The Strike Series: The Complete History (DESERT, JUNGLE, URBAN, SOVIET, NUCLEAR)

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The Strike Series: The Complete History (DESERT, JUNGLE, URBAN, SOVIET, NUCLEAR)

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#DesertStrike was just the beginning! A hugely popular series of games followed and quickly became #ElectronicArts most loved non-sports franchise. This is the Complete History of the Strike Series of games ⬇️SOCIALS BELOW⬇️
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What happened to this awesome series of games?
DESERT STRIKE
JUNGLE STRIKE
URBAN STRIKE
SOVIET STRIKE &
NUCLEAR STRIKE
These games kept gamers happy on the Mega Drive, Genesis, SNES, Amiga, Playstation 1, Nintendo64, and everything in-between.
In this documentary-style history video, I attempt to look back at how these games came to be, who made them, and why EA no longer plans to make games in a series that was at one point the most popular franchise for the company outside of sporting titles!
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@thekornreeper 3 жыл бұрын

Nice 👍🏼

@lancashirered 3 жыл бұрын

2 mega BYTE cartridge, that's 16 mega BITS.

@MateusAuri 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, the music & footage list doc is not set for public viewing!

@yudhiadhyatmikosiswono9082 3 жыл бұрын

This game is my childhood but it's expensive to get game cartidges in my country so the only way i can play it is either borrow or rent.

@Pensive_Scarlet 3 жыл бұрын

Hey, I really liked the intro bit featuring your Dad. Would love to hear more about those memories.

@tonybarnes2920 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, Tony Barnes here, co-Director of The Strike Series. As a long-time subscriber, really excited to see games I've made show up on the channel, even if I've been written out of the history. I guess I should've done more interviews, like Mike did. Still glad to see coverage and always happy to see people enjoy something I've made! Great vid. BTW, it's "Beirut BREAKOUT" not "Beirut BREAKDOWN". And if you ever want the real scoop about the Strike Series (especially Future Strike/Cop), from someone's perspective other than Posehn's interviews, let me know.

@jasonbrown467 3 жыл бұрын

i couldnt imagine how hard it was to code before the internet and not everyone even had a computer of any type in the house back in those days. well done

@tonybarnes2920 3 жыл бұрын

@@jasonbrown467 Well, I mean I did live/grow up in The Bay Area (Silicon Valley) and was working for Electronic Arts, so we had access to this NEW thing called "The World Wide Web". But there wasn't anything on it. It was all text and certainly not a place to search for answers, code snippets, game engines, nifty videos. But we created most of our own tools and the engine for Strike was written in Assembly, as were the levels. I started coding in BASIC at 12 and was into 6502 Assembly by 15. It was NOT easy AT ALL back then, but it was fun bringing ideas to life.

@budaroddy 3 жыл бұрын

@@tonybarnes2920 thanks for the awesome games, i'm kind of glad the series didnt turn into the games we see today from EA and hope they never touch it again

@tonybarnes2920 3 жыл бұрын

@@budaroddy thanks for being a fan. I've posted in this thread about my own indie company and a game I'm working on, called CHAOS CHASSIS. But it seems if I put a link to the vid, it won't post here. So, search KZfaq for CHAOS CHASSIS and check out the teaser.

@pchien31707 3 жыл бұрын

@@tonybarnes2920 Your take on Strider was awesome too

@mchief190 3 жыл бұрын

I played Nuclear Strike on my PS1 religiously, the story, gameplay, and the soundtrack was the complete package and those cinematics were amazing, it really pulled me into the world that the game was potraying. I also loved how there was a tease in the game for Future Strike.

@vahlok1426 3 жыл бұрын

For me, the PS1 games' amount of information on everything in game, from your choppers and other vehicles, to enemy units, etc. all narrated with footage to go along was awesome.

@forcelightningcable9639 Ай бұрын

This was my buddy’s and mine favorite childhood game after crash (bandicoot). We made it our mission (no pun intended) to beat the game, parts of which were honestly pretty tough for two 10 year olds lol

@mattteee2973 Ай бұрын

I still think the DMZ mission is great, it feels so tense as you're trying to stem the tide of DPRK armour while waiting for the B-52's to show up. The radio chatter voice acting was brilliant and made it feel 'real time' compared to the cutscenes the other missions used more of. I got major flashbacks this rising tension when I first played the Modern Warfare campaign too.

