Abadox - Body HORROR on the NES! | Cannot be Tamed
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- Опубликовано: 1 фев 2025
- Today I'm reviewing a shoot'em up that has you travelling through the body of a parasite that has swallowed your planet whole. Abadox!
#NES #shmup #Abadox
Abadox was played on a Retron5 and recorded on a AVerMedia Live Gamer Portable 2 Plus. Music comes from the game soundtrack.
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I saw this in an old Nintendo power magazine when I was a child and was fascinated by its imagery. Didn't play it till 2018.
2:09 Based Pam cutting the “actually” crowd off at the pass
I think this falls into the obscure category of “games I bought as a kid because I liked the title font”
That title was, until now, all that I had seen of the game in magazines etc. It looks worth a play, if only for the gruesome 8-bit visual motifs.
CSGraves 🦈
Bony plus Bloody yah LOL
Ultima Exodus. I liked the cover art
I had that game growing up, i thought it was hard as hell. I loved it so much! I think i got the game when i was about 7 or 8. I stayed up till like 3am playing it with all the lights off. My dad came in the room to tell me to go to bed. I jumped about 3 foot in the air and my dad thought it was the funniest thing he ever seen.
lol
@@Cannotbetamed1 Marty McFly: Wait a minute. Wait a minute, Doc. Ah... Are you telling me that you built a time machine... out of a DeLorean?
Dr. Emmett Brown: The way I see it, if you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some *style?*
Huge back to the future fan 🙃
Nick you want hard try ghosts n goblins for nes only one I know who beat it was avgn ☻
Never heard of this, I love it when Pam talks about the more obscure retro games!
never realized how obscure this was, was a childhood favorite shooter.
if you are a retro gamer you know this game since past 20years lol
@Bal Del It was indeed obscure, it was actually known as Obscurbadox on the streets when it came out.
Wild. I love Lifeforce so I have to check this one out.
it couldnt of been that obscure dude it had a commercial and advertisement in game magazines.
Natsume has such a stellar reputation for some amazing 8-bit and 16-bit games
The music is seared into my brain on account of all the time spent trying to beat this game.
Good thing the music is decent
The music sounds like it came from a Konami game including the chime when you pause the game.
Cannot be Tamed agreed 🎥
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Great review in detail, as always! Thanks! Your channel brings back memories of many NES games that I played in my childhood that I had forgotten about, until seeing them again in your videos :-)
I'd always seen ads for this on the backs of comic covers, always wondered what it looked like in action. Glad to see it's as rad as it is.
Only wished they made a SNES version. That would have rocked with all the effects they could have done.
Imagine if it was on Sega... oor
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I got this game with my NES for Christmas as a kid. This was one HARD f'n game.
NES Advantage! Rapid fire get you one! I had one back in the day! Around 89-90!
I've been thinking about writing a fanfic for this...the horror Nazaru feels, knowing he and Maria are two of the last Abadoxians, along with a small ship full we see in the start sequence. As well as knowing the people, planet, animals, and everything he once knew, now only exists as part of the monster. Naz is out for revenge...as well as to rescue.
I wonder if this game is what happens when a Thing (from John Carpenter) takes over an entire planet and goes traveling.
This is the most unique gaming channel I’ve ever seen. You have a different yet simple way of doings things. I have become a big fan!
Thank you so much
I remember this one! My mom had a real problem with it. But my dad enjoyed watching me play it. He was very into horror and sci-fi. Great video once again!
Thanks!
I loved renting this game when I saw the advertisement for this by Milton Bradley as a kid.
( I also didn't know at the time that Milton Bradley were a subsidiary of Hasbro Inc for the distributed License of the U.S. release. )
It's a real fun game! If you play this on the NES system try to have a rapid fire controller. It definitely helps.
Thanks again for the video Pam.
I like the cool illustration on the wall behind you.
The music in the first 3 levels is insanely nostalgic for me it was the shooter i grew up on im an only child and lived in the country and had no siblings or friends i have tried to beat this game 100’s if not 1000’s of times as a young kid i could only beat the first three stages but as an adult i once got to the fourth stage. I feel like not very many people talk about this one and everyone compares it to salamander/life force but the music is insanely nostalgic make me a very happy boy to know people have played this and talk about it thanks pam for spreading the word
This is probably my favorite shooter for NES. I especially like the vibrant, saturated color palette that you rarely see on NES
Now this is a game that resonates with the era it was made in, and one that I remember fondly. The 80s was renowned for body horror. In both horror movies and childrens toys. I'm surprised more NES games didn't cash in on this trend.
Also, the shirt matches the theme quite brilliantly.
