One of my best friends and I started playing this at a Taco John's every Tuesday after football practice for Taco Tuesday in 1987. We were completely addicted (to both the tacos and the game lol). We ended up actually beating the game on the same exact day.....we used to play so that whoever got the farthest or the highest score the other guy had to buy the tacos. Great, great memories.
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? This is a Tool Assisted run? For somebody who went through and completed it without losing a life, they're a pretty bad player.
He's got one good hit's worth of armor, he's got a throwing lance, and he's got a lady to save. You can see the castle from here. What more do you need?
As teenager in the 80's Ghosts n Goblins and Galaga were my go to arcade games. Ask your mother did she ever work out the cheat on Galaga that stop the enemies from shooting at you. It certainly made it easier to get to the higher levels.
@Vindicator G You wanna cut steak with a plastic spoon? No. Get the knife. I can't stress it enough. They'd lock me up in an asylum. "Get the knife! Get the knife!"
The music in those arcade games was so beautiful, this is like a symphony. Never forgot this spine tingling soundtrack and the graphical effects were so good (and innovative eg the flashing treasure effect) for their time.
No way. It's very hard, but arcade games are out to take your money. Most of them are insanely difficult and you'd never beat them on a single quarter.
Fun fact: Arthur was not, in fact, the first name the knight was given. On the original Taito bezel, it calls the knight Sir Michael, as does the flyer Taito distributed. Taito’s manual might also use the name, but I cannot confirm or disprove that at this time. It wasn’t until 1986 or 1987 that he was first called Arthur, which is, of course, the name that stuck. The earliest instance I have found of the name Arthur being used is a guide Nintendo released in 1987 for various NES games, which featured Ghosts N Goblins among many other games.
The visuals and SFX in it are very pleasing. From the way the dropped treasures changes colours (looks metallic) to those little red devils and the noises they make.
I find the arcade version to be harder at the end, but maybe not so much up until the castle. It's a lot easier to cheese the gargoyles in the arcade version. You really only need to legitimately fight 2 or 3 of them in the entire game. Satan is MUCH harder in the arcade - especially when having to use the shield. The demon and ghost spawns being so frequent in the castle in the arcade is also a huge difficulty increase. The dagger in the NES version is much better than the dagger in the arcade. The javelin is probably the best weapon in the arcade version because you can throw it at about the same speed as the NES dagger. However, the dagger and javelin in the arcade version are nearly identical - except that the dagger is smaller so it could hit less targets.
@@dynamicvoltage9765 I AGREE WITH YOU WITH MOST OF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING! But the dagger is more for hitting small enemies like the small blue demons. But yes the arcade version is waaaay harder. I'm 18 and go to this arcade place where you can pay 5 bucks to play any arcade game you want so I play this game authentically. I got so frustrated and pissed off and SCREAMED when I lost to the last 2 demons. I had shield and was on the second round and needed to kill one more satans, but he got me and umm..... That's when I screamed in anger and this girl was behind me the whole time and I stared at her for like 15 seconds and shook her head in disappointment. I was so embarrassed and it felt really awkward. But I went back to playing...... I still couldn't beat it.
Arcade versions were almost always better than the ports because the arcade cabinets were far more powerful and advanced than the home consoles. Plus they were cheaper to play :)
As someone who only knew of this game's legendary difficulty by the fact that Firbrand's Level 3 super was simply calling in another one. Level 3 of the arcade game had me screaming in fear.
It's amazing that they never fixed the ending screen when it was ported to the NES. And what's even more amazing is that not only are there the same screw ups, but there's more hahaha!
I still remember that frustration .... After all that effort ... One of the most shitty ending in the history of videogames ..."your story is happy end.... " 😂🙈 Great playing man! You're amazing!
Always wanted to see this movie. I mean they could've work on a movie based on this game. I believe that this classic arcade game deserves a movie, a good one. Some of you may remember this one and Castlevania as well. I think the movie Van Helsing was pretty much like Castlevania...but no Ghosts' n Goblins. I want so bad to see a movie based on this classic arcade game. Who else?
