A game that has fallen into *that* void. The one where games like this or Drill Dozer exist in. The one where no matter how much of a masterpiece the game is, nobody talks about it at all. It's a shame too because Monster in My Pocket is an excellent Konami title. Plus that soundtrack freaking rips.
I just watched Toy Galaxy's history lesson on this franchise, so good thing I'm all caught up. This game looks like decent fun with some simple combat. The giant house setting is interesting and of course, it wouldn't be a Konami game without some seriously pumpin', upbeat tunes.
This is one of those games that I just can't find a single flaw in it. The animations are beautiful and smooth, the controls are tight and responsive, the music is amazing, and the boss fights are alot of fun, and fairly simple to learn the patterns. This is one I would definitely recommend to anyone who's never tried it.
♬I've got a monster in my pocket, My own private spook! And if you think you've got the nerve, Then I'll give you a look! Anyone else remember that song?
lol i do not, but I will say that the INCREDIBLE OST that this game has is one of the reasons I developed such a love for music. This thing has rock, surf, jazz, all on-point.
Thanks for this! I learned something today and did a Google search to see what this was. Despite being born in the 80s, I never heard of monster in my pocket, but I would've loved it lol!
This was one game I had to buy on eBay because I couldn’t find it “in the wild”. It is a great Konami title and the music is amazing. Man I miss the Konami of old. I actually still have some Monster in My Pocket figurines.
I was lucky, before this games price exploded, someone gave me their copy of the game for free. It's an acquisition I am thankful I didn't have to spend money on, though the game is a classic, but an underrated one.
@@Bloodreign1 That was very nice of that person who gave it to you. I bought the game probably in 2008 or 2009 and I think it was around $25-30. It is definitely game you rarely to never see searching for games, even back then when it was much easier to find NES games in “the wild”. Have a good one!
I enjoyed this game as a young lad. I was like 5 or 6 when I played it. Pretty graphically impressive for the time and and hardware. Gameplay was smooth and fun. Thanks for uploading this!
They did. I used to watch that show all the time on Nickelodeon. It was usually on before Get the Picture or Family Double Dare (Double Dare remains my all time favorite Nickelodeon show).
If you were a kid in the early 90's, you might know the Monster in My Pocket franchise. It had a series trading cards, a short-lived comic book by Harvey Comics, and a popular toy line. Then Konami secured the rights to produce a video game adaptation of this game that they published for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in January 1992, right alongside the release of another NES games based on a popular IP, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: The Manhattan Project and Bucky O'Hare. This game had the same essential concept of the comic book, although it altered the personalities of Hobgoblin and Gremlin, initially the good monsters but now appeared as villains, to the extent that Gremlin was a boss.
Well this game highlights just how much of my childhood I've forgotten. I can still remember _Inhumanoids_ which came out years earlier but not this franchise.
There is a slight difference between The Vampire and The Monster. The Monster has slightly more range in his attack. Vampire scratches downward while Monster punches outward.
Short, sweet and well-made, in other words a perfect rental! I mean, it is Konami more or less in their prime, after all. I've also seen the Batman and Flash bootlegs made out of this game... which are just about the same, anyway.
Gotta thank Nick Arcade for introducing this game to me those years ago. It was treated like the go-to arcade game the players would choose right next to King of the Monsters.
I love this game. I never figured out why it deviated from the comics by having Gremlin and Hobgoblin as bad guys. The other good monsters (Werewolf, Swamp Beast, Golem, Vampiress, Invisible Man, The Phantom of the Opera, Jotun Troll, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mummy) were absent from the game. These couldn't have been all the good monsters, though, because Warlock's faction was said to be smaller in the first issue.
Though I own this game, I never ever saw it in rental stores, never knew of the toys, yet knew of the games existence thanks to being subscribed to Nintendo Power at the time this game came out. I would get the game for free from a friend, before it's price exploded, which was many, many years after the game first came out.
