Quiz Can You Match These Konami Arcade Flyers With Their Games?

The LordBBH stream had made me familiar with Aerobics-chan and her friends. But how familiar is the question to remain...

Yeah... thatbwas skmething.

Never heard of "kits" before, what is that about? And what do they mean with "earnings"?

Some of these remind me of dirty magazines my innocent eyes sometimes caught at newsstands in the early 90s. Must be coincidental, ahem...

Argh! I only got 3 right. Shame on me.😞

Moving on, boy do I miss these kind of flyers or what.😊

I got a perfect 15/15. The TMNT and Simpsons crowd barely went to any arcade back in the 90s. Those are the only Konami arcade games that exist to them. Normies.

@Daniel36 These are arcade games and these advertisements were directed at arcade operators which explains why they mentioned earnings. Operators wanted games that would collect the most quarters. As for kits, they mean conversion kits. Instead of buying a whole new cabinet, they could buy a conversion kit that would allow them to use an existing cabinet.

I'm pleased with my 11/15, totally legit. I didn't look anything up. I'm surprised I did so well since my Konami arcade knowledge is spotty and these flyers aren't the most common things to come across.

I missed Le Mans, Dark Adventure, MIA, and Martial Champion.

That was actually quite tough but you have to love this type of advertising it belongs to an era takes me back they look like movie posters we used to get from the local video shop.

Those flyers were glorious!

Most of these i already knew about some of the others I just kinda guessed and got either right or wrong lol 😆. Still i miss this 80's and 90's style of video game advertising because even if the game isn't that great or memorable the ads for it will probably linger on in people's minds for years to come tbh.

@Deuteros
Me too. That Haunted Castle promotional art is an easy 10.
Video game adds, commercials, console & controller designs(etc) were abizzion times better back in the late 80's & early to mid 90's than they are now. We've gone backwards. Can't get enough of that 80's fashion(Big hair, Neon colours, big earings, and no blown out lip injected hot dog lips that you see often with the zombified Smart phone weilding chicks of today.

For someone who was born after the death of the arcade, I'm pleasantly surprised at my 8/15. Granted, the only ones I truly knew were Haunted Castle and Contra, but at least I know enough about Konami arcade games to have been able to vibe out to half.

Think someone should release a collector's booklet of all the Konami arcade promos

What a scam! Are you telling me that the covers of games in the 80s were totally misleading!? Unacceptable! /s

@sdelfin Oh, the exact ones I missed? 🤪

I really enjoyed that. I didn't do too well, getting 8 out of 15 right. Half of these games I had never heard of. I'm going to have a look to see how many of them have been released by Hamster.

I didn't know there was a leaderboard at the end. I would have taken it more seriously if I did. I look forward to playing more quizzes like this.

@sdelfin Aha, these ads were not for consumers. That makes sense. Thanks!!

Lucked out in the 3 I wasn't sure about. I need to go and wash off all this eighties hairstyles out of my eyeballs.

How fun! I knew that was JACKAL arcade but didn’t know it had a different title in the west.

The marketing back then was truly something!

Now I have an urge to play Rollergames pinball…

I see someone getting 15/15 in the leaderboards but it took them 23 minutes. Hmmm...

All, except nr 12.

I don't know if those flyers moved many machines, but I bet they got operators to take a second look at them.

well I scored a pathetic 3/15 but I was distracted by the pictures

The same crop top used in Contra, Devastators and Top Gunner

I got 9/15. No way the women would look this good if they attempted those posters today.

I don't expect to see these in a modern consoles compilation anytime soon.

@Deuteros
Everything has pretty much looked and felt the same now since the 2010's. I just hated how fast the 90's moved though. Earlier 90's were incredible(90 & 91 felt like an extension of 89. 92 was great as well) as were the mid to late 80's, but by 96 and especially towards the later end of the 90's, things had changed so drastically in terms of fashion, pop music, the style of cartoons, even the commercials were less imaginative, whacky and colorful. Everything almost dawned this Spaceship/future aesthetic.

By the late 90's, Silver, royal blue(etc) were so prominant in music videos, commercials etc instead of the neon colors and amazing whacky artistry we had seen in the late 80s/early 90's. Things had become more homogonized and safe. Thankfully the video game industry was still kicking major butt with Saturn(At least in 95'), PS1, N64 & Dreamcast, even though I felt the 8-16 bit era was much more magical.

And i agree, Steve Jobs is definitely to blame. Here we are in 2026, and the I-phone is still designed as a rectangular black slab of plastic. Social Media & Computers have ruined the world. These days, It's all about effeciency and trying not to be intruisive. Things are bland, dystopion, void of color(Don't get me started on modern home decor), commercials are corporate soulless cheap throwaways. Fashion(Birds nest haircuts) is beyond depressing. Life has lost it's color. And back in the 80's & 90's, music often dicated the fashion. Not anymore. But ya, at least when you're at home, life truly is what you make it.

