The Combatribes Longplay (Arcade) [4K]

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Developed and published by Technos in 1990
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A number of comments from viewers of my recent Mug Smashers pointed out it was a rip-off of Combatribes, so I thought it only fitting that I played through the game on which it's based.
Initial impressions of The Combatribes are good. The game looks great and the brawling is great fun, and I particularly liked the ability to smash your enemy's heads together, or grind their faces into the sidewalk.
Later on, however, the game ratchets up the difficulty to force you to insert more coins. The final boss was definitely the worst part of the game, often entering a state where she becomes seemingly invulnerable until she has initiated an attack.
Other than that, this is a fun game, and definitely an improvement over Double Dragon 3.
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#retrogaming
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  • @thunderlightning1980
    @thunderlightning19802 жыл бұрын

    I fucking miss Technos Japan so much! 😢

  • @retrovin9269

    @retrovin9269

    2 жыл бұрын

    They made some absolute belters✌️

  • @ekaterinamarkarian5516

    @ekaterinamarkarian5516

    3 ай бұрын

    Кпрое

  • @claytonwright2416

    @claytonwright2416

    13 күн бұрын

    I miss them, too. Double Dragon took such a weird turn after the second game. And Combatribes seems it was a spinoff. I suppose it was.

  • @sainttan
    @sainttan2 жыл бұрын

    I'm impress with the final boss, very rare they go with such plot twist. For that time at least.

  • @chicswag4657
    @chicswag46572 жыл бұрын

    23:21 that girl went super saiyan

  • @MrRyguy2112
    @MrRyguy21128 ай бұрын

    Loved bashing two mimes heads together in the demon clown stage.😂

  • @evanhanley6437
    @evanhanley64372 жыл бұрын

    This game is really awesome.

  • @maxrocans2668
    @maxrocans26682 жыл бұрын

    I like how the woman out of no where was the kingpin of the game😂

  • @JV-ll1cu
    @JV-ll1cu2 жыл бұрын

    Those moves on the grounded enemies are brutal

  • @HOTRODRICO
    @HOTRODRICO2 жыл бұрын

    7'1" , 6'9", and 6'8" man these guys were tall as hell but look short on screen lol

  • @rockford717
    @rockford7172 жыл бұрын

    Thanks KZread AI. I still remember the days when I played (actually watched other people played) this game in that hot, crowded, and dirty arcade room in center-south China 35 years ago. Those were good times.

  • @Religious_man

    @Religious_man

    2 жыл бұрын

    You mean Chinatown?

  • @rockford717

    @rockford717

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Religious_man not Chinatown... in China. PRC.

  • @Religious_man

    @Religious_man

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@rockford717 Why would a communist country supply their citizens with arcade rooms? That's not one of their values.

  • @rockford717

    @rockford717

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Religious_man Communism or not. People love playing video games :)

  • @chengfu7063
    @chengfu70632 жыл бұрын

    Good times here back when you could actually live

  • @Religious_man
    @Religious_man2 жыл бұрын

    The big guy throws a few of them down the subway stairway, lmao.

  • @pnvgordinho
    @pnvgordinho2 жыл бұрын

    I love the sound of the punches.

  • @amandawashington4239
    @amandawashington42392 жыл бұрын

    "Winners Don't Use Drugs". "Winners get a prescription first".

  • @lucasmr3215
    @lucasmr32152 жыл бұрын

    The real sequel to Renegade!

  • @DonVecta
    @DonVecta2 жыл бұрын

    The trick to make this game easier (and still fun) is to abuse the gigantic swing over your enemies for crowd control, for the bosses this is essential so you can use the mook against them. You just can run into them and then grab them and swing. I think Blitz is better as he swings for the longest time. For Martha Splatterhead, keep your distance and poke her with kicks. She's hard AF. And yes, it's 100% superior than Mug Smashers.

