20:54 This entry is nonsense! Al Unser Jr raced Indy Car many times, and only did Nascar once. I have no idea where I heard that tidbit, but it's not true!
btw Super Mario 2 (US version not "Lost Levels") is a re-skinned game, called Toki Doki Panic. kind of interesting story, check it out if you get a chance.
Take your list and go with that to Toilette your list is Toilette paper Most of the games you choice are from Nintendo mini or so horrible bad that no human being should play it
Dragon Warrior is very inferior to Final Fantasy 1... even Dragon Warrio 3 ain't that better.... mate what are you saying!!!! Final Fantasy 2 is as good, and beats even Dragon Warrrior 4 to me... I am yet to play Final Fantasy 3 oin famicom, but i crushed FF2 with levelling BEFORe getting my 3rd word, i went to mysidia before learning the 3rd word in japanese as a non-nippon reading dude and can say FF2 beats every Dragon warrior game in fun and technique, dep^th andcomplexity of the game saved in such a little cartridge.DQ 4 is fun and has story though, but the spells and weapon complexity and depth of customization of the 3 lead heroes is amazing
This video was specifically designed to piss off anyone who was born between 1977 and 1981 and succeeded exceptionally well at said endeavor. Well done. ;)
52:36 I'm happy to inform you that Bionic Commando's reboot was also released on PS3, and honestly regardless of how 'successful' it was, it was actually quite good, and jam-packed with a ton of great features. That reboot made me love Bionic Commando far more than I did the first time around.
Yep, by every metric worldwide there was literally 3-4 TIMES more than 400 games... that was a pretty embarrassing blunder. They even said it multiple times as if they were so sure of it too... IoI. Considering there were nearly 700 licensed games released just in the US alone, as well as yet ANOTHER 90-200 unlicensed titles sold in stores on-top of that (again just in the US alone), I'm very curious where he pulled such an inaccurately random number from.
They actually did make a follow up to the original Excitebike such as VS Excitebike, which I haven’t played and Excitebike World Rally, which was a good game that does let you save your maps. But both are more obscure.
This is the type of vidoe to watch after you purchase one of those retro systems with a huge rom dump included. Now you can cull down that collection of roms and try something you've never played or long since forgotten. Great video!
To your friend: every 3D videogame is projected onto a 2D plane, your tv screen. Unless you’re playing a real life table top game, you’re playing a 2D game. 😂
@TheDustyWilk Eyeballs are 3D, though? Only by working together, they achieve the 3D effect. With one eye, you have no depth perception, so perhaps 3D is actually an illusion as you say?
It's great to see Zelda II get the love it deserves. Nowadays I go back and forth on which NES Zelda game I prefer, but when I was a boy in 1988 playing Zelda II, I remember saying to myself "This is better than the first game". The original Zelda had been my favorite game until that moment. What's wonderful about Zelda II is the advanced combat system. You can attack in so many ways, and you have to use every move in your arsenal to defeat all the enemies. You have a regular strike (with and without projectile), a low strike (with and without projectile), an upward strike, a downward strike, and a dropping slash (which you can use to defeat the knights). And that's without mentioning the magical attacks you acquire as you progress. I've downloaded a couple of hacks that advertise themselves as tantamount to entirely new games. I haven't played them yet though. They're called Nightmare of Ganon and Resurrection of Ganon.
Born in 1982 here- This was a really fun NES top 100! Loved how it was not the typical top 100.. very cool to see what a gamer born in 1995 would think of these old titles. FWIW I agree with a lot of this video- maybe not all of it, but a lot of good points- loved seeing Zelda2 at the top spot!
Fine I'll try Zelda 2, But really wonderfully put together video. Ambitious, snappy, informative and entertaining all the way through. Taught me a LOT about a lot of games I knew little about and some I didn't even know like Little Samson. Can't imagine having to research all these games. Surprised to see Mario Bros. 2 rank so high and Tetris not higher. Nice job with that Castlevania boss and man I can't imagine how hard Mike Tyson must be for you to never have beaten him. Great format and a lot to chew on here, definitely worth some rewatches! This is something to be proud of and a huge dedication to the NES
zelda 2 was always the one zelda game i could stomach. i wouldn't say it's my favorite nes game, but very epic nonetheless sweet home, mother, and mr. gimmick all take the top spot for me
@@ramrodbldm9876 Dude. This comment is 2 years old. I could say that you have no life for commenting annoying shit on a 2 year old comment. People like what they like.
