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Subscribed to your channel, this has driven me crazy. Am I missing? I mean you keep saying “ranked”? You are not actually ranking these games. You are grading them. Sure you have already explained this.
I took a chance and bought it unplayed from my local video store in the mid-90s for like 8 bucks... Ended up playing the heck out of it with my group of friends during summer vacation that year, even though we all had SNES and Genesis (some even had Ps1) a the time!
It’s weird that I have a lot of nostalgia for “Uninvited”, a game I’ve never played. Back in the 90’s my big sister told me how scary the game was. That’s my only memory of it lol. I think I’ll finally pick that one up.
Shadowgate is good too, if you've never. They have rip off flash versions for phones, and its not even close to the original with that creepy music and constant fear of the torch burning out, making you instantly die with your next move, effectively putting a timer on how long you can even play any single run.
@@parimabartender I don't know what you mean be "Free", but I do suggest paying for what you play if it is within your financial means. Even if it is secondhand, and no longer going to the pockets of the developer.
The sad part is we almost did get a Superman game by Sunsoft, but they lost the license and tried turning it into "Sunman" before cancelling it altogether.
I remember Shadowgate! took me ages to finish, at the time my english was really poor and had to check a dictionary to play RPGs and these kind of games. Felt really accomplished when I complete it. Need to play it again!
This whole time I thought Rocket Ranger was The Rocketeer (based on the movie). I have this vivid memory of seeing screen shots of it in Nintendo power with the Rocketeer title. Talk about eye opening.
A friend and I thought pretty much the same thing until one of us realized the title was different. We were convinced it was the video game equivalent of those crappy direct to crap vhs movies that use similar names to big blockbusters to capitalize on their popularity.
I never knew WTF to do playing NES Superman. I don't think even Nintendo Power covered it. I just walked around the city looking at that unhelpful map. Deja Vu I rented so many time before finally just buying it so I could beat it at last.
I love Shadowgate SO MUCH! I guess you have already played the Nintendo Switch remaster? I purchased a physical copy but haven't set down with it just yet. Love these videos, hope you do them forever ❤
Aw man I have great memories with KEMCO games! I LOVED all the text adventure games as well as Rescue, and Dessert Commander (DejaVu has a very adult themed storyline BTW) . Those games are embedded in my nostalgic childhood memories. My uncle would give me Kemco games for Christmas and my birthday. Later in life I realized he was getting them from the bargin bins at his local game/computer shop. Bless his heart. Thank you Uncle Julian and thank you Mr Riggs for these great videos. As for Rocket Ranger, the "fun" or "strategy" is in completing the side missions successfully without loosing gasoline so you can fly out and destroy the Zepplin (freakin' rock n roll). The main flaws can be found in the those side missions, specifically in their playability (or lack of). lol. Such as the fighting mode. lol! Amazing what we played and enjoyed because that's what we had. I'm going to try Ghost Lion, heard of it, but never played it.
Shadowgate and Déjà vu are the only NES games I know to have been translated into Swedish. Translation might have been a little too fast though; you got a printed note with the game that explained a small amount translation errors, sometimes quite funny such. But kudos for translating them!
I'll never forget that Crazy Castle gave away the password to the final level, on the box! :P I love the Yakima shirt, btw, I've spent a LOT of time there, and love it.
The big appeal of Rocket Ranger was its cinematic quality, as well as the somewhat open-end gameplay. It had a very early kind of branching narrative, where failing specific segments wouldn't necessarily end the game, but rather send you off on different missions than if you had succeeded. That was novel for the time and, combined with the semi-randomized map, it had a lot of replayability. But you do need to learn the various minigames before it really starts to come together. (And like most complicated NES games, reading the manual is a near-must.) That said, the NES port was definitely not as good as the original version - they had to heavily censor it, because the original had Nazis as the baddies. Plus it left out a few segments. But I didn't play the original until many years later.
Been really enjoying this series. Been thinking about doing Sachen NES games over here. Lol. Could be a fun one. Anyway keep it up man. Always dig your vids.
