This was truly next gen when it was released! It was one of the earliest Mega Drive titles and was a real technical showcase for the system well before Strider or Sonic.
This was one of my favourite games as a kid. I love this video so much. Thank you for posting it. Great gameplay here - lots of moments where a situation gave me the willies and you dealt with it handily.
I never got past the giant slug stage when I was a kid, it's nice to finally see what's behind the door!. This game and Insector X were 2 of my best on the megadrive .
When i first bought my Japanese megadrive. Had a handful of games this master piece, Thunderforce 3, Golden axe. God it was amazing. It felt at long last the arcade had come home. The Amiga I had before was sold soon after. The 16bit consoles still remain the best in my opinion.
Seems like my story in Portugal. Bought the mega drive and the first 3 games i had were thunderforce 3, golden axe and insector x...and not too long after i rented GnG. I assume at many places in 91 or 1992 those were the most available titles
This game was really awesome but so damn hard, I mean almost impossible actually! Congrats for the playthrough, so flawless! Good old memories! ❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Got this for Christmas 1989. Still remember opening the wrapping. Dang so fun. Still remember the invincibility code at the beginning and start up of the game. Oh, Up Down Left Right, where hast thou gone?
You could get stuck in parts of the game if you picked up crap weapons, like having the sword at the giant caterpillar boss where you could not hit the weak points.
And i like the fact that the devil actually looks like Satanus and not some evil spirit of the old woods like in snes version. That final boss in this is creepy, 16 bit style creepy.
I've never played a bad version of this game - the C64 version has probably the most disturbing and hellish soundtrack, the Megadrive is closest to the original and the SNES version added some cool stuff. Those were the days!
Nobody should feel bad for being a dummy, in fact that's impossible not to be in such a complex universe. : ) I don't even think handofstand is correct, because they usually write "TAS" when they use tools.. and the gameplay is not all that great either..
handofstand but then why are you telling me stuff I already know? What I said is this may (or may not) be a TAS, because they did not write TAS in the title. Peace.
Turbografx had better animation because it used more memory then what capcom used on genesis version. But genesis had better graphics and music sound effects etc.
Dang. I didnt even know this game existed. I thought the SNES version was it. to my surprise, its a completely different game. Gonna be fun playing this for the first time on the new Genesis Mini.
Megadrive my favourite console in many ways. I like nes and ps1 for the classic games on those systems. Megadrive caught me and my 17 yr old mates on the hop.Computer games were for kids until the 16 bit era brought arcade standard shit into the home.The public always get what the public want.This is an early example
I don't own this one yet. What is the collective verdict? Is this better than Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts on the SNES? Both are definitely different games, but I'm curious what you all think.
This was my first game ever :D i played with 4 years at my sega :D and i never completed the game :( i am so bad . Its look so easy by you :D i want try this game now :D i will be played to the finish :D
Did you do it with no cheats? I thought I saw some hits but they didn't hit? Brilliant none the less. Better player than me and I bought it on release and still play it. Big tums up kiddo
I lost count how many times I died in this game because after I lost my armor I knew I was going to die 20 seconds later omg I used to get irritated getting killed every minute of this game
Trippy ending.. so Hus is a kingdom on the Ghouls 'n Ghosts world which is a place on earth? But earth 'has been restored' while GnG hasn't, so earth would actually be ON the GnG world? Does that make it the dimension earth is on? xD "warrior the strongest" is reminiscent of All your base are belong to us, LoL
The NES game was a port of the arcade game of the same name, and the NES version was made by a third-rate developer that made shitty ports. Of course this is better than the NES game
Boss List: Boss 1 King Cat Boss 2 Centaur Boss 3 Fire Dragon Boss 4 Jungle Monster Boss 5 Cloudeye Boss 6 Giant Caterpillar Boss 7 Giant Honeybee Final Boss: Shadow Monster (Good Ending)
Lay off the crackpipe, the X68000 version is basically arcade code, as arcades at the time operated off the same guts found in the X68K version. The X68K version stood at the top of the mountain for home consoles, the rest were way down the mountain, staring in awe at the X68K version's triumph.
@@Bloodreign1 I prefer the mega drive to the arcade. I have played the mame version lots. Still prefer the mega drive over all. It's game play zips along.
