Sorry for the delay, as I mentioned in the description I've been having some health issues but finally got this one finished. Hope you all enjoy it.

Feel better, Patman!

Patman, we gotta talk about your eating habits on taco tuesday, it sounds like its getting wild

Now i can't stop thinking about that AVGN episode A-B-B-A 😅

Hope U have a speedy recovery. Can't live without the vids 😣

Classic co-op arcade game - hope your health is better!

The amount of research that you put in and the quality of your videos is just amazing . You're the best !!!!

i played this arcade in a local laundromat...it was hard to get to the end and it was exciting to see guys get closer and closer, not knowing what was coming next. the joystick could twist to aim the character. classic indeed!💪

Thank you for the quality videos and your effort. We appreciate them.

Ralf and Clark, the real Psycho Soldiers.

Love your content and the obvious amount of effort and attention to detail Patman; keep up the strong work. You deserve WAY more subs; you'll get there.

Thanks PatmanQC! Another awesome video from my favorite KZfaqr. I had this game on my NES growing up, but all I remember about it was hitting A-B-B-A a trillion times everytime the scrotum guns killed me. Lol

I hope you're feeling better. Love your documentaries!

Pat Man, we’ve never met obviously, but I’ve been watching your videos for awhile now and I’m glad that your sickness didn’t keep you from uploading. You’re a good man, and even though I haven’t watch the video yet I know that I will love it, because I used to love this game as a kid. The offer remains open buddy, any time you’re down in New Zealand the beer and the frames are on me. Take care of yourself, there’s over 50,000 people here that probably feel the same way as me. And as always, You the man PatMan!!

Hope you are feeling better, Patman! Thanks for your hard work!

Thanks Patman. Always a good day when you deliver a new vid.

Re; Taco Tuesday.. I purchased an authentic Ikari Warrior cabinet and mounted in my bathroom for just such occasions.

Wow, loved this game in 86, played it on the amstrad 1512 I had, took ages for me and my brother to complete it, but we did it! Thanks for the memories!

I played this game for like 7 years as a kid and finished it once on a rainy Sunday when the power ups aligned perfectly. Best memory

Thank you PatmanQC for another great video!

Great work sir, thanks for effort and content! Merry Xmas

I loved this game in the arcade, but one of the best follow-ups using the same rotary controller was SAR from SNK, an awesome alien space zombie run and gun game that was violent as hell! great video!

Man I loved this game growing up. Thanks the the great video and I hope you’re feeling better

Glad to see you're still doing these! Cheers~Fillmore

Hey Pat, Love this game, Love this Channel. Hope your feeling better 🙂

I had the NES version and I remember it being hard to find in stores. After my birthday, I called around weekly and begged my parents to take me to get it when I found it.

Thank you so much for this video. Remember playing the first two games. Quarter gobblers, but really fun. Cannot wait for the next video!

Ikari Tako Tuesday. I like this idea, especially since "Tako" instead of "Taco" means octopus in Japanese.

Another great video to brighten up my lunch hour at work. Thank you once again. 😊

Great video. Hope you are doing better and glad to see this upload.

I rented the NES and this game many times when I lived in Northern Alberta ( in the middle of nowhere ) and at that time it was great IMO. In fact, I rented the console and games so many times I could have bought my own many times over LOL. Thanks for another great video game review, Patman. : )

Please do docs on Guerilla War, Mercs, Desert Assault and Heavy Barrel at some point in the future too if you ever get a chance. I grew up the playing arcade run and gun games and Ikari was my fav series so thank you so much for this video. :)

Glad that your feeling a little bit better great video you should make a video on jackal arcade like to know the story on that game.

why is this guy so underrated, this video makes me happy. it takes me LITERALLY to the past!

Love your content dude, keep up the good work x

Perfect video before bed on a Sunday night

Hope your well, really enjoyed your dialogue for this Ikari Warriors.

Great overview! I loved these games back in the day.

fun fact: Snk actually tried getting the rambo licence for the arcade version, but were unable to secure the rights for the japanese release. for the US release, they actually begon nagotiations with the man himself, but these were haulted by other snk staff when the Ikari name started to be associated with the game. for the record, the japanese version of rambo first blood part 2 was called rambo: ikari no datsagocu or something to that effect-it translates to rambo: the furious escape. the final name can thus be considered a remnent of when the game was to have the rambo licence.

