Festers Quest (NES) Part 2 - Mike Matei Live

Wow. Finally beat Festers Quest. Never thought that would happen.
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[@bendragon1000]

So, the story is(if you pay attention to the opening scene when Fester is moonbathing) the alien spaceship beams all the townspeople up into the ship(so abducts them). Fester sets out on his "quest" to save the townspeople. Gomez stays at the mansion to fend the aliens off from getting inside. I'm not sure why you encounter the other family members throughout the town in other houses, but I guess the creators had to come up with a neat way for Fester to get his powerups. I have no idea what any of the enemies are actually called(maybe the manual for the game mentions it), especially the bosses. But, at least you have a fantastic soundtrack to listen to while you struggle through this game. I can understand why some people "hate" this game. Many people hate pain. Some people, however, relish in receiving pain and this is probably the type of game they enjoy. This is a game that hurts so bad, it's good. It's not "unplayable" or anything, but it is a game that takes a lot of time to get the hang of as far as aiming the gun and the whip.

[@vicentedominic2753]

Instablaster.

[@PowerOnFun]

Awesome Mike! I hated this game as a kid (renting it), BUT your video posts from Twitch on YT have made me want to pick this game back up when time permits. Thank you. Keep up the good work on underrated/under appreciated games.

[@hugh2hoob668]

I actually owned it sadly lol

[@justintahair9119]

personally i liked the game as a kid got it at kee bees me and my grandmother would play festers quest i like the exploring aspect andleveling up your gun and going to thehouses and talking with members of the adams family i respect you mike for beating a challenging but also kinda tricky game but i like the challenge of this game

[@Ruudos]

The PAL version is actually an improved version. Your shots actually go through the walls, it make a huge difference.

[@KaroKoenich]

That's really good to know, thanks for the info.

[@jimmyju76]

How is that improved? That's like easy mode

[@jeremybear573]

What's PAL?

[@kennethblackwell2268]

@@jeremybear573 it's a type of computer popular in the late 80s and early 90s

[@jeremybear573]

@@kennethblackwell2268 Thanx for the Info!

[@wadew3623]

I know what it's like to enjoy games that are hated. I like Friday the 13th on NES. I can win it every time I play it now.

[@jsun7972]

Fester's "Avoid picking up weapon downgrades" Quest

[@Musicradio77Network]

I hate weapons downgrades. Just like in “Athena” where you can get a weapon like a club, hammer, ball & chain. The worst weapons are the wand where you shoot sound waves, the bow & arrow which is worst, except for the boss in the “World of Ice” stage, and a purple sword was also worst. The bigger weapons was the Fire sword. You have to keep shooting the big sword until the health meter drains halfway through, and that sucked, they should keep it longer. I played “Athena” and it was so bad.

[@TobeyStarburst]

Lol

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

I looked at a map of the "overworld", there are only 6 hot dog stands in the whole game!

[@PlutoniumBoss]

The biggest problem with this game is that everything in it is designed to slow you down. Despite the maze-like levels, it's still very linear, and there's not much to it straight through. So there are no checkpoints, the enemies are bullet sponges that can force you to retreat all the time, and your weapons are underpowered.

[@masterlee1988]

Yeah, if those were improved the game would had been a lot better!

[@jimmyju76]

Why so much hate for this game, it was one of my favorites

[@Mimikins]

I agree. It's harder fossilized triceratops turds and is definitely annoying sometimes, but I still think it's fun.

[@cratedivizion]

Played thru this just now. The whip is perfect for the bosses. Actually not too tough of a game. Just gotta tap fast as hell, and not take steps backwards (enemies respawn). always at least be inching towards enemies otherwise they just keep spawning. Fun to beat a couple times. Mike!! Take on a real challenge, zombies ate my neighbors!! Or nosferatu!! Those are real expert difficulty games

[@archmagesalamar1377]

Getting to that hot dog hut was intense

[@TobeyStarburst]

Hell yeah lmao

[@krisshaw9464]

The bosses have patterns you don't need potions

[@CPT85]

This game haunted me for my childhood even before Bart’s Nightmare and Bart vs. The Space Mutants. Mike, if you haven’t redeemed yourself of all your follies before, you have now.

[@feezee82]

I agree with Mike about Stranger Things. The show is ok, but I don’t see what all the hype is about. The show is fun and enjoyable, but there isn’t really any originality to it. If the show wasn’t set in the 80s, I doubt it would be this popular.

