@@rararasputin8608Just had some artwork commissioned with his Contra reference from the Hudson Hawk episode, so maybe I can pair that off in some way? I think I’d have to have pixel art from AVGN Adventures I+II to complement it, so I’ll have to see what’s possible later in the year.
+Czesnek same here especially when you have said how good you're in this one game in your own option and try show friends; every possible thing makes you look like failure.
+Daniel Easyrhino my dad showed me the NES and I always play it screw bo3. Yesterday I was playing Super Mario Bros and I got to 8-2 and I kept dying and then after he played and barely could pass 3-1 XD. But eventually he got to 8-3 we always have competitions,it's so fun!
Cinemassacre Beating Contra...Without the Konami Code... One thing's for sure, James Rolfe, you would have definitely been borderline worshipped that day.
Man, your parents sound awesome. My parents would have gotten mad and made me turn it off. Sometimes I had to fight to stay at the arcade because no way in hell was I going to just quit a Gane that I had inserted a coin in for. It was do or die!
I remember I beat Contra when I was about 6-7 years old, without the code -- at the time, my uncle owned the game (he's like 13 years older than me) and he literally got furious and would not believe me when I told him I beat it. So satisfying. XD
I don't know if anyone else said it, but 'before breakfast' is the Japanese way of saying 'piece of cake.' 'I beat it before breakfast' is deeper than many people realize!
I can relate to James when he said that he wasn't even trying in Contra that morning and he was doing so good because one time I was playing Ninja Gaiden (NES) and I got to the final boss so fast without even trying, and everyone should keep in my mind that Ninja Gaiden is not an easy game at all to get through, even if you play the shit out of that game. Sadly, I never beat the game cause getting to the final boss and trying to beat his three forms is what really got me focused, and when I got focused, I started fucking up so much that I died, and got sent all the way back to 6-1 lmao D:
+Y0mAMa5957 It's really nerves honestly. When somebody is trying hard at something, they get nervous because they want to get everything right. When you're not trying, you become relaxed and just play the game normally. I'm sure some psychology expert can explain it better than me lol.
Ninja Gaiden is my favorite NES game, I played it so much two years ago that I got to the point where I would restart the whole game if I lost all my lives until I could beat the game after losing once to the final boss. (Tbh I forgot why, I think you have to) I can still play the game and speedrun it to an extent since almost all of it is memory instead of actual reaction time, good times m9.
It's so weird watching this right after the avgn vid. It's legit like James turned into a completely different person or like the real James was kidnapped and some imposter took his place. Why does he speak and act SOOO differently now than he used to like in this vid? I want the old James back
You remind me so much of myself back then as a child. Contra lives on in all the memories of every kid growing up in the eighties, and completing the game without using the code was the icing on the cake. =)
This has to be the best video about Contra on YT - made by James himself. Using words of David Lynch - I can watch it over and over :) One of the best games ever due to the revolusionized shooting system, music and gameplay. Pure awesomeness! :D
today you cant even feel proud of beating games like The Last of Us, Uncharted, Call of Duty, Mass Effect etc. with infinite continues, regenerating health, save any time you want there is no penalty for making mistakes.
I hate when video games hold your hand like that, it's like they are trying to tell you that you aren't skilled enough to accomplish anything in them. "Oh, let's give them some regenerating helath, in case they screw up a little bit in the very beginning". Bah. I suppose there aren't any difficulty settings in some of those games either, but set permanently on Very Easy.
Hunters Association dark soul aint diffcult at all as it is a grinding level up, crafting rpg game all you need to do is to be patient and grind your character to godhood and you can speed run the whole game in less than an hour
gelyn miranda You don't grind in a Souls game. You just don't. Within the community, there's basically a unanimous agreement that grinding is tantamount to cheating.
This is one of my favorite games of all time. I didn't beat the game before breakfast. But I did finally beat the game when I was 20. After leaving Nintendo behind for the PlayStation years before. My buddy gave me his old NES. The best way to play will always be on the original. It was a high point in my life when I finally beat the impossible game from my childhood. Without the code. Keep spread and win.
