NES Final Bosses Part 1

The video shows final bosses of some NES games.
Finished on 2020-05-13.

[@YaveYu]

Super Mario Bros. Super Mario Bros. 2 Super Mario Bros. 3 Life Force Jackal Rush'n Attack Contra S.C.A.T Shadow of The Ninja Shatterhand (but Japan) Mitsume ga Tooru Arkanoid The Guardian Legend Dragon Warrior Ninja Gaiden Ninja Gaiden 2 Ninja Gaiden 3 Ghost'n Goblins Castlevania Castlevania 2 Castlevania 3 Kung Fu B-Wings Final Fantasy Advanture Island Advanture Island 2 Gun-Nac Summer Carnival '92 - Recca Kick Master The Trolls in Crazyland (but Japan) Mega Man Mega Man 2 Mega Man 3 Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu Robo Warrior Blaster Master Super Spy Hunter Batman Zanac Bucky O'Hare Metal Gear

[@ranzyel]

pow mano vc e fera botou os nome de cada jogo parabéns

[@Catastrophic-hk3mh]

That makes no sense

[@paladin181]

That's awesome. You missed Choujin Sentai Jetman after Shatterhand, though.

[@realrobertpaulson]

where's kyatto ninden teyandee?

[@dustinnoneya3217]

@@paladin181 It is a Famicom game. probably why... idk

[@michaelsoule8070]

I love the old school video game logic of everything exploding when defeated.

[@brianhancock6650]

Rush'N Attack.....lets shoots the nuke with rpgs. should be okay.

[@benza5379]

And the bosses turning colors the more damage they take

[@JonathanBresnihan77]

Me too!

[@bettyboytv3798]

Make you feel like you accomplished something... 👍

[@dimviesel]

Gotta love that turbo setting😎

[@jokerzwild00]

Its crazy to think that, for me, before Bowser there really wasn't a concept of a final boss. I know he probably wasn't the first anywhere, but he was the first that I saw as a very little kid. Before that it was games like Pac Man or Dig Dug where you just played harder and harder boards until it either reset the game, glitched out or ended. It was a novel concept to play a group of levels with an extra hard enemy to defeat at the end. When the game even had a definitive end, or story for that matter. Even if it was super basic it was more than usual. To have seen all of videogame history and to have grown up alongside games was awesome. They matured as I did. Almost at the exact pace of my life. NES in elementary school, SNES and Genesis in middle and early HS, PS and Saturn in later HS and then as a young adult it was on to PC games, Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox and GameCube. That was when games really grew up, and me being in my early 20s it seemed like a perfectly natural evolution. Only very recently have I felt that I'm finally not the target demographic anymore, like within the last 7 years or so. I'm definitely not too old for games, but I no longer feel like most of them are being made specifically for people like me. Not sad, I've been the target demo for almost my whole life. Time for another generation to get things made for their sensibilities. I still have thousands of games to play, and the few new ones that appeal to me.

[@O.G.Ashtre]

Well Said!

[@brandonwatkins1206]

Truth man. I grew up with games the same way you did. they grew with us.

[@henriquelambcastellanos8439]

for me the first time I had a concept of a "finall boss" was playing the nokia phone game "space impact"

[@eins2001]

There was the very, very odd 2600 game with an actual ending.

[@anthonyrowland9072]

@@eins2001 Wasn't Jungle Hunt the first "final boss"?

[@travisfodrie5410]

Props to the audio design of the 8-bit era.

[@andrewleach1667]

They did so much with so little!

[@justdev8965]

It's better than the soundtracks of today. I have to mute the music entirely in nearly every modern game

[@TimValenti-v9l]

Best thing I liked about old systems is they never break. You could actually play every game ever made on them.

