For those who weren't alive or at least actively out in the world in 1988... Let me tell you that for this 12 year old (then), this game looked very futuristic for its time. A technology revolution was happening at the time and I couldn't believe how lucky I was to play arcade games from 1983 through 1992. It was like every few months something would come out that looked years ahead of anything you'd ever played.
One of the best 2D platformers ever made, hands down. This arcade version came out in 1988, and these graphics still hold today great. Movement and animation are top tier, the music sounds classic, and the challenge although extremely hard is the most fair out of the first three games in the franchise. Capcom developers were awsome back then.
@@LIONTAMER3D The only hard part for me is the cloud eye takes too many times and the final pink clouds in the devil's lair damn clouds and getting past the giant hornet
@@smoketj4830 the pink clouds I found easier than the first. Just trigger them and head straight to where the for where the double purple boss was. That flat terrain makes them so much easier, and if you do it correctly only 2 will be there at a time.
Arthur, you're skilled, you're decent, you've made it to the princess, and ima letcha finish.... But you need to collect the special weapon needed to defeat the final boss!!! Oh yeah and we want more of your money too
THIS. hated you had to play the game twice feels tacky. what i wouldn't give for a fan made one like sonic mania this is the only good one the others are too hard or you cant even shoot up. down. but 32 bit didnt have the ROM ps5 has lol
I feel slightly better after all these years. I watched a documentary of this game and the developer used to watch kids play the game, see how they beat certain parts, and then go back and re-design those parts to make it even harder. I spent ridiculous amounts of money on this game as a kid and everyone thought I was cool because I could make it to the 2nd level LOL. Unbelievably difficult! Edit: After watching this video, I realize how hopeless level 3 would have been for me. I am terrible at platformers and this is riiiiiiiidiculous
It's not just the old school graphics that are awesome, but the actual horror style of the design. The monsters and environs are so complex and twisted and gross! Also, I think it'd be quite funny yet still awesome if this game was re-skinned in the style of WH40K.
I know. Watching this is so intimidating and full of concentration involved. This golden genere is SO HARD to beat and get killed SO EASILY. Hmmm these games are always memorable, those were the days. 👍👍
The GnG series (the PSP games, Gokumakaimura, aka Ultimate Ghosts N Goblins, and it's revision, Gokumakaimura Kai included, plus the Wonderswan game, there's also 2 Japan only mobile games in the series) makes Dark Souls look like a family friendly picnic day at the park.
Wow. You made this look easy...and it STILL didn't look easy. Thanks for going through this! And you know what? After you go through a game like this, you don't want to be congratulated. You want to be CONGRATURATED. You DESERVE to be congraturated.
@@brianfleury979 If you watch carefully, the player touched the enemy considerably and should have lost his armour. Collision detection off in the tool assist is to make it a lot easier for the player to produce the video for youtube. No big deal really. He's not claiming it to be some world record attempt so it's cool
Man when I was a child my parents bought my brother and me an arcade with this game. It was faulty (that's probably how they got it for cheap). We couldn't go left. All we could do was to either move right or stand still. But we have inifinite credits, so we could always try again. We managed to, slowly come up with strategies that actually let us win the game. We knew what weapons we had to use for each boss, and we relied heavily on luck, so maybe 1 in 10 games we managed to win. I remember that on of the parts that cost me A LOT of time to get past was the section at 9:07. Timing the jumping on those tongues and clouds when ONLY being able to move right was really tricky.
I'm old so I remember playing Ghosts and Goblins in a 7-11 near my friend's house for hours and then when I got my first office job, this appeared in the arcade half a block away where I spent my lunch hours. This was one of those games I mastered to the point that I could play as long as I wanted - if you pick up a different weapon before the final battle after the second pass they throw you back to the start again! I loved just trying to do the whole game with each different weapon just for fun - really made you appreciate each weapon's strengths and sometimes HUGE weaknesses on certain levels! One of my all time favorite side scrollers.
The only time I saw this game was at a laundromat many many years ago. I was impressed by how much a leap it was over Ghosts N Goblins. Now I own a few variations of it, and it's sequels and prequel.