@GameHammerCG 3 жыл бұрын

Urban Strike was set in 2001 and featured a destroyed World Trade Centre? Holy crap, I never noticed that before. Wow.

@mediawarrior5957 3 жыл бұрын

Video Game Prophecy

@tensevo 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the terrorists hated the game, they burnt copies of it. I doubt it was a coincidence.

@shifty2755 3 жыл бұрын

That's where Bush got the idea from

@johnbowles5399 3 жыл бұрын

Not only that but Urban Strike's main protagonist, H. R Malone, is a populist who is running for the US Presidency with very similar promises and policies that a certain Donald Trump ran on. He promises to clean up the streets and make the country great again. Urban Strike is definitely an oddly prophetic game.

@tensevo 3 жыл бұрын

@@shifty2755 Yeah, except Bush wasn't triggered by the game, but quite a few turban heads were. World Trade Centre was a symbol of America. Only somebody who hated the actual values of the country would destroy it. Or it could have been simply envy or jealousy.

@tgdm 3 жыл бұрын

The first three Strike games on Genesis and C&C Red Alert are the reason I learned to love heavy and industrial metal music. That said, the menu song for Urban Strike is the incarnation of 90s arcade music.

@residentelect 3 жыл бұрын

I've just replied to a post by Tony Barnes (one of the directors of the 'Strike series) telling him about how when I was deployed to Afghanistan it became a standing gag that when any of the AW AH1's would roll out on a Quick Reaction job, those of us near the pad would start singing/humming the opening theme to Desert Strike lol it certainly boosted morale for a few minutes (or at least till we were deafened and blasted by sand as the "Monster" went airborne) The music was absolutely awesome and I still think DS has one of the best opening screens ever produced.

@childlover4091 3 жыл бұрын

I ported a lot of the Desert Strike concept to my 10 gig Ra2 mod. I litetally recreate the Desert Strike missions in RA2 which is an idea I have already copy written 12 years ago.

@childlover4091 3 жыл бұрын

@@residentelect Its ironic how America names its most murderous flying chariots after the tribes that were subjected to mass genocide. Its also ironic that a black developer promote such white imperialist gaming fiction.

@tomarmadiyer2698 Ай бұрын

Frank Klepacki and the Tiberian Sons Yeah

@Dime_time333 Ай бұрын

Do you remember the cheats for C&C that called in a nuke? Or those weird parachute bombs that destroyed bridges and buildings instantly?

@TheBronyBraeburn 3 жыл бұрын

The Strike series always makes me think of my older cousin, RIP. He was always introducing me, when we were kids, to the more "mature" games on the NES and Genesis.

@GottaLoveCheese 3 жыл бұрын

Some serious nostalgia in this video. I'd completely forgotten about how much I adored Future Cop LAPD as a kid!

@carlosrueda9204 3 жыл бұрын

YESSSS I loved that game

@VoxFelis 3 жыл бұрын

I played the demo on repeat!

@BlazeC90 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly couldn’t remember for the life of me the name of Future Cop for so many years! Had it on PC and PlayStation! Hours and hours of my childhood playing that battle mode against the AI! So many great memories

@BobExcalibur 3 жыл бұрын

Future Cop is tragically forgotten and quite underrated. The Precinct Assault game mode basically invented the MOBA genre fifteen years early, and it even has some concepts that would later appear in the Dead Space games (Check out the monuments in the Cult level).

@Invidente7 3 жыл бұрын

"Hello Mr.Criminal, my gun is bigger than yours" Greatest advertisement ever.

@osurpless 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, first read about it in Gamepro upon release, and was glad they made connections with the larger Strike series. Ended up picking it up on the PSN store, and now that the store apparently isn’t actually closing, everyone should pick it up.

@steelreign1773 Ай бұрын

Definitely a hidden gem

@korgied 3 жыл бұрын

The snare drum intro keeps making me think of REM's "It's the End of the World As We Know It"

@sladeb134 3 жыл бұрын

Do you know the name of the intro track by chance?

@1985slipstream Ай бұрын

ha ha same

@JasonGuySmiley 3 күн бұрын

Yep, it's REM edging hahah

@michiganjack1337 3 жыл бұрын

Whenever I think of Desert Strike it always takes me back to playing it on my grandmothers Zenith tv during the hot summer days trying to stay cool with a little oscillating fan.

@nickyblue4866 3 жыл бұрын

Citizen tv here

@JT_WARCRIME 3 жыл бұрын

What a genuinely pleasant surprise to see this Complete history.

