Oh I get it. Maruyama is the oposite of Dynamite Headdy. Istead of Maruyama changing his face (as Dynamite Headdy does) he changes his body. For some reason I'm blowned away
I love this game. Something odd happened to me years ago, and I'm gonna give some context. Hidden in the stages there are THINGS you usually do or Things you destroy that earns you Secret Points, and there's a voice that usually says "You got a secret bonus points" each time you do it. Killing this little guy there is a wat to do it. If he shows up, you KNOW that if you defeat him, you Will get a secret bonus, and sometimes he even shows up in the middle of boss fights. And then At the end of each level, there's a moment in which your score shows up in the screen, and there's a line which says "Secret Points: X/X", which would show how many of the secret points hidden in a stage you actually found and got, and how many you didn't find. It was kind of a side quest I always liked to do. Well, once I was playing this game and there's a boss of a stage called Wooden Dresser (the 3rd in the video), which is sort of a giant yellow robot who keeps assembling himself with parts of thematics things, and then you need to hit the parts he's wearing so you can then attack his heart. Well, if you waited long enough, or at least I thought so, he would eventually dress as this baby-thing I mentioned earlier, you would hit him, gain the Secret Point and then you could finish the level. Well, there was this one time I waited a LONG TIME just hitting the parts the boss was wearing, dodging the things the boss threw at me without actually hitting him so as not to accidentally finish the stage (I'm talking about at least 10 minutes doing this), when this special bonus point situation finally happened. I knocked the baby thing, got the secret point and when I was about to finish the level, the Wooden Dresser boss jumped out of the screen, like he usually did when he was about to wear something different, and then AGAIN showed up wearing the baby-thing! I was Shocked when this happened! I defeated him for good and in the score screen the game Actually showed the Bonus points like 9/8, which meant that I found "9 out of 8 hidden ones". I honestly never ever could manage to do that again, in the many Many times I played the game again, and I never found a single thing about it on internet, but I know for sure that it happened and that I'm not fabricating this memory just because it shocked me so much.
Interesting that you would find that. This is actually a pretty well known thing, and if you do it along with all the other secret bonuses in the game, you can get 40/39 on the ending screen. It's pretty amusing.
It's theoretically possible to get infinite bonus points this way provided you don't die and have an insane amount of patience because of how rare the Bino costume is (IIRC it only can appear once the Robot is beaten and before it cycles back to Dragon.
This game has both some of the most crystal clear voice samples I've ever heard in a Genesis game and some of the weirdest imagery and boss fights I've seen in a 16-bit game. It's an odd circumstance.
Three of his bossfights were cut (his encounters in 5-2 and 6-2. I can also understand why 9-1 and 9-2 were cut since the "boss fight" is more so survival based, but it does play his boss track. ) A lot of other boss/minibosses were cut, including Sparky, Snake Eyes, and Sky Battleship.
IamTheS the reason is that Treasure never didsequels of their games. They wanted to do original games, not using the fame of their games to create sequels.
@@Fabio-vo2er nicer point; sorry, my fault, I wrongly explained... Treasure, IN THE PAST, never did sequels. I'm getting old and the 2000's are practically present for me xD that's why I wrote in past in the last post, if you re read. I was referring to the 90s, to "the past" (my past xD), not the present (included 2005 and more. Trees were in 2019 but you know, inn getting old and the ages are turning blurred to me xD)
There's a lesson here, video game players. Money isn't everything. Fighting against a millionaire & two bodyguards and won the game: priceless. MasterCard commercial reference.
I envy anyone who can beat this game without getting hit. Even with the Switch Genesis game card emulator where you can rewind, I STILL cannot get past a level with full health.
This is one of my favorite all time games. Such great soundtrack, memorable original and creative bosses. Ah Treasure, truly one of your masterpieces. Also holy fuck the last boss is actually hard as shit, kuddos on that flawless execution.
i first played the game on a ps3 sega genesis emulator disc called 'sega mega drive ultimate collection', which only had the american version of games, and i always thought heather (the pink headdy) was just using headdy to get the keys, and that everything with the nasty gatekeeper and dark demon was just her putting on a show.
@@mothramaster1837 I think the worst offender of the increased difficulty is the one that tries to tell you the castle isn't there (in the Japanese version) having her hp doubled making her one of the hardest if not the hardest boss in the game.
I always loved how the bonus boss of this game were basically Treasure Inc.'s way of saying "WE DON'T DO SEQUELS DAMMIT! LET A STORY HAVE A GRACEFUL END!" And even so, cue all the other softhouses like Capcom, Konami, et al, milking long-running series with sequels and overstretching a plot as thin as possible until nobody could stand them anymore, and so on and so on for years to come until present day... Treasure knew better. Self-contained plots are good exactly as they are. Don't "TO BE CONTINUED" a story that already had a good End.
The Mega Drive (a.k.a. Genesis) is my favorite console ever. So iconic, so rad, with a powerful and groundbreaking hardware that allowed the developers to let their creativity flows just like they did with Dynamite Headdy right here! Game is so crazy and unique. So many Mega Drive games are.
Americans and European share the same name for that boss, which is Twin Freaks, while the japanese name is Reverce Face. Funny Angry is the name of the song
I played the USA version, which didn't had dialogues. This explains some things. Also I remember that to beat Dark Demon flawlessly, you had to memorize the different head combinations you get just before the attack, because every attack had his own combination as telling, and one of the options was specifically made to counter his attack
The Izayoi fight in the Japanese version is so good. I like the robot design in the English version but the Geisha design in the second phase of the fight is amazing.
