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- This list can be subjective, and I'm interested to hear what people think about it! NES games all vary in length, but some are notoriously shorter than others; that's what we're talking about today!
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• The First 30 NES Games!
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The shortest NES game was the Bart Simpson game because I'd shut it right off.
Hahaha beyond true!
🤣🤣
Awe do you always quit when things are tough for you? 😢
Including games that loop feels like cheating. The point to them is that they repeat until crashing, i was expecting games that end with "a winner is you, play again?"
Exactly! I was guessing puss and boots and other super short games
I could always make another episode about non-arcade shortest games.
@@Fortefyre That would be nice! I found this video entertaining, but just taking these old style arcade games that were meant to be played for highscores leaves a bland aftertaste.
I agree! I would like to watch that video as well! Arcade ports and board games I didn't expect. But I did very much like the video.
More content? I would love that. @@Fortefyre
"...but... life goes on..." that hit me really hard and yeah, same.
At the end of the day, I can't bring him back, so the best thing to do is cherish the memories and laugh about what could have been, it's what my pops would have wanted lol.
Thought for sure Marble Madness was going to make the cut. Was surprised too see it not here. As a kid I could beat that game in 10 mins
It BARELY missed it.
DuckTales, we rented from Blockbuster way back around 1989, and I figured out the entire game in less than a day.
Oh wow! I think the closest I came to a single day beat was Rogue Squadron as a kid, I couldn't put it down.
@@Fortefyre Never played N64 Rogue Squadron. Love RS2 on Gamecube.
You can beat most games in an hour or two
That's very impressive. I could never figure that game out. The hidden puzzles were way too hard.
@@AboveEmAllProduction lol seriously? It's a pretty linear game. I think the only level that had anything remotely like a puzzle was maybe the moon and maybe Transylvania. It's a game aimed at kids lol. You should have no issue with it. A lot of those games were great but easy: chip and dale, little mermaid, dark wing duck, tail spin, etc
NES Donkey Kong only has 3 screens, the "pie factory" is missing from the NES version which pissed a lot of people off (including me). Donkey Kong Jr. has all of the screens from the arcade but they're in the wrong order. I actually love Donkey Kong 3, if you put some time into it, the game gets pretty crazy.
My next DK is DK Jr, I actually kind of look forward to the 3rd one.
Rescue: The Embassy Mission is a quick one. With the countdown timer, you dont have much of a choice but to make it a quick playthrough.
That's a great one as well!
😊 I owned that and thought it might make the list. Can be beat in under 30 mins if I remember
That's a french game and called "Operation Jupiter" there. In the US it's called "Hostage: Rescue Mission", everywhere else it's just called "Hostages". I wonder if Nintendo forbid the word hostage in the title... Great game on the C64!
I feel that Donkey Kong 3 does not begin to repeat itself until after you have faced off against all the different enemy types, somewhere between Stage 12 and 15, making it much longer to complete, even if credits don't ever roll.
That is a good point!
Your channel just rolled into my TH-cam. I enjoy ya man and good editing/sound.
I am sorry for the loss of your old man. God bless bro.
Thank you.
The majority of NES games can be completed from start to finish in 20-30 mins on a perfect playthrough. The reason why they were so hard is so you had to grind and the game would take longer to finish.
This is true!
What about Shadowgate? As a dungeon crawler the game can be long, but if you know the puzzle solutions it can technically be completed in about 10mins.
When I make these videos, I tend to avoid the "I know everything paradigm" for like "how long a game would go". You know? If you knew every warp in Mario 1, then you could beat it in like...20 minutes if you weren't a speedrunner, but I do like to make the perspective of someone who is natively playing this without any knowledge. Dungeon Crawler is wonderful though!
Love the 8bit chiptuned version of Dave Brubeck’s “Take Five” in Chess Master at 4:42
Haha, I didn't even realize it!
My mom used to bring home rented games for me after work from the video store next to her place of employment. I remember one time her bringing home Taboo and me being massively disappointed 30 seconds in.
I bet! It's an absolute throwaway of a game.
