Mission: Impossible (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2016
- A playthrough of Ultra's 1990 NES game, Mission: Impossible.
Mission: Impossible for the NES seems to be somewhat ironically named - unless you take the considerable amount of time needed to master it, it really is virtually impossible to play it well, but it can indeed be finished. Even once you have mastered it, you still have to be extremely careful, since one wrong move can wipe out a party member, and if you needed that person to get through an area... well, the reset button invites your attention.
I did get a game over once - I ate it on the skiing level, and since you only get one life, I had to continue. Thank God it only put me back at the beginning of the stage. Unlimited continues are about the only grace the game ever allows you.
It really brings back memories of Metal Gear and the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles games. It's fairly nonlinear, so you have to really get to know the areas, and there's often a balance you have to strike between risk and reward. If Grant can only take one more hit, do you go to another building, risking someone else to find him a health pack, or do you continue on, hoping that you can limp by with the others? It's extremely difficult (this one had me throwing controllers as a kid), but the satisfaction of beating it finally is worth it in the end. That, and there's some great Engrish at play. It all makes sense, but some of this dialogue sounds ridiculous.
It rocks Konami's trademark visual and music styles (both very good things) and there's a good amount of depth to the action. If you're over 30, though, make sure you have antacids in the cupboard before you begin ;)
Someone requested this a while back. I don't remember it was, but if it was you, here you go!
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Mission: Impossible feels a lot like Metal Gear with the challenge of the original Ninja Turtles shot directly into it. Tough as nails, and it's a really good game. And check out that awesome rendition of the MI title theme!
That theme song was composed by Argentina-born composer, arranger and conductor Lalo Schifrin, who also composed other projects such as The Amityville Horror and the Rush Hour films.
+Dana Long I did not know that. Seriously, I didn't.
I remember I was in love with the version of the show this was based on back in the day. Never did translate to love for the game, though.
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Not to mention Enter the Dragon, Money Talks, FX2 - The Deadly Art of Illusion, Battle Creek Brawl (aka The Big Brawl), and numerous others.
And as far as the character lineup order in the intro, derived from the short-lived late '80s revival of the show, long before the Tom Cruise film series based on it (with the most recent being Fallout, which I saw an advance screening of last year prior to its official release):
Max Harte (the late Tony Hamilton) / Shannon Reed (Jane Badler) / Grant Collier (Phil Morris) / Nicholas Black (Thaao Penghlis) and finally their IMF leader Jim Phelps (the also-late Peter Graves). Of course you play as any one of the 3 aforementioned characters, except for Reed & Phelps...but I honorably digress.
That intro is actually really good for the nes
Man.....you know the music is good in a game when you're humming it the entire play through!
Agreed. 😎👍Usually with many of the Konami/Ultra Games titles had really good music during the NES era of gaming.
Thank you for showing me how deep and good of a game this really was.i was to young to figure it out.
I don't know why people leave this out from their "hardest NES games" list. Contra is a piece of cake compared to this. I love this game!
Precisely. Every time I see another RUclips video for "hardest NES games" I NEVER see this game listed, even though it is the FIRST game I think of as hardest. Despite the difficulty, this game was AMAZING for its time!
I just beat it but DAMN, it wasn't easy.
@@L8onL8on 100% true. But nooo Dark Souls is haaaard :D
@@gerpir this game is insanely difficult.I beat it at the age of 17.Have this game at the age of 7.took me 10years to beat it
Hard and fricking cryptic. Never beat a single level when I was a kid. But then again my english was not very good then.
I used to play this in the 90's and came close to finish it. I got it for 7 bucks on Ebay recently and I'm having a blast. This game gets a bad rap for its level of difficulty but I wouldn't have it any other way. It's really addictive. Thank you for this!
*rep
when you're a kid this game is impossibly hard. but in a fun way.
This game was very intimidating due to the difficulty. It also caused it to be both underappreciated and underrated. Proud to say I have my copy in it's entirety love the memories and challenge it offers. Most of all thank you for posting.😎👍
The Mission: Impossible game for the NES, in 1990, is based on the 2nd Mission: Impossible TV show, which itself is a continuation of the 1966-73 TV show of the same title, off of ABC in the early 90's.
I really love the music in this game!!
And I mean ALL of it!
