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.
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...
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
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. 😀
I’d say the “Targets” from Street Fighter 2010 belong on the list. From the stage one bat-winged scorpion man to whatever the hell Troy turns into in the final stage. On the other hand, we should leave them off the list so you don’t have to play the game to capture footage.
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.
Actually, the original arcade version of Astyanax, had a whole final level that was dedicated to an H.R. Giger inspired Alien nest, so it's not just a coincidence. You even fought a Xenomorph, as the final boss. :P This level was not in the NES version, for some reason.
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. :)
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.
While not actually on the NES, there's a very very NES inspired game on Steam called Super Cyborg. it's basically Contra with a cyborg vs aliens twist. every boss is some sort of grotesque alien monster that's the stuff of nightmares and looks right out of the NES.
first off loved the perler beads story! wish I was 1/10th that talented I could barely manage a pac-man the last time I tried to do it, haha. I'm glad you mentioned astyanax! definitely my #1 as far as crazy boss designs go, someone at jaleco/icom really had a knack for great boss designs. I'm sure they also worked on totally rad so including that one tracks as well.
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.
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.
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.
Congratulations, sir. With Time Diver Eon, you have shown me an NES game I'd never heard of before. Yeah, it was never released, but still an impressive feat. (pushes up my glasses) AKSHUALLY that wolf-rider is most likely a representation of Scylla, a nymph who spurned Poseidon and was transformed into an abomination. Her lower half is comprised of six large canine heads and (of course) tentacles. She shows up in the Odyssey, and in a number of other games, even Symphony of the Night. Here are a few other crazy boss designs: -the final boss from Monster Party...and I can already see you smiling and nodding to yourself. -Totally-Not-Hitler from Bionic Commando. First off, it's Hitler. Second, he swears. Third, when you destroy the boss, there's a cutscene where Hitler explodes in gory frame-by-frame perfection. -Dracula's second form, Castlevania 3. It's a bunch of faces fused onto a floating brain stalk. Delightful. -just absolutely everything in Abadox. -the giant floating Predator head at the end of Predator. Yep. It's a giant floating head of Predator. -the magician in Totally Rad. Not actually a boss, but look at him and tell me that's not the most terrifying thing ever! -George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle in Space Shuttle Project. (shudders) -all of your opponents in Eliminator Boat Duel. Don't even try to argue with me. -Chaos, Final Fantasy. A bit predictable, but still visually impressive. -and finally, the most horrifying boss of all time: MATH PROBLEMS IN DK JR MATH!!
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.
3:42 That's some david cronenberg shiz rite there.. and why haven't I ever heard of this game?? I've watched soo many hidden gem videos.. anyway, thanks! Now I'm off to play it. 😊
Kinda surprised you didn't mention that in the Japanese version of Astyanax, the Medusa's tits are hanging out. As for crazy bosses, most people already mentioned Monster Party, Abadox, The Guardian Legend, even titles like Street Fighter 2010 and Xexyz.
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.
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!
*Aww your wife looks so sweet! She’s a lucky Girl* 💙
Yeah she is! ;)
'"Bone Throne" wins gold for best double entendre ever.
Plasticman is BEST superhero 100%
I checked this shit out
Hey, Me too man!
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!!!
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
"Medusa of Liberty! New band name, I called it!" - Andy Dwyer (probably)
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.
That first boss had me thinking of Scylla in Greek Mythology.
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
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
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
Heh, as soon as I saw the thumbnail, I knew that Astyanax would make the cut.
The best!
Great list! Maybe TGL, abadox, blaster master, and life force for next cycle?
Excellent choices
Abadox was crazy.
@@joeszymanski3540 natsume!
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…
blaster master and fester's quest had some crazy bosses. both sunsoft games
@@doordashdriver if you look closely, they are the same game.
Crabullus!
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.
So many of these games I've never even heard of. The NES had a huge library.
Totally rad video dude!
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.
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.
The zen boss looks like something out of Gwar
the human race will die, and we'll just shrug
No bosses from Blaster Master!? Snubbed!!
What? No Abbadox?!?
Yeah that game is nuts
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.
This surprise day off honestly keeps getting better by the second. Hell Yea!!
This was a great video idea and as usual, your descriptions are money!
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!
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.
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.
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!
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 like the poster in the background.
Xexyz would work great here
I remember Tiny in Wrath of the Black Manta. He took up the entire screen.
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!
Bruh that macaroni art is sick.
Wait, is the Statue of Liberty Medusa shooting pigeons out of her eyes?? 😂😂
Haha is that what those are?!?
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!
I’d say the “Targets” from Street Fighter 2010 belong on the list. From the stage one bat-winged scorpion man to whatever the hell Troy turns into in the final stage.
On the other hand, we should leave them off the list so you don’t have to play the game to capture footage.
So great call, this is a game I didn’t think about at all. Thanks!
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.
Excellent video man! Loved it. I gotta play a few of these!
That old man in Zombie Nation will always be naked zombie sean connery to me.😆
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
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”!
Hey. Loved the video, Journey to Silous has some pretty nice boss battles👍
Yeah it does!
3:09 final boss from Majoras Mask
Actually, the original arcade version of Astyanax, had a whole final level that was dedicated to an H.R. Giger inspired Alien nest, so it's not just a coincidence. You even fought a Xenomorph, as the final boss. :P
This level was not in the NES version, for some reason.