"That's my words of wisdom. Anyone who wants to get far in this game, my rules are; #1 Get the knife, #2 Get the knife, #3 *Get the knife!"* _Angry Video Game Nerd_
Except for the larvae boss, the flame bomb is the must have weapon otherwise that fight fucking suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. Edit: After watching this fight... What in the hell version is he playing, that stupid ass boss wouldn't go down that easily for me.
Baximus Does anyone know why the end text was always so screwed up on Capcom games? I played all the way through Commando and didn’t see any errors until the very end (which was a letdown, to put it mildly).
This game will always remind me of Christmas 1989. I'd gotten a Genesis for my birthday back in November. For Christmas, my parents bought Thunder Force 2, Ghostbusters, Space Harrier 2, and this. I spent the next three days after Christmas trying to beat this game. Learned the hard way, you have to beat the game twice.
oh wow im 26 and i also played it when i was 8 years old found the cart in a garage sell. i looked at the cart and it was the most amazing work of art i had seen , Its a Japanese game Thats why it looks so beautifullly design the villians the music the stages i still have the cart. and my sega genesis.
Having beaten the game myself, here's what I got to say about the weapons. *Knife:* Basically the best weapon in the game. It's rapid-fire allows you to fire up to three at once, allowing you to spam the knife. Its special ability duplicates your player, allowing you to attack foes twice as fast, even though the clone is a little iffy to manage. This weapon works best against Red Arramers (or Firebrands if you're a noob) and utterly decimates Beezelbub. *Lance:* The default weapon. It works like the knife, but it's slower and fires more accurately. Its special allows you to utterly nail foes directly above you and directly in front and behind you, almost like a screen nuke except it doesn't clear the screen of foes. The lance is the only regular weapon that can be used against Lucifer, and in that case only in home console ports where you can use a level select code. In that specific case, the lance is the best weapon against Lucifer; as for other bosses, it's alright. *Discus:* This weapon glides along the ground if you duck with it, allowing it to decimate any foe in its path further than the Fireball could. It is the best weapon to use if you want to beat Stage 4 and the best weapon to use against Gassuto. It's special, however, is terrible. You summon a shield in front of you, which you can legit break yourself. I'm not kidding. It's a really pathetic shield. *Fireball:* This weapon has terrible range and is practically useless against foes above you. It's explosion glides through the floor more accurately than the Discus at the price of lower range. It's a bad choice against foes with certain weakpoints like Shielder and Astaroth, and it really doesn't work against armored foes like roots and the crystal-shooting tree stumps from Level 4. I only recommend this weapon as a temporary substitute for the Discus. It's special is a pretty good false screen nuke, however. *Holy Weapon:* It is the single most powerful weapon, with each hit being twice as powerful as any other weapon. However, it's got terrible range and has no special. It is the worst weapon to use against Ohme that is actually viable against it. Only grab this weapon at the 5th level when you've beaten Ohme with a much better weapon. Unfortunately, you NEED this weapon to get the chance to fight Loki unless you cheat the lance in instead. *Axe:* The slowest-firing weapon in the game, and you're not gonna get good aim unless you shoot it directly up or down. On the plus side, this weapon actually pierces through foes, allowing you to get multiple foes with a single attack. It doesn't pierce through armored foes, however. It's special requires you to get up close to your foe, which really isn't a good idea in a game like Ghouls n' Ghosts. *Sword:* I'm sorry, if you get THIS weapon, then you're a f***ing idiot! If you get this weapon, GET RID OF IT ASAP! A fair warning, this weapon WILL end your playthrough if you keep it around. If you bring it to Ohme, then the only way you can progress is to reset the game.
@@BonzoDrummer 1. If you're wearing the golden armor, hold down the attack button until the meter below flashes. 2. I think it's random, but at the same time, there is a pattern. The first chest you break at the start of a life/level ALWAYS spawns a Magician.
17:30 I remember my first time beating this game, after killing belzebub, I was like "Oh, thank God!"... and then God shows up! Lol! It's one of the best sequels ever made. Still a hell of a challenge, but much more forgiving than the original.
