Time Lord (NES) Playthrough - NintendoComplete
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- A playthrough of Milton Bradley's 1990 NES game, Time Lord.
Time Lord is a fantastic 2.5D platformer that gets derided quite a bit for its difficulty level, and it's a fair complaint. This is in no way a game for "casual" players. I always thought it was fun running around figuring out the puzzles to get the orbs and weapons - it reminds me in many ways of the opening level of Bart vs. the Space Mutants but with much better controls. The game looks great, with all sorts of fun tricks with perspective, detailed sprites, huge boss characters, a really nice use of color, and there is a huge variety in the stage designs thanks to the plot setup. The soundtrack is also pretty epic (did you expect any different from a Rare title?), and probably the best single feature in the game. The second stage music (the old English castle) is easily one of my all-time favorite tunes on the NES. I really need to stop playing Rare games before my man crush on David Wise progresses any further... Hahaha, who am I kidding? How could anyone refuse one of England's most prolific homegrown NES chiptune prodigies?
The action sequences alone will make your hands hurt for how much stuff the game throws at you - thankfully, you are completely invincible during your attack animation, and you won't get very far without exploiting this as much as humanly possible. This is especially true during the boss fights - they have a ton of health, and can kill you in just a couple of hits unless you are careful with the timing of attacks. However, the action isn't the most taxing part of the game: each stage requires that you collect the five orbs to move on, and many of them have tricks that you have to figure out to reach them. Sometimes they'll be in plain sight, hidden behind a building, or remain out of reach until you've killed a predetermined number of enemies. Other times, you'll have to hit them in order to make your character jump higher to reach them, to draw them toward you, or to stun their movement so you can swoop in and catch them. The entire game also runs on a global timer - if the date at the bottom of the screen reaches January 1, 3000, it's instant Game Over. I included a quick clip of what that looks like at the very end of the video.
It may barely last twenty minutes once you know it well, but it will take you many, many hours to get to that point. If you want an easy game, you'll hate this with a passion. However, if you enjoy games that are unabashedly "Nintendo hard", you'll enjoy Time Lord completely.
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Music great. So difficult as a young kid. Didnt know how to beat the old west stage
I couldn't be that either
I always got stuck on that level, lol
Me too! But then I played it 25 years later and got through it on my first try.
I was dumb as a kid.
Same, it was the boss...he just didnt die
Haha, same!
The music is the best part of the game. David Wise is a genius.
some FINE Milton Bradley choons !!!
Exactly, quite memorable. I remembered one of these songs from my childhood and had to find it.
For real, very underrated composer
Agreed. The music alone brings me back to a much simpler time. MAJOR! Flashbacks.
I agree totally.
this playthrough makes this look easy but man... this game is brutal like you said i could never get passed the dragon/beginning of the western part so finally seeing it to the end is nice. I cant imagine how hard this must of been! This was a beloved game for me and still is. I love the music as well!
Madam Crimson Oni I think the furthest I got was the fat dude at the end of the WW1 stage.
Totally agree. This was a tough ass game. And I was already a teenager when I got it for my NES lol! I don’t think I ever got past the pirate ship level. Stupid clam!
Chrono Trigger - beginning?
I went only to the military level but not to the boss. After so much difficulty i find always strange the ending of a game can be only a text, not really rewarding.
It's brutally difficult, but Time Lord is really a pretty top-notch NES production. The graphics, music, level variety, and controls - it makes for a great package, and it will make you want to pull your hair out. If you can muster the patience for it, you'll love every minute.
...Game Genie??
algol291 I guess you could. I wouldn't imagine that it would be as satisfying to beat though
NintendoComplete rofl
Playing it now. And it hard like damn haha . Good.gamw
@@algol291 Last time I played this game with a game genie, the wild west boss couldn't die.
OMG...I heard my son getting frustrated at a game he was playing in another room and it brought me back to my memories of this game. I am happy to hear I wasnt the only one who had trouble in the "Western" level. I would always make it to the boss but it seemed like no matter how long I played him for, he would never die. I even asked my mom to exchange it for a different one because the one I had was broken.
Yeah, I find that rather disappointing about this game; how drawn out the boss battles are.
A shame really, as I really like the time travel theme of this game. Easier bosses and more levels would just have been better.
Which console is this? Commodore 64? 😂
The problem with the damn mexican fella is that you don't have to grab the blue bags of money that are falling down at the station. The more blue bags you grab and the tougher will be the boss. When i was a kid i couldn't manage to reach the boss at the WW2 stage because every time i had maybe a couple of lifes and that level was very difficult and tricky.
That dramatic title screen along with that tight funky music is PHENOMENAL.
Thats why we can't progress as a species because we learnt how to split the atom and can't go beyond it 😭 what if we could?