Rocket Ranger was originally a Cinemaware game for the Amiga. They also made the original versions of Defenders of the Crown, Three Stooges, King of Chicago, Wings, and It Came From the Desert. I loved their games as someone who grew up with an Amiga, and Rocket Ranger was one of their best. The graphics were incredible for the late 1980s. Never could beat it, but I loved it. Speaking of Amiga games, me and my brothers played the hell out of the Amiga version of Spy vs Spy. Not so fun playing against the computer, but it was one of our go-to games when we were feeling competitive.
Shadowgate and Rescue are 2 of my favorite nes games! I never beat shadowgate and I probably never will unless I cheat and use a walkthrough but what's the fun in that? Lol. The mystery of not knowing what comes next is what's so spooky to me. I might actually give shadowgate another go later today now that we're talking about it!
It's funny how Kemco seemed to pick up a lot of games that started life as 8 bit and 16bit computer titles. Here in Europe 'North & South' 'Hostages' (the original name of Rescue: The Embassy Mission') (both Infogrames) and 'Rocket Ranger' (Cinemaware) were big on the home computers. The ICOM simulations trilogy of Deja Vu, Uninvited and Shadowgate started life on Mac and Apple IGS but got ported to just about everything. I loved those games but had a hard time playing the NES versions as the interface on a gamepad is horribly clunky compared to how they were played on computers with a mouse - plus there's quite a bit of content cut or changed from all of them. I was surprised to see from the comments that there's a lot of love and nostalgia for those NES versions.
Rocket Ranger was originally a PC game that ended up being heavily censored on the NES. The best way I can describe it is the Rocketeer with a sci-fi element to it. The game had you fighting against the Nazis and they were after iirc a time traveling device. My brother loved it but I couldn’t get into it that much. Just want my cup of tea, now Shadowgate, Deja Vu, and Uninvited all hold a dear place in my heart. I still have my originals along with the re-releases, I loved those games that much.
Desert Commander was the game that I don't love, but I always found myself going back to play it. Very addictive gameplay, but the game is very cheap at the harder levels.
John, love the classic rating games videos you do. Will you please do the NES data East games. I know you did some on the multicart releases. Thanks I’m advance
I owned Rocket Ranger growing up and I still don't get it. I owned Snoopy too. Loved it. Uuh, also owned Shadowgate too, scared the crap out of me seeing the Reaper whenever I died, but I was 4-5 then.
Personally, I have to disagree with Spy vs Spy. For me, that game was an absolute BLAST! Yes it's simple but when you increase the difficulty, thus it increases the size of the map, it becomes considerably more challenging. But to each their own.
Have to disagree about Superman. It's a pretty complex game and you definitely need instructions, but once you know what you're doing it can be very fun IMHO.
Kemco was an old reliable standby in the NES days. A shame they couldn't hold that together afterwards, they kind of fizzled out like Sunsoft did after NES. They are still around making JRPG type games on mobile and steam and even some on switch and ps4 though. But they all look pretty generic and like other JRPGs we played back then. The Snoopy game is the only one of theirs I played that sucked.
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JohnRiggs please do a code master ranking !. I love these videos and all your videos . Your by far my fav TH-camr
Can't wait for the SOFEL video. I may be the only human to give Wall Street Kid an S!
I love it so much i bought a sealed copy.
I love these ranking videos. Hope there are lots more to come.
Subscribed to your channel, this has driven me crazy. Am I missing? I mean you keep saying “ranked”? You are not actually ranking these games. You are grading them. Sure you have already explained this.
I am loving these videos. Really helping me clean up and organize my collection into what is actually worth playing! Thank you!
Good to see North and South getting some mention, such an underrated game.
Find the Amiga version. It holds up, superb game.
I loved N and S!
I took a chance and bought it unplayed from my local video store in the mid-90s for like 8 bucks... Ended up playing the heck out of it with my group of friends during summer vacation that year, even though we all had SNES and Genesis (some even had Ps1) a the time!
I feel Shadowgate, Deja Vu, and the crazy expensive Uninvited are solid S for me.
Good games. But I feel like S’s are given out too frequently. A for me.
Too bad Deja Vu II wasn’t ported to the NES.
Eric Kelly It was actually in the works but got canceled, a prototype is probably out there.
@@pungisotu You can always play the GBC version. That is out there ya know.
@@heidibenner1577 I don’t think I did. I’ll check it . Thanks.
Thumbs up for the praise of Shadowgate, Deja Vu and Uninvited. Amazing games.
