I say the wrong number in a few spots.. It's a long story, basically I counted something twice on accident and didn't realize it until late, didn't think to readjust my voice over. Uploaded the video and immediately left town to go on a trip, so I can't fix it.
Also, I swear that 94% of all reviews are from Australian/English/Welsh/Irish/Scottish people who never played anything besides the Spectrum or, (if they are young,) the XBox.
Well that's part of the charm behind don't trust anyone who needs a haircut I suppose.. I say leave em in. Don't aim for them, but don't bother to edit either.. idk though, don't trust a guy with fake teeth.
Its rather unfortunate in a lot of ways. People see AVGN as a reviewer or something, but they themselves have said many times that AVGN is just an exaggerated character that doesn't actually represent their own views about these games. Both have said in the past that they don't think Silver Surfer or Turtles are even actually bad games, I have a feeling Mike Matei likes Friday the 13th as well but I may be wrong.
Some of these scores will be inflated, not only because of the "AVGN factor", but also because of the "disappointment factor". For instance, imagine you're the biggest Ghostbusters fan in the world-- you watch the movies every other day, you own most of the toys, watch the cartoon religiously, eat the cereal, etc.-- and then you play Ghostbusters on NES and it breaks your heart into pieces; it's nothing that you wanted a Ghostbusters game to be. I suspect if a game *REALLY* disappointed someone, they're more likely to rank it as "worse" than some forgettable, no-name game that is deservingly worse.
ok, this is hilarious. I rewatched the SNES video and was like "I wonder if he made anymore of these videos. And lo-and-behold, I find that you released a new one less than an hour ago.
Fond memories of Barbie on the NES. My little sister couldn't beat the game but wanted to see it so I set out to finish it for her. Did the same with Lion King on the SNES. Bad games can still have some good memories attached to em.
21:09 As someone who is in the know, the problem is that old school shmups like Silver Surfer were difficult purely because of memorization. The game is just a huge beginner's trap with hazards too fast to react, so you have to learn everything through trial and error. But once you know in advance what's supposed to kill you and how to dodge, it's not bad. Getting sent back to a checkpoint on every death is annoying, but even at the time there were shmups like Gradius with far more brutal checkpoints that practically asked you to beat the game without dying once. By the mid 90s, shmups had already evolved to not rely on raw memorization and instead actually push your skills with intricate patterns and complex scoring systems. Silver Surfer has a brutal skill floor and a low skill ceiling, while bullet hells are the opposite. It's not an easy game by any stretch of the imagination, but compared to what shmups have become, it is indeed kind of a meme. Music slaps tho
Bad games then were so much easier to live with than bad games now. Maybe it's the knowledge that many years and hundreds of millions of dollars were wasted that makes them so hard to comprehend in the modern era, and back then it was like five guys in an office quickly throwing something together to fill out a contract. E.T 2600 was a five week project from start to finish and the poor guy worked his best to make something in that short time, like. Top notch vid, really tickling my creative senses and inspiring me to create something from up here in the arctic circle.
"That's why there's game right? Because there was a movie in the 90s or some shit?" 🤣🤣🤣 Oh damn that had me laughing. The TMNT 18 year comment blew my mind.
Unfortunately, not all game developers have great staff ! This is why so many games are just awful !! Only the best developers have staff with great skills !!!
There's no way that Deadly Towers is so much worse than most of the earlier games in the video. I feel like the people who hate-review that game never actually made it to the bell towers to burn the bells, and simply gave up after encountering a few of the (completely optional, mind you) hidden dungeons. With the speed boosting boots + gauntlets and the double shot upgrade, the game actually becomes pretty fun because having those eliminates the biggest pain points of the game (slow movement, slow attack, and 1 sword on the screen at a time).
This guy gets it, thank you. I get why people get turned off by the game and some of it can really grind on the player. Stuff like the brutal knockback (especially when it knocks you into a dungeon, or room to room inside one) or the music loop that restarts from one screen to the next but once you actually start burning the first of the bells, the more accomplished it feels. And with those upgrades, your arc does just feel a lot better
"They were the Children of Doom. Doom's children. They asked my Lord to lay down his sword and return to the Earth, ha! Time enough for the Earth in the grave." Conan is pre-Internet meme material across the board.