That's a classic: beating Contra (or any other game) before breakfast. I remember when I was a kid, we would get up really early, I mean really really early, like 06:00 in the morning early and we would play games and have fun. But these days all these obese children will never ever understand that feeling of beating a game in the morning, cause they sleep till 14:00. It's their loss.
Uhh… I'm 12, I get up at 6:30 AM every day, I'm thin, and I've beaten Contra twice in a row on the same continue without the code. I'm not a fan of generalizations.
A Friend told me about something I had forgotten after all these years about Contra. Back in 1988 when I was 10 years old, I got the game before him and he called me on the phone just to listen to how the game sounded. Made me laugh so hard when he told me. That's my Contra memory. I've been watching AVGN since 2006 and TH-cam since 2005.
Contra on NES, while not underrated, I think people underestimate how good it was. Sure, it was good, but..Come on. It's everything you want in a side scrolling shooting game, including 2 player coop, and powerups everywere. And on top of that, if the game was too hard, there was a code to give you 30 lives, to make it more enjoyable for people that couldn't get far in it. The 30 live code alone makes it a lot better than quite a few games, even nowadays. It's essentially a difficulty option, before difficulty options were in every game ever. And even then, the fact that it was a code, or "cheat", made it feel like cheating enough, that if you DID beat it with the code on, you still felt like you'd have to go back and beat it without it. Or at least, that's how I felt. It felt cheap to beat the game with a code, so I felt guilty and decided I had to beat it without the code.
oh.. it brings back memories of me playing contra when i was 9 years or 10 years... My elder cousin brother bought the new Nes.. I would play Contra all the time on it.. whenever i got on the 6th or 7th stage my sister used to come and used to tell me "LETS PLay MARIOO!!" Well i did.. After the day i beat Contra i was so exicted!!! Then just now.. Recently i played contra again.. it brought back so many memories...
i wish my parents understood that "excitement" when you're about to beat a game. i'll be about to do some shit like idk raiding in an MMO or playing a multiplayer game and dominating, and my parents will bug me. i'll be like yeah 1 sec i'm doing something, and i'll get the pause it thing xD.. I CAN'T PAUSE MMOs!!!! i try to explain it to them after i giggle at the thought
Too this day, I have never beaten Contra, even with the cheat. I am one of those teens that loves old games. I hate modern games for holding my hand all the way.
Yeah. But many modern games are still difficult. Plus, Contra gets easier the more you play it. I'm a 12 year old kid and I've beaten it four times without the code; twice using continues, and two others on the same continue, consecutively (after you beat the game, you are given the option to beat the game again on the same continue as your last game)
One thing I loved about these old games is that they punish you again and again untill you can practically play it blindfolded. The knowledge lingers too. I remeber when I went to college I had a roommate which took her NES along, which was awesome. She also had SMB2, which I played an awefull lot back in the days. One day we came home from the pub at 4 in the morning and started the game and an hour or 2 later we reached Ward. We didn't beat him, we were just too tired, and drunk. Good night :D
that story was fucking amazing james. brought back so many memories of pre-school bus time playing genesis and trying to beat games with parents yelling to hurry up haha. "i beat contra before breakfast" is like the coolest thing to have in your arsenal. congrats on that.
