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I literally did this back in around 1992 at lake Skiatook, I convinced my mom to let me take my NES to a family reunion, I was originally going to use a shitty black and white TV, but my uncle brought his RV, with a pretty decent 26" TV and he let me hook it up. Me, my brother and maybe 6 or 7 cousins had a blast that weekend. It was about 3 days after my birthday, and I got Metroid and Faxanadu, so those games were mostly played. It was also the first time I drank tequila. Good times!!
Dude. To beat this game without bombs, without the long beam, only getting two energy tanks and one missile tank is just nuts. Its amazing how compelling NES games are after all this time.
@@Huckhaven Wow even the second time around reading this I still got the math wrong. I don't know what was wrong with me, assuming you and the game had the same birthday (??????)
I finished it, the long hard way, when it first came out.. I was a kid in high school.. 9th grade 🤔 O.G. gamers know NES.. Point is, I beat this game BEFORE YOU WERE EVEN BORN , Son! 🤓
You good sir are an amazing speed runner. Not because of how well you know the games, but it's because of how chill you are when you play. I admire that
And he speed runs like 100 different games while being chill. It just puts me at ease that somewhere in the Midwest a gentle cowboy is playing NES occasionally in his grandmas favourite armchair
@@samusvikerness661 I remember tons of 3rd party NES controllers at all my friend's houses back in the day... I never once threw a controller or raged but I bet they sure have !!!
Great job sir. Takes me just over 25 minutes and Ive been playing for years. Always get hung up on something or another. Glad to see you bringing the classics to so many new viewers.
Never knew where I was going. Super metroid I had better luck but never really could get to far till I got alot older. Just like the legend of zelda. 35 years old and finally have the patience to try
@@evandenney8335 I beat Super Mario Land on Gameboy last week after 30 years LOL. Only COVID-19 could bring me to boredom where I start watching these speedruns, find emulators online, and find the art of using Save States. Used about 100 to beat that game LOL! I can now die in peace.
Not just you. I had a Nintendo players guide that had a full map with item locations and the game was still difficult AF. It was literally a group activity. I acted as the compass to know exactly where we were. Another person kept tally of what items to collect and where to collect them, and how to get there. The person who was best at Mario was the one actually playing the game. When Samus got low on health I usually got stuck grinding for HP on those pots.
I appreciate how family friendly you keep your commentary, my kids are getting into watching speedruns and many of the others start cussing when they mess up or are doing good
@@TraumaER I probably would have eventually beaten it without a guide. At ten years old I had a very uncommon level of patience and persistence with video games. At least in Metroid you weren't one misstep from a cheap death.
First ever game i owned. I was frantically looking for an NES late '86, maybe early '87, finally found one. Took it home, no Super Mario Brothers inside, but the Official NES Player's Guide was (which i still have). So my parents took me back there, let them know, they let me choose a free game (even though I wasn't supposed to), I chose this one, which I still have (and my NES too). Insane speed run, I never knew about that quick auto death warp! No Screw Attack, Varia, Long Beam, High Jump, Bombs, and just 3 Energy Tanks. Bravo! In the amount of time he finished this, the ending should have Samus naked, lol.
This was actually the first NES game I ever bought too. ...well I bought this and Bad Dudes because I could get both games for the price of Super Mario 2. Picked them right off the wall of Children's Palace. The good old days!
The music brings me back. Have a lot of the music from these gems of the past from various consoles. Kraid’s hide from metroid in particular. Zelda, metroid, Mario, wizards and warriors, goldeneye, shadows of the empire. (64) Lot of great games from the 80’s-90’s even the early 2000’s. Had some unforgettable epic times playing them. Especially with friends/family. Rock on Arcus
The lag in Mother Brain's room always destroyed me. And the damn cheerios slapping you while defenseless in the door. Douchebags. Amazing though, how the frustration of the end never kept me from coming back. Just something magical about NES. Having tortured myself way back when, it's nice to play guilt-free on the emulator once and a while for the nostalgia sans the screaming.
