Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System: - was programmed on duct tape - was programmed on non-Euclidean duct tape - was programmed to hate you - wasn't programmed - was programmed while the devs were trying to escape a pool of duct tape - has several critical game design flaws - deserves to burn like duct tape Lava bubbles in Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System on the Nintendo Entertainment System: - are randomized on duct tape Movement in Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System: - is a glitch

Can’t wait for the Metroid Maximalist Genocide Challenge

It's a good thing Nintendo programs games on Gorilla tape now. The duct tape days were dark ones for sure.

Honestly at this point in time, I’d argue that “can you beat Metroid” is a genuine challenge in-and-of itself.

I like how the Metroid programming joke devolves from “programmed on duct tape” to “programmed to hate you” to “wasn’t” programmed.

"In Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System, MOVEMENT is a glitch!" We all know that using glitches is poor playing, as such I and many others that have not spoken yet demand a Metroid Minimalist Pacifist No Movement challenge. -Yours truly, CEO of Hatred

"Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System for the Famicom Disk System" had me almost dying of laughter

2:08 Duct Tape 4:55 Duct Tape 6:21 Randomized on Duct Tape 8:25 Noneuclidean Duct Tape 10:07 Programmed to hate you 11:14 Wasn't Programmed. 12:49 If the Duct Tape isn't paying attention 13:50 Programmed while the devs were trying to escape a pool of Duct Tape 14:28 Had too many things for me to type out... like programming with Duct Tape 15:25 Deserves to burn like Duct Tape 16:42 DUCT TAPE 16:52 Donuts are legally people

This just sounded like an easy challenge but as time went on i started to realize how Metroid 1's.... """Unique quirks""" make this considered to be a brutal form of torture in approximately 32 countries

Those zebetite doors or whatever are tracked by the password, at least in the NES version. I assume they're tracked on the FDS version as well.

As a developer, I can assure you, everything is coded on duct tape.

“But unlike most of their metroidvanias, it sucks, I hate it, I want to hate it even more.” Glad I’m not the only one.

I misread this as the "Minimal pacifist run" and thought you were just a super murderer

Always comforting to hear “whether we wanted to or not, we’ve stepped into a war with the cabal on Mars. So let’s get to taking out their command, one by on” at the end of every video

"Donuts kill you in one hit" Rip Gamechamp, she forgot that real donuts also count

“We’re instead gonna have to throw the duck tape in the trash and break reality.” It’s lines like this that make me love this channel so much.

Always amuses me that they act like we'll actually try and follow their madness and do the run too. I'm like no thanks, I'm fine with watching you do it and not making myself miserable

Moral of the story: Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System is a well-built game with no flaws whatsoever

I would love to see a Ghost of Tsushima "stealth-less" run. Basically, challenging all of the enemies and not doing anything that triggers the flashbacks of your uncle... There are some 'forced stealth' missions, but I think there are ways around them

Things I learned in this video: - Ironside Computers allowed Gamechamp to play something other than Metroid after god-knows-how-many-months - Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System has aged like time-travelling milk. - Everything is duct tape.

The Patron read has grown so much I thought the video did a fake out ending for like a solid minute's time.

"Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System was programmed on ducttape" "Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System was programmed on ducttape" "Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System was programmed on non-euclidean ducttape" "Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System was programmed to hate you" "Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System wasn't programmed" "Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System was programmed while the devs were trying to escape a pool of ducttape" "Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System had several critical game design flaws. After all, the genre was in its infancy and the developers were testing the limits of new technology while experimenting with a lot of interesting ideas. SUCH AS PROGRAMMING ON DUCTTAPE" "Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System deserves to burn like ducttape" "In Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System, MOVEMENT is a glitch. DUCTTAPE"

Man, Gamechamp’s voice just sounds so different when they are streaming vs when they are doing a video

“Metroid for the NES is made of duct tape” I have never been offended by something I totally agree with.

HOW? I was literally thinking “I wanna watch some VG Myths this morning. Guess I’ll rewatch some old ones” and then you upload. Incredible timing.

Love this episode. The duct tape thing might be my new favourite 1-ep running gag. You turned what must have been impossibly tedious in person into an absolute riot to watch. Your content is a joy and I always look forward to it!

Someone should make a programming software called DuctTape and re-create Metroid using it.

