We figured out as kids that the more you killed enemies the more powerful your weapon got. So I got the NES Advantage and found a spot on the first level when you can put your back to the wall, and enemies will forever come tward you. I taped the joystick in the down/back direction and put something heavy on the attack button. Left it that was over night. Well I returned later the next day and guess what. You can kill every thing in the game in 1 hit after that including all bosses, lol.
You were years ahead of me. Though I played Rygar and even had the Advantage, I first tried something like that with castlevania symphony of the night.
Damn I never did it for that long, but I would spend a long time at the beginning of Level 1 and kill a bunch of stuff and get really powerful and then work through the game.
+Freshbrood I actually found the game's sound track kinda unnerving and creepy. Thats not a complaint. its an NES sound track that actually evoked emotions. Not a lot do that.
Then that's a good thing, that 8bit sound made you feel. The game was creepy and unnerving, it was a hero's quest to fight evil god's to save the world. I think you just confirmed what we said.
+K-C Rhoder IN THE YEEEAAAR 2016!! The music at 9:57 is dull and monotonous, and until 11 minute mark when he goes on a murderous rampage and the music slows down does the drone break. haha
That was great, playing this as a kid in the 80s caused me so much rage. No saves nor passwords and no idea where to go made this one damn near impossible. You had to finish it in one sitting. I finally get to see what the hell was on that floating island.
Yeah, at least you could pause. Many times I went to bed and then screamed to my brothers if anyone touches this Nintendo I'll kill you. (Actually, I was a pretty mellow kid. But NES is serious stuff.) My brothers respected the sacred pause because they were gamers too.
I fucking loved this game. My dad yelled at me all the time over this game.......the music took me right back to being a kid. Thanks for the upload!!!!!
Damn, I was so pissed by this game: I managed to get to the final boss and got destroyed every single time. I spent hours trying to defeat it and finally called the official Nintendo phone line (yes, it was a thing back then). And unfortunately, the european version of the game (I live in France) had the difficulty settings changed... which made the final boss unkillable. It's such a shame as apart from that, I really enjoyed the game.
Dude this game scared me bad as a kid. I went off exploring and found a bunch of rooms with that bald monk guy always sitting. He started saying weird shit to me like he was actually talking to me and at one point it scared me so bad I took out the game and bury it never to play it again.
Man, I played the mother-lovin' crap outta this game! Bottles of booze, good friends, and piles of stress weed. (8 Music is badass, and what an incredible run. There was no saving this damn game! Two choices: conquer or quit.
I can't believe after 25+ years, I've bumped into this game again. I beat it as a kid and quickly forgot about it. Such memories when I did played it though. Wow!
remember i grinded alot and i did as you said. this game is difficult not only because of the enemies but because of the complicated map. I got lost and didn't know where to go.
The US and Jap version was quite easy but the European PAL version is almost impossible because af a bug restricting the your max level to a 1/4 of the others.
i came here just to see it get finished, it is the only nes game i have owned i didnt finish, i got to the end boss many times but couldnt figure it out. i was like 10 years old at the time still
Love this game, I remember picking this up with allowance money back in the day, never understood why so many hated this version and claimed the Arcade Rygar superior, Rygar arcade was fun but linear and repetitive after awhile. Tecmo took Rygar for the Famicom/NES to a whole new level adding so much depth, adventure and one of the most iconic soundtracks made. Rygar was no joke, it was punishing and hard as the flow of the game did drift a little on were to go next but once you figured it out getting to explore new area's and fighting some cool and strange big bosses kept you going! One of my top 10 NES games of all time!
One of the greatest games ever made! It was way ahead of its time! The soundtrack was awesome! The game was hard but you felt so rewarded when you beat the game! Grade A
Great run man. I've been beating this game for years and never knew I could grind like that in the palace of dorago. My grind spot was near the top of deathpigers' tower.
I remember getting this game for Christmas when it came out. I also remember finishing it and being pissed off at such a terrible ending this game had.