I got no idea how people beat this game when it first came out. I've always just replayed the same 15 or 25 minutes gettin lost in the first few shafts and dead ends
If only my 8 year old self knew this screen wrapping trick.....I'd have saved soooo many hours playing this game. Most of which were writing down the dam save codes...... Had a special notebook completely full of metroid codes. But this was the first game I ever beat and will always be a favorite.
I got screwed by the code system a few times because I didn't realize that the zero and letter O were distinct characters. I'd keep doing something minor until I got a code with neither. LOL
Yeah making that password book back in the day was crucial. I was born in 1980 and remember all the great NES games. Like you I was also 8 or 9 when I was playing this and without that password book I never would have beat it, definitely did not know about all that cheating stuff but glad I didn't cuz if you were like me back in the day you only got a game on your birthday Christmas and if your ass was really lucky just out the blue lol.. Thank God we had a family owned rental store down the road from where I live it was 5 days for $3.99 on NES games so that wasn't too bad and luckily my parents would get me a game every week for rental. I remember when the Super Nintendo came out I Zelda back to back to back weeks until I beat it and then when final fantasy 2 came out USA version did the same thing I love that game when it came out. you'd have to pray that they would let you rent it and if somebody else happened to get it pray that they didn't erase your saves.
@@countrybumpkin4338 That’s a fair point in that game rentals started to pop up right at the end of the 8 bit era. I was born in 1979 and played most of my NES by swapping with friends. I remember stuffing all my games into my backpack and riding my bike to my friends house. I even remember putting the games in the black sleeve that they came with thinking that some how they would get damaged without it. The 80s were a great time.
I had no idea walls were more a suggestion than an actual fact in this game. Clearly I've been doing it wrong all these years. Cheers for the chill video, man!
Remember playing this with my friends after school in the 80s. We drew maps on checkered paper to try to make sense of where everything was but we got lost anyway. At one time, my friend wrote the password down wrong so we couldn’t get it to work. Never forgave him 😂
I just played this game for the first time yesterday. I always heard metroid was a good game but damn....I'm hooked. Wish I never passed up this classic when I was a kid. I really missed out.
Metroid and Zelda had such classic tunes. Kids in my 5th grade class would draw out Mother Brain maps on paper and then you'd have to get through their maze. It was still a while before I was able to play the game.
Awesome run! I remember feeling so accomplished as a kid when I was just able to beat this in under two hours to get the Samus without her power suit ending.
Metroid was such a big and advanced game for its time. Super Metroid was the ultimate for me for so so long, until my friend bought FF2 and FF3 (IV and VI) in the summer of 1995. I had played 2 several years earlier but man, it was different the 2nd time around. And then, we got Chrono Trigger, great times!. I remember playing through Super Metroid every day when I came home from school, I think my first collection % was only 63, and I was just over 3 hours (under 3 for best ending). I gradually worked it up while always getting the best ending and eventually was doing 98% at around 2:50. I had to use a Nintendo Power or other magazine to find the two missile tanks I was missing and eventually figured out a way to get 2 of them at the same time in NW Crateria (there are "drop rocks" in the room and for a long time I thought you could get 1, drop, circle back around and get the 2nd) and started getting 100%s and whittling down my time until eventually settling into the 2:3x range. About 10 years ago I did a playthough on emulator and despite not having played since around '97 or so I was surprised how well my memory held up, I got 87% but did finish at 3:03 so did not get the best ending. Without the map in Metroid 1 I was able to get lost at times, crazy to me that people are beating this game in 15 minutes or so.
Wow.... the countless hours I played this back in the day, and could never beat this... and you beat in less than 19m??? Congrats Sir! That was jaw dropping to watch!
I don't usually watch speed runs (just came for the Metroid nostalgia), but I wanted to say this: Cowboy hat and a mustache playing Metroid... I approve.
