Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
A playthrough of Square Electronic Arts' 2000 role-playing game for the Sony PlayStation, Final Fantasy IX.
This is the second part of a four-part playthrough, showing from the party's arrival in Cleyra up through the events that happen during the card tournament in Treno.
18:31 Cleyra
5:36:22 The Outer Continent
7:35:47 Madain Sari
10:01:05 Disc 3 begins
11:04 Return to Treno
Links to the other parts:
Part 1 youtu.be/cvuh6Td1isY
Part 3 youtu.be/WymYZEYqrF0
Part 4 youtu.be/OCalB_UhggE
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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A playthrough of Square Electronic Arts' 2000 role-playing game for the Sony PlayStation, Final Fantasy IX.
This is the second part of a four-part playthrough, showing from the party's arrival in Cleyra up through the events that happen during the card tournament in Treno.
18:31 Cleyra
5:36:22 The Outer Continent
7:35:47 Madain Sari
10:01:05 Disc 3 begins
11:04 Return to Treno
Links to the other parts:
Part 1 youtu.be/cvuh6Td1isY
Part 3 youtu.be/WymYZEYqrF0
Part 4 youtu.be/OCalB_UhggE
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No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
NintendoComplete (nintendocomplete.com/) punches you in the face with in-depth reviews, screenshot archives, and music from classic 8-bit NES games!


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A playthrough of Acclaims 1991 run-and-gun shooter for the NES, Smash T.V.
In the words of Damon Killian, This is television. Thats all it is. Its nothing to do with people, its to do with the ratings. For fifty years, weve told them what to eat, what to drink, what to wear. [...] Americans love television. They wean their kids on it. Listen. They love game shows. They love wrestling. They love sports and violence. So what do we do? We give them what they want!
Created by Eugene Jarvis as a reimagining of his early 80s hit Robotron: 2084 for cutting edge 32-bit arcade hardware, Midways 1990 arcade game was a thinly veiled love letter to the classic Schwarzenegger film The Running Man. It was a huge hit, and it was ported to pretty much every relevant 8 and 16-bit platform of its time, including the NES.
The NESs hardware was ancient by 1991 standards, but in the right hands, it was still capable of some extraordinary feats. Beams conversion of Smash TV was one such feat. I doubt anyone expected much from it at the time. I certainly didnt. I dismissed it outright after renting the SNES cart, and it wasnt until a couple of years later that I had an opportunity to play it.
The graphics and sound obviously couldnt compete with the 16-bit console ports, but I was amazed by how well it played. Its fast and smooth, there are tons of enemies running around the screen at once with virtually no flicker or slowdown, it offers two-player simultaneous play, and the game allows you to use the d-pad of two controllers to mimic the twin stick layout of the arcade controls (or four controllers for two players through the NESs Satellite and Four Score multitap adapters.)
The difficulty level is a fair bit lower than youd find in the quarter-hungry coin-op, but its still very satisfying to blast your way through. Just like its bigger brothers, the NES version requires you to enter a near Zen-like state to successfully navigate the hordes of bad guys, and youll constantly be on the lookout for grenade launchers, brand new cars, and year supplies of meat. BIG MONEY, BIG PRIZES!
Im not exaggerating when I say that it plays just as well as the SNES game does, and the graphics and sound, though hideous, do their jobs well. The sprites are clearly defined against the backgrounds and well animated for how small they are. The compromises made to retain the games playability on the NES were absolutely worthwhile, and the Master System version wouldve done well to follow suit. That being said, the presentation is hardly barren. It makes a valiant effort to provide as much window dressing as possible, including the TV studio bits and many of the digitized voices.
Beams NES conversion is so much better than anyone couldve reasonably asked for. If you want to be blown away by the NESs ability to somehow still deliver an arcade-class gameplay experience in 1991, here you go.
No cheats were used during the recording of this video.
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