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
Manga origins once again emerging from the woodworks to hurt completionists.
Not really sure they needed a second one, Luke and Leia really killed it round one.
Real pity about Clint Eastwood, isn't it?
See a dragon, strike a dragon.
They just wont stop reskinning Japanese properties, and this list won't stop growing.
Belgian comic book enjoyers rejoice: I see you.
Tom Cruise before he had his teeth fixed.
It is a heartless world that gives us Battletoads vs Double Dragon, but not G.I. Joe vs Contra.
An incredible way to lose faith in a random assortment of 100 people from a mall.
A little Konami smack 'em up, as a treat.
He's not where fun is, I can tell you that much.
This game has my least favorite Muppet: Grover. 0/5.
Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere. That's what it stands for.
Do yourself a favor and go look up the M.C. Hammer song/MV that was made for this movie.
Please, let Officer Murphy rest.
Fighter of the Lightman.
Taito showing up to make sure you grandpa's favorite cartoon gets some respect.
Given previous experience, I am now concerned that this lifestyle-branded experience may not, in fact, be tight at all.
Did you know Burt Reynolds, sex icon, is credited as a creator of this long-running game show?
Turns out this was a real life pinball table.
The moral of the story is that you should never let your daughter date.
Classic. None of that godforsaken Neo-Concentration.
I find it suspicious that the bee on the cover knows to grab the "B". What's really going on here?
Hey look, it's indie gem Star Wars.
You can rebrand your Japanese movie tie-ins all you want, I'll find every one.
All the frustration, half the graphics.
May you never be haunted by the theme song. Looping. Forever.
He apologizes for his father's behavior and is dedicated to social justice.
The good movie and the bad movie combine to create a passable game.
You are required to watch the terrible CGI morphing scene from the movie before playing this game.
In a shocking twist, Casino Kid II, like its predecessor, is also based on a manga.
Sure, let's make this super horny movie into a game for kids.
G.I. Joe x Atlantis = <3
You won't really feel like Wolverine, but do not let the haters tell you this is a bad game.
It's no Impossible Mission, but it'll do.
A game about a guy who is a guy in a movie.
Your great-grandfather's favorite newspaper strip.
Challenge your children. Destroy them.
Why would you make them sentient?
Weird. Weird and fast.
This got an animated pilot and six comic issues, and now it's here.
You're not going to believe how buggy this game is.
That dog is a real piece.
When I was little I loved the scene where the toaster danced.
Hiding and speaking is just pretending to be a ghost to scare your sister.
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.
Then again, it doesn't feel like Ocean is really understanding the vicious satire that the original Robocop movie was, does it?
In Japan this was based on a child actor and his... impression of a baseball player?
I hate this band so much.
Arnold must have the record for the real person on the most NES covers.
Not the one where you have to shoot the knees.
Was... was that not Vanna before?
Never let them gaslight you: Star Fox 64 ripped the flippy maneuver off from this game.
Oh, hey, we're still versusing things? So violent.
Rae really looked at Beetlejuice and went "Yeah. Top-down sounds good."
The greatest game of raw tactical prowess ever invented.
Disney fans: out. This one is not for you.
Judge your child.
It's only a matter of time before some Rick & Morty fan reskins this.
Suddenly: saxophone.
Blame John K for this cursed series of games.
Look how big those sprites are. Now fly over everything as Mothra.
Hello, rage.
You can play as Hamton in this one, and therefore it is notably worse.
Nobody buys Sean Connery as Harrison Ford's dad.
Apparently they thought a naked child was better than the Japanese media property this was originally based on.
The boys can have Sailor Moon, as a treat.
You would expect this to have all the thrills and chills of hunting a giant shark, wouldn't you?
Oh, Ernie. They did you dirty.
It's a good day to Hudson Hawk.
Man who is too old for this is on system he is too young for. Fate is cruel.
This game is so hard and also based on the hit TV series.
I bet this lifestyle-branded game is going to be tight.
Can you believe the kid who played shortstop would go on to become the emotional core of Everything, Everywhere All at Once?
Based on the Outrageous, Unpredictable and Fun-Filled TV Game Show!
The one where you have to shoot the knees.
Th good sequel. Not to be confused with the bad one.
A great game that also has Thunder Mountain. Why, Thunder Mountain. You pox. You stain.
This fortress is positively unhinged.
Troma. TROMA. T R O M A.
It's another real life table, the sequel to which is, for some reason, a little horny.
For this Die Hard, nine lives may not be enough.
Music good so hard AVGN.
You're going to hate the oyster cracker minigame.
Which Doctor incarnation do you think she is?
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?
At least he's not vs Radioactive Man. Which, presumably, would not go well.
Shoot, you animal. Shoot every tile of every screen. Find those secrets.
In the distant past, all pulp icons get to have a tiny version.
Shin Megami Tensei prequel.
Russo-Scottish espionage.
This one was a novel, believe it or not.
This man, this comic book.
Imagine your first exposure to Felix the Cat being the unbelievably explicit bootleg XXX porn movie. Anyway, great game.
No, this does not count as a celebrity-endorsed sports game.
The Waterworld video game had an incredible soundtrack, you know.
Othello, but just... so slow, and different.
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.
The game show that brings its own punctuation.