Monster Party (NES) Playthrough
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2022
- A playthrough of Bandai's 1989 action-platformer for the NES, Monster Party.
Monster Party is a US-exclusive, Halloween-friendly platformer created by Human Entertainment, the company that brought us stuff like the Clock Tower and Fire Pro Wrestling series. It's a run-of-the-mill but emminently likeable action game packed with popular horror figures, memorable non sequiturs, and a whole lot more blood than you'd expect too see in a game approved by Nintendo.
And it's really weird. Like, inexplicably so.
Here's the basic story: Mark, a young boy, is walking home from a ball game carrying his bat. Mark's eyes suddenly become "moist" at the sight of Bert, a beautiful monster who approaches the boy, plies him with praise, and then "asks" him for a "favor."
Bert was drawn to Mark's bat, you see. Monsters are running amok in the "dark world," and Mark's Louisville Slugger strikes Bert as the perfect weapon for the battle.
Mark is reluctant and scared, but when he voices his concerns, Bert promises the boy companionship and quickly leads him away by the hand. A short while later, Bert spasms as he forcibly becomes one with the child, and lo! "This is how Mark's adventure began!"
That's seriously the plotline. All I did was paraphrase the intro cutscene. Almost enough to make your eye twitch, innit?
Distasteful allegorical interpretations aside, Monster Party is a game that has to be seen to believed.
Each level has three bosses to hunt down in order to win a key that unlocks the door to the next level, and these guys are the runaway stars of the show. You get to fight Castlevania favorites like Medusa and Death, Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors reimagined as a pitcher plant, bouncing fried oden, an outline of a mummy whose legs are asleep, and a guy that reminds me of the camouflaged stalker from the movie When a Stranger Calls Back, among many others.
It's an awesome cast of characters, and their personalities are what elevate Monster Party above the morass of forgotten C-list platformers on the NES. As a means to an end, the gameplay is fine, the graphics are fine, and the sound is fine, but you don't play Monster Party for those things. (Even though I still love the way the background changes in the first stage and you get attacked by dogs with Uncle Fester heads!) It's memorable and fun because it's utterly bonkers... and it's really nice to have a reminder that not all obscure, oddball NES titles are crippled by jank.
(But man, that story is disturbing!)
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"Sorry. I'm dead."
Best boss fight ever.
Take a close look! It's not a dead spider, but a dead dinosaur lol.
"Please don't pick on me."
I can't make promises.
Hell when I had this as a kid back in 1991 it took me forever to realize you’re just supposed to watch the zombies dance. I kept hitting them.
"Sorry, I'm dead." Classic.
This game is one of my guilty pleasures of the NES. Still have my original copy, and I used to replay it pretty regularly as a kid when I didn't know what else to play. Just a fun little romp through a horror-esque game. Dr. Chaos was my first real horror-themed video game, but Monster Party ended up being my favorite on the console.
EDIT: Dancing Zombies of Stage 5 will never get old.
Hey man, long time no see! This is an awesome game. I wish I had it; I gotta buy it someday soon.
@@rjcupid Hey hey! Yeah, it is a pretty fun game. Not really very replayable unless you try to do challenge runs. But the different bosses are great, especially when you look into their origins (and the origins of this game).
I thought getting original hardware for it was on the expensive side though. I could be wrong, though, since I don't keep up with prices; I was crushed when I found out how much a full boxed copy of Earthbound goes for some time ago, since I've had a copy on release in the mid-90s (though I lost the box). Hence, I don't keep up with it anymore. Too old to keep disappointing myself for not having taken better care of my game boxes and materials.
Hindsight is 20/20 with keeping your collectibles in perfect condition, selling things/throwing them out back in the day - how could you have known they would become valuable? Don’t beat yourself up over it! Monster Party is one of those titles that is hard to find, but for some reason it is not valuable: the asking price seems to be in the $30-40 range on eBay (Canadian dollars). I threw away/donated entire toy and video game collections in the 90’s that are crazy rare/valuable now, but we can’t dwell on that. Gotta look forward to hopefully finding some new adventures in our lives. Anyways, have a good night.
