For those who weren't alive or at least actively out in the world in 1988... Let me tell you that for this 12 year old (then), this game looked very futuristic for its time. A technology revolution was happening at the time and I couldn't believe how lucky I was to play arcade games from 1983 through 1992. It was like every few months something would come out that looked years ahead of anything you'd ever played.
One of the best 2D platformers ever made, hands down. This arcade version came out in 1988, and these graphics still hold today great. Movement and animation are top tier, the music sounds classic, and the challenge although extremely hard is the most fair out of the first three games in the franchise. Capcom developers were awsome back then.
@@LIONTAMER3D The only hard part for me is the cloud eye takes too many times and the final pink clouds in the devil's lair damn clouds and getting past the giant hornet
@@smoketj4830 the pink clouds I found easier than the first. Just trigger them and head straight to where the for where the double purple boss was. That flat terrain makes them so much easier, and if you do it correctly only 2 will be there at a time.
Arthur, you're skilled, you're decent, you've made it to the princess, and ima letcha finish.... But you need to collect the special weapon needed to defeat the final boss!!! Oh yeah and we want more of your money too
THIS. hated you had to play the game twice feels tacky. what i wouldn't give for a fan made one like sonic mania this is the only good one the others are too hard or you cant even shoot up. down. but 32 bit didnt have the ROM ps5 has lol
Wow. You made this look easy...and it STILL didn't look easy. Thanks for going through this! And you know what? After you go through a game like this, you don't want to be congratulated. You want to be CONGRATURATED. You DESERVE to be congraturated.
@@brianfleury979 If you watch carefully, the player touched the enemy considerably and should have lost his armour. Collision detection off in the tool assist is to make it a lot easier for the player to produce the video for youtube. No big deal really. He's not claiming it to be some world record attempt so it's cool
I feel slightly better after all these years. I watched a documentary of this game and the developer used to watch kids play the game, see how they beat certain parts, and then go back and re-design those parts to make it even harder. I spent ridiculous amounts of money on this game as a kid and everyone thought I was cool because I could make it to the 2nd level LOL. Unbelievably difficult! Edit: After watching this video, I realize how hopeless level 3 would have been for me. I am terrible at platformers and this is riiiiiiiidiculous
It's not just the old school graphics that are awesome, but the actual horror style of the design. The monsters and environs are so complex and twisted and gross! Also, I think it'd be quite funny yet still awesome if this game was re-skinned in the style of WH40K.
The GnG series (the PSP games, Gokumakaimura, aka Ultimate Ghosts N Goblins, and it's revision, Gokumakaimura Kai included, plus the Wonderswan game, there's also 2 Japan only mobile games in the series) makes Dark Souls look like a family friendly picnic day at the park.
I know. Watching this is so intimidating and full of concentration involved. This golden genere is SO HARD to beat and get killed SO EASILY. Hmmm these games are always memorable, those were the days. 👍👍
Man when I was a child my parents bought my brother and me an arcade with this game. It was faulty (that's probably how they got it for cheap). We couldn't go left. All we could do was to either move right or stand still. But we have inifinite credits, so we could always try again. We managed to, slowly come up with strategies that actually let us win the game. We knew what weapons we had to use for each boss, and we relied heavily on luck, so maybe 1 in 10 games we managed to win. I remember that on of the parts that cost me A LOT of time to get past was the section at 9:07. Timing the jumping on those tongues and clouds when ONLY being able to move right was really tricky.
I'm old so I remember playing Ghosts and Goblins in a 7-11 near my friend's house for hours and then when I got my first office job, this appeared in the arcade half a block away where I spent my lunch hours. This was one of those games I mastered to the point that I could play as long as I wanted - if you pick up a different weapon before the final battle after the second pass they throw you back to the start again! I loved just trying to do the whole game with each different weapon just for fun - really made you appreciate each weapon's strengths and sometimes HUGE weaknesses on certain levels! One of my all time favorite side scrollers.
The only time I saw this game was at a laundromat many many years ago. I was impressed by how much a leap it was over Ghosts N Goblins. Now I own a few variations of it, and it's sequels and prequel.
"That's my words of wisdom. Anyone who wants to get far in this game, my rules are; #1 Get the knife, #2 Get the knife, #3 *Get the knife!"* _Angry Video Game Nerd_
Except for the larvae boss, the flame bomb is the must have weapon otherwise that fight fucking suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks. Edit: After watching this fight... What in the hell version is he playing, that stupid ass boss wouldn't go down that easily for me.
