Cobra Triangle is NOT easy. Sure it starts out relatively easy but at one point it becomes incredibly tough. We were never able to beat it as a kid and still struggle with it now.
Okay, it's beyond awesome that a six-year-old living in the 21st century picked out an NES game when she could have had anything and went on to love the game. It goes to show that good retro games are timeless.
Usually she heads straight for the plushies, she loves Mario plushies and she damn near has the whole mushroom kingdom, but I told her to pick a game, it could have been ANY system, I didn't guide her, just kind of let her walk around. It was an hour long process lmao.
Wizards & Warriors. Bought it for $30 as a kid, beat it overnight. Unlimited continues in the exact spot where you died with no loss of items. And zero bottomless pit hazards.
You lose only your score and your sub weapon upgrades, but yeah it's very forgiving in this regard. On the other hand, you are constantly attacked from all sides throughout most of the game it feels like :D
Cobra Triangle is one of the toughest games on the NES. Maybe it's part of your format as every top 10 list I've seen from you has at least one complete opposite entry :D
I love the video; specifically how you present it. You're not talking at 371 miles an hour, and you aren't screaming every time you speak. TH-cam needs more creators like you. Subscribing. 🤠
That story about your 6 year old hit me right in the feels - my girls are 4 and 2 and are slowly getting into games too. Another great video my friend!
I don’t think you played Cobra Triangle long enough because it definitely isn’t easy. In fact many consider it one of the tougher games for the system.
LOVE Chip n Dale RR and am stoked to see it on this list! I could pick it up right now and still blow right through it. Zone J is still a very challenging but fun zone
Monster in My Pocket was the last NES game I got as a kid before moving on to the SNES...awesome game that's not difficult and a very enjoyable playthrough.
We had a hackof it called Batman & Flash, which made it the only Batman game me & parents could finish! :3 Definitely easier than Darkwing Duck 2 (Super Contra sprite swap)... Famiclone yellow carts are something else!
You need practice to beat Trojan and yes after that it's a short game you can beat without dying. You don't need practice for, well Felix the Cat. I beat that game first time playing with more than 20 lives left (which I don't consider an achievement at all).
I'm sorry, someone talked smack to the Tetris kid? Wth... He's a legend. Like the Neo of puzzle games. Also, if you're talking the real SMB2, yes that's way harder... I think the American version was actually way easier than the other two, at least it was easier to beat growing up.
Guerrilla War is really cool. Yeah, you can easily credit feed it, but it's nice that you can also challenge yourself to credit limits as well. I have the arcade pcb of it as well that I sometimes swap into my Time Soldiers cabinet (it also used the rotart joysticks). The arcade version is pretty brutal in its difficulty. The fact that it only gives you 8 directions to shoot with the rotary sticks makes it feel like you never have just the right angle to hit your enemies without them hitting you first. Some games, like Time Soldiers, give you 12 positions, making it simpler to find a good shooting angle... then again, none of that has anything to do with the video. Kickle Cubicle is great as well. This was a good list that my kids would also corroborate!
I came here to mention this, but I'm glad that someone beat me to it. The game is probably the easiest on the whole NES, except for Count Gruemon, who is an extreme pain in the butt to beat. I still have a great fondness for it though.
Radia Senki needs a translation patch, but it's a relatively simple Action RPG similar to Secret of Mana (except you have a 5 person party instead of 3). Extremely little grinding for an NES RPG, frequent save points in dungeons that fully heal you, and did I mention the great music and story? A fun 10-15 or so hour adventure.
In terms of Super Mario Bros., while it is the game that set the standard for how the difficulty scale should be handled, it did have some difficult moments when talking about World 7-4 and World 8's courses. Thankfully, the Super Mario All-Stars revision of the game did implement a sound indicator to let players know if they took the correct routes in World 4-4 and World 7-4.
guerrilla war is like if ikari warriors even had remotley decent controls on nes. if you like ikari but hate feeling like your guy is walking in quicksand all level, get guerrilla war
Felix the Cat! Glad to see this game being mentioned on the list! It is easy, but don't let that deter you. Actually I think it was the first video game I ever beat as a kid.
Some of these are the games my grandma had and played all day to help with her arthritis lol. She also had McKids, Yoshi, and the Lolo games which were pretty dang easy as well.
You bet! I try to avoid the same "regurgitated" lists that most other people do. All of my videos are based on me actively playing these time cherished titles :)
Ducktales for sure comes to mind. Maybe ducktales 2? Never played it myself but would assume it's similar to the first. Another would definitely be bubble bobble with the endless continues. Game does get challenging in later stages though. Still a good difficulty curve.
Haha you got me when I saw Battletoads on your thumbnail... It was a very challenging game back then and still is... So i thought it was easy for you to use it as a thumbnail😂.. great list as usual
Cobra Triangle seems like one of the hardest NES games to beat, not considering the games that are really badly designed. Some good picks in the beginning though.
Yeah! I found it easy compared to some of the other games rare put out. But that's just me! I wanted one game with enough approachability and challenge.
Thanks for introducing me to Kickle Cubicle, I somehow wasnt aware of it. A really easy puzzle game is Fire and Ice which I wouldve added to the list. Also didnt see anyone else mention it but I like how you knew everyone disagree on SMB1 so you repeated it twice ;)
The easiest NES games I can remember playing off the top of my head were Marble Madness (WAY easier with the d-pad than the arcade’s trackball), Adventures in the Magic Kingdom (I beat this one on a game store’s demo machine back in the day lol), Monopoly (once you figured out how the AI worked it was pretty easy to manipulate), Wrecking Crew (still one of my favorites in the black box set; the fact that you can jump to any level at any time is a big plus in making it more manageable), Tetris (good pick), and DuckTales. I’m also gonna side with the other commenters who’d put SMB3 over SMB1. SMB3’s item reserve feature, P-wings, tighter jump physics, and generous extra lives made it the much easier game to beat, IMO.
