marcus watkins I only beat him one time myself. Took me forever and it went a lot of rounds I don’t remember if I even knocked him out. I may have won by decision. I figured out away to avoid his punches and land a few punches in between. I remember being so nervous because I barely beat him and had got knocked down a few times as well. I was so disappointed to finally beat him and all they have at the ending was Adrienne and Rocky hugging in front their mansion. I was a sucker for video games based on movies though lol
And Clubber Lang whipped me a lot at first until I learned to beat him you had to punch him in the body. A shame how easy it was to beat Apollo though lol
They made overqualifying with the speedbag impossible without cheating and using a special controller. I knocked Drago out in the 11th without cheating. I jabbed while out of range and Drago would sometimes run into the big punch. You do it long enough you wear him down and eventually he goes down.
I always used the Sega Genesis turbo controller..it fit the master system portal..it was easy as hell to beat Drago after that! Lol knocked him out in the second round!!
u mean drago killd rockys freand aplow creed died in rocky 4.your stupid u dont know your rocky moves i grew up watching all of the rocky i wish he was a real boxer.
Oh my god ...when i see this i can clearly see my old room as a Kid with my rocky 4 Poster on the Wall and the he-man figures . Man i Miss those nostalgic Feelings and memories . THIS Game was back in the days so Bad ass . Thanks for uploading this
Absolutely lover The Sega Master System when I was a kid...Hang On.. Out Run.. Rocky..World Soccer ..Great Basketball Super Tennis and California Games were the ones I played such great memories x
Look at what you've done! You've created an alternate history! You beat Drago so quickly and with so little damage done to yourself that the Soviet spectators never got a chance to root for Rocky. Rocky never made his "everybody can change" speech. Public sentiment in the Soviet Union never changes. The Berlin Wall never comes down. The War on Terror never begins because the Cold War continues into the 21st Century... Think about it man. Just think about it.
Don Skiver You forgot how Mikhail Gorbachev never introduces Glastnost and Perestroika, thus the hardcore members of the Communist party don't try and overthrow him, thus never giving the Russian Federation the opportunity to take power, thus extending the life of the Soviet Union to the present day.
Naw, in my mind the cold war goes hot and they build Rocky Robots that fight Drago Robots with nuclear processors that fight, one day they inspire both USA and Russia and the cold war ends ending all wars forever... SO ROCKY CAUSED THE NEW WAR! JUST THINK ABOUT THAT!
Man I remember this game back in the day. Without a turbo controller, your arm is fucked from the punching bag then by the time you qualify, your arm is numb having to do the actual fight. Hated this game.
It is crazy how back then this game with only 3 different fights would have sold for $40-$50. This takes the "we have a short game so we have to make it super hard to make it last longer" to the extreme!
@@nookie077 I remember some Super Nintendo games being $70 (according to google 55GBP) With inflation that is $146!(115GBP) It is insane that games are soooo much more advanced now and much cheaper. I think we were getting ripped off big time back then! There was also a lot more crap back then. If you look at the Super Nintendo library sure there are some great games but the large majority of it is trash.
Legendary game. I remember my brother beating this without the scandalous aid of turbo. It did take him years, however. And by the end, I witnessed him obtained the mythical seven hits per second on the speed-bag (he had a skimming technique). Man, that training section actually trains your forearms. I'll never forget it.
Getting a high score in the speed bag training would determine if you could breeze through the Drago fight. It took me ages to figure out how to beat him. I never had a turbo controller but discovered that, during the speedbag training if I flipped my thumb around and used my thumb nail to slide back and forth between the two game pad buttons as fast as I could, I could make my own “turbo fire”! My arm would be burning by the end of the training, but I could typically get the 6 second average necessary to win...
The graphics are insane for a master system game! And the animations are really good! If it didn't say it was a master system game I'd have probably confused it for a mega drive game!
Man, you are a MASTER!! The notes are EXTREMELY helpful!! Reading them while watching the game, it feels like you're Mickey shouting out advice from the side of the ring.
Thanks for putting this together, talbot1939, it really gives people an idea of what the game is like with a turbo controller. I remember reading that with a turbo controller it was possible to score 8 hits per second during the second training session, but that is obviously not the case. Surprisingly, it is possible to do just as well without a turbo controller. Rocky is very beatable.
