NES Games No One Played: G.I. JOE ATLANTIS FACTOR (Nintendo Entertainment System Review)

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G.I. Joe Atlantis Factor | 1992
Similar Games: Real American Hero
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Intro drawing by Ashley Anderson: pressstarttobe...
After years of focusing on the best games for the NES, I decided to change gears and focus on lesser known cartridges that have, for one reason or another, generally escaped the public discussion and general nostalgia. This series highlights many of the relatively unknown, obscure, and unloved titles in the Nintendo Entertainment System's library. Some of these games are at best mediocre. Many are painfully bad, some of the worst NES games around. Most are hilarious for all the wrong reasons! Occasionally, OCCASIONALLY, a handful of them are actually good, borderline hidden gems.
While you won't find any of these on the NES Classic, some of these titles have managed to make their way onto the Nintendo Switch, so if you don't have an original Nintendo console or ROMs escape you ethically or technologically, there are several ways to play them.
Want more? Me too! Until then, lots of other articles where the pictures don't move and words have to be read can be found on my website: top100nesgames.com
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[@BigOleWords]

You can watch the first G.I. Joe review here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaO5lmSYnLekec0

[@28Pluto]

Body Massage.

[@foxyfoxington2651]

GI Joe gave me some funny ideas about the military when I was a kid... I thought there were wayy more ninjas and football players.

[@BigOleWords]

There aren't?!?

[@foxyfoxington2651]

@@BigOleWords I mean... I'm sure there are probably a few.

[@Murdoc_rusche]

It's hard to beat a guy whose guns shoots footballs. He's grid iron to the core. 😋

[@Toadaboticus]

Equal amounts of body stacked except I mean the GI Joe Team Stacked Entire Mountian sized bases by exploding them with extreme prejudice. No care of civilian contractors and family's also living at said base cause those were all live on bases. Ice cold killers all of them Gooo Joe?🤔

[@bryansansone3301]

I thought all the chicks would be hot too. Iraq sucked.

[@legbert123]

Pork Chop Sandwiches!

[@MosoKaiser]

Dock side bars?

[@johnboats9075]

Who wants a body massage?

[@shawnchevrette2861]

"Give em the stick, DON'T GIVE EM THE STICK!!"

[@m0thdm]

"God that smells good"

[@greenhotel7445]

I’m a computer.

[@brendn]

The reason the helper Joes are so big is because they’re 12” figures. The regular characters are 4” figures.

[@BigOleWords]

Love it.

[@Tigerheart01]

As a huge Gi Joe fan in the 80s and 90s as a kid (I had SO many of the toys), both of these Gi Joe games were some of my favorite on the NES.

[@GoodVibeCollecting]

This one feels like it was intended to be a Gameboy game with it's more simplistic color palette and graphics compared to the first. It also feels like different people worked on this one. The other team was probably working on Kickmaster which was probably the main focus.

[@BigOleWords]

Simpler compared to Real American but maybe not quite Game Boy level. And yeah that would be pretty funny if the A team was all on Kickmaster :)

[@user-is4jf8yr4z]

Really dig the style of your reviews man. We've had NES review on youtube for way over a decade now (crazy) but you managed to find a new twist on it. Rad!

[@BigOleWords]

Thanks! I don't know how new my twist is, but I enjoy making them!

[@eelobrian6727]

I've played this and American Hero enough to have gotten to the cryptic and tedious parts. You describe them perfectly and it's simultaneously vindicating and triggering. Also, these power ups have that Kickmaster disease. By which I mean they constantly evade capture.

[@anthonybernero9720]

Do you even know what you mean when you say triggering?

[@eelobrian6727]

@anthonybernero9720 Hey Anthony! Thanks for your interest. In short, triggering envokes a vivid memory and/or feeling that is just as intense as the day it happened. It's a useful term that can apply to many situations, both serious or silly. In the case of my experience with the GI Joe game, it's the latter. Because I'm playfully referring to how it evoked memories of rage and frustration. However, in serious situations, a triggering event can cause genuine distress. Such as reliving severe emotional or physical trauma. Hope that helps. If you have any other questions, there are lots of resources available, but I wouldn't suggest asking KZbin commenters for answers, because between you and me, there are a lot trolls out there.

