Eternal Champions (Genesis) Playthrough - NintendoComplete 

I used to sit and watch my big brother play this game, it was always too hard for me to figure out at the time. I used to think it was the coolest thing ever, so mysterious and sort of eerie. Crazy how someone posting a play-through on youtube can bring back so many memories of him. Thank you so much for this.

This game had a very creative story idea. Individuals from different time periods who were killed meet in the afterlife and battle it out for a 2nd chance. Would make really good movie or perhaps a remake.

I can't believe why nobody aint try buy the trademark for this game and put out a remake..........Sega need to revive this game

My best friend and I use to play this game all the time. He passed away a few years back. this game reminds me of the great times i wish were still here. Thanks for this.

Good game but the difficulty is through the roof. The Eternal Champion marathon fight at the end is probably in my Top 10 most unfair gaming moments lol.

Memories!!! Everyday coming home from school, Thundercats, homework and Eternal Champions with little brother..got my ass whopped and finally beat the breaks off him with Trident.

Don't let the sharp learning curve scare you away too quickly - once you learn the game and get some practice, it really is an excellent fighter. And extremely violent, if you like that kind of thing. I do.

This is a slightly underrated game.

I remember playing this game as a kid. The eerie and gore atmosphere was so scary I had nightmares... yet I couldn't stop myself from getting back to it. I used to beg my sister to stay with me while playing. 90's gaming at its finest

This game was so far ahead of it's time! Stage fatalities, taunts, decent combos... wow.

i think this is one of the hardest fighters ever. love the character Larcen--probably one of the coolest characters in any fighting game. Always played as him. I don't know how you master these games!. I gave up on this one years ago.

I used to love this game when I was a kid. The story and characters were so badass

The eyeball coming off at 15:02 was fantastic. Amazing playthrough, thanks a ton for bringing back memories.

Love the whole atmosphere of this game...it's all about the atmosphere when it comes to any creative project, imo!

Never realized how demonic this game was back then

This game has some of the best spritework I have seen in a Mega Drive/Genesis game. They're so large (with some going up to 128 pixels high) and are animated so well with tons of character shown in them.

When I heard "punk" and the xavier staff power up. I am 8 years old again.

This had one of the greatest concepts of any fighting game ive ever seen The storyline is amazing I never understood the game play tho all i did was button mash tbh

I really loved this game. I got it 2 weeks after the 1994 Northridge January Earthquake that hit L.A.

I bought some old X-men comics and found an ad for this game in there, now I have to play this game!!

This game was low key terrifying

REALLY needs a remake. Loved how it was Mortal Kombat violent but looked like Street Fighter. Larcen was always a go-to character for me too, never managed to beat the full game. Makes me wanna throw an emu on for old times sake.

Programmers Michael Terlecki, Christopher Warner and Mark Nausha later went on to form their own company, Point of View, Inc., which later became Subdued Software, while sound designers Jeffrey Glenn Tveraas and Tristan Des Pres later went on to Park Place Productions, which is now known as SCE San Diego Studio.

I have a mint condition poster for this I love this game and need to find another sega copy of this. I use to play this all night. :D

My stepdad bought this at a garage sale back in the 90s, it was actually a lot of fun. Used to love Jetta and Shadow

With some development and new installments this game could be a very serious competitor against Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat.

I always preferred this to Mortal Kombat. They could have made loads of money.

Such an underrated game. Better than MK in my opinion.

Holy shit I’ve been trying to figure out what game I played all the time when I was a kid and just hearing the first fight music made me realize it was this game . Amazing game way ahead of its time

This game came out in late 1993 when I was in the 6th grade , I hated this game to hard for me, give me mortal kombal and and street fighter over this game anyday

Wow! As soon as I heard the music play I smiled! I always loved game as a kid.

