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