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.
I don't want to hear any crying about the dam level, it's not that bad once you figure it out.
Maybe the best first level ever.
Love is throwing your cousin into the void.
Better than the film.
The reigning champion of Batman games.
The game that taught me what a downport and, consequently, disappointment was.
Captain America and Hawkeye go and do their own thing in an adventure of reasonable power levels.
You probably already know The Goonies stayed trapped on Famicom.
Often forgotten, as the youngest child so often is.
Don't let the gaslight you, this is a Terminator game where the rights fell through at the last second.
Powerful evidence that Capcom sought to lower the birth rate in Japan by tearing families apart.
You would expect this to have all the thrills and chills of hunting a giant shark, wouldn't you?
These people do not seem like they are here to help Bugs Bunny celebrate.
It's a 1994 NES platformer, which means it's either an absolute banger or utter dreck.
Just what everyone wanted: a slow puzzle platformer starring the wackiest Simpsons character.
It's only a matter of time before some Rick & Morty fan reskins this.
At least he's not vs Radioactive Man. Which, presumably, would not go well.
See a dragon, strike a dragon.
Suddenly: saxophone.
They didn't even have to edit the racism out.
This man, this comic book.
They just wont stop reskinning Japanese properties, and this list won't stop growing.
Not fondly remembered, and that;s because history is unjust.
You will get on/in the animal, and you will like it.
All Hollywood Squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are Hollywood Squares.
In Japan this was based on a child actor and his... impression of a baseball player?
Music good so hard AVGN.
Manga origins once again emerging from the woodworks to hurt completionists.
Trivia for the radical generation.
This game has my least favorite Muppet: Grover. 0/5.
Fighter of the Lightman.
You can play as Hamton in this one, and therefore it is notably worse.
Blame John K for this cursed series of games.
Jeopardy, but distinguished by the passage of aesthetically pleasing portions of time.
Hiding and speaking is just pretending to be a ghost to scare your sister.
There are no words to describe the absolute zeitgeist that formed around this child's shocked face.
Aladdin, but with half the bits.
Basically everything used to get a cartoon if it was a movie that got even a little bit of traction with kids.
It's Ducktales, but slightly more complicated and much less played.
The moral of the story is that you should never let your daughter date.
No need to dig deeper for sleeper hits, you've hit... bedrock.
Hey look, it's indie gem Star Wars.
I had this game when I was little and it is just so, so weird. See you in hell re: the jukebox level.
For when you need to contemplate the void.
That's Goku. On the cover. Goku-san himself.
A game about a guy who is a guy in a movie.
It's a good day to Hudson Hawk.
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.
Th good sequel. Not to be confused with the bad one.
The dream of every child.
Then again, it doesn't feel like Ocean is really understanding the vicious satire that the original Robocop movie was, does it?
A slow game? With no continues? Bennet Foddy gets his first taste of masocore.
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.
PAL mysteries. Who knows what it's like? Maybe it;s great.
The Ninja Gaiden of Looney Tunes.
Rae really looked at Beetlejuice and went "Yeah. Top-down sounds good."
Shoot, you animal. Shoot every tile of every screen. Find those secrets.
Too bad this isn't a list of PC games or I could put the good version in here.
This island is severely lacking in interpersonal relationship skills.
Ernie, currently 3/3 for cover appearances. Hopefully he is on the cover of Sesame Street: Countdown as well.
The good movie and the bad movie combine to create a passable game.
The chopstick minigame still rules.
Unlike the movie, does not star Madonna.
When you find the perfect pair of jeans and just buy five of them on the spot.
Oh. Oh no. Why is that the cover.
Who keeps making games out of rated R movies for kids?
Oh boy, problematic hidden gems.
Arguably the better version.
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?
Hello, rage.
It is a heartless world that gives us Battletoads vs Double Dragon, but not G.I. Joe vs Contra.
That dog is a real piece.
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.
You can rebrand your Japanese movie tie-ins all you want, I'll find every one.
Sure, let's make this super horny movie into a game for kids.
A metaphor for LJN's relentless license hunger.
I was alive when this movie came out and I still have no idea what it's about.
Alan Moore, shaking and crying.
May you never be haunted by the theme song. Looping. Forever.
Look how big those sprites are. Now fly over everything as Mothra.
You can't hide from me, Mickey Mouse.
I was so scared of mother as a kid.
Wheel of Fortune, but now it;s a threat.
Bet you didn't know this was a TV show.
You won't really feel like Wolverine, but do not let the haters tell you this is a bad game.
Noteworthy, as most pools aren't radiant at all.
Please, let Officer Murphy rest.
Real pity about Clint Eastwood, isn't it?
This game with a figure, absolute peak.
He's not where fun is, I can tell you that much.
Do yourself a favor and go look up the M.C. Hammer song/MV that was made for this movie.
The game based on the cartoon based on the movie.
The best game about a movie I genuinely despise.
You are required to watch the terrible CGI morphing scene from the movie before playing this game.
The only casino game that will let you use the bathroom.
This was supposed to be a Bond game and there's nothing you can do to stop me from including it.
Mega Dark Man Duck.