I spent months of my childhood figuring this game out. I made hand drawn maps of the Death Star (before I realized that R2 can get the maps from that room in the beginning). Finally beating it was the pinnacle of 4th grade for me. Watching someone slam through it in eleven and a half minutes is both amazing to watch but also makes me feel like I suck due to the ease at which it is done.
We didn't have the resources that exist now as when we were children. Also we weren't trying to beat it quick. We had to find that blaster upgrade and get the crew!
nintendo games loved to have things like this. the last stage of 'hunt for red october' which is a horizontal shmup is suddenly a platformer diffusing bombs on a timer with no prep for what the control mechanics are
I don't know if it was one to one but Gamboy star wars game was exactly this. hard as hell from what i remember though you could cheese your way through the asteroids by flying diagonally up /down
Obi-Wan: Here's your Father's Lightsaber Luke: Thanks! cut to four weeks later Obi-Wan: I wonder what that Luke kid has been up to since I gave him that Lightsaber...
Artoo and Threepio, were sold by Jawas (again); Han, and Chewie are back on Tatooine wondering where the hell their ship went; and Leia had a beyond front row seat to the Death Star going boom. Luke: i Am ThE bEsT sTaR tReK oF aLL!
I remember as a child, one of the people I went to school with got a big Star Wars book when Phantom Menace was released. I had no idea what Star Wars was then. 🤗 One of my schoolmates, Paul, narrated the story of Alien to me (before I watched Aliens, and then Alien). Was pretty scary even in the narration. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
i didn't know you didn't have to get Han or Leia on this game. I did find a hack or a loop hole for extra lives on this game everytime you went in one of the caves on Tatooine and got a few extra lives, you could leave the cave and come back and they would respawn. I would end up with 30 extra lives and I would still not have enough to beat those TIE fighters lol
I’ve been watching this channel the past few days & apart from your expert gameplay and chill personality - your words like “KLUNK” and “Hoo-Rah!” are literally the same words my dad used when he realized he loved Nintendo games as much as we did (me esp). He’d say “Hoo-Rah” with every hard jump in any game it seemed. He’d also move the controller in the air as if he was helping the protagonist 😂 Interesting observation (the words “KLUNK” and “Hoo-Rah”). It must mean a lot of ppl derived that from the sounds from NES games? Respond if you used them before discovering Arcus 🤷♂️ I genuinely am curious about this
Does the end screen reflect whether you get characters like Leia in the playthrough? I definitely never finished this game. It was just too hard. I thought Empire Strikes Back was done better and easier!
Empire was easier?! I could 100% Star Wars pretty easily. I could never get past all of the bounty hunters in Cloud City in Empire. I'm surprised I ever made it through Dagobah. I thought that one was much harder. Good on you for beating it.
@@luke-i1w I remember how awesome turning in the Hoth and Bespin vehicle stages looked back then. I feel like there was also a health force power in the game. I had to go watch someone playing today, and wow, no clue how I ever managed to figure out how to get through some of the stages back in pre-Internet days. We were all probably just much better gamers!
@@KSigKid I LOVED the Hoth and Bespin flying levels. There for sure is a health force power. I used it all the time (and it honestly was most likely the reason I could never beat it because I was to afraid to use the actual useful force powers). Dagobah probably took me a half year to figure out. Once I did that and was rewarded with shooting down TIEs outside Cloud City, I basically gave up because that next Cloud City level was way too hard for me. I for sure was a better gamer back then. There were no distractions! Now I've got a wife and these darn kids that take up all my time!! But my 5 year old is starting to play Super Mario Brothers. He beat stage 1-1 yesterday. I'm so proud!
