Smurf: Rescue in Gargamel's Castle (Coleco/ColVision 1982)

[moondaddy37]

yo how the hell do you jump?

[Floovf]

How do you get past the skull?

[Umma6umma]

@Floovf You have to jump twice in succession, and the second jump is extra high to get you up on top. I think moving from screen to screen was resetting my jumps. That, or I just truly suck at it.

[SgtTravisBickle]

I had this back as a little kid... it was the shit!

[hawkeye448]

I never owned the system but I remember seeing this in the shop and wanting it so bad.

Just how things were back then as a child. Thought Emprire Strikes Back and Pac Man for the 2600 were the best things ever.

Even 2600 ET made me think wow the game of the film. So cool.

[TerryGibbsWF]

Smurf's shit

[BlayzedBlue]

I remember getting this for Christmas the year the Colecovision came out. Easily up there with E.T. and Superman 64 as one of the biggest abominations in gaming. All you did was jump over shit, and the fact you could die from touching grass or walking into a fence was incredibly retarded.

[ApacheMan2K]

Oh smurf, this game is horrible.

[neil54life]

NO AZRAEL? THIS SUCKS!

[neil54life]

WHERES AZRAEL?:(

[Michal1982Michal1982]

The Big Bang Theory :)

[Gasosag]

The lamest game death ever.

[awhelbich]

I set up the coleco vision the other day, and GOD what a fucking terrible game

[zhorax]

Played this when I was like 4-5 years old and it was hard as hell, but damn this brings back some great memories!

[kickrockser]

Lol, man you suck. However, I do remember Coleco controllers pissing me off with this game back in the day, lol.

[jscumpy]

haha - 0.14sec

happy music then*thump* dead.

[autiej]

Agreed... this game was AWESOME back in the day.... but wow, it took you four tries to get past the first fence! :)

[sethfaustino]

Why are people saying that this sucks? People back then thought this was awesome

[midnightsocietynyc]

Every kid back in the day knew someone who had a Colecovision and played this game. Those who weren't born or even conscious enough to know what a video game was back then would have no clue how something so simple could be so entertaining. If your first game system was a PS, XBox or even a Super Nintendo, things like this are automatically lost on you. Just move on and stop hatin'.

[alejandrito88899]

Hahaha, It's so funny when he died... Really the Game Sucks

[Fuzunga]

I haven't laughed that hard in a while.

[darkguardian1314]

I can't believe I played and sold this game back then. We were doing the dance called the Smurf back then. Didn't have internet and stuff back then.

[Quaderr]

Hey, watch out for that razor sharp grass!

[LordSamael666]

The game doesn't necessarily suck. YOU DO. SO HARD. Can't even double-jump. Kids these days....

[DreamCatcher641]

@LordSamael666 Yes, yes it does suck. I felt deeply disappointed after I reached the end in about seven minutes. My parents made me get rid of it when I found the Easter egg/glitch or whatever it was where Smurfette takes her top off, anyways.

[sackboycharlitos]

U suck at playing this

[TheRealLinkShady]

how do you win, holy fuck?

[Tcc80s]

I remember this game when I was a kid.....lol it was kind of hard!

[ADEdge]

Spent ages playing this game when I was younger, many tantrums were throw.

[RAYV1188]

This is hilarious how he falls when he reaches the fence. hahaha...

[gabrielirlanda]

jesuscrist, it looks that it was your first time playing at this game while you were recording it....

[Nilbop]

In the 80s programmers were paid for basically nothing.

[ridespirals]

@Nilbop what's funny is that the level of programming knowledge required to get any decent game to even FIT in the amount of memory these things had was so incredibly high, that the game being "fun" was literally NOT a requirement.

[darrenhutchings]

Fuck that, this was the best game ever. The awesome fart sounds that the Smurf made while jumping in the caverns - especially scrolling from one screen to the next - that made the fences and the grass all worthwhile.

[drmegaman]

This is First World Problems: The Game

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@PhobiaVidMaker

Another "easter egg" to try is to walk back and forth between the first and second screens. Take him to the edge of the start screen, then go back and forth several times and not only will you get a 919,500 point bonus... but the bad part of this glitch, however, is that the game will reset.

