I remember how amazing this game looked the first time I played it at a friend’s house. Lifeforce is a beautiful game even in 2019. That slowdown, though...
Indeed. I prefer the PC Engine version of Salamander, but this a very solid game that has held up very well. Back in '87 or '88, it was my introduction to shmups, and I still come back to it now and then.
@@NintendoComplete I did wonder why you never used any of the Speed options though. Was it because it starts to become a bit difficult to control once your ship is moving too fast? (Or because the Options start spreading out more and thus it makes it more difficult to focus their fire?)
I rented this one and me and a friend of mine stayed up all weekend playing it. The graphics were just jaw dropping. The fire stage, with the shooting gouts of flame, was truly unlike anything I'd seen on the NES before. Damn fine game.
That Fire arc graphic was also used in Bucky O'Hare in the Red Planet. They had a lot of music that could have gone into another NES TMNT or Contra Game. Why didn't Konami make a Super Castlevania V, Super TMNT V, Super Bucky O'Hare II, Super Gradius IV, Super Contra IV? All these franchises and they didn't do anything with them!
The soundtrack of Life Force is even till this day, phenomenal .. when the creators were putting the music together for the game, they knew what they were doing!
Konami games on the NES always had stellar soundtracks (Contra, Jackal, the TMNT games etc.), but I agree that even among them, the Life Force soundtrack is one of their absolute best. :)
I remember getting this big controller. That had a black joystick with a round nob on the end. Had turbo buttons to keep all shooting games on atomic and had a speed control. Still never had the patience to beat this game although. We got great mileage out of it. Thanks for posting, brings back great memories for me.
The music at 8:02 popped in my head & it brought me here after all these years. I haven't played or seen this game since I was a child. Me & my younger brother used to play it a lot. Thanks for sharing.
I still have this game. One of the best in the “Gradius” series, and also an excellent sequel to “Gradius”. It gives you 30 lives when you do the famous Konami code like “Contra” did. The music sounds perfect, but I want to use it for my “MTN Gang” series.
I came here to bring back great memories of myself playing with my son. I spoiled the shit out of him but he deserved it. Great kid...He was so young that I have a picture of him playing video games with him holding his blanket! I got him almost every console. The last one I got him was Xbox. Then I got him the Live package with a Cisco Wireless router that I needed to pair to my Motorola. That turned out to be a nightmare but I didn't give up and I eventually got it to work. After that he was old enough to get his own toys.
Whew. Title scared me for a moment. I thought you were actually done. This game is STILL a favorite. I’ve been slowly working my way up to 10 million points on my 3DS using save states. It’s funny because once you hit 255 lives (or what I assume is that many) it flips over to zero. I never would’ve known that w/o save states.
Esse jogo marcou minha infância, na época os graficos impressionava! Lembro que nas sextas-feiras eu e meus amigos saiamos da escola e ia direto na locadora alugar esse jogo e passavamos o final de semana inteiro jogando... isso em 1991! nem dá pra acreditar que já se passaram 30 anos... que nostalgia ver esse video e relembrar do passado!
One of my favourite games for NES. Such great memories! And bad ones too, I never had that incredible ability. In fact I remember everything until the last scene where the planet explodes, I always died in the escaping part, so I think this is the first time I actually see the ending. So sad! 😅 Thanks for the playthrough.
i remember playing this game so many years ago when i was a kid .i really loved this one, all tho i dont think i ever made it past lvl 2 LOL. Nice work you did awesome .
Man, used to play this game all the time back in the day. Just bought it again, after some 30 years can’t believe I beat it after the 3rd attempt without having to use the Konami code. The thing that surprises me is you take no speed!