This game will always remind me of Christmas 1989. I'd gotten a Genesis for my birthday back in November. For Christmas, my parents bought Thunder Force 2, Ghostbusters, Space Harrier 2, and this. I spent the next three days after Christmas trying to beat this game. Learned the hard way, you have to beat the game twice.
oh wow im 26 and i also played it when i was 8 years old found the cart in a garage sell. i looked at the cart and it was the most amazing work of art i had seen , Its a Japanese game Thats why it looks so beautifullly design the villians the music the stages i still have the cart. and my sega genesis.
Baximus Does anyone know why the end text was always so screwed up on Capcom games? I played all the way through Commando and didn’t see any errors until the very end (which was a letdown, to put it mildly).
Having beaten the game myself, here's what I got to say about the weapons. *Knife:* Basically the best weapon in the game. It's rapid-fire allows you to fire up to three at once, allowing you to spam the knife. Its special ability duplicates your player, allowing you to attack foes twice as fast, even though the clone is a little iffy to manage. This weapon works best against Red Arramers (or Firebrands if you're a noob) and utterly decimates Beezelbub. *Lance:* The default weapon. It works like the knife, but it's slower and fires more accurately. Its special allows you to utterly nail foes directly above you and directly in front and behind you, almost like a screen nuke except it doesn't clear the screen of foes. The lance is the only regular weapon that can be used against Lucifer, and in that case only in home console ports where you can use a level select code. In that specific case, the lance is the best weapon against Lucifer; as for other bosses, it's alright. *Discus:* This weapon glides along the ground if you duck with it, allowing it to decimate any foe in its path further than the Fireball could. It is the best weapon to use if you want to beat Stage 4 and the best weapon to use against Gassuto. It's special, however, is terrible. You summon a shield in front of you, which you can legit break yourself. I'm not kidding. It's a really pathetic shield. *Fireball:* This weapon has terrible range and is practically useless against foes above you. It's explosion glides through the floor more accurately than the Discus at the price of lower range. It's a bad choice against foes with certain weakpoints like Shielder and Astaroth, and it really doesn't work against armored foes like roots and the crystal-shooting tree stumps from Level 4. I only recommend this weapon as a temporary substitute for the Discus. It's special is a pretty good false screen nuke, however. *Holy Weapon:* It is the single most powerful weapon, with each hit being twice as powerful as any other weapon. However, it's got terrible range and has no special. It is the worst weapon to use against Ohme that is actually viable against it. Only grab this weapon at the 5th level when you've beaten Ohme with a much better weapon. Unfortunately, you NEED this weapon to get the chance to fight Loki unless you cheat the lance in instead. *Axe:* The slowest-firing weapon in the game, and you're not gonna get good aim unless you shoot it directly up or down. On the plus side, this weapon actually pierces through foes, allowing you to get multiple foes with a single attack. It doesn't pierce through armored foes, however. It's special requires you to get up close to your foe, which really isn't a good idea in a game like Ghouls n' Ghosts. *Sword:* I'm sorry, if you get THIS weapon, then you're a f***ing idiot! If you get this weapon, GET RID OF IT ASAP! A fair warning, this weapon WILL end your playthrough if you keep it around. If you bring it to Ohme, then the only way you can progress is to reset the game.
@@BonzoDrummer 1. If you're wearing the golden armor, hold down the attack button until the meter below flashes. 2. I think it's random, but at the same time, there is a pattern. The first chest you break at the start of a life/level ALWAYS spawns a Magician.
This explains the 2nd loop : "Also, we originally had a far grander design in mind for Daimakaimura (Ghouls n Ghosts). After the second stage, each stage would have branching A and B routes, and you’d get to choose your path after every stage. Then on the second loop you’d be forced to play the stages you didn’t choose the first time around. Unfortunately, we ran out of memory and time so those extra stages had to be cut. However, even though we shelved those stages, the alternate stage 2 (the water stage) was secretly resurrected and used in the Super Famicom Choumakaimura as the second half of stage 2." Tokurou Fujiwara
17:30 I remember my first time beating this game, after killing belzebub, I was like "Oh, thank God!"... and then God shows up! Lol! It's one of the best sequels ever made. Still a hell of a challenge, but much more forgiving than the original.
The Genesis version of Ghouls 'n Ghosts is my favorite game ever. I was in Oklahoma City when I bought it around Sep 1989. I was in the military and took leave to Kansas City area in Oct and played it at home, got through a few levels but still didn't beat it yet. They shipped me to S. Korea in Nov, I mailed my Genesis to myself at Osan Air Base and resumed playing GnG again in late Nov and I think I beat it just before Christmas. At the time I thought to myself "Man, they will never make another video game with graphics or sounds better than this!". Ah, to be in my naive early 20's again.