Wow, well done sir. I never realized how much like Zelda this game was. It's kinda sad that only a very small percentage of people got to enjoy the full potential of this game, considering all the effort the developer put into it. Thanks for this.
before youtube I would've never believed there were more than a hundred people who had ever seen this game through to the end. brutal brutal game that added hours of unnecessary stress to my childhood. man, back when dying meant dying. i'm hurting all over again just thinking about it...
i fucking loved this game. i remember the first time me and my friend got to the last board after a sleepover and playing all night his mom made us go outside so we paused it. came back and she unplugged it to vacuum. needles to say we were pissed
My friend who was a video game virtuoso had beaten nearly every game he decided to play. Except he could never beat Ligar! Among Swedish video game fans and magazines Ligar was one of the hardest bosses for the NES! Thanks for a great and very impressive run!
Even with the amount of complexity in a lot of todays games, the original NES produced some of the best games out there. A lot of classics were made for the 8-bit system, and this is one of them.
I loved this game, and the music. I remember early saturday mornings.....setting up my cockpit getting ready to game. This game was an adventure for me.
Loved this game!!! Since this game wouldn't let you save your game I would pause it and turn my tv screen off when I'd go to sleep, then turn it on the next day and resume. Lol. 👍🏼👍🏼
Top 10 fav NES games. Very difficult game. Took me a few months to beat this game. I was 6 years old at the time (1987).. I finally started reading the old man's hints on the whistle to find the last level. The soundtrack of this game is awesome as well, especially @ 15:16. I see other people in the comments have noticed this as well. That's one of the the main things that stood out about this game.
Wow! Thank you that! Thank you for closing this chapter in my life that I never thought I'd see the end of. It took my brother and I hours to get the 2nd treasure. We'd be wasting so much time killing everything in sight and walking every inch of the map. Wow, 23 minutes, haha! Again, thank you!!!
Just bought this game at a flea market for $6. Loved it growing up even though you couldn’t save your progress. Everything time I got to my personal best in progress my dad would make me turn it off and go mow or rake leaves....the joys of growing up in the 80s and 90s!
Damn, I used to love this game so much. But you couldn`t save your data, so I had to play it for like 6 hours until I reached the end. The NES box used to get all overheated and we were scared of burning the house down, but we were like "Screw it, gotta keep playin`!"
I played the ever-loving crap out of this game as a kid, but it wasn't until a few years ago that I finally beat it. I found that I personally needed max stats to beat the final boss, so the fact that this speed-run did it with only half stats is truly impressive!
Awesome fast run. Had this on the NES as a kid, loved the heck out of it, it was tough but I was able to beat it. Great music, interesting boss battles and even regular enemies. I learned that you could move strangely or skip areas when the map moves left or right. How to do it: While moving between "maps" (only works going left or right between maps as far as i know), jump then quickly go left and right at the edge of a map quickly alternating between the 2 "maps". You will "float" and can access spots you shouldn't normally be able to. Would love to see a modern Rygar sequal with better RPG elements.
This was one of the greatest games ever made, me and my little brother beat it as a child I remember it taking me almost 12 hours to beat the final boss we ended leaving it paused after giving up to come back the next day finally beating it.
jimmyjackz Same here...we tried and tried...we kept dying, but then we figured out it's about leveling up. We leveled up to full, and Lygar was out just like that. feasel0 did an ingenious way of leveling up with those crawling things in the one boss the throws the bats at you. We used that particular monster to level up because he gives tons of experience points. We figured out a way to keep beating that monster over and over without getting hit as he kept respawning after you leave the screen. Great game!
Dude gets further in six minutes than I did my whole childhood.
Wrench Turner lol yep
and it took me 3 1/2 hours to get through this game praying my NES didn't glitch out or suddenly do the blinking light of death on me.
Haha right! I don't think we ever got the zipline thing lol
Wrench Turner abso freaking loutely!!! A was so pissed watching this. I don’t think I ever beat that thing.
