20:54 This entry is nonsense! Al Unser Jr raced Indy Car many times, and only did Nascar once. I have no idea where I heard that tidbit, but it's not true!
btw Super Mario 2 (US version not "Lost Levels") is a re-skinned game, called Toki Doki Panic. kind of interesting story, check it out if you get a chance.
Take your list and go with that to Toilette your list is Toilette paper Most of the games you choice are from Nintendo mini or so horrible bad that no human being should play it
Dragon Warrior is very inferior to Final Fantasy 1... even Dragon Warrio 3 ain't that better.... mate what are you saying!!!! Final Fantasy 2 is as good, and beats even Dragon Warrrior 4 to me... I am yet to play Final Fantasy 3 oin famicom, but i crushed FF2 with levelling BEFORe getting my 3rd word, i went to mysidia before learning the 3rd word in japanese as a non-nippon reading dude and can say FF2 beats every Dragon warrior game in fun and technique, dep^th andcomplexity of the game saved in such a little cartridge.DQ 4 is fun and has story though, but the spells and weapon complexity and depth of customization of the 3 lead heroes is amazing
This video was specifically designed to piss off anyone who was born between 1977 and 1981 and succeeded exceptionally well at said endeavor. Well done. ;)
It's great to see Zelda II get the love it deserves. Nowadays I go back and forth on which NES Zelda game I prefer, but when I was a boy in 1988 playing Zelda II, I remember saying to myself "This is better than the first game". The original Zelda had been my favorite game until that moment. What's wonderful about Zelda II is the advanced combat system. You can attack in so many ways, and you have to use every move in your arsenal to defeat all the enemies. You have a regular strike (with and without projectile), a low strike (with and without projectile), an upward strike, a downward strike, and a dropping slash (which you can use to defeat the knights). And that's without mentioning the magical attacks you acquire as you progress. I've downloaded a couple of hacks that advertise themselves as tantamount to entirely new games. I haven't played them yet though. They're called Nightmare of Ganon and Resurrection of Ganon.
Baseball games are a mystery to me. No matter where I hit in the outfield, I get an out. And no matter where they hit, my guy is never there to catch it.
52:36 I'm happy to inform you that Bionic Commando's reboot was also released on PS3, and honestly regardless of how 'successful' it was, it was actually quite good, and jam-packed with a ton of great features. That reboot made me love Bionic Commando far more than I did the first time around.
Also worth mentioning that the video inaccurately says that's all there was, when there was a fucking awesome 2.5D reboot called Bionic Commando: Rearmed, which also got a mediocre sequel.
Fine I'll try Zelda 2, But really wonderfully put together video. Ambitious, snappy, informative and entertaining all the way through. Taught me a LOT about a lot of games I knew little about and some I didn't even know like Little Samson. Can't imagine having to research all these games. Surprised to see Mario Bros. 2 rank so high and Tetris not higher. Nice job with that Castlevania boss and man I can't imagine how hard Mike Tyson must be for you to never have beaten him. Great format and a lot to chew on here, definitely worth some rewatches! This is something to be proud of and a huge dedication to the NES
@@ramrodbldm9876 Dude. This comment is 2 years old. I could say that you have no life for commenting annoying shit on a 2 year old comment. People like what they like.
This is the type of vidoe to watch after you purchase one of those retro systems with a huge rom dump included. Now you can cull down that collection of roms and try something you've never played or long since forgotten. Great video!
Born in 1982 here- This was a really fun NES top 100! Loved how it was not the typical top 100.. very cool to see what a gamer born in 1995 would think of these old titles. FWIW I agree with a lot of this video- maybe not all of it, but a lot of good points- loved seeing Zelda2 at the top spot!
Wow, glad I watched this after hearing about the SNES video recommended to me by Red Cow Arcade. Faxanadu, Monster Party, The Krion Conquest and Vice Project Doom look fantastic and I wish I had known they existed sooner.
I have a lot of nostalgia for Dragon Warrior and I admit that I am not the biggest fan of JRPGs, but that one I always loved and still play to this day. It would definitely make a top 10 list for the NES, which just goes show how great of library this console had, that it was only 91 for you. Thanks for sharing your top 100 and please keep the content coming.
