The 21 Best NES Games of All Time
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This list is missing:
Metroid
Kid Icarus
Final Fantasy
River City Ransom
Blaster master
Bionic Commando
Double Dragon
The NES had some classic games..
Isn't the original metroid pretty bad, though?
@@BenjaminAnderson21 hell no
I'm a huge fan of The Guardian Legend, but I understand it's not one of the "big name" NES games
Metroid is amazing
and Double Dribble, Blades of Steel, Jackal, and Metal Gear
The music not matching up to the actual games being shown is really messing me up.
@@SgtSega Its like input lag I tell ya!! :)
@@Shankbuster i was about to say the same
I kind of stopped paying attention to it
Was just gonna say the same thing lol
Yeah like the ducktales moon theme that starts at lifeforce (although ducktales would end up being next anyway, but still)
It’s hard to describe just how exciting Zelda was to young people now. When it first came out there was nothing like it. The closest was adventure on the Atari 2600 and that was incredibly simple. Zelda was so revolutionary. It created a new genre
Other than the game boy additions (which I never got into). I have played (and conquered) every Zelda game since the first one. Were you not fascinated by that shiny GOLD cartridge?
@@aubreyholman1951 I still am, and treasure it very much
Action adventure games weren't good untill then
@@aubreyholman1951 i beaten 99 NES games. You? Have u beaten one?
@@doom5895 yes. In 1986 it was still amazing.
It may not be one of the greatest games ever, but I have fond memories of "The Adventures of LoLo".
It is DEFINITELY one of the greatest games ever! Lolo defined that kind of character-based puzzle game. Before that, most puzzle games were things like Tetris. No hate on Tetris, it's great. But the idea of moving a character around in an environment to solve complex puzzles with (potentially) multiple solutions, items, enemies, etc.. what a wild ride in the 80s. I went back and played the original again last year and it was still great.
LOVED that series. There are even more games that released in Japan under the "Eggerland" name. Worth checking out.
Amazing puzzle game!
Yeah, the second installment of this series I played with my dad and have a lot of fond memories from.
@@DeltathRiylaan hi Deltath. Have u beaten any NES games yet? I have. 99.
Mario 3 is the Citizen Kane of NES games. The people who made it gave the world a gift that people to this day are still enjoying.
I just bought a Nintendo specifically for that game 💯
Now that I think about it. Mario 3 is a game I've played on NES, SNES, GBA, WII and now the switch. Easily one of the most replay-able games of all time
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Except Mario 3 wasn’t really a failure like Citizen Kane was at first.
Kirby looks way too damn good to be an NES game lol.
Aside from sprite flickering and the screen edges popping in, it’s indistinguishable.
@@denimchicken104 but at the cost of low framerate
It’s kind of crazy that Kirby’s Adventure runs on an NES. It was a very late game, but probably the one that’s aged best.
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If im not mistaken, it was developed during the latter part of the NES lifespan. Devs pretty much know how to maximize all NES resources by that point.
Castlevania is a literal case study on how sound design can make or break a game. The literal impact you feel with that PERFECT sound that the crack of the whip makes any time it makes contact with something is absolutely perfect & is one of the reasons that game is so great! Without that one simple thing, the game would not be nearly as good.
It's the same way for games like Streets of Rage 2, one of the key factors of that one is the sheer impact of the punches & kicks & the sound they make. Stuff like that elevates games from being good to being fantastic.
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Kirby and Super Mario Bros 3 have aged so well, they look like SNES classics more than NES
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Konami was to the NES what RARE was to the SNES and the N64.
Konami was to the NES what Konami was to the SNES to be fair
What did Rare have on the SNES? The three DKC games, sure. Those are amazing.
What did Konami have, though? Super Castlevania IV and Dracula X, The Legend of the Mystical Ninja (and all other Goemon games that stayed in Japan), Contra III, Pop'n Twinbee, 3 Parodius games, Tiny Toon Adventures, Sparkster, and Gradius III. I think that's a better lineup.