+Jamal Gardner What's not to love? It's Konami!
Quite the nailbiter for a final segment. I imagine I'm my adult age when this was released, and I can use my imagination to let this really feel like I'm in a tense movie scene. The counter dips below 200, the lights and music become tense. Really stood out from a typical choreographed-strategy final foe.
the best nes game
Mission Impossible lives ups to its name, it is one of the hardest NES games of all time. This is a tough game to beat for anyone who was not familiar with it. It is fun but it is super hard.
There is no other game in world better than this.
So so deep.
I still love to play it.
One of the hardest NES games ever! I was never able to beat it. Alotta fun tho…
One of my NES favorites. I loved the mechanic of each character having their use throughout a level, though that is also the primary reason why the game was so difficult. Once one character dies, you probably need to restart the level because you'll get locked out of progressing at some point.
I also really liked the jumping in the Stage 2. Not completely sure why it's even a thing, but it feels really good. I think it was meant for a way to attack the helicopters, but for some reason they cut it.
I totally remember attacking statues in the mission impossible show
I owned this game when I was 8 and could not finish the 1st stage till I was 19. I was so excited that I called up a childhood friend to share my accomplishment only to be told to grow up...anyways...Yoga!
His Secretary !But Shannon is an Agent !This game had a style, each Agent had his own style Max, slow walking because of heavy arsenal weaponry.
Grant, fastest walking, Hi tech expert, uses fists and throws bomb gas
And Nicholas, Aussie Guy boomerangs throws and disguises except those disguise don't last long !Well Each Agent also depends on some hard situation, whoever, Max in some, Grant in most and Nicholas in others, as a Master of disguise, he cant be recognized and boomerangs throws are also specific weapon throw and comes back to him !Max, bombs for Ennemies with shields or monsters with claws when you're taken !
And ennemies are always the same Ones in each level !well it was NES and 1990 period but what we have to be proud is that it was the first MI first video game and best MI revival ever !
In the original instruction manual for this game, they cite Max's slowness due to the fact that for this mission he was assigned to wear heavy body armor which greatly slowed him down. Being that he was the brawn of the team in the show and the fighter, it seemed ridiculous that he would have to now, or that the fact that he took the same damage just as easily as Grant and Nicholas does makes no sense. I suppose that the developers had an idea that the character with the gun should be handicapped meaning that you had to rely on everyone equally, not just your shooting character for everything. And as for Shannon, well, she was always undercover or in the midst of the counterintelligence action and subsequently always ending up needing help and rescue from the team. The game did that one right, I suppose. I always thought it logical that she should have become a playable character once you rescued her, but just like the television series, the game thinks little of her too.
Mission: Impossible is a mix of Metal Gear, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Snake's Revenge, Super Contra, and Rollergames on the NES.
And is as hard as all of those put together.
Based on a TV show that was canceled 7 months before this game was released.
Setback at minute 46 when you fell into the chasm. Dang it!!!
I had always thought that it would have been so cool that during the intro with the Mission: Impossible theme that the game would have shown you actual game scenes from throughout alongside the characters' IMF cards. Then it would have truly been just like the original television series which showed scenes from the upcoming night's episode (the second series that this game was based on showed random episode segments instead). That would have been awesome in my opinion, but I probably would have been asking too much of the Nintendo technology at this point. Still, this was one Hell of a game, though, that I never gave up on despite its immense difficulty even thirty-plus years on.
Now I know where Hotline Miami came from ;-)
A top-down action game involves shooting = Hotline Miami
Smh
@@JohnnyCasey Hotline Miami is literally based on this game. Jacket and the mobsters were redrawn from these sprites.
@@slimbruce3474
That's interesting. Did the developer tell you that?
@@JohnnyCasey You can open the gmk file from Hotline Miami 1 and see the sprites they redrew when testing the art style.
@@slimbruce3474
So you just assumed that the sprites were redrawn, because they look similar. That's not really a proof.
55:30 Best part of the game. Konami u ruled back in the NES era as far as soundtracks
Thank you , I remember as child me and brothers could never beat this game. Yea I guess we suck ..so frustrating...and we never knew the secrets had to call a 1 900 number oh back in the days
2k Rocky Gaming LoL I played this game out with Game Genie. It was indeed a tough game..