LMMFAO 😂 😂..... Exactly
Speed runs crack me up sometimes. "The grappling hook is..." "Yeah, fuck you, I'm outta here."
We figured out as kids that the more you killed enemies the more powerful your weapon got. So I got the NES Advantage and found a spot on the first level when you can put your back to the wall, and enemies will forever come tward you. I taped the joystick in the down/back direction and put something heavy on the attack button. Left it that was over night. Well I returned later the next day and guess what. You can kill every thing in the game in 1 hit after that including all bosses, lol.
same here LOL
You were years ahead of me. Though I played Rygar and even had the Advantage, I first tried something like that with castlevania symphony of the night.
Damn I never did it for that long, but I would spend a long time at the beginning of Level 1 and kill a bunch of stuff and get really powerful and then work through the game.
yeah, i did it for maybe 30 mins....sometimes an hour. I bet it was insane to one hit all the bosses, though
Bingo!
The composer of this game is goddamn brilliant.
+TRUESEPH Seriously. Quite possibly the best and most appropriate game soundtrack for its day.
+TRUESEPH I thought I was the only one who thought this.
I actually redid one of the tracks (The one at 15:18)
+Freshbrood I actually found the game's sound track kinda unnerving and creepy. Thats not a complaint. its an NES sound track that actually evoked emotions. Not a lot do that.
Then that's a good thing, that 8bit sound made you feel. The game was creepy and unnerving, it was a hero's quest to fight evil god's to save the world. I think you just confirmed what we said.
+K-C Rhoder IN THE YEEEAAAR 2016!! The music at 9:57 is dull and monotonous, and until 11 minute mark when he goes on a murderous rampage and the music slows down does the drone break. haha
This was one of those where the hell do I go games
Michael If you were a cool kid you had the book with a MAP. I never did of course.
I hear ya bud. The dream was to have a friend who would help you do it.
I had to give up on the last boss after fighting for like 5 or so minutes. Weapon was too weak. This was the only game I never beat as a kid.
This game was my fav as a boy
Those are the best kind....
Search and discovery
I love this music so much.
I beat this game when I was a kid and it was extremely difficult, just by watching brings me back so many memories, thanks for uploading...
I had no idea you had unlimited continues!
That was great, playing this as a kid in the 80s caused me so much rage. No saves nor passwords and no idea where to go made this one damn near impossible. You had to finish it in one sitting. I finally get to see what the hell was on that floating island.
Yeah, the 8 hour pause was the original quick save.
Yeah, at least you could pause. Many times I went to bed and then screamed to my brothers if anyone touches this Nintendo I'll kill you. (Actually, I was a pretty mellow kid. But NES is serious stuff.) My brothers respected the sacred pause because they were gamers too.
me too and I was praying my NES didn't randomly glitch , freeze up or the blinking red light of death while playing
This game was superb but you could beat it in one long day or 2. One day i faked being sick and played it all day long and won
Man this game brings back memories. I kept dying and never figured out the game. It's like a maze!
I remember my first playthrough. I thought it was the most beautiful, heroic game ever made at the time.
I still remember in my childhood renting this game on Friday and returning it on Sunday
I fucking loved this game. My dad yelled at me all the time over this game.......the music took me right back to being a kid. Thanks for the upload!!!!!
the music was so epic in this game in the 80's.
Damn, I was so pissed by this game: I managed to get to the final boss and got destroyed every single time. I spent hours trying to defeat it and finally called the official Nintendo phone line (yes, it was a thing back then). And unfortunately, the european version of the game (I live in France) had the difficulty settings changed... which made the final boss unkillable.
It's such a shame as apart from that, I really enjoyed the game.
Yes, in the PAL version they really screwed up the leveling system.
@@feasel I think this version is better than the arcade.except graphics.
that music in the cave level especially at 8:45 has stuck with me my whole life lol
I always got stuck in Sagilla's Cave due to the awesome music.
I have beaten this game many times and am still awed by many of your techniques! Thanks for sharing this video.
