Love this! Christmas ‘01 got my first PS2 and I’ll never forget opening the games beforehand thinking my parents made a mistake since I only had a Ps1 at the time. Then came the big surprise ❤🎉
Loved my NES. My parents bought me 2 games a year, birthday and Christmas. So I got a paper route and started getting myself a game a month. Good times, good times.
Dude that was me too! 2 games a year on those dates. And damn I had a paper route for a while too. I was helping one of my uncles. He definitely pay enough! 😠 Hope u kept most of your games!
Knowing the NES went on for 9 long years just goes to show how Nintendo has been operating ever since, if they find success they will run with it for as long as they can just like the Switch in current times
Well, one of Nintendo's Guiding Principles is "Lateral Thinking with withered Technology", pretty much meaning "Using outdated tech in new ways", and nobody does it as clever as Nintendo does, also prooving it doesn't always have to be the newest tech to be fun.
@@ShadowEl Sure, but that's more of them hedging their bet. They even called DS a "third pillar", insisting it wasn't replacing the GB line. They wanted to support GBA a while for business reasons. We don't see GB anymore though, because obviously (even at the time) it was a lie, there was no 3rd pillar. They just wanted to be careful in case DS didn't catch on or have staying power. You know, and still, even with that, 5 years isn't that long and 2006 was pretty light for GBA. Technically it lasted even after that but was mostly shovelware trickling in until the final game in like 2008.
Hearing the credits music does sound a bit bittersweet. It really felt like the end of an era. The game is also notable for being one of the few later NES games included in the original Animal Crossing on GameCube.
Zodas Revenge is a sequel to one of my favorite NES games, Startropics. I watched my dad play through the first game and we truly loved it. When my dad brought home the sequel one fateful day, i was beside myself. Couldn't stop playing it. It still holds up incredibly well even today for an NES game. I strongly urge anyone who enjoys or has an interest in 8 bit gaming to give it a try. 👍
They really took some of the problems with the first game and got rid of those problems and it became even more difficult as a result. Still, play the first game before playing the sequel to understand it.
I still adore Mega Man 6 to this day. Lovely background visuals, some of the best tunes in the series, tight gameplay and overall a good note to end its 8bit run on. As for Chip 'n Dale 2, it's one of the three remaining NES grails I've vowed to get someday.
Great video. I was already turned away from the NES by 1992. The Sega Genesis and Super NES had their grips on me. It was rare to see a NES game in the shelf back then. There was a huge push for SNES at the time. Especially in 1994 when the announcement of PS1. The NES is my fourth favorite of all time
Apparently, the NES Jungle Book game is basically a port of the Game Boy version. All they did was upscale the resolution, give it a bit of color, and call it a day
Nah, I don't think you're giving the Blue Bomber enough credit. He may not be as "cool" to you as Sonic or X, but he still has his place in gaming history and the NES. It was a miracle that MM6 was published at all, considering Capcom didn't even wanted to bother. MM6 was definitely the send off from the 8-bit era to the 16-bit era. Nintendo took it upon themselves to publish it, especially since MM6 featured Robot Masters from one of their contests and it was marketed alongside the top-loader which was a genius move on their part imo. Plus you gotta admit, the 8-bit soundtracks are awesome af. Or you wouldn't even be using it in your videos lol
I've never enjoyed Mega Man. I expected to as a kid, and liked the character on Captain N, but when I went to a friend's house and played Mega Man 2, I just didn't like it. The music is good, even great, the graphics are strong, and the controls are responsive... but I don't enjoy it. I think part of it is that he didn't duck. That irked me for some reason. More importantly, though, I just found it a little repetitive. There's something just same-y that I can't quite explain about it, even though it does change environments with each master. I'd never tell anyone they're bad games- I've even recommended them to some folks. In the decades since, I've tried several times, and though I never hate it, I never really enjoy it either, even after finishing a couple of them. Give me Ghosts 'n Goblins/Ghouls 'n Ghosts all day for my Capcom platformers.
I remember all the Nintendo myths back then. Like being at my grandparents house around 89 asking if my cousins and I could play on their living room tv only for her to say “no I heard they ruin tvs” with a group of 8 year olds responding “but they’re made for tvs!”.
Christmas 1994 was when family got the nes. We had legend of zelda 1 and 2, black manta, double dragon 1 and 2, yoshi, yoshis cookie, super Mario bros 2 and 3. Games I grow up on until 2000 when we got a n64
Sure there are differences, but the six Mega Man games are WAYYYY more samey than, say... Hogan's Alley, Track & Field, Bomberman 2, Blaster Master, Legend of Zelda, and Felix the Cat. So when considering a given set of six NES games, selected from the entire library, it's probably very long odds that you would select six games that are more samey than the Mega Man series.
@not2tired That is fair I suppose. Still, they were excellent games, each very good in their own right. Who wouldn't want more of a good thing? I for one appreciate having 6 games to plow thru when I feel like having a Mega Man fix 🙂 Also, the main premise may be samey samey, but the Wily castles at the end of each game do give a unique challenge to get through for each game.
@not2tired That said, I think they probably should have been budget titles considering how similar they are, maybe retailing for 40 at most vs the usual 50 bucks.
I set out to sell my O.G. NES & library of 12ish games at my 1st & only garage sale when I was like 9/10years old lol. Back in 91,92 Era. To fund a new SNES my parents wouldn't buy me, cause they thought the NES ruined they're tv.. (maybe it did...😶) Had some toys up for grabs too (moto, tmnt, wwf figures) Wish I still had them haha. & so things weren't going that great but i did manage to sell about $50. It was getting late & I remember this dad & his kids showed up & he lowballed me hard.. Got me down to like $8 a game instead of $15, $12 i was asking. Anyway he bought most of the games & I was kinda sad to see them go but now i had like $130ca. Most money I'd ever seen haha! The SNES was mine.. all mine.. but it was $159.99 unfortunetly & I was still short & my parents wouldn't cover the rest. It's cool, I laugh about it now & they did get me that SNES eventually next Christmas or so I think, after some convincing. The few years wait it took after release was worth it & it was the last console I would really play as a child. Great memories! Anyway I went to Toy r us & bought a copy of tmnt tournament fighters & a descent sized super soaker water gun & abunch of chocalate. So me & my best friend Eric Venetelli had a good summer! Tmnt was only ok & I missed my other games but i guess it was my first step into business little did i know. I Guess it was destiny & a push from my parents. I won't ever forget it. RIP MOM LOVE YOU FOREVER 🌹❤️ Always your son: G
There's two games you forgot about that were released on the NES in 1994: Disney's The Jungle Book, and The Flintstones: Surprise at Dinosaur Park. I still think it's awesome that the NES lived on for a few more years even after the 16-bit era started. Have you done any lookbacks at games that came out in 1991, 1992 and 1993 too?
final year of the NES had some bangers. i didn't really get to play them until emulation though. By 94 we were fortunate enough to had gotten an SNES/Genesis a few years back, so our fam had moved onto 16-bit levels of fun. But discovering these last games later on was a treat. Especially Star Tropics 2.
You had such a different arc from me, maybe because I started with my older brother's leftover Atari and got my NES at the perfect age of 7, when I was ready for more expansive games, but it became THE iconic system to me for my entire life. Even then I put off getting a Genesis until Sonic and the price drop, upon which I relented. My uncle had a Sega and almost every game, I had occasional access to play mostly anything I wanted, and I just didn't prefer the gameplay style to the faster paced NES, and the graphics didn't wow me enough to want to OWN one at the cost of less NES games, you see. I loved my Sega when I got it, but it quickly became third banana when I got my SNES. Then around high school emulators came out, and we had access to the NES once again, most of my and my friend's consoles having given up by then, and with the great Funcoland refurbishment a few years off still, it was a desert for NES gameplay until I looked over one day in computer class and someone was playing Mega Man with a keyboard. That became computer class from then on btw, as they didn't know how to parse out the workload yet so we had tons of free time in there. I kept my NES gaming going from then on, and its left me a ton of other libraries to dig into an an adult now, such as the Genesis, which you've been such a help with, and the TurboGrafx 16 lately. It's just about gaming taste, what we prefer, and how we came to acquire them, I don't think it does any good to argue objective quality, better to just share what we all love.
