Wizards and Warriors (NES) James & Mike Mondays
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ต.ค. 2024
- James & Mike play Wizards and Warriors for NES!
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I remember playing this games for many hours searching & fighting .one of my favorite games as a kid.
Underrated series on the whole. And composed by the legendary David Wise.
Yes, amazing. Ironsword was my favorite. Played it with my cousins every time we went to grandmas house. Yes, my grandma is awesome. She still plays video games every day.
@@stickypickle8857 same. I love the music, in these games.
Wizards and Warriors now belong to Throwback Entertainment. It would be great if Microsoft (Rare's owners) owned this series of games.
@@stickypickle8857 cool memory too!
the princess has no name. just the title "Princess of Elrond"
I used to own this game!! I loved playing this as a kid! Dad would take me to a pawn shop on birthdays, and I'd trade my old Nintendo games for new ones. Very weird game, but rewarding and fun once you get into it. The music will be stuck in your head for years. Thanks James and Mike for uploading this.
I have fond memories of this game. I actually got my score published in "nintendo power" in it :D
It's the little victories in life that keep us going :)
Holy shit man i remember that issue! Bender-36,789
Eric S Which issue and what was your score?
Nice. Hope u framed it
Cool. I bet I read it.
Evil is defeated, and nothing left you need to kill. You have 100,000 points, a princess, and a harem! That is the best ending ever!
I can think of a few that I think are better. But I still respect your opinion, not gonna diss someone's favorite ending!
So we have been lied to all these years when they say it's over 9000. In fact it's WAY WAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY over that.
Want me to ruin that ending dude XD....
One of my all-time favorite NES games (and definitely near the very top, if discounting Nintendo-made games). I played it so many times as a kid. The soundtrack is amazing, as well as the gameplay and graphics. A true classic, at least to me.
It said right there. Her name is "100,000 PTS". I think it's European.
Lmao
The name of the final Princess, according to my "Worlds of Power" novelization of the game, is Miranda
It’s been 4 years, but bravo
wwait they did a Worlds of Power for this!?
@@duncanidaho5834 they sure did!!! It was awesome.... I still have this, Blaster Master, and my Simon's Quest books still kicking around!
Played this a ton with my friend back then!! The fun factor was high in this game, and "funky" music! And hated that growing "Bones" boss, what a pain in the ass!!
classic James and Mike Mondays conversation fragment:
Mike: this is great
James in a slow, hesitant tone of voice: yeeeeeeah..........
The low health music sounds like the Practice course music from NE$ Marble Madness, also by Rare!
Totally. Very similar.
Marble Madness is a GEM
My ears never made the connection, but now I can't get it out of my head.
That is obviously a holy grenade. 12:42
The Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch
I was worried that no one would make that reference. Thank you, thou hast restored my faith.
Yes! Rare-being true Brits-would not likely pass up a chance to reference another group of brilliant Brits!
I remember Wizards and Warriors II had a funny cover with Fabio on it.
lol yes
oh man, Fabio man
I didn't like ironsword as much as this one.yeah the cover was pretty funny tho with Fabio on it.who likes nothing like the dude in the game
I didn't like the second one very much either. The 3rd one was the worst for me. The graphics and music just progressively got worse.
I owned that game as a kid, never played the original. This one looks like it was easier. I remember the sword being nearly useless in the second one. I would basically run into enemies the entire game to kill them.
Loved this game it was one of the coolest games of its time
3 years and 8 likes later im here to tell you this game was one of my absolute favorites. i bet level 1 would be a lot more fun if you could start with the throwing knife but who cares right, awesome classic!!
"I always am fond of ice levels" this is why Mike and I will never get along.
What about water levels?
One of my favourite games from when I was a kid... this was awesome for it's time.
I always remember that as a kid... with the damsels/princesses...
They are ALL named... except *YOUR* girl. Uhm... yeah... that makes sense.
That's like when you remember every girl's name except your girlfriend's, lol. Someone's sleeping on the couch tonight...
