Top 10 Highest Selling NES Games!
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- Well, it's the first video in the new house, new sounds, new acoustics, and withdrawals from my mental health meds because I don't know where they are, so what better thing to talk about, that the top 10 highest selling NES games out there! You might see some that you recognize!
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The 80s was the best decade to be a kid, and the 90s was the best decade to be a teenager. The 2000s were kinda lame though.
2000s was the era of post internet dissociation for an entire generation.
SMB3 was just insane at the time.
RIGHT?!
still insane for it's time, a game that can be completed longrun style and in a speedrun if you know what you're doing. it appeals to gamers of all kinds, and Nintendo marketed it with a MOVIE no less.
Ultimately, it was the best game on the NES.
Ultimately, it was the best game on the NES.
Literally sold out everywhere for months in my area. I got to the mall early one day on a whim and when the store opened they happened to have a copy. Inwas king of the neighborhood for a few months once word spread i had it. My dad would trip over all the shoes in the back hallway ..
As a kid who grew up with the Nintendo, I can tell you that Golf was definitely a “dad” game.
To this day, it’s still a good game.
It seems like it would be a dad game lol.
I always prefer the later gem nes open.
You should be proud of this episode. It was very informative, entertaining, and well produced. Thank you.
I'm proud of every episode, they all play a role in who I am, and what I've learned and accomplished through the years, but it's people like you that keep that energy moving forward. So thank you for the kind words!
Glad I found your channel. I was lucky enough to have an NES/SNES growing up as a kid in the 80s. My favorites were Castlevania, Final Fantasy, Bubble Bobble, and of course, SMB. Such a great time to be a kid growing up. Not only the NES but all the toys too. G.I. Joe. Transformer’s. He-Man. And if you remember them, The Gobots. Keep the videos coming sir.
The toy era was the BEST, Dad would tell me how the 80s was the ERA of the kid, just good quality toys, movies, everything.
Snes didn't come out until the 90s
@@CommentDeletersStink Nobody said it came out in the 80s. He said he was a kId of the 80s. Akward.
Born in the late 70s and remember all you said
I also grew up with NES and SNES. I got Switch and 3DS now but I appreciated NES and SNES so much more! That was true plug n play! And no software updates, no loading times and better controllers! Really a golden era!
Golf is low key has the best ball and wind physics. The way u can shape a shot using the wind is so satisfying and looks amazing to the friends that have played the game and can appreciate the shot.
Have you messed with NES Open? I heard it mentioned today.
@@Fortefyre for sure but that game is amazing as well, but it wasn’t tattooed to my brain like the OG one was as a young child and watching aunts and uncles play this and Zelda.
That's a good memory to have though lol.
I really appreciate you said the full name of Yume Kojo Doki Doki Panic. It's a small detail, but no one ever includes it
I do try to say the full name of the game when I can lol.
My Nintendo came with the Track Meet pack in. It was also made the same month I was born. I'll never let it go
That's epic!
Hahahahaha you can hear the new house acoustics when you scream “oh god please no” during the excitebike segment and it sounds great ❤
RIGHT?!?!? It CONSUMES MY HIGHS.
excitebike was only such a great game cause the track editor. i spend hours making tracks with high ramps just to launch off of.
Great rundown. Excellent work as always.
Thank you! I'm going to try to do the lawsuits video tommorow.
I got most of these new as a kid. Excitebike and Golf I got later used, but the rest I got either for Christmas, a birthday, or saving allowance from cleaning the house for seemingly ages... with one exception.
Dr. Mario I did get brand new, but not through any of those avenues. Back in the '80s and '90s, we used to save up Kool-Aid points from the backs of packets of Kool-Aid. They had a rewards catalog, kinda like with Flag Points on GI Joe packages. We'd get points from friends, family, neighbors, people from church... and with those sweet Kool-Aid points, we got Dr. Mario, NES Play Action Football, and our NES Satellite.