[@omikronweapon]

the 80's setting IS the originality in a way. or rather, the anti-originalty or nostalgia is the allure. It feels familiar, like a childhood friend you haven't seen in 30 years and for a couple of hours you remember how much fun you had together. Don't confuse popularity with things needing to be original, or even good. Familiar things are probably more likely to be popular rather than new original things. The general public keeps running to the next half-assed superhero movie as well. They're not terribly good, and certainly not original anymore. But people enjoy them, they know that they're going to have a good time watching them. It's the generic masses that decide what's POPULAR. In that way, popularity is never 'wrong', how much you might feel it doesnt 'deserve' it. It's really as Mike stated before, he LIKES playing Fester's Quest, even though it isn't a very good game and other people don't understand why he still wants to play it. Just a little strange he can't make the reverse observation, but I guess that's human nature. Our own quirkiness makes sense, but other people's doesnt.

[@jimbo_13]

I like this game too, Mike! It's not a GREAT game, but it was one of the first games I got as a kid so it holds a special place for me. Never got anywhere in it, mind.

[@andybaxter4442]

The genius of loose cart Sega Genesis games was that they were exactly the same dimensions as a audio cassette tape in its case, so there were lots of cabinets and cases back in the day that you could buy to hold your Genesis games that were designed to hold cassette tapes.

[@ericblack92]

Subscribed! That's some determination lol

[@hualni]

For Stranger Things they did not build a mall. They used Gwinnett Place Mall.

[@dunkelctankwie8019]

Man, I really enjoyed looking at the menu screen for 2 hours, really fun

[@Moneyaddthenmultiply]

Dunkel_hight 1 that’s what this game is lol

[@TalesfromVaporFashion]

Alien ship has the boss music and when you get to the end boss it has the normal Fester’s Quest song - Curious they switched them in the end runs.

[@stakfallt2040]

Mike, a few things... 1. About the gun mechanic Think about it like this (when it comes to the gun). Blaster Master, one of my favorite SunSoft games (actually, _one_ of my favorite NES games in general), had actually a much less forgiving gun-mechanic. When you were Jason in the same similar overhead view modes (like the sewer's in Fester's Quest), every single time you got hit, you would loose a gun upgrade, which was the absolute WORST on bosses. Imagine not being able to get hit once on a boss unless you didn't care about loosing your gun (and again, there were no missiles, no potions of any kind (invincibility or health), no nooses, etc.. 2. Emulation (since you mentioned save states) I get the concern about TAS (Tool Assisted Speed-runs), yeah I agree; those are kind've lame. I understand if your concern, with emulation (in general), is frame-lag. I disagree that that's really that much of an issue but there's at least some technical reasoning behind it and can't really argue against that -- given that emulation is software interpretation of, in the case of NES, Ricoh byte-code. I could go back or forth on the point of frame-lag as I could make cases for either side of why it's an issue or not... 3. Save states There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with using save states. I really wish you would and James would cut the shit out and stop preaching that bullshit. I'm sure there are A LOT of people that watch you both that don't have a technical background, and just blindly believe you two. That said, yes, you can use them to cheese a game and save just before a boss and keep reiterating attempt after attempt, or even worse, after every shot a boss takes, you save if he misses. But that's kinda lame to classify any usage of save states as some form of cheating or illegitimate experience. That's like saying, there are some bad NES games out there, therefore any game on the NES console is bad and NEVER recognizing the other half -- that which is, there are GREAT games on the NES (in the save state example: there are perfectly legit and GREAT ways to use save states; like not needing to leave your NES on for two days!). I've beaten Blaster Master a few times, but I don't recall if I used save states (I know, typically, if I DO use save states it's only to resume the game from taking a break, not to reiterate boss-fight attempt after attempt one right after another). I know I did use maps, and to be perfectly honest, you should have too for Fester's Quest because that IS legitimate. You know... you go through so much effort to try to make your play through experience as "legit" as possible, but you go overboard and frustrate the hell out of yourself by not taking advantage of things that still, imho, qualify your experience as legit. For Fester's Quest, using a map (even you said it) would be a HUGE help! Not for nothing, but many of us 80's kids used maps... Remember a thing called Nintendo Power? :P Of course you do. So what's to say that Nintendo Power couldn't have come out with a map for Fester's Quest? I mean I don't think they did, but it's certainly not because they didn't do maps; they did maps ALL the time! (I had wished they did one for Goonies II, which I beat as a little kid in the 80's a few times on regular NES. Hell I think Metroid had a map in one of the Nintendo Powers. Ninja Gaiden was another one). Seriously man, stop getting so fixated on legitimacy so much. You're screwing yourself over unnecessarily. It's STILL legit even using a map. Not using a map, when you consider all of what I wrote, is almost like you're setting out to prove something. 4. Turbo controllers I understand your thought about the experience of frustration being different (as you said in your video, just going along and holding down the button vs. the tapping), and I even agree with it. However, I'd like to mention, it's still completely legit to do it with a turbo controller. They existed back then...