@@opaljk4835 it might honestly be time it self. I'm old enough to have played Pong™ when the only thing to play was Pong™. If you are 10, 15 or 20 years yunger than I am the chance of you just not really being into any game that is too old is high. Things were better over all for you thanks to technololgy. So your base expectation is higher. like because of everything ive played up 'till now I too now have a higher than befor bar. If I find an old RPG for an 8 or 16 bit system I never played I really, really, really have to be in the mood & have time to play the new game unike if it was 30 years ago finding a new RPG. However, you might be my age-ish and if you are but didnt like Kid Icarus then maybe you were team Master System. But now that I think of it some stuff I did know about that was popular but I never played because it just didnt interest me like Star Tropis. I guess it just boils down to taste.
zelda 2 was always the one zelda game i could stomach. i wouldn't say it's my favorite nes game, but very epic nonetheless sweet home, mother, and mr. gimmick all take the top spot for me
To your friend: every 3D videogame is projected onto a 2D plane, your tv screen. Unless you’re playing a real life table top game, you’re playing a 2D game. 😂
@TheDustyWilk Eyeballs are 3D, though? Only by working together, they achieve the 3D effect. With one eye, you have no depth perception, so perhaps 3D is actually an illusion as you say?
Yep, by every metric worldwide there was literally 3-4 TIMES more than 400 games... that was a pretty embarrassing blunder. They even said it multiple times as if they were so sure of it too... IoI. Considering there were nearly 700 licensed games released just in the US alone, as well as yet ANOTHER 90-200 unlicensed titles sold in stores on-top of that (again just in the US alone), I'm very curious where he pulled such an inaccurately random number from.
It’s interesting. I’m about 10 years older than you i am guessing. I am a little closer to these releases. I like to say that makes me more aware of initial responses and how individual games helped shaped the industry, but it also makes me more susceptible to nostalgia too
From a guy who was a kid playing the NES games in the late 80s/ early 90s, it's absolutely wild to see Super Spike Volleyball ten spots ahead of Metroid.
They actually did make a follow up to the original Excitebike such as VS Excitebike, which I haven’t played and Excitebike World Rally, which was a good game that does let you save your maps. But both are more obscure.
I actually liked Star Tropics. Also, Zelda 2 was the first Zelda I ever owned. I played Zelda 1 at a friends house back in the late 80’s, but when I finally got my own Nintendo and it was time to make a birthday wish for a new game (a rare occurrence) I wished for Zelda 2 for some reason. I don’t know, maybe my kid brain thought “2=better” or something. I ended up hating it. There game was just too intense for me. I hated getting dragged into random encounters, the villagers creeped me out. Every time I failed I had to hear Ganon laugh at me. It was a game I would never love, even if, years later, I would come to respect what it was trying to do. I did eventually team up with my little brother to beat the game. One of us navigated using a map while the other controlled the game. It was a struggle that left us with a bitter taste rather than the joy of victory. We completed Zelda 2 because we felt that we must, not for the love of the game. This was my Dad’s idea, he felt it was a waste of time for us to get a new game unless we had “beaten” all the old ones. So, Zelda 2 became just another chore for my brother and I to complete. So, please know that, even if I am an ignorant clod who is incapable of recognizing a masterpiece, my disdain for Zelda 2 comes from an authentic place.
Actually I wouldn't have it in the top 20, there are a lot of great NES games. Now if it's on someone's top 20 that's fine. That's his opinion to have something else.
I'm just happy Monster Party made the list, and so high! It's one of my favorite games from my childhood that nobody's ever heard of. My parents could never remember the names of games I wanted as a kid (unless they were based on movies or tv shows), so when I wanted Castlevania, I told them to get me "the game with Dracula on the cover." Ended up with Mosnter Party instead and fell in love with it.
I loved Blaster Master, got it for christmas in maybe 1988. Its super hard past 3rd level. And got Bayou Billy same time. Its impossible. I still have nightmares 30+ years on.
I come back to this one all the time. So much fun. If I gave you one recommendation to check out, it's Rescue: The Embassy Mission. Everyone misses this one, but it's amazing.
I am SO stoked to see your #1 pick... I put off playing Link's Adventure for a long time because of its reputation. I am playing through it now and I think it is my favorite Zelda game of all. The first time a lady in a purple dress turned into a bat and killed my low-health noob-self I lost my marbles with delight. This game is a true adventure, and a treasure.
@@JasonGravesPoser Hope so man, was not expecting this video, but it was done extremely well. Well researched and you kept it interesting by splicing in videos of other UA-camrs. Plus your normal goofiness is always great.
Oh good Lord... I just got to the bit where you mentioned that your teachers at school were probably at school themselves in the 80's and 90's. I left school in 1979. Yes... Right as a certain video game phenonema was about to grip humanity. I'll be honest, I still have flashbacks to those times even now.