Maybe it's so that the player can pretend it's someone that they have a personal relationship with, you know, to help immerse the player. Or maybe they fucked up.
hahahahahhahaha
+Novastar (SaberCombat) why are you laughing?
what he said makes sense
in most games the Main character says no words and is often named by you as to represent who you are
I can see how the last girl you save has no name, so you can name her or call her anything you want
man I still love this game!!! so many memories brought back!!!
YES! This was one of my childhood favorites, I like to beat it every now and then! I even learned the title screen music on guitar, I'm totally nerd in out that this popped up haha
Thank ya'll so much for playing this. Wow what a flashback, I used to play this game all the time as a kid.
No!This is Not Fun Game
I loved the sequel, Iron Sword. Fabio was on the cover!
Would you care to elaborate on your point?Why Is It Not Fun Game
Because The graphics Like Ryuki Game!Ugh Boing!
Please S. K. I. P .T. H. E. N. E. S.V. I. D. E. O?
This was one of my all time favorites as a kid. The music was the shit.
I used to play this game with my father when I was a wee Lad. he passed away but whenever I see this game I tear up thinking about the good long hours we put into the game. never fully completing it either but had a bunch of fun trying. thank you for playing this amazing classic!
I loved this game, as a kid. Thanks for the nostalgia.
Man, this one is truly truly nostalgic for me. All that music is just stuck in my head from 1993 till I’m dead
This game is like "Ghosts and Goblins: The Good Edition."
G&G Was good, it was just hard as shit. It was like the Dark Souls 1 of the NES age. It's an easy game but it's so cheap it's hard.
+GiantBatGaming not even close, really. Dark Souls is an extremely punishing game, but it's never cheap - it gives you everything to beat the game, and then kicks your ass for your own shortcomings, like not being careful, not fighting well, neglecting your equipment, etc. G&G, on the other side, is hard because of poor controls, overpowered enemies and some obstacles that require pure luck to proceed, which is cheap and unbalanced as hell.
Don't mislead anyone. There are many cheap deaths in Dark Souls.
bubba200874426 For example? I can't remember any death in Dark Souls that couldn't be avoided by having some skill. You'll probably have to memorize some things (like in any hard game), but enemies are never too overpowered to beat, and levels are never hard because of poor design.
***** ok
This was one of my favorite games when i was kid. Theres totally a sweetspot to that final boss, one corner where you can levitate and just shoot the axe or knife and you dont get a single hit :)
Indeed we have that same spot
One of my favourite game when I was a kid, epic music!!
I 100% agree, the music makes the game :-) NES vibes
In 3rd grade I used to go to my friend's house after school and play this game all the time. Such great memories, I still remember the day we finally beat it. That wizard took us forever!
I think the name of the princess is Martha. :D
why did you say that name?
+Gene Pool Watch the end of the video,mike ask who is the name of the last princess.Martha is just a a joke. :D
I think he was referencing Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice.
+David Vessel yup
ALL OF YOU, STOP SAYING THAT NAME!
Yeah man, all the sounds in this game are awesome, and very memorable. Brings flashbacks of staying up late at my best friends house in the late 80s. Also a game I continued to revisit through my 20s and 30s. One of the all time greatest from the NES.
"BOOTS OF FORCE" is my new band name!! I called it!
I like how they keep saying, "Oh I love the music" but then don't shut up to give us a listen! lol
Those bats , just one of those fantastically evil bits in a game to make SURE you have to do something twice. Class
I would really love to see a sequel playing Ironsword. That's the one I remember most growing up. It had a lot of the same gameplay, but was definitely a more challenging game.
I always love when they play games with music that I recognize from the Nerd episodes.
This has always been one of my favorite series all around
I remember beating this game back in the day. It still holds true to being my favorite game that I have ever completed! I had to pause my NES and fool my parents by turning the TV off when I went for a hockey tournament for 3 days. NES was still ready to go when I got back and completing Wizards and Warriors was amazing :)!
I wish the Wizards and Warriors trilogy was in Rare Replay.
+Topside Entertainment The games included probably weren't completely up to Rare, it probably wasn't well known enough for Microsoft to give the go ahead.
I agree. There were so many great 8 bit games that couldn't get included because of licensing.
There is actually 4 games. Wizards and Warriors X (naming logic) was released for the original Gameboy with the main title of Fortress of Fear
+Pholiage I like Fortress of Fear... Graphics and sound were some of the best on gameboy...