Dont know if you read these Arcus, but how exactly do you prep to do these speed runs? I'm wanting to speed run a game rn. I assume just play it over and over.
By any chance does Arcus plays Super Nintendo (Super Famicom), Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Genesis (Mega Drive), Master System/Game Gear, Turbo Graphix (PC Engine) games or only NES?
Nothing like sitting out by the lake playing some Metroid. 😂
With your pet turkey
if that aint a true cowboy, I don't know what is
That's what nature's for. To look at as you play video games
I literally did this back in around 1992 at lake Skiatook, I convinced my mom to let me take my NES to a family reunion, I was originally going to use a shitty black and white TV, but my uncle brought his RV, with a pretty decent 26" TV and he let me hook it up. Me, my brother and maybe 6 or 7 cousins had a blast that weekend. It was about 3 days after my birthday, and I got Metroid and Faxanadu, so those games were mostly played. It was also the first time I drank tequila. Good times!!
@@affliction1979 Great story. Sounds like nice memories.
I know I'm super late to the party here but can we appreciate that this man just did Cowboys and Aliens way better than Hollywood.
Dude. To beat this game without bombs, without the long beam, only getting two energy tanks and one missile tank is just nuts. Its amazing how compelling NES games are after all this time.
God only knows how many hours my 6 year old self spent playing through this game. 35 years later the music is just as terrifying!
This game is not 41 years old
@@lancetschirhart7676 is it 35 years old?
@@Huckhaven Wow even the second time around reading this I still got the math wrong. I don't know what was wrong with me, assuming you and the game had the same birthday (??????)
@@lancetschirhart7676 lol,he played it 35 years ago,he didn't say he was born at that time
He came out of the womb, controller in hand.
You know it’s a good soundtrack when the speedrunner still hums it.
He hums everything good or bad
that was a good frozen banana
The frozen banana booger was the best though.
"might make some mashed potatoes.....*mashmashmash*"
One of the greatest games of all time. The atmosphere, the music, the run n gun timing, the enemy and boss fight patterns. Just fantastic.
Nintendo bottom feeder
Yeah, this and Blaster Master got quite a few replays (along with Super Mario Bros 2) out of me from 1988-1993
Blaster master and turrican are better
@@soldadito34 😂😂😂
I finished it, the long hard way, when it first came out.. I was a kid in high school.. 9th grade 🤔 O.G. gamers know NES.. Point is, I beat this game BEFORE YOU WERE EVEN BORN , Son! 🤓
You good sir are an amazing speed runner. Not because of how well you know the games, but it's because of how chill you are when you play. I admire that
And he speed runs like 100 different games while being chill. It just puts me at ease that somewhere in the Midwest a gentle cowboy is playing NES occasionally in his grandmas favourite armchair
I love my Nes but for most games I am anything but chill when playing. lol
@@samusvikerness661 I remember tons of 3rd party NES controllers at all my friend's houses back in the day... I never once threw a controller or raged but I bet they sure have !!!
Thats actually a good observation
After many fails , many successful runs then a tme record..... it's just an old repeat till he beats his record again
He's like the Bobb Ross of Speed Running
Yeah that hasn't been said before a billion times, wow did you come up with your whole self, omg can I be your friend you're so crazy
I passed that game back in 90!!! Had to take a Polaroid to prove to my friends at school that it's a girl!!!!
Great job sir. Takes me just over 25 minutes and Ive been playing for years. Always get hung up on something or another.
Glad to see you bringing the classics to so many new viewers.
this guy is the man. as mentioned, the bob ross of speed runs.
Your channel does wonders for my anxiety and depression. Thank you for everything you do.
Well said. Me to ❤
Porn helped my depression. We all have our ways I guess. lol
"what a good boy Arcus'... lol, u kill me man. Never change, you are a gem!
