#FestersQuest 

Your videos are becoming an integral part of my weekends. Really appreciate all your effort!

Never could beat this one, but DAMN what an amazing soundtrack.

could you do a guide vid on that crazy-ass nes game 'a boy and his blob'? would be brilliant to see all the secrets & strategies of that game Dec 2021 UPDATE: Yessss!! He did it ❤️

You know someone is an expert when they make festers quest look easy! A rare breed indeed!

$5 for a Hot Dog in 1989, that's one expensive dog

Man, Sunsoft was up there with Capcom as far as I'm concerned. One of my favorite developers on the NES.

My aunt died before finishing this game (her favorite, btw) and I've aged quite a bit since then. I want to use your strats to finish this game once and for all in the name of my aunt. I promised her I would if she couldn't. That last boss always ended me while the two bosses before really hurt a lot. I feel confident now. Thanks a lot!

Angry video game nerd poisoned an entire generation against this game.

The Addams Family was popular in reruns and advertising at the time, geared more towards the younger generation. Same reason why the movie ended up getting made, why the original Star Trek got more popular, and why Gilligan's Island became popular again, it was cheap rerun content for TV stations to run.

Its not as hard as Battletoads or Ghosts n' Goblins... Thats like saying its not as hard as shitting diamonds while playing an Eddie Van Halen solo.

The reason the Christian iconography got through was that the Nintendo censors couldn't make it that far into the game, lol. Thank you for this video, I'm going to fire up my copy this weekend and see how far I can get!

Your comment about it being a nightmare for color blind people really struck home. I am not color blind, but my parents would only let the nes be hooked up to an old black and white television for awhile. Not sure how I ever reached the 4th boss without knowing if each gun/whip would level me up or down. Later when hooked up to a color television, it was so much more enjoyable.

A childhood favorite of mine, and still a strong title in my NES library! Just a note about the story: the aliens abduct the townspeople, not Gomez. Gomez stays at the Addams' house to protect it while Fester and the rest of the fam take on the aliens. That's why he's in that cutscene when you get the 4th health box. The story is in the manual. I can send a link to a site that has scans for most NES manuals if you'd like it. Also, the dot after you get all the clues reveals the location of the final boss. It isn't really helpful either way, but that's what it's supposed to do.

Best day of the week when the Bob Ross of gaming uploads 🥰

I f%#king LOVE this channel! The brief history at the beginning of each episode, the extremely detailed game play mechanics, tips etc..Even the monotony of the channel creators voice is awesome (And I mean that with no negative connotation!) Big fan 👊 Thanks for making such an awesome channel 🙇‍♂️

Omg, I was just looking up in depth videos on this and I am SO SO glad you did this as you're of my favorite RU-vidrs lately. I managed to beat this game when I was 9, button mashing wildly, grinding for the best gun and whip and learning when to use the best weapons like the missiles. Thank you so much!!

The NES-obsessed 7 year old in me is incredibly impressed with your skill!

I remember this game fondly. Always enjoyed it myself as a kid. Can't wait to see you tackle Solstice.

As a kid I played this on a 12 inch Black and White T.V. I spent an entire day trying to figure out why my gun kept randomly going up and down in power.

Never got why this game was so disliked, I've always enjoyed it. Thanks for the video!

You need to give your dog a break in the middle of the video (a small clip of the dog stretching) for extra content 👍🏻

This game gets an unfair amount of heat, and it gets fanned on thanks to AVGN. It's no masterpiece, but the general gameplay is entertaining and soundtrack is still to this day very addicting to listen to. Great video, keep them coming.

My mom bought this game for me, and her and I used to play it together back in the day. It's most DEFINITELY a Turbo game, for sure! Also, having the issue of Nintendo Power that did a feature on this game certainly helped. Excellent music and graphics too! I credit this game with giving me my preference for the Addamses over the Munsters.

This is one of the hardest NES games, and you explained how to play this so very well.