"Since, as we all know, donuts are legally people." it's hard to tell if this is an actual quote from gamechamp or the spirit of donna rhythm heaven possessing her

I'd love to see this kind of challenge done with a good Metroid game

I am forever grateful to all the gamers in the 80s who managed to delude themselves into making this game a success. Without them Nintendo might never have made the GBA Metroids, which rank as some of my favourite games of all time.

The thing that amazes me is that programming on duct tape is _technically_ possible! A really long strip of duct tape acts as one of the parts of the theoretical Turing Machine which can do any computation, the other being the read-write head which travels up and down the tape and writes or erases marks according to some set of rules.

This has to be one of my favorite videos by miss gamechamp. It has jank, it has rants, it has cheese, it has hype, and it’s just SO WELL DONE. Brava!

Does it count as a Pacifist Run if you get Samus killed a couple dozen hundred times?

Things I learned: Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment Sуstеm on the Nintendo Entertainment Sуstеm was programmed

I love how the duct tape gag went from held together by duct tape, to programmed using duct tape, to design to hate you because duct tape, to the duct tape consuming the devs as they tried to code the game.

The evolution of the whole duct tape bit makes this one of my favorite episodes you've made lol

Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System commits many, many retro game sins including: Being programmed with duct tape Copy/pasted rooms that seem to loop Unavoidable enemies Very slow health and weapon grinding Hiding mandatory paths where you would never expect Required damage to reach certain items Enemy spam

I like how as the video progressed, your descriptions of how this game was programmed get more and more insulting

I’m surprised she, who played the entirety of Pokemon blue without taking damage, is annoyed by how many glitches a game has

my favourite part of her vids is when they explain it like we’re gonna try it

The devs sure used a lot of duct tape while programming this game.

Every game prior to 2010 was made with duct tape, hopes and dreams.

Some should join the patron and name themself “Metroid for the Nintendo entertainment system was programmed on duct tape” so we can hear it more

I'd like to imagine that Gamechamp was screaming during this challenge about as much as the developers when programming Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

I’d love to see nintendo make a reference to the door glitch in metroid dread like having a secret room filled with drawings of old metroid and super metroid glitches

Wonder if Gamechamp likes how Metroid was programmed? I don’t think she was very clear about this

When the video _starts_ with Gamechamp talking about how they want to play literally any other game, you know it's going to be either _very_ good, _very_ bad, or very _both._

The federation: Samus we need you to eradicate the threats on zebes. Samus: Ok, I will try not to kill them. The federation: -_-

Just beat this game again as part of playing every 2D Metroid to build up to the release of Dread, and it was still a major pain. Anyone who’s able to do this challenge is a much stronger person than I’ll ever be.

I love how the Duct tape comments get progressively angrier and angrier as the run goes on

I love the strange emotion in "I'm going to eat a donut!" Like, you can *hear* the suffering in their voice.

She sounds so genuinely angry at 14:40 when talking about the duct tape programming.

I lost it at every different variation of “Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System was programmed on duct tape!” 🤣

This has got to be one of her funniest episodes yet. Great job Gamechamp

The duct tape joke never got old in this video, and still got laughs out of me.

all of your creative ways of saying "not very well programmed" is the best part about this

Suggestion for challenge: Can you beat Batman Arkham Knight without taking damage? Rules: If any damage is taken (unless compulsory to progress with the story) you must load up the previous checkpoint and start over. Challenge: The Knightfall Protocol (100% ending) must be obtained and the game must be played on the hardest difficulty.

In fact, Mother Brain is an AI, so whether killing it counts as murder is up to debate.

I don’t know if it’s just me but I’m starting to think Metroid wasn’t programmed well

To show you the power of flex tape, I sawed metroid's programming in half! And repaired it with only flex tape!

Alternate title: Gamechamp hates on Metroid for 23 minutes and 18 seconds

What a great challenge to do right before Dread! I could NEVER do this myself. Excellent job!

