The Greatest Boss in Gaming History

[roxonogueira]

DUDE!! I always got blocked there!! I've never finished that part!!! tears of nostalgia and anger run through my face

[NeverAgain1985]

Fuckin A

[Arnulfosince1989]

awww :) ecco the dolphin :/ i never understood that game

[davedetrick]

Oh yes... this evil ball... I spent a while hour once trying to kill it, only to throw an angry conniption, and turn the game off.

A classic rage quit before we ever coined that term.

[muziazuki]

OH MY GOD I FORGOT ABOUT THIS DAMN BALL. RUINED ME ALL THE TIME

[TigirlakaLaserwolf6]

@spriteuser2009 you have nothing to be sorry for.

[PuyoKero]

Oh, my. Because the game would have been more epic if the Asterite's globes were being guarded by a water-dwelling demon named GARTHON. Naw, a nigh-invincible spherical prison that ends up being pretty much sentient is better and more surprising. :3 I mean, I sure as hell didn't expect it to try and crush me the first time.

[hwade85]

pink blue balls lol

[Xamuswing]

Giant egg sack:*Singing this song*

Ecco: GET THE F*** OFF YOUR BUBBLE CHAIN!

[GamingIdiot42Neo]

It's some sort of giant testicle...

[MrDeeBerry]

I applaud you for being able to play through this game. Could any one explain why this is a good game plz?

[LazyMan9000]

Mock the ball if you must, but be aware: this thing fucked my shit UP.

[muziazuki]

@LazyMan9000 AGREED I hated this thing

[vgamemaster4]

Now to find Mysterious0Bob's comment....

[codii33]

goodness gracious great balls of fire! Was i the only one who sang along? .-.

[YourePrettyGoood]

@codii33 absolutely the only one

[PathMidnight]

Dude don't talk shit about the ball... it will totally pwn us all...

[TheKeatonWarrior]

ITs the gravitron!

[foxygabriella]

The sperm vs. the oocyte.

[all13Doctors]

I remember this one! The damn thing sticking back like shit to a blanket.

[Broockle]

i think the ball likes it

[shimazu32]

Well, at least I wasn't Rick rolled.

[Retrogamer712]

Aww Ecco. Now this is a game for the elite. This game has everything a good game should. Great soundtrack, Great story, Good amount of challenge, Takes time and patience to beat. Beautiful colors. All these lack in most modern games and that is pretty sad. Most games now are all Bam bam you dead next match, which don't take much skill. Who else would rather play Ecco then Cod or Halo?

[ihatethisplace1]

@Retrogamer712 so i have to choose between a dolphin, a fish, and a crown? i choose the dolphin.

[ryarod]

@Retrogamer712 I would! *offers high-five*

[Retrogamer712]

@ryarod Nice!

[tYlK0o1sO1kG0vN7a1I1]

I rememner this thing is called asterite

[chopseh]

"...And that, my children, is how you were born"

[PrrrromotionGiven]

I understand this would be very annoying, but having not played the game, how would you die?

[PifferyGear]

@PrrrromotionGiven The ball can actually crush and instantly kill you.

[iwatchedraysnewvid]

Holy shit nostalgia.

[spike584]

the red eel thing in the conch shell was a super hard boss too

[SirFair1]

Ehh, I beleive you that this ball is hard, but I think Flandre Scarlet is harder. Have you tried dodging literally 100+ bullets all at once?

[Lemonzadez]

WRONG, the most hardest boss is queen larsa

[AMYuntold]

Don't hurt Ballman!!!

[whatthemeh]

The bosses in this game were immense

[SakuraMoonflower]

LMAO I understand your dark heart. I never got to this level of the game, but I think I know what your aim was, and if I'm right, that shit is crazy difficult. I hated the bosses in Ecco-one wrong move and so much as being TOUCHED could kill you. D8 But the challenge was part of what made Ecco so special: you really needed to be a genuinely skilled gamer in order to so much as play the game, and yet you could fuck around on it and still have fun.

[emperorIng360]

I like how this boss didn't do anything to hurt you.

[narthic]

@emperorIng360

It's actually really easy to die on that level. It can crush you once the blue orbs restraining it are gone, very easily. The person who did the play through just knew what they were doing.

