Impossible Ninja Gaiden Challenge Finally Completed After 30 Years!
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Today we take a look at an absolutely insane gaming achievement performed recently on Ninja Gaiden for the Nintendo Entertainment System. This was something that everyone thought was utterly impossible until someone was crazy enough to believe it could be done.
Slackanater's full no damage run: • Ninja Gaiden First Eve...
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How fast can you mash?
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I can mash potatoes pretty fast
I love to mash and smash
I can do the shake method pretty fast lol
12-14 click per sec. wasn't able to do 15 yet hah
Not that fast
"As certain as death and taxes". Slackanater: "Tax evasion".
Wow, Walter watching speedrun content... Glad to see it! :)
Death evasion and tax defiance!
Ummm
Yoshi: *proud noises*
@@GiygasStarman you can evade death. If you can beat this game, you will win immorality. th-cam.com/video/n7rjEEk7q9M/w-d-xo.html
thanks for covering this!
Dang a verified TH-camr with only one like
@@JSA-Studios no a actual Speedrunning legend, not "verified"
@@GarathonI know he’s a speed running and he’s verified too
Ayyy the legend himself
Ikr, I was hoping he would.
Dec 17th 1903: First man to take flight
June 20th 1969: First man on the moon
Dec 23rd 2020: First man to complete Ninja Gaiden no damage run.
Nice
One small hit for Ryu, one GIANT accomplishment for man.
The Wright Brothers are disputed...
Nobody took a flight in 1903. Planes are a lie. Only birds can fly!
2 out of 3 of these events actually happened. One is a psyop.
The amount of patience required to achieve such a task is truly praiseworthy
Hello
Its a man of focus, commitment, and sheer fuckin will
Patience? nah just good weed lul
Praiseworthy indeed.
Oh, so you watch videos that doesn't have anything to do with anime?
What the hell? I got the honor of being mentioned in a Karl Jobst video??? Karl... you absolute legend!
Congratulations! Hope you get a deserved subscriber boost!
Leuk accent man
I'm taking an educated guess... You're Dutch
@@gfdggdfgdgf - What he is, is AWESOME!
@@manulschluggert1171 Haha eerder een irritant accent :p
The programmers of Ninja Gaiden watching this after 30 years : "So...they have finally ascended..."
"Now to unleash the Kraken"
*Ninja Gaiden: Prepare to Suffer Edition, now available for pre-order*
@@theapexsurvivor9538 Lol. That's basically any of the games in reality.
It would be nice to know what they think. After all it is not something expected.
@@theapexsurvivor9538 buahahahahhahahhahahaaaha 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 this killed meeeee totally
@@theapexsurvivor9538 That's what they did with NG on OG Xbox lol. They released "Hurricane" packs that added "new weapons" to the game. It also just so happened to turn the difficulty up to over 9000.
6:34 "But there is a technique that allows us to strike much faster, and it's called 'Slash Cancelling'."
We're reaching challenge run levels where runners are becoming like shonen protagonist learning ancient forbidden arts from old masters.
Wow. I'm lucky if I can even beat Ninja Gaiden on a good day. I can never imagine never taking any damage.
Some of the best players can barely pull off a “no death” play through.
Don't be a "man babey" pat
honestly the most impressive feat of the soulsborne challenge is the hurdle of DS2s infamously shitty hitboxes haha, theyre extremely janky & unfair compaired to the pixel perfect hitboxes of the rest of the series, can get caught out by reallly unfair distances & clipped by attacks that clearly missed you. the b team did a shoddy job on it, plus you can only move in 8 directions, its just not optimised or as flawlessly designed as the rest
like with 1/3/BB/sekiro you can watch fights in slow motion and see attacks miss by millimeters, grazing past the character model in amazingly fluid dances
but with 2 when you go slowmo you'll see massive gaps where people still get hit haha
I have never beat this game without save states, I can't imagine a no death run or even hit. Man I remember being 8 and working hard just to get to Jaquiao.
Time has wussed me in gaming.
For real!
Even tho no-hit runs are very different to speed runs it feels like they are both cut from the same cloth
Both are a showcase of skill, mastery and determination.