Seems more harder than its snes counterpart. But that game has little over exaggerated diffuculty imo. Yeah, its hard. But it aint "brutally hard" or anything like that. Or if you feel that way it must be because you cant handle or get used to the "floaty" controlling and the double-jump. This one seems much more fast paced and hectic though, i love how different these versions are from each other. Allready ordered a decent shaped boxed one for my mega drive. I gotta say that Mega Drive has some shit that you never saw on snes, just look at Loki here... Now thats how you do a 16bit satan! Snes version had this saturday morning cartoon baddie, he makes appearence here also, that looked like evil forest spirit...
***** Yes I do agree. Why did Capcom make us play through the game twice? That makes no sense whatsoever. The game is already hard as nails so why twice? Capcom.....sometimes.....your just mean!
+daminmancejin It was to give the game some length, otherwise the experience may have been over too fast with just one loop. Every game in this series, made you play through twice to beat it.
In 1992, you putted the game in the console and have a long no saving game. You and the destiny. And with this game the destiny ever was a hard defeat.
+Schwarzer Ritter This game is considered the easiest in the series. First game is the hardest, SNES version is second hardest. Gokumakaimura Kai on the PSP (aka revision 2 of Ultimate GnG, without all the fetch quest stuff, plays like a traditional GnG title) is pretty stiff in difficulty as well, especially loop 2. Goku Kai really has frustrated me the times I've played it on my PSP.
I don't like this port. One the the worst examples of sound effects and music on Genesis. Animation is primitive, next to no parallax scrolling, dull looking backgrounds... WTF. This game is also one of the smallest in terms of cartridge space usage, so Capcom have't even converted the arcade graphics properly, they just made almost everything look a lot worse than in original and called it a day. Technically It's not a bad port, yeah, but it''s cheap and bare-boned, and that's sucks! Street Fighter 2 ports were a lot better than this one. Then again I also didn't like Altered Beast and Golden Axe ports as well, so I guess I'm in minority, anyway.
You do realize that this is a 1989 game ? It is one of the earliest MegaDrive title. This game was a great port back then. Altered Beast and Golden Axe were also very early games. Of course, they cannot compare with the games that came in 1991 and afterwards on the same console.
Each of those early ports were created in month or less so, with very small teams and budget. As result all of them are not only far from arcade perfect, but also looks and sounds weak even compare to some average titles on the system, let alone latest ones. Note that I've already wrote that I do not consider them bad or mediocre. But great? Yeah, no - none of them are great, sorry. Barely "ok', maybe. Both Sega and Capcom could have do a better job back then, it's a fact. It would have cost them more, of course it would! Yes, they would have to delay them, maybe more than on year or two in order to utilize bigger roms and then produce a bigger cartridges with cheaper prices(compare to those in 89). Yeah. So what? Was it possible? Yes, it was. But they've decided to make a quick buck instead. And I don't like the results.
Dastan Bastan I only have one disagreement with what you've said. Capcom actually did not make the Mega Driver version. On the title screen, it says the game was reprogrammed by Sega, so Sega made this version. I'm sure if Capcom made it themselves, it would have been even better
Damn it, thanks for the correction, I've totally miss it. But I'm not sure that even they would do it justice. Remember, Capcom(and all others devs, honestly) obviously didn't had that much of experience with the Genesis hardware back then and there were still a cartridge size issue, so I dunno, man. For them it would be too expensive to develop this close to arcade port so early in the Genesis lifespan and for us it would be way too expensive to buy it, lol. Maybe if they delayed the production to 1992 or 1993? But It's all a wishful thinking, really. The point is, that because of their decision to cheap out on us, we've never got a truly definitive versions of those games that I've mentioned. I guess you could still argue, that Genesis version simply can't have so many colors compare to arcade originals and also would be limited in the number of sprites which could be rendered on the screen in the same time, yes. Hell, even additional loading times might be necessary, who knows. But other than that, at least Golden Axe 1, Altered Beast, Captain America, this game and other similar true 16 arcade projects actually could have be very close to arcade originals, a lot closer than they did in reality. Now, the gigantic 32 bit monsters like WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game is a completely different story. Those types of arcade game is just doomed to be butchered...and well, they were, kind of.
