Friday the 13th (NES) Mike Matei Live

[@Mephianse81]

Love the title theme. Legitimately creepy for an 8 bit game.

[@AntLeonardi01]

What’s a bit?

[@Mephianse81]

@@AntLeonardi01 units of data

[@kekeke8988]

@@AntLeonardi01 binary digit, either 0 or 1. an 8 bit processor can only handle numbers of 8 bits, like 11000101, 11110010, etc.

[@TheTERMlNAT0R]

@@kekeke8988 I’m sure he’s still lost 😂😂😂

[@Tony_3XL]

Hell yeah

[@thisisnotachannel]

This game has more depth than it has ever been given credit for... but you can beat it quite quickly once you know what you're doing. Highly underrated, in my opinion.

[@Valientlink]

as someone who has beaten it in under 3 minutes, this is true

[@TheTERMlNAT0R]

Would be nice if they remake this game…(I know they have a recent FT13th game) but I’m talking a new version of THIS game, just on current gen consoles and/or PC. Have the same creepy music , just enhanced. (Just omit that music when your outside😂) I’m my mind..I have an entire remix of this game…too bad I’m not a game developer.

[@bloodandgorekid]

​@@Valientlinkunder 3mins? That can't be possible. What is the secret?

[@Valientlink]

@@bloodandgorekid Getting the torch early and fighting Jason outside, my run is on my channel. I held the world record from 2008-2018, but I didn't go under 3 minutes until my last run. It's one of the last uploaded things on my channel. The tool assisted run is 2m22s and it's not possible for a human to even go below 2m50s due to having to be completely frame perfect on everything for the TAS route

[@svovy5358]

Its not good, but its not that bad

[@DrewKane]

I still play this game about once or twice a year. Always a blast! A true NES classic, and a highlight of my childhood gaming experience.

[@fwobebe5164]

I beat this game every Friday the 13th....to prevent the curse of Jason from rising again....

[@DrewKane]

@@fwobebe5164 That fucker is frozen until Jason X. We're safe!... for now....

[@TheTERMlNAT0R]

Damn…your game probably worth more than what you paid for it. I wish I had this game now

[@Tony_3XL]

Your a lucky kid

[@melliott604]

What a better way to start the early weekend off. Some MM Livestreams. Yes!

[@sammyshehole]

Never was too big on this game but the music and atmosphere were pretty great.

[@andy_dabztha_krypt_keepa255]

That "LJN" logo is waaaay scarier then any jason movie or game xD love the 8-bit horror music though....sounds lot like shadowgate in a way

[@danserrano2251]

😆😆😆😆😆

[@josealqueres]

"You're going to Camp Blood, ain't ya?"

[@thomasrevere1728]

It's got a death curse. You're doomed. You're all doomed.

[@mrmusickhimself]

"Ah shut up Ralph"

[@danseth5775]

This is one of my favorite NES games.Played it as a kid in the early nineties and it legitimately scared me. Beat it for the first time a few years ago and still love playing it

[@mrmusickhimself]

1:18:24 - The beginning of my favorite Mike Matei rage moment, I couldn't breathe from laughing.

[@HumbledGoat]

That exploding minecart was too much to handle haha

[@goddimmus]

"Im gonna let these kids die.", Mike Matei 2021

[@MattJerkhole]

I'm sure I'm not the first one to say this and it's way too late anyway, but I just wanna point it out again: The direction is easy to follow when you walk along the pathways once you realize the player's point of view is always looking from the outside into the direction of the lake in the middle. It's like the camera goes in a circle around the map of the game following your character.

[@10siWhiz]

This 8 bit jam is burned into my mind. Many nights of my childhood being scared of the cave and woods lol.

[@millabasset1710]

Love the new channel Mike, you have the freedom to do your own work.

[@Gatorade69]

He made the right choice jumping from the garbage fire that is cinemassacre.

[@MrRoomerz]

still miss james and mike mondays tho, even tho latest 50-60 of them was... screenwave quailty if you know what i'm saying

[@jdaywork2693]

Thanks again for sharing your experiences with the classics man. Rock on and stay well.

[@TheTogoRojo]

usually he give a thank you to these but it's got like 200 comments. So I'll thank you . I hope he does this forever and I'm sure every bit helps.

[@marccaselle8108]

I only beat Jason on the first day. He always killed me the rest of the time.

[@cratedivizion]

Oh snap finally sinking some time into this game

[@thriller985]

This was my favorite James and Mike episode and it hurts that you guys didn't beat it together 🥺😢

[@jonirenicus463]

The music of this game is depressing and scary,love it.

[@Mephianse81]

Love this game! There are frustrating things about it but once you learn the secrets of the game you can defeat it fairly effectively.

[@fwobebe5164]

Or you can Google speedrunners and take all the challenge away. 😅

[@Mephianse81]

@@fwobebe5164 thats what i meant. Still takes some execution.

