What's it like playing the VERY FIRST Metroid game in 2024?
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Metroid 1986 Retrospective, how does Metroid Nes hold up today?
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I want to thank everyone who has left such encouraging comments over the past several months, its been a while since i've uploaded due to various circumstances but seeing the amount of people that truly enjoyed what i've made so far has kept me motivated to continue. The next review video is already in the works and i'm considering trying to upload something in between that to keep the ball rolling. Just know that if you've said something nice it has left an impact on me. Thank you! Shout out to my editor mat for being great at what he does.
Absolutely! Loved your Jak and Daxter video so much! Entertaining, creative, and just downright goofy in some moments. Happy to see you upload another review type/experience video. Cool to see another perspective on these older games. Keep being awesome!
You and Mat totally crushed it with this video! It's engaging and fun and really went into depth about the history and your experience. 5 out of 5 space donuts!
It is kind of fun watching Zoomers try to play Metroid it's a brutal game and I usually recommend Metroid zero but it's not as near annoying as the old Castlevania franchise especially the English version just remember if you play the third game your name better be helped me you're welcome in advance
I'll let you in on a secret. In the 80's we didn't all draw our own maps.
We used maps (or copies of maps, or polaroid's of maps) from Nintendo Power and strategy guides...
Don't tell anyone.
and we cheated all the time! up up down down etc
in fact, there were a lot of magazines with secret codes, hidden objects and maps
Nintendo Power! Best (non?) secret EVER!! 😄
im a 2000s kid, but if i was born into the 80s, i don't think my family could afford nintendo power. and yes, i would be the poor kid drawing maps and scribbling down codes or maybe borrowing a friends nintendo power magazine if they're willing to share it.
Personally my recommendation is Zero Mission since it's basically an actual remake that includes some of the improvements from later games.
It's also where the modern version of the Zero Suit comes from (along with the stun pistol), and has some added content that I will not be spoiling.
I came here to say this. It's criminal they don't have it on NSO.
@@Quibereyit’s on NSO now! :)
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Fun video. I'm 41 and always happy to get the impressions of young people with open minds playing old games. It's like getting into old movies.
Anyway first things first, don't feel bad for using rewind and know that people who have been NES purists for the last 40 years need to go the hell outside.
Second, yeah, Super Metroid is way easier to play for all the reasons stated plus there are save points and health and ammo refill points and tons of farming points. Also there are 20 health health power ups, not just the 5.
Watching through your video, it looks like you really did experience the game how it was meant to be experienced, down to having a somewhat innacurate map. Frustration, but determination. Getting the feeling of being trapped in this place. Not knowing if you found everything or what to do next and just having to figure it out. The idea that a game is supposed to be made beatable by everyone is a relatively new idea. Back then, you only beat a game if you mastered it. Mastering Metroid to the point that you got Samus dressed down was a hell of an accomplishment to hang your hat on. Samus being a woman wasn't completely unique in video game protagonists at the time (there will be no Ms. Pac Man erasure here), but it was extremely rare. Keeping the veneer of it being a secret ended up making it one of the better known facts about the NES historically, so mission accomplished.
Anyway I like your conclusions and yes, I also recommend people who like playing modern 2D games to play through this with all the support the internet can muster if they aren't up for hours of mystery. I hope you do check out Super Metroid sometime, and good video.
We shat ourselves in rage over that invisible pit right in front of the energy tank, too. 😁
Yep. This was every player's first or second "gotcha" trap for sure. It was this, or the similar traps in MegaMan 2 Wily Stages or Simon's Quest. Spoiler alert, right?
Glad to see younger generations exploring the classics!
Quick correction. Super Metroid is not a re-imagining. It's a proper sequel. It's actually part III of the saga. Part II was released on the Gameboy.
There is a remake/re-imagining of the original Metroid called Metroid: Zero Mission, released for the Game Boy Advance in 2004. That one has a map and a lot of quality of life changes, so you might enjoy that one more. But for us hardcore fans, nothing beats the original! :D
Still, hats off to you for playing this game all the way to the end. ;)
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Words cannot describe the fear my 8yo self experienced trying to best this game in 1987.
My Mom had me put it down for a few weeks because Kraids Lair music gave me nightmares.
Cue the EMINEM song
*"GUESS WHO'S BACK?!"*
You're not wrong, and chat isn't wrong about the map.
