@@GrandPOOBear There was also an update to the euro release, making the bullets on the weird arcing gun levels NOT get stopped by the walls. They recognized that it was a problem.
I beat this game when I was a kid by pausing it during a boss fight to use the bathroom. When I unpaused it, to my amazement, the boss immediately died. I tried it intentionally on the next boss and realized that if you paused the game during the hit detection during a boss fight and let it sit for a minute the bosses hp would still drain.
I distinctly remember the commercials for Fester's Quest going HARD about how you only have one life and if you die you start over, like as if this was a desirable feature lol
it WAS though! remember that game was your main christmas present or birthdaypresent for that year, there was no piracy and your family was poor. The biggest downer with games then was you finished it in 3 days.
@@PrSndreLrsn I interacted with the NES and Sega library almost entirely through Blockbuster rentals, and let me tell you - 99% of NES games that you only have for a weekend and don't come with a manual are inscrutable nonsense you never ever complete. In fact you were lucky if you even figured out wtf the goal was. I'll never forget getting the Simpsons game thinking it would be like the arcade, moving Bart down the sidewalk...and then standing there at the edge of town staring at a vast barren wasteland with no way to move foward and no clue how to continue. True art. I remember taking turns with my friends, no internet, nobody had a relevant Nintendo Power, trying to solve what to do 30 seconds into this game and literally nobody figuring it out. THAT was the Nintendo experience I remember. You and all these people talking about beating games...man you guys lived in another freakin world!
@@z-beeblebrox depends which game you are talking about and whether you rented or owned. Simpsons is definitely not one I (or anyone else lol) completed...I remember one game, think it was called something with Nero - something about sleep, and we could not figure out how to get off the startingscreen lol. Not difficulty or something, just did not understand how to jump or something...
I was a kid that liked the Addams Family, so i asked for this game. I played it for years, never getting past the first couple of bosses. Then, I went on a run for what seemed like hours and made it to the mothership for the first time and died pretty quickly. I never played the game again. Looking back, I wish I wouldn't have given up on it and given it another go.
I had this experience with Ninja Gaiden. Painstakingly made it to the "final boss"... beat him. Then made it to the second final boss. He killed me, had to restart that entire last level. hated it. But persevered. Killed him, made it to the demon statue. Got smoked. Game Over. had to restart the previous 2 entire levels. Gave up, didnt want to continue. Looking at Poo's video I honest to god dont understand how I ever finished Festers Quest when its clearly the more frustrating one of the two.
@@michelvanderlinden8363 I beat Fester's Quest as a young teen, but was never able to beat Ninja Gaiden. I rented Ninja Gaiden for a few days at a time, but it was never enough time for me to beat it. That game was brutally precise! I played Fester's Quest at a friend's place until I beat it (they owned the game, but didn't play it).
The key is to farm for the max level gun as soon as the game starts, then use a turbo controller. It eats through anything and everything. Also, learn how to use the items. A few of them are very useful.
If you can manage to find a Satellite peripheral (or some sort of functional equivalent) it's the best method of dealing with this problem. Not only does it let you play from across the room (using an IR transmitter/receiver) but it also has four controller inputs (allowing for four player games) and "turbo" functionality for one or both face buttons. The receiver plugs into both controller ports on the console, and the transmitter (where you plug your actual controllers into) is powered by six "C" batteries.
Games like this I always assume were 55% to 95% made but couldn't get published. Then they got approval to make it themed. Made the least cosmetic changes possible. And shipped it. The readiness to sell percent and the gameplay was then locked in.
This probably was supposed to be maybe Blaster Master 2? Wish I could ask and thank the Sunsoft folks for the best games of my life. Both by the same company with maybe a slightly upgraded backend game engine. The 2nd Plutonium Boss of Blaster Master was pretty much the bosses of this game. Fester's Quest came out two years before the movie, so you may be right on this. NES Blaster master had issues, probably due to time and cartridge space constraints. The Blaster Master Zero remake of Blaster Master had the full potential of the game.
That's a fair assumption, considering just how many licensed games had that exact history. I am thoroughly convinced that the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES is the same story, just simply based on how little most of the game actually has to do with TMNT.
Finished this game multiple times as a child. I remember keeping a notebook where I tracked the mazes and wrote maps of every area etc. Loved this game!
I don't remember actually playing the game but when I saw the endscreen I recognized it so I must have. I'm sure I didn't own it so I must have gotten it from the rental store. Which means I probably played it non-stop for an entire weekend.
Yeah same here, wasn't all that hard. I beat Ninja Gaiden in 3 days and peeps were complaining that game was hard. Wasn't hard, just lots of pattern memorization.