This was so hard for me to play when I was younger. 1st time I got to the castle, and I was like what the... again? Then I lost the weapon had to do it again and finally beat this. Ending the torment of a semi-hard game.
I made it to stage 2 on sega genesis version and that was it for me. One of the best and hardest games ever. The dude playing is a real god gamer and makes it look easy =)
I memorize all the mechaniques of this game & to tell you, it take me days before completing the whole game. Same as the Ultimate Ghost 'n Goblins. Yeah, the difficulty of the game is so hard but thats the reason why im playing it all again & again Lmao
that worm boss is called "The Caecilia" i just googled it recently and found out it's not a worm at all, but an amphibian, like a frog. the more you know. . .
For me Capcom is hands down best video game developer of all time. Arguably best classic arcades, scrolling shooters, platformers, scrolling beat em ups, 1 on 1 fighters, action games and survival horror. To be up there in so many different genres for so long speaks for itself.
I wonder how the generation videogames would be today, if Arcade was the minimum graphics in home consoles when Famicom / Nintendo 8bit came out for the households. I bet in an alternative dimension we play with holograms today. This looks like a game that still holding up today.
spent hours playing this with my older brother. Sega Genesis was released and playing these games on it, we where excited for what was coming out next.
Ruby Williams Anti UTTP Actually the Snes had it's own unique mechanics. (double jump, different armor types...different charge mechanic) And it was a spin off. The Genesis version was basically a port of the arcade as close as the genesis could pull off at the time.
The mega drive version came out in 89, the SNES version came out in 91. On a console that had slightly better hardware to handle sprites and colors and sound. The Genesis version is an Arcade port. The SNES version was made to sell consoles so it showcases allot of the SNES strengths. I have fond memories of both.
33:48 "As Arthur and the Princess rode off towards the kingdom, they both looked back. Staring back at them from the distance, was a shadowy cloud with a demonic looking face with evil red eyes. Arthur shielded the Princess yet still stared back at the dark demon. Knowing deep down...his battle wasn't over yet...
wow the arcade version is like a totally different game from the super NES one! What are some of the other classic arcade games out there besides this & battletoads? The graphics in these old school arcade games rival the stuff from today!
Ghouls And Ghost was never ported to the Snes. Super Ghouls And Ghost on the Snes is entirely a new episode, which explains the different graphics, levels and some weapons
I love the Ghost and Goblins series it brings back memories from my childhood. I used to play this game on arcade and Sega Genesis. I have this for on Capcom Classic Collections ps2 and Playstation portable.
Ghouls ‘n Ghosts (Arcade) All bosses 4:35 Boss 1: Armored Goblin 7:18 Boss 2: Fire Lion 9:57 Boss 3: Kracko from Kirby 13:37 Boss 4: Behold! The Biggest Maggot of all!!!! 15:44 Mini boss 1: The final boss from Ghosts ‘n Goblins 15:59 Mini boss 2: Armored Goblin but this time just a head 16:13 Mini boss 3: The final boss from Ghosts ‘n Goblins but there’s 2 of them! 16:28 Mini boss 4: Kracko again 17:19 Boss 5: Wasp (wow! That happened quickly!!) 29:35 Final Boss: Lucifer
I must admit. The arcade version had more realistic enemy and boss movement effects compared to the Sega Genesis version. It even had an intro and attract mode that showed how the princess and her castle was under attacked by the demons since three years passed as opposed to the Sega Genesis. Lucifer was also called Loki in Sega Genesis version. The only boss whose awakening movements were absent in the Sega Genesis was Shielder who was awakened from his statue form to take off his head and prepare to fight Arthur.
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For those who weren't alive or at least actively out in the world in 1988... Let me tell you that for this 12 year old (then), this game looked very futuristic for its time. A technology revolution was happening at the time and I couldn't believe how lucky I was to play arcade games from 1983 through 1992. It was like every few months something would come out that looked years ahead of anything you'd ever played.
You can probably figure that via compare and contrast
Spent hours on this as it looked better than the c64 graphics. But I still liked the SID soundtrack on the C64.
The feeling was exactly that
True. I was 18 at the time and it blew me away.
Totally get where you're coming from. I'm 45 now but arcades to us back then we're the holy grail. Operation Wolf was a fave.
One of the best 2D platformers ever made, hands down. This arcade version came out in 1988, and these graphics still hold today great. Movement and animation are top tier, the music sounds classic, and the challenge although extremely hard is the most fair out of the first three games in the franchise. Capcom developers were awsome back then.