I'm 35 and used to have this game when i was a kid. It took me years to finish it without a turbo controller. Actually, the first training gives you more powerful punches, the second one faster punches (and I CHALLENGE anyone to achieve a hit rate higher than 3/sec without cheats and without losing an arm here, so forget about becoming as fast as in this video), and the last one removes one of the three weak punches before the strong one in the combo, so they became two. So while Apollo and Clubber were actually beatable, Drago wasn't without knowing a little "cheat". The secret to beat Drago was MISS him with the two weak punches and land the strong one to push him back far enough to don't allow him to DESTROY you and repeat. This required perfect timing in a game with clumsy controls, and every single error meant a knockdown for him.
Wow look at Rocky go! He plowed through Lang and Drago like they were Spider Ricco! Never thought I'd see the day. I love how Lang is sporting black trunks in the fight but when he's knock down his trunks are blue.
I have this game for my SMS. Actually, on the contrary i used to think for ages, the use of rapid fire or turbo controllers make the training harder do achieve better results. I manually managed to beat the 99 limit ate the first training, reached 7 punches/sec at the second and 90 on the third. It´s really just a matter of timing on the buttons. Just keep pushing the buttons 1 and 2 alternately for good results, it´s easy to get the correct timing. There´s no need for turbo.
Yes I did. Several times. The key to beating Drago is timing. If you time the first two jabs right he'll walk into your straight punch. It's a nice test of endurance and you usually win by decision this way, but if you're timing is right-on you can TKO him. Unfortunately, I don't have a digital camcorder so I can't record myself beating it, but I remember seeing a legitimate win here on youtube. It's quite a sense of accomplishment the first time you beat this game without cheating.
He's also wearing the red white and blue trunks in training before Apollo...I noticed both of those things in 1987 when I was 5 years old. In any case, they got one very important detail right: they made rocky a lefty. Even the PS2 game didn't have him as a south paw.
Yeah, I was crazy enough to try that out and actually succeed last year! It really does make the game that much more of a challenge, but it's still beatable either way :).
Very useful tips! Thanks! When I was kid, I truly suck at the training part of this game. I'm sad to say that appollo gave me a great mount of difficulty.
Take a spoon, tilt it so that the bottom curve of the spoon glides over the buttons on your controller. Rub the spoon back and forth quickly and you can make his arms move super fast. This spoon technique works on many games.
He only said that in Rocky 2 because he wanted Rocky to protect his right eye (which Mickey had to cut in the first to reduce the swelling). Remember, he had poor vision at the start of Rocky 2 (which some how never became an issue in the later movies).
I used an emulator so it's just a little program that let's you bind your keyboard keys to your gamepad and make it turbo. the program is called joytokey. The game turns very easy if you use a turbo controller for the training stages.
It's amazing how when we were young we would say things like " wow look at those graphics" and " that looks just like him" but as you get older you notice it's really the same character with adjustments
You needed a special rhythm to win against Drago: punch him him- step back, punch him- step back. You could not win in the infight against him. It took some time until I understood that... 😅
Thanks for doing this game.. i always wanted to know what the ending was like.. then again, when i played this game was like in 1990 or something like that i bet i could beat it now
As I kid my friend had this game. I was the only one able to average 7 hits/s which was necessary to beat Drago. But once you actually managed that the Drago fight was the easiest, otherwise it was super difficult.
It looks like Rocky is wearing a blue janitor's suit at the end. This must be after Paulie lost all his money, and Rocky is getting ready to go clean that house.
thumbs up if you played this as a kid, hated this as a kid, grew up tried it again, hated it again, watched this video hoping to see the ending then realizing it wasn't worth the time anyway, but you still own it : D
You just unlocked one of the biggest mysteries of my childhood video game life.....I was never able to beat Drago!!! lol
marcus watkins I only beat him one time myself. Took me forever and it went a lot of rounds I don’t remember if I even knocked him out. I may have won by decision. I figured out away to avoid his punches and land a few punches in between. I remember being so nervous because I barely beat him and had got knocked down a few times as well. I was so disappointed to finally beat him and all they have at the ending was Adrienne and Rocky hugging in front their mansion. I was a sucker for video games based on movies though lol
And Clubber Lang whipped me a lot at first until I learned to beat him you had to punch him in the body. A shame how easy it was to beat Apollo though lol
They made overqualifying with the speedbag impossible without cheating and using a special controller. I knocked Drago out in the 11th without cheating. I jabbed while out of range and Drago would sometimes run into the big punch. You do it long enough you wear him down and eventually he goes down.
I always used the Sega Genesis turbo controller..it fit the master system portal..it was easy as hell to beat Drago after that! Lol knocked him out in the second round!!