Dude this game scared me bad as a kid. I went off exploring and found a bunch of rooms with that bald monk guy always sitting. He started saying weird shit to me like he was actually talking to me and at one point it scared me so bad I took out the game and bury it never to play it again.
Did you go back to play it and see it was just the result of an overactive imagination?
true it also scare me when i was 8. but i beat the game anyways.
"It's 2 a.m. and time for the monsters to awaken." "If you see Dorago ask him to release my daughter!" lol
Man this was my favorite game back when I was about 8. Just the music takes me back. Thanks for the video.
Brought back some childhood memories played for hrs on that game
Man, I played the mother-lovin' crap outta this game! Bottles of booze, good friends, and piles of stress weed. (8 Music is badass, and what an incredible run. There was no saving this damn game! Two choices: conquer or quit.
Music must have been trippy AF while stoned haha
Holy shit. At 7:20 is a sped up version of the Escape From NY Theme! Never noticed that until now when i started appreciating those films.
I can't believe after 25+ years, I've bumped into this game again. I beat it as a kid and quickly forgot about it. Such memories when I did played it though. Wow!
Wow, you finished this. Rygar was one of the most difficult NES games ever created. Congrats.
remember i grinded alot and i did as you said. this game is difficult not only because of the enemies but because of the complicated map. I got lost and didn't know where to go.
The map was complicated and the game play was also hard.
Not really, but is was a great game that was neither too easy nor too hard. In my opinion, the scaling of difficulty was nearly perfect in this game.
The US and Jap version was quite easy but the European PAL version is almost impossible because af a bug restricting the your max level to a 1/4 of the others.
i came here just to see it get finished, it is the only nes game i have owned i didnt finish, i got to the end boss many times but couldnt figure it out. i was like 10 years old at the time still
Love this game, I remember picking this up with allowance money back in the day, never understood why so many hated this version and claimed the Arcade Rygar superior, Rygar arcade was fun but linear and repetitive after awhile.
Tecmo took Rygar for the Famicom/NES to a whole new level adding so much depth, adventure and one of the most iconic soundtracks made. Rygar was no joke, it was punishing and hard as the flow of the game did drift a little on were to go next but once you figured it out getting to explore new area's and fighting some cool and strange big bosses kept you going!
One of my top 10 NES games of all time!
Thank you for a lightning fast trip down memory lane.
My fav game of all time. I got this in 1988 for my 16th birthday. Nowadays I can finish it deathless, but nowhere near your amazing time. Kudos!
0:03 The happy theme you hear when you first set out on your adventure, just before you realize how inadequate you are.
THE BEST soundtrack on an NES game
Carlos Rodriguez I think mega man 2 had the best tho.i miss the music from nes games though
yeah that game also has a great sound track
Carlos Rodriguez Right? The music at 10:05 is a Nes masterpiece soundtrack!!1 -.-
except for that one lmao...but the one at 7:11 is my all time favorite
Carlos Rodriguez yea its been stuck in my head for over 20 years.think God for TH-cam
One of the greatest games ever made! It was way ahead of its time! The soundtrack was awesome! The game was hard but you felt so rewarded when you beat the game! Grade A
Thats a man on a mission that run animation tells it all hahaha the grapple hook was the main boss battle lol
I played the heck outta this game back in the day ... Cool game
Great run man. I've been beating this game for years and never knew I could grind like that in the palace of dorago. My grind spot was near the top of deathpigers' tower.
+Jeremy Lott Yeah the snails are a good grind, but dorago's palace is a bit faster and earlier.
Damn man what a flashback.its crazy how things like the music in the game just brought me back 25 years like it was just yesterday...wow
August, 2024: letting this play in my earbuds while I work... such good nostalgia vibes, such great music 💆🥰
Rygar and Karnov are two games I absolutely loved as a kid. The background music for each game still comes to me in my dreams LOL.