Time Lord is like vintage Quantum Leap
The scrolling is very smooth
Excellent music.
Time Lord: another David Wise-composed gem!
The first level has great quantum leap styled beats.
Brings back memories.
I spent so.much of my childhood trying to beat this game 😢 classic!
This is incredibly nice-looking for an NES game.
I remember playing this in my dad's home country of El Salvador of all places! Great music and gameplay, but I could never get the damn floating ball in the Western Level.
Pedro Portillo ME TOO ,
Pedro Portillo me 2
Me too
Me too
I figured it out as a kid...I shot it and it froze it in place lol
Ahhh, I remember this to be so difficult. Thanks for upload, bring back memories.
Invincible sword animation! Woot
Oh snap never saw this game before. Not sure how I missed this one. Great video!
I never got past the pirate ship. The western stage boss would almost NEVER die. I can’t sleep, and the nostalgia of this game came across my mind.
It's not too difficult, the key is avoid grabbing the blue bags of money that are falling down at the station, in fact in the video he didn't grab neither one, but the red one and the boss dies easily. The more blue bags the tougher will be it.
Great play through! Thanks for this
And then came the PS1's Time Commando!!! Luv these type of games! Epic music also!!
Matthew Holyoake I loved Time Commando too! Well, it was more love/hate like it was with this one, but only coz it was also super hard
I never could make it past the pirate ship level. Awesome soundtrack and after watching this play through make it look easy I wonder if thirty years later it will be this easy for me since I was 10 when I first played it. My parents have it in storage, I’ll get it next time I visit them.
Is it just me or does the main character look like one of the Double Dragon brothers ?
The long lost Triple Dragon, MiltonBrad Lee
Bimmy or Jimmy?
Kinda sorta
He looks more like the "fighter" from the nes version of final fantasy 1
@@scottydu81, let's rock this Bimmy!
So the game is a cross between a Beat-up and a Plataformer, but also Bart vs. the Space Mutants done right.
I just love the music on this
Man that music to stage one tho
Never saw this one- even as a kid. Neat concept. Was a bit ahead of its time. Would be a cool concept for a game today. But a sandbox style.
Holy hitbox, Batman! Looks like there are tons of invincibility frames I failed to discover. Kinda makes me want to revisit this. I suddenly remembered the game (almost 30 years later) after seeing a thumbnail for "Time Cop." Funny how the brain works. This game was really difficult iirc. I never beat the second level.
Remember how you grabbed the orbs in the west? You can more easily grab the orb on the ship ( 10:05 ) by throwing a dagger at it once you get them.
The nostalgia is real 😁
I seen plenty of those kind of people lately 😂
Loved this game so many memories years ago
Time Lord on the Ship: "You have fought well, Giant Clam.... PREPARE TO BE VANQUISHED!!!"
Oh hell yeah I remember this game good stuff man good stuff I never did Beat It thank you for the throw throwback
Greetings from Holland i was like a year of 5 or 6 i played this game all the day
Great graphics and soundtrack for its time!
I had this game back in the day, I actually loved it, but I got stuck on the western level for a looong time!
i never passed the 3rd or on western stage..
Same here man. Never figured out when I was a kid. Hence came here 20 years later to fuckin finally solve the mystery because I couldn't sleep and suddenly this came up my mind. 🤦♂️
Lmfao dude same here
...... This exact same thought process just happened to me literally just now hahaha
@@tazmanceltic what bothers me even more is that this guy made it look so easy. i've lost hours thinking there might be a bug with my game, or that i was just retarded. what bothers me even more is how cool and easier later levels look like.
Loved this game as a kid 👍
As a child i never got thru this second level it irritated me so bad tjat i had no idea how to get those orbs
This was the first NES game I owned, along with Pin Bot. Both games developed by Rare and composed by David Wise. For me the castle stage and western stage have a very unsettling and psychedelic design. The rest of the stages feel a bit too rushed and generic.
I used to play this game with my nephew's. Way back In the 90s. Thank you Nintendo.
awesome. I never made it past Pedro (Second Boss) when I was little.
Yes, I know his name isn't Pedro, but he will always be Pedro to me.
Nice one, from now on he will be Pedro for me too
@@cristiannicolai3464 lol. Me and my friends who were taking turns playing the game all called him pedro all at once when he showed up on the screen. as kids we had a habit of naming the characters whatever we wanted and the guidebooks can go to hell.
I've never heard of this game until now.
...my first thought was doctor who..the only time Lord I know of..lol
Technically, he's not the only one though. E.g. The Master.
@@EvenTheDogAgrees And Rassilon
@@juliocesarorellanedmartin138 This is turning into the Spanish Inquisition sketch with Time Lords. :')
One of the best title music from 8bit.