  • @officialtruvotru-druvevoch7049

    @officialtruvotru-druvevoch7049

    2 жыл бұрын

    They seem to be the same to me

  • @swoopdown27

    @swoopdown27

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's actually Bullova with the longest spin throw. Blitz has the shortest spin throw.

  • @williaml9445

    @williaml9445

    2 жыл бұрын

    I see You've spent much time on this game huh 😂

  • @DonVecta

    @DonVecta

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@swoopdown27 stand myself corrected: Bullova is the one with the longest swing.

  • @DonVecta

    @DonVecta

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@williaml9445 back in the day I played the living crap of it. Love this game.

  • @MegaMrJIN
    @MegaMrJIN Жыл бұрын

    Why oh why couldn't DOUBLE DRAGON 3 THE ROSETTA STONE be like THISSSSSSSSSS?????????? I LOVE IT!!!!!

  • @Shoevibechat

    @Shoevibechat

    2 ай бұрын

    This game has two characters that strongly resemble Billy and Jimmy so back in the day I said this was double dragon🤷🏾‍♂️ same creator

  • @chano7053
    @chano705311 ай бұрын

    LOL!! I love the HC Punk references on this game. Aside from the third boss having a total Punk Look, on the stadium level one the banners read "Black Flag" which was a legendary HC Punk band from California and the name of the last boss is "Martha Splatterhead", which was the name of the zombie mascot of the HC Punk Metal band The Accüsed.

  • @xraypunch5959

    @xraypunch5959

    5 ай бұрын

    Bro, I'm gonna be honest, I think the Indian boss at the stadium was probably a reference to either the Village People or the Cleveland Indians mascot.

  • @edinsonbahamondesjara1943

    @edinsonbahamondesjara1943

    Ай бұрын

    Berzerker se parece a Billy idol

  • @bloodtyrantkorr4076
    @bloodtyrantkorr40762 жыл бұрын

    i remember playing this at are old pizza spot cut a lot of lawns for it lol

  • @officialtruvotru-druvevoch7049
    @officialtruvotru-druvevoch70492 жыл бұрын

    16:36 here comes the inspiration for M. Bison

  • @KindredEmotions
    @KindredEmotions Жыл бұрын

    This is like Double Dragon if you played as Abobo.

  • @David-ky8es
    @David-ky8es2 жыл бұрын

    Graphics so clean

  • @AdruMcOnTheBeat
    @AdruMcOnTheBeat3 ай бұрын

    Tiene una muy buena calidad para ser del 1990, se nota que los programadores usaron todos los recursos de aquella época, me encanta esa paleta de colores, además de que es un juegazo.

  • @edinsonbahamondesjara1943

    @edinsonbahamondesjara1943

    2 ай бұрын

    Siiiiii, 2 años antes sacaron double dragon y 2 años antes sacaron el Xaind sleena

  • @T0R0RIKI
    @T0R0RIKI2 жыл бұрын

    The reference to robot policeman in world warrior perfect

  • @miketate3445
    @miketate34452 жыл бұрын

    If the player character is 7 feet tall, then apparently the office building in the final stage was built for people who are 9 feet tall.

  • @aayushpal6621

    @aayushpal6621

    Жыл бұрын

    The Leader of the Bad Guys is 10 feet tall compared to him

  • @jayboogie7956
    @jayboogie79562 жыл бұрын

    Wooooooow, the memories.

  • @Heroselohim
    @Heroselohim2 жыл бұрын

    4K video 😎

  • @stephenaremu78
    @stephenaremu78 Жыл бұрын

    The real double Dragon 3

  • @ildenete
    @ildenete2 жыл бұрын

    buttons with turbo function is life

  • @angeldeb82
    @angeldeb826 ай бұрын

    Wow! This is so cool with the 1990 Bild at the airport, the Steak & Brew Burger in the city, and the WTC Twin Towers in New York (11 years before 9/11) in the final battle. Weird.

