I do like the very subtle hint right at the beginning. How his face gets angry when he tells you "Good Bye." Easy to overlook but hard to miss on a second watch.
The ten-year-old me thought Commander Jones was mad at Mr. Smith out of concern for his captured soldiers. After replaying this game again 15 years later, I found out the truth and realized that Mr. Smith suffers from Punisher's Syndrome.
Throw Shinobi and Rolling Thunder in a blender with a Mega Man soundtrack and a hero that doesn't wear pants, and what do you get? A killer NES action game. That's what.
Makes people wonder what kind of drugs the people back in Capcom where on when they where making Code Name: Viper. Its also worth pointing out that whenever the hero without the pants kills someone, they "crumble" as they die. Could you imagine of what would happen if Capcom remade this game to the very point where they where still on a number of serious drugs, what would you do?
Pretty gritty for an NES game, what with how guys literally disintegrate when you shoot them. And you can find some 8-bit babes behind the rotating secret passages, but occasionally you can find...skeletons? Corpses that just collapse when you find them, implying that Mr. Smith was...too late. In any case, this seems to be another one of those anti-drug stories that permeated children's entertainment media at the time. I love it! This game is awesome, and with that kickin' soundtrack to boot!
So glad I found this video!!! Man, this was 1 of my favorite NES games, so much fun, and the soundtrack was amazing! What a trip down memory lane! MANY THANKS 👍...
Rental for me, but I do distinctly remember my mom watching me play it and commenting on his lack of pants. That was her one concern. Not gunning down hundreds of men. Just no pants.
I played this as a kid and was shocked with the twist at the end...your commanding officer was dealing in drugs the whole time and sent you on those missions so you could get killed. Very well done.
They hunted him down. They murdered his friends. Now they've taken the one thing he would kill for - his only friend May Heaven help them. Somewhere... somehow... someone's going to pay If there's a mission that no man could survive...then *he's* the man for the job. Michael J. Fox Jean Claude Van-Damme Code Name Viper Max Eriksson: You Ready Kenny Smith (A.K.A.) Viper: Let Party
I love this game so much, I cannot recall if I beat my brother w/o the help of a Game Genie. I distinctly remember now the sound effects used for the voice line 'THANK YOU' when rescuing a hostage, it was a priceless and fantastic use of the available sound library. How I forgot about it for 30 years is beyond me.
"If you were going to buy a new game, you could confidently grab any box with the distinctive purple frame and be assured you were going to have fun." For me, it was that, and the silver Konami boxes. Both were games that you could just instinctively buy or rent with little worry.
Oh totally. Both of them were awesome - I never remember stumbling into a bad one from either company. Even the "bad" ones were still quite a bit better than most games from other publishers :)
I know sprites on the NES have a 3 color limit but they seriously should have reversed the colors on his pants. Even back then, how could they not think it looked like he was running around bottomless?
STELLAR game that outclasses Rolling Thunder, which I already loved, in every way. In fact, it's so much better than Rolling Thunder that the latter's simplicity keeps it from being completely replaced. As a kid who fully understood why you could shoot up in Contra and not in Mega Man, I was always very taken with games that were limited and played by a very specific set of rules and Viper is definitely that.
Huh? I remember the final boss taking a LOT more than 6 bullets to kill. He took so many, that it seemed impossible to kill him with the pistol before he advanced all the way to the left and killed you.
I felt like I was the only person that played this as a kid cuz everyone I talked about the game to just looked at me weird lol. I remember struggling on the last boss for months and not even being able to clear the first stage on hard cuz the bullet speed was ridiculous.
Who's bright idea was it to make the protagonist's pants the exact same colour as his skin and how on earth did that get passed the censors?🤨 Did nobody dare to say, "Perhaps we should change the colour of the guy's pants so it doesn't it look like he's half naked"?
Pretty sure it was supposed to be pants, and they were beige so they would stick out, but it didn't come out right. Same thing with the so-called "Blow-jobs" in "Ring King".
Well, he is seen wearing pants in one of the cut screens as seen in 4:38, 19:35, 25:12 and 29:42. I suspect someone at Capcom colored his pants to be the color of his skin which gives reason to state the animator was on some serious drugs when animating Kenny Smith but when we look at the cut screens, his pants looks properly colored, which indicates that someone else animated the cut screens. And when it comes to the music of the game, its very out of place as it doesn't represent the "special commando" theme fighting in the jungles of South America but instead represent lewd music, especially once you reach to stages 4 as seen in 19:56 and stage 5 as seen in 25:32 respectfully. To simply put, this game beats the Ring King scandal, I can safely say that some of the people back at Capcom where on something during the creation of Code Name: Viper, heak I would be amazed if they actually admit to similar. Had to do an edit in the case of the 3rd cut screen in question where it shows Kenny Smith with properly colored pants.
