Beat Contra, only by progressing slooowly through the game, grinding for lives. no codes. Got to the heart with the spreadshot, and managed to destroy several of the pods, and damage the heart up to to what I can guess was 45% before one of the bugs from a remaining pod nailed me. It was back to the standard gun, and became a jumping and getting in a shot on the pod and the scorpions it spat out. Eventually, it paid off. The heart was an undefended target and eventually went down. Can't tell you how good that felt. I beat 1 and 3 (normal) But 2? Only made it past level four (the "Green Tower") I was later mulched by the bullet hell that is stage 5. (the mountains)
Gotta agree. I'm not a Metroid fan, but the escaping of the chambers of the game during self-destruct is far beyond Shredder walking around aimlessly and dying for #1 lol.
Heck yeah!!! turned 40 on August, Super Mario series, Ninja Gaiden, TMNT, TopGun second mission, Double Dragon, Faxanadu, Adventures of Lolo were my favorites.
I'm 46 started gameing with the atari 2600, played on a 14 inck black and white tv. After playing that for 6 years and saw the nes for the first time i was blown away. Most of these games brought back memories i had forgot.
40 as well. I beat Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior (/Quest, shoulda been on the list) Mario 1-3, Metroid, Double Dragon, and Zelda. To me the best ending was finding Samus was a woman. Mother Brain was tough but fun, but when rumors started circling that the faster you beat the game, the more Samus would take off, I was hooked on beating it as fast as humanly possible. Lol
I want to go back to the 80s and 90s. The times when we rented from blockbuster videos on the weekends. The days when we would go outside and come back in and play these games.
Right? Back when horror games were horror games that would give you nightmares, no over the top death scenes filled with gore, and no 30 minute cut scenes that offered pointless information with nothing to do with the plot.
william robinson I would give nearly anything to return to that point in time. Life in general was better then. People didn't stick their heads in their retarded phones or "hangout" on facebook. Memories is all that remains :(
TheDemoniusX Well said! Those times were great! Now its like you phones, hangouts, and facebook. Which reminds I gotta check my facebook lol just kidding don't have one but somebody probly just said that.
william robinson Agreed, but we have to thank the people who made copies of games and becoming illigal. no more renting games since people are downloading. That's what happened with ps1 and also of course with DVD's/ Internet
Alucard8319 Yeah I remember having a chip or something put in my ps1 where I could play burn games that was the beginning of the burning games. It was one game that was never released on ps1 but some how I got a copy of it thrill kill.
These games were way too hard compared to what we have today. GTA 5 for instance is an entertaining game because of the story and the environment but difficulty-wise 'walk in the park' would be an overstatement
You hit the nail on the head. I remember it took me 1 year to beat castlevania Dracula’s curse on NES. With the hard characters! No cheats. Very extremely tough freaking game right there.
Kids under 21 probably can't beat half of the games presented in the video. I beat most of the games shown in the video except for Mega Man and Ninja Gaiden. I can't stand playing those two games
Today's standards are really low actually. new games are meant to be beaten, a lot of the games in this video were meant to cause physical pain to your controller and tv.
Props for actually getting to the end of Battletoads. Hardest game I’ve ever played by a long shot. I owned that game and me & a buddy played it every weekend at sleepovers for a couple years. We never beat it without game genie and we were the best NES gamers amongst our friends at school. Battletoads would’ve had more success as a franchise if it wasn’t impossible to beat, kids just got frustrated and didn’t want to play it again. I read the game developers purposefully made it hard to beat so kids spend more quarters on the arcade version of it.
True story - Battletoads DIDNT have an ending initially. It was just like Ghouls and Goblins. It was designed to be an infinite quarter vacuum at the arcade. And when they were ported to console, they had to program some kind of ending to them.
Man, Blaster Master was a huge shock. First time I ever encountered a two-phase boss in any game, ever. Edit: During the escape phase of Life Force you can scoot to the top of the screen and stay in the middle and you'll be fine. :)
+Koko Kurak I disagree. I think some of the finest musical work happened with the old NES because they had so little to work with to evoke emotions and set moods. they didn't have a full suite of orchestras or sound crews, just a very limited set of beeps and boops.
+Koko Kurak My 5 year old Daughter likes to sleep to the NESGuide Play lists. she likes/loves 8-bit tunes and it seems to be the best way to get her to sleep without alot of acting up. So I Chromecast NES audio from NESGuide on here (play lists of 10min'ish games in alphabetical order) and she goes to sleep. It's not an era - it's a preference.