Kickle Cubicle is one of my all time favorite games for the NES (or any other platform.) While it may start out easy; the difficulty definitely ramps up in the later levels. Some of the bonus levels are downright brutal. No surprise they included a self destuct like in Lolo games in case you get stuck. Great game. It bled me of $90 for a loose copy; but it was worth it. Very cool channel man.
a few more: Monster in my Pocket, the ONLY Batman game I finished (there was a sprite swap called Batman & Flash), the OTHER Turtle games, 2 & 3 are easy beatemups! Panic Restaurant, I don't think I got to the end but it's surprisingly accessible later NES platformer... honorable mention: Contra and Super Contra WITH 30 LIVES CODE/HACK. We had that version on Famicom multicarts but you need to input code on downgraded NES version. It's not an easy game but with so many lives and continues it's doable for everyone. And fun. Other games I played as a kid where I couldn't beat anything at all and spent a lot of time in level editors are Lode Runner, Excitebike and Tank/Battle City, they're not that hard, but even if you can't play them normally, making custom levels where you can't lose is literally an option, anyone put armor all over your "home" eagle in tanks? Or Loder Runner stage where you just casually walked where you wanted? It's kind of amazing we had more games with level edit in 8-bit era than later, where consoles had more than half a byte of RAM.
5:23 Not counting the Kirby's return the Dreamland remaster on Switch, actually Kirby's dream buffet came out months after Kirby and the forgotten Land so therefore as recent as Kirby and The forgotten Land was, it's not the most recent game. And I could tell by the date of this video that yes Kirby's Dream buffet would have already come out by the time you uploaded this. 5:43 Ray guy as far as I've heard was the greatest punter of all time. However in 1986 the team was called the Los Angeles raiders. Did you mean to say 1976 because he definitely was on the team in 1976 when they won the Super bowl for the first time and they were the Oakland raiders then.
Mostly because of the translation issues and the cryptic nature. I mean if you were to use a walkthrough, sure, you could beat it in a day, but we're talking vanilla, pop the cart in and play it logic.
I agree. Nintendo really watered down the difficulty by adding running to the game, and making it so you only beat the game once. In Japan (on the original Yume Kojo Doki Doki Panic), you have to beat the game with all 4 characters.
Gotta personally disagree on SMB being the easiest of the original three games. I beat SMB3 the first day I had it, but to this day haven't finished SMB. Biggest issue is 8-4 where you have to figure out the 'correct path' through the castle. There's BS like that on SMB3, but you can warp past World 7.
My cousins and I rented Guerrilla War during Christmas break years ago. We "flipped it" in 1 day. Still remember it was fun, maybe not as much fun had I forked out $40 for it instead of $1.50
Yoshi's Cookie for the NES (there's also a SNES version) is another example of a simple puzzle game. Rod Land for the NES is also generally a forgiving experience.
I honestly found Chip 'n Dale to be near-impossible as a kid (have not played it since then, so maybe things would be different now), and I also like Super Mario Bros. is one of the harder games on the NES, with SMB2 being the easiest of the NES trilogy.
I agree. SMB2 has more of a puzzle approach than SMB1. Chip'n Dale completely broke my spirit playing it. It looked so simple but I was getting absolutely wrecked. 😭😭
Easy game? Keroppi to Keroriinu no Splash Bomb! From the makers of surprisingly good Hello Kitty games, it's water balloon Bomberman! Splash damage never felt so good!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! The next one will be kind of rough, 10 bad MSX games, I don't expect people to watch it as much, because MSX wasn't a major part of my demographics childhood, but it will be good knowledge on which games to avoid!
That's so sweet! Your 6 year old daughter chose easy playable game The Little Mermaid. At the same age I was struggling with well-known insane difficult game "Lost Word of JeNnY" (1987 Takara NES/FC) lol Please continue to enjoy making memories for your daughter through the gaming. Life experiences during this period are very important in character development. I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of gamer she becomes in the future.
@@Fortefyredont let her play games in that tender age! Believe me it leads to addiction. Look at us... shes better off not wasting her precious time on silly videogames. You know the first cluster out of the utero is the family cluster 0-8 yrs. Those years have the biggest impact on life than any other time in life. Its the early years of a human than writes lifes journey. Even if one doesnt believe those years are crucial in development. So please dont let her play silly videogames. There are far better hobbies to invest in
This is actually a really awesome and smart list. The NES is just notorious for some of the hardest video games ever made. I agree that Super Mario Bros is an easy game. In fact the vast majority of Mario games are quite easy. They're only hard if you're not familiar with video games in general or if you're not familiar with the genre of said Mario spin-off. But yeah there are some people out there who say that Super Mario Bros is hard but it really isn't. The only Mario games I find hard are the lost levels and too many of the custom levels in Super Mario Maker 1 especially and yeah definitely some of them in Super Mario Maker 2 as well. Some of the Mario spin-offs are pretty hard but most of them not so much. It's cool to see that Mega Man 6 is considered an easy NES game. I grew up in the '90s and loved playing SNES, N64, PS1, and Genesis growing up but I never actually played a Mega Man game until way later. First time was with Mega Man 1 which I downloaded to the Wii virtual console and that game is brutal. I later played some Mega Man games on Mega Man collection on 3DS and I started playing the First four games but found them all to be so difficult Although I do think I noticed it being a little morgue forgiving and generous Although I do think I noticed it being a little more forgiving in the later games but I never got around to playing Mega Man 5 and 6 on there. I actually haven't played my 2DS in years since I have a switch now but hey they added all six of the Mega Man games on the NES catalog so perhaps all finally get five and six a try
5 is where it started going downhill for me, and you can tell they were grabbing for straws to anticipate the next gen era, 6 is....it's easy, and I like that, but it's also the lame duck to me. Even Capcom didn't want to release it in America, but Nintendo pushed them to.
@@Fortefyre I might have reacted to Mega Man the same way that you have if I had ever gotten around to playing it back when I was a kid in the '90s. The fact that even though there were so many Mega Man games back then and somehow I never played a single one of them until decades later probably has contributed to how well bad I am at the games When I'm actually somebody who's really good at video games but I'm not very good at the Mega Man games, and I guess how discouraged I can feel playing the older ones.
Kung fu, it doesn't take long to beat all 5 stages of it. Most bosses can be destroyed by rapidly low kicking. Bubble Bobble, it's 2 players, has unlimited continues and a password system. There's over 100 stages, but you don't have beat them in a single go, but once you master the game you easily can.
