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
In Japan this was based on a child actor and his... impression of a baseball player?
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.
Just what everyone wanted: a slow puzzle platformer starring the wackiest Simpsons character.
A game about a guy who is a guy in a movie.
Your great-grandfather's favorite newspaper strip.
Man who is too old for this is on system he is too young for. Fate is cruel.
You will get on/in the animal, and you will like it.
Oh boy, problematic hidden gems.
Buy the game CIB, put the box on your nightstand, live life complete.
The good Golgo 13 game.
The best game to both not have and desperately need a save system.
Shoot, you animal. Shoot every tile of every screen. Find those secrets.
Mickey Mouse goes to Numberland to round up some extra numbers for book-cooking shenanigans.
I find it suspicious that the bee on the cover knows to grab the "B". What's really going on here?
It's no Impossible Mission, but it'll do.
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?
This game with a figure, absolute peak.
Terrible, just terrible, you should absolutely play it.
Th good sequel. Not to be confused with the bad one.
A metaphor for LJN's relentless license hunger.
They just wont stop reskinning Japanese properties, and this list won't stop growing.
Belgian comic book enjoyers rejoice: I see you.
The deep state will tell you this is not based off the Japanese film Mr. Vampire. They are lying to you. Stand strong.
It's another real life table, the sequel to which is, for some reason, a little horny.
Yeah, this seems like a perfectly reasonable movie to turn into a video game.
Look at that little man on the cover. Look at his stride.
Arnold must have the record for the real person on the most NES covers.
Suddenly: saxophone.
Go. Go watch this movie. Now play the game. Consider the dissonance and the destructive nature of success within capitalist systems.
Trivia for the radical generation.
Blame John K for this cursed series of games.
The Waterworld video game had an incredible soundtrack, you know.
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.
Then again, it doesn't feel like Ocean is really understanding the vicious satire that the original Robocop movie was, does it?
Please, let Officer Murphy rest.
Golden Age. All-American. Helmet.
Bet you didn't know this was a TV show.
The boys can have Sailor Moon, as a treat.
This game has my least favorite Muppet: Grover. 0/5.
Ernie, currently 3/3 for cover appearances. Hopefully he is on the cover of Sesame Street: Countdown as well.
Hiding and speaking is just pretending to be a ghost to scare your sister.
Oh, Ernie. They did you dirty.
Music good so hard AVGN.
At least he's not vs Radioactive Man. Which, presumably, would not go well.
Maybe the best first level ever.
Oh, hey, we're still versusing things? So violent.
May you never be haunted by the theme song. Looping. Forever.
There's nothing in the rules that says a dog can't have a silly sports spectacular.
Othello, but just... so slow, and different.
This was supposed to be a Bond game and there's nothing you can do to stop me from including it.
Not fondly remembered, and that;s because history is unjust.
Too bad this isn't a list of PC games or I could put the good version in here.
At long last: a jock captain.
Hey look, it's indie gem Star Wars.
Not really sure they needed a second one, Luke and Leia really killed it round one.
Superman theme, but on kazoo.
Alan Moore, shaking and crying.
Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere. That's what it stands for.
I don't want to hear any crying about the dam level, it's not that bad once you figure it out.
Often forgotten, as the youngest child so often is.
The game that taught me what a downport and, consequently, disappointment was.
Arguably the better version.
The one where you have to shoot the knees.
Not the one where you have to shoot the knees.
You're going to hate the oyster cracker minigame.
The Ninja Gaiden of Looney Tunes.
You can play as Hamton in this one, and therefore it is notably worse.
They didn't even have to edit the racism out.
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.
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?
Given previous experience, I am now concerned that this lifestyle-branded experience may not, in fact, be tight at all.
I bet this lifestyle-branded game is going to be tight.
Troma. TROMA. T R O M A.
I really don't know why they keep looking at these properties and not just making a 6/10 platformer with them.
Who keeps making games out of rated R movies for kids?
That dog is a real piece.
In GamePro this was reviewed by Data Carvey.
No way this will ever be easily edited for laughs in the future.
Wheel of Fortune, but now it;s a threat.
Was... was that not Vanna before?
Challenge your children. Destroy them.
Which Doctor incarnation do you think she is?
He's not where fun is, I can tell you that much.
Apex game, shun the doubters.
Shin Megami Tensei prequel.
You are required to watch the terrible CGI morphing scene from the movie before playing this game.
Did you know Burt Reynolds, sex icon, is credited as a creator of this long-running game show?
You won't really feel like Wolverine, but do not let the haters tell you this is a bad game.
Terrible fact: this mascot got cancelled because a guy that shared a name with him killed himself over it.
In the distant past, all pulp icons get to have a tiny version.
This man, this comic book.