NES Longplay [144] Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II

[@eddie6198]

This was one of my favorite games as a child. Played the hell out of it.

[@jesusescudero6291]

Hands down one of the best games in NES; watching this was a blast from the past. The OST was pretty top tier as well.

[@shatteredmemories99]

Say what you want about this game but it has one of the absolute best vg soundtracks of all time.

[@yolo2407]

Nobody's complaining, dumbass

[@jwigeland]

Yes! Did you catch that the overworld music in Chapter 8 is the same tune that was later used for Independence Day?

[@savedbygracead6]

I feel the Startropics series is underrated...all two games. I wish it would make a comeback with a remake or sequel.

[@topfranluis1]

Mikes haircut as well as the controls ruined the games for me

[@bayzul7405]

With Startropics lead producer retired and Startropics released strictly US, likely can't happen Shame cuz late revisit C-Island it evolved massic late an NES release it is 1994.

[@rickyruffle]

His haircut?? haha @@topfranluis1

[@topfranluis1]

@@rickyruffle It’s just a giant piece of poop

[@Charlie-Cat.]

Interesting enough, StarTropics II debuted during the time when the 16-bit wars was in full swing and Nintendo was still developing/publishing titles for the NES in 1994 for a console that was already 9 years old in the U.S.. The title was a North American exclusive! Despite that it was made in Japan! 8^b Amazing then and now!

[@jemuzuthestrangebear]

I don't think it was developed in japan but it was developed by Japanese people

[@psb9001]

If I had the money, I would do some sort of fan film of StarTropics III: Hero of Argonia. It's 20 years later, and Mike still has dreams about Mica and everything he went through. His quest through the islands to rescue Dr. J, battling through the alien spaceship and his showdown with Zoda, rescuing the Argonian children, traveling through /time itself/ and meeting historical figures, and yet, with what seemed like hardly a second thought, Mica up and leaves the planet just like that. He's an adult now. He tried chasing his dream of being an all-star pitcher, but never made it. He's now a baseball coach for a lousy community college, and he still hasn't forgotten about Mica. His adult life is unfulfilling and boring as hell compared to his teen years and all the adventure he had. One night, the dream about Mica is so vivid he realizes that it's her speaking to him telepathically. The evil aliens are back. They were never entirely wiped out, another rose to take leadership after Zoda was defeated and reformed their fleet. The Argonians, their peaceful society rebuilt, are once again attacked by the second invasion. That's when they turn to Mike, who, reluctant at first, does decide to go with the Argonians and battle the aliens one more time. He has to go back to the old ruins where the original ruined escape pod still remains, which would have some tech in there that would allow them to link to him and bring him to their world. Thus, the Hero of Argonia joins the fray once again. This time, he's not going to let Mica slip away so easy.

[@StaleWawaHoagie]

psb9001 I’ve always felt like Nintendo should hire fans to make games and new stories. The fans have come up with amazing stuff and Nintendo shuts them down

[@jackiebrown6845]

Do Mike and Mica get married in the end?

[@psb9001]

@@jackiebrown6845 I'd say yes. His life on earth wasn't fulfilling enough to return to, so he marries Mica and becomes crowned prince, beloved hero of the Argonian people.

[@pikmino3288]

That sounds super interesting. Argonia could offer many new settings for the dungeons! StarTropics could've become more popular had a third entry in the series been made. I hate Nintendo for pretending this series never existed!

[@legofrederick3262]

That's not a bad idea, I actually came up with an idea for a successor to StarTropics, but I can tell that your not going to see this comment so I not going to waste my time typing it down.

[@sailcat662]

A lot has been said about this game being an unrecognized classic and it's true that when it came out, it was competing with 16 bit games that had been on the market for 3 years and the Playstationabout to be released in 6 months. So, as early 90s gamers, we knew this was an important game especially because it came from Genyo Takeda, the original creator or StarTropics. The shooting/jumping puzzles and huge sprites really pushed what the NES could do. And because the internet was still in its infancy, there were no guides. For weeks, StarTropics 2 captured our lives. We'd talk about strategies at lunch and after school. We'd plan sleepovers and stay up until dawn helping each other beat the game. This game would forever shape how I expected games to be later in life.

