The WORST NES Games Ranked
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- We discuss a list of the worst NES games, compiled by Seth Abramson. What do we agree and disagree with?
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This lists reads like it's influenced by AVGN videos pretty heavily.
Ikr! It’s so by the numbers basic. I would like to see Pat and Ian’s list of worst NES games.
It's probably not too far fetched to say that most NES bad games lists will be influenced by the AVGN these days, it's hard to avoid because he is probably the most influential person for that particular subject. I mean if someone knows about these games, it's probably because he watched the AVGN episode at some point.
Yep
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Popeye is a fine game. What?!
I think everyone who has put out a "Worst NES Games Ever" list has been heavily influenced by AVGN and Seanbaby to the point where you're just going to hear the same 10 games over and over again, most of which were either licensed media tie-in crap, LJN garbage, or unlicensed games from gray-market shovelware sweatshops like Color Dreams and Wisdom Tree. I think that to get to the heart of the worst NES games ever, we either need to just retire those games from the conversation entirely or get more granular; maybe make lists like "Worst 10 First-Party Nintendo NES Cartridges (That Aren't Urban Champion)" or "10 Worst Arcade to Home Conversions" or "10 Bad Games that People Actually Bought Back in the Day (With Contemporary Review Scores from Period Gaming Magazines) Which Weren't Just Dredged Up from a ROM Library Years Later For Comedy Purposes."
I don't see the hate for Friday the 13th. There were some really bad flaws, but I would even say it's not even a bad game. It was an average game that is more than playable with some great ideas. Controls weren't bad at all either. The map was bad, but you can easily open the map and see which way you were going. I can think of easily 50 games that were worse.
Someone wrote a whole book called “Friday the 13th: The Easy Way” which explains almost everything to be had in the game. Highly recommend buying.
Someone could re-do the map structure of Friday the 13th and it would be a legitimately decent game. For an LJN game, it is very competent.
What might make a good list is imperfect games that could be improved with 'Redaction' homebrews. I could name a few like 'Street Fighter 2010' and 'Ice Climber' that could benefit from some minor improvements.
@@mattybdbz4665 I always treated the direction your going like looking at a clock. I never had an issue with the map.
Yeah played that as kid whatever year it came out 87 or whatever it was . Didn’t even know it was a bad game. Not sure we even knew what bad games were back then we all grew up playing Atari and colecovision. So nes was 8 bit was cutting edge. Only as adults other than jackal and punch out do I realize what pieces of ….
@NoDrinkTheBleach I honestly think there is a better, more scarier game hidden within it's assets, just adding an West/East Indicator while you are traveling the map would be ideal. Personally I'd ditch the map entirely, add some significant story elements. heck, could have been made similarly to Snatcher with some more refined run and gun/ platform elements like what were featured in the game.
Made by Atlus actually!
Just shows how little many people care about making their own oppinions and just following the mainstream... You can clearly see the influence of AVGN regarding the reputation of many retro games.
I actually came down here to comment this: The list seems to be curated from "Games that James has done videos on"
James has been doing videos on shitty games for well over 10 years now so it's no coincidence that he has done video on most if not all the games on that list.
The funny thing is James has even admitted that he actually likes many of the games he "reviewed" early on. He picked those games because everyone remembers them and they have elements that are easy to make jokes about.
Would have been pissed the fuck off if Simon's Quest would have been anywhere on this list.
@@Raven34643 yes. I would never "blame" James for this. His videos were supposed to be funny and not an in depth analysis 😄 the problem are all those people who never even played a game but call it "worst game evaaa". Just like E.T. is definitely not the worst game ever made. Compared to other titles for the Atari 2600 it's not even close to the bottom.