I will say, sitting down to play some Karate Champ was funny for about 15 minutes, but it's not worth ANYTHING more. Plus, sitting through Advanced Dungeons and Dragons made me go insane, that game is the most archaic BS I've ever sat through and I will probably never play it myself.
Just because Nintendo has some strict policies , that did not stop the release of so many garbage games !!! Where was Nintendo’s quality control ??? Love your reviews and humor !!!
Running Score of Shit Games I Actually Liked: -Rambo: It made me feel smart finding my way around. -Destination Earth Star: I was an astronaut don't you tell me I wasn't! -Renegade: I actually beat this as a kid, and there were no guides I had either and no friends to tell me what was what because it was so unpopular. After beating it, no other beat'em up was ever a challenge ever again. -Top Gun: Fun! Figure out the landing and quit yer bitchin'! -Kid Cool: Yeah fuck that game. -Karate Kid: What an awesome game! My brother and I mastered the mini games, him the flies, me the drum thing. -Conan: My fav comics. My fav novels. My fav movies... .... ..... -TMNT: Fun game. Some jank, sure, not a bad game at all. In the water stage make sure to switch turtles if you are running low. -Karate Champ: If you know the moves, it's a great 2 player game! I can do the same move 50 times in a row. You're crazy! Moves land at a very specific distance. You have to know which move to do at which distance. 🙂 -Deadly Towers: Totally undeserved hate. It's a cryptic game, but get out your graph paper and have at it!
I'd be interested if you could make a list of worst PS1 games. Lists of worst 8-bit and 16-bit games are pretty common but it's not often I see lists of terrible PS1 games.
Great video. !! Every game system has “crap “ scores !! Especially the Sega Master System !! Unfortunately, I have a few games on your list !! And I agree with you !! Many games based on films are usually bad !! LJN was well known for their awful games !!! Same goes for Color Dreams !! There are SNES games which are pure garbage !!! Most games on the NES were made for children !!! Many developers did not care about quality !!! They know that children are not game critics !! So why should they care ???
Dude...Home Alone is a fricken awesome hidden gem. You have to survive 20 mins until the police come. You can press up on things like the christmass tree or certain garbage cans and hide. You can stand over chandeliers and drop them on their head. Its a very original idea. My favorite games of all time on NES are zelda 2, simons quest, ff1, dragon warrior series, super tecmo bowl, willow, baseball stars...and if i had to do a top 20. Home Alone would be in it. Give it another try Jason..
Oddly enough there was no Gilligan’s Island movie to correspond with, it was just because there were constant reruns. Same thing with Three Stooges and…The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer.
Tmnt and Friday the 13th are good games. It's weird to see them on this list. I thinks it's because video games are the one form of art criticism where we don't expect our reviewers to have a thorough understanding of the art they are critising. I.e. completeing a game. Imagine a movie review from someone who didn't finish the movie, or an album review from someone who only heard the album once while they were washing the dishes.
Weird that this video showed up just now. I've been reading old Nintendo power magazines (purchased completely legally as far as anyone is concerned, get off my back, Nintendo lawyers) and I've read quite a few articles and guides and tips for these games, especially Friday the 13th. It certainly gives the decisions of the developers more context. Games didn't have the luxury of explaining themselves back then but with just a little bit of information, everything becomes clearer. All it takes is a little patience, which people had more of in the 80s, unlike today when people want everything NOW.
I kinda liked Athena, but only after I figured out how to beat the first stage, which isn't obvious at all. The next couple of stages kinda feel like a playable game, until the Ice Cavern, which can both soft-lock and flat out hard-lock your game. Btw, you can shoot the 1st stage tree boss with a bow and arrow. This was a fantastic video, and I could only cmment on one game...which still kinda sucks.