I wasn't really a Nintendo kid when I was young. More a Sega Mega Drive one. I remember playing Golden Axe and Streets of Rage when I was like 5 - 6. I've always remembered how awesome Golden Axe was but it's the one I never finished, I finished Streets of Rage and it's sequel but remember very little about them. I have to say that my biggest video game memories are from 2 other games on different consoles. When I was like 8 or 9 I got 'The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time' and it blew my mind. I literally played that game for well over a year and nothing else, then I moved onto Majora's Mask and then I got Final Fantasy IX. Ocarina of Time and FF9 are two of the best games ever. I don't care if someone says that FF7 was the best game ever; if you finished both then you know what I mean. They set the bar for your future taste in video games and not many make it that far up. I'm so angry at the path Square Enix have taken with Final Fantasy.. That 13 bullshit needs to end. -_-
FF9 is the best FF in my opinion, at least among the 3 FFs in PS1 for me FF9 and Chrono Cross are the best games of all time Never played Ocarina of Time though, but have loved Skyward Sword and Zelda games in GB and GBA
I was a huge cheater until I beat Zelda The Ocarina of Time with no cheats, from then on I don't cheat anymore! You just don't get that excitement with cheats! I'm now going back beating every game I cheated on, the biggest achivement has been beating Doom on Untra Violence cheat free with no saves! I need to move to Nightmare now!
Cheats on OoT? What cheats? You mean with an emulator? Cuz' when I played it on the 64, there was no kind of cheating to be had. or have i been missing something all these years?
Great story. Your nerdyness really shines through in this one. I agree, the code is for unskilled players, but in elementary school I used it a few times.
Games like contra gave us the soldiers of today. If it wasn't for games like that do you think the armed services would have ever thought to use video games as combat trainers? I don't think so.
yep, if it wasn't for Contra I wouldn't be able to shoot a flamethrower in all directions while jumping and doing multiple flips in the air like I can today
I never got past The Great Deku Tree from Zelda. I always acted like I thought Zelda was stupid when my friends talked about how awesome it was...deep down I was jealous.
great video james! and epic game! contra is amazing, and still holds up quite well!! I recently did a video as well, a review of contra. if anyone wants to see it then enter my channel and see the video games playlist.
It sounds like your parents were awesome! My mom and dad never would have given me more time to beat the final level of a game that I was playing early in the morning prior to eating breakfast and then getting on the school bus. Great video!
I'm young and I remember video games before the internet. I was so excited to see all the act bosses for Diablo II and I wasn't disappointed. If there was one, that was The game of my childhood.
Shit, dude, that must be an awesome feeling to have one's parents be proud of you and excited about your accomplishments. Damn, I wish I knew what that felt like.
I had many late nights playing this game with friends this game is still the best game ever made miss the old times never used code and never beat it but had so much fun playing.
Contra defined my childhood. One of those things that pushed you to go outside and emulate it. Also, thumbs up if you emulated video games as a kid when you played outside.
I remember Contra. I never beat it, but I must have played at least half of my childhood away trying to. I didn't even know there was a code, until today.
Nothing like old games such as super mario bros contra and many other classic games no save no health generate only 3 or 4 continues and this video really remind me when I was 12 years old when I beat this contra I felt like my heart gonna explode my big brother was totaly shoocked coz he and his friends couldn't even reach level 8 it was really so damn gud day and I miss them
U are the master sir!!! I'm so happy that u are on youtube!! Every single video u have is amazing. Ur extremely talented and very cool as well. Blessed.
I only had five games when i was young. I finished them all. With all bonuses and everything. Took me my entire youth. People today have no idea what hard games are. :P
Glad the game video shows someone playing Contra correctly with the spread gun. We all had that one friend back in the day who would start up a two player game and then say some stupid shit like, "I get all the laser powerups!" HAD that one friend.
I remember clocking this with my bro as a kid. We had the European Probotector series, but it was pretty much the same game. One time much later (in 2004) we decided to play the second one, and the SNES one, and this time, we finally beat those two as well, and we didn't need no stinkin' code. :)
i did. I know that feeling he is talking about! Being a kid back then was awesome! I used to rent a game every friday and i wud invite friends to stay the night and we would try to beat that game and when you did their was this joy that i cant describe
![Super Contra Longplay (Arcade) [QHD]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/uGuheX3fYC8/mqdefault.jpg)
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Greatest thing to ever say "I beat contra before breakfast" that should be on a shirt or something man
fucking yeahh!!
I'd buy it
I feel like trying to pull that off.
@@rararasputin8608Just had some artwork commissioned with his Contra reference from the Hudson Hawk episode, so maybe I can pair that off in some way?