Such a classic. Really enjoyed playing this one back in day's. Finally turned it over when I got a Max Joy Pad with the turbo buttons lol

I had this game on NES. I actually bought it sometime in the mid 90s when I was already in high school at a comic book store that sold old NES games. I had never played it but it was cheap and I remember thinking it looked cool from the commercials I saw as a kid. I never even knew the gun stopping in the walls was a “defect”. It seemed logical to me! Go figure haha!

I always used tnt as a 'hot pursuit' weapon. Those frogs love to chase, so dropping tnt while they are chasing can often times take them out without you having to turn around.

i'm excited to watch this. this has got to be the best guide ever because i totally remember renting this as a kid and not getting past level 1

I remember renting this during a really bad storm with a tornado watch and it made the atmosphere even more creepy lol. Hey i was like 9... it was scary! Never did beat this game, stupid sewers. Thanks U Can Beat Video Games! Now i can relive my childhood nightmares.

I never played this one myself, but dang, it looks like EVERY enemy in this game has an annoying amount of HP. XD

Love that mixed meter music.

And Fester sits back and celebrates with some persimmons, walnut shells, and some sour milk

True Story: when I was 10 I wrote a letter to Jaleco games and I wrote a letter to Sunsoft games expressing my love for video games then I asked if out of the kindness of thier hearts could they send me a free game that i could try out and possibly rate it. Jaleco never answered me back but Sunsoft did. They sent me Fester's Quest along with a card with a rating in the gameplay, graphics, controls etc etc. I filled it out after I played the game and sent it back. Then they sent me Super Spy Hunter and Batman. I still have those games til this day lol. I tried with Sega but they weren't having it lol.

"Who invented that thing?" Didn't you know? Only Imperial Stormtroopers are so precise! Ah, good ol' Fester's Quest. Like a lot of other people who've commented here, I don't get the hate for this game. It's awesome. Also the music is TOP NOTCH. That boss theme is one of my favorite 8 bit tunes, and I love that it's the theme for the UFO itself, as if the entire final zone IS the final boss fight and the Alien Leader is just the capstone to that. I didn't beat it until WAY later in life, but it was worth it, in spite of the cheesiness of the single screen ending. Year 2 has been off to a great start so far with Deja Vu and this! Can't wait to see what the next video is! And uh, I just wanted to say thank you again. Your videos are the shining bright spot on one of my WORST work days. I can always come home after a stressful day on Saturdays and enjoy the newest video. So thank you for that. :) ...Wait, does that mean T.Rex is a di-- *USER WAS BANNED FOR BEING AN R-RATED DOUCHEBAG*

Holy cow, beating this game is like earning a PhD.

Every single time I watch your vids I have to pause and grab a beer as I shake my head of how easy you made these games look….. thank you for all the games I could never finish as a kid

Still the most underrated channel on RU-vid. Great info. Great gameplay. great editing. Every damn week.

What if I told you your Channel is amazing? What if I told you I look forward to your uploads?

I remember finishing this game when I was young, but I completely have no memory of the first person portions!

"Looks like they got away with some Christian imagery" Might be because those are gravestones. Legend of Zelda had crosses on gravestones, though there was also a cross on the shield so I guess in some cases it's ok. Either that or it wasn't so strictly enforced back then.

I like the concept to kill a boss by finding a door to open in that boss's dark lair, so long as you have a key. You open the hidden door negating the fight with that boss that ceases to exist. Since it doesn't exist to fight anymore, it instantly dies! 😋

Your channel fills a void in my soul that's been missing since this days of strategy guides.

I remember playing Blaster Master before this one. Saw it in action before I knew what the game was called and thought. "It must be a sequel to Blaster Master! ...but wait, who are you playing as?" As I was not yet familiar with The Addams Family at the time. The game was fun, and the soundtrack was pretty good.

I loved this game but it's super hard!