You said it all
i agree with all but one thing you said: you're smoking crack rocks if you think the difficulty of this game is anything resembling "fair" lol
@@LIONTAMER3D The only hard part for me is the cloud eye takes too many times and the final pink clouds in the devil's lair damn clouds
and getting past the giant hornet
@@smoketj4830 the pink clouds I found easier than the first. Just trigger them and head straight to where the for where the double purple boss was. That flat terrain makes them so much easier, and if you do it correctly only 2 will be there at a time.
@@LIONTAMER3D he didn't say fair he said fair in comparison with the other games. Which is true. This series is one of the hardest ever.
One of the finest arcade games ever made. Thanks for sharing this long play.
I never got past the first level. That's how good I was at this game.
Same xD I played it some minutes ago and I got to the boss but died all the time xD
Shannen Kelly I'm not a great gamer but beat this gameon Snes and Genesis but on arcade it would cost a fortune.
this is how they made money back then haha
same
I made it to second level, but no further
"Arthur, you've done well, but the programmers need you to use more quarters"
Arthur, you're skilled, you're decent, you've made it to the princess, and ima letcha finish....
But you need to collect the special weapon needed to defeat the final boss!!! Oh yeah and we want more of your money too
These programmers were experts at extorting our allowance!
😅🤣🤣
THIS. hated you had to play the game twice feels tacky.
what i wouldn't give for a fan made one
like sonic mania this is the only good one the others are too hard or you cant even shoot up. down.
but 32 bit didnt have the ROM ps5 has lol
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The music in this game has always amazed me. That and the particular pallet they chose for the art is nice.
capcom in top form
Wow. You made this look easy...and it STILL didn't look easy. Thanks for going through this!
And you know what? After you go through a game like this, you don't want to be congratulated. You want to be CONGRATURATED. You DESERVE to be congraturated.
@ 23:31 tool assisted?
@@io4439 what do you mean?
@@brianfleury979 If you watch carefully, the player touched the enemy considerably and should have lost his armour.
Collision detection off in the tool assist is to make it a lot easier for the player to produce the video for youtube. No big deal really. He's not claiming it to be some world record attempt so it's cool
@@io4439 thanks for the clarification! I suspected the same but wasnt sure...game looks like so much fun and i played so much gng on snes as a kid
COURAGEOUR
I feel slightly better after all these years. I watched a documentary of this game and the developer used to watch kids play the game, see how they beat certain parts, and then go back and re-design those parts to make it even harder. I spent ridiculous amounts of money on this game as a kid and everyone thought I was cool because I could make it to the 2nd level LOL. Unbelievably difficult! Edit: After watching this video, I realize how hopeless level 3 would have been for me. I am terrible at platformers and this is riiiiiiiidiculous
I always get warm, fuzzy memories of this game when I hear the stage 2 music.
Its like the lotr shire music... totally heart warming!
Stage 4 too :')
"a day @ the ren fest" lol
@@cassettelord music
its so magical almost makes me cry the nostalgia
It's not just the old school graphics that are awesome, but the actual horror style of the design. The monsters and environs are so complex and twisted and gross!
Also, I think it'd be quite funny yet still awesome if this game was re-skinned in the style of WH40K.
Agree
Exacto, yo creo que kentaro miura se basó en este juego para hacer berserk nose porque me lleva a esa historia también
Ghouls and Ghosts... The "Dark Souls" of it's day!
So true.
The GnG series (the PSP games, Gokumakaimura, aka Ultimate Ghosts N Goblins, and it's revision, Gokumakaimura Kai included, plus the Wonderswan game, there's also 2 Japan only mobile games in the series) makes Dark Souls look like a family friendly picnic day at the park.
@@Bloodreign1 Have you seen the Ghosts n Demons fan made game?
@@Bloodreign1 couldn't agree more.. the psp version was so incredibly difficult I gave up after like 10 minutes.
More like: Dark Souls... The modern Ghouls & Ghosts.
this game is not as easy as it seems. nice walkthrough CONGRATURATION !
mega2k1 it can be easy once you know what to do. I'm sure...
Nope stays hard no matter what
I just realised why its congraturation.... because japanese don't ''understand'' the concept of the letter ''L''
I know. Watching this is so intimidating and full of concentration involved. This golden genere is SO HARD to beat and get killed SO EASILY. Hmmm these games are always memorable, those were the days. 👍👍
MGAgamingHD It's "congratulations."