[@BigOleWords]

It’s even more evasive than Kickmaster!

[@dalesanteford7432]

I wouldn't mind having both of these g.i. Joe games for my retrotron 5 pretty fun old-school side-scrolling

[@danejacobs6056]

Ok totally appreciate this review: The original game has been one of my favourites since I was a kid. I didn't know there was a sequel until I got into emulation in my teens. Seemed like everyone liked it more than the first one so I was excited to try it out. And I did... about 4 or 5 times, even as recently as last year. But... I've never been able to get into it and I felt like there was something wrong with me. So I really appreciate that you were able to put into words all the things that made me uncomfortable playing it. Really digging the channel BTW, I love that you're discussing titles that aren't often talked about.

[@BigOleWords]

Hey thanks so much! And yeah I was like you until this review, picked it up a few times but never stuck with it too long. You didn’t miss much!

[@samusvikerness661]

Big Ole Words: I absolutely love character switching mechanics on Nes. The Atlantis Factor: Allow me to overdo it.

[@BigOleWords]

I finally met my switch match!

[@FalsebitPakoPako]

There is one big catch to that. There are 6 you can send to a stage (up to 3 at a time). If any die, and you have Spirit and a radio, you can revive them in that stage. If all 3 die, they're gone for good and you only have your (potentially) remaining 3. If the last die, you mercifully get to start all over (or try your luck at the password; but at least this time the password tracks upgrades).

[@rchassereau2]

Enjoyed your video like always, just want to say that whenever the intro starts, I always gotta sing along to it. I hope you never change it

[@BigOleWords]

Haha well people do chime in occasionally to tell me the opposite! I doubt I’ll change it though :)

[@maltheopia]

I've been saying 'check this shit out' to my mom for the past couple of months in the intro's tone of voice. It drives her crazy.

[@rchassereau2]

LOL that's pretty great @@maltheopia

[@BigOleWords]

@@maltheopia haha that poor woman!

[@NESbrownbearhugs]

Atlantis Factor isn't as good as the first game, but still a solid game.

[@charleybarley7148]

Yes! I always hear from people that the game isn't worth playing because it doesn't live up to the first, but I don't understand that. It doesn't have to be as good to be solid/ enjoyable.

[@carn9507]

@@charleybarley7148 Yeah, Duck Tales 2 and Rescue Rangers 2 both by Capcom are very similar to their first games but are worth playing if you're enjoyed the originals and want more.

[@NESbrownbearhugs]

@charleybarley7148 Atlantis Factor does have Storm Shadow as a playable character, so that's a plus.

[@crab-dogjones4659]

You know, there are so many guys doing this kind of thing but your channel really stands out. I like it a lot.

[@BigOleWords]

It’s like Highlander, there can be only one so I’ve gotta cut off all their heads and steal their KZbin powers

[@NOCTUMSEMPRA]

Hey, thanks for this review! G.I.Joe Atlantis Factor was my first videogame EVER. I was 6 years old when I received in my smol hands my first Famicom. And it came with this cartridge. I played it for years. My child imagination ran so wild with this one! Difficulty was so rough and confusing sometimes (puzzles were so hard for me back then). I'm not sure it's "the best first game you can ever have" but I have to admit that I ended up loving this game not for what it was really meant for (to be a game for the animated TV series named GIJoe whose existance I ignored for years cause GIJoe series never arrived to latam I guess) but for all the sensations it generated in me and all the elementary-school conversations that it made me start back then with friends and all. Many years later, me being already a young adult and with assistance of emulators, I "beated" this game for the sake of it, but I would love to actually beat it the good way. I have to mention, English is not my native language, so that factor also added to my lack of understanding when I played GIJoe 2 as a child, haha. I need to do a remake of at least some stages of these GIJoe games (I'm a software developer)... It's a pending assignment for me. Wonderful review of yours, it turned out to too short for me! :) I really enjoyed it hearing your actual thoughts and oppinions about this game and not limiting yourself to only tell us how to beat it. Big hug from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Leo.

[@JohnGarciaOHMSS]

Same feelings from Colombia

[@ohthatguy9701]

This was one of my favorite games as a kid and holds so much sentimental value to me!