Funny thing about that game. I saw dozens of copies of taboo in the three rental stores we had in Akron Ohio at the time. I guess companies will sometime discount their games and hand them to rental stores if they bomb
Just subscribed. First video. Great video - short n' sweet. Keep up the great work! I'm almost 50, my first system was an Atari 2600.
I'll be hitting on those at some point, I look forward to hearing about your memories of that era!
Hearing you talk about your dad during the Millipede segment because he grew up with Centipede made me feel positively ancient. I grew up in the Centipede era too. Was it really that long ago?? Good gods, I'm only 51. 😂
I do agree with some other posters, though. Including games that loop feels like a bit of a cop-out. Ought to do a follow-up for games that have an actual ending. 😁
I do have that on the books lmao.
Well sir you just got yourself a new subscriber!! I’ve loved your videos. I remember playing donkey kong jr as a kid when you could rent them from the local video store. I always wondered how it ended lol I didn’t get why it looped endlessly as a child
Welcome aboard!
I'm not 100% sure because I was so young, about 4 years old, but I wanna say that Donkey Kong Jr is my earliest NES memory. So we're talking late '87 or early '88.
That's awesome!
A Boy And His Blob is another great NES game that is basically one level long.
I believe it!
This has been the best poop I've taken in a while. Thanks
You bet! I hope to continue to provide you with further regulatory entertainment while you occupy the porcelain throne!
Nice video.
Ah, the nostalgia of playing Donkey Kong on my cousins NES waaay back in the day.
Miss it don't you?
Wrestlemania Challenge is way shorter than King Of The Ring. You have more matches to fight in the q player challenge mode, but they are over faster, and the 2 player challenge mode ends even faster since you have only 4 matches instead of 8.
That's a good consideration!
Definitely should have groped all the looping games together as one to be able to include games like Jaws.
I can do that for future videos. Thanks for the idea!
My first thought before clicking was the abysmal Where’s Waldo on NES. That shouldn’t even be considered a game. So it was funny to me that your list started with a Waldo game that looks infinitely better than the one I was thinking about
The earlier one was hooooorrrrible lol
That first one is crap, but still short as long as you get through the cave and maze quickly.
Great list. Felix The Cat is another very easy and pretty short game. Here's a few more from my games beaten list (keep track of completion times):
Golf (complete 18 holes, score doesnt matter)
10 Yard Fight (win a match , took me 21 minutes)
Breakthru (25 mins)
Caveman Games (shitty, but just participate in every event, score doesnt matter)
Commando (a few short stages before it loops)
Donkey Kong Classics (a complilation with two of the easy games shown in the video)
Exerion (24 minutes)
All 3 Fisher Price games (super simple)
Ikari 3 and Guerilla War (no consequences for death, respawn where you died)
Rampage (same thing, respawn where you died basically but takes a little while and is tedious, not super short)
Mickeys Adventure In Numberland
Mickeys Safari in Letterland
North Vs. South (3 minutes, but it helps to look up a speed run)
Othello (win a match but this can take a while)
Remote Control (17 minutes. May be a trivia game so can use a tablet or phone)
Renegade (short)
Pinbot (get a certain score to win. not too bad)
Rescue The Embassy Mission
All 3 Sesame Street Games
Ski or Die (just participate in all events)
Spot The Video Game (took me 3 mins first time playing)
Spy Hunter (4 mins, game loops after winter background)
Wheres Waldo (different waldo game than the video)
All 4 Wheel Of Fortune games (25-30 mins each)
Win Lose or Draw (6 mins)
Xenophobe (max out the score, very easy game)
Winter Games (just participate in all events)
Wizards And Warriors (almost no penalty for death, theres one slightly tricky platforming section at the very end)
World Games (participate)
Double Dare (Believe it was a quickie. Think you can fail the final challenge and still win)
Yie Ar Kung Fu (save state practice on each opponent is helpful, then put it together legit. Weird ass controls, but just find the exploits for each foe)
Wurm (remember this being very easy)
I left out some sports games, Japanese games, unlicensed games. Also avoided games that may be short but are difficult. Some games I used glitches to beat quickly like Ghostbusters and Home Alone, which I have tutorials up for on the channel. I went through my list of 228 beaten NES,Famicom games. Some older KILLS I dont have times documented since this was well before recording was easy to do. So there is games I dont remember how long they took. If anyone is KILL hunting I can offer more info for ALL platforms as my main focus is high volume completions and filling out what I call the KILL LIST.
