Cobra Command Ingame video footage (Part 1 of 3)

[IMDRanged]

Classic! I still cringe during with the player copter death scenes. And yes, you know the pilot is already badass when he dons a pink flight suit. Terrorist Beware!

[SuperKokuJin916]

Toei Animation was a beast!! They animated practically all the animation for testosterone pumping toons of the mid '80s for both Japan and the West! From Transformers to even...Muppet Babies (LOL i know that's not a testosterone pumping show but it still was good!) Does anyone else think the title screen for this game is eerily similar to the infamous Viacom "V of Doom" sequence? I'm just sayin' a progressive synth, and a giant blue logo being rotoscoped right in to your retinas is scary!

[tdickensheets]

Cost to play .50 just like Dragon's Lair game.

[hjberg71]

I remember when this game showed up at the bowling alley while I was in my senior year in HS. I played this game everyday till I made it all the way through to the end and won. For me, this game seemed so much easier to play and react to than Dragon's Lair.

[SniperSam]

I remember this launched my craze for Japanese animation, specially after Warriors of the Wind and Robotech came out. I was hooked. Japan ruled the animation universe

[killersushi99]

Kicking terrorist asses since 1984!!

[davedropd1]

loved that game as a kid along with mach 3, spy hunter tempest and moon patrol..... getting out of the cave mission is what gave everyone trouble........seeing it now, it looks like the gijoe cartoons to me......

[prbpino75]

I was 9 years old at the time...this was the best game out including Dragons Lair, Journey, Street Fighter and Punch Out....good times !

[mattthesaint]

nice

[llkk750]

Anybody remember a game similar to this around the same time but it was in space and you sat in a cockpit the swirled around? Can't remember the name...

[mattthesaint]

@llkk750 Hmm.... Was a 4 year difference, but "Galaxy Force II" maybe? v=tTaCyE0OE4c

[elhombre73]

@llkk750

Pretty sure it was 'SPACE ACE'.

[stringanime]

damn that crash animation gets a lot of air time.

[Tigerman1138]

@stringanime Director Michael Bay was HEAVILY influenced by this game.

[speedskate2010]

this was at chuck e cheeses back in 1989

[mattthesaint]

@speedskate2010 word

[Rifou812]

One of my favorite laser disc games after dragon's lair and space ace

Truly an under rated classic of the 80s

[screamingdean5]

I remember this from when I was a kid. Brings back some memories.

[ncry]

I remember when i saw this the first time on arcade, damn i was blown away from the gfx. Spent a lot of cash on this game :D

[XMChipXM]

YES, I remember this one! There was a local store with a game room, & they had it.

Sadly, you could seldom play it, as it was almost ALWAYS "out of order"!

[richintalent]

I cannot help myself here: Yooooooooo JOE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You may now commence with the fanboy jokes

[XMChipXM]

@richintalent All I'll say about fanboys, rich, is : "We can smell our own kind!" LOL

[AlanSessler]

One of my favorite LD games. Top 4 are Dragon's Lair, Space Ace, Cliff Hanger and Cobra Command. I also liked Thayer's Quest but never got too far in that one. I was amazed that this game had the cool video crosshair that was totally controllable, and that you actually had to place it over the enemy then shoot for the disc to keep playing the game footage.

[vozpit]

Tanks in the desert! Use the missiles!

[EvilPenguinMaster]

I've paid for a version of it on my iTouch and I absolutely love it. It would definitely be much better on an arcade machine, though.

[RikuReplicate]

This is the entirety of the late 80's distilled into a concoction of pure win.

[austinthehedgehog]

they just made Cobra Command free for Ipod Touch/Iphone and it is a great game people with an Ipod Touch or Iphone should really pick this one up before they make you pay again

[chrisinmainz]

could this footage be used to make a framefile on daphne to play the game?

[He101A]

This was the coolest game I ever saw in the mid 1980s.

[EXmugen]

WOW...! This was thee game of my childhood...! I also have it on Sega-CD which is a direct port. This is where all my chuck E Cheeses tokens went. lol... As a child, beating this game was a serious accomplishment...! People actually looked up to me! lmao Just for beating this game! Oh how I miss my childhood... Well, nah...!

[Smitamas101]

@EXmugen nice one cheers mate,

i got it, played it and completed it plus i got loads more old school classics for it, i havent grinned like that in years when i saw it load up...

... sad i know lol

[Smitamas101]

i loved this game when i was a kid, it wasnt really much of a game, you just had to know where to click and when plus you had to have some bad ass reflexes, i was hooked on this

can you get an rom of this, infact im gonna look right now

[neogeon]

you can get a Sega CD ISO (easiest way) or you can track down the MAME CHD of it, but that'll be HUGE.

