I like your style. Dry, informative and to the point. It is kind of nice contrast to AVGN and how he is over the top-who I also like, but so many people try to copy that and they just sound stupid and insincere.
In stage 5-1, if you have troubles with the falling ice sheet - which is passed in this video with a perfect turning of the ship - you should shoot the first cannon that comes by in the stage, and then use heart on the small penguin in front of the cannon. It will waddle over the ice sheet, and drop it so it's easier for the player to pass through. Second penguin with the same purpose can be found later in that stage, too.
"If anyone DID beat this game without savestates or a walkthrough, I'm convinced they've never been laid. And for the record I DID use savestates so lets not even go there" You crack me up.
The very first game I ever rented from Blockbuster back in March 1992, and this is the first time I ever saw past the 1st level. If I remember correctly, Kwame's power was able to stop those annoying oil spouts if hit correctly, but it was very hard to do with the damn auto scroll.
I don't think it's lava in the final level. It's supposed to be a slaughterhouse right? What it's like, liquefied elephants? Like elephant slurry? That makes it seem kinda dark though, that the entire level is flooded with the blood and liquefied internal organs of elephants.
Finally, a proper review/playthrough of CP. I remember playing this game a lot, but the only thing I disagree with, is the soundtrack. I actually found it pretty good, especially Hoggish Greedly's ocean stage. But that's just my opinion
I actually just beat this game without save states 5 minutes ago!! It took me a good 4-5 hours to get to stage 9, another hour to beat that and another one to beat the last stage and to figure out the pattern of the paddles. As a kid I only got to level 3 but god damn it, now I can say I have actually beaten Captain Planet and the Planeteers!!!
Aqualung, I respect your assessments of 99% of the games you review...pretty spot-on nearly all the time. I must say I respectfully disagree with your rating on this game. It wasn't great and the difficulty looked to be ridiculous but....the same grade as ET and Karate? It didn't seem THAT bad. But...I didn't play through the whole game either so....would you mind explaining not differentiating the grade for crappy games? I mean Fester's Quest didn't even get an F.
Hey, some tips: 1. Don't be afraid to use powers as Captain Planet to kill stuff quick. The droids in Level 4 are real nasty, and coming in with guns 'blazing' is the only way you even have a chance of not dying. 2. You can switch to a weapon while carrying an elephant. However, the choppers will keep respawning. Putting the elephant down makes even more choppers appear so it's best to just do it all in one go. 3. Keep trying for the fist powerup in Level 5.1. Makes things a lot easier.
I own this game, and FYI, the booklet does tell you that water and wind can pass barriers in the Captain Planet stage. Hint@7:49, you're supposed to use earth power to plug the oil spouts. I'm surprised you were able to get through them, but no wonder it was frustrating for you. My complaint: water power doesn't do anything in the planeteer phases, only the Captain Planet ones.
hmm... i noticed Captain Planet energy bar doubles as his health, so you can tell how many hits you can take. But that still dodge, especially in a tight spot.
When a game sucks ass, it's up to us to never waste your time or resources on it. Our resources are limited, and we need to spend it wisely. For ourselves, our friends, our family, and most importantly, our planet. So do your part and help out, and make sure shitty games like this never see the light of day in any place, any where. Captain Aqualung: "THE POWER IS YOURS!"
first time I saw this game reviewed was by Hellsing920 on another web page and he said the game sucked! I'm thoroughly convinced that this game sucks as bad as people say it does and I'd never waste my time on it! you get serious geek points for playing through this game and doing the walkthrough Ken...good job!
I'm sure I'd be able to make an awesome Captain Planet game if I had the resorses! it wouldn't be side scrolling, and you could use the Planeteers themselves with their rings, not just a couple of viacles.
Was the 1st game I bought for my NES. Game was hard as balls but I was able to finish it without a guide back then. I still have my own passwords and the solution to beat Duke Nukem. The Captain Planet levels were the most fun really. I liked the side scrolling parts too but they were fucking hard and frustrating.