The "C-Button" we used to use as kids was GRAPH PAPER.
This game was practically unplayable without it; but was only one of many, including Simon's Quest and old-school Zelda 1-2. Pretty much anything requiring memorization. At least most JRPGs included a pack-in poster version of the World Map with landmarks on it!
Making the maps was *part of the fun,* though - so you're not wrong to not want to outside-reference this.
Sooooo... I beat Metroid when I owned it back in the 80s (I am, in fact, old, and came here because I like watching young people suffer as I have suffered). No map, no guidebook. Just hours of exploring, memorizing, and note taking.
Let me just say that... NO ONE should do it the way I did. Your victory is equal to mine. If I had the tools to use save states and rewinds at the time, I totally would have, and anyone saying otherwise is lying.
Also - well done, and I'm glad you liked it. Not a lot of the games I played when I was like, twelve or whatever hold up, but this one really does. Super Metroid is the better game in a lot of ways, but this was magical.
Now do NES Ninja Gaiden!
Good to find a fellow gamer in a similar situation. I'm on a Metroid binge myself and got to play this one a few days ago. I appreciated it's mechanical simplicity and it's surprisingly vast levels, but the lack of a map and it's notorious difficulty made it a long grind. Good luck on future playthroughs like this one.
P.S. If you haven't played Super Metroid, you need to. One of the best examples of good game design.
yeah... I was born in 86. I played this game a lot. I beat this game as a kid, and I've beaten it several times subsequently. If I went and played this again as an adult, I would absolutely use save-states and rewind because ain't nobody got time for that.
That being said, this was one of the first games where you could go left and right, as well as up and down SEEMLESSLY (well, entering a door actually changed the scroll mode in the game code, masking the fact that you couldn't actually have full X,Y exploration) Even Kid Icarus which was build on the same engine had the first 3 levels scroll vertically, then the next 3 scroll horizontally. Metroid was a BIG deal. And I love the franchise to death.
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Honestly, from my Gen Z perspective, this game is such a vibe.
Is it objectively the best game to play nowadays? No.
Does it give a feeling that I haven't felt playing another game? Absolutely.
It just evokes an almost analog horror feeling in some areas. Going straight to Norfair is such an experience. The music is some of the creepiest on the system (really only rivaled by Death Mountain from Zelda 1 and Anxiety from Castlevania 3), the dark backgrounds really give a sense of lonely dreadfulness, and getting lost enough just gives off such a sweetly uncomfortable feeling.
It feels like you're either going to be lost forever or will find... _something_ in the darkness that you'll *really* wish you hadn't found.
I'm probably the only person who likes this game more than Zero Mission, since Zero Mission is just another "pretty good Metroid game," while Metroid NES is straight up an uncomfortable (and eventually triumphant) adventure. It's like it has the hopeless atmosphere of Fusion without any of the true horror.
Also, great video! "I almost named myself Old McDonald, because I couldn't stop farming!" Absolute gold.
This was so much fun to watch! The art for the story explanation was top tier. I can't wait to see what you have coming next!!!!!!
I'm an old guy, I can tell you my brother and I had a map, it was like a big folding color poster. I don't remember where we got it, probably a magazine. Making a map in MS Paint is hardcore, that's really cool (also the map you made is pretty damn good all things considered 👍).
Also, I use save states nowadays and would have used them back then if they were available.
I remember playing the original Metroid back in the early 90s and having several sheets of notebook paper taped together that I used to hand draw a map. Gaming was wild before the Internet. The manual also had a place to write your passwords, but that space was limited.
I DID SEE THAT IN THE MANUAL!!! it was literally just a few lines 😭 how many 14 character passwords could you realistically write in that little spot??? hahaha That's so cool about your map!
I used to help my dad play this in the 80's, I could memorize the maps for him. I've been a fan ever since.
Zelda and Metroid were my games back then. Not using a map was a bit frustrating but the exploration was worth it. Norfair's environment was my fav but Lower Norfair scared the hell out of me. Creepy music. Plus, the enemies were faster and did lots of damage. Couldn't wait to vibe with Brinstar's heroic theme. Now, Metroid's a walk in the park. Huge nostalgia.
I struggled with this as well. I died and was lost so much as a kid. I got the game for the famicom disk system a couple of years ago and gave it another go. The first issue of nintendo power included a detailed map of Metroid so I didn't consider it cheating and downloaded a map and used it. Great game.