Aah,there it is!Absolute masterpiece!If you wanna see the absolute pinnacle of boss fights look no further than this game!We are talking about some of the most creative boss fights in gaming history: Spinderella-a boss that can change the player's view of headdy for a semi 3d effect(and the music is just...I have no words) Twin Freaks-a boss where you are constantly flipping the screen upside down,and he changes his attitude and appearance according to the side of the screen. Baby Face-a boss that "ages" the more you damage it.Start as a baby,the goes to a young man,then to a middle aged man,and finally to an old man!Absolutely ingenious!And all phases have different attacks.The "old man" form dies "of old age" if you wait enough! They cannnot make bosses like this anymore!The more limits you have with the hardware the more creative it pushes you to be.And thus some truly ingenious things are born!This game is a definite proof of that!
This white t-shirt is not rose. Please stop saying it is, and take those silly glasses off. The generic garbage of today works far more often than the garbage of old, looks better, and most times, it also plays somewhat decently. We have much more varied games, with RPGs embracing more new mechanics, more genres, We no longer have to deal with games that don't work at all from mainstay devs, we don't have to fight nonfunctional controls, and we don't need to deal with companies censoring games to remove all references to drugs, alcohol, 'bad' words, religion, sex, Japan, &tc. We can play games across the entire planet, design them on the fly, and with very little capital (if any at all) beat a AAA dev team in sales WITHOUT bending our knee to a publisher. But no, the days when all the text in a generic RPG was bastardized by bible-thumping literal translators, and the graphics in a game were altered to protect people from Japan, those were better. It was much nicer when most games were shit-tier platformers with laggy controls and no save mechanic. And who could forget all the times when lack of memory would lead to single-hit deaths in nearly every case, or Hydlide's healing, that almost all the modern FPS healing is based on?
Silly glasses!Dude,I am a gamer for more than 24 years,I started with Atari 2600 and currently my latest console is Xbox One. The state in which todays mainstream gaming is is "lack of personality" for a lack of better description.We are bombarded with SO generic crap that comes annually,I'm talking about big publishers like the cancerous Ubisoft or Activision.Stakes have never been higher,todays big games cost hundreds of millions to make and they can never risk that much money for something innovative or even remotely new or interesting.They just polish the same game and sell it to us every year.Look at Far Cry 4,then Far Cry Primal(although I'haven't played them, I am sure this is just Far Cry 3 with different skins and slight changes).Change in todays gaming is a taboo topic no one wants to discuss. I don't want to put my nostalgia glasses but I gotta tell you,old school games just had charm that most of todays games can only dream of!And why would they,they don't care about it at all,they just want to be on the surface,because if they sink,even a little bit they are dead.The gaming industry is eating itself and I hope it won't crumble upon it's own weight. Old school games were made for gamers,todays games are made for everyone.Let's face it,most of the gaming crowd are casuals,so the publishers have to make sure they dumb down their game in order to sell even remotely good.This thing hurts todays gaming so much that,at one point it becomes pointless. Back in the day censorship was primary a Nintendo trend,so I guess you judge everything from your SNES perspective.SEGA rarely censored anything,and that wasn't a topic at all. Also,limitations makes you think out of the box and makes you create really interesting and original things that outlive their time,such is the case with Dynamite Headdy,for example.Today,they just fill their free roam map with the most generic chores a developer can think of,slap some collectable achievements associated with them,and call it a day. Seriously,why every single game has to be open world these days.And why a game is measured if it's good or not by how big it's empty boring map is.Open world games rarely have a level design,hence a GOOD level design.Name at least 5 new games that have at least decent level design,I dare you!Also,name at least 5 bosses in todays games that are more memorable and creative than these in the video!
The AAA releases are such a small portion of the available games though. As for SEGA, they censored: -Phantasy Star 4 -Streets of Rage -Dynamite Headdy -Landstalker -TIme Gal -Stormlord -Golden Axe Warriors And more! As for games with good LD: - Axiom Verge (Design uses very creative elements that make you think about your items) - Dark Souls 2 (Fantastic level design with variation that keeps you thinking and looking) - XCOM: Enemy Unknown (say what you will about the thing *working* it's got great levels, also I feel like most of the bugs are caused by the publisher) - Pit People (Sure, it's a TRPG. You got a problem with that?) - Portal 2 (The game is basically nothing but level design) Bosses better than DH: None, these are top-tier bosses. Let's be real, you can only find equals at best. And most of those equals are like, in Klonoa.
I entirely agree and wished I had the Japanese one with English text! Unfortunately I have the American one... Edit: OK, let me rephrase that, I just got the translated Japanese version and it is awesome. #HeaddyTheHero
Man, I just can't get over how fucking awesome this game's bosses are. Backstage Battle is just too fun to watch (although, it's frustrating as hell to play and beat).