[@ras.al.dolezal]

I had Atlantis Factor as a kid and loved it so much

[@hannibalharkonnen7612]

Ya, I beat this as a kid, wasn’t easy but I loved it. It felt so cool when I finally rescued Snake Eyes, it took time to level up his life bar.

[@BigOleWords]

Yeah that’s when I gave up on trying to level up everyone

[@hannibalharkonnen7612]

@@BigOleWords respect the grind.

[@misakikoko4500]

I never played the first one, but this was one of my favorite NES games. It was in top 5 with Zelda, Crystalis, Friday the 13th and Base Wars.

[@noirlavender6409]

It always surprises me to see so many incredibly cool games, some of these look like sounds like snes games with bad less graphics

[@BigOleWords]

Indeed! There were a bunch of these late NES games that held up pretty well

[@antonio_carvalho]

I had this snake eyes version of the figure (1990) that's displayed in the cover, my favorite GI Joe.

[@w0olfie]

Loved these games! I went an a church retreat and a friend and I brought a NES and rented both GI Joe games and played them any time we were to stay in our rooms. 🤣😂

[@JenniferReyes-r9j]

My fav team was s.shadow, roadblock, and duke. They were essentially my warrior, tank, and mage respectively. I used to spam s.shadws projectile by tapping crouch and attack repeatedly. When i found one of the power sources that the game mentions, id let duke get it and it fully upgraded his weapons. Since duke can aim upwards, he'd make short work of cobra commander

[@topdamagewizard]

I like your content. Also I like how you use the Judas sample from Mr. Show's Jeepers Creepers bit.

[@BigOleWords]

It attracts all the Mr. Show heads thankfully :)

[@captainmartin1219]

I had fun beating real American hero. I got rocked a good number of times until I figured the key to beating the game is powering up snake eyes weapons and life bar, fully as his projectile weapon does not use ammo. Once you do that its easy to get through the stages and power every one else up.

[@Dystnine]

Second one had the best boi Roadblock. Oh the big GI Joes? They are Final Fantasy Summons. That is why they are large.

[@BigOleWords]

Hahaha love it!

[@nicknight4609]

Glad someone is talking about this game. Love it.

[@BigOleWords]

Both Joe games are worth playing for sure

[@onurkneezb]

There was a bug with snake eyes in this game. As long as you got 1 of each power up and used a pw, it would always max out his stats (at least on the cart I played on).

[@thenewnostalgia]

Fun Fact: Guile made Stormshadow's sword on Celebrity Forged in Fire.

[@BigOleWords]

Tell me more…

[@thenewnostalgia]

@BigOleWords oh, this isn't a real fact. I'm just saying inane stuff on your videos to boost in the algorithm. The projectile just reminded me of a Sonic Bewm

[@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145]

Your vids are always fun & nostalgic. Make me smile. My girlfriend of 2 years dumped me yesterday. But I kinda saw it coming months ago. However I was a bit bummed & about to go to bed looking for 1 last short vid. Found yours so feeling better now so can sleep. Thanks for you being you Sir!

[@BigOleWords]

Ooof sorry to hear that bud. Hoping it’s a quick “recovery” for ya :)

[@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145]

@@BigOleWords thank you.

[@cozmicmojo2181]

This is easily one of the best games on the NES. Great artwork, great gameplay, great music. Don't let any of these weird complaints stop you from picking it up. Its well worth it.

[@BigOleWords]

To each their own I suppose! I definitely don’t think it’s a bad game at all, but I think the first Joe title is better.

[@johnsoehnlen4781]

I agree with you 100%. Definitely one of my top 3 favorite games for the NES. I used to play this game every day back in 1992 and 1993.

[@mystiemyth]

I played the heck out of this back in the 80s,never had the first one but i loved this one

[@BigOleWords]

Oh nice!

[@carn9507]

Yeah, not as good as the first but I still enjoy it. It does feel a bit rushed as you say, perhaps because even when the first game was out in 1991, GI Joe had decreased in popularity a great deal, so in 1992 it's really dying off so perhaps the devs had to just get it done and released. The Marvel Comic ended at end of 1994 but yeah, sales weren't great by that point. Also I'd forgotten how 'snowy' Ninja Force Storm Shadow looked. I like it though. :)

[@astralpx]

"Even Joes had pagers" , LOL

[@scottbogfoot]

Nice, this is the one i remember best out of the two 7:20 is it to have fun with the two different sizes of gi joe action figures over the years the old big ones and the 80s small ones?