13:47 The first time I I walked into that room, and that happened to me, I was so fucking livid! Thankfully, I figured out how to get back from the other side
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I grew up with both the NES and SNES, despite this, I think it's perfectly okay for people to use save states and rewinds. I also played Metroid 1 but I never drew a map I just navigated best I could. That said I also approve of using maps. (Plus I also knew the Justin Bailey code) Another early female protagonist led game you may want to try is Phantasy Star 1. It's an RPG for the Sega Mega Drive, its dungeons are even more maze like than Metroid lol.
Awesome video! It might be even better than the rest of your videos. I remember watching you play this on stream. Even though its a hard game you were making the best out of it. Waiting for the next video already.
After many, many fails I beat the game in '86 by mapping it out myself. It was mad stressful, but I totally remember the day I finally beat it and cheered at the top of my lungs. And, yes, old game devs were sick in the head! Thx for great video. You're awesome ❤
Thanks for the kind comment!! It's so cool imaging you beating the game back in the day, thanks for sharing that!
I never used a map for this game as a kid...just explored lost until I memorized things. A tip though, near the start of the game to the right is an energy tank in the ceiling, I like to never collect that until I make the run to beat the game using the start as the spawn point, because collecting an energy tank fills your health to full, so it allows you to skip the farming for health.
I wish I'd found your twitch sooner to see you play this.
Smash bros inspired me to tackle all the Nintendo classics also. Metroid and Kid Icarus killed all motivation for me.
I'm really glad you tried to stick to 80's technology. That's exactly what I tried to do and failed. Watching your video gives me a bit of closure, so thank you.
Yeah, watching this makes me not regret playing a romhack that smoothed out some of the clunk. Afterall this was, for whatever reason, the LAST Metroid I played, likely due to clunk-phobia.
Also great to see you back after so long, expected Jak II but instead I got videos II- Er, 2 videos, and that's awesome!
Dude I remember playing this game for the first time in 2018, and it was an absolute grinder. I appreciate it though. Wouldve blown my mind as a child
Another thing to remember about these old games is that they were likely all you could play. If you got Metroid, that was it for a month or more until you or your family could afford another game. It was figure it out or go back to the Super Mario Brothers that came with the system.
All that being said, I didn't have Metroid as a kid. I played it with friends a few times, and I know I beat it at some point, but I can't tell you when or how often. I'm old enough to be an original Nintendo gamer (technically, I'm old enough to be an Intellivision gamer beforehand,) but I did better with the old Megamans and Castlevanias.
You were on my home feed, and I find you very entertaining. For that, you get the sub.
Anyway, it's funny. I've been playing this game since I was a baby... Well, at least familiar when I was a baby. I didn't come back to it until I was a teenager. With all of the flaws that this game has, I still managed to commit this game to memory. Lmao! Made me feel I know that it's nowhere near as good as Metroid 3 and onward, but I still have a ton of nostalgia for this game
I had no idea you only have 4 videos, they're really well crafted. Id definitely encourage more but I suppose it depends how much time you have on your hands. Also its zero mission that is the remake of metroid 1. Super is the 3rd game thats set on the same planet with added areas.
I'm a huge fan of the original Metroid, despite its rough-around-the-edges qualities: the atmosphere and vibes are absolutely on point. In a world where most people would just skip it and go to Super Metroid or Zero Mission, I'm glad that you gave it a good and proper chance and found some merit in your frustrations with it. Great video!
The Elder Scrolls had prophesied such return! Haha another great vid Papi 👏☺️
Love these reviews! Can't wait for more
Classic Metroid did not need a map. It was simply not big enough to care about an in-game map. It was part of the experience to get lost and to memorize the important areas VS those you never visit again on your next play. That is what got us NES gamers growing into gaming. And the ability tzo memorize map sections also helped with future installments. Today you rely a bit too much on maps. Classic Metroid is memorize the areas or draw your own map.
Super Metroid is actually the second sequel to Metroid, the first sequel being on the Gameboy. So Super Metroid is Metroid 3, and Metroid Zero Mission on the Gameboy Advance is a remake of Metroid 1, but way better. Super Metroid though is very much its own game, just building off the concepts. Just so you know, thiugh, there are important story beats in Metroid 2 leading up to Super.
