Well he kinda explains it in the video.. He just doesnt like it as much as he does Donkey Kong. Still very strange tho :D Should 100% be S, since this is just a list of the blackbox games...
Nostalgia goggles. SMB has literally 8 times the amount of levels and has tons more complexity and replay value than Donkey Kong. It's one of the best black box games next to Duck Hunt, which is why they bundled it and made a huge success out of the NES in the US.
@@RobotacularRoBob It's not the amount of content that matters, but the quality of content. People from his (and my generation) get more enjoyment out of score chasing than simply 'getting the ending'. Sure, you can play smb in that way, but it's more enjoyable to do in games of the style like Donkey Kong. I can't say why HE likes it, but I'll say why I can understand DK ranked above SMB. Personally, I'd swap them. I didn't really like Donkey Kong compared to other games of it's type. Mario Bros. would've been S tier too.
You're killin' me with that Super Mario Bros. rank! I also think games like Tennis and Golf deserve a little credit for especially for their time. A lot of those super early Famicom titles have tiny ROM sizes and were made to compete with the cruder second generation consoles of the time. Their graphics and gameplay blew those games out of the water and showed what a generational leap the Famicom was even back then before memory management chips turned what was supposed to be a Donkey Kong machine into a real force to be reckoned with. They're simple but they were fun and got the job done. I love Wrecking Crew too. It's up there for me with the original Mario Bros. It's such a charming early puzzle game.
Super Mario Bros. was revolutionary and it (along with the NES) saved the video game industry. It fascinated me and millions of others when we were kids. It is above “S-Tier” from a historical and personal standpoint.
SMB is definitely S tier - people bought the console for that game alone. I'm on to you Riggs, tanking SMB to generate comments for the algorithm. Well played.
I kind of understand him. Of the classic four Mario games, it is the least good. Like great for its time no doubt, but rarely do I go back to it. Mario 2, 3 and World just pack so much more of a unique punch.
Super Mario Bros. is the best black box game by a mile, it should have its own tier. It is the only black box game that holds up today. Excite Bike is a distant second.
Ok, I agree that Super Mario Bros belongs in its own tier but Kid Icarus and Metroid belong there with it. Both those games still hold up beautifully today as well.
Tennis is underrated. Challenging and crazy fun when you set it to the higher levels. Tennis, Excitebike and Pro Wrestling were the best black box sports games.
Yes there is a great disappoint over this. Donkey Kong has 4 one screen wide levels and the nes gives us 3 of them super Mario has 32 wider levels with tons more variety. Super mario > donkey Kong
It's your favorite column-dodging dynamite-grabbing genius professor here. Just dropped by to see how you ranked my beloved Gyromite: the best game on the NES, the original system seller, and the reason the video game market was revived in North America. I'm sure it must be at the top of your list and ...
The Famicom was released in 1983, with Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr and Popeye as the launch titles. Super Mario Bros was released in 1985, right before the NES came out over here in the US of A. So the Black Box series are the Famicom's greatest hits from 1983-1985. All the tried and true, top sellers. That's why they're so good. They are the cream of the crop of three years worth of Nintendo releases. Many of the top 3rd party releases from that time period eventually made their way over here as well, which is why games like Pac Man, Burger Time, Galaga, 1942, Millipede, etc were getting released in the late 80s.
My cousins and I played Golf a lot as kids but truthfully, it isn't all that great of a game. Now NES Open Tournament Golf...that game was amazing! It took the mechanics from the original Golf game and just enhanced everything considerably. I highly recommend that one if you haven't played it! :)
I wish Nintendo kept doing this. Yeah, the graphics on full display on the cover, they made it look like art! My favorite cereal was the Legend of Zelda/Mario Cereal. Each side of the box had a different bag of cereal in it. So good!
I love this topic! This was the first subset I ever started collecting and man was I stoked when my local Funcoland got a Stack Up in... I knew it was rare before anyone did seemingly
That's an awesome memory. i have a similar one of getting Donkey Kong Jr. Math. i believe I payed $5.99 for it?! Could you imagine! I also remember they had stacks and stacks and stacks of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt which cost a whopping NINE CENTS!!!