Mega Man 6, Bonk's Adventure, Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers 2,tmnt tournament Fighters, Zoda's Revenge: Startropics 2 and more help to rap up the nes 9 year run.😀👍🎮
I still turned my NES on during the 90s to play reruns of the dragon warrior 1-4, final fantasy and Zelda 1 & 2 (I still have them). These are still my most prized cartridges.
i'm a bit younger than you and i had an nes in the 80s but it didn't light my passion for console gaming, it wasn't until the snes launch that i would actually feel passionate about consoles, i also had a tandy 1000 to myself at the turn of the 90s with a ton of dos games, that's where i spent the most of my time prior to the snes or the game boy
how does that not make 1990 the final year of that console? Just because they still sold them in 1991? I bet they still sold them in 1992 and beyond then as well, because shops would have leftover stock that nobody wanted anymore
@@KrunchyTheClown78 if we go by that logic then the NES's final year was 1995 since it wasn't discontinued until August 1995 which was a month before the PS1 released
It's really weird that many of these late releases today are so revered not only for the price but for the technical side and gameplay. I remember in 1994 seeing these on shelves but not caring because we considered the NES "ancient and old" and kinda looked down on it. but now it's retro and cool. Tells you how we really don't appreciate things when we easily have them.
Some later NES titles look (edit: almost) like early Megadrive games. Big sprites, line- and column scrolling and even some voice samples - Turtles Tournament Fighters is actually damn impressive for a NES game. But should we expect something different from a Konami game?
I remember going to a friend’s birthday party in 1993. His father proudly released the NES that he got him, and I loudly asked my he was only getting it then when the SNES had been out for 2 years. I was never invited over again
@@thystaff742 bullshit. Guy had a large house in an upper-middle class area. Adopted both of his kids as well, which costs a shit-ton, too. He was just clueless about what to get him
@@J.S.3259 lol immediate defensiveness when you get called out. It’s OK man. It was years ago and we were all little punks at one point or another. Just own it
Hell, it wasn't til the PS1 dropped that I finally sold my NES collection to help pay for it. Was tough to let it go but I absolutely made the right choice. The PS1 was amazing!
They played off of each other well, some of the best gaming was in the 16 bit era due to competing against each other for our money. Let's also not write off the PC Engine/TG-16, that too has some damned fine games in it's library.
I agree. Sega brought something out of Nintendo that no console company ever done. Nintendo were at the height of their tenure when the Sega Genesis was in the market. Sega made them want to make better games and SNES ' RPG lineup was legendary and the Sega Genesis had the shmups out the ass. Great time in gaming indeed
I love the Nintendo Entertainment System for It's fun wonderful games and iconic look. I have met many young gamers throughout the years who say besides the 1990's and 2000's game consoles they also love to collect for the NES and It was always interesting and fun to hear what many wonderful games they are playing that I never heard of until then. I also love the Famicom especially the design. Cool video. ^_^
By late December 1994 I had a Sega Genesis with Sonic Knuckles game as my birthday gift. By that time I had a clone of the Famicom, called FamilyGame. In Argentina the NES was really expensive, so we had those really CHEAPER popular clones and A LOT of games in cartridges which were the same type as the original Famicom.
18:45 - 18:55 I think 3rd party developers felt the same way about the PS1. I feel like that’s why early demo discs came with games like Loaded, Twisted Metal and Mortal Kombat 3 while later discs had stuff like Tigger’s Honey Hunt and Play with the Tellitubbies.
Wow, I enjoyed this video so much more than I was expecting. I didn't properly get into console gaming until the Mega Drive, having previously played a few games on my younger brother's Master System. Living in Europe, the NES also wasn't anywhere near as popular as in the USA, so it wasn't on my radar back in the day. I've tried some of the most obvious (first party) NES games more recently but found them a bit basic. But several of the games presented in this video have piqued my interest... the graphics, sound, music all way above what I thought the NES capable of, with really interesting gameplay. I'll definitely be checked these out on my Steam Deck.
NES is still my favorite console after more than 35 years since I first got one for Christmas in '89 (Genesis eventually became my #2 later in life). Bonk on the NES really is a well done port, though the difficulty is a bit on the easy side.
For me personally , 1994 is the year of NES, when my parents finally bought me gaming console , a NES Clone from Taiwan called SPICA, for the first time owning game system after years only able to play in my cousins home during the weekend. Im able to trade /swap games now with my cousins and later my Junior High friends. It isnt the most defining console for me (it goes to playstation1 ) but the most memorable and nostalgic one, Seeing my parents and older siblings play Side Pocket against each other ewhere video games are far from their lives before. My parents also believes in game to brought more positives than negatives during the time where video games get very negatives connotation due to largest illegal gambling racket operate under the banner of Video Game Arcade parlour (in 3rd world country like mine, as usual many people will correlate each event piece by piece and ended up making conclusion that they are correlated)
Mega Man 6 and Chip and Dale 2 are the only ones here I've played, on emulation at that since I think my parents sold both NES and SNES to get money for the N64. But I enjoyed them well enough, polished games that were the best version of what they were aiming for, but quite old-fashioned at the time. Though I must admit I'm interested now in Startropics 2... hopefully it will find it's way to NSO one of these days.
It's just amazing how many big titles were being released for the NES way into the beginning of the 5th generation of consoles. Even the Mega Drive didn't receive the same treatment around 1996 or 1997, can you imagine DOOM using the SVP chip or SFA2 on the 16-bit SEGA machine? That would be killer. I really enjoy these NES color pallets and its sound chip. It's interesting, to say the least, to imagine kids whose parents held onto the NES for longer and they actually enjoyed many of these games when they were still being released. No matter if you had the current hot stuff or not, if you had enjoyment, even if it was an Atari 2600, by yourself, with brothers or friends, it's all good stuff.
Some of these games I bought from Funcoland back in the late 90s for cheap particularly Rescue Rangers 2, Bonk's Adventure, TMNT Tournament Fighters. I ended up selling those 3 along with some other high dollar NES games in 2015 in order to buy school clothes for my son. I still have Mega Man 6 and Zoda's Revenge in my collection. I wish I had a physical copy of Wario's Woods especially since I play on an emulator it every 4th of July while I'm outside grilling.
It's nice to remember that not everybody experienced the NES only until 1990. I still played a hand me down SNES in 2002 until the GBA made it "obsolete". Gaming in general was just too new to me for 16 bit to feel ancient.
In latin america it was popular until late 90s and early 2000s, it was cheap, you could buy or rent the games everywhere, it was one of those systems everybody had. (mostly the family computer shaped version, the famicom, not the north american nes version).
The mid 90's to early 00's werent a weird time at least in Mexico if you were poor or too young the Family/Nes was for you, if you were a teenager mid low class you get a Genesis mid to high class you get a Snes and if you had money but liked arcades you got the Ps1 but if you were a Nintendo fan you went for the N64, but at the end everybody just went for the ps1 when pirated games becane mainstream then the ps2.