As others have said, the '80s were objectively the most fun time to be a little boy. He-Man, GI Joe, Transformers, Robotech, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Star Wars when it was still good... and it meant you got to be a teenager during the 16 and 32 bit days.
If I remember correctly, I had a ton of Kool-Aid points that I never turned in. Kinda like my 100,000 Pan Am frequent flyer miles that died with the company. Not that I’m bitter or anything.
That sounds awesome, I came from the era of Coke points and getting free coke products lmao.
So easy to be nostalgic about the NES and SNES. Solid list discussion with good new info. Thanks!
It truly is, it's a magical time in gaming history.
Played and owned every game on this list (like so many others)! Thanks for the great content. I thoroughly enjoy your vids and always look forward to the next.
Thank you for the kind words! Usually I make one every day, but I have to get the house together for my youngest 1st birthday. I have tons of cool stuff coming soon!
The disk system was really a great system. This was where Metroid, Castlevania and Zelda were made originally.
Sure was, don't forget Kid Icarus as well!
SMB 2 has a special place in my heart. It's not as good as 1 or 3, but it was my first game ever and the first game i beat on the system. Keep up the great content!
I'm not huge fan of SMB 2, but I did do my due diligence to see it all the way through, it still holds up to the rest!
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Awesome video!
Glad you liked it!
Man whoever was playing Excitebike somehow managed to bounce on every single jump. That's astounding. Even through simple random chance they ought to have had at least one stable landing.
It was me, lmfao. I'm JUST A BOY.
SM2 us is a frustrating as hell game that wow, I hate it. This was a nice Roundup of those top 10 best sellers. Keep that going man. Always appreciate the videos that aren't many hours long. Yet also appreciate that you're making those videos even though there's no way I will watch you play video games for 5 hours when I could play them five hours myself. Actually kind of I can't do that right now but I will eventually die so happy 4th of july.
I felt like SMB 2 was just...slippery, I don't know how to explain it lol. I like providing you all with quality entertainment that varies in length to fit the needs of the person :) I'm glad the shortform videos work for you!
Loved the video bro! Keep them coming and have a awesome day my friend!! Peace
Thanks Jeff!
I remember having to painstakingly write down passwords for Metroid. But my handwriting was so terrible I frequently couldn’t figure out what I wrote. And yes I still have that problem.
This is a big reason why I like savestates to supplement passwords.
My favorites on the list are of course SMB3 and the Legend of Zelda. I remember being very disappointed when I found out that Duck Hunt did not work with LCD technology. One day I'll break out that Sony CRT in storage 😃
Super Team Games was awesome in the 1990s, but when I tried to teach my daughter how to play it with the Power pad, it didn't nearly hold up to the picture in my memory.
Well, if you want to fork out the money, there's a company that solved that issue, it's called the Singen Light Gun, it's a Light gun that works on all emulators with LCD screens lol.
good video but as a Canadian, one thing I’ve learned to question over the years is the narrative that “nintendo saved gaming”, particularly from my British retro enthusiast friends. That whole crash was mostly an American thing and in Europe in particular a non-factor. They had a much more local and competitive industry between Sinclair, Amstrad, Commodore, and Atari. Unlike the monopoly that Nintendo largely had over here. By the time the NES launched in Europe it was largely seen as outdated with expensive overpriced games compared to the micros. If Nintendo hadn’t dominated the market with anti competitive practices my guess is that both the Commodore 64 and Sega Master System would have largely filled the void and would have gotten the bulk of 3rd party support. In Canada at least the C64 was a pretty solid 2nd place contender (selling more widely than the Sega Master System even). Even here in Canada when I first started hearing game journalists talking about the game crash of 83 I was always like, “what crash?”. I lived through the era and I don’t remember it. Platforms like the ColecoVision/Adam, C64, Coco2, were widely sold and available at all the major retailers here like Zellers, Canadian Tire circa 1984-1986 and I don’t recall any gap between that and the eventual availability of the NES. It was a pretty smooth transition. Again I think that crash was almost exclusively an American phenomenon with retailers no longer stocking consoles/micros and games for a few years. I do vaguely recall my family driving down to Grand Forks in North Dakota a few times and retailers there largely clearing out inventory really cheaply in the bargain bins (thanks for the great deals), but that was certainly not happening back home in Winnipeg.