Nah. There was no Gilligan's Island movie back then. We didn't have internet. Half of your friends didn't even have cable TV. Until Nickelodeon made Nick at Night, the TV stations stopped playing anything after a certain time and infomercials weren't even a thing. During the day during summer break, the only things on TV were The Price is Right, Family Feud and re-runs of Andy Griffith, Batman and Gilligan's Island and a bunch of other crap that we knew was ancient but only watched because there was nothing else on. Sounds crazy in 2024, but I'd argue that you probably wouldn't have been able to find a single person in America in 1990 who didn't know what Gilligan's Island was, no matter if they were 10 years old or 100 years old.
I won't judge you for liking Heroes Of The Lance, I liked Hydlide and Dragon's Lair (PAL version at least). And not because of nostalgia- I beat both of them this decade. To answer your question about wether or not Super Pitfall would be the best 7800 game if it were on that console, no it wouldn't, not even close. I beat Scrapyard Dog on Atari 50 this year (both of them, and the 7800 version I beat with a Famicom Controller) and while it's average by NES standards, it's much better than Super Pitfall is. In fact, I'd rather play Karateka on the 7800 than Super Pitfall.
i liked the video overlay simpler. not sure why you switched up but I enjoyed the simplicity. It matched the atheistic of the nostalgia you're projecting. Or some thesaurus word...Shut up I watch your show enough to know that hit a cord.
I love Renegade! The U.S. version is better looking than the JP. They added a pallet look like The Warriors movie . The difficulty is tougher than Double Dragon but once you learn how to kick ass, its a short & sweet game.
Nah, the Beetlejuice game deserves that rating. I remember renting that game as a kid and having that to play all weekend. Once you understand how the game operates it isn't too bad, it just isn't a very good game, it has lousy controls and some of the hidden mechanics that aren't explain well just make it an overall frustrating experience. I'd choose to play this over any of the NES Simpsons titles but that isn't saying much.
I will say this, if you're the kind of person who likes to grind, Hydlide isn't that bad. I got it for like a buck and once I figured out how the game worked mechanically it isn't that terrible. Granted the music is terrible and the difficulty curve at the start of the game is awful. I beat the game in a couple sittings, figured out when you saved your game, you could use the continue option to start from the last save so you don't have to keep writing passwords down until you're ready to shut the NES off. I didn't even shut mine off. I just kept it on for a few days.
Fester's Quest is cool and one of my family's favorites. We'd spend the afternoon together playing the game. I also like mashing buttons. No joke, I hate turbo controllers.
I was born in the late 80s and I remember watching a lot of those kinds of cartoons on TV. Maybe it was because we didn't have cable TV until the mid 1990s but I grew up with stuff like Looney Tunes, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Mr. Ed, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Gumby, Felix, Dennis the Meance, Leave it to Beaver, Tom and Jerry.. I think that these franchises just had a long lasting footprint.
Deadly Towers has great music. It was not a bad game for the time. It was slightly above average. I don't think it deserves second place. But, to each his own.
20:10 actually not too far off, Conan is just a reskin of a C64 game called Myth: History in the Making and the NES version is worse because theres no sweet SID tunes >:/
Really love these videos, and it's always cool to hear a similar perspective of mine. Which is to say, a person more familiar with these games through the internet than through having been there. I wanted to say though, the use of the word midget feels unnecessary and a little edgy. Little-people or dwarf wouldn't take anything away from the show.
I've been doing a series, Wheel Of Every NES Game, and some of these have popped up for me so far. Golf Grand Slam for one, and I find that better than most NES golfs! Top Gun, man even knowing to match the numbers I've never done it! There are no good wrasslin games on the NES. I LOVED Fester's Quest as a kid, but have never made it very far past the first boss. The TMNT game is...fine, but it is fucking frustrating! Those DnD NES games are universally ass. "BTTF2 is needlessly complicated and obtuse", well yes it is indeed a western made NES game. Friday The 13th DOES suck, been hating that one since it was new! LOVED Karate Champ as a kid, so basically all my opinions are void anyway lolol. There's a 25th (I think) Anniversary Improvement Patch for Super Pitfall. It's still fucking unplayable. My brother and I kinda figured out Bill & Ted back in the day and didn't completely hate it. It does suck tho. Every Waldo video game is also universally ass. I had a friend who LOVED the Ghostbusters NES and SMS games. Me personally, nah.