Amazing. I played this as a kid and neither me or my poor mother could get very far. I know we got the vice grips and stumbled into at least one 3d building but we never knew what to do, and when you die you start back at the beginning. I always assumed this game was impossible. We were probably picking up every item that dropped, including the power-downs.

00:12 the game to the right of zelda, what is it? I think its a long lost game I played but couldn't remember the title. Any hlp plz

I wonder what this would be like if it was Gomez's Quest. Fester moves slow, but Gomez is an agile, acrobratic swordsman. It would be pretty fun to slash through everything. If it was made at a later date, Gomez would probably be the New Game + character.

Awesomeness!!! 👌 🍻 This game and your videos!

Dude, I love your videos. At first the dry delivery wasn't something I vibed with, but the info was so good I had to watch... but now I've grown to love the dry delivery style. When you mix in silly pop culture references w/ deadpan delivery it gets me every time. "Now I have the power." gave me a legit chuckle as I sit here working from home. I've used your guides to finish 5 games! I take selfies with all the end screens and it's really fun building a collection of images I can look back on and remember. (at 40 I start to forget some of these moments w/o visual aids). Thanks to you I am currently on Mr. Sandman in Punch Out... I will fulfill my lifetime wish of beating Punch Out 100% legit. Thanks again!

I knew the Addams Family was made in the '30s, but I did not know it aired on ABC. That fact made me chuckle a bit. Back in the '90s there was an Addams Family cartoon that played saturday mornings that was pretty fun. Guess which channel it aired on. Such a small thing made me smile. :) As for the game. Hated it. Played it as a kid and learned after a few dozen failures that this was not for me. I'll take a proper playthrough, speedrun or TAS over actually playing this mess. Now if you don't mind me, I'm going to pop open the complete series box for the old show that I got recently and just have a fun afternoon. *snap snap*

Excellent videos and series new retro players will be watching these for years to come. Hopefully they experience as much joy (and rage) as we did when these games first came out.

I did it! Thank u for the assistance, Festers Quest is now one of my fav NES games of them all. It's funny, cause I played this game one time, and was like "ha ha ha it's as bad as AVGN said it was" and never gave it another thought for years, until, yesterday I wanted to nostalge-trip it; and with this guide, found the game super straightforward, beat it very shortly after learning how to do it (unlike many other games, I've watched ur guides, learned the strats and tried to beat other games, but no luck yet; festers quest deff one the easier ones) there are no difficult platforming segments where u fall down and have to do it all over, there are no instant death traps, it's just, keep moving forward, shoot the bad guys and avoid the damage (and weapon downgrades) cheezed all the bosses w/ key-glitch, maybe one we'll come back to it and try to beat them for real

Morticia Addams (from the original series) was one of my early crushes along with Elvira and Dolly Parton.

I had this game as a kid and never got far. I also remember playing it with a Quickshot ball controller, which always felt clunky, but I still insisted on using it. 😆

I love this channel. I always look forward to waking up on Saturday to watch. Thumbs up as always! P.S. - I owned this game growing up and never made it past the 3rd boss. I was terrible at games as a little kid. Lol It seemed like I owned all the hardest games growing up. Very frustrating. Here's some of the games I owned: Fester's Quest Solomon's Key Super Pitfall 3D World Runner Mighty Bomb Jack Rush N Attack Iron Sword Ninja Gaiden 3 Metroid Rambo Those were most of the hardest games I had. I had a lot of good games too.

My name is Josh I've been watching your channel for 2 years and I love your retro video games please keep the video games coming

Numerous design flaws aside it's... well it's actually still pretty bad. It enjoys a peculiar scenario in which it's both iconic and utterly abysmally bad. Worth playing but don't get your hopes high for this one. I did a video on this one too, but it's a review, not a playthrough.

My wife and I love your channel :) It's fun learning about all these cool NES games and your narration is always so pleasant to listen to!