Yeah asbsolutely, it was the AMERICAN video game crash after all lol. In Japan they called it "atari shock" and I'm not familiar with how the European audiences dealt with it. What I do know, was that 2nd Generation Japan games were severely limited, the American Games perpetually saturated the market, and once that alone led to consumer confidence in home computing being at an all time high, in the US the Commodore 64, was able to be raised in price because people relied on it more than the 2600, Colecovision, Intellivision, all of the crazy systems. I will say, if Mario hadn't been created, Sega would have likely dominated the market, as you all had a SEVERE market interest in the Sega Master System. Almost any European friend I speak too, talk about the SMS, and how the Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum and more were important. That's a great insight you've provided today!
@@Fortefyre the situation in Europe was very interesting, and I’ve learned a lot from UK youtubers like “Kim Justice” or “RMC Retro Man Cave” (I even visited his gaming museum when I visited the UK last year in Stroud). They basically had their own home grown industry. They have no nostalgia for the NES, instead you’ll hear all about games like Dizzy, Manic Miner, and Jet Set Willy for the various microcomputer platforms like the ZX Spectrum, Commodore Amiga, or Amstrad CPC. I myself recently imported one of those new “ZX Spectrum Next” computers that were recently custom manufactured for a Kickstarter as a “new” retro inspired microcomputer that can play all the old Spectrum games plus a lineup of all new enhanced Spectrum Next games. I’m having a blast playing through some of these games that we were largely denied access to back in the day here in North America. It’s really shifted my perspective over the past few years regarding how much over-credit
Nintendo gets for “saving” the industry. Rather I feel now that Nintendo largely abused its market dominance in North America and largely shut out other competitors that were available in other markets and were quite successful and might have been in North America had we had a more fair and competitive industry. We know for instance that once Nintendo stopped its exclusivity conditions on 3rd parties, companies like Capcom and Konami did release games on the Genesis (Contra Hard Corps, Castlevania Bloodlines, Street Fighter 2), plus Capcom was always willing to license games directly to Sega for them to directly publish (Ghouls and Ghosts, Strider, Final Fight on the Sega CD). Its logical to assume that had Nintendo not been there to enforce its illegal exclusivity contracts that
both Capcom and Konami would have developed and released games for Sega much earlier on systems like the Master System. That would have made a huge difference in the North American market in 1986/87. Even Nintendo themselves were 3rd party publishers initially, for example the pack-in cartridge for the ColecoVision was a fully licensed great conversion of Donkey Kong from Nintendo. Had Nintendo of Japan not bothered to release the Famicom/NES in North America we still would have gotten Nintendo’s games on systems like the Colecovision (as they did with Donkey Kong) or if the Master System had gained traction Nintendo would have released their games on the Master System as they clearly showed they were quite willing to develop and release games on other companies consoles (ie. ColecoVision, Atari 2600, Commodore Vic 20) before they had their own console in North America. So now when I look at it, I now kind of think the NES was kind of irrelevant in a way if you understand what I mean. Both Nintendo’s first party and 3rd party games would likely have been available in any case if you look at it from an “alternative universe” perspective. Nintendo would just have continued to be a 3rd party developer for systems like the Sega Master System or perhaps the Commodore 64 as they had previously been for both Coleco, Atari, and Commodore. Konami and Capcom would most certainly have been Sega 3rd party developers years earlier. Cheers! 🥂
I only don't have Excitebike and Tetris.
Gotta get them!