10:11 Towering catastrophe is my favorite level it is the peak of soundtrack and point of increased difficulty, perhaps the place when you first learn double jump, and then can use on previous levels, retrospectively
_Monster in My Pocket_ (no pun intended) was one of the better licensed games I've played on the NES in my youth, and that was expected because it was developed and published by Konami, whom were, like, the top video game company to put out licensed games to back then in North America. This game came out during the later and final years of the NES (1991-1994), in which while the NES's successor, the Super NES, was in full swing, the NES was STILL being supported. The only bad thing about this era of the NES was that most games released for the console during this time were mostly garbage using licenses or just orignal IPs that just sucked. My only gripes about this game were that it was pretty short and a little too easy. The theme of playing as and fighting against action-figure-sized monsters also reminded me of the gameplay of _Disney's Chip N' Dale's Rescue Rangers 1_ and _2_ . Still, I thought _MIMP_ was decent. Nice playthorugh.
What a cool looking game. I wonder why they opted to release it for NES when it was already in its end cycle, and not on SNES. I feel this game would have had a stronger following if they had.
"aaaaaaooooooooogh." -Every Boss when you defeat them Also, how many times can you say "I fought a Konami Brand television as the final boss" in a video game? Heh.
@@NintendoComplete Considering that games take place in a shared unique universe (I.E. Mega Man/Street Fighter/Dead Rising being part of the Capcom Universe, NiGHTS/Sonic/Streets Of Rage in the Sega universe), it wouldn't be too far off thinking that....or the potential of Konami Brand Television lore. Heh.
Me,Brother and friend were fans and were excited to see a game based off this property. So we rented it,The game was fun...but was WAY too short. I understand they only had so much to work with to make it into a game, but sadly it was worth a rental, but unless you're a die hard fan of monsters in my pocket, this was NOT worth a purchase. I cringe at the thought of them making a game of the "Trash bag bunch" remember those? I had two of them and were popular for a time much like this. I applaud konami for this, all things considered.
I see the zombies and fleamen from Castlevania in stage 1. Vampire kinda runs like Alucard in Symphony of the Night too. Seems they were influenced by Konami's Castlevania.
I got a copy of this in a 30 game bid on ebay. Unfortuantely it came with no inner game card, only the case, so i got tje entire 3p games for free from ebay. Amazing game
It must be rare as there are only a few copies on Ebay though the cartridge only ones are reasonably priced at around $80 there is the one typical idiot with the sealed copy that he paid to have graded so he could charge 8 grand for it despite knowing no one is going to ever pay that price.
@@julietafierrolanouguere bullshit. Batman Returns (the NES version) is way better. Especially the Konami(?) music. Flash and Batman just seems to be a hack of Monster in My pocket.
Anyone else annoyed that Frankenstein keeps getting the title "The Monster"? Yes we know he's Dr. Frankenstein's monster, but just calling a monster The monster is just lazy.🙄
Careful now that you don’t somehow get sued by The Pokémon Company, NintendoComplete, as they’ve been on a tear lately copyright striking and sending cease and desist letters to everybody whom they think might’ve even slightly infringed on their IP. I’d love to see them falsely claim this video as infringing on their copyright though, as Konami would very much like to make them see the error of their ways in response, methinks. 😏
![NES Longplay [940] Monster In My Pocket (2 Player)](/img/n.gif)
Can't believe that this game is just 30 minutes. Felt like hours when I played it 30 years ago.
NES: I can only display 8 sprites per scanline.
Konami: YOU DO AS YOU'RE TOLD
Parodius's famous last words before the NES set itself on fire.
A game that has fallen into *that* void. The one where games like this or Drill Dozer exist in. The one where no matter how much of a masterpiece the game is, nobody talks about it at all. It's a shame too because Monster in My Pocket is an excellent Konami title. Plus that soundtrack freaking rips.
What game by old Konami *didn't* have a killer soundtrack? We were blessed as kids during this time!
