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.

Spy vs Spy
Spy vs Spy
Not fondly remembered, and that;s because history is unjust.
Superman
Superman
Superman theme, but on kazoo.
Kid Klown in Night Mayor World
Kid Klown in Night Mayor World
You can't hide from me, Mickey Mouse.
Defenders of Dynatron City
Defenders of Dynatron City
This got an animated pilot and six comic issues, and now it's here.
Star Wars
Star Wars
Hey look, it's indie gem Star Wars.
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Not really sure they needed a second one, Luke and Leia really killed it round one.
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles
In the distant past, all pulp icons get to have a tiny version.
Felix the Cat
Felix the Cat
Imagine your first exposure to Felix the Cat being the unbelievably explicit bootleg XXX porn movie. Anyway, great game.
Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu
Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu
Oh. Oh no. Why is that the cover.
Barbie
Barbie
I had this game when I was little and it is just so, so weird. See you in hell re: the jukebox level.
Fun House
Fun House
Based on the Outrageous, Unpredictable and Fun-Filled TV Game Show!
The Hunt for Red October
The Hunt for Red October
Russo-Scottish espionage.
Mickey's Adventure in Numberland
Mickey's Adventure in Numberland
Mickey Mouse goes to Numberland to round up some extra numbers for book-cooking shenanigans.
Mickey's Safari in Letterland
Mickey's Safari in Letterland
I find it suspicious that the bee on the cover knows to grab the "B". What's really going on here?
Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival
Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival
Terrible, just terrible, you should absolutely play it.
Remote Control
Remote Control
Trivia for the radical generation.
Sesame Street: Big Bird's Hide & Speak
Sesame Street: Big Bird's Hide & Speak
Hiding and speaking is just pretending to be a ghost to scare your sister.
Sesame Street: 1-2-3
Sesame Street: 1-2-3
This game has my least favorite Muppet: Grover. 0/5.
Sesame Street A B C
Sesame Street A B C
Ernie, currently 3/3 for cover appearances. Hopefully he is on the cover of Sesame Street: Countdown as well.
Sesame Street Countdown
Sesame Street Countdown
Oh, Ernie. They did you dirty.
Tom and Jerry
Tom and Jerry
They didn't even have to edit the racism out.
Win, Lose or Draw
Win, Lose or Draw
Did you know Burt Reynolds, sex icon, is credited as a creator of this long-running game show?
Kabuki: Quantum Fighter
Kabuki: Quantum Fighter
You can rebrand your Japanese movie tie-ins all you want, I'll find every one.
American Gladiators
American Gladiators
The dream of every child.
Classic Concentration
Classic Concentration
Classic. None of that godforsaken Neo-Concentration.
Double Dare
Double Dare
You will never, ever get the final flag in the physical challenge.
Family Feud
Family Feud
An incredible way to lose faith in a random assortment of 100 people from a mall.
Fisher-Price: Firehouse Rescue
Fisher-Price: Firehouse Rescue
Are you rescuing them from the firehouse, or on the firehouse's behalf?
Fisher-Price: Perfect Fit
Fisher-Price: Perfect Fit
When you find the perfect pair of jeans and just buy five of them on the spot.
Harlem Globetrotters
Harlem Globetrotters
No, this does not count as a celebrity-endorsed sports game.
Hollywood Squares
Hollywood Squares
All Hollywood Squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are Hollywood Squares.
Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
The game show that brings its own punctuation.
Jeopardy!: Junior Edition
Jeopardy!: Junior Edition
Judge your child.
Jeopardy!: 25th Anniversary Edition
Jeopardy!: 25th Anniversary Edition
Jeopardy, but distinguished by the passage of aesthetically pleasing portions of time.
Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune
No way this will ever be easily edited for laughs in the future.
Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition
Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition
Wheel of Fortune, but now it;s a threat.
Wheel of Fortune: Featuring Vanna White
Wheel of Fortune: Featuring Vanna White
Was... was that not Vanna before?
Wheel of Fortune: Junior Edition
Wheel of Fortune: Junior Edition
Challenge your children. Destroy them.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: DragonStrike
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: DragonStrike
See a dragon, strike a dragon.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance
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.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Hillsfar
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Hillsfar
Weird. Weird and fast.
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance
Noteworthy, as most pools aren't radiant at all.
Phantom Fighter
Phantom Fighter
The deep state will tell you this is not based off the Japanese film Mr. Vampire. They are lying to you. Stand strong.
Captain America and the Avengers
Captain America and the Avengers
Captain America and Hawkeye go and do their own thing in an adventure of reasonable power levels.