@@Fortefyre Nah, what he really needs is the superior Tengen Tetris. Assuming he is willing to sell a kidney to pay for it.
Best I can do is a vestigial organ lol.
I can vividly remember getting each of these games as a kid, other than Golf and Zelda 2 which I rented from the local video store. The Super Mario Trilogy is one of the most consistently amazing game series in history, and releasing the American version of Super Mario 2 probably saved the series as the Lost Levels is in my opinion an inferior version of the original with innovation that impeded enjoyment instead of enhancing gameplay.
-Cast
That's a great take, part of me dislikes Mario 2 for what it is, but going back and playing it, it's not that bad! I hope all is well for you :)
@@Fortefyreeach of those 3 games is great for different reasons, 2 is actually my favorite! It’s funny, even though it’s a reimagined Doki Doki Panic, a lot of characters have become Mario Universe mainstays. I wish they’d bring back Wart though, he got the shaft! #andjusticeforwart
Congrats on your channel growth, you are doing great, keep the solid content coming!
-Cast
Maybe 1000 games came out for nes and golf sold more than all but 9????? Crazy!
It was one of the first
It makes sense
My dad's condition for buying us a NES was that he got Golf and he could play it whenever he wanted, even if that meant kicking us off a game we were playing. He was a master at that game.
must have been the dads at the time doing the buying cause I don't see many kids reaching for that on the shelves
Yep!
Great list.
Thank you!
This list is dominated by Nintendo, but Konami almost made it to the top 10 with TMNT.
ALMOST
I was born in 1988 and I grew up with the SNES and at the N64. Fortunately our family also had the Genesis and the PS1. Loved playing the Sega channel. But I do remember my family having the original NES four time. That was before I decide to actually start playing video games. I was just watching them play Tecmo Bowl And there was some kind of platformer game I remember watching them play but I've never seen it reappear on like the we virtual console or switch online. But the problem is I don't put the game was called. I actually remember what the music from the game sounded like though. I actually thought that legend of kage might have been the game but no it's an entirely different game.
So yeah I grew up with the SNES mostly. Love the N64 as well of course. And yeah there were some games in the PS1 I also enjoyed quite a lot. First game I ever played was Super Mario World and the first game ever beat actually was on the Genesis and that was Sonic the Hedgehog. Eventually my brother I guess for whatever reason we didn't have the original NES anymore I'm not sure what was the reason, but he got the top loader NES with the bone NES controllers that were designed like the SNES controllers. That top loader was cool. And that was actually when I did start playing NES games.
That's an epic memory! I know you said you don't remember much about the game, but if you have ANY elements, I might be able to find it. Either way, I'm glad you got to experience the toploader because even I haven't lol.
@@Fortefyre I think you had a sword and throwing weapons but still I'm not sure. I recall you are outdoors in the first two levels which have the same music. I can't really describe the music in text form which is easier to remember than the rest of the game. There is a cave level after with different music.
My grandmother actually loved to play Berzerk on Atari 2600 of all games! She refused to play anything else!
That's awesome!
My buddy's granny would smoke a joint and play Nintendo for hours
I don’t know if you do fan games and romhacks, but I’ve been enjoying watching ProJared play The Legend of Zelda Ancient Cave. It’s Zelda 1 but it’s only in a single dungeon with 255 levels and it’s a roguelike.
I do romhacks and fan games, but it has to be specifically requested by the Twitch side of things in either channel points or a streamloots card.
Thanks for giving some love to The Wizard. Did they not also debut the Power Glove as well??
I think so. Rad racer was awesome game and I loved the wizard. California!!!
They sure did, it's SO bad, well at least that's what Lucas said.
I cracked open brand new every game here when I was a kid except for Golf, Dr. Mario & Tetris.
Golf, my best friend already owned, and I thought well of it. I just never got a copy for myself until I became an adult. I believe I now have four complete in box copies.
Dr. Mario, I didn't think well of, since I was not a fan of puzzle games in the day. Also, I now have a couple of copies of it, and I think it is a pretty swell game.