[Julienfun]

@emperorIng360 It actually does, it tries to smash you against the wall, which causes instant death.

[midarkmind]

Weak!

[Theblaster125]

Ecco the Dolphin



[TurbinationE]

Dolphin Olympics 3 Final Boss.

[esptool]

why r ppl pissed that he said eggman......big fucking deal, u knew exactly who he was talking about

[YoungGun66]

I'm sorry, his name is Robotnik.

[GregBFM]

Fun and frustrating. Not only do you have to fight against this thing's somewhat realistic rotational physics while trying to tear it from its moorings, you then have to contend with the thing suddenly getting pissed off and trying to ram you...

[mrhenky42]

That's not how you spell the Great Mighty Poo

just saying ^^

[myoon87]

Hey wha'ts the song that starts at 0:25?

I know the original song but this is obviously a remake version.

[Standuble]

Ah this giant ball sack is named the Globe Holder, and paradoxically despite it being a giant ball sack its in fact a major b!tch.

When I first went toe to toe with this guy as a kid I was having a traumatic episode he was so tough, dodgy and freaking annoying. The person playing lost all his life against the thing (all he had left was a scrape of life and O2) and thats only on easy mode. Play it on hard mode and this giant ball sack will rip your balls off too!

[the2500]

This is quite phenomenal. Good on ya lad!

[stackerzgame14]

echo the dolphin was the craziest game ever

[PianoGirl091]

I loved Ecco the Tides of Time as a kid. Oh the hours upon hours that I spent conquering it...and hey, that was back in the old days, where cheat codes weren't as readily available as they are now. I beat this whole game without cheating! It was tough, but man it was fun, and I specifically remember struggling to defeat this thing. What is it? I really don't know, but this game was just about as weird as it was enjoyable. It's like you want to say "what the hell" every 4 seconds.

[tvol319]

Oh my god, fuck that level so hard.

[Nayerianimelvr]

weird...very weird.

[DrRabid]

wtf is that dolphin doing to my testicle

[chomplet26]

the counter to rape.... attckiing the abnormally large single testicle that doesnt give out.

[philsk810]

Why The hell the dolphin is going ape shit at the end?

[Tsumepawa]

@philsk810 Teleporting :P



[solarmetroid]

bull crap. sephiroth is the strong thus he is the greatest.

[Lacktardo]

That's one huge testicle.

[TFWC88]

That...thing, that giant ball holds inside of it the last pair of the Asterite's spheres, which Ecco needs in order to restore the Asterite's power, and , to travel back in time to the present. This weird thing is conscious and using those sucker cups to maintain stability and a sedentary position. If you charge at it and bother it, you will see its veins growing larger. It's actually kind of gruesome. Then, it chases you and tries to kill you by smashing you into the wall. A thunderous sound..

[Riflemanm16a2]

Why don't as many games have bosses anymore? The last one I played with bosses was Turok for the Xbox 360. I guess games like Ninja Gaiden and God of War still have bosses...

[cshov]

@Riflemanm16a2 dude what are you talking about? most of the games i've played in the past year alone had bosses.....

[Peterbu18]

You know, it's a lot easier if you do it right... You weren't suppose to mad-sonar it, you were suppose to stay on the left/right and synchronize the sonar to make the ball rock side to side and it would pop off both those tubes in about 4-5 sonars... However, it's still a hard boss, the part that makes me tear my hair out is the ball trying to smash you into the walls after you pop it off, but it didn't look like you had a problem with that lol

[catboyjeremie]

I probably am the only one that thinks that way but...

Instead of seeing a seemingly funny boss, for some reason, I feel as if that ball is a living organism and that Ecco attempts to break it from its air source. Once you knock one of its source, the creature struggles desperately while being in a panic as it begins to lose air.

Ecco then knocks it and in a desperate attempt tries to struggle for its survival. It ends with Ecco ending its suffering.

Enjoy your nightmares kids! <3

[Mysterious0Bob]

Who the fuck is Eggman? You mean Robotnik? Get it right, kid.