This explains the 2nd loop : "Also, we originally had a far grander design in mind for Daimakaimura (Ghouls n Ghosts). After the second stage, each stage would have branching A and B routes, and you’d get to choose your path after every stage. Then on the second loop you’d be forced to play the stages you didn’t choose the first time around. Unfortunately, we ran out of memory and time so those extra stages had to be cut. However, even though we shelved those stages, the alternate stage 2 (the water stage) was secretly resurrected and used in the Super Famicom Choumakaimura as the second half of stage 2." Tokurou Fujiwara
I made it to stage 2 on sega genesis version and that was it for me. One of the best and hardest games ever. The dude playing is a real god gamer and makes it look easy =)
I wonder how the generation videogames would be today, if Arcade was the minimum graphics in home consoles when Famicom / Nintendo 8bit came out for the households. I bet in an alternative dimension we play with holograms today. This looks like a game that still holding up today.
I memorize all the mechaniques of this game & to tell you, it take me days before completing the whole game. Same as the Ultimate Ghost 'n Goblins. Yeah, the difficulty of the game is so hard but thats the reason why im playing it all again & again Lmao
that worm boss is called "The Caecilia" i just googled it recently and found out it's not a worm at all, but an amphibian, like a frog. the more you know. . .
This was so hard for me to play when I was younger. 1st time I got to the castle, and I was like what the... again? Then I lost the weapon had to do it again and finally beat this. Ending the torment of a semi-hard game.
For me Capcom is hands down best video game developer of all time. Arguably best classic arcades, scrolling shooters, platformers, scrolling beat em ups, 1 on 1 fighters, action games and survival horror. To be up there in so many different genres for so long speaks for itself.
I love the Ghost and Goblins series it brings back memories from my childhood. I used to play this game on arcade and Sega Genesis. I have this for on Capcom Classic Collections ps2 and Playstation portable.
spent hours playing this with my older brother. Sega Genesis was released and playing these games on it, we where excited for what was coming out next.
The Genesis version of Ghouls 'n Ghosts is my favorite game ever. I was in Oklahoma City when I bought it around Sep 1989. I was in the military and took leave to Kansas City area in Oct and played it at home, got through a few levels but still didn't beat it yet. They shipped me to S. Korea in Nov, I mailed my Genesis to myself at Osan Air Base and resumed playing GnG again in late Nov and I think I beat it just before Christmas. At the time I thought to myself "Man, they will never make another video game with graphics or sounds better than this!". Ah, to be in my naive early 20's again.
Spent a lot of $ playing the arcade version in the early 90's. Graphics still look good, and it still looks like a difficult but fun game to play, even in 2022.
This game is insanely difficult....Kudos to the person who played it through in this vid ;-) [Yes, I know save states are used, but it still needs skill and a good memory for the patterns, etc!]
Ruby Williams Anti UTTP Actually the Snes had it's own unique mechanics. (double jump, different armor types...different charge mechanic) And it was a spin off. The Genesis version was basically a port of the arcade as close as the genesis could pull off at the time.
The mega drive version came out in 89, the SNES version came out in 91. On a console that had slightly better hardware to handle sprites and colors and sound. The Genesis version is an Arcade port. The SNES version was made to sell consoles so it showcases allot of the SNES strengths. I have fond memories of both.
this is one of the games i used to play alot of when i was a kid back in the early 90s on the Mega Drive/genesis, this one has better visuals then the mega drive one
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For those who weren't alive or at least actively out in the world in 1988... Let me tell you that for this 12 year old (then), this game looked very futuristic for its time. A technology revolution was happening at the time and I couldn't believe how lucky I was to play arcade games from 1983 through 1992. It was like every few months something would come out that looked years ahead of anything you'd ever played.
You can probably figure that via compare and contrast
Spent hours on this as it looked better than the c64 graphics. But I still liked the SID soundtrack on the C64.
The feeling was exactly that
True. I was 18 at the time and it blew me away.
Totally get where you're coming from. I'm 45 now but arcades to us back then we're the holy grail. Operation Wolf was a fave.
I never got past the first level. That's how good I was at this game.