It’s interesting. I’m about 10 years older than you i am guessing. I am a little closer to these releases. I like to say that makes me more aware of initial responses and how individual games helped shaped the industry, but it also makes me more susceptible to nostalgia too
Dude. Made it through the whole video. Got to number 2 (1A) and thought to myself “No f-ing way. No Zelda 2. How can it not be in his top 100”. That game gets so little love. Even hate. “It’s overrated, blah, blah, blah” Then, BOOM. Number 1. Amazing. I played this in the ‘80s as a 9 year old, and it was definitely a challenge, but I made it without much help other than the odd Nintendo Power tip (just for Shadow Link, if I remember right). Great video. Look forward to seeing more. PS, I’m convinced if you played Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy and Metroid before their superior sequels, you’d have them higher up. They were pretty incredible as a kid.
I actually liked Star Tropics. Also, Zelda 2 was the first Zelda I ever owned. I played Zelda 1 at a friends house back in the late 80’s, but when I finally got my own Nintendo and it was time to make a birthday wish for a new game (a rare occurrence) I wished for Zelda 2 for some reason. I don’t know, maybe my kid brain thought “2=better” or something. I ended up hating it. There game was just too intense for me. I hated getting dragged into random encounters, the villagers creeped me out. Every time I failed I had to hear Ganon laugh at me. It was a game I would never love, even if, years later, I would come to respect what it was trying to do. I did eventually team up with my little brother to beat the game. One of us navigated using a map while the other controlled the game. It was a struggle that left us with a bitter taste rather than the joy of victory. We completed Zelda 2 because we felt that we must, not for the love of the game. This was my Dad’s idea, he felt it was a waste of time for us to get a new game unless we had “beaten” all the old ones. So, Zelda 2 became just another chore for my brother and I to complete. So, please know that, even if I am an ignorant clod who is incapable of recognizing a masterpiece, my disdain for Zelda 2 comes from an authentic place.
I loved Blaster Master, got it for christmas in maybe 1988. Its super hard past 3rd level. And got Bayou Billy same time. Its impossible. I still have nightmares 30+ years on.
I come back to this one all the time. So much fun. If I gave you one recommendation to check out, it's Rescue: The Embassy Mission. Everyone misses this one, but it's amazing.
Actually I wouldn't have it in the top 20, there are a lot of great NES games. Now if it's on someone's top 20 that's fine. That's his opinion to have something else.
Maniac mansion is one of the best NES games. And is a true sleeper. Those who have played it, understand. It's a puzzle game with different ending based off your choices. Well we'll worth digging into l. But if you look up the answers. The joy of discovery is gone.
Wow, glad I watched this after hearing about the SNES video recommended to me by Red Cow Arcade. Faxanadu, Monster Party, The Krion Conquest and Vice Project Doom look fantastic and I wish I had known they existed sooner.
I'm just happy Monster Party made the list, and so high! It's one of my favorite games from my childhood that nobody's ever heard of. My parents could never remember the names of games I wanted as a kid (unless they were based on movies or tv shows), so when I wanted Castlevania, I told them to get me "the game with Dracula on the cover." Ended up with Mosnter Party instead and fell in love with it.
Most impressive, admittedly too sporty and race oriented for me, but what do I know- also on need of a haircut. What is your take on Satoshimatrix's list? It was also interesting to note the references to Noah Caldwell-Gervais way of emphasizing certain expressions, Parish's Metal Gear retrospective, etc'...
@@JasonGravesPoser Hope so man, was not expecting this video, but it was done extremely well. Well researched and you kept it interesting by splicing in videos of other TH-camrs. Plus your normal goofiness is always great.
Bro, you CRUSHED this review! Fantastic reviews on each game and is WELL worth the watch! Commentary was on point! My all time favorite nes game Tecmo Super Bowl never knew the fact they had never seen football! Wow! Great job man!
