One of the Rarest Konami Games! Code One Dispatch! A Forgotten About Arcade Racing Game I LOVE

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Everyone loves rare retro games and everyone loves rare arcade games and everyone loves Konami games...so here is Code One Dispatch from Konami! The entire game, never captured before for KZread! It's one of the best retro games ever IMO when it comes to arcade racing games and its super obscure!
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I have been trying to find a copy of Code One Dispatch to add to my arcade PCB collection for over a year...and I was able to arrange a deal with someone I know from Germany to get a copy of the game in my collection...as its not as simple as just writing a new card to the Konami Viper PCB...it requires a bit of reverse engineering! So it's half retro gaming review and half video game preservation project!
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Code 1 Dispatch from Konami is one of the absolute weirdest arcade racing franchises around but sadly its a very obscure gaming footnote in the pantheon of arcade games. You will never hear Code One Dispatch in the same conversation as something like Daytona USA, Scud Race or Ridge Racer...but you should! Because Code One Dispatch is obscure gaming history and it needs to be experienced!
Basically if you have ever played Emergency Call Ambulance on the Sega Model 3...you will know what Code One Dispatch is like...but unlike Sega's arcade efforts...this game goes even HARDER! It's like San Francisco Rush minus the racing!
Sadly the Konami Viper emulation in MAME isn't ready for primetime yet as all of the games are unplayable. Hopefully a real hardware capture like this helps the emulator progress to the point where you can play at home...because this is a rare video game and its def something that needs some video game preservation put behind it!
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  • @Darkbeatdk
    @Darkbeatdk3 ай бұрын

    The way it turns and boosts reminds me of the Cruisin’ games

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    Similar vibes for sure

  • @HunterTinsley

    @HunterTinsley

    3 ай бұрын

    The voices and music as well.

  • @psymagearcade
    @psymagearcade3 ай бұрын

    I used to play this at my local Walmart two decades ago. I didn't think this game would be so rare today.

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    I forget Walmart had arcade games

  • @Vulpas

    @Vulpas

    3 ай бұрын

    @@VideoGameEsoterica Me too. I barely even recall it now...

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    Wild

  • @METR0lD
    @METR0lD3 ай бұрын

    I always love the hilarity of games like this. Catch the criminals at any cost! Even if it means creating a couple dozen new emergencies in the process! 😂

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    What’s 20 dead to catch a crook? Nothing!

  • @KMC5240
    @KMC524021 күн бұрын

    This really takes me back. The arcade at my local mall had this game when I was a kid. I've been to dozens of arcades in my life, and not a single other one had it. I'd always look, but never found it.

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    21 күн бұрын

    It was not common at all. Fun you saw one

  • @brianbirkinbine2054
    @brianbirkinbine20543 ай бұрын

    Never heard of this game, looks fun! The action button animation for the ambulance is great!

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    So few people seem to know this game exists. I ran the regular voice over version last year and forgot to run this so it’s the Easter “less work for VGE when it releases” long play haha

  • @AfterBurnerTeirusu
    @AfterBurnerTeirusu3 ай бұрын

    Viper games always looked a bit dated next to Sega and Namco stuff, but they were still great games.

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    It was just that PC look vs arcade hardware look because Viper just ran with 3DFX chips. So it didn’t really have that “arcade” vibe visually

  • @AfterBurnerTeirusu

    @AfterBurnerTeirusu

    3 ай бұрын

    @@VideoGameEsoterica They still look a lot duller than most other 3DFX games. And i'd consider myself a pretty big 3DFX fanboy lol. I guess the levels are a bit too massive and detailed compared to something like Hydro Thunder which looks a lot better, but the tracks are simpler.

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    Yes it’s just showing a lot more at once it seems

  • @levipayne801
    @levipayne8013 ай бұрын

    My favorite was always the undercover cop car scenario

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    All the scenarios are so diff and weird I kind of love them all but driving through the mall was always my fav

  • @LiamG-95
    @LiamG-95Ай бұрын

    Thanks for the playthrough. You even managed to include a high quality mission failure screen.