I remember beating this back in the late 80s. Fun times. Frustrating times too. Played it often enough that I had the map memorized. I dnt have a clue where anything is anymore lol
Back in my senior year of high school (right before covid hit), I completed Super Metroid for the first time. I was 17 and since then my college years have been filled with playing a lot of the Metroid games. Prime 1, Super and Dread are all in my top 10 games of all time. Glad to see someone else near my age talk about these games even if critical
I played this game for the first time in 2003 on GameCube, and it was just as frustrating, only there were no rewinds or save states.
First video of yours I've seen. Love it. Subscribed. Love hearing the perspective of a 'zoomer' on my childhood games. You have an endearing/genuine feeling personality and it really just works here.
Look forward to the rest of your content!
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wave beam is primarily used to deal with kraid, you can use ice beam too to freeze kraids spikes, like ridley, but it takes skill with use of bombs, kraid is actually as easy as ridley, also most people assume you need missiles for bosses and you really dont need them except for mother brain.
OHHHHH okay that makes so much sense! Someone else commented that they used the wave beam for kraid, i can see how that changes things for sure!
Terrific editing and perspective. The video was certainly worth the wait :)
thanks so much 😭❤️ the next video will be out faster than the last!
I first played this when I was 21 I think, no maps, memorization only, and got the leotard ending. Pretty sure I used wave beam vs Kraid. Didn't realize you could missile spam at relatively low health like that.
that's some serious skill holy crap
Password systems only exist because of the technical limitations of the consoles back then. It adds nothing to difficulty except for the menuing itself
Oof, this is a tough one. NEStroid is the only 2d metroid I haven't beaten. Kudos to you for even doing this
I can't imagine how frustrating it must've been as the person PLAYING, like the amount of patience you have needs to be studied by scientists
This was such a great video! Good job dad!! 🎉
Anyone who plays this game on the Switch should definitely use save states to avoid farming for health. It's not cheating, it's just a time saver.
This is so well done! Glad to see such an amazing video come from all the suffering that punishing game put you through, keep up the great work
2:25 : "And I gotta save my missiles."
btw, back in our DAaAaAyyyyy.... we NEVER used the REWIND FEATURE....
...because... it wasn't an option. Otherwise, we'd have totally used the rewind feature to play this, lol.
informative and fun! yay!
I do love that when I was a kid I remember the schoolyard conversation Samus is a boy his name is Sam I remember kids arguing about that back in the day also what favorite Ninja Turtle are you
The quality jump between Metroid games for both Quality-of-Life and just general improvements is huge (completely understandably ofc, NES Metroid is ancient) and especially when you don't grow up on the games. I have absolutely zero idea how people did this guide-less.
The original Metroid was very rough around the edges, which is sort of to be expected when you're reinventing the wheel. The copy/paste nature of the room layout was necessary to conserve space on the ROM and the ability to make a "tell" about a secret pathway suffered a lot because of it. so where Super Metroid was able to drop clues for the player, the original was mostly a game of just "bomb the shit out of everything until you find the path forward".
Also, is that a Terra notification on your stream?
I'm happy that you got to try Gunpei's baby. but yeah a lot of Metroid/metroidvania games relies a lot on trial and error and checking if a platform or wall is destructible enough. it's fun but you gotta have patience.
as somebody who hasn't really played any metroid games i really enjoyed this video.cant wait for more videos of this type Papi
Hi, elder millennial here (I'm 41). My older brothers played this when I was a kid, I messed around with it, but never played it. As I got older I fell in love with Metroid and as an adult I tried to beat this game, and just couldn't! Don't feel bad about rewind! Plus, we, back in the 80's, cheated all the time! There was always some code we'd here about in school yard, yeah these games were so hard and it was rare when any of us ever beat one! Especially without using cheats! If we had the rewind feature, we would have used it!
There were certain NES games that were way too hard for me as a kid and not fun because of it. Metroid, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, Kid Icarus, BattleToads, Dragon Warrior and, the first Batman. Most Nes games are hard but Metroid was it's own special kind of hard.
Not sure how I got here, UA-cam figured I'd probably like your content... but I can give you MY thoughts as a xennial who grew up with these.
-Yeah, we read those instruction manuals on the ride home. Multiple times, couldn't help it, we were excited!