I was really hoping I could watch something before bed. This really hit the spot! Thanks for all your hard work arcus
This game was insanely difficult when it first came out. Well to me it was.
I never would have beaten this game without a walkthrough..... lol. Super Metroid too.
I had Metroid 2 for Gameboy. I hated it. I didn’t know wtf I was supposed to do so I played Tetris instead lol.
Never knew where I was going. Super metroid I had better luck but never really could get to far till I got alot older. Just like the legend of zelda. 35 years old and finally have the patience to try
@@evandenney8335 I beat Super Mario Land on Gameboy last week after 30 years LOL. Only COVID-19 could bring me to boredom where I start watching these speedruns, find emulators online, and find the art of using Save States. Used about 100 to beat that game LOL! I can now die in peace.
Not just you. I had a Nintendo players guide that had a full map with item locations and the game was still difficult AF. It was literally a group activity. I acted as the compass to know exactly where we were. Another person kept tally of what items to collect and where to collect them, and how to get there. The person who was best at Mario was the one actually playing the game. When Samus got low on health I usually got stuck grinding for HP on those pots.
Very impressive run. I've played this game for 30+ years now - first one I ever beat - and it still hasn't gotten old for me.
I now actively anticipate every new Arcus upload.
Same.
Same
12:24 - "I don't know how to get out of here. Maybe if I freeze a banana..."
I'll remember this next time I'm in a jam. After all, it worked.
Man making a mockery of my childhood, one game at a time. I salute you sir!
Fucking really though
I appreciate how family friendly you keep your commentary, my kids are getting into watching speedruns and many of the others start cussing when they mess up or are doing good
I can’t never memorize this game too many rooms that look the same
I rented it when a few years after came out. Pissed me off.
I would have needed forever to beat it without the Nintendo Power map. I managed to find the bosses on my own so there's that.
@@boscopit imagine Metroid 2 for GameBoy on a tiny ass screen and no internet for help. I hated that game.
@@palaceofwisdom9448 you should be manager or CEO for beating this crap without a guide.
@@TraumaER I probably would have eventually beaten it without a guide. At ten years old I had a very uncommon level of patience and persistence with video games. At least in Metroid you weren't one misstep from a cheap death.
I’ve heard about the door glitches but never knew you could trigger an instant death with the 2nd controller. Neat
When you fell in the quicksand and started beeping I was like "NoooOOOOooOO!!"
I don’t care about Speedruns or watching people play games, but I think this guy just changed my mind.
Escaping the pit in the kraid room was impressive
That was a good frozen banana there
Make sure you beat the game in less than an hour to get the beat ending
Arcus- “hold my burrito”
Oh, man... that magnificent feeling of hitting the button 'just right' in an NES game. So much of this is like watching that feeling.
10:52 is why I can't speedrun this game. That song is too good.
You should check out metroid metal. They have an amazing cover.
Brinstar depths best theme ever created
Enjoy watching your content. Brings back so many good memories.
It's crazy how good this guys is at NES games.
Man, watching you speedrun is so relaxing. You have such a chill vibe to your runs. Love watching them.
Try watching Karina Hart
This the third speed run I've watched and now I'm reliving my childhood in fast forward!
That frozen banana was clutch
His voice is very calming 😎
I was hoping for the longest time to see you play this! You are without a doubt the pound-for-pound best Retro gamer
First ever game i owned. I was frantically looking for an NES late '86, maybe early '87, finally found one. Took it home, no Super Mario Brothers inside, but the Official NES Player's Guide was (which i still have). So my parents took me back there, let them know, they let me choose a free game (even though I wasn't supposed to), I chose this one, which I still have (and my NES too).
Insane speed run, I never knew about that quick auto death warp! No Screw Attack, Varia, Long Beam, High Jump, Bombs, and just 3 Energy Tanks. Bravo! In the amount of time he finished this, the ending should have Samus naked, lol.