My Dad got me Where’s Waldo for NES for Christmas in 1992. I already moved on to SNES and didn’t have NES anymore. We returned it to Toys ‘R Us and I got Mario Paint instead. Dodged a bullet there…
Mario paint is a million times better than wheres waldo
I would only count officially released games
I’m legit tired of people saying Friday the 13th is a bad game. I’ve been calm about it for a long time because of “to each his own” manners but fuck it. The only reason it gets the hate is a cause of the AVGN video and people inability to see it as it’s own game vs comparing it parts to another game. “The maps broken!” It takes a couple seconds to learn the orientation and you’re good. “The house battles feel like worse punch out”. There like 10+ boxers in pinch out and only one Jason. What do you want man. I love James and his content but the only reason he and all others have issues with this game is the fact that you’re all bad at the game. There I said it. You’re all BAD AT THIS VIDEO GAME!
How is Urban Champion not in the top 25? It is literally Tiger handheld game that loops indefinitely.
lol because it's a product of it's time where at first everything played like an Arcade game, once Console gaming leaned away from Arcade, that's where that kind of stuff stops.
@@UltimateGamerCC I mean I see what you're saying, but there were thousands of excellent games that came out before then, being old doesn't excuse It's craptitude
Way too many NES games are shit. People seem to forget that because they're wrapped up in nostalgia.
As a Kid I played probably 50 hours of Super Pitfall. It's a fun exploration game but has unfair hidden and obtuse gates to advance.
It's too bad Activision became a shovelware company in the NES era. Ghostbusters and Super Pitfall showed that they just wanted a quick buck and didn't care about quality at all.
really whipping out the vocabulary there, "obtuse". XD
Super Pitfall is not a good game, but I can see where the good game could have been.
Crazy how much avgn influenced opinions on some truly decent games like Jaws. LJN produced a shitload of games, and a lot of them were mediocre at best, but they also made some legitimately good games.
My opinion of LJN has changed DRAMATICALLY over the past few years. I would argue that Friday the 13th, Jaws, Nightmare on Elm Street, Thrilla's Surfari, and possibly even Crash Dummies are all actually...good video games. Now to be fair, LJN DID make some awful games but conversely, some of them are actually quite fun to play! T*HQ and Ocean were far worse developers for the NES IMO. Think about it...did either of them make any good games?
From Ocean, I enjoyed Pugsley’s Scavenger Hunt, but I played the SNES version. Their Addams Family games on NES could’ve been different.
@@ccricers to be honest with you I never played the two Addams Family games on the SNES but they definitely looked better than their NES counterparts. The only Ocean game for the NES that I would even put in the average category would be The Addams Family but even that is fairly generous. As far as T*HQ goes, the Ren & Stimpy: Buckaroos game is actually quite nostalgic but is it good? Meh...probably not. ;)
I loved Jaws as a kid.
@@tigmo55 "The Addams Family" with Gomez is a Metroid-ish platformer with slippery controls but is pretty decent (the NES port, which replaces Gomez with Pugsley, has fewer sections and no music!).
I don't believe I've ever heard *anyone* defend M.U.S.C.L.E.
X-Men for sure. Awful game for NES.
I felt bad for my dad because he got me that game for one of my birthdays. He didn't know it was bad. Luckily years later I got X-Men mutant apocalypse for super nintendo and that was 1000 times better.
Where's Waldo. Even if it was fun, the game is barely 6 minutes long
It can't be the worst if it's fun! :)
@@MarioNintendoh try saying that if you paid $50 back in the day, you can speedrun it in 6 minutes, even if you think it's fun, that's $9+ per minute of fun.
@@UltimateGamerCC yeah, but there's no way in hell you are beating that game in six minutes unless you look online for the answers.
@@UltimateGamerCC I had it as a kid. The length never bothered me. It has good replay value, as he is always in a different location. Medium and hard difficulties are brutal.
@@thepolacek eh... i'd sooner play the Genesis/SNES versions, they're much better overall.
doctor jekyll and mr hyde
Creating a 100 worst games list out of 700+ games seems a little bit excessive, especially for someone who probably hasn't played them all and is really a novice in the field
I'll fight any man to the death who tries to argue Friday the 13th is one of the five worst NES games. It's a good game that is only hurt by one or two aggravating points.