2:00 Enemies regenerate full health if you don't hit them often enough, so they turn out like bullet sponges. There was an entire "Behind the code" on this game
80s kid here. I was thinking the same thing. I remember playing this stupid game. That’s about it. I don’t remember anything else. Hallmark of a truly shitty boring game. I do remember a lot of wizards and warriors
As an older gamer, I have to say I have been watching you for a long time. Although my interest have changed and my career has advanced and I can't enjoy games with you as much as I use too. Thank you so much for being around.
The Lord of the Rings for the SNES was always one I struggled with as a kid. I went back to it as an adult and still found it hard. Didn't beat it in the end either. I think a lot of these old games sometimes rely on you reading the manual that came in the box to understand what is going on and even what the controls do. Great videos!
I refused to play the US version of this game and ended up playing the UK version. They fixed a ton of bugs, like the guns not working in the sewers, they adjusted speeds, things like that. Game was much better. Might be worth checking out. :)
I know my Dad has beaten Fester's Quest. It was a nightmare. And, as I understand it, The Addams Family had not only fallen out of interest by the late 1980's, but Uncle Fester was a comparably small side character. Uncle Fester being chosen as a main character was almost as insane as trying to turn The Addams Family into an alien invasion story.
I met two dudes in their 70s who were both really into anime. I thought it was kind of weird at first but then realized Astro Boy and Gigantor were reasonably popular in the '60s, and adult-demographic series like Berserk and Gundam aired in the '80s so it kinda makes sense that someone who grew up way back in the day would still be into it.
Holy crap. I made it to the mother ship once and that was as far as I ever got because the thought just never occurred to me that the continue feature was a lie. Just start over? Brilliant play! So fulfilling to finally see this one beat. You just got a new sub, my dude!
My god this game.. im 40 this year and Festers Quest was something that perplexed my entire family. Lol! Amazing to see it in the wild like this! Thank you!
I remembered vaguely playing this as a kid, I did own a NES but not this game as far as I recall, so I must've played it at a friend's house or something. That vague memory floated at the corners of my mind for years after I had long forgotten it and assumed I had dreamed it up until I saw the AVGN video on it in college. Never got super far in it to my recollection, maybe the first boss at the farthest. Unlike that insane TMNT game, which I did own, so I had years to bash my head into that absurd final level until I could beat it.
1:06: "Honestly, you could go to any friend's house and they would probably have a copy of Fester's Quest laying around." You must have had different friends than I did. I also grew up in this same time period. I had an NES. A bunch of my friends had one too, and we'd visit each other's places and play games a lot. This video is the first time I have ever even heard the name "Fester's Quest."
Fester's Quest is a unique oddity. The Addams Family came out in 1964 and this game in 1989, 25 years later. Before the 1991 movie I don't believe the show was super popular. Kids didn't know who Uncle Fester was, but their parents probably did. Maybe Sunsoft had a game brewing and slapped the IP on it to boost sales.
Not really. In the 80s The Addams Family was syndicated on some TV channel all the time usually later in the evening. Everyone knew The Addams Family and Munsters whether they watched them or not. They were ubiquitous in 80s TV culture with all the other 50s-70s syndicated programs.
I'm not sure you know how much I was aggravated as a kid that I could not make progress in this game past the second boss. Seeing a professional gamer struggle and talk about all of the things I thought were wrong helped. I had been thinking about going back and playing this myself, but having watched you, I don't feel I need to do that anymore. I can let go. I am at peace.
I had just recently beaten this game, it's not bad and it's definitely alot easier when you understand the mechanics and when to use items for example it's best to use weapons and health items during boss battles as it always refills your health and inventory. Another thing is this game has a very interesting history as the VP of Sunsoft US actually based this game off of a dream he had: "According to Robbins in an interview he gave back in 2014, he was inspired to make the game based on a dream he had one night where he was playing a video game called "Uncle Fester's Playhouse". He gave no details as to what exactly the game was like in his dream, but it apparently was enough to spark the inspiration within him to make a video game about the Addams, and specifically about Fester. After deciding to make the game, he got in touch with the widow of Charles Addams (the original creator of the characters), and tried to convince her to sell the rights to him. It took many long distance calls, as she was living in Paris at the time, but after much coaxing, she gave her blessing to do the game."
Such a nightmarishly hard game, and there's one spot in the final boss fight that none of his attacks ever hit... Grinding through all that just to reach the one easy thing in the game is kind of hilarious.
I'm sure it was 100% intentional. Also the only thing in the game weak to missiles. Something held back to print in Nintendo Power magazine or hidden in the manual or somethingj.