Both are heart thumping, adrenaline soaked endeavors
Both are gay
@@Tokito935 says the one with an abraham lincoln vampire hunter pfp
@@Tokito935 you are gay
All I'm seeing are TAS bots becoming more and more elaborate, now growing beards and streaming themselves
he 100% deserves this title, the amount of work and effort he put into this is crazy
Yeah, imagine you’d put that into something worth actual sht.
“You need to do 15 clicks per second”
Twosetters: ‘Heavy breathing intensifies’
Nice.
If you can click it slowly, you can click it quickly.
Elegant from Smash Bros laughs at this
you can't help but smile at the end, his reaction was so genuine
I'm not crying, you're crying!
His heart must have been going faster than his button mashing! Bless him 😍
and I'm still smiling!
@@slackanater6639 I'm late, but absolutely massive congrats on that man. it was an insane run to watch
@@slackanater6639 My man, you're an absolute LEGEND (emphasis on LEGEND 20 million times please thank you)
That finale gave me chills. He truly became master Ryu and rescued his father without a scratch the way the legend was always meant to be told.
He became the Ninja Dragon.
A true legend
Excellent use of FTL music, too. Audio perfectly balanced to thread the line between "noticeable lack of music" and "intrusive" while still being more than filler noise.
@@PotyGames this will give you chills. The dark prophet loves his delicious white women... Go play his game from hell. Only 2 people have beat it so far.
th-cam.com/video/n7rjEEk7q9M/w-d-xo.html
Loök around him channel. Get dem voodoo vibes. Use your ouija board.
This further validates the rage I experienced as a child when I saw "The Wizard" in theaters and they claimed he was on his second or third time through and hadn't even taken a hit.
or was it nintendo subtly mentioning that it was entirely possible this whole time
@@Macksbet Koei-Tecmo made NG, not Nintendo
@@feshpince7181 what?
@@Macksbet What don't you understand? Nintendo is not the company that developed Ninja Gaiden. Koei-Tecmo is. If anything, it was Universal Studios that you're thinking of, here. Considering they made "The Wizard" in the first place.
@@feshpince7181 what i dont understand is why you feel the need to explain that tecmo made the game. the movie was made by nintendo
This is not an epic gamer moment. This is a legendary gamer moment
This is not a legendary gamer moment.
This is a legendary moment in human history.
"Restrains caused by human nervous system" This is gold.
The nervous system, it's Sooo pathetic.
@@TheMikeyb86 I just be like "Damn Nervous System stop bein so damn nervous sheesh" 😂🤣👍
THE FLESH IS *W E A K*
YOUR KIND CLING TO YOUR FLESH... AS IF IT WILL NOT DECAY AND FAIL YOU.
BUT I AM ALREADY SAVED... FOR THE MACHINE IS IMMORTAL.
BWWAAAAAARRRHHHH
@@delphicdescant "one day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will pray my kind to save you"
So did this guy essentially invalidate all previous "no damage" run submissions of Ninja Gaiden? Because they were all no damage runs when it was believed that the one hit was "unavoidable". Now they're all just regular old Ninja Gaiden runs.
Nah, you’ll most likely see a new category of “no damage” runs being created, or players will still be allowed to take the unavoidable hit from the final boss for a “no damage” run.
@@Raptorman0205 hell no that goes against the spirit
@@Raptorman0205 I doubt that. Just because it's difficult doesn't mean it gets a pass.
@@Raptorman0205 that's terrible if that happens
@@kiddmode it's usually how speedrun communities handle it
That's insane - it took me 25 years to beat this, I can't imagine trying for no damage!
In that amount of time, you could become a professional musician, raise a family, learn the entirety of English, mathematics, science, etc., witness seven unique US presidential terms, go from 144p to 8k video, see the America, Haitian, and French Revolutions, etc… or you could beat Ninja Gaiden.
@@WallopWannabe in that time I bought a house, got married, had 3 kids, had some mild success on TH-cam, gone through several jobs and a whole lot more haha
@@FilmLearnin it's probably implied that he wasn't trying all day every day for the entire 25 years.