Inexplicably this video has become a movie for me, and apparently a favorite of mine, given I've rewatched it and it's sequel way too many times. Looking forward to the final video rounding out this trilogy Top 100 the Third: Revenge of the N64, but that would require finding 100 good N64 games 👁👁
Most impressive, admittedly too sporty and race oriented for me, but what do I know- also on need of a haircut. What is your take on Satoshimatrix's list? It was also interesting to note the references to Noah Caldwell-Gervais way of emphasizing certain expressions, Parish's Metal Gear retrospective, etc'...
Unexpected #1 pick! I absolutely, unironically love The Adventure of Link, too! Didn't beat it for the first time until I was 30 years old, and meticulously drew out the entire overworld and dungeon maps on graph paper and shaded with Sharpies! But I did it, and still have my maps from 2013 for a new playthrough, and even soldered a new battery into my cartridge to keep my save alive this time!
Maniac mansion is one of the best NES games. And is a true sleeper. Those who have played it, understand. It's a puzzle game with different ending based off your choices. Well we'll worth digging into l. But if you look up the answers. The joy of discovery is gone.
I don't know what that is lol. For the sake of this video I only played it for about 3 minutes. Last time I played through was on an actual cart. As for 4, if the easy money trick is to stock up on items before a chapter ends then yeah, all day long
Just a little info, In Mario 3 you cannot do the tower is w5 backwards. If you go back into the pipe after completing the tower you just fall from a pipe thats at the top of the stage and enter a pipe at the bottom, and it brings you back to the bottom map.
A few of my thoughts: Dragon Warrior ahead of FF1 is the first travesty. Yeah FF1 has some bugs, but it is vastly superior to Dragon Warrior. I love the NFL Films/NFL Primetime music sprinkled throughout. "Cursorary" at 40:44 Zelda 2 at #1 was a surprise In this and other videos you give AVGN too much credit for swaying public opinion on what are bad NES games. Speaking specifically about NES titles, if you grew up in the 80s playing these games, the AVGN is often just voicing what we commonly felt back then. Yes TMNT for NES sucked. That was a very common feeling long before AVGN ever made a video. Same goes for some other games that you defend. You may be right that those games got a bad wrap, but the AVGN isn't the reason they got a bad wrap, for the most part. Awesome video! I love this channel.
Racing factoid: Al Unser Jr. was actually an IndyCar driver, only racing in NASCAR in 1994. Though Turbo Racing is seen as an "F1 game" that's mainly because, at the time, pretty much any open-wheel racing game was seen as an F1 game. Even Mario Andretti Racing was called an F1 game. And although Mario Andretti DID race in F1, by the 90s when the game came out he was an IndyCar driver. The car on the box art (like the cars on Al Unser Jr.'s box art) was, indeed, an IndyCar. Mario ended his F1 career in 1982 to focus on his IndyCar career. So although Al Unser Jr. did race in NASCAR he, along with his grandfather, father, uncles and cousins, were all IndyCar drivers with the exception of his cousin Loni Unser, who focuses her racing career on the Pikes Peak Hill Climb. Signed, A huge racing fan.
Dude. Made it through the whole video. Got to number 2 (1A) and thought to myself “No f-ing way. No Zelda 2. How can it not be in his top 100”. That game gets so little love. Even hate. “It’s overrated, blah, blah, blah” Then, BOOM. Number 1. Amazing. I played this in the ‘80s as a 9 year old, and it was definitely a challenge, but I made it without much help other than the odd Nintendo Power tip (just for Shadow Link, if I remember right). Great video. Look forward to seeing more. PS, I’m convinced if you played Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy and Metroid before their superior sequels, you’d have them higher up. They were pretty incredible as a kid.
I will defend Castlevania 2. You know why the game was bad? The localizers RUINED the translation. If they had translated it right, we would have coherent sentences that didn't outright misdirect you when you're trying to find your way around. Even running through the game with a guide? I had a blast.
TECMO BOWL is bad compared to Tecmo Super Bowl on NES. The SNES version is not even close to the NES Tecmo SUPER bowl. But Tecmo Bowl cannot stand a candle to the SNES version. Genesis ain't impressive , controller misadapted. As often for the genesis 3 button controlle
Bro, you CRUSHED this review! Fantastic reviews on each game and is WELL worth the watch! Commentary was on point! My all time favorite nes game Tecmo Super Bowl never knew the fact they had never seen football! Wow! Great job man!
A lot of us played those late era NES games at the time. Our parents were pissed that a new system came out and wouldn't play any of the old games they spent all that money on and had to wait a few years to finally get a SNES or Genesis. By that time the rental market was HUGE. I assume that's why there are so few copies of those late era games. I the people who could afford buying new games already moved on to SNES. Those of us with just the NES, which I think were probably a lot of us for 2 or 3 years were still renting NES games all the time.
