Ghostbusters (NES) "Defeating the Stairwell" James & Mike Mondays

James and Mike re-visit Ghostbusters on NES once again, for the sole purpose of defeating the stairwell WITHOUT using Game Genie.
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[@Stiv64_]

So the way players are supposed to do that stairwell stage is... - Get the Ghost Armor to have a total of 15 hitpoints instead of 9. - Get as many Baits as possible. - Get the extremely expensive sound generator which causes the ghosts to move slower - Gain extra health by trial and error from the doors That will keep your kids busy.

[@Stiv64_]

Don't ask me, I just wanted to do the summary. :P

[@styx84]

kept us busy as kids.

[@AndrevusWhitetail]

But apparently the surefire way is this... - Get 2 baits - Some other stuff that might be useful - Get down to 1 HP - Get hit by a ghost hiding behind the door to do a Memory Underflow glitch to gain 255 HP

[@dooplon5083]

+Andrevus Whitetail It's an underflow? Now I understand the glitch!

[@AndrevusWhitetail]

Atomic Robo Tesla It's underflow because you reduce the number in the memory slot that stores your HP below 0.And since this is an 8-bit system there are no negative numbers "usually" on these kinds of memory addresses, thus subtracting 1 from 0 results in the counter underflowing the minimum into the next nearest number it can store, which is 255.

[@handsomebrick]

Winston's the one driving the car, obviously.

[@maxpain5506]

Yambo High or refuel

[@cuckerinokripperino4216]

Max Pain game fuel??

[@shatman7496]

Maybe the new trainee should drive the car

[@jdolaktv]

+Shatman nah!

[@maxpain5506]

Yambo High RAGE fuel

[@Untouchaable]

This game looks better than the new movie.

[@danielross5292]

Well I won't argue with that Mate!

[@UltimateGamerCC]

think this looks better than the Ghostbusters reboot? well you're right, and the SEGA Master System version is much better than this.

[@notcomplicit7982]

this game has better special effects

[@TauGeneration]

too far man. too far

[@davidandrew3006]

Far less torturous.

[@sonohanabira9703]

11:30 Mike's reaction after game over moment just killed me XD. "This game is no good"

[@JamesNintendoNerd]

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[@КриптонТиберий]

James,Ghostbusters 3=4 woman,LOL

[@nolandavis1129]

Cinemassacre have you considered an emulator that way if you fail the final boss or the stairs you can go back

[@nascarfreak83]

They have said countless times that they don't like using emulators at all.

[@nolandavis1129]

[LNG]nascarfreak83 yeah but this game is a piece of shit

[@nascarfreak83]

Yeah, played this game back in the day and yeah it was and still is a hunk of shit lol

[@sjshady0169]

James looking at the camera at 10:00 is priceless.

[@gemstar3824]

"Sucking them for money." Fucking hilarious!

[@kazaamoneal9816]

James man your faces are cracking me up in the beginning GHERSTBERSTERS

[@kazaamoneal9816]

Also, Mikes reference to BUSTIN' MAKES ME FEEL GOOD

[@buffoonustroglodytus4688]

Bustin' nyuts

[@zukodude487987]

Conglatz on the glitch

[@Alfador42]

Conglatz on the gritch. Fixed.

[@Yomarz]

Conglatz on the Grinch

[@raz09181]

con hats torn to bits.

[@DehLogund]

*Conglaturation

[@Alfador42]

What we are now seeing is a satulation of conglaturations.

[@espro436]

I'm SO glad that i grown up only knowing and playing New Ghostbusters II, that was released only in Japan and PAL region. Its the best version of any Ghostbusters games on NES at least.

[@ThePreciseClimber]

Guess what? I was the complete opposite. I had both Ghostbusters 1&2 but I had no idea New GB2 existed untill a few years ago.

[@espro436]

ThePreciseClimber you poor american!