This game was my first experience with "Game Engines." When I was a kid, I couldn't help but notice it was very similar to Blaster Master. Little did I know that both Blaster Master and Fester's Quest shared a lot of the same code and had basically the same game engine.

I feel like the red gun downgrades in this game are just more honest versions of the crappy weapons in games like Ghosts 'n Goblins, which pretend like they are legit weapons, but are totally not.

Thanks for that trip down memory lane my man, I don't think I ever made it past level 1 gun as a kid before giving up.

After all these years... THAT'S THE ENDING? Man, I would've been so pissed lol

The AVGN could've used those tips when he reviewed this game years ago in his own comical, vulgar way. I feel he gave up too quickly on the game.

I always loved this game but would get annoyed really quickly with it.

It's interesting to see the art style of the original comics in those clips of the CGI show

Canonically, when Fester lights up those sewer levels with the light bulb item, he's sticking it in his mouth and charging it with his electric personality.

How many old Nintendo Powers you got laying around to help you with all the games you give us?

Maybe consider making the Beetlejuice NES game someday?

"Getting Lurched" needs to be a tshirt

Love your videos man.. appreciate and respect what you do for us gamers.

I relented to never beating this game and now that I see it done it was the best decision I could have made. This game blows.

Try playing it on a black and white tv. There was a pattern to the gun/whip drop.

I don't even own an NES but there's something quite soothing about these videos

Outstanding. I had this as a kid and beat it on my own. That said, I never knew about the boss-annihilating key glitch, or about the 4th health point. Bravo on this full walkthrough!

Nintendo: “Sunsoft, you have made some of the finest licensed properties video games on the NES, but beware your nemesis, the ‘Rainbow People’ .” LJN appears from the shadows*

I used to call those purple circle monsters Munchie Crunchies..

Completely forgot about this game! Such a fun one! Thanks for this!!

This game always fascinated me as a kid but I never got to play it. It looked like it was pretty cheap to buy the cart on eBay last I checked so I might pick it up and use this video as my guide!

Your dog is adorable. Please say "woof" to him (or her) for me ❤️❤️❤️🐶🐶🐶

Nice. A Avgn classic

oMg you did this oct 2 2021 and this game is insanely old. It was my favorite when i was like 6 years old.

Seeing you beat this is very cathartic.

As somebody who's played and beaten hundreds of games on NES, even I gotta admit... Fester's Quest is a bad game, and playing it has never been a nice experience.

I got a game I would love to see. A boy and his blob!!!

Maybe I’ll give this a try. It is a game I haven’t beaten. I remember renting it as a kid and not loving it. I beat battletoads and g&g so maybe I stand a chance.

do you play these game on console or emulator?

These videos give me so much closure. Its like getting a brain download of what it would have felt like to be a pro-player back in 1990.

When I first got my NES I of course got Super Mario Bros as it came with the system, as well as Duck Hunt (I got that pack with the zapper). That held me over for quite a while but of course aøø my friends played Zelda! So I wanted that, and asked for it. Apparently though, Zelda was too expensive while this was under half prize so this is what I got. I never finished this one, and I think I traded it in with a few other games to get Super Mario 3 later. Which I sometimes regret because I can still remember every morning before school trying to get a bit further the twenty minutes I had before I had to leave the cozy kitchen to get outside and leave for school. And of course I played it a lot after too, but oddly it is the morning runs I did that sticks more strongly. Of course I knew that I would NEVER finish it in those twenty or so minutes but I got further and further and became an ace at clearing that first part of the game. ;-)

I remember this game. I was too young at the time to understand it was an Adam's family game. I never knew of the show. It was never a hard game, just a tedious one and poorly laid out. You spend so much time grinding power ups and items before wandering off aimlessly trying to figure out where to go next and having zero clue what the items did. I remember playing this game with I think was a Nintendo Power walk through. Knowing where to go helped a lot, and after a lot of grinding, I finally beat this game. Satisfied, I took it out of the NES and never touched it again.