Zelda 2 really is the best NES game. The play control and animations have a beauty that is unmatched to this day. If you try it and don't like it, watch a bit of a speedrun to learn how to play it, then it'll click. If you want more there are a ton of romhacks for it of varying levels of challenge.
Plenty i could say here obv, but being upfront about the "stuff that got localized in English only" rule kills a lot of my potential nitpicks! i will just say that The Guardian Legend could potentially hit the spot for you. Yes it's a shmup, but only a half-shmup and the other half of the game is right in your wheelhouse. Doing enough exploring on the Zelda side of the game will even make the shmup stages way easier and more fun. There's just nothing else quite like it even to this day, and the soundtrack is one of my favorite on the system with a totally unique vibe for the NES; it's the 8-bit era's closest thing to ASMR for me.
Love that Super Spike V'Ball made it. It's in my personal top 5. Also, love that Ice Hockey made it past Blades of Steel. Also SMB2 is my favorite of the SMBs because I never owned it as a child, but had 1 and 3. Sometimes what you think is best but can't have really is the best.
That ship literally is the Colleco version of the ship lol. Spent a lot of top playing this game on Colleco as a kid and it looms basically the same, just slightly better color lol
20:54 This entry is nonsense! Al Unser Jr raced Indy Car many times, and only did Nascar once. I have no idea where I heard that tidbit, but it's not true!
Tbf, it is still supposed to be a sim of F1 racing which he, indeed, did not ever participate in ;)
btw Super Mario 2 (US version not "Lost Levels") is a re-skinned game, called Toki Doki Panic. kind of interesting story, check it out if you get a chance.
There’s a company called Nintendo that has made video games for a while, you should check it out.
Take your list and go with that to Toilette your list is Toilette paper
Most of the games you choice are from Nintendo mini or so horrible bad that no human being should play it
Dragon Warrior is very inferior to Final Fantasy 1... even Dragon Warrio 3 ain't that better.... mate what are you saying!!!! Final Fantasy 2 is as good, and beats even Dragon Warrrior 4 to me... I am yet to play Final Fantasy 3 oin famicom, but i crushed FF2 with levelling BEFORe getting my 3rd word, i went to mysidia before learning the 3rd word in japanese as a non-nippon reading dude and can say FF2 beats every Dragon warrior game in fun and technique, dep^th andcomplexity of the game saved in such a little cartridge.DQ 4 is fun and has story though, but the spells and weapon complexity and depth of customization of the 3 lead heroes is amazing
"You play as Simon from the Smash Bros series" killed me... XD
This video was specifically designed to piss off anyone who was born between 1977 and 1981 and succeeded exceptionally well at said endeavor. Well done. ;)
Accurate.
Well sux to be you. This video is very entertaining for this 90s baby 😂
Don't diss Nintendo lol. Just kidding
born in 76 and I am not mad. However I am moving the original Tecmo Bowl way up and street fighter and super off road.
I got legitimately hyped at the introduction of THE PYRAMID.
Zelda II is the most epic feeling adventure the NES could have possibly pulled off. Great top pick 👌🏻
It's great to see Zelda II get the love it deserves. Nowadays I go back and forth on which NES Zelda game I prefer, but when I was a boy in 1988 playing Zelda II, I remember saying to myself "This is better than the first game". The original Zelda had been my favorite game until that moment. What's wonderful about Zelda II is the advanced combat system. You can attack in so many ways, and you have to use every move in your arsenal to defeat all the enemies. You have a regular strike (with and without projectile), a low strike (with and without projectile), an upward strike, a downward strike, and a dropping slash (which you can use to defeat the knights). And that's without mentioning the magical attacks you acquire as you progress.
I've downloaded a couple of hacks that advertise themselves as tantamount to entirely new games. I haven't played them yet though. They're called Nightmare of Ganon and Resurrection of Ganon.
Zelda 2 sucks
@@GTSN38 True.
Calling Duck Hunt to Mario "the mistress to the wife" is a hell of a simile...
Base Wars would top my list but nobody ever recognizes its greatness 😅
Baseball games are a mystery to me.
No matter where I hit in the outfield, I get an out. And no matter where they hit, my guy is never there to catch it.
52:36 I'm happy to inform you that Bionic Commando's reboot was also released on PS3, and honestly regardless of how 'successful' it was, it was actually quite good, and jam-packed with a ton of great features. That reboot made me love Bionic Commando far more than I did the first time around.
Also worth mentioning that the video inaccurately says that's all there was, when there was a fucking awesome 2.5D reboot called Bionic Commando: Rearmed, which also got a mediocre sequel.