![NES Longplay [160] Code Name: Viper](/img/n.gif)
This was one of my favorite childhood NES games. Love the gameplay and music; it brings back memories
I haven't understand any single word when i play this as a child, but i still shocked when the final boss turn out. 1st plot twist of my life lol
I do like the very subtle hint right at the beginning. How his face gets angry when he tells you "Good Bye." Easy to overlook but hard to miss on a second watch.
The ten-year-old me thought Commander Jones was mad at Mr. Smith out of concern for his captured soldiers. After replaying this game again 15 years later, I found out the truth and realized that Mr. Smith suffers from Punisher's Syndrome.
@@HiddenInTheTruth むっちゃ感動です。小学生５年生以来、約３２年ぶりにこのゲーム見ました。
ずっと探していたのですが、タイトルもわからず、ほぼ諦めていましたが、まさかまさかです😭😭😭
@@HiddenInTheTruth 昨日はなぜか男女共同トイレで女の子が使った後のトイレに入る夢ばかり見ました。
地震か何かで駅のトイレが使えなくなったのか、駅前みたいなところになぜか男女共用トイレが設置され、わたしはひたすら若くてきれいな女性の真後ろばかりに並んでいました。
並んでいる時は髪や服のいい匂いを楽しみました。
若い女性のトイレの後に入ろうとしていることを蔑んだ目で見られたり、誰か正義感のあるお兄さんに引きずり出されるのではないかと怯えたりしつつも、必死でその場所を死守し、ついに前のお姉さんがトイレに入り、しばらくしてドアが開いた瞬間にトイレのドアをがっちりつかみ、まだお姉さんの体が半分ある状態でトイレの中の匂いを嗅ぎました。
簡易の設置トイレでしたので、お姉さんの残り香よりも、色んな人のおしっこのアンモニア臭の方がきつかったですが、
それでもお姉さんがあきれたような、でも恥ずかしそうな顔を楽しめたので、大満足。
わたしは男の娘ですので、本来はそういうことをされて興奮するはずなのですが、昨日はなぜか男(漢)になっていましたね。
そもそも、こんな夢を見たのは、日中、婦警さんが現場で下着を汚されたか何かで、
コンビニの下着売り場に入ってこられたのですが、
その婦警さんの上司の方に、
『おい、お前ら、見るな、見るな！』
みたいに虫けら扱いされ、
それで興奮してしまったせいかもはしれません。
強い婦警さんでも、
緊急で、コンビニでご自分の下着を選ばれる時は、
顔を赤らめるんだなと。
Second giveaway is his boss looks and dressed like Stalin & A.Hitler combined
Throw Shinobi and Rolling Thunder in a blender with a Mega Man soundtrack and a hero that doesn't wear pants, and what do you get?
A killer NES action game. That's what.
And the ending was really badass
Makes people wonder what kind of drugs the people back in Capcom where on when they where making Code Name: Viper. Its also worth pointing out that whenever the hero without the pants kills someone, they "crumble" as they die. Could you imagine of what would happen if Capcom remade this game to the very point where they where still on a number of serious drugs, what would you do?
Um, he does wear pants. Where the hell are you getting that implication?
@@EdwardFalcon1986 He was joking buddy
@@Koettnylle No, it's not just him, it's multiple people who make that stupid claim.
This game is awesome with awesome soundtrack. I remember I finished it when I was a kid but still love it.
I had this and Rolling Thunder when I was a kid. My sister always thought he didn’t have any pants on.
Pretty gritty for an NES game, what with how guys literally disintegrate when you shoot them. And you can find some 8-bit babes behind the rotating secret passages, but occasionally you can find...skeletons? Corpses that just collapse when you find them, implying that Mr. Smith was...too late. In any case, this seems to be another one of those anti-drug stories that permeated children's entertainment media at the time. I love it! This game is awesome, and with that kickin' soundtrack to boot!
I know that “...too late” line was from a review somewhere, but I can’t place it.
Yea I'm pretty sure I said "wow that's grim" the first time I flipped the door revealing a hostages skeleton
Loved this game! The nostalgic memories!!!
Amazing game. I love Rolling Thunder and now I love this too.
The choice of color for the pants was spot on!! They nailed it, nothing else to say.
man, now i just cannot unsee it. i ve never really noticed this until now.