This was actually the first NES game I ever bought too. ...well I bought this and Bad Dudes because I could get both games for the price of Super Mario 2. Picked them right off the wall of Children's Palace. The good old days!
The music brings me back. Have a lot of the music from these gems of the past from various consoles. Kraid’s hide from metroid in particular. Zelda, metroid, Mario, wizards and warriors, goldeneye, shadows of the empire. (64) Lot of great games from the 80’s-90’s even the early 2000’s. Had some unforgettable epic times playing them. Especially with friends/family. Rock on Arcus
The lag in Mother Brain's room always destroyed me. And the damn cheerios slapping you while defenseless in the door. Douchebags. Amazing though, how the frustration of the end never kept me from coming back. Just something magical about NES. Having tortured myself way back when, it's nice to play guilt-free on the emulator once and a while for the nostalgia sans the screaming.
Well done. You have one of the best communities on twitch. Made my day to see this ❤👍
Mash mash mash annnd clunk: speed run kids bath happening
Is so nice to watch Arcus so calm playing video games
I got no idea how people beat this game when it first came out. I've always just replayed the same 15 or 25 minutes gettin lost in the first few shafts and dead ends
Great tactical frozen banana!
If only my 8 year old self knew this screen wrapping trick.....I'd have saved soooo many hours playing this game. Most of which were writing down the dam save codes...... Had a special notebook completely full of metroid codes. But this was the first game I ever beat and will always be a favorite.
I got screwed by the code system a few times because I didn't realize that the zero and letter O were distinct characters. I'd keep doing something minor until I got a code with neither. LOL
Yeah making that password book back in the day was crucial. I was born in 1980 and remember all the great NES games. Like you I was also 8 or 9 when I was playing this and without that password book I never would have beat it, definitely did not know about all that cheating stuff but glad I didn't cuz if you were like me back in the day you only got a game on your birthday Christmas and if your ass was really lucky just out the blue lol.. Thank God we had a family owned rental store down the road from where I live it was 5 days for $3.99 on NES games so that wasn't too bad and luckily my parents would get me a game every week for rental. I remember when the Super Nintendo came out I Zelda back to back to back weeks until I beat it and then when final fantasy 2 came out USA version did the same thing I love that game when it came out. you'd have to pray that they would let you rent it and if somebody else happened to get it pray that they didn't erase your saves.
@@countrybumpkin4338 That’s a fair point in that game rentals started to pop up right at the end of the 8 bit era. I was born in 1979 and played most of my NES by swapping with friends. I remember stuffing all my games into my backpack and riding my bike to my friends house. I even remember putting the games in the black sleeve that they came with thinking that some how they would get damaged without it. The 80s were a great time.
Dude, I absolutely love your channel.
I had no idea walls were more a suggestion than an actual fact in this game. Clearly I've been doing it wrong all these years. Cheers for the chill video, man!
GG my friend. Always a pleasure to see your uploads 👌
Nice video Arcus thanks for content!
Hey Arcus. Big fan! Keep up the grind we love watching
"That was a good frozen banana" is the best thing I have heard on this stream.
I only hated metroid because I never knew where I was going
The frozen banana was literally the inspiration behind donkey kong tropical freeze.
This is my favorite game series ever
I don't understand the music glitch in the first chamber when you enter Kraid's domain.
Remember playing this with my friends after school in the 80s. We drew maps on checkered paper to try to make sense of where everything was but we got lost anyway. At one time, my friend wrote the password down wrong so we couldn’t get it to work. Never forgave him 😂
Love your vids bud keep it up
Still have multiple pieces of paper taped together with a hand drawn map for this game that I made over two decades ago somewhere. Good times...
I just played this game for the first time yesterday. I always heard metroid was a good game but damn....I'm hooked.
Wish I never passed up this classic when I was a kid. I really missed out.
Metroid and Zelda had such classic tunes.