I remember how i was able to beat this game, i did had only 1 live left. I remember how i did made i through the first airplane but then i got stuck there for 3 years ,but once i was able to get through it 3 years later, i amezingly was able to beat the rest of the game that same year. Am still amezed how i was able to beat it considering it’s difficulty and puzzle solving at where you’re supposed to go to make it to the exit at certain levels,phew🤣
I had this game as a kid and i absolutely hated it because I had no idea what to do or where to go. I should revisit it. I then went on to get star wars arcade for the 32x 😭 i barely ever got out of the first round. "take out enemy fighters"
if text had a sound... "take out enemy fighters" certainly does for me. Maybe revisit it and you'll do better. I played it a few months back and made it through several rounds before getting a bit bored.
%excuse me, I need my personal space to make my selection.% Alright then I'll f@#$ off :/ 1.08 blaaachooo! Sniff. Well done you've made it through the cave of evil brave adventurer. Whatll it be? Tater tots, burrito or tacos? %1 churros plz.% 1.08 that will be a dollar. % This is my pb of 89c. % 1.08 there ya go. % what is this? % 1.08 eat!
Sadly all of them were half-finished. Sound programming was so bad you either heard sound effects or music. No story scenes either. Very poor games in comparison to average Japanese releases.
Great game, Arcus! God this game felt impossible when it came out. I had and easier time with NInja Gaiden than this. Now that I think about it I'm not even sure I ever beat it. If I did "beat it" it was with the Game Genie so that doesn't count.
The odds of successfully navigating an asteroid field are 3,720 to 1. You've got skills.
Don't ever tell him the odds
youre not supposed to tell him the odds.
That’s great kid, don’t get all peennisy.
The RNG in this game is insane
You've won the comments section for this video lol
I spent months of my childhood figuring this game out. I made hand drawn maps of the Death Star (before I realized that R2 can get the maps from that room in the beginning). Finally beating it was the pinnacle of 4th grade for me. Watching someone slam through it in eleven and a half minutes is both amazing to watch but also makes me feel like I suck due to the ease at which it is done.
We didn't have the resources that exist now as when we were children. Also we weren't trying to beat it quick. We had to find that blaster upgrade and get the crew!
4th grade you would have been a good streamer.
Remember its far more than 11 minutes of experience
I really enjoy seeing all of these old games. Thanks for showing them off for us.
You left poor Artoo in the sandcrawler, stole Hans ship, and blew up your sister.
That’s dedication when the player can literally hum every music track from the game. And still make it enjoyable to watch.
The music is great an hilarious at the same time. We struggled with this game back in the day!
For NES that asteroid field part is really impressive lol
He stole Millenium Falcon, destroyed Leia with the Death Star. Nice.
I love how the music at the surface when you are riding is basically a Darkwing Duck music.
The Last Starfighter’s grown up
A code i used and made up with game genie for this game was "STATUS". You could float or fall very slowly.
This was cool to watch. Never played the game. Now I can rest. Thanks 🙏
Man, the last stage being a vertical shmup with no practice, brutal game. GG, Arcus!
nintendo games loved to have things like this. the last stage of 'hunt for red october' which is a horizontal shmup is suddenly a platformer diffusing bombs on a timer with no prep for what the control mechanics are
Can't believe I've never seen this game before. It looks extremely tight.
Don't feel that way. Especially if you are younger and wasnt around for the NES back in the day.
Yeah it was a nightmare to play. I enjoyed Empire a lot more and was excited for Return of the Jedi, but I don't think it ever released.
I don't know if it was one to one but Gamboy star wars game was exactly this.
hard as hell from what i remember though you could cheese your way through the asteroids by flying diagonally up /down
You have no idea...
I took my whole childhood to beat this game
i had this on game boy, thanks for the gameplay; remind me memories
Wonderful job on a lovely game!
Obi-Wan: Here's your Father's Lightsaber
Luke: Thanks!
cut to four weeks later
Obi-Wan: I wonder what that Luke kid has been up to since I gave him that Lightsaber...
Lots of good HUAs in this one
Fantastic! I tried a run like this thirty years ago, but I dared not travel with only one shield 😅
12 parsecs?
We would keep renting this game as kids, no one could make it back out of the Death Star, killing the tentacle was the biggest achievement possible.