I think a great video idea is the top ten best nes games published by any company, like Capcom, Konami, Tengen, etc. Also, my hopes for Donkey Kong have been shattered
I've played most of the games on this list. While I disagree that not all of them are easy. They all have their share of challenging factors, but they're still simple to learn, and most importantly, they're fun to play.
Loved Guerilla War...better than Ikari Warriors. I can't count how many times I beat it back in the day with various friends and family members. It was just a few years ago I found out that you're playing as Castro and Che Guevara in that Rampage was easy, thanks to unlimited continues, as long as you grow back in time (or your stupid partner doesn't eat you)
Other easy games: - Adventures in the Magic Kingdom - Asterix - Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout - Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle - Duck Tales + 2 (2 is a bit more challenging) - Kabuki Quantum Fighter - Legendary Wings - Mega Man 5 (even easier than 6 IMO) - Power Blade - Wacky Races
Actually the first Hudson's Adventure Island was easy to finish...it was the sequels that were difficult. Also did you ever try the Second playthrough of Kirby's Dreamland on Gameboy? It was hard as heck to get through!!!
When I saw the video in my feed the first game I thought of was Chip and Dale. Perfect number 1. Had a blast playing it, and it's super easy. Weird how those two things can go together so well. Another game that was super easy and fun was Gremlins 2.
20, not in order: Ikari 3, wacky races, karate champ, ducktales, great waldo search, karate kid, guerilla war, chip n dale, little mermaid, smb, tmnt tf, bugs bunny birthday blowout, renegade, die hard, contra, the punisher, kung fu, breakthru, marble madness
Great video. I disagree about SMB. I think we look at it as easy simply because we’ve all played it until mastery over the decades. I’d say 2 is easier, but then, I also prefer 2 to 1. I love them all, though, of course. Have you played Bugs Bunny’s Birthday Blowout? If not, I think you’ would probably enjoy it, and it would be a great game for this list, imo.
@@Fortefyre I’ve seen it around online. Just waiting for the right time to buy. Definitely will be this year. All last year I simply added a ton of games to my wishlist, dynowarz being one of them once I realized I had it as a child. Nostalgia at its finest. Lol
Some of the games on this list I've already won and some others already are/are going to be in my bucket list of games to beat, so thanks! Nice choices either way :D The easiest game I remember beating on the NES was probably Where's Waldo?, a 15 minute playthrough at most. But maybe it couldn't be on this list because you'd consider it an edutainment title? Either way check it out, it won't cost you a lot of time ^^
Super Mario Bros on the NES is easy But SMB for the arcade is brutal. It starts with the level 3-2 slightly different than the one for home consoles. It gets slightly more difficult and it culminates on level 6-3. If you can conquer that level within 10 lives or less, I want to see it.
No The only place I was able to play that version of SMB was at a lonely theater or in this bowling alley on Friday nights. Why Friday nights? It was because my parents liked to bowl there for 3 years. I remember the younger kids saying "oh great, it's that kid that plays forever" sarcastically 😁 I would usually start off my playing sessions with a few loyal supporters. Lose everybody by the time I get to world 5-1. And have everyone plus some new people by the time I get to world 8-1 thru 8-4. Then when you beat the game you get to start all over with a harder difficulty 😠 Needless to say when I reached that point I was so hungry and thirsty after an hour of playing I would let my quarter be taken over. It was funny to watch because many of the kids who were there had never seen the "end" screen only for there to be more of the same but with buzzy beetles. It was funny watching those kids armed with about 30 free Marios trying to play against those buzzy beetles. 😂 I doubt they even made it past the second stage.
I can do it, you just have to jump when the little birdie on the left is at his lowest point. Or highest. One of the two, but pretty sure it's when he's low. Of course, I'm a cunning fox that can pick up visual ques pretty fast. Otherwise the blind jump is pure RNG, yeah.
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The green world in Cobra Triangle is easy, except for the jump the waterfall stage. The yellow world is ok, poses a decent challenge. The white blue world stopped caring and just goes all out. The grey world, forget about it...
Cobra Triangle being on here is like having Air Fortress or Battletoads on an Easiest games list. Sure, you can sleepwalk past the first couple levels, but right after that it gets relentless.
Ummm, I wonder if those friends of yours who mentioned Cobra Triangle as an easy game was trolling you. I shouldn't talk because I never played it myself, but I know people who are into hard NES games and they often mention Cobra Triangle as one of the harder ones.
Little Mermaid is actually a surprisingly fun game. Definitely easy though... your friends are insane though if they think Cobra Triangle belongs on this list. That is an incredibly challenging game. Easy to play. Easy to love. Extremely difficult to beat.
Gave your daughter $40 and went to the expensive cabinet and chose little mermaid. You may have rewarded your daughter for good behavior, but you should have punished yourself for foolish behavior. Little mermaid is always in the bargain shelf for $10.
yikes!! most casuals will no way be completing cobra triangle. Good list for the most part though, id also say megaman 2 is the easiest one ( which is why ppl love it ) Heavy barrel is pretty easy and also duck tales. Nice video man
Good list! I've only played maybe half the games on this list but, yeah, many of these games have a manageable difficulty for any skill level. Another game I'd give honorable mention to would be Kung-Fu. Once you get the hang of it, it is pretty quick game to charge through.
I figure Super Mario Bros 3 is easier since as long as you keep the system on, you basically have unlimited continues and even then that's a non-issue with the All-Stars remake and GBA remaster. Not to mention having very responsive jumps compared to SMB1. As for Kirby's Adventure; Meta Knight and Nightmare phase 1 are surprisingly nasty for main Kirby content bosses. Especially when you compare the former to his Nightmare in Dream Land counterpart who's so easy in comparison. As for Nightmare phase 1, the window of time to defeat him before colliding with the ground is rather tight. It feels like they gave players more time to work with in Nightmare in Dream Land.
Funny man NateTheGnat! Let's see a walk through of you beating that awful game. I'd love to watch that. I don't believe there's a video on TH-cam of the ending.