I don't know what that is lol. For the sake of this video I only played it for about 3 minutes. Last time I played through was on an actual cart. As for 4, if the easy money trick is to stock up on items before a chapter ends then yeah, all day long
Racing factoid: Al Unser Jr. was actually an IndyCar driver, only racing in NASCAR in 1994. Though Turbo Racing is seen as an "F1 game" that's mainly because, at the time, pretty much any open-wheel racing game was seen as an F1 game. Even Mario Andretti Racing was called an F1 game. And although Mario Andretti DID race in F1, by the 90s when the game came out he was an IndyCar driver. The car on the box art (like the cars on Al Unser Jr.'s box art) was, indeed, an IndyCar. Mario ended his F1 career in 1982 to focus on his IndyCar career. So although Al Unser Jr. did race in NASCAR he, along with his grandfather, father, uncles and cousins, were all IndyCar drivers with the exception of his cousin Loni Unser, who focuses her racing career on the Pikes Peak Hill Climb. Signed, A huge racing fan.
Just a little info, In Mario 3 you cannot do the tower is w5 backwards. If you go back into the pipe after completing the tower you just fall from a pipe thats at the top of the stage and enter a pipe at the bottom, and it brings you back to the bottom map.
Plenty i could say here obv, but being upfront about the "stuff that got localized in English only" rule kills a lot of my potential nitpicks! i will just say that The Guardian Legend could potentially hit the spot for you. Yes it's a shmup, but only a half-shmup and the other half of the game is right in your wheelhouse. Doing enough exploring on the Zelda side of the game will even make the shmup stages way easier and more fun. There's just nothing else quite like it even to this day, and the soundtrack is one of my favorite on the system with a totally unique vibe for the NES; it's the 8-bit era's closest thing to ASMR for me.
Oh good Lord... I just got to the bit where you mentioned that your teachers at school were probably at school themselves in the 80's and 90's. I left school in 1979. Yes... Right as a certain video game phenonema was about to grip humanity. I'll be honest, I still have flashbacks to those times even now.
As someone who was born in 1980 and has first-hand real experience with these games although I would not have put that is number one it is a very good and reasonable choice all the criticisms ignore the fact that all games were Nintendo power games the graphics were amazing in the gameplay was also amazing a level up system plus find things and the ability to save without a stupid password no never mind you're right number one
that was the gold cart punch out version that only had up to super macho man that was given in a contest before mike tysons was released world wide only 5k copies of the gold cart version exist. side note you can experience this version on the JP NSO if you have a JP account
Love that Super Spike V'Ball made it. It's in my personal top 5. Also, love that Ice Hockey made it past Blades of Steel. Also SMB2 is my favorite of the SMBs because I never owned it as a child, but had 1 and 3. Sometimes what you think is best but can't have really is the best.
Not an nes game, but I would love to see his take on 2 player co-op "Gain Ground" on the sega. I think it would rock his world a bit. Brilliant video! The voice of a gamer who holds games to standard and recognizes when something is special.
Kid Icarus, Tecmo Bowl, Gradius, Life Force, TMNT, Wizards and Warriors, Metal Gear, Faxanadu, Metroid and Mega man deserved much better. Some of which could/should easily be top ten. Surprised to see TAOL at #1 though. Big fan of it and I don't think it got the love it truly deserved from the communtiy.
Maniac Mansion was very important. Arguably responsible for all point and click adventure games. The NES port though... Idk. That the port exists says something I guess.
20:54 This entry is nonsense! Al Unser Jr raced Indy Car many times, and only did Nascar once. I have no idea where I heard that tidbit, but it's not true!
Tbf, it is still supposed to be a sim of F1 racing which he, indeed, did not ever participate in ;)
btw Super Mario 2 (US version not "Lost Levels") is a re-skinned game, called Toki Doki Panic. kind of interesting story, check it out if you get a chance.
There’s a company called Nintendo that has made video games for a while, you should check it out.