[@nintendonerdsvideos4727]

Nintendo did this franchise a disservice by not having this game on the SNES

[@puppiesarepower3682]

Not everything on the SNES is better. Look at Mega Man; it's SNES releases after X sucked, including MM7.

[@barleycola3127]

I loved this game and the first one. Some of my favorites on the NES. :)

[@Cantwait4sundaY]

omfg i've been trying to figure out what game this was for the last 5 years and i've finally found it

[@aviangreco]

It toook me 10 years to figure out

[@soskiesagura1520]

Avian Greco same maybe a little longer

[@bluechirri2292]

“You say you have no money? I don’t know what money means... We cavemen just say thank you.”

[@barible]

Thanks for Nostalgia! The best game of nes! Good song and good history

[@phantomthiefjoker939]

1:55:59 Me: Welp...Here we go again, partna! I STILL love the C-Island Adventure Theme. With a new twist.

[@SiranGaming]

Wow.. the last level starts off like the first level from the first game then boom.. Potion run and then boss rush lol. nice... Finishing it where it started.

[@Jokes0nce95]

One of the first games I ever played as a child was this one.. Y'know, it's funny, I never realized that the dialogue actually said "Seattle", up until I was 8-10 years old and realized just how close Seattle was to where I actually lived (right across the water, ~5-10 miles by boat). The furthest I ever got to completing the game was actually a playthrough I did maybe around 5 years ago? Think I got to just before the final battle... Was re-battling the bosses but the entire time the screen was grey (haven't watched this playthrough yet to confirm that), and I think I got to the "dragon" one.. Anyhow, this game was truly one of a kind and it really got me into RPG style/oriented games

[@omnihealXIII]

this series NEEDS a reboot

[@twilliams6656]

Howdy! Thank for leaving the Star Tropics videos up!!!! I appreciate it!! Good Job!!! Poppy

[@perio12345]

StarTropics 3: Hero of Planet Argonia. Coming Soon.

[@LilDemona]

If only that was true :(

[@jam3plus174]

RELEASE NOWWWWWWW

[@chistophersaylor]

Love the music from the London time period. Very nice and nostalgic.

[@jtbrig7390]

You have no idea how many years it has taken me to figure out what this game was called and after getting number 1 of it out of some flea market stuff I fount number 1. Did a amazon search for what it sells for I seen this one and was like HOLY SHIT I FINALLY FOUNT IT. Awesome video and the boss at 38.23 I remember being really hard at that time and I rarely beat him and I have never beat the game.

[@slacky4787]

This is probably the best looking NES game.

[@danielzaragoza6676]

The best game of nes! Good song and good history

[@williamwinn948]

I remember as a kid calling the nintendo hotline for this game. My parents killed me when the bill came in

[@fitoelbajista]

Woow! Lol! What questions you made back then?

[@johnsesia9050]

1:12:46 Mike: "You're the...?! That was over 1,500 years ago! Are you a time traveler, too?!" Pizza Man: "No, justa cursed witha the immortality."

[@ALTAIR2]

I remember getting this for my cousin for Christmas I didn't think about this until recently when I found it at work

[@AnthonyLayton90]

love the oak ridge boys reference with the oom pa pa maw maw when he is activating the time travel

[@CapvilleYouTube]

What?

[@TRJ2241987]

@@CapvilleKZbin the song is "Elvira" by The Oak Ridge Boys

[@msw0322]

1994...why wasn't this an SNES release?? Despite what critics say this actually looks pretty good, but I can only imagine how much better it would've been on the Super Nintendo. In retrospect, I guess it's kinda cool that Nintendo was still keeping the NES alive at the time.