I love how jokes about programming old games on primitive materials slowly turned into a hate letter about duct tape

Metroid Dread's leaked boss is going to compress Samus into her 8-bit form and throw her into a duct tape recreation of Metroid 1 And yes, it will be sure to taunt the player with a box of donuts

Update: I did not end up eating Stubbs the Zombie, and i was actually playing Super Metroid last night… neat

Minimalist pacifist Metroid? I don’t know if you’re a challenge player or a masochist…

So... fun fact. You can beat this with out killing anything. But it is not possible in our life time. If you leave the game running for 300 some years NES version at least. Mother Brain will be dead when you get to it. There is a password for that on the NES version of the game. I don't know if that is a thing on the Famicom version though; and with no password and the time it takes to do that being 300+ years (I forget the exact count) even an emulator running at 100X speed would not help. Still, that means you can in theory beat this game with out killing anything; just takes three or four generations to do it.

I actually did this same challenge on Metroid Fusion. It was a bit aggravating with how the X is needed to possess something to be able to access more. I respect your masochism, Gamechamp.

As soon as I saw the notification I dropped watching Duke of the Dorks and jumped here. *_A Gamechamp video is always a win._*

Metroid 1 to quote somecallmejohnny "is like a stail piece of bread"

Watching this made me appreciate zero mission even more

I understand these take a long time but I always absolutely love each upload. From your YGO comparisons to challenge runs you have not made a bad upload

Gamechamp: I'm going to eat a donut. Metroid donuts: We'll see about that.

Did you know that Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System was programmed on duct tape? Because I didn't know that Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System was programmed on duct tape.

This was one of the funniest videos in a while, keep up the amazing work!

'Now that you're in here you'll need to carefully manage the donuts' - Gamechamp3000, 2021

I will never be able to hear the word "Ducktape" without thinking about this Video

Shoutout to when I was watching the stream as Gamechampusan was doing this and the topic of amiibo came up and I immediately blasted everyone's comprehension of Minecraft Earth by pointing out how the Minecraft Earth Boost Figurines were basically single-use amiibo, the exact thing strem chat was joking about. It was hilarious.

“Welcome to VG Myths, the online Internet video game tv show that’s explored as many alien planets as the entire rest of humanity.” Don’t worry, Gamechamp, I gotcha.

I hope that was the best damn donut you've ever had, lord knows this game was made by super alien beings who learned how to program onto inconceivable things, like tape.

I GOT HERE BEFORE THE NOTIF! Love this channel! Thanks for your hard work madam game champ!

"Missile pack" sounds way more satisfying than it has any right to sound.

Something tells me she doesn’t like Metroid for the Nintendo Entertainment System, but I can’t quite work out what it is

Gamechamp makes the most awesome videos. She comes up with the most interesting challenges.

Gamechamp3000 saying all of those names at the end had me dying of laughter

"Where did you learn to program like that?" On industrial-grade duct tape. :D

I like how Gamechamp just casually says that the plan is to break reality

"to play literally anything other than metroid.' foreshadowing to how painful this is gonna be? you earned that donut gamechamp! dear god id have snapped my switch

Did you know you can actually avoid killing Mother Brain if you wait long enough? Thanks to SomecallmeJohnny Metroid review this year, if you wait like... over 300 years, it is possible to Mother Brain to die when you do absolute nothing... Or you know, use code to skip all that waiting.

On one hand, I hope you do more Metroid Challenges (Metroid 2 Pacifist?), but on the other, this one in particular has left a very angry gal in it's wake

Gotta love how my first expectation of "programmed on Duct Tape" was "oh, so there will be easily abusable Glitches galore" but oh no, it's the Game abusing the Player instead

Your videos are the best it's so fun watching them. Thank you for making stuff

Oh hell yeah I just made chicken strips. Perfect timing

Congrats on the Low% speed run, Game Champ!

"Donuts are legally people." *Proceeds to eat a donut after killing Mother Brain*

The "Programmed on Duct Tape" joke sounded like it would have gotten old, thanks for making it work like this game somehow manages to do.

this poor girl had to suffer through 16 hours of metroid torture all for a single donut-

I always have loved gamechamp3000 and she has always been an inspiration to me. I can't wait to see where she goes!

Gosh, I remember this channel when I was younger. Man, brings me back. Definitely subbing so I don’t lose this again.

i can't speak for the FDS version's save feature, but yes, the zebetites are saved in the password. there is a password generator that exists, and in it, you can disable or enable any/all of the zebetites.