Tetris, I wouldn't buy a copy of it on NES because to me, at the time, Tetris sacredly belonged on Gameboy only, and I saw it as sacrilege to have it on NES as well. But, yes, today I have a nice crisp copy, and my disdain for the NES version has entirely dissappeared.
The rest of those games, absolutely I owned them all as a kid, and loved them all. I do specifically remember the moment I opened the box of a few of those as well.
Thanks for providing some history of each of these. I learned some things that I didn't know before. I think that you should have mentioned "Vs. Excitebike" though, which is an absolutely magnificent variation of the game.
It's SLIGHTLY different in that it bounces between a qualification race and the "excite races", did you happen to catch my NES Vs. the Vs System episode?
@@Fortefyre no, i havent seen it, but ill seek it out
It's a good one! I covered all of the comparisons between the NES releases of Nintendo Vs. System games. ua-cam.com/video/W81Ki3gPO5w/v-deo.html
I can tell you’re a youngin’, at least compared to myself! yup I had most of those games when they were brand new releases in the 80s.
I am a peon of age in comparison to the demographic I entertain lol.
@@Fortefyre also, I really loved how different Super Mario Bros 2 was. I remember I received it for Christmas in 1988 when I was 10. Apparently it was Howard Phillips of Nintendo Power fame from NOA that made the judgement call not to release the Japanese version of SMB2 but instead reskin Doki Doki Panic. I think he made the right call!
Wow! A lot of great history
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
Rambo is also Zelda 2 with a gun lol
Oh yeah, absolutely lol.
im surprised you made a call out to faxanadu, such a great game. one of my favorites of the system.
It's a wonderful game!
x My siblings and I were the only kids in our area that bought the Nintendo Action Set with our own money (earned from odd jobs).
x We had four out of the five best-selling NES Games
o Super Mario Bros. and Duckhunt from the action set.
o We received Super Mario Bros. 2 for a Christmas present one year.
o We received Super Mario Bros. 3 for a Christmas present another year.
That's awesome! You had a SOLID start in gaming!
Man, I remember playing Super Mario Bros at a Western Appliance store (who remembers that store???) and choosing between a Sega Master System and a NES. I chose the Sega Master System. Never regretted it, but later got the NES too.
I've had a rough track record with the SMS, but I've heard I just don't have good games for it lol.
@@Fortefyre Lol!
The most often cited reasoning I find for Super Mario Bros. 2 was actually a combination of it being too hard and being too similar to the first game.
That would be the best explanation.
Played many rounds of Golf with my brothers and my mom would play Tetris with me. Good times.
Those are great memories to cherish!
I was a huge fan of NES golf back in the day all the way through today. Here’s a game designed by Miyamoto, programmed by Iwata with sound by Koji Kondo. Is there any game ever with a better perigee? Note that the golf course in Wii Sports/Resort (golf and frisbee golf) harkens back to NES golf, so this game has even more sales than anyone realizes.
I would say Final Fantasy III on the SNES, it's a DREAM team.
@Fortefyre great game, but add Akira Toriyama, and you get Chrono Trigger. That's a dream team too.
AND Mitsuda with Uematsu! Holy crap!
That SMB1 gameplay is wild.
It's SO bad, I was messing up left and right, my kiddo was watching and laughing too.
I'll take your word about NES Golf....I usually avoid video game sport games because they always piss me off. The only Nintendo Golf game I liked was Mario Golf:World Tour on 3DS,and even it made me mad.
I don't usually tend to play sports games, like at all lol.
excitebike looks fun. i must play it
pretty fun, it even has a track editor that you can challenge friends or yourself with.
Excitebike is a quick and easy game, tons of fun!
The only one I don’t have is golf
Got to get it :P
I’m surprised I thought for sure mario 3 would be #1
You would think wouldn't you! I mean to cut the top 5 is still epic.