@@jakefingerrr 😜
25 years? Are you serious? I beat it when I was like 8 yrs old in 1989.
this is one of my favorite stories of speedruns/no hits from your channel. The fact that someone can still be the first person to do something in a game that’s 30 years old is just wild.
Personally, some no-hit runs are more interesting than any% speedruns.
Agreed. I like 100%/legit speedruns and no hit runs alot more than glitch/any%.
Yeah I watched one for Resident Evil 3 reimagined where someone played it on Inferno difficulty.
You forgot some words
Especially if the no hit run was considered literally impossible
idk watching paint dry is more exciting than SOME any% speedruns (cough cough gta5)
I love that we got to see Arcus in this too. He's so wholesome.
Always ready with a good moo, and he's the only human I've ever seen speedrun a burrito on splits. The man is a true treasure to the gaming world.
Yeah
Me who watched Summoning Salt's video on Ninja Gaiden: expoort
Gitty Up!
...aaaand, klonk!
"Unlimited lives means unlimited continues. The game is only over, if you make it over!"
Board James is better.
I remember I was 13 when our teacher asked us what our talents are. Some of my classmates said they can sing, dance, etc. When it was my turn, a quick idea came into my mind. "I can finish Ninja Gaiden without dying." But I didn't say that. The teacher might not get how awesome feat it was. So I just said, drawing is my talent. The teacher was happy and here I am now regretting that time.
PS: Slackanater, you are a legend! Much respect here.
Background: "its a gooollldeeennn daayyyyyyyyyyy!"
Slackanater: "YES! OH SHIT.... We got shrimp-ed!"
I gotta start using this phrase when something unavoidable ruins my plans.
@@shagnastyfo20 Hahahaha. That was clever. I immediately started looking for examples in life and past experiences where I could say that - outside of gaming, of course.
Imagine if you did that and suddenly unlocked another stage with the true final boss nobody ever knew about.
You should make your own game then, you creul sob
Ahahhhah LOL !
@Jordonius First off, my autocorrect decided to say fuck it. Secondly, I wasn't talking down to OP, you assumed that. What I said was basically a joke
It would’ve been discovered by a TAS run tho.
Daaaamn, that would be so sick
I love that an entirely new way of even holding the controller was necessary to do this
*Pulls off theoretical tech*
“There it is :)”
Gotta love how chill Arcus is
Don't get to watch much anymore but always loved watching Arcus. Absolutely amazing mentally
This man has unlocked the ability to parry bullets now.
You know, there's literally a man who can actually do this.
Are u telling me that Garou from opm finished ninja gaiden without hits?
PARRY THIS YOU FUCKING CASUAL!
*Ok.*
Till... 😈
@BlackWatchAmbush I didn't say it was easy, feasible, or doable with multiple bullets, but it can be done once, with preparation.
“The hit is as certain as death and taxes” as certain as one of those things actually
yeah. elon musk is going to invent immortality and tax the shit out of it.
death is just a state of mind
Wait you know how to cure aging?
death cant kill you without your consent
just say no
Jokes on you, I havent paid my taxes in 9 years.
My favorite part about Ninja Gaiden is that the first stage is basically just walking to the right. It gives you a false sense that the game is going to be easy as pie, but you get to through a couple more stages and it’s hell on earth.
The most amazing thing of this entire run is…. How the developers, without knowing, added a feature that would help this man accomplish a no hit record, which is the down+B method. That to me blows my mind. It’s been sitting there all these decades…. And just recently runners were able to discover and exploit it. That’s so amazing… gosh I love this
Love your content Karl, stuff like no hit runs is just as interesting as speedrunning because it's all about people challenging themselves.
Take care you absolute legend.
The dudes behind NG: "So we can die in peace now....."
Lol
@Adnan Yusuf wut
@@DaDonroy101
A compliment was made but it was hiding behind a snide.
@Adnan Yusuf w0t?
I like to believe they were ripped from existence as the only seal confining them to our reality was finally broken.