Yeah mid range 16 bit arcade systems could get good ports on the Genesis. However, the mid high to high end 16 bit arcade systems ( like Namco System 2, Sega X Board) as well as 32 bit boards from the 90's usually got ports that could be ok to being very compromised like the Outrunners port. It's too bad that some of the arcade stuff of the early 90's never got any accurate home ports. Part of the problem is time and money, since these ports got thrown out within a year of arcade release, and part of it is that Genesis doesn't have the hardware ability to recreate certain aspects of the arcade game ( especially if there's any sprite scaling involved).
you have to use that weapon otherwise when you get to the end you'll get sent back to the beginning of the game. Its the only weapon that can hurt Loki
This was truly next gen when it was released! It was one of the earliest Mega Drive titles and was a real technical showcase for the system well before Strider or Sonic.
One of the first Genesis games I ever owned. There was something magical about the music to this game, especially stage 2, loved it. Classic
This game made my childhood. I still have panic attacks.
Fabian Sol I still play this
whoever is playing is highly skilled.
And yet, they break open chests that contain a wizard. Surprising.
probably tool assisted
The kids can keep their kill streaks on cod. This is real gaming skill! Loved tgis game on the mega drive but man it was hard!!
This was one of my favourite games as a kid. I love this video so much. Thank you for posting it. Great gameplay here - lots of moments where a situation gave me the willies and you dealt with it handily.
Your ability with this game is simply outstanding
OMG!!! i used to love this game LOVE LOVE LOVE
I still have this game
I never got past the giant slug stage when I was a kid, it's nice to finally see what's behind the door!. This game and Insector X were 2 of my best on the megadrive .
A grand masterpiece / endlessly played it back then / Such sweet memories.
When i first bought my Japanese megadrive. Had a handful of games this master piece, Thunderforce 3, Golden axe. God it was amazing. It felt at long last the arcade had come home. The Amiga I had before was sold soon after. The 16bit consoles still remain the best in my opinion.
Seems like my story in Portugal. Bought the mega drive and the first 3 games i had were thunderforce 3, golden axe and insector x...and not too long after i rented GnG. I assume at many places in 91 or 1992 those were the most available titles
Three rules of the Angry Video Game Nerd in Ghosts N Goblins series
1 - Get the Knife
2 - Get the Knife
3 - GET THE KNIFE
This guy gets it.
I still play ghouls 'n ghosts on my sega genesis
***** I just got this game for my new Genesis earlier! LOVE IT!
Nice I love it too im playing this right now
***** lol I love my new Genesis and Ghouls 'N Ghosts and the whole Ghosts 'N Goblins franchise of games!
This game was really awesome but so damn hard, I mean almost impossible actually! Congrats for the playthrough, so flawless! Good old memories! ❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
9:34. My brothers and I used to laugh SO SO hard at the 'farting' sound those pillars of goo would make when you defeat them.
Got this for Christmas 1989. Still remember opening the wrapping. Dang so fun. Still remember the invincibility code at the beginning and start up of the game. Oh, Up Down Left Right, where hast thou gone?
Is anyone else glad that people have started to make games like this again?
You could get stuck in parts of the game if you picked up crap weapons, like having the sword at the giant caterpillar boss where you could not hit the weak points.
It's good but Super Ghouls n Ghosts on the SNES just took it to a whole next level in quality.
But's suffer from slowdowns and less enemies on Screen. The major chalenge was jump on platforms. It lacked the action from Ghouls And Ghosts.
Never lost the gold armour once! Excellent play through!
Ghost n Goblins and Ghouls n Ghosts are ¡¡ absolute classics !!
11:33 is my favorite music
This is a big nostalgia blast.
As a kid I'd always shout "Touchdown" after catching the key to the door.
Another masterwork on megadrive.
Bruh how have I only just found out that the golden suit has a special move 😂
Bons tempos do saudoso ghouls 'n ghosts do Mega.
And i like the fact that the devil actually looks like Satanus and not some evil spirit of the old woods like in snes version. That final boss in this is creepy, 16 bit style creepy.