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    Ай бұрын

    Happy to do it

  • @emmanuelelutin
    @emmanuelelutin3 ай бұрын

    That barrel-roll in helicopter is hilarious :D

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    I love that it’s in Chicago too. Helicopter going t down the road leading up to where I went to college!

  • @sabertoothtrucker4531
    @sabertoothtrucker45313 ай бұрын

    what a great easter present for us all! thank you so much!

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    Haha sorry it took so long. I meant to run it six plus months ago. It’s been uploaded that long. Little Easter Sunday fun day

  • @sabertoothtrucker4531

    @sabertoothtrucker4531

    3 ай бұрын

    @@VideoGameEsoterica well I'm glad it's here and the biohazard tanker truck mission is just as good as I remember a long with the other vehicles! Thanks so much for putting this together for all of us Code 1 fans to enjoy!

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    It’s probably even better than you remember :)

  • @JaviSocas2My2ndChannel
    @JaviSocas2My2ndChannelАй бұрын

    Thank you for archiving and playing this game! 🤩 5:17 The Biohazard Truck is my favorite Level. ❤

  • @koopatrolastein
    @koopatrolastein2 ай бұрын

    I finally see it! My childhood is back yaaaaaay! 🤩🤩🤩🤩

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    2 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed

  • @koopatrolastein

    @koopatrolastein

    2 ай бұрын

    @@VideoGameEsoterica enjoyed? I love it! 🤩🤩🤩

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    2 ай бұрын

    Same. Such a fun and weird game in the best ways

  • @sabertoothtrucker4531
    @sabertoothtrucker45313 ай бұрын

    Lets spare a thought though for rhat poor Dalmatian whos stuck on the end of that fire truck ladder... Whenever it spins around the unlucky pooch goes spinning with it! One dizzy and dazed dalmatian

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    Knowing dogs he probably loves it

  • @sabertoothtrucker4531

    @sabertoothtrucker4531

    3 ай бұрын

    @@VideoGameEsoterica maybe he does

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    If he’s anything like my corgi he is

  • @BocaRetroGames
    @BocaRetroGames3 ай бұрын

    Helicopter racing on the highways, thats cool

  • @oscarestivencarabalyherrer1279
    @oscarestivencarabalyherrer12793 күн бұрын

    Code One Dispatch is the best game of the premire on the 2000's games. Except Chase H.Q., Emergency Call Ambulance and more

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 күн бұрын

    It’s an unsung classic

  • @oscarestivencarabalyherrer1279

    @oscarestivencarabalyherrer1279

    3 күн бұрын

    @@VideoGameEsoterica Good for that!

  • @kathleendelcourt8136
    @kathleendelcourt81363 ай бұрын

    One would think that the whole point of an helicopter is to fly above all the obstacles in a straight line toward your goal, but apparently following the roads and zigzagging through traffic is the most efficient way.

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    Gotta follow all traffic laws and use the road lol

  • @KamikazeeDolphin
    @KamikazeeDolphinАй бұрын

    I am literally begging you to please help me play this. I used to play this game every time i went to the arcades at disney. My family bought the very cabinet that used to operate at one of the hotels. I remember the smell of the arcade, the loud "DAYTONNAAA" songs echoing from the 8 player race section. I could hear this game's sirens over all the noise. THIS was my game. Unfortunately, we could not afford to fix it and had to sell it. For years I remember staring at it, just wishing to play it once again. I am probably the only Code One Dispatch superfan in the world, but here i am lol. Youd make a grown kid feel like a kid again if you could help me play this on my pc. None of my emulators work with the ROMS online. They dont seem complete. I know your video description says you can't play it at home for now, I'm just hoping if you have any updates. Thank you.

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    Ай бұрын

    Sadly no updates. Still does not emulate

  • @BocaRetroGames
    @BocaRetroGames3 ай бұрын

    Cool! Never heard of it! Looks like virtua cop car part

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    It does have some of those vibes for sure

  • @drek5850
    @drek58503 ай бұрын

    At 16:38 the tank's acceleration is defying physics at a level just under the incline adhesive trucks from Big Rigs Over the Road Racing.