Speed is bad because when you are slow you have better control over your ship. If you know the level and know when to avoid stuff you don't really need it
Nes music is seriously the best what I remember most from gaming back in the day Wow does Life force have a metric ton of flicker and slowdown though lol
Dude when I was a kid, this game gave the my first Rage Quit, I mean shit thrown and broken things. I finished it though before discovering there's a cheat code of 30 lives. Love this game to hate. Childhood memories.
this game..to reach level 3 was a dream back during my childhood..just managed to.somehow see the level..could never cross.. without checkpoints and save option its impossible to complete this game..Incredibly tough it was
I had to come back and watch how far as a kid I got and surprisingly I beat it. I didn't beat many games by myself back then so that's cool to see. I got this Christmas '88 I believe
What I really liked about this game is there was virtually no limit to how awesome you could make your weapons. As long as you stayed alive, they just kept getting more powerful.
Marty, it is interesting you say this. I had the chance to play Gradius not long ago, and made the same comparison. Gradius seemed so.. old? Yet I recall Lifeforce, in all its 8-bit glory, looking and sounding so much better than Gradius. Great minds.
@@jeffcallicott9269Life Force is known as Salamander outside of North America; but as a kid, it was part of the Contra universe in my eyes, because it had the same sound effects lol. I used to envision Life Force as being the dudes from Contra piloting their fighter jets to escape the alien planet after destroying Red Falcon.
The people who composed the music for these games are nothing short of geniuses....also the sound effects are fucking awesome. Me and my cousins would rock this for hours also contra :) back in the day :)
Same. Killed them with my controller that had a turbo button that enabled all shooting games to go fully automatic. but like you said I don't remember the bosses dying that easy even with that feature. Strange now that you mention it.
Recuerdo cuando niño en 90's nintendo Gradius también eran de estos prototipos de naves solo que veías un plano de lado para jugarlo, saludos y gracias por compartir
There is a NES game like this one that I played in 2000, I loved it so much, but I haven't been able to find it on the net ever since. I have forgotten most about the game. I remember the intro starts with a pilot who gets in his spaceship and flies off into space from either a moon or an asteroid of a yellowish orange colour. I don't remember very well if this moon/asteroid explodes after he flies off into space or not. The rest of the game is more or less like this, except you play horizontally, from left to right. There was a final boss that probably was something like a brain with eyes and tentacles. This last memory may be a falsee memory. My memories of the intro are more faithful because it is what I can remember the most. Finally, the title of the game. I think it was something with "galactic" or a Word related to "galaxy". As years go by my memories of the game fade, but if You happen to what nes game I am talking about or manage to find it would make me so happy.
@@NintendoComplete That was not the game I tried to describe, but your referenced has helped me narrow down my search and, after, 23 years I could finally find it 😊🥲 The game is Sector Z. Your reference was really helpful and I'm so glad I could find it. If you could make a video of Sector Z that would be awesome. Thanks!
This was basically Contra in spaceships. I remember my friend and I staying over my his aunt's house one weekend. We played Super Contra and this all weekend. Ordered some Little Caesars pizza (back when they actually did the pizza pizza (2) deal). And we ordered the 'Bigfoot' pizza.
The arcade game that this is based on was really cool for its time too. I remember how it advertised "Stereo sound!", among other things. It had voice samples like "Entering abdominal wall", "Kidney stones cannot be destroyed", "Gas emission", etc.. It was definitely about infiltrating some giant biological being, though I don't remember the full plot, such as it was. The NES version added a level that wasn't in the arcade version (the Egyptian crypt).
I don't know how but this is the game that pop out when i was searching for a tv channel back when i was 8. I don't even had this game. So later i ask my new neighbor did he play life force last night. He said yeah and i told him i watch he play the game through my tv. He then invite me to play this game at his house. We become friends after then.
Played this endlessly when I was 6 years old never to get beyond Level 3. Revisited the game while deployed in Iraq almost 20 years later and ONLY then did i beat it lol that was over 10 years ago... maaaaaaaaaan lol
LT Rob United States Air Force retired. I bought my kids every console every toy that I never had growing up. I made sure they had everything I spoil the living shit out of them but they were great kids. They're adults now with their own homes and I'm a grandfather where the hell did the time go? Just hit 61 !