[@espro436]

ThePreciseClimber dude, i know EXACTLY how you feel, i was born and lived since 1989 to 2004 in Belorussia :). This whole Famicom clones, yellow cartriges with chines letters and funny stuff like 9999 in 1 (where actually was only 3 or 4 games)... its all from my childhood :). So, i'm totally on same page with you.

[@Revvy_04]

||NUSHBUSTER'S||

[@Jamesaroni]

Im sorry for your first NES experiences Mike XD

[@ashir555]

10:00 James face is like: I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that... 10:08 Mike's face is: Oh fuck, I did it again! You guys make my day!

[@soulagent79]

Use to play this game on the C-64 over and over, back in the 80's. :-)

[@soulagent79]

Yes and you didn't have to find gas all the time.

[@gamestar7866]

i grew up with the c 64 version myself. so glad it wasnt the nes version i grew up with.

[@soulagent79]

The hardest part was to get past Stay Puft at the entrance of the Zuul-building. If you lost more than one player, the game was over and you had to start all over again.

[@AThousandYoung]

For some reason you had to enter the door from the side instead of walking straight in which I never figured out until I saw a walkthrough

[@olimpicus]

i played it on my zx spectrum 48k

[@Desirsar]

Alternatively, play it on the Master System where this stage is designed properly.

[@ErwalDeeas]

PREACH!!!

[@pentelegomenon1175]

You'd think the NES version of this game would be the best since it came after all the others, but it's actually the worst somehow.

[@zeldacommentator]

11:31 that reaction was priceless Mike

[@Pix3l_Pr1ncess]

I'm going to watch the original movie again instead of the new one 👍

[@drakerobert5649]

You are not offended like other femenists?

[@SirLankselotYT]

You have a very bright future, my dear.

[@Creamy360]

M'Lady

[@masterlee1988]

You made the right choice!

[@MrCharliefreak85]

ok

[@FordTechMakuloco]

I will watch you guys until the day I die!

[@andykishore]

4:42 This music will be engrained into my head until the day that I die.

[@DOSRetroGamer]

@@andykishore hopeful not afterwards... 😬

[@arthurwulfrun]

this is Luigi's origin story. similar uniform and ghost busting :-)

[@jg102485]

sometimes james and mike get a little punchy or snippy with each other. thats real friends, i love it. like when they over correct each other or over explain. its awesome

[@SmugMatty]

I like how the auto generated subtitles could even tell they were saying "Conglaturations"

[@GoldsCovers]

11:35 LOL i love these guys more than family

[@SiGhast]

One of the funniest moments in J&MM history and I would've missed it if it wasn't for your comment.

[@GoldsCovers]

+SiGhast im happy my comment helped you laugh(: i love these guys

[@troywright359]

more than.....family? try not to idolise them

[@GrandFunker]

"As long as there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say" - WInston Zeddemore

[@LemmyKoopaVGA]

12:17 I like how James knows that the counter resets to 255 when you go below 0 since NES runs on hexadecimal byte values, kinda like Zelda's 255 rupee cap.

[@KWKBOX]

This is way more enjoyable than the garbage coming out on July 15th. Thanks for the tip on the stairs. We just used Game Genie on my channel.

[@Xearrik]

9:55 This is a legendary moment! I laughed so hard.

[@TheCRTman]

That music still haunts me

[@wesleyjc80]

Ghostbusters for the Sega Master System was a much better version of the game.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

yes it was, i played it a lot as a kid, very enjoyable for what it was.

[@dirpyjosh]

I agree!

[@wannabkain4400]

Don't say that I missed out on it as a kid :(

[@marakarthegreat]

some one with the same opinion as I.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

Jonathan Unger lol quoting the nerd huh? well compared to the NES version, it's total night and day, just like the Genesis version being FAR superior to both of these games.

[@markiplieroldaccount7892]

Happy birthday, James!!!

[@kuunami]

Come on Mike. It was definitely Winston who was missing. They didn't even include him in the movie posters or on the DVD covers. You and James know the series inside and out so I know you're aware of the disrespect that Ernie Hudson has been treated with by the producers of this franchise. It's up to good people to call out bullshit like this.