The iPhone is the most accessible version, if you have an iPhone that is.

[ISAFACE1]

Wow this game brings back a lot of fond memories. This was one of my all time favorites back in the 80's. When my buddies and I were not chasing after girls we'd be spending our time at Castle Park in Riverside California feeding our tokens into this game. Good times!

[Alcaleb]

It's like Road Avenger!

[TwinCityKillaz]

@sbmrunning

Thanks for all your knowledge. If this gets brought again in conversation I plan on giving you full credit...Thanks

[sbmrunning]

TwinCityKillaz..........( i take a bow ) thank you ! and to let you know..........I used to play this game in california ( san deigo, san francisco ), connecticut ( new london and mystic ) and new york ( times square ), Las Vegas and on the New Jersey Boardwalk.,....back in the 80's this game and space ace, dragons lair and MACH 3 used to do alot of damage to our quarters ! LOL...but the spectators used to egg us onward to see the advance stages of the game...so we play and dazzle the crowds.

[TwinCityKillaz]

I look to this because I am trying to Emulate Daphne, but having a bit of trouble.

[TwinCityKillaz]

A GI-Joe laser disk game from the 80's to coincide with the cartoon would've kicked ASS

[sbmrunning]

Well.........TwinCityKillaz...­.... cobra command and GIJoe were both produced by the same anime house!  does that count? lol........still though a good idea by you! ........"Take a right downtown!" lol

[TwinCityKillaz]

I remember as a kid there was a company called dic who's logo showed up at the end of many of my cartoons I loved as a kid. Inspector Gadget was one. Is that what producer your talking about?

[sbmrunning]

Well Twincity Killaz ( ha! ha! ha! ) DIC took over the gijoe series after Hasbro let it go. The original animation for both gijoe and cobra command was TOEI animation from japan...TOEI is a world class anime house been around since the early american invansion of the 1960's. They have the hard disciplines to the artwork that is so evident in japanese animation. DIC is european (FRENCH i think ) DIC had nothing to do with cobra command. And made a mess of gijoe in my opinion.

[chinito77]

I liked the soundtrack for the Sega CD more. It also had more helicopter effects in stereo sound.

[grenadianmed]

Okay, I just bought this for my iphone for 4.99, and it's exactly the same as the 80's arcade version, and it even has the cool as shit opening. This is so freaking awesome!!!

[sbmrunning]

lol@grenadianmed..............­... u r right ! the theme song is just gripping ! classic 80's japanimation testosterone stuff !  lol..........so as ScarletFever99 said "go on and take a right downtown !" lol

[grenadianmed]

This game is now available as an iphone App!!! I just bought it

[grenadianmed]

Love this game....it is far superior to the games in the arcades today. Ironic how arcade games got worse over the years instead of better.

[ScarletFever99]

Still proud I finished this game in the arcades when I was 12 = ). 'Take a right, head downtown' = )

[TheAbsintheReviewNet]

Only saw it in the arcade once, but oh my GOD I used to love this game! I had nearly 20 Sega CD games at one point and I still played this one the most despite it being my first game for the system!:)

[BrianHatfieldSeattle]

So many memories, so many quarters spent.

[Normal1S]

Tell me about it. . .Now only if someone could put up video from the live action Sega Monaco GP. . .

[pabloefe]

Este juego creo que es el que mas me impactó, me gustaba tanto que yo y un amigo nos

dejabamos mucho dinero cada fin de semana.

Me trae muy buenos recuerdos.

Gracias por subirlo.

Un abrazo.

[thelawguy666]

Thanks for posting! i loved this game when i was a kid and have not seen this video for at least 20 years! sooooo many good memories:)

[TampaBayFilm]

Awesome. I'm glad that the full-resultion arcade Laser Disc footage is here and not the crappy low-resolution Sega CD version. This is one of my favorite LD games, although you really can't call LD games video games. The input rate is really low, and it's not all that interactive.

I loved this game, though.

Hmmm... Cliffhanger... Dragon's Lair... Mach 3. Good stuff. Watching them on YouTube is almost like owning the game and doing perfect play-throughs.

[sportinmorton]

I used to get shivers when I walked into an arcade and heard that intro. Nice to see somebody else remembers this one!

