Uploaded July 2021 | Updated September 2026, 18 hours ago
Discover the Best Arcade Exclusive Games you've never played! Arcade games you won't believe never had home ports. The Best Shoot Em Ups, the best platformers, the best beat em ups, the best run n guns from the best developers in the business. Konami, Capcom and Taito were the undisputed kings of arcade, and yet even some of their amazing games like Alien vs Predator never made it into the Capcom Arcade Stadium. Xexex, Dimahoo and more remained exclusive. Toaplan, one of the most prominent Shoot Em Up devs of the time, released almost every game onto the Mega Drive, PC Engine, and later the Sega Saturn. Yet even they had awesome games like Outzone and Dogyuun never make it out of arcades. Even legendary shooters like R-Type had games like R-Type Leo never find a home release. Whether you love shmups, action, or beat em ups, you'll be amazed how some of these incredible games could remain obscure and never find their way to the west, let alone to the Nintendo Switch, Sony's Playstation consoles, Xbox, or Arcade Archives. Some never even made it out of Japanese arcades! Join me as I highlight some of my favorite arcade exclusive games, not a Top 10, but the rarest and best arcade hidden gems, and how to play them, whether via emulation through MAME, FPGA like MiSTer, or real arcade hardware via a Supergun and PCB.
#arcade #shootemup #retrogaming
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Arcade Games
02:33 - The Best that never made it
03:26 - SUPERGUN GIVEAWAY DETAILS!
04:36 - Outzone by Toaplan
09:01 - The Strider you never played - Cannon Dancer (Osman)
14:32 - Boogie Wings Insanity (The Great Ragtime Show)
19:57 - IREM meets Gradius - XEXEX by Konami
26:00 - Cyvern by Kaneko
29:16 - The Lost R-Type - LEO
31:46 - Aliens and Predators
34:40 - What is a MiSTer?
35:08 - The Raizing Trifecta and Dimahoo
36:05 - Toaplan does Capcom - Dogyuun
36:39 - The King of Fighters of Shmups - Armed Police Batrider
38:09 - We're gonna need a montage
41:15 - How to use and WIN a SIGMA SUPERGUN!
42:44 - Smoke 'em if ya got 'em
For more awesome Japan Arcade footage, check out this video by Kidshoryuken: youtube.com/watch?v=6D2sYnr3rIo&t=285s
For more gameplay on some of the featured videos, check out the links to these awesome gameplay channels:
Xexex 2-ALL by T4N3: youtube.com/watch v=P3DDi8yrvCU&t=1009s
R-Type Leo 1CC by Chinopolis:
youtube.com/watch?v=5WJkqiN-o0A&t=60s
Dimahoo 1CC by Chinopolis
youtube.com/watch?v=RbvZHXl-pt0&t=294s
Dogyuun 1-ALL by Jaimers: youtube.com/watch?v=nhgFbGAfjeM
Armed Police Batrider Advanced D.D ALL by Pearl: youtube.com/watch?v=bvL9E5J5RGg&t=202s
Full Review of Armed Police Batrider by The Electric Underground
youtube.com/watch?v=CbzZELNVwJk&t=383s
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Discover the Best Arcade Exclusive Games you've never played! Arcade games you won't believe never had home ports. The Best Shoot Em Ups, the best platformers, the best beat em ups, the best run n guns from the best developers in the business. Konami, Capcom and Taito were the undisputed kings of arcade, and yet even some of their amazing games like Alien vs Predator never made it into the Capcom Arcade Stadium. Xexex, Dimahoo and more remained exclusive. Toaplan, one of the most prominent Shoot Em Up devs of the time, released almost every game onto the Mega Drive, PC Engine, and later the Sega Saturn. Yet even they had awesome games like Outzone and Dogyuun never make it out of arcades. Even legendary shooters like R-Type had games like R-Type Leo never find a home release. Whether you love shmups, action, or beat em ups, you'll be amazed how some of these incredible games could remain obscure and never find their way to the west, let alone to the Nintendo Switch, Sony's Playstation consoles, Xbox, or Arcade Archives. Some never even made it out of Japanese arcades! Join me as I highlight some of my favorite arcade exclusive games, not a Top 10, but the rarest and best arcade hidden gems, and how to play them, whether via emulation through MAME, FPGA like MiSTer, or real arcade hardware via a Supergun and PCB.
#arcade #shootemup #retrogaming
✅ Subscribe To My Channel ➡️
Support me on PATREON
patreon.com/shmupjunkieslushfund
HUGE Thanks to Red Balltop (Marc Marta) for sending me a rare Sigma Supergun to give away for this video to one lucky winner, along with an arcade PCB of Heated Barrell. Watch the video, comment the code and be entered to win!
CHAPTERS:
00:00 - Arcade Games
02:33 - The Best that never made it
03:26 - SUPERGUN GIVEAWAY DETAILS!
04:36 - Outzone by Toaplan
09:01 - The Strider you never played - Cannon Dancer (Osman)
14:32 - Boogie Wings Insanity (The Great Ragtime Show)
19:57 - IREM meets Gradius - XEXEX by Konami
26:00 - Cyvern by Kaneko
29:16 - The Lost R-Type - LEO
31:46 - Aliens and Predators
34:40 - What is a MiSTer?
35:08 - The Raizing Trifecta and Dimahoo
36:05 - Toaplan does Capcom - Dogyuun
36:39 - The King of Fighters of Shmups - Armed Police Batrider
38:09 - We're gonna need a montage
41:15 - How to use and WIN a SIGMA SUPERGUN!
42:44 - Smoke 'em if ya got 'em
For more awesome Japan Arcade footage, check out this video by Kidshoryuken: youtube.com/watch?v=6D2sYnr3rIo&t=285s
For more gameplay on some of the featured videos, check out the links to these awesome gameplay channels:
Xexex 2-ALL by T4N3: youtube.com/watch v=P3DDi8yrvCU&t=1009s
R-Type Leo 1CC by Chinopolis:
youtube.com/watch?v=5WJkqiN-o0A&t=60s
Dimahoo 1CC by Chinopolis
youtube.com/watch?v=RbvZHXl-pt0&t=294s
Dogyuun 1-ALL by Jaimers: youtube.com/watch?v=nhgFbGAfjeM
Armed Police Batrider Advanced D.D ALL by Pearl: youtube.com/watch?v=bvL9E5J5RGg&t=202s
Full Review of Armed Police Batrider by The Electric Underground
youtube.com/watch?v=CbzZELNVwJk&t=383s
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