I chose the Sega Master System and had no regrets from the secret maze game with no cartridge by pressing A&B and left on the 🕹️ I remember I figured it out by mistake because there was no Internet
Good video dude... I have Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers 2, TMNT Tournament Fighters, Mega Man VI (all of which I can play on my modern Xbox Series X) in 'The Disney Afternoon Collection', TMNT Cowabunga Collection & The Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 compilations.
Exactly. What really made Mega Man hard was the platforming and it wasn't even hard after 2. The games got easier to me. This was due to the slide and charging buster cannon. It broke the other games to me
While it would be disingenuous to say that the NES saved gaming in the USA (home computers do not get nearly enough credit for filling the gap between major consoles) I do think that it's absolutely fair to say that the NES revitalized the market in America and took it to new heights that none of us could have imagined. The gaming industry is bigger than ever in 2024, but there is no console today that comes close to having the footprint that the NES did in the late 80s/early 90s For better or for worse, Nintendo basically had a monopoly in America at the time, with no console (Sega Master System, Atari 7800, Turbografx 16, etc.) coming anywhere close to being a genuine rival. Because pop culture, and the entertainment world in general, was much smaller back then (pre-social media and before the internet was readily available in most homes), it genuinely felt like Nintendo and the NES were EVERYWHERE! Nintendo cereal, Nintendo cartoons, and Nintendo movies (even if they sucked lol) with very little competition from anybody Relative to the time in which it was released (key phrase; I'm well aware that consoles like the PS2, Wii, and Switch have sold more units in a vacuum), the NES captivated the entire country in a way that no other console has IMO
Nintendo had a monopoly early on with the NES because they were complete aholes with retailers. Wouldn't allocate them any systems or games if they carried a competing system. They have been a pretty garbage company since the NES days despite putting out some killer hardware and games. They still to this day are a garbage company.
Yeah, although I'd perhaps use "impact" or "market share" to describe it rather than "footprint", which refers to both impact and also absolute size. In my european view, one of the consequences of the U.S. gaming population being captivated and spellbound by the NES to such an extent is that the role of Nintendo has tended to be overestimated and the role of other companies and other gaming systems often underestimated in american games journalism and history writing.
I still love the intro so much, it has everything... Ghostly holograms of Ecco, and Sonic & Tails... a ghostly glimpse of NiGHTS as he flies by and hits the high notes in the theme song. ^Wait, didn't the Game Gear used to have a glimpse of Dreamcast Ecco in it? (Because I miss that, if I'm recalling that correctly.)
The Crash Dummies game is pretty interesting. It's a Canadian game, but the music of the handheld ports is based on the PAL NES version. (And the composers are British) Makes you wonder, which frequency it's meant to be played at.
Awesome video! TY for it. I moved on from the NES to the SNES in 1991. In fact, I remember trading in my entire collection for a Game Gear at some point. But all these years later, it's now my favorite console and mostly what I play!
In like 1995 the Kmart next to my house had a case full of nes games on clearance all were $5 or less. Man i wish i had bought them all but i was 10 years old lol.
Wario's Woods is my favorite NES games. It's much more technical than Tetris, with great freedom of movement and the ability to recompose the board as you please. It's very satisfying to control your environment and the range of movements. But I can understand why an occasional player might find it difficult, as learning techniques becomes necessary with more complex configurations in advanced stages.
I don't love puzzle games but I do love Wario's Woods. It's great and underrated. I find it's very fun to move around and be able to climb up walls. It's a really cool combination of Tetris and Mario 2, plus the graphics are excellent and I love picking up the coins at the end of each round
I remember getting my NES in 2008 with a box full of games. I had already had a SNES and PS1, but dang, I enjoyed every single one of those games for dozens, maybe hundreds of hours. SMB1 and 3 were so incredibly fun even if they were simpler than World.
Makes you wonder who the hardcore gamers were in '94. Those that dove head-first into Sega CD content or those who held on to their NES 5 years after the Genesis dropped. In my middle-school clinging to an 8bit system would get you branded poor or lame. How little we actually knew.
I remember my sister got Chip and Dale 2 for Christmas even though the NES was mine. I’d moved on to PC games in the meantime but this drew me back in!
I think I got my SNES Christmas 1993. My parents were trying to make up for moving us in the middle of a school year and taking me away from all my friends; which led to merciless bullying from which I still bear the consequences of in 2024. But hey, at least I got an SNES.
Reminds me of my neighbours who still had only a NES all the way into 1995-1996 or whenever it was. Thanks to their NES I was introduced to Super Mario Bros. But I don't even remember whatever else they had, if anything. As the owner of a Mega Drive by that time for a number of years already, it wasn't a console that especially appealed to me. That, and my friend had a Sega Saturn and I was soon to get one myself.
@@jrod1986 well my parents divorced shortly before that and they always used to spoil me with video game consoles as a consequence. Had a Mega Drive, 32X, then Sega Saturn, N64, after that a Playstation, then a Dreamcast, and finally a PS2. Not counting the handheld consoles; had a Game Gear, then Game Boy Color and finally a PSP.
My dad had one when I was little only games i remember playing was duck hunt super mario bros 3 and the first zelda. My first system i owned was a saturn.
Long-time subscriber and this is the first Nintendo vid I've come across! As a Nintendo fan growing up, it was a pleasant surprise finding out Sega Lord X was also a NES and SNES fan too.
Zoda's Revenge does look pretty good. I may have to track that one down. I really like games of this type. I never cared for Mega Man either in terms of the gameplay and absurd difficulty. I loved the music and graphics. I tried most of the titles as a kid, but I finally gave up on it and have sold all of my Mega Man cartridges. The only Mega Man game I have now is a download of the 'museum' for my 3DS which at least lets you remap the button controls. By being able to use the shoulder button for firing, I can finally pull off jumping and firing at the same time. It makes the games slightly less impossible. Oddly enough, I also found a download on my 3DS from Capcom called Dark Void Zero which, I've read, was supposed to come out before Mega Man, but got canceled back in the day. Playing as Rusty in this game now proves just how intentionally nerfed Mega Man is which makes me like Mega Man games even less. :) Rusty can shoot diagonally up and down, duck, fly (once you find the jet pack) and more. If Capcom had made Mega Man as capable as Rusty, they might have made one of my all time favorite platforming franchises ever. Mario's Time Machine looks like someone thought that Mario needed a side scrolling adventure game like they had done for Legend of Zelda: The Adventure of Link. Looks like it might be as bad or worse than that game too. Warrior's Woods looks an awful lot like the first game to feature Yoshi in his own game. I kind of like that game, but I'm not sure that I need two games of its sort. Interesting video that showed me some games I hadn't seriously considered getting before. Thanks!
A couple of the games released in 1994 were using undocumented opcodes for the 6502. Beauty and The Beast had a 2-byte NOP instruction. Aladdin used a SLO which ASLs the contents of a memory location and the ORs it with the accumulator.
Little did I know back then that MegaMan 6 would be the last game of the franchise I would play on the NES. I enjoyed every minute of playing them all. When my kids were growing up they played the NES with me until they were old enough for a PS2 they would judge my dates on whether or not they have beaten Contra like seriously lol and now they are playing games with their kids
In the past I had Bonk, I still do because I valued the money out of it and swapped it for the Famicom release and it's great. I also do have Rescue Ranger 2, it's fantastic and in a way I prefer it over the original I've had since the era and Mega Man 6 too(thanks NOA for publishing it.) TMNT fighters is pretty decent if brief, don't have this one still, and wouldn't for anything near the going rate. I do need to snap up Wario Woods again but I like to buy local and haven't seen it in years. The others I wouldn't touch...ehhh.
