I swear this dude is like that 1 guy in the friends group who is the heart and soul of the entourage, u know him, that guy that no road trip, gathering, sleep over or any group activity is complete if he doesn't show up. Honestly this is now the best Nes channel for me, it beats the ''u know who'' channel that now reviews bottom of the barrel stuff. Great job James, hope u get 1,000,000 subs one day since ur tha man.
It's weird that you would be comparing an apple with a dishwasher, but you're allowed to do that. But generally, in movie reviews, the reviewer doesn't compare Spy Kids with Flesh Eater 7: The Bloodening Continues It's not the same target audience, and the only thing they have in common is they are movies where a group of protags foils the evil antagonist. Unless I missed the part in Spy Kids where the stoned teenagers having sex in the back of a Volvo get their faces chewed off, it's hard to compare the two. Was there a Spy Kids directors cut ? The "other channel" isn't a NES channel anyways.
When you consider that the NES was built to the specs of "Make it play Donkey Kong pretty well" it's pretty wild how far developers were able to push it. And yes the MMC3 is to thank most of the time, but you still need to be really good to make bosses on par with what KID was doing.
I always love the way you describe things in a call-it-like-you-see sort of way. I don’t care what the official names of these bosses are. Your descriptions are now canon.
Protip: don't get into sales, engineering (especially mechanical or electrical, especially especially computer), or project management if you are going to TAP INTO AN ANCESTRAL, NAY APOCALYPTIC RAGE THAT WILL REND THE HEAVENS everytime a project you've sweat blood for on gets a 'lol nm'.
Just ask the guys who made 'Coyote vs. Acme' But yeah, this happens way more often than you'd think, in pretty much any industry. But it especially sucks when something truly awesome is canned, while a bunch of crap gets released. Oh, well...
Little Samson is also a treasure trove of amazing bosses on the NES. From the giant cyclops from stage 1 to the dragon from the volcano stage. Absolutely mind-blowing they got them to look as good as they did on the NES. Next to no slowdown or sprite flicker either. Compare the dragon fight to the Mecha Dragon from Mega Man 2 for example.
OK I thought I knew the nes library. But you proved to me that I am just a simple casual. Because I have only played one of those. And they all look amazing.
Great video. Just stumbled on your channel. You got some really deep cuts here which is refreshing. You actually managed to showcase a game i dont remember ever hearing about with eon man. I was an avid nintendo power reader and it still evaded my memory. When you showed the issue i straight up remembered the pages even. Great stuff!
I just recently came across your channel while looking for some new stuff to watch to get away from the depressing news of the world, and your videos have been exactly what i needed. Love your stuff!
Right?!? Same here. We found them for pretty much the exact same reasons. Guessing you were a late 80’s/early 90’s kid like me as well. Something about watching our peers make such thoughtful work cataloguing and digging into the lore about so many games I missed has me *this* close to buying one of those nt mini things I’m always hearing about.
@collinmichaelkahn3918 fortunately for me, I actually have two NES that are still in working order - me and my wife both still have our systems from when we were kids! 😄
Time Diver probably did the giant hand the same way that SNES Turtles did the Foot soldier screen splat. It wasn't a Mode7 trick; it was just a bunch of sprites grouped together.
Dang. I have never played totally rad more than 30 seconds because I was so put off by the dialogue and the play control of the main character that I assumed nobody put any thought or effort into it. You have inspired me to check it out when I get home tonight.
Once you get the "magic maintenance " down it's a pretty cool game. No item drops, so what you start with is what you got. You can change into 3 other "suits" and they can be pretty helpfull. Go for it!
Great video! I really like the boss at the end of Monster in My Pocket. Just when you think the game is over, you have to fight a glitched out TV screen.
Uh-mazing perler, fantastic video, best video ideas for nes ever from you, Bames. I made a longer comment but my phones been wonky, so doesn't look like it made the jump to light speed. Zen in space at the end is extremely memorable.
Randomly just stumbled across your video for the first time...big fan. Cant believe my algorithm failed to get this to me WAY sooner. Reminds me of AVGN...back when he had passion for it. Keep it up dude.
Minor correction for clarity, the Shredder boss from TMNT: Turtles in Time was NOT an actual Mode 7 effect -- just custom sprite assets for throwing Foot Soldiers "into the screen" (which you could do during any stage).