I was born in 1980, and TRULY APPRECIATE this video. It brought back so many AWESOME memories of my childhood and the Nintendo parties that my childhood friends and I used to have. 😎😎😎
Plus you had to revisit earlier areas after you upgrade your vehicle. Something about that just felt so fresh and original. Really tied the whole world together.
I always liked NES games despite not being born back then, they were limited but the stories behind them in the manual and the game play were simple but gave good challenges
My God contra is such a classic. Brought back so many fond memories of my friends and I staying up all night .Fighting chaos in final fantasy was rough . Remember spell RUB lol . Used to piss me off . You chose some great games to show bosses here. God , blaster master ... My brother and i played 24 7.
somone is mentioning faxanadu...mygod i see you are a men with culture my guy. this game was just freaking awesom. the last boss was not hard but that dragon just befor was something. the game overall was hard as heck. a masterpiece of the NES.
I played it so much that I had that final sequence of walls memorized. Note that the last one _has no opening._ You either speed up or it's an automatic death. Great game.
Growing up on NES, we lived with my grandmother. She had a 3 season patio with the tv I used to play my games. My NES was a handmedown from my cousin and one of the games I had was TMNT 2: Arcade Version. Before Internet, the only way us kids found out about games was commercials, magazines, another friend who bought it, video game rentals, or the store. We didn’t have a lot of money growing up, so getting 1 game a year was fairly common. However, TMNT 3 was a summer rental hit. Having a special move when 2 didn’t was the biggest deal to a 6 year old. You’d rent the game, call your friend on the phone, and ask them to come over and play the game you just picked up. The nostalgia of it all of a simpler time is something I hope my kids get to experience in their childhoods. This is why I still collect and play these games. You can’t put a price on that.
This was and is a very accurate assessment of many games I have had trials and errors with myself. 80's games were notorious for being very unforgiving. I am from this generation of gaming and proud to call myself a member of the origonal Saturday night Warriors .
I'd take Mega Man 2 final boss over the first one. Wiley turning into an alien actually shocked me when I first saw it. And the reveal after you beat him was funny as a kid. Like a twisted Oz
The final boss of bayou billy.... After you beat him, and he's by far the hardest enemy in the game, his two sons come out and you fight them at the same time and they're clones of the guy you just fought in terms of difficulty. That was a legendary boss fight... Of course, I only saw it here on UA-cam cause there's no way I could get up to that boss, let alone the second level!
Jesper Thornberg That's not a human playing, it's Tool assisted. They play the game one frame at a time and use a program to do the inputs to make it look that good.
Jimmy may be the last boss in the NES version of Double Dragon, but watching the Billy vs. Jimmy portion still made me think back to the fight against Willy in the arcade version. When I originally downloaded it for 360, there were 4 achievements I never got, mainly due to the fact that the DRM made me redownload the game every time when I upgraded to a larger hard drive, and when the game was removed from the servers, I wasn't able to play the full game at all any longer despite having to pay for it. Well, one of the achievements I never got was to get to Willy and beat all the other enemies on the screen before taking Willy out. I'm happy to say that when Double Dragon became available on PS4, I pulled it off! There may not have been a trophy for doing that, but it still felt good to know that I would have that achievement would be mine if I was still able to unlock it.
Pretty good compilation. I would also personally add some of the end bosses in the Dragon Warrior series (especially Necrosaro), Shadow/ Dark Link in Zelda II, the Mysterious Warrior in Double Dragon II (U.S. version), and Grumple Grommit/ Super Drunk from Bubble Bobble just to name a few.
I forgot how great some of these games were and the quality of animation on the later NES titles like Mario 3 and TMNT 3. They're really pushing the hardware.
This is a great list! #1 was a bit of an odd choice. Not a bad one, though. I'd have chosen the Shredder from TMNT 2 instead as I thought it was a better fight. I'm really surprised StarTropics wasn't on the list. The last fight with Zoda is pretty horrifying.
This was awesome! I've beaten 6 of these (Final Fantasy, Mario 2, Punch-Out, Mario 3, Zelda, and Ninja Turtles) but never even came close to any of those others (I've been playing Metroid a lot lately, a game I didn't have back in the day, and it's hard as **** but awesome lol). Seriously tho great vid and thanks for the fun walk down memory lane. :)
+DjEzhel88 I agree. I'd also probably take Double Dragon 2's true final boss (Mysterious Warrior) over Jimmy from Double Dragon, and maybe Ninja Gaiden 2 (Jaquio/Jaki-oh merged with Demon) over the Demon from Ninja Gaiden. I'm curious to know how he judged them. Music? Design? Atmosphere? Challenge?