It makes me so happy to see millions of people getting the opportunity, with official emulator releases, to play this little formerly unknown game that I loved as a kid
Damn this game is so underrated.. the bosses look kinda creepy and intimidating.. good design to keep players on their toes.. and that music and sprite art is beautiful 😙👌
Example for American/Japanese difficulties in video games: Metal Man(Mega Man 2) English version: Metal Man can get one-shotted by his own weapon: the Metal Blade. Japanese version: You have to bonk Metal Man twice to literally explode him. bonk haha
This is one of my favorite games of all time. I always loved the colors, the playability, the stages, bosses and creative enemies we had to face. I played this game so many times, a whole lot of times indeed, but I could never finish it. In reality, I could never manage to get pass the Gate Keeper in his "berserk" form. I simply could not manage to beat it, because his attacks were too fast and had a ridiculously high range. It was just too difficult for me at the time. However, one day I was playing with a friend and managed to get to this boss, but I had already lost basically all my lives, and I was really tired as well. But since this was Actually my last opportunity without getting a game over, I put all my heart into fighting him. The problem was that I could barely hit that boss. It would always defend my attacks, I would instead hit Heather instead, it would start jumping and moving his wipy-like arms really quickly around him like crazy (and the hitbox of those arms Always managed to hit me no matter how much I tried to dodge)... But on this one time in particular, when it stopped spinning his arms, it aimed for a single shot at me in a corner of the screen and I jumped to dodge. What happened was that his arm went below the screen, and for my OUT OF THE BLUE SURPRISE its hand simply catch Headache (I think that's his name), that Headdy's friend that generates the power-ups. It was REALLY WEIRD seeing him there in the middle of the fight all of a sudden, just being grabbed by the boss like that from outside the screen. But the thing was, one of the power-ups he was switching between was that bomb which Headdy "plants" on the field, and has to wait a LOT OF TIME for it to blow basically half the enemies in the screen. I managed to hit Exactly that power up, threw the bomb, ran througout the screen for what seemed like an eternity really injured trying to avoid being hit, and Just when the Berserk Gate Keeper opened his hands to throw fire on the ground and became vulnerable, the bomb exploded and he actually died instantly. I CANNOT DESCRIBE MY EMOTIONS WHEN THAT HAPPENED. In that moment I was so in shock that I didn't even try to get all those things that explode from the bosses so you can "YOU GOT ANOTHER TRY!" I just stood screaming in shock. I honestly started to think that this was actually the Required way to beat the boss, since I could never manage no beat him anyway else (years later I would prove myself wrong, of course). After that I could for the first time advance on the game, and had many other moments full of emotion and adrenaline. I just will never forget that moment of despair, hope and, well, Dumb Luck that me and my friend experienced while we beat that boss for the first time. That honestly never happened again in the many, many times I played this game, and it remains in my memories as one of those moments in which something that really should not be happening at the point Happened, and I could use it for a win.
I'm glad this is the original Japanese version. The Japanese version is the TRUE version of Dynamite Headdy in my opinion; I'm not sure why they took some boss dialogue out, and its baffling how they decided to make the game slightly more difficult for the Western release. Oh, well. This was, is, and always will be one of my favorite games of all time. It's fun, charming, whimsical and creative! It's irresistible!
Imagine fighting these bosses, As Sonic and tails. (With the insta sheild of course) for example, in the third boss, You would have to spin dash along the arm to hit the head, and in the boss at 11:42 you’d be fighting like in the marble garden act 2 boss or you would be fighting in the tornado
I miss my Sonic Ultimate Genesis Collection. That game introduce me to the game. And holy shit it have dialogue? I should play this version of the game as story wise I did not know what the fuck is going on.
I played this game as a kid but never finished it. Now that I have it in the Sega Genesis collection with an actual save system, I might finally see the end...
The flying baby boss was my favourite. The music playing during the fight is perfect. Don't think I got much further though. Would have only been very young when I had it. Early 90's were the best!! Lol
ya know except for the fact that rayman and dynamite head dy both have diffrent gameplay styles head dy came out before rayman and has a diffrent style but ya know just awkward cousins i guess :)
Huh, no wonder the Mettaton boss battle piss me off so much. It opens old wombs of the Jacquilne Dressy boss and how much that guy keeps kicking my ass . . . as well as the awesome music and crazy poses.
+Zachary Underwood idk about that, you could be right, but do you mean this one playthrough or do you mean all the games shadowserg & arek the absolute plays cause most of them seem genuine playthroughs to me, do you think they study the games out or do you think they go through many mistakes throughout evey game they play, or you still think they cheat, cause I really don't know.........
What do you mean? I just watched them again to make sure, I don't see any signal of cheat codes anywhere on the first two bosses... If you mean the blue spheres that pop from the cat not hitting him, they aren't supposed to. They are there to make you think you need to avoid them, I used to do it my first few times and then realized the only thing that hurts you is the cat. And he does die in 2 hits. If you mean the second boss not hurting him when he falls on him.. if you notice he is using a very well known strategy that is that on the far corner of the screen, the fall doesn't actually go that far, so he isn't getting hit fairly. Its also a great spot cause you are just below the tail to hit him some during his counter attack move. Pity he didn't use the time stop ability tho, that would have been even easier on him.
I'm glad Treasure realized when they were making Alien Soldier that they just need to show you where to hit the boss and don't have to put a big arrow pointing at it and a voice saying "TARGET!"
The uk/eu version of the game didn't have any dialog in it, and some of the bosses were changed in appearance. The ending boss fight was really just trying to make sense of it, I thought all this time the badge was a captive by the dark demon. Turns out the badge, smiley, was the dark demon all along and you had to help free him from his delusion of grandeur? Also that secret final boss still doesn't make sense.
Oh I get it. Maruyama is the oposite of Dynamite Headdy.
Istead of Maruyama changing his face (as Dynamite Headdy does) he changes his body.