[@fwobebe5164]

@@Mephianse81 My first step is to get everyone a knife, and whoever I get the key and most kool-aid with becomes my leader. Next is to get the machete. After that, comes Jason's mom, which upgrades whatever weapon I'm currently equipped with. After I got the axe, I conquer Jason round 1. Day two, I use one of the knife girls to get the sweater, and she basically becomes my #2 if my leader falls to Jason. (I never fight him outside, because it's too random, I have better control inside) Day 3 comes the pitchfork which makes the game pretty easy from that point. I still don't fight him outside, because it's cheap. Jason has proven to be a admirable adversary, I won't disgrace him with a cheap outside bum-rush of pitchforks. Its inside one on one, a fair fight, as he is super fast inside, and really tests your reflexes. After his defeat, Jason is finally defeated...but he'll be back. Every Friday the 13th I play this game. Abd every time, I give up one thing that made it easy. Until I'm down to one rock, and one character and one children...

[@Jeremycook_]

@@fwobebe5164 Not one children. The mormons would frown on one children.

[@corrado]

WHAT'S FUNNY is that you can now beat this game in less than 30 minutes... someone on youtube figured out that Jason has a specific pattern in this game, makes everything super easy and you don't even need the stupid sweater.

[@justmakethiswork]

Part of my childhood.

[@geekman120able]

This music is really nostalgic

[@211inprogress]

One of my favorite Game cover's of all time.

[@guilty-of-being-right]

Ditto

[@BmanHall1]

1:07:19 - Had the unfortunate pleasure of not only playing this heap as a kid but actually owning it. Of all the Spider-Man and X-Men video games that existed back in the day, this was what I got stuck with.

[@Ziiro406]

Thank you for making videos Mike. You're one of the reasons I loved AVGN so much back in the day. I can't watch the show anymore now you're gone. You've helped me through a lot of stuff in life. Seriously Thank you.

[@OhMyLarryFishing]

Can we all agree that this is a good game with a very unique gameplay style. This is one of my favorite NES games.

[@TheTogoRojo]

I agree, although I will concede it's controls and cryptic requirements keep it from being a definite reccomend. It's a great aquired taste game.

[@johnnyblu84]

Love the Friday The 13th franchise, neat to see Mike take on Old Jason

[@jamesgibas2836]

Love the graphics with Jason and his mother so realistic

[@waynetech10]

You read my mind. I was just thinking of this silly game, and the franchise, as a whole. It was always a curiosity, as a kid. I was a Batman, TMNT, Double Dragon kid, but you couldn't help but wonder about this one. "As you all know, I'm not a speed runner". By all means. Take your time, sir.

[@StusGameReviews]

Yes you played it the other day! LOL

[@nathanbabiuk6286]

I love the music

[@ScorpioandSebek]

Not only are you a great streamer, but also a great patient gamer that teaches other gamers how to really play these games. You have to remember we grew up playing faster paced games in the late 90s and 2000s, so many of us don't really understand these 8 bit games but I think I can enjoy this game after watching this because I hated it due to not understanding it, but seeing someone actually be patient with it makes me wanna play it again 👍

[@retromike9260]

20:59 Can I get a fuckin knife?! (Most of the time when not needed they are everywhere.)

[@Bobby8451]

OMG...The avgn days. Lol 😆 I believe Mike was Jason in that vid. That was a GREAT video. Mr. Bucket was one of my favorites too.

[@kevinsimpson9538]

I think Kyle played Jason.

[@Bobby8451]

@@kevinsimpson9538 What? Are u sure?

[@kevinsimpson9538]

@@Bobby8451 I'm pretty sure look at his hair it's really short like Kyle's. Mike's is kinda shaggy.

[@makoangelo]

@@kevinsimpson9538 nah its mike, james and mike himself have talked about it in other videos, plus mike had a buzzcut during the old friday the 13th avgn episode, thats why maybe you thought it was kyle

[@Peter_1986]

1. Get the knife 2. Get the knife 3. Get the knife

[@mikematei]

It's get the Torch here

[@JaneDoe-sv1mk]

I had that damn Spiderman and X-Men in "Arcade's Revenge". It's a nightmare and there is literally no redeeming qualities. It's ungodly hard too.

[@cringelordcollects]

I love this game just because it's creepy and on a nes. I want the 8bit funko pop so bad.

[@kcsnipes]

did not know the bird on the screen lake strat and love how the health is restored for the counselors each day, makes it possible

[@LunalovaniaGaming]

Unpopular opinion, but I loved this game as a kid lol. The only thing I hated about it is the freaking music. So annoying. I really love the day to night transitions.

[@aceofpayne3141]

I like the cabin music.

[@TheTogoRojo]

I agree. It was probably my most played nes game and I never beat the third day.