I rented “Baseball” when I was a kid and LOVED it for some reason. I got it at Goodwill recently and it’s still not bad but I get board with it pretty quickly. I’d rate it at a C as well.
LOL!!! I couldn't agree more with you! That squishing sound effect is one of the funniest ones ever too (I think that Battletoads of all games has a similar sound effect too.)
John, I love how happy you are about every topic, you just seem to have an intense love for old games and shit. Love you in your vids with Jason. You’re just super positive, really fun stuff man.
Just to let you know, when you flash the rating screen after duck hunt, you can see excitebike included the list right before the review starts for excitebike.
Tennis and golf were some of the best tennis and golf games of all time. I don't even like those sports but must've spent hundreds of ours grinding those games with friends.
Who made this crappy baseball game? Uh, Shigeru Miyamoto. LOL. Miyamoto also worked on Golf and Tennis, so it’s clear you hate the guy :) Golf is actually a really fun game and should be much higher. Programmed by Iwata, BTW.
I like Urban Champ. It's got a bit of strategy in it. If you just mash buttons, you're gonna lose like any fighting game. It's obviously not the most in depth, but with 2 players, it's really a real time Rock Paper Scissors game which is at the core of every fighting game that's worth play.
@@thepolacek You've never played Pro Wrestling with another person who's also good at it, then. It's pretty hype as a competitive game and it doesn't require taking turns like SMB. Can't tell you how many times I'd just sit there bored waiting for my turn in two player SMB.
I also have a great Donkey Kong arcade memory. My best friend when I was young had an original DK Cab and Asteroids Cab in his “play room”. They were his step-dad’s but he let us play them all we wanted. I didn’t realize at the time how good I had it. Some day I’ll have one. Some day. Thanks for the great list!
One of my favorite games that never gets proper love is Balloon Fight Mode C, Balloon Trip. A rare LEFT scroller. It's challenging enough to avoid the sparks, but when you attempt to collect every balloon with zero misses, it can be incredibly exciting.
Never knew I could control the duck....but duck hunt needs to be an A minimum, u have to give it credit For it’s significance in history, and it’s superfun
I think we are in a same age. I want to thank you to bring back games from my childhood. Eventhough I’m not so much into ranking, you put a smile to a old school gamer.
The reason 10 yard fight was called that instead of Football was because it was actually a Irem arcade conversion of the game 10 yard fight. I know you know that.
This series mostly represents what I loved most about having an NES. Even though graphics and how games were designed would improve this is the time period where you really felt you were having the arcade experience at home. Sure some third party games became my all time favorite, Kunio-Kun/Double Dragon series, Castlevania III, BattleToads, and a few great early arcade ports, but this is Nintendo when it was Nintendo.
Smash Bros. Melee had a Mach Rider trophy, actually. Love all the Black Box titles. I have all the carts, just wish I had boxes for all of them (only have ten or eleven of the boxes, unfortunately). Curious, but do you think the three Silver Box titles (Metroid, Kid Icarus, and Rad Racer) should be grouped with the Black Box games?
nice! And I thought about adding the silver box games 'just cuz' but since they're not black box I did. I could do those separate but that'd be a short video.
Rad Racer! Thank you! I've been trying to remember the third one for AGES! I think I always forget because it's Squaresoft instead of Nintendo that made it.
Fun fact, at one point my grandpa had what he believed to be the world record for the lowest score in golf when i was like, 1 year old, he stood watch other the console while my mother and grandmother went to get a disposable camera to get a picture of it, don't think they ever confirmed if it was the record or not, but knowing how obsessed my family was with the nes back in the day I'd believe it
My personal favorites are Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Duck Hunt, Excitebike, Ice Climber, Hogan's Alley, Kung Fu, Pinball, Pro Wrestling, Super Mario Bros. And Wild Gunman.
Pro Wrestling? Hell yeah it deserves to be S tier. It may be an S tier of every NES game, let alone black box. It was a black box that I don't think was ever surpassed on the NES. Probably the only one you can say that about.
