This game was ahead of its time, there are literally dos and don'ts in this game just like the movies, there is strategy to it, and its challenging just like any other horror game out there, i think people hated this game because it's challenging, its nice to see how this game has became a cult classic and is getting the due respect
exactly. It's one of those "misunderstood in his time" kind of situations. This game is the literal proto-survial horror, just like Matt says. All of the mechanics and tropes of the genre were founded here. It's kinda like Simon's Quest. Granted, you need the Redacted mod to actually play it, but when you sit down and actually play-through it you can literally see the birth of the MetroidVania genre.
@Claudia Solomon Zelda is a "where the hell do I go" game too. If you don't have a guide it will be very hard to know what to do. Your argument is void. Most NES games were like that. People hate Friday the 13th because it's too hard for their crybaby asses to complete.
I think "where the hell do I go" is great for horror games though. Especially if you add some kind of time limit mechanic on top of that like this one did. I mean when you think about it making a genuinely scary game with 8 bit graphics wasn't easy. Yet they managed a decent job of it at least for the intended audience of young children.
It looks like a good game but I never got to play it as it came out before my time as my first console was the PS1. I enjoy the 2017 version because you get to play different versions of the true protagonist. Only thing I dislike is not being able to buy Savini Jason. They would make a ton of money on that.
I literally just beat Friday the 13th for the very first time and I have to say... your advice is spot-on and I wish I would have seen this video sooner! In my opinion this game is a true hidden gem in the NES library and it's way better than I expected.
I remember me and my cousin got our older cousin so angry when we kept laughing and saying Jason’s toothbrush and he ended up losing and told his mom on us 😂 I think he was 11 and we were 6.
This might be THE best walkthrough to ANY game I've ever seen Quick and easy to understand explanations without the extra useless stuff you get on FAQ sites I've been struggling to understand how to beat this game for months and after watching this video, I beat it on my second try Thank you!
Very well put together video....this is one of those games I always find myself going back to over and over, and I've probably beaten it 25+ times, but I never realized there were certain spots on the map that keys and potions always appeared, so even after all these years I learned something new. Glad to see I'm not alone in my love for this game.
That last line was perfect. This was a childhood demon. I was 6 or 8 when I played it. Couldn’t figure it out. This settled the score for me. Thanks. 👍
Thank you. This is an extremely good strategy. Unfortunately, the thing that gets me every time is when Jason starts attacking the children. As if rowing in the lake wasn't dangerous enough, you're forced to fight him in the cabin; that's basically an immediate death sentence on Day 3.
I don't get why so many people hate this game. It's incredibly anachronistic. The subject matter, violence and complexity are extremely ahead of their time, and the challenge, mystery and replayability are among the top tier on the console. It's almost like an ancient precursor to Dark Souls. The only thing that sucks is the boring, endlessly repeating music. With a Castlevania-esque soundtrack, I think it would be remembered more fondly.
Because it's needlessly criptic and the controls suck. Virtual Boy and the Power Glove were "ahead of their time" but this does not redeem them. Experiment on people paid to test shitty new games or tech, not kids that saved money for months to buy a game that looked cool and was total shit. Selling shitty games might not be illegal, but it's certainly immoral and much more so back then when there was no internet. to check reviews...
I don't know why, but I really enjoy watching you explain how to beat these NES games. You come across like someone who's played the game a ton, but not read a bunch of reviews and retrospectives on them. Very refreshing.
Anyone else here to see if the game is even possible after James and Mike's attempts at beating this game on the Cinemassacre channel? If only they had seen this video they may have actually been able to beat the game lol
Jason sometimes appears in the large cabins with the fireplaces. No one ever explained why, except for you. Thank you!! I've encountered Jason a few times in those cabins
Thank you for breaking down the nuts and bolts of the game. I always felt like it was possible to "track" Jason, despite Jeff Rovin insisting it wasn't in How to Win at Nintendo Games.
Agreed...I'm 35 and been beating this since I was 5 or 6 yrs old. Scared the fuck out of me..after enough punishment I learned and beat the game no problem.
I always felt like Mark, Laura and Chrissy were all relatively equal in speed, but Mark and Chrissy both jump higher and Mark rows like he's roided up.
Beat the game for the first time over the weekend, in part due to your walkthrough. Thank you! Never thought this game was beatable by anyone except the best of the best.
Here's... the crazier part: Somehow I beat this RANDOMLY! As in, despite not really getting the navigation, I was able to survive long enough to get the sweater... and I never once got the torch or pitchfork to my memory. Also I never knew I could beat Jason outside, so I did fisticuffs in a building. How on earth I got this lucky is beyond me, but eh...