Bart vs The Space Mutants is in no way an all-time great, but I’ll be DAMNED if you can call it one of the “worst” on the NES. Carnival level is so fun, museum level is INFURIATING. If you can survive the museum (even if it’s just luck) the rest of the game is fun.
Regarding Bart vs the space mutants, but I couldn't beat the mall level because of the lollypop platforms and the huge cement pits.
@@marccaselle8108 Yea the mall level is where you start to get a taste for how unfair the game is gonna be later on from a platforming standpoint on the museum level. If you get past the mall the carnival level is fun trying to figure out how to beat all the mini games. It was a point of pride for 9-year-old me to figure them all out with no help in a pre-internet era 😂
@@justsayin4632 that's pretty epic
Great discussion guys! Very good stuff! I certainly agree with most of the choices except for one of them. I actually have Friday the 13th as one of my personal hidden gems and this is coming from someone who HATED this game as a kid! I gave it a second chance recently and, once you really understand the nuances of the game (the map can be successfully navigated although I'll admit that the forest/cave areas can get a little murky). you've got yourself a very unique, original game that's actually quite fun (and intense!) In any case, I have thankfully not played several of the games that were mentioned in the Top 5. X-Men is indeed a terrible game and I personally thought that Hydlide was one of the absolute stink bombs for the system. Action 52 looks particularly dreadful though. I haven't played it and I probably never will...LOL.
Bibles Games I honestly feel is reasonably good to an extent. A bit confusing perhaps, more so the leap of faith with David and Goliath and what not. Noah's Ark was pretty solid honestly, the best of the three, David and Goliath was second, and Baby Moses was the worst. But there were definitely games far worse then those three.
The second one had Sunday Funday. That was garbage
Even Dragon's Lair though, I've beaten that game. Yes, it is trial and error, it is miserable, it is dogshit, but it's a game. Action 52 should occupy the first 52 slots of worst NES games, cause they're all broken and even calling them games is a stretch.
That would be no fun.
"I remember it being unmemorable" - Is that possible?
lol contrary to how it sounds, it totally can be.
Definitely
The correct phrasing should be "It was an unmemorable game because I beat it yet I can't remember a thing about it."
as far as licensed NES games go that didn't appear here, Heroes of the Lance would be a top 5 worst for me. awful game
I don't know if I'd say top 5, but certainly up there. Top 10 for me for sure.
deadly towers IS that awful of a game
I'll be honest, I think people overreact to Friday the 13th. It's not a good game, but it's not nearly as bad as people make it out to be.
Have Mark run around collecting everything you need, potions, a good weapon, and set up the camp councilors in certain cabins to monitor Jason's movement while Mark is collecting stuff. The kid's cabin can survive two attacks, so you can just ignore it for the first part of the game (if you are close enough to stop Jason, I would take the time to save those extra attacks). Once Mark is ready to kill Jason, find him on the map (don't fight him in cabins if you can), and just force him into the corner of the screen, and spam attack him until he runs away, immediately give chase to force him into another fight, rinse and repeat until he is defeated. Find him on the next day, force him into fighting on the map, and repeat the same process. Do it on the third day, and you'll win the game, easy. If you want to save Mark some potions and life, use the camp councilors you have positioned all over the place to force Jason into fights on the map (try to get a knife, but the rocks are just as effective) and do the same thing. If you lose anyone but Mark, you're fine, since he is the best character in the game.
+Lord Kardok
Damn! You really know "Friday the 13th" for the NES! Thanks for the tips! 😎👍
that Muppet game is a perfect example of if even when a game was bad, if it was in your collection you played it regardless - I remember getting a copy of it as well as Ninja Turtles II on VHS when I was a kid and I played it all the time
Xmen was so bad, I made it through the four levels as a kid and on the last level the game just stopped and didn't let me progress. Still have bad memories of the color schemes in that one.
