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
All the frustration, half the graphics.
Mickey Mouse goes to Numberland to round up some extra numbers for book-cooking shenanigans.
Aladdin, but with half the bits.
May you never be haunted by the theme song. Looping. Forever.
It's a 1994 NES platformer, which means it's either an absolute banger or utter dreck.
PAL mysteries. Who knows what it's like? Maybe it;s great.
Arguably the better version.
Franco-Belgian comics: not the first time you will see one on this list.
Based on the film, totally counts. Enjoy wondering why the NES and Sega CD version are split off from the other consoles.
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.
Powerful evidence that Capcom sought to lower the birth rate in Japan by tearing families apart.
Blame John K for this cursed series of games.
A game about a guy who is a guy in a movie.
At long last: a jock captain.
The greatest game of raw tactical prowess ever invented.
A slow game? With no continues? Bennet Foddy gets his first taste of masocore.
Taito showing up to make sure you grandpa's favorite cartoon gets some respect.
In a shocking twist, Casino Kid II, like its predecessor, is also based on a manga.
It's Ducktales, but slightly more complicated and much less played.
I find it suspicious that the bee on the cover knows to grab the "B". What's really going on here?
You can't hide from me, Mickey Mouse.
This man, this comic book.
In GamePro this was reviewed by Data Carvey.
A little Konami smack 'em up, as a treat.
Sure, let's make this super horny movie into a game for kids.
You're not going to believe how buggy this game is.
He apologizes for his father's behavior and is dedicated to social justice.
Basically everything used to get a cartoon if it was a movie that got even a little bit of traction with kids.
Not the one where you have to shoot the knees.
Shin Megami Tensei prequel.
Your great-grandfather's favorite newspaper strip.
For when you need to contemplate the void.
At least he's not vs Radioactive Man. Which, presumably, would not go well.
In the distant past, all pulp icons get to have a tiny version.
You can play as Hamton in this one, and therefore it is notably worse.
Alan Moore, shaking and crying.
Why would you make them sentient?
Imagine your first exposure to Felix the Cat being the unbelievably explicit bootleg XXX porn movie. Anyway, great game.
The one where Piers Morgan definitely doesn't crossdress.
This got an animated pilot and six comic issues, and now it's here.
Please, let Officer Murphy rest.
See a dragon, strike a dragon.
Just what everyone wanted: a slow puzzle platformer starring the wackiest Simpsons character.
The one where you have to shoot the knees.
Mega Dark Man Duck.
Man who is too old for this is on system he is too young for. Fate is cruel.
Given previous experience, I am now concerned that this lifestyle-branded experience may not, in fact, be tight at all.
Troma. TROMA. T R O M A.
G.I. Joe x Atlantis = <3
Oh, Ernie. They did you dirty.
Not really sure they needed a second one, Luke and Leia really killed it round one.
Better than the film.
Imagine getting this after playing the first game only to find out it's a turn-based strategy game.
The best game to both not have and desperately need a save system.
This game with a figure, absolute peak.
Too bad this isn't a list of PC games or I could put the good version in here.
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.
Do yourself a favor and go look up the M.C. Hammer song/MV that was made for this movie.
The game based on the cartoon based on the movie.
The only casino game that will let you use the bathroom.
Captain America and Hawkeye go and do their own thing in an adventure of reasonable power levels.
Fighter of the Lightman.
It's a good day to Hudson Hawk.
Nobody buys Sean Connery as Harrison Ford's dad.
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?
The Waterworld video game had an incredible soundtrack, you know.
I hate this band so much.
Maybe the best first level ever.
That dog is a real piece.
The game that came after the reigning champion of Batman games.
Often forgotten, as the youngest child so often is.
Never let them gaslight you: Star Fox 64 ripped the flippy maneuver off from this game.
There are no words to describe the absolute zeitgeist that formed around this child's shocked face.
I had this game when I was little and it is just so, so weird. See you in hell re: the jukebox level.
No need to dig deeper for sleeper hits, you've hit... bedrock.
Oh, hey, we're still versusing things? So violent.
The Ninja Gaiden of Looney Tunes.
They didn't even have to edit the racism out.
Hey look, it's indie gem Star Wars.
The dream of every child.
You won't really feel like Wolverine, but do not let the haters tell you this is a bad game.
Duke Nukem's side gig.
He's not where fun is, I can tell you that much.
Oh boy, problematic hidden gems.
The moral of the story is that you should never let your daughter date.
Turns out this was a real life pinball table.
Golden Age. All-American. Helmet.
Rae really looked at Beetlejuice and went "Yeah. Top-down sounds good."
An incredible way to lose faith in a random assortment of 100 people from a mall.
Disney fans: out. This one is not for you.
It is a heartless world that gives us Battletoads vs Double Dragon, but not G.I. Joe vs Contra.
Who keeps making games out of rated R movies for kids?
Tom Cruise before he had his teeth fixed.
Real pity about Clint Eastwood, isn't it?
This one was a novel, believe it or not.
The best game about a movie I genuinely despise.
No, this does not count as a celebrity-endorsed sports game.
Oh. Oh no. Why is that the cover.
Then again, it doesn't feel like Ocean is really understanding the vicious satire that the original Robocop movie was, does it?