[@puppiesarepower3682]

Mega Man 7 sucked. Not everything on the SNES is automatically better.

[@msw0322]

​@@puppiesarepower3682 Well no of course not, and MM7 is one of my least favorite Mega Man games. I just meant that I was surprised this game didn't make it to the SNES as late as 1994, the year the SNES seemed to be at its peak. I'm sure in terms of visuals and mechanics this would've turned out better than MM7.

[@sphony]

he didnt even get the puh at the end...

[@RangoTheMercenary]

The puh.

[@meyers0781]

Can't believe this very Japanese feeling game (from design to writing) is released on America only

[@ZachGerlock]

I didn't realize it until I saw some of this game on AGDQ but this is one of the first games I ever saw. Specifically the bit with bombing the wall in the desert.

[@DanielSong39]

The game looks like a blend of Legend of Zelda, Blaster Master, and Dragon Quest...

[@Clandesdyne]

LOL @ Dr J's Cosby sweater in the intro.

[@phantomthiefjoker939]

1:58:35 Me: Oh no!!! Not HIM, again!!!!!!

[@Smileydemon343]

they really need to bring this game back, the startropic games were the very first games i ever played

[@AquamentusZero]

So.... where are the tropics in this game? The finaly on C-Island doesn't count!

[@KazoWAR]

52:01 !

[@josuesoto8188]

That ending would have killed anyone with photosensitive epilepsy lmao.

[@LtCunningham]

Wow, Mike got friend zoned, if even that.

[@bugpadzero]

Omg the pizza box... Caesar’s Hut 😂😂

[@TheEchoingCalm]

Thanks for Nostalgia!

[@RetroRogue.]

The only reason Star Tropics is on the low end of my 8 bit rpg list is because of the sprites inside the dungeons and the linear gameplay especially in the dungeon. I feel like it's a one way street.

[@AHOPlolwut]

Man that storyline is just fucking awesome, I mean, travel in time and meet Sherlock Fucking Holmes

[@isaacibarra2440]

Before: The Three Magic Cubes After: The Seven Tetris-Blocks

[@mikebougiamas3418]

WHOOAAA! THIS IS RADICAL!

[@Justin_collier]

I wish i could have played this but i did play the first star tropics, but i bet it would have been awesome!

[@phantomthiefjoker939]

Those tetrad pieces......TETRIS!!!!!!!

[@kingpinofcrime]

Terrible end, Mike saved mica twice, and what does he get?? Nothing no hug No kiss she just Leavis him and Goes back to her planet leaving Mike forever alone :( poor Guy

[@dreamlandnightmare]

He doesn't mine. He's a MGTOW.

[@jackiebrown6845]

I know, right? I was disappointed with the end as well. The scenes from the game weren't as good as the slide show in the first game. This game left me feeling lonely - I guess I felt Mike's pain - that great or what, lol.

[@SoraMainSmash]

Can someone show me the part where Miku use Anklet Jump?

[@TheClassicnathan]

so binding of isaac but nes edition?

[@yomagomi1035]

Why does the Tetrards looks like a tetris piece?

[@PlasmaProd]

2:13:20 Because they're are Tetris pieces, also called Tetrominoes.

[@marian-9001]

That makes sense, Thanks

[@davidmarcoux7804]

The New génération have to try old Games like this one to see how cool it was AT the Time!¡!!!!!

[@fbonez997]

23:43 there is a easter egg from mario franchise

[@JPerez9011]

@Bastiest That's right you don't get a YoYo on this one do you? You get something called Island Crusher or something.

[@omnihealXIII]

if it's true and this game is been rebooted by retro i think i will cry from happyness

[@ryanproshusta9785]

Could never make it past egypt

[@mhdfrb9971]

Pretty good graphics for NES

[@marhansgamingchannel4732]

when first time trying the game, i though this is a "bit of horror" game because of dat creepy monster's hand dat stylized v letter in the title screen. 😂😂😂

[@AlwonDomz]

Hopefully this game gets the "Link's Awakening" treatment. I'd pay $60...