Fine I'll try Zelda 2,
But really wonderfully put together video. Ambitious, snappy, informative and entertaining all the way through. Taught me a LOT about a lot of games I knew little about and some I didn't even know like Little Samson. Can't imagine having to research all these games.
Surprised to see Mario Bros. 2 rank so high and Tetris not higher. Nice job with that Castlevania boss and man I can't imagine how hard Mike Tyson must be for you to never have beaten him.
Great format and a lot to chew on here, definitely worth some rewatches! This is something to be proud of and a huge dedication to the NES
Mario bros 2 and Zelda 2 suck ass. Zelda 2 being a little better than mb 2. I wouldn't put them on a top 50 list
@@GTSN38 bruh you're stoned. Zelda 2 and Mario bros 2 rule.
@HoopleBogart I can name 48 games that are better, so they shouldn't be on a top 50 list.
@@GTSN38 I think Mario 2 is satisfactory, but Zelda 2 is an enormous disappointment to this very day.
1:21:38 ohhhh, that was clutch!
Tiny Toons was not a nickelodeon TV show. It was syndicated, and the phrase is "I couldn't care less."
nice
Not what I expected whatsoever but incredibly hyped for this. Can't wait to rewatch this 30 times this week
You have no life
@@ramrodbldm9876 Dude. This comment is 2 years old. I could say that you have no life for commenting annoying shit on a 2 year old comment. People like what they like.
40:48 Something tells me you'd get along well with a certain Scott the Woz.
This is the type of vidoe to watch after you purchase one of those retro systems with a huge rom dump included. Now you can cull down that collection of roms and try something you've never played or long since forgotten. Great video!
Curated rom lists are the best! Just having every game is no fun
Glad to see crystalis on here. Used to play this a lot as a little kid and is one of the best games on the nes by far
Born in 1982 here- This was a really fun NES top 100! Loved how it was not the typical top 100.. very cool to see what a gamer born in 1995 would think of these old titles. FWIW I agree with a lot of this video- maybe not all of it, but a lot of good points- loved seeing Zelda2 at the top spot!
Wow, glad I watched this after hearing about the SNES video recommended to me by Red Cow Arcade. Faxanadu, Monster Party, The Krion Conquest and Vice Project Doom look fantastic and I wish I had known they existed sooner.
Your consistent use of the word strategery has earned you my sub.
Awesome video! Hopefully you make a top 100 SNES games as well!
I have a lot of nostalgia for Dragon Warrior and I admit that I am not the biggest fan of JRPGs, but that one I always loved and still play to this day. It would definitely make a top 10 list for the NES, which just goes show how great of library this console had, that it was only 91 for you. Thanks for sharing your top 100 and please keep the content coming.
not only is it good... not only did I enjoy it... not only did I play it for hours upon hours but Kid Icarus is one of my all time favorite NES games.
I’ve tried to like it so many times. It’s pretty dang frustrating, but I assume there’s a threshold of skill that once you pass it’s a lot more fun.
@@opaljk4835 it might honestly be time it self. I'm old enough to have played Pong™ when the only thing to play was Pong™. If you are 10, 15 or 20 years yunger than I am the chance of you just not really being into any game that is too old is high. Things were better over all for you thanks to technololgy. So your base expectation is higher. like because of everything ive played up 'till now I too now have a higher than befor bar. If I find an old RPG for an 8 or 16 bit system I never played I really, really, really have to be in the mood & have time to play the new game unike if it was 30 years ago finding a new RPG. However, you might be my age-ish and if you are but didnt like Kid Icarus then maybe you were team Master System. But now that I think of it some stuff I did know about that was popular but I never played because it just didnt interest me like Star Tropis. I guess it just boils down to taste.
Yeah he probably couldn't pass the first level...the game gets soo much better later on
I used to love Kid Icarus as a kid but man it is hard
zelda 2 was always the one zelda game i could stomach. i wouldn't say it's my favorite nes game, but very epic nonetheless
sweet home, mother, and mr. gimmick all take the top spot for me
Sweet Home is game design heaven. Like seriously, how is it an 80s game?
To your friend: every 3D videogame is projected onto a 2D plane, your tv screen. Unless you’re playing a real life table top game, you’re playing a 2D game. 😂
Even our 3D reality is a 2D projection. Onto ur eyeballs.
@TheDustyWilk Eyeballs are 3D, though? Only by working together, they achieve the 3D effect. With one eye, you have no depth perception, so perhaps 3D is actually an illusion as you say?
VR baby
Yeah, that argument was super weak.