Man, if I was a kid you would have been my hero! Jason killed me every time and I thought his pattern was completely random. thanks a million for the video
Wow, awesome strategy video! I knew some of these tips already, mainly through my own experience, but I learned quite a bit I never knew. Thanks for putting this video up! :)
I got destroyed when I was a kid playing this game, and downloaded an emulator and cheated and it took like 8 kills with invincibility to kill him. Now that i know that it could have just been 1 a day, it makes more sense. Great video.
7:16 Into the woods to the right of WHICH cabin? If we're talking about to the right of the big cabin by the north end of the lake... to the right and up twice does NOT lead to the cabin. There's a cabin in those woods... but no note in it. Even after re-entering.
Big Cabin on the north end of the lake, the wood north of that. If you're in the north woods and you entered from the south side, right up up does put you in the cabin there.
Excellent guide but there's one thing no one seems to know about. If you'r not using the quick torch method there's apparently an intended sequence to the cabins. If you go through them (the large ones with fireplaces) in the wrong order, the torch might not show up. I'm not sure why but I suspect that the notes have to be read in a certain order. I light the fireplaces too, just in case, but I feel like that's obsessive-compulsive. It might also be the total *number* of notes you've read. Whatever it is exactly, what I do works every time. Cave path upper left cabin, cave path lower right cabin, then the other big cabin nearby, then counter-clockwise around the outer path until you get the note about a torch, then the upper lake path cabin. Get a knife so that notes appear, go through the large cabins in that order, read every note, and the torch will be in the last cabin on that list. (It's possible that I'm misremembering the order off the top of my head but I have a no-death non-speedrun video that demonstrates it all.)
If I remember correctly they can be lit in any order but the torch only appears in the lakeside cabin so you just have to revisit it after you're done. I think you have to walk through it completely though, even if you've already lit the fireplace. Not sure, but I kinda recall the torch won't appear if you turn around without leaving the main hallway. With the fireplace method the notes actually don't have to be read at all. I always ignore the notes and I never even enter the woods, I didn't even know there was another way to get the torch until now!
There's no way anyone could have figured that out on their own. I remember playing this game just going around randomly trying to figure out what to do for hours, lost in the woods, etc. I could survive a long time against Jason, but had no clue how to win.
This was one of my favorite games when I was a kid, but it frustrated the hell out of me. I always loved the music for the map and inside the cabin. Lol
Thank you so much! With your help and tips I was able to bring down Jason finally! This video was fantastically helpful to explaining such a confusing game!
Awesome. This seems like the most straight to the point guide for the game. Other guides were very confusing or left details out. Will have to try this out.
Yep, this method works. Tracking Jason down can be difficult, but with enough patience and potions, it's not a big deal. I've beaten the game twice, once using something very similar to this technique (I didn't know about forcing Jason outside with councilors). Also, I've heard that only females can wear the sweater, but it looks like anyone can equip it. Now if only Tecmo Bowl were so easy to understand.
+FireGuts I just did what you told me to do after I watched the video. That had just exorcised my demons from the NES game I had so many game overs in the past and I had hid it without playing it
Patrick Lloyd the Quick Torch trick is almost as old as the internet. Some wizard figured that out ages ago, but the remainder for me was just a lot of trial, error, and notes!
+hakukahn Good find! I wondered if there might be more. I know (now) that knives are also like keys and vitamins in their fixed numbers and locations. The rabbit hole can go pretty deep in this game. I'd love to know how to spawn the axe in the cabins in the woods...sometimes it's there and sometimes it's not.
+FireGuts I don't know the positions where medicine appears, I'd love if you told me where they appear since that would be sweet. Now, the axe mostly appears in one of the two cabins in the north forrest so if it doesn't show in one you can check the other but rarely it won't show on any. What I do when playing is doing what you do, if I get an axe I give it to one of the slow ones and then get the torch with Crissy, Mark and Laura, then if one of the slow ones has no good weapon I look for a machete at night.
I'd have to sit down and put some effort in to find them all, but here are 4 I always pick up. 1) in the first screen of the North woods when you're doing the Quick Torch, there's on between the path you enter and the path you're going to take next. 2) Same woods, After you leave the note cabin, you go right-down-right-down to leave the woods, right? Well there's one either in the first or second screen there impossible to miss if you jump on your way out. 3) There's one around the cabins on the left side of the lake. 4) There's one just inside the cave if you go to the Mom room on the left. Sometimes I have to jump a little to the right to get it to spawn.
