mash, mash, mash, aaaaand KLUNK! love this dude.

I find this video so relaxing, knowing that someone would definitely destroy this hard game is kind of relaxing.

All nes ninja gaiden games are stunning looking, have amazing music, and hard as all fuck.

I'm just here because of the "AND CLUNK"

This is crazy watching you play Arcus ,your hand eye coordination is incredible when it comes to these NES games.

I spent a entire year of my life playing this every day and didnt get to the end this blows me away

I love playing this game. Its frantic gameplay with lots of flying enemies almost forces you to play it with speedrunning techniques at times

I actually used a speedrun strat & didn't know it. I kept that fire shield on my normal play through, but the timer doesn't reset in between levels so I beat the final boss with something like 10 seconds left. Masterful speedrun there. Very well executed.

One of the few NES games I've played that I couldn't beat. GG

Wow man, I've watched several of your runs now and am blown away, totally making some of these very tough games look like a walk in the park. Thanks for the cool content!

Slicin' and a dicin'!

The OST of this Game is BRUTAL

Excellent run! I saw you do this live in Twitch. Much respect.

Been looking forward to watching this speed run, Arcus! DUDE... the way you completely obliterated Stage 5-1 was awe-inspiring! WOW!!

One of my favorite NES games of all time. Takes me like an hour to beat on a good day haha, so unreal how perfect this play is Watching him blow through the gauntlet of Act 5 and on is just amazing. I never knew the fire shield powerup blocked so much stuff, even the spikes. Ive gotta try some of these tricks sometime.

My dude you have some skills hehe, am a big fan of your speedruns! This is by far my favorite ninja gaiden, music on this one is amazing. I remember playing this game as a kid and being totally obsessed with it. Thanx for the memories

I feel like Arcus should have more of a following by now! Are we just on the fame train early?? Lol

God tier run Arcus. Seriously. Saw your World Record Ninja Gaiden run too and it was equally epic. Also, love the hat.

This game was so hard. I never got passed the dessert. Arcus makes this game look like child’s play.

The calm stoic strength and skill with the clunks... PRICELESS. You are the cowboy ninja. Hats off to you sir (((tips hat))).

He's like the Mr Rogers of speedrunning

About seven years back, I made it a point to go through and beat all the Ninja Gaiden games for the NES. This one, as you said, was easily the hardest. I think that outside of the limited continues, it's the best one though. Really encourages you to use every tool at your disposal and learn the game front-to-back. If I ever got into speedrunning, I imagine that I could probably pick this up because speedrunning strats were practically necessary to beat the darn thing at all. I remember, specifically, using that fire wheel strat you did in the final level to get through the spike walls.

Absolutely love this game. My favorite Gaiden game from the three. And what an amazing run!

This was by far the hardest Ninja Gaiden. I only ever beat it twice, then put it away forever. The other two I could beat without dying, but I would always run out of time on the ancient ship of doom just before the last boss. You made it look easy.

Fantastic run, that game is hard as nuts! I beat it as a kid and again a few weeks ago, keep up the good work

This is the only NG I haven't defeated yet on NES. Watching your vid really makes me want to Remedy that. You're great!

Seeing this dude beat this game in speed run fashion was impressive! This was one of the two games I owned that I couldn’t finish. (Iron Sword-Wizard and Warriors II was the other one)..Got towards the end and always lost to one of the bosses and went back to stage 5, which was difficult as well. It always bothered me after all these years and even in my 40’s today. So when he finished the game, I finished it as well...Now I have closure! Lol! Thanks man! 👍

Klunk has become a household word in my family. Arcus rules

wow amazing! I remember spending weeks on this game when I was a kid lol!

And here I am still trying to get off the 3rd stage in NG1. Lol! Awesome run!

I still think The Ancient Ship of Doom has some of the top 3 NES game graphics. This, Vice Project Doom, Shatterhand. All were stunningly beautiful, with masterful music as well. For the time, Culture Brains' Magic of Scheherazade was beautiful too. Man, I want to go back to my era.

Awesome run!! I’d love to watch you run the power blade series.

40 yrs old now. I remember it took me a few hrs to finish this in my very early teens and this man did it in a few mins 😂 Part two was my favorite. I could have run through that one with ease. One was the most difficult imo and I’ll get around to beating it someday, hopefully. Well done man !

I loved this game. The best Ninja Gaiden..all the monsters so cool.

Jesus arcus, your reflexes are amazing

This is just amazing

That game use to piss me off as a kid but love playing it great job on you're speed run!