They all have a move or two that is very useful, high priority, high mobility or both which takes no spirit. Larcens wheel kick, Shadows double jump and dive kick. Rax's "throw" with hard kick, which is nutso brutal and can stun allowing you to do it again. Tridents ground blade roll back to bait and retreat while charging a move. Blade's trademark 'lightning' dive with hard kick in the air, letting you jump back away, pressing it as a surprise sudden front dive. Xavier's standing hard punch? That tosses his cane out a very long range as a huge wheel, Slashes quick hard flip kick and absurdly dominant down strike with his club. Once you realize you can charge moves after jumping in (think charge characters in SF series E Honda / Blanca) you jump in with many champions and immediately pull away to charge, work a little poke to soften them and open up. Most moves in this are multi button, a button and a direction or a charge. I personally have a hard time picking a favorite. I love Larcen and Rax but I love Shadow and Midnight's whole design and feel so much. What I think makes this game great is, the characters are not stylized by the martial art they know (which can be amazing don't get me wrong) but they are styilized by being themselves.... A unique concept. They are not just Samurai or karate. The only character that even sort falls into this cliche is Jetta and even she is a hyper fast acrobat that knows the very obscure pencak silat and thows a boomerang.... and you have the obscure like Slash's fight style .... "PAIN" lol Then you assume it will be a cheese fest and unbalanced, but the spirit meter helps a ton there. The crazy thing also is, not every champion has a weapon. While developers can make a hard punch the same damage as a staff strike what they can't fuge on is the range so all sorts of reach. Somehow a Jeet kun do vampire from Vietnam era can fight a caveman with a club or a cyborg with energy weapon with his fists and his 'free' move that brutal gap closing tornado kick. Somehow it remains fairly balanced. And finally why would a 1920 gangster fight an Atlantian or a caveman? The story makes that work as well. It's a wonderful game I'm proud to own a copy and me Sega Genesis type 2 still works.

God, I remember losing my shit when I finally beat this with Trident. It's challenging as hell, but really played well for a console fighting game.

Looking at all the dithering in the game, ihe graphics must've looked pretty sweet on a CRT tv

I loved this game so much. Hours of game play with my cousins back in 90s

usually the end fight in most fighters is usually having to beat the last guy maybe an extra time but damn you have to beat the eternal champion 5 times in a row in ONE fight dont know what the devs were thinking but man it was hard lol.

I used to have a friend who insisted on playing the Atlantean with unlimited chi. One fireball would stun you, and then he'd be able to hit you with a series of 3 buzz saw attacks. So cheesy. Then somehow he stopped having fun playing the game when I got good enough to beat him regularly despite it.

I wish they remake this

The devs who made Streets of Rage 4 did one hell of a job on bringing back the franchise. I pray that they remake this

I loved this game on the Genesis!! Then there was this one track in the Sound Options that me and my homies would freestyle to. Then later on Bone Thugs N Harmony would use that beat for the Eternal song on the E.1999 album! Ahh, the memories!!

Great playthrough! Refreshing to see all the overkills. The one for Slash's stage used to scare me to death as a kid. You good at using MidKnight?

Serious props for beating this game. I remember how stupid hard the AI was in single player. Larcen was my man back in the day. Respect. ✊

Bone thugs n harmony brought me here.... lol

Omg memories unlocked!!!! I forgot about this game omfg lol

I love how the hit sounds are from street fighter 2

The Blade character sounds like he was voiced by Keith David, best known as the voice of Goliath on the Buena Vista-produced Gargoyles animated series, which premiered one year after Eternal Champions.

Notably one of the few fighting games out there with a well thought out premise. It's a shame the story never saw its conclusion

I remember renting this game as a child and accidentally doing the stage finishers. 😆 As kids we didn't even know what triggered them we just thought it was random

i liked seeing all the stage executions.

Played as Blade, Midnight and Larcen and defeated the Eternal Champion with all those characters. Their backstories painted them as good guys in the wrong place at the wrong time when they died so that and their combos and taunt drew me to play them.

Bone thugs n harmony used the beat for their song eternal

The computers be cheating sometimes

Stage music for Jetta, Shadow and Midknight hypeness

Man I used to love this game as a kid come on straight from school and jump right on the game After I did my homework

Thanks for putting this up. I haven't thought about this game in years. Good gameplay.

Wow, this game looks awesome! I need it in my collection for sure.

Please remake this game for PS4 and Xbox one at least a HD version with better controls.

Sick playthrough bro. That is not easy.

That intro track tho

This brings so many memories

Larcen Tyler is my favorite on enteral champions on sega Genesis 1993 Cecilia Raibon born September 1960 age 60 birthday 60th anniversary on sega 60th anniversary birthday

Wow, so many hours spent playing this as a kid

yea this game was one of the hardest fighters i ever learned. fave was trident, then xavier. but this was one of the first games that genuinely had a adaptive NPC element and i call bullshit on anyone who says it didnt. its like either the difficulty ramped up every stage, or the pc was legitimately learning your moves and countering them, because by time you got to the eternal champion i swear that dude was reading my mind. in fact i swear thats how i remember beating the game. id save one move (tridents plasma shot) and never use it through the other levels, then spam the hell out of it in the last fight.

Shadow: Coward! Rax Wimp! Blade: Loser! Jetta: Pig! Slash: Roar! Trident: Freak! Xavier: Simpleton! Midknight: Weakling! Larcen: Punk!

The Sega CD version remains my favorite fighter of all time. It still feels very unique to me. Had the widest variety of fighting styles and moves imo. Every fighter that comes out now has to try too hard to appease the competitive communities to be truly unique.