@@BigOleWordsEspecially the vertically scrolling section where the music fades out, replaced by a heartbeat as you pass this giant lamprey-looking thing, before the boss theme finally comes in and you see an eye on its tail. Unsettling!
An interesting thing here is that three of these games are related in some way - Kick Master, Isolated Warrior, and Zombie Nation. The first two were made by a company called "Kindle Imagine Develop", or KID, while the last was made by KAZe. Here's where it gets interesting - Norio Nakagata composed for Isolated Warrior and Zombie Nation, and Zombie Nation uses a sound driver that KID later used for Recca, Doki Doki Yuuenchi, and Kick Master.
I think 16-bit is where big scary bosses truly shined, you already covered most of the weird ones from NES. But if you want to keep your follow-up strictly 8-bit, Alien Syndrome is a must. It has some pretty grotesque and disturbing bosses even by today's standards.
While not exactly an NES game, your final opponent in “Sin and Punishment” (N64) is an entire copy of planet Earth. You’re literally shooting at a giant enemy planet, trying to deflect back all its attacks, as it shoots directly at the original Earth itself!
This is the content i ❤ Also, "codpiece" is the best word to come out of the middle ages. I wish codpieces would come back. We never pull nostalgia from the deeper wells. Also, Turtles in Time does not use Mode 7 for the foot clan throwing. Mode 7 is only scaling and rotation of a background or foreground layer, and does not apply to sprites. Konami simply drew larger sprites to make it appear as if the foot soldiers are coming towards the screen. That is why it appears much more choppy than actual hardware sprite scaling.
I'll add to this that all these bosses were possible because they all use the background graphics, that's why all of them are in a black background. It was the trick they had to use to make big bosses.
Love seeing stuff like this from more obscure games that never crossed my radar. The Skull boss from Life Force is the one that I always remember as being weird and freaky. Then there's Stinger...giant watermelon boss FTW. :)
My mind immediately went to Blaster Master. Those were the first crazy boss fights most NES-playing kids got to see...if they were good enough to get there.
I havent even heard of all these games (that time diver game), and the rest I've never seen with my own eyes, except tmnt tournament fighters. Clearly, I've mostly played commons. Great video! All these games are on my list to play tho.
Yeah, they had a lot of those on the NES. I am kind of surprised that the end boss of Ninja Gaiden didn't make this list. Got ninjas, then statues, and then a weird shrimp thing? Pretty strange. Anywho, anyone else feel like the tune playing at the end of this video (13:19) sounds like a chiptunes version of a song inspired by the song they played at the Blue Oyster Bar from Police Academy?
There were clearly a ton of good NES games that didn't get the love they deserved. For every Mario 3, Castevania and Metroid, there are 30 games you didn't hear about it. As someone who has been gaming for 30 years, I am still finding hidden gems on the NES.
Everything in Abadox was pretty freaky looking. Body horror in a living planet, good stuff! Even stranger was how Milton Bradley published the US version and its still nothing but gore.
"Wolfrider" is obviously Scylla! She's not just riding or commanding them, in the original myth the pack of wolves are her actual lower body! Like a mermaid, but instead of a fish tail it's like 20 wolves.
So glad Astyanax was on here besides the titular Mario games and Contra its the one game I've played over and over. Contra has some great bosses that are cool.
9:11 The hands of the boss are sprites whereas the rest of the boss is the background. A sprite is a 8x8 (or 8x16 depending on the mode) three color object that can move totally independently of he background. In terms of the NES, since the screen resolution is 256x240, almost always multiple sprites are combined together to create a larger character than 8 pixels tall by 8 pixels wide. Even small Mario in Super Mario Bros. consists of four sprites! Although the NES hardware was built to handle sprites easily, it nevertheless has certain limitations with sprites. One eight sprites can be drawn her horizontal scanline Any after are simply not drawn. Programmers could account for this by turning off other sprites on alternating frames creating a "flickering" effect to make it look as if there are more than 8 sprites per scanline when there are not. The other limitation is that the NES can only draw 64 sprites in total to the screen at a time. Given these limitations, this boss fight in Time Diver Eon Man consists of large vertical sprites as to not be concerned with the 8 sprites per scanline cap and then uses almost all sprite slots for the hands. It's clever.