43:23 just so you know cygnus destroyer currently uses they/them pronouns. anyway: very very entertaining video, and you are right when you say that a lot of games get a bad wrap solely because of the AVGN. a lot of his reviews ESPECIALLY the older ones his critiques can feel rather shallow, and while the videos are still entertaining i find myself leaving not really understanding why he didnt like the game, so i look up forum discussion to find out the game is generally well liked by people who have actually played it lol also in the future if you do more videos in this format (which i hope you do this vid was awesome) you do a small graphic showing what games were ranked where on various lists, just to give a general feel.
omg if you actually played Bible Adventures instead of dunking on it you'd have learned that the the Romans killed Jesus with a spear and you'd have won Mario is Missing.
I say the wrong number in a few spots.. It's a long story, basically I counted something twice on accident and didn't realize it until late, didn't think to readjust my voice over. Uploaded the video and immediately left town to go on a trip, so I can't fix it.
Be better at maths, 0/10, kthxbye
Also, I swear that 94% of all reviews are from Australian/English/Welsh/Irish/Scottish people who never played anything besides the Spectrum or, (if they are young,) the XBox.
Well that's part of the charm behind don't trust anyone who needs a haircut I suppose.. I say leave em in. Don't aim for them, but don't bother to edit either.. idk though, don't trust a guy with fake teeth.
don't trust anyone who needs a haircut
YT's editor may be advanced enough to do that at this point, no?
It’s baffling how much Mike Mattei and Bimmy influenced the NES zeitgeist
They were the things we all watched at one point.
Big Ryan fan btw
Bimmy doesn’t have time to influence the NES zeitgeist
@@charlestonson2200 Just a little, until 5:40 tops.
Its rather unfortunate in a lot of ways. People see AVGN as a reviewer or something, but they themselves have said many times that AVGN is just an exaggerated character that doesn't actually represent their own views about these games. Both have said in the past that they don't think Silver Surfer or Turtles are even actually bad games, I have a feeling Mike Matei likes Friday the 13th as well but I may be wrong.
Some of these scores will be inflated, not only because of the "AVGN factor", but also because of the "disappointment factor".
For instance, imagine you're the biggest Ghostbusters fan in the world-- you watch the movies every other day, you own most of the toys, watch the cartoon religiously, eat the cereal, etc.-- and then you play Ghostbusters on NES and it breaks your heart into pieces; it's nothing that you wanted a Ghostbusters game to be.
I suspect if a game *REALLY* disappointed someone, they're more likely to rank it as "worse" than some forgettable, no-name game that is deservingly worse.
WHERE ARE YOUR PAPERS?
THESE ARE TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE
BUHRHBURUHBHRH
ok, this is hilarious. I rewatched the SNES video and was like "I wonder if he made anymore of these videos. And lo-and-behold, I find that you released a new one less than an hour ago.
Where is your closed quote? I'm still waiting!
Fond memories of Barbie on the NES. My little sister couldn't beat the game but wanted to see it so I set out to finish it for her. Did the same with Lion King on the SNES. Bad games can still have some good memories attached to em.
Most music on games are just annoying !! We should be able to disable music in every game made !! Many should have no music !!!
Conan is a reskinned version of an European computer game called Myth: History in the Making.
NiGHTS fan spotted 🗣️🔥🗣️🔥🗣️🔥
21:09 As someone who is in the know, the problem is that old school shmups like Silver Surfer were difficult purely because of memorization. The game is just a huge beginner's trap with hazards too fast to react, so you have to learn everything through trial and error. But once you know in advance what's supposed to kill you and how to dodge, it's not bad. Getting sent back to a checkpoint on every death is annoying, but even at the time there were shmups like Gradius with far more brutal checkpoints that practically asked you to beat the game without dying once. By the mid 90s, shmups had already evolved to not rely on raw memorization and instead actually push your skills with intricate patterns and complex scoring systems. Silver Surfer has a brutal skill floor and a low skill ceiling, while bullet hells are the opposite. It's not an easy game by any stretch of the imagination, but compared to what shmups have become, it is indeed kind of a meme. Music slaps tho
hearign SeanBaby takes me waaaaaaaay back
Guy doesn't get enough credit for influencing guys like Yahtzee and AVGN yet still better.
