One of the latest NES games. It was great, not only it pushed NES hardware to it's limits but as you can see the gameplay is very diverse. The levels, the bosses, it was quite inovative for it's time.
It's amazing how much content has been put into this game. The level / boss design, the graphics, the soundtrack, the gameplay -- everything is top-notch. I remember how proud I was when I defeated lord Contaminous as a kid -- still remember that feeling.
Persona Ohnlyne It's highly overlooked anymore. Gamers need to stop saying the word overlooked, underplayed, or unappreciate. Makes the games more expensive than it needs to be.
@@13Gangland It's more it's late release, after the SNES came out, and gamers moved on to the new hardware that makes these games expensive. These games tended to get smaller print runs, making them a bit more uncommon to find (Years of game hunting locally, and a copy of the NES, nor Game Boy version of this game has ever popped up in my finds).
I was thinking that the isometric view would make it difficult to jump but they actually made it pretty easy with the shadow over the ground and easy mechanics
An environmentalist/eco-terrorist's wet dream running around as an intergalactic ninja although pollution do be bad but must be perfectly fine for what looks like a futuristic lich
This game was my no.1 game. Second Turtles Manhattan Project and third Mario in which you have some special powers and bosses(not the normal mario don't remember its name).
+Salman Shaikh "Turtles III The Manhattan Project" was awesome! Better than the other two tmnt games, and the Best beat'em up for the NES in my opinion, next to "Double Dragon" I still remember when I first got that game as a little kid, and being mesmorized by the artwork with the turtles fighting that triceritops looking guy on the cover, and the game itself when I put it in was just awesome. I love how each turtle had their own special move. Raph's torpedo screw attack thing was the best.
i knew of this game back then, but by the time a lot of these NES games came out, i had moved on to sega genesis or SNES. so i missed out on a lot of NES games like this. but back then i was pretty biased with games. "zen intergalactic ninja" sounded goofy to me. so, i wouldnt have tried it any way. i was into the big AAA titles like contra, castlevania, mario, zelda, metroid, ghosts n goblins, etc. but this? seeing the game play for the first time after all these years... this looks good. i'd actually play this today. my taste in games has opened way up over the years. i find myself trying games and i end up liking them. example, im now a huge stealth game fan, thanks to games in the past like Thief. i made myself try it years ago and liked it. now i play just about any game with stealth mechanics. but back to zen here... i had no idea this was: a) based on a comic and b) a konami game. no wonder it looks and sounds good! if i had known it was a konami title back then, i would have at least rented it. thats what happens when u judge a game by its name alone. zen came out in 1993, so, i was just leaving my sega cd phase (didnt impress me much, played it a year, got bored) and was dabbling with a few snes titles and getting into Neo Geo games by 93. so, zen was overlooked at the time. EDIT: looked on ebay.. the cheapest ZEN game is $150. what?! some are selling it, unopened supposedly, for $2000 or more! this is insane! i dont care how good or rare the game may be, i wouldnt pay over $25 for it!
I dont think You played many nes games then. This one dont get top 10 hardest even at hard mode. All Ninja gaidens, castelvania-s, sf2010, battletoads, tmnt etc are far harder.. This is one of games i actualy managed to complete as child. Games i mentioned before.. didnt get even close to end. Or batman.. Want try balls to the walls hard game? Try pirate/chinese version of tmnt3... Konamis anti piracy thingy was seriously fun (game is @super hard mode). Edit, forgot to mention pain of my childhood... jazz the jackoff rabit :)
I remember when I was so scared of this falling pit level. Music + pression + reaction. For like 9-10 y.o that was something.... One of my favourite NES game, among Fantastic Adventure of Dizzy, Bucky o'Hare, Kick Master and of course Metal Gear !
@@ericmsandoval Why not? It may not be identical to the MSX original, but it's a decent game in its own right, all things considered. Moreover, it's how many people in the West got their first taste of the Metal Gear franchise.
Rit's rare to see an NES game with moving background objects . this is one of the best and best gameplay. There are 2 more: Argus no Sensi and Power Blazer.
For me that's the most dificult game that I has in my life, original Nintendo, original cassette, and 2 years of my life trying to pass until the Final! Zen awesome reminders! ;)
+arseniy play it on the hardest level then u'll know. Though after some practice i was able to beat this game easily. Still there are so many points where at hardest level this game is really challenging.
For you all the ignorant, this is what happens to our earth now.. pollution, corruption is destroying our mother Earth, we can only hope there will be zen to safe our earth
i always liked the weird play angle this was in. got this when I had an NES as a child. didn't even know it came out towards the end of the NES era. Hmm.