It’s weird that I have a lot of nostalgia for “Uninvited”, a game I’ve never played. Back in the 90’s my big sister told me how scary the game was. That’s my only memory of it lol. I think I’ll finally pick that one up.
Retro Fix It’s an expensive game but a fun one.
Shadowgate is good too, if you've never. They have rip off flash versions for phones, and its not even close to the original with that creepy music and constant fear of the torch burning out, making you instantly die with your next move, effectively putting a timer on how long you can even play any single run.
Honestly still creeps me out in places! The descriptive writing during the death scenes was top-tier, too.
@@caiusmadison2996 Shadowgate have moder PC remaster made by original dev
Every time I hear "You got John Riggs here," I'm instantly in a good mood.
They have Shadowgate, Devaju, and Uninvited in one package called "8-bit Adventure Anthology: Volume I" on steam.
And you can download and play every single one for free on this cool thing I found on an Inernette cd
@@parimabartender I don't know what you mean be "Free", but I do suggest paying for what you play if it is within your financial means. Even if it is secondhand, and no longer going to the pockets of the developer.
The sad part is we almost did get a Superman game by Sunsoft, but they lost the license and tried turning it into "Sunman" before cancelling it altogether.
I remember Shadowgate! took me ages to finish, at the time my english was really poor and had to check a dictionary to play RPGs and these kind of games. Felt really accomplished when I complete it. Need to play it again!
Wow! Spy vs Spy is an S for me! I have such great memories playing it with my brother.
This whole time I thought Rocket Ranger was The Rocketeer (based on the movie). I have this vivid memory of seeing screen shots of it in Nintendo power with the Rocketeer title. Talk about eye opening.
There is a Rocketeer game
A friend and I thought pretty much the same thing until one of us realized the title was different. We were convinced it was the video game equivalent of those crappy direct to crap vhs movies that use similar names to big blockbusters to capitalize on their popularity.
I remember my uncle used to rent North and South a lot on weekends. I never played it but he loved it!
I never knew WTF to do playing NES Superman. I don't think even Nintendo Power covered it. I just walked around the city looking at that unhelpful map.
Deja Vu I rented so many time before finally just buying it so I could beat it at last.
I love Shadowgate SO MUCH! I guess you have already played the Nintendo Switch remaster? I purchased a physical copy but haven't set down with it just yet. Love these videos, hope you do them forever ❤
These lists always improve my Fridays.
Aw man I have great memories with KEMCO games! I LOVED all the text adventure games as well as Rescue, and Dessert Commander (DejaVu has a very adult themed storyline BTW) . Those games are embedded in my nostalgic childhood memories. My uncle would give me Kemco games for Christmas and my birthday. Later in life I realized he was getting them from the bargin bins at his local game/computer shop. Bless his heart. Thank you Uncle Julian and thank you Mr Riggs for these great videos. As for Rocket Ranger, the "fun" or "strategy" is in completing the side missions successfully without loosing gasoline so you can fly out and destroy the Zepplin (freakin' rock n roll). The main flaws can be found in the those side missions, specifically in their playability (or lack of). lol. Such as the fighting mode. lol! Amazing what we played and enjoyed because that's what we had. I'm going to try Ghost Lion, heard of it, but never played it.
Shadowgate and Déjà vu are the only NES games I know to have been translated into Swedish. Translation might have been a little too fast though; you got a printed note with the game that explained a small amount translation errors, sometimes quite funny such. But kudos for translating them!
Love these videos. Not only does it bring nostalgia but also some great recommendations.
Kemco had great chemistry with the NES.
I'll never forget that Crazy Castle gave away the password to the final level, on the box! :P I love the Yakima shirt, btw, I've spent a LOT of time there, and love it.
The big appeal of Rocket Ranger was its cinematic quality, as well as the somewhat open-end gameplay. It had a very early kind of branching narrative, where failing specific segments wouldn't necessarily end the game, but rather send you off on different missions than if you had succeeded. That was novel for the time and, combined with the semi-randomized map, it had a lot of replayability. But you do need to learn the various minigames before it really starts to come together. (And like most complicated NES games, reading the manual is a near-must.)
That said, the NES port was definitely not as good as the original version - they had to heavily censor it, because the original had Nazis as the baddies. Plus it left out a few segments. But I didn't play the original until many years later.