Fun fact, the reason so many of these games are so cryptic and unforgiving with enemy placement is to artificially extent the playtime because the games are already so limited
The other aspect to this design philosophy was that home consoles were a relatively novel concept at the time and many of the teams working on NES and Master System games only had experience designing arcade games, which were intentionally difficult to extract as much coins from kids as possible. In many cases, it was as much a matter of the devs didn't know how to design games any other way as it was hardware limitations - it just so happens that the same design philosophy worked in their favor for the most part.
Video games were rentable at that time. Difficulty in the US was inflated to encourage purchase. Japanese versions were usually easier to complete. @@Dargonhuman
I never understood how people didn't understand this game. Totally beat it. You just have to know what power-ups you do and don't want. That plays exactly like all of the floor levels of Master blaster.
I remember the hardest SNES game I got as a kid. Lester the Unlikely. The character has the worst attacks and the game was so confusing. I recommend it for anyone looking for a challenge.
Lester actually gets better and stronger through the course of the game. In contrast to a lot of games where you start strong and end up a God-killer, in Lester you start as a chump and end strong.
It's actually kinda wild, but this came out in a valley between two phases of Addams Family popularity... after the live-action show and cartoons, before the first live-action movie. My guess is that Sunsoft got the license on the cheap
Addams Family Values on SNES was also a pretty tough game from what I remember. I could never beat it no matter how many times my family rented it from the video store.
i'm impressed you beat this game, especially when you thought you could only visit each addams family room once and furthermore with missing the family mansion for the 4th health pip
I was thinking the same thing. The first 30 attempts that next day should have been him getting there and instantly getting wrecked, while looking for that sweet spot/hoping one exists.
Stay out of the dungeons. Dungeons are 16x16 sparse room (not every space is a room) wraparound mazes with one exit. Apart from the shops as a point of interest, there isn't anything essential in them. Even the shop stocks change (at 2 and 5 bells) on the number bells that you have. Unless you're reading the strategywiki and tracking your position in the maze, they aren't worth it as the best gear is in the parallel worlds for free. The only missable is hyper boots from a shop type #6 at 0 and 1 bells burned. Never buy the cup from a shop, it steals all of your money. As the blue scroll randomly teleports you in a dungeon, you could wind up at best lost and at worst stuck.
I don't think Uncle Fester was THAT popular, I think it's more that "Fester's Quest" sounds better, and they already had a couple games with Gomez and Pugsley.
As a kid, I remember this game being on those "try it out" consoles at local game store. Never have I been happier for trying a game before bying it, because I was really hyped for the game. Then tried it. I had to go back next day and confirm I just wasn't bad at it. On third day the game was changed, and clerk mentioned people hated the game. So they swapped something fun in there instead.
IF you're slow, you need to use vice grips (Yes, it's SELECT to activate items). Think about it as squeezing the mosquito bites. Grind all your blue guns at the beginning until you get 3 straigh shooting spikes. That's the best gun. Never get a red gun or whip, or your game is pretty much over. You can also grind the repeating slimes. Nintendo Power had maps for the whole game. You need them.
you gotta use an NES Advantage or any controller with a turbo button, and you just farm the beginning area until you max out the gun. it makes the game so much easier. also there's another secret health block which makes it a lot more forgiving when you fight the bosses
I've beaten this game numerous times back in day, and a turbo controller was a must. The only thing i didn't like was that when you died you went all the way back to the start and had to go thru all the areas again to get back where you were. great music and a great game never less.
I had this as a kid. I came darned close to completing Festers Quest several times, only to be stopped by the final boss. It is possible to get max level gun power before leaving the first street you spawn in on, BTW.
Festers Quest is an amazing game! It’s very easy to beat. It’s slow at first but if you build up your weapons you are unstoppable, until you get hit. Then it’s becomes less possible then. 😅
I beat it in three days in the summer of '89. 80s kids gamers were built of sterner stuff. We had no money and had to rent games and beat them in three days or less.
I love how most of the weapon upgrades make your projectiles follow a wave that can't go down narrow pathways.. And then they included alleys and sewers
I was someone who beat this game as a kid. 2 min. into your video and I can already tell you two things you need to immediately do: 1. Get a turbo fire controller, game changer. 2. Go back and forth on the first street shooting those little brain things (they respawn) until you upgrade your gun to the max; all other versions of the gun are poop. This is the only strategy that makes the game doable. Once you get the whip, do the same thing, find a spot to go back and forth until you have it upgraded to max then only use it on the bosses. It's still a slog to beat but it's doable with max weapons. P.s. "Why does Morticia give me a whip?", "Ask your mom.", "I swear to God I will fight you..." - I laughed so hard at this!
Pretty sure this is the game that taught me the ultimate gamepad rapid-fire technique of sliding your fingernail back and forth across the fire button.
it hands you your butt in your hands to you. Back in the day, in 89, we had the Nintendo Power magazine and it did an extensive players guide for Festers Quest, I remember following it to the letter. Lately I played it again but on my Anbernic handheld which was a nice thing after 30 odd years of not playing it, revisiting and sure enough, it feels even more difficult then when I was 12 back then.