[duchovny2]

Dude you suck. My 8 year old sister can make it waaaay past you on this game

[DanteAIighieri]

WTF, at 0:49 Beethovens sixth symphony is playing

[jieyuhan]

haha i miss this cartoon , it cute

[Cassper]

Those fences just LOOK menacing. Never seen any other creature in a game stare in to my soul and scare the living shit out of me like that.

[SMUPony]

I loved this game when it came out (I was like 4) -- I'm glad I still own a working copy too :)

[babygiraffe123]

NOW I remember exactly why I hated this game so much. The layout was terrible, the music gave me a headache, and for the life of me, I could NEVER get past that stupid skull, to get to Smurfette....lol

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

@babygiraffe123

What you do to jump on the skull: you have to do a double jump to make a long jump. It requires a long jump. Then, a pair of short jumps will get you to the damsel in distress that is Smurfette and a 10G bonus.

[MrMrUm]

i came here cos of big bang theory

[PharoahsKingdom]

I still have a celcovision to this day and this game

[TheDavestohler]

Why do you keep running into things, even after you learn how to jump?

[ToadsWinningGoal]

@TheDavestohler Trust me this game is horrible to play

[amycallie123]

Somebody don't know how to play it hahaha. But I do.

[Matrix803]

I love the music in this game. So happy and colorfull. XDD

[mormongrl15]

i love the song!!!

[WorldMan1975]

correction: you suck mightily, at jumping in particular

[thomasandtanga]

Voted one of the 5 Worst Games In History

[rbrbran277]

This game is smurfed up.

[thatgirljax]

omg it took me FOREVER to learn this shit with the jump too! LMAO.

[Dragon555]

The smurf is so weak even grass kills him. D:

[venger]

This game was the shit back in the day.

[gettingpissedoff]

I think the skull is a running jump. it's kind of a bitch.

[guerrero1Jim]

0:24 Salta Willy.

Jump Willy.

[DickDatson]

what a horrible game, clearly no love was put into it

[Origamigryphon]

Why does your energy go down as you're walking?? XD Is the grass really that sharp?

[MachinaWeapon]

My god I fucking hated this game. I was so glad when my brother and I got our own NES, my aunt used to hog the shit outta Super Mario Bros.

[chunktuff]

you could go backwards on here but not on mario?!?

[Phandral]

Games likes this make you appreciate just how revolutionary Super Mario Bros. and the NES was....

[xMazingerZ]

C'est légèrement mieux qu'Atari 2600 lol

[mspeter97]

@xMazingerZ ah... bon

[BigALittleARon]

Wow, you can go back a screen! Didn't know they made games with open-ended worlds back then!

[omicrongamer]

Huh. It's like the prehistoric ancestor of Canabalt.

[BradSk88]

My grandma had this game. When I was 6 I fucking hated it.

[SeanSan00]

oh my shit, I lost it when he just hit the fence and fell over.

[Bobomb83]

Someone should make a walkthrough for this game.

[Y0shEOne]

oh man!!! this brings back MEMORIES!!!! LMAO!!! i used to play this all day long as a lil tike! LOL! LOVED IT!! Thanks for the upload mang!! :D

[Solarian23]

I don't know if this is better or worse than ET for the Atari

[ezefal]

I´ve lost hours playing this shit, my God, horrible

[Dalxien]

I see they sent downs smurf to save smurfette...

[VideyoJunkei]

up to jump, if I remember...

[HaligonianType1]

This was actually a great game. I mean come on, it came out in 1982. Haha... This was one of my fav titles for Colecovision.

[lexamax]

Hey player, do you ever get the feeling that you are incompetent? Don't quit your day job....

[Nephalen]

the music in this game is probably the worst thing i have ever heard... sounds like five of those playing congratulationcards playing at once

[bluesgurugod]

He's happy because he just smoked a big joint!

[DohBoy681]

this game is the reason my mother hated video games for years. she couldn't make him jump over the first fence.

[stevethenazizombie]

LMAO 0:19 

[dykbojen123]

HOLY SHIT for 1982 the graphic of this game is

like if Crysis would be released 1990 lol.

[EpsilonEagle123]

Lol at 2:47! Did Smurfette's clothes suddenly change to a bra and short skirt?

[sailorpfat]

Wow, you really suck at such a simple game. I loved this game, I would play it for hours.