Does anyone else think that for the Duck Tales game, instead of having Dracula Duck be the final boss, they should've just gone the extra mile and named him "Quackula" instead? I'd have died laughing if they'd done it.
Nickelodeon may have broadcast it, but that was a show created by UK animators Cosgrove Hall...who would have put up precisely NO resistance to their character's name being used, I suspect.
I remember beating most of these games as a kid. Good times. Kirby's Adventure final boss music was pretty awesome for such a cutesy game. Battletoads and Castlevania made me pull my hair out till I finally beat them. Damn those games were tough! 😆
Kids today dont know HOW difficult it was to ever finish a game back in the day... I barely finish a couple of games but it was very satisfying I never met someone who actually finish all games they played... unlike today that they are meant to be finished so you keep on buying the new ones fast
hi riggs this is a long shot but did you play runescape around a year ago ? i havnt played that game in allmost a year and i knew someone on there with a nickname similar to yours
Hell, it took me 30 years to beat Zelda II and Castlevania (although for Zelda II it was because there was no Internet to look up the ONE hidden block you had to smash to even REACH the boss).
Solid list friend! All good entries. I would’ve left a few of these out to put in other favorites of my own and I absolutely wouldn’t have had Shredder as my top pick (I also think I would’ve had the Turtles II Shredder instead of III but that’s just me) and I probably would’ve gone with a different Wiley boss but I’d really have to go back and rank them.
I came here expecting to see Mega Man, Contra, The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid and I was not let down! All props to you. You definitely know your shit when it comes to badass NES bosses
I really wish Crystalis has a spot on here. I know the "Final" fight, if you don't count the tower as a whole as a boss, isn't THAT complicated... but objectively, it's much moreso than Castlevania. In fact, most of these were... it just shows some bias, considering how simple Dracula is, that it's just an iconic fight. Glad to see Kirby's Adventure, though!
That was a nice crossover it was neat seeing Ryuko and Shadow just chatting and catching up on things while they're in a Alien invasion can't wait to see Black doom and Eclipse soon
OMG, how did anyone beat these games. I've played a few of these titles and never beat them without cheats. Some of these boss battle are intense! I almost ripped my office chair arm off watching this video. Not to mention you couldn't continue in some of these games. Whew! Brought back a lot of memories. Oh childhood memories. =)
I thought I was pretty damn skilled at video games. Realizing I never fully completed any of this shit (also 8yrs old at the time) sucked I guess. Maybe I’ll give it some thought while I’m riding my Harley around town, lol. Right. Like I have time to give a shit about my Nintendo stats 30yrs ago.
I remember hours upon hours I spent trying to kill Jason in Friday the 13th when his health keeps regenerating. Fuck those assholes that didn’t understand how to make a difficulty setting. How the fuck did they forget the “fun” in a game. 20-30 decent games outta hundreds and hundreds.
jeffel80 I did! I was born 1978 and I got an NES 1986 for Xmas. Blockbusters was the place to rent games so the ones I didn't own I rented and I beat most these games
oh I am SO GLAD that the "Plutonium Boss" from Blaster Master made it in this list! He was one hellova boss to beat, and seeing my favorite game featured in here is awesome!
Man I played all of these as a kid. Some great stories. I used to go to my local mall that had an arcade, some of these titles were there before nes ports or vice versa, One of the perks of growing up in a big city. Probably about 30 machines.
Man, I remember when me and my friend worked together to beat Contra. When the heart boss exploded, we went crazy. Those were the days.
exact same reaction we had, then we started making fun of the japanese names in the end credits.
@@KronStaro 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Beat Contra, only by progressing slooowly through the game, grinding for lives. no codes. Got to the heart with the spreadshot, and managed to destroy several of the pods, and damage the heart up to to what I can guess was 45% before one of the bugs from a remaining pod nailed me. It was back to the standard gun, and became a jumping and getting in a shot on the pod and the scorpions it spat out. Eventually, it paid off. The heart was an undefended target and eventually went down. Can't tell you how good that felt. I beat 1 and 3 (normal) But 2? Only made it past level four (the "Green Tower") I was later mulched by the bullet hell that is stage 5. (the mountains)
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Seriously, the Mother Brain in Metroid is number one for me. The way they designed it in the game is just creepy and incredible.
Did anyone really beat metroid back in the days?