By myself I only ever got to day 2. I learned all about the items appearing only if you jump. I only ever got the machete by chance. Found after successfully lighting all fires that it was mostly a fool's errand, though I got items and notes. Finally I saw that speed run and learned it's literally so simple--as in uncomplicated, NOT easy. What I can tell you is get good at the dodging and timing. And actually, day 2 doesn't screw with you so badly once you've got the tempo down. He will circle around and attack only so many times on one speed before he switches. It's more of a reprieve. Once I have beaten the game indoors against Jason. The game tried to screw me over hardcore. It ended up forcing the confrontation inside a cabin because I had only 3 children left so if I didn't go it would have been game over anyways. The game didn't count on my counselor having 9 medicine jars though. Literally one of the hardest fights I've had in any game. I won, but only just barely.
Still can't believe my dad (who didn't like horror movies at all, nor were we a horror movie house) got this game for my brother and I when we were, probably 5 or so. Scared the crap out of me, still does! 😂
The pitchfork does do more damage than the torch, 1.5x as much. You can really tell if you manage to catch him outside twice successively after first fighting him on day 3. Since the pitchfork takes 3 of his health every two hits, his health gets too low for him to run away after the second encounter and forces him to fight to the death.
Owned this as a kid but never could beat it. Was very frustrating but still loved to play it. Will use your video to finally put that bastard in his place!! 😄
Additional Tip, place the other counsellors (not Crissy or Mark) at cabins by major forks in the road with decent weapons, if they aren't attacked but you lose Jason at a fork you'll know which way he went.
The singlemost important thing is to study Jason's path. On day 3, position your counselors in the cabins along Jason's route. And then just wait for him to go cabin to cabin. When he enters your cabin, switch to that counselor, run outside, and fight him on the path. When Jason attacks the children, just ignore him on Day 3. Just let him kill 5 kids (assuming you have 6 or more kids left at that point), and use the time to position your counselors. He'll then start on his very predictable path, and you'll be there waiting.
@@FireGuts on day 2 is easy with practice. he a lot of the time is hyper and hits twice in a row so if you start dodging in advance and dodge a second time in a row and then quickly one shot counter him before he decides to retreat. day 3 was impossible (even with three/two counselors with torches, an axe and Crissy with nine medicines). I've been playing for a couple of days. (i've seen James and Mike's video a lot of times and I wanted to give it a try). and the game is actually pretty fun and challenging with a lot of strategy. Next time I would try fighting him outside. I forgot he appears outside if you left the cabin he is attacking. and I only knew you actually do damage to him after I once beat the first day fighting him outside and maybe because he was low on health already he didn't leave XD
one of the most underrated NES titles because players didnt know how to play it ...I like it because it contains the elements of horor, action and adventure :) and it has a phenomenal soundtrack :)
I beat this game once in 1990. None of the fancy stuff - I just ended up with the pitchfork and killed him again on the last day - when I saw the ending, I flipped out. I used to be pretty good at the dodging in the houses too. Good memories. =)
You never know when Jason will pop out and it's a very realistic Friday The 13th mood. Classic NES horror.After playing it again recently, my opinion of the game really changed. Back in 1992, I had no patience and wanted to fight Jason right away; and I got easily frustrated because I could never beat him (not even once). Now a days, I see the game very differently. True, the game IS frustrating. But after closer examination, it seems to me that you need a lot of patience to beat the game.
"Beat the game faster than watching this video, huh?" I thought to myself. "That sounds worth investigating. I will look into a speedrun when I've finished watching this." So I did - a world record at the time it was done - and there was EVERYTHING THIS VIDEO SAID. Zombie to get a lighter. Lighter leads to knife and key. This route to get a torch. Find Jason and follow him to the right when he runs away. Fight outside, not in cabins. Mark and Chrissy ONLY. Every single thing this video said, right there in the world record speedrun! If anything proves the value of this advice, it's that. Which was also kind of fun. "Hey, he's doing the thing! I know why he's doing the thing! He's doing the thing to do the thing!"
