NES: Ninja Gaiden No Death, Run Part 1

[bleedingxxaurora]

Man, I can practice non-stop for weeks and still suck at this game.

[ShadowRave]

Anyone else remember when games used to be HARD?

[Gocast2]

you my friend are a skilled son of a bitch

[darcon81]

Computer games nowadays are more on individual customization, graphics, and experience, But when it comes to pure skill, the reflex, timing, control, patience, toughness and devotion, and use of imagnination, the nes era is superior. Ninja Gaiden nes kicks the ass of the new Ninja Gaiden.

[Antisocialnerd2]

ahhhhh you skipped the cutscene that the whole reason i'm here 

[AGbaby235]

OMFG reminds of tha old times man fuckin' loved it wen I was kid and I still do haha dis rite here is a classic thanks bruh fo tha post

[doe42381]

I listen to this video while i kill zombies in black ops!!!

[alanbentley7]

how do i use itens like shuriken and stuff in this game?

[OpalSociety]

Nice, now do one without taking a single hit.

[NeoPoisonX]

Existiria Ninja Gaiden en Xbox y PS3 si la version de NES nunca hubiera existido????? :-D

[AudioDrugFix]

5-2 was the bane of my childhood.

[GialloHorror]

The 7 people who disliked this must've designed the game.

[GialloHorror]

If I didn't see this with my own eyes, I would've never imagined it was possible.

This is some fucking skill!

[aanmania]

i still remember the music, its still in my head, this is the best ninja gaiden

[justwannaname]

WHY NINJA GAIDEN BIRD!! !!!WHY!!! this game was my undoing when i was a kid. it still haunts me to this day. sweet run bro

[sapitz65]

the way of the ninja...nice gameplay ;)

[TimurKOI]

I've never seen that smbdy like you has used abilities just in time. it's really good.

I always thought that I should stay my abilities till I reach the boss.

[TimurKOI]

Man.... it's reallly amaaaazing!

When smbdy hit me, I wanted to revenge, that's why I've lost a lot of hp. And I wanted to collect all these things with equip.

VERY NICE play, dude!

Greetings from Russia! =)

[xDXPxJOEx456x1]

this game whooped my ass when and i was a kid and still to this day it it still kicks my ass every time i play it

[MahliSofie]

The music from the second level brought back so many memories. Only because i died so much that it was engraved into my brain.

[dkid1300]

I bet this guy gets ALL the bitches with his mad skillage.

[goreombola]

Fucking falcons... >:(

[ATGhostMode]

You can DUCK the first boss's atk??? I didn't know that until now..........

[sonicjonathansonic]

one note i hate this game

[WoahIsMe]

While watching this, an insane, immortal falcon came out of nowhere and attacked me.

[Dontmakemecomeover5]

@WoahIsMe It'll teach you to jump next time.

[EpicSkillz45]

Hats off to you, sir

[pacoslovestacos]

what happened to the swamp level? 

[Aizacc84]

@,..,@ GODDAMN i never new they made this game for NES

[enriquez16]

@Aizacc84 Yeah, Ninja Gaiden 1, 2, and 3 are on NES. It was the first action game for NES that told the story through a series of cut scenes in between the stages.

[jwag35]

smashed it. i missed playing that game. they need to do a remake, but keep the story the same.

[Jsidhu762]

I bow to thee, UltraLuigi, master of games

[ThePandafication]

raped the part avgn had trouble with so easily

[kfydl]

This guy made it look easy

[AsTheStarsFallDown]

Run, Shen, run!

[jdude123454321]

You may not have lost a life in game, but sadly you lost one in real life

[TheGamer95times]

@jdude123454321

i think this was a TAS tool enable (the game slows down)

i think this is impossible even if u have no life LOL.

see ya man

[kusobrian]

AVGN should have watched this!!!!!

[Phoottis]

My childhood in fast-sped...

[yangster18]

WHat do those fire symbol do?