[@slagarcrue85]

Nice job on this so far. It may take me a few days to get through these and several for Okami. the amount of time each day I have spent sleeping on the bus at work our stalling because of waitis between new videos being bad for most users. Is ridiculous highy usually thats about 45% to 70 more our less of the whole week.

[@gustavohrb]

esse jogo era muito dificil pra mim quando era crianca 🤔 nem sabia ingles por isso deixava essa fita de lado e so jogava super mario 3 🤫

[@NotaPizzaGRL]

Why didn't Nintendo continue this series? It would've been cool to play a 3D Startropics or at least one on a 16-bit system. It's like they don't even acknowledge that these games existed.

[@bradp1103]

was japanese made for north american only release. i guess they didn't feel like they need to fill the niche anymore. If this were developed for SNES maybe the series could have had more steam going forward.

[@mresturk9336]

What's with the expression on Mica's face? She spends the entire game looking like she's trapped in a really uncomfortable conversation. Like one of her brothers is explaining in detail the dump he just took.

[@puppiesarepower3682]

Im glad this was not an SNES release. It would've ended up like the Mega Man X series... sucking hard.

[@connorhodges8939]

25:44 katy perry dark horse look

[@ignaciofranco7772]

Played this when i was 8 years old omg it was so hard!!!!!!

[@Simplythetruthfulone]

Anybody else irritated this dude takes so long to use medicine bottles🙄

[@hakonkroghmortensen]

time for me to look at a game older than me

[@jezhy]

Awesome games. Beat it on Xbox360 with NES emulator. Truly worth 6 hours of my life.

[@gr3yling]

Why isn't Mike's hair red? Couldn't they have used up to four colors in his sprite? It seems like he just has three as it is: his skin color, his shirt color, and his hair/pants/outline color.

[@edparadis6685]

downplay in controls a bit. better story line ironically and same music. It was a great sequal. Too bad it didn't do that well. i actually like this game better than the first. It had it mouments as well. too bad the full 16 bit era was in full swing and this game was left on the back burner by a few people.

[@connorhodges8939]

Fun game for me

[@reversalmushroom]

A great game.

[@theunmobablespes6582]

First one way hard as fuck and you couldn't jump diagonally if i remember correctly. Only made it to the 4th stage j guess.

[@infinitecanadian]

Here’s a tip: you don’t need to jump between screens.

[@JoeCambo]

Seizure warning lol

[@phantasyryder]

Who!

[@ZatohRondohoon3227]

2:13:22 And 1:42:23 Illuminati Confirmed.

[@Manster-gy9ly]

What

[@ZatohRondohoon3227]

2:14:23 Again... Illuminati Confirmed.

[@dustinroberts3445]

The controls are wonky I beat the first startropics which I really loved. I like this games overworld better but that’s it really. I even think the in game dungeon graphics may be worst. The bosses aren’t as difficult. So far I’m in chapter 4 of the sequel and I’ve had a lot of cheap deaths. It feels like they didn’t put the same effort into making the sequel. 7/10 . Startropics 1 9/10

[@Me2times]

I played this game at a much faster rate

[@cozmicmojo2181]

This is a terrible game. All the tedious aspects of Star Tropics 1 without any of the good elements. And yeah a boss gauntlet at the end with every boss you have to go through. I beat it this morning and I'll be selling it promptly.

[@EdmacZ]

@Bastiest Really? i thought it was because of a game called Startropics it had nothing to do with Stars or Tropics like the original. Where did all of this Time Travel crap come from? It feels like you're going through a cheesy edutainment game with the visiting of famous historical and literary icons. Talk about Cop-Out for lack of creativity.

[@georgeacosta6548]

There's a game for the nes with a dragon with two heads can't remember the name of the game would be to much trouble for you to find out and play it in your channel it would be awesome to see it again and ur an amazing player amazing memories thanxxx from mesa Arizona usa 🇺🇸