[@carn9507]

Can sorta do that now too with the usual 3.75 inch Joes and the current Classified line of 6 inch figures. :P

[@BigOleWords]

Damn dude I love that!

[@suicidebxmber1234]

In the "Real American Hero" review I was going to comment that I was a huge fan of G.I. Joe, and when I saw THIS game at the videoclub, I didn't hesitate for a second and I rented it myself... but it had a bug and I could only make it run like twice but still crashed at the end of the first stage. Even so, I rented it again some time later (hoping that they would have fixed it, after I told them what had happened-they honestly reinstated my rent)

[@BigOleWords]

Whoa, I've never heard of that happening! Weird

[@CountryAzHell]

Yeah, I can’t believe I didn’t know that these were two different games this whole time. I’m such a dummy. I’m so glad you posted this. I can’t wait to watch.

[@BigOleWords]

I mean if I’d played them casually as a kid I wouldn’t know which was which

[@frankf684]

You got a mention on the red cow arcade KZbin channel today.

[@BigOleWords]

Oh word? That’s awesome

[@MuresanBol77]

The GI Joe games are ones I only barely played back in the day to say I played them. HAHA I didn't have the patience to really try all that hard but they did look cool, especially with all the playable characters they had. Very nice!

[@chaseman94]

I bought a copy this game back in 1993 for $10 from Phar-Mor around the time when that chain of stores was involved in a scandal and I enjoyed it. I honestly thought Capcom developed this game but that wasn't the case it was fun nonetheless. I knew about the first GI JOE game on NES but I didn't really play that one for the first time until sometime last year and I loved that one too. I'll bet the original developer of these two games would've made a decent Transformers game for the NES far superior to the ones on the Famicom if they had the opportunity to do so.

[@BigOleWords]

What was the scandal? I'm not familiar with that chain.

[@seancooney8799]

One complaint as kid between the first and second game ... The first game you can get into vehicles .... You can't do that in the second game.

[@GertrudesD]

I was happy when I played this game and saw that they put Big Bear in it. In the comics Big Bear had a side kick named the Tiblisi Twink. The Tiblisi Twink had a leathal confetti cannon that always reminded me of Rip Taylor.

[@Gatorade69]

Are you serious ? I googled it and all I can find are gay guides for Tblisi Georgia.

[@BigOleWords]

Hahahahaha no! No way!

[@Gabriel_Cook]

I played it. And a Mr. Show intro? Subbed.

[@BigOleWords]

My favorite thing about the intro is that it pulls the Mr show fans out of the woodwork ;)

[@TheSchaef47]

You are correct. I didn't play this game. But I played the first one by Taxan a lot. That was pretty good, and the soundtrack slapped.

[@brianjl7477]

So, I had Atlantis Factor, but not the first game, so I played it more (I have both now). I pretty much agree with yoru assessment. The thing to do here is just concentrate on leveling Hawk, then whoever your second guy is, and just keep using them. Once you get them maxed up, they are pretty strong, though the game is still tough.

[@BigOleWords]

Yeah and I kinda did that with Roadblock and Storm Shadow, especially when I realized the end was near.

[@williambrewer6571]

Rest in peace the days when there was a new video every Tuesday morning. Now we get it when we get it I guess. Long live SNES drunk. watched his new video this morning. And it was awesome!

[@BigOleWords]

If I could stop making these videos so damn long I could probably get back to that schedule!

[@charles7164]

Recently found your channel, love the vids.

[@BigOleWords]

Awesome, glad you dig em!

[@Riz2336]

I would have been fooled by the capcom logo and picked up this one over the other game

[@BigOleWords]

Yeah it’s one of only a few NES games that they did not develop themselves

[@giannimorrone696]

I played it as a kid, I loved the game. It has ton of features that where very uncommon for a NES game. It may not be the best action game in the catalog, but I don't know if I agree with most people saying that the original is superior (the boss fights are, that's for sure). And most saying that reusing assets like sprites, etc. Is cheap, I don't see anyone criticizing an action franchise with 6 titles that not only reuses the main char sprite, but also most mechanics, improving one or two things per title.