I agree with you on everything but 1 entry. And maybe some honorable mentions for "fun" trumping "beatable" Mario3 is a great game, that I beat with relatively few moments of "this is way to hard" and most all of those happen in the last 2 worlds. Mario is also great, but after world5 the timer becomes the biggest obstacle and that's not taking into account the Final Castle Maze and Bowser never being something I'd call "easy". Mario3 is also better looking and alternates players unlike the original. I would have said Bubble Bobble and Snake Rattle and Roll are better options than Cobra Triangle and honestly I think Mega Man 4 or 5 was the "easiest" of the series. 4 having more pronounced Boss Weakness and completely optional "extras" that were not even something I realized I missed whereas 5 introduced Beat (also in 6) but it was not intuitive where all the letters are, or how to even snag a couple of them.
Karate Kid is VERY easy and can be finished in 7 or so minutes. Contra is easy with the 30 man code. Super Mario 2 is easier to me than the first game. Kung Fu is mostly easy except for maybe a small problem with the fourth floor boss and a few others.
I beat Color a Dinosaur on my first go!
#progamer :P
@@Fortefyre I can't wait to show off my skills at the next Pro Evo! :D
Daigo will never see it coming!
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Cobra Triangle is NOT easy. Sure it starts out relatively easy but at one point it becomes incredibly tough. We were never able to beat it as a kid and still struggle with it now.
Yeah, I added because the difficulty to me was a gradual scaling.
@@Fortefyre Fair enough! Either way you inspired me to break out the cart and give it another go!
That game gave me a permanent fear of waterfalls with ramps on the ends.
100 percent agree. This is a rubbish list.
100 percent agree. This is a rubbish list.
Okay, it's beyond awesome that a six-year-old living in the 21st century picked out an NES game when she could have had anything and went on to love the game. It goes to show that good retro games are timeless.
Usually she heads straight for the plushies, she loves Mario plushies and she damn near has the whole mushroom kingdom, but I told her to pick a game, it could have been ANY system, I didn't guide her, just kind of let her walk around. It was an hour long process lmao.
Wizards & Warriors. Bought it for $30 as a kid, beat it overnight. Unlimited continues in the exact spot where you died with no loss of items. And zero bottomless pit hazards.
Ooh!
This is one of my favorite series on the NES.
Same here, only a handful of tough spots in the game. It's fun, though, and David Wise's soundtrack slaps as usual.
You lose only your score and your sub weapon upgrades, but yeah it's very forgiving in this regard. On the other hand, you are constantly attacked from all sides throughout most of the game it feels like :D
@@Alianger it does throw so much stuff at u that baseline when ur about to die is seared in my brain omg
I’m so happy to see a mention of Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers, one of my favorites for the system.
Cobra Triangle is one of the toughest games on the NES. Maybe it's part of your format as every top 10 list I've seen from you has at least one complete opposite entry :D
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Yeah it's fucking hard.
I love the video; specifically how you present it. You're not talking at 371 miles an hour, and you aren't screaming every time you speak. TH-cam needs more creators like you. Subscribing. 🤠
Thank you! Welcome to the community!
That story about your 6 year old hit me right in the feels - my girls are 4 and 2 and are slowly getting into games too. Another great video my friend!
Oh wow! Thanks Moo!!! That was beyond kind of you!
Genesis has an excellent library for kids.
Straight into your daughter's game fund? Or at least half if it...hint hint.
DuckTales. It took me less than 24 hours to fully figure it out way back in the early 1990s.
I agree! It's hard to choose which ones to add tbh. Top 10 though!
That soundtrack ❤️🩹✌️🥹
I don’t think you played Cobra Triangle long enough because it definitely isn’t easy. In fact many consider it one of the tougher games for the system.
Yeah yeah.
LOVE Chip n Dale RR and am stoked to see it on this list! I could pick it up right now and still blow right through it. Zone J is still a very challenging but fun zone
It's so good!
@@Fortefyre speed runners have beaten that game in under 11 minutes
Oh I believe it! Some of my friends are those people lol.
Monster in My Pocket was the last NES game I got as a kid before moving on to the SNES...awesome game that's not difficult and a very enjoyable playthrough.
Monster in my pocket was fairly easy and fun, I just got a SNES and gave my copy to my younger cousin.
We had a hackof it called Batman & Flash, which made it the only Batman game me & parents could finish! :3 Definitely easier than Darkwing Duck 2 (Super Contra sprite swap)... Famiclone yellow carts are something else!
I’m very glad to see Felix the Cat on this list. It’s easy, yes, but also incredibly enjoyable. Keep up the good work!
Thanks Soybomb!
Hard to say another easy game but the first one pops up my head is Trojan which is short and sweet.
Trojan is MEAN haha.
@@Fortefyre I could say Ninja Gaiden winky face haha.
You need practice to beat Trojan and yes after that it's a short game you can beat without dying.
You don't need practice for, well Felix the Cat. I beat that game first time playing with more than 20 lives left (which I don't consider an achievement at all).
Did you know Trojan is in the same universe/family as Kung-Fu?
I disagree, Guerilla War is better than Ikari Warriors.
I'll be real with you, I agree. It feels like NES metal slug.
Guerrilla war rules!
Guerilla War is one of the best games ever imo.
It also has great music and sound effects
I'm sorry, someone talked smack to the Tetris kid? Wth... He's a legend. Like the Neo of puzzle games.
Also, if you're talking the real SMB2, yes that's way harder... I think the American version was actually way easier than the other two, at least it was easier to beat growing up.
Dude right? I was irritated when I saw the news report about it, old lady told him to "play outside".
Chip n dale wasnt easy for my neighbor. He played the first level over 200 times.
Good lord lol.
Power Blade. Tried it in the store, bought it, finished it an hour after I got home.
Really? I've never played it.
Guerrilla War is really cool. Yeah, you can easily credit feed it, but it's nice that you can also challenge yourself to credit limits as well. I have the arcade pcb of it as well that I sometimes swap into my Time Soldiers cabinet (it also used the rotart joysticks). The arcade version is pretty brutal in its difficulty. The fact that it only gives you 8 directions to shoot with the rotary sticks makes it feel like you never have just the right angle to hit your enemies without them hitting you first. Some games, like Time Soldiers, give you 12 positions, making it simpler to find a good shooting angle... then again, none of that has anything to do with the video.