Same xD I played it some minutes ago and I got to the boss but died all the time xD
Shannen Kelly I'm not a great gamer but beat this gameon Snes and Genesis but on arcade it would cost a fortune.
this is how they made money back then haha
same
I made it to second level, but no further
One of the best 2D platformers ever made, hands down. This arcade version came out in 1988, and these graphics still hold today great. Movement and animation are top tier, the music sounds classic, and the challenge although extremely hard is the most fair out of the first three games in the franchise. Capcom developers were awsome back then.
You said it all
i agree with all but one thing you said: you're smoking crack rocks if you think the difficulty of this game is anything resembling "fair" lol
@@LIONTAMER3D The only hard part for me is the cloud eye takes too many times and the final pink clouds in the devil's lair damn clouds
and getting past the giant hornet
@@smoketj4830 the pink clouds I found easier than the first. Just trigger them and head straight to where the for where the double purple boss was. That flat terrain makes them so much easier, and if you do it correctly only 2 will be there at a time.
@@LIONTAMER3D he didn't say fair he said fair in comparison with the other games. Which is true. This series is one of the hardest ever.
"Arthur, you've done well, but the programmers need you to use more quarters"
Arthur, you're skilled, you're decent, you've made it to the princess, and ima letcha finish....
But you need to collect the special weapon needed to defeat the final boss!!! Oh yeah and we want more of your money too
These programmers were experts at extorting our allowance!
😅🤣🤣
THIS. hated you had to play the game twice feels tacky.
what i wouldn't give for a fan made one
like sonic mania this is the only good one the others are too hard or you cant even shoot up. down.
but 32 bit didnt have the ROM ps5 has lol
🤑
One of the finest arcade games ever made. Thanks for sharing this long play.
I feel slightly better after all these years. I watched a documentary of this game and the developer used to watch kids play the game, see how they beat certain parts, and then go back and re-design those parts to make it even harder. I spent ridiculous amounts of money on this game as a kid and everyone thought I was cool because I could make it to the 2nd level LOL. Unbelievably difficult! Edit: After watching this video, I realize how hopeless level 3 would have been for me. I am terrible at platformers and this is riiiiiiiidiculous
It's not just the old school graphics that are awesome, but the actual horror style of the design. The monsters and environs are so complex and twisted and gross!
Also, I think it'd be quite funny yet still awesome if this game was re-skinned in the style of WH40K.
Agree
Exacto, yo creo que kentaro miura se basó en este juego para hacer berserk nose porque me lleva a esa historia también
The music in this game has always amazed me. That and the particular pallet they chose for the art is nice.
capcom in top form
this game is not as easy as it seems. nice walkthrough CONGRATURATION !
mega2k1 it can be easy once you know what to do. I'm sure...
Nope stays hard no matter what
I just realised why its congraturation.... because japanese don't ''understand'' the concept of the letter ''L''
I know. Watching this is so intimidating and full of concentration involved. This golden genere is SO HARD to beat and get killed SO EASILY. Hmmm these games are always memorable, those were the days. 👍👍
MGAgamingHD It's "congratulations."
Ghouls and Ghosts... The "Dark Souls" of it's day!
So true.
The GnG series (the PSP games, Gokumakaimura, aka Ultimate Ghosts N Goblins, and it's revision, Gokumakaimura Kai included, plus the Wonderswan game, there's also 2 Japan only mobile games in the series) makes Dark Souls look like a family friendly picnic day at the park.
@@Bloodreign1 Have you seen the Ghosts n Demons fan made game?
@@Bloodreign1 couldn't agree more.. the psp version was so incredibly difficult I gave up after like 10 minutes.
More like: Dark Souls... The modern Ghouls & Ghosts.
I always get warm, fuzzy memories of this game when I hear the stage 2 music.
Its like the lotr shire music... totally heart warming!
Stage 4 too :')
"a day @ the ren fest" lol
@@cassettelord music
its so magical almost makes me cry the nostalgia
Wow. You made this look easy...and it STILL didn't look easy. Thanks for going through this!
And you know what? After you go through a game like this, you don't want to be congratulated. You want to be CONGRATURATED. You DESERVE to be congraturated.
@ 23:31 tool assisted?
@@io4439 what do you mean?
@@brianfleury979 If you watch carefully, the player touched the enemy considerably and should have lost his armour.