Utterly insane. This damn game crushed me so many times as a kid, I’ve never even beaten it. Seriously. To see it completed in a true ninja fashion is unbelievable. You can actually feel his excitement
Man Slackanater is an absolute legend. I love it when you say: "then, they did this" really builds it up
Also, I got a 13 in the mash
Good 👍
Just wait until someone attempts a pacifist run...
nobody will succeed
The fact that enemies can knock you into a pit on a single hit because of the knockback means that eliminating them to make the run easier is a big part of why people attempt these runs. Eliminating weapons entirely? It might be theoretically possible, but I don't think a human can do it in segmented fashion, let alone all in one shot.
I think sinisterwon has done it and just used the sword on the bosses. Lotsa damage boosting
If you search for sinister1 Ninja Gaiden pacifist you will find a run from AGDQ where he completes the game pacifist in a single setting. Uses the sword bosses, only
www.speedrun.com/ngnes#Pacifist
That's a thing apparently
Time to split the leader board in "One-hit" and "No-Damage" runs.
No. It would be “runs” and “damage-less”
In the attempt where he got the perfect run even tho I knew he was going to make it my hands got sweaty and I got anxious LOL, I couldn't help but smile when pulled this, colossal kudos to this dude.
I don't care what game you play, but any no hit/no damage run is freakin impressive.
That is a True Ninja that has Mastered all his skills. Impressive! ❗️😨
My homey acid glow 😏
the true ninja gaiden
I see you everywhere 😳
Amazing skill to be able to do this. I can't beat the 1st level without taking damage.
Indeed. I can't even beat the 1st level period. :O
I take damage holding the controller.
It must take incredible skills un not getting bore/annoyed, maybe he could take my ex lmao
To this day I still cant even beat the first level of NG
I can't beat the first level.
15:43 "There is no bathroom" by Arnold Schwarzenegger lmao
7:59
I can relate. In the Mario Party 7 minigame "Pokey Pummel," the goal is to be the first player to press the A button a set number of times. I figured out "jitter clicking" on my own when I was 7, so none of my siblings could beat me at it from that point on.
At the end of all your videos: "Let me know if you would like to see..."
Everyone: "YES!"
I love how Arcus is like the old sensei here, teaching others how to surpass their perceived limitations.
Standing on the shoulders of giants.
He's a great player, too odd of a person for me to be able to watch, one of the weirdest I've ever seen on Twitch, seems like a nice person tho.
Hoo-ahh, made it through-ahh... your perceived limitations
And.... Mash, mash, mash
Jumping and a squishin
Agreed... Would Be Nice If There's 2 "No-Damage" Category Of This Runs
1. "One-Hit Runs"
2. "No Damage Runs"
I love how this impossible task was achieved not only by the hard work of one man but also by the contribution of a whole community.
That's how all "impossible tasks" go.
Karl: "clicks per second"
Me, a veteran: *Flashbacks to Koreans playing Starcraft*
15 per second is 900 apm on a single button and finger. Starcraft doesnt come anywhere close to that. I guess the only thing that that actually does is some meme rhythm game songs, which obviously only a few people in the world can actually do.
@@myrdana you should probably change it to 900apm lol. And it does sometimes hapen that players have a 1000apm but thats usually just holding a button like when youre creating zerglings and then the game counting each seperate zergling made as an action.
@@yevgenyiyeet8737 whoops yeah, my brain isnt awake it seems.
@@myrdana Yes, some extremely hard song charts in games like osu!mania or Lunatic Rave have 17 or even 18 keys per second sections, and that is when taking into account each single key alone, which makes some parts reach 60+ kps when including all keys together. Btw Takahashi Meijin used to have the record of 16 kps that stood for a really long time iirc.
@@myrdana You know that the n1 player (debatably) is reynor and he has gotten 1200+ apm multiple times in pro matches.
". . . will likely never be preformed in a real speedrun"
There are so many speedruns WRs that rely on what was once thought to be TAS possible only. I guarantee that now this trick has been performed, the world record will one day rely on it being pulled off as the final act of the speedrun. It might take some time, but eventually it will be the only time save left, and once that is true, speedrunners will pursue it, regardless of how insane it may seem.
they are still other time saving measures before this trick is deemed neccesary
"It might take some time, but eventually it will be the only time save left, and once that is true, speedrunners will pursue it, regardless of how insane it may seem."