[@HardcoreRGProdigyXTR]

Apart from the first 3 SMB titles (all of which are instant "givens")... Life Force (aka Salamander; Konami 1987-88) Jackal (aka Final Commado - Red Fortress; Konami 1988) Rush 'n Attack (aka Green Beret; Konami 1987) Contra (Konami 1988) S.C.A.T. - Special Cybernetic Attack Team (aka Final Mission / Action in New York; Natsume 1990-91) Shadow of the Ninja (aka Kage; Natsume 1990) Tokkyuu Shirei Solbrain (retooled & localized as Shatterhand; Angel/Natsume 1991, published in the US by the already-defunct Jaleco) Choujin Sentai Jetman (Angel/Natsume 1991) Mitsume ga Tooru (Tomy/Natsume 1992) Arkanoid 2 (Taito 1988) Guardic Gaiden (aka The Guardian Legend; Irem/Compile 1988, published in the US by the already-defunct Brøderbund) Dragon Warrior / Dragon Quest (Enix**/Chunsoft 1986, localized by Nintendo 3 years later) Ninja Gaiden [Ninja Ryukenden] 1, 2 - The Dark Sword of Chaos, & 3 - The Ancient Ship of Doom (Tecmo* 1989 / 1990 / 1991) Ghosts 'n Goblins (Capcom/Micronics 1986) Castlevania 1, 2 - Simon's Quest & 3 - Dracula's Curse [Akumajou Dracula / Dracula 2 - Noroi no Fuuin/ Akumajou Densetsu] (Konami 1986-87 / 1987-88 / 1989-90) Kung Fu (aka Spartan X; Nintendo/Irem 1984-85) B-Wings (Data East 1986) Final Fantasy (Square** 1987, localized by Nintendo 3 years later) Adventure Island 1 & 2 (Hudson Soft 1986-87 / 1990) Gun-Nac (Nexoft ℅ ASCII/Tonkin House ℅ Tokyo ShosekI/Compile 1990-91) Recca [for Summer Carnival '92] (Naxat Soft 1992) KickMaster (Taito/KID 1991-92) Doki! Doki! Yuuenchi - Crazy Land Daisakusen (VAP/KID 1991 - localized as The Trolls in Crazyland for Europe, in '93 by the already-defunct American Softworks Corporation) Mega Man 1, 2 & 3 (Capcom 1987 / 1988-89 / 1990) Jackie Chan's Action Kung-Fu (Hudson Soft 1990) RoboWarrior (Jaleco / Hudson Soft 1988) Blaster Master (Sunsoft 1988) Super Spy Hunter (aka Battle Formula, Sunsoft 1991 - derived from the already-defunct Midway/WB's Spy Hunter franchise) Batman (Sunsoft 1989) Zanac (FCI/Pony Canyon/AII, Compile 1986-87) Bucky O'Hare (Konami 1992) Metal Gear (Konami 1987-88, localized in the US by its short-lived subsidiary Ultra) *currently Koei Tecmo **currently Square Enix

[@ElPrody]

Gracias por tomarte el tiempo haciendo la lista. 👍🏽

[@joaonettoofc]

Thanks my friend

[@carlosl5858]

Thank you for doing this!

[@francesclutter]

👍🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@realtsarbomba]

Metal gear was such a disappointment as I had played it with MSX first.

[@xcoder1122]

I like it when the final boss has a an intro sequence that feels as if it was 5 minutes and then you shoot him three times and he's gone.

[@crank1422]

Anybody else notice that the NES had some really dark games?? Like, you’re seven, and your mission is to kill the evil skull lodged in between a kidney and brain, and a liver.

[@bryanwalton6200]

Yep. Exploding eyes, brains, shoot people. Lol straight violence

[@desigamer_tv3959]

You should check out last villian of Super C NES. That looks like it partially swallowed somebody's head and is about to crush it

[@thenext9537]

Battletoads where you at

[@shockgtheshawnyboy]

MegaMan was so hard, so fast, the game couldn't even keep up with the frame rate. How genius and ahead of their time were those devs, letting you change suits mid fight/game!

