Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off Road - Episode 156

windshield has to be replaced regardless well as you trade in the car and get the one yeah off the lift so all right we handled that as best we could the best part of the game you got to focus on it so stage two uh contestant number two who are you you had gotten the narcotics back apparently from the first stage and the narcotics that you seize were just stolen by a team on the move yeah and everybody's favorite thief we already mentioned them in this related to another game mama me is cajun exactly maybe he has a 2500 arrest bonus his name is gambit he come on down he is uh 27 years old and his crime is narcotics and robbery i don't know if it's narcotics robbery but that's narcotics right i think he stole drugs right but like is that uh is that actually a crime in and of itself like that's separate from wouldn't it be like i think it would be it would trafficking also

Yeah. So the hardware is neat on this. So it's, it runs the, the baseboard is a Namco system too, which like, there's a lot of games that run on that hardware. We've had a couple. So like, you had an assault cabinet for a while. So that's the same kind of baseboard. Some other ones are like Cosmo gang golly ghosts. We've talked about that before, uh, Metal Hawk, Steel Gunner. But what's unique about this game, um, there's actually a couple there's final lap, uh, four tracks, Suzuka eight hours is another pretty common one. And lucky and wild, it had like a special kind of like graphics board, almost like its own like graphics section on the actual hardware. Um, so it's pretty neat. Again, it's the Namco system too. Unfortunately, super expensive hardware nowadays. I don't think I've ever owned a Namco system to where I know you, again, you did, you had an assault. We worked, I've worked on a couple, but I've never owned one. Yeah. I was looking at

Because the reception just wouldn't be there even from a control perspective. I think Portal was successful in Japan. But again I don't know if that was like Orange Box. Yeah Portal was very successful in Japan. You know and I do have a couple of comments as far as like viability outside of Japan. The reason why they put this together. Japan is very, when it comes to arcade games, very you know trend hopping. If they could successfully make Starcraft an arcade game when Starcraft 2 was popular, I'm sure they would have. And it would have just absolutely tore through every single arcade ever. Case in point, there's a there's a game called Mission Craft that was released in like 2000. It's a vertically scrolling shoot-em-up where this Korean company took art assets from Starcraft, the original Starcraft, and essentially made a shoot-em-up game out of it.

So instead of having to capture the doctor again each time, which even once you, I'll just mention once you collect all three keys from that last room, you have to make it to the exit within a certain amount of time or the villain on the first one will escape or the villain will capture your bride.