Good video. I grew up with NES, but only from 5-8, and when SNES came out, I played it a bit less. I'd say I wished I had grown up with it more, but I'm fine being born in the mid 80's. I'm content with when I grew up for sure.
FANTASTIC VID!!! Game recognized game!! Wow! You are lucky to have your player 2. This was a fun and entertaining vid, i got to get my hands on some of these titles. I hope us oldskoolers get a chance to bring back true 8bit development, i see there is a few that are still creating and using the original consol for play. I would love to make a game, as i always wanted as a kid...my fav game is still The Guardian Legend, with #2 being Blaster Master.
Many of those games I have never even seen, and oh boy I DID look everywhere Guess I was wrong about knowing about the whole NES library. Well, subscribed! I would definitely suggest Astyanax' bosses, specially the first miniboss, but you did it! If I may, I'd suggest looking at so many cool bosses from Little Samsom, Jakie Chan's last boss who turns into the (very realistic) spider, Kid Dracula's cloud-surfer-deities, and the NES splatterhouse game's Vampire MJ. Cheers y'all!
That Time Dicer Eon Man looks like a must play. Although I am also the asshole here to say those Turtles In Time enemy throwing effects are just 3 frames of animation and did not use scaling or rotation (which was the mode 7 graphics mode). It’s usually a pretty flat looking image or background that can move around. Awesome effects in Eon Fighter either way. They went way out the way for those hand animations on top of the background with less flicker than I assume. Crazy.
I'd have to run each of these games through a debugger to be 100% sure but usually with 8-Bit games the bosses will be static background art that stays in place surrounded by a solid color, usually black, then they will scroll the level around but keep the player sprite anchored in relation to it's location on the display of the screen sort of like a HUD display to give the illusion that the boss has movement. Although, I think in the case of Eon Man's last boss, the body of the boss is static background art while the moving hands and sword are sprites. A feature the NES has that's rarely used is to double the size of sprites from 8x8/8x16 to 16x16/16x32. Normally you can only have 64 sprites at a time but if the sprites are double-mode then they can cover more space on screen than the normal sizes without breaking the PPU's 8 sprite-per-scanline limitation leading to flicker. The only two games that come to mind besides Eon to use doubled sprites are the boss explosions in GI Joe Atlantis Factor and Level 4/Giant World in SMB3. 😀
Totally Rad is a totally rad game, and I remember being wowed by the size of the bosses back in the day. I played Time Diver: Eon Man a few years ago on an emulator (am I allowed to say that? Haha) and I very much enjoyed it, it's a shame it never got released.
I swear this dude is like that 1 guy in the friends group who is the heart and soul of the entourage, u know him, that guy that no road trip, gathering, sleep over or any group activity is complete if he doesn't show up. Honestly this is now the best Nes channel for me, it beats the ''u know who'' channel that now reviews bottom of the barrel stuff. Great job James, hope u get 1,000,000 subs one day since ur tha man.
I don’t know who “u know who” is, but I am really happy I found this one
@@RappingNinjaNinja Rap by Vanilla Ice:
Go ninja go ninja go !
Did u know Vanilla Ice's real name is Robert Van Winkle ?
It's true.
It's weird that you would be comparing an apple with a dishwasher, but you're allowed to do that.
But generally, in movie reviews, the reviewer doesn't compare Spy Kids with Flesh Eater 7: The Bloodening Continues
It's not the same target audience, and the only thing they have in common is they are movies where a group of protags foils the evil antagonist.
Unless I missed the part in Spy Kids where the stoned teenagers having sex in the back of a Volvo get their faces chewed off, it's hard to compare the two.
Was there a Spy Kids directors cut ?
The "other channel" isn't a NES channel anyways.
Who're you talking about, SNES Drunk? Koei games aren't bottom of the barrel tier. There's worse he's done videos on.
@@Boogie_the_cat jim carry made me know that in his spoof track, and remember, nothjing rhymes with winkle.
Legendary Wings. The boss with multiple eyes that shoots brains at you. That one always freaked me out a bit.
Totally Rad was one of my favorite games growing up! I don’t think this game gets enough love, so I’m always grateful to see it talked about!
That first boss had me thinking of Scylla in Greek Mythology.
It probably is that
*Aww your wife looks so sweet! She’s a lucky Girl* 💙
Yeah she is! ;)
3:57
I'm VERY happy someone else loved Astayanax the same way I used did.
