NES Longplay [169] P.O.W.: Prisoner of War

[@iceveiled]

Loved this back in the day, great music. That level one theme has never left my consciousness and I'm 40.

[@siredith8846]

Old fart!

[@mrgiskard]

Same here. The punch and kick body contact sounds were great too

[@shadowlarkmoon]

Coming up on my 40th this year in 2023... and Im right back here for P.O.W. baby!

[@Nymyemlire914]

It's crazy how i am 41 and am reading the comments and am here too for this great game

[@vianbuto1]

Ya somos dos.

[@SylentEcho]

Can't believe I missed this game as a kid. Gonna get it now. :)

[@batuhanpolat5165]

🤦‍♂️ • • ----------

[@frun]

The game was almost as fun as the Double dragons

[@angelaguirre6185]

I didnt knew about this awsome game looks some much fun.

[@thetru-drushow8412]

SNK 40th Anniversary Collection!

[@realitylapse]

🤦‍♂️

[@johnlewisbrooks]

This game was pure awesomeness. This is the first time I ever fought a final boss with such meannes. I literally felt he was trying to kick my ass! Absolutely the best fighting game on the nes!

[@Damon6666]

Man I remember when I was young and renting this from BlockBuster and getting mad at how difficult it was for me, but still a great game. O and I loved the music for the first boss battle.

[@jaslinesangma7027]

Are you dead because of covid 19 i think?

[@jayjohn9680]

@@jaslinesangma7027 Nope he rose from his grave like altered beast

[@ucthangchu8707]

Hồi đó thuê bao nhiêu tiền một ngày

[@darrenclements6028]

P.O.W. prisoners of war is legendary with Spectacular graphics and STUNNING gameplay

[@Yuri_Yslin]

Stunning gameplay? mashing buttons for 30 minutes against the same 4 types of enemies ad nauseaum? lol

[@VenomousGarage]

This game was one of the reasons I became a gamer! Good times!

[@yggno5799]

This game remember me all those good days when I was 5 years old. It was pure magic !!

[@yominishijama6204]

omgd!!XD Ditto!

[@jessecampbell4580]

I was trying to remember thr name of this game for literally years and it just came to me tonight randomly as I was trying to sleep. This game was so dope! Glad I've found it again. It was right up there with Ninja Turtles 2!

[@UncleVictor]

WOW I had LONG forgotten about this game! Now that it's coming back to me, this was one of my favorites! Takes me back, I feel like I'm 10 again. Thanks for this!

[@meniredaddi8967]

Let's all cry for the missing golden childhood 😢

[@michaelab.5819]

Let’s, lol 😔😜

[@stryf3901]

Finished this game so much can’t even count the amount of times I was “congraturated”😂

[@edjalinske8615]

This game was insanely difficult!

[@ronanderson8490]

This is one of those games that I look back on and realize how awesome my childhood was.

[@senorsnipey1595]

OMFG this game takes me back!! Now I gotta go watch a playthrough of Jackel!

[@mohamedkalid4939]

One of My top 10 fav NES games

[@mbonnar]

The music for this game sounds pretty good.

[@teddybouka]

I always thought The scuba divers in waist deep water was weird.

[@dragonballz768]

This game reminds me of the movie Commando. One man going against a whole army.

[@rebirth2526]

Final Boss remind me the last villian in movie Commando too.

[@premix3663]

Its literally a Rambo movie when he saves the prisoners

[@juansempertegui3662]

31000 views! I felt like I was the only one that knew about this gem. Great action game with some of the best NES graphics.

[@timothyparryjropen]

I had this game when I was 7, hardest game I've ever played on the NES, but awesome, I never realized it was an arcade port until recently.

[@jayid01]

juan sempertegui I played this game almost 15 years ago. it was one of the hardest game for me back then. too bad I never got to finish it.

[@persianheir5218]

I like that I came here, saw the top comment, went to like it and see that I already have some time in the past. Man this game is awesome!

[@riflechess7693]

@Gary Jones 🤣😂😅 I don't blame you.

[@MonsterExpert]

I love how the final blow with punch and kicks on enemies always sent them flying back like 20 feet in the air.

[@tomypower4898]

Yes savestate

[@themissingkoopa6218]

If you never played this then you don't know the real good feeling of playing 2D combat games

[@riflechess7693]

*One of the best games ever hands down!!! P.o.w., renegade, kung fu, ninja gayden, wrath of the black mantha were the best single player martial arts games for NES!!! The best multi player martial arts games for NES; double dragon, bad dudes, battle toads, ninja turtles & I'm missing something else but can't remember right now... smh lol*

[@barmaleich9567]

Превосходно! На тот момент: удар рукой, ногой, в прыжке, рукой назад, использование ножа, автомата, гранаты. Лучше не придумать

[@Дриммайстер]

эту игру я так и не прошол до конца ы свое время.

[@DinastiaSur]

GRACIAS!!! lo venía buscando desde hace 20 años!!

[@zes767]

Este juego me trae recuerdos de mi niñez. Nostalgia pura.