[Tigerman1138]

@sportinmorton

You too huh!?I am 32...remember playing this in the arcade as a kid in Maine. I was so young. This game had me hooked like CRACK! I would watch the launch sequence on the "attract mode" like a zombie. I played...but would never get out of NYC... I was too young. I love this. I'd consider getting an iphone for this app alone ($.99).

[Schwertleite]

Wow, this one brings back a lot of arcade memories. Played the hell out of it, and am happy to see it again after so long. Thanks for this. :)

[paulnojustpaul]

Good grief, the number of coins I shoved into this game... got to the point where other kids would roll their eyes when I wandered up to it.

This, alongside Space Ace and Firefox were the absolute best laserdisc pocket monkey extractors.

Thanks for sharing!

[yethboth]

Very Good Anime game. Thank you.

[carnagerie]

whats the point of this game? He got shot at a thousand times and never died?

I prefer the nes version.

[stickyboul]

YEEOOOO!! I was ADDICTED to this game back in the day when i first saw it. Didnt quite spend $50 a day but i would bum quarters just to play this game after school in 8th grade. It was the sit down version too with the huge widescreen and had BOTH the arrows and the voice gude...best game BY far in the arcade at the time. I hated the fact that it broke down all of the time it always needed to be reset. Seeing this post is serious nostalgia for me... thanks.

[Hellscrap3r]

It's the same with me. I think he may've had it on a harder difficulty.

[morfius93638]

this game was cool it was around with games like spy hunter and 50cal and ikare warriors I put lots of quarters in it

[1983parrothead]

The main helicopter of this game later appeared at the beginning of Double Dragon II: The Revenge, which was directed by the same director of Cobra Command/Thunder Storm, Yoshihisa Kishimoto. Also, the red car at the beginning of the first Double Dragon is the same one from Road Blaster/Road Avenger, another laserdisc game directed by Yoshihisa Kishimoto.

[TypicalJoe1900]

Why can't anyone upload any footage of the game being played in Daphne?

[TheWraith]

i love how this has Real Guys talking

idea actualy watch an airwolf/helicopter style cartoon if it looked & sounded as cool as this

i hate them studios who use 50+ women to do the voice of like 14 year old boys, i duno were that invention came from, but ive found most the trash my kid watches has old women doing the voices of kids

pika pika pikachu : /

[Chammy92243]

I know huh, its like, was imagining the voice actor of the co pilot being japenese but sounding like some modern american, like Yuji Okumoto of Better Off Dead pulling off the sports narrator Howard Cosell

[sablestorm]

I loved this game, playing it about the same time Top Gun came out. Our arcade had a sit down version with an unusually large screen so it felt more like you were sitting in the cockpit and actually flying. I also love the soundtrack.

[Datan0de]

The biggest problem I had playing it was that at our local arcade (Aladdin's Castle in Fayetteville, NY) they had the volume turned down too low to hear the verbal instructions (LEFT! RIGHT!) over the ambient sound of the arcade. LOTS of trial and error!

[circeannumber6]

Might have been just as well, those verbal commands were early by about 1.5 seconds and if you reacted just say they said..you got killed..trust me I spent the summer of '86 on this game..

[robtoole]

Favorite game from my Dream Machine Days in Hull MA.

[sega31098]

So that first-person view and shooting really the gameplay?! Just asking.

[jakeharvey]

Yes, but it's all pre-drawn, like Dragon's Lair. The perspective can't change and you have limited interactivity.

[thelawguy666]

thanks for posting- I LOVED THIS GAME! so many happy memories. i used to spend my lunch $ on this game- i was one skinny 5th grader :)

[shogunrommel]

Man, this is so much smoother than the version I have for Sega CD. I could get far in the game, but my reaction time was never good eough to beat it.

[szymanhead]

I could have paid for college with the money I put into this machine.

[jettmanas]

As an animator, I've got to say, first-person animated backgrounds are a lot of work! Nice explosion animation as well.

Any idea if the animation was pulled from a show or film like Cliff Hanger/Lupin? (also here on YT) Or was it made for the game?

Thanks for posting.

[jumakaro]

Lupin III: Castle of Caglisotro, a movie in its own right.

[figment1988]

@jumakaro and the scene where Lupin is hung from the gallows is from Mystery of Mamo

[sbmrunning]

All Original stuff jettmanas! Toei animations did the work for Data East back in 1983 for 1984 release. Toei animators also did the work for Gi Joe and voltron and Captain Powers VHS tapes! and of course Toei animators are world wide professionals! in Japanimation!

[leslielove]

my favarcade game in the world

[300bucks]

I spent 52 bucks on this game in one day in Tampa Bay 20 years ago....back when games were a quarter!