OH BOY! MARK SOUP!
"You know that's an odd thing for him to say when Mark is NOT on the f*cking screen!" ~ Irate Gamer
"Alright! This is getting hot!"
4:10 is hilarious. The monster right before it looks like Ridley.
The occult shelf?
It has all the evidence that it's a poorly-translated Japanese game, and yet it wasn't even released in Japan. Very strange, indeed
It's such a bizarre and memorable game, and one of the most overlooked games for any system. It needs a well made high fan fidelity remake.
One of my favorite NES games as a kid growing up.
I love just how "shit gets real" the moment you pass by the happy cactus in the first level....also, that ending. Goddamn it Bert, that shit was NIGHTMARE FUEL!
My favorite part is how the intro screen got censored, but skeletons sitting around in a pool of 'red ooze' was still okay.
Not to mention those naked lower halves poking out from the ground which you can spank with your bat.
This game is like Altered Beast and Castlevania had a son!
Weird how this never had a proper Japanese release, but there is a prototype of the Japanese version, and it seems that the US release was edited before release to change things to be less violent and to remove copyrighted material (lots with the latter).
So was there an unedited version of this game? If so, for what system?
There is a romhack that restores all of that.
@@starboy5177 NES. You can find the prototype ROM for Monster Party online. The original bosses are classic movie monsters, from what I remember... they were taken out & replaced with weird stuff to avoid potential litigation.
*_"Sorry, I'm dead."_*
The soundtrack is giving me ''Friday night after school'' vibes
3rd stage is my favorite. I remember having a nightmare that these jeans entered my room and yes i know jeans are level 6
Such a great game to go back to once in a while!
“Catch My Javelin!”. This is a “sneaky rare” game from a collecting standpoint. I never saw this game in person in my collecting days. I have the feeling that people who bought it kept it because it was so original and different. You don’t get much more wacky than this on the NES. Reminds me a bit of the atmosphere of Decap Attack mixed with Goonies 2, Kid Chameleon, Legendary Wings, and sprinkled with a bit of Splatterhouse. The initial ending is super morbid and then it becomes a happy ending - these developers had quite the dark sense of humour!
*Spoilers for Monster Party, an NES game that isn't that great but has a weirdly good ending and is also very entertaining*
the implication of the box being given by Bert as a trap to get Mark for whatever reason makes Bert a heck of a lot more malicious-seeming. and then after the dream, Bert being at the front door saying "wanna do it again?" really creeps me out after the fact that we LITERALLY SAW MARK MELT in this "dream," which brings up so many questions. Is Bert evil? Did he set up this whole monster problem? Is Mark, IDK, being cloned? is there an Inception thing going on here, where Mark is having dreams within dreams?
I'm probably looking in too much at this NES game, but man this ending is good nonetheless.
This certainly ranks up there as one of the sillier/more bizarre games I've seen. Especially with a boss that's panko shrimp and onion rings.
32:27
You just gave me a literal killer gift and you STILL want me to join you again?! How did they came up with this ending, how did it got away from the censors and that final haunting music will always puzzle me.
Even though this game doesn't exactly seem to have the best reputation, the general Human Entertainment weirdness on display here definitely makes it one of my favourite NES imports.
Edit: And I forgot how good the music was! That zombie dance music's going to be stuck in my head all night now, and probably for days to come...
One boss that was deliberately missing was that creepy Spider II saying "I'll suck all your blood again!" with a II sign sticking on it! That's because defeating that after getting the key from beating Death soft-locks the game.
Only if you beat the other two bosses beforehand. If you skip one of the previous two bosses and then beat the second spider boss, you get the key, but most players will have beat the two earlier bosses and may not know they got the key already.
I had this growing up. That first level tripped me out...but I loved it cause I love horror. Didn't even realize the changes the game went through because of copyright. Never did get far as a kid. Beet it via emulation as a teen though
Oh hey, a classic (and exceptionally bizarre) NES game!
