The Retro game that Haunted my Childhood
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- Опубликовано: 7 мар 2024
- This game has haunted me in the back of my mind forever since my childhood... WHERE DO YOU GO? Nothing makes sense in this game, you'll see. Milon's Secret Castle
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Random invisible blocks, hidden paths, one ways and bomb excavation.. Peak Mario Maker leveldesign from the Nes era!
The solution to the "random invisible blocks" can be purchased at 16:57. That item is Paint which colors the invisible blocks in the towers after revealing them. While not necessary, this does make the tower platforming less obnoxious.
I admire Poo's unwavering commitment to pronouncing "Milon" incorrectly 😂
One in a Milon, that poo.
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He learned this word as a child. It’s seared into his brain this way. I pronounce a lot of things in games wrong because I learned them as a child and no one ever corrected me.
so what is the right way? It's "me" like do-re-mi right?
Mill-on.
the real struggle that poo mentions but isn't often discussed is growing up with an nes or snes and literally just having 5 games, 4 of them were weird platformers like this, and then like a random golf game and that's literally all you played forever, often just the first 2-3 levels because you were a little kid and you sucked and these games were ridiculously hard
It wasn't a struggle though. We didn't knew any better
Nah, the real struggle, that Poo doesn't talk about, is having an NES but not being allowed to leave it plugged in because "it damages the TV" and not being allowed to plug it yourself because "you're a kid". I basically had one game session every couple months. Never even finished Super Mario Bros 😅
Rentals helped. A dollar to rent a game for about 30 hours, grab it Saturday morning and return it Sunday afternoon... and I found that was enough to beat most games twice. I played through a ton of games that way, and my parents thought it was a bargain to keep me occupied for an entire weekend for only a dollar.
@@ToyKeeper yep, best rental times. Got me some Gameboy, PS1 and N64 games from time to time.
When is was a teen there was a protection on the CD for the PC game me and my friend bought.
We often installed the games on both computers with 1 CD and we switched it when we pressed play. I remember when it said: "To be able to play, you need to insert the CD."
We always hit the "Agree/Okay" option and the game crashed. When we hit the "Cancel" button, the game would just start and we could swap the CD. Crazy times.
hell yeah, that era was awesome. I wish they still did game rentals...@@BlueFlash215
I've read the ending text "you bravely saved castle" as "you barely saved castle" which I find more appropriate xD
There was one store you entered once and couldn’t afford the item, a $40 tube of paint. That’s how you see the invisible blocks (which, of course, you have to shoot to reveal).
ohhh, so it actually was a tube of paint? I thought I was hallucinating...
This is an actual Metroidvania, I just realized. 🙌🏽
No it isn’t. Metroidvanias are fun.
@@michaelthompson2403 It's called a genre.
@@MizunoKetsuban It's called a joke.
@@andylymboNo it isn't. Jokes are funny.
Is it? Or just a confusing platformer? How often, in a "good" playthrough, are you back tracking because a skill or upgrade unlocked a new pathway?
1:08 This right here. You remember the Nintendo hotline? I called them on two occasions. One was to sort out how to progress in this game, and the thing that was preventing my progress was that I hadn't figured out that you need to push against this particular block for a set amount of time. Only with the hindsight of decades of gaming do I now possess the gamer instincts to try such a thing by default. It was too much for my child self in 1986.
We called it constantly 90-95
lol for ages I was searching for this game and.... the game literally found me.
At age 4 I had a bootleg famicom, with a cartridge with a bunch of games, I remember clearly this game, BUT, I never remembered the name. I moved to another place, for family issues, and the famicom was left behind. a lot of time later, I remembered the game and want to play it ,but without a name I never could-
and suddenly today this video appear in my youtube frontpage out of nowhere 30 year later, I think the game said "It's time come to me bi***)
so I want to thank you for uploading this. I will not see it for now, cuz I do not want to spoil myself, but I'll return (nobody cares but I will do it LOL)
When I was a kid I rented Milon's Castle, played it for a few hours, hated it, somehow lost it and had a 3 week late fee that costed more than the price of the game. Because of that, I wasn't able to rent any games for a few months till it was paid off. I still have no idea how I lost the cartridge. I hate that game still
Milon walked so La Mulana could run
This game should be called Kaizo's Secret Castle.