Man when I was a child my parents bought my brother and me an arcade with this game. It was faulty (that's probably how they got it for cheap).
We couldn't go left. All we could do was to either move right or stand still. But we have inifinite credits, so we could always try again.
We managed to, slowly come up with strategies that actually let us win the game. We knew what weapons we had to use for each boss, and we relied heavily on luck, so maybe 1 in 10 games we managed to win.
I remember that on of the parts that cost me A LOT of time to get past was the section at 9:07. Timing the jumping on those tongues and clouds when ONLY being able to move right was really tricky.
I'm old so I remember playing Ghosts and Goblins in a 7-11 near my friend's house for hours and then when I got my first office job, this appeared in the arcade half a block away where I spent my lunch hours. This was one of those games I mastered to the point that I could play as long as I wanted - if you pick up a different weapon before the final battle after the second pass they throw you back to the start again! I loved just trying to do the whole game with each different weapon just for fun - really made you appreciate each weapon's strengths and sometimes HUGE weaknesses on certain levels! One of my all time favorite side scrollers.
that damn sword i hated when i got it it was useless 😆
The princess must have some bomb ass stuff to send Arthur back to the beginning ha ha.
Bust 83 - Waist 50 - Hips - 89
'Nuff said.
ICEGOD2 that vagina is gold plated
Xesphere 83' bust? Wow, I think I just bust.
JohnnyJohn116
And she’s also a Catwoman like Felicia.
@@edwardgaines6561 I see whatcha did there... lol
I laughed at the end when they gave the princess' body measurements! So random!
AHAHAHAHAHAHA, I never beat the game. That's friggen hilarious!
Thats a street fighter 2 reference (these are from chun lee data screen)
This brought back real time memories of me and my friends playing it,amazing feeling to go back in time like that....
Didn’t realize how beautiful the game was - amazing variety of sprites and the dark backgrounds are awesome.
capcom has a library of legendary games under its belt =/
This and Ghosts 'n Goblins really stood out as cream of the crop gaming. Still a blast to play. Nice job!
One of the best soundtracks in gaming history. Underrated.
The only time I saw this game was at a laundromat many many years ago. I was impressed by how much a leap it was over Ghosts N Goblins. Now I own a few variations of it, and it's sequels and prequel.
Same, love these games.. I assume you seen the Ghosts n Demons game?
"That's my words of wisdom. Anyone who wants to get far in this game, my rules are; #1 Get the knife, #2 Get the knife, #3 *Get the knife!"*
_Angry Video Game Nerd_
Except for the larvae boss, the flame bomb is the must have weapon otherwise that fight fucking suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks.
Edit: After watching this fight... What in the hell version is he playing, that stupid ass boss wouldn't go down that easily for me.
He was talking about Ghosts ' n Goblins, which is way harder and unfair than Ghouls n Ghosts
Jovan Mitrić the first game ghost and goblin knife is best but in this game its not
lol. avgn reviewed ghosts n goblins nes game.
@@notmomoayase the NES Version is very close
What an exceptionally skillful playthrough. A marvel to watch!
This game will always remind me of Christmas 1989. I'd gotten a Genesis for my birthday back in November. For Christmas, my parents bought Thunder Force 2, Ghostbusters, Space Harrier 2, and this. I spent the next three days after Christmas trying to beat this game. Learned the hard way, you have to beat the game twice.
oh wow im 26 and i also played it when i was 8 years old found the cart in a garage sell. i looked at the cart and it was the most amazing work of art i had seen , Its a Japanese game
Thats why it looks so beautifullly design
the villians the music the stages
i still have the cart. and my sega genesis.
Everything about this game feels trippy...It´s so.... I can´t even explain it.
The amount of typos in the end text is highly amusing.
***** I figure it's because the localization department thought "Well, the game's so hard, no one will ever get that far."
@Houston Helicopter Tours Inc. and cuz Asians no good at Engrish
Congraturation!!!
Baximus Does anyone know why the end text was always so screwed up on Capcom games? I played all the way through Commando and didn’t see any errors until the very end (which was a letdown, to put it mildly).
So There's That there's an end to Commando?
It's stunning to think that a game from the '80s (that didn't use the CPS hardware) could look this good. Every single shot is beautiful.
the sega genesis was special
it used all of its power to the fullest
just looked at the classic Sonic games
Having beaten the game myself, here's what I got to say about the weapons.