Take your list and go with that to Toilette your list is Toilette paper
Most of the games you choice are from Nintendo mini or so horrible bad that no human being should play it
Dragon Warrior is very inferior to Final Fantasy 1... even Dragon Warrio 3 ain't that better.... mate what are you saying!!!! Final Fantasy 2 is as good, and beats even Dragon Warrrior 4 to me... I am yet to play Final Fantasy 3 oin famicom, but i crushed FF2 with levelling BEFORe getting my 3rd word, i went to mysidia before learning the 3rd word in japanese as a non-nippon reading dude and can say FF2 beats every Dragon warrior game in fun and technique, dep^th andcomplexity of the game saved in such a little cartridge.DQ 4 is fun and has story though, but the spells and weapon complexity and depth of customization of the 3 lead heroes is amazing
"You play as Simon from the Smash Bros series" killed me... XD
Zelda II is the most epic feeling adventure the NES could have possibly pulled off. Great top pick 👌🏻
This video was specifically designed to piss off anyone who was born between 1977 and 1981 and succeeded exceptionally well at said endeavor. Well done. ;)
Accurate.
Tiny Toons was not a nickelodeon TV show. It was syndicated, and the phrase is "I couldn't care less."
Thought this list was weird, then I heard him say he was too young for the Duck Tales cartoon and it all made sense.
Calling Duck Hunt to Mario "the mistress to the wife" is a hell of a simile...
52:36 I'm happy to inform you that Bionic Commando's reboot was also released on PS3, and honestly regardless of how 'successful' it was, it was actually quite good, and jam-packed with a ton of great features. That reboot made me love Bionic Commando far more than I did the first time around.
Dudes from Double Dragon Gaming says there are bout 400 games in the NES library ? There are over 1600 games for the NES.
Yep, by every metric worldwide there was literally 3-4 TIMES more than 400 games... that was a pretty embarrassing blunder. They even said it multiple times as if they were so sure of it too... IoI. Considering there were nearly 700 licensed games released just in the US alone, as well as yet ANOTHER 90-200 unlicensed titles sold in stores on-top of that (again just in the US alone), I'm very curious where he pulled such an inaccurately random number from.
They actually did make a follow up to the original Excitebike such as VS Excitebike, which I haven’t played and Excitebike World Rally, which was a good game that does let you save your maps. But both are more obscure.
This is the type of vidoe to watch after you purchase one of those retro systems with a huge rom dump included. Now you can cull down that collection of roms and try something you've never played or long since forgotten. Great video!
Curated rom lists are the best! Just having every game is no fun
Al Unser, Jr. was not a NASCAR driver. He drove IndyCar, open wheel race cars just like on the game.
To your friend: every 3D videogame is projected onto a 2D plane, your tv screen. Unless you’re playing a real life table top game, you’re playing a 2D game. 😂
Even our 3D reality is a 2D projection. Onto ur eyeballs.
@TheDustyWilk Eyeballs are 3D, though? Only by working together, they achieve the 3D effect. With one eye, you have no depth perception, so perhaps 3D is actually an illusion as you say?
VR baby
Yeah, that argument was super weak.
I got legitimately hyped at the introduction of THE PYRAMID.
This video deserves more love.
It's great to see Zelda II get the love it deserves. Nowadays I go back and forth on which NES Zelda game I prefer, but when I was a boy in 1988 playing Zelda II, I remember saying to myself "This is better than the first game". The original Zelda had been my favorite game until that moment. What's wonderful about Zelda II is the advanced combat system. You can attack in so many ways, and you have to use every move in your arsenal to defeat all the enemies. You have a regular strike (with and without projectile), a low strike (with and without projectile), an upward strike, a downward strike, and a dropping slash (which you can use to defeat the knights). And that's without mentioning the magical attacks you acquire as you progress.
I've downloaded a couple of hacks that advertise themselves as tantamount to entirely new games. I haven't played them yet though. They're called Nightmare of Ganon and Resurrection of Ganon.
Zelda 2 sucks
Born in 1982 here- This was a really fun NES top 100! Loved how it was not the typical top 100.. very cool to see what a gamer born in 1995 would think of these old titles. FWIW I agree with a lot of this video- maybe not all of it, but a lot of good points- loved seeing Zelda2 at the top spot!
Fine I'll try Zelda 2,
But really wonderfully put together video. Ambitious, snappy, informative and entertaining all the way through. Taught me a LOT about a lot of games I knew little about and some I didn't even know like Little Samson. Can't imagine having to research all these games.
Surprised to see Mario Bros. 2 rank so high and Tetris not higher. Nice job with that Castlevania boss and man I can't imagine how hard Mike Tyson must be for you to never have beaten him.