[@Decerebrado]

Great work, congratulations! Could you please add the names of the games? I know most of them but would like to know the ones I don't.

[@StevenOrielly]

Uh*+4*+4°•6*

[@MichaelTaylor-qp2xf]

Yes, please. Ones like Castlevania and Mega Man are fairly obvious but there's a lot of games here that I don't recognize.

[@StevenOrielly]

@@MichaelTaylor-qp2xf I like eating a ni 2

[@Andres33AU]

@@MichaelTaylor-qp2xf Same, there's a few I don't know. I would like to know the game shown before Blaster Master, it looks like another Sunsoft game, possibly?

[@ДаниилМиронов-д6у]

@@Andres33AU RoboWarrior

[@JSOD88]

You left out the most iconic Nintendo game, Metroid.

[@randallross420]

Hell yeah. If you had a turbo controller you were a baller.

[@mustachesally4134]

80s and 90s were simpler times… I miss it

[@Xeliuz1]

the quality of this video is epic :D thanks for posting this and taking me back in time with all the sounds

[@dwoodard5717]

First time I've ever seen the end of rush'n attack. Not sure why I haven't until now

[@jonathanlarkin2709]

For the limitations those guys had and STILL be able to produce such quality graphics, as well as composing unforgettable soundtracks....MAESTROES!

[@bfitz82]

Jackie Chan punches a spider to death. Awesome.

[@auroraboreal3x]

I never get tired of watching dracula get cheesed with holy water 😂 14:02

[@theoldswitcharoo]

Fun fact: according to one of the devs, Dracula runs away halfway through that fight. The second stage is actually supposed to be the embodiment of the evil in the heart of all men.

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

0:12: Super Mario Bros Experience World (NES): Boss Battle #14: Wart

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

1:35: Final Boss: Bowser (Boss Battle #20)

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

I like the explosions in some games and it's amazing! 👍👍👍

[@Arthur19-v3y]

This is my new sleep video. The music the sounds. Its perfect. Turbo controller or not. Thanks for the comps. I seen part 2. It'll get watched 👊

[@josephmillar2370]

Jackel victory music was right up there with contras victory music

[@bartsullivan4866]

They don't really tell you how much anxiety and heart racing excitement it was to actually get to a lot of these bosses when you were a kid. NES hard was a real thing lots of broken TV sets for Ninja Gaiden and Castlevania because of those damn birds not to mention Mike Tyson in Punchout.

[@djtrakakadrunkpoet8598]

Maannn that first Crash Bandicoot almost tried to give me Grey hairs it was so stressful. Then one day before u could even get to the last end of the game . That shit froze at the loading screen of Slippery climb. Then there was relief. Mad but glad the pressure of beating it was gone . 29 and I still haven’t beat it . But I will one day

[@Reckoner89]

​@@djtrakakadrunkpoet8598You never will, I'm afraid.

[@tubesockromance]

My greatest achievement as an individual, was beating Mike Tyson without getting hit once.

[@bartsullivan4866]

That is awesome. The new generation will never really understand with games where you can set the difficulty I was always someone who tried to get the best ending on the hardest setting. I was able to beat Mr. Dream on a decision in Punchout but not Tyson. Still looking to beat him. @@tubesockromance

[@adamrobinette6832]

With Rush'n Attack, you gotta love the logic that the only way to safely end a nuke threat is to shoot it over and over with a rocket launcher, LOL!

[@KCUFyoufordoxingme]

You break it, it does not work.