*Knife:* Basically the best weapon in the game. It's rapid-fire allows you to fire up to three at once, allowing you to spam the knife. Its special ability duplicates your player, allowing you to attack foes twice as fast, even though the clone is a little iffy to manage. This weapon works best against Red Arramers (or Firebrands if you're a noob) and utterly decimates Beezelbub.
*Lance:* The default weapon. It works like the knife, but it's slower and fires more accurately. Its special allows you to utterly nail foes directly above you and directly in front and behind you, almost like a screen nuke except it doesn't clear the screen of foes. The lance is the only regular weapon that can be used against Lucifer, and in that case only in home console ports where you can use a level select code. In that specific case, the lance is the best weapon against Lucifer; as for other bosses, it's alright.
*Discus:* This weapon glides along the ground if you duck with it, allowing it to decimate any foe in its path further than the Fireball could. It is the best weapon to use if you want to beat Stage 4 and the best weapon to use against Gassuto. It's special, however, is terrible. You summon a shield in front of you, which you can legit break yourself. I'm not kidding. It's a really pathetic shield.
*Fireball:* This weapon has terrible range and is practically useless against foes above you. It's explosion glides through the floor more accurately than the Discus at the price of lower range. It's a bad choice against foes with certain weakpoints like Shielder and Astaroth, and it really doesn't work against armored foes like roots and the crystal-shooting tree stumps from Level 4. I only recommend this weapon as a temporary substitute for the Discus. It's special is a pretty good false screen nuke, however.
*Holy Weapon:* It is the single most powerful weapon, with each hit being twice as powerful as any other weapon. However, it's got terrible range and has no special. It is the worst weapon to use against Ohme that is actually viable against it. Only grab this weapon at the 5th level when you've beaten Ohme with a much better weapon. Unfortunately, you NEED this weapon to get the chance to fight Loki unless you cheat the lance in instead.
*Axe:* The slowest-firing weapon in the game, and you're not gonna get good aim unless you shoot it directly up or down. On the plus side, this weapon actually pierces through foes, allowing you to get multiple foes with a single attack. It doesn't pierce through armored foes, however. It's special requires you to get up close to your foe, which really isn't a good idea in a game like Ghouls n' Ghosts.
*Sword:* I'm sorry, if you get THIS weapon, then you're a f***ing idiot! If you get this weapon, GET RID OF IT ASAP! A fair warning, this weapon WILL end your playthrough if you keep it around. If you bring it to Ohme, then the only way you can progress is to reset the game.
How do you use the special abilities? Also, how do you avoid getting chests with the magician guy in them?
@@BonzoDrummer 1. If you're wearing the golden armor, hold down the attack button until the meter below flashes.
2. I think it's random, but at the same time, there is a pattern. The first chest you break at the start of a life/level ALWAYS spawns a Magician.
@@Flashlight237Cool, I wondered what the armor actually did.
I suppose they got tired after naming a few of the enemies and then decided to do it only on the bosses.
Damn can’t believe the Genesis version was close to the Arcade one! This is one of my Genesis Classics!
This explains the 2nd loop : "Also, we originally had a far grander design in mind for Daimakaimura (Ghouls n Ghosts). After the second stage, each stage would have branching A and B routes, and you’d get to choose your path after every stage. Then on the second loop you’d be forced to play the stages you didn’t choose the first time around. Unfortunately, we ran out of memory and time so those extra stages had to be cut. However, even though we shelved those stages, the alternate stage 2 (the water stage) was secretly resurrected and used in the Super Famicom Choumakaimura as the second half of stage 2." Tokurou Fujiwara
And then in the GBA port the original vision was realized
Thanks for the insight, never knew that, Im a massive fan of these games..
Seems like they finally realized this vision completely with Resurrection.
It’s honestly sad how this never later got ported to the SNES/Virtual Console, this looks much better than Super Ghouls N Ghosts
17:30 I remember my first time beating this game, after killing belzebub, I was like "Oh, thank God!"... and then God shows up! Lol!
It's one of the best sequels ever made. Still a hell of a challenge, but much more forgiving than the original.
you did NOT "beat this game" -.-
PERFECT franchise for this time of year.💗
Use to play this when I was just a kid, this was the Super Mario of our days lol! Thank you for the Memories.
It's things like stage 3 that make me think the makers of this series have had some really bad acid trips.
djmixnmagic the music in this game is trippy too.
People can be creative without taking drugs.
@@heyguysinternet Totally, man...
