11-26-2020 -- Watch live at / arcus note: the end had to be muted due to a copyright claim, but the full video (with all audio) can be watched on Twitch at / 817067989
I literally did this back in around 1992 at lake Skiatook, I convinced my mom to let me take my NES to a family reunion, I was originally going to use a shitty black and white TV, but my uncle brought his RV, with a pretty decent 26" TV and he let me hook it up. Me, my brother and maybe 6 or 7 cousins had a blast that weekend. It was about 3 days after my birthday, and I got Metroid and Faxanadu, so those games were mostly played. It was also the first time I drank tequila. Good times!!
Dude. To beat this game without bombs, without the long beam, only getting two energy tanks and one missile tank is just nuts. Its amazing how compelling NES games are after all this time.
@@Huckhaven Wow even the second time around reading this I still got the math wrong. I don't know what was wrong with me, assuming you and the game had the same birthday (??????)
You good sir are an amazing speed runner. Not because of how well you know the games, but it's because of how chill you are when you play. I admire that
And he speed runs like 100 different games while being chill. It just puts me at ease that somewhere in the Midwest a gentle cowboy is playing NES occasionally in his grandmas favourite armchair
@@samusvikerness661 I remember tons of 3rd party NES controllers at all my friend's houses back in the day... I never once threw a controller or raged but I bet they sure have !!!
I finished it, the long hard way, when it first came out.. I was a kid in high school.. 9th grade 🤔 O.G. gamers know NES.. Point is, I beat this game BEFORE YOU WERE EVEN BORN , Son! 🤓
Great job sir. Takes me just over 25 minutes and Ive been playing for years. Always get hung up on something or another. Glad to see you bringing the classics to so many new viewers.
Never knew where I was going. Super metroid I had better luck but never really could get to far till I got alot older. Just like the legend of zelda. 35 years old and finally have the patience to try
@@evandenney8335 I beat Super Mario Land on Gameboy last week after 30 years LOL. Only COVID-19 could bring me to boredom where I start watching these speedruns, find emulators online, and find the art of using Save States. Used about 100 to beat that game LOL! I can now die in peace.
Not just you. I had a Nintendo players guide that had a full map with item locations and the game was still difficult AF. It was literally a group activity. I acted as the compass to know exactly where we were. Another person kept tally of what items to collect and where to collect them, and how to get there. The person who was best at Mario was the one actually playing the game. When Samus got low on health I usually got stuck grinding for HP on those pots.
The music brings me back. Have a lot of the music from these gems of the past from various consoles. Kraid’s hide from metroid in particular. Zelda, metroid, Mario, wizards and warriors, goldeneye, shadows of the empire. (64) Lot of great games from the 80’s-90’s even the early 2000’s. Had some unforgettable epic times playing them. Especially with friends/family. Rock on Arcus
I appreciate how family friendly you keep your commentary, my kids are getting into watching speedruns and many of the others start cussing when they mess up or are doing good
If only my 8 year old self knew this screen wrapping trick.....I'd have saved soooo many hours playing this game. Most of which were writing down the dam save codes...... Had a special notebook completely full of metroid codes. But this was the first game I ever beat and will always be a favorite.
I got screwed by the code system a few times because I didn't realize that the zero and letter O were distinct characters. I'd keep doing something minor until I got a code with neither. LOL
Yeah making that password book back in the day was crucial. I was born in 1980 and remember all the great NES games. Like you I was also 8 or 9 when I was playing this and without that password book I never would have beat it, definitely did not know about all that cheating stuff but glad I didn't cuz if you were like me back in the day you only got a game on your birthday Christmas and if your ass was really lucky just out the blue lol.. Thank God we had a family owned rental store down the road from where I live it was 5 days for $3.99 on NES games so that wasn't too bad and luckily my parents would get me a game every week for rental. I remember when the Super Nintendo came out I Zelda back to back to back weeks until I beat it and then when final fantasy 2 came out USA version did the same thing I love that game when it came out. you'd have to pray that they would let you rent it and if somebody else happened to get it pray that they didn't erase your saves.
@@countrybumpkin4338 That’s a fair point in that game rentals started to pop up right at the end of the 8 bit era. I was born in 1979 and played most of my NES by swapping with friends. I remember stuffing all my games into my backpack and riding my bike to my friends house. I even remember putting the games in the black sleeve that they came with thinking that some how they would get damaged without it. The 80s were a great time.
I had no idea walls were more a suggestion than an actual fact in this game. Clearly I've been doing it wrong all these years. Cheers for the chill video, man!
Awesome run! I remember feeling so accomplished as a kid when I was just able to beat this in under two hours to get the Samus without her power suit ending.
I just played this game for the first time yesterday. I always heard metroid was a good game but damn....I'm hooked. Wish I never passed up this classic when I was a kid. I really missed out.
@@TraumaER I probably would have eventually beaten it without a guide. At ten years old I had a very uncommon level of patience and persistence with video games. At least in Metroid you weren't one misstep from a cheap death.
First ever game i owned. I was frantically looking for an NES late '86, maybe early '87, finally found one. Took it home, no Super Mario Brothers inside, but the Official NES Player's Guide was (which i still have). So my parents took me back there, let them know, they let me choose a free game (even though I wasn't supposed to), I chose this one, which I still have (and my NES too). Insane speed run, I never knew about that quick auto death warp! No Screw Attack, Varia, Long Beam, High Jump, Bombs, and just 3 Energy Tanks. Bravo! In the amount of time he finished this, the ending should have Samus naked, lol.
This was actually the first NES game I ever bought too. ...well I bought this and Bad Dudes because I could get both games for the price of Super Mario 2. Picked them right off the wall of Children's Palace. The good old days!
The lag in Mother Brain's room always destroyed me. And the damn cheerios slapping you while defenseless in the door. Douchebags. Amazing though, how the frustration of the end never kept me from coming back. Just something magical about NES. Having tortured myself way back when, it's nice to play guilt-free on the emulator once and a while for the nostalgia sans the screaming.
I got no idea how people beat this game when it first came out. I've always just replayed the same 15 or 25 minutes gettin lost in the first few shafts and dead ends
Metroid and Zelda had such classic tunes. Kids in my 5th grade class would draw out Mother Brain maps on paper and then you'd have to get through their maze. It was still a while before I was able to play the game.
Remember playing this with my friends after school in the 80s. We drew maps on checkered paper to try to make sense of where everything was but we got lost anyway. At one time, my friend wrote the password down wrong so we couldn’t get it to work. Never forgave him 😂
I don't usually watch speed runs (just came for the Metroid nostalgia), but I wanted to say this: Cowboy hat and a mustache playing Metroid... I approve.
Wow.... the countless hours I played this back in the day, and could never beat this... and you beat in less than 19m??? Congrats Sir! That was jaw dropping to watch!