I'm pretty sure that there was a HD version of this game ported to the PC... or widescreen or something like that.

CLASSIC

For some reason, this is the first game my mom ever got me for NES, i didn't own mario duck/hunt, so this was the game that 6yo me cut my teeth on. I never beat it lol.

It's worth noting that this is in the Dragon Slayer series (hence Faxanadu: Famicom Xanadu).

My mantra is "balloon ball". If you get that, then you're cool.

the thing that makes me the most sick about this is the fact that it's incomprehensible twixt humans & often artificial-fake-imtelimgnence-fings whether can form a coherent, oh, i meant the number of takes to do a literally three second bit of this why do you have to clip that, and the fact that many people still wouldn't have this video done if it took that many takes to get three seconds of audio, good on you.

THE MUSIC!!!

Have you seen the "International super star soccer" passwords?

Been pronouncing it "fax-an-ah-doo" my whole life...

NESdrunk today

7:20:17 David Cronenberg? HP Lovecraft? I think "Rob Bottin", "Rick Baker" or "Chris Walas" would be better examples, but yeah, I know, who the hell knows who Rob Botting, Rick Baker or Chris Walas even are, right..?

X-Men Mutant Apocalypse did get a sequel, fam... it's called War of the Gems.

Love the Sandman reference. That's a whole nother level of deep nostalgia

Me n my brothers got this game for christmas. Yeah it was way too hard for us kids.

People already mentioned that Beast and Wolverine are best for getting through the lava section, but Psylocke’s slide works reasonably well to get under the downward-closing gates and her psychic knife will take out the couple that close upward. You can also get through with Gambit’s flip kick (just repeat it, don’t walk at all) if you feel the need. I actually found Cyclops the worst one to use for the lava!

My first NES game, didn't fully appreciate it until several years later. Great underrated gem on the system.

I remember this game being on the shelf at the video store but I never played it. Wish I had now. It looks like something I’d really enjoy

Lol, that's some nostalgia nuke right here. I remember seeing Faxanadu in a shop once, sitting between other NES-games, and giggling about the funny name. Sadly, our parents did not have enough money for gaming consoles, and we skipped the NES entirely. But I still remember seeing Faxanadu's box sitting on that shelf and wondering what kind of game would have this kind of weird name.

On my list of NES games I wish i had as a kid, along with startropics.

Another great video SNES Drunk! I hope you have a great day!

Hungry Goriya mentioned!

“once you leave a section of the overworld you cannot go back” false

Big ol words is proud of you for giving it a go.

There is a brilliant patch fixing bugs, translations and censorship. I think it is mandatory. The Skylia Prophecy (game, google it) is based on this game :)

And you know it!!! That kind of thing.

I remember renting this as a kid. As usual I sucked at it and my brother got hard into it. I played it recently and realised how good it actually was. I'm glad you're covering the 8-bit games now, there's so many to chose from.

This game looks so European.

The best gba game ever made!

Fun fact....this game and Goonies 2 helped to define the sidescrolling action adventure genre that we* all loving refer to as FaxanaGoons *I may be the only person that calls them FaxanaGoons

I have never heard of this game until this video. Saw shirts for it, always thought it was another power metal band or something so I never bothered to check it out. Now I'm sitting here with my NES emulator opened up and having a blast with this game, and I'm only 7 minutes into it.

I loved this game as a kid

As a small kid I always borrowed this game along with other NES titles from my moms coworker's son. He was much older. He ended up passing away and he left me those games. To this day I keep them in pristine condition.

Edgar Winter looks absolutely STOKED to see you when you fly up the tower.

To think this originally was supposed to be an NES port of the original Xanadu. Turned out completely different. I want to play this sometime. Currently on a retro kick so I might get to it relatively soon.

I would love to play this on Nintendo Switch online.

Everyone blinks like their contact lenses are stuck lol

This is another one of those games where they removed the crucifix and cross symbols for the western release.

Faxanadu was in my collection next to Guardian Legend & Crystalis as "lesser known games" that you rarely could get other kids to get interested in or talk about back in the day, cuz it wasn't Metroid or Super Mario or Zelda or another more popular (and therefore "better") game

and thats the facts... xanadu

The Japanese version has a patch if you want uncensor stuff

Two quick pro tips: 1. Dying makes you revive with an amount of gold determined by your level. If you're tired of gold farming, try dying and coming back. It can make you start with more money and it's much faster. 2. DO NOT PICK UP THE PENDANT! The pendant is supposed to increase your attack power, but due to a bug, it actually decreases it. There are patches and game genie codes to fix this bug if you want to go that route.

Alright, now let's see a battle to the death between Drunk and Hun for how to pronounce Faxanadu.

What about the Genesis version?

Evile O ne? Mee-cro Wa Vay.

Back when I was a lad in the 90s I was shocked that this game had a bad ending where your crew dies, it was pretty depressing for a Snes Drunk Game!

Sounded pretty sober to me, this man is a phoney, a big fat phoney.

One of my favorite games as a kid!!!

I think it’s time you revisited Secret of Evermore again.

I know the series is pronounced Zanadu, but I have never heard this game called FaZanadu before. I've always heard people call it Fax-anadu.

Oh man I love Faxanadu, bugs and all. Great level design, excellent music, and for the NES a good story.