ArcadeTower: Arcade Belt Parade - Undercover Cops / アンダーカバーコップス

R Type LEO (Japan: アンダーカバーコップス - Asia/export: Undercover Cops) is a Brawler / Belt / Scrolling Beat ‘em up like the many that ruled the arcade scene in the early ’90s together with Final Fight, cadillacs & dinosaurs, The Punisher just to list few).
By Irem from the same men who will become the creator of Metal slug for Snk under the Nazca name. From the start you can notice the graphic very raw and state of art like others masterpieces like In the hunt and GeoStorm, great gameplay, musics and full of details.
Here we have the classic 3 characters to choose from with different characteristics and special moves (try to find out the various combinations for every character) and run through five levels full of enemies and weird level bosses.
The Japanese arcade version differs from the export english version in several aspects and the later seem an unfinished game. The export version is simple BAD. Some graphic and details are missing, sound is cutted, the common enemies can be killed by one hit making the game way easier and worst of the worst most of the special moves are removed. Unbelievable.
I suggest absolutely to get a Japanese version and avoid the USA/export one ulless you can find the rare ALPHA (Undercover Cops 𝜶) wich is the finished version and tranladed to english identical to the Japanese veresion).
Nowadays the Irem pcb are very expensive. this game price can vary from 100.000 to 120.000 yen.
Final note: Irem released in 1995 a SFC port of the game and is very good (even if its downgraded from the arcade and its 1 Player only. A must buy but... yes... its very expensive too, about 50.000/80000 yen depend on overall conditions)

-Steve

Maker: Irem
Releases: Japan / Export
Year: 1992
Genre: Action Belt Game
Standard: JAMMA
Controls: 2 Player - 1 lever 2 buttons
Arcade System: Irem M-92 system hardware