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    It’s Easter. Expect miracles 🤣

  • @srvuk
    @srvuk3 ай бұрын

    Graphics wise it seems as though the developers did the least they could to give it sparkle but none the less, it is always good to find a new racing game option.

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    Unless you were Sega arcade racing games were less about graphical bells and Whistler and more about speed and spectacle

  • @rossgentry4179
    @rossgentry4179Ай бұрын

    Save the drowning Survivor while also breaking every FAA regulation in the process

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    Ай бұрын

    Just like real life right?

  • @simon41978
    @simon419783 ай бұрын

    When there's some kind of disaster, I always wonder about the cost. Property damage is a nice touch.

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    The cost counter is fun. Like Burnout with the destruction totals

  • @AlemannoDigitale
    @AlemannoDigitale3 ай бұрын

    My eyes are shining!!!

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    😂

  • @CobaltZ_hans
    @CobaltZ_hansАй бұрын

    14:59 Well shit 😨 when you said he turned into a corpse I thought it would be comedic and the dead person was a skeleton. I DIDN'T THINK IT WOULD SAY D.O.A. AND HAVE A FLATLINE

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    Ай бұрын

    Haha game will surprise you

  • @johnbewty
    @johnbewty3 ай бұрын

    Finally, a truly accurate simulation of the daily lives of our brave men and women in blue. Weirdly, they won't let me be a cop even though I can PROVE I've watched this video.

  • @johnbewty

    @johnbewty

    3 ай бұрын

    I love the happy, amused "WOW!" from the female voice every time you ram innocent bystanders to their deaths, or a giant lightning strike from god blasts two or three cars off the road.

  • @johnbewty

    @johnbewty

    3 ай бұрын

    I don't know who that woman is, but I feel like she really understands that to save an innocent life, sometimes you have to end 50 or 60 others while weaving a trail of destruction across the heart of an urban metropolis.

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    🤣 all the training you need

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    That’s how they do it in Chicago usually

  • @Vulpas

    @Vulpas

    3 ай бұрын

    @@VideoGameEsoterica Chicago is more wild than this game lol

  • @TwistedKestrel
    @TwistedKestrel3 ай бұрын

    Alright, I decided this game was amazing once we got to the fire truck that swings the ladder around like a weapon WITH A DALMATION ON IT

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    There are so many weird and hilarious details in the game

  • @dorfus
    @dorfus3 ай бұрын

    I keep selecting my mission and it keeps coming up Quest 64 please advise

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    You should consider that a good thing

  • @f00koff42
    @f00koff423 ай бұрын

    Weirdly overkill, even for arcade standards

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    Like over the top?

  • @f00koff42

    @f00koff42

    3 ай бұрын

    @@VideoGameEsoterica yep, especially the fire truck flailing around its ladder and killing everyone around it for the lols

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    Haha ahh. That’s just the charm

  • @Myako
    @Myako3 ай бұрын

    On a barely tangentially-related note: has anyone ever tried to contact ElSemi and asked him if he could release the source code for his Model 2 emulator?

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    MAME has it. It’s just not worked in yet. Or so I’ve heard

  • @Myako

    @Myako

    3 ай бұрын

    @@VideoGameEsoterica that seems doubtful, because the actual advantages it has (hardware rendering and texture replacement support) go against MAME's mission statement.

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    That’s why it’s not in MAME. But they do have the source

  • @spongeknock7387
    @spongeknock73873 ай бұрын

    That helicopter level was crazy to look at😂 what year did this game come out?

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    2002 I think

  • @jodyposey9558

    @jodyposey9558

    3 ай бұрын

    2000

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    👍

  • @rogelioproa559

    @rogelioproa559

    2 ай бұрын

    @@VideoGameEsoterica December, 2000. To be a bit precise... Merry belated christmas!... I guess.

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    2 ай бұрын

    Haha apparently

  • @JSantiago806
    @JSantiago8063 ай бұрын

    Are you using original hardware?

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    Yes this is a real Viper capture

  • @windyearle
    @windyearle3 ай бұрын

    Any improvements to MAME at all?