[@wolf_9626]

One of the best NES games i played during my childhood, i was lucky to have played this. But somehow the protagonist here always reminds me of Tony Jaa, i dont know why.

[@Stealthborn]

Nice playthrough of one of SNKs forgotten titles. This, along with Ikari Warriors and NAM-1975 are the more amusing games on the war genre that the company made.

[@obsidiadena]

Не знала, что первого босса можно просто пристрелить, если сохранить автомат до его появления. 😁 Приятное чувство ностальгии от классной музыки в этой игре! 👍

[@metalheadbisp]

The end boss is Arnold, jumping down the waterfall and rescued by a chopper from predator, the elevator with no walls from total recall, that's cool

[@ectoid6316]

I did not even know this existed. Looks so underrated.

[@misterpoliwrath9211]

I had this game on one of my 4 in 1 game cartridge under the name 'TETAWAY'.

[@tilakshenoy8440]

Thank God. I too remember this with the Tetaway name..

[@JohnnDyson]

Amazing game with straight forward controls. LJN should learn from these gems.

[@H-718-BROOKLYN]

Damm this guy was good at this he ended the whole game untouched and had all 9 lives when I had this game back in the late 80's as a kid when I finally ended it I wud only have between 4 and 5 lives left i always died the most against the tank!

[@MrRyanwonderland]

The last boss sure did take alot of kicks to the nutz.

[@jprogman]

Game ends when you ran out of smiley faces

[@oscuro8961]

this was a good game. I liked the final boss that can jump higher than the trees and is like 10 feet tall

[@tavita]

That 2nd level boss one of the quickest to ever kill. he never pulled his shotgun out

[@lordallaoy]

i've been playing this game since the begenning of my life coz my uncle had it on my birthday 11-2-1990

[@_c0der]

It's a fkn' masterpiece of that times, my favorite!

[@thx3188]

Double Dragon meets Contra and just as good as both of them

[@sandy1980ification]

Classic game!, i finished that game in 1994

[@misterpoliwrath9211]

back then I was only 3.

[@marianobarbeito8798]

x2!

[@sandy1980ification]

@@misterpoliwrath9211 ok you was a little child, i was 16 back then

[@sandy1980ification]

@@marianobarbeito8798 ok hermano

[@hanssundin9793]

1988 - intruding the first true smiley icon

[@CronyxRavage]

I owned this game, and literally forgot all about it till now. Wow.

[@LeafyPeach]

Own*(?)

[@CronyxRavage]

@@LeafyPeach Nah, owned, not own. I don't know what happened to my copy. Just lost track of it at some point.

[@blazbishop]

Just got my My Arcade Retrochamp delivered and purchased a Used copy of P.O.W. for the NES. This game brings back memories.

[@maxmarc1000]

Anybody knows of this game looks better on the Pandoras box? The arcade version of this was awesome.

[@LucasCosta.92]

31:50 Congraturation

[@takethatprunetracy]

Just beat this game tonight after MANY attempts and plenty of controller twisting...haha

[@wardiz]

Congraturation!

[@stevendamuth1657]

The Nintendo magazine had a cheat code to get 20 lives. Still use it today.

[@sukmablack]

sound and soundtrack of this game were stuck on my mind like forever,

[@marioreyesj.926]

Definitely 'the best of the best' of my childhood and adolescence.

[@Игорь-ш1щ8ь]

На чёрно-белом телевизоре играл,в то время )

[@taylordiclemente5163]

Growing up as a boy in the '90s was was a steady fever dream of action movies and games. GI Joe: The Atlantis Factor, Double Dragon, Iron Tank, P.O.W., Terminator 2, MERCS.

[@taylordiclemente5163]

Chiptune with blue notes and white noise explosion effects. Lots of spikes.

[@lobogris1977b]

Jugar este juego en las Arcades y luego en Nintendo fue genial .

[@usmanchughtai1751]

This guys makes me think he is the ancestor of Jimmy and Bimmy since there’s a lot of similarities to Double Dragon

[@kilosbxl]

шикарнейшая игра для денди, какая графика, анимация, музыка... с нее у меня началось знакомство с битемапами.

[@adamtobiasz8793]

Finally saw the end of this game. Wish I would finish it myself.

[@raymondramos9030]

lol every time i here the music to this game i feel like getting up and punching some one across the room its that serious lol

[@lv426tb]

This looks great....can't wait to play it.

[@deoglemnaco7025]

Doing this as a prisoner of war (with intentionally getting captured) is a direct violation of the Geneva Convention.

[@Silkysime]

I loved this game so much as a kid

[@minns5515]

I used to love this game could never beat it though

[@محمدمحمد-د5ك3ص]

يوووووووه اياااام حلوووه كنت العبها وصديقي بشار بجانبي وانا احتسي كوب الشاي الاحمر الرايع ايام لاتنسى لقد زدت المواجع ........✌😁🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍😮

[@shaolinlueb]

man this game was bad ass but so hard as a kid. seems like it took longer then 30 minutes to beat too.