Hey great walkthrough! Such a tricky NES game this is, I spent many hours of my youth trying to get through all these incredibly awkward levels. A tip for level 1-1, annoyingly I figured this a few years after owning the game, the oil spouts you can actually stop by using the earth power, turning around/dropping rocks on each of them. Also for powerups, you can use heart on seals lying on the rocks. Level 5-1 is a complete ass, don't think I ever got past it and I think I'm glad.
That was an amazing walkthrough. Not to mention hilarious. I can't believe, with all the villains in the show, they had to reuse Hogish Greedly. They could have used Sly Sludge, Vermenous Scum, Zarm...
To be fair to this game, most people go into this with the wrong mindset. Yes, it is a bad game, but that is because it's not like most games of the time. The Planeteer levels are mission based not shmup based, and since you have no time limit in them, you are free to use whatever resources in the level to complete it. The Captain Planet levels SHOULD be speed/efficiency runs but level 5 kinda stops that notion because...it's the last level?
Yeah, take a cheesy animated show about environmental awareness, and turn it into the most insanely difficult, brutal, cheap, and downright UNFORGIVING NES game ever made, next to Battletoads! Then again, at least Battletoads was FUN to play!
***** It really is, actually. In one of the later stages, called Clinger Winger, there is a horrible game-breaking bug which renders player two's controls utterly useless. The European and Japanese versions fixed this, I hear.
I always wished they'd had made the Captain Planet game into a regular platformer where you could just mess around with the power-rings. No such luck. A half-assed and way too hard flying game. =( At least they used the very best of the villains from the show... but not the theme song? For shame.
From the end theme: Planeteers: We really hate this game! We hope you hate it too! Burning this cartridge is the thing to do! Just trying to play it, is not the way. Hear what Captain Planet, has to say: "Wheeler, take your fire ring and TORCH this puppy!"
God damn it, like for real. I remember this, so called game, I never get passed the second stage or so, but holy crap the level of frustration is extremely strong with this one. But I got laid, maybe this what stays between this game and beating it? :]
I actually like this game but it is frustrating. This is kind of irrelevant but the graphics are pretty nice. As for the theme music, I'm surprised they could use it on the show. If you have seen the New Kids on the Block Cartoon you'll hear it's the same music, no joke. Though I think that show was done by Dic as well.
wow aqualung, i'm amazed you beat this game without the use of savestates. That says alot about you my friend. :P joking, but thought your comment was funny, and i'm sure we all know people like that, especially some wow players. Not all of them, but there are a few, just like with EQ or UO back in the day.
Makes me wonder if this is what they were thinking... "LJN: The name you use when you're too ashamed to admit that it's actually *your* game!" Because it's never too late to desecrate a franchise...
I love how games try to have an environmentalist message when they're made of plastic and the game manuals are made of paper, which is made from TREES. Same thing with Awesome Possom Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt...at least according to UrinatingTree.
I used to love Captain Planet as a kid, but when I watched a few episodes for nostalgia sake I just realized how cheesy and horrible this show was, yet it was still entertaining because um the villains pollute the planet just because they can
wait radio active factory opening a hole in the ozone? wtf??radio activity doesn't affect the ozone does it?? if it was a coal plant i could understand..
7:56 There is actually much easier way to get by this part, the oil spouts lol. This is where I almost gave up on the game and then I found out you can use the earth (rock) attack to destroy the spouts and pass by freely. So ridiculous!
i can't believe you had the patience to beat this game. I could never get past level 1-1. since your doing this video on a 90's enviromentaly concience cartoon made into a horrible video game, you should do one on the nes version of Widget.
If the point is to take out pollution; why even send out a superhero who's weak to it? Never watched the show so I dunno if Captain Planets kryptonite was indeed pollution.
yeah it was. Usually the planeteers handled clean ups. they called cap when things got bad (ie bad guys flying away in a chopper,volcano erupting). he could recover if exposed to pure elements (sunlight,water,earth etc)
Superman has shown to be able to fight off or endure the effects of Kryptonite for a short time, if he has to. Someone tosses a banana peel at Captain Planet and he practically runs away screaming, lol.
