StarTropics doesn't deserve to be forgotten. With Nintendo bringing back series like Punch-Out!, Kid Icarus, Advance Wars, and Famicom Detective Club, StarTropics NEEDS to be the next in line!

Have I already beaten this game multiple times already? Yes. Am I going to watch this whole video playthrough? YES!

"What if I told you...." It makes me smile everytime I hear you say it, man! Keep up the great videos!

Highly underrated game! Absolutely loved this one back when, but was always stuck at the last Zoda. Showed him who’s boss a few weeks back, did it in memory of my cousin who passed this year. We used to go to town on this game, starting fresh each time and challenging each other with weird level goals. I absolutely adore the OST. Outside of the obvious first party choices, this is my favorite soundtrack on the NES.

Man its crazy how under the radar this game was... Ive recommended it to several people who seemed to all have the same "how have i never heard of this game" response

NES is still my favorite console with your help im getting futher in my games than ever before, love the channel !

24:27 Cleopatra looking very European is somewhat historically accurate. The ruling family of Egypt in that time were not native, but descended from Ptolemy, one of Alexander the Great's generals, making her Macedonian Greek and not Egyptian. Unlike the rest of her family, Cleopatra _actually bothered to learn Egyptian_ and could speak to her subjects, so she was extra popular with her people. Regardless, a suntan was the sign of a common laborer in both Greek and Egyptian society, and women in particular avoided getting one, lest they risk looking like that had to leave home to work. Cleopatra, as a noble, would have definitely made sure her skin was as pale as possible.

Cleopatra in this game is meant to look like Elizabeth Taylor, as Sherlock Holmes is designed to look like Basil Rathbone. Many people do not know that Cleopatra was actually Greek!

I remember finding this game in KB toy store, around the year 2000, mixed in with random SNES and Genesis sports games that they had dug out of boxes in storage when they moved locations, within the mall. They also had a copy original Star Tropics. That was the first time I even knew Star Tropics had a sequel. Me and my friends couldnt get over the fact that an NES game was being sold as new, that long after the fact. I was in highscool and still played my NES only slightly less than my PSone.

Bravo! Such an underrated game that was released a little too late, since the NES was on its way out at the time. Definitely one of my favorites.

Little Nero's Pizza is from Home Alone. "Caesar's Hut" is a combination reference of Little Caesar's and Pizza Hut.

There was nothing more satisfying than the victory music at the end of each level. Wow! you´ve done it! is my favorite line of all times...

lol. You cover these games so well I don't even feel like I need to play them. Good job.

Thank you for everything you do! Yer videos have reignited my love for the retro games of my childhood and I can’t wait to sit down and play this game once I finish the video!

I played the SHIT out of Startropics back in the day, over and over. Between that guide and this one, you've done my childhood proud!

These games are super underrated, I have wanted Startropics 3 for a long, long time.

For all the game’s focus on Mike being a southpaw, you’d figure they could at least make his throwing animation left handed

The end of the era! NES games forever! (1984-95) rest in power NES games!

Another great video YCBVG! I was fortunate as a kid to have both Startropics games and dipping the letter that came with the original in water as a 9 year old and figuring that out myself was something I'll remember for the rest of my life.

44:22 - I like to quickly hop all the way to the last block and attack from there. Gives you less chance to fall in and it's a little more consistent.

I want to see him beat Fester's quest. That game was so hard when I was a kid.

Keeping with the general theme, a possible third game could have been planet hoping around the galaxy.

If traditional videogame magazine's walkthrough article get turn into video format, this channel would be the prime example of how it would be like. Your videos actually gave me the nostalgia feeling of spending hours reading every words and looking at screen caps plastered on each page of my favorite magazines. Thank you

I'm commenting just 3 minutes in because I love this game, and played through it more times then the original. The final two levels of the original Startropics always felt more epic to me, but the sequel was more interesting in general. I love that you've made this game part of your series. Thank you.

Wow... you actually did Zoda's Revenge, it took me a while to get the game and now I can play it (on my NES, I already had it on my Wii thanks to the virtual console magic... that unless you do shenanigans on the console is impossible to get nowdays), your guide will help me a lot to beat the game.

Damn I’m glad I stumbled on this channel. I feel like I’m restoring bits of my childhood

I watch for the in-depth details about the games you dive into. I stick around for the great commentary! You can make a whole additional video pointing out all the little easter-egg quips you make! "I feel like I'm ready to take on Apollo Creed!" Love it! Keep up the great work and thanks for putting these out there for us to watch!