Anyone else see this first on Avgn like a decade ago 😂
That's exactly why to me it has to be pronounced 'mylon' and not 'millon' haha
Dude I remember this game from my childhood.
I absolutely hated but played it all the time trying to figure out what I had to do
More like Milon’s Shitty Asshole!
That's why I decided to play it for myself, but I actually ended up loving it and clearing everything without any outside help. I like this sense of mystery.
No.
I had the misfortune of actually playing it like three decades ago.
Bro, reading was important for games back then.... Specifically reading the Manual. The whole thing was you read the manual on your way home from the store so you knew how to play when u got home! Did you not get given a manual for this game as a kid??? That Would be brutal
Haha this was like a Game Center CX episode complete with forgetting to do the secret code to continue and losing all your progress. All we need are some dried squid snacks and a cold compress sticker for your forehead to make you GPB-Kacho
fun video, id love to see you do more retro play throughs!
A turbo controller was necessary for this game.
Agreed wholeheartedly!
This game was a nightmare of my childhood. Most games I have since gone back to and beaten hut this one remains on my list
I'm almost motivated to try again with Solomon's Key. I got one ending, but not the best ending. It's slower paced than Milon's Secret Castle, but I'd recommend it over Castle Quest XD.
One that haunted me as a kid was a game called Dr. Chaos. You start out in a house, a sidescrolling platformer, where there are monsters and doors. You can go inside doors and it turns into a first person point-and-click where you can check doors, closets, cupboards, and the like, to find items, ammo, and occasionally unleash minibosses. And that was it. There was like 3 doors you could reach, a Frankenstein monster and a Peter Lorre midget thing you could fight, and that was it. Game's done. Years later, thanks to walkthroughs online, I discovered there is one arbitrary cupboard in one arbitrary room you can actually go into and it's a portal that takes you to another dimension, where you find a radar that marks all the other secret portals to other dimensions, and the game turns into like a Metroidvania style game where you find new abilities to reach new areas. Which, of course, I never got to do since you can't enter any of the other dozen or so cupboards so I never bothered to try to enter every single one. And it's too bad because if the game wasn't so cryptic, I probably would have liked it as a kid.
Holy shit Milon’s Secret Castle!
I had this as a little kid.
But, um…
“Million”??
Milon.
MY-lawn.
It’s a regular ass English name
I know the feeling about a game haunting you. I had that with Nes Deadly Towers, I beat the crap out of that game years later.
I really like the concept of the hidden secretive cryptic nature of this game. I'd be totally fine making a game with that purpose in mind to create the magic discoveries that this game can create. It's honestly really special
It’s honestly a total pain in the ass
The La-Mulana games are like a good version of this, huge open metroidvania puzzle games about diving deep into ancient ruins and fighting bosses, acquiring items that help you navigate and solve stuff.
This is awesome. Congrats on beating it.
I absolutely recognized this game from Milon's Stupid Hat, lol.
I remember playing this as a kid at my grandmothers house (mid to late 2000s) and being wildly confused, not having any idea wtf anything was or how to progress. I'd get stuck constantly and tbh idk if i ever got to the first boss.
Another game i remember playing but not getting far in was Ghost Lion, what wild cartridge art.
There is one level you can farm money in. Just leave the level and enter it again and the money will be back. I forget which door but I'm pretty sure it is on the second or third floor of the castle.
Wow! I played this growing up as well, and it is amazing to see it finished!
People used to say Willow was cryptic, but this game is insane. You'll literally have no idea what to do or where to go lol.
not to mention game was horribly translated. BY the fact translators needed to speed up to make it.