-After butchering our first map, our 2nd one was better. After butchering THAT one, graph paper was a GODSEND.
-You a grown-ass adult? Use the savestates, Queen.
How deep you gonna go in this rabbit hole? Zero Mission, Metroid II (AM2r?), Super Metroid, Fusion, Dread... Prime? At very least, *Super Metroid*? Right? Right?! Right?! ::wink:: Right?
The button u press to get the in-game map is the Metroid Zero Mission button
Kudos for powering through and acquiring a taste for it. Your save scumming is like kids putting enough ketchup or ranch on something lol.
Super will likely not need that - they have energy fill-up stations, and once you’ve got a few E tanks and Varia, death is not all that common, certainly not like in NES Metroid.
I loved the Metroid series games for the GBA - never had the actual SNES version
Ice beam is one of the first natural found upgrades makes the rest of the game easy
NEStroid AKA NES Metroid is fun once you finish the game and start playing it with knowing what to do. Also for me. I'm almost 40 and finished it last year as well (also I am a Metroid fan).
Oh and Tourian. Remember that Metroids drop 20 health and at least I think 5 to 20 missiles
I dont think 80s gamers would be mad at you using rewind or save states, if that were an option back then they would 100% use it
So I keep finding all of these hot gamer girls like you, Cutie in Cosplay to new a few; upload videos on UA-cam, but now I am finding them to be huge Metroid fans!? The world may be saved after all. Subbed!!!
The return of the QUEEEEN 🙏
NES games have interesting vibes, it was an era people really didn't know what games were suppose to be, both the player and developer. People legit struggled with going left at the start of the game to get the first powerup. That sounds silly and ridiculous, but the only experience people had with platformers was mario 1 and duck hunt that came with the NES, and in mario you can't go back left. When the bar is that low, it's no wonder the game became such a hit.
The going left for the power up being a new concept is not something considered!!! My older brother taught me to always do that because we played Donkey Kong and Mario together while I was growing up. That's a cool thing to point out!!
13:45... yeah, guess what i did in 1989 at the bottom of this pit...
Nah, Super Metroid is just a straight-up sequel, taking place shortly after the second game on GB. It's Metroid 3. It just brings you back to the same planet as the first game, Zebes (and actually recaps the events of Metroid 2 at the beginning). That's why it can seem similar to Metroid 1.
But the *actual* remake of the first game (that most people do prefer, myself included) is Zero Mission on GBA. If you're willing to ever play it, I think you'd enjoy it a lot. It's also quite a bit easier (the easiest game in the series, in my opinion), and ties into later games with newer stuff.
But yeah, people really like the later entries like Super, Fusion, and Zero Mission (but especially Super for its atmosphere and speedrunning legacy). They're just pretty solid games.
I enjoyed the review, though. The first game can be hectic, but interesting in its own way. I still like to come back to it sometimes, and I appreciate what it did for its time. I'm glad it exists.
I came for the top tier content, but stayed for the indoctrination.
Zero Mission is actually the remake of Metroid NES so I highly recommend playing it. Super Metroid is straight up a sequel that happens to take place on the same planet.
I've got to give you huge credit for actually trying to beat Metroid NES. From the NES era it is the hardest game to go back to. Maybe because future Metroid games improve on the formula so much.
Congrats on clearing a "classic" game lol. I played the version in Zero Mission. I don't remember if it had save states or saving in general, but I remember not drawing a map. I'm too prideful to not try and memorize and make my own life hard. I had played Fusion and Metroid 2 ahead of time so I sorta knew to expect those farming rooms and map memorization. But still not trying to take anything away from you, I just have retro game ego/am a masochist.
Oh, man. STARTING the franchise with the NES Metroid game is insane. Zero Mission is superior. I sincerely hope it gets pushed to the Nintendo Switch Online platform already.
Super Metroid is my favorite game of all time and I can't stand playing the original Metroid anymore. If I were to play it again, hell, yeah I would use rewind. I even use rewind when playing Super Metroid randomizations these day.
Anyway, great video! I would not wish the original Metroid on anyone, haha. It's great that you managed to stick with it and I respect your journey in to game history :)
One note, at the beginning you mention that the game "quickly made it's way into infamy" and you go on to talk about how the game was so well regarded at the time. Infamous means something that is known for being bad. I would agree that the game is infamous now, but I'm not sure if you meant it that way because it did not quickly get there.