Bro the monster in my pocket soundtrack is as good as the doom soundtrack
10:21 smoother than a butter
Fun fact: This game is the reason as to why the _Pocket Monsters_ title has been abbreviated to _Pokémon_ outside of Japan.
Kinda. More like the whole franchise this game is based on
Nice memory of my childhood when me and my sister played it. We were so happy when we passed the game.
Could I marry your sister?
I love those chunky explosion sound effects in this engine.
This game and me have a history, and it’s beautiful! What a great game.
I dont think I rented any other nes game as many times as this one. My sister and I loved this game!
@@GetLostGames1 I owned a different version of this game where you played as Batman and Robin.
Same, its forever etched into my
history.
I just watched Toy Galaxy's history lesson on this franchise, so good thing I'm all caught up. This game looks like decent fun with some simple combat. The giant house setting is interesting and of course, it wouldn't be a Konami game without some seriously pumpin', upbeat tunes.
This is one of those games that I just can't find a single flaw in it. The animations are beautiful and smooth, the controls are tight and responsive, the music is amazing, and the boss fights are alot of fun, and fairly simple to learn the patterns. This is one I would definitely recommend to anyone who's never tried it.
This game did not need to go this hard, but DAMN. A fine example of a licensed game done right.
You think the game was hard?
@@scottandrewhutchins No, I said it didn't need to go hard as in they did not need to make the game beyond just good.
♬I've got a monster in my pocket,
My own private spook!
And if you think you've got the nerve,
Then I'll give you a look!
Anyone else remember that song?
From the Cartoon or from the commercials?
lol i do not, but I will say that the INCREDIBLE OST that this game has is one of the reasons I developed such a love for music. This thing has rock, surf, jazz, all on-point.
Thanks for this! I learned something today and did a Google search to see what this was. Despite being born in the 80s, I never heard of monster in my pocket, but I would've loved it lol!
Always love the detailed descriptions, great stuff
Thanks! :)
This was one game I had to buy on eBay because I couldn’t find it “in the wild”. It is a great Konami title and the music is amazing. Man I miss the Konami of old. I actually still have some Monster in My Pocket figurines.
I was lucky, before this games price exploded, someone gave me their copy of the game for free. It's an acquisition I am thankful I didn't have to spend money on, though the game is a classic, but an underrated one.
@@Bloodreign1 That was very nice of that person who gave it to you. I bought the game probably in 2008 or 2009 and I think it was around $25-30. It is definitely game you rarely to never see searching for games, even back then when it was much easier to find NES games in “the wild”. Have a good one!
Monster in my Pocket DOES what Zombies Ate my Neighbors DON'T!
I enjoyed this game as a young lad. I was like 5 or 6 when I played it. Pretty graphically impressive for the time and and hardware. Gameplay was smooth and fun. Thanks for uploading this!
The nostalgic is massive in this one
Played it with my best friend on NES back then... amazing fun
I was always the Vampire, my best friend always the Monster
It’s like Pocket Monsters huh, we should make a spin off, like pockeymon…
This game looks good!
fr though
I don’t know why but 90s video games look better than video games today
IDK why this game was reskinned as Batman Flash or Batman and Flashman.
I played with both versions back then
One of few games you could just have fun to complete instead of being frustrated of unfair gameplay
Lots of kids selected this game on "Nick Arcade".
They did. I used to watch that show all the time on Nickelodeon. It was usually on before Get the Picture or Family Double Dare (Double Dare remains my all time favorite Nickelodeon show).
If you were a kid in the early 90's, you might know the Monster in My Pocket franchise. It had a series trading cards, a short-lived comic book by Harvey Comics, and a popular toy line. Then Konami secured the rights to produce a video game adaptation of this game that they published for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in January 1992, right alongside the release of another NES games based on a popular IP, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: The Manhattan Project and Bucky O'Hare. This game had the same essential concept of the comic book, although it altered the personalities of Hobgoblin and Gremlin, initially the good monsters but now appeared as villains, to the extent that Gremlin was a boss.