Damn, I was wondering how you got through those spikes at the end of the game. Now I finally understand how you do it due to your play. That Ring of Fire is very much needed very cool thanks for the tip!!

Damn Arcus you're the best

I just started twitching and speed running this game. Still getting the hang of clunking the timer! I found it really difficult to clunk on each section so I have just been doing each sequence by boss fight. Great run!

This was the only ninja gaiden I could never beat. 1&2 were hard, but this shit here was on another level for me. I think I made it to around level 5 maybe and called it a day.

When you’re so freaking good you don’t even need the 1-ups.

WOW! I have never seen 3. What an amazing looking game. Ryu 4 life!

Absolutley amazing, Grand master skill sir!

The six thumbs down on this vid are from people jealous that they've had decades to beat this game and they still can't do it. Impressive as always, Arcus! You're the king of the NES. You make all these insanely difficult games look like a breeze. Truly impressive and entertaining to watch.

Who knew a cowboy could make a great ninja? :)

Salaamalaykuum. MashaAllah, that was a fantastic pace. Nice run brother! May you be granted the best of guidance and blessings.

That was amazing to watch!

Awesome run!!!

Im here watching every video because number hes amazing number 2 when he beats his time he has genuine glee and joy its contagious

*Looks at this speedrun* *Compares with the one he saw Arcus doing just today* To 2021 Arcus: You're playing too safe.

Annnnd...klunk.

Wow. I thought I was good at this game, until I saw this one. Awesome gameplay.

Arcus speed running these games like a true ninja.

10:58 very nice.

That platforming was gorgeous.

Terrific gameplay and the player seems like a pretty positive fella. Makes it look easy, which it is anything but :)

oh my God, what do my eyes see now, I've never seen anyone pass the game so quickly, I didn't even think that there was no need to jump in 3 and 6 locations, you just could walk like that, Arсus respect you for this quick passage, I'm just very happy that there are such skill players!

As someone who struggled to even get to the last boss, I could never think that someone could make such a mockery of this difficult game.

The dancing cats! I'm in tears, too cute. X,D

Amazing run

Respect..... You're the man Arcus

what can I say man? You're the best!!

Another great run

Ninja gaiden iii was hard but somehow complete the game. Ah those memories

When I was a kid, level 3 always messed me up. My tiny mind couldn't comprehend, going left, lol.

I can't beat this game without save states, yet this dude is speedrunning it with minimal mistakes...😮

getting to the 4:36 mark is LEGANDARY !!!!!!!!!!! never seen those level before!!!! geeeezzz

"The Cowboy" from Mulholland Drive movie

The Guardian Legend should be mentioned too. Even computers at the time couldn't handle the scrolling solutions used by Compile.

For a second I was upset I wouldn’t see the lava level tea bag

Best speedrun ever!

Finally beat this game!!! Trilogy completed!!!! Now, time to try again and see if I just got lucky. LOL.

UNREAL!! YOUR AWESOME!!

Grats on pb!

what a wonderful game

That was fantastic! This game beckons speed and really punishes you for hesitating, or slowing down. Spent many day trying to achieve a pace like that, but it's a hard game lol!

Watched this at 2x speed absolutely amazing

Amazing... I like this game

Nothing like a good clunk!

1 left in the NES trilogy....I need to complete that love!!! AVGN style!!

After more than 30 years (and lots of Arcus’ runs), I just discovered that the background sprites of level 4-1A are upside-down. Copy the image and 180degree it, you can see the mountains with snow, clouds and grass at the bottom.

Used to play the Bootlegged NG3. That was Spiderman 2 hack of NG3. Hard af

The super high skilled cowboy!!Hard.

Legendary!!!

arcus: mash mash mash and clonk agadmator: sorry about that

You thought you were done, but now the Big20!

Bra-fucking-vo!!! Insanely awesome!!!

If you were to show any of these speed runs to 8 year old me, my mind would have melted. The most amazing feat I ever witnessed back in the day was my cousin beating Mike Tyson

Estan bien dificiles este juego y este bato lo pasa como si nada 🤤🤤🤤

10:40 WOW !!! 😮

you make feel that this is a easy game, cheers!

Exelent brother. Super.

That was the best hit i saw today

Wow .. amazing !

Looks way tougher than the first episode

mash, Arcus, mash

Great job 👌

10:41 Dragon Ninja!

Well you killed my best time..... I only did one timed attempt before (long ago when i had these games), I managed to win in around 30 minutes. If I hadn't continued 2 times it'd have been much better. This is insane