[@skijumpnose]

Another hard game beaten,nicely done Mike

[@SuperN1ntendoChalmers]

No, it's more like "Another piece of cheap, lousily programmed game beaten."

[@pvsweetypie]

Peanus

[@SuperN1ntendoChalmers]

@@pvsweetypie penes2butt

[@SuperN1ntendoChalmers]

@Ultra CNC This game was UNNECESSARILY hard. To me, that game is crap. It's the same way with Alien Syndrome on SMS and also how hard they made BattleToads. Both of those games would have been damn good had they not made it cheap.

[@TheCastellan]

Could see this hacked into a Dalek game. Fester moves, and is roughly shaped, like a Dalek. A Dalek traveling about Skaro.

[@FusionDeveloper]

After seeing this video, I know i have never beat this game. I've never seen a lot of this stuff. I am surprised you beat this game 100% legitimately.

[@captaintony1227]

The reason there is no check points or password is because you have to go thru the whole game to recollect all the items. Since you don't have to rebeat all the bosses there isn't any other way to get them. I don't know if it's bad design or to keep you from using all your items before you get to the ship . because all they would have to do is give you A place to top off before you entered the ship . and stare you after the last boss you beat

[@fusionspace175]

After seeing what Mike goes through getting hot dogs in this game, I finally understand how a hot dog could make Patty Duke lose control.

[@polymathicperturbations1476]

I watched my dad beat this game when I was a teenager. I hated this game. He totally beat it, and it took about 5 hours.

[@TobeyStarburst]

Jesus

[@gabegrafton3467]

I had this game when I was a kid. I played it on a 9" black and white TV. I never beat this game but played it until the game refused to play anymore. Watching this was very intense for me.

[@Occult_Detective]

First Nintendo game I owned. With the first secret I found my self. Which is a secret for every boss fight, instanta kill them all. To execute, choose the key, walk to the bottom left of the screen, spam the use key button as you wander around that area to find the secret door. Which when entered, looks to forward to a new black screen With the boss, as it dies. Works on the final boss as well!

[@johnlewisbrooks]

Despite its flaws this game has a KILLER soundtrack for its day. Sunsoft didn't bullshit with 🎵!

[@obscuredoblivion444]

Anyone remember The Addams Family cereal?

[@jamesbravo9038]

Absolutely

[@MSorge13]

I got it a few times when I was young. It wasn’t available in Canada, as far as I know, so I made sure to get it when going to the States with my mom... I distinctly remember one version of the box having a matching game and another having a long Lurch cutout you put around a door handle... Ahh, the ‘90s.

[@titmaus7732]

Festers Chex?

[@crapassreality9549]

i had cereal from the 90s animated series once if that counts. i remember it came with a glow in the dark rub on tattoo that i couldnt wait to put on the whole time i was waiting for mom to finish grocery shopping. getting that excited over a rub on tattoo you knew would peel off in hours if it even applied properly in the first place... kids are either truly blessed or truly reeet4rdbawlZz

[@mo8guy]

I know this may sound bad, but I get so much laughter out of you suffering. When you accidentally get the downgrade to your gun I lose my shit 🤣. @1:26 when you talk about the game being nice and giving you the upgrade, then it does the exact opposite 🤣

[@TalesfromVaporFashion]

“Thank you, Thank you” - “You’re welcome!” (Erin Plays Cameo) Great stream mike. I’ve never seen this far into the game

[@TheTogoRojo]

207 2:12:45. What an ending. Singing and everything.

[@obscuredoblivion444]

No bats? I thought every video game had bats.

[@twithnell]

HOT DOGS! HOT DOOOOOGS!

[@pandavelli8176]

Don’t know what ya got til it’s gone... I’ll miss you and James on Monday

[@timmer919hep]

You should hang your games from the ceiling with fishing wire...so it looks like they are floating. You'll have the only "anti gravity" game collection.

