I was watching an old episode of a Critical Role show, and they were playing a Lupin III arcade game from 1983?! It was called Cliff Hanger and was based off the film. As the preeminent Lupin III blogger on the internet, the episode was Mame Drop: Laser Disk Classics if you want to take a look

I completely forgot to answer this ask but YES. Cliff Hanger (1983) is my white whale of arcade games; I have never wanted to play a game I will lose at so badly. There are only four (registered) cabinets in the U.S. (where I live) and someday I WILL drive several hours to one just to play it.

For those unfamiliar, this is a very-much-unauthorized mashup of the first two Lupin III films—The Mystery of Mamo (1978, dir. Soji Yoshikawa) and The Castle of Cagliostro (1979, dir. Hayao Miyazaki)—and perhaps the two most visually and tonally different Lupin installments to this day. A small American company got their hands on these films, cut them together into a new storyline that mostly followed Cagliostro but with a few action scenes (and also the hanging shot) from Mamo spliced in, and made a LaserDisc arcade game out of it.

Notably, you can see Chunk playing this game in the opening chase scene of The Goonies (1985) (2:50). Cagliostro was a major source of inspiration for that film, all the way down to Lupin/Data's belt-buckle wire (2:29).

Here is an original promotional video for Cliff Hanger:

You can watch a full playthrough here:

If you'd like a full playthrough on a physical cabinet screen, complete with the original player-death hanging animation from Mamo (14:25), look no further:

And finally, the Critical Role video in question (Cliff Hanger begins at 25:28) (warning: this also features the death-by-hanging animation):

INSPECTOR JAVERT from LES MISERABLES

JUSTIFICATION:

"She adheres to an inflexible code of Justice -good is always good and bad is always bad, and that’s it. If she can cling to this comforting way of thinking/being, then she doesn’t have to address where things might not be so black and white i.e. her gender. Perhaps if she could come to terms with being trans she would would not pursue Valjean so mercilessly (as the symbol of her hidden self). It would also literally save her as she would not be shaken to the core the first time she encountered a moral quandary. I think it would heal her relationship with her mother and with her own femininity, as her view on women is somewhat skewed due to being born in prison. Plus Enjolras has already been submitted and we must trans Paris 1832 in its entirety." - @jamjarmusch

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