conversions because they were just Atari ST ports. Not every single one was like that but most of them were. Glad you enjoyed the video

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries - Yes, that was a surprise when I read about that. I just assumed, first, that the Amiga was more popular than the ST, and that video game publishers would really take advantage of its capabilities. It was an issue of market profitability, not technical capability. It was common for that to happen. I had an Atari Mega STe in the early '90s, which was more capable than the older ST models, for video games, bringing it closer to the Amiga, but most of the ST games were written for the older 1040STf. It was the same story with the Atari Falcon, which brought the series even closer to the Amiga, because there weren't as many of them out there as the STf's. This even happened with PCs. I read back in the early '90s about how most PC software was written to work with the older Intel 8086, or 286, despite the fact that there were 386, 486, and Pentium PCs that made more memory available, using a flat memory model, rather than the segmented model of the older PCs, and had faster 32-bit instruction sets. Most software was still written to use an 8/16-bit, or 16-bit architecture, because software publishers knew a lot of the PCs out there still used that. This meant that most PC software of the time was underperforming on the fastest hardware available. Yes, the faster hardware sped it up quite a bit, but it could've been running even faster, had the software been updated to run on 32-bit systems. That didn't really happen until the mid-90s, when Microsoft's Windows 95 came out. A common complaint I used to hear among fellow Atari computer users was, "The best ideas hardly ever win out in the computer industry." This was based on seeing case after case of innovative computer designs being ignored by most customers, and therefor most software publishers. Most customers didn't care about innovative computer design, because they didn't know what that was about. The Atari ST and Commodore Amiga were largely seen as "game machines," and expensive ones at that. You could buy most video game consoles for a lot less. Since they were seen as neither productivity machines, nor economical gaming systems, they lacked popularity. This tended to cause software publishers to expend as little effort as possible in making their software use each system's capabilities to the fullest.

Thanks a lot, it's always one of my favorites

It was definitely ahead of It's time

I seem to recall playing the new adventures but don't recall much about it. I thought I liked it back in the day but I could have been mistaken.

LOL

Excellent, I did not know that

Some things just stick in your mind

Thank you, greetings from the USA

Thanks

Back when arcade games were everywhere

Yes we did :-)

I've gone as early as 1976 and as late as 1997 with everything in between :-)

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries 1976 and later (well until 1987) is fine for me. :-) If you need more ideas for a video (regarding the Circus Charlie video you made, concerning a slightly relevant game), check out the Carnival video game from 1980. It has also been released for the Atari 2600, Atari 8-bit, ColecoVision and the Intellivision platform. Seems it has no port for the good old Commodore 64 though, which I find amazing. Shooting ducks, yeah. They otherwise eat you bullets. :-D The video game world before Pac Man and Donkey Kong...

Yes I agree,Although it wasn't early platform even before Mario

It was in the last seven or eight videos

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Ha yeah, I got real used to it.

I didn't know that, thanks for the info

Just do a Google search I'm sure you'll find it. Thanks

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries Yeah, that might help. Thanx for a tip. 🐱👍🕹️

Yes sir, especially with Mortal Kombat and all of its secrets before the Internet was popular

Excellent

It sure is!

It's a hard game to play. Starts out pretty easy but then gets wickedly difficult

It was extremely popular in Japan

Wow, very cool

I agree

Glad it was helpful!

Yes I think the games aesthetic was a bit too cutesy for the predominantly young male audience, I didn't get to play it till I saw it in a fish and chip shop near my high school in 1988, suffice to say Ive been playing it in one form or another ever since :)

I always enjoyed it as well

@@PatmanQC-Arcade-Documentaries I remember that it was not liked because it was SO different than the other Pac Man games. I like the look though.