You can actually skip the lighter and other items will still spawn, but the lighter will still spawn whenever you kill another zombie. The only required item for quick torch is the knife, and progressing the day enough to spawn the fire note (enter and exit satisfies that, but you don't need to do it if you've already gone in and out of another cabin)
@@FireGuts You can also duplicate an item with this, not entirely sure how it works. I think the lighter has to be going off screen as another item spawns. Not that useful but cool if you wanna dupe a potion
Hang on at 8:23 Jason can absolutely avoid that trap. He can easily take the road to the woods at the top of the map and one of the bottom leading to the lake and literally cut the map in half..
wow that is sooooo dope. i didn't kno there was a real classic version and thats probably why they have the Retro Jason in the new improved Friday the 13th game. I just love the whole F13 franchise 🔥😎
Go to a small house, then press start. If you're talking about two counsellors in the same house, pressing start works or hitting select then choosing "change"
@@FireGuts Thank you! I'm trying this with one controller by myself and having a hard time. Lack of a manual and my game cartridge crashing makes it super frustrating. Btw is there more than one version of this game? I see people talk about a 3.1 version
@@blackninja797 no idea about different versions. There are lots of websites with pdf scans of old booklets, Friday the 13th is easy to find with a quick google search. It isn't super informative though.
+ra bA Haha yeah, I think most of us felt that way. The fact that you had NO IDEA WTF WAS GOING ON added to the dread and fear. Man this game was almost psychological abuse for a damned kid!
I love this game because of how complexed this is...also,that this is very helpful & like to thank the guy that uploaded it...this is how you beat the game..
7:08 Either you have wrong information or I'm not looking hard enough, because that cabin is empty. EDIT: It was both. It was in the cabin, just not in that exact spot.
This game was ahead of its time, there are literally dos and don'ts in this game just like the movies, there is strategy to it, and its challenging just like any other horror game out there, i think people hated this game because it's challenging, its nice to see how this game has became a cult classic and is getting the due respect
exactly. It's one of those "misunderstood in his time" kind of situations. This game is the literal proto-survial horror, just like Matt says. All of the mechanics and tropes of the genre were founded here.
It's kinda like Simon's Quest. Granted, you need the Redacted mod to actually play it, but when you sit down and actually play-through it you can literally see the birth of the MetroidVania genre.
@Claudia Solomon Zelda is a "where the hell do I go" game too. If you don't have a guide it will be very hard to know what to do. Your argument is void. Most NES games were like that. People hate Friday the 13th because it's too hard for their crybaby asses to complete.
I think "where the hell do I go" is great for horror games though. Especially if you add some kind of time limit mechanic on top of that like this one did. I mean when you think about it making a genuinely scary game with 8 bit graphics wasn't easy. Yet they managed a decent job of it at least for the intended audience of young children.
@@Sifer2 Halloween on the ATARI 2600
It looks like a good game but I never got to play it as it came out before my time as my first console was the PS1. I enjoy the 2017 version because you get to play different versions of the true protagonist. Only thing I dislike is not being able to buy Savini Jason. They would make a ton of money on that.
I literally just beat Friday the 13th for the very first time and I have to say... your advice is spot-on and I wish I would have seen this video sooner! In my opinion this game is a true hidden gem in the NES library and it's way better than I expected.
It's hated for being too hard and frustrating...like eventually you hate the other kids and counselors
I still like to pretend Jason is attacking you with a toothbrush when you encounter him with the axe indoors. "Brush your teeth kids!"
I remember me and my cousin got our older cousin so angry when we kept laughing and saying Jason’s toothbrush and he ended up losing and told his mom on us 😂 I think he was 11 and we were 6.
This might be THE best walkthrough to ANY game I've ever seen
Quick and easy to understand explanations without the extra useless stuff you get on FAQ sites
I've been struggling to understand how to beat this game for months and after watching this video, I beat it on my second try
Thank you!
It's nice, for sure, but check out U can Beat Video Games.
Very well put together video....this is one of those games I always find myself going back to over and over, and I've probably beaten it 25+ times, but I never realized there were certain spots on the map that keys and potions always appeared, so even after all these years I learned something new. Glad to see I'm not alone in my love for this game.
I'm glad someone finally put a legitimate strategy video out there! I've never seen this game dissected even remotely this well before!
That last line was perfect. This was a childhood demon. I was 6 or 8 when I played it. Couldn’t figure it out. This settled the score for me. Thanks. 👍
I started tripping out when the Nightmare On Elm St music started playing, awesome detail and awesome guide!
Thank you. This is an extremely good strategy. Unfortunately, the thing that gets me every time is when Jason starts attacking the children. As if rowing in the lake wasn't dangerous enough, you're forced to fight him in the cabin; that's basically an immediate death sentence on Day 3.
I don't get why so many people hate this game. It's incredibly anachronistic. The subject matter, violence and complexity are extremely ahead of their time, and the challenge, mystery and replayability are among the top tier on the console. It's almost like an ancient precursor to Dark Souls. The only thing that sucks is the boring, endlessly repeating music. With a Castlevania-esque soundtrack, I think it would be remembered more fondly.