Last boss is like geese Howard with ghost fire soul 👺

That theme song takes me back. I used to play this so much with my brother as kids.

I’m just now knowing this game has fatalities 🤯😭 I’m 32 I played this when I was about 4 years old.. The good old nostalgia 😎👍🏾

I never beat this game,it too hard,but i like the musics. :)

Anyone here cause of Skydance Media making a movie out of this?

Sega has a lot of characters to make a KOF based fighting game. I mean, Fighters Megamix 2 would be epic

Man I so loved this game I remember this shit back when I was a kid my childhood memory I loved Xavier game was basically a street fighter

Nostalgia right there

this really does look cool. i'd like this to come out for switch. as far as old fighters go, it looks real good

Bone Thugs & Harmony-Eternal

I've never heard of this, but it has most interesting concept for any fighting game that I've ever seen. The idea that there's all these people from different points of history fighting each other in the places where they died, moments before their deaths, trying to avoid the fates they suffered in reality. I only wish they had more time periods, though. With the exception of the detective, the caveman, and the wizard, most of the characters look like they came out of comic books. It would have been more interesting if there were people from every era: a knight, a samurai, a cowboy etc. But w/e. Hope there's a remake

One of my favorites ❤ The back stories and the concept was well written and the music and graphics were engaging. It was challenging but still enjoyable and at the time, it seemed ahead of it's time! So many comments on the great memories ppl had playing, I remember being hyped just seeing the cover art! Would make a great movie..

Just with this game Genesis does whant Nintendont

Nostalgic thanx also playing as Larcen. Personally my favorite character. Reminds me of Gambit both have style

Shadow was my fave as a kid.

the sega cd version was awesome, it's really a underrated title, sad thing sega let it die like that

7:07 - I can't fathom how this didn't catch on and dethroned Mortal Kombat.......I mean geez fourteen seconds of dead air waiting for a lame ass stage fatality? 12:49 - So the rex was just waiting off screen for one of them to lose huh? Not even something like _"oh shit we disturbed this beast and now it's gonna kill one of us out of rage"?_ Okay then.... 14:57 - See this and the first two feel like proper stage fatalities. Even if they drag a bit they are straight forward. The opponent is dead because of your direct actions, not some oddly specific coincidence. 16:26 - I am literally watching the precursor to those lame "Faction Kills" in MKX. 16:50 through 22:03 - Seriously how did this not dethrone Mortal Kombat as the one true violent mini game? Oy, at least it gives you some health back between each form....that was eight straight minutes man...... X _ X 26:43 - Ah, seems I was gravely mistaken earlier, _THIS_ is the precursor to those lame Faction Kills from MKX....this game has made me sad T _ T

The final boss was no joke! I was 8 years old when i used to play this. Good times

I love this game

6:36 midnight just did rayden spear move from mortal kombat

artwork -superb, animations lacked frames per second, music weak, sound effects terrible. do the math, this game couldnt be successful when youve had absolutely superb games like Mortal Kombat and similar, with all the elements mentioned above, perfected and flawless.

just played this yesterday still crazy game

Whats weird is I swear I had this game but I have almost no memory of what's shown in this video.

Was my favorite of the genre back then... actually like it more than SF2.

Wow, I looked this up as it's in early Sonic The Comic, which I'm rereading, and wow it's a hella lot more violent than I was expecting, some really creative stuff in this!

Sega Genesis:A Fun Game. Sega CD:BLOOD AND GORE!!!

This game was trash. I remember my friend and I bought it one Friday night and went back to my house to play it bc it was hyped as a competitor to Mortal Kombat, it most definitely was not.

graphic style and gameplay are so modern as today violent games, all the new MK are inspired from this

I'm surprised how good the music was. It's not over-composed; it leaves a lot of room for the imagination, but still has a lot of character. I think these songs would sound great remade with modern tools.

Thank you for this. I played this game for years but was never able to beat the Eternal Champion. This allowed me to see how the game ends. Thanks!

I used to borrow this game from the video rental store just so I could listen to the music and enjoy the graphics. I could never actually beat anybody, I just liked the atmosphere of all the different stages. My Dad never asked any questions because he heard the music playing from my room and just assumed I was playing it seriously so he wasn't wasting his money.

I can’t believe I figured out what this game was called! I have thought about it for years!

Excellent playthrough. You actually fought instead of spamming a cheap move and nailed all the fatalities. Lord this was a hard game when I was a kid.

Slash & Jetta were my fav Characters in this game. Also, this game's Title Screen Music is imho among the best on the Sega Genesis... right up there with the Title Screen Music of other greats, like Gunstar Heroes. :)

I remember playing this as a kid. Great times, did not realize what the storyline was until I read it just now