I remember renting this when it came out... 3 days of hell when I was 10. I'm glad you were able to go through it, so I can finally see the completion after all these years. Zelda II was way easier.
Came to see somebody beat FQ. Gonna check out your others for sure! If you do more and want some kinda under-the-radar games that are great and DAMN hard, I strongly recommend: Star Tropics Star Tropics 2: Zoda's Revenge
im pretty sure in the instruction manual of this game it recommends using the turbo controller
IT DOES
It’s crazy that games back then realized it sucked, but couldn’t think to let you hold the button 😂
My wife just got me this game for my NES for Christmas. I am both stoked to play it and worried at the same time haha
@@GrandPOOBear Lots of games at the time assumed you had a controller with turbo and slow (turbo on Start), and were written accordingly.
@@GrandPOOBear There was also an update to the euro release, making the bullets on the weird arcing gun levels NOT get stopped by the walls. They recognized that it was a problem.
I beat this game when I was a kid by pausing it during a boss fight to use the bathroom. When I unpaused it, to my amazement, the boss immediately died. I tried it intentionally on the next boss and realized that if you paused the game during the hit detection during a boss fight and let it sit for a minute the bosses hp would still drain.
Ah, the classic NES hit detection pause glitch.
Now do it without pausing 🌚
I distinctly remember the commercials for Fester's Quest going HARD about how you only have one life and if you die you start over, like as if this was a desirable feature lol
it WAS though! remember that game was your main christmas present or birthdaypresent for that year, there was no piracy and your family was poor. The biggest downer with games then was you finished it in 3 days.
@@PrSndreLrsn I interacted with the NES and Sega library almost entirely through Blockbuster rentals, and let me tell you - 99% of NES games that you only have for a weekend and don't come with a manual are inscrutable nonsense you never ever complete. In fact you were lucky if you even figured out wtf the goal was.
I'll never forget getting the Simpsons game thinking it would be like the arcade, moving Bart down the sidewalk...and then standing there at the edge of town staring at a vast barren wasteland with no way to move foward and no clue how to continue. True art. I remember taking turns with my friends, no internet, nobody had a relevant Nintendo Power, trying to solve what to do 30 seconds into this game and literally nobody figuring it out. THAT was the Nintendo experience I remember. You and all these people talking about beating games...man you guys lived in another freakin world!
Not like a desirable feature at all. The commercial was making clear how difficult the game was.
@@z-beeblebrox depends which game you are talking about and whether you rented or owned. Simpsons is definitely not one I (or anyone else lol) completed...I remember one game, think it was called something with Nero - something about sleep, and we could not figure out how to get off the startingscreen lol. Not difficulty or something, just did not understand how to jump or something...
@@PrSndreLrsnlittle Nemo the dream master based on a comic strip I believe also had a decent arcade game and the movie was not total trash
This is the kind of game that makes you thankful to leverage the modern technology of emulation and save states
True but that robs you of some of the experience, you are SUPPOSED to get salty and keep going
@@arglebargle42if I get anymore salty, I'll be curing beef jerky
@@arglebargle42Man life's too short.
I was a kid that liked the Addams Family, so i asked for this game. I played it for years, never getting past the first couple of bosses. Then, I went on a run for what seemed like hours and made it to the mothership for the first time and died pretty quickly. I never played the game again.
Looking back, I wish I wouldn't have given up on it and given it another go.
I had this experience with Ninja Gaiden. Painstakingly made it to the "final boss"... beat him. Then made it to the second final boss. He killed me, had to restart that entire last level. hated it. But persevered. Killed him, made it to the demon statue. Got smoked. Game Over. had to restart the previous 2 entire levels. Gave up, didnt want to continue.
Looking at Poo's video I honest to god dont understand how I ever finished Festers Quest when its clearly the more frustrating one of the two.
@@michelvanderlinden8363 I beat Fester's Quest as a young teen, but was never able to beat Ninja Gaiden. I rented Ninja Gaiden for a few days at a time, but it was never enough time for me to beat it. That game was brutally precise! I played Fester's Quest at a friend's place until I beat it (they owned the game, but didn't play it).
The key is to farm for the max level gun as soon as the game starts, then use a turbo controller. It eats through anything and everything. Also, learn how to use the items. A few of them are very useful.
@AHelpingHand Until you have 30 power-ups on top of each other and you accidentally walk over a red gun (or pick one up with your whip)...
@@Jim_S. Yeah. Be careful. Or, if that happens, just farm again to regain what you lost. If your gun is at max, you don't even need the whip.
I bought a turbo controller specifically for this game, the mashing required is bonkers.