Everybody gather 'round. It's time to join PatmanQC for another journey through the land of bloops and bleeps and farts and queefs...

Never played victory road but looking at the cabinet art i was trying to figure out the clouds and the aliens and i said what the hell, and then u explained it .... perfectly....spot on cabinet art

Every movie you named are some of my favorites good stuff.

Great video, thanks! The Ikari Warriors had a very unique look to it, with the red glow to the flashing ammunition fire and explosions in the video game. The one hit defeats made this game a quarter-muncher as intended.

After not playing the arcade version for so many years, I've forgotten how good it was. Dropped many quarters in one at the local 7-11 with my buddies back in the day.

Your narrating is second to none 👏

Got your self a new subscriber here. Great channel!

Great video!! Always thought Heavy Barrel was part of the series. . . cleared that up!

My first experience with Ikari Warriors was the first arcade game. For Christmas one year I received the NES port as a present. At one point I had the sequel on the NES as well. Both games were decent at the time for me. Ikari Warriors II has some really awesome music on the NES. Never really cared for Ikari Warriors III at all. Great video as always, hope you are well Sir.

Great job on this, loved this game in the arcade. The nes game may have sucked but still liked playing it with my brother.

It's amazing how bad some of the ports were that we were expected to putting up with.

Speaking of health issues me and my family currently have the C virus so no judgement from me. I thought this was a very good video, good to see my favourite systems here Amiga and ZX Spectrum turn out so well. My only nitpick is you didn't cover the platform conversions of the sequels, would have liked to see how those turned out. Apart from that pretty perfect. 👍

When you got to Ikari 3 and said "speaking of explosions" I expected Taco Tuesday to return 😂😂😂 great vid as always

Oh my God I remember pumping so many quarters into Ikari Warriors after school at the local Pizzaria. Great memories. I would play this and Ring King.

I never clicked on a video so fast! Happy Little Games!!!

Nice documentary Patman! This is definitely an arcade classic. Of the ports I particularly liked the Atari 7800, and Atari VCS/2600 ports. Though admittedly the Atari VCS/2600 port is rather lacking. It along with the Atari VCS/2600 ports of Front Line, and Commando obviously reused many of the same gameplay designs, and elements though they were given their own uniqueness to each individual game. Hope your health continues to improve!!

I remember the 1st time I rented this game on the NES. I was at a Birthday sleep over & they let us rent one movie. I rented ikari Warriors! Birthday boy was kind of mad as he wanted to just watch Bruce Lee movies all night, but I stood my ground & got his mom to rent it. After the movies were over guess what we all did way into the night? We played ikari Warriors! We all knew that was Rambo on the screen & it was a fight to be Ralf & not Clark. Crazy to think Contra is an Arnold 2 Player game & ikari Warriors is a Rambo 2 Player game!

That Kung Fu cut scene at 21:14 though.🤣🤣🤣 Great video as always.

one of my favorite games.. i couldnt wait till it came to home consoles.

I remember this game or a version of it. - Hope your doing ok - I thought you were worn out after all the Castlevania!.

I had Ikari Warriors 2 for my NES. I loved that game.

Great video asusual bro you re the man!

Man, I grew up playing Ikari Warriors. Still have my NES game cartridge till this very day.

I love this review its on par with everything from the arcade. Great game for its time. The NES version was a nightmare and that music......omg....headache inducing!

I forgot all about this game! It was amazing!

Great work Sir thank you

In Ikari 3 you are supposed to press the kick button while moving the rotary joystick to perform a roundhouse, add a jump and you get a hurricane kick.

Ooh yeah. In 1986/1987, I loved Ikari Warriors on the NES and Victory Road in the arcade (but only in 2 player mode where it was already way too difficult yet so enjoyable).

Scrotum guns.... A - B - B -A... Where did the hair go.... This reminds me of an AVGN episode...