I actually managed to beat this one way back in the day when I rented it or borrowed it from a friend or something. The first game to give me blisters on my thumb from mashing.
Dan Pantzig! Same here I beat it in 1991 I was 7 took me 4 hours😇
This is why the NES Advantage was developed ;)
Love Abadox. No one ever thinks of it so it's nice to see a video about it. Maybe not a forgotten "gem" per se but definitely nails the forgotten bit.
Looks great. I’m not the best at shooters but love watching videos on them. They have such amazing music and production values. I wish I was better at them they would be my favorite genre for sure.
This was actually one of the first NES game I ever read about, via the back of an Archie digest in 1989 with MUCH cooler artwork than the cartridge's and the tagline *"Do you have the stomach to battle in the belly of the beast?"*
The tv commercial for it is pretty intense as well
I got boxes of those late 80s Archie's digests I collected.
Great review!
When I was a kid, my great grandmother bought this for me. I don't have the slightest idea how she picked it out, but I've always had a soft spot for it, even though it's a bit flawed. For the finicky orbiting shields i usually kept them at their closest setting, but I never really figured out the best use.
Nobody I knew growing up ever had this, so it was always one of fun games to show off and it's great to see others discovering it!
It’s always funny what games family members pick out as gifts.
Grew up with this one but never beat it. Thank you for showing me the ending!
No problem
I popped for the Guardian Legend shout. Great review!
Thank you
Pam, my Sunday morning coffee goes well with your retro reviews.
That’s good to hear
Abadox is one of my best NES games in my collection. Thanks for showing it, i want to start playing it again just by looking at it
Cool video. I miss this game. I played it drunk a few months ago with a friend. I was worse at it than when I was a kid. Took a lot of tries to kill the skeleton on the skeleton dog in level 1. Thanks for the nostalgia.
I had heard of this game back in the day and wondered how good it was. Thanks for showing me game play, Pam!!
You’re welcome
If you get a NES multi-tap, either the Fourscore or the Satellite, you can use the turbo for auto-fire.
I got the Satellite. Thanks for the suggestion👌
Aren't there also a myriad of third party controllers with turbo switches?
Abadox is so nostalgic for me. When I was a kid my dad beat Abadox by pausing the game, and unplugging it from the TV between sessions. I remember it taking him days I think. When you beat the game you get a free play through where you cant die. As soon as he had spent all this time beating the game I picked up the controller, and breezed through every level untouched. Not understanding what had happened my family would for years say that I one shotted Abadox right on the heals of my dads big triumph. I didnt learn the truth myself until many years later when I played through abadox on an emulator....
Hi Pam, man some of these games I never heard of! You’re awesome!
Its crazy that in all my time playing the NES, Pam still finds games i've never even heard of!
Amazing to find this review! I was actually on the Dev team for Abadox! it was a real joy working on this title. I gotta tell you though contrary to your statement, the reason auto fire was not implemented was indeed a technical limitation. We had exactly 257kb to work with and the final line of code to enable autofire brought us over the limit. We spent months trying to refine the code however the programming of Abadoz was already so elegant and perfect that this proved an impossible task. Every 5 years the old dev team gets together to reminisce about the old days and we always end up at the autofire discussion. It goes without saying that Abadox is probably the perfect game (on any system) but what if it had autofire? What if? So many sleepless nights asking myself this question over and over.
That's so cool, thanks for the information!
My grandparents bought this game for me back in 91, it was my first game that made me feel creepy and eerie... but man... once i beat it and the final music you hear in the game sounds amazing, probably the best NES ending game music next to metroid...
The first and third boss used to really horrify and gross me out as a kid. Definitely a worthy horror shooter addition in the vein of Salamander and R-Type and X-Multiply.
I love how that the NES was home to both Friday the 13th and Nightmare on elm street, and yet this obscure shooter out spooks and out grosses both of them with ease! Looks really fun!
Hi Pam, awesome wee game, looks amazing and looks like it plays great. Nice graphics and colours. Sweet review.😎👍
Thanks!
It's a classic to me. The design, the switching up of styles, the weapons, etc all make it an outstanding game for the nes. Great review!
Thank you
I can always rely on Pam to teach me about games I never played. Back then, my game purchases were rare enough that there were a lot of games that passed me by. I don't think I would have picked this one up at the time anyway, but I'm glad to learn about it now!
It's fun to learn about the vast NES library now. I only have maybe a dozen games growing up plus the occasional rental or game I played at a friend's house.
Hi P!!! Your videos are fantastic. But the last ones were the best!!! Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
Hello and thanks!
