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
Basically everything used to get a cartoon if it was a movie that got even a little bit of traction with kids.
Do yourself a favor and go look up the M.C. Hammer song/MV that was made for this movie.
See a dragon, strike a dragon.
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.
Weird. Weird and fast.
Noteworthy, as most pools aren't radiant at all.
A great game that also has Thunder Mountain. Why, Thunder Mountain. You pox. You stain.
Original sin.
This island is severely lacking in interpersonal relationship skills.
A slow game? With no continues? Bennet Foddy gets his first taste of masocore.
This game is so hard and also based on the hit TV series.
Better than the film.
The dream of every child.
Franco-Belgian comics: not the first time you will see one on this list.
The game based on the cartoon based on the movie.
It's only a matter of time before some Rick & Morty fan reskins this.
The good movie and the bad movie combine to create a passable game.
I had this game when I was little and it is just so, so weird. See you in hell re: the jukebox level.
The game that came after the reigning champion of Batman games.
A little Konami smack 'em up, as a treat.
The reigning champion of Batman games.
The greatest game of raw tactical prowess ever invented.
Rae really looked at Beetlejuice and went "Yeah. Top-down sounds good."
I hate this band so much.
Based on the film, totally counts. Enjoy wondering why the NES and Sega CD version are split off from the other consoles.
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.
These people do not seem like they are here to help Bugs Bunny celebrate.
This fortress is positively unhinged.
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.
Duke Nukem's side gig.
Manga origins once again emerging from the woodworks to hurt completionists.
In a shocking twist, Casino Kid II, like its predecessor, is also based on a manga.
Apparently they thought a naked child was better than the Japanese media property this was originally based on.
Classic. None of that godforsaken Neo-Concentration.
I was alive when this movie came out and I still have no idea what it's about.
Sure, let's make this super horny movie into a game for kids.
Fighter of the Lightman.
Tom Cruise before he had his teeth fixed.
This got an animated pilot and six comic issues, and now it's here.
Unlike the movie, does not star Madonna.
For this Die Hard, nine lives may not be enough.
Real pity about Clint Eastwood, isn't it?
Aladdin, but with half the bits.
PAL mysteries. Who knows what it's like? Maybe it;s great.
Love is throwing your cousin into the void.
Powerful evidence that Capcom sought to lower the birth rate in Japan by tearing families apart.
Mega Dark Man Duck.
You will learn the awkward pogo input, and you will love it.
It's Ducktales, but slightly more complicated and much less played.
Never let them gaslight you: Star Fox 64 ripped the flippy maneuver off from this game.
All the frustration, half the graphics.
The moral of the story is that you should never let your daughter date.
You will never, ever get the final flag in the physical challenge.
That's Goku. On the cover. Goku-san himself.
An incredible way to lose faith in a random assortment of 100 people from a mall.
Imagine your first exposure to Felix the Cat being the unbelievably explicit bootleg XXX porn movie. Anyway, great game.
You're going to have dreams about the respawning enemies.
Are you rescuing them from the firehouse, or on the firehouse's behalf?
When you find the perfect pair of jeans and just buy five of them on the spot.
You'll have to put your own reference in here, I've never seen the show.
This one was a novel, believe it or not.
No need to dig deeper for sleeper hits, you've hit... bedrock.
It's a 1994 NES platformer, which means it's either an absolute banger or utter dreck.
Disney fans: out. This one is not for you.
I was so scared of mother as a kid.
Based on the Outrageous, Unpredictable and Fun-Filled TV Game Show!
When I was little I loved the scene where the toaster danced.
It is a heartless world that gives us Battletoads vs Double Dragon, but not G.I. Joe vs Contra.
G.I. Joe x Atlantis = <3
Imagine getting this after playing the first game only to find out it's a turn-based strategy game.
Look how big those sprites are. Now fly over everything as Mothra.
The not-so-good Golgo 13 game.
You probably already know The Goonies stayed trapped on Famicom.
For when you need to contemplate the void.
The best game about a movie I genuinely despise.
No, this does not count as a celebrity-endorsed sports game.
Turns out this was a real life pinball table.
All Hollywood Squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are Hollywood Squares.
There are no words to describe the absolute zeitgeist that formed around this child's shocked face.
The one where Piers Morgan definitely doesn't crossdress.
You're not going to believe how buggy this game is.
It's a good day to Hudson Hawk.
Russo-Scottish espionage.
Why would you make them sentient?
Nobody buys Sean Connery as Harrison Ford's dad.
Can you believe the kid who played shortstop would go on to become the emotional core of Everything, Everywhere All at Once?
Oh. Oh no. Why is that the cover.
He apologizes for his father's behavior and is dedicated to social justice.
You would expect this to have all the thrills and chills of hunting a giant shark, wouldn't you?
The game show that brings its own punctuation.
Jeopardy, but distinguished by the passage of aesthetically pleasing portions of time.
Judge your child.
Taito showing up to make sure you grandpa's favorite cartoon gets some respect.
Don't let the gaslight you, this is a Terminator game where the rights fell through at the last second.
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.
You can rebrand your Japanese movie tie-ins all you want, I'll find every one.
The chopstick minigame still rules.
You can't hide from me, Mickey Mouse.