[@JamesNintendoNerd]

timmer919hep I dig that idea

[@markganus1085]

cool cat

[@robertanderson2898]

LOL 1:00:53 don't give up ! (Skips to 1:48:50 after dying at the boss).

[@shuntaro2408]

Watching Mike screaming for hotdogs live was an incredible weird, glorious and sad experience

[@mittensmacks9239]

I love how the hit sound effect when you shoot enemies with strongest gun, is the same one from Top Gun 2

[@kakkarotdb]

7:28, had me rolling

[@timelink3315]

Congratulations on the victory Mike!

[@my_wheelhouse]

No game is impossible for Mike "10 Inch" Matei. Copngreats.

[@ryandlion6961]

Mike was actually a pornstar you can fin him in pov bj scenes he called himself winston burbank.

[@FusionDeveloper]

If you've already watched this, listen from the 0:00 to 0:45 then skip to 2:12:22

[@emagneticboy97]

Stranger Things is more 80's than the actual 80's were

[@treatORtrick]

it's not 80's if it's not from the 80's

[@A2Z83]

defeated Festers Quest or Festers Quest defeats Mike? watch to find out

[@TheCastellan]

1:36:30 Instructions said Gomez was guarding the house from the monsters.

[@n-rage531]

This game doesn't feel like Addams Family at all. It's almost like they were working on a contra clone and thought people wouldn't care for it so they attached the Addams Family name and characters to it last minute but didn't change how the game works. The bosses look cool though.

[@GuruSUPERmaster]

That ending screen really was Fister's Quest.

[@thommccarthy1139]

Had this as a kid and it drove me nuts but the music is sooooooooooo good I persevered. Can't beat it without turbo.

[@peterashori109]

Eng: By the way that red enemies things that comes out from the wall in the game calls: "Wall-Munchers". Swe: Förresten dom röda fiender som kommer ut från väggen i spelet kallas för: "Wall-Munchers".

[@TheZipperDragon]

You don't need to take out the guns on the final boss, just stand where mike was standing & use 20 missiles.

[@onetonmuckfire9140]

You should get those doublesided plastic picture hangers, click game on the ceiling, click game in the NES.

[@andybaxter4442]

Such a hard game. I had it on NES, and it legitimately took me a couple years (between ages 7-9) to beat it. Then I got a Genesis and never looked back. If I remember correctly, I even had a Game Genie, and there were no codes that made this game easier.

[@ThePSUisBETTER]

Mike we need another game room tour! I think you should go through those old NES games in that box too!

[@dorpth]

Just think, we could have gotten a NES Blaster Master sequel. Instead we got...this.

[@justintahair9119]

true but once you know hhat ypur doing in this its a good challenge

[@justintahair9119]

i like exploring master blaster as well

[@Dresdenstl]

The one Inti Creates made was well worth the wait.

[@Capsulecorp1]

Tap,tap,tapparoo!

[@jarhumor]

"Tappy Tap, Tap Time."

[@TalesfromVaporFashion]

JARHUMOR - LOL that was great

[@BreckVoidAdkins]

If the red degrades your gun and whip then do the red money signs reduce your money?

[@robertanderson2898]

Space Ghost, Idlewild South, Kentucky Nightmare, all you need to know :)

[@Jeison-Nunes]

lol screw games like Amnesia, Layers of Fear and shit like that, THIS is the game to get you nervous and terrified xD

[@user-bs9ux5ei1z]

I could never beat it as a kid but I beat it a couple of years ago. You got to keep moving on the screen or they will keep respawning. I had it when the wall eater things keep respawning when you just have the gun. Haha. I share your pain.

[@maastomunkki]

I did not remember the bosses were this dumb.. basic tactic for every boss: just stand still and spank. :P

[@justintahair9119]

good work mike and this was agame i had as akid and personally me and my grand mther liked toplay it it never really bothered me that you go back but i liked exploring it and using items and stuff i like the challenge of the game as well

[@TheTogoRojo]

206 51:41. Eyeball ghosts in the space ship lol

[@johntowner1893]

That was a sweet ending Mike. I’m glad 😇

[@terrysgamingzone1390]

That rental store is real? I thought it was a set for his youtube show. I don't know about Culkin. I heard bad stuff about him.