The NES version was worse. This room is an illusion and is a trap devisut by Satan! Congraturation! Being the wise and courageour knight you are you feel strongth welling. In your body.
Madre mía eres un puñetero crak!!! Este es el juego más difícil de la historia y encima hay que pasárselo 2 veces para acabarlo. Me ha encantado ver el final xq yo soy incapaz de pasármelo.
This guy is so good that he used a double frameperfect attack on the correct subpixel of the map to not get hit, a casual like you wouldn't understand.
Spent alot of dough on this game. Everyone at my local arcade wanted the firebombs but I always preferred the little dagger. That dagger could shoot really fast and defeat bosses in no time. Dagger is the best weapon in this game.
I was 7 or 8 when I first played this, was hooked instantly. Never got further than lvl 3 though. I spent some serious cash on this game every summer and autumn fair, and all of us loved watching a local gypsy kid couple of years older than us kicking ass out of it. Brings back childhood vibes!
This is crazy fucking impressive man. Dude honestly, I wonder how you know what movements to do to exploit the flying enemies AI. I feel like I keep letting them bash into me and kill me but there definitely is a method to the madness from the way you're destroying it.
Mother's College had this, Gauntlet and 1943 in the common room. She'd often just leave me there for an hour with her friend with just enough credits for a few games, I saved the pennies and just watched the dude that was perma-on it teaching me about the secret armor drops and timings of bosses. I still play it like crap
This looks a heck of a lot more playable than the NES version with 2 huge exceptions in level 6. 1) you have 2 unicorns on both sides, making them practically unavoidable to getting hit at least once. 2) this game doesn’t have guaranteed spawn drops. While this isn’t normally a problem in the case of weapons since no more fireballs getting forced onto you because of being dropped on the top of a ladder, now you have to break those pots in order to get the shield weapon.
I used to watch older kids play this game, which I could not master. But I remember that the final boss was a giant gorilla. Seems that my memory was wrong.
I was thinking that it was cute for how the knight rescued the princess from Lucifer and his minions and emissaries. Is there also nothing that strengthens the knight's armory that he wears? The knight's armor used to turn gold indicating that its been strengthened.
I really wonder what’s the % of players who managed to finish the game in the arcades back in the days? You need either to be super faster or know the game by heart (or both!). I never managed to beat the game on NES. In the arcades, I don´t even remember passing the second level...
Which is more disturbing? The Red Arremer's bow-legged waddle? Picking up the princess' bloomers at 10:17? Or, the fact that Lucifer is all alone with the princess and isn't wearing pants?
Aren't there a few different versions by country? The one I played had a cross, I think, not a shield with a checkmark on it as a weapon, and the NES version is a hsield with a cross on it that you use as a weapon (but can't kill the unicorns)
Why did the NES programmers decide to make the red devils 10x more difficult than the ones in the arcade version? I've beaten the arcade many times but I cannot get past the 3rd level on the NES.
There were quite a few bonus tricks in this game. i remember shooting the gravestone and catching the spell the wizard sends right on zero and something happened .also there arelots of places to get Your armour back if You knew where to jump.loved this game ..its music and graphics mase You keep coming back more.played ghouls and ghosts and maximo which borrowed heavily from the g and g series
IIRC the wizard spell glitch made the timer infinite. And yes, there were a few specific spots that would trigger armor appearing. Can't remember all of them ottomh, but I remember the one near the first red arremer (Lv1), there were two in the ice area(Lv2), and two in the stone area of Level 3. I also remember the trick to skip Lvl 4 and 5's bosses.
"Take a key for coming in." is pretty funny as well. It sounds like you take the key _as a result_ of coming in or _as thanks_ for coming in, rather than taking it so that you _can_ come in.
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One of my best friends and I started playing this at a Taco John's every Tuesday after football practice for Taco Tuesday in 1987. We were completely addicted (to both the tacos and the game lol). We ended up actually beating the game on the same exact day.....we used to play so that whoever got the farthest or the highest score the other guy had to buy the tacos. Great, great memories.
The hardest videogame of all time...