[@roymerkel8008]

As I recall the bizarre color choices were due to this game being originally a C64 game and they just did a pretty direct port of the palette (even though the NES pallette is slighty better then the C64 pallette)

[@Kibbles-ph4zp]

holy shit James rolfe in a Cinemassacre video, this is rare..

[@Kibbles-ph4zp]

***** Yeah well he went from the star of cinemassacre to making once a week appearances. Sad.

[@ellipsoidi]

nah just wasting this idiot's time here :)

[@Damaged7]

Its almost like he has a life....amazing isn't it.

[@typalmer6850]

Being in over 70% of recent videos is rare? What a moronic thing to say...

[@KombatGod]

Posting this comment in October... Worst timing ever, dude.

[@JonasC22]

Mike when the new Ghost busters drops like a smelly turd you gotta do a stream of the 360 game, please!! It's the third movie!

[@kingofrapture]

Agreed

[@scottcowan7343]

"It's really meant for money, sucking them for money." - Mike Matei, 2016

[@TheZombiePimpernel]

"Suckin' them for money!" Mike's reaction was priceless.

[@MisterTutor2010]

This summer, who you gonna call? The answer is HE-MAN! HE-MAN!! :)

[@Marcelelias11]

Question: In your profile pic, how do you do that process?

[@kingkoopa3000]

It still amazes me how needlessly convoluted this game is. Couldn't the developer just make it a simple shoot em up game where you shoot ghosts and trap them ? Whats so hard about that? Fuck , man .

[@DEADEYESTUDIO]

ikr? ghost busters for the ds actually did It right where it is just a shoot em up ghost game.

[@Tim85-y2q]

Because it's a port of a media tie in game for Atari. "Needlessly convoluted" is the name of the game there.

[@VideoAggression]

this is in their horror games playlist. excellent.

[@LJNTOYSLTD]

Don't watch them. They Hate LJN. They're lucky we didn't make Ghostbusters. Because we would make it so much better. We wanted it to be. A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde type style

[@branaa09]

Oh wow the shit rainbow has to comment now! What does LJN stand for? Leave alone and just Never Touch?

[@Kurachi84]

"nostalgia critic i'm a bad troll" its on youtube

[@wesleyjc80]

+branaa09 this LJN is obviously an imposter.

[@TheBigDaddyPrototype]

The games you publish are worse than EA's.

[@Blinkster93]

+Nahvec indeed

[@ActivelyVacant]

There was another trick in this game during the Gozer fight where if you went to the bottom screen and shot Staypuff a bunch you would turn invincible for a while.

[@Zelmarked]

1:17 Explanation 11:52 Execution

[@grommike3726]

The heat at 11:18. That’s buddies.

[@Cowboygineer]

9:56 Funniest moment in the video XD

[@goregrindisthebestgenre]

Best James & Mike Monday I've seen in a while.

[@kingofrapture]

This game has better graphics than the cgi in the new Ghostbusters movie.

[@netacid11]

Loved that quick look to the camera by James when Mike did the "suckin these guys in" line.

[@JimmysALilGirl]

Egon is the one that's missing! That's why you have to buy your equipment, because Egon's not there to make it!

[@claudiorojas4306]

NO stairway? Denied !

[@sugarhieroglyph]

ABSOLUTELY NO STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN!

[@jojoface4940]

Good call!

[@demonteddybear3510]

Still wrapping my head around the NES Ghostbusters is just a updated version of the Atari 2600 Ghostbusters.

[@sorryforbatenglish]

shit day at work, this is exactly what I need thanks James, thanks Mike

[@ZomIIXC]

9:59 it was at this moment, he knew... he fucked up.

[@ChosenOne41]

how the hell are you supposed to do that stage legitly without game-genie or that glitch?

[@NickEnlowe]

Guide the ghosts with strategy, don't keep walking into them. I used to beat this over and over without using any glitches.