Bonk on the NES looks so damn good!!! It's unreal! When you have no side by side comparision you could think this is an early 16 Bit game. Also the smooth gameplay and the tiny ammount of flickering. It was and is outstanding. Maybe not for a Bonk game but defenitely for a NES game!
(A guy from East Germany) The Turtles fighting game was one of the few NES games I actually played at a friend's place back then (around 93), and I really liked it! My friend was the only person I knew that owned one. Probotector (Contra) was our favourite game though, but it was too hard for us. I also liked Megaman and that soccer game with the crazy shots :) Never owned one, but I had my Master System, which I loved. I always found the NES fascinating, too, even though I had no clue of all the other great games it offered.
Crash Test Dummies is just an alright game. I remember renting it way back in the day one weekend and my younger brothers and I got bored of it pretty quickly.
Wow, I didn't know the Crash Dummies NES game got such a late release in America! It came out over a year earlier in PAL regions. I loved it at the time, but mostly because I was a huge fan of the toys. It's kinda miserable trying to replay these days, but at least the soundtrack is still fantastic. Also yeah, the Game Gear and Master System versions are the still the best.
❗️We got our NES with two Control Pads and 'Super Mario Bros. 1' back in early 1992 and used it thoroughly until mid-1995 where I got the SNES with two Control Pads and 'Super Mario Allstars' (with no Mario World). This Console was also thoroughly used until Friday 1st January 1999. During my [purple] GameCube days in late-2003, I had a bit of nostalgia for the NES but never got around to getting another one. I did buy a few NES (and Master System) games from the Wii Virtual Console in 2010 which was great. Then, in 2012, I discovered Emulation and downloaded a load of NES (and SNES, MD, MS, GB, GBC and CPS1) ROMs for my newly acquired 'Dingoo: A330'. That Handheld broke so I replaced it with a 'BittBoy: Pocket-Go'. I rebought NES games on my [dark metallic blue] N3DS:XL but by then, the NES love had died. It was a fantastic first System to own but, as of Tues 25th June 2024, I'm all NES'd-out.
I had a peculiar history with the NES. In my earliest years I only knew about the SNES and Genesis (and maybe the PS1). The only NES games I played were through Super Mario All-Stars and Dr. Mario (via the 2-in-1 with Tetris). It wasn't until when I got accustomed with MAME that I found out about the PlayChoice-10 and VS. System series of releases. This introduced me to the likes of Mega Man 3, Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, TMNT and its sequel, Ice Climber, Dunk Hunt, Excitebike, Balloon Fight, Punch-Out, and even the Super Mario Bros. trilogy in their original form.
My Parents bought the Sega master system first, and a few years after the Nes. Nes had some good games, but we always went back to Sega. I know how I sound, but they worked their asses off with more than one job both for years and they saved as much as they could, and I can go on
Used to be we'd get simultaneous releases bridging last gen and next gen hardware. Nowadays companies will just wait a couple years after a new console is out, and call it a remsater for the same price.
my local video store kept buying new nes games until 94, and kept offering them until 97 when they closed. I had a Genesis, so I kept playing NES games at the same time. Got to enjoy great games like the Jetsons, Kirby, Megaman 5 and 6, etc back at the time of release.
I grew up playing TMNT tournament fighters on the NES at my cousin's place. The soundtrack is CLASSIC and one of my favorites on the system. Shredder and Casey Jones are super OP FYI.
Perkele from Finland. I played MegaMan VI on a hacked PAL European NES and it is the best MegaMan for the console. I have played some other MegaMan games, and despite of similarities, new levels and new weapons were always fun. New MegaMan game was like Doom II: more of the same with some new gimmicks (SUPER SHOTGUN!)
One of the rare disagreements I have with Sega Lord X....all of the Mega Man games on NES are excellent, and it doesn't matter that the formula is being repeated because it's perfect. Maybe it's not not his vibe. Great video, as always.
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I'll never forget the Christmas when I got my NES and EIGHT games. I didn't turn that thing off for weeks.
Dang, 8 games. That's pretty awesome. Most I ever got with a console at Xmas was 1.
Eight games was 500 dollars. U rich? 😂
Love this! Christmas ‘01 got my first PS2 and I’ll never forget opening the games beforehand thinking my parents made a mistake since I only had a Ps1 at the time. Then came the big surprise ❤🎉
Lol spoiled rich brat 100%
Damn, that was a seriously expensive Christmas for Mom and Dad 😅
Loved my NES. My parents bought me 2 games a year, birthday and Christmas.
So I got a paper route and started getting myself a game a month.
Good times, good times.
Paper round = slave labour for kidz 😂
Dude that was me too! 2 games a year on those dates. And damn I had a paper route for a while too. I was helping one of my uncles. He definitely pay enough! 😠 Hope u kept most of your games!
Knowing the NES went on for 9 long years just goes to show how Nintendo has been operating ever since, if they find success they will run with it for as long as they can just like the Switch in current times
Oddly, not with the GBA. It only had a few years before a successor. Otherwise yeah, pretty much.
@@VulpasGBA games came out well into 2006, and thanks to the Nintendo DS's compatibility, there was still an audience for those games.
Well, one of Nintendo's Guiding Principles is "Lateral Thinking with withered Technology", pretty much meaning "Using outdated tech in new ways", and nobody does it as clever as Nintendo does, also prooving it doesn't always have to be the newest tech to be fun.
@@ShadowEl Sure, but that's more of them hedging their bet. They even called DS a "third pillar", insisting it wasn't replacing the GB line. They wanted to support GBA a while for business reasons. We don't see GB anymore though, because obviously (even at the time) it was a lie, there was no 3rd pillar. They just wanted to be careful in case DS didn't catch on or have staying power.
You know, and still, even with that, 5 years isn't that long and 2006 was pretty light for GBA. Technically it lasted even after that but was mostly shovelware trickling in until the final game in like 2008.
@@ShadowEllast Nintendo published GBA game was Febuary 2007 FF6 Advanced and the last game came out a year later some Japanese RPG based on an anime
Wario's Wood is the only NES game with an ESRB rating.
Based on the name it could have gotten an E rating or an M rating
@aprichman K-A rating actually, E didn't exist until 1998
@@aprichmanAn AO rating 🤣
@@PaperBanjo64 K-A "Kids to Adult" basically meant the same as "E for Everyone."
@@beauwalker9820 right it was the original version of E
Wario's Woods had such a somber and bitter sweet feeling to it, like it was the end credits of the entire NES experience.
Hearing the credits music does sound a bit bittersweet. It really felt like the end of an era.
The game is also notable for being one of the few later NES games included in the original Animal Crossing on GameCube.
I feel the same way about Kirby's Dreamland 3 for the SNES. That game is _the_ definitive "end credits" for a console.
Any video with Tomahawk Man's theme from Mega Man VI being played is a good video.
It's a great example of NES music done right.
I second this lol
@@megamix5403i third it
@@noaht2005I fourth it lol. Mega man 6 has some great compositions
Too bad the guy making the video is a douchebag.
Zodas Revenge is a sequel to one of my favorite NES games, Startropics. I watched my dad play through the first game and we truly loved it. When my dad brought home the sequel one fateful day, i was beside myself. Couldn't stop playing it. It still holds up incredibly well even today for an NES game. I strongly urge anyone who enjoys or has an interest in 8 bit gaming to give it a try. 👍
@John-PaulHunt-pv6ol I'm all for it!
They really took some of the problems with the first game and got rid of those problems and it became even more difficult as a result. Still, play the first game before playing the sequel to understand it.
I was given both star tropics about two months ago...
I thought star tropics 2 was the sequel to star tropics?
Never mind I didn't realize star tropics 2 was called zodas revenge
Interestingly, the NES version of _Wario's Woods_ was the first and only officially licensed NES game to receive an ESRB rating.