I remember waking up all hipped up at 6:00am on a Saturday and waking my parents to ask if I could turn on the console to play this game
I'm stunned at how good this looks and I don't know how I missed it. Also, you look like Dave Foley... congrats
*WELL DONE SIR, WELL DONE!*
Can we get a "clunk" montage???? 😂
Unreal athleticism
The reflexes required on the trench run alone are astounding.
@@hude7360 absolutely
Dang that’s a pretty good looking game for NES
0.00-0.19 for dinner on the vessel is a local delicacy. Fried rice crawfish enchiladas.
I dig your style, Dude.
I appreciate your videos.
I used to play the Gameboy version all the time as a kid. Don't think I ever made it past the asteroid field in the Falcon lol
If you flew at a diagonal you never got hit
I still have nightmares from the Death Star Elevator Fuckery
The algorithm gave me your Ninja Gaiden 2 pb but I came to check this put, too!
Artoo and Threepio, were sold by Jawas (again); Han, and Chewie are back on Tatooine wondering where the hell their ship went; and Leia had a beyond front row seat to the Death Star going boom. Luke: i Am ThE bEsT sTaR tReK oF aLL!
Well done!
Who needs the force when ur that good with the controller, nicely done. 🙂
I remember as a child, one of the people I went to school with got a big Star Wars book when Phantom Menace was released. I had no idea what Star Wars was then. 🤗 One of my schoolmates, Paul, narrated the story of Alien to me (before I watched Aliens, and then Alien). Was pretty scary even in the narration. 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗
That sand speeder music sounds a lot like the music in the NES game Nightshade.
Our guy is like a Jedi master anyway 🎉
hua, blowin' on through-ah.
Epic.
i didn't know you didn't have to get Han or Leia on this game. I did find a hack or a loop hole for extra lives on this game
everytime you went in one of the caves on Tatooine and got a few extra lives, you could leave the cave and come back and they would respawn. I would end up with 30 extra lives and I would still not have enough to beat those TIE fighters lol
I feel this when he gets up because he is fed up with waiting for the nes to play.
Ya reeeaaaly wanna push that overgrown studio area with the buried garden bed and the poultry flowers in the corner. Don't ya.
>:(
I on the other hand love to watch the intro stuff.
Miss this game a ton
I love this game but I always end up getting stuck in the Death Star looking for Leia in all the wrong places
This looks like a pretty well made Nintendo game.
It was not.
I’ve been watching this channel the past few days & apart from your expert gameplay and chill personality - your words like “KLUNK” and “Hoo-Rah!” are literally the same words my dad used when he realized he loved Nintendo games as much as we did (me esp). He’d say “Hoo-Rah” with every hard jump in any game it seemed. He’d also move the controller in the air as if he was helping the protagonist 😂 Interesting observation (the words “KLUNK” and “Hoo-Rah”). It must mean a lot of ppl derived that from the sounds from NES games? Respond if you used them before discovering Arcus 🤷♂️ I genuinely am curious about this
Does the end screen reflect whether you get characters like Leia in the playthrough? I definitely never finished this game. It was just too hard. I thought Empire Strikes Back was done better and easier!
Yes, finding all the characters will have all of them in the end scene.
Empire was easier?! I could 100% Star Wars pretty easily. I could never get past all of the bounty hunters in Cloud City in Empire. I'm surprised I ever made it through Dagobah. I thought that one was much harder. Good on you for beating it.
@@luke-i1w I remember how awesome turning in the Hoth and Bespin vehicle stages looked back then. I feel like there was also a health force power in the game. I had to go watch someone playing today, and wow, no clue how I ever managed to figure out how to get through some of the stages back in pre-Internet days. We were all probably just much better gamers!
@@KSigKid I LOVED the Hoth and Bespin flying levels. There for sure is a health force power. I used it all the time (and it honestly was most likely the reason I could never beat it because I was to afraid to use the actual useful force powers). Dagobah probably took me a half year to figure out. Once I did that and was rewarded with shooting down TIEs outside Cloud City, I basically gave up because that next Cloud City level was way too hard for me.