Gotta agree. I'm not a Metroid fan, but the escaping of the chambers of the game during self-destruct is far beyond Shredder walking around aimlessly and dying for #1 lol.
@@TheBorkka I did!
@@TheBorkka Many many times. Was one of my favorites.
@@lakecityransom TMNT was a overall fun & better game than Metroid.
Awesome memories! Anyone around the age of 40 that was a vid kid remembers these beauties👍
Heck yeah!!! turned 40 on August, Super Mario series, Ninja Gaiden, TMNT, TopGun second mission, Double Dragon, Faxanadu, Adventures of Lolo were my favorites.
I'm 46 started gameing with the atari 2600, played on a 14 inck black and white tv. After playing that for 6 years and saw the nes for the first time i was blown away. Most of these games brought back memories i had forgot.
I do, im 38
36 year old nostalgic here
40 as well. I beat Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior (/Quest, shoulda been on the list) Mario 1-3, Metroid, Double Dragon, and Zelda.
To me the best ending was finding Samus was a woman. Mother Brain was tough but fun, but when rumors started circling that the faster you beat the game, the more Samus would take off, I was hooked on beating it as fast as humanly possible. Lol
The turtles game used all its ram to say cowabunga at the end. lol
Truth! Haha!
lol
Very true mate. Righly said. Hahahaha
😂😂😂
Nes supposed bto beep boop sound only. A word probably is very hard
I want to go back to the 80s and 90s. The times when we rented from blockbuster videos on the weekends. The days when we would go outside and come back in and play these games.
Right? Back when horror games were horror games that would give you nightmares, no over the top death scenes filled with gore, and no 30 minute cut scenes that offered pointless information with nothing to do with the plot.
william robinson
I would give nearly anything to return to that point in time. Life in general was better then. People didn't stick their heads in their retarded phones or "hangout" on facebook. Memories is all that remains :(
TheDemoniusX Well said! Those times were great! Now its like you phones, hangouts, and facebook. Which reminds I gotta check my facebook lol just kidding don't have one but somebody probly just said that.
william robinson Agreed, but we have to thank the people who made copies of games and becoming illigal. no more renting games since people are downloading. That's what happened with ps1 and also of course with DVD's/ Internet
Alucard8319 Yeah I remember having a chip or something put in my ps1 where I could play burn games that was the beginning of the burning games. It was one game that was never released on ps1 but some how I got a copy of it thrill kill.
Without cheats/codes/shortcuts/warps, all these games were freaking hellishly hard to finish, even by today's standards!
And we need to bring this stuff back! Games today are too forgiving and easy!
These games were way too hard compared to what we have today. GTA 5 for instance is an entertaining game because of the story and the environment but difficulty-wise 'walk in the park' would be an overstatement
You hit the nail on the head. I remember it took me 1 year to beat castlevania Dracula’s curse on NES. With the hard characters! No cheats. Very extremely tough freaking game right there.
Kids under 21 probably can't beat half of the games presented in the video. I beat most of the games shown in the video except for Mega Man and Ninja Gaiden. I can't stand playing those two games
Today's standards are really low actually. new games are meant to be beaten, a lot of the games in this video were meant to cause physical pain to your controller and tv.
Props for actually getting to the end of Battletoads. Hardest game I’ve ever played by a long shot. I owned that game and me & a buddy played it every weekend at sleepovers for a couple years. We never beat it without game genie and we were the best NES gamers amongst our friends at school. Battletoads would’ve had more success as a franchise if it wasn’t impossible to beat, kids just got frustrated and didn’t want to play it again. I read the game developers purposefully made it hard to beat so kids spend more quarters on the arcade version of it.
I refuse to believe that game even has an ending, it's so darn hard, me and my little played that game daily for years smh
Cattle Loads lol
Farthest I ever got in that game was Robo Manus, and that was with the benefit of Nintendo Power and using the 2nd player to double up on continues.
True story - Battletoads DIDNT have an ending initially. It was just like Ghouls and Goblins. It was designed to be an infinite quarter vacuum at the arcade. And when they were ported to console, they had to program some kind of ending to them.
Man, Blaster Master was a huge shock. First time I ever encountered a two-phase boss in any game, ever.
Edit: During the escape phase of Life Force you can scoot to the top of the screen and stay in the middle and you'll be fine. :)
Never gonna beat this boss.
Never gonna take him down.
All he does is run around and... he hurts you.
Never gonna beat..never gonna beat ...beat this boss never gonna take...never gonna take..........take him down
Lol
@@davidolivier1773 you'll beat your meat before you beat the boss...
