Willow Longplay (Arcade) [4K]
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Developed and published by Capcom in 1989
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Released in 1989, Willow is a side-scrolling platform game based on the fantasy movie starring Warwick Davis and Val Kilmer. It possesses Capcom's usual attention to detail and production values, and is a solid yet difficult platforming experience.
The game broadly follows the movie plot, with players controlling spellcasting mage Willow, out to rescue an infant child from the clutches of Queen Bavmorda. Eventually, you'll rescue the mercenary Madmartigan, and from then on, the game alternates between the two characters for different stages, as well as giving you the ability to choose your preferred character later on.
The sections where you control Madmartigan are melee-focused, and draw obvious parallels with Strider. While they're decent enough, I definitely preferred the levels where you control Willow and use magic to combat enemies. The graduated magic bar that allows you to cast different spells the longer you hold down the fire button was neat idea.
You'll occasionally come across a shopkeeper from whom you can buy potions, charms and weapon upgrades. These get increasingly expensive, so it makes sense to farm enemies for coins, time permitting.
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I played the NES rpg Willow game as a kid. Told some older kids at a pizza place I was an expert at Willow. They were all like, "yeah? Prove it!" They gave me a quarter and showed me this in the arcade corner and I was all like WTF? I was not an expert at this one and was made fun of mercilessly.
Your problem was living in a big city. I'm 45 years old and just learning that this "arcade" version exists. I'm very sorry you had ret@rded friends as a kid.
One of the best licensed arcade games of all time. The graphics are really great, the soundtrack is awesome, the sounds are very high quality for the time and have punch to them, the gameplay is really solid and follows the movie really well. Love how they promote the movie at the boot up screen. That stage screen just screams Alex Kidd. Those graphically drawn still images from the movie look pretty impressive. I don't understand why the devil dogs, Raziel and General Kael look so different from the still images during gameplay. Maybe likeness problems or time constraints? I like that the hawks and the shield ride give you so much bonus money. The music during Churlindrea's Forest is actually a remix of the battle music from the movie! I like how you took down two of the bosses with just one second left! You can actually get Franjean and Raul to help you on your quest if you can find them! Amazing playthrough!
I wanted to make sure I had enough cash to upgrade all weapons to the highest level, but I spent longer farming for gold coins than I probably should have done...I definitely ran it too close to the wire!
@@AL82RetrogamingLongplays You still played it fantastically. There were actually some animations and music tracks that were cut from the game.
So.....the uploader missed two characters? REPLAY PLS
Used to stand around for a long time waiting to play this in the arcade. Such a great game. Well worth my quarters.
Just wanted to say thank you for this! 56 years old but clearly remember going to the arcade on UCLA campus between classes to pass the time watching someone playing Willow…. It was like watching a little bit of the movie between classes to pass the time. Such great memories. Of course there is no longer an arcade or even bowling on the campus ( got rid of it all to make room for national food court franchises like Panda Express, etc, but the 80s were great times at UCLA ‼️‼️‼️👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👌👌👌👌🙂🙂🙂
I remember playing this at the arcade when I was a kid
I absolutely f*cking love this game! Fantastic graphics beautiful colors awesome animation for its time!!! The fact that it's movie based and it's a badass side scrolling hack and Slash platformer just makes it's stand apart from other comparables.🤘
A little trick for you all: if you kill the boss at 14:00 with the Gold magic (full magic bar spell), the coins he drops will be all with the x2 bonus on. This will greatly help you in farming money for the shops. This is valid for all bosses further in the game, it's just a little tricky to cast gold magic at the right time. Try it!
Thanks bro🤘
@@MyBrothersKeeper101 Came here to say the same thing... all the enemies in boats and the fish can be x2 with gold magic as well... you can come out of this stage with >12k gold easy... the douboe headed beast is sweetest of all for gold! Really great skills though, especially on the horse and cart chase.
My childhood memory.
Thank you very much.
This is a game that will test your patience and drive you fucking insane. Not even Ghosts N Goblins was this brutal.
It came out at a time that most side scrollers would let you just buy your way through them (i.e. continue put you back exactly where you died) but did not follow that trend. I looked up this longplay because it's the only way I was gonna get to see most of the game...