This game looked like it could have been really good, I like the different power up concepts and having to figure out how to use each one effectively, just poorly designed levels and the planeteers sections seem too clunky.
Captain Planet was actually quite a good show, considering it had some celebrity voice overs, but I agree with Aqualung and the rest of ya'll, this game sucks wangdoodle big time! This is one game I'm definitely not going to play again. I have an FC Twin and this is one game that is most definitely not compatible with it. I've found out that most of the games the blokes at Mindscape did are not compatible with an FC Twin. Duke Nukem was the one boss I could never beat.
3:07 I notice how the Weapon Energy went down as soon as you got hit by something green in there, could that also be a Life Meter or something aside from the one-hit deaths? (Also, when it fully empties in the Captain Planet areas, you die it seems.)
wow mr. lung, I can't believe you were a product of the 80's and not a fan of the Capt. Planet cartoon. That's sacrilege, brother. jk, to each his own. I did kinda sense you weren't a fan of the show near the beginning of the vid when you said M.A.L instead of just Mal, and your apparent surprise of the Duke Nukem character (who came out before the videogame character). I've never played this travesty though, but it sucks they used Greedly twice and not Sly Sludge or Verminous Skumm once.
Can't forget this game and yes i beat it despite all of its shit i was 13 or 14 i guess and back then there was no internet to guide you what to do so all i had back then is me and only me and of course i was exploiting the passwords...sorry if i sound bragging but this game stuck in my memory forever...if i play it now i will never do shit lol
Damn...I actually was into Captain Planet as a Kid...the Series was just bad. The Game isn't better either. All the Screenshots in the Magazines pulled you in thinking it wouuld be something great - too bad they seemingly just couldn't come up with something good.
Idk why but the elephant slaughterhouse is a very unique level look wise I kinda like it
I like your style. Dry, informative and to the point. It is kind of nice contrast to AVGN and how he is over the top-who I also like, but so many people try to copy that and they just sound stupid and insincere.
I don't think even Silver Surfer footage had this much death sequences. This game must really be fucking relentless.
In stage 5-1, if you have troubles with the falling ice sheet - which is passed in this video with a perfect turning of the ship - you should shoot the first cannon that comes by in the stage, and then use heart on the small penguin in front of the cannon. It will waddle over the ice sheet, and drop it so it's easier for the player to pass through. Second penguin with the same purpose can be found later in that stage, too.
You know, dispite the bad exicution this game did seem to have some good ideas.
"If anyone DID beat this game without savestates or a walkthrough, I'm convinced they've never been laid. And for the record I DID use savestates so lets not even go there"
You crack me up.
Wow, the animation on those satellite dishes in the Duke Nukem level look fucking awesome for NES sprites.
Also, notice how the main obstacle in Duke Nukem's level are the B-B-B-BALLS OF STEEEEEEL!!!!
Another great example of perseverence and belief in self. You are a king, Aqualung!
The very first game I ever rented from Blockbuster back in March 1992, and this is the first time I ever saw past the 1st level. If I remember correctly, Kwame's power was able to stop those annoying oil spouts if hit correctly, but it was very hard to do with the damn auto scroll.
I don't think it's lava in the final level. It's supposed to be a slaughterhouse right? What it's like, liquefied elephants? Like elephant slurry? That makes it seem kinda dark though, that the entire level is flooded with the blood and liquefied internal organs of elephants.
Irony is that the cartridges of this game probably ended up in landfills
+Dragonrider1227 last boss should be et
David Brailsford
LOL
I personally love the music in this game.
@tinwater265
No game is made by LJN actually... they hire people like RARE and Atlus.
So um... yeah =/
One thing a lot of people don't remember about this show is how many celebrity voices there were. go check it out on imdb.
Finally, a proper review/playthrough of CP. I remember playing this game a lot, but the only thing I disagree with, is the soundtrack. I actually found it pretty good, especially Hoggish Greedly's ocean stage. But that's just my opinion
I had this as a kid. I never could beat the first stage.
