[Let's Play] Bart Vs The Space Mutants - NES

atat23 · July 2010

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Info: This is my first LP so any tips or advice are always welcome. I did it all at once as more of a test to see how FRAPs, encoding, uploading etc worked but if some people find it entertaining that's always a plus.

You'll have to forgive the kinda rough editing, turned out I spent around 13 minutes per level so I thought it best to just split it up as best I could into 11 minute sections.

I won't post a wikipedia rip here on details about the game since it's a nes game and it's pretty self explanatory.

P.S seems I actually have two part 3s on youtube, should be in the right order above

joshofalltrades · July 2010

Wow is this already finished?

I think that's some kind of record.

Cantido · July 2010

I beat the first stage and didn't get any further.

EDIT- No, that's not right. It was some game where Bart travels the world or something.

cooljammer00 · July 2010

Death to this game.

I think I got as far as the carnival. I think that's past the mall.

Arikado · July 2010

I never got past the mall with the cement traps. Thanks to the terrible run-jump control scheme.

DietarySupplement · July 2010

Even though I'm new to Demon's Souls, I can safely safe that game ain't got shit on how hard this game was on the NES.

joshofalltrades · July 2010

Arikado wrote: »

I never got past the mall with the cement traps. Thanks to the terrible run-jump control scheme.

Is this the one where it feels like you're running on an ice slick with grease on your shoes the whole time?

I can't watch this at work at the moment.

Arikado · July 2010

The A button is jump. However, if you hold it down you run. To do a running jump, you had to press both A+B buttons. Makes sense right? Add that to having to navigate a pit with spinning lollipops that are your platforms and...yeah. Returned that to the video store SO HARD.

Coffey · July 2010

Congrats on making it through such a terrible game, man. I fell out when you called Maggie a lil' bitch. Do one for Micro Machines on NES!

cooljammer00 · July 2010

Jump and run were on the same button, IIRC. So to start running you'd sort of have to jump first.

Echo · July 2010

Shit, I had this game. I think I even beat the first level once!

joshofalltrades · July 2010

When I feel sorry for you, you know you picked a tough game to LP

The Grey GOAT · July 2010

Let's not play this. I'd rather pull my teeth out with pliers.

PolloDiablo · July 2010

Why would you do that to yourself?

Taramoor · July 2010

Bart's Nightmare was vastly superior.

joshofalltrades · July 2010

This reminds me of Bart Vs. The Juggernauts

That game got me into trouble so much as a kid

The obscenities

Ohhhh the obscenities

Rami · July 2010

Man, I had this on the Amiga when I was about 6 years old. I got to the power plant but never finished it I don't think.

Warlock82 · July 2010

I actually beat this as a kid. Once you master the crappy controls it's not that bad. Unfortunately they blew pretty much all of their creativity with the first level (and some in Krustyland), so the rest are pretty standard platforming stages.

And I'm still not quite sure how purple objects, hats, balloons and exit signs were somehow supposed to help the space mutants take over the world...

atat23 · July 2010

joshofalltrades wrote: »

Wow is this already finished?

I think that's some kind of record.

yeah I wasn't sure on the protocol on this since it was so short but I figured I may as well put it all up instead of trickling it out. Also because the levels were all over ten minutes it would have been awkard to have like two six minutes videos per level.

Arikado wrote: »

The A button is jump. However, if you hold it down you run. To do a running jump, you had to press both A+B buttons. Makes sense right? Add that to having to navigate a pit with spinning lollipops that are your platforms and...yeah. Returned that to the video store SO HARD.

I used them seperately, never had to use the running jump, plus I was using a PS3 controller for this, square was B, X was A, difficult to control yourself and have these both pressed down. You honestly don't really need it though the holding down B to jump further is usually enough.

Coffey wrote: »

Congrats on making it through such a terrible game, man. I fell out when you called Maggie a lil' bitch. Do one for Micro Machines on NES!

The nuclear power plant? well you got further than I though most would get

Funny you should mention Micro Machines though, when I was thinking of an LP to do and what games I played through when I was younger, Micro Machines was one I thought of but learning all the levels again would have been a pain.

Bullio · July 2010

I loved loved loved this game as a kid, but it was my only point of access to the Simpsons until 1993 or 94. I got past the first level once or twice, but I still loved playing it. I never owned it, though. I rented it a couple times, but most of the time I borrowed it from my next door neighbor. Thanks for the LP. Now I can actually see what lies beyond the second stage.

Idx86 · July 2010

This game was very difficult. Will be fun to relive though.

solsovly · July 2010

Man, I hated this game as a kid. I enjoyed the LP, finally let me see what the game is like past the first level.

JaysonFour · July 2010

I could usually get through Downtown, the Mall, and Krustyland fairly easily, but the Museum was just an absolute bitch. I got as far as the T-Rex skeleton that spits rocks at you, and I constantly died there. A two-hit life meter was just fucking mean, not to mention the massive amount of "miss one jump and you're fucked" areas of the Mall and Museum.