Bro, this series is awesome. You got the formula right. Its gotta be the perfect amount of dog. Nice work man. I'll watch anything you do. Every NES game, let's go.

Great game! I usually have trouble with Zoda Y, but your strategy will make it much easier for me! As for a third game, I always thought they'd finally take it to the stars. In my mind, several years after the last game Mike and Miss Carol did get together and the aliens came back and abducted everyone from C-island except for Mike and his uncle who were stateside at the time (new alien leader wanting revenge for Zoda's final defeat in the last game). They return to C-island after Mike couldn't contact his girlfriend to find everyone gone. Dr. J then reveals the spaceship he was working on based on the remains of the wrecked ship from the first game and has Navcom re-programmed and ready to pilot it (gotta bring that robot back). Then Mike travels to outer space and each chapter as logged in the ship's log is a new planet/solar system he visits to try and find his girlfriend and the rest of the folks from C-island. They would meet up with various alien races (complete with references to other franchises and/or places that Star Tropics is known for and/or funny scenes where Mike tries to explain humans to them) including the ones he rescued along from the previous games and they help Mike by upgrading his ship with new abilities (kind of like how the sub in the first game got new abilities, but more in-depth and we could have some light space combat added to the game). As Mike rescues all the people from C-island they'd join him on the ship, and at the end they'd all be back on C-island with Mike being able to go around and talk to everyone optionally before talking to Carol one last time where they decide to go to the victory party together as a couple. This would've been a much bigger game on the SNES with tons of new places and things to do. Mike's new throwing weapons would've been some high tech "space balls" (yes, pun of the movie, but it's Star Tropics, we expect that), and with all the new alien tech he'd come across, he'd gain some unique new abilities too with some new consumable items (night vision for the dark rooms, hover shoes for temp walking over damage tiles, etc.).

Thank you as always for your consistently great Saturday content. Glad to see those subs shooting too, 50k here you come!

I've been excited for this since the first star tropics video!

I really enjoy these videos. Thank you for all the effort to make game completion accessible and interesting. I am sharing with friends who love vintages classics as much as I do.

Little Nero's, I believe, is the pizza place from the Home Alone movie.

Very informative. This was one of my most nostalgic past-time games. Thank you and subbed.

It was my birthday today, and it kinda sucked, this made my day for sure. Thanks! You make it look so friggan easy!

Great video. As usual. Thanks for the hard work buddy. Never played this game. Living vicariously through you.

Thanks for doing this one. I remember playing this as a kid (I remember all these old games), but it's always so cool to see old strategies and secrets I never knew at the time. And the history lessons are always really neat too.

Youre so good at these games! This series was so hard! Even with Nintendo Power

I never played NES games but I love to watch and listen to you, you really are amazing!

Nice video! I'm a little embarrassed to admit this, but I only just noticed the little 8-bit Kylo in all your thumbnails. That's a nice touch. ... How dare you call me slow!

Not gonna lie, I fell asleep watching this 20 minutes in yesterday (long day at work) and only woke up after the video stopped XD Now I have to finish watching the whole darn thing.

I really love this youtube channel. You make videos for games i enjoyed as a kid, but couldn't beat. Games i never heard of and would have enjoyed. Last but not least games that i always wanted to play, but never had the money

Thanks for your walkthrough! This is one of my childhood favourites and I have probably played it through 10 or more times. My grandmother introduced me to StarTropics and I had played her copy of Zoda's Revenge before. I still remember going to KayBee Toys when I was on vacation to get this. It was one of only 3 NES games they had available. They were not on display and I had to ask the salesclerk for it specifically. I remember getting stuck on the brain in Ch. 4, then the boss of Ch. 7. I never understood in the Cactus Dance the going 'right' means from Mike's perspective instead of the top-down player perspective, so I always used trial-and-error to find the mine. Had a blast watching this, thanks again!

Outstanding! Thanks for putting the effort and time into making these.

As someone who only played the first Star Tropics thanks to his cousin. Thanks for doing this video to see how the series ended. It was pretty well done and you see the completed story between the two games.

A nice enjoyable video to get through my morning. Good job

Very underrated game. Downfall is that it came out toward the end of the NES life cycle. Well worth the playthrough.

I like the intros when your puppy dog brings you the game to play! Lol

As always love your videos still waiting on that Guardian Legend walkthrough

I enjoy your channel each week, thank you!