My ex GF has an NES and this is one of the games in her collection. She told me never to play it, I'm glad I took her advice
Thisis one of my favorite reviews that you've done
On Level 5.1, you can use heart on the penguin & slip under while the penguin takes out the sheet of ice.
i enjoy watching this guys videos
You got a subscribe from me for just having General Chaos in your intro video
You can actually pick up the elephants up and drop them on the ground. They will walk right, and will stop when the terrain is uneven.
I actually just beat this game without save states 5 minutes ago!! It took me a good 4-5 hours to get to
stage 9, another hour to beat that and another one to beat the last stage and to figure out the
pattern of the paddles. As a kid I only got to level 3 but god damn it, now I can say I have actually beaten Captain Planet and the Planeteers!!!
Aqualung, I respect your assessments of 99% of the games you review...pretty spot-on nearly all the time. I must say I respectfully disagree with your rating on this game. It wasn't great and the difficulty looked to be ridiculous but....the same grade as ET and Karate? It didn't seem THAT bad. But...I didn't play through the whole game either so....would you mind explaining not differentiating the grade for crappy games? I mean Fester's Quest didn't even get an F.
Guess this is from before Duke Nukem chose ass kicking as his full time job.
thats the 1 thing i absolutely love about aqualung. he can take the crapiest games in existence and make em seem so damn epic :)
I like how it says use joystick to enter password meanwhile unless you bought one separately the NES didn't have a joystick in the box 😀
Hey, some tips:
1. Don't be afraid to use powers as Captain Planet to kill stuff quick. The droids in Level 4 are real nasty, and coming in with guns 'blazing' is the only way you even have a chance of not dying.
2. You can switch to a weapon while carrying an elephant. However, the choppers will keep respawning. Putting the elephant down makes even more choppers appear so it's best to just do it all in one go.
3. Keep trying for the fist powerup in Level 5.1. Makes things a lot easier.
I own this game, and FYI, the booklet does tell you that water and wind can pass barriers in the Captain Planet stage.
Hint@7:49, you're supposed to use earth power to plug the oil spouts. I'm surprised you were able to get through them, but no wonder it was frustrating for you.
My complaint: water power doesn't do anything in the planeteer phases, only the Captain Planet ones.
hmm... i noticed Captain Planet energy bar doubles as his health, so you can tell how many hits you can take. But that still dodge, especially in a tight spot.
Been waiting for another one of these.
yeah i remember seeing that game in the rental stores back in the day. never trusted it enough to pick it up, thanks aqualung
When a game sucks ass, it's up to us to never waste your time or resources on it. Our resources are limited, and we need to spend it wisely. For ourselves, our friends, our family, and most importantly, our planet. So do your part and help out, and make sure shitty games like this never see the light of day in any place, any where.
Captain Aqualung: "THE POWER IS YOURS!"
You can use stone to block those oil furnaces.
first time I saw this game reviewed was by Hellsing920 on another web page and he said the game sucked! I'm thoroughly convinced that this game sucks as bad as people say it does and I'd never waste my time on it!
you get serious geek points for playing through this game and doing the walkthrough Ken...good job!
You'll pay for this, Mindscape!
Oh, and Captain Planet, too!
It's not any bear.. it's a bear in love...
and yes... Nothing is faster than the speed of love.
So that scene is completely legit.
I'm sure I'd be able to make an awesome Captain Planet game if I had the resorses! it wouldn't be side scrolling, and you could use the Planeteers themselves with their rings, not just a couple of viacles.
Captain Planet! He's no hero! Gonna take your patience down to zero! (My own parody of the theme song) Just being funny!
The only good thing about this game (as it seems) is the graphics and animation. Especially animation.truly impressive for the NES.
Was the 1st game I bought for my NES. Game was hard as balls but I was able to finish it without a guide back then. I still have my own passwords and the solution to beat Duke Nukem. The Captain Planet levels were the most fun really. I liked the side scrolling parts too but they were fucking hard and frustrating.
Hey great walkthrough! Such a tricky NES game this is, I spent many hours of my youth trying to get through all these incredibly awkward levels. A tip for level 1-1, annoyingly I figured this a few years after owning the game, the oil spouts you can actually stop by using the earth power, turning around/dropping rocks on each of them. Also for powerups, you can use heart on seals lying on the rocks. Level 5-1 is a complete ass, don't think I ever got past it and I think I'm glad.