As a young maybe 7 or 8 year old boy, I remember my Mom taking me to the game store to buy a game (one of the only times she ever went out of her way to do that) and I remember seeing Slalom and really really wanting it. She convinced me to buy Duck Tales instead, and I'm forever grateful that she did this lol. To this day, I have yet to try Slalom!
Dude love the channel but really the Zapper games should have been captured with CRT footage and using the Zapper. It just comes off Lazy not doing so... otherwise man I really appreciate all the work you put in making these videos for our entertainment. Thank you!
How's it going Mr. Riggs? I just wanted to let you know that I'm sooo extremely stoked that I stumbled across your channel somehow. I've been binging on your "I Ranked" series... At work when I have downtime, at home enjoying a brewsky after a long day. I'm 42 and share an astounding amount of nostalgia right there with ya! I subscribed just like you suggested and Really Happy that I did!! Just remember: All of the hard work you're doing is probably helping Many peeps while they're working hard!
I can remember thinking that most of those games were old hat back in the 80's. Once I played Castlevania, Contra, Mega Man or Metroid or zelda, a lot of those non scrolling games were just too primitive. Of course now I really dig the simplicity and style of a lot of those black box games. Fun Hobby.
That's really interesting. I wouldn't know since I grew up playing the PS1 but I have a similar situation in that I was mostly into the games made after the DualShock with vibration and the analog sticks (with exceptions of course). Games made before the DS I usually skipped.
You know, I never played Ice Climber until NES Remix on the Wii U, but I'd put it at a solid B. I think it holds up well for a post Donkey Kong, Pre-SMB platformer.
Excitebike, Hogan's Alley, Duck Hunt, and Super Mario Bros. are my favorites out of the bunch. I'm especially find of Excitebike and Hogan's Alley because of the wild-colored environments that they have. I'm not a big pinball fan in general, but Pinball has a lot of neat secrets hidden in it, like that weird area with Mario and Pauline and what looks like a telephone keypad. I also like Urban Champion for just how absurd the concept is.
Hay, Bro. I love your ranking videos. I watch them over and over again. Your Not wrong putting Pro Wrestling at S-Tier. I think it's the best Wrestling game on the NES. Also, wasn't Metroid a black box game? I remember it being one, but I could be wrong.
You mean to tell me that when I played this as a kid the other person could control the ducks in duck hunt? I had no idea! Man that would’ve been so cool.
He was ranking them based on his enjoyment, not on their historical relevance. :) It's like the band Rush. I appreciate the musicality and talent that band puts into their songs, but for me? I'd rather listen to Black Sabbath.
I dig Golf and just like real golf, one messed up shot pretty much ruins your day! lol I think it's only drawback is it's aiming is a tad too course, so it requires a lot of reliance on hook and slice to get the ball where you want it. That's really my only gripe, but at the same time, it does make for a more interesting play through.
My favorite "Black Box" games for the Nintendo NES are Super Mario Bros., Pinball, Hogan's Alley, Kung Fu, Excitebike, Golf, and Slalom, as well as the "Sliver box" games Metroid, Kid Icarus and Rad Racer. It was iconic, much like the Konami sliver box games and the blue and later purple and red outline Capcom box games.
WATCH! 13 underrated NES games th-cam.com/video/W9nvoRRZ0tY/w-d-xo.html
riggs do a vid on family friendly games that the kids take a liking to
My Favorite’s on the Nes are still 1 Super Mario Bros 2 Duckhunt 3 Popeye and I want to Give “Donkey kong” and “Gunshoe” another try.Have a Nice day😊
@Arcade Kaos from what I see .... black men love white & Asian females boxes more
Mach Rider was a trophy in SSB Melee 😉
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Man, I know this is your opinion, but how super Mario bros not an S?
Well he kinda explains it in the video.. He just doesnt like it as much as he does Donkey Kong. Still very strange tho :D Should 100% be S, since this is just a list of the blackbox games...
Nostalgia goggles. SMB has literally 8 times the amount of levels and has tons more complexity and replay value than Donkey Kong. It's one of the best black box games next to Duck Hunt, which is why they bundled it and made a huge success out of the NES in the US.