  • @luffy-yy9zc
    @luffy-yy9zc2 жыл бұрын

    very great memory this game thanks

  • @bashirjohnson4120
    @bashirjohnson41202 жыл бұрын

    The switch h and ps4 need to get this game!

  • @genericnamehere7602

    @genericnamehere7602

    2 жыл бұрын

    YES...With optional multi-player

  • @bashirjohnson4120

    @bashirjohnson4120

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@genericnamehere7602 ok now we'll talking good idea!!

  • @kimjongun2946
    @kimjongun2946 Жыл бұрын

    24:13 this game definitely rewarded the player for the $30 in quarters it took to see this ending. Riveting text and a rich story.

  • @breezetha27

    @breezetha27

    Жыл бұрын

    I guess the gameplay makes up for it

  • @adamtherenegade2001
    @adamtherenegade20012 жыл бұрын

    I still play this game on an emulator. I even made gameplays too. I thought tough for me to not get hit so much til i can swing around dudes to make space. Nice gameplay

  • @fuckzogtube
    @fuckzogtube Жыл бұрын

    I played the crap out of the SNES version. Really enjoyed the versus mode with the bosses as playable characters too. Loved this little gem.

  • @maingreazy21
    @maingreazy212 жыл бұрын

    I remember this game. And remember those clowns being annoying

  • @followerofmessiah9744
    @followerofmessiah9744 Жыл бұрын

    New York could sure use them 3 guys right about now.

  • @warsong5
    @warsong5 Жыл бұрын

    Sigma ending

  • @arubinojr5670
    @arubinojr56702 жыл бұрын

    15:48 NO SMIRKING

  • @ZnotQ633
    @ZnotQ633 Жыл бұрын

    23:21 Martha Splatterhead! Okay, I gotta level with you all… I’ve been playing River City Girls 2. One of the many characters you can recruit for assist attacks is this Martha Splatterhead. Her mini-description mentions the Combatribes, which led me to find this video and post this comment you’re reading right now. Now you know the rest of the story.

  • @edinsonbahamondesjara1943

    @edinsonbahamondesjara1943

    2 ай бұрын

    The accused

  • @37BIGJIM
    @37BIGJIM Жыл бұрын

    I loved playing this in the arcade! I've observed the following from repeated plays: 1. It's possible to defeat regular enemies on Level 1 just by knocking them down the stairs at the stage's far right. 2. The first boss will lose his two-by-four if he lands enough hits with it (it bursts into splinters and disappears). 3. The red clowns of Level 2 actually do take some damage from being thrown, even though they land on their feet. 4. The Slaughter Troops cannot hit players who are sitting on/face slamming one of their own (though they try anyway).

  • @jeremyfischer7856
    @jeremyfischer7856 Жыл бұрын

    You know, the three playable characters have the same naming conventions as The Powerpuff Girls.

  • @keness4768
    @keness47682 жыл бұрын

    That’s some badass gaming there…. I’m inspired. I can 1cc crime fighters american rom easily now, but this game just seemed impossibly cheap to me. I’m gonna try my luck at what you’ve been able to do here. Question though. Is there any difference between the roms? I.e., is any of them easier than the other, etc.?

  • @andrzejkulakowski
    @andrzejkulakowskiАй бұрын

    1:30 the guy with a log is my favorite boss - so memorable

  • @Play2win080
    @Play2win0802 жыл бұрын

    So during level three- the Technos ads in the background- I get the Blockout ad, but what’s the second one with the lady in the blue hat? MiO or something like that!?

  • @dansmith1661
    @dansmith16612 жыл бұрын

    The spinning kick of that fire eater is hilariously bad.

  • @gilessaint-loup2426
    @gilessaint-loup24262 жыл бұрын

    Okay... I did not see the final boss coming.

  • @RetroWill
    @RetroWill2 жыл бұрын

    Cyborg ain't ladies!

  • @malavenda3291
    @malavenda32912 жыл бұрын

    what a great game, and what gorgeous art. I reminisce P.O.W., and Double Dragon, in the design and combat workings! I wonder if there's some kinda connection with all 3!