One such "technically possible" trick is in Quake, where the final map has a trigger to exit the level near the ceiling in the boss room (According to the source files released by John Romero in 2006, "This is so in Deathmatch, exiting the map will go to the start map.") You can reach it using a combined grenade and rocket jump, but it's rarely ever attempted in single segment runs because it's so difficult to get the required height without dying and it's right at the end of the game. Since it allows you to exit the map without killing the boss, it's technically the "true" ending to the pacifist speedrun.
www.twitch.tv/shamblernaut/clip/VictoriousIncredulousNarwhalCoolStoryBob
Kinda random question but do you play smash Bros?
will this happen to carpetless as well?
And the best part about being the first person to do something... other people may wind up doing it faster, but you will ALWAYS be the first one to have one it.
Of all the world's "coolest gameplay in history" I have ever seen this, and the blindfolded Super Mario run are by far the most impressive. With all due respect for Secret Agent Runway players, I am in awe of the dedication and skill this takes. I bow my head in the general direction of the appropriate leaderboards.
Oh, great video as always, mate.
Ha, I'm now gonna use "we got shrimped man!" as my go to phrase for getting rng bullshit from this point on xD
Shrimped: To be screwed over by RNG. Yes, this will be a thing forever
legit
"Fuck impossible. It's only impossible until someone comes along and does that shit"- CT Fletcher
i always love watching a speedrunner pull off some new insane tech they've been practicing for ages and it finally paying off. rather candid
1.8 followers is CRIMINAL. Bro deserves WAYY more
10 years from now: "Ninja Gaiden Completed BLINDFOLDED with No Damage Taken" haha
And completed in 10 minutes
and only using 1 hand
Summoning salt in 10 years and 1 month: And then he did this...
@@celicasylphil707 While being punched in the back of the head every 20 seconds.
100 years from now .. "NinjaGaiden(Ancient AF) COmplete, Blindfold, No damage *, NO HANDS telekinetic run"
*except for last boss... can think fast enough
Slackanater’s stream layout is stylish as fuck
Karl, this is my favorite-est of all your videos. I'm watching it for the third time now and I'm going to convince some of my friends and family members to watch it as well. I love watching Summoning Salt's Ninja Gaiden video and then this video of yours back to back. They are the gamers' versions of the Rocky movies. I will probably watch them another 100 or so times throughout the years. Also, if you haven't seen it, Man Vs Snake: The Long And Twisted Tale Of Nibbler is one of the best-est and most motivational-est video game documentaries of all time. It's right up there with Indie Game The Movie. I love this kinda stuff. Have a good one, dude.
This game used to kick mynass when I was 10. Still does & I'm 44 now. Salute to that guy for being Video game Legendary
Im impressed with his concentration and composure, being so close to achieving history and not panicing and choking damn
He's an anti-Atlanta-Falcons.
on the inside he would have been boiling
"We've got shrimped!!"
i wish youtube was around in my days.
when i was 15 i was obsessed with this game
and loved showing off to my friends that i could beat it
without taking a hit. theres actually another way u can
avoid that head but its all old news now.
congrats on the "first" publicized no hit run.
Just awesome coverage, as always. Love to see other game challenges like this.
“Yet fair”
0:10
Proceeds to use dragon tooth with rapier move set
Lmao those were the rage in DS 1
Imagine flexing so hard that he wore crocks while doing the no hit run
Wtf is your name
Its purely based in scientific theorem. The crocks holes allows airflow to the feet which works for better ligament control, focus and I don't know what I'm even talking about... 😅
@@thoticcusprime9309 i can read it Thotticus Prime
@@thoticcusprime9309 ok cool
@@sirdigbyofsmeg1191 Two words
CEO of a big company during interview: so why should we hire you?
Slackanater: well...
You do such a good job painting a story of these types of achievements. I’m not even in the competitive gaming world, but your videos give me a glimpse into how special and challenging these accomplishments are. Thank you.