@@RobotacularRoBob It's not the amount of content that matters, but the quality of content. People from his (and my generation) get more enjoyment out of score chasing than simply 'getting the ending'. Sure, you can play smb in that way, but it's more enjoyable to do in games of the style like Donkey Kong. I can't say why HE likes it, but I'll say why I can understand DK ranked above SMB. Personally, I'd swap them. I didn't really like Donkey Kong compared to other games of it's type. Mario Bros. would've been S tier too.
but pro wrestling is.... so weird..lol
I agreed with almost every ranking on this video, but ranking SMB anything other then a S pretty much invalidates the entire rankings in my mind.
You're killin' me with that Super Mario Bros. rank!
I also think games like Tennis and Golf deserve a little credit for especially for their time. A lot of those super early Famicom titles have tiny ROM sizes and were made to compete with the cruder second generation consoles of the time. Their graphics and gameplay blew those games out of the water and showed what a generational leap the Famicom was even back then before memory management chips turned what was supposed to be a Donkey Kong machine into a real force to be reckoned with. They're simple but they were fun and got the job done.
I love Wrecking Crew too. It's up there for me with the original Mario Bros. It's such a charming early puzzle game.
Super Mario Bros. was revolutionary and it (along with the NES) saved the video game industry. It fascinated me and millions of others when we were kids. It is above “S-Tier” from a historical and personal standpoint.
I also think it should have been S-Tier!!!!!!!!
Yup Mario 1-4 all incredible
It's a crime to put mario brothers and super mario brothers on the same tier. One is super and the other is not.
SMB is definitely S tier - people bought the console for that game alone. I'm on to you Riggs, tanking SMB to generate comments for the algorithm. Well played.
I honestly unfollowed him due to that.
@@krashvote7947
A perfectly reasonable response
Everybody says that but nobody really believes it because nobody knows off the top of their head what’s past level 2!
I kind of understand him. Of the classic four Mario games, it is the least good. Like great for its time no doubt, but rarely do I go back to it. Mario 2, 3 and World just pack so much more of a unique punch.
Literally the franchise tier
Super Mario Bros. is the best black box game by a mile, it should have its own tier. It is the only black box game that holds up today. Excite Bike is a distant second.
The Man Pro Wrestling is still fun today
Except it shows Mario about to die and a fireball passing through some bricks. Whoever made that cover was clearly not smart. At all.
Ok, I agree that Super Mario Bros belongs in its own tier but Kid Icarus and Metroid belong there with it. Both those games still hold up beautifully today as well.
Wrecking Crew is still incredibly fun.
@@SlayerRunefrost Kid Icarus and Metroid are silver box games
Super Mario Bros no S rank???
Mama Mia!!
What a doofus.
The game of generations not an S tier? Preposterous! lol
Exactly
@@scipio8866 I'm 15 and im like wtf not an S teir but wrestling is🤦♂️
No way in hell is Donkey Kong on NES with only 3 levels better than Super Mario Bros. lol
You know it's an old sports game when the name of the game is literally just the sport.
13:31 love it, nothing to add to that reasoning!
Tennis is underrated. Challenging and crazy fun when you set it to the higher levels. Tennis, Excitebike and Pro Wrestling were the best black box sports games.
Joryo1 agreed, and it had co op play
Tennis is decent. The level 5 player is like playing ping pong, the ball goes so fast!
Excite bike is in the programmable series.
I think Tennis is still a deep game and decent adaptation of the sport
Of all the black box titles Wrecking crew is my favorite. It so blew me (and my roommate) away. Plus you can make your own levels. S tier.
Super Mario as A tier dude? Cmon
Yes there is a great disappoint over this. Donkey Kong has 4 one screen wide levels and the nes gives us 3 of them super Mario has 32 wider levels with tons more variety. Super mario > donkey Kong
It’s his opinion, you have no control over it. If you don’t like it, make your own tier list video.
@@Rountree1985 yea and that was my opinion. if u dont like it buzz offf
@@Rountree1985 except that tier lists by design are meant to be more objective than subjective.
Super Mario Bros. is one of the greatest games of all times. definitely an S. Ive lost all respect for Riggs.😁😁😁
The Black Box art was iconic, much like the silver Konami boxes.