I've never played a bad version of this game - the C64 version has probably the most disturbing and hellish soundtrack, the Megadrive is closest to the original and the SNES version added some cool stuff. Those were the days!
This is definitely some TAS... too many weird moments.
Seriously, took this guy 34 minutes to beat? This game took me 8 hours back in 93... lol
handofstand
You call Murnau a dummy and then say he should not feel bad?
Nobody should feel bad for being a dummy, in fact that's impossible not to be in such a complex universe. : )
I don't even think handofstand is correct, because they usually write "TAS" when they use tools.. and the gameplay is not all that great either..
handofstand
but then why are you telling me stuff I already know?
What I said is this may (or may not) be a TAS, because they did not write TAS in the title.
Peace.
You're right actually, this isn't a TAS.
You can power up the last weapon too. it glows white big beam. tough game. Amazing play.
Ending still has typos. Love it
Just get both, seriously. Super has the most content and beautiful presentation but the original has the fast-paced arcadey feel.
Very well played I had this game and I could never get past level 2 and this guy made it look easy
World class, just awesome. Dang I never beat 1st stage.
Finally. I've been waiting for this Longplay. My first Genesis game, and one of my favorite soundtracks to work to. ;)
This is probably the scariest 2d plat-former I’ve ever seen
I still play this game
Turbografx had better animation because it used more memory then what capcom used on genesis version. But genesis had better graphics and music sound effects etc.
Agreed. Supergrafx might've had the better presentation, but I think the Genesis version is still the best version (not including the arcade original)
Also, I forgot to say that SEGA made this version, not Capcom.
Ghouls and ghosts on snes is one of my fav games but this looks better. More hectic and fast paced, more battle oriented.
joguei muito quando era pivete !
this game was somewhat disturbing for me when i was a kid, but it was a good game.
great game
Dang. I didnt even know this game existed. I thought the SNES version was it. to my surprise, its a completely different game. Gonna be fun playing this for the first time on the new Genesis Mini.
This may be a replay of ghouls and ghosts, of all of who Arthur's enemies were. 🤔
Tis game truly kick my ass during childhood, damn fcking hard
Yeah man. Very very hard. I didn't meet the hornet never, near (3 clouds more or less) and this guy play like a joker with it.
Can't speak for the MD version but I did play the MS version of this and I liked it a lot. Was pretty hard to beat so but in the end I managed it.
Wait a minute. Loki is behind this, that son of a....
Well at least Hulk got him what he deserved.
You need at least 6 pairs of eyes and four brains to get through the first level of this game. It is a full on test of human abilities.
There were many different version of this game... The snes version was way harder than this.
Megadrive my favourite console in many ways. I like nes and ps1 for the classic games on those systems. Megadrive caught me and my 17 yr old mates on the hop.Computer games were for kids until the 16 bit era brought arcade standard shit into the home.The public always get what the public want.This is an early example
I don't own this one yet. What is the collective verdict? Is this better than Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts on the SNES? Both are definitely different games, but I'm curious what you all think.
I love this game.
Brilliant!
CONGRATULATION
Awesome run
This was my first game ever :D i played with 4 years at my sega :D and i never completed the game :( i am so bad . Its look so easy by you :D i want try this game now :D i will be played to the finish :D
Top 6 brutal games
CONGRATULATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This didn't age so well, did it? So much tiling in the backgrounds! So... much... tiling!
They only had to work with 5 Megs, which is around 640 kilobytes of data.
que gran juego
First chest has a magician inside Wow
love this
Nostalgia purra 👏👏👏
27:33 Duck...duck...goose! Arthur is it! XD
Did you do it with no cheats? I thought I saw some hits but they didn't hit? Brilliant none the less. Better player than me and I bought it on release and still play it. Big tums up kiddo
In fact i only think that maybe can be one it. But im not sure. This guy is a beast.
I lost count how many times I died in this game because after I lost my armor I knew I was going to die 20 seconds later omg I used to get irritated getting killed every minute of this game
Bro is kracko here FR?
well played!