The worst nes games in the age of loneliness
Bad games then were so much easier to live with than bad games now. Maybe it's the knowledge that many years and hundreds of millions of dollars were wasted that makes them so hard to comprehend in the modern era, and back then it was like five guys in an office quickly throwing something together to fill out a contract. E.T 2600 was a five week project from start to finish and the poor guy worked his best to make something in that short time, like. Top notch vid, really tickling my creative senses and inspiring me to create something from up here in the arctic circle.
There were muscle figures we collected as kids like garbage pail kids cards
You're experience with winter games is exactly my experience in my evercade intellivision vid.
That game sucks
I have said - WTF -- hundreds of times playing video games since the very beginning !!!!
While I was watching this, I thought of Seanbaby and then you brought him up like 5 mins later. 😄
"That's why there's game right? Because there was a movie in the 90s or some shit?" 🤣🤣🤣 Oh damn that had me laughing.
The TMNT 18 year comment blew my mind.
Unfortunately, not all game developers have great staff ! This is why so many games are just awful !! Only the best developers have staff with great skills !!!
26:45 gilligans island had so many reruns it was practically after school TV for kids in the late 80s/early 90s
There's no way that Deadly Towers is so much worse than most of the earlier games in the video. I feel like the people who hate-review that game never actually made it to the bell towers to burn the bells, and simply gave up after encountering a few of the (completely optional, mind you) hidden dungeons.
With the speed boosting boots + gauntlets and the double shot upgrade, the game actually becomes pretty fun because having those eliminates the biggest pain points of the game (slow movement, slow attack, and 1 sword on the screen at a time).
This guy gets it, thank you. I get why people get turned off by the game and some of it can really grind on the player. Stuff like the brutal knockback (especially when it knocks you into a dungeon, or room to room inside one) or the music loop that restarts from one screen to the next but once you actually start burning the first of the bells, the more accomplished it feels. And with those upgrades, your arc does just feel a lot better
20:14 Stop right there! You need to go ahead and watch Conan the Barbarian right now. One of the best movies ever made.
"They were the Children of Doom. Doom's children. They asked my Lord to lay down his sword and return to the Earth, ha! Time enough for the Earth in the grave."
Conan is pre-Internet meme material across the board.
@@analogmoz contemplate this on the tree of woe
@@helenhomunculus5044What is best in life?
@@analogmoz crumb laughs at your four winds, laughs from his mountain
@@helenhomunculus5044 Gods, that movie is perfection.
Some black box games should be on your list !!!!
Gilligan's Island was a tv show, also much older than the 90s. I was born in 81 and it was before my time even.
LJN was betting on gamers buying their games based on famous movies and TV shows. !!! It worked !!! Did Nintendo care ??? The answer is -- no !!
Me when Jason doesn't know who Noah is: -_-
Good vid tho. keep it up to 20 K my dude
I still hold a grudge against Mario is Missing for tricking me into wasting a weekend rental back in the day.
I will say, sitting down to play some Karate Champ was funny for about 15 minutes, but it's not worth ANYTHING more. Plus, sitting through Advanced Dungeons and Dragons made me go insane, that game is the most archaic BS I've ever sat through and I will probably never play it myself.
DESTINATION EARTHSTAR is cool, the main song lulls you into a weird trance.
Just because Nintendo has some strict policies , that did not stop the release of so many garbage games !!! Where was Nintendo’s quality control ??? Love your reviews and humor !!!
Running Score of Shit Games I Actually Liked:
-Rambo: It made me feel smart finding my way around.
-Destination Earth Star: I was an astronaut don't you tell me I wasn't!
-Renegade: I actually beat this as a kid, and there were no guides I had either and no friends to tell me what was what because it was so unpopular. After beating it, no other beat'em up was ever a challenge ever again.
-Top Gun: Fun! Figure out the landing and quit yer bitchin'!
-Kid Cool: Yeah fuck that game.