Collision detection off in the tool assist is to make it a lot easier for the player to produce the video for youtube. No big deal really. He's not claiming it to be some world record attempt so it's cool
@@io4439 thanks for the clarification! I suspected the same but wasnt sure...game looks like so much fun and i played so much gng on snes as a kid
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Man when I was a child my parents bought my brother and me an arcade with this game. It was faulty (that's probably how they got it for cheap).
We couldn't go left. All we could do was to either move right or stand still. But we have inifinite credits, so we could always try again.
We managed to, slowly come up with strategies that actually let us win the game. We knew what weapons we had to use for each boss, and we relied heavily on luck, so maybe 1 in 10 games we managed to win.
I remember that on of the parts that cost me A LOT of time to get past was the section at 9:07. Timing the jumping on those tongues and clouds when ONLY being able to move right was really tricky.
This brought back real time memories of me and my friends playing it,amazing feeling to go back in time like that....
I'm old so I remember playing Ghosts and Goblins in a 7-11 near my friend's house for hours and then when I got my first office job, this appeared in the arcade half a block away where I spent my lunch hours. This was one of those games I mastered to the point that I could play as long as I wanted - if you pick up a different weapon before the final battle after the second pass they throw you back to the start again! I loved just trying to do the whole game with each different weapon just for fun - really made you appreciate each weapon's strengths and sometimes HUGE weaknesses on certain levels! One of my all time favorite side scrollers.
that damn sword i hated when i got it it was useless 😆
Didn’t realize how beautiful the game was - amazing variety of sprites and the dark backgrounds are awesome.
capcom has a library of legendary games under its belt =/
One of the best soundtracks in gaming history. Underrated.
The princess must have some bomb ass stuff to send Arthur back to the beginning ha ha.
Bust 83 - Waist 50 - Hips - 89
'Nuff said.
ICEGOD2 that vagina is gold plated
Xesphere 83' bust? Wow, I think I just bust.
JohnnyJohn116
And she’s also a Catwoman like Felicia.
@@edwardgaines6561 I see whatcha did there... lol
I laughed at the end when they gave the princess' body measurements! So random!
AHAHAHAHAHAHA, I never beat the game. That's friggen hilarious!
Thats a street fighter 2 reference (these are from chun lee data screen)
This and Ghosts 'n Goblins really stood out as cream of the crop gaming. Still a blast to play. Nice job!
The only time I saw this game was at a laundromat many many years ago. I was impressed by how much a leap it was over Ghosts N Goblins. Now I own a few variations of it, and it's sequels and prequel.
Same, love these games.. I assume you seen the Ghosts n Demons game?
What an exceptionally skillful playthrough. A marvel to watch!
"That's my words of wisdom. Anyone who wants to get far in this game, my rules are; #1 Get the knife, #2 Get the knife, #3 *Get the knife!"*
_Angry Video Game Nerd_
Except for the larvae boss, the flame bomb is the must have weapon otherwise that fight fucking suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.
Edit: After watching this fight... What in the hell version is he playing, that stupid ass boss wouldn't go down that easily for me.
He was talking about Ghosts ' n Goblins, which is way harder and unfair than Ghouls n Ghosts
Jovan Mitrić the first game ghost and goblin knife is best but in this game its not
lol. avgn reviewed ghosts n goblins nes game.
@@notkimpine the NES Version is very close
The amount of typos in the end text is highly amusing.
***** I figure it's because the localization department thought "Well, the game's so hard, no one will ever get that far."
@Houston Helicopter Tours Inc. and cuz Asians no good at Engrish
Congraturation!!!
Baximus Does anyone know why the end text was always so screwed up on Capcom games? I played all the way through Commando and didn’t see any errors until the very end (which was a letdown, to put it mildly).
So There's That there's an end to Commando?
Everything about this game feels trippy...It´s so.... I can´t even explain it.