Trippy ending.. so Hus is a kingdom on the Ghouls 'n Ghosts world which is a place on earth? But earth 'has been restored' while GnG hasn't, so earth would actually be ON the GnG world? Does that make it the dimension earth is on? xD
"warrior the strongest" is reminiscent of All your base are belong to us, LoL
no he actually didnt! what he simly did is re-recording
very good man! I never won this Game it's very hard for me. It looks so easy by you xD
Cartoon adventures zombie attack 2 reaction
this looks like a huge improvement over the nes game.
The NES game was a port of the arcade game of the same name, and the NES version was made by a third-rate developer that made shitty ports.
Of course this is better than the NES game
This version Is better than super to me. For one thing you can shoot up and down
And that made this game the easiest in the series, a series not known for being friendly to unskilled players.
20:25 - what's that blue thing all about then eh?
So when you have that magical weapon at 18:20, you must never take another weapon if you want to be able to defeat Loki?
If you take another weapon on that second loop, you are forced to do the second to last level over and over till you acquire it again.
Rabbit And Arrow The Game All Bosses
Boss List: Boss 1 King Cat Boss 2 Centaur Boss 3 Fire Dragon Boss 4 Jungle Monster Boss 5 Cloudeye Boss 6 Giant Caterpillar Boss 7 Giant Honeybee Final Boss: Shadow Monster (Good Ending)
It's a Fire Dragon From The Burning Farm
I never played this game version, anyway, this game is hard as fuck.
Green disc thing all day!
Boyfunga on boyfama
La pase una vez 😁 y me costo mucho trabajo pero no sabia que tenian que ser dos veces para ver el final😠
The best home version. Yeah you heard right, better than the Sharp 6800 and the PC Engine 16.
Lay off the crackpipe, the X68000 version is basically arcade code, as arcades at the time operated off the same guts found in the X68K version. The X68K version stood at the top of the mountain for home consoles, the rest were way down the mountain, staring in awe at the X68K version's triumph.
@@Bloodreign1 I prefer the mega drive to the arcade. I have played the mame version lots. Still prefer the mega drive over all. It's game play zips along.
Yeah it migth!!!
Cookie.jr uses cookie bomb
Seems more harder than its snes counterpart. But that game has little over exaggerated diffuculty imo. Yeah, its hard. But it aint "brutally hard" or anything like that. Or if you feel that way it must be because you cant handle or get used to the "floaty" controlling and the double-jump. This one seems much more fast paced and hectic though, i love how different these versions are from each other. Allready ordered a decent shaped boxed one for my mega drive. I gotta say that Mega Drive has some shit that you never saw on snes, just look at Loki here... Now thats how you do a 16bit satan! Snes version had this saturday morning cartoon baddie, he makes appearence here also, that looked like evil forest spirit...
we did complete run wit over 230.000 score
which program i need for film a video?
This game was as hard as heck inside a can of granola soup mixed with bitter gourd coated with snot and YOU my friend, BEAT ITS BUTT!! Cheers :)
18:21 I hate that weapon!
***** But it's the weapon that you need to beat the game!
which is stupid..lol why didn't the makers lets us use it in the first place and not play the game two times
***** Yes I do agree. Why did Capcom make us play through the game twice? That makes no sense whatsoever. The game is already hard as nails so why twice? Capcom.....sometimes.....your just mean!
+daminmancejin It was to give the game some length, otherwise the experience may have been over too fast with just one loop. Every game in this series, made you play through twice to beat it.
well i have a game genie so i can beat the game with any weapon and not just that powerful one
Is more than like that guolhs n goblins version
How do we save the game?
Emma Stone you dont, you complete it in one sitting old schoo stylel. or use an emulator and use save states
In 1992, you putted the game in the console and have a long no saving game. You and the destiny. And with this game the destiny ever was a hard defeat.
Muito bom 💖💖💖💖💖
Wow, this doesn't look nearly as easy as the Super Nintendo version.
Super Ghoul's 'n Ghosts is a different game and I agree it's easier.
In my opinion Super Ghouls'n Ghosts is slightly harder.
+Schwarzer Ritter This game is considered the easiest in the series. First game is the hardest, SNES version is second hardest. Gokumakaimura Kai on the PSP (aka revision 2 of Ultimate GnG, without all the fetch quest stuff, plays like a traditional GnG title) is pretty stiff in difficulty as well, especially loop 2. Goku Kai really has frustrated me the times I've played it on my PSP.
music sounds like shot compared to snes
Different games between the systems.