It's a crime that it was not. It earns a spot before quite a few of the ones that ended up on there. And it was passed over.
this games music really sticks out in my childhood memories, next to Faxanadu. Just watching this cheers me up. Thanks, James and Mike.
I remember having this when it came out. Thanks for playing it guys
There are two blue wizards in Tolkien's books as well.
Gencoil i was looking for this comment
Is one of the wizards teal, and the other more of an aquamarine?
2 Blue Wizards that were twins, went out East of Middle Earth to manage that part of the world, never to be mentioned again. We don't know what adventures they went thru or if & how they died.
Chesco what book is this mentioned in? I read the trilogy twice through, and still missing things. Children of Huran was difficult read so I bought the audio book with Christopher Lee I don’t remember much though so many names and families very tough for me to follow.
This is my fav channel to watch,especialy when yall do james and mike mondays. Im 21, Idk but when i look at mike i think hes like around 27 and james is like the older bro like 30 sumthin but yall are like in yalls 40s. Crazy.
I'm pretty sure they are around the same age 35-36
Mike has great hair...
40s?
holy shit it doesnt matter? high 30s 40s fuck man close enough, jus sayin mike doesnt look his age but james sorta does. sorry if i dont know their fuckn age i barly remember my parents age.
+Mij Jim Hahe you ever heard of the English language, it's pretty cool.
I love this game. Music and sound effects were epic.
I loved this game, I use to play this all the time as a kid 💖
Thanks to you guys for bringing back this game from my childhood!
The name of the last princess is: "The princess"
seems to be that the real name of that las "damsel" is Princess Johanna
Her name is BlueAss.... I checked...but not for real.
100,000 Points is obviously the name of the princess! She is just that beautiful she broke the usual ten point scale.
TJ "Princess" Yoshi
Nerdelda
What a great game and soundtrack, I used the intro music as my ringtone for years. About the wizards, you forgot (or didn't know about), the two blue ones, Alatar and Pallando. They were only briefly mentioned in some of the books. I guess JRR never got around to writing their stories.
Never heard it.
Never seen it.
Never played it.
Wanna play it after seeing this.
It’s awesome. Find it.
And that’s why they make these vids 😁 I passed it up today at a local game shop because I thought I recalled it being shit and on AVGN. What I didn’t realize was it was this video lol I got Narc and Dr. Mario, though
One of my favourite franchises. 'Ironsword' Wizards & Warriors II is one of the top 5 best NES games ever made!
I loved this game as a kid. 🧙♂️🐉🗡️
I loved this game growing up. It was one of my favorites.
12:41 it's the holy hand grenade of antioch
Wow I am surprised about James's feelings on Gummi Bears. Gummi Bears was a great cartoon IMO and one of my favorites. It was also one of the few Disney cartoons to feature an actual ending episode.
To be fair, he didn't say he disliked it. Mike just implied James wasn't a kiddy cartoon fan.
looks like mike matei is more of a disney fan than james is. and no i'm not implying he hates disney, in fact, i think he likes most of them.
This is one of those game I always wanted to rent when I went to Blockbuster. Good ol days :*(
Oh my god! I had this game on gameboy as a kid...I totally forgot about this game....so much nostalgia going on right now.
12:45 The Holy Hand Grenade.
I forgot the name of this for decades! I would always have many fond memories of it but forgot what it was called! Epic game & soundtrack.
You should get James to play Pokemon Go.
I could see him do it for an AVGN episode.
That would be golden. So many scenarios that James could write for that.
For an AVGN episode, idk. I think he would be stretching to make jokes, but I'm definitely interested in James + Pokemon anything, really. He hasn't touched on PKMN much.
AVGN does old games and Pokemon Go isn't even a month old.
For many reasons, this is a dumb idea in my opinion
+NotThatFlashy minesweeper is an amazing game
I loved jumping around in this game, I use to have the 'pink' caves memorized too. I can't remember if they were ACTUALLY pink but at the time my old tv make them look pink.
It's nice having James play and Mike commentate because James remains calm but interesting and Mike remains funny and doesn't get frustrated.
