10 More Disturbing 8-bit Video Game Bosses

It's becoming a bit of a TripleJump tradition, this digging up of disturbing bosses from old-school games and displaying them like some kind of museum of the grotesque. We previously unleashed a couple of videos on 16-bit bosses that gave us the heebie-jeebies, then we explored the murky realms of 8-bit unpleasantness, casting our eyes over some of the monstrosities that developers managed to create using even fewer pixels. Well, it turns out that there are plenty more where they came from, so we decided to make a part two! Here are 10 More Disturbing 8-bit Video Game Bosses!

#Castlevania #StreetFighter #TheGuardianLegend

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[CharlesWorkPPL]

That extra rear-facing eye gives Biclops excellent hindsight.

[BreakingSigns]

So glad I found this channel. I’ve binged like 30 of your videos this week. Hell yeah! Keep it up guys

[rollanddev]

Great video! It's ironic how the 8-bit era was so limited in its graphics but somehow able to create even more imaginative and visceral bosses than most modern near-photorealistic games do. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!

("Skuh-1337-whole" sounds odd, to me at least. :P)

[Alucard-A-La-Carte]

A single robot leg, bulging manic eyeball, and hairy torso, I didn't realize my Uncle Seb was moonlighting as an 8-bit boss in the '80s!

Explains a lot, actually.

[hissatsu]

I'm very happy to see The Guardian Legend get more recognition

[shenloken]

Definitely good call including Dracula’s 2nd Form from Castlevania 3!
A huge floating brain with lots of faces dripping blood from their maws which then become skulls when you kill each one?
Yeah that’s pretty warped! Imagine if they realized it in animation form for the Netflix series.

[ArcaneAzmadi]

Of course, the plot of Blaster Master was completely rewritten for the English version. The original Japanese version featured no pet frog nonsense, and was about an invasion of the peaceful _planet_ Sofia III in the Epsilon galaxy by the Invem Dark Star Cluster, with the tank Metal Attacker being created by a small group of survivors from the attack to fight back. I'm willing to bet most of the games on this list had their plots changed for the western release, but Blaster Master is probably the one where they put the most effort into integrating the new plot into the game, what with the all new cutscenes- and they still only managed to come up with cliched crap like "boy wants his pet frog back"...

[mikeburkhart]

Not only was the final boss of The Guardian Legend disturbing, it was hard as nails to beat.

[Sukailee]

The Japanese box art for Guardian Legend is one of the sweetest NES/Famicom boxes period.

[erikgilson]

That's the game!! Astyanax! I was literally just thinking about it yesterday, it's a game I used to have for NES I could never find when trying to describe it. Literally for like 15+ years I've been trying to figure out what that game was

[hygrave]

Glad to see the team doing well. And Peter, I think you're tall enough to be a awesome Storm Trooper!

[vladt]

7:01 "Life Force" was also released as "Salamander" on the C64, and though it was missing 2 of the 6 original levels ( IIRC, GIGA is completely absent), the mutant bosses on levels 1 and 2 would **definitely** get a place on this list.

[bachelorsensei]

8:50
I really loved how you gave Space John Wick a shoutout! Isolated Warrior and Street Fighter 2010 are some of my favorite NES games.

[Mankey]

Man the NES has a whole lot of awesome body horror monsters in their kid friendly games. They just look awesome. Blaster Master is on the Switch and I definitely gonna play it.

[AtariSwitch]

Dracula also had an awful demonic wail when you killed one of his heads.

[Sailor_alan]

Not sure if it's in either list, but there was a creepy eye brain boss in r type on the master system. It was grotesque.

[dixon_]

There was as many robo skulls as I'd imagined, there was much more sea creature going on than I would have thought tho...

[williamreams]

He just cracks me up every time when he do these segments 😂😂😂😂😂

[aarongritsch]

I always enjoy boss lists because not only are they entertaining, I also see a couple of games I have never played and now want to.

[johnlewisbrooks]

One of the creepiest bosses is in one of the NES Gremlins game!

The final boss is a large mutated evil gremlin with spider legs stomping about!