The 8-bit NES is a LEGENDARY game system! You can't blame them for supporting it for as long as they did.
Tell that to 1995... this was the start of Nintendos failings
@@sharkulashairstylist5505 Hater much?
@@sharkulashairstylist5505 nintendos failings...?
I still adore Mega Man 6 to this day. Lovely background visuals, some of the best tunes in the series, tight gameplay and overall a good note to end its 8bit run on. As for Chip 'n Dale 2, it's one of the three remaining NES grails I've vowed to get someday.
Great video. I was already turned away from the NES by 1992. The Sega Genesis and Super NES had their grips on me. It was rare to see a NES game in the shelf back then. There was a huge push for SNES at the time. Especially in 1994 when the announcement of PS1. The NES is my fourth favorite of all time
Apparently, the NES Jungle Book game is basically a port of the Game Boy version. All they did was upscale the resolution, give it a bit of color, and call it a day
Kinda like "Yoshi?"
For me, I did not upgrade to snes till 1995 with the donkey Kong country bundle from Costco. I was playing catch-up with all these last releases.
Nah, I don't think you're giving the Blue Bomber enough credit. He may not be as "cool" to you as Sonic or X, but he still has his place in gaming history and the NES. It was a miracle that MM6 was published at all, considering Capcom didn't even wanted to bother. MM6 was definitely the send off from the 8-bit era to the 16-bit era. Nintendo took it upon themselves to publish it, especially since MM6 featured Robot Masters from one of their contests and it was marketed alongside the top-loader which was a genius move on their part imo.
Plus you gotta admit, the 8-bit soundtracks are awesome af. Or you wouldn't even be using it in your videos lol
I've never enjoyed Mega Man. I expected to as a kid, and liked the character on Captain N, but when I went to a friend's house and played Mega Man 2, I just didn't like it. The music is good, even great, the graphics are strong, and the controls are responsive... but I don't enjoy it. I think part of it is that he didn't duck. That irked me for some reason. More importantly, though, I just found it a little repetitive. There's something just same-y that I can't quite explain about it, even though it does change environments with each master.
I'd never tell anyone they're bad games- I've even recommended them to some folks. In the decades since, I've tried several times, and though I never hate it, I never really enjoy it either, even after finishing a couple of them. Give me Ghosts 'n Goblins/Ghouls 'n Ghosts all day for my Capcom platformers.
Everyone isn't a fan of Mega man I'm not.
Tbh I don't really care for Mega Man as a series and this is coming from a pretty decent Capcom fanboy
I remember all the Nintendo myths back then. Like being at my grandparents house around 89 asking if my cousins and I could play on their living room tv only for her to say “no I heard they ruin tvs” with a group of 8 year olds responding “but they’re made for tvs!”.
Christmas 1994 was when family got the nes. We had legend of zelda 1 and 2, black manta, double dragon 1 and 2, yoshi, yoshis cookie, super Mario bros 2 and 3. Games I grow up on until 2000 when we got a n64
Not a fan of the Mega Man games? They are most definitely not the same. They each had their pros & cons. They were excellent games & a lot of fun!
Same. I adore the mega man games although the respawning enemies did get on my nerves when I first played
Not everybody is going to like what you like….that’s life.
Sure there are differences, but the six Mega Man games are WAYYYY more samey than, say... Hogan's Alley, Track & Field, Bomberman 2, Blaster Master, Legend of Zelda, and Felix the Cat. So when considering a given set of six NES games, selected from the entire library, it's probably very long odds that you would select six games that are more samey than the Mega Man series.
@not2tired That is fair I suppose. Still, they were excellent games, each very good in their own right. Who wouldn't want more of a good thing? I for one appreciate having 6 games to plow thru when I feel like having a Mega Man fix 🙂
Also, the main premise may be samey samey, but the Wily castles at the end of each game do give a unique challenge to get through for each game.
@not2tired That said, I think they probably should have been budget titles considering how similar they are, maybe retailing for 40 at most vs the usual 50 bucks.
I set out to sell my O.G. NES & library of 12ish games at my 1st & only garage sale when I was like 9/10years old lol. Back in 91,92 Era. To fund a new SNES my parents wouldn't buy me, cause they thought the NES ruined they're tv.. (maybe it did...😶) Had some toys up for grabs too (moto, tmnt, wwf figures) Wish I still had them haha. & so things weren't going that great but i did manage to sell about $50. It was getting late & I remember this dad & his kids showed up & he lowballed me hard.. Got me down to like $8 a game instead of $15, $12 i was asking. Anyway he bought most of the games & I was kinda sad to see them go but now i had like $130ca. Most money I'd ever seen haha! The SNES was mine.. all mine.. but it was $159.99 unfortunetly & I was still short & my parents wouldn't cover the rest. It's cool, I laugh about it now & they did get me that SNES eventually next Christmas or so I think, after some convincing. The few years wait it took after release was worth it & it was the last console I would really play as a child. Great memories! Anyway I went to Toy r us & bought a copy of tmnt tournament fighters & a descent sized super soaker water gun & abunch of chocalate. So me & my best friend Eric Venetelli had a good summer! Tmnt was only ok & I missed my other games but i guess it was my first step into business little did i know. I Guess it was destiny & a push from my parents. I won't ever forget it.
RIP MOM
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There's two games you forgot about that were released on the NES in 1994: Disney's The Jungle Book, and The Flintstones: Surprise at Dinosaur Park.
I still think it's awesome that the NES lived on for a few more years even after the 16-bit era started. Have you done any lookbacks at games that came out in 1991, 1992 and 1993 too?
final year of the NES had some bangers. i didn't really get to play them until emulation though. By 94 we were fortunate enough to had gotten an SNES/Genesis a few years back, so our fam had moved onto 16-bit levels of fun. But discovering these last games later on was a treat. Especially Star Tropics 2.
You had such a different arc from me, maybe because I started with my older brother's leftover Atari and got my NES at the perfect age of 7, when I was ready for more expansive games, but it became THE iconic system to me for my entire life. Even then I put off getting a Genesis until Sonic and the price drop, upon which I relented. My uncle had a Sega and almost every game, I had occasional access to play mostly anything I wanted, and I just didn't prefer the gameplay style to the faster paced NES, and the graphics didn't wow me enough to want to OWN one at the cost of less NES games, you see. I loved my Sega when I got it, but it quickly became third banana when I got my SNES. Then around high school emulators came out, and we had access to the NES once again, most of my and my friend's consoles having given up by then, and with the great Funcoland refurbishment a few years off still, it was a desert for NES gameplay until I looked over one day in computer class and someone was playing Mega Man with a keyboard. That became computer class from then on btw, as they didn't know how to parse out the workload yet so we had tons of free time in there. I kept my NES gaming going from then on, and its left me a ton of other libraries to dig into an an adult now, such as the Genesis, which you've been such a help with, and the TurboGrafx 16 lately. It's just about gaming taste, what we prefer, and how we came to acquire them, I don't think it does any good to argue objective quality, better to just share what we all love.
Mega Man 6, Bonk's Adventure, Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers 2,tmnt tournament Fighters, Zoda's Revenge: Startropics 2 and more help to rap up the nes 9 year run.😀👍🎮
Actually, Nintendo published Mega Man 6, not Capcom.
Nintendo had to because Capcom didn't want to release it but Nintendo Power had a contest to design robot masters for the game
He didn't say the publisher, only stated it was released by Capcom.
@@JoeyJ0J0 For the US audience this time. They had contests in Japan.
In North America yes. Capcom still published it in Japan.
@@JoeyJ0J0I thought the reason was that NoA wanted a new release to market the top loader NES with?