Lol all of us 40 plus remembering this game. I also played this game a ton back in grade school and I think I still remember the code: up up down down left right left right a b select start?
Ever notice how the music on the even numbered boards has kind of a "happy" intro before the more sinister music? Hmm... maybe board 1 and 5 have that too hahaha
I just found out now. That the background of this is in our bodies. The story of a nanorobot plane entering and eradicating endless malignant tumors, hyperlipidemia, thrombosis, and various pathogens wandering around blood vessels. Konami came up with this story in the 80s and made it into a game?
Really? I just watched it to bring back memories of my son and I. Never put that together. Where did you get that information from, out of curiosity, or did you come up with it? be honest now.
@@Mr.Robert1 I am a Korean, A old gamer. Long times ago, I read that information from Korean game magazines. That korean game magazines took information from Japanese game magazines.
I remember how amazing this game looked the first time I played it at a friend’s house.
Lifeforce is a beautiful game even in 2019. That slowdown, though...
Indeed. I prefer the PC Engine version of Salamander, but this a very solid game that has held up very well.
Back in '87 or '88, it was my introduction to shmups, and I still come back to it now and then.
@@LorenHelgeson salamander from Japanese was faster than the slow
I used to have this game back in the day, amazing game...... I no longer have the original but got it installed in my NES classic!!!
bro loving alien designs? 💀 impressive graphics but the flesh looks more horrifyingly to me than most modern horror games did
The komami shooter collection on ps4 is pretty solid! Has the arcade versions no slow down at all!
This game felt so epic to me as a kid. I honestly think it was my favorite Nintendo game. I really miss these days.
some people were born to play these types of games.. you are one of those people... this is outstanding
Tyvm :) that's awesome of you to say
@@NintendoComplete I did wonder why you never used any of the Speed options though. Was it because it starts to become a bit difficult to control once your ship is moving too fast? (Or because the Options start spreading out more and thus it makes it more difficult to focus their fire?)
@Zaxares I don't like how too many speed ups makes it harder to move through tight spaces.
I’m 44 and that brought me back. That game was a lot of fun and me and my stepbrother would play it for hours
Got to love those classic Konami tunes and other audible goodies!
I rented this one and me and a friend of mine stayed up all weekend playing it. The graphics were just jaw dropping. The fire stage, with the shooting gouts of flame, was truly unlike anything I'd seen on the NES before. Damn fine game.
That Fire arc graphic was also used in Bucky O'Hare in the Red Planet. They had a lot of music that could have gone into another NES TMNT or Contra Game. Why didn't Konami make a Super Castlevania V, Super TMNT V, Super Bucky O'Hare II, Super Gradius IV, Super Contra IV? All these franchises and they didn't do anything with them!
Man screw that fire stage. Me and my mom hated it and still do lol.
this game reminds me of gradius, i love how many of these retro space shooters still look crisp. makes me want to play some of them again
@@Naiki_Eri It reminds you of Gradius because it is part of that series.
This game really brought tears to my eyes, I had this vague memory of this game, and I can’t believe it seeing it again
The soundtrack of Life Force is even till this day, phenomenal .. when the creators were putting the music together for the game, they knew what they were doing!
...and I would say the NES music is even more atmospheric than the arcade! Especially the damn Stage 3 :)
Konami games on the NES always had stellar soundtracks (Contra, Jackal, the TMNT games etc.), but I agree that even among them, the Life Force soundtrack is one of their absolute best. :)
the boss music made the fights so intense
Not better than SkyShark though…
@@SYCZ I'll check it out. Thanks
One of the greatest NES games of all time. Period.
Said no one EVER.
Agreed. One of my top 3 favorite NES games for sure.
Loved this game
@@Rgoid- go roid elsewhere
Game was the ish!!!!
One of the best soundtracks as well.
Holy shit! What an ending..this game was difficult
LOL
I still think this game has one of the best NES soundtracks of all
yes
I remember getting this big controller. That had a black joystick with a round nob on the end. Had turbo buttons to keep all shooting games on atomic and had a speed control. Still never had the patience to beat this game although. We got great mileage out of it. Thanks for posting, brings back great memories for me.