Wow, that all sounds eerily familiar...
Wow, I didn't know you could bring the key to the fridge to help you fight the boss.
The stage 1 theme is a banger
One of my favourite games
I don't know why this game doesn't get more love
Well this game highlights just how much of my childhood I've forgotten. I can still remember _Inhumanoids_ which came out years earlier but not this franchise.
Im from Turkey, and this was my favorite game, this one and contra of course 😢 ı miss this days...
There is a slight difference between The Vampire and The Monster.
The Monster has slightly more range in his attack. Vampire scratches downward while Monster punches outward.
The Monster also resembles Arnold Scwarzennegger in his status-bar portrait. Man, Konami must have LOVED that guy back then.
@@Loader2K1I always thought Vampire looked like Patrick Stewart.
A long gone distant childhood memory. Finally, I have found the game.
Short, sweet and well-made, in other words a perfect rental! I mean, it is Konami more or less in their prime, after all. I've also seen the Batman and Flash bootlegs made out of this game... which are just about the same, anyway.
Too short though! Konami added extra levels to the TMNT Arcade gsme NES port, but not here? For shame!
Gotta thank Nick Arcade for introducing this game to me those years ago. It was treated like the go-to arcade game the players would choose right next to King of the Monsters.
Konami always gave 100%, even if the license wasn’t the best.
Whether it was TMNT or Tiny Toons, the music produced by Konami was awesome!
Agreed.
This was an awesome license!
Ty 😂😂 that was a lovely memory ❤
I played two versions of this game, the one here and one where you played as Batman and the Flash.
I've never seen this game before. Cool game and nice playthrough!
I used to collect the monster toys as a kid
10:20 Smooth like Butter 😂😂
I love this game. I never figured out why it deviated from the comics by having Gremlin and Hobgoblin as bad guys. The other good monsters (Werewolf, Swamp Beast, Golem, Vampiress, Invisible Man, The Phantom of the Opera, Jotun Troll, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Mummy) were absent from the game. These couldn't have been all the good monsters, though, because Warlock's faction was said to be smaller in the first issue.
Though I own this game, I never ever saw it in rental stores, never knew of the toys, yet knew of the games existence thanks to being subscribed to Nintendo Power at the time this game came out. I would get the game for free from a friend, before it's price exploded, which was many, many years after the game first came out.
I missed this game so much thanks for posting it
Try the batman and flash mod too
wow man i love this game man
Catchy music
10:11
Towering catastrophe is my favorite level
it is the peak of soundtrack and point of increased difficulty, perhaps the place when you first learn double jump, and then can use on previous levels, retrospectively
_Monster in My Pocket_ (no pun intended) was one of the better licensed games I've played on the NES in my youth, and that was expected because it was developed and published by Konami, whom were, like, the top video game company to put out licensed games to back then in North America. This game came out during the later and final years of the NES (1991-1994), in which while the NES's successor, the Super NES, was in full swing, the NES was STILL being supported. The only bad thing about this era of the NES was that most games released for the console during this time were mostly garbage using licenses or just orignal IPs that just sucked. My only gripes about this game were that it was pretty short and a little too easy. The theme of playing as and fighting against action-figure-sized monsters also reminded me of the gameplay of _Disney's Chip N' Dale's Rescue Rangers 1_ and _2_ . Still, I thought _MIMP_ was decent. Nice playthorugh.
What a cool looking game. I wonder why they opted to release it for NES when it was already in its end cycle, and not on SNES. I feel this game would have had a stronger following if they had.
"aaaaaaooooooooogh."
-Every Boss when you defeat them
Also, how many times can you say "I fought a Konami Brand television as the final boss" in a video game? Heh.
You think that's the same TV that you play Gradius on in The Legend of the Mystical Ninja?