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Thanks as always for the escape.
Dudes from Double Dragon Gaming says there are bout 400 games in the NES library ? There are over 1600 games for the NES.
Yep, by every metric worldwide there was literally 3-4 TIMES more than 400 games... that was a pretty embarrassing blunder. They even said it multiple times as if they were so sure of it too... IoI. Considering there were nearly 700 licensed games released just in the US alone, as well as yet ANOTHER 90-200 unlicensed titles sold in stores on-top of that (again just in the US alone), I'm very curious where he pulled such an inaccurately random number from.
it’s actually 714 For the NES (it’s 1041 for the Famicom)
Playing and talking about some random game I had barely heard of before this was pretty fun, not gonna lie.
Thanks for being a part of it!
Really enjoyed the list.
It’s interesting. I’m about 10 years older than you i am guessing. I am a little closer to these releases. I like to say that makes me more aware of initial responses and how individual games helped shaped the industry, but it also makes me more susceptible to nostalgia too
From a guy who was a kid playing the NES games in the late 80s/ early 90s, it's absolutely wild to see Super Spike Volleyball ten spots ahead of Metroid.
They actually did make a follow up to the original Excitebike such as VS Excitebike, which I haven’t played and Excitebike World Rally, which was a good game that does let you save your maps. But both are more obscure.
And even an in depth top 100. Top tier channel.
I actually liked Star Tropics. Also, Zelda 2 was the first Zelda I ever owned. I played Zelda 1 at a friends house back in the late 80’s, but when I finally got my own Nintendo and it was time to make a birthday wish for a new game (a rare occurrence) I wished for Zelda 2 for some reason. I don’t know, maybe my kid brain thought “2=better” or something. I ended up hating it. There game was just too intense for me. I hated getting dragged into random encounters, the villagers creeped me out. Every time I failed I had to hear Ganon laugh at me. It was a game I would never love, even if, years later, I would come to respect what it was trying to do. I did eventually team up with my little brother to beat the game. One of us navigated using a map while the other controlled the game. It was a struggle that left us with a bitter taste rather than the joy of victory. We completed Zelda 2 because we felt that we must, not for the love of the game. This was my Dad’s idea, he felt it was a waste of time for us to get a new game unless we had “beaten” all the old ones. So, Zelda 2 became just another chore for my brother and I to complete. So, please know that, even if I am an ignorant clod who is incapable of recognizing a masterpiece, my disdain for Zelda 2 comes from an authentic place.
Oh, you’re fine. Zelda 2 is not very good, and it certainly is not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination.
Even having Star Tropics out of the top 20 would make this list hard to take seriously.
Actually I wouldn't have it in the top 20, there are a lot of great NES games. Now if it's on someone's top 20 that's fine. That's his opinion to have something else.
Great job on the music choice. The espn football prime time music fits perfectly haha 😂
I'm just happy Monster Party made the list, and so high! It's one of my favorite games from my childhood that nobody's ever heard of. My parents could never remember the names of games I wanted as a kid (unless they were based on movies or tv shows), so when I wanted Castlevania, I told them to get me "the game with Dracula on the cover." Ended up with Mosnter Party instead and fell in love with it.
Great video!
I loved Blaster Master, got it for christmas in maybe 1988. Its super hard past 3rd level. And got Bayou Billy same time. Its impossible. I still have nightmares 30+ years on.
52:11 Ooooh, I see what you did there.
Thanks for this list. Was extremely helpful. I look forward to the sequel next.
I come back to this one all the time. So much fun.
If I gave you one recommendation to check out, it's Rescue: The Embassy Mission. Everyone misses this one, but it's amazing.
The sorta turn based FPS! I really liked that game when I was a kid
Thought this list was weird, then I heard him say he was too young for the Duck Tales cartoon and it all made sense.
This video deserves more love.
you just casually made the best top 100 nes games ever
I like the part when you say “I’m to young to have watched” but yet here you are playing the game it’s based off of. Good video!
I don't think I realized how ingrained the noises of Bubble Bobble were until I watched this video.
I am SO stoked to see your #1 pick... I put off playing Link's Adventure for a long time because of its reputation. I am playing through it now and I think it is my favorite Zelda game of all. The first time a lady in a purple dress turned into a bat and killed my low-health noob-self I lost my marbles with delight. This game is a true adventure, and a treasure.
The NFL films music in the background was a wonderful touch
Nes open is incredible!! The physics still amaze me after a decade
Really enjoyed watching this, will there be a SNES list sometime in the future?
maybe
@@JasonGravesPoser Hope so man, was not expecting this video, but it was done extremely well. Well researched and you kept it interesting by splicing in videos of other UA-camrs. Plus your normal goofiness is always great.