[splldrong]

4-2 was EPIC! you DEFINATLEY made up for 0:53 8)

[thaddeusgalkowski]

Holy crap!

[racethewindict]

Nice playing Sir!

[splldrong]

0:53...EPIC FAIL

[RavensOfMyFuneral]

@splldrong From that moment I wanted his head on a steak.

[beckham7england4ever]

I remember this game :D my cousins have bought it but they didn't know how to play it :P lol and they gave it to us (to me and my sister and my brother) because we know how to play action games... my cousins were into ninja turtles and super mario and easy games :)

[03jeep1]

@beckham7england4ever hey i thought super mario bros 3 was pretty hard lol not as hard as this game though but i think contra was a little harder than this

[beckham7england4ever]

@03jeep1 lol :) even contra was hard?? when I was a kid I knew how to finish contra and ninja turtles only hahaha they were the easiest games, super mario 3 and this game I've just finished them now when I grew up, I can finish them everyday :p

[TheNauriainen]

Very nice. I used some of these moves when I played this through.

[jidar]

This looks like you've ran it through an RF splitter for recording so then it's done with a real Nintendo and not an emulator.

This game is the game I use to try to grade emulators, so far no emulator that I'm aware of feels as responsive as a Nintendo. I don't think it's the emulators anymore I think there is inherent input lag with USB controllers. A shame really. No modern game will ever feel as tight as Ninja Gaiden on the NES.

[HenryTomasino1]

This game looks both excruciatingly hard and fun =D Like the first Castlevania =D

[powerpeter]

not saying that this is bad. i personally only manage to go to level 4 or 5 but there is a guy who finishes the game without taking ANY damage!

just look it up

one damage hast to be taken but other than that flawless throughout the whole game.

something i managed to pull of till level 3 haha

[tyson067]

What you did at stage 4-2 was a masterpiece. You are a master.

[RedBlazeLover]

Why you don't kill the spiders?

[turbohusque]

Holy fucking shitting birdfucking cockslapping shit.....you actually manage to make this game look -playable-. You sir, have my eternal respect and admiration. Holy shitburgers.

[LloZaNoo]

LIKE A BOSS

[Andyatallah]

Vomitron Band played the music of this game on Hard rock way :-)

[beefcakezilla333]

@UltraLuigi I never it to be true...YOU..are.......NINJA GAIDEN!!!!

[SamuraiGhost63]

WoW just WoW

[darksword771]

dud you mustve had a LOTTA practice to beat a game this hard! :D

[cloneadventurer]

thumbs up if you got sent here by the awesome series!

[ejc5105]

After watching the AVGN and that Arino guy from Retro Game Master tackle this games, I gave it a shot today. I made it through acts 1 to 5 without as much difficulty as I would have imagined. Then 6-2 happened. ANGER. I got stuck their when I was five years old, and now 17 years later, I beat 6-2 and made it to the final boss. First form was easy, but the second form took me several tries. Arino's strategy helped me. I was in beast mode when I got to the final form and kicked his ass. Feels good

[DFDavid21]

Fucking birds DESTROYED my childhood...

[alekesam]

@DFDavid21 Birds made me break my controller...literally.

[MichaelGareth2008]

ONE OF THE HARDEST GAMES EVER, NINJA GAIDEN IS THE DEVIL

[reflexassassin]

Ninja Gaiden was the inventor of rage-quit....

[akevy8]

@reflexassassin True. When I was 12 I stopped playing altogether for 6 mo. because of the boss at 5:05. I think his name was Basaker. Seems so easy now...

[jacekantoine]

@reflexassassin damn you are right that brings back memories

[ThaFlameofATown]

I FINALLY beat this game last year after 20 years of trying & now I can do it like second nature...but I'll probably never do it without using a continue, much less dying at all. This is awesome, man.

[johnnyponny4]

@ThaFlameofATown My brothers and I could play this with our eyes closed and make it through with hardly losing any lives when we were teens. Now we can barely get past stage one

[NonstopRam]

@ThaFlameofATown Thats Ninja!

