Spy Hunter (NES) Playthrough

[@NintendoComplete]

This was one of the first NES games I played and I absolutely loved it. Any of you guys have fond memories of it?

[@BigNorth937]

It was too hard but I loved it

[@shanerobinson3455]

@@BigNorth937 same it was hard

[@LPetal86]

I don't. Back in 87 I would've been 1 year old, messing around with Taito's _Front Line_ or _Mouse Trap_ on the 2600, and those were the only two games we had. But this game is a classic and part of the gaming history I've come to know and love as a gamer for over 30 years. A rendition of "Peter Gunn" playing while you attempt to clear the streets of enemy spies on a high-speed thrill chase? What's not to enjoy there?

[@derek2380]

What was the game like this but instead of driving into a truck for your upgrades a helicopter would drop them onto you and you had to catch them?

[@NintendoComplete]

@@derek2380 Roadblasters?

[@donaldsmith8648]

Classic one of the best Old school games ever made

[@sofubisamurai]

My goal as a kid was to get to the boat section. If I did that I felt like it was a good run. Lots of Saturday’s spent playing this back in ‘87.

[@skepticalfan]

💯

[@DeadKoby]

The boat controlled weird.... I remember that got WAY harder.

[@AeonLumen.]

If I get the boat, I won afaic

[@rcblazer]

I had a version of this game on an old PC that has like 3 colors. I think it transitioned from the car to the boat sections on its own. As a kid, I never once thought to slow down, as I was used to playing racing games where you're supposed to go as fast as possible, so I didn't usually do too well.

[@ednd301]

No wonder I could never beat this as a kid just keeps repeating

[@mattsneed4569]

Great score during the playthrough!!!!!

[@NintendoComplete]

Thanks!

[@thehound1359]

One of the first arcade games I ever played. I was at Jamesway where my mom worked at the time. They had double dragon, golden axe and spy hunter.

[@vdog4799]

Oh wow! I never had this for NES. I have the arcade classics.for ps2 but the graphics are surprisingly great for NES!. Sometimes I watch these videos just for the soumd effects in the room while im doing stuff😁👍

[@j.r.3664]

Love the Peter Gunn theme interpretation of the game XD

[@masterrserch3971]

I love how it wasn't like your typical NES music and like the same song just repeated for like 60-90 seconds, if that... sure that bass line was constant, but it seems they kept changing or adding SOMETHING to that awesome song as long as u didn't die and had that playing, no??? Man, the arcade version of this was so much better, so much cooler, and took up A LOT of our money as kids when it came out... we all loved that friggin music and endless machine gun most of all lol

[@mikec3260]

I was blown away by this game after owning a Game Genie and it is just an endless loop after hours of being persistent... Nice gaming tho!

[@theodorehsu5023]

I remember having this for my Apple II. We only had the Peter Gunn theme in the opening, and it was music-less the way through the main game. However, we only had two buttons, one for oil/smokescreen, and one for machine gun/missiles. We couldn’t toggle if we got both oil and smoke, but it worked out on water (always smokescreen). We also didn’t have the limitation where we could run out of a backup weapon (though that didn’t stop us losing it if we crashed the car/speedboat).

[@Peter_Morris]

Spy Hunter is a classic no matter what system it was on. I had it for my Atari 800. I could get pretty far once I learned how to shoot down the helicopter. My problem was my score would always stop because I’d accidentally take out a motorcycle after shooting a switchblade or the limo.

[@KrosanBeast315]

4:17 that Limosine crash was very funny!

[@MrOrthopedia]

Interesting how they played the Peter Gunn theme in its 8bit glory.

[@danalong1237]

Composed by the late Henry Mancini and arranged by Michael Bartlow for the arcade version and Naoki Kodaka for the NES version.

[@KTJohnsonkidThunder]

Best Arcade-to-home conversion. I usually let the chopper pass most of the time instead of firing a missile at it. I HATE the water stage though.