For some reason I'm blowned away
What?@@FabioJunior-gn4vh
@@FabioJunior-gn4vhin both japan and in usa versions of the game
@@FabioJunior-gn4vh you asked if it was the usa version of the game
I love this game. Something odd happened to me years ago, and I'm gonna give some context. Hidden in the stages there are THINGS you usually do or Things you destroy that earns you Secret Points, and there's a voice that usually says "You got a secret bonus points" each time you do it. Killing this little guy there is a wat to do it. If he shows up, you KNOW that if you defeat him, you Will get a secret bonus, and sometimes he even shows up in the middle of boss fights. And then At the end of each level, there's a moment in which your score shows up in the screen, and there's a line which says "Secret Points: X/X", which would show how many of the secret points hidden in a stage you actually found and got, and how many you didn't find. It was kind of a side quest I always liked to do.
Well, once I was playing this game and there's a boss of a stage called Wooden Dresser (the 3rd in the video), which is sort of a giant yellow robot who keeps assembling himself with parts of thematics things, and then you need to hit the parts he's wearing so you can then attack his heart. Well, if you waited long enough, or at least I thought so, he would eventually dress as this baby-thing I mentioned earlier, you would hit him, gain the Secret Point and then you could finish the level. Well, there was this one time I waited a LONG TIME just hitting the parts the boss was wearing, dodging the things the boss threw at me without actually hitting him so as not to accidentally finish the stage (I'm talking about at least 10 minutes doing this), when this special bonus point situation finally happened. I knocked the baby thing, got the secret point and when I was about to finish the level, the Wooden Dresser boss jumped out of the screen, like he usually did when he was about to wear something different, and then AGAIN showed up wearing the baby-thing! I was Shocked when this happened! I defeated him for good and in the score screen the game Actually showed the Bonus points like 9/8, which meant that I found "9 out of 8 hidden ones". I honestly never ever could manage to do that again, in the many Many times I played the game again, and I never found a single thing about it on internet, but I know for sure that it happened and that I'm not fabricating this memory just because it shocked me so much.
Interesting that you would find that. This is actually a pretty well known thing, and if you do it along with all the other secret bonuses in the game, you can get 40/39 on the ending screen. It's pretty amusing.
It's theoretically possible to get infinite bonus points this way provided you don't die and have an insane amount of patience because of how rare the Bino costume is (IIRC it only can appear once the Robot is beaten and before it cycles back to Dragon.
This game has both some of the most crystal clear voice samples I've ever heard in a Genesis game and some of the weirdest imagery and boss fights I've seen in a 16-bit game. It's an odd circumstance.
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Well they are puppets I suppose
About the voice samples? Yeah I agreed!
I CANNOT BELIEVE IT
I dunno how but they managed to make Maruyama both completely innocent looking and totally menacing at equal levels
Truly a creature they are
And yet he dies in two hits in his first fight
Instead of being angry and evil
Because he never stops smiling
One hundred and eleven thumbs
16:18 Genius way to end that boss fight.
yeah, that ending was disrespect 100
I CAN'T DO IT ON MOBILE
Ah yes the cat geisha monster
SEND IN THE DEMOMAN
Bombs away!
A truly underrated gem of a game, definitely needs a remake for modern consoles or PC.
Bit late reply, but this game has been released on sega forever(the mobile sega games)
What about....
*a sequel*
Anthony Freemon impossible. Headdy killed sega’s ceo.
@@Caelrentaeles Headdy defeated Treasure's CEO just to make sure there wasn't a sequel
sega also port it into pc, you can fund it on steam
Wish we could've seen Maruyama more. I think he had great potential as an major antagonist for the game.
He has more appearances in the game proper, nor sure why those weren't in thus video
I do like the theory of Maruyama and Trouble Bruin are different characters.
Three of his bossfights were cut (his encounters in 5-2 and 6-2. I can also understand why 9-1 and 9-2 were cut since the "boss fight" is more so survival based, but it does play his boss track. ) A lot of other boss/minibosses were cut, including Sparky, Snake Eyes, and Sky Battleship.
@@headphonesaxolotlIt's actually because they couldn't no damage it
@@berdinaction All of those can be no-hit I believe
almost every boss when they die:
NOOOOO, THIS ISNT THE LAST YOU'LL SEE OF ME, ILL BE BACK
dynamite headdy bosses: i c a n n o t b e l i e v e i t
hreeeeeee!
@@siriusxakanscaleguy7147What
break in 2 bosses: n a h
Thanks now _i c a n ' t u n h e a r i t_
@@PixelatedChatterbut it is what they said
This game had a lot of fun and inventive (and weird) boss fights.
I guess the end boss though is the reason there's never been a sequel.
IamTheS the reason is that Treasure never didsequels of their games. They wanted to do original games, not using the fame of their games to create sequels.
@@HaidesTunicaRoja what about Gunstar Future Heroes?
@@Fabio-vo2er nicer point; sorry, my fault, I wrongly explained... Treasure, IN THE PAST, never did sequels. I'm getting old and the 2000's are practically present for me xD that's why I wrote in past in the last post, if you re read. I was referring to the 90s, to "the past" (my past xD), not the present (included 2005 and more. Trees were in 2019 but you know, inn getting old and the ages are turning blurred to me xD)
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@@HaidesTunicaRoja Q
There's a lesson here, video game players. Money isn't everything. Fighting against a millionaire & two bodyguards and won the game: priceless.
MasterCard commercial reference.
There are some things money can’t buy. For everything else, there’s MasterCard.
Mitsuru was one of the most uncanny bosses for me. He gets older as you damage him.
He spent his whole life trying to defeat you.
Fun fact: If baby face (Mitsuru) grabs you in the final phase, it will fucking die.