F*** yeah. It's Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Country for sure.
And NES controller buttons would SHRED your thumbs lol
If you can manage to find a Satellite peripheral (or some sort of functional equivalent) it's the best method of dealing with this problem.
Not only does it let you play from across the room (using an IR transmitter/receiver) but it also has four controller inputs (allowing for four player games) and "turbo" functionality for one or both face buttons.
The receiver plugs into both controller ports on the console, and the transmitter (where you plug your actual controllers into) is powered by six "C" batteries.
Games like this I always assume were 55% to 95% made but couldn't get published. Then they got approval to make it themed. Made the least cosmetic changes possible. And shipped it. The readiness to sell percent and the gameplay was then locked in.
Kinda how I feel
Feeling fisted by fester?@@GrandPOOBear
This probably was supposed to be maybe Blaster Master 2? Wish I could ask and thank the Sunsoft folks for the best games of my life. Both by the same company with maybe a slightly upgraded backend game engine. The 2nd Plutonium Boss of Blaster Master was pretty much the bosses of this game. Fester's Quest came out two years before the movie, so you may be right on this. NES Blaster master had issues, probably due to time and cartridge space constraints. The Blaster Master Zero remake of Blaster Master had the full potential of the game.
That's a fair assumption, considering just how many licensed games had that exact history. I am thoroughly convinced that the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES is the same story, just simply based on how little most of the game actually has to do with TMNT.
@@PlNGP0NG Blaster Master 2 was made for the Sega Genesis and it was complete shit.
Finished this game multiple times as a child. I remember keeping a notebook where I tracked the mazes and wrote maps of every area etc. Loved this game!
me too! used the NES Advantage and my home drawn maps to beat it when i was a kid!
I don't remember actually playing the game but when I saw the endscreen I recognized it so I must have. I'm sure I didn't own it so I must have gotten it from the rental store. Which means I probably played it non-stop for an entire weekend.
Yeah same here, wasn't all that hard. I beat Ninja Gaiden in 3 days and peeps were complaining that game was hard. Wasn't hard, just lots of pattern memorization.
Beat it in a weekend as a kid. I also thought this was a fun game and am really surprised to see the hate it's getting.
Lurch appearing on screen, saying you rang, and killing everyone before leaving is actually cold
Fester's Quest is so crazy it was probably programmed by the Addams Family.
2:00 Enemies regenerate full health if you don't hit them often enough, so they turn out like bullet sponges. There was an entire "Behind the code" on this game
The cardinal sin of this game isn't that it's hard. It's that it's boring.
80s kid here. I was thinking the same thing. I remember playing this stupid game. That’s about it. I don’t remember anything else. Hallmark of a truly shitty boring game. I do remember a lot of wizards and warriors
It's right up there with TMNT. Difficult but also boring.
Painfully.
Imagine it's the one game you'd get for a month or so.
@@mikec6347 I'm also an 80s kid. I remember renting this. What a waste, but at least I didn't buy it.
The cheese is absolutely intended.
Merry Christmas!
Also, love the “Screw this” at 0:12
1:33 I don’t see three feet!
I heard that too, then I realized he said “FREE FEET” lol
As an older gamer, I have to say I have been watching you for a long time. Although my interest have changed and my career has advanced and I can't enjoy games with you as much as I use too. Thank you so much for being around.
The Lord of the Rings for the SNES was always one I struggled with as a kid. I went back to it as an adult and still found it hard. Didn't beat it in the end either. I think a lot of these old games sometimes rely on you reading the manual that came in the box to understand what is going on and even what the controls do. Great videos!
Loving this new series of games from back in the day. Even ones I don’t believe I ever played. More please!!!!
"Pugsly gives you TNT."
Well, isn't that nice of him.
I refused to play the US version of this game and ended up playing the UK version. They fixed a ton of bugs, like the guns not working in the sewers, they adjusted speeds, things like that. Game was much better. Might be worth checking out. :)
I know my Dad has beaten Fester's Quest. It was a nightmare.
And, as I understand it, The Addams Family had not only fallen out of interest by the late 1980's, but Uncle Fester was a comparably small side character. Uncle Fester being chosen as a main character was almost as insane as trying to turn The Addams Family into an alien invasion story.
Interest went up again when it went to syndication in the 80's. That's what sparked the 90's movies to be made.
i remember this era and adams family was definitely in the public consciousness . there were movies and toys and the show was pretty popular
The show was still popular in the 80's. I remember watching reruns on Nick at Nite.
@@sqbronco1 after the game came out, iirc
Uncle Fester wasn't a small side character. I would say he was just as popular if not more so than Gomez or Morticia.
You're never too old for video games. I've seen a guy who is in his 60s and he came up with the term O.F.G. for Old Fart Gamer.