@@Krisipoke Battle Toad was also on the SNES and Killer Instinc. But still, my point was that Konami back in the day was a legacy. That logo meant quality.
I can say the same thing about Capcom being to the NES as well.
@@Ninten70 capcom and Konami are so close, I give the edge to Konami I think but i could probably go either way depending on the day
chip n dale , TMNT, Mega man 2. punch out, mario bros, battletoads, little nemo dream master, Duck Tales, Contra, Ninja Gaiden, paper boy, double dragon, and others…… so many childhood memories
I didn’t know the guy who did the music for Metroid & Earthbound did Tetris. Cool stuff.
Neither did I, and I've been playing NES Tetris for years.
Look at how he made the music for EB, there is a whole video on it. If you are a fan of music (The Beatles for example) it will blow your mind. Genius and it really shows the power of the snes apu, which was a decade ahead of pc sound!
@@timmyp6297 I haven’t seen that video but I have watched a lot of ‘how it was made” videos. The one on Tim Foley is amazing.
@@leeartlee915 Oh yeah. Thats them. The Earthbound one is very memorable. The SNES had sampling capability, and many of the songs are actual recordings from real songs (*remixed obviously).
Damn
River city ransom was and is still my personal all time nes favorite. The mix of Rpg and beat em up is fantastic.
If I create one similar to that nowadays, will you play it and buy it for $5?
@@elmalloc if it's look decent , yeah , I've got the RCR underground and both City girls on steam , great games.
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Don't know y this 1 didn't make the list
Contra and Excitebike were my 2 favorites growing up. I loved how Contra started over after you beat it but was harder and started to send men after you from behind. My record was beating the game 3 times without dying one time. Good memories.
That’s impressive because I can’t get through the first level without starting over 😂 being 40 sucks
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As a die hard megaman fan who played the entire series as a child, mega man 3 was the one that captured me the most. It had all the awesome elements of megaman 2 and improved upon it.
Until it was surpassed by 5
Sweet_Sukeban i really liked 4 and 5 too. They were all good TBH. Though i didnt care for 7 & 8.
My main problem with 3 was the frame rate.
My problem with 3 is that it brought back a lot of the cheap deaths. Such as the final boss having spikes come from the side of the screen.
@@sweet_sukeban4022 exactly. Althought I liked the Charge system from 4 over 5, as you didn't lose charge upon hit.
Chip and Dale rescue rangers is one of my all time favorite NES game (along side DuckTales, Startropics, and SMB 3) so happy to see it included in a list finally!
You might also like Felix the Cat.
@@attackofthetheeyecreatures3472 i didnt even know there was a felix the cat game, ill check it out!
@@attackofthetheeyecreatures3472 yes. Is Ninja Gaiden NES have the same violent GAME OVER screen like in arcade? Or just a generic game over screen?
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No Metroid or Final Fantasy? Crazy.
Completely agree. Final Fantasy 1 was THE game for me what I was a kid.
The original games of those series aren't that great anymore. Even among NES games, there are lots of other games that have aged a lot better.
"Metroid" is still currently ranked 29th, though.
@Craig Adams me too.. what happened?
@Tom Ffrench I haven't played DQ 4 yet but I definitely agree with you about 3. Final Fantasy was way more popular in the West though, which is why I'm surprised more people didn't vote for it for this list.
I like how Jon just came in when Zion mentioned Panel de Pon. That was funny!
Fun list and great delivery as always, Zion! Love that you all take time to make content about games from all generations. There’s stuff worth playing everywhere!