My poor dad got me uncanny X-Men for Christmas of 1989 and I had to pretend it was good and it was so bad.
Luckily a few years later there were better X-Men games, X-Men and X-Men 2 clone wars for Genesis. The game gear X-Men games. X-Men mutant apocalypse for super Nintendo.
X-Men children of the atom for arcade, Saturn, and PS1, X-Men vs Street fighter for arcade, Saturn, and PS1.
And finally, X-Men the arcade game by Konami, I just wished they posted that to super Nintendo.
Seems like whoever made this list just binge-watched all the AVGN episodes and made that list. I agree with the CU crew, theres much worse out there.
Friday the 13th is actually a GOOD game.... Once you know what you're supposed to do. It's the sort of game that a guide makes 100% better, and I'd absolutely recommend anyone who tries it to look up a guide on it first before playing. You'll have a far better time with it.
I have had Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde my entire life and I still have no fucking clue how to play it. lol
Okay, Friday the 13th gets a way worse rep than it should, the map is confusing but once you figure it out it's okay, just don't go into the woods, that's the worst part of that game, plus most of the items appear randomly when you jump and that is annoying.
As for other movie based games: yes, ghostbusters on the nes is bad ☹️👎, but the original port is good on the Commodore 64, but how could they put back to the future on the list (not to say it's good or anything) but back to the future pt. II And III is a wayyyyy worse game😩.
And you're right about total recall, even though it's based on the movie pretty well, until this level I can't even describe 🤷♂️.
Actually, once you know what you are doing and have a key, you want to find the cabin in the woods for a guaranteed torch back in the cabin with the note.
Cheetahman 2 shouldn't really count as it was never released by any official company.
I would say the worst official NES games are Silver Surfer, Mr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide, Super Pitfall, Action 52, Where's Waldo, Mario is Missing, Bart vs the Space Mutants, The Uncanny X-Men, Dragon's Lair (North American version), Fester's Quest, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Tag Team Pro Wrestling, Karate Champ, Deadly Towers, Home Alone, Superman, Fist of the North Star, Total Recall, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Adventures of Gilligan's Island, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, Widget, and Transformers Convoy no Nazo.
Hydlide also came out in the US three years after the Japanese version (which was itself two years after the computer original). Perhaps it would have been more forgivable had it come out in the Black Box era that it basically was. The Famicom version was basically released at the same time as Zelda, except that Zelda was on that new-fangled disk drive.
I would argue that Silver Surfer is an excellent game that I'll never beat fairly. You might as well put Ghouls and Ghosts on the list
@@charleybarley7148 Some of the background stuff is really annoying as you cant tell whats safe and whats gonna damage you.
@@charleybarley7148 I like it too, just saying thats my biggest problem with it.
The QA testers for Super Pitfall should have been tossed into a spike pit
I rented super pitfall from blockbuster video in the late 80s and I brought it back after 3 hours and rented willow instead 🙂
I want to hear your opinions on the 50 dollar price point for the expanded nso. Personally, I think Nintendo is practically begging their customers to emulate with the 150% price increase
I have a soft spot for Where's Waldo. I do like speed running it. Friday the 13th even being in the conversation is ridiculous.
It's like finding Waldo in a sea of 8bit trash.
Surprised Chubby Cherub isn't here. I remember it made my hand hurt so bad! The controls were hideous.
My cousin had Dr Jekyl and I had Where's Waldo growing up. Where's Waldo was just unremarkable, but we actively disliked Dr Jekyl. Friday the 13th is pretty fun once you know what to do
Back to the Future definitely would for me. As a child I loved the movies so much, and for me the worst part about the NES game was the difficulty. Getting past the cafe was insanely hard as a kid, in fact I never managed to pull it off. And the worst part was if you lost you had to go back and play the previous level completely over again. So that made practicing the cafe a chore. And this was supposed to be the first level “boss”.