@@noez9449is it really that hard? Harder than gun.smoke? Another capcom game
@@noez9449 but not impossible to master. i finished it 7 times straight. got bored and abandoned the game lol.
Who bought tacos if you both beat the game?
@@jmz2144 me lol.....he beat me by a few hours lol 😆
Without the slightest clue of where to go to save her, our hero runs to the closest castle killing everyone in his path!
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? This is a Tool Assisted run? For somebody who went through and completed it without losing a life, they're a pretty bad player.
He's got one good hit's worth of armor, he's got a throwing lance, and he's got a lady to save. You can see the castle from here. What more do you need?
@@cloerenjackson3699 L
I like that he and his lady are just chilling in a graveyard full of demons
This world would be genuinely terrifying to live in.
This was my mother’s favourite arcade game, along with Galaga and Pac-Man.
Your mother has/had great taste!
I still remember beating Galaga Arrangement with my dad when I was a kid.
As teenager in the 80's Ghosts n Goblins and Galaga were my go to arcade games. Ask your mother did she ever work out the cheat on Galaga that stop the enemies from shooting at you. It certainly made it easier to get to the higher levels.
Based mother..
@@Magpieboy1 she never had enough quarters to figure it out, but usually she did hover around the one guy who was able to do it with enough quarters!
1. Get the Knife
2. Get the Knife
3. Get the Knife
Joe Jacky don’t be clod or a pillock! Go lose some weight tubby
@Joe Jacky you don't get laid much do you...
@Vindicator G You wanna cut steak with a plastic spoon? No. Get the knife. I can't stress it enough. They'd lock me up in an asylum. "Get the knife! Get the knife!"
OK you quoted AVGN, but wrong game. You wouldn't want the knife/dagger in the arcade version. You can't throw it faster than the javelin.
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"I just beat two Satan's...
in my underwear!" AVGN
@RICHARD GLOBAL *Looks up to pumpkin* "What are you laughing At?!"
Get the knife...get the knife...GET THE KNIFE!
@@drewfobbe7851 ...my solution for every problem since then 😂
He played the easy nes version, this is the hard mode.
Got to love that at the start even the computer played Demo realised it is preferable to die than to collect the flame.
The music in those arcade games was so beautiful, this is like a symphony. Never forgot this spine tingling soundtrack and the graphical effects were so good (and innovative eg the flashing treasure effect) for their time.
Possibly Tim Follins composer.
He did the music for the C64 version of this.
@@ljt3084 this is the coin op. It's a japanese composer who did it :)
Written by a women no less. Great clasiccal arcade tunes.
I dare say that 90% of people who have played this game have never seen past the first level.
One of the hardest arcade games.
No,the HARDEST arcade game
For real!!!!
The 2 unicorns was freakin ridiculous.
No way. It's very hard, but arcade games are out to take your money. Most of them are insanely difficult and you'd never beat them on a single quarter.
@@mynameiswhat3843 It's basically a free hit from the enemies. There's actually a revision that takes 1 unicorn out.
Fun fact: Arthur was not, in fact, the first name the knight was given. On the original Taito bezel, it calls the knight Sir Michael, as does the flyer Taito distributed. Taito’s manual might also use the name, but I cannot confirm or disprove that at this time. It wasn’t until 1986 or 1987 that he was first called Arthur, which is, of course, the name that stuck. The earliest instance I have found of the name Arthur being used is a guide Nintendo released in 1987 for various NES games, which featured Ghosts N Goblins among many other games.
"THIS STORY IS HAPPY END. YOU FEEL STRONGTH WELLING IN YOUR BODY". I guess reading that makes it worth beating twice.
TBH, I wonder if the people who did the localization even MADE it that far themselves to realize how bad they messed it up in play-testing.
Best arcade game ever, im 41 i played arcade games since i learned to walk, and this game is the one i always liked.
The visuals and SFX in it are very pleasing. From the way the dropped treasures changes colours (looks metallic) to those little red devils and the noises they make.
played this one time in arcade cabinet, around 1988 in Winn-Dixie while my mother shopped for groceries. why does the memory stick with me forever !!
