Every time I see a playthrough of this and hear the music, every - single - time, I remember sitting on the floor in the living room playing through it while my dad played jim croce on his big, new stand up entertainment center
The music, the mystique, the challenge... just a classic. I played this during a huge chunk of my boyhood. Back in the original NES days, there was just a magic to it, and this was one of those games.
It's weird when a long forgotten memory returns, the feeling is almost indescribable. I forgot this game even existed until the invincibility music and gem chest screen. I don't think I ever got past the first level, I only remember thinking the sword was useless.
I remember I would go to my friend's house across the street, and we would play this game. He would say, "Thou hath discovered GERMS" every time. It didn't get as old as you might think, and the memory can still bring a smile to my face.
I have memories of renting this game from video store and playing with my brother and friends and we all we in awe of this game. I loved it and recently bought it and beat it again.
That jump for the Feather of Feather Fall took me FOREVER to figure out and even now I can only pull it off every now and then. Great work as usual, Arcus!
You are a master of your craft! Never would have believed it could be beaten in under 15 minutes. I owned this game in 1990 and it took me 3+ hours to beat it.
I don't think there was any other NES game I wanted to be better at, and was worse at. This game baffled my 6-10 year old existence. Watching you play through it now shows me, I never stood a chance lol...
Arcus! Such a great choice! I love all your runs but I especially like this one. Kudos to you my friend. I've played all 3 instances of the W&W saga. I like the 3rd one the most maybe you can make a run on it, but the other two are fine. It's just that the third I think was a bit more fun to play. The music score, the game mechanics, the graphics... This one is way more challenging and requires a lot of patience and skill. But again kudos(Kuros! lol) to you and hopefully we will see you playing the II and III. Thanks man!
I kept waiting for him to climb the outside castle wall to see how he did it. That was the part that always got me... and he just glitched right past it.
i subscribed because i remember how insane this game was as a kid... and he made it look like a joke..... while he hummed the "you're gonna die" music on the first stage. +1
Pretty amazing stuff! I loved this game as a kid and I still love the music from it today! In fact, I think I’m gonna go home and make a couple ringtones for my phone! Thanks for the video!
Played through this a lot when it was new. It was kind of just a fun zen thing to do quick runs of, and mess around with. Now though, it seems weird AF. It's really an unusual game which is oddly fun to play despite making no sense at all.
yes, before there was Elden Ring, there was Wizards and Warriors! lol. I remember playing this on cartridge as a kid. When From Software first came out with Demon's Souls I immediately thought of this game and said to myself, "That's Wizards and Warriors!". It's crazy. That game was hard as hell, btw. Even for a 9 year old like me back then. When I think Knight in Shining armor I don't think Karate Kid 2 theme song. I think Wizards and Warriors.
I played this a few times at a friend's house, never got very far. I did end up buying the second one and eventually beating it. Pretty good game, wouldn't mind seeing it make a comeback. Congrats on the PB!
I love the understated smile hidden by the moustachio with a twinkle in the eyes when he sees he's headed towards a world record. It's always the same look. lol
I’d play this game as a kid all the time (never got past the first stage) every time my health got low and that music started my mom would start going “You’re gonna die” in tune with the music. I can’t unhear it.
So in the first three levels, the knight has been to Hugh Hefner’s estate to rescue Lucinda (stripper name if ever I’ve heard one), saved Esmerelda from Quasimodo in Notre Dame and travelled to Middle Earth to rescue the most power elf this side of the undying lands? Fair play to him.
This game was so simple but somehow so damn good. I cannot be the only one who used to stand close to those guard knights and mash attack to simulate a swordfight.
Dude i am glad i found you. When i seen you for the first time wearing your hat. I thought ??? Huh and i started watching all your videos. And the way you smashed wizards and warriors amazed me beyond belief. I have a twin and he was the video game player growing up at first while i was the sporty child but i got the best of both worlds outside playing sports all day and coming in at dark and me and my twin playing video games and his channel is "Nubs The Gamer" but anyway you threw me off and im thought he cant be that good at games but wow!!!! Your run was awesome. Where are you from if i may ask? I don't wanna be stereotypical and think Texas because of your get up lol see you in the next game buddy take care.
I've got this in my recommendations and first thing I thought was "I'm not going to watch it, because AGDQ has the best atmosphere and they are actually talking while playing!". But after a while I decided to watch anyway and now I want to stay longer! Your short comments and pure gameplay is everything that I needed to watch at this rainy evening. Thank you for vids and... Giddyup!