@carlosrueda9204 3 жыл бұрын

Holy crap me too!

@dandastardly2792 3 жыл бұрын

Im excited. I had jungle strike and eventually urban strike

@SunChipss 2 жыл бұрын

Not liking your comment out of respect ✊

@hyenafur 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for making a video about the Strike series. Desert Strike holds a lot of great memories for me, and it’s still my favorite of all time. I used to play it every Thanksgiving with my older brother before he passed away in a motorcycle accident.

@Bollibompa Жыл бұрын

Happy memories and then sad memories.

@Vendarize 10 ай бұрын

Yeah man, similar to me. Except me and my brother we're playing Nuclear Strike. Good memories we get to hold on to of them. Peace from NZ

@delphaneuxlacroix Ай бұрын

I can't be the only person who was triggered constantly by trying to get the fuel at the last minute, only to crash and burn while it was still being winched up...

@lesterlute10 26 күн бұрын

Many, many, times. 😢😢😢

@neddy1287 24 күн бұрын

Yeah had happen to me just before getting shot down at the same time

@paulmulks 22 күн бұрын

Yes!!!! 😂

@ndld4955 20 күн бұрын

OOOOOOoooo yess the memories the slite not so slite panic.. Get is in get it in.. Come on come on ..dam 😅😂

@RaulDukeKnife 20 күн бұрын

What about this one for my Strike Vets: Pressing pause at 0 fuel when you know the winch wont reel it in in time. Hoping to save it. Turns out it wont work, the model of the barrels has to disappear before crediting the fuel.

@vahlok1426 3 жыл бұрын

I remember playing Desert Strike on the Genesis, but since I was a dumb kid I didn't understand it at all. Then I played Soviet and Nuclear for PS1 and even my parents wanted to watch because of the FMVs and the story. They thought it was based on a movie or something. Still have Soviet and Nuclear somewhere, and would love to play them again. Love those two.

@MrNegativecreep07 3 жыл бұрын

Soviet Strike was the first game I'd played where it felt like actual effort went into the FMVs, rather than just getting the programmers or their mates to play the parts.

@AzraelThanatos 3 жыл бұрын

I had the Genesis games, but didn't really play them that much and got them all used. The fuel part of it just irritated me as it felt like there was far to little of it compared to the reaction there. The game that I loved for chopper combat was LHX which could be awesome there and felt more interesting in what it did.

@paddington1670 2 жыл бұрын

@@AzraelThanatos i always had a problem with fuel too, but when I watch others playthroughs they never have issues, maybe I just needed to know where to go, i dont know

@jackkoffin1 3 жыл бұрын

Jungle Strike was probably the one Genesis game I absolutely mastered. I could consistently play through it in a single sitting given enough time to do so, when I was 12 or so. I tried it again many, many years later and I couldn't retrain my brain to adapt to its unique control scheme. Fond memories, but it's tough to go back to.

@TommyCrosby 3 жыл бұрын

Future Cop LAPD was one of my favorite game back then. The Multi-player mode of defending your base was really good. I didn't knew about the link to Strike series.

@Invidente7 3 жыл бұрын

It is alvaible in the PSN, I think.

@Evilgrebo 3 жыл бұрын

I had no idea about the LAPD/Strike backstory. I used to love LAPD as a kid

@stevesmithx 3 жыл бұрын

Only recently discovered this channel, but absolutely love the content. This stuff was my childhood , yet I'm slowly discovering just how little I know about the history of the games I love. The history as an adult now is just as interesting as playing the games themselves.

@TheFenrir666 3 жыл бұрын

Urban Strike was a game I remember playing so much, but never getting past the second level.

@carlosrueda9204 3 жыл бұрын

Ditto

@refundreplay 3 жыл бұрын

My father LOVED Desert Strike. And to be honest, so did I...

@TheSuperuser49 3 жыл бұрын

Jungle Strike starts in Washington and Urban Strike starts in the jungle......Thought that was weird as a kid

@njalsand133 3 жыл бұрын

I find the sheer number of primitive huts in Hawaii more odd

@residentelect 3 жыл бұрын

@@njalsand133 Lol I just wanted to riddle the White House and most of Washington DC with Hellfires' and Hydras! Upon reflection that was probably not very respectful to my country's closest ally 😳 Apologies Mr President...