  • @stonetic2515

    @stonetic2515

    2 жыл бұрын

    Combatribes and Double Dragon were developed by the same team. POW was by SNK, a knock off but a fun one.

  • @oscarjimenezgarrido7591

    @oscarjimenezgarrido7591

    2 жыл бұрын

    The Combatribes, Double Dragon and the predecessor to all of them, Nekketsu Kōha Kunio-kun/Renegade, were conceived and directed by one of the godfathers of the beat 'em up genre, Yoshihisa Kishimoto. He had nothing to do with P.O.W. however - at least, relatively speaking, as it could be argued that SNK's game follows the Double Dragon template so closely that if it weren't for the latter, the former wouldn't have existed in the first place.

  • @sdhubbard

    @sdhubbard

    6 ай бұрын

    Canonically, this game, River City Ransom, and Double Dragon exist in the same continuity.

  • @Akumasaori
    @Akumasaori2 жыл бұрын

    Very excellent !

  • @Soyuz2578
    @Soyuz25784 ай бұрын

    This game never got the love it deserved. Better than a lot of the same genre

  • @duanemartin4958
    @duanemartin4958 Жыл бұрын

    I miss these types of games

  • @officialtruvotru-druvevoch7049
    @officialtruvotru-druvevoch70492 жыл бұрын

    31 years later and it's Better than the SNES 1992 Console Version after I beat that version I returned the Game in disappointment.

  • @Crabomax
    @Crabomax2 жыл бұрын

    Triple Dragons!

  • @binkaram6577
    @binkaram65772 жыл бұрын

    the final level music gives Robocop vibes

  • @Zebpro
    @Zebpro2 жыл бұрын

    Good old Technos Japan browler!!!!! :-]

  • @MONSTRUOSOCULTOS
    @MONSTRUOSOCULTOS8 ай бұрын

    This game deserved a sequel...

  • @roms2488
    @roms24882 жыл бұрын

    Great game with really cool soundtrack

  • @mkaplan1383
    @mkaplan13838 ай бұрын

    1:00 & 3:02 Rolf must discipline the nutty boat!

  • @rubensantino9078
    @rubensantino90782 жыл бұрын

    The boss from stage 5..is that..Biaken from WH

  • @sutarjatsutarjat6789
    @sutarjatsutarjat67899 ай бұрын

    声の出演: 堀秀行 屋良有作 郷里大輔 江森浩子 内海賢二

  • @HeroQuestFans
    @HeroQuestFans Жыл бұрын

    people who say this game has no ending were wrong... I think it's because when the game was first emulated it skipped the ending. play it again and be as disappointed as you were by the ending of Super Double Dragon! still, a truly great arcade game to play with a friend or two

  • @murkhim504
    @murkhim504Ай бұрын

    The guy with robot hands is a character in World Heroes

  • @utasavbiswas5109
    @utasavbiswas51092 жыл бұрын

    I love you video game

  • @chcobri9777
    @chcobri97772 жыл бұрын

    Este era un juegazo muy entretenido en los arcade

  • @ianheidern

    @ianheidern

    2 жыл бұрын

    El indio q sale en el estadio me costó muchas fichas ($)

  • @diegoservangarrido2207

    @diegoservangarrido2207

    Жыл бұрын

    La verdad es que era muy original. No tenía los graficos tan vistosos para la época, como eran Final Fight, Double Dragon, Captain Commando, etc, pero ese simple detallazo de aplastar cabezas contra el suelo o entre los enemigos, le dió un toque brutal, que éstos que menciono, no tenía y eso lo hizo muy adictivo y entretenido. Aquí en España no duró mucho, probablemente porque la gente se quejaría del exceso de violencia, sino, no lo entiendo.

  • @edinsonbahamondesjara1943

    @edinsonbahamondesjara1943

    2 ай бұрын

    Juegazooooo

  • @johntitor.
    @johntitor.2 жыл бұрын

    All winners use drugs, let's not kid ourselves.