18:22 greatest troll in gaming history
The Genesis version of Ghouls 'n Ghosts is my favorite game ever. I was in Oklahoma City when I bought it around Sep 1989. I was in the military and took leave to Kansas City area in Oct and played it at home, got through a few levels but still didn't beat it yet. They shipped me to S. Korea in Nov, I mailed my Genesis to myself at Osan Air Base and resumed playing GnG again in late Nov and I think I beat it just before Christmas. At the time I thought to myself "Man, they will never make another video game with graphics or sounds better than this!".
Ah, to be in my naive early 20's again.
02:40 really good storm effect I thought
Adam Smythe i could feel the wind pullling me back when i played it
The game even gives you Prin Prins measurements to assure you that all your hard work was worth it!
Jesus this Schaughi makes one of the hardest arcade games of all time look like a cake walk.
The ground tiles in stage 3 in the normal stage predicted the modern sprites in indie games
This was so hard for me to play when I was younger. 1st time I got to the castle, and I was like what the... again? Then I lost the weapon had to do it again and finally beat this. Ending the torment of a semi-hard game.
Still looks amazing, true classic right here boys
capcom has a lot of those lol
I made it to stage 2 on sega genesis version and that was it for me. One of the best and hardest games ever. The dude playing is a real god gamer and makes it look easy =)
This game is pretty cool
I love all the animations
They put much love and effort into this game
Thanks for the upload! Childhood memories kicking in. Good times!
I remember in my childhood when I had a cd with a thousand games,including this game.
I memorize all the mechaniques of this game & to tell you, it take me days before completing the whole game. Same as the Ultimate Ghost 'n Goblins. Yeah, the difficulty of the game is so hard but thats the reason why im playing it all again & again Lmao
30:04 CONGRATURATION!
FknGantisms mazic = magic
FknGantisms defeater = defeated
FknGantisms the most funny haha
Ghouls'n Ghouts'! oh man, they don't know the game's name... :facepalm:
Lmao.
@@CircleofShit "Congraturation", meaning: I saturate you in congrats.. ;)
that worm boss is called "The Caecilia"
i just googled it recently and found out it's not a worm at all, but an amphibian, like a frog.
the more you know. . .
I thought it was called Ohme
@@Nomi_MirXa it is
0:45 SNIPER! Princess down!! D:
I just beat this game at my local arcade yesterday! Absolutely love it.
For me Capcom is hands down best video game developer of all time. Arguably best classic arcades, scrolling shooters, platformers, scrolling beat em ups, 1 on 1 fighters, action games and survival horror. To be up there in so many different genres for so long speaks for itself.
I had a slight nervous breakdown when you traded the knives for the sword, but in the world of save states, anything can be done.
Gabriel Fischer the axe and sword are shit
@@mr.cifuentes1779 agreed on the axe.. however I thought it was cool to see Arthur with a sword... the SNES box art left me disappointed
@@mr.cifuentes1779 The sword was awesome. It did twice the amount of damage to anything. It can take out Shielder in 4 hits
This game brings so much stressing memories. My cousin introduced me to this game way back. Finally figured out the name of this game!
Did you just beat the game twice without being touched?
MassAveTrav01 They use save states so...
Insert molestation joke here please
I wonder how the generation videogames would be today, if Arcade was the minimum graphics in home consoles when Famicom / Nintendo 8bit came out for the households. I bet in an alternative dimension we play with holograms today. This looks like a game that still holding up today.
spent hours playing this with my older brother. Sega Genesis was released and playing these games on it, we where excited for what was coming out next.
I never seen this game in any arcade. Ghosts and goblins was everywhere but this I only seen on console.
What sorcery is this?!?!?!
No mere mortal could achieve such a feat....
Sdd dos tempos em que os jogos tinham alguma dificuldade. Hj é uns joghuim NUTELLA
Truly amazing gameplay. This is one of the toughest of its era, for sure.
I wasn't aware at just how closely related the Genesis version was to the arcade.
the snes version is entirely different
the only one on snes is super ghouls n ghosts and its a totally different game
its a sequel i guess
Ruby Williams Anti UTTP
Actually the Snes had it's own unique mechanics. (double jump, different armor types...different charge mechanic)
And it was a spin off.
The Genesis version was basically a port of the arcade as close as the genesis could pull off at the time.
The mega drive version came out in 89, the SNES version came out in 91. On a console that had slightly better hardware to handle sprites and colors and sound.
The Genesis version is an Arcade port. The SNES version was made to sell consoles so it showcases allot of the SNES strengths.
I have fond memories of both.
the throwing knifes are really OP in this game, anyway great gameplay I like it!
33:48
"As Arthur and the Princess rode off towards the kingdom, they both looked back. Staring back at them from the distance, was a shadowy cloud with a demonic looking face with evil red eyes. Arthur shielded the Princess yet still stared back at the dark demon. Knowing deep down...his battle wasn't over yet...