I am surprised that Nintendo, Capcom and Konami supported the NES well into 1994. Good games too like Tmnt Fighters and Mega Man 6. Impressive
Might want to correct something in your post, something a bit glaring.
@@Bloodreign1I just noticed that kek
I still turned my NES on during the 90s to play reruns of the dragon warrior 1-4, final fantasy and Zelda 1 & 2 (I still have them). These are still my most prized cartridges.
i'm a bit younger than you and i had an nes in the 80s but it didn't light my passion for console gaming, it wasn't until the snes launch that i would actually feel passionate about consoles, i also had a tandy 1000 to myself at the turn of the 90s with a ton of dos games, that's where i spent the most of my time prior to the snes or the game boy
There is no sadder final year for a console than the Atari 7800, which was 1991, and not one game came out that year😢
how does that not make 1990 the final year of that console? Just because they still sold them in 1991? I bet they still sold them in 1992 and beyond then as well, because shops would have leftover stock that nobody wanted anymore
@@Blackadder75 The 7800 was discontinued on Jan 1st 1992. I consider the final year to be the year leading up to a consoles discontinuation.
@@KrunchyTheClown78 ok, but what does 'discontinued' exactly mean? production stop? last sale from factory? last sale to consumers?
@@Blackadder75 Production, and support stopping.
@@KrunchyTheClown78 if we go by that logic then the NES's final year was 1995 since it wasn't discontinued until August 1995 which was a month before the PS1 released
Ayee some sega lord x before bed
Hope you enjoy it.
Same, but am going to bed at 5:40 am, after playing Kingdom Hearts on PS2 😅 these vids are relaxing.
I think the time period of 1991 - 94 was when the NES got its best games.
No, some Sega Lord X after getting up. Greetings from Europe :P
It's really weird that many of these late releases today are so revered not only for the price but for the technical side and gameplay. I remember in 1994 seeing these on shelves but not caring because we considered the NES "ancient and old" and kinda looked down on it. but now it's retro and cool. Tells you how we really don't appreciate things when we easily have them.
Some later NES titles look (edit: almost) like early Megadrive games. Big sprites, line- and column scrolling and even some voice samples - Turtles Tournament Fighters is actually damn impressive for a NES game. But should we expect something different from a Konami game?
Yeah, it barely had any flicker, and some large sprites.
Thirty years later and games are still being made for it.
OK, where are they sold? Yeah huge portion of the billion marketshare... yeah right Nintendo sells to chumps said 1995
Homebrew games of course
non official boot legs. but still cool except for fake knock offs advertising as "original "
I remember going to a friend’s birthday party in 1993. His father proudly released the NES that he got him, and I loudly asked my he was only getting it then when the SNES had been out for 2 years. I was never invited over again
That was rude, and his father was likely working on a budget.
@@thystaff742 bullshit. Guy had a large house in an upper-middle class area. Adopted both of his kids as well, which costs a shit-ton, too. He was just clueless about what to get him
@@J.S.3259 lol immediate defensiveness when you get called out. It’s OK man. It was years ago and we were all little punks at one point or another. Just own it
The final year of the original NES wasn't until super Nintendo and Sega Genesis was already well established that's kind of crazy
Hell, it wasn't til the PS1 dropped that I finally sold my NES collection to help pay for it. Was tough to let it go but I absolutely made the right choice. The PS1 was amazing!
Nintendo was never same after Sega left the console market. Nintendo needed Sega
They played off of each other well, some of the best gaming was in the 16 bit era due to competing against each other for our money. Let's also not write off the PC Engine/TG-16, that too has some damned fine games in it's library.
@@Bloodreign1 yea Nintendo/Sega’s fierce competition brought out the best of both of them
@@Bloodreign1 loved bloody wolf on pc engine
I agree. Sega brought something out of Nintendo that no console company ever done. Nintendo were at the height of their tenure when the Sega Genesis was in the market. Sega made them want to make better games and SNES ' RPG lineup was legendary and the Sega Genesis had the shmups out the ass. Great time in gaming indeed
They didn't need Sony
I love the Nintendo Entertainment System for It's fun wonderful games and iconic look. I have met many young gamers throughout the years who say besides the 1990's and 2000's game consoles they also love to collect for the NES and It was always interesting and fun to hear what many wonderful games they are playing that I never heard of until then. I also love the Famicom especially the design. Cool video. ^_^
when 1994 came around. i already moved on to the snes & this was the year i got the Sega cd for Christmas
By late December 1994 I had a Sega Genesis with Sonic Knuckles game as my birthday gift. By that time I had a clone of the Famicom, called FamilyGame. In Argentina the NES was really expensive, so we had those really CHEAPER popular clones and A LOT of games in cartridges which were the same type as the original Famicom.
18:45 - 18:55
I think 3rd party developers felt the same way about the PS1. I feel like that’s why early demo discs came with games like Loaded, Twisted Metal and Mortal Kombat 3 while later discs had stuff like Tigger’s Honey Hunt and Play with the Tellitubbies.
Wow, I enjoyed this video so much more than I was expecting. I didn't properly get into console gaming until the Mega Drive, having previously played a few games on my younger brother's Master System.
Living in Europe, the NES also wasn't anywhere near as popular as in the USA, so it wasn't on my radar back in the day. I've tried some of the most obvious (first party) NES games more recently but found them a bit basic.
But several of the games presented in this video have piqued my interest... the graphics, sound, music all way above what I thought the NES capable of, with really interesting gameplay. I'll definitely be checked these out on my Steam Deck.
NES is still my favorite console after more than 35 years since I first got one for Christmas in '89 (Genesis eventually became my #2 later in life).
Bonk on the NES really is a well done port, though the difficulty is a bit on the easy side.
For me personally , 1994 is the year of NES, when my parents finally bought me gaming console , a NES Clone from Taiwan called SPICA, for the first time owning game system after years only able to play in my cousins home during the weekend. Im able to trade /swap games now with my cousins and later my Junior High friends. It isnt the most defining console for me (it goes to playstation1 ) but the most memorable and nostalgic one, Seeing my parents and older siblings play Side Pocket against each other ewhere video games are far from their lives before.
My parents also believes in game to brought more positives than negatives during the time where video games get very negatives connotation due to largest illegal gambling racket operate under the banner of Video Game Arcade parlour (in 3rd world country like mine, as usual many people will correlate each event piece by piece and ended up making conclusion that they are correlated)
Game Gear Crash Test Dummies is completely different. It's 5 mini game levels that repeat with difficulty increases.
“One on a wheel.” Perhaps you mean unicycle?
You're one of my favorite TH-camrs. Your intro alone is nostalgic af :D
We still need a jointventure project between him and SNESdrunk!
Mega Man 6 and Chip and Dale 2 are the only ones here I've played, on emulation at that since I think my parents sold both NES and SNES to get money for the N64. But I enjoyed them well enough, polished games that were the best version of what they were aiming for, but quite old-fashioned at the time. Though I must admit I'm interested now in Startropics 2... hopefully it will find it's way to NSO one of these days.
It's just amazing how many big titles were being released for the NES way into the beginning of the 5th generation of consoles. Even the Mega Drive didn't receive the same treatment around 1996 or 1997, can you imagine DOOM using the SVP chip or SFA2 on the 16-bit SEGA machine? That would be killer.
I really enjoy these NES color pallets and its sound chip.
It's interesting, to say the least, to imagine kids whose parents held onto the NES for longer and they actually enjoyed many of these games when they were still being released. No matter if you had the current hot stuff or not, if you had enjoyment, even if it was an Atari 2600, by yourself, with brothers or friends, it's all good stuff.