Great format and a lot to chew on here, definitely worth some rewatches! This is something to be proud of and a huge dedication to the NES
Mario bros 2 and Zelda 2 suck ass. Zelda 2 being a little better than mb 2. I wouldn't put them on a top 50 list
@@GTSN38 bruh you're stoned. Zelda 2 and Mario bros 2 rule.
@HoopleBogart I can name 48 games that are better, so they shouldn't be on a top 50 list.
Thanks as always for the escape.
Awesome video! Hopefully you make a top 100 SNES games as well!
zelda 2 was always the one zelda game i could stomach. i wouldn't say it's my favorite nes game, but very epic nonetheless
sweet home, mother, and mr. gimmick all take the top spot for me
Sweet Home is game design heaven. Like seriously, how is it an 80s game?
Not what I expected whatsoever but incredibly hyped for this. Can't wait to rewatch this 30 times this week
You have no life
@@ramrodbldm9876 Dude. This comment is 2 years old. I could say that you have no life for commenting annoying shit on a 2 year old comment. People like what they like.
Really enjoyed the list.
It’s interesting. I’m about 10 years older than you i am guessing. I am a little closer to these releases. I like to say that makes me more aware of initial responses and how individual games helped shaped the industry, but it also makes me more susceptible to nostalgia too
Dude.
Made it through the whole video. Got to number 2 (1A) and thought to myself “No f-ing way. No Zelda 2. How can it not be in his top 100”. That game gets so little love. Even hate. “It’s overrated, blah, blah, blah”
Then, BOOM.
Number 1.
Amazing. I played this in the ‘80s as a 9 year old, and it was definitely a challenge, but I made it without much help other than the odd Nintendo Power tip (just for Shadow Link, if I remember right).
Great video. Look forward to seeing more.
PS, I’m convinced if you played Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy and Metroid before their superior sequels, you’d have them higher up. They were pretty incredible as a kid.
Glad to see crystalis on here. Used to play this a lot as a little kid and is one of the best games on the nes by far
The NFL films music in the background was a wonderful touch
3 Blackbelts 1 White Mage, and you’re wondering why you don’t like FF1…
Don't worry about it clownboy psy
Off road I played the cabinet it had a three player with steering wheels
I actually liked Star Tropics. Also, Zelda 2 was the first Zelda I ever owned. I played Zelda 1 at a friends house back in the late 80’s, but when I finally got my own Nintendo and it was time to make a birthday wish for a new game (a rare occurrence) I wished for Zelda 2 for some reason. I don’t know, maybe my kid brain thought “2=better” or something. I ended up hating it. There game was just too intense for me. I hated getting dragged into random encounters, the villagers creeped me out. Every time I failed I had to hear Ganon laugh at me. It was a game I would never love, even if, years later, I would come to respect what it was trying to do. I did eventually team up with my little brother to beat the game. One of us navigated using a map while the other controlled the game. It was a struggle that left us with a bitter taste rather than the joy of victory. We completed Zelda 2 because we felt that we must, not for the love of the game. This was my Dad’s idea, he felt it was a waste of time for us to get a new game unless we had “beaten” all the old ones. So, Zelda 2 became just another chore for my brother and I to complete. So, please know that, even if I am an ignorant clod who is incapable of recognizing a masterpiece, my disdain for Zelda 2 comes from an authentic place.
Your consistent use of the word strategery has earned you my sub.
I like the part when you say “I’m to young to have watched” but yet here you are playing the game it’s based off of. Good video!
And even an in depth top 100. Top tier channel.
Playing and talking about some random game I had barely heard of before this was pretty fun, not gonna lie.
Thanks for being a part of it!
I loved Blaster Master, got it for christmas in maybe 1988. Its super hard past 3rd level. And got Bayou Billy same time. Its impossible. I still have nightmares 30+ years on.
I come back to this one all the time. So much fun.
If I gave you one recommendation to check out, it's Rescue: The Embassy Mission. Everyone misses this one, but it's amazing.
The sorta turn based FPS! I really liked that game when I was a kid
400 games... more like 1400. Battletoads is an adrenaline rush tho.
Even having Star Tropics out of the top 20 would make this list hard to take seriously.
Actually I wouldn't have it in the top 20, there are a lot of great NES games. Now if it's on someone's top 20 that's fine. That's his opinion to have something else.
