10 More Disturbing 8-bit Video Game Bosses

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It's becoming a bit of a TripleJump tradition, this digging up of disturbing bosses from old-school games and displaying them like some kind of museum of the grotesque. We previously unleashed a couple of videos on 16-bit bosses that gave us the heebie-jeebies, then we explored the murky realms of 8-bit unpleasantness, casting our eyes over some of the monstrosities that developers managed to create using even fewer pixels. Well, it turns out that there are plenty more where they came from, so we decided to make a part two! Here are 10 More Disturbing 8-bit Video Game Bosses!
VO: Peter Austin (@ThatPeterAustin)
Script: Simon Pike (@Sim198k)
Video Editor: Lean Bacalzo (@LeanBacalzo)
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@CharlesWorkPPL Год назад

That extra rear-facing eye gives Biclops excellent hindsight.

@MasterZebulin Год назад

Booooo!

@-weaponized6493 Год назад

Hindsight is 20

@superdarklink Год назад

I see what you did there

@Alucard-A-La-Carte Год назад

A single robot leg, bulging manic eyeball, and hairy torso, I didn't realize my Uncle Seb was moonlighting as an 8-bit boss in the '80s! Explains a lot, actually.

@rollanddev Год назад

Great video! It's ironic how the 8-bit era was so limited in its graphics but somehow able to create even more imaginative and visceral bosses than most modern near-photorealistic games do. Thanks for the trip down memory lane! ("Skuh-1337-whole" sounds odd, to me at least. :P)

@BreakingSigns Год назад

So glad I found this channel. I’ve binged like 30 of your videos this week. Hell yeah! Keep it up guys

@CyanShaman Год назад

I've watched pretty much all of their videos on this channel since discovering them during the 2020 first lockdown. The Shit Games for Wankers/Worst Games Ever playlist mix from here, Vidiots and WhatCulture is a regular Playlist I run if having problems sleeping. They uploaded 3 Seasons of them in one singular 4-5hour chunk that I've fallen asleep to multiple times.

@only1smally Год назад

An old game on the zx spectrum - go to hell. Pretty much everything is 8 bit gross in it.

@shenloken2 Год назад

Definitely good call including Dracula’s 2nd Form from Castlevania 3! A huge floating brain with lots of faces dripping blood from their maws which then become skulls when you kill each one? Yeah that’s pretty warped! Imagine if they realized it in animation form for the Netflix series.

@360entertainment2 Год назад

There was so much they could’ve done with Dracula in that one, I still enjoyed the series though!

@hissatsu4937 Год назад

I'm very happy to see The Guardian Legend get more recognition

@MajinZarak Год назад

Guardian Legend was a masterpiece.

@Dhalin Год назад

It's very rare when a game that tries to mash two genres together in the same game, actually pull it off. Usually when you try to mash two genres in the same game, you get this game that tries to be too many different things, and never excels at any of them and just feels blah and samey. TGL, on the other hand, manages to pull it off, somehow. It's an awesome top-down shooter, but yet the on-foot exploration is awesome too. I think what really helped, is that you use the same weapons in both segments and the controls feel really smooth and responsive, and your character (either on foot OR in the flying form) doesn't move like she's 9 months pregnant (ahem, Life Force before picking up the mandatory Speed powerups). That's something Crystalis also did (fast character movement) and it's one of the things that makes _that_ game feel so awesome to play too.

@bixenter Год назад

@@Dhalin Are you TGL fan? Then join the community

@ArcaneAzmadi Год назад

Of course, the plot of Blaster Master was completely rewritten for the English version. The original Japanese version featured no pet frog nonsense, and was about an invasion of the peaceful _planet_ Sofia III in the Epsilon galaxy by the Invem Dark Star Cluster, with the tank Metal Attacker being created by a small group of survivors from the attack to fight back. I'm willing to bet most of the games on this list had their plots changed for the western release, but Blaster Master is probably the one where they put the most effort into integrating the new plot into the game, what with the all new cutscenes- and they still only managed to come up with cliched crap like "boy wants his pet frog back"...

@beauwalker9820 Год назад

I like how the remake "Blaster Master Zero" kinda mixes both the USA and Japanese plots together, with some new plot points.

@MasterZebulin Год назад

Invem... Why does that name sound familiar?

@richardcochrun3869 Год назад

Glad they changed that, Metal Attacker for the tank name is dumb. Can you explain how the pet frog is cliche?

@MasterZebulin Год назад

@@richardcochrun3869 >Metal Attacker is a dumb name You take that back.