[Genauer]

How do I use my speacial weapons?

[cashewedalmonds]

This is fun to watch. Such a great game. Thanks for posting:)

[Essial666]

dude you are the shit haha that game was a bitch to play when i was a child

[ms0487a]

Damn, when I was a kid this game was the SHIT! Right up there with Tecmo Bowl, Super Tecmo Bowl, Super Mario 3, Double Dragon I and Double Dragon II and Rad Racer II 

[TheCornCobbers]

Classic 

[ImTheDruggernaut]

1 question. How? I beat this game 4 times, but I took it up my virtual ass hard in stage 6.

[DeadAlive187]

Love this game. Still got this & pt 2. Nice demo. But if u an expert then u woke get hit till stage 5-2. Im not saying it's easy but if I get hit b4 that stage...then I just start from the begining. Thanks for the upload tho.

[GDQT]

can anyone please show me how to perform a Mid-air sword glitch. thanks

[MrLOL9999]

Oh my god your a real ninja.

[ingineous]

Parkour at it's best!

[LdyNightAngel]

Gotta love the music from stage 4 - 3. Haha, it's so ominous! Someone should use this as a sample to a badass song or something ^_^ This game rocks!

[RDoogieE]

I remember the first time I managed to beat this game without dying. I jumped up, did fist pumps, then ran around my house like a madman on an adrenaline high.

[blindthief]

Brings back so many memories. This was a time when I got stressed about evil bosses instead of women and charged my little brother a quarter each time he played with my NES.

[thewhitebrazilian]

AND THAT WAS JUST THE TUTORIAL LEVEL!!!

[Ookaz]

Love the way he jumps around like a happy retard each time he defeats a boss.

[hyper666brown]

music is awesome

[DragonAurora]

Me: reading through the comments.... blah blah blah "the only game accomplishment ive done is beat contra without dying" blah blah...WAIT,WHAT?!?!

I feel like a fucking noob now...I hate you all!!!!!!!! LOL

[blackbolt75]

This brings back memories.

[999pooley]

This game was the most difficult to complete on the nes. Turtles was hard but this surpassed it, only real pro's beat this!!

[DaFleegsta]

4-3 boss for me when i kill 1, 2 more spawn.. why doesnt it do that for him? wtf do i do

[Dogfire45]

@DaFleegsta I can help you there the thing is that boss is actually only one it can clone its self and the real one is on the left pedestal when you enter the room( closest to you and the clone is on the right what the game does is make them move around to get you confused ) you killed the clone causing more to spawn wat the best thing to do is use the Jump spin ( the power up where you jump and spin with blades get that and save it until the boss fight and as soon as you enter use it on him!

[Dogfire45]

@DaFleegsta I can help you there the thing is that boss is actually only one it can clone its self and the real one is on the left pedestal when you enter the room( closest to you and the clone is on the right what the game does is make them move around to get you confused ) you killed the clone causing more to spawn wat the best thing to do is use the Jump spin ( the power up where you jump and spin with blades get that and save it until the boss fight and as soon as you enter use it on him!

[DaFleegsta]

@Dogfire45 Ohh, that makes sense.. Tnx

[Dogfire45]

@DaFleegsta No problem :D

[cabratotal3]

My favorite game

[FFXVIKE]

5:00 it took me 3 and a half hours toget that far

[TheJazzer94]

@FFXVIKE , that part isn't too hard. But this game is frakin hard aside that. No one discuss that.

[molonlave2010]

6 ppl are not Ninja Gaiden fans 

[molonlave2010]

this is a hard game it took me 15 attempts to finally beat this game lollll hahahaha

[Kampy187]

impressive. is this really played? looks coded

[squirralicious]

omg, the music is gonna get stuck in my head D:

[LytaNS]

When I was like 4 or 5, there was an NES demo thing in the mall. It played two hot games at the time; Castlevania 2 Simons Quest, and Ninja Gaiden. I FAILED at both, and both are games I loved. :) I bought this game for a a friend (40 bucks) for his birthday a few years later.