SykoFox he added in the music from castlevania
Most of the music sucks. But the Cabin theme is one of the best peices of music on the NES.
Because as a kid it was fuggin impossible
Because it's needlessly criptic and the controls suck. Virtual Boy and the Power Glove were "ahead of their time" but this does not redeem them.
Experiment on people paid to test shitty new games or tech, not kids that saved money for months to buy a game that looked cool and was total shit.
Selling shitty games might not be illegal, but it's certainly immoral and much more so back then when there was no internet. to check reviews...
- I don't get why so many people hate this game. - BEHOLD a sample of AVGN influence in humanity lol
I don't know why, but I really enjoy watching you explain how to beat these NES games. You come across like someone who's played the game a ton, but not read a bunch of reviews and retrospectives on them. Very refreshing.
Anyone else here to see if the game is even possible after James and Mike's attempts at beating this game on the Cinemassacre channel? If only they had seen this video they may have actually been able to beat the game lol
hahaha just came here!!!! because of that
sw1tched :P I knew I couldn't be the only one.
Wre are 3 now ,guys haha
exactly why I came here
Same.
Thank you for making this video! Gonna watch it a few more times and take Jason down. Finally, revenge for all my deaths so many years ago.
Excellent breakdown. Just the type of in depth explanations that i can appreciate. Kudos.
Jason sometimes appears in the large cabins with the fireplaces. No one ever explained why, except for you. Thank you!! I've encountered Jason a few times in those cabins
Thank you for breaking down the nuts and bolts of the game. I always felt like it was possible to "track" Jason, despite Jeff Rovin insisting it wasn't in How to Win at Nintendo Games.
This game still scares the crap out of me...lol
How old are you?
That’s why I never beat it. It was a scary game for it’s time.
One of the best for the NES hands down ..Very hard to especially when you're 7 years old and its 1993 lol
I never won this . So hard
Agreed...I'm 35 and been beating this since I was 5 or 6 yrs old. Scared the fuck out of me..after enough punishment I learned and beat the game no problem.
@@stacypare7955 u beat this when u were 5? Your parents must have let u play video games all day long.
@@brianlee1417 Yes.. and no to the parents part. Wake up early enough with 2 older brothers...u learn quick. Just better then most I guess 😉
@@stacypare7955 seems elaborate
actually a really enjoyable video...
I always felt like Mark, Laura and Chrissy were all relatively equal in speed, but Mark and Chrissy both jump higher and Mark rows like he's roided up.
Beat the game for the first time over the weekend, in part due to your walkthrough. Thank you! Never thought this game was beatable by anyone except the best of the best.
Here's... the crazier part: Somehow I beat this RANDOMLY! As in, despite not really getting the navigation, I was able to survive long enough to get the sweater... and I never once got the torch or pitchfork to my memory. Also I never knew I could beat Jason outside, so I did fisticuffs in a building. How on earth I got this lucky is beyond me, but eh...
The grumps don't stand a fucking chance.
Stop this woman from low-key judging my comments anime girl looking ass
Stop this woman from low-key judging my comments You're username is hella hilarious.
Man, if I was a kid you would have been my hero! Jason killed me every time and I thought his pattern was completely random. thanks a million for the video
Wow, awesome strategy video! I knew some of these tips already, mainly through my own experience, but I learned quite a bit I never knew. Thanks for putting this video up! :)
I got destroyed when I was a kid playing this game, and downloaded an emulator and cheated and it took like 8 kills with invincibility to kill him. Now that i know that it could have just been 1 a day, it makes more sense. Great video.
7:16 Into the woods to the right of WHICH cabin? If we're talking about to the right of the big cabin by the north end of the lake... to the right and up twice does NOT lead to the cabin. There's a cabin in those woods... but no note in it. Even after re-entering.
Big Cabin on the north end of the lake, the wood north of that. If you're in the north woods and you entered from the south side, right up up does put you in the cabin there.
Oh man. I kept hearing that as first up then second up. Didn't realize I needed to hit up twice at the first path. Thank you!
You forgot this; if you kill off all but 1 councillor, jason wont run away. He will stay untill you or he dies.
this is a great video. keep the nes goodness coming
Excellent guide but there's one thing no one seems to know about. If you'r not using the quick torch method there's apparently an intended sequence to the cabins. If you go through them (the large ones with fireplaces) in the wrong order, the torch might not show up. I'm not sure why but I suspect that the notes have to be read in a certain order. I light the fireplaces too, just in case, but I feel like that's obsessive-compulsive. It might also be the total *number* of notes you've read. Whatever it is exactly, what I do works every time.