That's a wonderful list, and an even better offer!
@@Fortefyre Any time brother. The expertise shows in the video. Too many generic parrots on the platform, ha ha.
Oh absolutely. The only reason I doubled down on making videos the way I do, is because what I wanted to see on TH-cam, wasn't there. So I said "fuck it, I'll do it".
@@Fortefyre Great to see that. I always appreciate genuine content.
Donkey Kong 94 for Game boy was awesome. It took me forever to find it as an adult. Nobody had any idea what it was. Such a great game.
It blew my dad's fucking mind when DK broke out into the other stages after the initial 4.
@@Fortefyre It feels like that is part of the fun. Letting people talk shit about what is so great about donkey kong, then they get past level 4 and are like Whaaaaaat?
@@DongCorleone Exactly! The gimmicks were perfect too, I didn't really struggle as a kid until...I want to say the "ship" stage, that's where things got wonky for a little bit, that and the pyramid.
My parents got me DK94 with the Super Gameboy and it's still my favourite gameboy game. The last boss blew my 9 year old brain away
@@PhilInTheBlanks same! It was an excellent game. Can be dreadfully hard too!
The 8-bit 'Take 5' on Chess just made my day.
Great video with some good choices. I always reach for Karate Kid when I want a quick and easy play-through.
That's a great choice too. Many folks shit on Karate Kid, but honestly, it isn't bad, the hitboxes are a tad janky, but once you understand how to play it, it's worth a shake.
@@Fortefyre I totally agree. Never understood the hate for it. It's actually one of my favorite games, has been for decades.
Classic video. I had 3 donkey kongs and. Popeye. It was worth it. I still find myself playing with my buddies. Great memories and solid games
Absolutely!
I remember getting Taboo second hand from a pawn shop. We had no clue what was going on so we came up with our own crazy theory. You ask a question and if your card appeared among the ten cards, then your answer would be yes. It was funny when we'd get our yes for questions like "Will my brother date Roger Rabbit when he turns 15?"
That's one way to make the most out of nothing!
There is no conveyor level in the NES version of donkey Kong, which makes it even shorter
I didnt remember if it had it or not.
Memory constraints of early NES cartridges Forcef Nintendo to remove the conveyor level
You referred to the ljn games as bloatware which is inaccurate. Shovelware i think is the term you were looking for.
Meh, semantics haha.
@@Fortefyre That's like saying the difference between a cat and a dog is semantics because they're both pets.
Wow... what an insult to shovels hahahaha
@@not2tired And an insult to Shovel Knight!
Great video my dude 👍
Thank you!
Popeye was the very first NES game I played. Before I even had an NES, I played it on a setup they had in the middle of Walmart. Had no idea what the hell I was doing, but I was hooked on games for life.
I was shocked at how fun it is lol
I was really expecting Tiger-Heli to be on here and for Tetris to be #1
There were tons to choose from lol.
I dunno, I kinda feel like arcade ports are naturally excluded. Yes, they fall under the description of the video, but I’m thinking of titles that maybe Nintendo Power got you excited for, you buy it, and beat it the same day.
Just found your videos, and will be going though them at some point. The NES was my second system (after the Intellivision).
That's a great take, and I believe you are right. I want to do a series that focuses on the Nintendo Power issues, I think that would be a cool callback.
I was expecting Treasure Island Dizzy here.
So I purposefully skipped unlicensed titles. I might do a followup to this for unlicensed games.
Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
What did you do in the AF? I just recently retired from the Army as an Artillery Officer and then Physician. I think I heard you say that you were stationed at Nellis at some point. I grew up in the AF on bases like Edwards and Eglin.
both my dad and grandad were Airforce mechanics.
I was a 2A374, F-16 Craftsman, I was Avionics my whole career.
@@Fortefyre Very cool. My brother-in-law does that for F-15’s. Glad I found your channel.
Thanks Bomb! Welcome to the community!
I remember Maniac Mansion being really short once you knew what to do. My fave characters were Bernard and Michael because they had the best music, Michael's especially. They just get down NES style.
