Coin-Op Classics: Spy Hunter

(The original "Spy Hunter" is owned by Midway.)

One of the more popular arcade classics to combine two different genres of gameplay is Spy Hunter; not only did it provide another way to look at driving games, but it also gave the action genre a new playing field. Episode number eight of "Coin-Op Classics" is here!

MUSIC:
Peter Gunn remix/Main Menu- Spy Hunter (2001)

REFERENCES:
"Double Dumbass On You"- Star Trek IV
"Ahahahahahaha, SHUT UP!"- Billy Madison

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[jamesbooty]

The screen shot you show when you mention the Commodore 64 version is definitely not the C64 version. I don't know what platform it actually is though.

[thechocobro]

Oops.

[srrgbn]

YES! Spy hunter kicks ass! great episode thechocobro, cant wait for pacman!

[movieapple]

This... is... a... brilliant...review! So comprehensive, so entertaining, so bizarre it only has 852 views. Now I'm going to watch "Seeing Where the Microwaves Are in a Microwave". Brilliant review, thumbs up!

[Uncrazamatic]

Yeah like one dude said,about a couple of bucks and if you were good you could play this game all day!The sit down a must!I fucking owned this shit!Great review bro!I also looked up the old sit down Star Wars arcade game.Damn!Now I play Star Wars Old Republic.Damn the evolution of gaming!Amazing!

[MrWINNSLAW]

"I would go to the Stop and Go and play Spy Hunter and buy a Marvel Comic book back in the day! All that fun for just $1.10!"

[MrHiu2]

@mackat4ck You got the original Shockwave arcade collection to run? I would love to know how you got that. I played all those games thousands of times when I was littler.

[unknown5676]

From the arcade cabinet, to the console versions, to pinball, then to The Rock????

What the crap?

[mackat4ck]

Took me ages to find the original version of this. Mame crashed after after certain point with this and I found a shockwave version. Unfortunately ArcadeEmulator2 is no longer supported by shockwave so I had to download the previous version of shockwave (version 10). And you know what? IT WAS WORTH IT!!! :)

[Obviously]

Best review I've ever seen of this classic. It's one of my favorite games. I spent many, many quarters in it when I was a kid. This one hamburger joint had it and I went there more for Spy Hunter than I did for the food. I had all the top scores on that machine too.

[skinnyt72]

i just got this arcade