Well at least 1 of them is fun....1 comes at you the other comes out of you.
Fvf
The best part of the old games is the sound. Of course, the graphics are cool, but nothing compares to that sound
Got that right partner
***** thats right koko call it nostalgia. Or kids stuff but definitely marked our lives
+Koko Kurak I disagree. I think some of the finest musical work happened with the old NES because they had so little to work with to evoke emotions and set moods. they didn't have a full suite of orchestras or sound crews, just a very limited set of beeps and boops.
+Jaret Wood Two words: Arpeggio Effect.
+Koko Kurak My 5 year old Daughter likes to sleep to the NESGuide Play lists. she likes/loves 8-bit tunes and it seems to be the best way to get her to sleep without alot of acting up. So I Chromecast NES audio from NESGuide on here (play lists of 10min'ish games in alphabetical order) and she goes to sleep. It's not an era - it's a preference.
I was born in 1980, and TRULY APPRECIATE this video. It brought back so many AWESOME memories of my childhood and the Nintendo parties that my childhood friends and I used to have. 😎😎😎
These old Nintendo games bring me back from when I was a kid and even the Atari games classics no matter how old they get they're always fun to play.
I love the original Nintendo music, makes me feel like a kid again!!!
Totally agree.
What I'm most floored by is that someone playing Final Fantasy managed to make it to the end of the game with the text speed set to MEGA SLOW.
blaster master was ahead of its time, 2 different perspectives and you also have to alternate with on foot or vehicle
Plus you had to revisit earlier areas after you upgrade your vehicle. Something about that just felt so fresh and original. Really tied the whole world together.
+1 on Blaster Master. Just a stellar game.
I always liked NES games despite not being born back then, they were limited but the stories behind them in the manual and the game play were simple but gave good challenges
Anyone else remember Konami actually making tons of high quality games????
@OB1 Well yeah, back then Konami had the TMNT and Tiny Toons franchises!
There's no other sound quite as wonderful as the 8-bit explosion....❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yeah! I love that 8-bit explosion sound effects!
My God contra is such a classic. Brought back so many fond memories of my friends and I staying up all night .Fighting chaos in final fantasy was rough . Remember spell RUB lol . Used to piss me off . You chose some great games to show bosses here. God , blaster master ... My brother and i played 24 7.
The feeling of beating a NES and snes game to me as a kid was a great joy
Nice video dude. Brings back so many memories and frustrations lol
You forgot Faxandu, one of the greatest NES games ever. A real Gem that one is.
And don't forget Crystals as well...man, now I wanna play faxanadu again, see if I can get to Conflate in under 2 hours again.
Super mario is the best
somone is mentioning faxanadu...mygod i see you are a men with culture my guy. this game was just freaking awesom. the last boss was not hard but that dragon just befor was something. the game overall was hard as heck. a masterpiece of the NES.
Loved that soundtrack
I had that game at one point and haven't heard anybody mention it it forums
I can only remember how many hours I spent on nentendo with my friends... my kids laugh at the graphics but they still are awesome!
Show him an Atari game, and then explain how Nintendo was the next big gaming system and maybe he'll understand why it was such a big deal!
@@jasonhaynes2952 atario would be a good example
(Mario on atari)
We used to play untill the power adapter blast 😂😂😂
Metroid was an amazing game from start to finish, way ahead of its time for complexity. 1st Metal gear was a great game too.
Im 38....actually i play zelda....amazing...more than 30 years ago.
This game is so good and smart that we might want to play with it at any age.
I’m 40 I still play with my same toys as a kid.
I swear LifeForce shortened my life by a few years.
I played it so much that I had that final sequence of walls memorized. Note that the last one _has no opening._ You either speed up or it's an automatic death. Great game.
@@Zapp__Brannigan holy crap you remember that!
I still remember how my heart raced the first time I got to the final boss. Oh man I think I made it out with one life to spare!
Growing up on NES, we lived with my grandmother. She had a 3 season patio with the tv I used to play my games. My NES was a handmedown from my cousin and one of the games I had was TMNT 2: Arcade Version. Before Internet, the only way us kids found out about games was commercials, magazines, another friend who bought it, video game rentals, or the store. We didn’t have a lot of money growing up, so getting 1 game a year was fairly common. However, TMNT 3 was a summer rental hit. Having a special move when 2 didn’t was the biggest deal to a 6 year old. You’d rent the game, call your friend on the phone, and ask them to come over and play the game you just picked up. The nostalgia of it all of a simpler time is something I hope my kids get to experience in their childhoods. This is why I still collect and play these games. You can’t put a price on that.