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    Not much at all. Viper is still mostly non playable

  • @videogamesruinedmylife3769
    @videogamesruinedmylife37693 ай бұрын

    reminds me of chase hq

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    A tiny bit IMO but yeah I see it

  • @rogelioproa559

    @rogelioproa559

    3 ай бұрын

    That's because it's in part inspired on it and not only that. According to the Japanese Wikipedia page, it's also inspired upon Thrill Drive and Snatcher.

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    Snatcher? Now I’m confused lol

  • @rogelioproa559

    @rogelioproa559

    3 ай бұрын

    @@VideoGameEsoterica Yup, it got weirder than usual: *_Snatcher_* is a cyberpunk graphic adventure game developed and published by Konami. It was written and designed by Hideo Kojima and first released in 1988 for the PC-8801 and MSX2 in Japan. It has been retrospectively acclaimed as both one of the best adventure and cyberpunk games of all time, and identified as a foundation for the themes Kojima explored later in the *_Metal Gear_* series.

  • @locked01
    @locked013 ай бұрын

    How the heck do you find these games? 😂

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    This one came from Germany

  • @paulpardoe7808
    @paulpardoe78083 ай бұрын

    How Konami can Thrive ONLY! They NEED to fall to their knees and BEG Kojima to come back WITH FULL creative control and give him 3 games. His personal Opus's. This is the ONLY way to resurrect their profit margins and Global reputation. One of these should be the conpletion of PT. There is an obvious hunger. They should Also offer Ueda and Kaido the same Honour. The alternative to such a HUGE gamble is simple. Konami WILL go under in five years at the most. TRUST ME. 😈 Call it our sit back and see i was RIGHT. And they should give all three Artists the finest teams they can choose. But... Yeah. Boardrooms right? Our art is dying.

  • @VideoGameEsoterica

    @VideoGameEsoterica

    3 ай бұрын

    Nah they are just gonna make more pachislot machines

  • @rogelioproa559

    @rogelioproa559

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@VideoGameEsotericaWhich begs me, and maybe anyone else, to a question...: *What's the reason or what are the reasons for a lot of hate towards Konami?* There's a number of reasons but please be aware that this is an intuitively assembled theory of mine and take it as a mustard grain with tweezers. *LONG TEXT ALERT* 1.- Japan's work culture is one of complete obedience towards superiors that if males don't break their backs working, end up as a complete disgrace for themselves and everyone around. 1.5.- Japan's Idol culture and industry take advantage of women's silence as their model of purity and innocence, with severe consequences for those stepping the line. 2.- Pachinko serves as an accessible outlet of entertainment since it's rumoured most of Japanese people can't afford to buy a game console. 3.- Said work culture is so harmful that doesn't allow males to pursue a social life and form a marriage and without marriage they can't be able to have children, leading to a stagnated grow. 4.- Konami, as well as other Japanese studios and companies, has something called "Galápagos Syndrome"; phenomenon which something easily marketable worldwide has a development insulated from elsewhere. 4.5.- Likewise, said phenomenon also describes that just because something is successful in the world does not mean that it will be successful in the land of the rising sun and vice versa. 5.- In spite of the problem, Japan's population of 125,1 mll. still represents a consumer base strong enough not to cater towards other markets. _(The population of the Koreas, united, is barely past half of that and yet it's not even that close, at 77,7 mll.)_ 6.- The "brand recognition" factor the videogame IPs have generated gives Konami enough guidance to obtain the maximum benefits with the least effort and with this it turns its back on its audience, alienating it in the process. 7.- The disappointment is such that little by little faith has been crumbling towards Konami that their global fans are so rotten that they no longer want to know anything, but they return from time to time to find out their current status, if the company dies or how low it can fall for prostituting the most loved and recognized franchises worldwide. I feel like the best bet for those heartbroken is that they would be served better if they decided to pick up and play some of the coolest indie games inspired on Castlevania, fangames, create their own or just try something new to make worth the wait. Supporting these kinds of contents (like you and this video) and|or sharing them with someone you know (like small game developer studios or independent creators) will give you, and the rest, better chances of getting more games on the style of "Mega Man", "Driver" or even "Code One Dispatch"... even if those ain't made by Ubisoft, Capcom and Konami themselves.

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