@Dhalin Год назад

There was also a short novel written about this new plot. While it is laughably unbelievable (c'mon, a HUGE expanse underneath the surface of earth with space-age tech? okaaay), it is a decent standalone story that gives further context of the game and it is decently written despite it being a somewhat amateur written book for kids. The same author also did one for Metal Gear which was even better written.

@mikeburkhart8336 Год назад

Not only was the final boss of The Guardian Legend disturbing,it was hard as nails to beat.

@RedSpade37 Год назад

I love all the bosses in that game, honestly. Even just the first boss, the Piranha Shark Fish, with its dozens of teeth and singular eye. Certainly not what I was expecting as a kid!

@parrishharris3008 Год назад

Most nintendo entertainment system games seem to be set on Hard Mode - smh.

@TheJcris87 Год назад

Remake when 😫

@Sauvenil Год назад

@@parrishharris3008 Nah, we were just far more patient with sluggish controls when we were young ;)

@Sauvenil Год назад

I came here just for the thumbnail, I'm not afraid to admit.

@mscottjohnson3424 Год назад

The Japanese box art for Guardian Legend is one of the sweetest NES/Famicom boxes period.

@Dhalin Год назад

The Japanese sure had a thing for robotic/cybernetic action girls, that's for sure!

@vladt7150 Год назад

7:01 "Life Force" was also released as "Salamander" on the C64, and though it was missing 2 of the 6 original levels ( IIRC, GIGA is completely absent), the mutant bosses on levels 1 and 2 would **definitely** get a place on this list.

@erikgilson1687 Год назад

That's the game!! Astyanax! I was literally just thinking about it yesterday, it's a game I used to have for NES I could never find when trying to describe it. Literally for like 15+ years I've been trying to figure out what that game was

@Mankey619 Год назад

Man the NES has a whole lot of awesome body horror monsters in their kid friendly games. They just look awesome. Blaster Master is on the Switch and I definitely gonna play it.

@buckster2575 Год назад

I have easier on he nintendo.the control part is hard to get used to.

@bachelorsensei9437 Год назад

8:50 I really loved how you gave Space John Wick a shoutout! Isolated Warrior and Street Fighter 2010 are some of my favorite NES games.

@hygrave2892 Год назад

Glad to see the team doing well. And Peter, I think you're tall enough to be a awesome Storm Trooper!

@Sailor_alan Год назад

Not sure if it's in either list, but there was a creepy eye brain boss in r type on the master system. It was grotesque.

@dixon_481 Год назад

There was as many robo skulls as I'd imagined, there was much more sea creature going on than I would have thought tho...

@Fat_Kids_Jiggle Год назад

I'm surprised no bosses from Contra or Ninja Gaiden were on this list

@listerofsmeg884 Год назад

The plot of Blaster Master would make a serviceable Steven Segal movie

@cjxj2202 Год назад

Only if they change the frog’s name to Ritchie 😂

@Dhalin Год назад

@@cjxj2202 YO anybody seen Ritchie? Anybody know why Ritchie did Bobby Lupo!? I'm gonna keep coming back until somebody remembers seeing Ritchie!!

@RandomAsFunk Год назад

They should put Kevin in street fighter 6 lol, I’d main him

@krystalthesquirrel4973 Год назад

11:52 We're not gonna talk about that? Also, if you ever do a third installment of disturbing 16 Bit video game bosses, I recommend the deformed rat from Harley's Humongous Adventure.

@wanderlustwarrior Год назад

Huh. I wasn't expecting to find a Street Fighter game I'd never heard of on this list of all places.😊

@aarongritsch8394 Год назад

I always enjoy boss lists because not only are they entertaining, I also see a couple of games I have never played and now want to.

@AtariSwitch Год назад

Dracula also had an awful demonic wail when you killed one of his heads.

@scottevensen2615 Год назад

7:39 Jump scare warning! That's unsettling 😨

@hygrave2892 Год назад

And one more thing, how about a worst to best on the Mega Man series? It's one you haven't got to. There are plenty of titles to make an hours worth of content. Cheers bruddas!

@williamreams4122 Год назад

He just cracks me up every time when he do these segments 😂😂😂😂😂

@LoPhatKao Год назад

clicked because of thumbnail TGL was awesome the password screen music is imprinted on my brain lol

@Dhalin Год назад

How about the theme as you're flying towards NAGU? (I think it was called NAGU.. or was that NABU?) Very iconic and very well written piece of 8bit chiptune. That, and Area 0 walking theme.