OK let's start a chat here. Which one is better? Zen or Captain Planet? And if there are other superhero, who tries to save Earth's environment, they are welcome to join in to this battle.
This game is ridiculous, it's hard to tell whether you're landing on a platform or not in such siometric perspective and then that mine care level, you can never tell when there will be a pitch coming up or not, since everything moves soo fast, so instead you have to memorize everything,and then am not talking about those end bosses wich could respawn and keep refilling his energy over and over again, this game is unhumanly brutal.
The "scramble borders" would only be seen on newer TVs, but it was due to the screen scrolling. You see the NES only had memory for 1 and a bit screens of info. If you scrolled the screen past the actual viewing area it would simply wrap from 1 side to the other. So to achieve the smooth scrolling that you see, as the parts of the level went past the left edge of the screen, they would be overwritten with new tiles before you could see them come back in on the right. Giving the illusion of smooth scrolling. This is also why many games would smooth scroll up and down, or side to side but typically not both. The sprite flicker is caused by the programers cycling through the sprites. The NES could only have 8 sprites on any given scan line. If there were more than 8 sprites on any given scan line, the NES would render the first 8 and then not render the others. So programers would cycle the sprites through the sprites, which would make them flicker instead of disappear altogether. FYI. XD
+chuckobscure Good NES assets don't necessarily mean good SNES/Megadrive assets. Just look at all the early SNES-era RPGs and the cancelled Sunsoft's Batman SNES version. There's quite a bit of work (and money) needed to get it to a higher enough standard of quality to compete with the likes of F-Zero and Axelay... Some companies like Sunsoft/Jaleco/Vic Tokai tried to port their NES catalogue to the SNES this way and led themselves to ruin this way... Also, Nintendo had a limit on how many games publishers could release per year, and Konami had enough trouble releasing their existing SNES catalogue (this is why so many games were JP-only or only released in English in Europe). Not to mention, the SNES and Genesis also have a sprite limit and the flickering when it's reached (Some Megadrive games actually use it to simulate water transparency), it's just slightly higher. Even the buggy edge of screen was present in the likes of Terranigma/Secret of Mana/Star Fox, hidden behind an overlay but occasionally visible.
I don't think this is a great NES, but it sure is an interesting one. Hard as balls, with some gorgeous 8-bit graphics and a pretty good Konami soundtrack to boot. Pretty fun, if slightly frustrating, to play
To anyone that wants to play NES games for free. You can download an emulator so you can play these games on your computer, and then just type "NES Roms" and you can play any game you want for free. I think it's legal. You can check if that's what worries you.
It's not legal, but most companies won't go after you for their games, save for Nintendo, and a few others.They tend not to hit the person downloading, but the sites hosting the ROMS.
uh, no. not sure how you could be more wrong. having an emulator itself is not illegal, nor is making one. 'rules' don't apply to any of this, 'laws' do. the applicable laws are copyright protection ones, which protect the games themselves (and maybe bios/system roms you need for some systems). the 'rule' you're talking about was that you could have a rom of a GAME if you owned the GAME. not the system/emulator. as far as i know that never changed, but even if it did, emulators themselves are not illegal.
This game scared the shit outta me don't know why. The bosses, the music the stages (specially the cave stage) . I mean at one point you fight your own biological clone damn that was too much for a 11 year old me.
Konami: How can we criticate the industrial contamination and their bussinessmen corrupted by the rotten echonomy???? 🤔 Nintendo: With a game... 🤔 Konami: No... Too much complicated... Nintendo: With *Ninjas, aliens and good chiptune OST...* Konami: ♻️📈 Stonks...
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One of the latest NES games. It was great, not only it pushed NES hardware to it's limits but as you can see the gameplay is very diverse. The levels, the bosses, it was quite inovative for it's time.
True about the limits.
Batman: Return of the Joker was the same. I even thought it could be termed a pseudo 16-bit one, though.
Yeah and the music was lit too
@@intsfanatic yep, that too
nice to see this game after so many years :P...one of my favorite game when i was kid :)
It's amazing how much content has been put into this game. The level / boss design, the graphics, the soundtrack, the gameplay -- everything is top-notch. I remember how proud I was when I defeated lord Contaminous as a kid -- still remember that feeling.
Even back then people already talked about the pollution. The developers left us a message.
This game , Ninja gaiden 1 2 3 , kunio sports and brawl , captain planet and gunnac made my childhood awesome . I missed this games
Wow for an NES game the graphics and gameplay are pretty unique. Never heard of this game.