Those Silver Konami boxes almost always held a quality game.
@@EternallyEve yep. Was very smart of them to have that uniform look. Made their games recognizable outside of just a company logo.
even better.
Konami was so bold. They were able to use art from D&D, Predator, Terminator, Norseman for their cover art and nobody cared. Different time I guess.
Ninja Master some one cared. They got sued for atleast one of them. Castlevania II for lifting Ravencroft, I think.
90% of comments are people complaining that John didn't put SMB in S tier. LoL Keep em coming John!
SMB is supposed to run at 60fps, hope you weren't revisiting it at 20fps haha. All that level design in 32KB gets SSS tier for me.
Gyromite is B tier. I have R.O.B. and he will back me up on it.
This is the right way to launch a new video game system... more then half the games above average. Great review as always John.
It's your favorite column-dodging dynamite-grabbing genius professor here. Just dropped by to see how you ranked my beloved Gyromite: the best game on the NES, the original system seller, and the reason the video game market was revived in North America. I'm sure it must be at the top of your list and ...
Sorry man. Maybe he's robophobic....
Not to mention some of the best damn music on the NES!
The Famicom was released in 1983, with Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr and Popeye as the launch titles. Super Mario Bros was released in 1985, right before the NES came out over here in the US of A. So the Black Box series are the Famicom's greatest hits from 1983-1985. All the tried and true, top sellers.
That's why they're so good. They are the cream of the crop of three years worth of Nintendo releases. Many of the top 3rd party releases from that time period eventually made their way over here as well, which is why games like Pac Man, Burger Time, Galaga, 1942, Millipede, etc were getting released in the late 80s.
Golf a D?! You forget yourself sir! That game is the best. As an adult I think I hit like a -20. It’s insane what you can do when you master it.
I remember seeing these game boxes and thinking the art looks so cool. A lot of these games are really great. Love the video
Sorry John, but Golf is at least a B ranking at least. Alot of great memories for that one.
I agree that game was great. My step dad and I played it a ton
Tennis, too
Yeah it is basic, but pretty darn good...
My cousins and I played Golf a lot as kids but truthfully, it isn't all that great of a game. Now NES Open Tournament Golf...that game was amazing! It took the mechanics from the original Golf game and just enhanced everything considerably. I highly recommend that one if you haven't played it! :)
THIS is the comment I was looking for. Thank you.
I wish Nintendo kept doing this. Yeah, the graphics on full display on the cover, they made it look like art!
My favorite cereal was the Legend of Zelda/Mario Cereal. Each side of the box had a different bag of cereal in it. So good!
I've been playing NES since I was a kid in the 80s and only discovered Wrecking Crew a few years ago, love it.
I loved Wrecking Crew as a kid! Absolutely brilliant game for sure.
Two player on DK Jr Math; give it a try with your kids. It’s good.
I love this topic! This was the first subset I ever started collecting and man was I stoked when my local Funcoland got a Stack Up in... I knew it was rare before anyone did seemingly
That's an awesome memory. i have a similar one of getting Donkey Kong Jr. Math. i believe I payed $5.99 for it?! Could you imagine! I also remember they had stacks and stacks and stacks of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt which cost a whopping NINE CENTS!!!
Kinnikuman (aka MUSCLE) and Tag Team were both out in Japan prior to Pro Wrestling.
I rented “Baseball” when I was a kid and LOVED it for some reason. I got it at Goodwill recently and it’s still not bad but I get board with it pretty quickly. I’d rate it at a C as well.
Bored.
"i'm that old"....pfft! I'm Odyssey 2 old...i'm 2nd grade my neighbor had Break-out on Atari VCS old
Bro... Hop on a bicycle man. Learn to ride one. It's good for the soul!
And Super Mario Bros. Is A tier. Can't change my mind there.
Nice Ranking. My favorite Black Box NES games are Urban Champion, Excitebike, and Ice Climber.
excitebike will always rull.
Ouch. Gyromite with D Tier. Its a game where you have to trust your sibling not to crush you with a giant metal pillars.
I have to say, the loudest we ever laughed playing an NES game was when playing gyromite. Super underrated.