Kickle Cubicle is great as well. This was a good list that my kids would also corroborate!
Still good knowledge!
Breakthru is another, can be beat in under 15 minutes
I need to check it out!
No mention of *Puss in Boots* for the NES.
Except for the last boss, that game is childishly simple!
Interesting!
I came here to mention this, but I'm glad that someone beat me to it. The game is probably the easiest on the whole NES, except for Count Gruemon, who is an extreme pain in the butt to beat. I still have a great fondness for it though.
Radia Senki needs a translation patch, but it's a relatively simple Action RPG similar to Secret of Mana (except you have a 5 person party instead of 3). Extremely little grinding for an NES RPG, frequent save points in dungeons that fully heal you, and did I mention the great music and story? A fun 10-15 or so hour adventure.
I agree! However, I did want to keep this list isolated to only American NES games!
Negative. Cobra Triangle is a test of patience, hard and grueling. But fun as heck.
I learned this the hard way lmao.
In terms of Super Mario Bros., while it is the game that set the standard for how the difficulty scale should be handled, it did have some difficult moments when talking about World 7-4 and World 8's courses. Thankfully, the Super Mario All-Stars revision of the game did implement a sound indicator to let players know if they took the correct routes in World 4-4 and World 7-4.
That's a subtle quality of live improvement that I didn't even realize!
Well over 40 bucks for Little Mermaid? Ouch..that game store is charging quite the markup.
It was in Las Vegas, so I wouldn't doubt it.
By the way, I am really enjoying your content. Great work! @@Fortefyre
Oh thanks! I appreciate it :)
Both of the Bugs Bunny games are incredibly easy. Think I ended up with over 50 lives remaining when I beat birthday blowout
Wow!
guerrilla war is like if ikari warriors even had remotley decent controls on nes. if you like ikari but hate feeling like your guy is walking in quicksand all level, get guerrilla war
Absolutely! I 100% agree.
Felix the Cat! Glad to see this game being mentioned on the list! It is easy, but don't let that deter you. Actually I think it was the first video game I ever beat as a kid.
That's awesome!
Some of these are the games my grandma had and played all day to help with her arthritis lol. She also had McKids, Yoshi, and the Lolo games which were pretty dang easy as well.
My grandma played tetris relentlessly and I'm pretty sure that's what have her carpal tunnel lmao
That Ray Guy line was perfect. Totally had me rolling.
I'm glad someone appreciated it hahaha
I half expected to see duck hunt or hogans alley on this list. Instead, I was treated with a decent list of fun games. Thanks!
You bet! I try to avoid the same "regurgitated" lists that most other people do. All of my videos are based on me actively playing these time cherished titles :)
Ducktales for sure comes to mind. Maybe ducktales 2? Never played it myself but would assume it's similar to the first. Another would definitely be bubble bobble with the endless continues. Game does get challenging in later stages though. Still a good difficulty curve.
I would DREAM of owning DuckTales 2
Ducktales is soooooo good. And easy!
Ducktales wasn't easy before the internet. I could never figure out where to go when I was a stupid kid.
Haha you got me when I saw Battletoads on your thumbnail... It was a very challenging game back then and still is... So i thought it was easy for you to use it as a thumbnail😂.. great list as usual
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@@Fortefyre I also came here to give you props on the ragebait thumbnail 😆
@@Brew78 Haha, I do enjoy burning the world down sometimes:P
When I seen that, I knew he was trolling 😂
I beat Battletoads on my first go.
Well, fuck me then.
Not buying it. Couldn't even beat it as a kid with Game Genie taking me to the final level, and I've beaten some incredibly difficult games.
Cobra Triangle seems like one of the hardest NES games to beat, not considering the games that are really badly designed. Some good picks in the beginning though.
Yeah! I found it easy compared to some of the other games rare put out. But that's just me! I wanted one game with enough approachability and challenge.
Ah,ok. Makes sense if its a comparison to other super hard games. @@Fortefyre
:)
Thanks for introducing me to Kickle Cubicle, I somehow wasnt aware of it. A really easy puzzle game is Fire and Ice which I wouldve added to the list. Also didnt see anyone else mention it but I like how you knew everyone disagree on SMB1 so you repeated it twice ;)
Haha it was a glitch in the matrix!
The easiest NES games I can remember playing off the top of my head were Marble Madness (WAY easier with the d-pad than the arcade’s trackball), Adventures in the Magic Kingdom (I beat this one on a game store’s demo machine back in the day lol), Monopoly (once you figured out how the AI worked it was pretty easy to manipulate), Wrecking Crew (still one of my favorites in the black box set; the fact that you can jump to any level at any time is a big plus in making it more manageable), Tetris (good pick), and DuckTales.
I’m also gonna side with the other commenters who’d put SMB3 over SMB1. SMB3’s item reserve feature, P-wings, tighter jump physics, and generous extra lives made it the much easier game to beat, IMO.
Makes sense to me!
I love me some easy ass NES games.
Especially ones with substance!
Kickle Cubicle is one of my all time favorite games for the NES (or any other platform.) While it may start out easy; the difficulty definitely ramps up in the later levels. Some of the bonus levels are downright brutal. No surprise they included a self destuct like in Lolo games in case you get stuck. Great game. It bled me of $90 for a loose copy; but it was worth it. Very cool channel man.
Thank you!
a few more: Monster in my Pocket, the ONLY Batman game I finished (there was a sprite swap called Batman & Flash), the OTHER Turtle games, 2 & 3 are easy beatemups! Panic Restaurant, I don't think I got to the end but it's surprisingly accessible later NES platformer... honorable mention: Contra and Super Contra WITH 30 LIVES CODE/HACK. We had that version on Famicom multicarts but you need to input code on downgraded NES version. It's not an easy game but with so many lives and continues it's doable for everyone. And fun.
Other games I played as a kid where I couldn't beat anything at all and spent a lot of time in level editors are Lode Runner, Excitebike and Tank/Battle City, they're not that hard, but even if you can't play them normally, making custom levels where you can't lose is literally an option, anyone put armor all over your "home" eagle in tanks? Or Loder Runner stage where you just casually walked where you wanted? It's kind of amazing we had more games with level edit in 8-bit era than later, where consoles had more than half a byte of RAM.
