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