Gyromite is certainly better than a D. I’d put it in C
LOL!!! I couldn't agree more with you! That squishing sound effect is one of the funniest ones ever too (I think that Battletoads of all games has a similar sound effect too.)
John, I love how happy you are about every topic, you just seem to have an intense love for old games and shit. Love you in your vids with Jason. You’re just super positive, really fun stuff man.
Just to let you know, when you flash the rating screen after duck hunt, you can see excitebike included the list right before the review starts for excitebike.
Tennis and golf were some of the best tennis and golf games of all time. I don't even like those sports but must've spent hundreds of ours grinding those games with friends.
Who made this crappy baseball game? Uh, Shigeru Miyamoto. LOL. Miyamoto also worked on Golf and Tennis, so it’s clear you hate the guy :) Golf is actually a really fun game and should be much higher. Programmed by Iwata, BTW.
bro chill its his opinion
@@snoopdoggdankkush9285 Bill's comment was actually pretty chill, bro.
We're on different wavelengths on some of these. Urban Champion is a straight F for me lol
It's all good. I still love it (or at least like it)
For me, Its good to see urban champion getting some love
I give Urban Champion a little better rank for being a primitive Fighting Game, I rank it D out of respect, but I can't rank it higher.
I like Urban Champ. It's got a bit of strategy in it. If you just mash buttons, you're gonna lose like any fighting game. It's obviously not the most in depth, but with 2 players, it's really a real time Rock Paper Scissors game which is at the core of every fighting game that's worth play.
cool video
the black boxes had the best aesthetic for sure
You don't have to love SMB to know it is S tier! Just swap SMB with Pro Wrestling and your list is good.
Everyone's talking about Super Mario Bros and Golf, but I need to ask: why the hell is Duck Hunt a C??
That should be an A or S. It's one of the best gun games on nes. So S.
Super Mario Bros and Donkey Kong are the only S tiers
A: Super Mario Bros, Pro Wrestling
B: Balloon Fight, Donkey Kong, DKJR, DK3, Excitebike, Mario Bros, Pinball, Wrecking Crew
C: Baseball, Clu Clu, Duck Hunt, Golf, Gumshoe, Gyromite, Hogans, Ice Climber, Kung Fu, Mach Rider, Popeye, Slalom, Tennis, Wild Gunman
D: Soccer, Volleyball
F: 10 Yard Fight, DKJR Math, Stack Up, Urban Champion
@@thepolacek You've never played Pro Wrestling with another person who's also good at it, then. It's pretty hype as a competitive game and it doesn't require taking turns like SMB. Can't tell you how many times I'd just sit there bored waiting for my turn in two player SMB.
SMB is easily S tier. The game that changed everything
I also have a great Donkey Kong arcade memory. My best friend when I was young had an original DK Cab and Asteroids Cab in his “play room”. They were his step-dad’s but he let us play them all we wanted. I didn’t realize at the time how good I had it. Some day I’ll have one. Some day. Thanks for the great list!
Great list! I think u did a great job ranking them. I'm 41 yrs old ,so I grew up during the nes era. I agree, the clay shooting was way better
One of my favorite games that never gets proper love is Balloon Fight Mode C, Balloon Trip. A rare LEFT scroller. It's challenging enough to avoid the sparks, but when you attempt to collect every balloon with zero misses, it can be incredibly exciting.
I LOVE how the sports games just get a rating while even the game he’s never played gets at least 2 minutes.
Tennis and Golf should be B tier. Both do what they are supposed to do, and represent the sports pretty well. As for SMB thats S tier all the way.
Never knew I could control the duck....but duck hunt needs to be an A minimum, u have to give it credit For it’s significance in history, and it’s superfun
Keep up the good work mang
Cool video idea. Thx for this.👍🏼😁
I think we are in a same age. I want to thank you to bring back games from my childhood. Eventhough I’m not so much into ranking, you put a smile to a old school gamer.
underrated games
SMB an A? You're joking...
Slalom is definitely S tier, the sense of speed, the music, the graphics and you can do tricks off them lil snow mounds...