That's a great breakdown!
7:30 Wait what, did you eventually play it or not? Pretty tough game I thought
I did, and I love it in it's own weird way. I added it to the list because it was approachable as an easier game, but does have scaling difficulty.
@@Fortefyre Alright alright
5:23 Not counting the Kirby's return the Dreamland remaster on Switch, actually Kirby's dream buffet came out months after Kirby and the forgotten Land so therefore as recent as Kirby and The forgotten Land was, it's not the most recent game. And I could tell by the date of this video that yes Kirby's Dream buffet would have already come out by the time you uploaded this.
5:43 Ray guy as far as I've heard was the greatest punter of all time. However in 1986 the team was called the Los Angeles raiders. Did you mean to say 1976 because he definitely was on the team in 1976 when they won the Super bowl for the first time and they were the Oakland raiders then.
I meant proper Kirby games lol, not super monkey ball vs kirby :P.
@@Fortefyre Oops! Could have said main series games. 😂 Anyways awesome video
The Little Mermaid was the bonus game in the game randomizer during Projared’s last birthday stream.
How did he handle it?
Mario 2 was definitely easier than 1. Also I have no idea how Castlevania 2 did not make the list
Mostly because of the translation issues and the cryptic nature. I mean if you were to use a walkthrough, sure, you could beat it in a day, but we're talking vanilla, pop the cart in and play it logic.
I agree.
Nintendo really watered down the difficulty by adding running to the game, and making it so you only beat the game once. In Japan (on the original Yume Kojo Doki Doki Panic), you have to beat the game with all 4 characters.
Gotta personally disagree on SMB being the easiest of the original three games. I beat SMB3 the first day I had it, but to this day haven't finished SMB. Biggest issue is 8-4 where you have to figure out the 'correct path' through the castle. There's BS like that on SMB3, but you can warp past World 7.
#streamgoals
My cousins and I rented Guerrilla War during Christmas break years ago. We "flipped it" in 1 day. Still remember it was fun, maybe not as much fun had I forked out $40 for it instead of $1.50
Wow!
Yoshi's Cookie for the NES (there's also a SNES version) is another example of a simple puzzle game.
Rod Land for the NES is also generally a forgiving experience.
I'm unfamiliar with Rod Land! Might need to check it out!
I honestly found Chip 'n Dale to be near-impossible as a kid (have not played it since then, so maybe things would be different now), and I also like Super Mario Bros. is one of the harder games on the NES, with SMB2 being the easiest of the NES trilogy.
I think I struggled more with Mario 2!
I agree. SMB2 has more of a puzzle approach than SMB1. Chip'n Dale completely broke my spirit playing it. It looked so simple but I was getting absolutely wrecked. 😭😭
Yeah it was kinda hard wasn't it? That 1st level would be challenging for any little kid to beat.
cobra triangle is incredibly difficult
I put it on here because of its difficulty scaling.
Easy game? Keroppi to Keroriinu no Splash Bomb!
From the makers of surprisingly good Hello Kitty games, it's water balloon Bomberman! Splash damage never felt so good!
I tried to keep this exclusively American NES, I'll be sure to bear that in mind if I cover Famicom titles!
Great video. Put together well.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Dude you touch my soul i have no Words how much i loved felix the cat and alfred the chicken
:)
Wizards and Warriors for the same reason as Guerilla Warrior
Indeed!
Hey thanks mate, ive never really played NES games because of their notorious difficulty, but i like the retro look and sound.
Definitely! It's aged...interestingly, but that doesn't mean they are all bad, I promise lol.
Fun video fortefyre! Good stuff!
I'm glad you enjoyed it! The next one will be kind of rough, 10 bad MSX games, I don't expect people to watch it as much, because MSX wasn't a major part of my demographics childhood, but it will be good knowledge on which games to avoid!
One of my favorite games on NES Astyanax is quite easy if you know how to use the magic.
That's a good choice as well!
Astyanax is one of my all-time favourite games too! Definitely an underrated gem on the NES.
@@dtm1351 Do you play online on Switch? Would be cool to play some games together sometime
What's the game called at beginning of the video
Dynowars!
I think Duck Tales should have been on it.
It just BARELY missed the list.
That's so sweet! Your 6 year old daughter chose easy playable game The Little Mermaid. At the same age I was struggling with well-known insane difficult game "Lost Word of JeNnY" (1987 Takara NES/FC) lol
Please continue to enjoy making memories for your daughter through the gaming. Life experiences during this period are very important in character development.
I'm looking forward to seeing what kind of gamer she becomes in the future.
Me too!
@@Fortefyredont let her play games in that tender age! Believe me it leads to addiction. Look at us... shes better off not wasting her precious time on silly videogames.
You know the first cluster out of the utero is the family cluster 0-8 yrs. Those years have the biggest impact on life than any other time in life. Its the early years of a human than writes lifes journey. Even if one doesnt believe those years are crucial in development. So please dont let her play silly videogames. There are far better hobbies to invest in
@@СталкерТравушка ...I'm a Psychologist
Metal Gear, captain skyhawk, castlevania two, and mega man 2 were simple too. Agree a lot of these.
Great choices too!
Great video & channel! Subbed!
Awesome, thank you! Welcome to the channel!
That's weird I used to beat Super Mario Bros 1 as a kid but as an adult I struggle. Maybe it's just im so used to speed and better controls nowadays
This is actually a really awesome and smart list. The NES is just notorious for some of the hardest video games ever made. I agree that Super Mario Bros is an easy game. In fact the vast majority of Mario games are quite easy. They're only hard if you're not familiar with video games in general or if you're not familiar with the genre of said Mario spin-off. But yeah there are some people out there who say that Super Mario Bros is hard but it really isn't.
The only Mario games I find hard are the lost levels and too many of the custom levels in Super Mario Maker 1 especially and yeah definitely some of them in Super Mario Maker 2 as well. Some of the Mario spin-offs are pretty hard but most of them not so much.