[@BigOleWords]

Hahaha well yeah it’s certainly not the only game to reuse sprites or game engines. I personally prefer Real American, but they’re both solid.

[@blacktronpavel]

These games were hard but it did make you want to go out and buy more GI JOE. I liked them.

[@youreallyplaythat]

Nice. Did not know this one existed!

[@11679MRT]

Seeing Wetsuit scale a snow covered mountain in flippers is just too much.

[@BigOleWords]

It makes it all the more impressive!

[@johnchisholm2896]

Now I want to play both games. Great video 👍

[@BigOleWords]

They're both worth it for sure!

[@jefflindquist6138]

Both GI Joe NES games are good. 🙂

[@SeanSeanson]

Best NES reviews on youtube, keep it up king!

[@BigOleWords]

Hey thanks player!

[@ronaldhenson3379]

I finally invested in gi joe a real american hero and gi joe the atlantis factor for the Nintendo entertainment system

[@BigOleWords]

Nice!

[@ronaldhenson3379]

Thanks

[@arvinrunstein5707]

I gotta get some of those display stands

[@BigOleWords]

I can’t remember when I got them from but Etsy for sure

[@AmisAngelstreams]

How many direct sequels that immediately follow the ending of the previous game were there on the NES? It's very interesting that this one takes place immediately after the previous game, not just a second game but literally a continuation

[@mightyfilm]

There was an Atari 2600 game, too. G.I. Joe, Cobra Attack. And they took the name literally because you had to fight a giant snake, rather than any of Cobra Commander's forces. Seems like it was made by someone who only had third hand knowledge of the franchise.

[@carn9507]

Oh yeah, Cobra Strike. Although at least they said it was a robotic giant cobra rather than a real live giant cobra. Although with Cobra Commander being mutated into an actual snake, by the snakey-hybrid Cobra-La people in the 1987 animated movie, a giant snake doesn't seem that wacky. At least in the cartoon continuity. Larry Hama, who did the toy bios and the Marvel Comic, never used them in the comic cos he thought they were too silly and preferred the more 'grounded' tone he'd already been having great success with. :P

[@ChadzBeerReviews]

The best part came at 10:15 IYKYK

[@BigOleWords]

Haha hope you like it!

[@opaljk4835]

Always wanted to try this one, but the prevailing consensus made the price tag not seem worthwhile…especially since I already have the first game. Interesting nevertheless

[@BigOleWords]

Y’know i looked them up and I guess Real American is even pricier!

[@NekoDavid]

I love this game. It's my favorite GI Joe game. Probably just nostalgia

[@jamesstaggs4160]

So Roadblock's special is that he can crawl.... that's really stupid. His strength was one of his defining characteristics. Couldn't they make him able to punch through walls or lift heavy objects blocking your path? Or maybe he could set up an actual road block or something? Always trying to keep the black man down...

[@tookmyjob]

I played the hell out of the original and didn’t play through this until a few years ago. The bouncy items and collect-a-thon kinda ruin it for me, but it wasn’t as bad as I initially thought. Snake Eyes 4 life.

[@BigOleWords]

And for sure not as bad as I make it sound. It’s pretty good in most ways

[@taym510Oak]

It’s crazy I never got to play neither game I could have got them when I was a kid but I always chose another game 🤷🏿‍♂️ lol

[@BigOleWords]

They’re both pretty impressive, but I too had no idea as a kid

[@ja1369]

Played the first gi joe alot i had this one but dont remember a thing about it

[@justins2497]

i remeber playing the first Gi Joe American Hero. Walking home after school on fridays i'd rent games from the local grocery store. (they had a rental section) i played most nes and SNES games this way. I rent a game , then beat it over the weekend and return it on monday. Then rent another and another. It was a n awesome way to play tons of games on the cheap.. It was also like a demo trial too. If i like the game , id end up buying it. If not , no big deal , only out 2 bucks instead of 60. PLaying RPGs was a bitch though . the save was on the catridge that you returned. SO the chance of it being there the next time you rented it was nil. That was more of a trial to see if you wanted to buy it , like FFvi or 3 . Depending on your versions.

[@NA_49erFan]

1:12 ok first comment is, I am pretty sure I played part 1. Pretty sure we beat it with the help of the Nintendo power magazine back then.