I beat Metroid NES about a month ago for the first time. I actually like it more than Super Metriod. However, I did use save states.
That's a rare. But I too like the NES Metroid a lot more. It is so pure and innocent.
@niemand7811 I do hate starting at 30 health after dying, but I'm playing all the Nintendo games to see how they have evolved. Dread is my all time favorite though of the 2d metroids.
save states are so valid, extra points if you managed to avoid rewinds, but if you didn't it's still really cool! Excited for the day i check out super metroid, whenever that will be
@RottenPapi No reminds but I did use video tutorials to know what to expect :)
It'd be sweet if you could review your exp. w/ Metroid Fusion, that's the only Metroid I've played so far.
Great video! Metroid is a difficult game still. I am trying to best it myself
Yesssss great to see another video papi and it was absolutely brilliant as always. Really informative and genuinely funny and loved the Alien influence mention
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I first played this game when you unblock it after beating Metroid Zero Mission, it was fun for the first free times, but after awhile I wanted to snap my GBA SP in half and rage wit bc I had no idea it was this rage inducing😅Thankfully I didn't and just used a chest code to finish it, and it was STILL hard, at least I finished it lol.
I recommend Zero Mission (might have to emulate it), Prime1, or Fusion. I haven't played Super Metroid or Metroid 2: Return of Samus yet, but I imagine their not as difficult as this one.
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This was a phenomenal video and I found it super refreshing to see long-form, well written and equally well-researched gaming content on YT! Seems like a rarity these days, and the criticisms about the bullshit mapping system in oldschool Metroid are still valid in 2023. Fully convinced games were created in tandem with game GUIDES back then so they could squeeze more dollars out of parents. But what do I know!
I got this game around the time it came out. It took me about 3 days to get to Mother Brain, and another month to beat it. I did end up getting the Official Nintendo Players Guide which did have the entire map printed somewhere in that month
I was coming in to say that. When I played this in the ‘80s as a kid, Nintendo sold strategy guides with maps, so looking it up online isn’t that far off from what we were doing.
Zero judgment for using Rewinds and Save States. Having grown up in that Era I know how brutal it can be and I've never even played the original Metroid and I would probably do the same thing now.
After putting up with the original, the GBA remake might be a cakewalk for her.
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If you want some truly masochistic suffering, play Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link. AVGN said it best: "You're like a 4-year-old trying to fight Hulk Hogan!"
18:50 How can these enemies be good for farming if you need to invest two missiles to get 1 drop?
they often drop large missels, 30 i think per drop so you get lots of
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would be epic if you did a video for metroid zero mission to see how u find it compared to the original
Many millennial gamers know those "evil space donuts" by another name: "spaghettiOs".
Have you ever played Psychonauts? Absolutely amazing game. I know its a popular one so you might have already played/been asked a zillion times haha
Don’t feel bad about using saves. The original Japanese disk system version had them by default.
Passwords were a western compromise for putting it on a cartridge without a battery and a measure to ensure people wouldn’t beat it as a game rental.
That younger people are still tolerating Metroid let alone beating it is a testament to how strong the original concept is.
Good video, subscribed.
That thing about the game rental is a myth since not everywhere on earth you rented video games. Games were simply short and had to put up a certain level of challenge to keep you hooked. That is the only reason games were not too easy for you. Game rentals kinda warped the actual intention of video games when they were treated like your typical Saturday Night Movie.
Thanks so much!!! Also I didn't know that about western vs japanese systems! So interesting. I hope you'll enjoy the future videos i make. thanks for the encouragement!
@@niemand7811 There are examples that would disagree with you.
Battletoads, despite being developed in England, was significantly more difficult in the west than Japan.
Likewise, the original Castlevania calculated damage differently. In Japan damage was determined by enemy type, in the west the damage increased universally as you progressed.
Konami also infamously overdid it on difficulty when bringing The Adventures of Bayou Billy to the west.
It absolutely was a design consideration. The United States is the biggest video game market in the world and it isn't even close, publishers wanted their games to be sold, not rented.
Nice job beating it!
I could never get far cause save states can't save me from being lost 😂
3:32 but fr shoutout to Metroid Planets for all the QoL updates ❤
Don't feel bad about using the modern "cheats". We had Game Genie back in the day.
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