@njalsand133 3 жыл бұрын

@@residentelect to be fair me and a friend wiped out the Hawaii map and somehow managed to win

@EduFirenze 3 жыл бұрын

LOL so true!

@33Dannyb 3 жыл бұрын

Similarly the chopper was brown in Jungle Strike, and green in Desert Strike.

@BrokenCircle1 2 ай бұрын

I LOVED Soviet Strike. The main theme made me want to sit on a folding metal chair, put on aviator glasses and lean back nodding my head slowly.

@corkbulb2895 11 күн бұрын

Desert Strike was such a huge part of my childhood I cannot fully describe. I was playing that game when I was 4 years old. Finally beat it when I was 6. I used to make my own hand drawn maps of the 4 campaigns with secrets and unmarked things and use them during future playthroughs. I will never forget the night I finally beat Desert Strike. I got so good at the game when I was 8/9 years old that I could play through the entire game in one sitting and not get hit once by anything! If you know where all the enemies are and which way they face, that's actually not too hard. My favorite thing to do was a backup turnaround to dodge a missile! Can only do that with momentum on, which was the only way I played, and is the *real* way to play the game. Still to this day I play on emulator. I could beat Desert Strike in my sleep. It is up there with Doom and Super Mario World as my all time favorite games. I had no idea there was a Genesis (Megadrive) version of the game until I saw this video. The music does not fly with me in that version. The SNES version has FANTASTIC music. If that is *really* the presidential credits victory music at the end of your video for the Genesis, that is just SAD! Turning the presidential theme music into victory credits music was incredible and it sounds SO GOOD on the SNES it is one of my favorite pieces of video game music. Anybody who doesn't know what I mean, please go look it up! Draws a tear from my eye and brings me back. Anyway, I've played all the Strike games and Desert Strike is by far my favorite. Jungle Strike was WAY too hard. Also, the bomber section is painful to play, especially lining up those damn shots with the pyramids *without* crashing. Urban Strike was more fun and interesting, also had a better difficulty balance but I absolutely hate and dread the on foot sections. Nuclear Strike was a bit too complicated and I can never get enough ammo to play properly.

@dustheg 3 жыл бұрын

Yes my dad played all of these and beat them all these were a few of the games my dad played that wasnt football. He passed away a couple years ago and I have been thinking about the times watching him play this series thank you this video brings a smile to me thinking of those times

@geesterfunk 3 жыл бұрын

This on the Amiga was mind blowing to me, I was only 9 lol still finished it

@ShadowMk3 3 жыл бұрын

Oh man dude, Desert Strike was my jam

@residentelect 3 жыл бұрын

Nice baguette mate... Freshly baked, or is it just a display one..?

@ShadowMk3 3 жыл бұрын

@@residentelect always fresh my friend, always fresh!

@residentelect 3 жыл бұрын

@@ShadowMk3 Excellent my good man! Britain may have spent hundreds of years scrapping with France, but when it comes to the battle of the breads, our Gallic cousins win hands down! Also, when the baguette goes stale it can be repurposed as a vicious weapon... I'm sure I once read that during WW1 French troops wielded stale baguettes as trench clubs when storming German positions. The horror... The horror... 🇫🇷🥖🤕

@Tclans Ай бұрын

Watching this video 3 years after release I can happily say there are two Strike-Like games in the works. Cleared hot and Megacopter.

@bingo5694 28 күн бұрын

i wish-listed this last week. Looking forward to it.

@DanLongworth 16 күн бұрын

Thanks for this comment. I just wish listed them too. This video just made me want to go back and find a way to play the series again

@Quasiguambo 11 күн бұрын

I was gonna ask! Yoooooooooooouuuuuuuu legend!

@themapmaker5374 Жыл бұрын

I bought Desert Strike on a whim at Toys ‘R Us back in ‘92, for the Sega Genesis. I was 18 at that time, and this was right after the Gulf War of course. The box art was cool, seemed like it would be fun, plus it had the EA name. I was all about sports games mostly back then. I was hooked on the game straight away, and eventually would have and play all of the Strike series games. There wasn’t one that I didn’t like. I felt they got better with each new release. Thanks for posting this. It brought back some good memories.

@samfrito 3 жыл бұрын

What a blast! I started replaying my old Genesis games during the pandemic and Desert Strike was actually a favorite to pop in and try to get better at. It does take strategy and since placement of enemies, resources and objectives remain the same its a good work out for your memory too. Great video Slopes!