[TOMdavies95]

1:30 fart 'N' jump tactics

[nesbroslash]

0:13 to 0:17 fence of death!!!

[oasisbeyond]

The guy playing sucks... gosh it's not that hard I would beat it at the age of 5... come on jump geex.

[oasisbeyond]

Du dududu uduud puttt lol JUMP FOOL!!!! lol

[forker51]

the game itself was not very good, still, the graphics were and still are fantastic. leaves alot to imagination and is very similar to supermario. (And i dont give afuck about you're shitty GTA and bioshock and homoerotic WoW?

[ComedyStuff76]

Maybe it sucks for this generation, but not back then. It will become more difficult and the crows, spiders and bats will be faster and not easy to avoid

[eljosho420]

@ComedyStuff76 No, I had it back in the day and it sucked then....

[darkguardian1314]

@ComedyStuff76 - I agree. We didn't have internet and cable was for the privileged few who can afford it. As I like to say in these situations, "It was the only game in town. So, we ate it up!!"

[aloysiusfinch]

At 0:50 you can hear Beethoven's sixth symphony

[Stigjnr]

And now we have games like bioshock lol

[TheDarkThunder]

Are are the trees to scale with Smurf as if he's human size?

[kieranmay]

I remember my school used to have this game on a black and white tv. I'm not sure if it was for the coleco but the controller had like 12 button layout like a phone dial and a joystick at the top. the music played slower than this video though probably due to pal and nstc. god why can't all tvs be the same and everything else in the world :-/

[dswolf123]

Death By grass...

What were the developers thinking...

[AtariGuy666]

your supposed to do a simple double jump onto the skull...

[quaxk]

my sister had my father buy this p.o.s. game for our coleco, I so hated that game, it was unbelievably boring and dumb

[bisexualbuffthug]

There are obvious programming flaws in this game. They should have called this "The special smurfs rescue" because the jumping i what usually kills the smurf when he tries to jump over the simplest objects! By the way i think its funny when he falls! LOL!!!!

[sixtysento]

are you retarded ????

why you keep falling???

[mireaux7]

for 1982, the graphics on this game were badass.

[LogicListens]

man this game is horrible

[hoques1432]

Gotta love these smooth transitions between the different screens and environments...

[kieranmay]

@hoques1432 it didn't do those transations on the one we had. again probably due to pal and nstc difference

[MastaFrancis]

i lol'd at the first death

[nyerguds]

haha, the easter egg is indeed there. At 2:46 (and again, at 3:03 ), if you pause at exactly the right moment, you see her topless. lol.

[lazyel]

Yeah! I remember having the same problem with that first dam fence.....after 10 minutes of play ...i just couldn't clear that dam fence...My gaming sucked in those days but that dam fence was just too much ....Like most games back then it was fun to just try them out. Great post

[BaneMcDeath]

Piece of cake game.  I grandmastered it on all skill settings.

[akazification]

Never watch it on DXM

[AoFparson]

not the game thats sucks. its your skill. its a short game so its hard. thats how games where back then ^^

[Zuul030]

The sound... it BURNS!!!

[quaniebombanie]

first game i ever played do ask why:P.. never got pas that damn skull though, well that meant playing my alternative  pack man again:>[

[BarneyTehDinosaur]

I looooove the smurf game!

[NateDoggsayzRegulate]

I gave this vid 5 stars for the

"This game sucks mightily. MIGHTILY!"

comment alone ... Outstanding!!

[mexanimenolink777]

wtf?

[Soror]

LOL!

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

You can tell a game sucks if a non-dangerous inanimate object kills you with a single touch.

Clump of grass: dead.

Fence: dead.

The side of a stalagmite: dead.

Completely inanimate skull: Wait for it....dead.

Table: Big surprise, dead.

[lonerurouni187]

Haha so you die from a fences and slightly protruding blades of grass, huh? Hardcore.

And the sad part is, he probably built that fence in the first place.

[Ilovecake2]

OMG A FENCE!

[Patryk128pl]

OMG LoL to chyba "najlepsza" gra wszechczasów.

5/5 i do ulubionych

[jamesbooty]

Ha! I forgot about the glitch where you can do a diagonal-duck and the footstep sound continues as you bend over.

[LeilaniLad]

Man, you suck. I played better than you when I was 8 years old.