The music at 8:02 popped in my head & it brought me here after all these years. I haven't played or seen this game since I was a child. Me & my younger brother used to play it a lot. Thanks for sharing.
I can't believe we finally got to NintendoComplete the Video Game
I still have this game. One of the best in the “Gradius” series, and also an excellent sequel to “Gradius”. It gives you 30 lives when you do the famous Konami code like “Contra” did. The music sounds perfect, but I want to use it for my “MTN Gang” series.
There were a few games I never saw the ending. Top Gun, Life-force and Ghost and Goblins. Nice work
Boss music. That’s what I am talking about
Called "Poison of Snake." It's been in a few Gradius games as well but Life Force has my favorite rendition of it.
The nostalgia is off the chart.
I came here to bring back great memories of myself playing with my son.
I spoiled the shit out of him but he deserved it. Great kid...He was so young that I have a picture of him playing video games with him holding his blanket!
I got him almost every console. The last one I got him was Xbox. Then I got him the Live package with a Cisco Wireless router that I needed to pair to my Motorola. That turned out to be a nightmare but I didn't give up and I eventually got it to work. After that he was old enough to get his own toys.
Wow. What great memories of my childhood. Thanks for posting!
*Life Force (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete*
Wow this game brings back so many memories
Brings back so many memories as a young child in the early 90s
This was such a great game for it's time. Awesome graphics and gameplay and very challenging. Played the hell out of this game as a kid. Nice run!!
Love Life Force, especially the music ❤️
Whew. Title scared me for a moment.
I thought you were actually done.
This game is STILL a favorite. I’ve been slowly working my way up to 10 million points on my 3DS using save states. It’s funny because once you hit 255 lives (or what I assume is that many) it flips over to zero. I never would’ve known that w/o save states.
What a great game. Always wondered why they couldnt make more classics like this
Great game,Konami is my favorite game producer. They should have put the pharaoh as the final boss.
Esse jogo marcou minha infância, na época os graficos impressionava! Lembro que nas sextas-feiras eu e meus amigos saiamos da escola e ia direto na locadora alugar esse jogo e passavamos o final de semana inteiro jogando... isso em 1991! nem dá pra acreditar que já se passaram 30 anos... que nostalgia ver esse video e relembrar do passado!
This is hands down my favorite game of all time! 🎉😅
Oh yeah i remember life force my favorite game it's good to see you thanks for the upload
Completely forgot about this game! I remember thinking this game was next level back then.
NintendoComplete: The Motion Picture!
I never went beyond the level 3,nice to watch,
Old memories awaken..
Zerei este jogo em 1990, muto nostálgico pra mim.
One of my favourite games for NES. Such great memories! And bad ones too, I never had that incredible ability. In fact I remember everything until the last scene where the planet explodes, I always died in the escaping part, so I think this is the first time I actually see the ending. So sad! 😅 Thanks for the playthrough.
A sequel that lived up to the original!
Probably the most underrated NES game of all time.
i remember playing this game so many years ago when i was a kid .i really loved this one, all tho i dont think i ever made it past lvl 2 LOL. Nice work you did awesome .
My favourite nes game I love the music
1 of my 1st Nintendo games! 1987 🙂
Man, used to play this game all the time back in the day. Just bought it again, after some 30 years can’t believe I beat it after the 3rd attempt without having to use the Konami code.
The thing that surprises me is you take no speed!
Speed is bad because when you are slow you have better control over your ship. If you know the level and know when to avoid stuff you don't really need it
Nes music is seriously the best what I remember most from gaming back in the day
Wow does Life force have a metric ton of flicker and slowdown though lol
Dude when I was a kid, this game gave the my first Rage Quit, I mean shit thrown and broken things. I finished it though before discovering there's a cheat code of 30 lives. Love this game to hate. Childhood memories.