I for sure was a better gamer back then. There were no distractions! Now I've got a wife and these darn kids that take up all my time!! But my 5 year old is starting to play Super Mario Brothers. He beat stage 1-1 yesterday. I'm so proud!
1:41 sprite look like the high jump dude from the Friday the 13th nes game
Had to turn the audio off.
I remember how i was able to beat this game, i did had only 1 live left.
I remember how i did made i through the first airplane but then i got stuck there for 3 years ,but once i was able to get through it 3 years later, i amezingly was able to beat the rest of the game that same year.
Am still amezed how i was able to beat it considering it’s difficulty and puzzle solving at where you’re supposed to go to make it to the exit at certain levels,phew🤣
There was a Star Wars game on the NES?
How long can you keep this up?
I should have taken note of the culprits and passed on their names. Ahhh well maybe next time.
I had this game as a kid and i absolutely hated it because I had no idea what to do or where to go. I should revisit it. I then went on to get star wars arcade for the 32x 😭 i barely ever got out of the first round. "take out enemy fighters"
if text had a sound... "take out enemy fighters" certainly does for me. Maybe revisit it and you'll do better. I played it a few months back and made it through several rounds before getting a bit bored.
@@mattprater8828 Yea i should dust it off and play it again. I did just freshen up everything with new caps, s video mod and stereo out.
%excuse me, I need my personal space to make my selection.%
Alright then I'll f@#$ off
:/
1.08 blaaachooo! Sniff. Well done you've made it through the cave of evil brave adventurer. Whatll it be? Tater tots, burrito or tacos?
%1 churros plz.%
1.08 that will be a dollar.
% This is my pb of 89c. %
1.08 there ya go.
% what is this? %
1.08 eat!
GG!
brother you look like the freaking sheriff from rhodes OHHH WEEE SON
Now I goa go and met Jabba and the ladies in my vip booth.
never realized how there is a huge lack of sound effects in this game.
Simply suggesting that this game be played is an insult to humanity but then he runs right through it.
GG
0.00-0.19 ya know how u have a pic of a boat on a bayou in your stream? That boat probably has ninja gaiden 2 on a snes.
Yeeesh, fall damage made this game brutal back in the day
Why did the timer start out negative?
The timer doesn't officially start at 0.00 until the player gains character control.
What a game Oo
Has everything
Do you only play NES ?
Beating the death star with a one man crew is not a bad win!
I rage quit the asteroid field
This game was insanely difficult as a kid. Was not one of my favorite NES games. SW games were redeemed on the SNES.
Wait you can skip the sand crawler 😮
How is Arcus 2+ minutes slower than the WR?
Probably some super rare glitch to skip a segment that someone was able to pull off.
This was brain blowing graphics at one point. Let that sink in
Sunk
Good Obi Wan
I always found the NES versions of these games to be more fun than their SNES counterparts.
Sadly all of them were half-finished.
Sound programming was so bad you either heard sound effects or music.
No story scenes either.
Very poor games in comparison to average Japanese releases.
Facts
This is definitely one of the later released NES games. You'd almost think it's SNES.
Lol, you were born after 2000, weren't you?
Great game, Arcus! God this game felt impossible when it came out. I had and easier time with NInja Gaiden than this. Now that I think about it I'm not even sure I ever beat it. If I did "beat it" it was with the Game Genie so that doesn't count.
When you're a kid, it count
Game genie was amazing at the time
I agree with everything said here
1.18 Luk I'm the father.
Eheheheheee
EEEEEEHEHEHEHEHEEEE!!!!!!
I like the japan exclusive famicom version better. Its more of a no brainer playthrough.
Ethiopian coffee.
Some might say you are not having fun, with the games you play.
Shouldn’t u be out roping cows?
I have this game luke does not run that fast
:)
The master system version is better than this one.
HOW ARE YOU THIS GOOD
hi. acurs? whehre are you from?
Many bothans died for this Speedrun... Lol
GG!
GG