RoboCop 2
RoboCop 2
Then again, it doesn't feel like Ocean is really understanding the vicious satire that the original Robocop movie was, does it?
Adventures in the Magic Kingdom
Adventures in the Magic Kingdom
A great game that also has Thunder Mountain. Why, Thunder Mountain. You pox. You stain.
Disney's Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
Disney's Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
Love is throwing your cousin into the void.
Disney's Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2
Disney's Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 2
Powerful evidence that Capcom sought to lower the birth rate in Japan by tearing families apart.
Disney's Darkwing Duck
Disney's Darkwing Duck
Mega Dark Man Duck.
Disney's The Little Mermaid
Disney's The Little Mermaid
The moral of the story is that you should never let your daughter date.
Disney's DuckTales
Disney's DuckTales
You will learn the awkward pogo input, and you will love it.
Disney's DuckTales 2
Disney's DuckTales 2
It's Ducktales, but slightly more complicated and much less played.
G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor
G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor
G.I. Joe x Atlantis = <3
Little Nemo: The Dream Master
Little Nemo: The Dream Master
You will get on/in the animal, and you will like it.
Mickey Mousecapade
Mickey Mousecapade
Shoot, you animal. Shoot every tile of every screen. Find those secrets.
Disney's TaleSpin
Disney's TaleSpin
Never let them gaslight you: Star Fox 64 ripped the flippy maneuver off from this game.
Willow
Willow
You are required to watch the terrible CGI morphing scene from the movie before playing this game.
RoboCop
RoboCop
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.
Yo! Noid
Yo! Noid
Terrible fact: this mascot got cancelled because a guy that shared a name with him killed himself over it.
The Adventures of Gilligan's Island
The Adventures of Gilligan's Island
This island is severely lacking in interpersonal relationship skills.
Chubby Cherub
Chubby Cherub
Apparently they thought a naked child was better than the Japanese media property this was originally based on.
Dick Tracy
Dick Tracy
Unlike the movie, does not star Madonna.
Dragon Power
Dragon Power
That's Goku. On the cover. Goku-san himself.
Tag Team Match M.U.S.C.L.E.
Tag Team Match M.U.S.C.L.E.
Millions of Unusual Small Creatures Lurking Everywhere. That's what it stands for.
Ninja Kid
Ninja Kid
They just wont stop reskinning Japanese properties, and this list won't stop growing.
The Rocketeer
The Rocketeer
Golden Age. All-American. Helmet.
Toxic Crusaders
Toxic Crusaders
Troma. TROMA. T R O M A.
Wacky Races
Wacky Races
That dog is a real piece.
Widget
Widget
Shin Megami Tensei prequel.
Silver Surfer
Silver Surfer
Music good so hard AVGN.
Spot: The Video Game
Spot: The Video Game
Othello, but just... so slow, and different.
Die Hard
Die Hard
For this Die Hard, nine lives may not be enough.
Ghostbusters II
Ghostbusters II
When I was little I loved the scene where the toaster danced.
Predator
Predator
Arnold must have the record for the real person on the most NES covers.
The Three Stooges
The Three Stooges
You're going to hate the oyster cracker minigame.
Airwolf
Airwolf
This game is so hard and also based on the hit TV series.
Knight Rider
Knight Rider
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.
Krusty's Fun House
Krusty's Fun House
Just what everyone wanted: a slow puzzle platformer starring the wackiest Simpsons character.
Rambo
Rambo
Go. Go watch this movie. Now play the game. Consider the dissonance and the destructive nature of success within capitalist systems.
The Simpsons: Bart vs. The Space Mutants
The Simpsons: Bart vs. The Space Mutants
Maybe the best first level ever.
The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World
The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World
Oh, hey, we're still versusing things? So violent.
The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man
The Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man
At least he's not vs Radioactive Man. Which, presumably, would not go well.
Total Recall
Total Recall
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?
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation
At long last: a jock captain.
Astérix
Astérix
Franco-Belgian comics: not the first time you will see one on this list.
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
PAL mysteries. Who knows what it's like? Maybe it;s great.
The Legend of Prince Valiant
The Legend of Prince Valiant
Your great-grandfather's favorite newspaper strip.
Saint Seiya: Ougon Densetsu
Saint Seiya: Ougon Densetsu
The boys can have Sailor Moon, as a treat.
New Ghostbusters II
New Ghostbusters II
Th good sequel. Not to be confused with the bad one.
The Smurfs
The Smurfs
May you never be haunted by the theme song. Looping. Forever.
Disney's Aladdin
Disney's Aladdin
Aladdin, but with half the bits.
Disney's The Lion King
Disney's The Lion King
All the frustration, half the graphics.

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