![Darius Gaiden [Arcade] - The Game That Got Me Into Arcade Shmups @psymagearcade](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9mK4CY9JFEE/maxresdefault.jpg)
Uploaded September 2023 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago
In this video, I discuss my earliest experiences playing Darius Gaiden over a decade ago as well as coming back to it again recently to get my 1CC of it. It's part discussion and part review, but more of a discussion about the game and its impact on me as a shmup player. This game may have gotten a lot of other shmup players into the genre, not just myself. Definitely one of the genre's all-time classics.
00:00 Intro
01:24 Finding Out About Darius Gaiden
03:47 First Impressions
08:41 How It Got Me Into Other Shmups
10:15 Coming Back To It Years Later
The background footage is one of my recent 1CCs of the ABDHLQW route, done with 25HZ autofire.
All music used comes from the Darius Gaiden OST:
Zuntata - Visionnerz
Zuntata - EEG
Zuntata - Axon
Zuntata - FAKE
Zuntata - Burst Out
Zuntata - Reflection
Additional Viewing:
Morsalty's 1CC Commentary: youtube.com/watch?v=WuPs-RTEs2U
Kamadoma's Survival 1CCs with Commentary Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTD9TmkCwZ25LHmv4VsqwV25NnCqSG2HY
Shmups Wiki page for the game: https://shmups.wiki/library/Darius_Gaiden
#arcadegames #1cc #retrogaming #classicgaming #shmups #shootemups
In this video, I discuss my earliest experiences playing Darius Gaiden over a decade ago as well as coming back to it again recently to get my 1CC of it. It's part discussion and part review, but more of a discussion about the game and its impact on me as a shmup player. This game may have gotten a lot of other shmup players into the genre, not just myself. Definitely one of the genre's all-time classics.
00:00 Intro
01:24 Finding Out About Darius Gaiden
03:47 First Impressions
08:41 How It Got Me Into Other Shmups
10:15 Coming Back To It Years Later
The background footage is one of my recent 1CCs of the ABDHLQW route, done with 25HZ autofire.
All music used comes from the Darius Gaiden OST:
Zuntata - Visionnerz
Zuntata - EEG
Zuntata - Axon
Zuntata - FAKE
Zuntata - Burst Out
Zuntata - Reflection
Additional Viewing:
Morsalty's 1CC Commentary: youtube.com/watch?v=WuPs-RTEs2U
Kamadoma's Survival 1CCs with Commentary Playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTD9TmkCwZ25LHmv4VsqwV25NnCqSG2HY
Shmups Wiki page for the game: https://shmups.wiki/library/Darius_Gaiden
#arcadegames #1cc #retrogaming #classicgaming #shmups #shootemups
![Darius Gaiden [Arcade] - The Game That Got Me Into Arcade Shmups](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9mK4CY9JFEE/mqdefault.jpg "Darius Gaiden [Arcade] - The Game That Got Me Into Arcade Shmups
In this video, I discuss my earliest experiences playing Darius Gaiden over a decade ago as well as coming back to it again recently to get my 1CC of it. Its part discussion and part review, but more of a discussion about the game and its impact on me as a shmup player. This game may have gotten a lot of other shmup players into the genre, not just myself. Definitely one of the genres all-time classics.
00:00 Intro
01:24 Finding Out About Darius Gaiden
03:47 First Impressions
08:41 How It Got Me Into Other Shmups
10:15 Coming Back To It Years Later
The background footage is one of my recent 1CCs of the ABDHLQW route, done with 25HZ autofire.
All music used comes from the Darius Gaiden OST:
Zuntata - Visionnerz
Zuntata - EEG
Zuntata - Axon
Zuntata - FAKE
Zuntata - Burst Out
Zuntata - Reflection
Additional Viewing:
Morsaltys 1CC Commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuPs-RTEs2U
Kamadomas Survival 1CCs with Commentary Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTD9TmkCwZ25LHmv4VsqwV25NnCqSG2HY
Shmups Wiki page for the game: https://shmups.wiki/library/Darius_Gaiden
#arcadegames #1cc #retrogaming #classicgaming #shmups #shootemups")
![Alpine Ski [Arcade] - Six Loop 1CC 177,109 pts.](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/AZvCHoaLGhA/mqdefault.jpg "Alpine Ski [Arcade] - Six Loop 1CC 177,109 pts.
This is a new personal best for Alpine Ski, a game that Ive been playing on and off for a while now. Recently, I beat my highest scoring run that I posted last year after doing the commentary video on the game.
Played on the MAME Current core in Retroarch. Controller of choice was my Qanba Crystal modded with a T-Spin for WASD keys and Sanwa buttons.
00:00 Intro
00:19 Loop 1
02:13 Loop 2
04:15 Loop 3
06:20 Loop 4
08:38 Loop 5
11:04 Loop 6
13:31 Loop 7")
![Summer Carnival 22: Crossgunr [PICO-8] - ALL Clear 14020 pts](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BT-TmAaYaWg/mqdefault.jpg "Summer Carnival 22: Crossgunr [PICO-8] - ALL Clear 14020 pts
This is my best run so far of Crossgunr, a bullet hell caravan shmup for PICO-8 created by AKTANE, a member of the shmup community and a fellow Youtuber:
https://www.youtube.com/c/AKTANEARCADE
This is a great game with an interesting side gunner concept. You had a gunner on each side of the screen that each fire horizontally. Theres also a bullet cancelling system that drives the scoring.
Check out the game here:
https://aktanedev.itch.io/crossgunr")
![Hard Drivin [Gamecube/Arcade] - 1CC with Commentary (Midway Arcade Treasures 2)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BoTqMzB-2Cw/mqdefault.jpg "Hard Drivin [Gamecube/Arcade] - 1CC with Commentary (Midway Arcade Treasures 2)
Hard Drivin is one of the oldest driving sim games, originally released at the beginning of 1989. Unlike sim racing games today, which are on consoles and PC, it was made originally for arcades by Atari Games, a company that you would not associate with realistic gaming. It was also one of the earliest 3D driving games, only beaten to the arcade market by Winning Run from Namco a couple of months prior in Japan. However, Winning Run wouldnt come to America until after Hard Drivin was out.
Just like the description on the opening screen of the game would suggest, it is more realistic than the arcade racers that were out at this time, but it is pretty primitive by todays standards. You can lose control of the car as the car does not have full-on traction control. You can stall the car if youre not careful while shifting. You do need to slow down for the sharper curves and before big jumps. The main courses feature other cars that drive in the proper lanes, and youll want to avoid crashing into them obviously. If you do crash, you get an instant replay of what happened.
Once you get used to the archaic physics by modern standards, it is not that hard of a game to clear. This game does not use RNG so as long as you drive well, you do not need to worry about some random traffic being thrown your way. Plus, if you drive properly as I demonstrate in this video, you can qualify easily for the Phantom Photon race, which is the championship. Once you beat the Phantom Photon in what is essentially a glorified time trial lap, that is the end of the game.
The biggest obstacle if youre playing this game today on emulation would be controls. Even playing this game by emulating a compilation still isnt ideal by any means as the steering is quite touchy, though setting up my Razer Wolverine V2 was less of an issue as Dolphin took care of that. However, MAME would probably involve a little bit more work to get your Xbox style controller set up. On the other hand, it may be possible to set up a steering wheel and pedal configuration within MAME for this.
Background music: Helicalin - Dissolved
https://archive.org/details/gv509/Helicalin+-+Solvent+-+02+Dissolved.mp3")