The guy training doesn't even look like Mick! He looks more like a merchant sailor then a boxing manager!
My god look at those graphics!I miss the 80's games so much!
Never could beat this game coming up.
Training with Mickey's corpse before the Drago fight.
+Michael Colombo HAHAHAHA!!! Gold! Best comment I've read in a while.
OMG thats hilarious!
u mean drago killd rockys freand aplow creed died in rocky 4.your stupid u dont know your rocky moves i grew up watching all of the rocky i wish he was a real boxer.
Lol funny ass hell
LOLOL
Total destruction of Drago, never saw it this way.
Oh my god ...when i see this i can clearly see my old room as a Kid with my rocky 4 Poster on the Wall and the he-man figures . Man i Miss those nostalgic Feelings and memories . THIS Game was back in the days so Bad ass . Thanks for uploading this
Considering that the Master System is technologically more powerful than the NES, this graphics is very good for 8-bit.
AVGN makes this game look hard. This makes the game look freakin' easy.
If you have a turbo controller, you can genuinely beat the game in less than 10 minutes.
That's the case with most games he shows. Its for comedy purposes.
I remember it being exactly as he described when I was a kid.
Absolutely lover The Sega Master System when I was a kid...Hang On.. Out Run.. Rocky..World Soccer ..Great Basketball Super Tennis and California Games were the ones I played such great memories x
Nathan Gander dude! black belt was a great game! the ninja, ghosts house, astro warriors...
Look at what you've done! You've created an alternate history!
You beat Drago so quickly and with so little damage done to yourself that the Soviet spectators never got a chance to root for Rocky. Rocky never made his "everybody can change" speech. Public sentiment in the Soviet Union never changes. The Berlin Wall never comes down. The War on Terror never begins because the Cold War continues into the 21st Century...
Think about it man. Just think about it.
Don Skiver Anyone up for a bit of cold war instead of this "War of Terror?"
Don Skiver You forgot how Mikhail Gorbachev never introduces Glastnost and Perestroika, thus the hardcore members of the Communist party don't try and overthrow him, thus never giving the Russian Federation the opportunity to take power, thus extending the life of the Soviet Union to the present day.
Naw, in my mind the cold war goes hot and they build Rocky Robots that fight Drago Robots with nuclear processors that fight, one day they inspire both USA and Russia and the cold war ends ending all wars forever... SO ROCKY CAUSED THE NEW WAR! JUST THINK ABOUT THAT!
+Nero Angelo AKA the "Robot Jox" (1989) timeline.
Don Skiver But at least in the alternate 1985 his mom would have huge jugs
Man I remember this game back in the day. Without a turbo controller, your arm is fucked from the punching bag then by the time you qualify, your arm is numb having to do the actual fight. Hated this game.
The Mean Arena I always lost to drago...lol
It is crazy how back then this game with only 3 different fights would have sold for $40-$50. This takes the "we have a short game so we have to make it super hard to make it last longer" to the extreme!
Definitely, In the 90's I remember games costing £35 that you could finish in a morning. And that's not taking inflation into account
@@nookie077 I remember some Super Nintendo games being $70 (according to google 55GBP) With inflation that is $146!(115GBP) It is insane that games are soooo much more advanced now and much cheaper. I think we were getting ripped off big time back then! There was also a lot more crap back then. If you look at the Super Nintendo library sure there are some great games but the large majority of it is trash.
Memories! I remember playing this game at my grandmother's house on my cousin's Sega Master System. That was like 18 years ago! Times flies!
Jdub14000
Jesus dude... your comment was posted 12 years ago...
It was 33 years ago that you played it now...
@@Cinicraft0015 years ago now
How old are you now bro 😮 !! I think u r now have kids
@@OmarAbdullah-s6q yep. One boy who's 14 now.
Legendary game. I remember my brother beating this without the scandalous aid of turbo. It did take him years, however. And by the end, I witnessed him obtained the mythical seven hits per second on the speed-bag (he had a skimming technique).
Man, that training section actually trains your forearms. I'll never forget it.
Mine would hurt after playing
The corner guys smack that mat like I do my girlfriends ass..
llol (literally laughing out loud)
Getting a high score in the speed bag training would determine if you could breeze through the Drago fight. It took me ages to figure out how to beat him. I never had a turbo controller but discovered that, during the speedbag training if I flipped my thumb around and used my thumb nail to slide back and forth between the two game pad buttons as fast as I could, I could make my own “turbo fire”! My arm would be burning by the end of the training, but I could typically get the 6 second average necessary to win...