@salud7432 3 жыл бұрын

Desert Strike was my favorite MD Game, along Shinning Force

@Ditchy69 23 күн бұрын

I loved how soviet and nuclear had these awesome stylised fmv scenes that covered everything from mission updates, briefings, information on enemy units etc.

@danielschmaderer 6 ай бұрын

I remember playing Desert Strike and Jungle Strike as a kid. It was such a blast to play. Years later I picked up Future Cop and loved it. Never actually knew they were all connected. Great video.

@duncanself5111 3 жыл бұрын

Ah man, I used to love Desert and Jungle Strike back in the day. Such an addictive and satisfying game

@justysilverman 3 жыл бұрын

Sweet! I was just about to write a review on this series. Soviet Strike might be my favorite PS1 game. Really bummed Future Strike got cancelled.

@slopesgameroom 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it :D I was really shocked at how accessable the PS1 games were all these years later

@truehare 3 жыл бұрын

Desert Strike holds a special place in my heart for a simple reason, besides being a great game in itself: it's the game I was playing right before going to the hospital for the birth of my first son. I was only 17 at the time (teen pregnancy is not a joke, guys!), and the memory of playing that game became forever entwined with the indescribable emotion of seeing my baby boy for the first time. He's turning 29 next month, and is as much a geek as me, if not more. Yeah, I know you can tell, but for the record: you couldn't find a prouder parent than me if you searched the whole world.

@OfficialPhazeMusic 2 жыл бұрын

Bro your description of dad in the 90s playing man games at night….. so spot on. Except in my house the consoles were in my room so he would come in and play alllllll night while I watched him and eventually fell asleep and he’d be up til like 3-4am on a game. I loved those days

@Retrobution 3 жыл бұрын

instantly recognised Oliver Harpers voice there, nice! Great video, am a huge Desert Strike fan (have collected the first game on every format!) Love the details covered in this video. Iwas planning to do a detailed video of the first game and all of the ports of it but looks like I pretty much dont need to now haha! Baffles me why EA havent brought this series back with the battlefield engine. I would love to see it with those graphics, same isometric view with cinematic angles etc (night vision etc) and the ability to be a pilot and have an online co pilot and others that you can control within the same apache, drop them off into the warzone and they would control their character in FPS mode, infiltrate a camp or command other road vehicles whilst the other player pilots the apache and takes out other targets etc. teamwork. Would just be awesome and would sell well imo

@SPac316 3 жыл бұрын

I loved this series. First played Urban Strike because there weren't anything else to rent at the video store. I was surprised I liked it when I played and I was hooked. I wish a new one would be made or at least a similar game by a capable team.

@metalfan9000 4 күн бұрын

I used go play Desert Strike on my friend's Amiga as a kid, then later got Nuclear Strike on the PS1 and Soviet Strike after that. Such awesome series I'd love to see brought back with up-to-date graphics...

@sh2157 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! You've just activated some long dormant memories with this video! Good job as always sir! 😎

@Far2Sega4U 3 жыл бұрын

Woah now this is a series I thought nobody knew existed. Only ever beat Jungle Strike on Genesis

@happyspaceinvader508 Ай бұрын

It was extremely well known back when it was released, due to its theme being a war that that only recently finished. It got high review scores in gaming magazines, but there were also news/televsion articles complaining about the insensitivity. Each follow-up game was less and less covered though. I was 20 when Desert Strike was released… but I’ve never heard of “Soviet Strike”.

@thehumbleone1983 3 жыл бұрын

Desert Strike is one of my favourite Mega Drive / Genesis game

@katenunyabizness9221 3 жыл бұрын

I always took this series as the love child between Raid on Bungling Bay and Choplifter. Loved it and thanks for all the extra history on it!

@mattm7798 16 күн бұрын

Loved this series. I always had to enter cheat codes because the games were pretty difficult, but even on invincible mode, the games were still a ton of fun! Each game really did improve on the previous. I loved switching vehicles in the later games!

@MrStrikecentral 3 жыл бұрын

I absolutely LOVED the Strike series from beginning to end. Heck, I named my alter ego from this series. I'm somewhat pissed that EA decided to just drop a successful franchise and didn't at least attempt to keep it going as long as it made money. I had no idea about the Future Cop development. If I would have known, I would have picked it up.