So glad I found this video!!! Man, this was 1 of my favorite NES games, so much fun, and the soundtrack was amazing! What a trip down memory lane! MANY THANKS 👍...
I totally missed this game back in the day. Great upload!
Rental for me, but I do distinctly remember my mom watching me play it and commenting on his lack of pants. That was her one concern. Not gunning down hundreds of men. Just no pants.
hahahahahahaha
Code Name No Pants?
A great effort between Capcom and then relative newcomer Arc, later known as Arc System Works.
Superb storytelling and plot twist at the time of its release.
I played this as a kid and was shocked with the twist at the end...your commanding officer was dealing in drugs the whole time and sent you on those missions so you could get killed. Very well done.
Damn, Commander Jones sure has a nice house.
Finished this game back in the old days so nice to see the end again.
They hunted him down. They murdered his friends. Now they've taken the one thing he would kill for - his only friend May Heaven help them. Somewhere... somehow... someone's going to pay If there's a mission that no man could survive...then *he's* the man for the job. Michael J. Fox Jean Claude Van-Damme Code Name Viper
Max Eriksson: You Ready
Kenny Smith (A.K.A.) Viper: Let Party
I love this game so much, I cannot recall if I beat my brother w/o the help of a Game Genie. I distinctly remember now the sound effects used for the voice line 'THANK YOU' when rescuing a hostage, it was a priceless and fantastic use of the available sound library. How I forgot about it for 30 years is beyond me.
Did I mention that I really love your descriptions for games?
“But yeah, Kenny really needs to find pants.” 😂😂😂
He DOES have pants... Stop trying to be humorous. This isn't 4chan.
@@EdwardFalcon1986 dude its a joke take a chill pill
@@thestardustgamer296 Huh huh huh, fuck you. It's a joke that's been going on for too long.
His "lack of 👖" is the result of the NES' color limitations.
Just FYI, I quoted directly from the video description.
Bose..thank you... this bring back those memories.. those days when life was simple..
Commander Jones=Big Boss
Yes gunning
Cult classic gem right here!
I never could beat this game...but I still had fun playing it whenever I picked it up
This was always one of my favorites as a kid! My rom is bad though and glitchy 😔 always loved this game!!
"If you were going to buy a new game, you could confidently grab any box
with the distinctive purple frame and be assured you were going to have
fun."
For me, it was that, and the silver Konami boxes. Both were games that you could just instinctively buy or rent with little worry.
Oh totally. Both of them were awesome - I never remember stumbling into a bad one from either company. Even the "bad" ones were still quite a bit better than most games from other publishers :)
Konami, Capcom and Sunsoft.
3:07 Ah, yes, what we should've been given in Shinobi!. A fully automatic MP-5 and infinite grenades.
I know sprites on the NES have a 3 color limit but they seriously should have reversed the colors on his pants. Even back then, how could they not think it looked like he was running around bottomless?
I think it's too make his hands the right color when he ducks, but yeah, it's super awkward.
Guess he likes going (Captain) commando. ;-)
he has to rescue some Commando's so thats probally why he's going commando himself
The only way that South America was related in videogames is about drugs or Incan temples.
I wonder how long before Trump sells the rights to the ICE logo for the next Call of Duty
I have to give this game a try, it looks and sounds amazing.
Alas, there's no one I can share my memories with but my dad... We played this game together a lot. I hope his soul read this comment...
38:23 "I'M MELTING!" Well, that's what that death animation looks like to me.
What an appropriate time of to put this game in my feed.
Commander Jones had a big-ass house...
Ohhh my favorite game for NES
STELLAR game that outclasses Rolling Thunder, which I already loved, in every way. In fact, it's so much better than Rolling Thunder that the latter's simplicity keeps it from being completely replaced. As a kid who fully understood why you could shoot up in Contra and not in Mega Man, I was always very taken with games that were limited and played by a very specific set of rules and Viper is definitely that.
Commando meets Scarface
AVGN needs to review this game
They played it on James and Mike Mondays, under the title 'Morial Arms'.
how did the makers of Rolling Thunder not sue Capcom?
Anyone remember ‘trading’ nes games with other kids from school or in your block? That’s how i ended up with this one.
The original "Naked Snake".....literally.
best game ever
i search for it too much
thank u man❤️❤️
This game had an awesome twist, and I hate that Nintendo Power spoiled it for us back in the day.
Totally looks like he’s not wearing any pants lol
I came here for 38:26 nice outro ending music.
