Classic Game Room - ZERO WING arcade game review

Classic Game Room reviews ZERO WING arcade machine from Toaplan and Williams Electronics released in 1989! All your base are belong to Classic Game Room now that CGR has a Zero Wing arcade machine. Blast aliens with your space ship in this horizontally scrolling space ship shooter from Toaplan, makers of games like Fire Shark, Hellfire and Truxton! While Zero WIng may not be their best effort it still packs great challenge, good music and solid game play featuring weapon upgrades, laser pods and big end bosses! CGR Zero Wing video review features Zero Wing gameplay recorded from the Zero Wing arcade machine. Zero Wing can also be found on the Sega Mega Drive (megadrive) and PC-Engine.

[InfiniteUniverse]

The game has a 90's feel even though it technically came out in the 80's.

[JimHawkwind]

It should be noted that two-player simultaneous play was only available in the US arcade version (i.e., the Williams release).

Zero Wing was originally a one-player game.

[Peter_]

Every time I hear about this game, I am like "okay okay, the meme - got it - but let's talk about the goddamn gameplay already". It was nice to see that this video had that approach as well, and mostly just mentioned the meme a little bit and then talked about the actual game, instead of talking about the meme for like 90% of the video.

[daveshmups]

I love Toaplan shooters! It makes me sad that Toaplan is no longer around. The Japanese Mega Drive version isn't too expensive.

[Temascos]

The soundtrack is bloody amazing in this game, I remember having the Megadrive version when I was younger but I always skipped the opening to get on shooting things.

[dannyofthededd]

i like to take an interest in these matters but it's great that after all these years there is still stuff of interest from the vaults of viddy game history :)

[android]

1:04 Pro Wrestling on the NES, famous for "A WINNER IS YOU!"

[dannyofthededd]

yes for sure - i distinctly remember being mind blown as a lad seeing altered beast for the 1st time but the little sega 16 bit box of childhood dreams still doesnt fail to surprise and neither does mester Mark at CGR which is why i loves both

[CharlesFitzgerald-pmuk]

What a game finished it today on the Megadrive with save states lol

[Mahavishnu]

daym I've forgotten about this for 20 years. I was scared playing this game at 10.

[artdcora]

That's the very reason why I like Classic Game Room so much. I don't need Mark to be overly negative and trash games just because he could, I have AVGN or Yahtzee for that. And like I said, there are games he does't really care for, look at his review of Dark Void, the Hyperscan, Ridge Racer 64 or that Starsky and Hutch game he did recently.

[hemidas]

Man, I spent a lot of coins playing this in the arcade near my old school!

[dannyofthededd]

hola senor! saw a sneeky cheeky vid you posted about potential location of the citadel of ultimate power which you had posted and was very pleased to see the dream is coming into fruition!! bleedin' grand to hear from you man! massive, massive rather gigantic respect floated t'wards thy general direction my good man! how the devil are ye?

[dredgennikki]

Powered by fear? Why not laughter? Mike and Sully has proven that to be much better, and you make us laugh enough to supply the Arcade for like a thousand and seven years :P

[andrewbutler]

Now available with Hellfire from M2 Shottriggers. 😎

[atomicskull]

Interesting fact: This uses an OPL2 sound chip. They definitely make better use of it that most PC games ever did.

[TheSynrgy]

everyone should have a Zero Wing, For Great Justice!

[ryujijitei]

Mark needs to get a Dangun Feveron/Fever SOS cabinet.

[hristaki]

Why do you cut the intro so early? I want to hear the theme. It's awesome.

[cakestalker]

There is also a secret 4th level power-up. It all just depends on luck though as there is a random chance to get it, where you get a purple power-up that makes the firepower really huge.