  • @followerofmessiah9744
    @followerofmessiah9744 Жыл бұрын

    Ground face smash my favorite.

  • @mfeliz04
    @mfeliz042 жыл бұрын

    It's very easy, it's like you're fighting with the kindergarteners. there are no challenges and nothing that complicates you, it's just like abusing everyone. the scenarios are perfect. but they were able to take some concepts from other games. Double dragon forever! Thanks for de video.

  • @victormalyar9200
    @victormalyar920011 ай бұрын

    I remember when I played the arcade version I just about always picked Berserker.

  • @rugalb98
    @rugalb982 жыл бұрын

    Still an amazing brawler. Next to Final Fight and SoR series this is one of my faves (and the decent SNES port with the fighting mode and revamped story). Do love that Wayforward put the 3rd boss,Trash, as an enemy and assist in River City Girls.

  • @genericnamehere7602

    @genericnamehere7602

    2 жыл бұрын

    They did a bunch of shout-outs. Abobo was hilarious, especially with the Puberty clip at the school.

  • @patton72010
    @patton720102 жыл бұрын

    looks and plays like Double Dragon.

  • @YeOldeGamerGrampsofOlde

    @YeOldeGamerGrampsofOlde

    2 жыл бұрын

    Both games from Technos. Why fix what ain't broken? Unline nowadays.

  • @one7decimal2eight
    @one7decimal2eight2 жыл бұрын

    What double dragon 3 should have been

  • @Thetrue777luck777
    @Thetrue777luck7772 жыл бұрын

    And they never return...😐

  • @wroughtironmgtow9558
    @wroughtironmgtow95582 жыл бұрын

    I didnt know the boss at the end of the first stage was David Crosby.

  • @MajinOsirus
    @MajinOsirus Жыл бұрын

    23:17 this was a turning point

  • @victormalyar9200
    @victormalyar920011 ай бұрын

    Berserker looks like Billy Idol.

  • @edinsonbahamondesjara1943

    @edinsonbahamondesjara1943

    2 ай бұрын

    Si, se parece a Billy idol

  • @lewisf18
    @lewisf187 ай бұрын

    Wow. Made it look so easy

  • @TheNaturalPatHarris
    @TheNaturalPatHarris2 ай бұрын

    If they remake this game today, they’d had to make a lot of changes for the PC warriors

  • @franciscolopez4739
    @franciscolopez473910 ай бұрын

    Very music!!

  • @BenjaminNixon
    @BenjaminNixon2 жыл бұрын

    11:21 The Combatribes is so cancelled

  • @phlebiax5592
    @phlebiax55922 жыл бұрын

    Pennywise and the Joker are getting beat up by a Guile-Billy-Goofy lookalike.

  • @WarlockX4

    @WarlockX4

    Жыл бұрын

    "IT" would have been a very short movie if these dudes were around.

  • @jtheexistentialist1221
    @jtheexistentialist12212 жыл бұрын

    And just like that I went home. No point at all. Lol

  • @cherokeefit4248
    @cherokeefit4248 Жыл бұрын

    He literally killed the guy at 7:44 via pinball machine lol

  • @Wide-screen
    @Wide-screen8 ай бұрын

    😊

  • @user-ch9hh1dh6t
    @user-ch9hh1dh6t10 ай бұрын

    凄い!

  • @AngryCalvin
    @AngryCalvin2 жыл бұрын

    I love Techno's! One of my favorite game companies of all time. I played a ton of Double Dragon/Kunio back in the day and still to this day. This game just doesn't resonate with me at all. The controls, the gameplay, and overall presentation are just not what I love about Technos. It's better than Double Dragon V. But I even prefer Double Dragon 3 over this. This just doesn't represent anything great at all. Not a good game.