My across the street neighbor had this game, and she and her little sister couldn't figure out how to play it, so I tried it. Once I got it figured out, a bunch of us kids were over playing it, and beat it. I'm 50 now, and see her once in a while, and the memories of playing MSC is the first thing we mention. This game is pretty much our biggest friendship connection.
My childhood game was Commander Keen 1. We got the first game somehow and my mom never let me get the others. I've always wanted to play all of them.
I feel you on this game. Out of any games made for the nes, this is the one I still plan on reviewing as the unbeatable beatable game. There are other games with tougher mechanics but they are beatable. This game you had to be the luckiest kid to be able to beat this.
I love this game. Now, I had a dad and an aunt who did most of the screwing about and discovering the secrets while I watched, so I didn't feel the frustration in the early levels. The challenge I couldn't get past as a kid was just the first boss, because there's no post-hit invincibility.
This and Legacy of the Wizard (NES) were two games I played all the time from my childhood that made absolutely no platforming sense whatsoever.
Reminds me of Legacy of the Wizard, which was my equivelant game that haunted me...
27:53 ♂Milon's ♂Secret ♂BDSM♂ Castle ♂Of♂ Infernal♂ Torture ♂
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The NES game from my childhood like this is definitely Startropics. I went to try it once as an adult thinking it would be fairly easy now... Nope, that game is brutal, and I have no idea how I even got as far into it as I did as a kid.
Startropics is the one where you need to dip the physical instruction book in water to get the code for the submarine... I don't suppose child you got further than adult you because they had the code?
(PS: Startropics 2 is the way better game imo)
No, that password is 747, like the passenger aircraft, and is forever buried somewhere in my memory. I didn't get any further because the game just gets really hard and the level design basically hates you.
@@700718756 Yes, you did have to dunk one page of the instruction manual in water for the code. I downloaded StarTropics on Wii's store; there was a button you could press to get the code on one of the pages, so you could still get the full StarTropics experience.
It's so funny that of all the games played in the 24 hours, this is the game Poo got the golden kappa hype train during, and it was because of the Paco Gutierrez copypasta 😂
Variety! This is what im here for, even though its rare and is less popular.
I’m sorry I missed this live because this is probably in my top 10 favorite videos you’ve ever uploaded. Job well done, sir.
Man...I remember renting this for the weekend with no background, context, manual....pure torture. games like these feel so claustrophobic
My dad bought us that game when we were little from the thrift store because we couldn’t afford full price NES games with Rush N’ Attack. We explored every block for the band level, hidden levels and Hudson bees. We never made it to the end normally, the only way we ever beat this game was by moving the cartridge slightly to the right cuz our system was sensitive and we glitch the entire thing to the top to the final level and beat the final boss 😭
I still have the original cart for my NES and this used to be a game we rented regularly. Never made it passed the 2nd floor 😂. When I finally sat down a few years back and used a guide, it absolutely blew my mind when I saw some of the most obscure bullshit you needed to do in the final areas. Screen transitions that are different if you walk vs jump into the edge of the room, and even fake final bosses 😂. This game was made for Carl before Carl was even born
Wow congratulations! I myself couldn't get much farther than the Well as a kid (which terrified me) but I picked it back up in my mid-20s and finished it once. Never again!
I knew a Crystal once. I don't think she had mysterious power.
Also my most obscure and difficult childhood game!!
That game WAS TOUGH, glad to see you could beat it!!
What's funny is my first exposure to this game was its Game Boy port (Younger me wasn't even aware of the NES version.). Room layouts are exactly the same, but I must say the Game Boy port seemed like the more complete version with more music. That version was much easier, too.
Part of me regrets trading that game away. I could have probably speedran that version if I stuck to it.
Arino-kacho: First continue fail?
Goonies.