That was an amazing walkthrough. Not to mention hilarious.
I can't believe, with all the villains in the show, they had to reuse Hogish Greedly. They could have used Sly Sludge, Vermenous Scum, Zarm...
Hell, even captain pollution.
@@GAMEPRODELTA Captain Pollution was an awesome villain and would have made a great final boss of the whole game.
I can't believe I actually did complete this game when I was a young boy, many years ago
I'm from Southeastern Connecticut and we sound somewhat alike, except I tend to pronounce my Rs more.
To be fair to this game, most people go into this with the wrong mindset. Yes, it is a bad game, but that is because it's not like most games of the time.
The Planeteer levels are mission based not shmup based, and since you have no time limit in them, you are free to use whatever resources in the level to complete it.
The Captain Planet levels SHOULD be speed/efficiency runs but level 5 kinda stops that notion because...it's the last level?
Yeah, take a cheesy animated show about environmental awareness, and turn it into the most insanely difficult, brutal, cheap, and downright UNFORGIVING NES game ever made, next to Battletoads!
Then again, at least Battletoads was FUN to play!
***** It really is, actually. In one of the later stages, called Clinger Winger, there is a horrible game-breaking bug which renders player two's controls utterly useless. The European and Japanese versions fixed this, I hear.
Of course, even one of the worst superheroes (well if you can even call him a superhero, lol) if not even THE worst, got his own game.
Yes! Never played this one. I scarcely think I was aware of its existence. Thanks for all the hard work Ken. It's been worth the wait. :D
My gosh,its like Super Pitfall all over again,with all this "figure out what to do"
I always wished they'd had made the Captain Planet game into a regular platformer where you could just mess around with the power-rings. No such luck. A half-assed and way too hard flying game. =( At least they used the very best of the villains from the show... but not the theme song? For shame.
From the end theme:
Planeteers: We really hate this game!
We hope you hate it too!
Burning this cartridge is the thing to do!
Just trying to play it, is not the way.
Hear what Captain Planet, has to say: "Wheeler, take your fire ring and TORCH this puppy!"
That's funny.
God damn it, like for real. I remember this, so called game, I never get passed the second stage or so, but holy crap the level of frustration is extremely strong with this one. But I got laid, maybe this what stays between this game and beating it? :]
I remember renting this when I was a kid. That was a disappointing weekend :(
I actually like this game but it is frustrating. This is kind of irrelevant but the graphics are pretty nice. As for the theme music, I'm surprised they could use it on the show. If you have seen the New Kids on the Block Cartoon you'll hear it's the same music, no joke. Though I think that show was done by Dic as well.
wow aqualung, i'm amazed you beat this game without the use of savestates. That says alot about you my friend. :P
joking, but thought your comment was funny, and i'm sure we all know people like that, especially some wow players. Not all of them, but there are a few, just like with EQ or UO back in the day.
Good Review thanks
@JuniorfanForever UH, he NEVER left. His last review was 3 weeks ago. :D
The Genesis game is far surperior! You should check it out one day Aqua!
although that's not saying much
I really liked this review. "God, I hate that ice."
Makes me wonder if this is what they were thinking... "LJN: The name you use when you're too ashamed to admit that it's actually *your* game!" Because it's never too late to desecrate a franchise...
"With the green shit shooting out that hurts you." Favorite review quote so far :3
beautiful graphic fot nes
Duke Nukem is invincible, for Captain Planet to hit.
I love how games try to have an environmentalist message when they're made of plastic and the game manuals are made of paper, which is made from TREES. Same thing with Awesome Possom Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt...at least according to UrinatingTree.
You rule Aqualung!!!
You sound so excited :D
I used to love Captain Planet as a kid, but when I watched a few episodes for nostalgia sake I just realized how cheesy and horrible this show was, yet it was still entertaining because um the villains pollute the planet just because they can
12:08 I admit I've only seen a hand full of Captain Planet episodes, but wasn't there one saying bats are okay and he shouldn't fear them?
what is the song in the theme song of each video ?