Yeah if we take out the human nature of discovery almost all games would be over in a flash lol.
Great work my friend.
Thank you!
Marble madness was the first in my head when seeing this video. Very short.
Chock to the brim with some god tier time pressure lol.
Did you ever beat the game?
Yep.
Please do a video comparing the SNES and Genesis Shadowrun titles ;)
Surprised Marble Madness wasn't included. It doesn't take long to figure out the controls and you'll finish it in 5-7 minutes every time.
That's a solid title as well!
I feel bad about myself now - I couldnt pass like the 4th or 5th level - ever
I always thought Gotcha! was based off of the toy line
Nope, random comedy film lol.
It was. Washable ink squirt guns.
I remember here in Germany the sport was called gotcha before the paintball fad/trend started. Don't know if there was a toy line named like that here.
@@maxheadroom22and26 The toys where more or less paintball guns. The ammo would be on a disk cartridge and about as powerful as a NERF gun.
You got Where's Waldo, but The Great Waldo Search is also very short. It's better looking and sounding on SNES though.
From what I recall in playing it, it's alot slower than great waldo search.
Gotcha! The Sport was actually a toy tie-in from Galoob. It was "paintball" for kids. Low velocity rubber bits with waxy crap in a "magazine" loaded into a dayglo gun. The cartridges typically dried up before you could use them.
Oh no! Seems about par for the course for a faddish kids toy lol.
There is a different Where's Waldo and it is also pretty short. The cursor also moves incredibly fast so if youre good, you can beat it in less than 5 minutes
Indeed!
One short game I loved was DK Jr Math. The one v one mode led to some intense (incredibly nerdy) battles.
Oh man lol. Imagine the intense battle with two ultra nerds LOL
Gotcha! was a line of toy "paintball"-like guns. That's what the game was based on, not the movie.
Any zapper game is worth a go
I do remember this one. I sucked
I hear conflicting stories about it, where the toy was made in response to the movie, where the game is based on the movie, where they have nothing to do with any of them, it's hard.
@@Fortefyre I remember the game, the movie and the guns, and I remember the commercials for them (print for game) and I swear it was guns, movie then game.
Probably was!
Marble madness. Hard as hell but only like four levels.
Interesting!
6 levels
A couple of very short platformers are Karate Kid & Karnov.
And it's funny because if the programming was a little bit better they would be wonderful games on the console.
I feel like if you’re gonna have King of the Ring, Tag Team Wrestling should be on here too as you can beat it in about 10 minutes if you’re good at it
That's true! I almost made it an honorable mention.
Color A Dinosaur... although if you want to properly 100% color it in, including using all of the colors, I guess it could actually take a while.
I would rather tap dance on a minefield lmao.
Why is Double Dribble featured on the video cover, but not in the video itself?
Because I store my games horizontal and it was just easier to grab it.
I used to stream Taboo and explain my viewer's fortunes.
That's kind of awesome though!
Thought Cybernoid would be here for sure. It’s a fun space shooter from Acclaim with a bunch of cool weapons, but the game contains only three levels, and they can be completed in roughly ten minutes.
Yikes! That's a quickie!
Learning the enemies' patterns and figuring out which weapons you need to use where was a nightmare for me, personally.
Surprised Tiger-Heli wasn't on here.
It might be next time!
Rescue the ambasady mission is also a short game with only 3 levels,
Now about nes donkeykong, that version has only 3 levels,it also feels very meager compared to the arcade version with no intro and no intermission screens etc,,,
I almost added Rescue as well, it's stupid short.
I got Taboo as a gift as a kid......so I sadly owned that pile
Oh man! On a scale of 1 - 10, how upset were you?
Remember Solstice? I remember that game being long, but speed runs go crazy.
The title screen alone is worth it's weight in gold.
I remember the Sesame Street games for the NES being very short. At the very least they are more a game than the Tarot Card game.
Big facts lol
When I was a kid I fell off the bleachers during one of my older brother’s baseball games and broke my arm. My aunt bought me Mickey Mouse Escapade for the NES from Big Bee Drugstore as a get well present. I played it for hours, but I could never beat it. Recently I got curious and looked up a speed run of the game. Apparently it can be beaten in under 20 minutes if you don’t mind damage boosting.