There's a certain brash innocence about 90s arcade games that's probably impossible to replicate now.
This was 80s.
I think it's also about the fact the biggest game companies of that time would put one of their "A" team on such a game. Today, Capcom or Nintendo would never put their "A" team on a 2d sidescroller project. Those are busy making the next Zelda or Resident Evil, etc.
Everything about stage one is amazing! The music really gets me nostalgic haha.
I remember playing this game when I was 6 or 7 at my brother's hockey game! Takes me back!
The CPS was such an awesome arcade board.
I absolutely love this game! Great controls, graphics, music and level design. It’s difficult but very fair.
I completely forgot about this game till I re-heard the wolves howls, then it all came back. Played a few times and always had a presence at the arcade I went to before they closed shop.
The thumbnail slapped me hard. I was like oooh I recognize that dumb looking dog. Lol
Check it out. It’s James lights out Toney
If there is one thing that young people today will never feel is that excited feeling when you step into the Arcade, your mother just gave you a 20 for tokens, and you have the whole afternoon.
I can still smell that Arcade smell. Man it brings a tear to my eye.
Although it is an old game, it looks very delicate
looks great
What I remember most about this game is that unless you spent EVERY bit of money you got on the attack power upgrade item, you could never beat it. Spend anything at all on other items, and your attack power would never be strong enough to beat some of the bosses before they killed you (Sorscha, Kael, and the island wizard were the toughest) and you were stuck there no matter how many quarters you had, since continuing sent you back.
Absolutely, also the uploader is playing this on easy mode.
My favorite part of the movie was when Willow started shooting hadoukens at Queen Bavmorda's soldiers and Madmartigan so gratefully joining Willow's journey. Jokes aside, this actually look like a damn fun retro game.
There should have been a segment halfway through the final level where your character gets turned into a pig....
This game brings back a lot of memories 😪
It's impressive that Capcom made not one, but TWO really good Willow games (the other one being the NES game).
i like how this player gets every boss down at literally the last second. . .
The lake level was based on a deleted scene involving a shape shifting fish creature.
Arcade games was way ahead of consoles and home PC’s back in the day. This game released back in 1988 and it looks like a Nintendo 64 game!
I love “Baumorda’s fingers penetrate outside of the v…illa” at 1:17
Me encanta su banda sonora :")
Recuerdos...
Willow will always remain in my heart the number one arcade game of my Childhood❣️
This had some of the best graphics of its time.
Crying shame this never came to any consoles. Such a fun game to play.
It was planned for the SEGA Genesis in 1991, but probably due to the license problems, it never came out.
This game looks very difficult! Time is counting down even in the item shop menu. Great job on defeating the bosses with 1 second left!
This was game so good, shame due licensing Capcom was never able to put it on any if their game anthology collections.
I had this one on jamma pcb. Totally forgot about it til now!
Great underappreciated movie
When Star Wars And Lord Of The Rings Meet Capcom.
I played this at the arcades when it came out when I was 7
This game was so good they made a movie about it.
Didn't the movie came out before the game did?
@@NelsonWin They're joking
Sounds a lot like Tron
I used to love the film when I was a kid in the 80s
A trully Fantastic and beloved movie into a great action game! Whats not to love?
One of those games that i loved playing because it had a charge up attack, like Rtype and Megaman X.
Somebody here after watching the trailer of the series?
Awesome a true classic
The nut squats on the second to last guy. CLassic
Still such a great game
Who in hell had the time or the quarters to stand at this arcade cabinet long enough to actually play through the entire game in one go? Even to this day, via MAME with its unlimited play, I cannot muster the patience to play through even the first level. Maybe I’m just old and impatient, but wow. Just wow. Had it been ported to the consoles, maybe I could have played through it, but damn. What waste of a nice looking game. At least Warwick and Val can die happily knowing their likenesses were 16-bitified.
A wonderful play through of a very difficult game.
Love how you make the games you upload look really vibrant, is there any filter involved at all?
I love the little pixelated Warwick Davis. Capcom always knew what the fuck they were doing. The source material was just alright but they really owned it.