[SpriteUser2009]

@Mysterious0Bob Sorry about that, I was lazy... :(

[chessinfantry]

@SpriteUser2009 stupid fuking retard..go slap ur mom for me

[Zeemis]

@SpriteUser2009 That's not really being lazy, that's just not knowing. :p

[BrokenToe]

@Mysterious0Bob Thats "DOCTOR" Robotnik to you Bob

[evadracona]

@Mysterious0Bob eggman and robotnik are both seperate characters... get it rite kid

[stevenjsmith1903]

@Mysterious0Bob eggman is robotnik's proper name

[BIGLOADSOHELLFIRE]

@Mysterious0Bob TROLOLOLO GET IT RIGHT, its a game, and you are srs face :D

[cvBon1]

@Mysterious0Bob

Eggman is his nickname

[supperspeed1000]

@Mysterious0Bob Technically in Japan he was called Eggman there. So they just changed his American name to his Japanese name.

[mamaluigisbagel]

@Mysterious0Bob it depends. In the original games, it was Robotnik, and after Sonic Adventure, it officially became Eggman....don't ask me why, it just does.

[XterierD]

@Mysterious0Bob I'm not sure if you are aware, but Eggman is also a correct name for Robotnik. The original Japanese manual for Sonic actually only refers to him as Eggman, the name Doctor Ivo Robotnik was only introduced in the English release. It's like saying, "who the fuck is Rockman? You mean Megaman? Get it right, kid."

[DGneoseeker1]

@Mysterious0Bob Eggman in Japan. Robotnik everywhere else. Personally I think the name "Eggman" is faggotry.

[S0ryiu]

@Mysterious0Bob why should you bash him when it's Sega's fault for changing it?

[LucienFati]

@Mysterious0Bob The original name for Doctor Robotnik would have translated as "Eggman" from the Japanese; they used Robotnik here to play on Russian stereotypes. In Japan the correct genesis name is Eggaman, for US it's Robotnik. For a while it was "Robotnik" as his correct name and Eggman as an insult. Today, it's pretty much, either Dr. Ivo Robotnik, being "correct/legal" and "Eggman" just being a nickname; which seems to be the preferred name now.

[MNCWProductions]

@Mysterious0Bob Dude , both names are acceptable .

[xCottonSwabx]

@Mysterious0Bob eggman is dr robotnik

[akpokemon]

@xCottonSwabx he knooowwws...why else would he know--ah, whatever. not worth my time. should be obvious

[Spatxcyrus]

@Mysterious0Bob No reason to be rude. His full name is Dr. Ivo Robotnik. People just call him Eggman as a nickname. Also Robotik = Retro, Eggman= New age. One other reason is, they just got tired of saying the full name. Why do you think they call Tails, Tails and not his full name? They don't want to sit there and bore the Hell out of kids playing it. :) Kids do need something to make jokes about anyways, and they found that in 'eggman' Robotnik's nickname.

[Kiinotasha]

@Mysterious0Bob It is both Eggman AND a Robotnik, his name was changed when he came to America and it has been flopped back and forth since (I have heard him called the two different names in a single game) So maybe you should get your facts right before you tell someone to straighten out their own.

[SakuraMoonflower]

@Mysterious0Bob Dude. He beat the Globe Holder. He messed up. He clearly meant Robotnik. You'll have the right to bitch about proper knowledge of classic games when you beat certain bosses WITHOUT cheats. Globe Holder is one such boss. The entire Ecco: Tides of Time game is one other such boss. XD (the game from which this boss hails)

[zweihand]

@Mysterious0Bob Yuji Naka has explained that "Robotnik" is the character's real name while "Eggman" is a "common name taken after his shape."

-- wikipediaDOTorg/wiki/Doctor_Eg­gman

[roclee11]

@Mysterious0Bob eggman is dr. robotnik's nickname

[YoYoKirby1]

@Mysterious0Bob Eggman is the japanese official name dipshit.

English name: Robotnik

Japanese name: Eggman

In the modern series they had to tried to use the japanese name as a nickname, which turned into being his nickname of choice, so he IS eggman, Classic or Modern.

Which is why in the Sega Genesis games his battles were "Egg" based, Maybe you should do the research before calling someone else a dipshit, dipshit.

[bl4ck0p]

@YoYoKirby1 Actually everyone knows this, it just sounds retarded when you played the original games and got used to Robotnik.