This is very sentimental to me..thank you
i use to love this game!! brings back memories!
Even in 2022 the graphic of this game still is fairly good (for a game from 1987, respect!).
This was my favorite video game ever. Great memories!
I still have this game, along with my Sega Mastersystem. Good times = )
This was my favorite Sega Game, Best Childhood ♥
Dude me and buddies would drink "JOLT" Cola every friday night in 88', and 89' played til the sun came up!! #BestOfTimes
As a vintage gamer, good work! i grew up on the master system. i still play it to this day!
The graphics are insane for a master system game! And the animations are really good! If it didn't say it was a master system game I'd have probably confused it for a mega drive game!
Thanks for the post. I' have done the same without turbo controller. After long long training, because i was a HUGE Rocky fan at that time.
I was watching AVGN and stopped by to watch the whole thing. Both are pretty good :)
I used to love this game! A lot of great memories
Man, you are a MASTER!! The notes are EXTREMELY helpful!! Reading them while watching the game, it feels like you're Mickey shouting out advice from the side of the ring.
oh god after all these years i can still hum the music flawlessly
Drago was tough as hell for me, but I was also 4 years old lol. Nice playing, dude! You dominated and that's the first time I ever saw that ending.
In my head canon, Mickey loves Rocky so much, he's willing to return from the dead to train him.
I loved this game! Played it every day
I love how the count actually hits 10 in the Apollo Creed fight, but he's still allowed to get up.
Adrian Jenkins Thats in real boxing too. lol
i thought rocky was a wimp in this game but u make him look OP. those combos
This game has some of the best music and graphics of all time for master system.
always the 8 bit sms sound music always pulls me back into that system
I loved the annotations in the video. Keep with them!
Who else remembers that scene from Rocky 2 where Apollo went down in round one? And he did it again in Rocky 3 and 4 Also! This game was on point!
Thanks for putting this together, talbot1939, it really gives people an idea of what the game is like with a turbo controller. I remember reading that with a turbo controller it was possible to score 8 hits per second during the second training session, but that is obviously not the case.
Surprisingly, it is possible to do just as well without a turbo controller. Rocky is very beatable.
I'm 35 and used to have this game when i was a kid. It took me years to finish it without a turbo controller. Actually, the first training gives you more powerful punches, the second one faster punches (and I CHALLENGE anyone to achieve a hit rate higher than 3/sec without cheats and without losing an arm here, so forget about becoming as fast as in this video), and the last one removes one of the three weak punches before the strong one in the combo, so they became two. So while Apollo and Clubber were actually beatable, Drago wasn't without knowing a little "cheat". The secret to beat Drago was MISS him with the two weak punches and land the strong one to push him back far enough to don't allow him to DESTROY you and repeat. This required perfect timing in a game with clumsy controls, and every single error meant a knockdown for him.
holy sh*t... i don't think i ever did beat drago. thanks for the memories.
This game was hard for no reason...lmao.This is before turbo controllers.Nice vid :)Drago was stupid hard.The music was awesome.
I remember getting this as a kid loved it
thanks for showing the full game talbot1939, i finally got to see the ending :)
Rocky in the ending looks like Yaranaika omg
Nice video finally i've see the ending lol
This game was amazing
Drago got´s his ass handed in the first few seconds of the fight xD
Wow look at Rocky go! He plowed through Lang and Drago like they were Spider Ricco! Never thought I'd see the day.
I love how Lang is sporting black trunks in the fight but when he's knock down his trunks are blue.
AVGN is proud of you, sir!
Great video, the notes are great too
I beat drago 2 times for K.O, the other times I beat for points.... You're the best man, WTF!
Makes me remember good old days.
I have this game for my SMS. Actually, on the contrary i used to think for ages, the use of rapid fire or turbo controllers make the training harder do achieve better results. I manually managed to beat the 99 limit ate the first training, reached 7 punches/sec at the second and 90 on the third. It´s really just a matter of timing on the buttons. Just keep pushing the buttons 1 and 2 alternately for good results, it´s easy to get the correct timing. There´s no need for turbo.
Wow, loved this game. You crushed Apollo, lol...
Yes I did. Several times. The key to beating Drago is timing. If you time the first two jabs right he'll walk into your straight punch. It's a nice test of endurance and you usually win by decision this way, but if you're timing is right-on you can TKO him. Unfortunately, I don't have a digital camcorder so I can't record myself beating it, but I remember seeing a legitimate win here on youtube. It's quite a sense of accomplishment the first time you beat this game without cheating.