Amazing game. First one my father bought me (God Rest his Soul). It really looks like Viper is not wearing pants though
Really good game! But also really hard!
The sound effects & music remind me of Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers. Lol
Cool game tho
Rolling thunder knock off I saw this game never knew it was ok.
I'm trying my best. I bought one games galore at beach Blvd
As a kid i thought it was so cool that you had to manage your ammo and didn’t just have an unlimited supply.
0:11 "Dammit Viper, where are your pants?"
top game! thanks ❤
Why, I do believe the enemy death sound effect in this game is the same as the Mecha Dragon's roar from Mega Man 2! 😆
And the pistol shot sounds are rocket launcher blasting sounds from Bionic Commando.
Childhood memories ❤️
Un juego bastante difícil... Es un hit!
cual es su numero en el nintendo sup?😢
“Bomb ob-ob-tained!”
Huh? I remember the final boss taking a LOT more than 6 bullets to kill.
He took so many, that it seemed impossible to kill him with the pistol before he advanced all the way to the left and killed you.
I swear to god when I played this I thought the main character had no freaking pants on.
Heheh, pretty much every sound-effect here is re-used from Bionic Commando or Strider. Feels weird!
This game was so raw!!! Never beat it 😩🤣🤦♂️
This game is the same with "Ronglling Thunders"
I felt like I was the only person that played this as a kid cuz everyone I talked about the game to just looked at me weird lol. I remember struggling on the last boss for months and not even being able to clear the first stage on hard cuz the bullet speed was ridiculous.
Who's bright idea was it to make the protagonist's pants the exact same colour as his skin and how on earth did that get passed the censors?🤨 Did nobody dare to say, "Perhaps we should change the colour of the guy's pants so it doesn't it look like he's half naked"?
Used to play at night😂
A CLASSIC!
Never heard of it, but it's obviously similar to Shinobi (and Shadow Dancer). Not bad, all things considered. 🙂 Looks a little monotonous, though.
Aside from the pants thing, does anyone think the general the playable character is talking to at the start looks like a ghost?
The guy with no pants xD
When i was younger, i loved that game just for seeing him like that, i was a p**v lol xD (i still kinda like it ) .
A game based off of Rolling Thunder. It's okay.
Winners don’t do drugs! 😁
I only remember this game as a fan Hack where everyone is a dope head and alot of profanities back in early 2000
Did you know you can stay hidden behind wall, if you hold arrow up? I see u dont know that, probably. 😉
Your Pants have been kidnapped by ninjas.
Are you a bad enough dude to get your Pants back?
In my area I was first person who ended this game
Good game!👍
Looks like a good game. Reminds me of something else.
Probably because it was made by the same team, you're referring to rolling thunder right
@@Steph_7d7 yes, Rolling Thunder!
ufff bunu ne oynardım ya :)
👏👏👏nice
Geeze they couldve put some pants on
running without pants.
The hero wears no pants...?
He really don't wear pants
0:43 Brasil!?
I have no idea what this game is about but that guy forgot his pants. 🙊
Incrível
Put some pants on lol
He is wearing pants, it's only palette limitations that make people fooled about the main guy not wearing pants.
He's from Robin Hood Men in Tights. " You got to be a real man to wear tights"
I don’t think I could get past level 2
Why isnt he wearing any pants
I can’t get pass level 4
Dead Fox ???
Is he...wearing pants?
Откуда.Я.Это.Помню?
why is he not wwearing pants
Pretty sure it was supposed to be pants, and they were beige so they would stick out, but it didn't come out right.
Same thing with the so-called "Blow-jobs" in "Ring King".
@@VahanNisanian The hobo in Burning Fight gave that same service
Well, he is seen wearing pants in one of the cut screens as seen in 4:38, 19:35, 25:12 and 29:42.
I suspect someone at Capcom colored his pants to be the color of his skin which gives reason to state the animator was on some serious drugs when animating Kenny Smith but when we look at the cut screens, his pants looks properly colored, which indicates that someone else animated the cut screens.
And when it comes to the music of the game, its very out of place as it doesn't represent the "special commando" theme fighting in the jungles of South America but instead represent lewd music, especially once you reach to stages 4 as seen in 19:56 and stage 5 as seen in 25:32 respectfully.
To simply put, this game beats the Ring King scandal, I can safely say that some of the people back at Capcom where on something during the creation of Code Name: Viper, heak I would be amazed if they actually admit to similar.
Had to do an edit in the case of the 3rd cut screen in question where it shows Kenny Smith with properly colored pants.
play earthbound super nintendo
I did. Check my snes playlist