I never knew there was a star tropics 2. Even if you play a game I've never played or heard of I love watching your videos. You have such great narration and you are very detailed in your explanations.

This was so much better than the first. The controls were so much better. I used to play through rpgs during my summer breaks in elementary and junior high.

This is a game i always wish i had played…glad to see the video on it! Keep em coming

1:46:16 - You can avoid spike damage by jumping to the green square to the left or right of the entrance first.

Dude u da man...love your taste in games and always impressed by ur skills

cant say i ever played this one but i am totally hyped to watch the video

2:02:02 - You pretty much described The Windwaker. lol!

Love you bro! Keep em coming

I love that you do NES games, ever thought about doing SNES. Like a ff 6 or earthbound. 12 hour vids!!!

I didn’t get to play a ton of games as a kid, but this was one of my favorites! I used to walk barefoot down to the video store and rent it all the time. I loved it. I had no idea what was going on because I’ve never played the first one, but the cover art just drew me in.

Excellent video!

1:10:07 - Neat glitch. If you throw your dagger in this room it will be the Katana.

44:40 - fun fact that if you take too long to beat the boss, he goes nuts and a log of projectiles will appear likely killing you

I push that like button like that dog pushes the NES controller button!

One of the best NES games. Great videos!

Thank you for making this video.

Awesome video!

When I was a kid I found a trick to max out your hearts at 20 early. If you speak to King Arthur again, you will get the same dialog and he will knight you again, increasing your maximum hearts by 1 again. This can be repeated a 3rd time to max out at 20.

Thanks for posting this. It's so hard. I've tried beating it so many times but I've never been able to get far

I got this game when it came out since we didnt have an SNES. It was so amazing and I hadnt played the first one. I later found it at a garage sale and was very pleased. I picked this up the same day as Megaman 6. Also got the top load NES so we didnt have to share our front loader. What a great day

39:11 "we can say hello to this *fellow* dog" More proof that it is the dog that is doing the voice over!

There's one particular part of this game where I went *Whelp I guess I need some kinda guide* Glad to see this headache averted with your guide!

This game had some awesome music too, I'd been playing all this time too not knowing you could get the dagger early in Egypt. Favorite stage was always old London for Sherlock.

Played a little bit of Star Tropics 1 when rented from a video game store during the summer. Did not have a chance to play the 2nd game. Underrated game that seems really fun.

Highly addictive channel bro good job

What if I told you… Love this! Don’t ever change!

This is my favorite game on the NES have played and beaten it so many times, just did so recently earlier this year.

Great video once again!

I love this channel!

I appreciate your work cause I will not be able to play some of the games you play so I get yo relive my past through you

Thanks so much for doing this! I have a love-hate relationship with this game. I beat it as a kid, but for the life of me I can't recall much about it, so this is a nostalgia trip of revivified memories.

Papa Oom Mow Mow is a song by The Rivingtons. Look it up here on KZfaq. It's a pretty famous song. 🙂

Very nice video once again. I actually did beat this one for the first time a couple of years ago. Really is a shame this series died out after this game, but both of these games are true NES gems.

definitely one of my all time favorite video games

Well done! You make awesome videos and your game skills are way above mine! Stay frosty!

this is my go to answer for the common question of "most underrated NES game". star tropics 2 has it all.

Having played Zoda's Revenge LONG before the original, I'd say the story worked perfectly well. Heck, Zoda and the alien children literally don't show up until the VERY end of the first game, so it practically didn't spoil anything for actually 'playing' the first game.

GREAT SERIES!!!

I love your endorsement of the game at the beginning.

The dog is the best gamer.

One word: Classic!

The diagonal movement mechanics were GREAT!!!!

SUCH an amazing NES game

Best gaming channel on KZfaq

I loved both of these games

I have been researching NES games and though I know a good bit of them. This one and quite a few other's are so unique and look very interesting. I don't remember these games from back then and they weren't marketed like Mario, Zelda, Dragon Warrior etc.. I love the simplicity of the NES era and the unique games and risk that developers took. It was new technology back then so a lot of what they did was probably trial and error and just seeing what worked.

I picked up the SNES as soon as I could, so I missed out on this game when it came out in 1994. Seeing your video on it was great though! Maybe someday Nintendo will see fit to give us a third game, or at least make reference to this series in Smash.

Another excellent vid! I should fire up my emulator. I never beat this one.

I hope that dog gets lots of treats for beating all these games

The haunted mansion was my favorite dungeon in the game. It was just really cool to me. Boss was kind of a bummer though.