Ladies and gentlemen; From Philadelphia Pennsylvania weighing at 190 pounds The Italian Stallion Rocky Balboa!!!
the third trainning actually looks decently fun
Black trunks for Clubber standing up...blue trunks on the mat. Sega Master System. BRILLIANT!
100% nostalgy
2:33 Stallone with freckles. Great little tune 😀😀
The notes really do help, keep it up!!! You beat Drago's ass.
He's also wearing the red white and blue trunks in training before Apollo...I noticed both of those things in 1987 when I was 5 years old. In any case, they got one very important detail right: they made rocky a lefty. Even the PS2 game didn't have him as a south paw.
this game was so short but I loved it growing up
@wbercy You are sort of correct, I have seen all of the Rocky movies. And Apollos old trainer trained Rocky, but Rocky did do a little self training.
"YA GOTTA SACK HIS CACK, RACK!" - Mickey
rocky!! rocky!! rocky get up GET UP EEEEYYY ROCKYY OK ROUND 2 FIGHT!!
This guy made it look as easy as shooting a gun in GTA. You're a badass dude for beating it so fast.
Yeah, I was crazy enough to try that out and actually succeed last year! It really does make the game that much more of a challenge, but it's still beatable either way :).
Very useful tips!
Thanks! When I was kid, I truly
suck at the training part of this
game. I'm sad to say that appollo
gave me a great mount of difficulty.
Take a spoon, tilt it so that the bottom curve of the spoon glides over the buttons on your controller. Rub the spoon back and forth quickly and you can make his arms move super fast. This spoon technique works on many games.
He only said that in Rocky 2 because he wanted Rocky to protect his right eye (which Mickey had to cut in the first to reduce the swelling). Remember, he had poor vision at the start of Rocky 2 (which some how never became an issue in the later movies).
Love the notes, keep up the good work!
"Throw the DAMM TOWEL!!!!"
DAMN*
I could never get past Clubber Lang and this guy made it look like cake🤣
Very impressive graphics 👍
I played this game back in the day and don't remember Drago being that easy.
Haha yeah you needed to get a 7 on the speed bag....
Mick is suppose to be dead!!
lol
awesome speed run
love the notes! thank you so much!
I would like that Boxing Ring for my sprite comics.
As a 4yo, was baffled and never got past Clubber. Now I’ve got to see the endings for Rambo, Rastan, Snail, and Hangon.
I remember playing this game with my friend at 7 years old , and he closed his eyes pressed up and smashed the b button and beat Drago lol
In tonight's production the part of rocky will be performed by Kenshiro from Fist of the North Star
I used an emulator so it's just a little program that let's you bind your keyboard keys to your gamepad and make it turbo. the program is called joytokey. The game turns very easy if you use a turbo controller for the training stages.
It's amazing how when we were young we would say things like " wow look at those graphics" and " that looks just like him" but as you get older you notice it's really the same character with adjustments
LOVED THIS GAME!!!!!!!!
The first time beating Drago was indescribable.
You needed a special rhythm to win against Drago: punch him him- step back, punch him- step back. You could not win in the infight against him. It took some time until I understood that... 😅
Thanks for doing this game.. i always wanted to know what the ending was like.. then again, when i played this game was like in 1990 or something like that i bet i could beat it now
holy shit its been like 8 years since i played this game. shinobi was a good game too.
boy I loved this game. . fu@$# up a few game pads mind. .. kids nowadays don't realize how durable and comfortable game pads are now
We can easely see that this dude used the rapid fire. The rapid fire was very usefull in Rambo 3 and Gungsters Town too.
Wow I love the music from this game.
this game came out in 1987, and Tommy Gunn appeared in Rocky V (1990), and Tarver in Rocky Balboa (2006).
Never could beat this game as a kid
As I kid my friend had this game. I was the only one able to average 7 hits/s which was necessary to beat Drago. But once you actually managed that the Drago fight was the easiest, otherwise it was super difficult.
It looks like Rocky is wearing a blue janitor's suit at the end. This must be after Paulie lost all his money, and Rocky is getting ready to go clean that house.
Great Video, AVGN sent me here...
Before the rapid speed attachment Drago kicked my ass all the time. When I finally got one it was no mercy for Drago, again and again and again.
through further training, try to also win the next match.
thanks for the advice, captain grammar!!!
thumbs up if you played this as a kid, hated this as a kid, grew up tried it again, hated it again, watched this video hoping to see the ending then realizing it wasn't worth the time anyway, but you still own it : D