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Gimmick! is my favorite NES/Famicom game. It's a game with such an astounding amount of attention to detail for an NES game. It was a late title, releasing in 1992 in Japan, and it shows. It looks and sounds amazing. It's a very hard game, but I have played it so many times I can beat it only dying once or twice (I could definitely beat it deathless if I tried more) I think it's definitely a game you might want to use savestates your first time getting the true ending. (Which requires not getting a game over and collecting a hidden item in each stage)
Other favorites would probably be SMB3, SMB2, Castlevania 3, Mother 1, Dragon Quest 3, Little Samson, and Mega Man 3. I have a pretty hard time accurately ranking things, so I'm sure I'm forgetting something that'd be in the same range as those for me.
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It's a shame most NES enthousiasts outside of Japan did not play Gimmick!.
I discovered it recently, just thought I'd give it a try because it looks beautiful and I liked the music. Well I was hooked. I'm in awe, best game I have played in a while. Very difficult and very rewarding. It's much easier once you know the levels and get better at riding the star but man did I curse at my tv screen the first time. Totally agree, it's my favorite NES/Famicom game as well.
Just hearing the Zelda intro theme gives me goosebumps and takes me back to simpler times.
Really enjoyed this video!! Thank you for bringing back all the good memories:)
My top 5:
Super Mario Bros. 3
Dragon Warrior IV
Mega Man 3
Castlevania
Kirby Adventure
I wish Zelda and Metroid hadn't aged like milk and were possible to beat without a guide or farming.
Kirby is amazing.
As someone who was born in 95, this really brought home just how young videogames are as a medium to me. Like, I already knew, but in the context of how long I've been alive vs how long home console gaming has been a thing... it's pretty wild to think about.
(I know some consoles came before NES, though admittedly I don't know a lot about them.)
As someone born in 1980 who remembers a world before Nintendo, it's been quite a ride. I personally miss the simpler, fun times of gaming over the modern scene.
Same, I was born in 93 and grew up in the PS1/N64 era and as a kid NES era felt like a long time ago, when it really wasn't... I think that's probably because of the massive advances made in graphics/hardware capabilities in the late 80s-mid 90s. We'll never see a jump like that again.
Here's a fact that might blow your mind (sorry for being two years late): the earliest video games were built out of radar equipment in the mid 20th century. Google "tennis for two" and enjoy the rabbit hole. ❤
The Guardian Legend will forever be my favorite NES game
Gun-Nac is pretty damn good, too.
Zanac was great too, if not impossibly difficult.
@@Heliocentric I played Zanac as a youngin' and then 13 years later picked it back up, just messing around one day...and I beat it! I was bonkers. I didn't think it was possible but it happened. It was like I was in a zone. When the game sees you doing well, it goes ape trying to throw everything at you. I somehow kept dodging everything for what seemed like forever...
Hey Zion, you should do a video on the NES homebrew community! Some of the best NES games I’ve played have been developed in the last 10 years (yes, games developed to run specifically on an NES). It would be a great way to shed light on some incredible indie developers!
Well, they aren't really NES games, then. It's cool people do that, but you can't take design philosophy and even comprehension of the hardware nearly 40 years after a system debuts and compare it directly to what people were doing and could do then. In terms of them being counted as some of the best "NES" games.
@@DeltathRiylaan They are though. They use the exact same limitations as NES designers had back then. Look up the video “How we fit an NES game into 40 kilobytes” and you’ll see what I mean.
@@benhmedia My point is they have almost FOUR DECADES of game history, design philosophy as well as the inspiration of every NES game every made, plus decades of understanding the capabilities and limits of what an NES can and can't do, plus the software and technology to reproduce that work for an insignificant fraction of the budget and effort that went into it in the 80s.
It's not a fair comparison. You may as well take two students in a classroom and give one a supercomputer and six weeks to study for a math test then give the other student an abacus and no time at all to study for the same test and then grade them both just as harshly.
Just look at the games made at the start of a console generation versus the ones from just a few years later. The difference can be staggering in a few years with the same hardware as costs go down, developers understand the tools more, inspiration comes from other released games, etc.
I'm not saying they aren't good or that they can't be amazing, but they can never and will never be true NES games that can be compared or contrasted and placed on lists of "best NES games of all time".