I think I’d have to have pixel art from AVGN Adventures I+II to complement it, so I’ll have to see what’s possible later in the year.
"8:00. I beat Contra after breakfast."
--Marty Mcfly.
"I beat Contra before breakfast. " *puts shades on and rides off on motorcycle*
90s AF
then rides off into the sunset yelling "remember me as a hero"...
AYYY
@Michael Chad Lynch lol for sure
Marty Mcfly: "8:00. I beat Contra after breakfast."
That story about how his parents watch him play and cheer him made me smile quite a lot.
Are you alive
I want "I beat Contra before breakfast" T-shirt!
We doing it fam!
I would give it to my dad if he did
I hate when someone is watching over my shoulder. I always perform worse than when I am alone.
+Czesnek same here especially when you have said how good you're in this one game in your own option and try show friends; every possible thing makes you look like failure.
SAME SAME SAME SAME!!!!!!!!!-
You know whats worst for me
Being laughed by my own dad for everything i die in the game
i wanna punch him
ARGHHH
+Daniel Easyrhino my dad showed me the NES and I always play it screw bo3. Yesterday I was playing Super Mario Bros and I got to 8-2 and I kept dying and then after he played and barely could pass 3-1 XD. But eventually he got to 8-3 we always have competitions,it's so fun!
Ddt Regulator good for you bad for me
This is the most epic story I have ever heard in my life!
"I beat Contra before breakfast" :)
A Legendary quote indeed!
@Stimulator7 Fuck Pearl Harbor, James beating Contra is the most epic event ever.
No he doesn't. Best story ever!
😂 What a simple life dude.
That's awesome!! "I beat Contra before breakfast!"
James' best quote; right up there with "shit load of fuck."
Shawn Ward If someone wrote that on their resume,...I'm d hire them imediately....or would...if I had a job.
+Shawn Ward Awesome quote indeed!
"my moms yelling at me" "come eat your damn waffles" lmfao
we all know it was pop tarts, everyone had pop tarts back then.
@@jakesli9154 Eggo was a thing to my man lol.
@@jakesli9154 Eggo was a thing too my man lol.
@@jakesli9154 as if Waffles weren't around...
Cinemassacre
Beating Contra...Without the Konami Code...
One thing's for sure, James Rolfe, you would have definitely been borderline worshipped that day.
+Ryan Sample Before breakfast, mind you.
Man, your parents sound awesome. My parents would have gotten mad and made me turn it off. Sometimes I had to fight to stay at the arcade because no way in hell was I going to just quit a Gane that I had inserted a coin in for. It was do or die!
*Game
Vinny Raptor Mines wouldn't have made me turn it off, but they (she...) would have gotten really mad.
Happy to see I'm not the only one who came here from the recent "Contra How I Remember It - Angry Video Game Nerd (AVGN)" episode.
Contra was so impressive that I spent countless hours drawing my own Contra levels in class.
I remember I beat Contra when I was about 6-7 years old, without the code -- at the time, my uncle owned the game (he's like 13 years older than me) and he literally got furious and would not believe me when I told him I beat it. So satisfying. XD
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I never understood why some people got furious over that kind of thing. I'd have been hype for you.
0:28 Give it a few years, Jimmy.
You mean Bimmy
I have one thing to say. This is the GREATEST VIDEO GAME STORY EVER!!!!👏👏👏👏👏
The Nerd's 2022 Contra video brought me back here 😌
I don't know if anyone else said it, but 'before breakfast' is the Japanese way of saying 'piece of cake.'
'I beat it before breakfast' is deeper than many people realize!
I LOVE this. We need all the stories you can put out.