[@emilyparden3538]

I feel like I hear mike all day! I listen to the podcast on the way to work, on the way home from work and now this video has popped up! He’s taking over social media as we know it! 🤣

[@jasoncosta596]

Mike is a Chad so awesome

[@SharonisCarin321]

Remember you aren't a Voorhees or Tommy Jarvis... He will return....

[@TooBokoo]

This game tormented me as a kid. A few years ago, I checked a tutorial, fired up my old copy and beat it in a half an hour... Fckin LJN! LOL!

[@markganus1085]

this game goes well with pizza

[@mikematei]

i somehow agree with this

[@golden_eldorado]

“But is he really dead? We’re not telling!!” Such a cruel thing to say! Which side are you on, LJN?!

[@SonicTheDarkHedgehog]

Fun Fact! The zombies in the game are suppose to be the undead walking corpses of the people he killed in the past. You can google the NES instruction manual to see for yourself👍🏻

[@backforblood3421]

Oh my God. I not only wound up playing the X-Men NES game (which may be the worst NES game I've ever played) over 30 years ago, but actually walked over to somebody's house along a highway with my uncle, risking death, in order to do so, and I have a multi-generational history of relatives on foot and on bicycles being killed by vehicles on that very highway.

[@clarenceoveur9497]

You gameplay and commentary are gold. Don't need anything else ;) Keep it up!

[@calebtylershepherd21]

I’m such a masochist for this game! Why? I don’t know, but there’s something about it that always draws me back. “Just when I think I’m out they pull me back in.” Lmao. 🤣

[@mikematei]

Yeah its got some elements that make it kind of addicting.

[@cadenware3222]

Thank you for finally playing this game I've been waiting forever whatever what video of this👍

[@aceofpayne3141]

Was expecting him to struggle a lot more with it though. Since he and James had such a hard time with it.

[@DavanP88]

This game always creeped me out! Guess it was the color schemes and the eerie music!

[@AxelSpott]

I got it new when it came out and I was under 10 years old. This game used to scare me at night lol. When you know he’s in a cabin and you’re looking and finally you find him and that audio sting cue comes in I used to jump everytime. So ridiculous when I look back at it now.

[@fistacuphs13]

I'm glad you finally played this on your channel. I love the J&MM episode of this, and I've been really looking forward to this!

[@Grapefruit5000]

Pretty damn unique game for the NES and not thaaat bad.

[@Denjired]

Woah, only took you about 45 minutes to beat this game...that was fast. That's another game for the list along with Shatterhand (both the NES and the Famicom version "Tokkyu Shirei Solbrain").

[@ThomWastes]

If you want to know which direction to walk, best way to think about it is wherever you are standing on the overworld map, imagine rotating the map to where you are "facing" the character head on. For instance if you are on right side of the map moving Up/Down, if you rotate the map where you are "facing" the character then Up = right and Down = left. If you were on the left side of the map moving Up/Down then this would be reversed. Hard to explain but hopefully that makes some sense.

[@2mrwario]

Mike's reaction to Tom Arnold killed me. Omg. Tom Arnold memes. Love you Mike!

[@jasoncosta596]

He is hilarious

[@OldSchoolCurt]

Only mike could Beat this game and make it look easy!

[@cadenware3222]

Now he's more faster don't know why Jason now more faster

[@holdingpattern245]

If you want to chase Jason after a fight, ignore the direction that he runs away unless you're on the outside loop. Around the caves it's reversed, and around the lake you should check the map and remember his pattern: he always goes straight to the left lake entrance to attack the kids, and if he didn't go around the caves first then that means his path will go from the upper forest to the lower forest. Also remember that the map direction is backwards if you're on the TOP half of a loop.

[@15-Peter-20]

Miss you on cinemassacre Mike but this was excellent to watch ... thank you. from Coventry England. Have a nice day

[@princessk4969]

Loved this game ! One of my favorites besides wizard and Warriors.

[@wesburnett5309]

Just was watching u and Erin tackle this game now watching u take it on again

[@theironfox2756]

You don't really beat him unless you get the pitchfork.

[@mikematei]

oh?

[@theironfox2756]

@@mikematei that is what I remember reading and how I did it 100 years ago in the 90s

[@thestuff10]

"Mike will have to deal with all the difficulties this game is notorious for. But what if I told you..."

[@Mephianse81]

Loved how you finally took the game seriously!

[@lordcolinb]

Catchy music for sure

[@dougo670]

I used to play True Lies all the time as a kid on the Genesis! Was a really fun game for the time and eventually beat it. It does get a little redundant, though, but they do try to change it up with some different weapons. Pretty faithful to the movie, too. A couple "pro" tips: You can stand still and aim / move your weapon around. You can also dive to avoid enemy fire and get closer or further from them, avoiding damage or closing the gap by shooting while crouching at the end of the dive. Also, yes, watch the movie again! It is pretty good James Cameron flick! TLDR, grats on Friday the 13th! It is a flawed, but decent game and I think you mentioned it could use a good hack to fix some of the issues.

