Cobra Command Ingame video footage (Part 3 of 3)

Ingame Video Footage from Cobra Command Laserdisc Game (Part 3 of 3)

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[Shawnster65]

The visual destruction in this game was mind blowing, I loved this one when I was a young arcade goer in the early 80's. I'm 42 now and I STILL want to play this one! Definitely the coolest laser gamer ever!

[kwreck0022]

This game was absolutely THE SH!T when I was about 8 or 9 years old, and I would pay good money now at 31 to have a decent port of it for Windows!!!

[Elvenking71]

I used to be able to end this on one quarter. I was challenged by the head of the local arcade. Said he would give me a ten dollar roll of quarteres if I did it...well I did...greatest moment.

[richintalent]

Sorry but I HAVE to do this out of sheer exhileration:

Yoooooooo JOE!!!!!!!!

you may make all the derogatory nerd remarks now

[TodayzTomSawyer]

WOW! I'd never thought to try and find this on YT until today! I was one of the few people to my knowledge that completed the game in the small town I lived in and I think I was #2. lol At first I used to watch other people play and learned most of the sequences. I then played it until one day...victory! The game did have issues, though. It used to get hot and I think dust caused issues, too.

Very cool!

[hargosh37]

I know some of the arcade machines had some of the stages going at random. The way they went was: Stages 1-4: Random, Stage 5; Fortress, Stages 6-9 Random, Stage 10 Main Base.

The order the laserdisc runs these scenes is the standard stage order, and the iPhone version keeps that continuity.

[Datan0de]

Strangely, the CC machine in our local arcade *started* with the canyon scene at the beginning of this vid. Was that normal?

[koldfuse]

thank you for posting all of u, only us that remember this great game which was well in advance of all others, save dragons lair maybe a few others but those stood out I would love to have a big convention with cobra command players lol, I play commache 4 now online but nothing compared to cob com. cheers all

[sbmrunning]

back in the days jettmanas, I was (still am) deep in electronics and programming by hobby. When laser disc came out, it was like digital television next year! it was a big step in video distribution. I wanted to know about it. Then it hit the arcades, and in a big way it got my attention! I got Byte magazine and it had an outstanding article about the laser disc units, pre 6800 Motorola, it was fascinating, and i called and made connection with a Data East Technician on the CC project.

[jettmanas]

Interesting. You really know the history of this game.

[sbmrunning]

It would be interesting to point out, that many of the cobra command games built by Data East were challenging in the earlier stages of production. They had heat problems with the disc player sitting in the cabinets. Once they over came that problem, they were ready to get the units out to the arcades. The games were a bit pricey, but they did sell, and the arcade/machine owner vendors did see their investment back. But they didn't understand alot of the diagnosing of the player and consoles.

[300bucks]

Ahhhhh COBRA COMMAND - never got past 4 missions, but I kept trying....that is until one day, Magically I might add, all arcades got rid of laser-disc games all together - I was heart broken. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!