@HybridAngelZero 3 жыл бұрын

It's always a good day when Slopes uploads a new Complete History

@Destroier534 3 жыл бұрын

I loved Future Cop LAPD as a kid. Glad to see it mentioned. And by the way, it had two game modes: a regular one, and a versus mode (Precinct Assault), where you and a friend (or the cpu) fight over terrain with the objective being to escort a minion you created to the enemy base. I spent a lot of time in that mode, it was great. It is rumored to have served as inspiration for the Aeon of Strife map of Starcraft, which then lead to the Defense of the Ancients map of Warcraft III, or DotA.

@mafiousbj 3 жыл бұрын

This kind of documentaries not only bring me back to game memories that I had stored in some dark corner of my mind, but also have the perfect lenght to watch while having dinner. Love the format!!!

@HunterAtheist 3 жыл бұрын

Title: Desert, Jungle, Urban, Soviet, Jungle.... Pretty sure the last one was supposed to be Nuclear.

@orderofmagnitude-TPATP 3 жыл бұрын

16:00 you mean 2 megabyte. As in 16 megabit....8 bits in a byte. There is a difference between MB and Mb.

@Perseid 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I had to double-check that, too. 2 megabit is 256K and I was like, all that game in 256K? No way. lol Even 2MB is kind of impressive, to be honest.

@allothernamesbutthis 3 жыл бұрын

to think one photo nowadays uses more memory than a whole game with audio, graphics and coding back then.

@EchoWhiskey11 Ай бұрын

This game holds a very special place for me. My mom used to play this when I was a kid and it's one of the reasons why I became a pilot. Thanks for covering it's history 👍

@PACKYCSONE80 3 жыл бұрын

Two of my favorite channels in one awesome video...cheers mates!

@SaberusTerras 3 жыл бұрын

The entire strike series was a big hit for me, my bro and my dad when I was younger. It was one of the last game series that all of us enjoyed before our different preferences drew our gaming times apart.

@michaelmartin9022 Ай бұрын

A rented copy of Urban Strike was a big influence on a cheesy war comic I created as a kid called The Gun, where a hero who (sometimes) flies a helicopter gets shot down, finds a huge hi-tech enemy base and single-handedly destroys it, usually while saying "DIE!" and shooting people who run at him and never fire back. This itself has had numerous stalled remakes of greater or lesser seriousness (and numbers of zombies). Anyway I'd actually forgotten the influence of the games on the comic, until I emulated Urban Strike years later and loads of stuff like vehicle designs and even lines of dialogue in cutscenes, which I thought I'd made up myself, were ripped right out of Urban Strike! I also loved Future Cop LAPD, I had no idea it was related to the series. I loved the "comedy" weapons you had to unlock (or were they cheat-only?), but they had very limited ammo.

@lextheraichu7246 23 күн бұрын

Something i noticed, when GTA 5 released the FH-1 Hunter into Online, i was like "This looks familiar" and when i looked up the Desert Strike title screen i was like "I knew i'd seen this before". The FH-1 Hunter is identical to the Desert Strike Apache

@zeusapollo6504 Ай бұрын

Only played Desert Strike on the Mega Drive during the early 90ies. It was released right on time with all the gulf war news, well about 1 year later after operation Desert Storm. I think its a piece of art, with its story and missions, its just very well made. Hard to imagine better, but i will try the others at one point.

@geraldperez2768 Ай бұрын

When I was a kid, my Pops would only play War/Military themed games. We went nuts on Jungle Strike.

@alexanderwsm6296 16 күн бұрын

I think it's also worth mentioning a couple of games that were inspired (or at least heavily influenced in terms of gameplay) by Strike series. One of them is Battletech, where you control mech (not unlike Future Cop) and before each mission can select different weapons. Another is SeaQuest, where you control a submarine and are able to go deeper or higher to dodge enemies. SeaQuest also features "missions", where you control various mini-subs in 2d-side view.