I prefer genesis sound and this soundtrack but I’m in the miniority
Cookie junior (cookie.jr)
Whats that?
min 14:56 wtf is that, is impossible
Yes, but the whole game, this guy performances extremlly.
Well done, this game is a b*tch...
16:56....Aaarghh!! :X
Another one where the player is obviously using turbofire...
Whats that?
I don't like this port. One the the worst examples of sound effects and music on Genesis. Animation is primitive, next to no parallax scrolling, dull looking backgrounds... WTF. This game is also one of the smallest in terms of cartridge space usage, so Capcom have't even converted the arcade graphics properly, they just made almost everything look a lot worse than in original and called it a day. Technically It's not a bad port, yeah, but it''s cheap and bare-boned, and that's sucks! Street Fighter 2 ports were a lot better than this one. Then again I also didn't like Altered Beast and Golden Axe ports as well, so I guess I'm in minority, anyway.
You do realize that this is a 1989 game ? It is one of the earliest MegaDrive title. This game was a great port back then. Altered Beast and Golden Axe were also very early games. Of course, they cannot compare with the games that came in 1991 and afterwards on the same console.
Each of those early ports were created in month or less so, with very small teams and budget. As result all of them are not only far from arcade perfect, but also looks and sounds weak even compare to some average titles on the system, let alone latest ones. Note that I've already wrote that I do not consider them bad or mediocre. But great? Yeah, no - none of them are great, sorry. Barely "ok', maybe. Both Sega and Capcom could have do a better job back then, it's a fact. It would have cost them more, of course it would! Yes, they would have to delay them, maybe more than on year or two in order to utilize bigger roms and then produce a bigger cartridges with cheaper prices(compare to those in 89). Yeah. So what? Was it possible? Yes, it was. But they've decided to make a quick buck instead. And I don't like the results.
Dastan Bastan I only have one disagreement with what you've said. Capcom actually did not make the Mega Driver version. On the title screen, it says the game was reprogrammed by Sega, so Sega made this version. I'm sure if Capcom made it themselves, it would have been even better
Damn it, thanks for the correction, I've totally miss it. But I'm not sure that even they would do it justice. Remember, Capcom(and all others devs, honestly) obviously didn't had that much of experience with the Genesis hardware back then and there were still a cartridge size issue, so I dunno, man. For them it would be too expensive to develop this close to arcade port so early in the Genesis lifespan and for us it would be way too expensive to buy it, lol. Maybe if they delayed the production to 1992 or 1993? But It's all a wishful thinking, really. The point is, that because of their decision to cheap out on us, we've never got a truly definitive versions of those games that I've mentioned. I guess you could still argue, that Genesis version simply can't have so many colors compare to arcade originals and also would be limited in the number of sprites which could be rendered on the screen in the same time, yes. Hell, even additional loading times might be necessary, who knows. But other than that, at least Golden Axe 1, Altered Beast, Captain America, this game and other similar true 16 arcade projects actually could have be very close to arcade originals, a lot closer than they did in reality. Now, the gigantic 32 bit monsters like WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game is a completely different story. Those types of arcade game is just doomed to be butchered...and well, they were, kind of.
Yeah mid range 16 bit arcade systems could get good ports on the Genesis. However, the mid high to high end 16 bit arcade systems ( like Namco System 2, Sega X Board) as well as 32 bit boards from the 90's usually got ports that could be ok to being very compromised like the Outrunners port. It's too bad that some of the arcade stuff of the early 90's never got any accurate home ports. Part of the problem is time and money, since these ports got thrown out within a year of arcade release, and part of it is that Genesis doesn't have the hardware ability to recreate certain aspects of the arcade game ( especially if there's any sprite scaling involved).
The weapon you use is completely cheatingthe game, yu are not a champ man, nly a cheater !
you have to use that weapon otherwise when you get to the end you'll get sent back to the beginning of the game. Its the only weapon that can hurt Loki
Ohhh ok i see; i you have just finished the game a second time and what you said is true. all my apologies O:-)