This game looked epic and high tech when it came out!
this game..to reach level 3 was a dream back during my childhood..just managed to.somehow see the level..could never cross..
without checkpoints and save option its impossible to complete this game..Incredibly tough it was
Love and miss this game ❤
I dont remember going vertically.Its been over 30 years!WoW!
This was 1 of my favorite games as a kid
This is EPIC! LOVED this game so much...thank you for this! ✈️🌌
I had to come back and watch how far as a kid I got and surprisingly I beat it. I didn't beat many games by myself back then so that's cool to see. I got this Christmas '88 I believe
The soundtrack of my youth
What I really liked about this game is there was virtually no limit to how awesome you could make your weapons. As long as you stayed alive, they just kept getting more powerful.
Best RUclips game 2019.
Esse foi o meu primeiro jogo do nes , simplesmente fantástico, esse vídeo me trouxe muita nostalgia.
This might just have been my favorite NES game. Hi5 for the drunk upload. 😂
Gradius has aged terribly. Life Force has aged beautifully.
Marty, it is interesting you say this. I had the chance to play Gradius not long ago, and made the same comparison. Gradius seemed so.. old? Yet I recall Lifeforce, in all its 8-bit glory, looking and sounding so much better than Gradius. Great minds.
@@jeffcallicott9269Life Force is known as Salamander outside of North America; but as a kid, it was part of the Contra universe in my eyes, because it had the same sound effects lol. I used to envision Life Force as being the dudes from Contra piloting their fighter jets to escape the alien planet after destroying Red Falcon.
Bad Opinion
They are literally the same graphics
@@joshuafoight9579 Wrong
The people who composed the music for these games are nothing short of geniuses....also the sound effects are fucking awesome. Me and my cousins would rock this for hours also contra :) back in the day :)
Did this legend just no death Life Force? I remember barely being able to beat it with the 30 lives cheat. Great job
It's a piece of cake to do "A no death run" with Life Force,I did them when I played this game way back in 1988-1991
This game is like Contra taking place in space jets and in outer space.
This game and Legend of Zelda were my two first games I got with my NES. Other then the package in ones of course.
That boss music is one of the best.
I remember playing that game when I was fifty years old in my childhood.
the bosses back then were seriously creepy
i don't remember them dying so fast though
Same. Killed them with my controller that had a turbo button that enabled all shooting games to go fully automatic. but like you said I don't remember the bosses dying that easy even with that feature. Strange now that you mention it.
I remeber finding it so trippy as a kid that inside a Salamander in space an anciet Egypt godess would show up in their ornaments. 5th element vibes.
Vomitron does a great job covering the music for this game, and the code for contra to get 30 lives works on this game too
This game was some serious level tough..Without any save option, no check points to resume and only 3 lives..Could never go beyond level 3
WOW..❤ this brings back so many great memories 😮
You completed your channel? Awesome!
Nintendo Complete Completed Nintendo Complete 😛
Wow thanks for uploading :D
They key to winning this game is not really about strength, it's about SPEED and more than anything.. PLANNING AHEAD!
Well played sir. That fire level actually looked easy.
One of my all time favorite nes games
Recuerdo cuando niño en 90's nintendo Gradius también eran de estos prototipos de naves solo que veías un plano de lado para jugarlo, saludos y gracias por compartir
My aunt bought us this one the Christmas we got our NES. We put a lot of miles on it.
There is a NES game like this one that I played in 2000, I loved it so much, but I haven't been able to find it on the net ever since. I have forgotten most about the game. I remember the intro starts with a pilot who gets in his spaceship and flies off into space from either a moon or an asteroid of a yellowish orange colour. I don't remember very well if this moon/asteroid explodes after he flies off into space or not. The rest of the game is more or less like this, except you play horizontally, from left to right. There was a final boss that probably was something like a brain with eyes and tentacles. This last memory may be a falsee memory. My memories of the intro are more faithful because it is what I can remember the most. Finally, the title of the game. I think it was something with "galactic" or a Word related to "galaxy". As years go by my memories of the game fade, but if You happen to what nes game I am talking about or manage to find it would make me so happy.