Nothing like watching a video with your kids when an F bomb drops out of nowhere...
Oh good Lord... I just got to the bit where you mentioned that your teachers at school were probably at school themselves in the 80's and 90's.
I left school in 1979. Yes... Right as a certain video game phenonema was about to grip humanity. I'll be honest, I still have flashbacks to those times even now.
Can we appreciate the NFL Primetime highlights soundtrack
The Madden series on the Genesis definitely had some better football games than Super Tecmo Bowl before the PS2.
Fucking awesome. Thank you for making this.
Inexplicably this video has become a movie for me, and apparently a favorite of mine, given I've rewatched it and it's sequel way too many times. Looking forward to the final video rounding out this trilogy Top 100 the Third: Revenge of the N64, but that would require finding 100 good N64 games 👁👁
3 Blackbelts 1 White Mage, and you’re wondering why you don’t like FF1…
Don't worry about it clownboy psy
Alright dropping everything I'm doing for there is something I must consume
Most impressive, admittedly too sporty and race oriented for me, but what do I know- also on need of a haircut. What is your take on Satoshimatrix's list? It was also interesting to note the references to Noah Caldwell-Gervais way of emphasizing certain expressions, Parish's Metal Gear retrospective, etc'...
Tecmo Super Bowl is top 10, maybe even top 5
Great video, with observations and effort that distinguish you among other creators.
Off road I played the cabinet it had a three player with steering wheels
Unexpected #1 pick! I absolutely, unironically love The Adventure of Link, too! Didn't beat it for the first time until I was 30 years old, and meticulously drew out the entire overworld and dungeon maps on graph paper and shaded with Sharpies! But I did it, and still have my maps from 2013 for a new playthrough, and even soldered a new battery into my cartridge to keep my save alive this time!
This video rocks 😆
Dragon warrior is top 50 no question. My intro to JRPG. I cant take you seriously when you have at least 20 arcade games above classics
you kind of drove off the cliff on the bubble bobble tho LMAO that game was legendary
Maniac mansion is one of the best NES games. And is a true sleeper. Those who have played it, understand. It's a puzzle game with different ending based off your choices. Well we'll worth digging into l. But if you look up the answers. The joy of discovery is gone.
Very nice vid. Lots of work and it shows. Great work man! Quick question. Did you use the "easy money trick" in DW3 or did you grind?
I don't know what that is lol. For the sake of this video I only played it for about 3 minutes. Last time I played through was on an actual cart. As for 4, if the easy money trick is to stock up on items before a chapter ends then yeah, all day long
Just a little info, In Mario 3 you cannot do the tower is w5 backwards. If you go back into the pipe after completing the tower you just fall from a pipe thats at the top of the stage and enter a pipe at the bottom, and it brings you back to the bottom map.
A few of my thoughts:
Dragon Warrior ahead of FF1 is the first travesty. Yeah FF1 has some bugs, but it is vastly superior to Dragon Warrior.
I love the NFL Films/NFL Primetime music sprinkled throughout.
"Cursorary" at 40:44
Zelda 2 at #1 was a surprise
In this and other videos you give AVGN too much credit for swaying public opinion on what are bad NES games. Speaking specifically about NES titles, if you grew up in the 80s playing these games, the AVGN is often just voicing what we commonly felt back then. Yes TMNT for NES sucked. That was a very common feeling long before AVGN ever made a video. Same goes for some other games that you defend. You may be right that those games got a bad wrap, but the AVGN isn't the reason they got a bad wrap, for the most part.
Awesome video! I love this channel.
Racing factoid: Al Unser Jr. was actually an IndyCar driver, only racing in NASCAR in 1994. Though Turbo Racing is seen as an "F1 game" that's mainly because, at the time, pretty much any open-wheel racing game was seen as an F1 game.
Even Mario Andretti Racing was called an F1 game. And although Mario Andretti DID race in F1, by the 90s when the game came out he was an IndyCar driver. The car on the box art (like the cars on Al Unser Jr.'s box art) was, indeed, an IndyCar.
Mario ended his F1 career in 1982 to focus on his IndyCar career.
So although Al Unser Jr. did race in NASCAR he, along with his grandfather, father, uncles and cousins, were all IndyCar drivers with the exception of his cousin Loni Unser, who focuses her racing career on the Pikes Peak Hill Climb.
Signed,
A huge racing fan.
Mr. Graves, u sir, are a treasure. Thank you for this video
Al Unser, Jr. was not a NASCAR driver. He drove IndyCar, open wheel race cars just like on the game.