Happy to find this play through. Rented this one back in the day and never forgot the crazy villains and bosses.
This is such a wonderfully weird, hilarious and creepy game all at the same time. I've only seen bits and pieces of gameplay before, so it was a real treat to get to see it in its entirety. That transition in stage 1 reminds me of a game I played about 12 years ago, called _Eversion_ , where everything is deceptively cute at first until the scenery suddenly changes as you start going through the land's "layers".
They must have been really desperate if Bert took a child with him just because it had a bat in its hand
I doubt even Human Entertainment intended for the interpretation that everyone from 2020 onward will infer. If the ending is meant to be what literally happens when it ends, then you know for sure these guys weren't thinking of that specific outcome.
How this game got past Nintendo of America's NES-era censoring is beyond me.
I played this relentlessly as a kid (Im 42). NO ONE else I've met even remembers this. When trying to describe it I sound crazy lol.
That Ending though.........I will always remember the ending for this game. :)
That plant boss looked like Audrey II
Monster Party was already a well-established cult classic by the time I first heard of it, and I knew this game was something rather special and unique going into it. It's an absolutely absurd and nonsensical little platformer with equally quirky mechanics. It's worth a go just for how memorable and, by the end, surprisingly nightmarish the bosses are (many of which were originally going to be more blatant depictions of popular movie monsters, for example, the giant cat was supposed to be a spoof of Gizmo from Gremlins, before the copyrighted characters got a reskin to avoid a lawsuit)! Don't even get me started about the ending, what in the world. The game is still charming and unlike anything else.
i didnt notice this until rn. you are playing all the hard games this weekend!
After watching the first stage all I can think is how interesting it is that Nintendo let this be released as it is. When the stage transforms, there is an extreme amount of what I have to consider to be blood all over the place. Nintendo were really strict about this stuff until the ESRB was established. Odd they let this one pass yet had what little blood there was in Super Castlevania IV removed : /
What an odd game. However it has quite the amazing soundtrack from what I gathered here. Nice.
It was the Ark of the Covenant he gifted him at the end.
FISH FACE ON LEGGGSSS
yup.
Yup.
YUUUUUP.
this game was such a fever dream
Mooove it!!!!! 😅 Now that's a good one
Interesting video.
My favorite NES game 🤘🏻
Such a quirky cute game I will always love it. If it came out today with little touch ups to the bosses it would be the new Cuphead and shovel night.
Whoa. Stranger danger!
I remember this game used to freak me out. I used to turn the color on our old analog TV so the blood didn't look red lol
good ol moist eyes
"The beauty of the star made his eyes moist."
Ahh. I miss that janky 80s localization.
I'm just a mean green mother from outer space and I'm bad
Oooooh, shit! 💥
4:09 haay garmi 🤣🤣🤣
Scary game
I know that a bunch of these enemies are either inspired by Japanese folklore or horror films (the legs sticking out from the ground being a specific reference), but I could never understand what those flaming people in the first level are from. I'm guessing they're schoolboys based on their clothes, but why are they on fire?
Bois are gonna be bois, I guess? Idk 😅
avgn should review this game, this shit is a masterpiece
Monster Party 1989 NES Cartridge (Homebrew) 0:01 Located in Peoria, Arizona
Best game
GG
Feed me Seymour, feed me all night long.
Lmao a bit raunchy. But then again, tbf it is Rick Moranis. I get it 😂
I hear a lot of Dragon Warrior and Legend of Zelda music in this game.
I didn't know an onion ring is an enemy 😅
8:17 (Takes off glasses) When did this game go from a game called Monster Party, to a game where I fight shrimp and onion rings!? WHY AND WH- AND WHY IS THERE A SPACE STATION IN THE BACKGROUND!?!? (Echos)
I'm just a mean green mother from outer space
WELCOME ENTRANCE TO HELL!
wow
uh only dream..but nice woman to monster
like gegege no
Muppet monster adventure nutshell
mark is a mental patient
I remember this game on nes… it would take three hours to get to work but man it was fun