This game was impossible for me as a kid. I thought I was going to beat it until I realized you had to beat all the end level elements on a row at the end.
Just curious, why don't you use the dagger of throwing to pick up gems more often? Doing so nets you two gems per each instead of the one you get by manually collecting it.
My main problem with this game was that the "you're near dead" music was so epic that it actually made me want to be at low health. Maybe that's why I never knew there even were bosses until now.
Funny how many people in comments specifically remember renting this game. When I rented it as a kid, it was absolutely amazing! Playing it today it is pretty strange to say the least.
I liked this game as a kid, but I don't think I ever really understood it or got very far. I liked the way things moved and the sound and music. I think I was able to do a little more on the sequels that had different suits of armor.
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Every time I see a playthrough of this and hear the music, every - single - time, I remember sitting on the floor in the living room playing through it while my dad played jim croce on his big, new stand up entertainment center
Bad bad Leroy Brown blasting in the background while killing demons. We must had the same childhood lol
@@jtnuts9362 must have. It's a very vivid memory, lol
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Wow that's crazy, I can say the same thing about my mother and our console record player in the 80s, Jim Croce and dozens of others
No skeleton changeling or evil wizard?
This was one of my favorite rentals from my childhood NES days. Great pick Arcus.
To this day I still play it
Same here. I rented this one many times. I played it recently and it felt so alien, i had no idea what to do or where to go. Lol gettin old
Many nostalgic memories of renting this game as well!!!! How I long for the past. Back when times were much better!
Ahhh don’t you love that? Those games that you never owned BUT rented many times? Hmmm love it. “The Legend of Kage” was one of those for me
The music, the mystique, the challenge... just a classic. I played this during a huge chunk of my boyhood. Back in the original NES days, there was just a magic to it, and this was one of those games.
It's weird when a long forgotten memory returns, the feeling is almost indescribable.
I forgot this game even existed until the invincibility music and gem chest screen.
I don't think I ever got past the first level, I only remember thinking the sword was useless.
This guy is such a joy to watch. Calm and steady.
Arcus is the Bob Ross of gaming XD... so relaxing with happy little accidents ....
Very true
I love how the game just says “THE MAP”. Like, “screw you, we don’t have to name this world!”
I remember I would go to my friend's house across the street, and we would play this game. He would say, "Thou hath discovered GERMS" every time. It didn't get as old as you might think, and the memory can still bring a smile to my face.
holy fuck i have basically this exact same story lol
I love your runs because I always get to see parts of games I've never seen as a kid playing them
He glitched the last part, so you haven't seen the last stages of this game :)
Wow you suck at video games bud
i played this for years never beat it lol
This was actually the first NES game I played in like, 1987. GG!!!
I have memories of renting this game from video store and playing with my brother and friends and we all we in awe of this game. I loved it and recently bought it and beat it again.
Love that you're playing this Arcus! Probably my fave NES game from when I was a kid, love it!
Rented it a couple times as a kid, but really couldn't do much with it. Just seemed to wander about and eventually die. GG and congrats!
Lol me too. I never knew what I was doing. Just wander around until I died
Same!. The music and sound effects are iconic.
Still have my copy from when I was a child, Love this game! ❤️
Love the gpk avatar!
One of my favorite games when I was younger
That jump for the Feather of Feather Fall took me FOREVER to figure out and even now I can only pull it off every now and then. Great work as usual, Arcus!
You are a master of your craft! Never would have believed it could be beaten in under 15 minutes. I owned this game in 1990 and it took me 3+ hours to beat it.
One of my absolute favorites as a kid!
This was one of my favorite games growing up.
I totally remember playing this game back in the day...a knight jumping everywhere and very little hand-to-hand combat...
The music brings back sooo many memories
Arcus; The Man, The Myth, The Legend
I don't think there was any other NES game I wanted to be better at, and was worse at. This game baffled my 6-10 year old existence. Watching you play through it now shows me, I never stood a chance lol...
Your videos are bringing back so many memories from my childhood. This was one of my favorites.