It’s honestly sad how this never later got ported to the SNES/Virtual Console, this looks much better than Super Ghouls N Ghosts
It's stunning to think that a game from the '80s (that didn't use the CPS hardware) could look this good. Every single shot is beautiful.
the sega genesis was special
it used all of its power to the fullest
just looked at the classic Sonic games
This game will always remind me of Christmas 1989. I'd gotten a Genesis for my birthday back in November. For Christmas, my parents bought Thunder Force 2, Ghostbusters, Space Harrier 2, and this. I spent the next three days after Christmas trying to beat this game. Learned the hard way, you have to beat the game twice.
oh wow im 26 and i also played it when i was 8 years old found the cart in a garage sell. i looked at the cart and it was the most amazing work of art i had seen , Its a Japanese game
Thats why it looks so beautifullly design
the villians the music the stages
i still have the cart. and my sega genesis.
I suppose they got tired after naming a few of the enemies and then decided to do it only on the bosses.
PERFECT franchise for this time of year.💗
Having beaten the game myself, here's what I got to say about the weapons.
*Knife:* Basically the best weapon in the game. It's rapid-fire allows you to fire up to three at once, allowing you to spam the knife. Its special ability duplicates your player, allowing you to attack foes twice as fast, even though the clone is a little iffy to manage. This weapon works best against Red Arramers (or Firebrands if you're a noob) and utterly decimates Beezelbub.
*Lance:* The default weapon. It works like the knife, but it's slower and fires more accurately. Its special allows you to utterly nail foes directly above you and directly in front and behind you, almost like a screen nuke except it doesn't clear the screen of foes. The lance is the only regular weapon that can be used against Lucifer, and in that case only in home console ports where you can use a level select code. In that specific case, the lance is the best weapon against Lucifer; as for other bosses, it's alright.
*Discus:* This weapon glides along the ground if you duck with it, allowing it to decimate any foe in its path further than the Fireball could. It is the best weapon to use if you want to beat Stage 4 and the best weapon to use against Gassuto. It's special, however, is terrible. You summon a shield in front of you, which you can legit break yourself. I'm not kidding. It's a really pathetic shield.
*Fireball:* This weapon has terrible range and is practically useless against foes above you. It's explosion glides through the floor more accurately than the Discus at the price of lower range. It's a bad choice against foes with certain weakpoints like Shielder and Astaroth, and it really doesn't work against armored foes like roots and the crystal-shooting tree stumps from Level 4. I only recommend this weapon as a temporary substitute for the Discus. It's special is a pretty good false screen nuke, however.
*Holy Weapon:* It is the single most powerful weapon, with each hit being twice as powerful as any other weapon. However, it's got terrible range and has no special. It is the worst weapon to use against Ohme that is actually viable against it. Only grab this weapon at the 5th level when you've beaten Ohme with a much better weapon. Unfortunately, you NEED this weapon to get the chance to fight Loki unless you cheat the lance in instead.
*Axe:* The slowest-firing weapon in the game, and you're not gonna get good aim unless you shoot it directly up or down. On the plus side, this weapon actually pierces through foes, allowing you to get multiple foes with a single attack. It doesn't pierce through armored foes, however. It's special requires you to get up close to your foe, which really isn't a good idea in a game like Ghouls n' Ghosts.
*Sword:* I'm sorry, if you get THIS weapon, then you're a f***ing idiot! If you get this weapon, GET RID OF IT ASAP! A fair warning, this weapon WILL end your playthrough if you keep it around. If you bring it to Ohme, then the only way you can progress is to reset the game.
How do you use the special abilities? Also, how do you avoid getting chests with the magician guy in them?
@@BonzoDrummer 1. If you're wearing the golden armor, hold down the attack button until the meter below flashes.
2. I think it's random, but at the same time, there is a pattern. The first chest you break at the start of a life/level ALWAYS spawns a Magician.
@@Flashlight237Cool, I wondered what the armor actually did.
17:30 I remember my first time beating this game, after killing belzebub, I was like "Oh, thank God!"... and then God shows up! Lol!