@@NintendoComplete
Considering that games take place in a shared unique universe (I.E. Mega Man/Street Fighter/Dead Rising being part of the Capcom Universe, NiGHTS/Sonic/Streets Of Rage in the Sega universe), it wouldn't be too far off thinking that....or the potential of Konami Brand Television lore. Heh.
Before I was even a fan of Pokemon, id associate that name with this and wonder "Huh, Monster in My Pocket is popular again for some reason"
that was a real indle game intro
One of the Nick arcade season 2 video challenges
cool. its batman and flash =)
anyway. this video look way better on 240p
Me,Brother and friend were fans and were excited to see a game based off this property. So we rented it,The game was fun...but was WAY too short. I understand they only had so much to work with to make it into a game, but sadly it was worth a rental, but unless you're a die hard fan of monsters in my pocket, this was NOT worth a purchase. I cringe at the thought of them making a game of the "Trash bag bunch" remember those? I had two of them and were popular for a time much like this. I applaud konami for this, all things considered.
Toy galaxy just did a vid on this franchise
I see the zombies and fleamen from Castlevania in stage 1. Vampire kinda runs like Alucard in Symphony of the Night too. Seems they were influenced by Konami's Castlevania.
Clearly would be much more appealing for me if it was a Castlevania-related game (considering only the monsters*, not the background).
*But the T-Rex.
Clasico!!😎😎
I had this in fake version was Batman and Flash
me too
I got a copy of this in a 30 game bid on ebay. Unfortuantely it came with no inner game card, only the case, so i got tje entire 3p games for free from ebay. Amazing game
Childhood nostalgic
8:55 that is scary jelly fish
0:21 is it just me or does this sound like the battle theme from Sweet Home?
god i played the crap out of this game as a kid..
Ahora conozco el final de este juego, gracias, ¿donde puedo encontrar la version de batman y robin?.
OMG my childhood!!
i came to this video because STAGE 4 music is same as one of BTS haha
It must be rare as there are only a few copies on Ebay though the cartridge only ones are reasonably priced at around $80 there is the one typical idiot with the sealed copy that he paid to have graded so he could charge 8 grand for it despite knowing no one is going to ever pay that price.
The logo looks like Ninja Turtles.
lovely
One hell of deep pocket lol hahaha 😆
Interesting!
10:17 - Towering Catastrophe Music before, & then.... BTS - Butter for the Kpop.
I heard as a Stage 4 Music for my Childhood before.
Flash and Batman. I was trying to buy Batman Returns and they never understood what I meant and offered this...
They did you a favor, this was one was better
@@julietafierrolanouguere bullshit.
Batman Returns (the NES version) is way better. Especially the Konami(?) music.
Flash and Batman just seems to be a hack of Monster in My pocket.
@@user-ui7iy4vk1e whatever, it’s a much better game than Batman Returns.
@@julietafierrolanouguere tastes differ. I like both, though.
butter starts at 10:14
If any people come here and say first and second and yada yada, and early and the number of comments, please make a rule and ban them.
I got this and pirated copy with Batman and Flash lol
Anyone else annoyed that Frankenstein keeps getting the title "The Monster"?
Yes we know he's Dr. Frankenstein's monster, but just calling a monster The monster is just lazy.🙄
In a game with this amount of polish, I somehow doubt his name came from someone not being bothered enough to type the word Frankenstein.
Konami has used Frankenstein's monster in their _Castlevania_ series. Maybe they *do* know that the monster has no proper name.
as a kid that flying fish is annoying as hell
I beat this game 2 times.
play on PC with emulator ?
Longing for the pas
Vampire 🦇🦇🦇 level 2 heart ❤️
Careful now that you don’t somehow get sued by The Pokémon Company, NintendoComplete, as they’ve been on a tear lately copyright striking and sending cease and desist letters to everybody whom they think might’ve even slightly infringed on their IP. I’d love to see them falsely claim this video as infringing on their copyright though, as Konami would very much like to make them see the error of their ways in response, methinks. 😏
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BTS butter lol