I loved this one and never finished all the levels - GOD BLESS YOU TUBE

[battleathlete]

how do you play this game? i see no target icon or anything! i thought i was watching the opening the whole time. i was like man this is long. lol

its on sega cd too right?

[Cyrus7500]

It is one of those FMV Movie games you just have to type button or type on the d-pad so that the movie doesn`t end. These Games are count aas the most boring ones. Ever played Night trap or Dragons Lair [3DO or MCD version] they are the same kind of games.

[SegaMegadriveMic]

Don't forget, Sewer Shark is also an FMV game.

[FrakAttack]

No, this is just the raw laserdisc footage, without the cockpit graphics and targeting boxes. You had to use the joystick to move the crosshairs and shoot either machine guns or missiles at the targets.

[Feefle]

I posted a video resposne to this, if the author accepts it, you will see the ACTUAL gameplay.

[leslielove]

cobra coamndfuckig ruels:)

[Shawnster65]

Where the HELL did you find this?!? I've been looking for this game since my arcade days of the early 80's. This brings back some uber memories, this was one of my favorite arcade games. THANKS!

[quikfax]

Ah the memories. I used to play this game listening to Huey Lewis's "Fore!" album..

[DragonLord1975]

This is the ultimate military game for otaku! Top Gun-like soundtrack, visuals, explosions...what more could a military junkie ask for? BTW when I was young I saw that in Boston Garden in an arcade they had.

[Feefle]

I hate Japanese shows and stuff but I play this game 0_o

[sbmrunning]

how could you hate japanimation? its the stuff guys love! especially of the 1980's!

[SaxonSwine]

Wut? Japanese animation sucks, it's the stuff geeks love.

I remember this game, the crappy animation made me feel sick (like most other FMV games), thank god for proper 3D - I can't believe anyone thought FMV was "the future" (LOLOLOLOLOL)

[sbmrunning]

what does FMV mean? and I'm sorry you don't agree with my enjoyment of Japanese Animation, may i ask for your choice of animation?

[neogeon]

no one thought FMV was SOLELY the future, but just that it was one of the many genres and forms of games that would exist. FMV games appeal more to movie fans than typical gamers.

[leslielove]

the best laser disc game in the wolrd and yes it did makea cameo in the pinball

[locksmithite]

my god!!!! i used to love this game. where did you ever find this??

[emirparkrainer]

great animations,great voce,incredible rock soundtracks...pure and best laser arcade game gameplay!Amazing art director,the chopper's design is the best thing never seen on a videogame.I finished the original coin-op in the summer of 1987 at seaside in Italy(the game is from 1984),so i bought it for the Sega MegaCD(good version) and after for the Playstation One(exellent version!japan only)...so it's my favorite videogame of all time...i love it,and i love Data East too ;)

[leslielove]

i got cobracomand get ported on xbox 360

[wyattjameson]

how can i do that for my xbox to get this game,is it as good as arcade version i grew up on or is it cheesey?

[chibigengen]

i what this laser disc cobra command game

[1984viceguy]

Man, this brought back memories of the arcade! This clip has always remained with me through out the years. This was the best ariel combat game in the arcade to me. Thank you for bringing back fun memories, bringing back the 80s, and the TRUE ARCADE DECADE!

[leslielove]

np i think blue thunder and cobracomand have the same part you wonder i what to own this games bvery much hope it allo get ported on xbox 360

[citizencorps]

first off, blue thunder didnt have missles. second off, this is my fav game of all time - just for the opening tho. i never played it beyond the first couple of enemies/moves. last off - thanks for posting these! you rock! Now I can see what actually happens in the rest of the game!

[nomuken1]

it only saw this in the arcade in like 1987 - 89 in a place called footscray in melbourne australia. i only made it to the canyon and the i ran out of money as it was $1.00 a game!

[leslielove]

i think blue thunder and cobracomamnd are the same do you think so i what this laser disc game my self to own

[Jaspion88]

There's overlays but here it's only the video footage.

[galen94533]

Is there an anime of this or is the game available for DVD like Dragons Lair and Space Ace?

[elliptical3]

Ah, good times in the 80's. Thanks.

[neomrdo]

i thought i was hot shi* when i played this game. My favorite was CLIFF HANGER (lupin), then C.C. I had this for the sega cd also.

[jaycek]

Pure Laser disc 0wn@g€!

[SniperSam]

Brings back memories, thats the game that got me into Japanese Anime, its the game that got me started, good video post bro.

*S*

[leslielove]

my fva laser disc game in the world