It's one of the best NES game certainly.
Persona Ohnlyne It's highly overlooked anymore. Gamers need to stop saying the word overlooked, underplayed, or unappreciate. Makes the games more expensive than it needs to be.
+1
@@13Gangland It's more it's late release, after the SNES came out, and gamers moved on to the new hardware that makes these games expensive. These games tended to get smaller print runs, making them a bit more uncommon to find (Years of game hunting locally, and a copy of the NES, nor Game Boy version of this game has ever popped up in my finds).
i just found one of these & brought it home. lol.
Одна из любимых игр на все времена.
Смотрю в цвете так раньше играл на чёрно-белом телике Рекорд 412😂
I was thinking that the isometric view would make it difficult to jump but they actually made it pretty easy with the shadow over the ground and easy mechanics
You can tell that by 1990, most developers knew how to use the full power of the NES system.
my favourite past memory..love the musical tracks and kind of electrifying sounds...ZEN intergalactic NINJA will never be forgotten by its fans.
Konami always was so inventive in their games, and they also do awesome soundtracks
Always tickles my heart to see a good looking, and playable 3D game on the NES.
This game deserves a remake, also deserves a movie or animation treatment.
An environmentalist/eco-terrorist's wet dream running around as an intergalactic ninja although pollution do be bad but must be perfectly fine for what looks like a futuristic lich
I have this game still, man this brought back so many childhood memories
I like music konami on NES.
Haha take that sunsoft or Capcom! Konami knows how to make badass music in video gaming history! >:D
One of the most creative and intense games on NES/Dendy. And the music is very powerful and brilliant, for sure!!!
My first game system NES, born in 91. This was my first game that I ever beaten, and I use to beat it every morning before I went to school
Ninja Gaiden and Zaxxon had a baby.
This game was so goddamn good.
This game was my no.1 game. Second Turtles Manhattan Project and third Mario in which you have some special powers and bosses(not the normal mario don't remember its name).
+Salman Shaikh "Turtles III The Manhattan Project" was awesome! Better than the other two tmnt games, and the Best beat'em up for the NES in my opinion, next to "Double Dragon" I still remember when I first got that game as a little kid, and being mesmorized by the artwork with the turtles fighting that triceritops looking guy on the cover, and the game itself when I put it in was just awesome. I love how each turtle had their own special move. Raph's torpedo screw attack thing was the best.
MoveitorLoseit2 yeah man i played it so many times just for the fun of it. It was a the toughest game for me and next was Zen.
First Time I've Played on the Nintendo NES Emulator on my Nintendo DS since 2013
Thank you for making me relive my past !
I remember beating Lord Contaminous at the end. I was fucking elated.
i knew of this game back then, but by the time a lot of these NES games came out, i had moved on to sega genesis or SNES. so i missed out on a lot of NES games like this. but back then i was pretty biased with games. "zen intergalactic ninja" sounded goofy to me. so, i wouldnt have tried it any way. i was into the big AAA titles like contra, castlevania, mario, zelda, metroid, ghosts n goblins, etc. but this? seeing the game play for the first time after all these years... this looks good. i'd actually play this today. my taste in games has opened way up over the years. i find myself trying games and i end up liking them. example, im now a huge stealth game fan, thanks to games in the past like Thief. i made myself try it years ago and liked it. now i play just about any game with stealth mechanics.
but back to zen here... i had no idea this was: a) based on a comic and b) a konami game. no wonder it looks and sounds good! if i had known it was a konami title back then, i would have at least rented it. thats what happens when u judge a game by its name alone. zen came out in 1993, so, i was just leaving my sega cd phase (didnt impress me much, played it a year, got bored) and was dabbling with a few snes titles and getting into Neo Geo games by 93. so, zen was overlooked at the time.
EDIT: looked on ebay.. the cheapest ZEN game is $150. what?! some are selling it, unopened supposedly, for $2000 or more! this is insane! i dont care how good or rare the game may be, i wouldnt pay over $25 for it!
one of the hardest NES games
good joke
TerrariumFusilage1 yea one was hard too lol
TerrariumFusilage1 haha game genie! that game was pure torture
this is true when i was young this is terribble to play :)
I dont think You played many nes games then. This one dont get top 10 hardest even at hard mode. All Ninja gaidens, castelvania-s, sf2010, battletoads, tmnt etc are far harder.. This is one of games i actualy managed to complete as child. Games i mentioned before.. didnt get even close to end. Or batman.. Want try balls to the walls hard game? Try pirate/chinese version of tmnt3... Konamis anti piracy thingy was seriously fun (game is @super hard mode). Edit, forgot to mention pain of my childhood... jazz the jackoff rabit :)
I remember when I was so scared of this falling pit level. Music + pression + reaction. For like 9-10 y.o that was something....