[@ChosenOne41]

Buttered Toast that's what she said ;)

[@Fasneocroth]

I was looking for someone that had here. The game would actually be broken if it couldn't be completed without glitches and cheats

[@chrishoskavich2435]

Don't know if you guys know it, but in the battle with Gozer you can shoot Stay-Puft to knock him down the building some. He keeps coming back up, but it lets you fight Gozer without being so rushed. When I was a kid, I beat this game with the help of a Game Genie for the stairway part.

[@strocat25]

I ain't fraid no gas

[@MaxMarriner]

James on his phone is such a weird thing to see.

[@BloodFortress]

that moment where james was super pissed off was kinda spoopy 11:10

[@RuffyYoshi]

The sound generator makes you invincible on the staircase.

[@blyjd91]

Can we all here just make an agreement NOT to go see the new Ghostbusters movie?

[@IceSigil]

The new all-female Ghostbusters movie coming out this summer +ganymedelV4

[@VisionThing]

That's such a misogynist thing to say.

[@KvSwooo]

how?

[@Simon2d3d]

Anyone else getting the feeling that Mike is grinding Jame's gears in this episode? 'Mike: Dodge those projectiles!!' 'James: Trying!' I swear there's a hint of quiet desperation in Jame's voice. Maybe this is where the nerd's pent up rage is partly from? :P

[@Arundodonax]

If you watch the car driving down the road, it looks to be covering about 30 meters per second. If you do the math, that works out to 98.4 ft/s, which is about 67 mph. In case you were wondering.

[@wanderlustiest]

9:56 the sexual tension is real

[@gageperuti5519]

10:07 Good night, everybody!

[@regpett3730]

NES ghostbusters, still better than the remake.

[@TragedySuitsUs]

i just wanted to say that i know you probably don't let haters /trolls and BS on the internet affect you too much and i'm glad for that. don't let shit drag you guys down and to james you're doing a good job and making people laugh, keep the spirit burning and having fun

[@rayonixv4717]

Ghosts: *exist* Ghostbusters: * sucks them for money.*

[@fedexior]

Conglaturation !!! You have completed a great game. And prooved the justice of our culture. Now go and rest our heroes !

[@pnkflyd66]

Anyone else sick of the Mobile Strike ad??

[@ShanetheFreestyler]

Sometimes, you can have too many choppas.

[@pnkflyd66]

+ganymedeIV4 fuck Casey Nestat

[@Musicradio77Network]

Yes indeed, same thing happened on Swagbucks and SBTV mobile apps and it stops while the ad is still on unless I clicked the "X"

[@dillclinton4379]

yes very much so especially the unskipable 30 second video ad an Pandora I really hate mobile strike now because of the unavoidable ads

[@youwayo]

Does anyone remember the unskipable Ad for Just Dance 2014 back in late 204?

[@Woot007]

I played Ghostbusters on the commodore 64 and as a kid back then i really liked it.

[@jorgemcgoon879]

The nerd has to watch this

[@masque22]

Those "Sucking them in" and "Sucking them for money" had me rolling!

[@chriswinspear7965]

Had this for the Amstrad when I was a wee lad, could never figure out what the fk to do in the end.

[@howcin]

"This game is no good" Lol

[@farmhousemedia3000]

I honestly don't know how James can listen to "tips" from Mike without wanting to punch him! "Ok, DODGE the PROJECTILES!" "Oh REALLY? You THINK that's what I'M SUPPOSED TO DO, MIKE?!?"

[@Qaosbringer]

Mike, Ghostbusters for PC is better than Ghostbusters for Xbox 360. Play that.

[@wtsyrdeal]

aren't they the same game?

[@Clay3613]

You mean the DOS game from Activision.

[@Lone432345]

Wasnt it also for the PS3.

[@wtsyrdeal]

Lone432345 i believe so. the only difference between the console and PC version as far as i know is that the console had online mulitplayer. which was very fun, as i owned the xbox 360 verson. i honestly played it for the multiplayer. although to be honest; there were a lot of assholes online.