@@DeltathRiylaan That is a reasonable comparison, and I do see your point. I guess I should have been more clear in my original comment: I think NintendoLife should make a completely separate video highlighting the NES homebrew community, and how they bring fresh modern game design to an old console.
I don't think they would be able to cover that since it might burn the bridge they have with nintendo
Contra, my favorite couch co-op game ever. Great presentation and vid!
I personally really enjoyed the first TMNTs NES game but it was super difficult. The swimming levels were just horrible.
Oh and hi Grandpa Jack.
I'm impressed with your knowledge young man. I was there in the 80's and you have it all pretty spot on! Nice work.
For me it's:
Zelda 1
Mother 1
Digital devil story megami tensei 2
Final fantasy 1
Mega man 2
I'm happy to see someone else have Earthbound Beginnings on their list! I also love Mega Man 2 as well
Mega Man 2 is a great game. BUT, when paired with other NES Mega Man games like 4, it looks really poor.
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 i can see where you're coming from.
a Megami Tensei game on the nes??? I honestly never knew. I am going year by year until I get to the wii bcz thats the era I was alive for and played. And I thought I had to wait for the SNES to dive into Tensei-
@@gonkdroidincarnate4237 well... it was the Famicom. We didn't get digital devil story megami tensei 1 or 2. But it was remade on the super Famicom. Play that version.
That cartridge lick had a more priceless reaction than 99% of reactions to Metroid 5. Great video!
One of my favorite games by far is Crystalis. It’s a shame that nobody knows the game, or else it’d be on many, many lists
worst part is it's on NSO, so most people should know about it
As someone who has owned and beaten Crystalis, I think it’s fun, quirky and interesting. But forced level grinding, obtuse puzzles, and the absurd difficulty spike once you hit Dragonia make it more of a cult classic than “best ever.”
Its on the nes app (switch online) as well. There is also a game boy color version of crystalis so your not alone my friend
@@jaxxh6529 I actually got in contact with the game from Switch Online
Blame (most of) the Nintendo fanbase for refusing to try anything niche or obscure.
Mariio 3 was and still is one of my favorite games
"Super Mario Bros. 2" will always be one of the best NES games to me, and I think it deserves as much love as the other games in the series regardless of it being a re-skin of the Famicom Disk System game "Doki Doki Panic", especially since there was more to its development than one may realize.
Yeah, like how actually ORIGINALLY it was supposed to be a Mario game, but then got shelved, then brought back and turned into Doki Doki Panic as a licensed game. So really, the Mario version, SMB2, is arguably what the game was originally supposed to be in the first place. Heck, even Doki Doki had some Mario items in it that were not added in the SMB2 reskinning, such as the starman and pow block, those were in Doki Doki Panic and were already-established Mario items.
@@legoboy7107 Exactly, and I think it's also surprising that most people fail to realize that "Doki Doki Panic" was actually made by the same development team that worked on the original SMB game, especially since Shigeru Miyamoto was even more involved in the game that he was in the Japanese version of SMB2, which was released in America under the name "Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels" (to which the US version of SMB2 was actually renamed as "Super Mario USA" when it was released in Japan).
What about Mario 3?
@@mikeypierce3635 I still love playing "Super Mario Bros. 3" from time to time, especially since it has some of the best power-ups that Mario is able to use such as the Super Leaf, Frog Suit, and Hammer Suit. The problem with that game, however, is that it's way too long to beat on a single setting (unlike the SNES and Game Boy Advance versions, which have a save feature), and the fact that Luigi still looks like a pallet-swap of Mario despite his redesign in "Super Mario Bros. 2".
@@mikeypierce3635 yes. SM3 (Super Mario 3), another legendary NES platform game.
Dr Mario is all my parents would play aswell everyday for hours on end!
It is a very addicting game. I had it on Gameboy and played a lot. Loved it!