[@yominishijama6204]

I know, right?! :'D

[@Chuloloc]

Awesome. Classic game. I actually bought it and beat it. Hail POW and also those classic video games.

[@jairogers5876]

This was the very 1st game I ever beat. Lol I loved this.

[@Calbenmike]

It's funny how the character walks around. It's like he's be-boppin' to some music.

[@WEHRWULF8814]

31:51 Congraturation! LOL

[@fatihmericozarslan3245]

E Lee Engrish (Japanese accented-English) is still on

@@-RAYZ- Have you been to Japan? It’s like visiting the Shire from LOTR.

[@deadevil4907]

the music in this game is awesome !!

[@momentof7532]

favorite childhood game

[@professors84]

Track in the third level is rockin'

[@coolbluelights]

I always called the knife wielding guys in the turquoise uniforms "surgeons" lol

[@rynodragon2316]

Wow I’m not along on that

[@ZarabotokDeneg777]

Моя Любимая Игра Детства :)

[@batuhanpolat5165]

Щотнтрхтл👍

[@jinderbreadman]

Man, what a throwback Very underrated game with a phenomenal soundtrack. I always found it funny that the scuba-divers get into the water in full scuba gear, yet the water is like at knee-level. 🤣

[@jonathanalvarez2909]

How is it that he didn't broke his legs from jumping off that building.

[@da0484]

2nd level had the best music

[@Ill_come_back]

На 1-м.

[@von2300]

Thanks for the NEStalgia. Nothing like a good ole old school beat em up.

[@TrainmasterCurt]

The use of colour in this game gave it a 10 bit quality!

[@Dimensiom]

Congraturation!

[@fatihmericozarslan3245]

I played this game with Japanese script when I was nine years old.

[@darrenclements6028]

P.O.W. Prisoners Of War (Datsugoku) is a classic Nintendo game With ABSOLUTELY AWESOME graphics and STUNNING gameplay The levels are 2Furious with Spectacular Boss battles Your mission to escape an enemy prison camp and destroy the enemy rebel forces Raise the bodycount Commando style and escape to victory Chuck Norris style This is a classic Arnold Schwarzenegger with a vengeance 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@cantstopbeeboo2055]

*WHOEVER* uploaded this. I like you.........You shot the helicopter down.

[@rogelioVela1985]

4:42 A Hind D? What's a russian gunship doing here?

[@Pichustrikesback]

Rogelio Vela "Roger" nice reference

[@bobjones1783]

this game is much better than metal gear on NES imo (and yes I realize the quote is from metal gear solid)

[@yellowblanka6058]

Probably a Rambo III reference.

[@donkeykongisytpooping3002]

Yellowblanka No it’s a metal gear reference

[@yellowblanka6058]

@@donkeykongisytpooping3002 - Doubtful, the Hind was better known from movies like Rambo than from Metal Gear at the point. Or it was just a helicopter and not referencing anything.

[@tjlomin1466]

Reminds me of bloodywolf for the turbo graphics

[@infinitejustice3007]

I remember play this game in Children

[@HardPumpers]

Most of SNKs war-themed games were memorable. This one is no exception.

[@mondragon9282]

I never beat this game as a kid, so I never knew you were "congraturated" at the end 😂😂😂

[@michaelboren9670]

Just bought this for $10 I can't wait to play.

[@HawaiiKnut]

Haven't seen this game before. The thumbnail made it look like Metal Gear, the the gameplay is more like Double Dragon and River City Ransom. Must say the security in the camp is shoddy though.

[@michaelbriggs3611]

Haha “congraturations.”

[@Bob-b7x6v]

That body armor was invincible.

[@Bob-b7x6v]

I remember the copy of the game I rented always crashing at the Fat Man boss fight. Pissed me off to no end at 10yo.

[@andybenson2971]

Holy sh*t, this brings back memories from when I was 5 years old.

[@siredith8846]

15:34 love the grenadier

[@delgerdontcry3204]

i tried so many times and didnt finished dis game. tnx

[@Wislon106]

It's kind of funny how the final boss' pants resemble modern day Marine Corps. digis...lol.

[@heerojillo9663]

I remember this game. When I played long ago, it was in Japanese....have no clue what it said and end up affecting how to play as well...( that knuckle is the example, how the heck I know I can get it in any indoor place that easy?!) that is why I wasn’t even able to place to the second stage....shame..... Folks, Andy suggest to get this game?

[@LeafyPeach]

Nes emulator

[@RBCraneGongfu]

Why are the knives and bullets not effective against the main character.

[@DumpsterFire.92]

Ayumu Kasuga If you look in the lower right of the screen, you'll see the *A*. This is the "Armor" power-up. It blocks all projectile weapons except grenades.

[@thetru-drushow8412]

All that flickering despite the player doing a superb job on the NES!

[@MarioResidental92]

If only I could witness a player saving a gun and use it to instant kill a human boss.

[@christopherhudson44]

The arcade version had co op

[@yogaajiputra7482]

God... You wouldn't belive how hard i remeber to find this game 😭