When you consider that the NES was built to the specs of "Make it play Donkey Kong pretty well" it's pretty wild how far developers were able to push it. And yes the MMC3 is to thank most of the time, but you still need to be really good to make bosses on par with what KID was doing.
I know right? I swear the NES has by far the most eclectic mix of games released for any system.
KID rules!!!
I always love the way you describe things in a call-it-like-you-see sort of way. I don’t care what the official names of these bosses are. Your descriptions are now canon.
If I worked on something for months and then my job told me "nevermind, we're scrapping the whole thing" I would be f*cking pissed.
Go-ing pos-tal!
Go-ing pos-tal!
Go-ing pos-tal!
Protip: don't get into sales, engineering (especially mechanical or electrical, especially especially computer), or project management if you are going to TAP INTO AN ANCESTRAL, NAY APOCALYPTIC RAGE THAT WILL REND THE HEAVENS everytime a project you've sweat blood for on gets a 'lol nm'.
Just ask the guys who made 'Coyote vs. Acme'
But yeah, this happens way more often than you'd think, in pretty much any industry. But it especially sucks when something truly awesome is canned, while a bunch of crap gets released. Oh, well...
@@maltheopia uh ya I'm a career waiter because I went to college for Technical Writing lol.
For real! Especially a almost complete and amazing game like Time Diver
1:50 How on earth did I didn't know about this Awesome Game !
So many of these games I've never even heard of. The NES had a huge library.
I checked this shit out
Hey, Me too man!
I shit this check out,think I did it wrong
Little Samson is also a treasure trove of amazing bosses on the NES. From the giant cyclops from stage 1 to the dragon from the volcano stage. Absolutely mind-blowing they got them to look as good as they did on the NES. Next to no slowdown or sprite flicker either. Compare the dragon fight to the Mecha Dragon from Mega Man 2 for example.
That was definitely on the extended list! My favorite isn’t a boss but that giant crab guy.
OK I thought I knew the nes library.
But you proved to me that I am just a simple casual. Because I have only played one of those. And they all look amazing.
'"Bone Throne" wins gold for best double entendre ever.
Plasticman is BEST superhero 100%
@mattsweeney3790 Thanks! I have had many adventures :)
Like the time you were in millions of pieces on the bottom of the ocean and it took thousands of years to be put back together.....Plas is deep
@mattsweeney3790 That was tough. When I'm in the water, I prefer to be a surfboard.
@@eelobrian6727 like in the plasticman adventure comedy show!?!?! Horrible half ape and The Clam!!!!!
Great video! And hopefully Atlanta United can continue their upset streak. I would like to see my Loons versus the Five Stripes in MLS Cup.
Oh snap thanks! And yeah that’d be very unlikely but amazing!
"Medusa of Liberty! New band name, I called it!" - Andy Dwyer (probably)
How about every boss in Monster Party?
I think I decided that would pair better for a more wtf boss video
This entire list could have been Monster Party, lol
The game that let me fight a literal onion ring.
Kickmaster probably has my favorite NES graphics if any game. Especially through a CRT
I think we all have that one game we recommend too much and bring up too often and for me that is definitely ol’ Kick Master!
Yoo! Two of the greats on this -channel- err, platform.
Great video. Just stumbled on your channel. You got some really deep cuts here which is refreshing. You actually managed to showcase a game i dont remember ever hearing about with eon man. I was an avid nintendo power reader and it still evaded my memory. When you showed the issue i straight up remembered the pages even. Great stuff!
That horse was workin’ it.
Totally rad video dude!
I just recently came across your channel while looking for some new stuff to watch to get away from the depressing news of the world, and your videos have been exactly what i needed. Love your stuff!
Right?!? Same here. We found them for pretty much the exact same reasons.
Guessing you were a late 80’s/early 90’s kid like me as well.
Something about watching our peers make such thoughtful work cataloguing and digging into the lore about so many games I missed has me *this* close to buying one of those nt mini things I’m always hearing about.
@collinmichaelkahn3918 fortunately for me, I actually have two NES that are still in working order - me and my wife both still have our systems from when we were kids! 😄
Time Diver probably did the giant hand the same way that SNES Turtles did the Foot soldier screen splat. It wasn't a Mode7 trick; it was just a bunch of sprites grouped together.