Find the child find the child find the child
All round great gameplay graphical and great sounding game
This game took me like 5 dollars in quarters to beat back then. And did you seriously tea bag General Kael?
The gameplay when playing as willow himself makes me think of a way less hard version of ghosts n goblins. Which makes sense.
Sega should of ported this game to the Megadrive.
Ohhh never knew there was a Willow Game. The Character looks nothing like Warwick Davis but that‘s ok. Looks Fun
See I only new about the NES rpg. This is new to me.
Willow got......Tornado buster.
Capcom did awesome work in the licensed section!
the video stopped and reset where he rescued madmartiagan, so now i know where the huwhite supremepizza grating started. I hate this future.
I remember this arcade!❤
Kiinda wish the movie had Willow and Madd fighting off legions of soldiers and demon monsters similar to this.
I noticed the teabagging you gave the last boss Madmartigan fought. 😆
Warwick Davis and Val kilmer
Will check out this game!
I'm pretty sure at 30:31 he tea bags the dark knight lol
I kinda really did liked the movie of willow back then big time
If the Willow and Mad Morrigan of the movie were as fierce and willing to work together as the ones in this game it would have been a hell of a different movie.
Never even heard of this as a game what console is it on
Almost just like Strider, this one killed my pockets many times in the beginning until I completely memorized it. Missed these arcade titles.
It's easy to see strider, ghosts n goblins and megaman in this game for sure.
Just a tip, if you finish off bosses with gold magic, you'll get double the cash and pretty much eliminate the need for farming ;)
i kinda really did liked the movie back then big time
“Will oooohhh”
DESTROY THE BEAST! FIND THE BABY!
Beautiful pixel art.
Willow Longplay (Arcade) [4K]
This game seriously looks great, how did this pass me by? How?
I love it when random things from my past pop on my youtube feed. Pretty sure this was the game I played when grandma took the family on a cruise to the Caribbean, must have been 8 or so. The casino had some machines near the door, obviously couldn't go inside, but I would just hang around the corner and throw quarters in the nearest machine. Lucked out and won about $40. Went and beat this game in the arcade they had. Good times.
The older I get the more I love these games.👍
Pixelart is so good
Oh man, THS I remember.
yeah this game is totally bad ass
This arcade game looks good 😺👍. My old Neighbour had Willow on the NES, when we were kids, and that was pretty awesome 😺👍. However, i had the Amiga version of that game - and that was the worst conversion i have ever played 😾! Also, i have the movie on DVD, and it's pretty good. Thanx for an awesome longplay, AL82, and have a cool weekend. 😺👍🕹️
How and where do I download it and on which emulator? I miss this game. Haven't played it for 20 years now...
I was hoping Lug would have been the boss of level 2 with the whole "NOT A WOMAN!??!?" thing.
I might be wrong but when the big guys throw the axe, they make a sound I heard from the game Magic Sword.
"There's a peck here with an acorn pointing at me!"
a woman and a shall. holding a baby.
Viva willow
This is basically ghouls n goblins
I really enjoy the Willow parts, the madmartegan sections were difficult and not much fun in my opinion
Wow I never played this game It looks real good
muito bom gostei muito.
I remember playing this. I passed it
The game is not as easy as it looks. It takes good teacniques to complete this game.
Please help, looking for a retro arcade game, hack & slash type in 2D before Willow time. Main character used umbrella for a weapon and could transform into kind of dragon, it was first arcade game with music theme using female vocals I can remember? Can anyone help pls
Classic !!!
Reminds me a lot of Black Tiger.
great gameplay just supported u
nice..
a bit of a mix up of castlevania /ghouls n ghosts
The movies great. The tv series continuation terrible I’ve heard it got pulled from Disney plus.
First level music reminds me of space harrier
Why was this not in the Sega Genesis or SNES?
I noticed that some of the first bosses were killed with 1 second left on the timer 0_o
The time limit on the first level is incredibly tight. 1 second left on the clock. This is my only major complaint about this game. Playing this as a kid I always struggled with the first stage.
As a kid the first stage became easy with time, I never could get past the snow stage very often, the rare time I did, I didn't last long.