Maniac mansion is one of the best NES games. And is a true sleeper. Those who have played it, understand. It's a puzzle game with different ending based off your choices. Well we'll worth digging into l. But if you look up the answers. The joy of discovery is gone.
Fucking awesome. Thank you for making this.
Wow, glad I watched this after hearing about the SNES video recommended to me by Red Cow Arcade. Faxanadu, Monster Party, The Krion Conquest and Vice Project Doom look fantastic and I wish I had known they existed sooner.
I'm just happy Monster Party made the list, and so high! It's one of my favorite games from my childhood that nobody's ever heard of. My parents could never remember the names of games I wanted as a kid (unless they were based on movies or tv shows), so when I wanted Castlevania, I told them to get me "the game with Dracula on the cover." Ended up with Mosnter Party instead and fell in love with it.
Most impressive, admittedly too sporty and race oriented for me, but what do I know- also on need of a haircut. What is your take on Satoshimatrix's list? It was also interesting to note the references to Noah Caldwell-Gervais way of emphasizing certain expressions, Parish's Metal Gear retrospective, etc'...
Really enjoyed watching this, will there be a SNES list sometime in the future?
maybe
@@JasonGravesPoser Hope so man, was not expecting this video, but it was done extremely well. Well researched and you kept it interesting by splicing in videos of other TH-camrs. Plus your normal goofiness is always great.
40:48 Something tells me you'd get along well with a certain Scott the Woz.
Great video, with observations and effort that distinguish you among other creators.
Great video!
52:11 Ooooh, I see what you did there.
Mr. Graves, u sir, are a treasure. Thank you for this video
Alright dropping everything I'm doing for there is something I must consume
Thanks for this list. Was extremely helpful. I look forward to the sequel next.
This is the best NES ranking list, thank you
love ur content soo hard
Bro, you CRUSHED this review! Fantastic reviews on each game and is WELL worth the watch! Commentary was on point! My all time favorite nes game Tecmo Super Bowl never knew the fact they had never seen football! Wow! Great job man!
Very nice vid. Lots of work and it shows. Great work man! Quick question. Did you use the "easy money trick" in DW3 or did you grind?
I don't know what that is lol. For the sake of this video I only played it for about 3 minutes. Last time I played through was on an actual cart. As for 4, if the easy money trick is to stock up on items before a chapter ends then yeah, all day long
Hilarious intro and GREEAT LIST!!
The old espn football music was.a.great addition to this video
I really liked turtles 2 and 3
I enjoyed the first one but I just found it too hard to make me want to keep playing after a few levels.
Great job on the music choice. The espn football prime time music fits perfectly haha 😂
Racing factoid: Al Unser Jr. was actually an IndyCar driver, only racing in NASCAR in 1994. Though Turbo Racing is seen as an "F1 game" that's mainly because, at the time, pretty much any open-wheel racing game was seen as an F1 game.
Even Mario Andretti Racing was called an F1 game. And although Mario Andretti DID race in F1, by the 90s when the game came out he was an IndyCar driver. The car on the box art (like the cars on Al Unser Jr.'s box art) was, indeed, an IndyCar.
Mario ended his F1 career in 1982 to focus on his IndyCar career.
So although Al Unser Jr. did race in NASCAR he, along with his grandfather, father, uncles and cousins, were all IndyCar drivers with the exception of his cousin Loni Unser, who focuses her racing career on the Pikes Peak Hill Climb.
Signed,
A huge racing fan.
Just a little info, In Mario 3 you cannot do the tower is w5 backwards. If you go back into the pipe after completing the tower you just fall from a pipe thats at the top of the stage and enter a pipe at the bottom, and it brings you back to the bottom map.
16:13 I had this game when I was 5, and have very vague memories of it. I’ve always been trying to find it again online until now. 😂😂😂😂😂
Plenty i could say here obv, but being upfront about the "stuff that got localized in English only" rule kills a lot of my potential nitpicks!
i will just say that The Guardian Legend could potentially hit the spot for you. Yes it's a shmup, but only a half-shmup and the other half of the game is right in your wheelhouse. Doing enough exploring on the Zelda side of the game will even make the shmup stages way easier and more fun. There's just nothing else quite like it even to this day, and the soundtrack is one of my favorite on the system with a totally unique vibe for the NES; it's the 8-bit era's closest thing to ASMR for me.