@andrewhaight2888 Ай бұрын

Jungle Strike and Urban Strike are my all time favorite childhood games. God what a great series. I never got a Playstation until PS3 when I had my own money

@dimmock9797 10 күн бұрын

I had no idea Future cop LAPD was partially linked to the strike games, thats explains why i loved it so much

@NihilusShadow Жыл бұрын

I LOVED this series and played Desert, Jungle and Urban constantly on Sega Genesis. While I never owned a PS1, I did play Soviet and Nuclear Strike on a friend's PS1. He even had that Future Cop game. I would love to see this series remastered and re-released for modern console. Build the series from the ground up and make one massive Strike Collection. Imagine beating each game in the series unlocks that game's Helicopter for all the other games, so you can fly the Comanche in Desert Strike or the Apache in Urban Strike and so on. After all these years, maybe they could incorporate even more modern and experimental Helicopters. Imagine flying around in an Osprey or the new V-280 Valor and when you need to get away quickly, you tilt the rotors and fly away like a plane. As far as I remember, the future Helicopter in Urban Strike wasn't based on any real world Helicopter. Perhaps a modern version could use the Bell 360 Invictus? Even if they made a faithful recreation of the original fantasy Helicopter, I would still like to see other future designs in the game, like the Invictus or the Sikorsky/Boeing Defiant X in the game. Make the series one giant love letter to Helicopters. I would buy the hell out of that.

@tespenkr9924 Ай бұрын

Urban Strike was the only one I ever played. On SNES, I was shocked as a kid to see the World Trade Center on fire. When I failed to defuse the bomb and caused their destruction, I didn’t play it again until I was older.

@shinjinanahara 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this Complete History. I didnt know anything about this series before. Will have to check it out

@tenthtonman 22 күн бұрын

The intro to this warped me back in my mind to watching my dad play and the smell of marlboros.

@Dan19870 23 күн бұрын

It must be at least 20 years since I've thought about the strike series. First time I played Desert Strike was on a friends Amega and I instantly fell in love with the series. The first Strike game I owned was Soviet Strike for the PS1 and I was blown away by the amount of content it had, like fully voiced character dosiers, breakdowns of enemy vehicles, briefing's what country you'd be operating in. Next I purchased Nuclear Strike which I also loved.

@Autotrope Жыл бұрын

So glad I found this channel, it's one of the ones that bring me joy when something pops up on my recommendations

@shabmaster7128 3 жыл бұрын

This just makes me want to pickup the strike style game I was working on years ago. Due to my lack of experience, it wasn't really isometric, but more top down. It was a bit more like Choplifter, as you landed to get power ups. A decent game like the strike series is Battletech for Megadrive / Mechwarrior 3050 for the SNES. Not quite as good, but still fun. And it is Battletech.

@aegoulette 3 жыл бұрын

Very happy to see this. I miss the strike series terribly. I replay all of them every year.

@Boredandhere Ай бұрын

I started with Soviet Strike and loved it. My parents never got me Nuclear Strike, but I was able to get it on an emulator last year to try. I couldn't get behind it. Things were to fast paced, fuel empied faster, damage added up faster on my helecoptor. I probably would have loved it if I was young again.

@peterbruin5154 3 жыл бұрын

I've been waiting so long for someone to do a dedicated strike series doc. Bravo!

@laidtorest387 Ай бұрын

Great video on a great series. I have fond memories of playing the first 3 games with my cousin quite a lot.

@UnkindledTheUndying 3 жыл бұрын

The intro is so accurate. My step dad had nuclear strike, but he used to let me play it back when I was like 10. Completely forgot about it til' now, I even still have the disc. Great video, I love learning game history, in all shapes and forms.

@System_Sega 3 жыл бұрын

Can't believe you didn't mention the Saturn version of Soviet Strike. Extra Weapons, More difficulty settings, Extra music and sound effects and analog contoller support. The definitive version.

@relaxwithme3266 10 күн бұрын

I loved these games. I had Jungle Strike and always felt like I was playing something special

@AbstractM0use Ай бұрын

Desert and Urban Strike were my go-to rentals on the weekends

@EricTheBroBean 23 күн бұрын

This is probably one of my most played franchise on the Sega Mega Drive and Amiga in the early 90's!

@borla4491 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a 34 year old guy from New Orleans. In the 1990s, I played all the first three" Strike " games on Sega Genesis. Then , Nuclear Strike on Playstation 1. There should be a remake or a reboot.

@notavailable4891 Ай бұрын

Desert strike was one of the first video games I ever owned. Never got past the second level. But I loved it.

@socillizt4life 3 жыл бұрын

The 1st time I put the ‘Desert Strike’ cartridge into my Megadrive(Genesis)it remained 1 of my favourite series & the most played games on my megadrive.Gr8 games!

@geraldperez2768 3 жыл бұрын

My Pops didn't play video games in the 90s unless he played war games with me. He LOVED contra.