God I loved these old games, their sounds were just so satisfying.
Plus, they're just really charming.
The title screen alone is EXTREMELY satisfying. The movement and sound is amazing. VERY underrated game.
What about the scary song does scar u
🐦🦕
@@大森太朗-e1i that made no sense edit your comment
Ah, classic game. Fighting these bosses must have been terrifyingly hard for a no damage run.
RobotnikHolmes Yeah
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Thing is, this isn't even the INT version, where the game is far harder
@@NeoGraena really? usually it's the other way around, interesting.
I envy anyone who can beat this game without getting hit. Even with the Switch Genesis game card emulator where you can rewind, I STILL cannot get past a level with full health.
This is one of my favorite all time games. Such great soundtrack, memorable original and creative bosses. Ah Treasure, truly one of your masterpieces. Also holy fuck the last boss is actually hard as shit, kuddos on that flawless execution.
now that i remember, the USA ver end really weird and without these dialogs you really dont undertand a lot of things
i first played the game on a ps3 sega genesis emulator disc called 'sega mega drive ultimate collection', which only had the american version of games, and i always thought heather (the pink headdy) was just using headdy to get the keys, and that everything with the nasty gatekeeper and dark demon was just her putting on a show.
Not to mention the higher difficulty for some bosses
USA ver. Is doesn't makes me sense they are not speaking
@@mothramaster1837 I think the worst offender of the increased difficulty is the one that tries to tell you the castle isn't there (in the Japanese version) having her hp doubled making her one of the hardest if not the hardest boss in the game.
I thought I must have been doing drugs when playing this as a kid
“I cannot believe it”
Still cannot believe it…
13:30 thank you Mario, but your princess is in another castle
XD toad says in super mario bros nes but game is dynamite headdy
@@andulkatrsova8463... yeah... that is the joke
Homer: NO!
Andulka Trsova r/wooooosh
@Bro_Nabil Yeah thats the fucking joke you underdeveloped fetus
I always loved how the bonus boss of this game were basically Treasure Inc.'s way of saying "WE DON'T DO SEQUELS DAMMIT! LET A STORY HAVE A GRACEFUL END!"
And even so, cue all the other softhouses like Capcom, Konami, et al, milking long-running series with sequels and overstretching a plot as thin as possible until nobody could stand them anymore, and so on and so on for years to come until present day...
Treasure knew better. Self-contained plots are good exactly as they are. Don't "TO BE CONTINUED" a story that already had a good End.
There might be a fanmade Sequle on scratch.
The Mega Drive (a.k.a. Genesis) is my favorite console ever. So iconic, so rad, with a powerful and groundbreaking hardware that allowed the developers to let their creativity flows just like they did with Dynamite Headdy right here! Game is so crazy and unique. So many Mega Drive games are.
زول بيبي
agreed
Your not human if you didn't take damage during the Twin Freaks fight...
@Kemuel Silva funy angery
Load the gun and fire it at me.
Twin Freaks: PAL name
Rever Face: NTSC name
Funny Angry: Japanese name
+gills uh... YOUR not human.
Americans and European share the same name for that boss, which is Twin Freaks, while the japanese name is Reverce Face. Funny Angry is the name of the song
I played the USA version, which didn't had dialogues. This explains some things. Also I remember that to beat Dark Demon flawlessly, you had to memorize the different head combinations you get just before the attack, because every attack had his own combination as telling, and one of the options was specifically made to counter his attack
4:10 - Marrio & Netton
5:10 - Jacqueline Dressy
Huh. 1 full minute to kill a puppeteer.
Ah, I remember when I played this as a kid. Due to me being an idiotic kid back then, I had absolutely no idea how to beat the first freaking boss.
Also the US version's bosses are all more difficult and less rewarding.
NinjaMaster909 HE TOOK DAMAGE
What timestamp?
yeah
That cat fucked me up but I couldn’t beat the dog😂😂
The Izayoi fight in the Japanese version is so good. I like the robot design in the English version but the Geisha design in the second phase of the fight is amazing.
Yeah, after that moment, you're thrown straight into the real world.
Aah,there it is!Absolute masterpiece!If you wanna see the absolute pinnacle of boss fights look no further than this game!We are talking about some of the most creative boss fights in gaming history:
Spinderella-a boss that can change the player's view of headdy for a semi 3d effect(and the music is just...I have no words)
Twin Freaks-a boss where you are constantly flipping the screen upside down,and he changes his attitude and appearance according to the side of the screen.
Baby Face-a boss that "ages" the more you damage it.Start as a baby,the goes to a young man,then to a middle aged man,and finally to an old man!Absolutely ingenious!And all phases have different attacks.The "old man" form dies "of old age" if you wait enough!
They cannnot make bosses like this anymore!The more limits you have with the hardware the more creative it pushes you to be.And thus some truly ingenious things are born!This game is a definite proof of that!
Let's not forget the ocean of generic trash on older systems. Restrictions don't stop garbage devs from being garbage.
Please,it's nothing compared to the generic trash in todays gaming,where you literally play the same game over and over again!
This white t-shirt is not rose. Please stop saying it is, and take those silly glasses off.
The generic garbage of today works far more often than the garbage of old, looks better, and most times, it also plays somewhat decently.
We have much more varied games, with RPGs embracing more new mechanics, more genres,
We no longer have to deal with games that don't work at all from mainstay devs, we don't have to fight nonfunctional controls, and we don't need to deal with companies censoring games to remove all references to drugs, alcohol, 'bad' words, religion, sex, Japan, &tc.
