Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
An odd (but entertaining) little 1986 shmup from Coreland. The game only consists of 4 areas before it loops, so it's not a very long game for 1CC purposes.
There are 5 ship pieces to collect and 8 powerups, once all have been assembled you get a 100,000 point bonus and feel damn near invincible... until you get to Area 3 and get surrounded by enemies that release a revenge bullet when they die. It wouldn't be a problem to stop firing except when fully powered up you have a sphere constantly circling you which can kill enemies, so I always get screwed over by this.
I got a couple one-loop clears earlier in the stream but kept doing more attempts because I wanted to break a million points. After 999,900 the score actually rolls over, and the game doesn't know how to properly handle it until it reaches the next stage. I tried to maximize getting 100k bonuses early on because I wasn't sure if I would get past Loop 2-3.
By using the ground bomb on certain targets in stages, bonus items can be found showing Darth Vader, R2-D2, and Jason (Friday the 13th). I'm not sure if there's any more bonus characters like this.
Full VOD (has two other one-loop clears that ended agonizingly short of the 1 million mark) - youtu.be/yWjdR9xpcr0
An odd (but entertaining) little 1986 shmup from Coreland. The game only consists of 4 areas before it loops, so it's not a very long game for 1CC purposes.
There are 5 ship pieces to collect and 8 powerups, once all have been assembled you get a 100,000 point bonus and feel damn near invincible... until you get to Area 3 and get surrounded by enemies that release a revenge bullet when they die. It wouldn't be a problem to stop firing except when fully powered up you have a sphere constantly circling you which can kill enemies, so I always get screwed over by this.
I got a couple one-loop clears earlier in the stream but kept doing more attempts because I wanted to break a million points. After 999,900 the score actually rolls over, and the game doesn't know how to properly handle it until it reaches the next stage. I tried to maximize getting 100k bonuses early on because I wasn't sure if I would get past Loop 2-3.
By using the ground bomb on certain targets in stages, bonus items can be found showing Darth Vader, R2-D2, and Jason (Friday the 13th). I'm not sure if there's any more bonus characters like this.
Full VOD (has two other one-loop clears that ended agonizingly short of the 1 million mark) - youtu.be/yWjdR9xpcr0
![Top Hunter [Neo-Geo CD] - 792,300 No Death](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XHLrMymXRsw/mqdefault.jpg "Top Hunter [Neo-Geo CD] - 792,300 No Death
Played this for the RetroAchievements Leaderboard of the Month for the first half of September 2026. I just wanted to put up a decent 1CC score, wasnt expecting to get a deathless run out of it!
Compared to the MVS version, the Neo-Geo CD (as well as AES) version is actually a longer playthrough. You see, each of the four worlds in this game has 3 areas that can be played through. In the MVS version, you only play through 2 of the 3 areas, but on the home versions you have to go through all 3 for each of the four worlds. When selecting a world in the MVS version, the first world you select will make you play areas 1 and 3, while every world after that will be 2 and 3. Since you have to do all three areas each time, this bumps the number of total stages up from 9 (4 * 2 + final stage) to 13 (4 * 3 + final stage)! And as you can see, this makes it take an hour if youre doing some score stuff here and there, plus visiting all the bonus stages.
Despite all my time playing this game (which is pretty much always the MVS version), I couldnt recall if Id ever gotten a no-miss run of this. Since this was rather unexpected, AND was done on the version that has 4 extra stages to play through, I figured this was worth highlighting and saving. The only asterisk I would attach to this was that it was played on Normal difficulty instead of the MVS default difficulty (MVS is Level-4, whereas Normal is usually Level-2 or Level-3). To be fair though, Ive never really noticed anything different gameplay wise outside of it MAYBE affecting how much damage you take? But it always seems to be around the same amounts anyway.")
![Arcade RetroAchievements - Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder [04-15-2026]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XJ8SFEzdJJQ/mqdefault.jpg "Arcade RetroAchievements - Golden Axe: The Revenge of Death Adder [04-15-2026]
Hadnt really played this game since I got the 1CC, was able to de-rust it a lot faster than I thought and got through the entire set at one night. My original 1CC was on the World version where the game is only 5 stages long, this version makes you do all 7 stages (i.e. your route choice doesnt matter on stages 2 and 4 because you end up having to play the other routes anyway), which pads the game out a little too much! Anyway I got a new 1CC on this version at 2:20:21, was going to make a highlight of that to add to the 1CCBBH collection as an alternate clear but Ill just leave it in this VOD for now I guess.")
![Sega CD RetroAchievements - Keio Flying Squadron [03-19-2026 stream]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/YY0L4ral37E/mqdefault.jpg "Sega CD RetroAchievements - Keio Flying Squadron [03-19-2026 stream]
Another console shmup Id never played before but wanted to check out. It was an interesting experience for sure, of course theres things you gotta learn through trial and error but thats par for the course with shmups. I didnt like how terrible some of the weapons felt, but difficulty-wise it was pretty manageable even on Hard once you learn how to get all the hidden 1-ups. And of course the cutscenes were entertaining.
Apparently the second game is a platformer... will I play it? Maybe, who knowssss")
![Push To [Not] Reject - Lets Talk About 1992 Arcade Games](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZfRmjSCM2jY/mqdefault.jpg "Push To [Not] Reject - Lets Talk About 1992 Arcade Games
Before we start officially covering games released in 1992, as is tradition I like to start by flipping the script and talking for a bit about games that WERE popular in 1992, or at least have attained a newfound legacy in the time since they were released. Much talk (and even some playing) of Street Fighter 2 Champion Edition, and the bootleg rom hacks that became prevalent, and Mortal Kombat! And a buncha other games too. Concluding at the end with a 1CC attempt on Total Carnage because I felt like i hadnt played it on stream in a while, and this was the perfect excuse to bust out that long-ass game. Howd it go? Eh...")