Arcus! Such a great choice! I love all your runs but I especially like this one. Kudos to you my friend. I've played all 3 instances of the W&W saga. I like the 3rd one the most maybe you can make a run on it, but the other two are fine. It's just that the third I think was a bit more fun to play. The music score, the game mechanics, the graphics... This one is way more challenging and requires a lot of patience and skill. But again kudos(Kuros! lol) to you and hopefully we will see you playing the II and III. Thanks man!
Such an underrated series.
“Aaanndd klunk *game sound playing*” - Arcus 🤠 👢 👢
Nice speed run, Arcus! Thou hast def discovered gems, my man! 🤠
I loved this goofy-ass game back in the day. It's wild that you can get the ending faster by glitching back to stage 1 like that
I kept waiting for him to climb the outside castle wall to see how he did it. That was the part that always got me... and he just glitched right past it.
Such an odd game. When I was a kid I never remember making that past the first stage
if this is odd, then Iron Sword must have REALLY been crazy for you! heh
@@brandonsutton3750 yeah, that one is a trip
@@adrianshappymoments9343 yeah I wanted to like it since I liked this game so much, but I was just awful at iron sword. hahaha
The was one of the best all time rental games.
This music.......INSTANTLY brings me back!!!
That jump at 5:12 used to drive me nuts. would take me a good 5 minutes a lil kid
Me too
Dudes a pro at all the classics. Crazy
this game has confused me since the 80s.
I have no idea why you need the gems 💎 lol
@@AnnalinaSR21 gotta pay the doorman lol.
@@ithakra oh o.o
You need gems to bribe the knights guarding certain passages.
@@ithakragotta pay the troll toll to get the boy’s hole?
My god i havent seen this in like 35 years. Thank you Arcus
That's a substantial improvement on that PB. Nicely done
i subscribed because i remember how insane this game was as a kid... and he made it look like a joke..... while he hummed the "you're gonna die" music on the first stage.
+1
I remember this as a child and how the box art and game didn’t match up at all. I was so disappointed by the game.
Movie and video game posters were similar in that regard. Awesome artwork. The end product though? Not so much.
Same with the game Deadly Towers. The box art was so cool and the game was hot garbage
Not a Fabio fan, huh.
The game looks like trash! I mean he's killing it but it looks horrible to play.
My favorite video game. I played it in the 80s and still play it once in awhile in my late 40s.
Wow this takes me back!
This is one of my favorite games ever
Never saw stage 3 for this game. Owned it for a decade. Great vid.
Omg I loved this game! It was so difficult as a kid! Annnnd CLUNK
Difficult, but very easy. In a one sit of a day you could finished this ( after at dying 100000000 times in a row )
Still one of my favorite games of all time 💯
Great speedrun 🔥
This was my favorite nes game as a kid, loved figuring it out. At 7 yrs old I finally beat it. Good times.
I was so obsessed with this game as a kid and it was so hard for me, thanks for reminding me I need to give this a play through!
gg. This was one of my favorite games of my childhood :)
One of my all time favourite NES games growing up. Awesome! I live in Tucson myself brother.
I used to beat this game as a 7 year old kid back in like 1988. Took me a couple hours I think, not 15 minutes... lol.
I probably spent more than 15 minutes just waiting for an enemy to drop a purple potion so I could jump up that one ledge in the cave. 😆
We need Arcus at a GDQ. The world needs to see how awesome this man is, as a runner and as a human.
Pretty amazing stuff! I loved this game as a kid and I still love the music from it today! In fact, I think I’m gonna go home and make a couple ringtones for my phone! Thanks for the video!
Played through this a lot when it was new. It was kind of just a fun zen thing to do quick runs of, and mess around with. Now though, it seems weird AF. It's really an unusual game which is oddly fun to play despite making no sense at all.
Loved this game when I was a kid
yes, before there was Elden Ring, there was Wizards and Warriors! lol. I remember playing this on cartridge as a kid. When From Software first came out with Demon's Souls I immediately thought of this game and said to myself, "That's Wizards and Warriors!". It's crazy. That game was hard as hell, btw. Even for a 9 year old like me back then. When I think Knight in Shining armor I don't think Karate Kid 2 theme song. I think Wizards and Warriors.
The hat and the mustache add a lot to the experience.
I had a love/hate relationship with this game too lol it was so frustrating
I played this a few times at a friend's house, never got very far. I did end up buying the second one and eventually beating it. Pretty good game, wouldn't mind seeing it make a comeback. Congrats on the PB!
Beating the second is a real accomplishment for the NES--it was the least forgiving.