Kids in my 5th grade class would draw out Mother Brain maps on paper and then you'd have to get through their maze.
It was still a while before I was able to play the game.
Played this game on the Nes online service and wow it still holds up today ! Definitely a favorite of mine 😊
Sweet! I was just thinking the other day as I went through Arcus' videos....where's Metroid? Now. The epic-ness begins!
"Might make some mashed potatoes.. mashmashmash" holy cow i love this dude with every fiber of my being
I always loved the kraid level music.
Awesome run! I remember feeling so accomplished as a kid when I was just able to beat this in under two hours to get the Samus without her power suit ending.
It never occurred to me as a kid to freeze those spheres in Mother Brain's lair. I'd always get knocked into the pit and have to win by attrition.
Arcus is an absolute beast and should be your hero
Awwww yeah. This is the speedrunning game that started it all.
You're like the Bob Ross of Speedruns!
That game took me months to finish back in the day. So cool!
I was like 6 years old playing this and was basically stuck for days after getting the morph ball. Here we are now, 18 minutes.
Metroid, the pioneer in side scrolling games. Also the best game on Nes
godlike
Love your plays man! 👍👍👍
Chillest gamer in the West
I say, "good clunk" and "smash smash smash" when I speed run a poo
I keep wishing he'd mention a happy little tree at least once.
This guy is Bob Ross 2.0. I love it (no homo) 😀
Metroid was such a big and advanced game for its time. Super Metroid was the ultimate for me for so so long, until my friend bought FF2 and FF3 (IV and VI) in the summer of 1995. I had played 2 several years earlier but man, it was different the 2nd time around. And then, we got Chrono Trigger, great times!. I remember playing through Super Metroid every day when I came home from school, I think my first collection % was only 63, and I was just over 3 hours (under 3 for best ending). I gradually worked it up while always getting the best ending and eventually was doing 98% at around 2:50. I had to use a Nintendo Power or other magazine to find the two missile tanks I was missing and eventually figured out a way to get 2 of them at the same time in NW Crateria (there are "drop rocks" in the room and for a long time I thought you could get 1, drop, circle back around and get the 2nd) and started getting 100%s and whittling down my time until eventually settling into the 2:3x range. About 10 years ago I did a playthough on emulator and despite not having played since around '97 or so I was surprised how well my memory held up, I got 87% but did finish at 3:03 so did not get the best ending. Without the map in Metroid 1 I was able to get lost at times, crazy to me that people are beating this game in 15 minutes or so.
Guy completes Metroid in 18 minutes.
Me: 20+ years and counting...
I played through it three times in one sitting two nights ago c:
Wow.... the countless hours I played this back in the day, and could never beat this... and you beat in less than 19m??? Congrats Sir! That was jaw dropping to watch!
It would be awesome if you added the d-pad visual so people can see the buttons that you're pushing
I don't usually watch speed runs (just came for the Metroid nostalgia), but I wanted to say this: Cowboy hat and a mustache playing Metroid... I approve.
The bob ross of gaming. 💙
You are so chill even when under pressure 👍
Arcus is a NES Legend!!
One of the Best games ever.
Dont know if you read these Arcus, but how exactly do you prep to do these speed runs? I'm wanting to speed run a game rn. I assume just play it over and over.
What a good boy Arcus
By any chance does Arcus plays Super Nintendo (Super Famicom), Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Genesis (Mega Drive), Master System/Game Gear, Turbo Graphix (PC Engine) games or only NES?
feels like an ASMR playthrough
I'm so glad about super metriod,
They did the bosses some respectful designs.
you sir have earned my sub!
Nicely done!! I still need to beat Metroid, looks like there are lots of different ways to go about it lol
The only speedrunner I care about.
Man your voice is so calming i half expected you to take off your slippers and sweater and put back on your loafers and jacket at the end.
My favorite game of all time.
Made the pain of the 10 sutures i just got fade away.
This is Great!! I been playing Metroid recently