If there was ever a genre for "chore games" Fester's Quest would have to be really high on that list. I mean, they obviously went out of their way to give all enemies so much HP that even the term "Bullet Sponge" doesn't really cover it. Was interesting to know that the PAL version of the game is arguable a lot more playable/enjoyable of an experience.

It's a great time for some Monster Party

This was the game that my uncle rage quit on when he was a kid back in the early 90's and he broke the door off a NES due to this game by punching the top of it because he kept dying over and over again. My dad also remembers my uncle punching a Gameboy whenever Terminator 2 pissed him off.

Whenever you start making t-shirts, make one that says "Enjoy the cheesy ending" or something in that realm.

I remember thinking at the time... a game based on that old Addams Family show? It’s about aliens? And there’s no humor? STUPID!

When i was a kid, the cover art made me want this game. I dunno why though. 😂

Instant like and subbed. sorry if i sounded like a tool here but I really like this channel alot so far :) This is like "Until we win". Didn't grow up playing most NES games so I've never played this game but I did grow up playing the 16bit era addams family games which were enjoyable rentals back in the day, the movies and cartoons were really great and the movies still hold up which I don't say so often about most old media.

Some huge notes from yours truly regarding the mothership maze: You can spawn up to three of those Mr. I (those small, bouncy pink guys). Then, you shoot each Mr. I twice with your needle gun to make them move faster. Use the square room you started at to pull all this off. That done, let them follow you and remain visible at the screen at all times. When you get to the waving hallway, you can use its design to bundle the three Mr. I together, making it supremely easier for you to keep your eye (haw, haw, haw) on them. And finally, while you are babysitting the Mr. I triplets, navigate through the mothership maze from start of finish. My point with all this? Well, due to this game's sprite limitation, you will never suffer the major nuisances that are the other enemies, because the three Mr. I keep on blocking the others from spawning in, granting you a far more safer advance. Just don't run into a dead end, as that will most likely result in you losing a block of health from colliding into the Mr. I bunch, as you U-Turn back. Though, that's more on you for not memorizing the maze right. And yes, that means that you don't have to use a single noose when inside the mothership, though the small island before it, you can use a few of the nooses, to keep the Big Mouths and their downgrading drops away from you. Oh, and did I forget to mention that the Mr. I trick can fully prevent you from seeing those dastardly drops at all? On top of all this, you have a far easier time of dealing with the final boss, as you can keep all of your ten potions stacked up and ready. You don't even have to utilize the going-to-very-right-after-destroying-the-turrets trick, though you have to destroy the turrets before you can do some extra damage to the final boss with your needle gun, while your missiles are buzzing all over, praying to hit the target. You also have to find both of the health upgrades, time your missile fire so it won't get interrupted by the orange projectile, and utilize as many seconds of your invincibility buffers as you can, to defeat this equivalent of Mother Brain with brute force. Proof of all this is in my playthrough of this game, so do check it out for visual proof if you find this comment of mine to be utter gibberish.

The game that my uncle broke an NES out of rage once when he was a kid and started breaking the door of it by punching it. I also remember him punching a Gameboy whenever Terminator 2 pissed him off. And when i was born years later in 1999 and when my dad showed me a open world game on the PS2 called GTA and i was hooked ever since since i thought the game felt like real life and i thought i could throw out all my other games because you couldn't free roam and do whatever you want like on GTA. And when i got addicted to GTA, that's exactly when I became my uncle and started my gaming rage when I was a teenager when I was in junior high and started punching shit such as TVs and controllers whenever I died or got busted on GTA for no stupid reason or a pedestrian doesn't listen to me for some shit or a cheat doesn't work when I type too fast with my controller or when a mod doesn't work.

Mr. Thunderblade looks like the guy on the cover of the first SLAYER album.

Ahh Festers Quest i absolutely love this game!