I can relate to James when he said that he wasn't even trying in Contra that morning and he was doing so good because one time I was playing Ninja Gaiden (NES) and I got to the final boss so fast without even trying, and everyone should keep in my mind that Ninja Gaiden is not an easy game at all to get through, even if you play the shit out of that game. Sadly, I never beat the game cause getting to the final boss and trying to beat his three forms is what really got me focused, and when I got focused, I started fucking up so much that I died, and got sent all the way back to 6-1 lmao D:
+Y0mAMa5957 It's really nerves honestly. When somebody is trying hard at something, they get nervous because they want to get everything right. When you're not trying, you become relaxed and just play the game normally. I'm sure some psychology expert can explain it better than me lol.
+Pow3rh0use exactly bro, i tell u man psychology is so crazy i too would love for a psychology expert to explain this to me too hahahaha
Taking on Contra is a piece of cake. Beating almost entire Ninja Gaiden is a sign of being BADASS (and possibly a ninja as well).
PrekiFromPoland dually noted
Ninja Gaiden is my favorite NES game, I played it so much two years ago that I got to the point where I would restart the whole game if I lost all my lives until I could beat the game after losing once to the final boss. (Tbh I forgot why, I think you have to) I can still play the game and speedrun it to an extent since almost all of it is memory instead of actual reaction time, good times m9.
How coincidental is it that AVGN shares the same memories as James?
It’s almost like they’re the same person. 🤔
It's so weird watching this right after the avgn vid. It's legit like James turned into a completely different person or like the real James was kidnapped and some imposter took his place. Why does he speak and act SOOO differently now than he used to like in this vid? I want the old James back
You remind me so much of myself back then as a child. Contra lives on in all the memories of every kid growing up in the eighties, and completing the game without using the code was the icing on the cake. =)
Haahaha, "I beat Contra before breakfast". 👍 This is one of your best videos, it's nice to see there were kids like me/you when we were...kids!
That was a good story oh to be a nerdy kid again....
This is such a classic. Hearing James' old video game tales is the best.
Had to come back to this, after watching the latest episode :D
This has to be the best video about Contra on YT - made by James himself. Using words of David Lynch - I can watch it over and over :) One of the best games ever due to the revolusionized shooting system, music and gameplay. Pure awesomeness! :D
One thing I love about James..he comes up with these awesome unique video ideas like this one
Here after you posted your newest Contra video (2022) :)
HOLY CRAP!!! I completely forgot about Video Power! I used to love that show.
This is one of my favorite CM videos of all time. I always come back it.
Yup. Still coming back to it.
I still don't miss 😅
today you cant even feel proud of beating games like The Last of Us, Uncharted, Call of Duty, Mass Effect etc.
with infinite continues, regenerating health, save any time you want there is no penalty for making mistakes.
Yeah, you mainly play those games to experience the story.
I hate when video games hold your hand like that, it's like they are trying to tell you that you aren't skilled enough to accomplish anything in them.
"Oh, let's give them some regenerating helath, in case they screw up a little bit in the very beginning".
Bah.
I suppose there aren't any difficulty settings in some of those games either, but set permanently on Very Easy.
Hunters Association
dark soul aint diffcult at all as it is a grinding level up, crafting rpg game
all you need to do is to be patient and grind your character to godhood and you can speed run the whole game in less than an hour
A lot of games now-a-days also tend to treat the player like a fucking idiot.
gelyn miranda You don't grind in a Souls game. You just don't. Within the community, there's basically a unanimous agreement that grinding is tantamount to cheating.
4:09 one of the greatest line james had ever said!!!!!!
This is one of my favorite games of all time. I didn't beat the game before breakfast. But I did finally beat the game when I was 20. After leaving Nintendo behind for the PlayStation years before. My buddy gave me his old NES. The best way to play will always be on the original. It was a high point in my life when I finally beat the impossible game from my childhood. Without the code. Keep spread and win.
I also beat Contra before breakfast too and it made me the greatest hero at my school and hometown😎🤘👍🎮
And i didn't use the cheat code either😎
CONSIDER YOUR SELF A HERO
One of my prized accomplishments in gaming was beating this game without dying a single time. I'll always remember that day, good times.
i guess this was turned into a avgn ep now
That's a classic: beating Contra (or any other game) before breakfast. I remember when I was a kid, we would get up really early, I mean really really early, like 06:00 in the morning early and we would play games and have fun. But these days all these obese children will never ever understand that feeling of beating a game in the morning, cause they sleep till 14:00. It's their loss.
