You'll Cowards Don't Even Play Licensed NES Games
But you should. And no, we're not counting celebrity-endorsed and/or league-licensed sports games. Only NA/PAL releases.
If I missed anything, or if I very understandably somehow ended up with the wrong version of the multiple entries virtually every game on this list has, drop me a message/comment.
Currently missing Fisher Price: I Can Remember and Super Jeopardy. IGDB issues.
If I missed anything, or if I very understandably somehow ended up with the wrong version of the multiple entries virtually every game on this list has, drop me a message/comment.
Currently missing Fisher Price: I Can Remember and Super Jeopardy. IGDB issues.
192 Games
You will learn the awkward pogo input, and you will love it.
I don't want to hear any crying about the dam level, it's not that bad once you figure it out.
The reigning champion of Batman games.
The game that taught me what a downport and, consequently, disappointment was.
Love is throwing your cousin into the void.
Maybe the best first level ever.
The Ninja Gaiden of Looney Tunes.
Often forgotten, as the youngest child so often is.
Mega Dark Man Duck.
It's Ducktales, but slightly more complicated and much less played.
Better than the film.
Captain America and Hawkeye go and do their own thing in an adventure of reasonable power levels.
Imagine your first exposure to Felix the Cat being the unbelievably explicit bootleg XXX porn movie. Anyway, great game.
I was so scared of mother as a kid.
Don't let the gaslight you, this is a Terminator game where the rights fell through at the last second.
Powerful evidence that Capcom sought to lower the birth rate in Japan by tearing families apart.
You will get on/in the animal, and you will like it.
There are no words to describe the absolute zeitgeist that formed around this child's shocked face.
Hello, rage.
Just what everyone wanted: a slow puzzle platformer starring the wackiest Simpsons character.
This was supposed to be a Bond game and there's nothing you can do to stop me from including it.
The one where you have to shoot the knees.
The game that came after the reigning champion of Batman games.
Music good so hard AVGN.
They didn't even have to edit the racism out.
This fortress is positively unhinged.
Oh, hey, we're still versusing things? So violent.
You're going to have dreams about the respawning enemies.
Not fondly remembered, and that;s because history is unjust.
The moral of the story is that you should never let your daughter date.
Shoot, you animal. Shoot every tile of every screen. Find those secrets.
Franco-Belgian comics: not the first time you will see one on this list.
Arguably the better version.
You would expect this to have all the thrills and chills of hunting a giant shark, wouldn't you?
It's only a matter of time before some Rick & Morty fan reskins this.
Never let them gaslight you: Star Fox 64 ripped the flippy maneuver off from this game.
Is it really a licensed game if you own the license but let someone else develop it for you? What if you develop it internally? What if I've had too much whiskey to care?
Look how big those sprites are. Now fly over everything as Mothra.
Terrible fact: this mascot got cancelled because a guy that shared a name with him killed himself over it.
Hey look, it's indie gem Star Wars.
You probably already know The Goonies stayed trapped on Famicom.
Look at that little man on the cover. Look at his stride.
The one where Piers Morgan definitely doesn't crossdress.
May you never be haunted by the theme song. Looping. Forever.
Original sin.
A metaphor for LJN's relentless license hunger.
The chopstick minigame still rules.
There are people out there who will tear you down, tell you Ocean could never make a good game, that they were a license shovelware factory. They are demons, and they have no respect for this walk cycle.
No need to dig deeper for sleeper hits, you've hit... bedrock.
These people do not seem like they are here to help Bugs Bunny celebrate.
The best game to both not have and desperately need a save system.
Oh. Oh no. Why is that the cover.
Please, let Officer Murphy rest.
He's not where fun is, I can tell you that much.
Apex game, shun the doubters.
A great game that also has Thunder Mountain. Why, Thunder Mountain. You pox. You stain.
You can play as Hamton in this one, and therefore it is notably worse.
For when you need to contemplate the void.
You can rebrand your Japanese movie tie-ins all you want, I'll find every one.
This game with a figure, absolute peak.
You are required to watch the terrible CGI morphing scene from the movie before playing this game.
I really don't know why they keep looking at these properties and not just making a 6/10 platformer with them.
A little Konami smack 'em up, as a treat.
It is so unbelievably obnoxious to try and find the right version of a game from a popular movie. I am begging for systems in search results.
Which Doctor incarnation do you think she is?
The dream of every child.
It's a 1994 NES platformer, which means it's either an absolute banger or utter dreck.
Then again, it doesn't feel like Ocean is really understanding the vicious satire that the original Robocop movie was, does it?
Can you believe the kid who played shortstop would go on to become the emotional core of Everything, Everywhere All at Once?
Go. Go watch this movie. Now play the game. Consider the dissonance and the destructive nature of success within capitalist systems.
Do yourself a favor and go look up the M.C. Hammer song/MV that was made for this movie.
Belgian comic book enjoyers rejoice: I see you.
I bet this lifestyle-branded game is going to be tight.
In GamePro this was reviewed by Data Carvey.
You won't really feel like Wolverine, but do not let the haters tell you this is a bad game.
The good movie and the bad movie combine to create a passable game.
The best game about a movie I genuinely despise.
I had this game when I was little and it is just so, so weird. See you in hell re: the jukebox level.
Th good sequel. Not to be confused with the bad one.
He apologizes for his father's behavior and is dedicated to social justice.
Why would you make them sentient?
A slow game? With no continues? Bennet Foddy gets his first taste of masocore.
Noteworthy, as most pools aren't radiant at all.
This game shows up twice in the database, and the other one has all the logs, but this one has the right box art so here we are.
Rae really looked at Beetlejuice and went "Yeah. Top-down sounds good."
It is a heartless world that gives us Battletoads vs Double Dragon, but not G.I. Joe vs Contra.
Othello, but just... so slow, and different.
I find it suspicious that the bee on the cover knows to grab the "B". What's really going on here?
When I was little I loved the scene where the toaster danced.
The not-so-good Golgo 13 game.
Basically everything used to get a cartoon if it was a movie that got even a little bit of traction with kids.
At least he's not vs Radioactive Man. Which, presumably, would not go well.
You're going to hate the oyster cracker minigame.
I hate this band so much.
That dog is a real piece.
No way this will ever be easily edited for laughs in the future.
Suddenly: saxophone.
I don't know if this one is as hard as the first because my therapist told me it was high-risk media for me.
Do you think there are any women with more than the usual number of secondary sexual characteristics, or do you think this is a game where people who are jerks punch you through a fence?
Unlike the movie, does not star Madonna.