-Karate Kid: What an awesome game! My brother and I mastered the mini games, him the flies, me the drum thing.
-Conan: My fav comics. My fav novels. My fav movies... .... .....
-TMNT: Fun game. Some jank, sure, not a bad game at all. In the water stage make sure to switch turtles if you are running low.
-Karate Champ: If you know the moves, it's a great 2 player game! I can do the same move 50 times in a row. You're crazy! Moves land at a very specific distance. You have to know which move to do at which distance. 🙂
-Deadly Towers: Totally undeserved hate. It's a cryptic game, but get out your graph paper and have at it!
I'd be interested if you could make a list of worst PS1 games. Lists of worst 8-bit and 16-bit games are pretty common but it's not often I see lists of terrible PS1 games.
Great video. !! Every game system has “crap “ scores !! Especially the Sega Master System !! Unfortunately, I have a few games on your list !! And I agree with you !! Many games based on films are usually bad !! LJN was well known for their awful games !!! Same goes for Color Dreams !! There are SNES games which are pure garbage !!! Most games on the NES were made for children !!! Many developers did not care about quality !!! They know that children are not game critics !! So why should they care ???
xmen got robbed, should of been number 1
Sorry, but nothing could top Action 52 as worst NES game, because it's 52 bad games.
xmen got that distinct ljn style
I remember getting Karate Champ for Christmas. A couple hours later I stopped believing in Santa.
Awesome stuff. Loved the first video. Eagerly anticipating a MD/Genesis video. There's some low, low lows in that library.
Dude...Home Alone is a fricken awesome hidden gem.
You have to survive 20 mins until the police come. You can press up on things like the christmass tree or certain garbage cans and hide. You can stand over chandeliers and drop them on their head.
Its a very original idea.
My favorite games of all time on NES are zelda 2, simons quest, ff1, dragon warrior series, super tecmo bowl, willow, baseball stars...and if i had to do a top 20. Home Alone would be in it. Give it another try Jason..
Oddly enough there was no Gilligan’s Island movie to correspond with, it was just because there were constant reruns. Same thing with Three Stooges and…The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer.
I really love this series of yours and I'm looking forward to you tackling other systems and libraries in a similar format.
Tmnt and Friday the 13th are good games. It's weird to see them on this list. I thinks it's because video games are the one form of art criticism where we don't expect our reviewers to have a thorough understanding of the art they are critising. I.e. completeing a game. Imagine a movie review from someone who didn't finish the movie, or an album review from someone who only heard the album once while they were washing the dishes.
I never expected to hear anybody mention the LJN Defender. I miss that guy, he was really nice.
And oh man, how did I forget about Sean Baby??
33:13
Actually, the item _appears_ to "explode," but it _remains in your inventory_ regardless.
I love this series so far. Hope you do this for more consoles in the future.
Muppet adventures is giving me five night at Freddy's vibes with Fozzy bear trying to rip u apart
i loved the SNES one you did but i've been praying you would do this one too
LJN Defender was amazing, nice to see him get mentioned
Weird that this video showed up just now. I've been reading old Nintendo power magazines (purchased completely legally as far as anyone is concerned, get off my back, Nintendo lawyers) and I've read quite a few articles and guides and tips for these games, especially Friday the 13th. It certainly gives the decisions of the developers more context. Games didn't have the luxury of explaining themselves back then but with just a little bit of information, everything becomes clearer. All it takes is a little patience, which people had more of in the 80s, unlike today when people want everything NOW.
37:53 Probably the best Nerd impression I've ever heard.
my new favorite video game channel. ok like 3rd but keep up the good work up my dude..
Don't forget that Athena was an arcade game in which it's better than the NES port...
Nobody could figure out how to skate in Winter Games back in the 80's and 90's either. Don't beat yourself up over it man.
I didn't know referencing AVGN is a still a thing. It was mentioned more in this video than at least 5 years of watching classic video game videos😊
I kinda liked Athena, but only after I figured out how to beat the first stage, which isn't obvious at all. The next couple of stages kinda feel like a playable game, until the Ice Cavern, which can both soft-lock and flat out hard-lock your game. Btw, you can shoot the 1st stage tree boss with a bow and arrow. This was a fantastic video, and I could only cmment on one game...which still kinda sucks.