Some of these games I bought from Funcoland back in the late 90s for cheap particularly Rescue Rangers 2, Bonk's Adventure, TMNT Tournament Fighters. I ended up selling those 3 along with some other high dollar NES games in 2015 in order to buy school clothes for my son. I still have Mega Man 6 and Zoda's Revenge in my collection. I wish I had a physical copy of Wario's Woods especially since I play on an emulator it every 4th of July while I'm outside grilling.
It's nice to remember that not everybody experienced the NES only until 1990. I still played a hand me down SNES in 2002 until the GBA made it "obsolete". Gaming in general was just too new to me for 16 bit to feel ancient.
After getting an Snes for Xmas in '91, I was pretty much done with the NES.
In latin america it was popular until late 90s and early 2000s, it was cheap, you could buy or rent the games everywhere, it was one of those systems everybody had. (mostly the family computer shaped version, the famicom, not the north american nes version).
The mid 90's to early 00's werent a weird time at least in Mexico if you were poor or too young the Family/Nes was for you, if you were a teenager mid low class you get a Genesis mid to high class you get a Snes and if you had money but liked arcades you got the Ps1 but if you were a Nintendo fan you went for the N64, but at the end everybody just went for the ps1 when pirated games becane mainstream then the ps2.
I remember that Christmas I had a choice Super NES or Sega Master Sytem and all my friends had the NES and some had both
I chose the Sega Master System and had no regrets from the secret maze game with no cartridge by pressing A&B and left on the 🕹️
I remember I figured it out by mistake because there was no Internet
I am now 40 going on 41 years old and those were really good times
@@PraveenSrJ01 weren't they?
Good video dude...
I have Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers 2, TMNT Tournament Fighters, Mega Man VI (all of which I can play on my modern Xbox Series X) in 'The Disney Afternoon Collection', TMNT Cowabunga Collection & The Mega Man Legacy Collection 1 compilations.
The reappearing enemies were what made mega man beatable to mere mortals tho cuz you could cheese them for resources.
Exactly. What really made Mega Man hard was the platforming and it wasn't even hard after 2. The games got easier to me. This was due to the slide and charging buster cannon. It broke the other games to me
@@TheDumontShowexcept M&B for SNES
While it would be disingenuous to say that the NES saved gaming in the USA (home computers do not get nearly enough credit for filling the gap between major consoles) I do think that it's absolutely fair to say that the NES revitalized the market in America and took it to new heights that none of us could have imagined. The gaming industry is bigger than ever in 2024, but there is no console today that comes close to having the footprint that the NES did in the late 80s/early 90s
For better or for worse, Nintendo basically had a monopoly in America at the time, with no console (Sega Master System, Atari 7800, Turbografx 16, etc.) coming anywhere close to being a genuine rival. Because pop culture, and the entertainment world in general, was much smaller back then (pre-social media and before the internet was readily available in most homes), it genuinely felt like Nintendo and the NES were EVERYWHERE! Nintendo cereal, Nintendo cartoons, and Nintendo movies (even if they sucked lol) with very little competition from anybody
Relative to the time in which it was released (key phrase; I'm well aware that consoles like the PS2, Wii, and Switch have sold more units in a vacuum), the NES captivated the entire country in a way that no other console has IMO
Nintendo had a monopoly early on with the NES because they were complete aholes with retailers. Wouldn't allocate them any systems or games if they carried a competing system. They have been a pretty garbage company since the NES days despite putting out some killer hardware and games. They still to this day are a garbage company.
@@FWDSUXARSE Nintendo's still here, so......
@@FWDSUXARSE Cry harder
Yeah, although I'd perhaps use "impact" or "market share" to describe it rather than "footprint", which refers to both impact and also absolute size. In my european view, one of the consequences of the U.S. gaming population being captivated and spellbound by the NES to such an extent is that the role of Nintendo has tended to be overestimated and the role of other companies and other gaming systems often underestimated in american games journalism and history writing.
@@linkvagar2336 Just because you are a fan boy doesn't mean we all have to be.
I still love the intro so much, it has everything... Ghostly holograms of Ecco, and Sonic & Tails... a ghostly glimpse of NiGHTS as he flies by and hits the high notes in the theme song.
^Wait, didn't the Game Gear used to have a glimpse of Dreamcast Ecco in it? (Because I miss that, if I'm recalling that correctly.)
The Crash Dummies game is pretty interesting. It's a Canadian game, but the music of the handheld ports is based on the PAL NES version. (And the composers are British) Makes you wonder, which frequency it's meant to be played at.
I thought the very last official NES game came out in 1995?
Awesome video! TY for it. I moved on from the NES to the SNES in 1991. In fact, I remember trading in my entire collection for a Game Gear at some point. But all these years later, it's now my favorite console and mostly what I play!
In like 1995 the Kmart next to my house had a case full of nes games on clearance all were $5 or less. Man i wish i had bought them all but i was 10 years old lol.
I was 11 going on 12 in 1995
Chip N Dale 2 and TMNT Fighters were incredibly popular on Unlicensed Famiclones during the mid-90s.
8:50 *ANYBODY* ELSE *SEES* Jimmy Hendricks faces?
First time viewer and now a new subscriber. Excellent video! Didn't know a few of these games. I can't lie...the NES TMNT fighter looks 🔥
Wario's Woods is my favorite NES games. It's much more technical than Tetris, with great freedom of movement and the ability to recompose the board as you please. It's very satisfying to control your environment and the range of movements.
But I can understand why an occasional player might find it difficult, as learning techniques becomes necessary with more complex configurations in advanced stages.
I don't love puzzle games but I do love Wario's Woods. It's great and underrated. I find it's very fun to move around and be able to climb up walls. It's a really cool combination of Tetris and Mario 2, plus the graphics are excellent and I love picking up the coins at the end of each round
I remember getting my NES in 2008 with a box full of games.
I had already had a SNES and PS1, but dang, I enjoyed every single one of those games for dozens, maybe hundreds of hours.
SMB1 and 3 were so incredibly fun even if they were simpler than World.
Makes you wonder who the hardcore gamers were in '94. Those that dove head-first into Sega CD content or those who held on to their NES 5 years after the Genesis dropped. In my middle-school clinging to an 8bit system would get you branded poor or lame. How little we actually knew.
Gaming was much more fun in 94 than in 14, 19, or today in 2024
I remember my sister got Chip and Dale 2 for Christmas even though the NES was mine. I’d moved on to PC games in the meantime but this drew me back in!
I think I got my SNES Christmas 1993. My parents were trying to make up for moving us in the middle of a school year and taking me away from all my friends; which led to merciless bullying from which I still bear the consequences of in 2024. But hey, at least I got an SNES.
I was 10 and in the 5th grade and shopped at Toys R Us all the time with my parents in the year 1993
I’m sorry to hear 👂 about you being bullied
Reminds me of my neighbours who still had only a NES all the way into 1995-1996 or whenever it was. Thanks to their NES I was introduced to Super Mario Bros.
But I don't even remember whatever else they had, if anything. As the owner of a Mega Drive by that time for a number of years already, it wasn't a console that especially appealed to me. That, and my friend had a Sega Saturn and I was soon to get one myself.
How are you able to afford the Sega Saturn
@@jrod1986 well my parents divorced shortly before that and they always used to spoil me with video game consoles as a consequence. Had a Mega Drive, 32X, then Sega Saturn, N64, after that a Playstation, then a Dreamcast, and finally a PS2. Not counting the handheld consoles; had a Game Gear, then Game Boy Color and finally a PSP.
I only had an NES until 2003
What a storied time in gaming that was.
My dad had one when I was little only games i remember playing was duck hunt super mario bros 3 and the first zelda. My first system i owned was a saturn.