I only ever made it to the pirate stage. That was with the help of my brother. I was usually stuck on the western stage.
Don't remember this one but what an awesome game
4:35 Perfect timing, as the increased music tempo fits the sudden shooting gallery the Time Lord has unknowingly stumbled into. 😋
This was one of the first games I ever played.
Played This Game When I Was A Kid!😀
First time I see this game , almost the better graph you can get from the NES, NICE
Just found it at the flea market for $2 not bad
I was talking to people about this game and nobody remembered it, i started to think I imagined it, had to watch a 3 hour long video of Every NES game to find it. I never finished this game...
Time Splitters has basically the same plot. Wild.
god , this game make ghouls 'n ghost feel balanced and casual.
The 4ht level was as far as I made it. It was an awesome game all together but I was really amazed how god the music was.
Time Lord collect mushrooms and punch and kick flying green elephants
Нравится музыкальное сопровождение игры. Часто в неё играл.
This was always an interesting game, would play it at a friend's house since he had it, we never got far though, I think the 3rd stage maybe?
downphoenix I'm not surprised, as a kid that stupid third level boss seemed unbeatable! Still sometimes kicks my rear now lol
The best Game on NES i have this Game on 20 years a go
It would be cool to do a sequel
*Makes me want to take the old NES down out of the attic this weekend...few beers too*
Why don't you? Everyone else has.
If I recall correctly, France already withdrew from WW2 by 1940. Besides, trenches are more iconic of WW1.
Is it the kind of "historic attempt" we're supposed to correct ?
Jesus Christ...You're invincible while attacking? Kid me never realized this. I always got to the giant sombrero alien and promptly died.
+Brian Fielder Yah I don't think I'd have gotten through it otherwise!
I somehow got to the army level without knowing this. I thought it was just the sword because the holding attack sprite looked like a sidestep or dodge. #mindBlown
I used to this game
I was only able to get past the giant clam boss with the help of Game Genie, and also the only way for me to beat the game. It is hard AF!
Love how the most threatening boss they could come up with for the pirate level was a clam.
Without proper hygiene and a razor, a clam can become a fierce opponent. Hahaha ;)
The year 2999 AD. That is almost 3000
Loved this game as a kid but didn't get very far. Didn't miss much with the ending.
As a kid, like 30 years ago, i got stuck quite long at the western stage; then my father suggested me, out of nowhere, to shoot at the floating ball (and if you go to check, that's written even in the instructions manual 🫣) and tadaa, i could finally beat the freaking mexican fella after a while (and i realize the more blue bags of money that fall at the station you grab and the tougher will be the mexican fella: no grabbing money = very easy boss). Then that damn clam was so difficult because it kills in 2 hits. So i could arrive every now and then at the WW2 stage with maybe a couple of lifes when i was lucky and i couldn't manage to ever reach the stage's boss.
But today, for the first time ever in my life, i manage to reach the final stage (the one back in the year 2999) with the life zero and die after a few enemies.
I feel i can finally finish this masterpiece in the next future if i keep trying, God willing. It's like my videogame's career's higher goal.
*beats up the aliens as I hop into the accelerator naked and vanishes*
Just picked this up. looks promising. nightmare on elm street, fortress of fear...TIME LORD
*CAPTURE 5 DABS IN EACH TIME ZONE*
that's a gnarly looking dragon
Looks like one from Evermore...
This game was hard AF
Music..... *awesome*
Just watched The Grumps play this and holy hell is this crazy complicated lol
nagy Rebeka halmos Adél imádnak ezt a játékot olyan kis híres csaj
Am I the only one that's catching shades of Battletoads' music in various places here? Some of the hooks sound remarkably similar.
Definitely - Rare had a pretty unique sound. If you listen to some other soundtracks of theirs (Nightmare on Elm Street, Snake Rock'n'Roll etc.) you'll definitely catch even more similarities!
Yeah, David Wise wrote the music for both. He's pretty much amazing.
This game was so hard.
I made it past the western area a handful of times (enough that I recognize the pirate ship), but getting past the sombrero guy was so hard I never had any life for the next level, if I even made it that far at all.
I never made it to the final level.
It's kind of funny watching this - I don't know that I ever figured out the "they can't hit when you mid-swing/shot" thing. Maybe it was an intentional game mechanic, but it looks like a game bug to me. Funny that the best way to beat this stupidly hard game is with heavy use of a game bug.
I can’t get that red flying platypus to give me the final orb at 2:55!!!!! How do i trigger it!
I think as soon as you see the red dragon do what he did and hold down the sword (makes you invincible) until he gives you the orb, that way you can avoid getting hit. Oh and it should come automatically when you reach a certain point In the hall.