Nice video Michele!!
Grew up with Super Pitfall. If anything, AVGN went easy with it. That game tarnished all memories of Pitfall I had from my 2600
I like this series
Festers quest is a classic and I always had fun with home alone but I haven’t played in omg 30 years
I think that music from the golf game would work if this was the first golf RPG
Also, I grew to like the rocky and bulwinkle music. Prolly heard it on repeate more than anything at age 3
Nah. There was no Gilligan's Island movie back then. We didn't have internet. Half of your friends didn't even have cable TV. Until Nickelodeon made Nick at Night, the TV stations stopped playing anything after a certain time and infomercials weren't even a thing. During the day during summer break, the only things on TV were The Price is Right, Family Feud and re-runs of Andy Griffith, Batman and Gilligan's Island and a bunch of other crap that we knew was ancient but only watched because there was nothing else on. Sounds crazy in 2024, but I'd argue that you probably wouldn't have been able to find a single person in America in 1990 who didn't know what Gilligan's Island was, no matter if they were 10 years old or 100 years old.
Silver Surfer being anywhere near this list is an absolute travesty.
Yes, certainly. It's actually a pretty fun game.
I won't judge you for liking Heroes Of The Lance, I liked Hydlide and Dragon's Lair (PAL version at least). And not because of nostalgia- I beat both of them this decade.
To answer your question about wether or not Super Pitfall would be the best 7800 game if it were on that console, no it wouldn't, not even close. I beat Scrapyard Dog on Atari 50 this year (both of them, and the 7800 version I beat with a Famicom Controller) and while it's average by NES standards, it's much better than Super Pitfall is. In fact, I'd rather play Karateka on the 7800 than Super Pitfall.
lol that kid that made that megaman review... what a classic old lolcow
Karate Kid was fun being able to do the break the ice challenge and fish hook dodge from the movie was the best
At least 9:00 Kid Kool has a good speedrun to watch. It falls in to kuso (so bad it's good) category. It actually has dedicated fans.
Now make worst Sega Mega Drive games. British Russian and Brazilian People would be happy
i liked the video overlay simpler. not sure why you switched up but I enjoyed the simplicity. It matched the atheistic of the nostalgia you're projecting. Or some thesaurus word...Shut up I watch your show enough to know that hit a cord.
I love Renegade! The U.S. version is better looking than the JP. They added a pallet look like The Warriors movie . The difficulty is tougher than Double Dragon but once you learn how to kick ass, its a short & sweet game.
banger video buddy
TMNT Nes game is an awful damned game, and it gets worse the more you know about the broken hitboxes.
AVGN actually made a video where he finished Jekel and Hyde.
The worst nes game is donkey Kong jr math. Because math.
I like a scientific approach to these things.
"adult Moses" must just be Noah?
Yeah at level 25 baby moses evolves into noah
20:28 Hey, have you ever seen Batman on TurboGrafix 16? It's more of this!
Super Pitfall was also released for the Tandy Color Computer 3 in the US. Had that version. It was mediocre.
Nah, the Beetlejuice game deserves that rating. I remember renting that game as a kid and having that to play all weekend. Once you understand how the game operates it isn't too bad, it just isn't a very good game, it has lousy controls and some of the hidden mechanics that aren't explain well just make it an overall frustrating experience. I'd choose to play this over any of the NES Simpsons titles but that isn't saying much.
I will say this, if you're the kind of person who likes to grind, Hydlide isn't that bad. I got it for like a buck and once I figured out how the game worked mechanically it isn't that terrible. Granted the music is terrible and the difficulty curve at the start of the game is awful. I beat the game in a couple sittings, figured out when you saved your game, you could use the continue option to start from the last save so you don't have to keep writing passwords down until you're ready to shut the NES off. I didn't even shut mine off. I just kept it on for a few days.
Fester's Quest is cool and one of my family's favorites. We'd spend the afternoon together playing the game. I also like mashing buttons. No joke, I hate turbo controllers.