[@DaRoachDoggJrr]

@@KCUFyoufordoxingmeit’s like throwing rocks at a glass of water to stop it from spilling

[@samsonhaze6595]

Actually, if I had to guess’s I’m pretty sure that doing this IRL would cause the fuel depot on the rocket to explode, but the “payload”/“warhead” requires a great amount of energy and very specific pre-designed conditions in order to achieve nuclear fission. Most likely this would just turn it into a “dirty bomb”, which may irradiate a small area and render it unlivable, but on the scale of things is nothing compared to a full-scale atomic explosion…

[@Chris-zh9dt]

The material is shielded, so it doesn't irradiate people working with it. A complex process inside the payload is what sets the nuclear reaction off. If you disable the missile body, the payload is still intact. Works the same for conventional missiles as well, that's why shooting them down does not do anything. The warheads are programmed with conditions. As long as it's not on a timer. It should never go off without reaching its target/conditions.

[@nightbreed141]

Wow ! You brought me so much nostalgia ! I played about 80% of these games and beat most of them ! It was really cool to see the ones that I didn't finish ! It's crazy how I still remember how to play these games and the strategy to beat the bosses ! This was a great video ! Please tell me that you're in your 40's so I know that you actually went through these games in my time too cuz man you nailed it with this video !!! Thanks for this really !!!

[@WebbyStudio]

omg the guardian legend. my childhood.

[@FG-bn3qq]

That boss intro at 5:56 is pretty sweet.

[@diegoinsua5133]

Tokyo soulbrain

[@Casaganaha]

GunNac what good remembers. 8 Eyes was one of my favorites too.

[@Nate-Dawg921]

I loved the beginning of this video : The original Super Mario Bros. Trilogy.

[@gregcurlett2054]

I loved that part in Batman '89 when the Joker called down the lightning and said "ok Batman its lightning time "

[@Yundono]

at 8:55, I didn't know that Arkanoid has a boss battle back then lolol

[@AbeKenney]

Doki Doki Yuuenchi had cool art and a rad boss song!

[@goranmitic7500]

wow so much dedication. thank yo for this video

[@Drpaul227]

Landing the final hit on the Joker through the i-frame is bad ass.

[@erick9526]

I don't remember Wart taking so many hits... but then, it has been years...

[@user-fq1ig3uy3q]

I was thinking the same. I thought it was like... 3 or 4?

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

Whew after all them tough stages This is the final moment.

[@theoldcorporal]

The simple times when bosses turn red (or a shade of) when it's about to die...

[@Anatoly_Maly]

8:25 wtf 😳 я впервые такое вижу 😁👍 Эх, ностальгия, обожаю все эти 8 битные звуки и музыку 😌❤️❤️

[@TalamarAmV]

love how in the 8 bit era everyone explodes the same when they die.

[@thefrankiepalmeri]

How did I never know that 'Shatter Hand' had a different sprite set for the Japan version? Wild.

[@joeriveracomedy]

King Koopa grew a sweet mullet between mario 1 & 3

[@godlessandlovingit]

dang, a lot of these bosses are either giant skulls, or aliens with wicked sharp teeth. NES bosses would definitely give me nightmares as a kid. Luckily I only played Mario. lol

[@angeluss28]

@@godlessandlovingit I played all this as a kid and never got any nightmares.

[@Юрий-п5я]

​@@angeluss28Ну ты хотя бы сался?

[@usernamesrlamo]

Mario final bosses were always so anti-climactic and too easy.

[@Charles3773]

Ahh Good memories, thank you for this.

[@mchevre]

man I'm not epileptic but one thing I don't miss from that era is the strobe-like flashing that often happens when a final boss dies

[@djmixnmagic]

Wow, the nostalgia! Brought me right back to my youth. Such fun times

[@GlobalWarmingSkeptic]

Final boss battles today: Interesting mechanics with fast reflexes Final bases back then: "Let's just make it take a really long time to kill with the one-move exploit that people eventually find for it."

[@wingedhussar5528]

Man that brought back memories. Thank you.

[@Lorenz-Bruchtal]

Would you please add a list of the shone games in your descriptions? THX!

[@jasonwillard4943]

Rush jet to use Top spin mega man 3 one shot 2nd 1/2 😮 didn't know that. Learned something knew

[@JonathanBresnihan77]

I LOVED the Dragon Warrior series!