Since that part was so hard, I never got to experience the classroom scene, or the guitar part, or the driving at the end. And the shooting levels in between were definitely monotonous, and had nothing to do with the movies, besides the skateboard, which seemed more like a detriment than a power up. Why was there a bowling ball with pins placed randomly in the street? I hate that game so much.
You want to know what was a shit game?
Marble Madness.
Horrible controls, both in 90° and 45°
No battery = scores erased every power.
Only five stages... FIVE.
The soundtrack was the best part of that game.
Marble Madness was a great game on the Amiga, where you could use a mouse.
not a bad game, kid
I thought that Deadly Towers wasn't bad, but that was probably because I used the cheat code that maxed out your weapons and items so you could skip everything and go directly to the towers from the start.
I actually tend to play that way to this day, yes I still have my 80s/90s consoles setup for play. I try out a game for a bit, and then I'll use a code or two to take the edge off of unfair BS and stupid difficulty levels. lol
Silver Surfer is a stupid choice. For shooter games I'd say its one of the EASIEST. I beat it pretty easily. Try Starship Hector! THATS a hard shooter. Friday the 13th?! C'mon. This list is just someone that watched the first 2 season of AVGN. #1: HOME ALONE. Just a lazy, worthless piece of trash. Terrible music, game play. Has ZERO redeeming qualities. ZERO. Even the game boy version is better! Also top 3 any of the THQ games. But Id say Rocky and Bullwinkle, or maybe Waynes World. Its so inept I love it. Its like the Birdemic of video games. They should have been embarrassed to put that out.
Ultima: Warriors of Destiny is the true worst lisenced NES game. The only reason it's not on this list is because it wasn't made famous by Seanbaby or TH-camrs like AVGN. It should at least be in the top 5 of any worst games list.
I just watched something on the source code of Dragons Lair for NES, and I remember they talked about something being wrong with the US version where it was too slow from some bug. Still, not a great game, but theres a lil more going on.
Videos called: The Hidden Source Code in Dragon's Lair (NES) by Displaced Gamers
Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde was for sale at a used game store for 24.99 I think thats criminal.
Oh, I would totally defend Bart Vs Space Mutants, Total Recall, Friday The 13th and Silver Surfer. I actually really like these games.
Silver Surfer is actually a good game. You just need to get the powerups and learn the levels a little bit. Its gets the reputation because its so hard at first.
Nah it's flawed but silver surfer looks good and the music is insanely good. They made it way too fucking hard. That and battletoads 2 player.
@@turboshazed7370 Silver Surfer's difficulty level is overrated. Its just very hard the first time you play it.. but when you get a little used to the levels and get the powerups its not really that bad. Starship Hector for example is miles harder.
oh wow, no manscape ad that runs for minute and 45 seconds
Bart VS The Space Mutants is not a bad game, its a flawed game. The controls are awful with the running and jumping. But after watching "U Can Beat Video Games" video on it with all the tips and tricks, I might give it a another try. Also UCBVG is a great channel, its almost like a Tips n Tricks video mixed in with a review/lets play with editing.
+Zack's chilling
Yeah, I discovered his channel recently and really like it!
Not as bad as Simpsons Wrestling.
@@turboshazed7370 oof, I avoided that like the plague. It's the one PS1 wrestling game I didn't put on my retropie system.
I watched you can beat video games on Bart vs the space mutants. I learned that in level 2, if you jump on a certain trash can 3 times you can warp past the giant cement pit.
I wish I knew that when I played this when I was 8.
I had 5 of these, and then I owned Ghostbusters for Sega Master System, superior to the NES version.
Ghostbusters on the 2600 is superior to the NES version.
Ghostbusters cast beating the piss out of me and spitting on me would be more entertaining than the nes game.
You guys, im shocked “the hunt for red october” isnt up there. Love the show!
I'm glad I'm not the only person put there who appreciates friday the 13th on nes. It gets constantly shit on because it was featured early on in an avgn episode. I'm not going to say that it's a "good" game or anything, but it's decent. Definitely better than fucking Karate champ or something.
