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
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.
Russo-Scottish espionage.
Othello, but just... so slow, and different.
Yeah, this seems like a perfectly reasonable movie to turn into a video game.
Hey look, it's indie gem Star Wars.
Based on the film, totally counts. Enjoy wondering why the NES and Sega CD version are split off from the other consoles.
Weird. Weird and fast.
Not really sure they needed a second one, Luke and Leia really killed it round one.
You will never, ever get the final flag in the physical challenge.
In Japan this was based on a child actor and his... impression of a baseball player?
Troma. TROMA. T R O M A.
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.
At long last: a jock captain.
He apologizes for his father's behavior and is dedicated to social justice.
Shoot, you animal. Shoot every tile of every screen. Find those secrets.
This game has my least favorite Muppet: Grover. 0/5.
Do yourself a favor and go look up the M.C. Hammer song/MV that was made for this movie.
You would expect this to have all the thrills and chills of hunting a giant shark, wouldn't you?
Why would you make them sentient?
Music good so hard AVGN.
There's nothing in the rules that says a dog can't have a silly sports spectacular.
Hello, rage.
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.
The only casino game that will let you use the bathroom.
It's a good day to Hudson Hawk.
Hiding and speaking is just pretending to be a ghost to scare your sister.
Original sin.
Challenge your children. Destroy them.
Golden Age. All-American. Helmet.
Too bad this isn't a list of PC games or I could put the good version in here.
I was so scared of mother as a kid.
Real pity about Clint Eastwood, isn't it?
Go. Go watch this movie. Now play the game. Consider the dissonance and the destructive nature of success within capitalist systems.
You're going to have dreams about the respawning enemies.
Buy the game CIB, put the box on your nightstand, live life complete.
At least he's not vs Radioactive Man. Which, presumably, would not go well.
No, this does not count as a celebrity-endorsed sports game.
Maybe the best first level ever.
Oh, Ernie. They did you dirty.
I bet this lifestyle-branded game is going to be tight.
Apex game, shun the doubters.
All the frustration, half the graphics.
You won't really feel like Wolverine, but do not let the haters tell you this is a bad game.
Who keeps making games out of rated R movies for kids?
I had this game when I was little and it is just so, so weird. See you in hell re: the jukebox level.
Sure, let's make this super horny movie into a game for kids.
Are you rescuing them from the firehouse, or on the firehouse's behalf?
Apparently they thought a naked child was better than the Japanese media property this was originally based on.
The dream of every child.
Imagine getting this after playing the first game only to find out it's a turn-based strategy game.
Oh, hey, we're still versusing things? So violent.
The one where you have to shoot the knees.
I was alive when this movie came out and I still have no idea what it's about.
Fighter of the Lightman.
There are no words to describe the absolute zeitgeist that formed around this child's shocked face.
When I was little I loved the scene where the toaster danced.
Tom Cruise before he had his teeth fixed.
I find it suspicious that the bee on the cover knows to grab the "B". What's really going on here?
You're going to hate the oyster cracker minigame.
You'll have to put your own reference in here, I've never seen the show.
This got an animated pilot and six comic issues, and now it's here.
PAL mysteries. Who knows what it's like? Maybe it;s great.
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?
The one where Piers Morgan definitely doesn't crossdress.
Rae really looked at Beetlejuice and went "Yeah. Top-down sounds good."
This game is so hard and also based on the hit TV series.
That's Goku. On the cover. Goku-san himself.
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.
Alan Moore, shaking and crying.
The game based on the cartoon based on the movie.
The chopstick minigame still rules.
Mickey Mouse goes to Numberland to round up some extra numbers for book-cooking shenanigans.
This island is severely lacking in interpersonal relationship skills.
Arnold must have the record for the real person on the most NES covers.
Superman theme, but on kazoo.
Duke Nukem's side gig.
It's only a matter of time before some Rick & Morty fan reskins this.
Terrible, just terrible, you should absolutely play it.
In GamePro this was reviewed by Data Carvey.
For when you need to contemplate the void.
He's not where fun is, I can tell you that much.
The good movie and the bad movie combine to create a passable game.
Your great-grandfather's favorite newspaper strip.
When you find the perfect pair of jeans and just buy five of them on the spot.
A game about a guy who is a guy in a movie.
Not the one where you have to shoot the knees.
Disney fans: out. This one is not for you.
Blame John K for this cursed series of games.
A slow game? With no continues? Bennet Foddy gets his first taste of masocore.
I really don't know why they keep looking at these properties and not just making a 6/10 platformer with them.
Trivia for the radical generation.