Uhh… I'm 12, I get up at 6:30 AM every day, I'm thin, and I've beaten Contra twice in a row on the same continue without the code. I'm not a fan of generalizations.
***** If you're 12, STFU, get off the internet, and go do some homework. Stop talking back to your elders, dumb kid.
magicstix0r Yeah, it'd be best if I go do that. I've got 50 problems tonight! Yikes!
***** well.. good luck kid.. .and ignore that douchebag you can use the internet whenever you want
***** what a nice and polite kid. the future has hope.
A Friend told me about something I had forgotten after all these years about Contra. Back in 1988 when I was 10 years old, I got the game before him and he called me on the phone just to listen to how the game sounded. Made me laugh so hard when he told me. That's my Contra memory. I've been watching AVGN since 2006 and TH-cam since 2005.
Contra on NES, while not underrated, I think people underestimate how good it was. Sure, it was good, but..Come on. It's everything you want in a side scrolling shooting game, including 2 player coop, and powerups everywere. And on top of that, if the game was too hard, there was a code to give you 30 lives, to make it more enjoyable for people that couldn't get far in it.
The 30 live code alone makes it a lot better than quite a few games, even nowadays. It's essentially a difficulty option, before difficulty options were in every game ever. And even then, the fact that it was a code, or "cheat", made it feel like cheating enough, that if you DID beat it with the code on, you still felt like you'd have to go back and beat it without it. Or at least, that's how I felt. It felt cheap to beat the game with a code, so I felt guilty and decided I had to beat it without the code.
115 people couldn't beat Contra before breakfast. :D
oh.. it brings back memories of me playing contra when i was 9 years or 10 years...
My elder cousin brother bought the new Nes.. I would play Contra all the time on it.. whenever i got on the 6th or 7th stage my sister used to come and used to tell me "LETS PLay MARIOO!!" Well i did.. After the day i beat Contra i was so exicted!!! Then just now.. Recently i played contra again.. it brought back so many memories...
i wish my parents understood that "excitement" when you're about to beat a game. i'll be about to do some shit like idk raiding in an MMO or playing a multiplayer game and dominating, and my parents will bug me. i'll be like yeah 1 sec i'm doing something, and i'll get the pause it thing xD.. I CAN'T PAUSE MMOs!!!! i try to explain it to them after i giggle at the thought
There is a massive difference between a raid, and beating a difficult game! maybe they know ;)
Tomi Golob I could name a handfull of mates that went through it. Some came out the other side, others didnt'.
Tomi Golob Heroines are female heros. Heroin is a gnarly drug.
This channel deserves more subs
Jaycliff Arcilla is 2,000,000 enough?
NO
Jaycliff Arcilla XD I know right?
Its always that mindset after waking up that's best. You feel so cleared and refreshed that you can do anything.
playing Contra while listening to avgn talking about his memory of Contra :)
Too this day, I have never beaten Contra, even with the cheat. I am one of those teens that loves old games. I hate modern games for holding my hand all the way.
Believe me, same here.
Yeah. But many modern games are still difficult. Plus, Contra gets easier the more you play it. I'm a 12 year old kid and I've beaten it four times without the code; twice using continues, and two others on the same continue, consecutively (after you beat the game, you are given the option to beat the game again on the same continue as your last game)
I beat it on the Contra museum in Contra 4
007robotchicken I'm in the same category, but I actually beat it in a causal playthrough (with the code) when I wasn't really caring how far I got...
007robotchicken Contra is a really fun old game. It was my favorite back in the day.