One of my favourite NES game, among Fantastic Adventure of Dizzy, Bucky o'Hare, Kick Master and of course Metal Gear !
Why do you like Metal Gear on NES lol
Because I played it way before I played any other game from MG series.
Eric Sandoval NES MG is ruthless. a classic.
@@ericmsandoval Why not? It may not be identical to the MSX original, but it's a decent game in its own right, all things considered. Moreover, it's how many people in the West got their first taste of the Metal Gear franchise.
Glorious parallaxing.
This game is impressive with what they were able to do
Today a game like this can be made in a fraction of a second.
Rit's rare to see an NES game with moving background objects . this is one of the best and best gameplay. There are 2 more: Argus no Sensi and Power Blazer.
Sounds like the ninja turtles games on the NES mixed in with Deadpool, wish found this game back in my NES days, was it a late release.
This game makes me feel young, and by that I mean it is 2 years older than me.
Bruh........I remember playing this game way back then.......I didn't know it was about saving the environment and recycling stuff.....
This game was my life fuuuuckkk so goooooooodddd memorysss i am 34 now but is so close that times
This game its ahead for his time.
my favourite game
This was most unique, I was searching for it's name and gameplay for days...
Sulfura's stage is hard. Boss has lots of health and you gotta keep the flowers blooming to stay alive. Konami went all out on this game.
This is pretty impressive for the NES.
My fav game.
8:14 - 8:16
Train Jump Sync to the Music!
subbed for these longplays.
Much appreciated, friend!
~JagOfTroy
Bruh this game....I couldn't understand it as a kid but I beat it one day .....now seeing it ,such a trip....
WOW! This is my best game.
Bladerun walkthrough! Awesome spectacle for those who are in the subject! Respect!
Thank you
2019 год... И я скучаю по времени когда был мелким и рубился в эту эпиху.
looks awesome. seen it at my local retro game store. didn't see the price. I should find this cartoon, and upload it with my other 80's and 90's stuff
This reminds me so much of Ninja Turtles.
Both games were made by Konami.
My childhood game, i love it.
Please play Ninja Gaiden also..
only one word- best
[22:07] When I played this stage 1st time I thought I will get a heart attack in my 12 yo !
For me that's the most dificult game that I has in my life, original Nintendo, original cassette, and 2 years of my life trying to pass until the Final! Zen awesome reminders! ;)
funny. it's pretty average hardness game for NES.
+arseniy play it on the hardest level then u'll know. Though after some practice i was able to beat this game easily. Still there are so many points where at hardest level this game is really challenging.
Try Battle Toads for the NES.
Yeah double dragon battletoads extremely hard game for sure
Ehh..... This game looks SICK! Pretty friggin' impressive for a NES!
The twilight of the NES, unfortunately.
For you all the ignorant, this is what happens to our earth now.. pollution, corruption is destroying our mother Earth, we can only hope there will be zen to safe our earth
I love this game. Its pretty easy yet very fun and cool.
I finished this game like 25 years ago
Pretty easy!?? what? play again!
Wow this game looks awesome. Wish I would have heard of it back then. I am surprised it was not a bigger hit.
esse era muito bom
damn sounds like the first tmnt game a bit for soundtrack. love it.
I do not understand why you do not tossed opponents through.
After all, so you can do more damage.
And not jump spinning, it's animated awesome.
i always liked the weird play angle this was in. got this when I had an NES as a child. didn't even know it came out towards the end of the NES era. Hmm.
8:57 isn’t that muckman from tmnt universe
When you jump on toxic stage, make an attack and while rotate in air you fly longer.
Just heard of this game from Looper, this looks dope.
Konami music tracks are the best. My fav will be all the tracks from TMNT tournament fighters.
Zen was a real comic that had none of this Captain Planet BS. It was raw 90’s, but you could have used Notan or another villain without an issue.
It's like ninja gaiden way
I never beat first stage :/
Yes the first stage with timer was very difficult I always have problems with this but i finish this game few times on NES
Woah, Bowser Zeki??
BECAUSE F*CKING SUCKS
В реальной жизни лорд Контаминус выглядит иначе.
Graphics make me think of G.I. Joe NES games, Battletoads and TMNT but with better dynamics, music and imagination.
Great video man really liked it :D
Splendid NES game, so many childhood memories came back, thanks a lot!!!!
First stage had me thinking something like the technodrome in TMNT Arcade.