Dang. I have never played totally rad more than 30 seconds because I was so put off by the dialogue and the play control of the main character that I assumed nobody put any thought or effort into it. You have inspired me to check it out when I get home tonight.
Once you get the "magic maintenance " down it's a pretty cool game. No item drops, so what you start with is what you got. You can change into 3 other "suits" and they can be pretty helpfull. Go for it!
It’s actually really good
4:34 "Krang meets Kwato" must be the best description here. 🤣👍😉
"SAKI! Open your MIND!"
Don…start the reactor!
Klaatu barada nikto
This surprise day off honestly keeps getting better by the second. Hell Yea!!
Great video! I really like the boss at the end of Monster in My Pocket. Just when you think the game is over, you have to fight a glitched out TV screen.
I thought Wrath of the Black Manta bosses would make the list too, they are just too weird with their lack of animation.
Another game I haven’t spent much time on. I’ll check it out!
his name is tiny but he's REAL big
That collection is impressive. Blessings to you and your wife.
blaster master and fester's quest had some crazy bosses. both sunsoft games
@@doordashdriver if you look closely, they are the same game.
Crabullus!
Uh-mazing perler, fantastic video, best video ideas for nes ever from you, Bames. I made a longer comment but my phones been wonky, so doesn't look like it made the jump to light speed. Zen in space at the end is extremely memorable.
This was a great video idea and as usual, your descriptions are money!
Well Bionic Commando had Hitler, which was nuts. Mother Brain was pretty scary when I was young, but that might be too mainstream. 🙂
Randomly just stumbled across your video for the first time...big fan. Cant believe my algorithm failed to get this to me WAY sooner. Reminds me of AVGN...back when he had passion for it. Keep it up dude.
Thanks man, glad you like it!
Minor correction for clarity, the Shredder boss from TMNT: Turtles in Time was NOT an actual Mode 7 effect -- just custom sprite assets for throwing Foot Soldiers "into the screen" (which you could do during any stage).
Excellent video man! Loved it. I gotta play a few of these!
Heh, as soon as I saw the thumbnail, I knew that Astyanax would make the cut.
The best!
Conquest of the crystal palace is awesome, one of my favourites, I loved how you could control the dog
Aye Yo! I just got out of prison and imma binge watch your channel today! Glad to see you kept up with the vids while I was doing time. Thanks bro!
Welcome home . U didn't miss much. Just government crap
Oh snap for real?! Sorry to hear that but congrats on freedom bud!
You don’t even know what he did. What if you’re big up’n a chomo or wife killer? Rapist? Ask for that paperwork before welcoming the big homie home.
@lvclix what if I was joking?
What? No Abbadox?!?
Yeah that game is nuts
@@BigOleWordsEspecially the vertically scrolling section where the music fades out, replaced by a heartbeat as you pass this giant lamprey-looking thing, before the boss theme finally comes in and you see an eye on its tail. Unsettling!
Totally Rad was one of my favorite NES games to rent. Beat is several times back in the day. Cool bosses. The real end boss is inside the knight.
An interesting thing here is that three of these games are related in some way - Kick Master, Isolated Warrior, and Zombie Nation. The first two were made by a company called "Kindle Imagine Develop", or KID, while the last was made by KAZe. Here's where it gets interesting - Norio Nakagata composed for Isolated Warrior and Zombie Nation, and Zombie Nation uses a sound driver that KID later used for Recca, Doki Doki Yuuenchi, and Kick Master.
Crisis Force has awesome bosses multi segmented bosses. Not sure if you’ve covered that already, but it’s one of my fave games for the console.
Yknow that’s a game I’ve been meaning to get to…
I think 16-bit is where big scary bosses truly shined, you already covered most of the weird ones from NES. But if you want to keep your follow-up strictly 8-bit, Alien Syndrome is a must. It has some pretty grotesque and disturbing bosses even by today's standards.
Y’know that’s a game I completely neglected! I’ll have to try it again
WOW, these bosses really were crazy, I didn't know most of them
The zen boss looks like something out of Gwar
the human race will die, and we'll just shrug
While not exactly an NES game, your final opponent in “Sin and Punishment” (N64) is an entire copy of planet Earth. You’re literally shooting at a giant enemy planet, trying to deflect back all its attacks, as it shoots directly at the original Earth itself!
This is the content i ❤
Also, "codpiece" is the best word to come out of the middle ages.