It's cool to see that Mega Man 6 is considered an easy NES game. I grew up in the '90s and loved playing SNES, N64, PS1, and Genesis growing up but I never actually played a Mega Man game until way later. First time was with Mega Man 1 which I downloaded to the Wii virtual console and that game is brutal. I later played some Mega Man games on Mega Man collection on 3DS and I started playing the First four games but found them all to be so difficult Although I do think I noticed it being a little morgue forgiving and generous Although I do think I noticed it being a little more forgiving in the later games but I never got around to playing Mega Man 5 and 6 on there. I actually haven't played my 2DS in years since I have a switch now but hey they added all six of the Mega Man games on the NES catalog so perhaps all finally get five and six a try
5 is where it started going downhill for me, and you can tell they were grabbing for straws to anticipate the next gen era, 6 is....it's easy, and I like that, but it's also the lame duck to me. Even Capcom didn't want to release it in America, but Nintendo pushed them to.
@@Fortefyre I might have reacted to Mega Man the same way that you have if I had ever gotten around to playing it back when I was a kid in the '90s. The fact that even though there were so many Mega Man games back then and somehow I never played a single one of them until decades later probably has contributed to how well bad I am at the games When I'm actually somebody who's really good at video games but I'm not very good at the Mega Man games, and I guess how discouraged I can feel playing the older ones.
Kung fu, it doesn't take long to beat all 5 stages of it. Most bosses can be destroyed by rapidly low kicking.
Bubble Bobble, it's 2 players, has unlimited continues and a password system. There's over 100 stages, but you don't have beat them in a single go, but once you master the game you easily can.
Interesting!
I think a great video idea is the top ten best nes games published by any company, like Capcom, Konami, Tengen, etc.
Also, my hopes for Donkey Kong have been shattered
Haha DK can be unfair even on the NES 🤣 I'll add your idea to the list!
I've played most of the games on this list. While I disagree that not all of them are easy. They all have their share of challenging factors, but they're still simple to learn, and most importantly, they're fun to play.
And that's what matters the most!
Loved Guerilla War...better than Ikari Warriors. I can't count how many times I beat it back in the day with various friends and family members. It was just a few years ago I found out that you're playing as Castro and Che Guevara in that
Rampage was easy, thanks to unlimited continues, as long as you grow back in time (or your stupid partner doesn't eat you)
Such a good game!
Other easy games:
- Adventures in the Magic Kingdom
- Asterix
- Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout
- Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle
- Duck Tales + 2 (2 is a bit more challenging)
- Kabuki Quantum Fighter
- Legendary Wings
- Mega Man 5 (even easier than 6 IMO)
- Power Blade
- Wacky Races
All great choices!
I agree, Megaman 5 is easier than 6
Little Mermaid NES is “way more than $40”? 👀 I see them on ebay for under $10, am I missing something?
This was complete in box and marked up lol
Actually the first Hudson's Adventure Island was easy to finish...it was the sequels that were difficult. Also did you ever try the Second playthrough of Kirby's Dreamland on Gameboy? It was hard as heck to get through!!!
I haven't!
When I saw the video in my feed the first game I thought of was Chip and Dale. Perfect number 1. Had a blast playing it, and it's super easy. Weird how those two things can go together so well. Another game that was super easy and fun was Gremlins 2.
Absolutely! Thank you for watching this :)
20, not in order: Ikari 3, wacky races, karate champ, ducktales, great waldo search, karate kid, guerilla war, chip n dale, little mermaid, smb, tmnt tf, bugs bunny birthday blowout, renegade, die hard, contra, the punisher, kung fu, breakthru, marble madness
Nice!
Great video. I disagree about SMB. I think we look at it as easy simply because we’ve all played it until mastery over the decades. I’d say 2 is easier, but then, I also prefer 2 to 1. I love them all, though, of course.
Have you played Bugs Bunny’s Birthday Blowout? If not, I think you’ would probably enjoy it, and it would be a great game for this list, imo.
Fair enough!
The hammer brothers in world 8 of Super Mario Bros makes what was a fair game up to that point prohibitively hard.
FIRE. FLOWER. That was my strat religiously lol.
Idk if this is accurate or not but I do like seeing a new list variety type. Good stuff. Cheers.
The one that I think I goofed on, was Cobra Triangle lol.
Little Mermaid is cruel throwing fish in bubbles and they explode. lol I think mario is easier then chip and dale. That game is hard to me.
Difficulty is very subjective! Lol.
@@Fortefyre True probably what you grow up with is easier
In some ways yes.
I see that Dynowarz gameplay in the intro. Nice. 😎 I’m Still looking for that game from my childhood.
Check Ebay, it's about $10!
@@Fortefyre I’ve seen it around online. Just waiting for the right time to buy. Definitely will be this year. All last year I simply added a ton of games to my wishlist, dynowarz being one of them once I realized I had it as a child. Nostalgia at its finest. Lol
Absolutely!
Some of the games on this list I've already won and some others already are/are going to be in my bucket list of games to beat, so thanks! Nice choices either way :D
The easiest game I remember beating on the NES was probably Where's Waldo?, a 15 minute playthrough at most. But maybe it couldn't be on this list because you'd consider it an edutainment title? Either way check it out, it won't cost you a lot of time ^^
Hey you bet! I'm glad I could add something to your personal list!
Super Mario Bros on the NES is easy
But SMB for the arcade is brutal. It starts with the level 3-2 slightly different than the one for home consoles. It gets slightly more difficult and it culminates on level 6-3. If you can conquer that level within 10 lives or less, I want to see it.
Was that the VS mode cabinet?
No
The only place I was able to play that version of SMB was at a lonely theater or in this bowling alley on Friday nights. Why Friday nights? It was because my parents liked to bowl there for 3 years. I remember the younger kids saying "oh great, it's that kid that plays forever" sarcastically 😁
I would usually start off my playing sessions with a few loyal supporters. Lose everybody by the time I get to world 5-1. And have everyone plus some new people by the time I get to world 8-1 thru 8-4. Then when you beat the game you get to start all over with a harder difficulty 😠
Needless to say when I reached that point I was so hungry and thirsty after an hour of playing I would let my quarter be taken over. It was funny to watch because many of the kids who were there had never seen the "end" screen only for there to be more of the same but with buzzy beetles. It was funny watching those kids armed with about 30 free Marios trying to play against those buzzy beetles. 😂 I doubt they even made it past the second stage.