This guy grabbing all the money pickups like it ain't no thing.
I had strongth welling in my body, but I saw my doctor about it and he prescribed some medication that took care of it.
3 cheers for VIAGRA!!!
I find the arcade version easier due to it running much smoother.
The terrible framerate of the NES version really fucked me in the ass!
Lex Ellis I disagree...the enemies respawn constantly in arcade.
I find the arcade version to be harder at the end, but maybe not so much up until the castle. It's a lot easier to cheese the gargoyles in the arcade version. You really only need to legitimately fight 2 or 3 of them in the entire game. Satan is MUCH harder in the arcade - especially when having to use the shield. The demon and ghost spawns being so frequent in the castle in the arcade is also a huge difficulty increase.
The dagger in the NES version is much better than the dagger in the arcade. The javelin is probably the best weapon in the arcade version because you can throw it at about the same speed as the NES dagger. However, the dagger and javelin in the arcade version are nearly identical - except that the dagger is smaller so it could hit less targets.
@@dynamicvoltage9765 I AGREE WITH YOU WITH MOST OF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING! But the dagger is more for hitting small enemies like the small blue demons. But yes the arcade version is waaaay harder. I'm 18 and go to this arcade place where you can pay 5 bucks to play any arcade game you want so I play this game authentically. I got so frustrated and pissed off and SCREAMED when I lost to the last 2 demons. I had shield and was on the second round and needed to kill one more satans, but he got me and umm..... That's when I screamed in anger and this girl was behind me the whole time and I stared at her for like 15 seconds and shook her head in disappointment. I was so embarrassed and it felt really awkward. But I went back to playing...... I still couldn't beat it.
Arcade versions were almost always better than the ports because the arcade cabinets were far more powerful and advanced than the home consoles. Plus they were cheaper to play :)
@@eternalnut Now its available on Steam! :)
'You feel strongth welling in your body'
As someone who only knew of this game's legendary difficulty by the fact that Firbrand's Level 3 super was simply calling in another one. Level 3 of the arcade game had me screaming in fear.
So you can kill the unicorn with the shield weapon! I always thought it was immune!
What is the unicorn?
@@sanjaygupta666 23:31 that horned looking ogre is called a unicorn in-game.
@@witherblazeJapanenglish! LOL
Strongth.
It's amazing that they never fixed the ending screen when it was ported to the NES. And what's even more amazing is that not only are there the same screw ups, but there's more hahaha!
I still remember that frustration .... After all that effort ... One of the most shitty ending in the history of videogames ..."your story is happy end.... " 😂🙈
Great playing man! You're amazing!
You feel the strongth!
1 - Get the knife
2 - Get the knife
3 - GET THE KNIFE!
Always wanted to see this movie. I mean they could've work on a movie based on this game. I believe that this classic arcade game deserves a movie, a good one. Some of you may remember this one and Castlevania as well. I think the movie Van Helsing was pretty much like Castlevania...but no Ghosts' n Goblins. I want so bad to see a movie based on this classic arcade game. Who else?
Take a key for coming in!
This story is happy end!
Feel the strongth!
trmblingblustar yea the game was very poorly localized
The NES version was worse.
This room is an illusion and is a trap devisut by Satan!
Congraturation!
Being the wise and courageour knight you are you feel strongth welling. In your body.
Congraturation!
imagine beating one of the hardest games on the NES only to get greeted with that
Madre mía eres un puñetero crak!!! Este es el juego más difícil de la historia y encima hay que pasárselo 2 veces para acabarlo.
Me ha encantado ver el final xq yo soy incapaz de pasármelo.
The red devil enemy also appears in Black Tiger, my favorite Capcom game (and one of my two all-time favorite video games)
7:19 direct hit to player, no damage. hmmmmmm.
🤔
@ Maybe is Cheat Engine.
You never played it did you?... When you jump you have invulnerability frames
This guy is so good that he used a double frameperfect attack on the correct subpixel of the map to not get hit, a casual like you wouldn't understand.
@Joe Jacky How could he be cheating when he gets hit elsewhere and loses armour?