One thing I loved about these old games is that they punish you again and again untill you can practically play it blindfolded. The knowledge lingers too. I remeber when I went to college I had a roommate which took her NES along, which was awesome. She also had SMB2, which I played an awefull lot back in the days. One day we came home from the pub at 4 in the morning and started the game and an hour or 2 later we reached Ward. We didn't beat him, we were just too tired, and drunk. Good night :D
He must be from New Jersey. Second time I've heard a pork roll reference on cinemassacre
+Brian Berghoff he is
Wave Dasher Me too
Brian Berghoff What's a pork roll reference?
Nintendjoe Pork Roll is a breakfast meat. It's really only found in New Jersey.
Brian Berghoff Oh ok.
This story made me happy..
gaming was truly different back in the days of no internet - heck life as a kid in the 80-90s was awesome!
The rest of us who relied on the code -- yea, we're a bunch of scrubs.
I still think you should do an AVGN Contra Retrospective, just like you did with Castlevania. (or at least maybe a Contra Force review)
Did you watch the newest Nerd episode?
that story was fucking amazing james. brought back so many memories of pre-school bus time playing genesis and trying to beat games with parents yelling to hurry up haha. "i beat contra before breakfast" is like the coolest thing to have in your arsenal. congrats on that.
I wasn't really a Nintendo kid when I was young. More a Sega Mega Drive one. I remember playing Golden Axe and Streets of Rage when I was like 5 - 6. I've always remembered how awesome Golden Axe was but it's the one I never finished, I finished Streets of Rage and it's sequel but remember very little about them. I have to say that my biggest video game memories are from 2 other games on different consoles.
When I was like 8 or 9 I got 'The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time' and it blew my mind. I literally played that game for well over a year and nothing else, then I moved onto Majora's Mask and then I got Final Fantasy IX. Ocarina of Time and FF9 are two of the best games ever. I don't care if someone says that FF7 was the best game ever; if you finished both then you know what I mean. They set the bar for your future taste in video games and not many make it that far up. I'm so angry at the path Square Enix have taken with Final Fantasy.. That 13 bullshit needs to end. -_-
FF9 is the best FF in my opinion, at least among the 3 FFs in PS1
for me FF9 and Chrono Cross are the best games of all time
Never played Ocarina of Time though, but have loved Skyward Sword and Zelda games in GB and GBA
gelyn miranda It's nice to see Chrono Cross get some attention. Wonderful game!
I was a huge cheater until I beat Zelda The Ocarina of Time with no cheats, from then on I don't cheat anymore! You just don't get that excitement with cheats! I'm now going back beating every game I cheated on, the biggest achivement has been beating Doom on Untra Violence cheat free with no saves! I need to move to Nightmare now!
Cheats on OoT? What cheats? You mean with an emulator? Cuz' when I played it on the 64, there was no kind of cheating to be had. or have i been missing something all these years?
Great story. Your nerdyness really shines through in this one. I agree, the code is for unskilled players, but in elementary school I used it a few times.
I really wish there had been a different ending for WITHOUT the code. Maybe even not let you get to the last level if you used the code.
Uh...no.
Games like contra gave us the soldiers of today. If it wasn't for games like that do you think the armed services would have ever thought to use video games as combat trainers? I don't think so.
well, videogames started as a military tool if im not mistaken, not sure tho.
yep, if it wasn't for Contra I wouldn't be able to shoot a flamethrower in all directions while jumping and doing multiple flips in the air like I can today
love how you talk about the past and how mysterious things were back in the day. YOUR FUKIN AWESOME
I never got past The Great Deku Tree from Zelda. I always acted like I thought Zelda was stupid when my friends talked about how awesome it was...deep down I was jealous.
...you are missing out on one hell of an experience.
I know...someday I will try again. I have a 64 at home but don't really have time for it at the moment.
@@davidc1074 it's been 6 years ;) Have you got past it yet? Took me a long time too, I'm lucky I had an uncle who was really good at the game
@@davidc1074 It's been 7 years ;) Have you got past it yet?
I am playing Super C while listening to this.
I love these little videos on games from his childhood. I wish he did more of these i enjoyed this and the sonic video.
great video james! and epic game! contra is amazing, and still holds up quite well!! I recently did a video as well, a review of contra. if anyone wants to see it then enter my channel and see the video games playlist.