If it never appears, walk back to the beginning of the area with the three pillars and walk behind the wall. You should hear a chime, and if you climb the pillars an orb will appear. If you have 4 already, then just go straight to the boss.
I had this game as a kid and was one of the very few I gave up playing it was so confusing
Brutal ass game no one could beat. Hardest game of all; battle toads. Did anyone ever truly beat this game without game genie?
I never beat the pirate ship level. Most of my playthroughs as a kid were stymied by the gigantic Mexican hombre at the end of the Western section.
Mikel Provolone For real, I used to play it when I was 8 or so. I was probably around 25 by the time I finally managed to beat it :)
I remember vaguely playing this game back in the 90s, but I never managed to get too far in it, which is a shame. It proved way much for me to handle back then.
Also, now THAT is one bad hombre. :p
Mikel Provolone TMNT is definitely a hard game. I don't know if I'd ever have the patience to finish it now if I hadn't as a kid. But what do you mean about grinding? I don't recall ever having to do that
+Mikel Provolone Ohh I gotcha. I just never really used them except for at the end. I have a video up if you want to see how I handled it
hombre gigante mexicano hahahaha
I could never make it past the Wild West Stage.
come faccio a trovarlo per il mini nes?
The coyotes never die 😅
It's funny how this game goes from "so easy someone with a mental disability could beat level 1" to "NES hard in level 2"
This game looks like a satire of Wizards and Warriors. I had this as a kid and remember how hard it was. Even the music and sound effects seem ripped off from the Wizards and Warriors trilogy. And the knights in the castle look like colored versions of Kuros.
They were made by the same company, that's probably why
Always bothered me I couldn't beat this as a kid lol.
Played it at my cousin's back in the day. We never got very far. Wouldn't call it a good game, far from it. The perspective is weird so that you often don't know whether you're in front or behind something, which becomes very apparent with the rolling barrels. The way you acquire the orbs is different for each orb and doesn't make any sense whatsoever, it's basically "toss a ton of ideas against the wall and see what sticks; glue the rest in place". But the music is pretty good, no argument there.
This game is awesome. I am able to beat it on an emulator because of load state and save state and even then it is still hard. I set up my NES and tried to beat it normally and got to the 1943 France level. I want to try and beat it on my NES. I still have it. God bless whoever made this video.
reminds me of wizards and warriors
Were the invincibility frames that protect the player when charging an attack by design or is it an exploit?
I'm pretty sure it's by design. The game would be all but impossible without the invincibility frames.
@@NintendoComplete Right. The barrels on the steps looked impossible to jump over.
6:18 a walking burrito? now i've seen it all
So many similarities with this and A Nightmare on Elm Street
reminds me of a game called Trojan.
I see what you're saying. Trojan was much better though
Is this game developed by Rare(ware)? From the makers of Battletoad?
The Hoodie Guy Yes.
Nowadays Rare is owned by the company that is founded in 1975 by the owner of the Super Bowl Champion Seattle Seahawks Paul Allen and Bill Gates, and I'm referring to Microsoft, and Rare is without its mainstays David Wise, Kevin Bayliss, Julian "Jools" Jameson, Gregg and Steve Mayles, Mark Betteridge, and The Stamper Family, specifically brothers Chris and Tim Stamper!
Or in other words Rare in Microsoft hands became shit.
Never knew Gates owned the Seahawks, of all the times i'd been in Seattle, not a mention
Wrong! It is Paul Allen who is the owner of the Seahawks, not Bill Gates!
How does he beat the 3rd level boss, I don’t understand, someone please explain
It's not too difficult the boss, the key is avoid grabbing the blue bags of money that are falling down at the station, in fact in the video he didn't grab neither one, but the red one and the boss dies easily. The more blue bags the tougher will be it.
How do you kill the sombrero boss so quickly i just spent a good 20 minutes smashing him non stop. And he didnt die...
You have to be very quick. If you give him any downtime at all his life heals
@@NintendoComplete WOOOOW! This game has a piss poor way of letting uou know about it. Or even hint. I could of broke this game ages ago. What bullshit.
@@NintendoComplete So it was that. I always wondered why sometimes he didn't die.
@@3anaurv2It's not too difficult, the key is avoid grabbing the blue bags of money that are falling down at the station, in fact in the video he didn't grab neither one, but the red one and the boss dies easily. The more blue bags the tougher will be it.
the sword isnt strong enough but a throwing dagger kills in 1 shot? #makessense
entonces se destruyó junto con la nave? 🤔🤔🤔
6:18 Boss too hard.I can't beat it!
It's not too difficult, the key is avoid grabbing the blue bags of money that are falling down at the station, in fact in the video he didn't grab neither one, but the red one and the boss dies easily. The more blue bags the tougher will be it.