[@atranfanatic]

Great job Mike! I am not sure if I would ever want to go through this game and beat it. It is so cryptic and tedious. lol

[@simpleton8554]

Damn mike. Your a good gamer. I been subbed for a month or so and you stay on that grind beating shit no one else will. I love the dedication. Stay with it man from your number 100th fan "hey hey hey" -bill cosby

[@titmaus7732]

As a lro fester gamer whose making his own sequel of the game. You have improved greatly

[@bendragon1000]

Without cheating, I think the furthest I ever got was to the 5th boss, but couldn't beat it. Never made it to the space ship until I used cheats. This game is brutal(particularly on the thumb if you are not using a turbo controller). Also, Mike is right, a code system would have been useful(particularly in a game where the most life points you'll ever have is 4). Not to mention the bosses have no health meters, so you don't even know if you're doing any damage to them. Mega man is a button masher at times, but at least a boss battle will show the enemy's health. Not to mention Mega Man has a code system.

[@AlbumBattles]

Subscribed

[@kekeke8988]

This is one of those games I could never make progress in back in the day.

[@ltrain4479]

Awesome Mike!! Watching this makes me want to get out my NES classic and play this game. You should stream A Boy and his Blob sometime

[@baccy81]

Use velcro to attach your cartridges to the ceiling

[@TheSlashTraxNetwork]

everytime i get to a boss building in this game i expect text to pop up to tell me the T-Rex is hunting me

[@exiledPostman]

It would have been so easy to make this game fun. All it really needs is a better gun and a checkpoint system or maybe fast travel, using hot dog stands. It would still be hard, but not cruel.

[@classicmikecade]

Did I miss the comment where someone says that the picture of Uncle Fester looks like Joe DeRita???

[@project_boredom2940]

Yo Mike!!!!!!!

[@MoribundFantasy]

Ever thought about documenting your impressions of the games you play in a blog? You play a lot of them so people might enjoy your reviews or even come up with fun ideas for videos or nerd episodes.

[@mikedsfitnessjourney3400]

Great job had that game when I was little never thought I would see the end of it keep beating these hard games man 🤜🤜

[@monos33]

Go Go Fester to the hot-dog stand!

[@scifyry]

Hell yeah! That was so tense.

[@Hashtag_Laser]

I love the ending. Fantastic game!

[@muhanc.a.9299]

Next week: Fester Quest Power Glove Challenge - Defeated! - Mike Matei Live

[@EQOAnostalgia]

I knew this would be the day! Fuckin game lol.

[@tomsmiley126]

Thank you, Mike. Your rewarded persistence gives me hope that I may one day complete the game of Life.

[@hugh2hoob668]

30th anniversary this year what day it come out

[@Musicradio77Network]

I remember this game, and I beat the entire game a few times as a youngster. The most frustrating part was when you die in other levels as well as the final boss, the game ends. And when you hit “Continue”, it sends you back to the very beginning of the game. What an absolute lie. This game doesn’t have any checkpoints at all, because you can’t start the game where you last left off. This is total BS. A great game from Sunsoft, but nothing much.

[@indianajohns8943]

Fester kinda looks like a fat Palpatine

[@TobeyStarburst]

Great job Mike!

[@kuruptein]

Play Demons Crest

[@x4skill]

Thinking back to playing this game as a kid, it really pisses me off how the upgrades and downgrades work. I remember playing this and just picking up every gun thinking it was random. Why would they even bother putting weapon downgrades in the game. Better yet, just have the walls not block the bullets and maybe some of the low tier guns would be useful.

[@Spenced86]

ok

[@nostalgiarules1348]

Mike beats hard ass boss, then almost get's killed by regular creatures. lol!

[@Archie_Facts]

Do you have Bram stokers Dracula for Sega CD. If so do a stream of that or metal gear nes mega man legends Simon's quest. Or castlevanias from 64. Glad you stuck through till the end of superman 64. I beat it back when it came out. Even though you guys hated it I'm glad you revisited it. I think it's more broken than fester but I like both of those games and when you beat fester I'm sure you won't play it again but I think you missed a few things either walking around all the houses or in the houses walk to the end of all the hallways. If I remember correctly you don't see the items until you get them. Like an energy block.

[@staxzdemon]

I started the french show 2 vieux gamers on youtube because of you man ! chek it out even if its french the small intros may please you at times !

[@n-rage531]

Wouldn't magnets damage the games?

[@user-bs9ux5ei1z]

I always loved it for the music. Everytime I died at the saucer I'd restart at the aaucer. Weird.

[@FusionDeveloper]

I can guess what you felt like eating. A hot dog to save your life.

[@CapnPicard]

Grats Mike!