It's one of the best sequels ever made. Still a hell of a challenge, but much more forgiving than the original.
you did NOT "beat this game" -.-
This explains the 2nd loop : "Also, we originally had a far grander design in mind for Daimakaimura (Ghouls n Ghosts). After the second stage, each stage would have branching A and B routes, and you’d get to choose your path after every stage. Then on the second loop you’d be forced to play the stages you didn’t choose the first time around. Unfortunately, we ran out of memory and time so those extra stages had to be cut. However, even though we shelved those stages, the alternate stage 2 (the water stage) was secretly resurrected and used in the Super Famicom Choumakaimura as the second half of stage 2." Tokurou Fujiwara
And then in the GBA port the original vision was realized
Thanks for the insight, never knew that, Im a massive fan of these games..
Seems like they finally realized this vision completely with Resurrection.
Damn can’t believe the Genesis version was close to the Arcade one! This is one of my Genesis Classics!
It's things like stage 3 that make me think the makers of this series have had some really bad acid trips.
djmixnmagic the music in this game is trippy too.
People can be creative without taking drugs.
@@heyguysinternet Totally, man...
The ground tiles in stage 3 in the normal stage predicted the modern sprites in indie games
This game is pretty cool
I love all the animations
They put much love and effort into this game
The game even gives you Prin Prins measurements to assure you that all your hard work was worth it!
18:22 greatest troll in gaming history
02:40 really good storm effect I thought
Adam Smythe i could feel the wind pullling me back when i played it
I made it to stage 2 on sega genesis version and that was it for me. One of the best and hardest games ever. The dude playing is a real god gamer and makes it look easy =)
Use to play this when I was just a kid, this was the Super Mario of our days lol! Thank you for the Memories.
I wonder how the generation videogames would be today, if Arcade was the minimum graphics in home consoles when Famicom / Nintendo 8bit came out for the households. I bet in an alternative dimension we play with holograms today. This looks like a game that still holding up today.
30:04 CONGRATURATION!
FknGantisms mazic = magic
FknGantisms defeater = defeated
FknGantisms the most funny haha
Ghouls'n Ghouts'! oh man, they don't know the game's name... :facepalm:
Lmao.
@@CircleofShit "Congraturation", meaning: I saturate you in congrats.. ;)
Jesus this Schaughi makes one of the hardest arcade games of all time look like a cake walk.
Thanks for the upload! Childhood memories kicking in. Good times!
I memorize all the mechaniques of this game & to tell you, it take me days before completing the whole game. Same as the Ultimate Ghost 'n Goblins. Yeah, the difficulty of the game is so hard but thats the reason why im playing it all again & again Lmao
Still looks amazing, true classic right here boys
capcom has a lot of those lol
I remember in my childhood when I had a cd with a thousand games,including this game.
that worm boss is called "The Caecilia"
i just googled it recently and found out it's not a worm at all, but an amphibian, like a frog.
the more you know. . .
I thought it was called Ohme
@@Nomi_MirXa it is
This was so hard for me to play when I was younger. 1st time I got to the castle, and I was like what the... again? Then I lost the weapon had to do it again and finally beat this. Ending the torment of a semi-hard game.
0:45 SNIPER! Princess down!! D:
For me Capcom is hands down best video game developer of all time. Arguably best classic arcades, scrolling shooters, platformers, scrolling beat em ups, 1 on 1 fighters, action games and survival horror. To be up there in so many different genres for so long speaks for itself.
Truly amazing gameplay. This is one of the toughest of its era, for sure.
Graphically and sonically superior to most games of its day
Very difficult game but i always liked it. Great graphics for that time.
I just beat this game at my local arcade yesterday! Absolutely love it.
This game brings so much stressing memories. My cousin introduced me to this game way back. Finally figured out the name of this game!
I never seen this game in any arcade. Ghosts and goblins was everywhere but this I only seen on console.
Kneel before one of the hardest platformers ever relased in gaming history!
I love the Ghost and Goblins series it brings back memories from my childhood. I used to play this game on arcade and Sega Genesis. I have this for on Capcom Classic Collections ps2 and Playstation portable.
What sorcery is this?!?!?!
No mere mortal could achieve such a feat....
spent hours playing this with my older brother. Sega Genesis was released and playing these games on it, we where excited for what was coming out next.
the throwing knifes are really OP in this game, anyway great gameplay I like it!
what a cool game ladies and gentlemen....with castlevania IV,and zelda.....the best at that time
This is the actual arcade rom.
this game was a test of mind, body, and soul
I had a slight nervous breakdown when you traded the knives for the sword, but in the world of save states, anything can be done.