Flood of memories! Brilliant playing. This game took me FOREVER to win back in the day
Reminds me of Super Mario World. . . which is still played very often these days haha
I remember getting this game for Christmas when it came out. I also remember finishing it and being pissed off at such a terrible ending this game had.
good looking great playing/leveling style and the sweetest responding jumps aside from mario 3...one of the best games on the system...still love it
true only thing that would piss me off was the grapple some times it wouldnt latch on if u were a hair off
prpunk187
...thats the damn truth
besides that awesome game kinda disppointed with the sequels no where as good as the original
prpunk187
..man i didnt even know there were sequals...il have to check em out
+jackie thompson my bad there was only one other one on ps2 and its lame
"Welcome! Take a rest to regain your strength!"
Thanks I will lol
I miss the good ol days of gaming!!!!! Takes me back to my childhood. I LOOOOOOOVED THIS GAME!!!!
Wow, well done sir. I never realized how much like Zelda this game was. It's kinda sad that only a very small percentage of people got to enjoy the full potential of this game, considering all the effort the developer put into it. Thanks for this.
I played it and got to the floating island...never beat the the boss though. Glad I could finally see the ending..
I love the level grinding part! That was really fast!
before youtube I would've never believed there were more than a hundred people who had ever seen this game through to the end. brutal brutal game that added hours of unnecessary stress to my childhood. man, back when dying meant dying. i'm hurting all over again just thinking about it...
the tune at 7:09 was always my favorite
I thought it was just me. I'm sitting here watching the run through and humming it after 30 plus years!
i fucking loved this game. i remember the first time me and my friend got to the last board after a sleepover and playing all night his mom made us go outside so we paused it. came back and she unplugged it to vacuum. needles to say we were pissed
There is a special place in hell for parents like that.
enahsg lmfao, right
Whoaa is that a pic of claypool when he was in Frog Brigade?
jimmyjackz good eye
At least the floor was clean haha
My friend who was a video game virtuoso had beaten nearly every game he decided to play. Except he could never beat Ligar! Among Swedish video game fans and magazines Ligar was one of the hardest bosses for the NES! Thanks for a great and very impressive run!
9:15 this is exactly how I killed a spider in the bathroom this morning
Ah, yes the memories are coming back to me.I think that one of the things that makes this game such a wonderful experience is the music
I'm SO impressed. Seriously amazing.
I love how you go back to previous levels to advance when you find upgraded supplies
I don't think I ever beat it but I def got close to the end. This game did/does not get nearly enough love, ty for the play thru & memories.
I remember playing this game back when it was released had no idea where to go at times lol
The music n fx sound effects brings me back in time, the nostalgia.
So epic, the music, the graphics, the story, totally awesome
One of my favs. Too bad they never made any sequels besides that one miserable hack in the early 2000s
Even with the amount of complexity in a lot of todays games, the original NES produced some of the best games out there. A lot of classics were made for the 8-bit system, and this is one of them.
Thank you, the warrior of Argus.
best nes game music ever! good job!
I loved this game, and the music. I remember early saturday mornings.....setting up my cockpit getting ready to game. This game was an adventure for me.
Loved this game!!! Since this game wouldn't let you save your game I would pause it and turn my tv screen off when I'd go to sleep, then turn it on the next day and resume. Lol. 👍🏼👍🏼
Now this is a speedrun!!!
No glitches
No power ups
No cheating.....
👍👍👍👍
Fear my ancient yo-yo!!!!
Top 10 fav NES games. Very difficult game. Took me a few months to beat this game. I was 6 years old at the time (1987).. I finally started reading the old man's hints on the whistle to find the last level.
The soundtrack of this game is awesome as well, especially @ 15:16. I see other people in the comments have noticed this as well. That's one of the the main things that stood out about this game.
I always get so much rage trying to get the rope to connect to the wooden pillars!
Wow! Thank you that! Thank you for closing this chapter in my life that I never thought I'd see the end of. It took my brother and I hours to get the 2nd treasure. We'd be wasting so much time killing everything in sight and walking every inch of the map. Wow, 23 minutes, haha! Again, thank you!!!
