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 !!!
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.
@@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.
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!
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
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 😂
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!
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 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.
the hours and hours spent....my friend Darryl and I mapped this game out by hand. I would enter room, he would draw and off we went again. never passed it. cruel and unusual punishment for a 7 year old to be given this game. ahhh, memories.
Metroid was such a big and advanced game for its time. Super Metroid was the ultimate for me for so so long, until my friend bought FF2 and FF3 (IV and VI) in the summer of 1995. I had played 2 several years earlier but man, it was different the 2nd time around. And then, we got Chrono Trigger, great times!. I remember playing through Super Metroid every day when I came home from school, I think my first collection % was only 63, and I was just over 3 hours (under 3 for best ending). I gradually worked it up while always getting the best ending and eventually was doing 98% at around 2:50. I had to use a Nintendo Power or other magazine to find the two missile tanks I was missing and eventually figured out a way to get 2 of them at the same time in NW Crateria (there are "drop rocks" in the room and for a long time I thought you could get 1, drop, circle back around and get the 2nd) and started getting 100%s and whittling down my time until eventually settling into the 2:3x range. About 10 years ago I did a playthough on emulator and despite not having played since around '97 or so I was surprised how well my memory held up, I got 87% but did finish at 3:03 so did not get the best ending. Without the map in Metroid 1 I was able to get lost at times, crazy to me that people are beating this game in 15 minutes or so.
When I was a kid, I used the "bomb up" technique to get into Motherbrain's domain without the bridge, thereby skipping Kraid and Ridley entirely. I had to use Game Genie to ensure I didn't die to the lava before I managed to pull it off, but it demonstrates that it *is hypothetically possible* to break the game that way!
you know what? I love NES games but I hate Metroid, that doesn't matter 'cos you are the best on the world, you are the greatest, greetings from Mexico
Samus was damn lucky to survive this mission in the first place; shows up with no missiles, no energy tanks, no special weapons of any kind, just a short range pea-shooter and only 30 health. Without the ice beam, how would she have dealt with the metroids? did she have advance knowledge power ups would be found on the planet? it's nuts if you stop and think about it.
Dont know if you read these Arcus, but how exactly do you prep to do these speed runs? I'm wanting to speed run a game rn. I assume just play it over and over.
By any chance does Arcus plays Super Nintendo (Super Famicom), Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Genesis (Mega Drive), Master System/Game Gear, Turbo Graphix (PC Engine) games or only NES?
Wow I beat this when I was four or five, someone showed me where the freeze beam was and I was off and running lol. Took a lot longer than this lol. Then I figured out Justin Bailey