[jmsalaman]

At 1:01 his steps go with the beat!!!

[Blinducho]

Ninja!

[SBK988]

at 4:48 he believes hes playing mario.

[crashdummy40]

man thats sum good shit back in the day i didnt play it much tho

[ericman123]

Now that I've watched this I find myslef going through the levels and doing almost the exact same thing you do. Every time I play I know every move I need to make ahead of time. lol

Now I too can make it without dying. Thanks man.

[Waldimart]

Great! How long did you practise for this?

[Starscream183]

thats imposable!!!! I dont believe it! NO DEATHS!! This is so awesome!!! :)

[MrJimile]

i find it hard to believe you beat ninja gaiden without dying.

[dakatubes]

6:15 i love that song

[MajBlood]

What the...? What the.... What the...!? What is he trying to say? What the fuck?

[dakatubes]

@MajBlood avgn! :D

[Agent1W]

My favorite gameplay dynamic is how the katana can destroy most projectiles. I love the hack-and-slash style action in this game.

[MrJakeI1]

Killer score dude!

[BlogizXIII]

Respect dude, some serious skill going on here :)

[ransman413]

ninja gaiden, no sense in hidin, I aint lyin, annihilatin em all. like the wind I'll knock you over with a blow to your face. K-k-k-kill the enemies without leavin a trace. whoever names the band that did that song gets a subscription from me!

[SDSOverfiend]

Real Talk... I still play old school like this like it came out last week. My Girl be bugging. Then when i tell her this game makes your reflexes faster she don't understand how. Oldschool gaming forever.

[vlawd5]

man this game was hard as fuck not to mention no saves or continues. then with the nes being a piece of shit it was nothing worse than getting to the end and the game cuts off on u. i was like the king of my neighborhood for beating this cause everybody else threw in the towel

[MrJakeI1]

My favorite childhood game.

[ZDWario]

@Kevin39LV8 I'd definately buy if they made some new NG like MM9 and 10.

[Man1cmanMario]

Apparently, the architects who designed the buliding you're in after the first boss don't like height-challenged people. Why else would they make it so that only YAO MING and SHAQ could ever jump 2:01 or 2:04. evil people XD (no, I'm not height-challenged)

[johnnypark2011]

@Kevin39LV8 at least you understnad my username, dont understand yours

[KurtKokaine1]

What's so hard about this game?

[ericsantiago011]

hehe.. its look like CONTRA haha

[lashkaretoiba]

There was a ninja game on the nes where you had to collect little white orbs and every time you did your karate gi would change colors. You also had to fight guys that came from the trees that looked like raiden. One hit from a ninja star could kill ya as well. Does anyone remember the name of this game? It was a real pisser.

[UltraLuigi]

@lashkaretoiba It's either Legend of Kage or Demon Sword. Try looking those games up here on youtube.

[lashkaretoiba]

@UltraLuigi

Thanks man. It was legend of kage. That game tortured me as child.

[alekesam]

@UltraLuigi  It's Legend of Kage and that game is hard as **** when you get inside the complex.

[mehmehimdumb]

@lashkaretoiba its def legend of kage, love that game

[Elvistek]

@lashkaretoiba Leyend of Kage... if its the one where you could climb and jump on trees.. legend of kage ;)

[johnnypark2011]

how long have you been playing? get life

[1levitron]

@johnnypark2011 Fuck off, racist troll.

[johnnypark2011]

@1levitron so are you the chink who played this?

[1levitron]

@johnnypark2011 Yep.. though I'm not just a chink, im a dirty sanchez spick-ass nigger chink.... fuck off, racist. Go learn a thing or two, my naive friend.

[giogiogigi]

how do you throw shurikens i hate this fucking boss fuckoff!!!

[RyanLies]

4-2 has my fav. soudntrack of all time!