Been really enjoying this series. Been thinking about doing Sachen NES games over here. Lol. Could be a fun one. Anyway keep it up man. Always dig your vids.
Yes! Kemco list! I haven't clicked on a video faster in my day recently lol most of the Kemco games do have excellent soundtracks.
These are GREAT. Would love to see this extend to the SNES and the Genesis as well. 😁😁😁
Spy vs Spy was a big hit with my friends. Those two player matches would get intense.
I never knew there was NES version until now. I played it on the Commodore 64
The music itself makes it an A
I had forgotten ALL About Rescue: The Embassy Mission... that game was so amazing back in the day
Thanks for the morning video Riggs! Working on pinball machines today and bingeing Riggs vids 🤟
Rocket Ranger was originally a Cinemaware game for the Amiga. They also made the original versions of Defenders of the Crown, Three Stooges, King of Chicago, Wings, and It Came From the Desert. I loved their games as someone who grew up with an Amiga, and Rocket Ranger was one of their best. The graphics were incredible for the late 1980s. Never could beat it, but I loved it.
Speaking of Amiga games, me and my brothers played the hell out of the Amiga version of Spy vs Spy. Not so fun playing against the computer, but it was one of our go-to games when we were feeling competitive.
Shadowgate and Rescue are 2 of my favorite nes games! I never beat shadowgate and I probably never will unless I cheat and use a walkthrough but what's the fun in that? Lol. The mystery of not knowing what comes next is what's so spooky to me. I might actually give shadowgate another go later today now that we're talking about it!
I really enjoy these. Thanks alot man, i appreciate the entertainment and nostolgia
I would love it if the soundtracks to both Deja Vu and Shadowgate were available to purchase, even if it they only came out on vinyl.
Love these videos. Authentic and insightful.
4:06 is that “Tina Yothers?” (Jennifer Keaton) on “Family Ties”.
You can play Shadowgate, Deja Vu, Uninvited on modern consoles and Steam via 8bit Anthology. Rarely mentioned.
Hey John Riggs! Love these buddy!
It's funny how Kemco seemed to pick up a lot of games that started life as 8 bit and 16bit computer titles. Here in Europe 'North & South' 'Hostages' (the original name of Rescue: The Embassy Mission') (both Infogrames) and 'Rocket Ranger' (Cinemaware) were big on the home computers. The ICOM simulations trilogy of Deja Vu, Uninvited and Shadowgate started life on Mac and Apple IGS but got ported to just about everything. I loved those games but had a hard time playing the NES versions as the interface on a gamepad is horribly clunky compared to how they were played on computers with a mouse - plus there's quite a bit of content cut or changed from all of them. I was surprised to see from the comments that there's a lot of love and nostalgia for those NES versions.
I’d like to put in a formal request for Technos next
Rocket Ranger was originally a PC game that ended up being heavily censored on the NES. The best way I can describe it is the Rocketeer with a sci-fi element to it. The game had you fighting against the Nazis and they were after iirc a time traveling device. My brother loved it but I couldn’t get into it that much. Just want my cup of tea, now Shadowgate, Deja Vu, and Uninvited all hold a dear place in my heart. I still have my originals along with the re-releases, I loved those games that much.
Loved desert commander. I would play these marathons 2-player. Slow, stressful and not much happenening..perfect!
You should definitely do a Top 10 favorite NES games. 👍
I feel like the Tiny Toons game was the perfected version of Bugs Bunny's Birthday
Kid Klown is one of those forgotten franchises. I had a ps1 game import game that was pretty fun.
I think SNES perhaps got a Kid Klown game.
Yes, Crazy Chase. Also a really fun game
Great videos!! I really enjoy your let’s rank videos.
Legend of the Ghost Lion reminds me of undertale because based on your game capture it kinda looks it in a way
Desert Commander was the game that I don't love, but I always found myself going back to play it. Very addictive gameplay, but the game is very cheap at the harder levels.
John, love the classic rating games videos you do. Will you please do the NES data East games. I know you did some on the multicart releases. Thanks I’m advance
Love these ranking vids 🥳
Interesting to see how long Kemco has lasted. I associate them with those low-budget, guilty-pleasure mobile JRPGs.