Slackanater: _Implies he's slacks off._
Also Slackanater: _Pulls off a genuine No-Damage Run of Ninja Gaiden._
the fact this took longer then the dark souls trilogy without getting hit says alot about the difficulty
I think it is more that dodging the head was thought to be impossible as opposed to just very hard...then it was proven to merely be very hard...and three years later it was done.
@@jamisonr or dark souls just isn't as hard as people make it out to be
Most of insanely difficult games were from old consoles.
@@pulsefel9210 dark souls is just a shitty game with a shit story. I never got the hype around any ds game.
@@ryancarthen2198 I like the atmosphere of the games. The "difficulty" relies heavily on cheap shots as well as trial and error. The big appeal was that it was a "really hard game" that normal people could actually play.
There might be another way!
12:36 look at that ninja skill power he got, that skill can be activated while Ryu is jumping and it performs a mid air turning attack..
I remember vaguely that we had a friend back in the 8 bit days that would come to our house to play video games, he was about 10 years older than us, but one time he demonstrated us how to kill the final boss very fast, it required that mid air turning skill, BUT the hard part is reaching the Boss while still maintaining that skill in your inventory because it could be changed along the way..
So I challenge retro PRO gamers out there if it's possible, because I remember how my friend destroyed the Boss' heart with just one jump attack using that mid air turning skill
I love how generous you are as a speed runner with a platform to other speed runners makes each video a joy to watch
I love the speedrunner mentality. Like, "Alright, we know its possible now. Let's see who could do it fastest."
Also the usual it's imposible until someone does it, then after that its imposible to pull it off consistently until someone does it
And that is why speedrunning transcends just playing a game.
I assume most people who play games on repeated runs do some little tricks to speed up the less interesting parts without going for a speedrun. From skipping cutscenes, to constantly rolling or whistle-sprinting in Zelda.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Speedrunning is a different ball gamee altogether
carpetless actually done in runs, as always in speedrunning, never say never
This. Is. Epic. And imo, no hit, max difficulty and 100% speedruns are way more interesting than any%, I watch almost exclusively these categories
Arcus is a fucking legend. He transformed into a cowboy
To defeat the Ninja one must become a Cowboy
The duality of man.
Cowboys and Ninjas.
Arcus even speedran a burrito
Smash smash smash
@@Zelinkokitsune ways of the true Ninja eh
I remember beating battletoads as a kid. I raised my hands in triumph, wiped the dried milk off my upper lip and ventured outdoors where I was blinded by the first natural light I'd seen in over a week
Love this channel man, i love hearing drama, accomplishments dealing with the gaming community. Seeing the unrealness unfold in front of my eyes makes me happy
What truly blows my mind here is that 30 years ago the programmers of Ninja Gaiden had intentionally put in the extra work to code the "unavoidable" boss cheap shot in a manner that made it possible but just inhumanly difficult to avoid. It would have been easier to code the head so that it was just unkillable, but instead they coded a life counter on it and included some logic for what to do when it reached zero aka making the head explode and vanish.
This is a beautiful example of the game design ideal of difficult yet always fair.
If you want to see another extremely hard no hit run. Check out DarkviperAU's no hit runs of GTA 5. He's been trying for almost a year now and he is VERY close to achieving it.
Holy shit that sounds very impressive.
Best he has done is a single hit theoughout the whole run. We may hear about Darkviper on this channel pretty soon
If you think that’s extremely hard you haven’t played Ninja Gaiden
@@Cytra- but it's still hard so yeah
@lmao reactionaries they programed that game to be unbeatable by humans, only super computers are able to play through
Does this mean all other "no hit runs" are invalidated as there is a true no hit run now?
Yep
Depends on community. If moderators will do in the same manner as for some low%s it would be like this: Runs in the leaderboard first and foremost would be sorted by the amount of hits taken, then by time run took to complete. So his run will allways be above all ones that took 1 hit. Alternatively, they may make a completely new category, like it was with some Mario low%s.
wouldn’t it be the same w Doom 2 runs then? Since there was a secret deemed impossible to trigger for a complete 100% UV max run until Zero Master found a way to get it making his run the only “legit” 100% UV max run?