1:05:02 I hate that there's no way to avoid that, then again that is part of the premise that the mission is men't to be 'Impossible'
I played this about a year ago on an emulator and really liked it. But really difficult probably one of the toughest games , I need to go back and spend a rainy day playing this.
Yea that always makes me laugh when they say Dark Souls is hard. When you've been finishing games like that weekly back in the days on NES you gotta laugh. And there were no walkthroughs or internet to check gameplay. thanks for the vid.
This game has a lot of remake potential. A modern build on Unity could generate randomized missions, enhancing replayability. I'd still retain the top down feel, adding maybe a 2.5D flavor to the graphics.
A remake of this masterpiece would be nice
One a cartridge very good for '90
wait a minute. A computer that launches missiles and the only way to stop it is to play a game with it and show it that there can be no winner.
Isn't that the plot to War Games??
"The only way to win is to not play"
Lmao yeah, I was surprised there were no random images of Matthew Broderick in the ending
+NintendoComplete it even does the thing where the games get faster and faster until it gives up.
The interesting thing is that all you have to do with that game is move your piece to the default (already selected) position each turn until the computer gives up. That's it.
I couldn't understand the game as a kid. It has depth and actually requires investigation. I wish I was older back then.
You used to laugh at getting arrested by the helicopter when I was younger. That game was too tough for me to finish, but I enjoyed playing it. This goes for Battletoads too.
That intro on a NES is a masterpiece.
I actually enjoy playing this game. Too bad I haven't finished it yet. YES, it is indeed TOUGH AS NAILS!
Ha! I forgot this game cribbed the ending right from War Games.
I could never get anywhere in this damn game. Rivals "The Adventures of Bayou Billy" in terms of frustration as far as Konami games go!
I remember it took months, like a Whole summer, to beat the fucking ghost of the temple... furthermore me and my Brother didn't speak a Word of english so they gave us hints we didn't understand... what a mess! À real masterpiece, so difficoult and great at the same time! Thanks for uploading this!
I mean I was only 8 when I got this game, but I never once made it past the sewers at about the 10:00 minute mark. This quickly became a dust collector game of my childhood.
Irony is when something goes exactly the opposite of expected, so I'm not sure Mission Impossible being impossible is ironic. The game looks great though.
I know what irony is :) I was meaning how the title implies that the game can't be finished despite that obviously not being the case, even though at times it really does feel impossible. My bad, I guess I want clear enough :)
The game really is fantastic though!
I'm extremely confused. When I played this game, the room at 18:52 always had a boss in it and the floor was falling down under my feet and I kept dying to this room FOREVER, until I finally somehow beat it, don't even remember how...
i think you may be mistaking it for the "boss" in level six where when you attack him you fall through the floor trap, when you return the trap and boss are gone
In my humble opinion, this game looks like an interesting mixture of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on NES, Snake's Revenge, and Super Contra. The only turn-off I have towards the graphics is that I dislike the overhead view used in this game, and the form the enemies take when killed looks...weird. I think it would have better if it was more like that seen in Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, and Snake's Revenge. Anyway, good playthrough. Also, did Konami blatantly steal that floppy disk design from the NES version of Strider!?
I've had this game since 1990 or 1991, and I just beat it for the first time last night in 2023. I could never get even half way through the first level as a kid. This game is incredibly hard, and it takes a lot of time to figure out each level and master it before completing it. But it feels very rewarding to beat it finally. The last level is just sadistically brutal though.
1:26 "I'll Let You What I'm Doing...
I Won't Be Playing Sega."
- Jim Phelps
My dad got this game for my birthday... I thought I was being punished.
Man did I really want to beat this game, but without an instruction manual (to understand the special powers) and the lack of direction I never beat the first stage. (It takes 19 minutes on this play-through.) I remember I once got to the base with one character and was super excited only to die by going to the right path first at 11:40 and hadn't turned off the water value. I died to the water since I had no idea that was there.
The boss of the temple area is easily killed with smoke grenades of black guy. They double damage that ghost instead of paralyze.
Always loved this game as a kid, but could never beat it. I get further in Battletoads than I did in this bad boy.