Uncanny Xmen (rightfully) shows up on so many of these "worst" lists, but nobody ever mentions that Nightcrawler can just walk/phase through the entire game in a few minutes. It's SOOO awful, but I've never heard anyone address how absolutely broken he is.
It's questionable whether or not the unlicensed games should even be on here, but Cheetahmen II _definitely_ shouldn't be, it wasn't even released!
I haven't played many of the games on this list, but I've played Back to the Future 3 and 3 and it's so bad that I can't believe it's not on here. I genuinely had more fun playing through Action 52 than I did with Back to the Future 2 and 3, no joke.
I understand.
I never even made it past the first screen in Dragon's Lair for NES. I couldn't get across the drawbridge without falling. I worked at it for a little while before I finally just gave up.
cheetahmen 2 isnt' a released game tho so probably shoulnd't been on the list or we wanna count evey beta cart out there too
Hydlide was designed to be played on a keyboard anyways. Its not hard to believe it didn't translate well to the NES format.
And it was like 6 years old by the time it was released on the NES.
For it was Narc . I spent 50 Canadian on it back in the 90's. I should have bought Strider instead .
I don't know, this is Strider on NES we are talking about.
+Cameron McBride
"NARC" is a decent port, in my opinion. Just as decent as the "Strider" NES port, anyway.
Friday the 13th, just take a picture with cell phone of the map, within 5-10 mins, you get the hang where you going, if you know how to play it, excellent game, you can actually finish it pretty quick! Another game, that I hated, then actually learned how to play, and the concept, is Platoon, fun game, once you know how to play it!
"I don't need to play X-Men ever again" - Ian Ferguson
DASH GALAXY!!!!!!!!! Is The Worst!!!!!!!!!!
What about Airwolf, To The earth, Ninja kid, Legend of kage these games really don't have much to offer and are extremely difficult, 5 minutes in to them you will turn them off and never want to play them again, also the ones on those multigame cartridges like 31 in one had a their fair share of horrible games which were sold individually like Arabian, Karateka, Zippy race etc
Ninja Kid is decent. Definitely not one of the worst 100 games on the NES.
@@chriswells506 Well to me it's just too difficult but unlike mike tyson's punch out that one is hard but it was fun, ninja kid was not that fun in my opinion. I only played it a lot because the few other games i owned back then i had already completed them.
The problems with Friday the 13th are two-fold: the game doesn't tell you how to switch counselors and the game doesn't tell you how to dodge during the cabin fights. It's not really in the instruction manual either. Once you learn the mechanics, it's still a difficult game but it can be quite fun and even addicting.
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, worst than Action 52, Cheetah Men, Little Red Hood.... I think the people or person who made this list has never actually played these games before and just watched AVGN to see if they appeared on his channel. Lists like this are a prime example of people taking the Nerd's entertainment value in a literal and negative direction. AVGN has shat all over Dick Tracy far worse than he did Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde but this is the worst Nintendo game off all time? Cheetah Men barely functions, for crying out loud.
I kinda liked Bart and the space mutants.
There was this weird, mysterious, creepy vibe to it and the Gameboy "goes to camp" game. You never knew what to expect next. And they were a challenge, but not Ninja Gaiden rage inducing.
ok so the only thing I really have to say, or ask really, about this list is about Gilligan's Island. I have played it and I agree it's not as bad as the list says, but my biggest question about that game is this: Who was it made for? Kids in the 80s weren't asking for it and people who were kids in the 60s probably werent asking for this game or wanting to play it. So that question always come to mind for me with that game.
yes. I grew up in the 80s and never saw the show. I was familiar with the Addams family, which was in the same era.
@@thepolacek yes, but there were at least an update with movies in the late 80s and early 90s. To me, the GGI game is like making a Mr. Ed game. Who would that be for? lol you know?