Yes
of course
This video is very-well produced. Thank you for the effort, and background story leading up to the feat.
no-hit runs may not necessarily be speedruns but they're still feats of video game skill, and I'll gladly watch more about them!
Slackanater, you sir are an absolute legend.
Great overview, thank you Karl!
Oh hello, Papa Flammy! Imagine seeing you here!
Mathematics he loves it
But can he smash those integrals as fast and flawless as you do?
I remember being so confused playing ninja gaiden on the original Xbox. Thinking I could jump away while those damn shurikens followed me wherever I went. Was the first game I played that absolutely demolished me, took a while to get better but when I did it was the most satisfying experience.
This is a seriously impressive and incredible accomplishment. Excellent work!
Actually a Nintendo Power Game Counselor claimed to have beaten Ninja Gaiden with his eyes closed back in the 80s, it was printed in one of their mags. If that’s true, that’s actually way more impressive, and was 30 years ago.
Arcus finishes the head with the cancelling technique.
Narrator: This is the first time we have a verifiable and reliable proof.
Arcus: aaaaand clunck
That was a good clunk.
Ok, cape analysis: Ryu is wearing the cat as cape... the cat has no cape... and the bird has no cape.
4:44 As a Dutch person I feel that accent.
jes, but atliest he is using goet gremmer! otterwise it woeldnt be ferry frikandelbroodje of him!
Swear I thought he was hosting an EDM radio show and was talking about the next track he was going to play lol
Pretty amazing, back in the day the other game counselors and I never thought this would ever happen! Cheers Slackanater!
That was amazing great video! Definitely need more challenges videos like this
11:45 Shout out to Karl for saying "intents and purposes" instead of "intensive purposes"
Or 'In tents and porpoises"
I love that you can hear him intentionally enunciate it
@@michaelleue7594 It's a common error...although people's purposes _can_ get pretty intense.
Never completed the game, ended up with a hole in the wall
Certified Kyle moment
@@karamelflan1838 kyle moment 😎😳
I just miss her so much bro!!
@@vinny6669 same, i punched her right in the forehead, got into jail for 2 years for assault, epic
This was a joke btw I'm a child there's no damn way I'm punching a woman
@@YurieSnowie why wouldnt you want to punch a woman
That was so good!! I'd love to see more of these! Your videos are always top quality !
That was an amazing perfect run on such a cheap and difficult game. His reaction at the end was how I'd act if I could get through the 1st level without dying (which still hasn't happened). I finally beat Ninja Gaiden on 7/2/17, and only because I used an emulator. After renting it in high school, and having my mother turn off my NES while I was at school, I never got as far again, and had to turn it back in at the store. I only know the date I beat it b/c I track all the games I've ever played on a spreadsheet, along with date-stamped gameplay notes along the way after each session. It's fun to go back and read how I bitched, whined, and cursed at some of the more difficult games.
14:46 “after two more weeks of grinding, on the 23rd of December, he would do.. this.”
I almost was expecting “We’re finally landing” by HOME to start playing at the end there shout out to the legend Summoning Salt.
Nah, "We're Finally Landing" is more of an intro song. This run was more of a "4" moment. Or perhaps a "Highway Broken" by glue70 followed by a "...and that's where the record stands today. Thank you for watching".
Even though it was in a save state. That guy was the 1st person to destroy the demon head before it hit the ground without TAS. He pulled a God tier move and all he says is "there it is" nonchalantly lmfao fucking chad
Try not to say stuff like god tier thanks bro
That wasn't a save state. You can tell he really thought he would never do it
Once again you manage to hold the full attention of someone outside the speedrunning scene. You manage to make these videos that keep me enthralled the entire time even though I've seemingly never been invested in Ninja Gaiden a day in my life... until today. Incredible dedication by Slack, and what a great presentation by yourself Karl. Thanks for sharing
Ninja Gaiden has the best soundtrack! As a kid I was pumped to play!!