[@NATIVESUNSETS65]

Sweet memories School 8 hrs. chores 30 minutes hotpocket 5 minutes homework 25 minutes Megaman 2 hours Bases Loaded 1 hour Dinner Pizza 30 minutes Super Mario 2 hours Gauntlet 45 minutes Bedtime . . . . Gauntlet 30 mins . Repeat often 💯💯😏

[@CidZero]

Mario 3 has the best battle music for Bowser ❤

[@mae2759]

Surprised nobody has commented with the time stamps for all of the games yet.

[@argentorangeok6224]

To this day, Guardian Legend is one of my favourite sci-fi games.

[@analogmoz]

And whoever beats the last boss without using Enemy Erasers deserves respect.

[@terrancet3704]

Guardian Legend was an underappreciated classic

[@CC-bn2ws]

smb and contra were probably the only final bosses I saw. My saves would always get erased before I could go back to most games to finish, like final fantasy. But most of these games I never played.

[@501Floyd]

I love the video but i think its better served by having the name of the game onscreen during the fight.

[@orinlee6123]

Some way to tell what game Im watching would be fantastic. Otherwise, great vid!

[@coyotejohenson7245]

Cool video but why on earth didn't you add the name of the games? Everyone in the comment section is scratching their heads

[@fedguerra8046]

mario 2 is a fevered dream we all shared lol

[@jamesmorris9120]

In 2023 (& for a while earlier too) the final boss is endless end game content and paid content. It’s not about a final in game boss anymore. It’s a game to see how long you can play without simply quitting because they want you to keep spending money on the game.

[@misable]

awesome vídeo 📹, I see this vídeo later

[@X2x3x4]

OMG I LOVE THIS VIDEO!

[@orlandeuce6567]

THE MEMORIES

[@jfliguy]

I need a list of all the NES games please

[@davehalbeisen2303]

Doesn't matter if its a Robot,animal, human or something else,, final bosses always explode 😂😂👍💪

[@mcbpete]

Totally thought someone had made an insane rom hack that was a boss rush of bosses from various NES games !

[@awldune]

Maybe someone should?

[@yod1213]

What game is on the thumbnail? Update: Figured it out, its Robowarrior.

[@bluenothing720]

This is great man. Thanks!

[@bassamalsharani3093]

Ooooh my childhood game 😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️

[@stepheneickhoff4953]

I love the [Music] boss fight. Also the [Music] boss fight. And don't forget the you you boss fight!

[@LordThree]

As a kid Mario 2 was always baffling to me. It was such a departure from the first game. Then Mario 3 was my jam. Now that I’m in my 40s I understand why Mario 2 was so different. I was never very great at it (I never had a Nintendo and only ever played on my friends) but it was weird and the music was crazy

[@donovanolson85]

Mario 2 was actually a different game in Japan called doki doki panic and was rebranded with Mario characters when it came to America and sold as Mario 2. the original Mario 2 that was released in japan looked almost identical to the original Mario and was never brought to Americas or Europe as it was considered not to sell well being too similar to the original and apparently much more difficult. hope this gives some insight.

[@donovanolson85]

Mario 2 was actually a different game in Japan called doki doki panic and was rebranded with Mario characters when it came to America and sold as Mario 2. the original Mario 2 that was released in japan looked almost identical to the original Mario and was never brought to Americas or Europe as it was considered not to sell well being too similar to the original and apparently much more difficult. hope this gives some insight.

[@LordThree]

@@donovanolson85 did you read my comment before you replied? I said that now that I’m adult I understand WHY. meaning, I KNOW it was a different game 🙄. The prototype Mario 2 (the lost levels) wasn’t deemed different enough, and it was too hard. I know the lore, but thanks, I guess 🙄

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

You know you have good skill if You made it to these guy going Through all the hard stages.

[@Fairlady350Z]

Boss Fights easier than the dang levels.