I had this game when I was a kid. I remember having some Christmas money that year,which I wanted to use to buy a Nintendo game with. Unfortunately,this was the game I picked out. My God,this was an extremely hard son of a b*tch! I remember getting so mad and throwing the controller at my T.V. lol
I remember this game!! I don't remember it being called Mission Impossible though, but maybe I'm just remembering wrong.
The sound when you select your character has been in my head forever but I couldn't remember which game it was from. I never got too far in this game. might be time to give it another try!
Great video
Man, if you knew nothing about this game and just listened to the music, you could totally tell it was NES era Konami.
There's a reference to the movie wargames on the tic tac toe part
Ending reminds me of war games
super buen video👍👍👍👍
+GAMESVAMT 86 Thanks!
NES & GameBoy games by Ultra Games, Tecmo, & Konami had the best music. Not gonna lie
55:52 You're telling me the whole time I didn't need to kill everyone in that scrolling section? This is one of the very few NES games I had that I NEVER could finished because of that 1 section. My stupid kid brain didn't even consider camouflaging at that time.
Hello NintendoComplete!
+Jaime Carrillo Hi!
Konami seems to have taken the title very literally with this one. Tough as all hell!
You'r chanhel i's AWESOME!
Thanks!
To me M.I. was the hardest game l ever played with the 8-bit nes. Maybe Total Recall too... what was yours?
This is the one that got away. Never did beat it.
You do know that this game was based on the short-lived 1988 TV show of the same name, right?
Yup. It was a kinda followup to original 60s TV show, iirc?
That show ran from 1966 to 1973 on CBS and originally had Steven Hill as head of the IMF for the first season only. By the time the second season premiered, Hill was fired due to his poor performance (he would later resurface 23 years later as one of the cast members on Law & Order) and in came Peter Graves, who would go on to become synonymous with Mission: Impossible as Jim Phelps.
The 1988-90 revival was broadcast on ABC.
And 6 years later, Mission Impossible was released to theaters and launched the Tom Cruise movie franchise.
Я немог пройти даже первй уровень в детстве.Потом я был в шоке с 3-го уровня со скалой.Где был спрятан рычаг
😂thats ah wonderful play for me it's really good p
Wait? Is MI existed since the early 90's?
From the 60's, my friend.
Since the 60s, but this game is based on the '88 and '89 revival series.
saw lordkat's UWW of this game.
looks balls hard.
It's absolutely brutal!
NintendoComplete you have my respect.
Interesting...I am old enough to remember the original Commodore 64 version it actually had much much better graphics. The C64 original version was really hard actually the controls were not the greatest but still it was quite a game....
There was no Mission Impossible game for C64. The game you're thinking of is Impossible Mission and I'm afraid very few people would agree with you on it having better graphics than this game. It was a good game however, with the sequel Impossible Mission 2 getting ported to the NES (with better graphics).
Any way to get this game on mobile
Jajajaja To destroy the ninja I broke the floor and let him fall trying to stay on a single tile.
Hello, Joshua
I wonder how many things Konami made back then to be called "Konami Industry"?
Poker machines for one
I had to fuckin play the 4th snow stage again just bcz I forgot to take a note of the key MTKN for game against computer
Most challenge game I play
This game was not easy.
Metal gear without Snake
Kmvwhmpr - anyone remember this code?
of course! played this game so much until I finally finished it which took a very long time
I purposely kill myself in game just see my dude fly off screen and hear that muffled "UGH!" So manyh LULZ. Could never get far in the game. Recently picked it up with the manual. Maybe I'll get the courage to punish myself for NES hard. BTW I finally beat Rush N Attack two weeks ago! replayed it 4 times to memorize but was quite worth it.
+TheDemoniusX Oh congrats! I remember you saying you were having a hard time with getting through it. That's a super satisfying one to tackle. Ahaha I loved the death grunts! My favorite was to have one killed by the old lady on the first street. After seeing that and hearing the grunt: lollercaust.
Your mission is to open a plastic bag from Walmart.
Rented this game back in 1990 and it was a bitch!
Hotline Miami took the style from this game
completed this game thx to password system
This game was hard ASF.
This game looks awful...
Your comment is awful for speaking such blasphemy
What an amazing game, even though I've never played it before. It's a cross hybrid of Wargames and James Bond, with Batman-esque songs and Contra-like sound effects.