0:43
Damn, that's quite a dark intro for such a comedic game, isn't it?
This game was based on a true story
@@robertwilson3866😲
The Genesis got very very close to pretty much everything... Very impressive.
Very difficult game but i always liked it. Great graphics for that time.
Kneel before one of the hardest platformers ever relased in gaming history!
wow the arcade version is like a totally different game from the super NES one! What are some of the other classic arcade games out there besides this & battletoads? The graphics in these old school arcade games rival the stuff from today!
Ghouls And Ghost was never ported to the Snes. Super Ghouls And Ghost on the Snes is entirely a new episode, which explains the different graphics, levels and some weapons
@@deceiver444 They do look very similar though. It looks like the new resurrection game is reusing sum enemies from the arcade game.
@@peterc504 Both arcade games actually
I've beat this dozens of times on genesis and about twice in arcades. I die a lot though and you didn't even lose your armor. Wow great job!
Christ,that's a long time to run in a suit of armour!
Graphically and sonically superior to most games of its day
Watching this playthrough brought back my PTSD...
Imagine if this was a Mario game, and Mario had to go through it all over again to beat Bowser.
Mario: ~sigh~ Mama fucka!
PARABÉNS MEU AMIGO VOCÊ JOGA MUITO BEM . 🎉🎉🎉🎉 EU NÃO CONSEGUI GANHAR ATE O FINAL .
I love the Ghost and Goblins series it brings back memories from my childhood. I used to play this game on arcade and Sega Genesis. I have this for on Capcom Classic Collections ps2 and Playstation portable.
Yeah you finally showed me the knight in gold armor. This game is just perfect for Halloween, even though it's not dungeons and dragons. 🎃
this game was a test of mind, body, and soul
Games like this from the 80s just goes to show you that great ideas and imagination can be born from good quality drugs.
This game is pretty tough but that one weapon is ridiculously overpowered.
17:56 oh gee, thanks gramps, would've loved to know that piece of info _TWO HOURS AND A HUNDRED QUARTERS AGO_
Ghouls ‘n Ghosts (Arcade) All bosses
4:35 Boss 1: Armored Goblin
7:18 Boss 2: Fire Lion
9:57 Boss 3: Kracko from Kirby
13:37 Boss 4: Behold! The Biggest Maggot of all!!!!
15:44 Mini boss 1: The final boss from Ghosts ‘n Goblins
15:59 Mini boss 2: Armored Goblin but this time just a head
16:13 Mini boss 3: The final boss from Ghosts ‘n Goblins but there’s 2 of them!
16:28 Mini boss 4: Kracko again
17:19 Boss 5: Wasp (wow! That happened quickly!!)
29:35 Final Boss: Lucifer
Video game logic. The character moves just as fast in full plate armor as he does in just a diaper.
Yikes, so to defeat Lucifer, you have to beat the game twice in identical plays?
Yep
The megadrive version of this game is maddeningly hard but it keeps pulling you back for more.
8:14 Get the knife. Get the knife. Get the knife. G E T T H E K N I F E.
8:16 NOOOOOO
Angry Video Game Nerd at his best. Get the knife!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm not a gamer, but this was the shit when it was released. Absolute classic game!
Farthest I ever made it to was the second level, but not past the quicksand. This game doesn't mess around.
This is straight up a perfect run. Holy shit Schlauchi.
Never knew Kracko from Kirby was in this game!
And Flaming Leo is in one of them
The predator's mask was too
Except Kirby came out in 1992. This was 1988!
Wonderfully hard as nails piece of gaming history
29:50 also that bird struggling to lift her is hilarious to watch.
What I'd like to know is... *_why is the game telling us the Princess's bust, waist, and hip measurements at the end...???_*
The game itself looked very good given when it came out... and the difficulty of playing made it very exciting to play.
This was one of the hardest games ever made. Still loved playing it though
what a cool game ladies and gentlemen....with castlevania IV,and zelda.....the best at that time
This is the actual arcade rom.
I must admit. The arcade version had more realistic enemy and boss movement effects compared to the Sega Genesis version. It even had an intro and attract mode that showed how the princess and her castle was under attacked by the demons since three years passed as opposed to the Sega Genesis. Lucifer was also called Loki in Sega Genesis version. The only boss whose awakening movements were absent in the Sega Genesis was Shielder who was awakened from his statue form to take off his head and prepare to fight Arthur.
One of the hardest video games ever without a doubt.