@Shadowlynk Год назад

@@Dhalin NAJU. And yeah, Guardian Legend has a lot of awesome songs in its soundtrack, the intro stage being my favorite as well.

@Underratedcomedi Год назад

Magic John is a funny name lol

@leilaclarridge5807 Год назад

A lot of brains it seems

@Leviathan02464 Год назад

I loved blaster master as a kid.

@MaddMountains Год назад

All of the enemies in Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road gave me nightmares as a kid.

@diegopaescuter9308 Год назад

For me Grimgrin (Area 8 Bosses) is the more ugly than final boss from Guardian Legend, and I think this monster is the inspiration from US Cover Art

@Shadowlynk Год назад

Same. Grimgrin's final phase is pretty much tailor-made for lists like this.

@ransax Год назад

Boy I hate when skeleetons use their skeleetal appendages to fight.

@tarrker Год назад

Taking bets on how many of these "disturbing" bosses are just eyeballs. :P

@PamIsley314 Год назад

4:00 squidward's ancestor

@CyanShaman Год назад

3:00 Princess Rosebud is more disturbing than the bosses if you search for the X Rated Rosebud term 😸

@jongabrielminney2440 Год назад

Triple Jump has really solid background music.

@yotaruvegeta Год назад

Why did developers love/fear mutations so dang much?

@AdamAtrocity17 Год назад

The first boss of Astayanax is pretty nasty

@noaht2005 Год назад

Ooh. It says I’m first. Guardian Legend is a great game

@mattjames6349 Год назад

how many of these are Japanese developed? Just saying it seems like a lot! :)

@noaht2005 Год назад

@@mattjames6349 all of them are Japanese

@knightchef Год назад

The vortex queen from Ecco the dolphin fucked me up as a kid, as an adult I don’t like it one bit.

@kenhollis6197 Год назад

The word is "skeletal," not "skel-ee-tal," as in "skeleton."

@qwaH Год назад

How about Soft & Cuddly on the Speccy? cant remember if there are proper boss's in it, never did manage to get too far, but pretty much the whole game is full of wierd & disturbing imagry, maybe for a list of games full of disturbing stuff

@mattjames6349 Год назад

did you know Gradius was suppsed to be called Gladius(It's apparently a japanese sword) but theire was a miscommunication and hence you have Gradius which as far as I know doesn't mean anything at all, but yes it was supposed to be clled Gladius.

@Boreece Год назад

Nifty. Gladius is actually Latin and means "Sword", specifically the one used by the roman legionaries with it's distinct shape.

@RedSpade37 Год назад

And here I thought it was called Gradius because of gradients. Like, the intro with the Konami logo and all that. Learn something new everyday!

@mattjames6349 Год назад

@@Boreece Japanese and Latin ? I was pretty far off wasn’t I ? 😂 but I knew it was a miscommunication. I’m going to dig myself in deeper here arent I ? But the letter L isn’t big in the Japanese pronouncing of words is it ? Oh god , I’m embarrassing myself probably so much …

@Boreece Год назад

@@mattjames6349 No worries, mate 😊 Yes, R and L are often times swapped in japanese, for pronunciation as well as in the written Hepburn romanization. An example of this, off the top of my head, would be Xenoblade, which is pronounced Zenobureido in japanese. You'll find loads more like this if you start actively looking for them 😅

@CharlesWorkPPL Год назад

The gladius was a type of sword wielded by the ancient Roman military and gladiators.

@-weaponized6493 Год назад

8:15 Me when Hamburger:

@16ozClawHammer Год назад

It's 'skeletal', not 'skeletal'.

@gfear24 Год назад

The pronunciation of "Gradius" entirely depends on where you're from. Outside of the UK, it's pronounced "GRAY-dee-us", while in the UK, it's pronounced "GRAH-dee-us". Both are right.

@Werewolfmage Год назад

i knew life force would be in there somewhere

@cville991 Год назад

12:44 Looks like a demonic Exeggutor. 😆

@RossPfeiffer Год назад

Now I'm just procrastinating

@XXXXX8 Год назад

Where can I listen to the background music used in these videos?

@kylemitri3070 Год назад

The Biclop looks so friendly. I feel bad for it

@rollanddev Год назад

I just feel sorry for it because of how Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, saw fit to clog its butthole up with an eyeball. How does it poop? Is there a second mini-brain in its hind that allows it to interpret what its buttball sees? Is it even able to smuggle contraband across state borders? It reminds me of that one painting. I have no anus and I must poop. Only the little bloated and struggling fellow is clutching his ginormous buttball. Or maybe it's just a reference to the Japanese "Shirime" youkai. I dunno. My comments still apply if that's the case.