I met two dudes in their 70s who were both really into anime. I thought it was kind of weird at first but then realized Astro Boy and Gigantor were reasonably popular in the '60s, and adult-demographic series like Berserk and Gundam aired in the '80s so it kinda makes sense that someone who grew up way back in the day would still be into it.
Holy crap. I made it to the mother ship once and that was as far as I ever got because the thought just never occurred to me that the continue feature was a lie. Just start over? Brilliant play! So fulfilling to finally see this one beat. You just got a new sub, my dude!
Merry Christmas to anyone watching this video today.
Merry Christmas to you, and yours, also! ❤🎅
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Merry christmas!
Ah its 11:24pm at the time of writing this comment, merry Christmas everyone, i made it just in time
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Thank you for your service, with this and TMNT
I absolutely love your NES series
Those hands in Zelda were called Wallmasters
This is the channel Ive been waiting for. Thank you :)
My god this game.. im 40 this year and Festers Quest was something that perplexed my entire family. Lol! Amazing to see it in the wild like this! Thank you!
I remembered vaguely playing this as a kid, I did own a NES but not this game as far as I recall, so I must've played it at a friend's house or something. That vague memory floated at the corners of my mind for years after I had long forgotten it and assumed I had dreamed it up until I saw the AVGN video on it in college. Never got super far in it to my recollection, maybe the first boss at the farthest. Unlike that insane TMNT game, which I did own, so I had years to bash my head into that absurd final level until I could beat it.
Poo saying Blaster Master wrong on a prerecorded intro is impressive
i fucked that up
@@GrandPOOBear
Yeaaaah...ya did, didn't ya. 🤪
1:06: "Honestly, you could go to any friend's house and they would probably have a copy of Fester's Quest laying around."
You must have had different friends than I did. I also grew up in this same time period. I had an NES. A bunch of my friends had one too, and we'd visit each other's places and play games a lot. This video is the first time I have ever even heard the name "Fester's Quest."
Look up the production history of this game, its insane. The game is Blaster Master right down to the gun upgrades.
That's exactly why people loved it. If you liked Blaster Master then Fester's Quest was just Blaster Master 2 as far as we were concerned.
Fester's Quest is a unique oddity. The Addams Family came out in 1964 and this game in 1989, 25 years later. Before the 1991 movie I don't believe the show was super popular. Kids didn't know who Uncle Fester was, but their parents probably did. Maybe Sunsoft had a game brewing and slapped the IP on it to boost sales.
Not really. In the 80s The Addams Family was syndicated on some TV channel all the time usually later in the evening. Everyone knew The Addams Family and Munsters whether they watched them or not. They were ubiquitous in 80s TV culture with all the other 50s-70s syndicated programs.
It's older than that. The printed cartoon goes back to the 30's. Fittingly morbidly, this game came out one year after the creator died.
Fester quest was hard but I struggled with battletoads more. You had to memorize every enemy position
Yeah. I beat Battletoads (5 lives, no warps) many, many years after I got it as a present. The Nintendo Power maps helped.
Took me 6 months to beat battle toads playing it daily.
At least battletoads was fun, this was just annoying.
You can also find an extra health box (like a heart container) at the end of a hallway ion the 1st building.
Hot Dogs refill life.
I'm not sure you know how much I was aggravated as a kid that I could not make progress in this game past the second boss. Seeing a professional gamer struggle and talk about all of the things I thought were wrong helped. I had been thinking about going back and playing this myself, but having watched you, I don't feel I need to do that anymore. I can let go. I am at peace.
I had just recently beaten this game, it's not bad and it's definitely alot easier when you understand the mechanics and when to use items for example it's best to use weapons and health items during boss battles as it always refills your health and inventory. Another thing is this game has a very interesting history as the VP of Sunsoft US actually based this game off of a dream he had:
"According to Robbins in an interview he gave back in 2014, he was inspired to make the game based on a dream he had one night where he was playing a video game called "Uncle Fester's Playhouse". He gave no details as to what exactly the game was like in his dream, but it apparently was enough to spark the inspiration within him to make a video game about the Addams, and specifically about Fester. After deciding to make the game, he got in touch with the widow of Charles Addams (the original creator of the characters), and tried to convince her to sell the rights to him. It took many long distance calls, as she was living in Paris at the time, but after much coaxing, she gave her blessing to do the game."
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Such a nightmarishly hard game, and there's one spot in the final boss fight that none of his attacks ever hit... Grinding through all that just to reach the one easy thing in the game is kind of hilarious.
I'm sure it was 100% intentional. Also the only thing in the game weak to missiles. Something held back to print in Nintendo Power magazine or hidden in the manual or somethingj.