These games have 🔥 soundtracks
Check out ‘Vomitron’ - he has an amazing heavy metal cover of this and many other soundtracks from NES titles.
Wizards and warriors is such an underrated fun game.
One of my favorite games to rent back in the day
I love the understated smile hidden by the moustachio with a twinkle in the eyes when he sees he's headed towards a world record. It's always the same look. lol
That hoo ahh stage two for the feather was epic
Great video of my favorite game and streamer thank you Arcus
youtube: 'here, have Arcus running a game you haven't actually seen him run before' me: ooooh.
This was my favorite game as a kid.
One of my favorite video game music scores but the name “Arcus” still frightens me.
My all time favorite NES game.
I loved this game so Much.
I put so much time into this game as a kid
I’d play this game as a kid all the time (never got past the first stage) every time my health got low and that music started my mom would start going “You’re gonna die” in tune with the music. I can’t unhear it.
So in the first three levels, the knight has been to Hugh Hefner’s estate to rescue Lucinda (stripper name if ever I’ve heard one), saved Esmerelda from Quasimodo in Notre Dame and travelled to Middle Earth to rescue the most power elf this side of the undying lands?
Fair play to him.
This game was so simple but somehow so damn good. I cannot be the only one who used to stand close to those guard knights and mash attack to simulate a swordfight.
Dude i am glad i found you. When i seen you for the first time wearing your hat. I thought ??? Huh and i started watching all your videos. And the way you smashed wizards and warriors amazed me beyond belief. I have a twin and he was the video game player growing up at first while i was the sporty child but i got the best of both worlds outside playing sports all day and coming in at dark and me and my twin playing video games and his channel is "Nubs The Gamer" but anyway you threw me off and im thought he cant be that good at games but wow!!!! Your run was awesome. Where are you from if i may ask? I don't wanna be stereotypical and think Texas because of your get up lol see you in the next game buddy take care.
I love your content, and this is a great run. The only slight quibble is the "noise" in the background.
When you said, “We got the meat..”, the Go-Go’s immediately popped in my head 😊
I never did get passed the 3rd level on this one as a kid, fun seeing the whole thing!
One of the best NES games.
It's fun to see you actually get excited, you are so even keeled lol
I've got this in my recommendations and first thing I thought was "I'm not going to watch it, because AGDQ has the best atmosphere and they are actually talking while playing!". But after a while I decided to watch anyway and now I want to stay longer! Your short comments and pure gameplay is everything that I needed to watch at this rainy evening. Thank you for vids and... Giddyup!
I always wondered why they had you enter your name at the end when the info couldn't be saved after removing the game.
Love your channel so much. NES is the best
This guy is an absolute monster!
5:22 Out-of-bounds glitches are allowed?
One of my fav games
What did you do? this was for real?
I played this game for almost most 30 years, and never knew about these glitches ..... 😓
I still hum some of the tune s from this game to this day lol. Mainly the invincibility tune lol, so many times.
this was the first video game that my buddies and i stayed up all night trying to beat
This game was impossible for me as a kid. I thought I was going to beat it until I realized you had to beat all the end level elements on a row at the end.
Just curious, why don't you use the dagger of throwing to pick up gems more often? Doing so nets you two gems per each instead of the one you get by manually collecting it.
This is one of the only NES non-rpg games i ever beat as a kid!
i was never able to beat this game as a kid, nice run
My main problem with this game was that the "you're near dead" music was so epic that it actually made me want to be at low health. Maybe that's why I never knew there even were bosses until now.
Good times, good memories.
This is in my top 5 favorite games ever
Funny how many people in comments specifically remember renting this game. When I rented it as a kid, it was absolutely amazing! Playing it today it is pretty strange to say the least.
Ok, you can't just play one of my most nostalgic games from my childhood and think you can get away with it do you? Lol
This is fantastic...
Great! 👍 love this game 🎮 good job, again. Thanks for the nostalgic memories of good NES... 🤓 😎
I liked this game as a kid, but I don't think I ever really understood it or got very far. I liked the way things moved and the sound and music. I think I was able to do a little more on the sequels that had different suits of armor.
When do you stream? I would like to see more content. Gg
14:47 That's the most mighty HOOWAH I've ever heard.
Beat it back in the days, not so fast :D and the way was different. There was an enemy growing after a few hits.
He used a glitch to skip the castle and the growing skeleton and the final boss.