When this game came out my buddies and I were hooked! I even came up with a pen and paper version we would play with graph paper during class. Eventually we developed a backyard version with plastic soldiers and rubber bands. All kinds of rules and modifiers. Lol. Fuck, the old days!

I thought there was a trick in the NES version if both players both tried to get into one tank at the same time. I mean the exact same time you would end up with each player in a tank. I am old and played this a game as a kid so I could be wrong. My memory isn't as sharp as it use to be. Great review I miss this game it was a classic but brutally hard. I played this game for hours on NES.

I always wanted SNK to someday announce that the player characters in P.O.W. - Prisoners Of War were, in fact the Ikari Warriors. It would make sense if they were the same characters.

One of my favorite rotating joystick games was Midnight Resistance. I'm not sure if you're planning on covering it in the future.

you know a game is great when you can still instantly hear the music just by hearing the name ot the game

I had managed to watch 8 minutes of this during my 1st break at work; I will watch the rest of it at my next break minus a meal. I always suspected that Sly's Rambo character influenced the sprites for the Ikari Warriors. It turns out that I was right all along.

I was absolutely adamant this came out for the Sega Master System. Turns out it was a complete clone called Secret Command.

Thanks. Great stuff as always. Will the next two videos be Victory Road and Ikari III: The rescue? (-:

I was certainly the target demographic for this game. The muscle bound macho men of the 80s were a massive influence on my childhood. I was always terrible at the verticals shooters. This game was a little more forgiving than something like gunsmoke where I don't think I past the very first encounter

Greatest game channel ever!

I know some people hate on it, but Victory Road was my favorite game back in the day. Loved the different weapons and bosses that Ikari lacked (although I do miss the tanks).

I play this trilogy often on the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection. I love SNK/Neo Geo games!

Nice documentary, sir. I wonder if Ed Logg played Ikari Warriors before he designed Xybots, and incorporated the rotating joystick as the map rotation in his game because of it?

we had to do so much to get this game ready for the arcades that i didnt hear you mention. leland corp was owned by and named for leland cook which is why the hero is named cook. all the english removing unwanted art adding bookkeeping screens for operators etc. in a small town near san diego, a bunch of dedicated devs and business, marketing, production teams worked hard to bring this game to market. i remember going to tokyo and coming back with boards and rights to publish this and like 5 other games that lets just say didnt do as well. anyway blast from the past but maybe get more info before cracking toilet jokes

I used to love this game on Nintendo. They need to do an anniversary edition of all SNK games.

The late 80s, I played this game a lot on the Amiga. I agree this was the best conversion.

Nice work. I was never a huge fan of the Ikari series myself, I especially hated the NES version when it was new and fresh. When it comes to overhead run and guns, I'm a MERCS kinda guy! But I've been messing around with Atari 7800 Ikari here and there for years. Not too bad considering the limitations of the system.

I loved this game. Many, Many hours of Seat time as a youth my Bros.

I love the original version of this game on the NES to this day! Also, I think that the titular characters names were changed to Paul and Vance, for some reason. A,B,B,A!!

We need a new Ikari Warriors game! Come on SNK/Playmore, make it happen!

#3 looks great I never saw that one before

Ay brother! I hope yuou get over your health issues like I did after Taco Tuesday!

I never this was an arcade game..i had the NES game as a kid and remember playing it everyday!

Get better soon, Patman! That 2600 version was dreadful though, just brutal.

Thanks Peter

You were right about Ralf and Clark showing up in Metal Slug 6, but they were not in 5. They actually showed up in Metal Slug 7. Sorry for the nitpick, but it's still a neat video as always.

The euro c64 the music takes me back

taco tuesday will show my toilet who's boss!

I played the Ikari warriors on the NES when I was a kid, so tough, I used infinite lives on game genie to beat it, it took forever to beat the levels, I’m sure I am gonna beat it any day now.

That MSX version was crazy with the bodies not disappearing and the blood bursts!

The Amstrad CPC version is a brilliant conversion, one of the best games on the system.

I remember way back as a kid I was at an arcade that had Victory Road's volume full blast. The whole time I was there I hear "Warriors! Show some guts! You can't escape me! Come catch me if you can! AH-HA-HA-HAA!" over an over. 😀