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.

[@emilioazcarraga2024]

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... 👍

[@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

[@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

[@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!

[@Goblynn-s5l]

👍🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@realtsarbomba]

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

[@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"?

[@thenext9537]

Battletoads where you at

[@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

[@JSOD88]

You left out the most iconic Nintendo game, Metroid.

[@randallross420]

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

[@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.

[@bfitz82]

Jackie Chan punches a spider to death. Awesome.

[@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!

[@Yundono]

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

[@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.

[@mustachesally4134]

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

[@501Floyd]

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

[@TimValenti-v9l]

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

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

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

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

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

[@dwoodard5717]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@WebbyStudio]

omg the guardian legend. my childhood.

[@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 👊

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

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

[@jasonwillard4943]

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

[@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

[@AbeKenney]

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

[@goranmitic7500]

wow so much dedication. thank yo for this video

[@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.

[@Xeliuz1]

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

[@joeriveracomedy]

King Koopa grew a sweet mullet between mario 1 & 3

[@CidZero]

Mario 3 has the best battle music for Bowser ❤

[@Anatoly_Maly]

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

[@orinlee6123]

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

[@Nate-Dawg921]

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

[@Fairlady350Z]

Boss Fights easier than the dang levels.

[@josephmillar2370]

Jackel victory music was right up there with contras victory music

[@fedguerra8046]

mario 2 is a fevered dream we all shared lol

[@Lorenz-Bruchtal]

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

[@misable]

awesome vídeo 📹, I see this vídeo later

[@Casaganaha]

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

[@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?

[@FG-bn3qq]

That boss intro at 5:56 is pretty sweet.

[@diegoinsua5133]

Tokyo soulbrain

[@Gouzinstrumentals]

Any1 got a like a list of these games? 80 percent of them i never seen or played 😵‍💫

[@ChiahMan]

This is Nintendo NES villain’s defeats part1-9

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

14:02: Castlevania Final Boss: Dracula Dragon

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

14:46: Count Appears and 14:56: Death Dragon Vampire

[@CMDR_Vile]

9:59. Bro really said 🗿

[@UnkleRonnie]

*cheating

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

27:54: Enemy Wave Battle

[@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."

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

24:13: Spider Battle

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

17:49: Boss Battle (Adventure Island)

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

18:07: Adventure Island 2

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

25:19: Blaster Master

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

29:53: Time Warning

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

9:49: Boss Incoming

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

13:22: Final Stage

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

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

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

18:47: World Clear

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

11:06: Stage Clear

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

9:02: Extra Life

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

27:11: The Joker

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

13:04: Stage 7-X

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

12:39: Stage 6-X

[@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.

[@masterwu7784]

Man listen kung fu is the very first game I ever played!!! I'ma STONE COLD TOYS R US KID!!!!

[@rhyhaggen336]

Ill grant you the effort of going thru all these games all the way up to the final boss and winning, many games do take some skill to achieve that... however the "rich kid" approach of using a nes advantage or maxpad controllers, takes away some of the awesomeness in games such as zanac or spyhunter2 or tgl, because while i can shoot quite fast, turbo will shoot twice as much in half the time, meaning less hits coming your way... kudos on games like adventure island, where turbo means jacksquat or castlevanias!!!!

[@jfliguy]

I need a list of all the NES games please

[@robbiezampini-is3en]

That's a lot of bosses!

[@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.

[@Drpaul227]

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

[@gameplaysetutoriais8172]

Like! i know all games names

[@WoRLDs_CoLLiDiNG]

5 minutes in I am really hoping for the Batman game love that Joker boss fight but I won't peak I want to be surprised!

[@Cengojoe]

They all have the same sound: " kap-kap-kap...SWOSHHH "

[@nathanieldotter3717]

Btw you can obviously tell this person is using Turbo and Game Genie cheats, but the point of this video is not to show how many games he beat or anything, he is just showing what all the final bosses look like. If he was bragging I would have an issue, because of the cheating, but considering I don't feel that is the point behind this video, I'm trying to ignore the cheating

[@SenegambiaFC]

Sos un CAPO

[@jamesfair9751]

Mario 3 you can stand in one place as long as you are little or duck he can’t hurt you by jumping on you.

[@sotheresthat7882]

I wound up breaking my copy of Ninja Gaiden after the last boss killed me and it sent me back to the beginning of the level. Dad was not happy about that 😅

[@TheNoticer83]

This video depressed me. I played Mario 2 and 3 a bunch as a kid, but i don't remember either of those boss fights. I dont think i beat many games. I played games all the time and never beat them. I wasn't just a loser who played games all the time, i was a loser who failed at those games. Damn.

[@thefrankiepalmeri]

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

[@tefaalgen]

Can u ols write name of games

[@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?

[@KoolKatBeatz]

No game titles???

[@Kerplakistandan]

Lame right?

[@davehalbeisen2303]

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

[@dominickfattore3067]

I never see the final boss battle in the game "Brown Drool Hairy Butt Holes Revenge " part Hershey Squirt

[@TransitionedToAShark]

I had the Atari, Sega master drive, mega drive and SNES. I didn’t enjoy gaming much felt cheap. Mortal kombat 2 only game I liked till the king of gaming came out the ps1

[@theyearwas1473]

What people should understand before they watch this is most of these bosses were almost impossible to get to because the games were so f****** janky

[@crushthecrusher7134]

I love nes

[@X2x3x4]

OMG I LOVE THIS VIDEO!

[@retrogamingindo4238]

20:55 Doki! Doki! Yūenchi: Crazy Land Daisakusen | i remember playing this game when i was a kid but never know the name

[@justina9137]

So basically Mario 3 you just let Bowser kill himself? I never made it to the end

[@TalamarAmV]

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

[@bassamalsharani3093]

Ooooh my childhood game 😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️

[@Harley-t5n]

Is there a bigger sprite on NES than the final boss in S.C.A.T.? FFS

[@jamesfair9751]

Damn contra went down quick with the right weapon I guess

[@ZyosZyosZyos]

Cual es el nombre del juego al minuto 6?

[@homerovilte8008]

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

[@O.G.Ashtre]

Who Ever Is Playing This Definitely Used A Turbo Controller

[@wcoleman5555]

Bro, wheres the LIST of the GAMES??? out of the first 5 or so I knew 3 of them...

[@mae2759]

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

[@earthsurgery1237]

Would love to see avengers on the NES with Thanos as the final boss