Oh good Lord... I just got to the bit where you mentioned that your teachers at school were probably at school themselves in the 80's and 90's.
I left school in 1979. Yes... Right as a certain video game phenonema was about to grip humanity. I'll be honest, I still have flashbacks to those times even now.
Dude…the ESPN background music makes me very happy.
Came hete from Red Cow... and you've won my subscription.
I would argue that forums, bulletin boards, gamefaqs, are the natural evolution of those playground talk days.
Maniac Mansion is a masterpiece!
This video rocks 😆
As someone who was born in 1980 and has first-hand real experience with these games although I would not have put that is number one it is a very good and reasonable choice all the criticisms ignore the fact that all games were Nintendo power games the graphics were amazing in the gameplay was also amazing a level up system plus find things and the ability to save without a stupid password no never mind you're right number one
Great job. Had a good time wayching
Again. The NFL Primetime music makes the video.
Big Zelda 2 fan, btw.
Nes open is incredible!! The physics still amaze me after a decade
Batletoads!!!!!!!
Zelda 2 is a good game if you install fix/hack/mod, same goes for Castlevania 2 Simons Quest.
The vanilla games are just unfished games.
that was the gold cart punch out version that only had up to super macho man that was given in a contest before mike tysons was released world wide only 5k copies of the gold cart version exist. side note you can experience this version on the JP NSO if you have a JP account
Love that Super Spike V'Ball made it. It's in my personal top 5. Also, love that Ice Hockey made it past Blades of Steel. Also SMB2 is my favorite of the SMBs because I never owned it as a child, but had 1 and 3. Sometimes what you think is best but can't have really is the best.
Not an nes game, but I would love to see his take on 2 player co-op "Gain Ground" on the sega. I think it would rock his world a bit. Brilliant video! The voice of a gamer who holds games to standard and recognizes when something is special.
Give baseball stars 2 a try. Its the best baseball game for those that casually engage w the sport.
I mostly agree with this list. I'd just swap 1 and 3 is all. Good video, just recently discovered your stuff and its great.
Red cow brought me here. Interesting video
Zelda 2 is fantastic. But everyone knows the best NES game is Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Rescue: the embassy mission was good times as well. Easily in my top 100 just such a short game sadly. Glad to see zelda 2 on top though.
If you fart in outer space, does it smell?
Me loves Dragon Warrior IV on the NES. And Taloon rocks.
Also, good list. Megaman at 16 is blasphemous though.
My favorite would be Castlevania 3. I haven't played Dragon Quest 4 yet though
I love Mega Man! It's more of a comfy pajama's love and less of a suit you're wear in public love though
@@JasonGravesPoser I totally get It lol.
Great video! It makes me want to play some Mario!
Never come here again
Am I the only one who think it's crazy to put two sports games over megaman??.
Kid Icarus, Tecmo Bowl, Gradius, Life Force, TMNT, Wizards and Warriors, Metal Gear, Faxanadu, Metroid and Mega man deserved much better. Some of which could/should easily be top ten. Surprised to see TAOL at #1 though. Big fan of it and I don't think it got the love it truly deserved from the communtiy.
Zelda 2 is my favorite to. It’s the only game I still play even today. I have it right in my living room.
Maniac Mansion was very important. Arguably responsible for all point and click adventure games. The NES port though... Idk. That the port exists says something I guess.
This video is fucking amazing. The Felix the Cat part is the strangest thing I've seen in a while.
Awesome fight with Castlevania 3
I also list that among my hardest games beat
I would put Kirby's Adventure at #1 spot, followed by Mario 3
You missed an opportunity to shout "Four Score" when talking about of my favs (because I had the four score) RC Pro AM II lol
Good stuff.
Great list
I heard that excitebike actually did integrate saving with the tape system famicom got with basic. So the saving did sort of work.
Didnt play many zelda games so my top 3 are Wind waker > link to the past > minish cup
Dude I love Kid Icarus! It’s in my Top 5 games which I still play. That, Zelda 1 & 2, Metroid, and a few others round out the top 10.
ty for giving #80 to RBI Baseball