[@solarflare9078]

The best one is either this one or the Colecovision port, though Coleco doesn’t kill you if you hit an exploding vehicle after destroying it.

[@LITTLE1994]

Pretty fast paced for NES.

[@BelmontClan]

I remember figuring out the all weapons code by complete accident holding down a, b select and start and it gave me all weapons but could never beat the game.

[@SolCresta3405]

Fun game!

[@ZeroFische]

Fond memories of exploding at top speed 2 minutes into the game

[@АндрейФеофилактов-с2д]

Just now I remembered about this game and the question arose is it even possible to pass it?It has some kind of logical ending.

[@SagaSagaVGM]

"It's funny to think back now on how many hours I put into Spy Hunter as a kid considering how little there is to it" I know the feeling... I think as a kid I just convinced myself that it just HAD to have a ending, that a game this cool doesn't just loop forever, and if I drove just a little bit further, played a little bit better, I'd finally see it. I never did see that mythical ending, but man could I loop the hell out of Spy Hunter.

[@kevinfeder157]

This is exactly my experience and feeling. Good summary

[@bradhedgehog12]

Oh ho. Weapon choices. That’s good. Just like James Bond’s Cars.

[@alexisguzman296]

This game was lots of fun! Also the speed was a bit too much for me at times lol

[@shanerobinson3455]

Yes,I sucked at Rad Racer too

[@1976mrk]

This was a very fun game, despite the limitations of the NES controller. I think I always had trouble switching weapons for some reason. For some reason, what I remember most is that to pause the game, you had to have a second controller plugged in, and you had to press "A" on it. Did any other NES games require a second controller to pause?

[@KTJohnsonkidThunder]

Yeah that was pretty weird for a game to do that.

[@animations2932]

Oooooh you got the 4K quality

[@homelessjesse9453]

Not surprised. No game prior to Super Mario Brothers had an actual ending.

[@MSUHitman]

So the game is an endless loop, right? There’s no ending?

[@masterrserch3971]

Yeah that's what I was wondering.... was jacked after all these years playing it at the candy/video store, then trying forever to beat it on NES to no avail, thought I'd finally see an ending!!! I must know, I gotta look up and see if this game has an ending.... Killin me for like 35 years, whenever I hear Peter Gunn or randomly play this game...

[@newmula5045]

Would always get to the boat and game over

[@anthony1113]

I can’t remember…did it ever end lol

[@meep2059]

Does this game have a ending??

[@migzfuentes]

It doesn't

[@xenogearsx9372]

Classic

[@JulianJohnston919]

Does the game have a ending?

[@migzfuentes]

Nope

[@Mr.Padgett]

I don’t think I ever made it past the first part

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

Is he Donarudo Toranpu?

[@KTJohnsonkidThunder]

Nope. But we could see the resemblance of him looking like Donald Trump.

[@Dorian_Scott]

Great port. It's not as good as Super Spy Hunter, but it still manages to be loads of fun.

[@Penfold8]

I hated this game because there was no ending.

[@jogandotodososjogos5017]

Quanto tempo eu ñ o vejo. Nintendinho

[@paolavega6622]

Nintendocomplete game shadowhawk💌😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇

[@b213videoz]

This game looks way better on Atari 8bit

[@DarkbluesEXE25]

Donald Trump 0:13

[@mikec3260]

lol cannot be unseen... Curses lol!!

[@NintendoComplete]

@@mikec3260 Lmao it's the plumage, isn't it?

[@mikec3260]

@@NintendoComplete lol yeah

[@shane1489]

Nightmarish game. I don’t know how they thought kids would be able to get very far after the timer runs out. Although I’m proud to say I got to the boat once😂

[@alec6840]

😎 Promo_SM!!

[@paolavega6622]

Hahahahahaha

[@stopdeforestation]

This is an inferior version of the arcade one. That one ruled

[@km_9]

You could say that about almost every home console conversion back then.

[@seancouzens9527]

I always sucked at the arcade playing this dam game 💩😭