Fun fact, the reason so many of these games are so cryptic and unforgiving with enemy placement is to artificially extent the playtime because the games are already so limited
The other aspect to this design philosophy was that home consoles were a relatively novel concept at the time and many of the teams working on NES and Master System games only had experience designing arcade games, which were intentionally difficult to extract as much coins from kids as possible. In many cases, it was as much a matter of the devs didn't know how to design games any other way as it was hardware limitations - it just so happens that the same design philosophy worked in their favor for the most part.
Video games were rentable at that time. Difficulty in the US was inflated to encourage purchase. Japanese versions were usually easier to complete. @@Dargonhuman
Or in the case of The Lion King, so people wouldn’t be able to beat it before it had to be returned to the rental store.
I absolutely love this game. In my top 5 NES games. Played for hours as a kid.
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Fester was easily one of the most recognizable and marketable. He was kind of the focus for both movies back then
Whip spam and invisible potion is how I always beat the shield bosses.
The Addams family wasn't even popular until this game came out.
After this game, the movie came out and everything.
I never understood how people didn't understand this game. Totally beat it. You just have to know what power-ups you do and don't want. That plays exactly like all of the floor levels of Master blaster.
at the final alien... SURPRISE, Here's Johnny! and then you spawn into the aliens strike of all of the weapons combined
Holy crap...I forgot this existed. But I definitely played the first minute of this game over and over when I was a kid!
7:08 I see I made a wise decision subscribing at the beginning of this episode (Zelda II is in fact GOATed).
This is one of the only places where I can laugh. That final boss spawn was hilarious
I remember the hardest SNES game I got as a kid. Lester the Unlikely. The character has the worst attacks and the game was so confusing. I recommend it for anyone looking for a challenge.
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I’m in. That’s the next game I want to beat.
Lester actually gets better and stronger through the course of the game. In contrast to a lot of games where you start strong and end up a God-killer, in Lester you start as a chump and end strong.
Yeah, I heard that was the game's gimmick of sorts - he goes from zero to hero.
I rented this game once and never looked back. Thank you for wasting the time instead of me.
It's actually kinda wild, but this came out in a valley between two phases of Addams Family popularity... after the live-action show and cartoons, before the first live-action movie.
My guess is that Sunsoft got the license on the cheap
Addams Family Values on SNES was also a pretty tough game from what I remember. I could never beat it no matter how many times my family rented it from the video store.
You, sir have patience and spirit and a new subscriber.
i'm impressed you beat this game, especially when you thought you could only visit each addams family room once and furthermore with missing the family mansion for the 4th health pip
He definitely looked up how to beat that last boss.
I was thinking the same thing. The first 30 attempts that next day should have been him getting there and instantly getting wrecked, while looking for that sweet spot/hoping one exists.
.....which is okay, no?
@ Absolutely. But, with a series of videos called "The Game NO ONE Can Beat", you'd think he would at least disclose how HE was able to beat it.
@@4Legacy I think I figured out how he beat it.
There weren't as many abandoned office buildings back then
Everyone calls it Master Blaster, but it's called Blaster Master.
Master Blaster is from Mad Max
It sure is
Merry Christmas poo! And to be honest I beat this game and master blaster as a kid! Both were fun to me
I never even made it to that first boss fight. I owned this game. And I still have no idea why it came out when it did.
Should have used the potions and TNT and it would have been over in 30 seconds.
Poo, Deadly Towers, it haunts me from my childhood. Please help
Stay out of the dungeons. Dungeons are 16x16 sparse room (not every space is a room) wraparound mazes with one exit. Apart from the shops as a point of interest, there isn't anything essential in them. Even the shop stocks change (at 2 and 5 bells) on the number bells that you have. Unless you're reading the strategywiki and tracking your position in the maze, they aren't worth it as the best gear is in the parallel worlds for free. The only missable is hyper boots from a shop type #6 at 0 and 1 bells burned. Never buy the cup from a shop, it steals all of your money. As the blue scroll randomly teleports you in a dungeon, you could wind up at best lost and at worst stuck.
I don't think Uncle Fester was THAT popular, I think it's more that "Fester's Quest" sounds better, and they already had a couple games with Gomez and Pugsley.
I think those games didn't come out until the 90's. Fester's Quest was the first.
low key loved this,using an NES advantage controller is the key for me
Ah yes "Master Blaster"; a classic game for the System Entertainment Nintendo.
Master Blaster was a character from a cartoon. Blaster Master was one of the best games in history.
You are never too old for video gaming. We oldies invented video games.
Never heard of your channel. But this is my third video of yours today, good stuff!
As a kid, I remember this game being on those "try it out" consoles at local game store. Never have I been happier for trying a game before bying it, because I was really hyped for the game. Then tried it. I had to go back next day and confirm I just wasn't bad at it. On third day the game was changed, and clerk mentioned people hated the game. So they swapped something fun in there instead.