Always reached a point where I'm just lost and have no clue what to do. Always ended up hitting that guy who wouldn't help you anymore because you hit him.
I remember renting this from the drug store all the time as a kid.
I owned it, I only just recently as a 30 year old adult finished the first area 😂
This haunted me too, but in a different way. I played it at a friend's house a few times and fell in love but didn't know the name of the game. I then spent 10 years trying to figure out what game it was, noone I met had a clue what game I was describing.
You laid the SMACKDOWN on this game! Let’s gooo, closure!!
I'm sorry I missed the live session. Enjoyed watching this playthrough!
You know that Poo is really enjoying a game when he "aaaaaaaaah".
Umbrellas increase the number of bubbles you can fire at one time, up to a maximum of 3 on screen at once.
This was such a trippy journey, thank you for putting it on RUclips! 😂
I've beaten the boss in the well in this game, and then could never progress further.
The well level isn't supposed to be that hard -- there is a fireproof vest you can get somewhere in the 2nd level that prevents all the fire damage. It's not necessary, but it does make the well level go from nearly impossible to pretty tame.
Spent a whole Saturday as a kid playing this game and making it to the final boss. Was a hiy away from winning when i got killed. Mom calls me for dinner (i started this at 6 AM) and i forgot to hold up or right or whatever when starting to continue my run. 12 hours of progress gone and another hour plus of me wailing my eyes out cause i messed up. Have never played it since yet still think its a great game.
My brother and I could NEVER figure this game out. I'm so happy you're tackling this one
Man, Milon's Secret Castle was ROUGH. I can't even remember how many hours I sunk into beating it back then. The absolutely bizarre way some of the secret areas were unlocked.... oof. The music is indelibly burned into my brain now and still gets stuck in my head decades later.
Yep this was my game too! Thank you for finally bringing my childhood to a close
Poo looks like he was going thru several existential crises at once during this
This was one of my favorite games growing up, even though I couldn't get passed the first or second level.
21:38 those are like the steel wool pads people use for smoking crack
Really good video. Poo finishing obscure Nintendo games is a vibe I could get used to ngl
Its a lot better when you understand many games from that era let you continue on a game over by pressing left and start.
I was soft locked in this game for so long thanks to not knowing where that first hidden shop is
The sense of wonder as poo bear discovers the “secret “ part of the castle 😜
love that game. it doesnt really softlock you it is just puzzles and adventure. amazing design.
Apparently, the only thing harder than beating Milon's Secret Castle is pronouncing it.
I loved this game! Never beat it until i got the gameboy version with save states as an adult.
My favorite thing about the game is the quirky way those bossfights work. There's a bit of a neat rhythm to it. Other than that, I needed a guide to get through this, and I don't regret that decision.
And now it's stuck in the Konami vault with the rest of the Hudson IPs that aren't Bomberman.
Thank you for letting me also see the endong to the game that I could never beat.
I always pronounced it My lon so hearing you pronounce it mil lon was odd.
That being said, great job!
So glad to finally see the ending.
It is amazing how accurately Poos experience with this game exactly describes my experience as a kid with this game. An incredibly fun yet frustrating game.
I love this game, had it when I was little, have it in the living room right now
i remember playing this at a kiosk in a mall when u was a kid. whenever my parents shopped at some of the stores near the kiosk my bro and i would hang out at the kiosk and check out games we'd heard of in Nintendo power and i remember just not getting this game at all, yet i always tried it wanting to see if i could figure anything out XD
This game brings back fond but frustrating memories.. My older brother actually wrote Nintendo Power asking where to find the saw and they printed it!
This reminds me of so many NES games from my childhood and never beating them, only to watch how its finished here on youtube 25 years later. I did the same with a game called Argon. I played and replayed that game. Eventually I got an emulator and did save states until I beat the game. Its neat to go and finish and ancient game you've never seen very far into. Milon's Secret Castle was one of those games I rented, but of course got nowhere. I don't think I even beat the first boss. A good friend of mine has the game for his NES and two grown men in our 30's would sit down and try and figure it out together. Something was wrong with his cartridge and it would always freeze at some point. This is one of those games I never finished or have never seen anyone finish it until now.