Mate you are great to finish the game without losing a life. I have never been able to pass the second level.
Spent alot of dough on this game. Everyone at my local arcade wanted the firebombs but I always preferred the little dagger. That dagger could shoot really fast and defeat bosses in no time. Dagger is the best weapon in this game.
Truth.
They were only handicapping themselves with the fire bombs, seems like.
I was 7 or 8 when I first played this, was hooked instantly. Never got further than lvl 3 though. I spent some serious cash on this game every summer and autumn fair, and all of us loved watching a local gypsy kid couple of years older than us kicking ass out of it. Brings back childhood vibes!
This is crazy fucking impressive man. Dude honestly, I wonder how you know what movements to do to exploit the flying enemies AI. I feel like I keep letting them bash into me and kill me but there definitely is a method to the madness from the way you're destroying it.
37? Yeah! That's exactly how long it took me to beat it, 37 hours.
My father played this game now I play it too. You was very good, I'd like to be good as you. Congratulations!
You have now gained the respect of the other men in the tribe and may now take a wife. Well done.
Come to think of it, why are there bags with the US Dollar sign in the Mediaeval fantasy world?
Yeah, thats the unrealistic thing in this game..
Holy fuck, this guy has strongth welling inside of him.
"This story is happy end."
Truer words could not have been spoken, friend.
(snorts)
Lol, funny sh!t.
The NES version had the ending with the word “Congratulation” spelled wrong where it says “Congraturation This Story Is Happy End”.
Maravilhoso .... Saudades da minha infância. Alguém em outubro de 2023 ?
They are having a romantic date in a cemetery. What could go wrong?
still one of the best and still most difficult games ever
Now that is a Halloween arcade game to me.
My all time favorite, good times back then.
this is way better than the nes version
Yup, it's crazy. I am curious about the old arcade machine specs.
Mother's College had this, Gauntlet and 1943 in the common room. She'd often just leave me there for an hour with her friend with just enough credits for a few games, I saved the pennies and just watched the dude that was perma-on it teaching me about the secret armor drops and timings of bosses. I still play it like crap
Congratulations the best player!
This looks a heck of a lot more playable than the NES version with 2 huge exceptions in level 6.
1) you have 2 unicorns on both sides, making them practically unavoidable to getting hit at least once.
2) this game doesn’t have guaranteed spawn drops. While this isn’t normally a problem in the case of weapons since no more fireballs getting forced onto you because of being dropped on the top of a ladder, now you have to break those pots in order to get the shield weapon.
I used to regularly run this game beginning to end on a single quarter. Just picked it up for Xbox and remember the patterns still!
Make a video or it didn't happen lol
Lol. I'm callin' buffalo diarrhea dumpshit on that..
Got to give you props. This is one of the hardest arcade games ever!
They have invincibility turned on 07:19
You defeated the archdemon & saved the fair Princess. Huzzah!!
at times it looks like the player gets hit, makes me think arcade switches have been flipped to make the player invincible? :-?
Qbq
Hit boxes are sometimes smaller than my grandad's testicles.
@Joe Jacky Exactly. After 7:19 in example. (and many other places)
@@totoonthemoon3593good pickup. Is that a bug? Because he loses his armour in other sections (maybe only when hit by the monster)
Amazing how arcade games could pull off 16 bit like graphics in the 80s.
"feel strongth welling in your body", gee thanks
The worst thing that can happen is u got the shield and you run into the fire accidentally. Yeah i did that and rage quit.
Ouch.. you won't lose your weapon when you die.
The distorted bass lines under the piano in level 6 sound like farts.
Takes me back. Nothing beats the original.
Mad skillz bro much props good god
Gotta luv they used the same engrish on the nes version.
The NES version actually had a few more typos than this version. At least this version spelled "devised", "congratulations", and "courageous" right.
This version looks x100 better than NES
Now I can understand how it was poorly ported to NES.
Crazy skills!
I used to watch older kids play this game, which I could not master. But I remember that the final boss was a giant gorilla. Seems that my memory was wrong.