@-Siculus-Hort- Год назад

oohhhh. i love blaster master.

@treyowen9213 Год назад

The Red demon is still the most horrifying.

@guessundheit6494 Год назад

I watched both lists. Why no mention of Sinistar?

@rollanddev Год назад

Sinistar was terrifying, but not very disturbing. It was just some kind of evil space robot. Most of the stuff on the list here is a writing mass of oh-dear-god-why-please-make-it-stop.

@stringanime Месяц назад

Nice video. Ought to be titled "10 More Disturbing 8-bit NES Video Game Bosses." The 8-bit area of gaming far extends from Arcade to home computers, handhelds and 8-bit Consoles like Sega Master System and Turbo Grafx 16 (yep Turbo is an 8 bit console). Nintendo may have won the pop culture of 8 bit, but Nintendo definately doesn't own what 8-bit is. Some 8-bit games make the NES 8-bit, look like 8-Bit-shit.

@charlesmcgregor6396 Год назад

Street Fighter 2010 plays like Bionic Commando? Highly illogical.

@schafferstephen2 2 месяца назад

Funny how Xynz gets no love....

@kingbeef66 Год назад

Man, the NES ere was very revolutionary.

@partofthetribe3277 Год назад

Neat beginning in the wrestling ring. Did you guys thrash each other afterwards?

@wanderlustwarrior Год назад

Well, Ashton got in a good hit, at least.

@louiswilliams8534 Год назад

i hear you

@milagro795 Год назад

No. 7’s hat kinda looks like something… else…

@-Siculus-Hort- Год назад

look into the movie "terror vision".

@fernandopenalva2680 Год назад

Abadox is in first part???

@sonnieandjacob Год назад

The guardian legend is still my favorite NES game of all time

@gurvmlk Год назад

Good choice.

@nrabbit300 Год назад

.... Astro tube... is that why.... .. astroglide?.... ... ._.

@solidfkingsnake Год назад

"gee-gah"

@orlandeuce6567 Год назад

SEND MORE BRAINS

@ethandalzell8242 Год назад

Sorry I should have subbed earlier ( I’ve been watching your videos)

@obscuredoblivion444 Год назад

"Rad" was more so in the '80s

@Lollero200q Год назад

Gladius

@killeing Год назад

FROMSOFT MADE MASTER BLASTER?! LIKE DARK SOULS FROMSOFT?!?!?!

@CharlesWorkPPL Год назад

Sunsoft.

@Dhalin Год назад

@@CharlesWorkPPL Sunsoft was an awesome developer. They did so much awesome stuff back in the day, and they clearly had very talented music writers at the very least. Most of the themes in Blaster Master are awesome, but Level 7's music is just packed so full of emotion. By the time you finally SEE that level you've got a mix of "I've come so far" and "I'm almost there!" at the same time and the music piece reflects that. Then, they _recycle it as the final boss's theme_ which is also quite fitting in that fight, too.

@DemonArshan Год назад

I used to play this game on SNES I think there was this game I can't remember the name of it was like Street of Rage there was a giant 12 feet tall feminist boss with fire breathing Damm it can't remember the name.

@johnyporter6341 Год назад

Don’t lie Peter. There are always disgusting creatures in the comments section of RU-vid videos.

@mattcyr2022 Год назад

Who is this Yahtzee Croshaw impersonator? 🤔

@close2metvthebluesquare279 11 месяцев назад

11:54 Or cute anime girls! (Touhou Project)

@Lofote Год назад

Wait... not a single C64 game boss?

@peggymacmillan5069 Год назад

❤❤❤The Guardian Legend❤❤❤ is the best game ever developed...now days; "created". Secret Quest for Atari 2600 is tied to T.G.L.

@hrs.ai2018 Год назад

US version NES are differnt from Japanese

@nichooooo2748 Год назад

i think i'll be pronouncing it "ska-LEET-al" from now on

@matthewholland2816 Год назад

SkelEEEEtal :)

@phorchybug3286 Год назад

These guys look funny.

@AquaShibby3000 Год назад

I had Totally Rad..... it isn't...

@maddestmike5791 Год назад

Tim Curry is the superior Pennywise!!

@aliensweathands Год назад

👽

@TheAdamdunlap Год назад

I love you guys so much. Maybe because I am so use to our lord and savior Adam... every time you say the title of your video and don't say "Join Us"... I always say it in my head... maybe I am alone in this but I think you should too???