"Aqualung" by Jethro Tull, which is probably where he got his name.
wait radio active factory opening a hole in the ozone? wtf??radio activity doesn't affect the ozone does it?? if it was a coal plant i could understand..
i love you man.... no really i LOVE YOU MAN!!!
i couldve lived my whole life without knowing they made a game of this
7:56 There is actually much easier way to get by this part, the oil spouts lol. This is where I almost gave up on the game and then I found out you can use the earth (rock) attack to destroy the spouts and pass by freely. So ridiculous!
This review was awesome!
i can't believe you had the patience to beat this game. I could never get past level 1-1. since your doing this video on a 90's enviromentaly concience cartoon made into a horrible video game, you should do one on the nes version of Widget.
Seems like the famicom Transformers game.
If the point is to take out pollution; why even send out a superhero who's weak to it?
Never watched the show so I dunno if Captain Planets kryptonite was indeed pollution.
yeah it was. Usually the planeteers handled clean ups. they called cap when things got bad (ie bad guys flying away in a chopper,volcano erupting). he could recover if exposed to pure elements (sunlight,water,earth etc)
Superman has shown to be able to fight off or endure the effects of Kryptonite for a short time, if he has to. Someone tosses a banana peel at Captain Planet and he practically runs away screaming, lol.
Sorry, for commenting so much :)
The Elephants give items if you use Heart in 4-2 after saving them.
"Protect the environment, or I'll fuckin' kill ya'! CAPTAIN PLANET!!!"
Liquid Fire? I bet that's elephant blood!
It should be called, "Captain Planet Dark Souls," lololololololo!! 🤣
This game looked like it could have been really good, I like the different power up concepts and having to figure out how to use each one effectively, just poorly designed levels and the planeteers sections seem too clunky.
wait a bear cathes the truck faster then a helicopter?
That's not lava in level 4, its ELEPHANT BLOOD!!!
Captain Planet was actually quite a good show, considering it had some celebrity voice overs, but I agree with Aqualung and the rest of ya'll, this game sucks wangdoodle big time! This is one game I'm definitely not going to play again. I have an FC Twin and this is one game that is most definitely not compatible with it. I've found out that most of the games the blokes at Mindscape did are not compatible with an FC Twin. Duke Nukem was the one boss I could never beat.
I need to ask you Aqualung, which is actually harder: this or Silver Surfer?
3:07
I notice how the Weapon Energy went down as soon as you got hit by something green in there, could that also be a Life Meter or something aside from the one-hit deaths? (Also, when it fully empties in the Captain Planet areas, you die it seems.)
@HandeToon Captain Planet on the Genesis is, basically, exactly that, just from footage I've seen. It's gotta be a lot better than this game.
wow mr. lung, I can't believe you were a product of the 80's and not a fan of the Capt. Planet cartoon. That's sacrilege, brother. jk, to each his own. I did kinda sense you weren't a fan of the show near the beginning of the vid when you said M.A.L instead of just Mal, and your apparent surprise of the Duke Nukem character (who came out before the videogame character). I've never played this travesty though, but it sucks they used Greedly twice and not Sly Sludge or Verminous Skumm once.
Can't forget this game and yes i beat it despite all of its shit i was 13 or 14 i guess and back then there was no internet to guide you what to do so all i had back then is me and only me and of course i was exploiting the passwords...sorry if i sound bragging but this game stuck in my memory forever...if i play it now i will never do shit lol
You'll pay for this captain planet!
No hit run, lol someone would really have to have no life to manage that
"...you'd have to kill something for real"
@KurtKokaine1 At least Duke Nukem the videogame character took off better then the whole series friend. So what does it matter?
What 90s cartoon did you like?
Yeah, Heart was a made up element, but so was fire
Damn...I actually was into Captain Planet as a Kid...the Series was just bad. The Game isn't better either. All the Screenshots in the Magazines pulled you in thinking it wouuld be something great - too bad they seemingly just couldn't come up with something good.
This game has difficult flying controls during the Planeteers sections. It's so slow and awkward. It drags the game down.