We can play games across the entire planet, design them on the fly, and with very little capital (if any at all) beat a AAA dev team in sales WITHOUT bending our knee to a publisher.
But no, the days when all the text in a generic RPG was bastardized by bible-thumping literal translators, and the graphics in a game were altered to protect people from Japan, those were better. It was much nicer when most games were shit-tier platformers with laggy controls and no save mechanic. And who could forget all the times when lack of memory would lead to single-hit deaths in nearly every case, or Hydlide's healing, that almost all the modern FPS healing is based on?
Silly glasses!Dude,I am a gamer for more than 24 years,I started with Atari 2600 and currently my latest console is Xbox One.
The state in which todays mainstream gaming is is "lack of personality" for a lack of better description.We are bombarded with SO generic crap that comes annually,I'm talking about big publishers like the cancerous Ubisoft or Activision.Stakes have never been higher,todays big games cost hundreds of millions to make and they can never risk that much money for something innovative or even remotely new or interesting.They just polish the same game and sell it to us every year.Look at Far Cry 4,then Far Cry Primal(although I'haven't played them, I am sure this is just Far Cry 3 with different skins and slight changes).Change in todays gaming is a taboo topic no one wants to discuss.
I don't want to put my nostalgia glasses but I gotta tell you,old school games just had charm that most of todays games can only dream of!And why would they,they don't care about it at all,they just want to be on the surface,because if they sink,even a little bit they are dead.The gaming industry is eating itself and I hope it won't crumble upon it's own weight.
Old school games were made for gamers,todays games are made for everyone.Let's face it,most of the gaming crowd are casuals,so the publishers have to make sure they dumb down their game in order to sell even remotely good.This thing hurts todays gaming so much that,at one point it becomes pointless.
Back in the day censorship was primary a Nintendo trend,so I guess you judge everything from your SNES perspective.SEGA rarely censored anything,and that wasn't a topic at all.
Also,limitations makes you think out of the box and makes you create really interesting and original things that outlive their time,such is the case with Dynamite Headdy,for example.Today,they just fill their free roam map with the most generic chores a developer can think of,slap some collectable achievements associated with them,and call it a day.
Seriously,why every single game has to be open world these days.And why a game is measured if it's good or not by how big it's empty boring map is.Open world games rarely have a level design,hence a GOOD level design.Name at least 5 new games that have at least decent level design,I dare you!Also,name at least 5 bosses in todays games that are more memorable and creative than these in the video!
The AAA releases are such a small portion of the available games though.
As for SEGA, they censored:
-Phantasy Star 4
-Streets of Rage
-Dynamite Headdy
-Landstalker
-TIme Gal
-Stormlord
-Golden Axe Warriors
And more!
As for games with good LD:
- Axiom Verge (Design uses very creative elements that make you think about your items)
- Dark Souls 2 (Fantastic level design with variation that keeps you thinking and looking)
- XCOM: Enemy Unknown (say what you will about the thing *working* it's got great levels, also I feel like most of the bugs are caused by the publisher)
- Pit People (Sure, it's a TRPG. You got a problem with that?)
- Portal 2 (The game is basically nothing but level design)
Bosses better than DH:
None, these are top-tier bosses. Let's be real, you can only find equals at best. And most of those equals are like, in Klonoa.
This game was basically just a massive gauntlet of boss fights. I loved it.
16:54 That's a heck of a shield.
8:05- 13:23. This boss music is epic. I love it!
Say that about Yayoi & izoyoi
Maruyama creeps me out... stop staring at me, you weird cat-bear thing!
I wonder why in the US version his fur is brown and his eyelids make him angry.
"And stop staring at me with them big ol eyes!"
*Maruyama's eyes shrink*
What's the song at 14:52
@@aufishsd1445 Its part of the OST. "You're Izayoi"
FilthyWeeaboo I can never beat him because I get distracted 🤣
Totally Underrated Game right here I love this game.
Good on you using the Translation version. I got a boxed reproduction with that rom in the cartridge. Got that actual Japanese one too.
I like the japanese version more because of the design and dialogue.
I entirely agree and wished I had the Japanese one with English text! Unfortunately I have the American one...
Edit: OK, let me rephrase that, I just got the translated Japanese version and it is awesome. #HeaddyTheHero
Can you send me that translated version too?
Same here
Man, I just can't get over how fucking awesome this game's bosses are. Backstage Battle is just too fun to watch (although, it's frustrating as hell to play and beat).
It makes me so happy to see millions of people getting the opportunity, with official emulator releases, to play this little formerly unknown game that I loved as a kid
Damn this game is so underrated.. the bosses look kinda creepy and intimidating.. good design to keep players on their toes.. and that music and sprite art is beautiful 😙👌
This would be the optimal combination: Translated Japanese story, American difficulty.
American difficulty like Americans don't hold the majority of gaming records.
u think this the japanese diff
on the twin freak hus weak point is on his whole ear
Contra hard corps is much harder in USA
Example for American/Japanese difficulties in video games: Metal Man(Mega Man 2)
English version: Metal Man can get one-shotted by his own weapon: the Metal Blade.
Japanese version: You have to bonk Metal Man twice to literally explode him.
bonk haha
Jp translated story, us difficulty and designs.
14:48 so epic!
like a movie scene
1:55 great music from the nutcracker suite
Treasure is a pretty awesome company, having made all sorts of great, albeit very niche games, on the Genesis and N64.
I cannot believe it...