[YoYoKirby1]

@bl4ck0p I know it does, but he had no right to complain, they are both official names and just because he used the Japanese name, he shouldn't be called a kid.

[Alevamltd]

@YoYoKirby1

Robotnik is the STUPIDEST boss name EVER!!!

it sounds sooo last minute.

a three year old could have come up with a better boss name.

NO EXADGERATION!!!

[misterneckbreaker88]

@YoYoKirby1 calm down lol. it doesnt matter, eggman robotnik its the same person. in the instruction manual of sonic 1 or 2 it says robotnik so its easy mistake to make. america say GASOLINE uk say petrol. .. american say sneaker uk say shoes/ trainers .. peace

[YoYoKirby1]

@misterneckbreaker88 I know, the are both canon.

Now listen here:

Canon Full name: Doctor Ivo 'Eggman' Robotnik.

Both are accepted.

[PokemonMaster386493]

@Mysterious0Bob retro fag

[MastaGambit]

@Mysterious0Bob Bet you didn't know Eggman was actually his Japanese name ever since Sonic 1 ^.^

[IggyHazard]

Reminds me of Bohdai, the alien orb from Solarbabies.

[Leto85]

Hahaha, this is funny! Also the music really fits the movie well.

[floatingmedusa]

the Globe Holder...

tath game is the best game ever!!!!

[mistertitanic]

It's actually Dr. Ivo Robotnik, not Eggman ;)

[FuzzbyStew]

OMFG It's ecco the dolphin! TIDES OF TIME, BITCH!

[PuyoKero]

Globe Holder was a beast. Like was mentioned, it takes a good pattern to unchain it. But once it started attacking, I was creeped out and kind of scared. >.>; That's the last thing you'd expect it to do, right?

[andethan]

God, I love the globe holder.

[TheKeatonWarrior]

It's the gravatron!

[mybaby7]

The music is so fitting...

[zonilo1]

Fuck balls

[TheWiseOldLion]

Whoever that testicle belongs to, it doesnt look to healthy

Then again after this guys done fucking it up with ecco im not suprised

[RanaRandom]

OH GOD NO! I hated this level back then.

[unillenium]

It was easy, and one of the most brilliant bosses ever. You have to get sort of a resonance going with ecco's song and it's quite easy. If you mash the buttons down this boss takes forever. If you are graceful and get a nice uniform oscilation going you can beat the boss quickly.

Basically what I'm saying is that this boss punishes mindless button mashers :)

[CoolxBreese]

@TheSonicshadowteam

Play ANYTHING on the NES. Your opinion will abruptly change.

[Itasasu72]

I never made it to this stage in Tides of Time. But isn't that "ball" supposed to contain the Vortex Queen as a larva?

[Retroscope200X]

@Itasasu72 The ball contained two of the asterite's spheres which Ecco had to retrieve to make the asterite complete.

[GreatFox42]

Oh man, screw this boss. I hated it. It made my hands hurt, it was humliating to be killed by it... Oi.

[ief014]

it has blue balls

[Amuppet]

name of the song? :D Vid made me lol tho :p

[aaronmyers1982]

Yeah. If you were even lucky enough to accomplish the frusterating task of detaching both bubble arms from the walls, you then had to knock it around the room enough so that they'd break off, otherwise they'd reattach and the ball would heal and you'd have to do it all over again. And after that you have to avoid getting squished afterwards also. Which was nearly impossible. Tell you what was worse though. That friggin snake that lived in that giant falling seashell. That took me forever

[earthlyric]

I HATE THIS BOSS!!!!!

THE BAD THING ABOUT THIS BOSS IS THAT I SUFFER FROM GETTING SQUISHED AND .........*shrugs*

It follows you once you managed to get rid of the chain and will bounce out of controllable, but there, your screwed if your lucky enough to survive

[AriaGinmizu]

Globe Holder!  I love you.

He doesn't need ammo to one-shot you.

[Acid7Ibanez]

Lol I always had my cousin do this part for me when I was little

[Revanie]

What, am I the only one who loved this boss? :3

[Mizpagh67]

1:53 was that thing a ball sack? WITH BLUE BALLS? xD

[SpriteUser2009]

@Mizpagh67 Yep! The greatest and most difficult boss ever is a giant ball sack! You don't wanna mess with them!