He competed in 5 Nascar races, so technically he was, but yeah, Indy car was his thing.
@robertanderson2898 I did not know that.
Dude.
Made it through the whole video. Got to number 2 (1A) and thought to myself “No f-ing way. No Zelda 2. How can it not be in his top 100”. That game gets so little love. Even hate. “It’s overrated, blah, blah, blah”
Then, BOOM.
Number 1.
Amazing. I played this in the ‘80s as a 9 year old, and it was definitely a challenge, but I made it without much help other than the odd Nintendo Power tip (just for Shadow Link, if I remember right).
Great video. Look forward to seeing more.
PS, I’m convinced if you played Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy and Metroid before their superior sequels, you’d have them higher up. They were pretty incredible as a kid.
bruh don't spoil #1 picks in the comments on videos over an hour long
I will defend Castlevania 2. You know why the game was bad? The localizers RUINED the translation. If they had translated it right, we would have coherent sentences that didn't outright misdirect you when you're trying to find your way around. Even running through the game with a guide? I had a blast.
Me loves Dragon Warrior IV on the NES. And Taloon rocks.
Great job. Had a good time wayching
love ur content soo hard
Dragon Warrior 4 is tied with Battletoads for my favorite NES game! Most gamers wouldn't have part IV ranked at #2! But I'm totally digging that.....
I would argue that forums, bulletin boards, gamefaqs, are the natural evolution of those playground talk days.
Came hete from Red Cow... and you've won my subscription.
TECMO BOWL is bad compared to Tecmo Super Bowl on NES.
The SNES version is not even close to the NES Tecmo SUPER bowl.
But Tecmo Bowl cannot stand a candle to the SNES version. Genesis ain't impressive , controller misadapted. As often for the genesis 3 button controlle
16:13 I had this game when I was 5, and have very vague memories of it. I’ve always been trying to find it again online until now. 😂😂😂😂😂
Kings of the beach deserved to be on this list.
Dude…the ESPN background music makes me very happy.
Over horzon is one of top 10 but more pepole dont now abaut him
400 games... more like 1400. Battletoads is an adrenaline rush tho.
Bro, you CRUSHED this review! Fantastic reviews on each game and is WELL worth the watch! Commentary was on point! My all time favorite nes game Tecmo Super Bowl never knew the fact they had never seen football! Wow! Great job man!
A lot of us played those late era NES games at the time. Our parents were pissed that a new system came out and wouldn't play any of the old games they spent all that money on and had to wait a few years to finally get a SNES or Genesis. By that time the rental market was HUGE. I assume that's why there are so few copies of those late era games. I the people who could afford buying new games already moved on to SNES. Those of us with just the NES, which I think were probably a lot of us for 2 or 3 years were still renting NES games all the time.
So happy to see someone else put Zelda 2 over 1.
Zelda 2 really is the best NES game. The play control and animations have a beauty that is unmatched to this day. If you try it and don't like it, watch a bit of a speedrun to learn how to play it, then it'll click. If you want more there are a ton of romhacks for it of varying levels of challenge.
Plenty i could say here obv, but being upfront about the "stuff that got localized in English only" rule kills a lot of my potential nitpicks!
i will just say that The Guardian Legend could potentially hit the spot for you. Yes it's a shmup, but only a half-shmup and the other half of the game is right in your wheelhouse. Doing enough exploring on the Zelda side of the game will even make the shmup stages way easier and more fun. There's just nothing else quite like it even to this day, and the soundtrack is one of my favorite on the system with a totally unique vibe for the NES; it's the 8-bit era's closest thing to ASMR for me.
Love that Super Spike V'Ball made it. It's in my personal top 5. Also, love that Ice Hockey made it past Blades of Steel. Also SMB2 is my favorite of the SMBs because I never owned it as a child, but had 1 and 3. Sometimes what you think is best but can't have really is the best.
A piece of paper is in fact 3 dimensional. The fact that one of those dimensions is comparatively small does not mean it doesn't exist.
The picture on said paper is 2D though.
Great video! It makes me want to play some Mario!
Never come here again
Zelda 2 is my favorite to. It’s the only game I still play even today. I have it right in my living room.
That ship literally is the Colleco version of the ship lol. Spent a lot of top playing this game on Colleco as a kid and it looms basically the same, just slightly better color lol
Dude I love Kid Icarus! It’s in my Top 5 games which I still play. That, Zelda 1 & 2, Metroid, and a few others round out the top 10.
Hilarious intro and GREEAT LIST!!
The top baseball game by far on the NES is Baseball Stars, followed by RBI Baseball.