I absolutely LOVED this game 28 years ago... damn I'm old.
The evil wizard Malkill is the final boss in this game. He's the villain in Ironsword too. Not sure about Wizards and Warriors 3 though.
Yes, in 3 as well.
They should play Ironsword: Wizards and Warriors 2 next. Trilogy ftw! I loved the ending of Ironsword the most honestly. And level design.
could never beat last boss in Ironsword :(
+osp80 Ironsword has some of the best music on the NES. Top twenty in my book.
Also the Game Boy one.
There is something so relaxing about these videos.
It never occurred to me that James was that way about games, but it totally makes sense. His love for the monsters and the occult would naturally have him gravitate more toward games like Castlevania and Ghosts and Goblins. But if he really never was interested in "kiddie" games, he shouldn't have enjoyed stuff like Super Mario World--yet he did. Because it's a damn good game. This explains why he rarely mentions such Capcom gems as Rescue Rangers and Little Nemo: The Dream Master. He missed out on some really amazing games.
i could be wrong but i think maike matei is more of a disney fan than james is, though i'm not implying that he's not a disney fan. in fact, i think he likes most of them
Patrick Shields Mike absolutely loves Disney. Not just the classic animation, but he's a MASSIVE fan of Carl Barks, the Disney comic book artist who inspired the cartoon Ducktales, created the character of Scrooge McDuck back in the 40s, and is arguably the greatest Disney comic artist of all time. I think Mike owns almost all of his work in original editions. James may not dislike Disney, but he's definitely more into horror games. Which is a shame, since the NES had a LOT more great cartoony games than it did horror titles.
frozenaorta i know they never said anything about pixar or dreamworks but i wonder what they thought of these movies.
Patrick Shields I can almost guarantee you they both enjoy most of those films, especially Pixar. Those movies are pretty universally loved, and we're talking about a cartoonist and a film buff here.
frozenaorta okay the reason why i asked is that they're both critics of cgi and so am i but i still love pixar
I love watching these classic game reviews...Thanks guys
The music DOES sound a lot like "Baba O'Reilly" :D
Wizard and Warriors is one of my favorite Nes-games. I love watching you play it and have as much as I do. Thanks guys.
These games never got enough credit. Iron sword is one of the best nintendo games of all time easily and no one ever mentions it. Also one of the hardest.
Loved this game back in the day. This was the kind of game you couldn't finish because you would have to go to dinner and turn off game just to start over again. Great vid guys!!!
Man, for an NES game this looks like it has really good framerate!
Leave it to RARE. They reverse engineered the NES and were the dev masters. Made better games than nintendo themselves.
Those boots of force are good to have through the whole game. If you go up to a treasure chest that is closed you can hit select to open it without the key. Also the skulls that shoot things out of their eyes, you can hit select and kill those too.
I can't believe they haven't watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail
"Bring out the Holy Cross Bomb of Antioch!"
Wizards & warriors 2, iron sword.
This was my favorite game. The music was so fantastic, the creepy athmosphere was so intense. Especially as a kid
Thou hath verily shown me a better NES game than most SNES games.
There was another game I was watching on "Continue?" The character had the same death animation as this character. With the wiggly and everything. Great vid!
Imagine if Anita Sarkeesian had gotten a hold of this game. You collect multiple damsels in distress who who have exactly zero plot relevance, and who award points. You finally rescue "the princess", who doesn't even have a name, and is never even mentioned in the instruction book. She is, however, worth lots of points.
The music from this game and Rygar was stuck in my head for a long time.
The Princess's name was Fartknocker.
I loved this game. I beat it when I was like 8 or so when it came out. You can use the boots of force to open locked chests without a key and to knock things over/off the map like beehives and those skulls that shoot projectiles at you. The staff of power is the best secondary weapon, since it does two damage a hit.
Dr.Jekal and Mr.Hyde music in the ice caverns
No it's not, but it's the music he used in the avgn jekyll & hyde revisisted ep.
Such a classic game. I adore Wizards and Warriors 2, as well.
Miss being able to sit down with friends in the same room playing games.
Little bit of a late response i guess, but what's stopping you, give a call and play some games.
