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
You will learn the awkward pogo input, and you will love it.
The game that taught me what a downport and, consequently, disappointment was.
The reigning champion of Batman games.
I don't want to hear any crying about the dam level, it's not that bad once you figure it out.
Love is throwing your cousin into the void.
Maybe the best first level ever.
Often forgotten, as the youngest child so often is.
It's Ducktales, but slightly more complicated and much less played.
There are no words to describe the absolute zeitgeist that formed around this child's shocked face.
Don't let the gaslight you, this is a Terminator game where the rights fell through at the last second.
I was so scared of mother as a kid.
Powerful evidence that Capcom sought to lower the birth rate in Japan by tearing families apart.
The game that came after the reigning champion of Batman games.
Just what everyone wanted: a slow puzzle platformer starring the wackiest Simpsons character.
Mega Dark Man Duck.
These people do not seem like they are here to help Bugs Bunny celebrate.
The best game to both not have and desperately need a save system.
The one where Piers Morgan definitely doesn't crossdress.
Franco-Belgian comics: not the first time you will see one on this list.
You're going to have dreams about the respawning enemies.
You will get on/in the animal, and you will like it.
Terrible, just terrible, you should absolutely play it.
They didn't even have to edit the racism out.
This game with a figure, absolute peak.
A slow game? With no continues? Bennet Foddy gets his first taste of masocore.
Basically everything used to get a cartoon if it was a movie that got even a little bit of traction with kids.
The chopstick minigame still rules.
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.
The Ninja Gaiden of Looney Tunes.
I had this game when I was little and it is just so, so weird. See you in hell re: the jukebox level.
All Hollywood Squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are Hollywood Squares.
That's Goku. On the cover. Goku-san himself.
Noteworthy, as most pools aren't radiant at all.
Aladdin, but with half the bits.
Trivia for the radical generation.
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.
Jeopardy, but distinguished by the passage of aesthetically pleasing portions of time.
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.
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 a 1994 NES platformer, which means it's either an absolute banger or utter dreck.
The best game about a movie I genuinely despise.
Look at that little man on the cover. Look at his stride.
You probably already know The Goonies stayed trapped on Famicom.
Yeah, this seems like a perfectly reasonable movie to turn into a video game.
Ernie, currently 3/3 for cover appearances. Hopefully he is on the cover of Sesame Street: Countdown as well.
A metaphor for LJN's relentless license hunger.
You'll have to put your own reference in here, I've never seen the show.
This island is severely lacking in interpersonal relationship skills.
Apex game, shun the doubters.
Buy the game CIB, put the box on your nightstand, live life complete.
I was alive when this movie came out and I still have no idea what it's about.
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.
The dream of every child.
Unlike the movie, does not star Madonna.
No need to dig deeper for sleeper hits, you've hit... bedrock.
Better than the film.
The good Golgo 13 game.
Bet you didn't know this was a TV show.
PAL mysteries. Who knows what it's like? Maybe it;s great.
Oh boy, problematic hidden gems.
Based on the film, totally counts. Enjoy wondering why the NES and Sega CD version are split off from the other consoles.
Alan Moore, shaking and crying.
Who keeps making games out of rated R movies for kids?
This was supposed to be a Bond game and there's nothing you can do to stop me from including it.
Superman theme, but on kazoo.
For when you need to contemplate the void.
You can't hide from me, Mickey Mouse.
When you find the perfect pair of jeans and just buy five of them on the spot.
There's nothing in the rules that says a dog can't have a silly sports spectacular.
In GamePro this was reviewed by Data Carvey.
Imagine getting this after playing the first game only to find out it's a turn-based strategy game.
Are you rescuing them from the firehouse, or on the firehouse's behalf?
Too bad this isn't a list of PC games or I could put the good version in here.
Go. Go watch this movie. Now play the game. Consider the dissonance and the destructive nature of success within capitalist systems.
Oh. Oh no. Why is that the cover.
Not fondly remembered, and that;s because history is unjust.
Original sin.
Wheel of Fortune, but now it;s a threat.
Arguably the better version.
The deep state will tell you this is not based off the Japanese film Mr. Vampire. They are lying to you. Stand strong.
I really don't know why they keep looking at these properties and not just making a 6/10 platformer with them.
Captain America and Hawkeye go and do their own thing in an adventure of reasonable power levels.
At long last: a jock captain.
Golden Age. All-American. Helmet.
No way this will ever be easily edited for laughs in the future.
Terrible fact: this mascot got cancelled because a guy that shared a name with him killed himself over it.
The only casino game that will let you use the bathroom.
Mickey Mouse goes to Numberland to round up some extra numbers for book-cooking shenanigans.
The not-so-good Golgo 13 game.
Duke Nukem's side gig.
You will never, ever get the final flag in the physical challenge.
The game show that brings its own punctuation.
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.
Othello, but just... so slow, and different.
The Waterworld video game had an incredible soundtrack, you know.
Imagine your first exposure to Felix the Cat being the unbelievably explicit bootleg XXX porn movie. Anyway, great game.
This man, this comic book.
This one was a novel, believe it or not.
Russo-Scottish espionage.
No, this does not count as a celebrity-endorsed sports game.