Awesome, did not know that!
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. :)
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.
While not actually on the NES, there's a very very NES inspired game on Steam called Super Cyborg. it's basically Contra with a cyborg vs aliens twist. every boss is some sort of grotesque alien monster that's the stuff of nightmares and looks right out of the NES.
"NES game called 'Kick Master' being good" is so unlikely, but there it is
Little Samson and Journey to Silius have crazy bosses as well
No Guardian Legend?
Definitely had it on the list but next one for sure
first off loved the perler beads story! wish I was 1/10th that talented I could barely manage a pac-man the last time I tried to do it, haha. I'm glad you mentioned astyanax! definitely my #1 as far as crazy boss designs go, someone at jaleco/icom really had a knack for great boss designs. I'm sure they also worked on totally rad so including that one tracks as well.
Great video, amazing channel!
Some Ninja Gaiden bosses could easily make a list like this, but I'd personally nominate Psaro the Manslayer, final boss to Dragon Warrior 4.
I had totally rad for years before i discovered how to use the powers....i just thought the game was insanely hard.
Same!
Kick master looks great. What a great selection of games and bosses
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!
Had never even heard of any of these games. Great stuff.
I remember Streetfighter 2010 had some crazy bosses and definitely Monster Party
10:04 how many of these....Head em ups are there? I guess thats what type of game hong Kong 97 is 😂
Hmmmm that’s all I can think of!
@@BigOleWords plenty that are the enemy bosses but very few that you can play as
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.
The Jeff Goldblum reference....
As one of your older viewers, I see what you did there.
i watch this channel for the quality sprite work
I love your show sir it makes me happy
I always enjoyed the cast of bosses from Monster Party.
Technically, Time Diver was released but on a bootleg cartridge. It was retitled as Time Diver: Avenger.
Conquest of the Crystal Palace had some big weird bosses
12:37 “Bone Throne” was my nickname in high school 😂
You wish nerd
Totally Rad was one of my favorites, haha. Still got my copy.
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.
That Kick Master Perler Bead pic is awesome. Also your wife is a looker too. Have a good day!
Amd oh yeah, for all bosses, you still need to play Monster Party.
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.
Congratulations, sir. With Time Diver Eon, you have shown me an NES game I'd never heard of before. Yeah, it was never released, but still an impressive feat.
(pushes up my glasses)
AKSHUALLY that wolf-rider is most likely a representation of Scylla, a nymph who spurned Poseidon and was transformed into an abomination. Her lower half is comprised of six large canine heads and (of course) tentacles. She shows up in the Odyssey, and in a number of other games, even Symphony of the Night.
Here are a few other crazy boss designs:
-the final boss from Monster Party...and I can already see you smiling and nodding to yourself.
-Totally-Not-Hitler from Bionic Commando. First off, it's Hitler. Second, he swears. Third, when you destroy the boss, there's a cutscene where Hitler explodes in gory frame-by-frame perfection.
-Dracula's second form, Castlevania 3. It's a bunch of faces fused onto a floating brain stalk. Delightful.
-just absolutely everything in Abadox.
-the giant floating Predator head at the end of Predator. Yep. It's a giant floating head of Predator.
-the magician in Totally Rad. Not actually a boss, but look at him and tell me that's not the most terrifying thing ever!
-George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle in Space Shuttle Project. (shudders)
-all of your opponents in Eliminator Boat Duel. Don't even try to argue with me.
-Chaos, Final Fantasy. A bit predictable, but still visually impressive.
-and finally, the most horrifying boss of all time: MATH PROBLEMS IN DK JR MATH!!
Zebbidah from totally RAD is absolutely THE most terrifying thing in that game
My favorites are the ones from KICK MASTER
I was a Nintendo freak throughout the NES period but I never heard of any of these games...
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.
Well Bionic Commando had Hitler, which was nuts. Mother Brain was pretty scary when I was young, but that might be too mainstream. 🙂
3:42 That's some david cronenberg shiz rite there.. and why haven't I ever heard of this game?? I've watched soo many hidden gem videos.. anyway, thanks! Now I'm off to play it. 😊
I haven’t heard of any of these!
very cool stuff, thanks.
Great concept for a video. I havent seen best bosses per console yet? Im sure its been done but def cool concept that is not overdone.
lmao am i the only one who remembers kick master as a joke ? like Kick puncher or punch kicker
His kicks have the power of punches!
I literally bought the retro stick for games like Kickmaster and Shatterhand
Cool stuff James. 🙂
This is the good NES stuff.
Really?!! Reakky?!! A whole list on weird bosses and no mention of monster party?!!!
Time diver looks awesome
12:35 Thats what i call my bed 😂
Kinda surprised you didn't mention that in the Japanese version of Astyanax, the Medusa's tits are hanging out.
As for crazy bosses, most people already mentioned Monster Party, Abadox, The Guardian Legend, even titles like Street Fighter 2010 and Xexyz.
I actually did not know that!!
Great Stuff!
8:23
"It's clobberen' time!"
Acid flashbacks are a myth lol.
I would suggest wrath of the black manta. some epic bosses there.
I think just about every boss in Abadox is pretty weird.