Wasn’t expecting Mega Man 3 to show up on here but I’m glad it did. It’s overall my favorite Megaman game from the classic series
I like Mega Man 3 a lot, but its lack of polish makes it difficult for me to rate is as highly as 4.
@@ultrairrelevantnobody1862 I get that. Honestly the fact that I can play 3 while my wife tries to kill me with the Debug mode makes it all the sweeter to me!
This is more of a "which games held up best" with a few early classics thrown in, made by younger people who didn't grow up with the nes, at the time. There were definitely games that were considered far and away better than a lot of the games on the list, back in the nes's day. To me, Kid Icarus, double dragon 2 and mario 2 has to make any top 20 list.
Love the selection, i grew up playing Mario 3, Batman and punch out so i really love to see them in the video!
25 best nes games:
1)Dragon quest 4
2)Super Mario 3
3)Super Mario 2
4)Dragon Quest 3
5)Final Fantasy 1
6)Crystalis
7)Tecmo Super Bowl
8)Little League Baseball
9)Megaman 4
10)Kirby
11)Duck tales 2
12)Flying warriors
13)Double Dragon 2
14)River City Ransom
15)Castlevania 3
16)Star tropics
17)TMNT 3
18)TMNT 1
19)Chip and Dale rescue rangers 2
20)Nes Open
21)Contra
22)Punchout
23)Little Nemos dream master
24)Zelda
25)Tetris (Tengen Version)
Nice! Just got my nes back and was looking for games to start collecting.
Me too Bro!! I'm looking for Wall Street Kid!
Superb list! So many games could've been included (Battletoads, Metroid, Super Tecmo Bowl, etc.). Maybe seperate lists for different categories of NES games (sports, action/adventure, quest, fighting, games based on films/tv shows, shooters, etc.)? Great content, keep it coming!
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Hi Grandpa Jack! Tetris is an all time classic, and one of the first things I ever played. :) (And I still play it all the time now.)
Its a great game... but it was more popular for the gameboy once it came out. I remember playing a lot of tetris for gb.... after that I remember wondering about the nes one.
@@xolrak There we’re 2 Tetris games for the NES. It was the basis for one of the biggest lawsuits in videogame history!
Awesome list Zion! So cool you got this channel going! I’ll never forget the days back at PacSun in wausau
This is a great list, all these give me so much nostalgia
METALSTORM was pretty badass as well. If you've never played it, it's worth going back to. Oh, and hi grandpa jack!
The reverse gravity was pretty cool.
Ninja gaiden is my childhood. They even gave us some cutscreens, that atmosphere in pixel is awesome.
I'm over 40 years old and I had a NES when I was a young child. I still remember those catchy tunes from some of these games
Excellent list! I might throw a few into the mix, but all of these are prime and deserved on someone's list!
Quite solid list. Personally I missed some great shmups: Gun Nac, Crisis Force, Over Horizon. And good platform games: Felix the Cat, Kyatto Ninden Teyandee, U-four-ia, Moon Crystal. Interesting European games - James Bond jr. and Hook. And Capcom's classic dream world game - Little Nemo. Oh, almost forgot New Ghostbusters II.
Some of my all-time favorite NES games:
Mega Man 3>Mega Man 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden II
Duck Tales
Little Nemo and the Dream Master
Tetris
Rescue Rangers
Double Dragon II
Contra
Super C
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Arcade
The Legend of Zelda
Mike Tyson’s Punch Out
Wrath of the Black Ninja
Mega Man 4>3=1>2
Wrath of the Black Manta*
Awesome to see Gargoyles Quest II here! Extremely bogus to not see Dragon Quest III, Megami Tensei II and Earthbound Beginnings though...
This was NES titles. Stuff that was only on the Famicon are not listed.
Volbound. Dragon Warriors 3 was released on the NES.
Im sad that I missed Gargoyles Quest II back in the day... it looks amazing for the time
Really solid list.