I wish codpieces would come back.
We never pull nostalgia from the deeper wells.
Also, Turtles in Time does not use Mode 7 for the foot clan throwing. Mode 7 is only scaling and rotation of a background or foreground layer, and does not apply to sprites. Konami simply drew larger sprites to make it appear as if the foot soldiers are coming towards the screen. That is why it appears much more choppy than actual hardware sprite scaling.
Great list! Maybe TGL, abadox, blaster master, and life force for next cycle?
Excellent choices
Abadox was crazy.
@@joeszymanski3540 natsume!
@gridly.todd.h Yes! Still remember that creepy intro.
You take me back to the time when NES was pretty much the only household name…
Hey. Loved the video, Journey to Silous has some pretty nice boss battles👍
Yeah it does!
Great video, amazing channel!
My favorites are the ones from KICK MASTER
Some of those arcade and nes bosses used to look terrifying, later games only mortal kombat, resident evil, and silent hill scared me
I remember Tiny in Wrath of the Black Manta. He took up the entire screen.
Little Samson and Journey to Silius have crazy bosses as well
Bruh that macaroni art is sick.
I'll add to this that all these bosses were possible because they all use the background graphics, that's why all of them are in a black background. It was the trick they had to use to make big bosses.
Love seeing stuff like this from more obscure games that never crossed my radar. The Skull boss from Life Force is the one that I always remember as being weird and freaky. Then there's Stinger...giant watermelon boss FTW. :)
"NES game called 'Kick Master' being good" is so unlikely, but there it is
My mind immediately went to Blaster Master. Those were the first crazy boss fights most NES-playing kids got to see...if they were good enough to get there.
So happy to see Bucky O'Hare on here, my favorite game as a kid.
that jeff goldblum comment got a subscribe from me
I like the poster in the background.
I havent even heard of all these games (that time diver game), and the rest I've never seen with my own eyes, except tmnt tournament fighters. Clearly, I've mostly played commons. Great video! All these games are on my list to play tho.
Yeah, they had a lot of those on the NES. I am kind of surprised that the end boss of Ninja Gaiden didn't make this list. Got ninjas, then statues, and then a weird shrimp thing? Pretty strange.
Anywho, anyone else feel like the tune playing at the end of this video (13:19) sounds like a chiptunes version of a song inspired by the song they played at the Blue Oyster Bar from Police Academy?
8:30 Did we have to talk about and zoom in on the horse butt? That was funny as hell
Yes, yes we did
There were clearly a ton of good NES games that didn't get the love they deserved. For every Mario 3, Castevania and Metroid, there are 30 games you didn't hear about it. As someone who has been gaming for 30 years, I am still finding hidden gems on the NES.
Wait, is the Statue of Liberty Medusa shooting pigeons out of her eyes?? 😂😂
Haha is that what those are?!?
@BigOleWords I think so! 😂
Man, if you haven't played "Little Samson", one of THE last games released on the NES, y'gotta. The boss fights are incredible.
That Kick Master Perler Bead pic is awesome. Also your wife is a looker too. Have a good day!
No bosses from Blaster Master!? Snubbed!!
Everything in Abadox was pretty freaky looking. Body horror in a living planet, good stuff! Even stranger was how Milton Bradley published the US version and its still nothing but gore.
I have never heard of a single one of these games on this list. I dont think this has ever happened before.
That’s what I’m here for! ;)
I remember Streetfighter 2010 had some crazy bosses and definitely Monster Party
Never seen or heard of kickmaster. I would have been enthralled.
That zombie head game IS totally wild! I've never seen that one.
Great narration, top notch jokes. Subbed.
Hey thanks for saying that!
"Wolfrider" is obviously Scylla! She's not just riding or commanding them, in the original myth the pack of wolves are her actual lower body! Like a mermaid, but instead of a fish tail it's like 20 wolves.
How do they breath underwater?!
So glad Astyanax was on here besides the titular Mario games and Contra its the one game I've played over and over. Contra has some great bosses that are cool.
Had never even heard of any of these games. Great stuff.
9:11 The hands of the boss are sprites whereas the rest of the boss is the background. A sprite is a 8x8 (or 8x16 depending on the mode) three color object that can move totally independently of he background. In terms of the NES, since the screen resolution is 256x240, almost always multiple sprites are combined together to create a larger character than 8 pixels tall by 8 pixels wide. Even small Mario in Super Mario Bros. consists of four sprites!