Build yourself an 80's/early to mid 90's time machine and have the time of your life. lol

I started mostly tuning out of pop culture by the late 2000's, right into 2010. I was living it up like it was 85 - 95. Everything from the 80's music(Thanks to YouTube), fashion, cartoons, movies, home decor, rebuying retro video games, figures and boardgames from my child hood and so on, and i was never happier as an adult at the age of 26/27, which was in 2010-2013. I basically blended a lot of the past into the present, while introducing myself to things from the past that were new to me, which equals a first time experience and that is what it's all about.

I was still knee deep into the DS Lite, Wii + Virtual Console and first year or two of the 3DS, hitting up the NintendoLife forums during it's prime, & YouTube etc. I definitely don't stray away from modern Nintendo, they'e the last video game company that has at least a quarter of their soul left in tact. maybe. lol Anyways, ramble ramble. Wish the world could be a lot more like 85 - early 90's again.

But the reality is, there will never be another decade like either ever again. I feel sorry for the kids these days. Roblox, Fornite, Minecraft, I-pads, the internet, thousands apon thousands of digital videos at their finger strips via streaming(They'll never experience going to a video store ever), the endless rabit hole of content ala' YouTube. Zero appreciattion and lack of dedication is the name of the game when you're essentially a kid in a candy store with an infinate wallet. I could go on and on. We didn't realise how good we had it!

@Deuteros

Flimsy corporate throwaway PS5/XSX physical media, with a minimalist corporate soulless banner & all-white or all-black logo void of any color(s), topped with usually generic CG Stock cover art(So much for those amazing illustrated/hand drawn dynamic set piece'd covers from the NES era) slathered in legal text agreement.

Vacaant lazy garbage that's completely lost the artistry that was once in spaids during the 80's & 90's, when physical video game media looked phenomenal and was substantial(Especially NES, GameBoy, Snes, Genesis, 1995 PS1 long box releases, and white label Dreamcast 99' games, imo)

As much as i hate digital, PlayStation & XSX physical media is even worse at least for me, minus legit ownership and being able to resell them.

Pop culture is dead, has been since the 2010's. Wonder how things would be now if Smart phones never existed and we all just had basical Nokia cell phones designed strictly to take calls, and if social media platforms(FB, Twitter, Instagram etc) were never a thing, aside from Internet Forums.

Imagine if streaming got cancled, video stores made a comeback and it was the only way to rent movies, and YouTube disabled all comment sections. At least disable the thumbs up/down system and the ability for YT content creaters to heart comments. This would bypass a lot of the pathetic attention seekers trying to score top comment. And instead would at least push for 'actual' conversations. Problem is, actual conversations are becoming less of a thing when you have people texting/typing comments from a smart phone. That in itself is a total barrier vs a laptop or desktop PC with a keyboard.

@Deuteros
There's plenty of Smart phone warriors in my family, sometimes trying to sit down and have a conversation with some of them is next to impossible. It's like talking to Beavis & Butt-head.

Heck, i recently lost a friend and family member who was close to me since we were kids because neither didn't like or approve of some of my hobbies. lol "Think like i do, do as i do, and if you don't live by my rules you're ousted and pinned to the cross"

F*** that cult. So much for loving what you love and individuality. I hate it when people expect for you to act how they want you to act and like what they like. Opinions always have to align with some people unfortunately. Politics is another big divider that's known for creating rifts with friends and family.

@Deuteros
Absolutely. Many fall into the absolutist/extremist category. It's All or nothing with some of these peeps. At the end of the day, most people are double standared hypocritcal tribialistic chimps that usually can't take accountability for their actions.

You'll have a die hard sports fan ripping on the next guy for enjoying and being passionate about video games, as if what he's doing is any better or more imporant. As if they're doing it for the greater good. lol

We're not going to be getting brownie points or shiny medalions in the afterlife(If there is one) from the man upstairs for enjoying one form of entertainment over the other haha.

So many adults have lost that sense of joy and child like wonder. The video game stigma still exists, but it'll probably fade away with Gen Z and the next generations moving forward. Many adults trash video games and say they're a waste of time and that they're for kids, yet THEY waste their time watching movies, sports & TV. staring at a screen watching monkeys in uniforms running around on a field and kickin a ball into a net. See, i can play that game too. lol

Anyways, watching sports, stand up comedians, movies/TV, listening to music, etc is no more important or a waste of time vs Video games. At the end of the day, they're all forms of entertainment that are meant to be enjoyed, so enjoy! It just sucks that i including many have to keep my passion for video games on the down low around so many people. Movies and sports are universarly excepted, but video games still baffle a lot of people.

This why i admired Michael Jackson so much. The guy was wearing mickey mouse PJ's in his 40's late at night while watching The Simpsons. That was one of his ways of trying to retain the great level of wonderment, that we all had as kids. Which was massively important for his craft, artistric, creativity and imagination. He still loved video games too, disney movies etc.