[@stuffthings1417]

great game. many hours as a teen.

[@glasshalffullofwhatever3106]

You could tell this was in the final days of the NES cuz the animation and sprites look almost 16 bit worthy...

[@bajra79]

played the hell out of this on

[@lokimischievous1698]

There was no pagers back in the Joe days.

[@yotaiji012]

I love this game

[@maynardwayward12]

The first is kind of an NES classic, this one....I doubt it was very popular.

[@BigOleWords]

Yeah just based on its release date I doubt it

[@WoodenLegStudios]

Great pair of vids!

[@BigOleWords]

Thanks bud!

[@gravecactus]

i thought it was more fun when it was called Low G man.. swear to gosh that looks like the same game.

[@BigOleWords]

For sure. It has much more of that single tone look to the stages like ol’ Low G Man

[@mike4221975]

I owned both Gi Joe nes games. Love them both

[@EpicLebaneseNerd]

i really doubt no one played this game, it is awesome and was well talked about , anw, i do get the point, but it is indeed a G I JOE game and even i, a kid from a third world country had it as a kid. but i need to say, forget everything, THE MUSIC OF THE FIRST LEVEL, that is a banger, i keep humming it to myself all the time. This game along with so many other games, especially KICK MASTER are some of the most most gorgeous nes games, KID really knew how to make a stylish game. and yes, i love this much more than the first, by a country mile. easily in my top 10 nes games, along with KICKMASTER, SHATER HAND, SWORD MASTER and so many other good NES games that most people don't even mention .

[@Gatorade69]

Shatterhand is talked about a lot now, people have realized how awesome the game is. Also Big Ole Words really likes Kickmaster.

[@EpicLebaneseNerd]

@@Gatorade69 i still remember one day finishing my computer class in summer, stopped by the games store, found shatter hand, took it home, when i went inside my area, my little brother was at the window in the 7th floor , i held the game (kick master) up high to show him and he yelled '' HEY...KCIKMASTER'' ... the joy of being a kid in the 90s with a new game.

[@Gatorade69]

@@EpicLebaneseNerd Wish I had come across those games. Most of my games were used as I had a NES until much later so it was always a crapshoot if the game would be good or not. I did have Ninja Gaiden and it was given to me by the first girl I was ever infatuated with so that is a cool memory. I did have some great games in my collection though, too bad my stepdad got rid of them all when I moved out after highschool.

[@BigOleWords]

I'm assuming from your name you mean Lebanon? Can I ask did the NES games look the same as the ones I show at the beginning? I don't know anything about video games from that part of the world.

[@EpicLebaneseNerd]

@@BigOleWords yes my friend, back then, it was only USA nes games available, so the same games sold in the USA were sold here, every single game u reviewed like KICK MASTER and these games, were exactly the same games with the boxes that we had, even ULTRA GAMES were avaibale here, AND NOT PALCOM , even on snes, we had the same censored TMNT TF game like everyone else, also explains why they were so expensive, i paid 110 dollars for it...imported. and btw, thank u for asking, ur a great guy.

[@thebman80]

If I would have known that they even existed as a kid I would have had them. Really poor marketing on them back in the day.

[@cliffjumper1984]

I played the 2nd one way back in 1994. I got it used at a yard sale for 5 dollars with a few other titles (solstice was one of them) I actually like this one more, and Pat the NES Punk gave me shit for it 😅

[@BigOleWords]

That's a solid deal. Also Solstice rules!

[@macgroober1396]

Give 'Im the stick...DON'T GIVE 'IM THE STICK!! OOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@BigOleWords]

The fuck are you kids doing on my ice

[@thedrunkmonkshow]

I think what happened with you and what happens with a lot of people who play GI Joe 1 first is that you come into it's sequel Atlantis Factor trying rush through the game guns blazing when that was never it's intention. It's more of an exploration game this time around hence the password system and multi-route levels similar to Clash At Demonhead. You have the freedom to go anywhere but with certain Joes you rescue can get into places the others cannot to find hidden POWs and resources. That's the reason they made enemy pickups tricky to get as to discourage you from shortcut leveling up and to explore the game. The reason Snake Eyes starts with low health is because he's the best Joe in the game once he's powered up and the smart thing is to save those life upgrades to give to him. Also, I never power up everybody's Melee all the way and stop at Level 3 or enough for them to do flying kicks. With Shadow or Snake Eyes that's when I max out the Melee.

