i think it’s so funny how people are blown to literal pieces while dogs are simply returned to adorable puppies

Seeing a new Patman video makes me a happy little viewer😁

I remember the day I saw this game at the arcade. I was blown away as a 10-year-old. I also recall thinking this was way too violent and "adult" for me to be watching, let alone playing. But I played anyway, of course. Narc really paved the way for games like "MK", "Pit Fighter", and "Crime Fighters"- all super violent games that were unlike anything else in the arcade.

"She was portrayed by your mom" I fell out lmao! Instant thumbs up for that comment and coverage of this fun crazy game.

I love how they take violet games and movies and turn it into kids cartoon shows. Narc characters into The Power team and The Toxic Avenger into the Toxic Crusader.

I think Narc helped contribute to me thinking that drugs just make you go crazy and bezerk back when I was a kid. Guess it did a good job at keeping me away from them!

Man, I put SO many quarters into this coin op it isn't even funny to even think about. And the worst part, I remember in my local arcade at the time, Narc was right next to a Mercs machine and a WWF Wrestlemania machine. Talk about dumping money out lol

I never knew that Eugene Jarvis guy had lost people to drugs, makes sense that this game was made for personal reasons. For some reason I have memories of a remake of NARC from like 2005 I'm glad you were able to fill in the blanks for me.

I just realized something. Games designed by Eugene Jarvis always have either too many buttons, or no buttons.

A notable cultural remnant of Reagan era moral panic.

The amount of casualness that the "Your mom" joke, expertly placed in the middle of a video game review.

NARC was part of my life like crazy. My older sister use to work at Pizza Hut and at the main lobby, NARC was there and brother, It blew me away from syringes references, action non stop and a little bit in between, I forgot all about the pizza and play the hell out of it. I will go to a convention someday and hopefully, I see you PatmanQC. Preach on brother!!

Those graphics remain impressive to this day. Can't imagine what it was like, seeing this in 1988.

this was once a very common arcade game at most arcades (at one time, there were at least 3 possibly 4 in m town alone) these have become super rare in working "original" condition is very rare. The weak point is the monitor, the game requires a special "medium-res" monitor that is incredibly rare and only a small number of mostly much less common arcade games actually used this sort of "medium-res" monitor and using the incorrect resolution CRT will make the game not appear correctly (though using certain types of newer LCDs will often work fine due to their variable resolution). Most restorations of NARC are forced to use modern LCDs as replacing the monitor with a working and correct resolution CRT is almost impossible now-a-days.

Thanks, Pat, for the great review.

From some of the playthroughs I've seen, 50 is the limit of busts on a level. Once you get to 50, then you just blast everyone else otherwise (Joe Rockhead, Kinky Pinky and Sgt. Skyhigh are "must blast" enemies). 50 gets you to "two and a half men" (two extra lives and halfway to a third), so the more lives you can rack up before facing Mr. Big the better. Kinky Pinky is like the "Lander" from "Defender" kidnapping innocents; you must blow away Kinky before he gets the victim away to his porn empire. (It's also fun on "the bridge" to run down Kinky with the Porsche or the pushers.)

Always get excited when I see a new PATMANQC video has been uploaded.

Thank you for this incredible documentary. I loved NARC so much when it first came out. I played it until I was expert enough to finish the game on one quarter.

Props on the "your mum" joke. Well played, sir.

Eugene’s nightclub pointed out in this video is actually the Fireside Bowl, bowling alley in Chicago Illinois. Located at 2648 West Fullerton Ave. A few minutes drive away is 3401 North California, where work on some Midway games was done. Motion capture work for the original Mortal Kombat was done here. Also, the building is seen in footage of Brett The Hitman Hart entering to do motion capture for a video game. This was a Midway facility until the 2000’s. It is currently occupied by a company that makes video gambling machines. Nether Realm Studios (which is the current studio responsible for creating Mortal Kombat) is now located just a few blocks away at 2650a W Bradley Pl, Chicago, IL.