*Standing with my arms crossed holding 2 quarters waiting for my turn*
Standing behind you with a smile on my face, cause I know you'll be out of money at the half of stage 1 and then I'll finally have my 2min of joy...
@@Don-R-Kyle I know exactly the spot where it will happen too. XD
I always thought this game was so crazy hard
Pretty hard, but good. Also "This story is happy end."
I was thinking that it was cute for how the knight rescued the princess from Lucifer and his minions and emissaries. Is there also nothing that strengthens the knight's armory that he wears? The knight's armor used to turn gold indicating that its been strengthened.
I really wonder what’s the % of players who managed to finish the game in the arcades back in the days? You need either to be super faster or know the game by heart (or both!). I never managed to beat the game on NES. In the arcades, I don´t even remember passing the second level...
Man.... I miss my childhood.
Which is more disturbing? The Red Arremer's bow-legged waddle? Picking up the princess' bloomers at 10:17? Or, the fact that Lucifer is all alone with the princess and isn't wearing pants?
7:19 play fake
20:33 Suspicious
Era una fascinación asé 30 años . Saludos de Ecatepec México 💯🇲🇽
"This room is is an illusion and a trap devised by Satan. Go ahead dauntlessy ! Make rapid progress !"
Help.
Now, I know where MediEvil got its inspiration from (alongside Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas, that is)
I wish i could keep satan away from me like you do...
The subtitles in this game were Ebonics way ahead of its time
Aren't there a few different versions by country? The one I played had a cross, I think, not a shield with a checkmark on it as a weapon, and the NES version is a hsield with a cross on it that you use as a weapon (but can't kill the unicorns)
The spawn positions changed in PS3's Capcom Arcade Cabinet's version.
XFoxPrower excuse me but... What's the source to your profile pic ? 👀
This weapon has not effect.
Thanks, it's my fault. Fair enough, to maybe send me 3 levels back...
Why did the NES programmers decide to make the red devils 10x more difficult than the ones in the arcade version? I've beaten the arcade many times but I cannot get past the 3rd level on the NES.
Idk, but the NES version was developed by Micronics, a company with many games with anomalies or bugs in programming (Even with the scrolling)
Capcom's belief:
1% Christianity
99% Satanism
WHAT CAPCOM IS THINKING?!
One of the hardest arcade game...
There were quite a few bonus tricks in this game.
i remember shooting the gravestone and catching the spell the wizard sends right on zero and something happened .also there arelots of places to get Your armour back if You knew where to jump.loved this game ..its music and graphics mase You keep coming back more.played ghouls and ghosts and maximo which borrowed heavily from the g and g series
IIRC the wizard spell glitch made the timer infinite. And yes, there were a few specific spots that would trigger armor appearing. Can't remember all of them ottomh, but I remember the one near the first red arremer (Lv1), there were two in the ice area(Lv2), and two in the stone area of Level 3. I also remember the trick to skip Lvl 4 and 5's bosses.
THAT WAS A GREAT ARCADE GAME
Super Ghouls And Ghosts is my favorite and this one is second one.
That game is from the mega devil but I already screwed the final boss
Whoa!?
If I can get to the two Satan’s without using a save state I’m proud of my performance and I can clear Mario 2 Japan without dying.
Whoever this is playing would've had a crowd around them at the arcade. Smell the pizza.
That sound when the red demon spits at you
13:00 Perfectly fair game design.
LOL, "Congratulation, the story is happy end." Gotta' love those bad translations.
"Take a key for coming in." is pretty funny as well. It sounds like you take the key _as a result_ of coming in or _as thanks_ for coming in, rather than taking it so that you _can_ come in.
It’s “Congraturation”.
Don’t let the flame appear in level 2
can always tell when someone is using save states when they dont know the right paths to take heh
Uno dei miei arcade game preferiti!
Great! Soon there will be a remastered PC port!
Il migliore video game della mia adolescenza
rock on. Arthur rules!
I really should've got the knife instead of the shield.
This game is insane
11:12
AL82 you fool!!!!!!
Maybe the most difficult game ever
The creators of Dark Souls would like a word with you. 😕
@@luisreyes1963 Dark Souls is easy compared to this.