MattEngarding oops oops oops lol
You got a SECRET BONUS POINT!
MattEngarding you've got another try
MattEngarding Yes.
MattEngarding
*_Target! Target!_*
I rented this game back then thinking I can finish it in one weekend.Was I wrong.Mad props to you.I love Treasure.
Cuphead of the 90's
Kevin Cortes due to the ages, cuphead is the dynamite heady of the late 2010's
He look more like Rayman imo
yeah...
not trying to be creepy
@@imaginary_pain4324 si se parece ami novio Rayman por qué es mí amo Rayman
I guess you could say that about all of Treasure's Sega Genesis games.
This is one of my favorite games of all time. I always loved the colors, the playability, the stages, bosses and creative enemies we had to face. I played this game so many times, a whole lot of times indeed, but I could never finish it. In reality, I could never manage to get pass the Gate Keeper in his "berserk" form. I simply could not manage to beat it, because his attacks were too fast and had a ridiculously high range. It was just too difficult for me at the time. However, one day I was playing with a friend and managed to get to this boss, but I had already lost basically all my lives, and I was really tired as well. But since this was Actually my last opportunity without getting a game over, I put all my heart into fighting him. The problem was that I could barely hit that boss. It would always defend my attacks, I would instead hit Heather instead, it would start jumping and moving his wipy-like arms really quickly around him like crazy (and the hitbox of those arms Always managed to hit me no matter how much I tried to dodge)...
But on this one time in particular, when it stopped spinning his arms, it aimed for a single shot at me in a corner of the screen and I jumped to dodge. What happened was that his arm went below the screen, and for my OUT OF THE BLUE SURPRISE its hand simply catch Headache (I think that's his name), that Headdy's friend that generates the power-ups. It was REALLY WEIRD seeing him there in the middle of the fight all of a sudden, just being grabbed by the boss like that from outside the screen. But the thing was, one of the power-ups he was switching between was that bomb which Headdy "plants" on the field, and has to wait a LOT OF TIME for it to blow basically half the enemies in the screen. I managed to hit Exactly that power up, threw the bomb, ran througout the screen for what seemed like an eternity really injured trying to avoid being hit, and Just when the Berserk Gate Keeper opened his hands to throw fire on the ground and became vulnerable, the bomb exploded and he actually died instantly. I CANNOT DESCRIBE MY EMOTIONS WHEN THAT HAPPENED. In that moment I was so in shock that I didn't even try to get all those things that explode from the bosses so you can "YOU GOT ANOTHER TRY!" I just stood screaming in shock.
I honestly started to think that this was actually the Required way to beat the boss, since I could never manage no beat him anyway else (years later I would prove myself wrong, of course). After that I could for the first time advance on the game, and had many other moments full of emotion and adrenaline. I just will never forget that moment of despair, hope and, well, Dumb Luck that me and my friend experienced while we beat that boss for the first time. That honestly never happened again in the many, many times I played this game, and it remains in my memories as one of those moments in which something that really should not be happening at the point Happened, and I could use it for a win.
One of my favorite Sega games.
Very clever, great music/ effects, challenging..ahead of it's time.
Wish they made a sequel/ remaster of some sorts.
Woah that was amazing! The sheer prescision is mind boggling! Fantastic work, especialy on the two faced boss!
No damage on dynamite headdy?
I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!
In the USA version the first boss is unfairly hard, the blue orbs are 2x the size they are in the japan and they also make you take damage.
The perfect sync dosent exis-
16:58
I'm glad this is the original Japanese version.
The Japanese version is the TRUE version of Dynamite Headdy in my opinion; I'm not sure why they took some boss dialogue out, and its baffling how they decided to make the game slightly more difficult for the Western release. Oh, well.
This was, is, and always will be one of my favorite games of all time. It's fun, charming, whimsical and creative! It's irresistible!
Jarjar binksflinks
Do you even know what that means?
He probably commented on the wrong video.
One of the quirkiest 16-bit games ever. And one of the few that plays just as great as it looks. I miss Treasure so much.
1:02 - 1:07 this part SLAPS
Music sync
Best remix, that I've ever heard.
7:58 a 3D boss battle! 😱😱🤯
So what?
@@jwba8173 q
😮
I had this game as a kid. Was awesome! That music :) very underestimated game.
Definitely deserved more attention upon release
Imagine fighting these bosses,
As Sonic and tails. (With the insta sheild of course) for example, in the third boss,
You would have to spin dash along the arm to hit the head, and in the boss at 11:42 you’d be fighting like in the marble garden act 2 boss or you would be fighting in the tornado
?
Similey hops onto Headdy's face.
Headdy: MY EYES!
This is a original game!
10:55 This gonna give me nightmares.
Me too. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
You know, if the old man version grabs you, he gets a heart attack while laughing and dies, that will be in my head forever.
Yeah. The fact that a flying baby head cracking open to reveal another head is so creepy
le head
Treasure games are on a another level of quality . 👌
I remember this game costing $75 at Toys R Us back in ‘94
The music is actually pretty catchy!
Game had some of the best music I've heard! Very impressive.
I had been looking for this game for months and months and finally found it when I saw the game on the App Store
6:18 That is your SOUL
One of the boss fights is literally a robot baby going through stages of his life from a baby, to a boy, to a man, and finally an elder
I had dreams with this game.
My first dream was me and that giant dog
I had a dream where I was shifted into headdys world and I worked together with him 😀
Did it kill ya?
I miss my Sonic Ultimate Genesis Collection.