  • @incubustimelord5947
    @incubustimelord59472 жыл бұрын

    This was a good video game for its time but it looks very dated and even outdated, especially for an early 1990s side-scrolling beat'em up similar to Double Dragon, Final Fight and Streets Of Rage. This story needs to get either a reboot and/or remake that re-imagines and retells the plot in a much more contemporary, and modernized way that updates it for the present, or it needs a continuation story and/or sequel that could possibly lead to a prequel story that explains the origins of the main characters Berserker, Bullova and Blitz, and maybe even a spin-off with all-different, all-new characters. But for what it was, the Combatribes is a cult classic of early '90s video arcade games that remains a great thrasher game for nostalgic reasons but is also clearly a product of its time, created during the scrolling beat'em up video game craze that was very much in style back then, but unlike other video games similar to it, sadly just did not age well over the last 30 years.

  • @nebularain3338

    @nebularain3338

    2 жыл бұрын

    I don't think the game had much of a story tbh. It clearly has some Double Dragon DNA in it (same director, same artist, same composer), but you are right, it was very very dated looking for 1990.

  • @incubustimelord5947

    @incubustimelord5947

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Nebula Rain Well then, good. All the better and all the more reason for them to make either a sequel or remake that actually fleshes out the characters and the story, right?

  • @lucasmr3215

    @lucasmr3215

    2 жыл бұрын

    For a 1990 title it looks really good! But double dragon 3 in other hand...

  • @incubustimelord5947

    @incubustimelord5947

    2 жыл бұрын

    @LucasMR321 The Combatribes has the same kind of "blocky" art style of My Heavy Barrell. But that art is an acquired taste. Double Dragon III: The Rosetta Stone was terrible. The standard should be the much more realistic appearances of the sprites from such video games as Streets Of Rage, Final Fight and Street Fighter. If they don't look at least that decent in terms of art design, then they make the video game look bad.

  • @user-kr9df8xf4d
    @user-kr9df8xf4d2 жыл бұрын

    이 게임 제목이 뭐입니까? 오락실 에서도 진짜 많이 했었죠

  • @pachondeck

    @pachondeck

    2 жыл бұрын

    컴뱃트라이브스 입니다.

  • @spiderklanblaze3124
    @spiderklanblaze31242 жыл бұрын

    Can u beat punch out

  • @villsonthong1654
    @villsonthong16542 жыл бұрын

    Actually the final boss is her own wife

  • @FartSmucker
    @FartSmucker Жыл бұрын

    Would be cool to be 7 foot tall and you and your other basically 7 foot tall friends are just out and about destroying dudes on the street.

  • @rafihossen6477
    @rafihossen64772 жыл бұрын

    A woman is the final boss?

  • @swoopdown27

    @swoopdown27

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yes. A cyborg and hard as hell.

  • @mkpalmer99
    @mkpalmer992 жыл бұрын

    7.01 feet tall but only 176 lbs? Yeesh

  • @wingedhussar5528
    @wingedhussar55282 жыл бұрын

    I love how back in those days developers didnt quite understand the whole concept of height, weight, muscle mass ratio. I'm 5'7 and 202lb lean; these guys would dwarf me with size yet they all weigh less than me.

  • @buckweezy1942
    @buckweezy19422 жыл бұрын

    Xbox arcade please

  • @Vectormantudeoz
    @Vectormantudeoz11 ай бұрын

    SPOILER ALERT: *The final boss is Barbie*

  • @shaunohagan1491
    @shaunohagan14912 жыл бұрын

    sfx louder than the music...

  • @slip6665
    @slip6665 Жыл бұрын

    Mug Smashers???

  • @manuelsuarez2027
    @manuelsuarez20272 жыл бұрын

    Es fácil jugar en modo fácil haci cualquier lo termina haci en modo easy

  • @ekOPeckinpah
    @ekOPeckinpah2 ай бұрын

    lol 1:17

  • @user-bv1gq3ki4i
    @user-bv1gq3ki4i2 жыл бұрын

    What double dragon 3 should have been.

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