[@nmartell1007]

Mike, the real AVGN.

[@jameshill3403]

This games theme still gets stuck in my head on a regular basis

[@cormacthem8406]

Arcade’s revenge was depressing for me to play as a kid. Those yelps when they get hurt, and that yell when they die…haunt me.

[@TheTERMlNAT0R]

15:46 the Hunter now becomes the hunted 😂

[@infinitivecabbage]

I like Mike trying to do new things on his video, like adding markers and hashtags. And for sure it's awesome playing video as always

[@aceofpayne3141]

You don't truly conquer Jason, unless you use the rock. (A challenge for later, maybe 🤔)

[@oceman5446]

we love you Mike and as always THANK YOU!!!!

[@XEric30]

You did it again Mike. Awesome!

[@thekenner]

This game has always scared the shit out of me. Beat it one time. Anyone else think the zombies look like Alley Vipers?

[@OperatorMax1993]

good to see Mike alive and well

[@OpRedDawn]

One of my first games. Loved it

[@jonathanjollimore4794]

Reading Rainbow no its the Regurgitation Rainbow AKA *LJN*

[@wd6358]

Bout time you play a good game 😆

[@Cuzzzo42]

That guy in the chat couldn't be the REAL warbeard. I know warbeard, aka wardoug, aka wargod. Swell fella.

[@MrPresidentGeek]

I never understood how to get through those houses. It was always confusing to me.

[@TurboVolcano1988]

You should playthrough the c64 friday the 13th game next! If just for the old Macdonald had a farm music!

[@fluttershystayshigh4202]

Great stuff Mike, i've always had an odd fascination with this game, we used to try for hours to beat it back in the day and couldn't even drop Jason once, this is the first time i've seen it legit beat, that was damn impressive.

[@flybynight9685]

Fantastic. Would you consider streaming Legacy Of The Wizard? Love that game to death!

[@mikematei]

Yes, but I need to learn how to play it.

[@Expendabrah1000]

Fat Jason slumped over when you beat him looks hilarious

[@banzairunner7860]

Dig him up? Does he think I’m a fart head?!

[@fwobebe5164]

Yeeeeeeeah!

[@Darko1226]

You should pick up the axes in the cabin in the woods and pass them off to other counselors and then get the torch. That way other counselors have a weapon better than the knife.

[@Femaiden]

everyone else beats games, but only Mike DEFEATS them

[@mikematei]

😱

[@DannyDeVoid]

Hey Mike super late comment, but I came across a very in depth guidebook for this game called "Friday the 13th: The Easy Way" it goes into detail about all the gameplay mechanics involved in this game! I actually made a short about it. 😁

[@coolgamingyoutubechannle]

Are their any games you can actually finish on action 52?

[@ramzen89]

Have you played the Spider-Man PS1 game? That one's actually pretty good.

[@bruceq5192]

Nice!

[@jeff15]

Awesome 👌 👏

[@TheTogoRojo]

977 1:19:08 LJN's pixel perfect

[@Rubberneck1965]

True Lies has always been my favorite Arnold movie, a notch above Commando, Kindergarten Cop, Raw Deal and the list goes on of course, but I think all his movies were typically a bit gimmicky/ridiculous with the one-man-army killing 1,000 guys over and over. True Lies was a real Hollywood blockbuster, still has what you're looking for with one liners and Tom Arnold definitely adds a lot to it. GIVE ME THE GODDAMN PAGE!... and the scene/dialogue with Bill Paxton in the convertible is just... check out True Lolz on here. Anyways, I'm intrigued if the person's comment on here about Friday the 13th not being truly beaten without the pitchfork is a thing. I had never seen this beaten in any sense until now.

[@darthvader8094]

Stop....cheering me UP!

[@ΗγησιαςΠεισιθανατος-ζ5φ]

It was a good game deep and with a lot of secrets and big for the time it came out,love it and Very difficult game

[@Ulysses3113]

Love it ❤

[@Dad42]

I enjoy the strategy in playing this 🎮.

[@backforblood3421]

The Spider-Man game I had for the Genesis was pretty good, at the time anyway (I guess it was called Spider-Man Vs. Kingpin, but I don't really remember that at all), and I either had the Spider-Man X-men Super Nintendo game or rented it or something. There was some kind of weird thing that happened with that, like maybe it got brought back or something and exchanged for something else.

[@majestic-skies]

what I noticed about the map is if you just imagine your character is always looking inwards towards the lake (if you look at the map all the houses are on the inside of the trail) its not too hard to understand. Although the first time playing it is confusing af lol