[@Lone432345]

Paul Revere I must be too old fashioned. If im going to play against someone. I like them to be on my couch. Also i usually don't survive that long in anything other than Co-op.

[@anderseriksson6445]

Conglaturations on beating the stairs at least!

[@DarkRaptor99]

Hahaha, made me laugh so hard. Mike just suck them for money Matei!!!

[@majorramsey3k]

Conglaturations on doing the glitch right!

[@pluvius9265]

"You gotta get that glitch." Or just play one of the versions of the game that wasn't programmed by a kindergarten class.

[@bunnybismuth]

"Ghostbusters 'n Goblins". Shit, I'd play that.

[@JoeSparro]

that music....its....in ...my brain....

[@computerman789]

Looking at James' expressions at the start of this video just makes me think how funny a silent AVGN movie or episode would be.

[@zackhamblen]

0:41 GERHSTBUSTERS

[@johntumahab323]

It CAN be done with just the Turbo Controller. I pulled it off on my own copy with the old NES Advantage joystick. I had no idea that there was stuff in the doors, though. I don' t think the Instruction Booklet mentioned that...

[@computerman789]

10:41 "Vacuuming" them, maybe?

[@JoshJines]

The Ghostbusters in this game look like Luigi. This is more Luigi's Mansion than Ghostbusters.

[@tdtellem]

YES!!!!! That's the glitch that allowed me to get through that game every time. I posted it on somebody's channel in the comments section. I'm glad to see somebody officially acknowledge it!!

[@chariasdasach7]

"You don't cross the streams!"

[@mr.needlestan2954]

5 Things nobody suspected about this game (and if you do, WHERE DID YOU HEARD IT?) N°5. Touching ghosts on map will increase the number of ghosts on the road. N°4. If ghost counter in ZUUL reaches 9999 the game wil end. N°3. On stairs, the ghosts behind the doors can't kill you , they can take your lifes but the can't take the last one. Also behind every 3rd door there is extra health. N°2. On the road in Japanese version there are 2 cars.( This version have only 1 car ) N°1. YOU CAN ENTER THE ZUUL ONLY WHEN YOU HAVE 15000 BUCKS IN YOUR BANK.

[@ALitleBitSpecial]

Mikes knows all about those longer proton beams ;)

[@rocky356744]

I would love to see you guys play the Sega Master System version of this Ghostbusters game. It's at least a more enjoyable version of the game to play....and....Louis Tully is in it! Lol. You guys are brave playing this game as many times as you did.

[@chicoarraes]

dudes, back in the day, I made it through the whole stairs just with ghost food. They follow you anyway, but if you do it just right, you can keep enough distance

[@gluserty]

When i rented this game back in the 1980's, I didn't get anywhere near the staircase level (didn't really know how to play the game). I maybe captured a ghost or two, but I just remember doing a lot of driving. Oh, and I think that second Pitfall game borrows the look of the Ghostbusters for their Pitfall Harry character.

[@mighty_themultitasker]

"You be sucking these guys in" 9.59 as soon as he says it I died laughing lol😂😂😂😂😂

[@stellarorbit1341]

Am I the only one who remembers the angry video game nerd and miss the regular video uploads of that. That was my favorite thing to watch back then.

[@andrecesario7216]

It would be nice to see them play the New Ghostbuster II for the Famicom. It's a pretty good game

[@AggressivelyMediocre]

Louis and Dana are in the Master System game. They wander the city map and steal money from you when they hit you.

[@MarsenNetwork]

Man I love these guys!

[@BostonKid13]

10:07 I’m crying

[@g0rdonfreeman1]

BUSTIN' MAKES ME FEEL GOOD 3:07

[@aeronzero]

11:38 That reaction is priceless. Almost choked on my Kraft Dinner

[@GabrielSantos-dm5pm]

Priceless. You could just have said "capturing" him, Mike.