[TagerDriver]

@TheSonicshadowteam

i'm guessing the gamecube was your first system.

old games were MUCH MUCH more unforgiving and arbitrarily difficult. it must be nice to be growing up during video game easymode.

[marinalightyears]

@TagerDriver

No. It was nice growing up earlier.

though, you have to admit, there were alot of easy games back then, and alot of hard games these days.. Its not COMPLETELY One-sided.

[MercPirate]

You know what ecco boss pissed me off? The heart of the foe, having to fuckin shoot its own antibodies before the black acid gets you. thats bull shit

[Pr3d4t0R6sic6]

funny thing is the ball makes a beeline for you once detached, my name for this boss is...Fred

[Buffoon1980]

This really was one of the greatest bosses in gaming. A little frustrating, but so, so fun. And scary as hell at the same time.

[dhays202]

@TheSonicshadowteam Panzy I beat her second try.

[lifedominant]

Oh my god, this brings me back. I hated this boss! And you get out of is a pair of the Elder's globes (if I remember his name right). The DNA chain of ancient awesomeness. :P

[duhthehedgehog9]

o well ummmm... at the end you do get 2 balls.... thats a good thing.... right?

[AylatheRaichu]

I lol'd hard at the music.

[MaroonAndGold]

THE FUCKING GLOBE HOLDER. This was one of about three moments in Ecco history that turned me into a fucking monster. This, that extremely tall ass jump in Atlantis in Ecco 1, and the level that's right before this one, maybe two levels before this one, with that series of upward angular jumps into the water tubes. I literally quit playing The Tides of Time for several years just because of that one.

[RielleWolf]

Damn, that thing sucked.

I think I have died more in Ecco games than in all other videogames combined.

[awwfulwaafffle]

try beating the boss at the end of robocop vs terminator.

[laughingfurry]

@awwfulwaafffle

Robocop vs Terminator? Not to sound elitest, but that's not so bad. One of the earlier bosses was harder. I admit that the game had pain in the ass stages, but Robocop vs Terminator had some pretty easy bosses. Even without the gun with the controllable bullets, the bosses weren't much.

[zephni]

Hes name is Globe Holder...

[walton80]

I remember this boss very clearly. Takes me back.

[krlfdxkrl]

Ecco 4 ever, i grew up playin ecco!!!

[Ocilet440]

why does a game involving a dolphin, have the most weirdest bosses ever?!

[EtherForce]

@Ocilet440 You have to admit, things that live under water are usually weird.

[RaptorsareReal]

@Ocilet440 Because it's Ecco: The Tides of Time, a game where you fight aliens (the same Xenomorphs from Aliens) as a dolphin, and go to the future to save the past, and then the past to save the present.

Oh, and there's a giant DNA strand called the "Asterite" that the alien queen tore apart into orbs and scattered about time, and you have to teleport around time and the ocean to get them...these are the last two orbs.

Oh, and the last few levels are going to a time machine in Atlantis...

[DeathEgg666]

@Ocilet440

never played ecco the dolphin then??

man them games is fucked up lol...gimmie resident evil an silent hill.....but ecco scares the shit outta me lol

[meltheofcgamergirl]

@DeathEgg666

oh my god, i feel the same way about the ecco games. O.O

[riquelmestheshit]

@Ocilet440 read about cetaceans and atlantis, time portals, and dimensions.. youll understand the developers were trying to tell us something

[jvi93]

lol ecco the dolphin! I know how to beat this boss now, but the first attempt god it was difficult to beat this thing!

[viper08500]

agree that one is an ANNOYING one

[peppercarnage]

hee, i can beat this thing in about a minute. but damn was there a lot of anguished swearing the first million attempts.

[ANONtkakes]

One of the hardest bosses in videogame history hardly fights back.

What the hell, man. It took me LITERALLY an hour to get past this shit.

[OentOent]

It's the globe holder!

[TheNostalgiahunter]

Oh man, the black pearl... Easily the most infuriating task I've ever faced in a video game.

[Euraj]

LOL WTH!?

As funny as this video is, the stuff on those game were hard as hell.

[re4ago]

hahahaha ecco the dolphin

[lordofzaptherapy]

Lolz