@lftdblazer 17 күн бұрын

Desert Strike takes me back. My cousin had it and we would play it all the time. Soviet Strike is the most memorable though playing it with my childhood friends. I still have a copy of Soviet and Nuclear for my PS1. Also, another favorite is Choplifter 3 for SNES. Spent a lot of time on that too.

@god6384 12 күн бұрын

wow that's crazy I never knew future cop and nuclear strike had a correlation to each other they are both one of my favorite games on ps1 alongside Team Buddies, Bloody Roar, Bushido Blade and Metal Gear Solid

@jamesrevell6475 10 күн бұрын

My all time favorite game series. I'm 54 and about to retire. I am looking into investing in my dream gaming station and it starts with Desert Strike.

@mikethetowns 3 жыл бұрын

Great vid this one. Lookin' damn clear in the cam footage too. So fresh and so clean haha.

@embergamedev Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing the history of this series in such detail. I personally had never played any of the games in the series even though I owned a lot of the retro consoles mentioned here. I have recently been building my own game with an isometric perspective and a drifting / strafing car controller and wasn't really sure what to do with the game or what genre it fit into. Then someone mentioned it felt like the game Renegade Ops. After digging deeper I found that game was inspired by this series. It has been a very enlightening research period where I can see what makes this style of game fun! Let me know if I'm missing anything important!!! But core mechanics that seem important for this series are: - isometric perspective - loose, swinging / strafing physics that feel good - shooting and destructible environments - diverse missions spread across an open world environment - cohesive graphics and scenery that immerse you into the setting (desert, jumgle, urban) (how important / fun is resource management as compared to a more a run and gun style???)

@Dazuth Ай бұрын

Wow i recall seeing these as a 6 year old over my uncle's shoulder and thought it looked super cool but never knew what it was , finally 30 years later i get to play it 😅

@TheEagleofSteel 3 жыл бұрын

You nailed it with the intro. When I was about 7 I remember my dad playing desert and jungle strike on the mega drive, I used to try having a go myself but didn't understand how to refuel the chopper.

@tswims92 27 күн бұрын

I still have my old Soviet Strike Disk. It’s useless now, can’t play it, but I don’t think I will get rid of it. It was hands down my favorite game when I was younger.

@Paul07791 7 ай бұрын

You almost threw me at dads playing Desert Strike, that sounds very specific to you. We played it, my dad never plays games, my step dad stopped at Galaxian but did comment about Strike being pure propaganda. The only grown up I knew that played Strike was "Tony", my barber. OTHERWISE, great video.

@Agrippa666 Ай бұрын

Desert strike blew my 6 year old mind I loved that opening music and sequence

@divingadventures121 21 күн бұрын

I still remember the day I bought desert strike. Such an awesome game, blew me away

@casedistorted Жыл бұрын

My dad and I LOVED Jungle Strike when it came out. To my surprise I found out about Desert Strike later and never played much of it, nor did I play much of Urban Strike despite seeing it at the local game rental store all the time. I couldn’t tell if it was an actual sequel because the box was super strange for its time and showed absolutely no gameplay on the back, so I never took a risk of renting the game because I always went off of what those screenshots showed me. Since Urban Strike didn’t have any screenshots of gameplay on the box, it did not get rented. Then later on I saw Soviet Strike on ps1 and bought it as a kid, rented Nuclear Strike too, but Jungle Strike is the first one I played and loved thanks to my dad and I renting it together for our Sega Genesis. RIP dad Since EA has brought back Dead space They Should do the sTrike gAmes tOo

@StopItRyan 24 күн бұрын

Jungle Strike for SNES was the first game I ever bought with my own money. Sick!

@jeremycortese Ай бұрын

I played this so much when I was younger. One of my fav games!

@scruffylookingNerfherder5742 Ай бұрын

I absolutely loved these games back in the day. I still have Soviet and nuclear strike on PS1 but I would definitely love to see the series get re-released on modern consoles.

@AmuroRae 3 жыл бұрын

I always loved these games. Great little insight to one of my favorite 'underrated' series!

@benistingray6097 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutly loved the Strike series as a kid and played countless hours! And i didnt know Future Cop LAPD was also from them, still one of my favourite games till this day and i still play it from time to time.

@ServantOfBoron 3 жыл бұрын

Great video but I was sad to see you didn't mention "The Battletech" for Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) as it basically Strike series in Battletech universe. I always count it as one of the Strike games in my head :)