Something about this game has such an appealing pull to it. I don't know. Its just somehow fun despite being hard and so randomly cryptic. Figuring out things, finding secrets, breaking blocks, and going through doors, finding/buying new items to progress, just pulls you in and you just keep playing. The setting is also really neat and the music is really fitting.
Some gauntlet later levels had this feel. I had both back then.
Weren't many games I beat as a kid, including Blaster Master.
Wrath of the Black Manta was an easy win by abusing invisibility, Iron Sword was pretty hard for kid me but teen me walked all over it, Strider I beat the final boss abusing the plasma shot (No clue how I ever passed the wall jump parts, they really are that difficult),cleared Double Dragon 3 abusing the two player trick of killing player 2 and leeching their lives and weapons, finished Mike Tysons Punchout in a single run without passwords or losses, and I finished Double Dragon 1 after college days.
Honestly probably couldn do any of them today, tried Punchout on an emulator and struggled up to Soda Drunkowski and the second Bald Bull.
I've never played this but it immediately smells like Mickey Mousecapade to me! Sounds, hidden blocks, odd physics.
We 'beat' it by using the NES Advantage 'slo-mo' feature back in the day.
Oh man, I just realized I had this game as a kid. I was trying to remember what it was called for years but I didn't think it was this one.. that outside castle area is what I remember... I never went anywhere in it lol
Oh my god this game _is_ ridiculous and frustrating. I don't remember where/when I played it(is it on the Switch NES thing?) but I do remember feeling a bit lost and confused, with little desire to keep going.
Actually, Fester's Quest(or whatever it was called) was one from my childhood that I would rent now and then, and just wasn't sure how to proceed, and always ended up dying. I also didn't even know what all the different item drops were in the first place.
The dragons look like some of the drawings I've seen of the Jersey Devil
For me, this childhood incomplete game was both the original Metroid and Zelda II until I recently beat them in Switch NES emulator. Shamefully, I still needed save states in Metroid. That game is just so devastating when you die and have to manually refill missiles and energy.
spent enough time on this game as a kid that as soon as i saw thumbnail i could hear the music
I loved the insane unfairness of this game so much, I think it became a part of me.
i also had this game as a child. Can't tell you how many times I also quit on the second level... still never beat it haha
Yeah, this and LotW are the two that haunt me from my NES days.
Watching this makes me feel like I’m having a fever dream, 10/10
I remember grabbing this game at K-Mart brand new for stupid cheap. My siblings and I spotted it at the checkout counter like they were desperate to get rid of it. We're taking during the NES's hay day, too, so that should have been a sign indicating how bad it was.
Still, my siblings and I played the shit out of this game. The only problem was that the game didn't have memory for saves (common in those days) or a password system (not very common) so to keep from losing our progress, we just never turned off the NES. I'm surprised our system didn't set itself on fire because we did not let it sleep for like an entire month.
Eventually, though, we beat the damn game and got to experience its thoroughly underwhelming ending. I think as kids in the 80's we had a higher capacity to endure bullshit because we had nothing better to do while waiting for the cable company to air another free preview the Disney Channel.
MILLIONS Secret Castle? it's either MEYE-lon, or Mii-lon. but not MILLION LOL
I feel like this music will be stuck in my head for the rest of my life
"We need money" - ̶T̶r̶u̶m̶p̶, Milon, probably.
So proud of you
I owned this game growing up and I got pretty far in it, but I also have never beaten it.
I beat TMNT decades ago by farming the fan blades, maybe they are called scrolls, I forget
Well, if you don't know to hold left and press start when you die it's not strange that you find this game difficult.
It's like playing the original Zelda and not know that there's a continue option.