This game need to be adapted for Playstation.
The best game for NES.
Oooof my childhood.
OK let's start a chat here.
Which one is better? Zen or Captain Planet?
And if there are other superhero, who tries to save Earth's environment, they are welcome to join in to this battle.
GO ZEN
Zen.
omg flashback my memories
This game is ridiculous, it's hard to tell whether you're landing on a platform or not in such siometric perspective and then that mine care level, you can never tell when there will be a pitch coming up or not, since everything moves soo fast, so instead you have to memorize everything,and then am not talking about those end bosses wich could respawn and keep refilling his energy over and over again, this game is unhumanly brutal.
Legendary game
...so, this is like Captain Planet's more awesome, better-dressed brother.
Looking at the current state of the environment, it was actually a slippery slope to create alien scapegoats for pollution.
The RE-cycled Ninja
It's also weird how the original NES had flicker and the edges would have scrambled borders as you advance the screen. Why was that?
The "scramble borders" would only be seen on newer TVs, but it was due to the screen scrolling. You see the NES only had memory for 1 and a bit screens of info. If you scrolled the screen past the actual viewing area it would simply wrap from 1 side to the other. So to achieve the smooth scrolling that you see, as the parts of the level went past the left edge of the screen, they would be overwritten with new tiles before you could see them come back in on the right. Giving the illusion of smooth scrolling.
This is also why many games would smooth scroll up and down, or side to side but typically not both.
The sprite flicker is caused by the programers cycling through the sprites. The NES could only have 8 sprites on any given scan line. If there were more than 8 sprites on any given scan line, the NES would render the first 8 and then not render the others. So programers would cycle the sprites through the sprites, which would make them flicker instead of disappear altogether.
FYI. XD
+chuckobscure Good NES assets don't necessarily mean good SNES/Megadrive assets. Just look at all the early SNES-era RPGs and the cancelled Sunsoft's Batman SNES version. There's quite a bit of work (and money) needed to get it to a higher enough standard of quality to compete with the likes of F-Zero and Axelay... Some companies like Sunsoft/Jaleco/Vic Tokai tried to port their NES catalogue to the SNES this way and led themselves to ruin this way... Also, Nintendo had a limit on how many games publishers could release per year, and Konami had enough trouble releasing their existing SNES catalogue (this is why so many games were JP-only or only released in English in Europe).
Not to mention, the SNES and Genesis also have a sprite limit and the flickering when it's reached (Some Megadrive games actually use it to simulate water transparency), it's just slightly higher. Even the buggy edge of screen was present in the likes of Terranigma/Secret of Mana/Star Fox, hidden behind an overlay but occasionally visible.
I don't think this is a great NES, but it sure is an interesting one. Hard as balls, with some gorgeous 8-bit graphics and a pretty good Konami soundtrack to boot. Pretty fun, if slightly frustrating, to play
Today celebrating Earth's day! 🌎🌍🌏
one of the best Dendy games! I'm from Russia!
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Konami Empire.
Great game! Amazing soundtrack. Its a cross between Super Contra and Ninja Turtles. But damn, this game needed to have more skills for this Ninja.
me being perfectionist to collect 1UP just to preparing jump into the cave. this game intense!
BEST
Definitely one of the coolest games ever.
This is the NES? It looks like it's 16 bit!!
To anyone that wants to play NES games for free. You can download an emulator so you can play these games on your computer, and then just type "NES Roms" and you can play any game you want for free. I think it's legal. You can check if that's what worries you.
It's not legal, but most companies won't go after you for their games, save for Nintendo, and a few others.They tend not to hit the person downloading, but the sites hosting the ROMS.
uh, no. not sure how you could be more wrong. having an emulator itself is not illegal, nor is making one. 'rules' don't apply to any of this, 'laws' do. the applicable laws are copyright protection ones, which protect the games themselves (and maybe bios/system roms you need for some systems). the 'rule' you're talking about was that you could have a rom of a GAME if you owned the GAME. not the system/emulator. as far as i know that never changed, but even if it did, emulators themselves are not illegal.
Quite an expensive game - around £160
This game scared the shit outta me don't know why. The bosses, the music the stages (specially the cave stage) . I mean at one point you fight your own biological clone damn that was too much for a 11 year old me.
Sound like from TMNT
Konami: How can we criticate the industrial contamination and their bussinessmen corrupted by the rotten echonomy???? 🤔
Nintendo: With a game... 🤔
Konami: No... Too much complicated...
Nintendo: With *Ninjas, aliens and good chiptune OST...*
Konami: ♻️📈 Stonks...