Although the NES hardware was built to handle sprites easily, it nevertheless has certain limitations with sprites. One eight sprites can be drawn her horizontal scanline Any after are simply not drawn. Programmers could account for this by turning off other sprites on alternating frames creating a "flickering" effect to make it look as if there are more than 8 sprites per scanline when there are not.
The other limitation is that the NES can only draw 64 sprites in total to the screen at a time. Given these limitations, this boss fight in Time Diver Eon Man consists of large vertical sprites as to not be concerned with the 8 sprites per scanline cap and then uses almost all sprite slots for the hands. It's clever.
Good video. I grew up with NES, but only from 5-8, and when SNES came out, I played it a bit less. I'd say I wished I had grown up with it more, but I'm fine being born in the mid 80's. I'm content with when I grew up for sure.
FANTASTIC VID!!! Game recognized game!! Wow! You are lucky to have your player 2. This was a fun and entertaining vid, i got to get my hands on some of these titles. I hope us oldskoolers get a chance to bring back true 8bit development, i see there is a few that are still creating and using the original consol for play. I would love to make a game, as i always wanted as a kid...my fav game is still The Guardian Legend, with #2 being Blaster Master.
Technically, Time Diver was released but on a bootleg cartridge. It was retitled as Time Diver: Avenger.
The muscle dude from Zombie Nation is supposed to be Paul Bunyan
Hahaha no!!!
Yes, but thanks to The Spoony Experiment, to me he will always be Naked Zombie Sean Connery.
Totally Rad was one of my favorites, haha. Still got my copy.
Many of those games I have never even seen, and oh boy I DID look everywhere Guess I was wrong about knowing about the whole NES library.
Well, subscribed!
I would definitely suggest Astyanax' bosses, specially the first miniboss, but you did it!
If I may, I'd suggest looking at so many cool bosses from Little Samsom, Jakie Chan's last boss who turns into the (very realistic) spider, Kid Dracula's cloud-surfer-deities, and the NES splatterhouse game's Vampire MJ.
Cheers y'all!
That Time Dicer Eon Man looks like a must play. Although I am also the asshole here to say those Turtles In Time enemy throwing effects are just 3 frames of animation and did not use scaling or rotation (which was the mode 7 graphics mode). It’s usually a pretty flat looking image or background that can move around. Awesome effects in Eon Fighter either way. They went way out the way for those hand animations on top of the background with less flicker than I assume. Crazy.
Yoooo! Zen Intergalactic Ninja ALERT!
The kickmaster wolfrider boss has a massive phallic aspect.
Is that a love for Shannon Hoon I hear in the title card?
Nope, but I’ve been obsessed with that song “Skinned”!
I love your show sir it makes me happy
Conquest of the Crystal Palace had some big weird bosses
Low G Man had some trippy boss fights. The whole game was trippy and i think its awesome and doesn't get talked about enough
Lmao i laughed so hard when you said the itd all just be megamans lmao i felt that moment of the video in my soul lmao
I'd have to run each of these games through a debugger to be 100% sure but usually with 8-Bit games the bosses will be static background art that stays in place surrounded by a solid color, usually black, then they will scroll the level around but keep the player sprite anchored in relation to it's location on the display of the screen sort of like a HUD display to give the illusion that the boss has movement.
Although, I think in the case of Eon Man's last boss, the body of the boss is static background art while the moving hands and sword are sprites. A feature the NES has that's rarely used is to double the size of sprites from 8x8/8x16 to 16x16/16x32. Normally you can only have 64 sprites at a time but if the sprites are double-mode then they can cover more space on screen than the normal sizes without breaking the PPU's 8 sprite-per-scanline limitation leading to flicker. The only two games that come to mind besides Eon to use doubled sprites are the boss explosions in GI Joe Atlantis Factor and Level 4/Giant World in SMB3. 😀
Very cool, thanks for sharing that!
Totally Rad is a totally rad game, and I remember being wowed by the size of the bosses back in the day. I played Time Diver: Eon Man a few years ago on an emulator (am I allowed to say that? Haha) and I very much enjoyed it, it's a shame it never got released.
"Its weird to gift your wife a naked lady..." I think you're seeing things, dude. The wolf rider lady is clearly not naked.
Xexyz would work great here