The arcade fighter was vastly superior in every way. They should put it up on Live, PSN, and the Wii Shop channel.

Warlock82 · July 2010

JaysonFour wrote: »

I could usually get through Downtown, the Mall, and Krustyland fairly easily, but the Museum was just an absolute bitch. I got as far as the T-Rex skeleton that spits rocks at you, and I constantly died there. A two-hit life meter was just fucking mean, not to mention the massive amount of "miss one jump and you're fucked" areas of the Mall and Museum.

The arcade fighter was vastly superior in every way. They should put it up on Live, PSN, and the Wii Shop channel.

I remember that part being a bitch (the t-rex). I seem to recall there is some trick to it but it's been so long that I don't know anymore.

Ninja Snarl P · July 2010

I call shenanigans. Bart vs. The Space Mutants obviously ends at Krustyworld and the OP just made everything else up to make us all feel bad for not finishing this terrible, terrible game.

I think I rented this twice and I think I only ever managed to get to the very start of the Museum once. Such an awful game and so much tiny nostalgic rage.

schmads · July 2010

That LP was obviously much more fun to watch than the game is to play. Thanks!

BlitzAce1981 · July 2010

I get the feeling that Homer was trying to be smrt by pouring water onto the floor, intending for Marvin to get a shock of his own.

Garris · July 2010

My father in law is the master of this game, to this day he can pop the cartridge in and beat it with one life in one sitting

joshofalltrades · July 2010

Garris wrote: »

My father in law is the master of this game, to this day he can pop the cartridge in and beat it with one life in one sitting

How does it feel knowing your wife is the offspring of HAL and SHODAN

cooljammer00 · July 2010

PS3 controller? FRAPS?

I think we all know what is going on here.

atat23 · July 2010

Ninja Snarl P wrote: »

I call shenanigans. Bart vs. The Space Mutants obviously ends at Krustyworld and the OP just made everything else up to make us all feel bad for not finishing this terrible, terrible game.

I think I rented this twice and I think I only ever managed to get to the very start of the Museum once. Such an awful game and so much tiny nostalgic rage.

yeah you caught me, I created the rest of that in game art using MS paint and the music was just a recording of me smashing a gameboy against a wall. You win this round NinjaSnarl

cooljammer00 wrote: »

PS3 controller? FRAPS?

I think we all know what is going on here.

yeah unfortunately my actual copy is somewhere in my parents attic, I also don't have a working NES, was actually going to buy one of those top loading ones on think geek but I heard they don't support a lot of the games.

I do actually want to get a capture card for my Laptop, if possible, and maybe LP some of my console games. I was actually thinking of doing a Demon's Souls one but Trynant beat me to it, I thought I'd be the only one crazy enough to try that.

Uselesswarrior · July 2010

Man I would love to track down one of those original top loading nes reissue systems. Unfortunately new they are extremely rare/expensive.

Uselesswarrior · July 2010

http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/retro-gaming/ba5a/

Fuck yeah, if only you could use that with the Wii as well as the PC.

Rami · July 2010

So I'm guessing the NES version did not have this super sweet intro the Amiga version had?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGQPHWkWCEo

I was amazed by those graphics when I was little. I'd also never seen the cartoon.

Reynolds · July 2010

Had fun watching all those. I only remember getting to the mall, and that was after a lot of trial and error (and I think help from Nintendo Power).

Monsty · July 2010

Bleck. This fuckin' game.

Anyhoo, my memory may be betraying me but I think you can skip most of the first cement pit in the mall by jumping three times on one of the candy bars. It will float you over the rest of it. Could have been a dream, I guess.

Jam Warrior · July 2010

You can indeed skip the cement section and I did every time. However in Krusty Land I could never work out some bit where you cross a pipe organ by jumping on puffs of air. Killed me every time.

This was back on the Sega Master System in my youth.

atat23 · July 2010

Uselesswarrior wrote: »

http://www.thinkgeek.com/electronics/retro-gaming/ba5a/

Fuck yeah, if only you could use that with the Wii as well as the PC.

that is fucking sweet, I don't even play enough NES games to warrant buying it but I probably still would

Rami wrote: »

So I'm guessing the NES version did not have this super sweet intro the Amiga version had?

I was amazed by those graphics when I was little. I'd also never seen the cartoon.

I think if I hang about the main menu screen long enough, the intro that's in there just plays, I didn't actually test it.....fairly sure though >_>

That intro explains why he was wearing those glasses in the NES version though, that puzzled me when I was recording the LP.

Delinator · July 2010

I bought this for the C64 as a kid. With my own money! I never made past the first level.

Sixfortyfive · July 2010

I think this is the game that taught me that console games of a certain licensed property were often nothing like arcade games of the same licensed property, and that licensed games often sucked so hard. I harbor a very special sort of hatred for it.

DrunkMc · July 2010

Oh man, just looking at the Screenshots of the YouTube videos gave me flashbacks. This game has given me PTSD.

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[Let's Play] Bart Vs The Space Mutants - NES

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