[@mattsweeney3790]

Body massage....It makes sense the games were developed by the same company, its weird how one is taxan and ones capcom though. Especially since the capcom one is inferior. I always liked the Joe, ShipWreck. He's the one liner snapping sailor very much akin to a Bruce Campbell. Great vids man and a good couple of games.

[@Gatorade69]

It says Capcom because they just published the game.

[@BigOleWords]

Oooof glad Shipwreck wasn't a playable character!

[@darktetsuya]

I remember renting this one after liking the original. don't remember much about it outside from the most absurd password system I've ever seen in a videogame. definitely was not feeling it as much as the first game.

[@BigOleWords]

Huh I don’t think I ever tried the password!

[@darktetsuya]

@@BigOleWords probably one of the most compilcated password screens I've ever seen, at least on NES! *FOURTEEN* grids of nine spaces each it's like the sudoku game of your nightmares!

[@TheFLOMAN76]

I checked this shit out, and I liked it! Never cared for g.i. Joe though. But I'll be damned if these graphics aren't just some of the best on the NES. Smeizole!!

[@BigOleWords]

Yeah I was never much for Joe over TMNT

[@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145]

Those boss fights & basically same rooms kinda remind me of boss fights in Mega Man where you go into the single square room often with nothing or a few platforms. Not bad but kinda repeats the scenario

[@BigOleWords]

Y’know they are very Mega Manesque!

[@jasona9846]

Everyone in my school back in 1991 played this game. Like everyone dude

[@QuantomX64]

Interesting follow up. Also did you get my email about what we discussed on the previous video?

[@PazonBoy]

Love this game!

[@datingsas]

Looks like some good games will have to play them

[@wdcain1]

This is pretty advance for an NES game, bein able to switch between different playable characters. This reminds me of a much better version of Konami's Contra Force.

[@barry-allenthe-flash8396]

Cool. I _knew_ something was up with this one when I first tried it via emulator consoles and got pretty much instantly annoyed by the stupid bouncing power-ups. Glad to know I was not alone, lol! I love me some action-platformers, but I think I'll keep ignoring this one - besides, the music, multiple characters and map screen just remind me of Captain America and the Avengers for NES, and that game is definitely better, so whenever I look at this, I'll probably just end up playing GI Joe 1 or Captain America again. Btw, I know you love character switching in NES games - have you ever played Cocoron for the platform? I feel like it's probably a Japan-only game originally, but I've played it on emulator consoles where it's been appearing pretty regularly for well over a decade, so if it is Japan-only, it must've been fan-patched forever ago and just exists alongside NES games like no big deal. Anyhoo, it's a Mega Man-esque action-sidescroller type thing that not only features multiple playable characters, but MAKE your OWN characters out of head, torso and leg parts. I think you might find it pretty enjoyable.

[@BigOleWords]

I should get to that Captain America game… And no I have not played Cocoron although you are not the first to recommend it. Soon though!

[@terribled]

Mr. Body Massage Machine Gooooooo!

[@jasonminote7499]

I played this multiple times plus is that a rule of Capcoms to have small character graphics in every Nes capcom game?

[@kobocopcustoms]

Best soundtrack for Nintendo bar none

[@BigOleWords]

Now that’s a hot take!

[@dreamlandnightmare]

Enjoyable game, but not nearly as good as the first one. I never got past the Cobra laboratory part because I couldn't figure out where to go or what to do. 5:38 - That's an Atari-level graphic effect. Graphics were still decent in this game, but I always thought they were a noticeable downgrade from the first one. 6:23 - They just recycled his sprite from the first one, even though he's obviously wearing an updated outfit in the cutscene.

[@BigOleWords]

That lab is obnoxious

[@BobbyHo2022]

I always wanted an NES transformers game growing up. In my 20s I discovered they did one in Japan and it sucked. lol

[@KingMob4313]

Both GI games are so damn strong.

[@freddyvidz]

I played this and beat with different groups.

[@BigOleWords]

Nice!

[@chickenalaking1319]

Wouldn't Doc, Lifeline or Stretcher be more appropriate than Big Bear?