[@robertjimenez7285]

Greatest instrumental ever! Very relaxing ❤❤

[@TimothyTimPSP]

I don't remember what all these games are. I got most of em, but I wish you would have added some text.

[@pingamalinga]

Cant believe you included Zanac. Far out.

[@MinecraftMartin]

Annoying when videos like this skip the fights. Example at 14:35 with Castlevania 2: Simon's Quest. The boss fight is completely cheezed and we don't actually see any of the boss's attacks or fight mechanics. But in all fairness, this video is labeled "NES Final Bosses Part 1", not "NES Final Boss Fights Part 1", so don't take my gripe seriously. Great video though seriously.

[@matrixleader]

I didn't know Arkanoid had a final boss. Cool!

[@優さん-n7m]

This list can't be complete without Ninja Gaiden.

[@bartsullivan4866]

I beat 1 as a kid got to the 2nd form of the Ninja Gaiden 2 but couldn't beat him and never had a chance to play 3. The player makes it look to easy in the video several of these bosses were not easy at all.

[@justdev8965]

All 3 games are in the video

[@arod2050]

12:38

[@xylsky1300]

As a kid legendary wings was funny because i actually thought when it said "the devil is coming" that they created the devil how he's supposed to look and i wondered why it was a blimp looking ship

[@regulusstarseed1368]

Remember when u could beat a game in an hour. Now it takes an hour to het through the tutorial

[@DanielSong39]

Never played Jackal but man it looks like a solid game

[@LjubomirSimin]

You should, the whole game is awesome

[@homerovilte8008]

Uno de los mejores juegos de Konami , el hecho que controles un jepp y rescates personas lo hace increíble y jugablemente es muy bueno

[@ddespair]

Am I the only one who would jump behind wart in super Mario brothers 2 and just throw veggies in his mouth? It’s a great tactic. The bubbles never get in the way and even standing behind him it counts as throwing it in his mouth. I never see anyone else do that.

[@Badspinache]

I did that. Always used luigi

[@nightbreed141]

😂 I did that too ! Just one time and that was it I swear !

[@ChrolliForever]

Same here. But not always. I love to make it more difficult for me at games I could finish in my Sleep.

[@kulikevl5312]

Is there a list of the games?

[@ZyosZyosZyos]

Cual es el nombre del juego al minuto 6?

[@homerovilte8008]

Es la versión japonesa de *shaterrhand* (tokyuu shurei solbrain creo que se llama )

[@firejuggler31]

Impressive. Very nice.

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

17:49: Boss Battle (Adventure Island)

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

18:07: Adventure Island 2

[@Frogman1943]

life force you have to go through the maze to escape after you pop the planet eyeball

[@angelantoniofloresvillacaq8386]

That's better than the same came out 3 years ago when most of the video games were fails

[@nonsensejunior106]

What was the game with Trevor Belmont that had nothing to do with Castlevania

[@ryanmac8829]

9:29 What is this game? I have childhood memories of it but forget the name.

[@reeseh3327]

The Guardian Legend … very underrated NES game

[@ninjaguyYT]

Legend of the guardian

[@coryjohnson2486]

So cool!! Thanks for the video bud!! 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

[@googiemike1537]

These bosses got absolutely dismantled!😂

[@rogerradue2352]

i wish there was a timestamp and listing of what game is what cause im confused on lot of them on whats what

[@tefaalgen]

Can u ols write name of games

[@leopassuello7231]

Whats the name of the game on 4:04 ???

[@StormFive]

S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team It didn't get a lot of advertising in its day

[@ninjaguyYT]

Scat

[@Mortal-Monk]

​@@StormFive such a strange title.

[@alexandermedvedev1334]

Action in New York

[@centralscrutinizer6108]

My only complaint is that you don't tell what games are being played. I seriously have no idea what alot of these games are and it'd be nice to have a name to go with them.

[@hirschlord341]

Would be nice if the name of game stands a little in corner .