@@Patrick_The_Pure Pandemic be wild
@@majesticgrill3342 WHAT ARE FRIENDS EVEN!!!
I remember playing this game back in the late 80's. You guys must have either gotten into NES late or been clinging on for dear life. Definitely gotta give it another go. Thanks for the video.
I love how the guy spazzes out when he gets killed
This game reminds me of Underwurlde, a game for the ZX Spectrum, also by Rare, when they were known as Ultimate Play The Game.
Her name is 100,000pts.
James, the boot is used to kick treasures boxes open without needing the keys, but isn't permanent and can be replaced by certain items until you find it again. If I remember correctly, the staff was the best sub item in the game and completely destroys all the bosses.
hah, shit, i remember this one... i should play this
What I was thinking. I still have this
this one brought back a lot of memories. my mom got me Iron Sword at Toys R Us when I was around 6. I played this one later. good games.
It annoys me that they didn't conjugate 'have' correctly for old English. It should be 'thou hast,' not 'thou hath.' 'Hath' is for 3rd person singular.
Thanks for the info
That bothered me, too. They also misspelled Esmeralda.
They aren't in Olde England. They are in the Kingdom of Elrond. Clearly you just don't speak decent Elrondish.
Fuck this game!!
Not quite. 'Hath' is only used with 'thou,' which was the second person familiar. So, 'thou hast done it,' vs. 'You have done it,' vs. 'He has done it.'
Similarly, verbs took the ending 'st' with 'thou.' Such as 'Thou goest.'
At least I think I am remembering this correctly!
I'm so glad you mentioned Baba O Reilly. The music in this game always made me think of that.
pat the nes punk needs to leave ian and just join this
pat lives in San Diego and James and Mike live in new jersey so that wouldn't work..
fuck that guy Ian
ian can be interesting......somedays.......
He has been a guest
Sorry guys but Ian is a walking encyclopedia of retro gaming knowledge and has plenty of enteresting stories to tell, and he knows how to do it. I don't understand why you may dislike him so much. He's a great guy, I'd buy him a sandwich :)
Finally! I was waiting so long for this one. Thank you!
The final princess, her name hath be Anita Sarkeesian, she complains about this thou game using the "damsel in distress" trope, the noble wizard was just trying to get her to shut up.
Loved this game growing up. With the boots of force you can kick open treasure chests and use kick as a weapon.
nintendo had a guy that tested games to c if us puny americans would b able to handle the games or not
exactly
Funny that a lot of newer Japanese games are more difficult when ported to the US.
Yeah this was mainly a thing in the 80's and early 90's... the japanese companies didn't think American kids liked games that were too much of a challenge.
That was probably because a lot of games had asshole difficulty. Today, we learned the error of our ways, and know that a good game, is one that acts in a reliable and expected manner, and a scaling difficulty is a good dumbfire way to ensure it's alright.
+tony lenzi
Is it a question of game playing ability, or a question of obsessiveness -- a willingness to die over a game, like they sometimes do today in internet cafes?
loved this game...forgot what it was called, been searching for years. Thanks you James & Mike
Have James play Undertale
"Just from watching I can tell that this is a game that I would love."
Hand him the controller, James D:
Uh Mike, back in the Nes/LJN days, Rare was a garbage developer, and had a long list of garbage games, most of which were hated. (One example was Beetlejuice, made by Rare, published by LJN. Both also did Nightmare On Elm street.) No one gave a shit about this developer until they changed and started making decent games on the Snes and N64, now under the guidance of Nintendo as a publisher. This is when they became famous, and everyone quickly ignored or forgot about the trash they made in the past.
Sadly, this would not last either, because after that, they were bought out by Microsoft, and started making shitty games again, now exclusive to Xbox or Kinect. They lost the rights to most franchises they made games for under Nintendo, except Perfect Dark and Banjo, which got crappy newer games on the Xbox. After these games flopped, the franchises were simply abandoned.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_developed_by_Rare
u mental ? rare made some of the best games such as battletoads and captain skyhawk and solar jetman ,all class games
Try looking at the list I provided.
What about RC Pro Am or Battletoads? Those are good!
published by LJN says it all
I have the second one and I used to play it all the time when I was a kid. I love this game!