Duck Hunt is S tier. It is the classic quintessential light gun all on home consoles in the 80s.
man super Mario Bros is one of the greatest games ever
it should be an 's' tier
my brother and i had every one of those games except hogan's alley and the sports ones. my mom really spoiled us, i guess.
while i'm here i'll just give my own mini-ranking. super mario bros. and kung-fu would be S-tier. my brother loved wrecking crew though.
He said that balloon Fight is like Joust for the NES but yet there was a Joust game for the NES by Hal America Games
10-yard fight at the time was awesome. Most sports gamers who played it back then will agree.
Terry Bennett Tecmo Bowl blew it away
The reason 10 yard fight was called that instead of Football was because it was actually a Irem arcade conversion of the game 10 yard fight. I know you know that.
I didn’t know that... thanks!
Probably better to call it that than Football since the rest of the world thinks Soccer = Football... and why confuse people if you don't have to?
This series mostly represents what I loved most about having an NES. Even though graphics and how games were designed would improve this is the time period where you really felt you were having the arcade experience at home. Sure some third party games became my all time favorite, Kunio-Kun/Double Dragon series, Castlevania III, BattleToads, and a few great early arcade ports, but this is Nintendo when it was Nintendo.
i clicked a thumbs up just because of your name
Smash Bros. Melee had a Mach Rider trophy, actually.
Love all the Black Box titles. I have all the carts, just wish I had boxes for all of them (only have ten or eleven of the boxes, unfortunately). Curious, but do you think the three Silver Box titles (Metroid, Kid Icarus, and Rad Racer) should be grouped with the Black Box games?
nice! And I thought about adding the silver box games 'just cuz' but since they're not black box I did. I could do those separate but that'd be a short video.
Rad Racer! Thank you! I've been trying to remember the third one for AGES! I think I always forget because it's Squaresoft instead of Nintendo that made it.
@@MotherKojiro i just got rad racer 2. Curious to see how it plays.
Nice video John! I could nitpick about some of the ratings but overall very solid. :)
Fun fact, at one point my grandpa had what he believed to be the world record for the lowest score in golf when i was like, 1 year old, he stood watch other the console while my mother and grandmother went to get a disposable camera to get a picture of it, don't think they ever confirmed if it was the record or not, but knowing how obsessed my family was with the nes back in the day I'd believe it
You should do silver Konami boxes, and blue Capcom boxes
I thought about it. Maybe eventually.
New to the channel. Good stuff. Subbed for sure!
My personal favorites are Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Duck Hunt, Excitebike, Ice Climber, Hogan's Alley, Kung Fu, Pinball, Pro Wrestling, Super Mario Bros. And Wild Gunman.
Love Wild Gunman and Pinball, always played both at a friend's that owned em.
Pro Wrestling? Hell yeah it deserves to be S tier. It may be an S tier of every NES game, let alone black box. It was a black box that I don't think was ever surpassed on the NES. Probably the only one you can say that about.
If I still play it today, which I do, it sure does.
As a young maybe 7 or 8 year old boy, I remember my Mom taking me to the game store to buy a game (one of the only times she ever went out of her way to do that) and I remember seeing Slalom and really really wanting it. She convinced me to buy Duck Tales instead, and I'm forever grateful that she did this lol. To this day, I have yet to try Slalom!
I think DK Jr is way more fun than DK.
Me too especially when comparing the NES versions.
I prefer DK JR for being able to climb vines.
The pro wrestling game was awesome. I loved playing that
Dude love the channel but really the Zapper games should have been captured with CRT footage and using the Zapper. It just comes off Lazy not doing so... otherwise man I really appreciate all the work you put in making these videos for our entertainment.
Thank you!
You should to a ranking of your ranking videos
How's it going Mr. Riggs? I just wanted to let you know that I'm sooo extremely stoked that I stumbled across your channel somehow. I've been binging on your "I Ranked" series... At work when I have downtime, at home enjoying a brewsky after a long day. I'm 42 and share an astounding amount of nostalgia right there with ya! I subscribed just like you suggested and Really Happy that I did!! Just remember: All of the hard work you're doing is probably helping Many peeps while they're working hard!