@@thepolacek Maybe it depended on your local TV market as it was syndicated? I'm not sure there was another show growing up in the decade I'd had seen more. It wouldn't exactly have been at the top of my list for licensed games. But it didn't seem out of place either.
@@paladin677 When I saw Gilligan's Island (it was on Nick at nite in the 90s), my fiest thought wasnt that it would make a great Nintendo game. When I did find out it was a game when I was around the age of 17 or so I assumed it would be terrible. A buddy of mine had it and while I didnt think it was a bad game per se, It just made me think who is this for? as opposed to this game is awful.
I was born in '88 and watched the TV show on TBS in the early 90s. I rented the NES game because of that. So yeah it was still on the air and was a really goofy show that had some appeal to kids.
Anyone who defends Action 52 can't be all right in the head.
i think action 52 has to be the worst by a wide margin just for the fact that it was $200 (~$400 in 2021 dollars). i don't remember if it was armake21 who had that game as a kid, but there has to have been more cases where some kid convinced their parents to buy action 52 & because of the cost they refused to buy more new games for like a year or something. imagine how torturous that has to be for a young kid. like uncanny x-men & dragon's lair are abysmal but they're still not so bad where a kid in the 80s couldn't squeeze a /little/ fun out of them. the only enjoyment a human being can get out of action 52 is by gawking at how unbelievably terrible it is in all aspects.
This list is garbage. Since they are throwing in Color Dreams and Action 52, where are the Sachen , Panesian, and America Video Entertainment games? All the movie ones I’d rank in the bottom 250 of licensed but not worst 25. Where is Hillsfar (not that bad but worse than most on the list), LJN’s MLB and NFL? Color a Dinosaur? Videomation, Stack Up? That list was a popularity contest of Me Too!
Bad games on the NES to me is an example of a time where developers were still trying to figure out what works. Many of the bad NES games could be INFINITELY better with just some minor tweaking of their mechanics & whatnot.
It's a hackers paradise to be honest, & I'd really love to see more improvement hacks of games that have great potential but miss the mark for one reason or another. Like Silver Surfer for instance! Why doesn't someone simply make the hitbox smaller? The game would be FAR more enjoyable if someone were to do that.
Expected to see Karate Champ
With the exception of Mario bro’s “ the controls sucked and mapping “ argument is ridiculous. You’re acclimated to modern technology that was cutting edge back then THE 80s. Case in point: remember playing 007 on 64 and thought “WOW this looks so real!!” But look at games in 2024 vs N64. It’s the same concept. My advice is playing them, we all don’t have the same taste in what’s fun
Id say puss in boots, but honestly its rate up Pats alley. Bang onto his skill level.
Also no color a dinosaur? Least action 52 has content. Its much better than color a dino
My brother and I had many laughs playing M.U.S.C.L.E. It's not bad at all once you appreciate the chaos and the powerups. I like it.
Only ones I've even dabbled with out of the top ten are Friday the 13th (actually played this some 30-ish years ago as a kid) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (thanks to AVGN, of course), the latter of which I actually beat.
It's a game gaining more of a reputation but Miracle Ropit's Adventure in 2100 is a Famicom game which will make you wish you could play Jeckyll & Hyde.
I'm so validated to hear the Friday the 13th entry, because it pretty much echoes what I always say when my friends bring it up.... it had some really good ideas, and some really great, memorable music. It just was really horribly built, with a infuriating map system.
But where's LJN's Jaws on this list?
I hope you do a worst SNES and GEN games as well.
I've been trying to figure out what is widely and definitively consider the worst games for every system. Specifically the 8-16 generations.
I had high hopes that Super Pitfall would be as good as the Commodore games we had. So disappointing.
Yeah Dragons Lair is my number 1. No other game made me angry on the first screen.
I think there are some games that are bad, but people can enjoy them because they are bad. For example, a game like Action 52 or Cheetahmen 2, they might be bad, but they are 2 games that you can laugh at with friends. Whereas a game like Where's Waldo is just bad. It isn't fun and you can't really laugh at it. Silver Surfer was a great game, just too difficult for most. A game like X-Men may be bad, but playing that on 2 player with someone who has never seen a game of that kind quality always generates some laughs.