That game introduce me to the game. And holy shit it have dialogue? I should play this version of the game as story wise I did not know what the fuck is going on.
Heh me neither I thought it was just a drug trip with puppets
I don't remember the collection having this game.
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BigK13372 I still got it
You might as well have just played through the entire game on camera, that's how many bosses there are.
Now all you have to do is get all the secret bonus points...I've heard that it has been done, but apparently nothing special happens.
You needa remember this era of games was known for being all about that highscore. That used to be incentive enough to get them all.
I played this game as a kid but never finished it. Now that I have it in the Sega Genesis collection with an actual save system, I might finally see the end...
This Dynamite Headdy video is the first video to get a million views and beyond! Amazing job! >ω
7:15 nightmare material
Baby Face: am I a joke to you?
@@livingplushfilms5233 yup
Deez nuts
Twin Freaks: what am i? A roach?
YES! I FINALLY FOUND THE NAME OF THIS GAME! I knew it when i was a kid, but i forgot the name of this.
That doll's eyes tho...!
Ikr I Don't Know What Is Wrong With Japan!
MagicEmperor I
Maybe beacuse japan had lots of dolls with creepy eyes,i did explored japan and a million of creepy dolls
I mean i saw a million creepy dolls
MagicEmperor j
7:17 reminded me of Luud from Dragonball GT Transformation.
06:05 Apparently he knows how to use his head
This was a joy to play. The bosses were so damn hard and no walkthroughs or youtube to guide you back then.
God I love Spinderella and Baby Face's theme, with Izayoi's theme a very close second.
The flying baby boss was my favourite. The music playing during the fight is perfect. Don't think I got much further though. Would have only been very young when I had it. Early 90's were the best!! Lol
that's actually motor hand's theme. it was used in his boss battle first so lol.
2:50 Maruyama:Helo betch
17:37 i hate this boss
Dark deamon is harder
@@sluggy68 its not
Twin freaks took me 5 trys and dark deamon took me 2 trys :/
*e v e r y b o d y d o e s*
Yeah, Rever Face is the HARDEST boss in the whole game.
I remember this game on the ultimate genesis collection on ps3 and this was one of the game I played a lot
You know a game is hard when the boss music is saying the boss's name.
Which boss?
hmm...
I don't remember
I'll check
EDIT: Maruyama
This is like if rayman had an awkward cousin or something
ya know except for the fact that rayman and dynamite head dy both have diffrent gameplay styles head dy came out before rayman and has a diffrent style but ya know just awkward cousins i guess :)
good job with this. i'm doing the western version of this
u like plage kight? me too!
😆😁😂😊😊😂😂😊
8:48 You spin me right 'round baby, right 'round
Like a record, baby, right 'round, 'round, 'round
Huh, no wonder the Mettaton boss battle piss me off so much. It opens old wombs of the Jacquilne Dressy boss and how much that guy keeps kicking my ass . . . as well as the awesome music and crazy poses.
no one:
shadowserg's thumbnails: playable characters chillin with the bosses
2:34 'i cannot believe this'
*I cannot believe it
It’s actually “I cannot believe it”
Dog PFPs
This game certainly was creative and it made use of a lot of tricks a 16 bit system could do to give you an engaging experience. A hidden gem.
I never heard of Dynamite Headdy until I saw this video.
I love how all the bosses in this game are so wacky and weird
keep up the untouchable playthroughs, like a complete boss, thats what shadowserg & arek the absolute are!!!!!!
ikr, they tear through the bosses like they're nothing!
+AAFcommander I think he uses cheat codes... dunno.
+Zachary Underwood idk about that, you could be right, but do you mean this one playthrough or do you mean all the games shadowserg & arek the absolute plays cause most of them seem genuine playthroughs to me, do you think they study the games out or do you think they go through many mistakes throughout evey game they play, or you still think they cheat, cause I really don't know.........
AAFcommander did u see on the second and 1st boss!?
What do you mean? I just watched them again to make sure, I don't see any signal of cheat codes anywhere on the first two bosses...
If you mean the blue spheres that pop from the cat not hitting him, they aren't supposed to. They are there to make you think you need to avoid them, I used to do it my first few times and then realized the only thing that hurts you is the cat. And he does die in 2 hits.
If you mean the second boss not hurting him when he falls on him.. if you notice he is using a very well known strategy that is that on the far corner of the screen, the fall doesn't actually go that far, so he isn't getting hit fairly. Its also a great spot cause you are just below the tail to hit him some during his counter attack move. Pity he didn't use the time stop ability tho, that would have been even easier on him.
I love how the "most replayed" is where the Nasty Gatekeeper/Izayoi is. A testament to how BS that boss is
The secret bonus boss is the reason that this game never gets a sequel
Some of these voice clips sound straight out of a Playstation game...
Like "Yes!" and "Thank You!"
19:18 Dark Demon
I loved Maruyama’s boss theme
IS IN SYNC ! WITH THE MUSIC 1:02
I'm glad Treasure realized when they were making Alien Soldier that they just need to show you where to hit the boss and don't have to put a big arrow pointing at it and a voice saying "TARGET!"
You can't beat some Dynamite Headdy. The game looks good too!
The uk/eu version of the game didn't have any dialog in it, and some of the bosses were changed in appearance.
The ending boss fight was really just trying to make sense of it, I thought all this time the badge was a captive by the dark demon. Turns out the badge, smiley, was the dark demon all along and you had to help free him from his delusion of grandeur?
Also that secret final boss still doesn't make sense.