Beaten it without the code a lot of times. That was quite easy.
No better feeling that playing through a game with friends watching it encourages you but at the same time also helps you chill and focus.
Super C is way harder.
Yes it is. I beat Contra without the code many times, but Super C, I have to use the 10 lives code every time.
This is the game that made me want NES.
It sounds like your parents were awesome! My mom and dad never would have given me more time to beat the final level of a game that I was playing early in the morning prior to eating breakfast and then getting on the school bus. Great video!
I'm young and I remember video games before the internet.
I was so excited to see all the act bosses for Diablo II and I wasn't disappointed.
If there was one, that was The game of my childhood.
This is the most exciting history I ever seen! I loved this game so much and never actually saw the ending until now! Damn you are awesome!!!
One of my favourite NES games! I played it as a kid on the Famicom ( the one with the short wires). Nice video James!
Shit, dude, that must be an awesome feeling to have one's parents be proud of you and excited about your accomplishments. Damn, I wish I knew what that felt like.
Contra was a very good game back them. J remember it playing with my best friend
UP,UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A, START. I still remember that code even after not playing Contra for YEARS!
I had many late nights playing this game with friends this game is still the best game ever made miss the old times never used code and never beat it but had so much fun playing.
Played the heck out of this one...Even years later i would go back to it..
I am so glad my Dad had Super C in the 80's for me to enjoy. It was the only Contra I really played.
Contra defined my childhood. One of those things that pushed you to go outside and emulate it. Also, thumbs up if you emulated video games as a kid when you played outside.
That literally is one of the most badass things I've ever heard. You beat Contra before breakfast. wow.
I remember Contra. I never beat it, but I must have played at least half of my childhood away trying to. I didn't even know there was a code, until today.
Sharing this meant so much for me. We're the same age. I understand how you feel. Thanks for these videos.
I remember playing contra everyday. I had billions of nes games and Contra was the only game i always played
I'm impressed that he was able to destroy one of those spiked trucks from the ice level with only the regular rifle before it ran him over :)
Nothing like old games such as super mario bros contra and many other classic games no save no health generate only 3 or 4 continues and this video really remind me when I was 12 years old when I beat this contra I felt like my heart gonna explode my big brother was totaly shoocked coz he and his friends couldn't even reach level 8 it was really so damn gud day and I miss them
I'm glad I grew up in the late 80s and early 90s.
U are the master sir!!! I'm so happy that u are on youtube!! Every single video u have is amazing. Ur extremely talented and very cool as well. Blessed.
Contra and Super Contra and Smash TV are my all time greatest shoot em up's!
I only had five games when i was young. I finished them all. With all bonuses and everything. Took me my entire youth. People today have no idea what hard games are. :P
No way I could remember what I was doing when I beat contra. I just remember the feeling. You summed it up.
Over the years this still is my favourite episode; even if it's not a AVGN-review.
James is a great guy and I love how passionate he is of what he does.
Oh precious memories, how sweet thou art.
having people watch you beat a difficult game is so awesome :I
That is, really, a classic dad response. I can see my dad saying something like that.
Glad the game video shows someone playing Contra correctly with the spread gun. We all had that one friend back in the day who would start up a two player game and then say some stupid shit like, "I get all the laser powerups!"
HAD that one friend.
I remember clocking this with my bro as a kid. We had the European Probotector series, but it was pretty much the same game. One time much later (in 2004) we decided to play the second one, and the SNES one, and this time, we finally beat those two as well, and we didn't need no stinkin' code. :)
i did. I know that feeling he is talking about! Being a kid back then was awesome! I used to rent a game every friday and i wud invite friends to stay the night and we would try to beat that game and when you did their was this joy that i cant describe
My kids will never know the victory of beating an 8 bit game like contra.
I salute you!
I remember beating mortal kombat 2 before school when i was 7/8. Best feeling!