[Theriot6592]

I think I prefer the Sega Master System version

[1787dude]

learn how to use the giant orange star.if u jump around dodging the star, it tends to kill everyone around you...im learning how to record my nes games and all that.. u will see lmao. but i die alot. thats what games are about. dying repeatedly. if a game has infinite continues its for a reason.

[wierdnick]

TRY

NO DAMAGE

[RDoogieE]

@wierdnick not possible. when the demon's head falls off, you will get hit. other than that... been there, done that.

[RDoogieE]

@wierdnick

Not possible. The demon head will hit you when it falls off. Other than that, been there... done that...

[beastlymachop]

i remember when i was a kid i spent like 5 days trying to beat the final boss then my dad shut off the nes

[rippinkorpse]

this game is so different than the arcade version.

[metachozo]

So are the new ones a remake of this game?

[MacNDocTKO]

The best Nintendo NES game period.

[DaLooseGoose11]

@MacNDocTKO agreed. 

[navyman4]

LOL...True Nintendo nerds slash their sword just as the screen freezes after a stage completes. LOL....there should be a word invented for that.

[joeynuma]

4.22 i hate this stages boss 

[osoxyagami]

OMG!!! 6:46 Suicide Ninja!!!!

[neopyro]

great gameplay^^

[LouisJr]

man this brings back so many memories. me and my cousin use to stay up all night but we could never get past those damn twin frogs or whatever they are. watching this video reminds me of a lot of things that i havent thought about in years...

[topshotta942]

u make it look easy when it really isn't

[muffincasestudioz]

someone plz send this vid to avgn...



[Rodrigo00]

castlevania on crack

[johndmgs]

Is this game hard. I hate really hard games.

[zerafix666]

@johndmgs it's hard as f*ck, lol. maybe harder than castlevania, and that was a hard game. it's very fun to play, though.

[Nina7PukeFace]

hey man mastered this game and cant unserstand why you never used jump n slash on the bosses even the dogs you can walk right in a jump n slash the first on the pedistal and be done with it but alas to beat this game without dying is an accomplishment ive never done and only once when i was felling brave did i actually beat the last three bosses or last two with sword because it takes away the jump n slash the only game accomplishment ive done is beat contra without dying

[UltraLuigi]

@Nina7PukeFace

At the time I made this run, I didn't know of the jump n slash trick on the bosses. I still wouldn't use it today if I were to do another run on it just because it makes the game that much easier by using it. Where's the challenge in that?

[wasredskin92]

@Nina7PukeFace try beating contra without dying, only using the default weapon. i couldnt feel my thumbs after that...

[sybam7777777]

The music in this game was just as amazing as the game itself. That first level theme got me pumped every time i heard it. Some of the best music in games were from the 8-bit era.

[MacDragard]

You make it look so easy.

[8ballasnow]

this game actually looks really good for the nes

[blubbqw]

This looks awesome!

[guitarlearner89]

they should build this game in this way....3D not always make the game good ..game developer please note this.

[TheXXxKAYxXx]

i love ninja gaiden :D♥

[jawzmuzik]

Youre fuckin good man!

[italian504]

for the people who badmouth this game or going to.

You try playing this with a controller that had a directional pad, select, start, A and B.

I have tried on my old NES and i still hate lv 2 (i suck, but i love it).

this game was so hard, Game Gennie failed to even make a proper invincible code or unlimited this code.

[matwior]

The MUSIC in this game is and always has been fuking awesome! I always thought this game was ahead of its time.

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

*Bowing to you*

Superior, you are. Worthy, I am not.

[alexgao814]

i have the game boy color one old style fun

[frankyrocksmyrocks]

dude.. you're a bot. i imagine much of life has lost it's appeal after gaining such elite skills.  this game is such an asshole.

[Skaterskydragon]

i remember having this game it was amazing.. :3 i used to think it was so hard though.. lol now that i have played the xbox new version i see how much potential the game really had.. still luv the original though..

[M1thotyn]

Why do all of the bosses look so ridiculously easy?

[tontolounuh]

I now just realized that you could beat a NES game in or under 20 minutes. It felt like ages at that time. Haha