I remember getting this game along with TMNT2, I eventually enjoyed Abadox once I got around to it months later.
Thanks for the video. I never heard of this NES game before today. As a fan of Lifeforce, I may have to fire this one up and check it out.
Her voice is so soothing, I feel like someone dosed me. Never beat this as a kid. Very fun.
Love all these nes-reviews you've been doing lately! :)
Glad you like them!
The artwork is epic today love it, not just your eyes either. This looks like the life experience of a white blood cell.
I once rented this game and managed to finish it, I found it very very difficult, the grotesque appearance of the sets impressed me a lot.
I remember loving this game as a kid. Wow! So much nostalgia!
I played this as a kid (I was born in 1985 so probably it was likely a couple years after the release, 91-92ish). One of my older brother's friends brought it over a few times. I could never remember the name of it and I searched for years! I thought it was so weird and cool
When I think of this game, I can't help but imagine 80s me playing this game and somehow pretending that I'm playing the video game adaptation of the movie Innerspace.
Thx for the unique video game selection!
This was a game I played all the time when I was a kid. I sucked at it, never came close to beating it but still played t all the time anyway.
Great video!!
Thanks!
I've never heard of this game but it looks great. Definitely a game I would buy.
One of my favorite things about this game is that there isn't really any actual blood in the game except for the one part where you go through a stream of giant blood vessels. You're right about the bosses too - it's weird how the minibosses are harder the actual bosses.
That cover logo has been burned into my brain since I was a kid! Gore Rules!
It’s a cool logo
I only remember this game for getting major coverage in Nintendo Power. Maybe they even did a 2 or 3 parter for it? It felt like they were talking about it forever, though back when I was 11 yrs old, 3 months of issues talking about a thing would have certainly been perceived as "forever." (and rightfully representing nearly 2% of my total self-aware life to that point).
Wow I saw that Milton Bradley logo on the cartridge. I can't believe they published something this gory.
I loved this game when I was a kid. Great video.
Thanks!
I've just beat it yesterday, the game is pretty brutal to say the least.
This game I thought looked pretty good! Look at all of the eyeballs! This game has eyeballitis xD
Nastume was the same company that made Gundam: Battle Assault for the PS1, that's how I know them :p
I'm not sure if I would get this if I ever had my own NES but, it certainly looked the part :) Great review Pam!
Thanks!
Had this one as a kid, the visuals and music really made an impression.
I love shooters! I’ll be looking for this one in the wild. Thanks for the video!
No problem!
I have good memories of renting this game in 1990 and buying a bag of sour powers! That was my Friday night! Those were the glory days!
Good times
Did I spot a Milton Bradley logo on the cartirdge briefly?
Never heard of this game. I'd love to try it if I ever came across it.
The box art is also amazing!
Thank you for bringing this game back into the light!
Yeah MB was the publisher. It had regular tv commercials with all their other toys during kids cartoons etc
No problem!
Never seen or even heard of this game so now i will check it out. Thanks for educating me :)
Glad to be of help
"It's worth a play if you like shoot 'em ups or gross things" . . . I . .. like gore. Ngl this actually looked kinda fun. I liked the look of it. "NES" games kinda scare me with how difficult they are but... *maybe* I'll give it a go. If it ever comes to the Switch. Excellent coverage as usual Pam! I love that you play games that I likely would never touch and certainly never heard of!
Thanks! I hope they speed up the frequency at which they add the old games to Switch. A stick instead of a d-pad could probably do wonders for the controls of this game.
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You should try this with the NES Advantage stick in a future video, Pam...
Thanks Ms Untamed - One of my old comics has an ad for this game and it's nostalgic for me looking at its screenshots, I remember wondering as a kid, what the game would be like, it looked creepy and awesome. This would actually be the first time I've finally got to see what the game is really like (I think I may have fired it up on an emulator some years ago and died instantly XD). So I liked experiencing it through your video review. I feel like if I got to play it back then it would've lived up to my expectations.
No problem, glad you enjoyed the video
I remember this game when I was a kid, definitely creeped me out but I loved games like these.
I remember when this game came out (really showing my age) if that's you playing then nice work. Playing a shmup with the nes d pad is not easy!
Yes, it's me playing, who else would it be?
Yay! I'm so happy you found a copy and you liked it enough to review it! Your criticisms are very valid. I like the game a lot for it's body horror, monsters, and bosses.._even if the bosses and mid-bosses have glaring blind spots you can exploit. Also the blind spot I used to defeat the robot boss was a different one that you used! It has two blind spots apparently! Mine was lower left by the entrance of the boss room. If you have the tri-shot or star-shot you can kill it diagonally without moving. Star-shot is better though. I'm still a big fan of it even with it's problems. It's also funny that the composer ripped off his own work from Contra as he reused parts of it here! Thanks Pam, this review was great and fair!
