If Smash and Power Stone had an older brother it would be The Outfoxies.
Are those 2 giant fucking speakers to shake your teeth loose while you play????
A local arcade center in my hometown had that 4player Spikeout setup with those huge fans/speakers, 4 Blast Cities linked togheter, it was crazy fun, some guys mastered it to point of beating it on 1C, I never managed to get past the bosses of the 3rd stage, the sound in this game was amazing, it must have been one of the first games to implement positional 3D audio, or "environmental" as I don't think Sega the technology to do real 3D audio BITD, but I remember that I could hear the enemies steps and yelling from behind, even when the arcade was crowded on weekends.
1CC?!?! The damn game is dumb hard. I am MORE than impressed lol
Yeah, from what I can rememeber there are ways to break the A.I. to the point where enemies just stop attacking you, plus there are some wall hacks and infinite combos, this game has crazy complex crowd management and a few "intrincate" ways of exploiting the "beat" mechanic to break the ranking system;
On a side note, the Xbox "Battle Street" port is the same "Final Edition" with "revamped" graphics (I don't like the duller color pallete) and all strategies work just as in the arcade, this game has a cult following in Japan, even to this day:
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God, that 4p home setup is ultra big dick status right there. Sick!!
Thank you for putting these up!
Really interesting video. Never have heard of this before.