Cave path upper left cabin, cave path lower right cabin, then the other big cabin nearby, then counter-clockwise around the outer path until you get the note about a torch, then the upper lake path cabin. Get a knife so that notes appear, go through the large cabins in that order, read every note, and the torch will be in the last cabin on that list.
(It's possible that I'm misremembering the order off the top of my head but I have a no-death non-speedrun video that demonstrates it all.)
If I remember correctly they can be lit in any order but the torch only appears in the lakeside cabin so you just have to revisit it after you're done. I think you have to walk through it completely though, even if you've already lit the fireplace. Not sure, but I kinda recall the torch won't appear if you turn around without leaving the main hallway.
With the fireplace method the notes actually don't have to be read at all. I always ignore the notes and I never even enter the woods, I didn't even know there was another way to get the torch until now!
There's no way anyone could have figured that out on their own. I remember playing this game just going around randomly trying to figure out what to do for hours, lost in the woods, etc. I could survive a long time against Jason, but had no clue how to win.
I don't know how, but my older brother figured out Jason's pattern when we were kids. I take no credit!
This was one of my favorite games when I was a kid, but it frustrated the hell out of me.
I always loved the music for the map and inside the cabin. Lol
Thank you so much! With your help and tips I was able to bring down Jason finally! This video was fantastically helpful to explaining such a confusing game!
Thanks to AVGN, I learned about this game and gave it a try.
Thanks to you, I didn't switch it off after 5 minutes.
Thank you for posting this!
Best walk-through I've seen in a long time.
This game was a huge part of my childhood.
Someone please show this to gamegrumps
This video is incredibly well done! Where was this 20 years ago? :-)
UA-cam wasn't around 20 years ago chief
@@zeldabombsquad1144 I think they mean they wish they had this video 20 years ago...
Thanks for using Castlevania music. That song is an absolute banger
This is easily the best guide I've ever seen for the game. Kudos to you my friend. Subed
this will help james and mike so greatly on this game hope they watch this video.
I was never able to beat this game when I was young. Couldn’t even find the torch until I was in HIghschool and finally put it all together.
I finished this game in 1989 ... took me long time but finished it...
holy shit, thanks! been trying to understand that game for years!
Thanks to this video, I was finally able to beat the game. Thank you so much!
Getting this as a 7 year old wasn’t what I expected, way over my head lol
Awesome. This seems like the most straight to the point guide for the game. Other guides were very confusing or left details out. Will have to try this out.
@@theconsolekiller7113 I hope it helps! Exactly what I aim for - keep it to what you need to succeed
@@FireGuts Appreciate that. Whenever I try it again I will definately be checking this video.
man, finally I beat this game, and all because of you, thank you so much, you made it look so much easy
Oh and I see you used Nightmare on Elm Street and Snake's Revenge music in the video. 2 of my favorite NES games.
you know every bit of this game inside-out. awesome, thanks for making this. very impressive.
Yep, this method works. Tracking Jason down can be difficult, but with enough patience and potions, it's not a big deal. I've beaten the game twice, once using something very similar to this technique (I didn't know about forcing Jason outside with councilors). Also, I've heard that only females can wear the sweater, but it looks like anyone can equip it.
Now if only Tecmo Bowl were so easy to understand.
+FireGuts I just did what you told me to do after I watched the video. That had just exorcised my demons from the NES game I had so many game overs in the past and I had hid it without playing it
I enjoyed the irony of his using Nightmare on Elm Street NES music.
this game is a such a cult classic...i was born in 89 this music haunted my childhood
I did a Remake of that Cabin theme check it out and let me know what you think ^_^ ua-cam.com/video/oBuKfhZ18S8/v-deo.html
How did you figure this all amazing stuff out?
Patrick Lloyd the Quick Torch trick is almost as old as the internet. Some wizard figured that out ages ago, but the remainder for me was just a lot of trial, error, and notes!
"There are only two counselors worth a damn" haha. Awesome video
yes, he is not dead, he came back in 2017 as new game "Friday the 13th: the game"
The hours i spent playing it in 1989. I was 9. And i guess. I was playing it all wrong
I remember that game my dad bought it for me couldn't pass it so I give up
+Noe Mar Haha don't feel bad, I think the majority of people who had this game never beat it.
6:55 Jason feels like he's going to have a bad time.
+ShadowYoshi XII (Yoshi) Did he pizza when he french fried?
Finally!! I WILL HAVE MY REVENGE!!!
No you won't you will still lose
Edward Rice no not really
Um... the 7:14 note to start your way to the torch is in the cabin at the Southwestern corner of the path circling the lake.