Oh, man, I owned a few of these games in the 80s. I loved them back then and still love them today. Nostalgia is a mighty beast.
I don't think Dragon's Lair is bad. It has this very distinct mood going for it, and it's certainly a unique type of game. It's kinda like a QTE-game in an action-platformer form. It's as if they thought they'd like to make a game with sort of a same gameplay with the arcade game but making it happen in a sidescrolling nintendo-like style. It's graphically as arcadeversion-like as it can be and it's as action-platformery as a QTE reaction based game can be. It's an interesting approach and hasn't been done since then. Every level is one sort of a QTE reaction puzzle playing like a 2D sidescroller.
Those controls are fucking ass.
I can think of 100 games better than conan and worse than deadly towers. Also, get these unlicensed games out of here.
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I would go as far as saying Friday the 13th is in the top 100 BEST games!
Dragons Lair, Ghostbusters, Where's Waldo, all of the Back to the Future games, Deadly Towers, Action 52 and obviously Jekyll n Hyde but I'd put Action 52 at the very top. It's a turd that's way too massive to shit out without dealing with the most miserable pain of my life.
Top 100 worst Amico games:
All of them.
Except EWJ4
But EWJ4 won't happen.
The Amico isn't going to have anywhere near 100 games released for it. Heck, it doesn't any released now. Just boxes.
Plenty of Amico games actually look decently fun to play. Just like some actual old Intellivision games are still fun today.
@@karlcharron3350 And how many are available right now, that are actually finished, that you can play?
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Why ask rhetorical questions?
I think the system will probably never get released but I hope some of the games they worked on get salvaged, finished and put on other platforms.
I’d be interested to hear your list. You always put a lot of thought into your choices.
Dragon’s Lair is a terrible game but it’s got some nice animation for an Nes game. It’s a fairly impressive looking game for the Nes, and it’s difficulty used to make me wanna try that much more just to see what the next screen looked like. It has some artistic value to it.
Somehow Bill & Ted is getting a switch physical release from limited run.
Can a console with a D-pad and A B button really have THAT BAD of controls? :O I mean theres like 6 buttons total on the thing, how could they mess that up :P
So when will you guys cover the cinemassacre plagiarism debacle?
5. Bill & Ted - A failure on every metric in terms of design, makes no sense, is flawed on a technical level, and isn't fun to play at all.
4. Dragon's Layer - Completely misguided attempt to adapt the game's setpieces makes for a really, painfully-shitty sidescroller.
3. Uncanny X-Men - A huge disappointment on a technical level and boring and annoying as Hell to play.
2. Menace Beach - Fuckin' bullshit dude, like fuck this game- it just pisses me off.
1. Action 52 - A literal, honest-to-god scam. Fuck this game and fuck the frauds responsible for it.
I didn't play every single one of these games but Hyde Lyde is absolutely the most atrocious NES game ever for me. My dad gave away my Zelda 2 cartridge (long story) and I got Hyde Lyde instead 😭
Toxic Crusaders is not the worst but the controls are the worst I've seen. You have to use the Select button for attacks
They need to loop the back to the future game music over and over for this entire video in the backgrounds.
yes the music in back to the future is enough to make it into any worst NES games list.
Cheetahmen 2 (or Action 52, for that matter) doesn't really count to me. That is not a real developer and of course not a licensed game either.
Um, wasn't the Russian collusion stuff later proven to be false? So, why is this guy the source of anything? Makes sense this ended up being a list of the worst games he's heard of.
No, it was not proven to be false. Abramson was right on the mark. The regular media seriously dropped the ball on this. And this list isn't his opinion - he added up a great number of lists from others. Listen to the introduction by the guy on the right again.
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All of Pat's top 5 got the 'Official Nintendo Seal Of Quality'. 🙃