[Kaiserstuhl]

this is better than final fantasy 7

[MSK120]

Damn, that's one sharp tuft of grass.

[666COB]

im pretty sure this was the source of my forever hatred of the smurfs lol

[eleduel]

AAHHAHAAHAHHA OMG!!!!

I used to play this when I was like 7 years old!!!!!! (22 actually):P

[SrMaromba]

lolololololololol

[ShadicChao]

no joke i typed in "best video game ever" and this came up

[logitechnc]

lol me too

[Surhotchaperchlorome]

Wow, you're right, it works. O.o

[CesarAnonymous]

Holy F#@& you were right!

[eunicep79]

Holy sheet. Teh grass and teh fence are covered wif poison.

[tonydraws]

how do you get past the skull?

[MilfHuntah]

if you jump the second time shortly after the first, you can jump higher.

[chuckles9702]

omfg you made me relive some of the most painful moments of my early childhood you sick bastard!

That freaking skull was the bane of my existence at age 4.

It's kin to making a victim relive a rape (not seriously, but other comparisons aren't there).

DARN YOU!!!!

[stabdollface]

lol *thunk*

[thousandyoung]

I so fuckin lol'd at the smurf bumping at the terrain each time.

[LuminusX]

So close....so close, hahahahaha.

[G0DVL]

Impossible to not laugh after 0:14 :D

[xxxOMGSweetxxx]

This is the happiest game that was ever made.

I mean,look at that Smurf,all happy and ignorant of the crap he's getting from these comments and everything else!

At least he has the joy of seeing Smurfette stripping!

[DaMoonlightInMyVeins]

wtf xD

[Ajuinvaliid]

i'd kill the TV if i played this game .. eventually

[Serotonergic]

GOTY, all years

[KmKGreyhat]

Lmao.

Here to agree with birdybirdforever. Not only are the graphics bad, the music terrible, the gameplay shitty, and the whole game under 500 kilobytes (I bet you could put this game onto a floppy disc. Twice) the controls are fucking horrendous.

Google a Colecovision control. My friend owns one (and this game) and it looks like a fucking VCR remote. You have to press the diagonal button to jump forward. Yes, the button to jump up and the button to jump forward are different. Useless game!

[MachineMalfunction]

Lmfao.

LMFAO.

[ramsaybaggins]

That caused me actual pain from laughing

[benevolenceleague]

Haha it's hard to beat the skull boss!!

[CutePuppy666]

Damn, Smurfs are fragile.

[Hidraga]

FAIL...

[xmintyninjax]

Ouch

[konsumkind84]

that game makes in no way any sense. wtf?

[scumhunter1966]

Heh, shame he didn't show the Stripping Smurfette Easter Egg....

[chunter203908]

And that's on easy...

[koolkody12]

lololfail

[krinsom]

Why does he fart each time he jumps?

[Robergine]

greatest death sequence evar!11

[SikeGhostvale]

Even my cat finds this horrendous.

[hoho330]

That was just plain mind blowing.

[MSK120]

This game is horrible beyond words.

[greatgonzales]

Why do you have an energy bar if running into a tuft of grass can kill you?

[ProfoundlyForlorn]

I wish I had this game growing up. I also wish I could read.

[2ane]

so why can you duck?

[20324758]

this game is ass!

[amr857]

This game is like being smothered between a bag of piss and a pile of shit!

[zealousstatic]

DOO DOO DUUUH DOO DUUH DUM

BLUP!

[Tails9000]

The best part was when he was on his last life.

[gnrchild]

This game rocks, I'd put it up there with the CDi Zelda games or the Atari ET game for best game of all time.

[zinjax]

Got raped by that gang of grass blades.

[nikkola84]

ending is epic

[TehUltraChancellor]

THE GAME, you just can´t win.

[asstreme2]

Electric Fences? Grass blades of steel? Slipery Skull? The?

[yantarosama]

ET can suck it.

this game is FAR WORSE

[chachilongbow]

Quite the diverse landscape they have there. And a deadly what skull to sort of keep him away but sort of help him up

[Rikoshay]

I lol'd every time he died. EVERY TIME.

[birdybirdforever]

Ahahaha watching it now, it is pretty funny when he dies. The music stops and he makes this *thunk* noise when he falls backwards.

[TorqueRDT]

WTF