That was awesome! Thanks! And love that 'never gonna give you up' 8 bit music in between games! haha
Any kind of list like this begs everyone to bring up their omissions. Mine is Little Nemo. The King of Nightmares was pretty badass.
I was looking for that and the original Star tropics.
Totally agree. I'd put him as #1. Period.
i agree. the nightmare king was pretty dang hard. just making it through the levels of the other bosses to get to him was pretty tough.
little nemo was a good one... batman was left out too.
man that king took a ton of hits to drop
This was and is a very accurate assessment of many games I have had trials and errors with myself. 80's games were notorious for being very unforgiving. I am from this generation of gaming and proud to call myself a member of the origonal Saturday night Warriors .
I'd take Mega Man 2 final boss over the first one. Wiley turning into an alien actually shocked me when I first saw it. And the reveal after you beat him was funny as a kid. Like a twisted Oz
Ugh!!!! Takes me back to my childhood!!! So many great games, so much fun, many great memories!!!!!!!
The final boss of bayou billy.... After you beat him, and he's by far the hardest enemy in the game, his two sons come out and you fight them at the same time and they're clones of the guy you just fought in terms of difficulty. That was a legendary boss fight... Of course, I only saw it here on UA-cam cause there's no way I could get up to that boss, let alone the second level!
God that fight was a bitch. the only way i could ever beat the game was with the infinite lives from the Game Genie
Ryan McAuley I beat them by running in circles and taking occasional potshots
It doesnt matter hard or not. LJN games dont deserve to count as a NES game.
yea that was tough game!
There is a figure 8 walking pattern you use to beat those guys. Walk in a wide figure 8 and every once in a while kick
Rick Rolling in 8-bit LOL
I WAS SURE :)
Sounds awesome too
lol thought so too
Was looking for that comment
Its not fucking rickroll if you want to see it
"Thank you... but the princess is in another castle... just kidding ha ha ha" What a Bi*%$
He saves her life!
But just because she doesn't find him attractive, she has the audacity to tell him "bye bye"!
🖕
At home: NES
On the school bus: Rick Astley
With friends: movies, sports, playing outdoors, no mobile phone
I really miss the 80s.
Is it just me or some of the hardest NES bosses always seems to be so easy to beat when you watch them in a UA-cam video?
Daniel Clark
due to TAS most likely. The dracula fight had very perfectly placed high jumps. The Contra one too, I've seen that vid on TAS videos I think.
I'm ShaPowLow we wanna talk about Mike Tyson?
Because of hacks and mods.
is that me or my dracula in his second form shoot three bullet after each jump? why not this in this video?
The Metroid player had serious skills :O
Jesper Thornberg That's not a human playing, it's Tool assisted. They play the game one frame at a time and use a program to do the inputs to make it look that good.
Jesper Thornberg wtf happened to the Metroids actually chasing u OUT AFTER defeating mother brain?! My version always had that happen to me!
Lol he did but still, he cheated; his energy didn't go down!
As soon as that last missile hits, you stop taking damage.
Yea def TAS that climb was godly
Thanks for uploading. I've beat some of those but not all.
Ah good stuff. Good stuff. Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed.
Jimmy may be the last boss in the NES version of Double Dragon, but watching the Billy vs. Jimmy portion still made me think back to the fight against Willy in the arcade version. When I originally downloaded it for 360, there were 4 achievements I never got, mainly due to the fact that the DRM made me redownload the game every time when I upgraded to a larger hard drive, and when the game was removed from the servers, I wasn't able to play the full game at all any longer despite having to pay for it. Well, one of the achievements I never got was to get to Willy and beat all the other enemies on the screen before taking Willy out. I'm happy to say that when Double Dragon became available on PS4, I pulled it off! There may not have been a trophy for doing that, but it still felt good to know that I would have that achievement would be mine if I was still able to unlock it.
Whoa, someone actually made it to the end of battletoads? Crazy..
he wasn't stupid enough to play 2P.
Japanese version works very well in coop
me too both the NES and Genesis version when i was younger (im 27)
What about Ghost & Goblins?
DN-K nope, ghost & goblins is one of the games i still couldnt beat
Epic! Thank you bro! 👍
Thank you for making the #1 TMNT Manhattan Project.
God... watching this I realize that I'm getting older...
+SuperElite27000000
Me too. I'm 31....
Try 40. 30 is a squeaker to me.
SuperElite27000000 I'm still 10 though
That was some clutch play on that Metroid ending, wow!!!