Having two best Megamans and Castlevanias is ok, but strange.
Mighty Final Fight is technical wonder, but kinda obscure to add in.
Where's River City Ransom, Tecmo Super Bowl and NES Open?
I agree with everything except NES Open. It doesn't hold up like the rest.
"River City Ransom" currently ranks 36th. "NES Open Tournament Golf" isn't ranked within the Top 50. "Tecmo Super Bowl" still needs 3 more reviews to qualify for the list, at which point it would actually rank 2nd or 3rd!
Make your own video then perhaps.. be ready for all the comments that will follow 🫣🫡
Bionic Commando is one of my favourite NES games.
My favorite is Earthbound Beginnings 😁
@Tom Ffrench I absolutely love the DQ series, but I always preferred the contemporary settings of the Mother trilogy. It just gives a sense of familiarity and relatability that DQ just doesn't give me. While I acknowledge that DQ was what helped inspire the Mother games to begin with, Mother is what molded that framework into something even better, in my personal opinion.
This was incredibly well done 👏👏
That's a great video, thanks a lot, really enjoyed it!
Bucky O’ Hare deserved a spot on this list.
Classic
Haha, I hated that game as a kid.
Could never beat the final escape sequence. Killer soundtrack, though.
Bucky O'Hare was a masterpiece in my humble opinion.
Dragon Warrior IV. My favorite of all time. Hunted down a used copy 24 years ago for $55. Now looks like it goes for around $200
I got it when it was released,. Still have box and contents in mint condition for being opened.
Watching this because the creator recently passed away. It set the future for gaming consoles ❤
Blaster Master, Faxanadu, Solomon's key, Final Fantasy, Contra, Ninja Gaiden, Rad Racer, Milon's Secret Castle. Those were my young days, truly amazing games.
For me it's Earthbound Beginnings, Kid Icarus, Mega Man VI and of course, Fire Emblem Gaiden, easily one of my favourite games ever.
Earthbound Zero is ass
@@maximumbeans9310 Pretending that trash is a masterpiece is bad for the industry. When gamers defend garbage companies know how much they can get away with. When people stop calling out trash for what it is the quality of games diminish greatly
Fire Emblem wasn't on the NES. It was Japan only.
@@rockingpox2274 Who said anything about masterpieces lol
I fully admit to EBB and FE2 not being very good games but also like, I have so much fun playing them, at least relative to a lot of other games on the system. Personally I think they're very charming and embody a very specific type of flawed game that you don't really find in any other era. To me they're the quintessential NES experience and I wouldn't have them any other way.
@@maximumbeans9310 don't care, don't tell me not to criticize games or people's taste. Next thing you know they'll charge $15 for this on the eshop and people will buy it not knowing that it's a bad game then Nintendo will do it again
Pizza Hut slapped in the 90s.
Great top, a lot of memories :)
Mighty Final Fight!!!
Why yes, a few of my favorites DID make the list! I don't have just one favorite game on the NES, best I can do is narrow it down to just a handful. That handful includes, in no particular order: Legend of Zelda, Zelda2: the Adventure of Link, Dragon Warrior 4(I own Complete in box copy for NES), Dragon Warrior 3, Crystalis, Little Samson, Metroid.. and a bunch more, but those start to drop off of my "favorites" list and fall more into "love it" territory.
Awesome video, great list, thanks for this post👌👍✌
The "Chicken" in 🏰-vania is actually a Pork Chop.
The more you know!
Bionic Commando and the Lolo games are some of my personal favorites that never seem to make these lists. More people should check them out! Particularly Lolo, since it's on Nintendo Switch Online at least.
Greaaat video!! I loved this games, but I missed on this list the Double Dragon III
Cool trivia fact about Kirby: He was named after the American lawyer John Kirby who helped represent Nintendo and was insanely good at his job.
He was the reason Nintendo won the Universal City Studios v. Nintendo case where Universal was trying to say Donkey Kong was a rip off of King Kong.
