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 reigning champion of Batman games.
The game that taught me what a downport and, consequently, disappointment was.
I was so scared of mother as a kid.
Captain America and Hawkeye go and do their own thing in an adventure of reasonable power levels.
Maybe the best first level ever.
Love is throwing your cousin into the void.
Powerful evidence that Capcom sought to lower the birth rate in Japan by tearing families apart.
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.
Hello, rage.
Mega Dark Man Duck.
The game that came after the reigning champion of Batman games.
This was supposed to be a Bond game and there's nothing you can do to stop me from including it.
It's Ducktales, but slightly more complicated and much less played.
You're going to have dreams about the respawning enemies.
The one where you have to shoot the knees.
The one where Piers Morgan definitely doesn't crossdress.
Never let them gaslight you: Star Fox 64 ripped the flippy maneuver off from this game.
You will get on/in the animal, and you will like it.
Music good so hard AVGN.
Go. Go watch this movie. Now play the game. Consider the dissonance and the destructive nature of success within capitalist systems.
They didn't even have to edit the racism out.
Look how big those sprites are. Now fly over everything as Mothra.
Better than the film.
The chopstick minigame still rules.
Th good sequel. Not to be confused with the bad one.
Just what everyone wanted: a slow puzzle platformer starring the wackiest Simpsons character.
Golden Age. All-American. Helmet.
Yeah, this seems like a perfectly reasonable movie to turn into a video game.
It's a 1994 NES platformer, which means it's either an absolute banger or utter dreck.
Oh. Oh no. Why is that the cover.
Hey look, it's indie gem Star Wars.
In Japan this was based on a child actor and his... impression of a baseball player?
Based on the Outrageous, Unpredictable and Fun-Filled TV Game Show!
Look at that little man on the cover. Look at his stride.
Ernie, currently 3/3 for cover appearances. Hopefully he is on the cover of Sesame Street: Countdown as well.
Which Doctor incarnation do you think she is?
You are required to watch the terrible CGI morphing scene from the movie before playing this game.
Sure, let's make this super horny movie into a game for kids.
See a dragon, strike a dragon.
It's a good day to Hudson Hawk.
I really don't know why they keep looking at these properties and not just making a 6/10 platformer with them.
Disney fans: out. This one is not for you.
Trivia for the radical generation.
You would expect this to have all the thrills and chills of hunting a giant shark, wouldn't you?
You can rebrand your Japanese movie tie-ins all you want, I'll find every one.
A great game that also has Thunder Mountain. Why, Thunder Mountain. You pox. You stain.
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.
Nobody buys Sean Connery as Harrison Ford's dad.
A slow game? With no continues? Bennet Foddy gets his first taste of masocore.
Rae really looked at Beetlejuice and went "Yeah. Top-down sounds good."
I was alive when this movie came out and I still have no idea what it's about.
All Hollywood Squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are Hollywood Squares.
Not really sure they needed a second one, Luke and Leia really killed it round one.
There are no words to describe the absolute zeitgeist that formed around this child's shocked face.
In a shocking twist, Casino Kid II, like its predecessor, is also based on a manga.
May you never be haunted by the theme song. Looping. Forever.
The Waterworld video game had an incredible soundtrack, you know.
Please, let Officer Murphy rest.
This man, this comic book.
Bet you didn't know this was a TV show.
Hiding and speaking is just pretending to be a ghost to scare your sister.
In the distant past, all pulp icons get to have a tiny version.
You can play as Hamton in this one, and therefore it is notably worse.
Imagine your first exposure to Felix the Cat being the unbelievably explicit bootleg XXX porn movie. Anyway, great game.
Alan Moore, shaking and crying.
Manga origins once again emerging from the woodworks to hurt completionists.
All the frustration, half the graphics.
Don't let the gaslight you, this is a Terminator game where the rights fell through at the last second.
Jeopardy, but distinguished by the passage of aesthetically pleasing portions of time.
Not fondly remembered, and that;s because history is unjust.
Arguably the better version.
For this Die Hard, nine lives may not be enough.
Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere. That's what it stands for.
The Ninja Gaiden of Looney Tunes.
Oh boy, problematic hidden gems.
I bet this lifestyle-branded game is going to be tight.
Do yourself a favor and go look up the M.C. Hammer song/MV that was made for this movie.
This game is so hard and also based on the hit TV series.
Oh, hey, we're still versusing things? So violent.
The deep state will tell you this is not based off the Japanese film Mr. Vampire. They are lying to you. Stand strong.
Shoot, you animal. Shoot every tile of every screen. Find those secrets.
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.
It's only a matter of time before some Rick & Morty fan reskins this.
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?
I had this game when I was little and it is just so, so weird. See you in hell re: the jukebox level.
When you find the perfect pair of jeans and just buy five of them on the spot.
You're not going to believe how buggy this game is.
Belgian comic book enjoyers rejoice: I see you.
Russo-Scottish espionage.
The best game about a movie I genuinely despise.
Mickey Mouse goes to Numberland to round up some extra numbers for book-cooking shenanigans.
There's nothing in the rules that says a dog can't have a silly sports spectacular.
Blame John K for this cursed series of games.
Can you believe the kid who played shortstop would go on to become the emotional core of Everything, Everywhere All at Once?
Aladdin, but with half the bits.
Are you rescuing them from the firehouse, or on the firehouse's behalf?
Terrible fact: this mascot got cancelled because a guy that shared a name with him killed himself over it.
The moral of the story is that you should never let your daughter date.