You can also get a Key inside the cavern, there is a total of 6 of them.
+hakukahn Good find! I wondered if there might be more. I know (now) that knives are also like keys and vitamins in their fixed numbers and locations. The rabbit hole can go pretty deep in this game. I'd love to know how to spawn the axe in the cabins in the woods...sometimes it's there and sometimes it's not.
+FireGuts I don't know the positions where medicine appears, I'd love if you told me where they appear since that would be sweet. Now, the axe mostly appears in one of the two cabins in the north forrest so if it doesn't show in one you can check the other but rarely it won't show on any. What I do when playing is doing what you do, if I get an axe I give it to one of the slow ones and then get the torch with Crissy, Mark and Laura, then if one of the slow ones has no good weapon I look for a machete at night.
I'd have to sit down and put some effort in to find them all, but here are 4 I always pick up. 1) in the first screen of the North woods when you're doing the Quick Torch, there's on between the path you enter and the path you're going to take next. 2) Same woods, After you leave the note cabin, you go right-down-right-down to leave the woods, right? Well there's one either in the first or second screen there impossible to miss if you jump on your way out. 3) There's one around the cabins on the left side of the lake. 4) There's one just inside the cave if you go to the Mom room on the left. Sometimes I have to jump a little to the right to get it to spawn.
+FireGuts thanks bud, great vid by the way!
Snake's Revenge music is also in this video.
That game it’s hard 😮
By myself I only ever got to day 2. I learned all about the items appearing only if you jump.
I only ever got the machete by chance. Found after successfully lighting all fires that it was mostly a fool's errand, though I got items and notes.
Finally I saw that speed run and learned it's literally so simple--as in uncomplicated, NOT easy.
What I can tell you is get good at the dodging and timing. And actually, day 2 doesn't screw with you so badly once you've got the tempo down. He will circle around and attack only so many times on one speed before he switches. It's more of a reprieve.
Once I have beaten the game indoors against Jason. The game tried to screw me over hardcore. It ended up forcing the confrontation inside a cabin because I had only 3 children left so if I didn't go it would have been game over anyways. The game didn't count on my counselor having 9 medicine jars though. Literally one of the hardest fights I've had in any game. I won, but only just barely.
Still can't believe my dad (who didn't like horror movies at all, nor were we a horror movie house) got this game for my brother and I when we were, probably 5 or so. Scared the crap out of me, still does! 😂
I never beat the game. I will now follow your advice. I wonder if the Playstation remake is any good...
Nice breakdown! A lot of info I never knew. Thanks!
I just beat the game. Thank you for the great instructional video.
The pitchfork does do more damage than the torch, 1.5x as much. You can really tell if you manage to catch him outside twice successively after first fighting him on day 3. Since the pitchfork takes 3 of his health every two hits, his health gets too low for him to run away after the second encounter and forces him to fight to the death.
When I was kid I thought this game was impossible to beat along with perfect dark for n64
Owned this as a kid but never could beat it. Was very frustrating but still loved to play it. Will use your video to finally put that bastard in his place!! 😄
Love the Nightmare on Elm Street music playing in the background
Additional Tip, place the other counsellors (not Crissy or Mark) at cabins by major forks in the road with decent weapons, if they aren't attacked but you lose Jason at a fork you'll know which way he went.
The singlemost important thing is to study Jason's path. On day 3, position your counselors in the cabins along Jason's route. And then just wait for him to go cabin to cabin. When he enters your cabin, switch to that counselor, run outside, and fight him on the path. When Jason attacks the children, just ignore him on Day 3. Just let him kill 5 kids (assuming you have 6 or more kids left at that point), and use the time to position your counselors. He'll then start on his very predictable path, and you'll be there waiting.
I always found Jason much easier to beat inside the cabins. Once you know his timing it's basically impossible to take a hit.
I think you're nuts, especially on day 2. But, if it works, it works 💪!!
@@FireGuts on day 2 is easy with practice. he a lot of the time is hyper and hits twice in a row so if you start dodging in advance and dodge a second time in a row and then quickly one shot counter him before he decides to retreat. day 3 was impossible (even with three/two counselors with torches, an axe and Crissy with nine medicines). I've been playing for a couple of days. (i've seen James and Mike's video a lot of times and I wanted to give it a try). and the game is actually pretty fun and challenging with a lot of strategy. Next time I would try fighting him outside. I forgot he appears outside if you left the cabin he is attacking. and I only knew you actually do damage to him after I once beat the first day fighting him outside and maybe because he was low on health already he didn't leave XD
Very well done. Spoke clearly, had great visuals, and you knew what you were talking about. Liked and will recommend +1
one of the most underrated NES titles because players didnt know how to play it ...I like it because it contains the elements of horor, action and adventure :) and it has a phenomenal soundtrack :)
I beat this game once in 1990. None of the fancy stuff - I just ended up with the pitchfork and killed him again on the last day - when I saw the ending, I flipped out. I used to be pretty good at the dodging in the houses too. Good memories. =)
I'm a young teen but as a kid I played my mom's old NES games. When I saw that game all I remember is that the cover gave me nightmares
This is 100% what I needed. Thank you!!!