Kirby did such a good job that Miyamoto honored him by naming a video game character after him.
That character is the enemy inhaling pink puffball we've grown to love.
Did someone say Super Mario Bro’s is number 1, no?! Well it is for me 😊
Metroid, Final Fantasy, Faxanadu, and Destiny of an Emperor are ones I keep coming back to. Dragon Warrior I, Super Mario 2, and Mega Man 1 also. You guys should probably have picked River City Ransom over Mighty Final Fight, but it's hard to go wrong with your choices.
Faxanadu had my attention for years as a kid.
As an Olde I just want to push back a little on the notion that people only beat games like Zelda because of Nintendo Power, help lines, playground crowd sourcing, etc.
It's not like we didn't talk about games, but without the internet, you'd be limited to a very small candidate pool. Literally just your in person friends. Who likely wouldn't own the same games. As for magazines and the silly phone thing... again, not everyone would have access to such things.
We just beat games anyways. I do mean as little children mind you. All the cryptic stuff was just how things were so we were used to it. You'd figure it out because you had too, as such the clues put in the game by the devs were enough.
So to say the experience of Zelda is different between now and then... well the only real difference is that you can go online and be told how to play it. If you choose to.
If you don't? Then you have access to the the authentic 1980's Zelda play experience. Everything you need to know is in there, you just need time and patience. Whether or not someone used to modern games would even want try and burn all ten thousand bushes and bomb every tile is a different matter. But that didn't come across as some terrible thing back in the day, to my recollection, at the very least.
Well said! As an 80s NES kid, this was my experience too.
Amazing list!
Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario Word are still challenging for me even if I already beat them.
Great games.
I love both of those games.
I think that Metroid is the best NES game, right up with Kirby’s Adventure. While I think Kirby’s easier to come back to, Metroid’s huge map is just amazing.
I can't believe it wasn't on this list! If you were a kid in the 80s and got that game, you didn't really know what it was and it sucked you in for many many hours
Great video! I love this series! I look forward to the day when we get this video for The Wii U, The Game Boy Color, and hopefully a ranking of Every Virtual Boy Game. ;)
This was a great video. Thank you! 🎉
It doesn't belong on the list but I had very fond memories of Legend of Zelda 2, Adventures of Link. I played it more than the regular game. Other honorable mentions would be Narc, Mario 2, and Final Fantasy. However, this list was pretty good.
Even a digital library of NES games emanates legacy
Hey nice video it brings back childhood memories of Saturday mornings watching cartoons and then playing nes. My all time favorite games were super Mario 3 and ninja gaiden . I still find myself getting back into playing this games thanks to emulation on retro arch. Those were the best and happiest times of my life.
I'm hurt not seeing Super Mario Bros. 2 on this list. There's something so satisfying about throwing a turnip and taking out a half dozen Shy-Guys.
River City Ransom was awesome! It should've been on this list for sure. It was more then just your typical side scrolling beat'em up game, it has substance in it as well.
Agreed, had so many great moments with River City Ransom. Loved how the game felt open world, even though it was very linear.
Those spicy sauna breaks haha
Gremlins 2 is one of the best games on NES very underrated
- Super Mario Bros.
- Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA)
- Super Mario Bros. 3
- Metroid
- Mega Man 2
- Mega Man 3
- The Legend of Zelda
- Kirby’s Adventure
- Castlevania 3
- Contra
- Tetris
Great list. My only additions would be Double Dragon and Little Nemo Dream Master.
SMB3 is the best 2D platformer of all time, at least in my opinion
better than celeste or shovel knight? hm...
@@thebuccaneersden Yes
For me it's dkc2
I don't think there is much debate about that.
One of the best NES games that I never see on any list is Bucky O'Hare. An Amazing action-platformer made by Konami so you know it's gonna be good, I highly recommend it.
Also Adventure Island 2 & 3, at least one of them should have been in the list.