TMNT is a fine game once you get used to it, pretty easy too. The water level isn't nearly as bad as everyone makes it out to be.
I was born in the late 80s and I remember watching a lot of those kinds of cartoons on TV. Maybe it was because we didn't have cable TV until the mid 1990s but I grew up with stuff like Looney Tunes, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Mr. Ed, Casper the Friendly Ghost, Gumby, Felix, Dennis the Meance, Leave it to Beaver, Tom and Jerry.. I think that these franchises just had a long lasting footprint.
Cheetah Men II got a limited physical release so yes, it's now a real game.
The Irate gamer review of Xmen schools the AVGN review 😎😎
Beetlejuice is not fine. I do not give it a pass. It's totally broken. The music is nice, though.
you should do a SNES ranking next
The Mathematical 57 WORST AVGN REVIEWED GAMES
Deadly Towers has great music. It was not a bad game for the time. It was slightly above average. I don't think it deserves second place. But, to each his own.
20:10 actually not too far off, Conan is just a reskin of a C64 game called Myth: History in the Making
and the NES version is worse because theres no sweet SID tunes >:/
Bart vs. the Space Mutants is actually super addictive once you get the hang of it.
Everyone of a certain age had a run-in with Bart vs the Space Mutants at some point, and was disappointed by it.
so is heroin and that shit is garbage too
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You are truly doing the work of God. Which God specifically I can't nail down, but all the same in into it
I love and hate your opinions. You enrage me, but I 100% understand where you are coming from so it's more an I feel your rage.
Rygar is the best game to ever be blessed by gods gracious sack
Adult Moses? Blasphemy. It's Noah
"A shitty Metal Gear rip-off": While I haven't played this game, it looks to me more like a shitty Spy vs Spy rip-off. But close enough!
Really love these videos, and it's always cool to hear a similar perspective of mine. Which is to say, a person more familiar with these games through the internet than through having been there.
I wanted to say though, the use of the word midget feels unnecessary and a little edgy. Little-people or dwarf wouldn't take anything away from the show.
14:22 Please explain with whom a game dev would sign a contract to get a license to make a Bible game?
Look, this is fun.
You know, all of of the crappy mini-game crap games on the NES, I kinda liked The Three Stooges game the best. Even above Skate or Die.
Tmnt is in my top ten favorite nes games.
I've been doing a series, Wheel Of Every NES Game, and some of these have popped up for me so far. Golf Grand Slam for one, and I find that better than most NES golfs!
Top Gun, man even knowing to match the numbers I've never done it!
There are no good wrasslin games on the NES.
I LOVED Fester's Quest as a kid, but have never made it very far past the first boss.
The TMNT game is...fine, but it is fucking frustrating!
Those DnD NES games are universally ass.
"BTTF2 is needlessly complicated and obtuse", well yes it is indeed a western made NES game.
Friday The 13th DOES suck, been hating that one since it was new!
LOVED Karate Champ as a kid, so basically all my opinions are void anyway lolol.
There's a 25th (I think) Anniversary Improvement Patch for Super Pitfall. It's still fucking unplayable.
My brother and I kinda figured out Bill & Ted back in the day and didn't completely hate it. It does suck tho.
Every Waldo video game is also universally ass.
I had a friend who LOVED the Ghostbusters NES and SMS games. Me personally, nah.
New JG! Wooo!
43:23
just so you know cygnus destroyer currently uses they/them pronouns.
anyway:
very very entertaining video, and you are right when you say that a lot of games get a bad wrap solely because of the AVGN. a lot of his reviews ESPECIALLY the older ones his critiques can feel rather shallow, and while the videos are still entertaining i find myself leaving not really understanding why he didnt like the game, so i look up forum discussion to find out the game is generally well liked by people who have actually played it lol
also in the future if you do more videos in this format (which i hope you do this vid was awesome) you do a small graphic showing what games were ranked where on various lists, just to give a general feel.
05:50. Good music
Bro think he AVGN
castlequest
omg if you actually played Bible Adventures instead of dunking on it you'd have learned that the the Romans killed Jesus with a spear and you'd have won Mario is Missing.