Thanks for recommending the game! On the robot boss I initially found a safe spot near the room entrance then the head came off and flew right into me.
@@Cannotbetamed1 You're so welcome! I'm glad you had fun with it even without a rapid fire. It could've used one haha. Okay, I know what happened with the robot boss. I had the Star shot and I was shooting it as fast as I could and I killed it before the head came off! It's tricky but possible. Otherwise the head will kill you. I forgot about that! You're other blind spot looked easier anyway:)
I had this one as a kid and I don't recall making it too far into this game, I don't think I ever beat it. I re-collected it as an adult to try it again and it seemed even harder to me! It's a shame that the difficulty is so broken because aesthetically and thematically there's a really, really cool game here.
Framerate drops will definitely make me scream at the screen. I've never heard of this game. Glad its marked at reasonable price.
Pam has a voice so smooth and calm she cound fire someone and get a thanks in return.
This is one of my favorite games! I keep hoping it'll get a sequel or at least a re-release one of these days.
When the tubo-pad came out it made these games a lot less strenuous, eventually it became obsolete due to auto-fire in games, man I'm old!
I liked this when i was little because I loved Life Force, the idea of a space monster capable of swallowing a planet was just fascinating to me.
Never could get through without using the konami code though which basically enabled no clip.
I don’t think I could be mentally prepared for a HD remaster of this game.
i remember renting this game as kid and not being able get pass the first boss. but i still enjoyed renting it and the commercial for was awesome.
Shoutouts to Uncle Derek and producer Grace of Stop Skeletons From Fighting!
Looks like an awesome shooter love the horror element, Thanks for sharing 👍
No problem
I love this game! And your channel
Thanks!
That ending section is taking me back to my nightmares of the third stage in Battle Toads in Battlemaniacs. I HATED that bike section SO much because it was so unfair. Come to think of it, the aesthetic of that stage was also body horror.
I've never heard of Abadox before watching this video and though I'll probably never play it myself, I appreciated the detail you put into the review.
Thanks!
I remember seeing this one on the stores when I was a child. Never liked the cover art so I never asked my parents for this one! Now I want to play it so badly! ❤️🙈
Hi beautiful Pam ;-) Nice to watching you on another video of NES Shoot'em ups :-D ;-)
First of all I will say that this game was one that I saw several times in flea markets in cheap prices but because of the cover never got interested in it as much as I must. Right now it's anymore a common game in my country, but some day I will buy it.
In second place, this is the first time I watch a video about the game (soundtracks videos doesn't count, hahaha) because didn't want to spoil me until playing it by myself and since Pam reviewed it, felt that this was the best occasion I could have had for knowing about it. O_O XP
And my opinion is that this is a good game that deserved another better company for its development and release (like Konami with the experience of Life Force/Salamander), at least for the cover, that makes not justice to the game, but principally deserved an important amount of polishing by Natsume in the gameplay, hit detection, soundtrack, etc., for making of it one of the best shoot'em-ups on the console.
Great review as always! And as with most NES games I really like the looks of it
Thanks!
It's been a long time but I do remember this one, it'd be cool to see a modern day update to this game.
Very good detailed 👍 review,looks cool but hard,but still I want to play it,and also like your t-shirt Pam🤗
Thanks!
OMG NO ONE TALKS ABOUT THIS GAME!!! I played the hell out of it back and forth. Subscribed. It's not a Gradius or Zero Wing so it doesn't get a lot of attention.
Wow I hate using the term "hidden gem". But this one looks incredible and I've seen this cover numerous times in the past. Thank you, I will definitly be picking this one up!!!
Definitely some of the coolest enemy designs on the NES.
I love your voice. So calming for some reason.
Thanks
I remember renting this game as a kid and loving it!
I loved that game, so many memories. I bought a turbo controller to play it. A true NES classic
Abadox sure is a weird one. Great review and summary! Thanks, Pam!
Glad you liked it!
Ah yes, I rented this back in the day knowing nothing but being delightfully surprised, I really enjoyed it.
A Christina Ricci look alike reviews one of my fav NES games. Very detailed review! Had no idea the same guy who did the sound in Contra was involved. Explains why it's so Konami like including that pause jingle lol
Great review Pam!
Thanks
@@Cannotbetamed1 Your welcome!
First 2 NES games I bought as a kid were Metroid and Abodox. It had a great TV spot. Awesome game
The commercial is pretty funny