Thanks for another ranking video, they are becoming one of my favorite videos that you do, maybe even surpassing “Open Cart Surgery” 🤔
Love these videos, can't wait for you to rank Double Dragon 2 and 3.
North and South and Rescue were two of my favorites growing up. I hated that window entry part on rescue, always fell off, too low.
you broke my heart putting Desert Commander as a D, but I get it, I still love you.
Kid klown just won “best hair of any NES character” in my book
Holy crap man you are over 80k subs now! Awesome Video btw
I remember renting spy vs spy a couple of times. I don’t think I quite got the object but I remember thinking it was cool.
Superman is a great chill game
Unlike others here, you play it without being afraid of doing something wrong and that's a rare thing.
Superman By Taito for the Arcade was the only fun Superman game I played back in the day.
Snoopy's Sports Spectacular is actually a remake/port of a C-64 game called Sports-A-Roni.
Your shirt Riggs! HAHAHA! Nice!!
Desert Commander was awesome!
Love these type of videos! Keep up the good work sir!
Ranking every game on Active Enterprises's Action 52. All Fs?
That would be awesome! Please consider this, John! :)
below F
Is there a rank below F we can use? If not perhaps we can invent one. 🤔
MC for Moldy Cereal
@@maxpower10k G for Garbage.
The only remotely decent Superman game I've played was Taito arcade game. One of my go to ones at Chuck E Cheese as a kid.
I just came here to see how Superman was rated.
Is that the Legion of Superheroes logo on that zeppelin in Rocket Ranger?
Ghost Lion..great game!..the box art though...she is supposed to be like 5 I think...but she looks ,like a JAZZERCISE instructor from the 80s...lol
Kemco even produced ps2 memory cards, i have one with jp football league logo.
Loved spy vs spy!
Tina Yothers as Ghost Lion
Get the box of cereal 🥣 Riggs has another video.
I can't wait for the Taito video
3:06
I just watched the movie this game was based on, it was not a very good movie, but it’s strange seeing what they choose to reference.
I owned Rocket Ranger growing up and I still don't get it. I owned Snoopy too. Loved it. Uuh, also owned Shadowgate too, scared the crap out of me seeing the Reaper whenever I died, but I was 4-5 then.
I'm an old-school gamer and I for sure rank Ghost Lion as a solid A TIER! But the box art alone is SSS tier.
Can you do a video ranking dungeon games for the NES?
I got bugs bunny bday for xmas as a kid one year, it was pretty fun, beat it a few times
Nice NKOTB hat!!
Great video as always
Shadowgate had awesome music for its time
Have a great week😉
Ironically, I have 5 of these titles and am not really familiar with any of them. Guess I'm going to have to do something about that.
Why does the blue guy in Rescue the Embassy Mission look like Cobra Commander?
Great video
Loving this
Superman looks like Sourman from Doctor Slump.
Personally, I have to disagree with Spy vs Spy. For me, that game was an absolute BLAST! Yes it's simple but when you increase the difficulty, thus it increases the size of the map, it becomes considerably more challenging. But to each their own.
I miss playing Rescue the Embassy Mission.
You sir, sound like you have some good taste 👌
Kid Klown - I played exactly the same game with Mickey Mouse as a main character. Just licencing things...
Top 5 NES game video please!!!!
Just to let you know the NES Battletoads is not by tradeWest. That game is actually by rare the company
Rare was the developer, not the publisher. Tradewest published it, and it's their name that is on the cover.
So... no ones gonna mention the New Kids on the Block hat?
5:03 look like 8bit version of splinter cell lol
can you make a clone list example megaman clone or zelda or metroid or NES games that are clone from other consoles
Have to disagree about Superman. It's a pretty complex game and you definitely need instructions, but once you know what you're doing it can be very fun IMHO.
My favorite
i remember that i sold ghost lionon ebay for mega bucks!!!!
Kemco shits out mobile RPGs every week now lol
Sad.
Kemco was an old reliable standby in the NES days. A shame they couldn't hold that together afterwards, they kind of fizzled out like Sunsoft did after NES. They are still around making JRPG type games on mobile and steam and even some on switch and ps4 though. But they all look pretty generic and like other JRPGs we played back then. The Snoopy game is the only one of theirs I played that sucked.
so kid clown is better than contra?
Princess Tomato is too.