Yep! It almost made the list! Haha
I was enjoying this with my kids in the room. I'll make sure I wear earbuds if I ever come back
I've toyed with the idea of remaking my videos under a "family friendly" moniker that way those with littles can enjoy my content with them. I'm a military veteran, it's a hard linguistic habit to break!
@@Fortefyre TH-cam is a crapshoot, you're definitely not the only one.
FWIW, I don't think it adds anything to your content. Your videos would be just as good, and you might hit a broader audience.
I wouldn't say the same thing about AVGN 😅
Haha, I know.
Donkey Kong 3 is one of my favorite games. It's so addictively fun.
I actually need to play it lol.
I got an Atari 2600 as a little kid in 1984, a couple years after it came out. The first game I played was Pitfall, and it was awesome. Then I tried Mario Bros, and Donkey Kong, and I turned out to be one of those early gamers.
And thus your life changed forever! That's awesome to hear!
The path of legends
Zen: Intergalactic Ninja is also a relatively short game and can be beaten in less than 30 minutes start to finish.
Not to mention it's rather expensive as well, at least nowadays.
I wanted where's Waldo because I was in a where's Waldo kick in the early 90s but was disappointed when she said she'd only rent it for me. Let's say that within 30 minutes of bringing it home I was glad that it had only been rented
Unfortunately the game has ZERO reolayability lol. She could have brought home taboo :P
Urban Champion loops after a couple of rounds
Does it? I didn't realize that.
@@Fortefyre yep and it was awful. I received it for Christmas as a kid. long nothing lol
NES Monopoly: vs 1 CPU on the easiest difficulty it’s possible to win in under a minute with a little dice luck and exploiting the AI’s stupidity. The world record speedrun is about 36 seconds!
The “shortest” games that I owned were Skate or Die and Excitebike (I count beating level 5 as “completing” it because after that you just repeat the level 5 track infinitely until you lose), but funny enough the shortness never bothered me. I just found both of those to be fun “pick up and play” titles for a few minutes of fun or (in Skate or Die’s case) a quick head-to-head with a friend.
Absolutely!
Marble madness is like 6 minutes or you lose
It almost made the list, that and Pirates, because you can beat it in 2 minutes but it isn't substance.
Man, I loved the crap out if Marble Madness when I was a kid. I still, to this day, can not finish it without cheating!! I own it and used the Game Genie last year and said fuck it, I'm finally going to see the ending! The ending is seriously a basic congratulations screen! I have never been so disappointed! Haha! Waited 30 years to see that!!?? I just can't get to the final level with enough time to complete it on my own.
@@Fortefyre How can Pirates be beaten in 2 minutes? What's the goal to achieve?
@@maxheadroom22and26 It's a simulator, so if you go into port, retire, game over lol. It's actually a speedrun strat.
I had fun with Gotcha as a kid :)
It's a fun game!
Well, I definitely belong here. - *subscribed*
Welcome aboard!
Spy Hunter - never ended. Continues as a loop. Game Genie taught me that.
This is true! I might make another episode that has rules that exclude arcade titles.
I remember renting Gotcha way back when, beating it in less than an hour. It was a good time, but stupidly short.
It's just incredibly repetitive. But I honestly enjoyed it!
Wraith of the Black Manta and Fester's Quest are both games I finished in one day. In fact I finshed Fester's Quest in two hours. I was disappointed by how short it was.
Really?!? That game is notoriously difficult. I’m in the presence of gaming royalty 🫅
@@pharmcat8484yeah I call BS
Damn! Lol
Well, I will admit I did use an NES Advantage Joystick controller,I found using that made me play NES games a lot better then the standard Control Pad controllers. I use to call the NES Advantage my "secret weapon"!
Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular
Yeah that's a short one.
MARBLE MADNESSS! 4:32 seconds.
It's a great game!
Love your videos
Thank you!
I had several of these games on the coleco vision. I feel like most of those games weren’t really made to “finish”
Yeah, that's why I set "win conditions" I don't even think they have kill screens lol
But how is Kung-Fu not on this list? 5 levels. All you do is walk forward while kicking or punching. It's a 5 min. game.
