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
Trivia for the radical generation.
Your great-grandfather's favorite newspaper strip.
This one was a novel, believe it or not.
In a shocking twist, Casino Kid II, like its predecessor, is also based on a manga.
No, this does not count as a celebrity-endorsed sports game.
All Hollywood Squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are Hollywood Squares.
Who keeps making games out of rated R movies for kids?
This got an animated pilot and six comic issues, and now it's here.
Based on the Outrageous, Unpredictable and Fun-Filled TV Game Show!
Too bad this isn't a list of PC games or I could put the good version in here.
You're not going to believe how buggy this game is.
Was... was that not Vanna before?
Disney fans: out. This one is not for you.
When you find the perfect pair of jeans and just buy five of them on the spot.
Challenge your children. Destroy them.
Aladdin, but with half the bits.
Turns out this was a real life pinball table.
Did you know Burt Reynolds, sex icon, is credited as a creator of this long-running game show?
Classic. None of that godforsaken Neo-Concentration.
Shin Megami Tensei prequel.
Are you rescuing them from the firehouse, or on the firehouse's behalf?
The deep state will tell you this is not based off the Japanese film Mr. Vampire. They are lying to you. Stand strong.
In the distant past, all pulp icons get to have a tiny version.
All the frustration, half the graphics.
Blame John K for this cursed series of games.
Judge your child.
The greatest game of raw tactical prowess ever invented.
Real pity about Clint Eastwood, isn't it?
Oh boy, problematic hidden gems.
Given previous experience, I am now concerned that this lifestyle-branded experience may not, in fact, be tight at all.
Alan Moore, shaking and crying.
See a dragon, strike a dragon.
Manga origins once again emerging from the woodworks to hurt completionists.
Wheel of Fortune, but now it;s a threat.
Ernie, currently 3/3 for cover appearances. Hopefully he is on the cover of Sesame Street: Countdown as well.
The only casino game that will let you use the bathroom.
Jeopardy, but distinguished by the passage of aesthetically pleasing portions of time.
Terrible, just terrible, you should absolutely play it.
Hiding and speaking is just pretending to be a ghost to scare your sister.
The good Golgo 13 game.
Russo-Scottish espionage.
Mickey Mouse goes to Numberland to round up some extra numbers for book-cooking shenanigans.
At long last: a jock captain.
It's a good day to Hudson Hawk.
This island is severely lacking in interpersonal relationship skills.
You will never, ever get the final flag in the physical challenge.
Oh, Ernie. They did you dirty.
Troma. TROMA. T R O M A.
Weird. Weird and fast.
Man who is too old for this is on system he is too young for. Fate is cruel.
This game is so hard and also based on the hit TV series.
An incredible way to lose faith in a random assortment of 100 people from a mall.
Apparently they thought a naked child was better than the Japanese media property this was originally based on.
Tom Cruise before he had his teeth fixed.
It says it right there on the front: you drive the hit TV series. David Hasseloff is done for. Over. He is dead to you.
Bet you didn't know this was a TV show.
It's no Impossible Mission, but it'll do.
The boys can have Sailor Moon, as a treat.
You can't hide from me, Mickey Mouse.
They just wont stop reskinning Japanese properties, and this list won't stop growing.
Taito showing up to make sure you grandpa's favorite cartoon gets some respect.
If you saw the note for DragonStrike: be wary. This one is set int he Dragonlance universe. Some of these dragons are good, and do not deserve striking.
You'll have to put your own reference in here, I've never seen the show.
There's nothing in the rules that says a dog can't have a silly sports spectacular.
A game about a guy who is a guy in a movie.
Buy the game CIB, put the box on your nightstand, live life complete.
Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere. That's what it stands for.
Duke Nukem's side gig.
This game has my least favorite Muppet: Grover. 0/5.
Golden Age. All-American. Helmet.
Sure, let's make this super horny movie into a game for kids.
Imagine getting this after playing the first game only to find out it's a turn-based strategy game.
Nobody buys Sean Connery as Harrison Ford's dad.
It's another real life table, the sequel to which is, for some reason, a little horny.
Fighter of the Lightman.
That's Goku. On the cover. Goku-san himself.
In Japan this was based on a child actor and his... impression of a baseball player?
The Waterworld video game had an incredible soundtrack, you know.
The game based on the cartoon based on the movie.
The game show that brings its own punctuation.
Not really sure they needed a second one, Luke and Leia really killed it round one.
PAL mysteries. Who knows what it's like? Maybe it;s great.
Yeah, this seems like a perfectly reasonable movie to turn into a video game.
I was alive when this movie came out and I still have no idea what it's about.
G.I. Joe x Atlantis = <3
Arnold must have the record for the real person on the most NES covers.
Not the one where you have to shoot the knees.
Based on the film, totally counts. Enjoy wondering why the NES and Sega CD version are split off from the other consoles.
For this Die Hard, nine lives may not be enough.
This man, this comic book.
Superman theme, but on kazoo.
Unlike the movie, does not star Madonna.
Suddenly: saxophone.
No way this will ever be easily edited for laughs in the future.
I hate this band so much.
You're going to hate the oyster cracker minigame.
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?
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.
When I was little I loved the scene where the toaster danced.