I'm confused lol. The only Super Mario Bros Arcade game I knew of, was either the Playchoice-10 cabinets or the Vs. Systems Cabinets.
I can do it, you just have to jump when the little birdie on the left is at his lowest point. Or highest. One of the two, but pretty sure it's when he's low.
Of course, I'm a cunning fox that can pick up visual ques pretty fast. Otherwise the blind jump is pure RNG, yeah.
Damn, why do NES games sound so much better on your channel? You must have some neat echo effect added in there.
The music you heard, was due to the magic powers of Niko's 8-Bit stereo! He gives fresh life to these classic songs, and his channel can be found here! He's a peer and personal friend of mine, so I was able to pull a favor to make this video! www.youtube.com/@Nikos8BitStereo
The green world in Cobra Triangle is easy, except for the jump the waterfall stage. The yellow world is ok, poses a decent challenge. The white blue world stopped caring and just goes all out. The grey world, forget about it...
Difficulty scaling 101!
Cobra Triangle being on here is like having Air Fortress or Battletoads on an Easiest games list.
Sure, you can sleepwalk past the first couple levels, but right after that it gets relentless.
And you get better! It's a unique challenge.
Guerilla War has always been a favorite of mine
Awesome!
Before the vid even starts, Donkey Kong is number 1
Or is it? :P
Thumbnail with Battletoads... Well played.
;) I like to keep things interesting!
@@Fortefyre let's be honest. That games easy like hell freezing over and the devil giving free sleigh rides and snow cones 😂
Oh absolutely, and they are all harder than Jared Fogle at Disney World.
Doggonit! Kirby is not a sponge! Kirby is a Powder Pink Puff with arms and legs. 😁
:P
Low G Man is another good easy game, as well as criminally underrated imo.
I'll have to check it out:)
Low G Man was fun to play but that final boss was a nightmare to beat!!
I could never get passed that damn sub level. Everything up to that point was fairly easy.
@@fistinair1979 yeah, to be fair it’s not a total cakewalk, but I found most of it to be pretty easy once you get the hang of the mechanics.
The little mermaid was more than 40 bucks?? That’s crazy. The carts are usually around 10 in my experience
This wasn't a loose cart it was CIB and damn near sealed. If it was just me, I would have just bought it on Ebay, but it was my daughter's choice.
@@Fortefyre well, good on ya for being a cool dad
I try!
I must be an idiot.
Cobra Triangle is just too difficult.
Compared to the previous selection.
You're no idiot!
Glitch in the matrix at 8:34 and 8:50
Good catch! Sometimes even the best editors miss the simple things!
Ummm, I wonder if those friends of yours who mentioned Cobra Triangle as an easy game was trolling you. I shouldn't talk because I never played it myself, but I know people who are into hard NES games and they often mention Cobra Triangle as one of the harder ones.
I consider it easy due to the scaled difficulty.
Little Mermaid is actually a surprisingly fun game. Definitely easy though... your friends are insane though if they think Cobra Triangle belongs on this list. That is an incredibly challenging game. Easy to play. Easy to love. Extremely difficult to beat.
I think they pulled a fast one on me lmao.
Gave your daughter $40 and went to the expensive cabinet and chose little mermaid. You may have rewarded your daughter for good behavior, but you should have punished yourself for foolish behavior.
Little mermaid is always in the bargain shelf for $10.
Haha. It is what it is.
Ikari Warriors 3 was very easy. Beat it in an hour when I was 10. That was many moons ago.
I haven't played more than Ikari Warriors 1 myself.
yikes!! most casuals will no way be completing cobra triangle. Good list for the most part though, id also say megaman 2 is the easiest one ( which is why ppl love it ) Heavy barrel is pretty easy and also duck tales. Nice video man
Thank you!
Good list! I've only played maybe half the games on this list but, yeah, many of these games have a manageable difficulty for any skill level. Another game I'd give honorable mention to would be Kung-Fu. Once you get the hang of it, it is pretty quick game to charge through.
Thanks for the tips!
yeah the first time isn't bad but try the second time through or the b mode it's an absolute bitch
I figure Super Mario Bros 3 is easier since as long as you keep the system on, you basically have unlimited continues and even then that's a non-issue with the All-Stars remake and GBA remaster. Not to mention having very responsive jumps compared to SMB1.
As for Kirby's Adventure; Meta Knight and Nightmare phase 1 are surprisingly nasty for main Kirby content bosses. Especially when you compare the former to his Nightmare in Dream Land counterpart who's so easy in comparison. As for Nightmare phase 1, the window of time to defeat him before colliding with the ground is rather tight. It feels like they gave players more time to work with in Nightmare in Dream Land.
Interesting!
But a continue in SMB3 means you have to start the world you were in from the beginning, with only five lives. Still pretty difficult.
Silver Surfer is a cake walk.
😏
Makes battletoads look like kirby
^
Funny man NateTheGnat! Let's see a walk through of you beating that awful game. I'd love to watch that. I don't believe there's a video on TH-cam of the ending.
@@pedrocortez3485🤣🤣
I agree with you on everything but 1 entry. And maybe some honorable mentions for "fun" trumping "beatable"
Mario3 is a great game, that I beat with relatively few moments of "this is way to hard" and most all of those happen in the last 2 worlds. Mario is also great, but after world5 the timer becomes the biggest obstacle and that's not taking into account the Final Castle Maze and Bowser never being something I'd call "easy". Mario3 is also better looking and alternates players unlike the original.
I would have said Bubble Bobble and Snake Rattle and Roll are better options than Cobra Triangle and honestly I think Mega Man 4 or 5 was the "easiest" of the series. 4 having more pronounced Boss Weakness and completely optional "extras" that were not even something I realized I missed whereas 5 introduced Beat (also in 6) but it was not intuitive where all the letters are, or how to even snag a couple of them.
Great take! Thank you for sharing!
Karate Kid is VERY easy and can be finished in 7 or so minutes. Contra is easy with the 30 man code. Super Mario 2 is easier to me than the first game. Kung Fu is mostly easy except for maybe a small problem with the fourth floor boss and a few others.
I've never played the NES version of Kung-Fu, but I do know all about it!