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It's a TAS not Normal playthrough
Pretty good compilation. I would also personally add some of the end bosses in the Dragon Warrior series (especially Necrosaro), Shadow/ Dark Link in Zelda II, the Mysterious Warrior in Double Dragon II (U.S. version), and Grumple Grommit/ Super Drunk from Bubble Bobble just to name a few.
Double dragon II is literally hell
I finished it with a cheat to have infinite lives and it took me 1 hour 💀
You completely missed Golgo 13 ... the best ending ever ...
I forgot how great some of these games were and the quality of animation on the later NES titles like Mario 3 and TMNT 3. They're really pushing the hardware.
This is a great list! #1 was a bit of an odd choice. Not a bad one, though. I'd have chosen the Shredder from TMNT 2 instead as I thought it was a better fight.
I'm really surprised StarTropics wasn't on the list. The last fight with Zoda is pretty horrifying.
This was awesome! I've beaten 6 of these (Final Fantasy, Mario 2, Punch-Out, Mario 3, Zelda, and Ninja Turtles) but never even came close to any of those others (I've been playing Metroid a lot lately, a game I didn't have back in the day, and it's hard as **** but awesome lol). Seriously tho great vid and thanks for the fun walk down memory lane. :)
Mario 2 has one of the best Nes endings ever. Love how they list all the enemies
“Cattle loads...”
Zing!!!
I would have to go with Castlevanias 3 final boss battler over the first castlevania. Or Bionic Commando Final bosses
+DjEzhel88 I agree. I'd also probably take Double Dragon 2's true final boss (Mysterious Warrior) over Jimmy from Double Dragon, and maybe Ninja Gaiden 2 (Jaquio/Jaki-oh merged with Demon) over the Demon from Ninja Gaiden. I'm curious to know how he judged them. Music? Design? Atmosphere? Challenge?
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Great video. Thank you.
The real purpose of this video was to rickroll everyone 20 times.
The last boss space ship in the game Bucky O Hare was the most epic boss for the NES I ever fought.
Some Bosses\Endings arent so great but some are awsome. Love the Turtles Game when i was a child. Thx for the Vid. Greetings from Germany
Witz des Tages
This takes me back! Love these games
Does anyone else think that for the Duck Tales game, instead of having Dracula Duck be the final boss, they should've just gone the extra mile and named him "Quackula" instead? I'd have died laughing if they'd done it.
Nickelodeon may have broadcast it, but that was a show created by UK animators Cosgrove Hall...who would have put up precisely NO resistance to their character's name being used, I suspect.
I seriously was thinking the same thing while watching the video. Only difference is he should have been Duckula.
There was a villain called Quackula in the late 70s during The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse and Heckle & Jeckle show
Geez! Those Metroid skills were off the chain!
Screw u. The guy did amazing. Thanks dude
I remember beating most of these games as a kid. Good times.
Kirby's Adventure final boss music was pretty awesome for such a cutesy game. Battletoads and Castlevania made me pull my hair out till I finally beat them. Damn those games were tough! 😆
Great job man !!!
My faves are Wart from Super Mario II and Dr. Wily from Mega Man II. I love NES games. Best console ever. Nice clip. Thumbs up.
This Dr. Wily was from Megaman I. No score in Megaman 2. ;)
Best Console ever will always be SNES
That opening theme to Mega Man 2 tho
Kids today dont know HOW difficult it was to ever finish a game back in the day... I barely finish a couple of games but it was very satisfying I never met someone who actually finish all games they played... unlike today that they are meant to be finished so you keep on buying the new ones fast
hi riggs this is a long shot but did you play runescape around a year ago ? i havnt played that game in allmost a year and i knew someone on there with a nickname similar to yours
Hell, it took me 30 years to beat Zelda II and Castlevania (although for Zelda II it was because there was no Internet to look up the ONE hidden block you had to smash to even REACH the boss).
Many of these classic NES gems, will and still, have some of the best gameplay of all time.
Wow. SOOOOO many memories come when hearing all the sound effects and music
Played the shit outta double dragon when I was a kid brought back memories thanks man
I didn't think "Contra" had an end, being that the third level is effin' impossible.
Solid list friend!
All good entries. I would’ve left a few of these out to put in other favorites of my own and I absolutely wouldn’t have had Shredder as my top pick (I also think I would’ve had the Turtles II Shredder instead of III but that’s just me) and I probably would’ve gone with a different Wiley boss but I’d really have to go back and rank them.