Early in the NES life cycle, SMB 1 was bundled in with the NES, later, they had the SMB and Duck Hunt cartridge, and that's why these 2 were the top selling games. Later in the NES life cycle, SMB 3 was bundled, not SMB.
Zelda II was made by Satan himself.
P.S. Grey Zapper > Orange Zapper...I got one of the first-run Power Sets as a kid.
What about the BEAM gun, the one that looks like a colt single army lmao.
Having played Nintendo Tetris for many years, is there a difference Tengen Tetris and the Nintendo release?
My personal favorite is the Gameboy version, which I still pack for almost every camping trip.
Kind of, mostly in aesthetics. I believe it plays the exact same, but I'd have to do some research.
it seems like a no brainer to include smb and duck hunt but i don't think they count as they were sold with the nes its self. So would they have sold nearly as many as just stand alone games? i don't think so
That's a good take!
I am proud to say I’m one of those weirdos who enjoy SMB2 over the others in the series.
It's just very floaty lol.
@@Fortefyre unless you play Toad lol
Then you're just a walking butt plug, that's all Toad is lmfao.
@@LordTeaboBagginsToad is great as a challenge now but when you are 10 , no way, pick the princess!
@@benjamintaylor4872 or Luigi!
duck hunt probably shouldn't be on the list, I don't think many people bought it separately . Mario 1 should probably be on the list, but not that high. Im kind of surprised duck tales, tmnt 1, or top gun weren't on the list, cause back then everyone had those. My standout memories of cracking into a fresh box I just got were Castlevania 1, mega man 2, and super Mario 3. After watching The Wizard in theaters, there was no excitement that could match actually popping it into the nes at home for the first time, brilliant marketing
I think it's all about grossing sales, so I do think it was padded.
It's a shame that you have to have a CRT TV in order to play light zapper games......
Look up the Sinden Light Gun! It's a light gun that works on CRTs.
@@Fortefyre do you mean it works on LCDs?
@@jasonbrannen7598 Sure does. Here's the link.
sindenlightgun.com/
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I wonder if that guy ever got out of the house and touched grass lmao.
Hold on…cross hairs in duck hunt???? What is this sorcery????
Haha, my CRT is still packed up from the move. I put it in retroarch.
The virtual console version of Duck Hunt came with crosshairs by default. Too easy. What some people don’t realize is that you can turn off the crosshairs (I think with the + or - button) for a more authentic experience.
I didn't know that Bill, nice!
@@billcook4768 had no idea! Interesting
I'm surprised that Metroid wasn't in the top ten.
Miyamoto historically hates Metroid so it doesn't surprise me.
like AVGN, i HATE Passwords, the second that they are used for anything too complex, they become a nightmare and a half. there ARE certain games that did Passwords well though, so it's not like they never should have existed.
Yeah, like Mega Man games had an ideal password, but Swords and Serpents was a gift from hell to the gaming community.
Good people don't drink alcohol.
Eh. Lol.
Duck Hunt and Super mario Bros came with my Nintendo lol they shouldnt really count I didnt have to buy them lol
Checks out for me lol.
So every game on the list is Nintendo 1st party. Makes sense.
Yeah seems that way, I think as time moves forward, we'll see a diversity.
Nintendo was rather aggressive with their game marketing as well as their console. They had great games, but they also paid a lot to advertise their published games. Even third party games published by Nintendo sold well.
NES Open is far superior to Golf. Best golf game on the NES.
I don't think I've messed with NES Open, how is it better?
@Fortefyre Graphically better. Battery save capability. Mario and Luigi characters. Tournament mode. Please check it out. It will make you forget about Golf all together.
I have it on Famicom, never cracked it open.
@Fortefyre Well definitely check it out.
you gave a history but didnt get into market talk. WHY was xyz game selling for so much.
this is more of a historian video
I am a video game historian :P
I was like #69 👍
What a magical number :P
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