This game scared the shit out of me as a kid 😂😂😂😂😂
I got scared when Jason appeared every single time 😬
You never know when Jason will pop out and it's a very realistic Friday The 13th mood. Classic NES horror.After playing it again recently, my opinion of the game really changed. Back in 1992, I had no patience and wanted to fight Jason right away; and I got easily frustrated because I could never beat him (not even once). Now a days, I see the game very differently. True, the game IS frustrating. But after closer examination, it seems to me that you need a lot of patience to beat the game.
+TheCodedtestament Have you seen the Neco NES Jason figures? I just picked one up, they're fucking awesome.
"Beat the game faster than watching this video, huh?" I thought to myself. "That sounds worth investigating. I will look into a speedrun when I've finished watching this."
So I did - a world record at the time it was done - and there was EVERYTHING THIS VIDEO SAID. Zombie to get a lighter. Lighter leads to knife and key. This route to get a torch. Find Jason and follow him to the right when he runs away. Fight outside, not in cabins. Mark and Chrissy ONLY. Every single thing this video said, right there in the world record speedrun! If anything proves the value of this advice, it's that.
Which was also kind of fun. "Hey, he's doing the thing! I know why he's doing the thing! He's doing the thing to do the thing!"
You can actually skip the lighter and other items will still spawn, but the lighter will still spawn whenever you kill another zombie. The only required item for quick torch is the knife, and progressing the day enough to spawn the fire note (enter and exit satisfies that, but you don't need to do it if you've already gone in and out of another cabin)
Huh, the more you know. I'll try that out next time I play!
@@FireGuts You can also duplicate an item with this, not entirely sure how it works. I think the lighter has to be going off screen as another item spawns. Not that useful but cool if you wanna dupe a potion
This was the kind of knowledge only a subscription to Nintendo Power could buy you.
Or just playing the game a lot. That's how I learned it and I'm not even that good at most games tbh.
James and Mike need to see this
Hang on at 8:23 Jason can absolutely avoid that trap. He can easily take the road to the woods at the top of the map and one of the bottom leading to the lake and literally cut the map in half..
wow that is sooooo dope. i didn't kno there was a real classic version and thats probably why they have the Retro Jason in the new improved Friday the 13th game. I just love the whole F13 franchise 🔥😎
man your guts are on fire from beating all those games and giving stratagies
What's the name of the song around 6:52 ?? It sounds very familiar
Wicked Child from Castlevania
What's the music at 7:35 from? Super familiar but I can't name it.
Wicked Child (stage 3) from Castlevania
Really liked this video. You explained everything really well A++
cool video series, well done. would like to see more games done like this
What button do you hit to swap between counselors? I can't figure it out
Go to a small house, then press start. If you're talking about two counsellors in the same house, pressing start works or hitting select then choosing "change"
@@FireGuts Thank you! I'm trying this with one controller by myself and having a hard time. Lack of a manual and my game cartridge crashing makes it super frustrating. Btw is there more than one version of this game? I see people talk about a 3.1 version
@@blackninja797 no idea about different versions. There are lots of websites with pdf scans of old booklets, Friday the 13th is easy to find with a quick google search. It isn't super informative though.
i love this game. when i was a kid a had no idea now to play and would never get anywhere. i got too scared and stopped playing. awsome game
+ra bA Haha yeah, I think most of us felt that way. The fact that you had NO IDEA WTF WAS GOING ON added to the dread and fear. Man this game was almost psychological abuse for a damned kid!
I love this game because of how complexed this is...also,that this is very helpful & like to thank the guy that uploaded it...this is how you beat the game..
I love how you're playing nightmare on elm streets music during this friday the 13th play through lol
obviously lots of nes music in here, but the NOES stood out being that they're kinda rivals haha.
Good tunes are good tunes haha
thank you so much for the tips! this will make beating the game much easer for me
7:08 Either you have wrong information or I'm not looking hard enough, because that cabin is empty.
EDIT: It was both. It was in the cabin, just not in that exact spot.
Still one of the hardest games to beat