Fester's Quest was so punishingly difficult, 7-year-olds that played it grew hair on their chest from all the "manning up" they had to do.
It was really a game that rewarded patience.
Festers quest. My god. Christ I loved that game as a kid. So, so many good goofy 80’s memories trying to beat it. Those years were a blessing.
I once bought this game for a childhood friend's birthday...and I remember him telling me that this game sucked because it was way too hard.
Oh man. What memories.
That overworld music:
🎶I... just can't handle... another hot dog🎵
7:38 Christopher Lloyd played Fester in the 1991 movie, but this game was released in 1988
IF you're slow, you need to use vice grips (Yes, it's SELECT to activate items).
Think about it as squeezing the mosquito bites.
Grind all your blue guns at the beginning until you get 3 straigh shooting spikes. That's the best gun.
Never get a red gun or whip, or your game is pretty much over.
You can also grind the repeating slimes.
Nintendo Power had maps for the whole game. You need them.
you gotta use an NES Advantage or any controller with a turbo button, and you just farm the beginning area until you max out the gun. it makes the game so much easier. also there's another secret health block which makes it a lot more forgiving when you fight the bosses
When I was a kid I was so scared of how tough the enemies were, I got through the first sewer section and never went much further.
Ah, my youth. Brings back so many memories of failing at this game with my sister
I beat this when I was 13 in 1989 on a black and white tv. It's still one of my all-time favorite games to revisit.
I remember playing Secret of Mana on snes on a 13 inch, lime green, B&W TV because someone told my folks "Nintendos" mess up, ruin your television 😅
I've beaten this game numerous times back in day, and a turbo controller was a must. The only thing i didn't like was that when you died you went all the way back to the start and had to go thru all the areas again to get back where you were. great music and a great game never less.
So apparently in the original series Fester _does_ have a blunderbuss named Genevieve. That's why (?) he has a gun
I wonder if Genevieve and Cleopatra ever made out?
2:34 That grey staircase DOES like they took it straight from Legend of Zelda
I had this as a kid. I came darned close to completing Festers Quest several times, only to be stopped by the final boss.
It is possible to get max level gun power before leaving the first street you spawn in on, BTW.
Festers Quest is an amazing game! It’s very easy to beat. It’s slow at first but if you build up your weapons you are unstoppable, until you get hit. Then it’s becomes less possible then. 😅
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I beat it in three days in the summer of '89. 80s kids gamers were built of sterner stuff. We had no money and had to rent games and beat them in three days or less.
I love how most of the weapon upgrades make your projectiles follow a wave that can't go down narrow pathways.. And then they included alleys and sewers
I can't believe I beat this game as a kid who didn't know a word of English at the time before the Internet even existed.
I can’t either
If you keep calling yourself old, we won’t be able to be friends anymore.
I was just saying the moment I saw them, Those stairs are from Zelda.
There's only so many ways to do stairs in a sprite that uses as little memory space as possible.
I was someone who beat this game as a kid. 2 min. into your video and I can already tell you two things you need to immediately do: 1. Get a turbo fire controller, game changer. 2. Go back and forth on the first street shooting those little brain things (they respawn) until you upgrade your gun to the max; all other versions of the gun are poop.
This is the only strategy that makes the game doable. Once you get the whip, do the same thing, find a spot to go back and forth until you have it upgraded to max then only use it on the bosses. It's still a slog to beat but it's doable with max weapons.
P.s. "Why does Morticia give me a whip?", "Ask your mom.", "I swear to God I will fight you..." - I laughed so hard at this!
So many hours on this game as a kid, this was absolutely amazing!
Pretty sure this is the game that taught me the ultimate gamepad rapid-fire technique of sliding your fingernail back and forth across the fire button.
Oh so NOW you tell me it's unbeatable
This is a lot of fun. I've seen a few others finish this game, but I only ever made it the the 4th boss.
it hands you your butt in your hands to you. Back in the day, in 89, we had the Nintendo Power magazine and it did an extensive players guide for Festers Quest, I remember following it to the letter. Lately I played it again but on my Anbernic handheld which was a nice thing after 30 odd years of not playing it, revisiting and sure enough, it feels even more difficult then when I was 12 back then.
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The fact that 1 good game got made on the NES is a miracle in itself! So its literally AMAZING there's, in total, 3 good games on the NES.
I remember renting this when it came out... 3 days of hell when I was 10. I'm glad you were able to go through it, so I can finally see the completion after all these years. Zelda II was way easier.
Came to see somebody beat FQ. Gonna check out your others for sure! If you do more and want some kinda under-the-radar games that are great and DAMN hard, I strongly recommend:
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