It's a subjective list, because unfortunately I'm not the best at video games lol.
It's cool lol. Just my nes nerdiness coming out a little. Fun list.
Kung Fu was the first game I thought of. I played the hell out of that as a kid.
Maybe someone can, but I bet YOU can't beat it on 5 minutes.
Your mom was impressed
I remember renting Taboo because everything else good was gone. What a giant letdown that was. Worst $2.49 we’d ever spent.
Oh no! Haha
Oh and btw Gotcha wasn’t based on the film. Gotcha was an actual game played on college campuses in the 70’s and 80’s and was even an Atari game in the 70’s as well.
Interesting!
That knight fork..
;)
Home Alone. Run away from the robbers for 20 mins and that's it. Games over you win. No point in replay as nothing changes
And it sucks the whole time haha
Shortest game that I have found is the bad ending for Pirates. Less than a few seconds.
Facts. Lmao. I love pirates!
Gotcha I thought was based off the toys of the same name that were popular at the time.
It might have been. Mobygames ties it to the movie so it was a shot in the dark.
@@Fortefyre yeah what that game is in the gotcha movie that I saw a trailer for they have nothing in common. If you're going to put things on video why not do the research to make sure what you're going to say is right cuz it only takes like two extra seconds these days by doing an internet search
Mario 2 is super easy and short. The first time I played it I didn’t die even once. The original Powerblade is easy too. Less than an hour gameplay.
Great games!
Hans and his buzzing booty beads lol…. Good video
🤣🤣🤣 thank you!
TMNT 2 The Arcade Game was a fairly short game. Fun to play though.
I still need to play it.
@Fortefyre you definitely need to check it out. Way different than the first TMNT game. It's a side scrolling beat em up style.
I do own it! I just have so many subscriber requests to catchup with on my Twitch side of things.
In defense of Taboo the soundtrack is awesome.
This is very true!
Defender of the Crown is very short if you know the strategy. Success!!
I've wanted to check that out.
@@Fortefyre its great game i love it. There's like 4 or 5 ways to reach your goal.
For me, the shortest game was Dynowarz. I beat it in 1 hour or so. Not a great investment.
I just bought that too lol
Speaking of donkey Kong 64; I finally completed it two months ago. That rabbit and beetle can't brag to me anymore. Ha!
Yes! Congrats! How did you enjoy it?
I’m not knocking the list, because they are legitimate entires, but of “regular” games (not repeating platformers or gimmick games) I’d have to say off the top of my head “the magical Kingdom” was ridiculously short. I remember buying it in the store with my mom when I was 9 years old. We were constantly broke so it was a treat to get a brand new game, but she set the budget that day at $20. The only one that looked even halfway interesting at that price based on box art was this game. Got it home and literally beat it in 30-40 minutes and that was my first time playing it. Tried to take it back a couple days later and the store refused (stores used to actually stick to their guns on those types of things back then). Brought it home again and every once in awhile would dust it off. Eventually could be the game in about 15 minutes
Please do knock the list! Feedback is important and helps me grow. :)
@@Fortefyrethe list is good man! Maybe do a follow-up video with short games that are the “traditional” style play. I’d be curious to see what you come up with. Subbed as well buddy!
I added it to the list :)
ACTION 52 - most games can be completed in 1-4min :)
If they even load lmao
@@Fortefyre True XD
So you already played The Great Waldo Search ^^ Told ya it wasn't much of a challenge :D
:)
High score games that loop don't strike me as "short games."
Yeah, in future videos I'll forgo loops.
That Popeyes music brought back memories/flashbacks
I'm glad!
One more comment...technically people are beating Super Mario Bros in under 5 min so it should be on the list. 😂
Speedrunners are mutants lmao
True... but what is the Median time to clearing level 8-4?
I came for the same comment. The current best time is bellow 4 minutes 55 seconds.
I would have expected to see Urban Champion on the list. Also Kung Fu and Trojan are both really short. You can beat Trojan in like 15 minutes. Kung Fu, probably less? And that's just regular play, not speedrun strats.
I want to say 15 minutes was the cutoff for this list, I'd have to check.