Gabriel Fischer the axe and sword are shit
@@mr.cifuentes1779 agreed on the axe.. however I thought it was cool to see Arthur with a sword... the SNES box art left me disappointed
@@mr.cifuentes1779 The sword was awesome. It did twice the amount of damage to anything. It can take out Shielder in 4 hits
The Genesis version of Ghouls 'n Ghosts is my favorite game ever. I was in Oklahoma City when I bought it around Sep 1989. I was in the military and took leave to Kansas City area in Oct and played it at home, got through a few levels but still didn't beat it yet. They shipped me to S. Korea in Nov, I mailed my Genesis to myself at Osan Air Base and resumed playing GnG again in late Nov and I think I beat it just before Christmas. At the time I thought to myself "Man, they will never make another video game with graphics or sounds better than this!".
Ah, to be in my naive early 20's again.
Watching this playthrough brought back my PTSD...
Yeah you finally showed me the knight in gold armor. This game is just perfect for Halloween, even though it's not dungeons and dragons. 🎃
Games like this from the 80s just goes to show you that great ideas and imagination can be born from good quality drugs.
This game is pretty tough but that one weapon is ridiculously overpowered.
I've beat this dozens of times on genesis and about twice in arcades. I die a lot though and you didn't even lose your armor. Wow great job!
Wonderfully hard as nails piece of gaming history
Used to play this when we was on a family holiday... I remember the music...took me ages to remember what it was called 😂😂❤❤❤❤
Video game logic. The character moves just as fast in full plate armor as he does in just a diaper.
Spent a lot of $ playing the arcade version in the early 90's.
Graphics still look good, and it still looks like a difficult but fun game to play, even in 2022.
The megadrive version of this game is maddeningly hard but it keeps pulling you back for more.
This game is insanely difficult....Kudos to the person who played it through in this vid ;-)
[Yes, I know save states are used, but it still needs skill and a good memory for the patterns, etc!]
Man its so mind blowing to watch
I wasn't aware at just how closely related the Genesis version was to the arcade.
the snes version is entirely different
the only one on snes is super ghouls n ghosts and its a totally different game
its a sequel i guess
Ruby Williams Anti UTTP
Actually the Snes had it's own unique mechanics. (double jump, different armor types...different charge mechanic)
And it was a spin off.
The Genesis version was basically a port of the arcade as close as the genesis could pull off at the time.
The mega drive version came out in 89, the SNES version came out in 91. On a console that had slightly better hardware to handle sprites and colors and sound.
The Genesis version is an Arcade port. The SNES version was made to sell consoles so it showcases allot of the SNES strengths.
I have fond memories of both.
For those that like this genre like me this is the ultimate game. For me this is unbeaten.
Beautiful graphics
Christ,that's a long time to run in a suit of armour!
The game itself looked very good given when it came out... and the difficulty of playing made it very exciting to play.
This is straight up a perfect run. Holy shit Schlauchi.
this is one of the games i used to play alot of when i was a kid back in the early 90s on the Mega Drive/genesis, this one has better visuals then the mega drive one
My most favourite game. Completed it without a loss of life once .
A hard game, but easy compared to the devilish Ghost'n Goblins.
Looks more like a sequel
this game was hilarious, first round and then go back and do it again holy.SOLD.
The Genesis got very very close to pretty much everything... Very impressive.
0:43
Damn, that's quite a dark intro for such a comedic game, isn't it?
This game was based on a true story
@@robertwilson3866😲
How technology advanced in the 10 years since Space Invaders!! Wow!
One of the hardest video games ever without a doubt.
Sdd dos tempos em que os jogos tinham alguma dificuldade. Hj é uns joghuim NUTELLA
I'm not a gamer, but this was the shit when it was released. Absolute classic game!
Farthest I ever made it to was the second level, but not past the quicksand. This game doesn't mess around.
Congratuartion on a game well played.
Imagine if this was a Mario game, and Mario had to go through it all over again to beat Bowser.
Mario: ~sigh~ Mama fucka!
This was one of the hardest games ever made. Still loved playing it though