I came here expecting to see Mega Man, Contra, The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid and I was not let down! All props to you. You definitely know your shit when it comes to badass NES bosses
Those jumps on Metroid though. 💯
It was sped up by at least 100%
I really wish Crystalis has a spot on here. I know the "Final" fight, if you don't count the tower as a whole as a boss, isn't THAT complicated... but objectively, it's much moreso than Castlevania. In fact, most of these were... it just shows some bias, considering how simple Dracula is, that it's just an iconic fight. Glad to see Kirby's Adventure, though!
They switched the tower before the dragon boss (I forgot his name) in a later version. Maybe game boy color.
Crazy how these sounds just come right back to you. 1987 and I just have it come right back and remember it.
That was a nice crossover it was neat seeing Ryuko and Shadow just chatting and catching up on things while they're in a Alien invasion can't wait to see Black doom and Eclipse soon
Double Dragon literally all you had to do was that back elbow the entire game so OP!
Lol, I remember that. Classic.
OMG, how did anyone beat these games. I've played a few of these titles and never beat them without cheats. Some of these boss battle are intense! I almost ripped my office chair arm off watching this video. Not to mention you couldn't continue in some of these games. Whew! Brought back a lot of memories. Oh childhood memories. =)
Alex Mora I beat most these games at age 8 back in the 80s. Seriously. Gamers are soft this days!
I thought I was pretty damn skilled at video games. Realizing I never fully completed any of this shit (also 8yrs old at the time) sucked I guess. Maybe I’ll give it some thought while I’m riding my Harley around town, lol. Right. Like I have time to give a shit about my Nintendo stats 30yrs ago.
I remember hours upon hours I spent trying to kill Jason in Friday the 13th when his health keeps regenerating. Fuck those assholes that didn’t understand how to make a difficulty setting. How the fuck did they forget the “fun” in a game. 20-30 decent games outta hundreds and hundreds.
jeffel80 I did! I was born 1978 and I got an NES 1986 for Xmas. Blockbusters was the place to rent games so the ones I didn't own I rented and I beat most these games
jeffel80 the only one I didn't beat was the Catlevania one i beat the rest!
This brought me back. I forgot many of these games.
Thank you. Now i saw the name of battletoads. I remember playing it everyday
I don't know what's better, the games or the Rick Astley tune in the cut away scenes.
"Cattle Loads?" Oh, BURN!
It is a way to say "Piece of shit"
I remember recording the end song on Super Mario 2 and falling asleep to it as a kid. Ahhhhh, the memories
Awesome video!
que saudades dessa época dourada da Nintendo!!!!!!!
The Metroid Mother Brain battle must have been tool assisted, that's some insane moves
That platform jumping after the battle...
oh I am SO GLAD that the "Plutonium Boss" from Blaster Master made it in this list! He was one hellova boss to beat, and seeing my favorite game featured in here is awesome!
That Life Force final battle music is freakin epic!
Hello, Bionic Commando....I don't want to spoil the end boss who hasn't beaten the game, but those who have, know exactly who I'm talking about!
2:42 Damn Mario only got used *ONCE!*
Great list, simply the best games for nes
sweet memories thank you friend
Part of ninja gaiden you uploaded is snes... hehehehe
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SireAshtar you are correct, snes music for sure
Haha yep. Ninja Gaiden Trilogy from SNES
Craig Miller it's nit.... sorry, had to 😂
Its Good the ninja gaiden trilogy of the snes, But the only thing i found flaw of this versión its the sound, i like more the originals.
No metal gear? Big boss was an antagonist for ages. Started here!
Cool games I remember playing all those cool games
You have 7,777 subscribers. Impressive. Very nice.
GREAT list. Mine would look a lot like yours, but include Ironsword, Zanac, Wrath of the Black Manta, and Batman.
Joseph Wilkinson OMG Ironsword.. just brought a tear to my eye 😢 Such an AWESOME game! I almost completely forgot about it. Thanks dude👍🏾👍🏾
I'm looking it up on UA-cam 😀😀
no one can ever beat youtube's greatest boss: rick astley
Nice list, I will recommend also Little Nemo Dream Master, Nightmare on Elm Street and Tecmo World Wrestling.
Man I played all of these as a kid. Some great stories. I used to go to my local mall that had an arcade, some of these titles were there before nes ports or vice versa, One of the perks of growing up in a big city. Probably about 30 machines.
One does not simply ends battletoads
true dat
you re noob then :)
I did though... after about a year playing it as a kid
Tales Oliveira you damn right!!