Yeah, it really dissapoints me to never see it on any lists. Bucky O’Hare is my second favorite NES game, and belongs in my top 10 of the best games of all time. I really love that game!!
Agreed
Well, these lists are literally popularity contests. They take votes on the community's choices and then tally them up. Games like Bucky O'Hare were never well known enough, despite being great. For me, the worst omission will always be Bionic Commando. It never makes lists either and it's one of Capcom's greatest.
@@DeltathRiylaan But a lot are personal lists and I don't see it there either. I guess I'll make my own list haha
@Tom Ffrench I wasn't saying they aren't. Just that they'll always be populated by the better known good games. Hard to vote for a game if someone hasn't played it and Bucky O'Hare is just a lesser known title.
Mario 3 is one of my all-time favorite games, I still play it to this day.
duck tales, mario 3, chip and dale and punchout were my favorite NES games, but i didnt expect him to mention Batman 3!!, great catch!!!
You missed Lifeforce was co op! That was why it was so fun!
And it also had the Konami code
@@chadbizeau5997 And respawning on the spot and the ability to recover Options that you held in your previous life. Maybe that's less fun to hardcore shmup players, but it's among the most accessible and satisfying of its genre to me.
add Tetris to your grandpa's NES mini for God's sakes
Solid list! Rygar was a blast too
This is definitely a solid list, but also have to mention that Hudson Soft had some great offerings on the good ol’ NES. Loved Adventure Island and Xexyz which was a weird space platform with a banger soundtrack.
I Hate Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder Revenge
I Hate Shredder Revenge
I Hate Indie Games
I Hate Tribute Games
I Hate Dotemu
I Hate Action Brawler
I Hate Brawler
I Hate Arcade Beat Em Up Game
I Hate Retro Beat Em Up Game
I Hate Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Video Games
I Hate Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Cowabunga Collection
I Hate Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtle in Time
I Hate Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Arcade Games)
I Hate Compilation Games
I Hate Digital Eclipse
I Hate Konami
I Hate Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Shredder's Revenge
I Hate Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Cowabunga Collection
I Hate Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtle in Time
I Hate Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The HYPERSTONE Heist
I Hate Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Video Games
Let's be honest, we have all licked a switch cartridge.
I haven’t and I don’t think I ever will
@@jonathanwilson7949 i wish I hadn't, u are a smart man.
uh, nope...never have, never will.
I was actually biting one of rage, and I regret it
@@nintega9289 😂 what made u do it?
At the end, lists like this comes to more to what ppl know. Sure all games here listed are good, but if i think about NES, there are alot other great Games not many ppl played or even heared of. Like: Vice, Shatterhand, Kabuki Quantum Fighter, Guardian Legend and so on.
But i must say, that im surprised that Gargoyles Quest 2 is on the list. Maybe it got more attention since most ppl know the first on the Game Boy.
Crystalis, The Guardian Legend, Faxanadu, and Battle of Olympus are absent from this relatively mainstream list, which gives me the impression whoever decided this list probably didn't grow up with the NES because those were some of the best games on it.
"Faxandanu" currently ranks 46th. The others haven't yet received the 25 user reviews needed to qualify
"Back in our day" The School Bus and Playground was our Internet for gaming...Great video and choices my friends❗
Was there ever a Black and White TMNT game? 04:48
Somehow we never played Castlevania as kids, we had 8 Eyes which we loved. Much later realized it was almost the same thing...06:40
Super Mario 35? 09:35
I remember when my Cousin got this for his Birthday when it came out, we didn't even have any cake and went straight for it, EPIC. Still play it to this day 18:15
List some underrated titles next list: 1) Moon Crystal
There's one nes game I really like called Gimmick. It's not really brought up too often
dude we have the same brain i ADORE gimmick
I made a comment about it! It's my favorite NES/Famicom game.
I really appreciate the respect of my childhood in this video, great job 💯
Hey Grandpa JACK! ❤