That's Abadox! :D Awesome game. Here you go: ruclips.net/video/iqryl5lj7Uo/видео.html
@@NintendoComplete That was not the game I tried to describe, but your referenced has helped me narrow down my search and, after, 23 years I could finally find it 😊🥲 The game is Sector Z. Your reference was really helpful and I'm so glad I could find it. If you could make a video of Sector Z that would be awesome. Thanks!
@@ijansk Oh really? Ah, I was so certain haha. Your description matched that game so perfectly. Well, I'm glad you found what were looking for.
Good memories for this game cool
That last run was sick.
This was basically Contra in spaceships. I remember my friend and I staying over my his aunt's house one weekend. We played Super Contra and this all weekend. Ordered some Little Caesars pizza (back when they actually did the pizza pizza (2) deal). And we ordered the 'Bigfoot' pizza.
My favourite childhood game. Though, the moving Moai's statue give me some nightmares
Skill master! I remember crashing a few times to ❤😂😂😂
I've never made it past level 3 when I was a kid. Those solar flares kill me every time
The closest thing kids got to a Robotech game for the NES back in the 1980s
The arcade game that this is based on was really cool for its time too. I remember how it advertised "Stereo sound!", among other things. It had voice samples like "Entering abdominal wall", "Kidney stones cannot be destroyed", "Gas emission", etc.. It was definitely about infiltrating some giant biological being, though I don't remember the full plot, such as it was.
The NES version added a level that wasn't in the arcade version (the Egyptian crypt).
So many obscure cards in Yu Gi Oh are references to this game
Lo jugué cuando tenia 6 años, y ahora con 37 lo volveré a jugar
Wish they come with a upgrade version on the switch luv this game
dude how many yrs did u spend playing this game? that maze walk at the end was amazing
I don't know how but this is the game that pop out when i was searching for a tv channel back when i was 8. I don't even had this game. So later i ask my new neighbor did he play life force last night. He said yeah and i told him i watch he play the game through my tv. He then invite me to play this game at his house. We become friends after then.
Played this endlessly when I was 6 years old never to get beyond Level 3.
Revisited the game while deployed in Iraq almost 20 years later and ONLY then did i beat it lol that was over 10 years ago... maaaaaaaaaan lol
Congratulations 😆
LT Rob United States Air Force retired. I bought my kids every console every toy that I never had growing up. I made sure they had everything I spoil the living shit out of them but they were great kids. They're adults now with their own homes and I'm a grandfather where the hell did the time go? Just hit 61 !
@@Mr.Robert1 congrats on making it to 60s and beyond. Yea the time is flying.
Lol all of us 40 plus remembering this game. I also played this game a ton back in grade school and I think I still remember the code: up up down down left right left right a b select start?
Love this game, I actually think that along with Master System Sagaia It’s one of the greatest 8-bit Shmups ever
What a wonderful game!
I remember when we got this game and we beat it in the same day. Kind of disappointed but had plenty of replayability.
I'm officially impressed
This game creeped me out as a kid. Especially the last level where those giant turds come out of the walls
Ever notice how the music on the even numbered boards has kind of a "happy" intro before the more sinister music? Hmm... maybe board 1 and 5 have that too hahaha
I just found out now. That the background of this is in our bodies. The story of a nanorobot plane entering and eradicating endless malignant tumors, hyperlipidemia, thrombosis, and various pathogens wandering around blood vessels. Konami came up with this story in the 80s and made it into a game?
Really? I just watched it to bring back memories of my son and I. Never put that together. Where did you get that information from, out of curiosity, or did you come up with it? be honest now.
@@Mr.Robert1 I am a Korean, A old gamer. Long times ago, I read that information from Korean game magazines. That korean game magazines took information from Japanese game magazines.
Cool, now a speed-run plz XD
I kid, thanks for the vid!
I love this game. I want to try it with the nes advantage
One of NES finest!!