Wow! The whole world is going to know your name for years to come!
Well played! Eruga vs Rygar. Rygar game was a classic on NES.
That damn bird is flapping it's wings like crazy but ain't making any progress the poor thing
The ending scenes to these games were simply something special
Saudades desse jogo ! um dos primeiros games que joguei e me apaixonei de cara.
I love everything about this game. especially the music. The best game growing up.
Impressive!! It takes me 20 minutes just to try to latch onto the logs on the overhead view smh
The soundtrack and sfx alone was worth the purchase.
The music is 🔥, bringing me back to when I was 8 years old.
I'm from Poland and i play in this game on pegasus in early 90's.good memories.
I can see the skill in this speed run. Very well done!
Oh god that music at 12:00.... Madness inducing.
Thanks man, took me back. What a great ending.
"And the people regained their smiling faces"
Nf0kus Vida
I played it as a kid and finally found it here.. I just wanted to hear that epic music again! Yeah!
Childhood fave!!!!!
Same here I was glued to this game all over 1987 and 88
Awesome soundtrack ... Awesome run as well !!
What did you select in the menu right before you fought the final boss?
Attack & Assail damages everything on the screen.
I forgot how good this soundtrack was !
Proof that true Warriors do it for the rainbows, waterfalls, and birds.
Thank you for doing in this video what my younger self could never do.
Awesome game... One of the better nes games fo sure... Brings back alot of memories
I remember the time back then when you could play this game at every store. It was omnipresent but I never played it.
Just bought this game at a flea market for $6. Loved it growing up even though you couldn’t save your progress. Everything time I got to my personal best in progress my dad would make me turn it off and go mow or rake leaves....the joys of growing up in the 80s and 90s!
Damn, I used to love this game so much. But you couldn`t save your data, so I had to play it for like 6 hours until I reached the end. The NES box used to get all overheated and we were scared of burning the house down, but we were like "Screw it, gotta keep playin`!"
That was really satisfying to watch, and I don't feel nearly as bad as I did about having trouble navigating that game as a kid xD
I had this game as a kid, I never beat it. Thanks for the closure.
This music fills me with honor!
You spawn glitched those caterpillars out of existence the same way I did.
15:20 that castle was my favorite music in this game
I loved this game!! Thank you for this!
I played the ever-loving crap out of this game as a kid, but it wasn't until a few years ago that I finally beat it. I found that I personally needed max stats to beat the final boss, so the fact that this speed-run did it with only half stats is truly impressive!
Awesome fast run.
Had this on the NES as a kid, loved the heck out of it, it was tough but I was able to beat it. Great music, interesting boss battles and even regular enemies.
I learned that you could move strangely or skip areas when the map moves left or right.
How to do it: While moving between "maps" (only works going left or right between maps as far as i know), jump then quickly go left and right at the edge of a map quickly alternating between the 2 "maps".
You will "float" and can access spots you shouldn't normally be able to.
Would love to see a modern Rygar sequal with better RPG elements.
Absolutely beautiful!
That song at 8:10. Banger.
This was one of the greatest games ever made, me and my little brother beat it as a child I remember it taking me almost 12 hours to beat the final boss we ended leaving it paused after giving up to come back the next day finally beating it.
Also I don't remember the boss going down so quickly, I know I died over 100 times it seemed like?
jimmyjackz Same here...we tried and tried...we kept dying, but then we figured out it's about leveling up. We leveled up to full, and Lygar was out just like that. feasel0 did an ingenious way of leveling up with those crawling things in the one boss the throws the bats at you. We used that particular monster to level up because he gives tons of experience points. We figured out a way to keep beating that monster over and over without getting hit as he kept respawning after you leave the screen. Great game!
Wow that's some dedication! What a damn ridiculous game...
Brings back good memories
Holy Shit!!!! This was one of my favorite games ever but I never owned it. I had forgot all about it