You gotta do a video for non-black box games made by Nintendo!
I can remember thinking that most of those games were old hat back in the 80's. Once I played Castlevania, Contra, Mega Man or Metroid or zelda, a lot of those non scrolling games were just too primitive. Of course now I really dig the simplicity and style of a lot of those black box games. Fun Hobby.
That's really interesting. I wouldn't know since I grew up playing the PS1 but I have a similar situation in that I was mostly into the games made after the DualShock with vibration and the analog sticks (with exceptions of course). Games made before the DS I usually skipped.
The black box games give nostalgia levels of infinity.
You know, I never played Ice Climber until NES Remix on the Wii U, but I'd put it at a solid B. I think it holds up well for a post Donkey Kong, Pre-SMB platformer.
Nice video
👍👍
I used to pretend it was UFO's instead of discs and I was saving the world
This is a great list-vid! Great format for you, buddy...
(SMB is S tier, though...)
Tenis needs some patience to get into its Game Play mechanics. Once I did it I found it to be pretty good. It would be a B for me.
Golf is Definitely NOT a D tier. At least a B
LOVED Balloon Fight when I was little, still love it today..
It's one of the few games that old I regularly go back to.
I’ve been collecting the black box games lately. Only missing DK Jr. Math and Stack Up.
I love Nintendo Golf, I play it on my PocketGo 2 at work.
I love Balloon Fight, Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, Wrecking Crew... they are my favorite, but i love all of the black boxes games.
Excitebike, Hogan's Alley, Duck Hunt, and Super Mario Bros. are my favorites out of the bunch. I'm especially find of Excitebike and Hogan's Alley because of the wild-colored environments that they have. I'm not a big pinball fan in general, but Pinball has a lot of neat secrets hidden in it, like that weird area with Mario and Pauline and what looks like a telephone keypad. I also like Urban Champion for just how absurd the concept is.
Hay, Bro. I love your ranking videos. I watch them over and over again. Your Not wrong putting Pro Wrestling at S-Tier. I think it's the best Wrestling game on the NES. Also, wasn't Metroid a black box game? I remember it being one, but I could be wrong.
No. Silver box and came out later (1987).
Gyromite way down at D? (Has ROB throw monitor out the window)
...yeah it's still on my desk
SMB is probably the most iconic game of all time next to like, Pac-Mac. There is no way it's not an S tier or on a tier of its own.
You mean to tell me that when I played this as a kid the other person could control the ducks in duck hunt? I had no idea! Man that would’ve been so cool.
Donkey Kong over Super Mario Bros? YIKES!! Mario made Nintendo..Shame on you Riggs :D
haha, maybe.
He was ranking them based on his enjoyment, not on their historical relevance. :) It's like the band Rush. I appreciate the musicality and talent that band puts into their songs, but for me? I'd rather listen to Black Sabbath.
Mario was in Donkey Kong silly 🙄
Lol! Love the explanation of Golf at 6:26. :)
Mario golf was a great game
YES!!! I thought he made a mistake? Still a fun game and holds up well
I thought the same thing
That game was too hard. You had to choose your clubs and guess the distance at all times. Nes open was the best mario golf by far.
Mario golf is awesome. Urban champ is F for sure 😄
I dig Golf and just like real golf, one messed up shot pretty much ruins your day! lol I think it's only drawback is it's aiming is a tad too course, so it requires a lot of reliance on hook and slice to get the ball where you want it. That's really my only gripe, but at the same time, it does make for a more interesting play through.
My favorite "Black Box" games for the Nintendo NES are Super Mario Bros., Pinball, Hogan's Alley, Kung Fu, Excitebike, Golf, and Slalom, as well as the "Sliver box" games Metroid, Kid Icarus and Rad Racer.
It was iconic, much like the Konami sliver box games and the blue and later purple and red outline Capcom box games.
I was thinking about looking for a few more of these. I've got Mario Bros. and Excitebike. Thank you for this video as always.
"We have Golf...uh D-tier..." That's all. Lol. I did quite enjoy that game, love the review tho...
I was already mad at you after your contra score. Let’s see how this goes
A teir mario🥱
Not an S🤦♂️