Remember when i got my NES back in 1992 with 2 games Rambo 3 and Knight Rider. Had so much fun with those.
Long-time subscriber and this is the first Nintendo vid I've come across!
As a Nintendo fan growing up, it was a pleasant surprise finding out Sega Lord X was also a NES and SNES fan too.
Zoda's Revenge does look pretty good. I may have to track that one down. I really like games of this type.
I never cared for Mega Man either in terms of the gameplay and absurd difficulty. I loved the music and graphics. I tried most of the titles as a kid, but I finally gave up on it and have sold all of my Mega Man cartridges. The only Mega Man game I have now is a download of the 'museum' for my 3DS which at least lets you remap the button controls. By being able to use the shoulder button for firing, I can finally pull off jumping and firing at the same time. It makes the games slightly less impossible. Oddly enough, I also found a download on my 3DS from Capcom called Dark Void Zero which, I've read, was supposed to come out before Mega Man, but got canceled back in the day. Playing as Rusty in this game now proves just how intentionally nerfed Mega Man is which makes me like Mega Man games even less. :) Rusty can shoot diagonally up and down, duck, fly (once you find the jet pack) and more. If Capcom had made Mega Man as capable as Rusty, they might have made one of my all time favorite platforming franchises ever.
Mario's Time Machine looks like someone thought that Mario needed a side scrolling adventure game like they had done for Legend of Zelda: The Adventure of Link. Looks like it might be as bad or worse than that game too.
Warrior's Woods looks an awful lot like the first game to feature Yoshi in his own game. I kind of like that game, but I'm not sure that I need two games of its sort.
Interesting video that showed me some games I hadn't seriously considered getting before. Thanks!
A couple of the games released in 1994 were using undocumented opcodes for the 6502. Beauty and The Beast had a 2-byte NOP instruction. Aladdin used a SLO which ASLs the contents of a memory location and the ORs it with the accumulator.
Little did I know back then that MegaMan 6 would be the last game of the franchise I would play on the NES. I enjoyed every minute of playing them all. When my kids were growing up they played the NES with me until they were old enough for a PS2 they would judge my dates on whether or not they have beaten Contra like seriously lol and now they are playing games with their kids
@John-PaulHunt-pv6ol yeah I love his channel as well yeah he did mm6 last Sunday
In the past I had Bonk, I still do because I valued the money out of it and swapped it for the Famicom release and it's great. I also do have Rescue Ranger 2, it's fantastic and in a way I prefer it over the original I've had since the era and Mega Man 6 too(thanks NOA for publishing it.) TMNT fighters is pretty decent if brief, don't have this one still, and wouldn't for anything near the going rate. I do need to snap up Wario Woods again but I like to buy local and haven't seen it in years. The others I wouldn't touch...ehhh.
Bonk on the NES looks so damn good!!! It's unreal! When you have no side by side comparision you could think this is an early 16 Bit game. Also the smooth gameplay and the tiny ammount of flickering. It was and is outstanding. Maybe not for a Bonk game but defenitely for a NES game!
(A guy from East Germany) The Turtles fighting game was one of the few NES games I actually played at a friend's place back then (around 93), and I really liked it! My friend was the only person I knew that owned one. Probotector (Contra) was our favourite game though, but it was too hard for us. I also liked Megaman and that soccer game with the crazy shots :) Never owned one, but I had my Master System, which I loved. I always found the NES fascinating, too, even though I had no clue of all the other great games it offered.
Oh you should do a perspective on Tecmo Super Bowl for the NES.
Mega Man 2 and 3 are absolutely awesome
Crash Test Dummies is just an alright game. I remember renting it way back in the day one weekend and my younger brothers and I got bored of it pretty quickly.
Wow, I didn't know the Crash Dummies NES game got such a late release in America! It came out over a year earlier in PAL regions. I loved it at the time, but mostly because I was a huge fan of the toys. It's kinda miserable trying to replay these days, but at least the soundtrack is still fantastic.
Also yeah, the Game Gear and Master System versions are the still the best.
Always looking forward to these videos!!
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I always enjoy watching your videos. I hope you never run out of video game content.
❗️We got our NES with two Control Pads and 'Super Mario Bros. 1' back in early 1992 and used it thoroughly until mid-1995 where I got the SNES with two Control Pads and 'Super Mario Allstars' (with no Mario World).
This Console was also thoroughly used until Friday 1st January 1999.
During my [purple] GameCube days in late-2003, I had a bit of nostalgia for the NES but never got around to getting another one.
I did buy a few NES (and Master System) games from the Wii Virtual Console in 2010 which was great.
Then, in 2012, I discovered Emulation and downloaded a load of NES (and SNES, MD, MS, GB, GBC and CPS1) ROMs for my newly acquired 'Dingoo: A330'.
That Handheld broke so I replaced it with a 'BittBoy: Pocket-Go'.
I rebought NES games on my [dark metallic blue] N3DS:XL but by then, the NES love had died.
It was a fantastic first System to own but, as of Tues 25th June 2024, I'm all NES'd-out.
I had a peculiar history with the NES.
In my earliest years I only knew about the SNES and Genesis (and maybe the PS1). The only NES games I played were through Super Mario All-Stars and Dr. Mario (via the 2-in-1 with Tetris). It wasn't until when I got accustomed with MAME that I found out about the PlayChoice-10 and VS. System series of releases. This introduced me to the likes of Mega Man 3, Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, TMNT and its sequel, Ice Climber, Dunk Hunt, Excitebike, Balloon Fight, Punch-Out, and even the Super Mario Bros. trilogy in their original form.
Thanks for making these videos. I own it's a ton of effort. Your vids bring back so many memories and turn me onto new games.
I was honestly holding out for a Boy and his Blob sequel on the NES...
My Parents bought the Sega master system first, and a few years after the Nes. Nes had some good games, but we always went back to Sega. I know how I sound, but they worked their asses off with more than one job both for years and they saved as much as they could, and I can go on
Used to be we'd get simultaneous releases bridging last gen and next gen hardware. Nowadays companies will just wait a couple years after a new console is out, and call it a remsater for the same price.
Man glad I grew up in the 90s I'll never forget getting my snes with mortal Kombat 3 with the book
Technically it is 2003, when the Famicom retires in Japan.
And the Genesis is still being made in Brasil to this day.
Technically the title of the video states NES 😂
@@Wil_Dsense Don't you confuse that with the Master System? Never heard about the Genesis being still relevant there.
no new official games after 1994
my local video store kept buying new nes games until 94, and kept offering them until 97 when they closed. I had a Genesis, so I kept playing NES games at the same time. Got to enjoy great games like the Jetsons, Kirby, Megaman 5 and 6, etc back at the time of release.
That conclusion with Golden Axe and Streets of Rage is awesome.
I grew up playing TMNT tournament fighters on the NES at my cousin's place. The soundtrack is CLASSIC and one of my favorites on the system. Shredder and Casey Jones are super OP FYI.
Perkele from Finland. I played MegaMan VI on a hacked PAL European NES and it is the best MegaMan for the console. I have played some other MegaMan games, and despite of similarities, new levels and new weapons were always fun. New MegaMan game was like Doom II: more of the same with some new gimmicks (SUPER SHOTGUN!)
the first Star Tropics was also US only and the series was designed for US gamers
Great video, thank you for putting this together! It’d be cool to see this for each system. 😊
One of the rare disagreements I have with Sega Lord X....all of the Mega Man games on NES are excellent, and it doesn't matter that the formula is being repeated because it's perfect. Maybe it's not not his vibe. Great video, as always.
Nahh Mega Man should of stopped at part III. Quite stale when 3 was released