I Ranked Every Mindscape game on NES
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- Mindscape published many games that people have heard of, some ported from computer, some ported from other companies. Heres a look at all 20 games from Mindscape for NES.
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Don't worry, we also ranked LJN games for NES and, believe it or not, some aren't as bad as you think. ua-cam.com/video/yX6FqMBlEw4/v-deo.html
I just watched your LJN reviews. I didn't see Jaws which was my favorite LJN game.
John maybe when you play loopz play with an emulator that has the rewind capability that way if you accidentally drop it before you're ready to you can just rewind it and rotate it instead. Because yes I like the game too but also found that part very frustrating but thought it was a cool concept
Mule is definitely a pc game
Do toho next or else write fan fiction
@@Getagirlfriend-y4e don't bother to ask him to do anything cuz he seems to do what he wants to do I asked months ago to do culture brain because I thought they had some unique games and they blended some unique genres together and would be an interesting list to showcase some games that people may not know about. he didn't seem interested so I would assume making request to John is a futile task. I also asked several different times and several different posts of his just didn't seem interested which is okay it's his channel I'm not mad about it I'm just saying it's probably useless to ask him to do things because he has his own agenda.
Paperboy: Delivering the good stuff to subscribers.
John Riggs: Same thing.
Imagine unsubscribing and John Riggs shows up at your house.
I love the little bits of nostalgia narrative that you throw in here, like the teachers going on strike and you renting Mad Max from the grocery store. Part of the reason why I love this channel so much is that you go back and reminisce about playing these games and that takes us all back to simpler times. Good stuff man.
As a little kid, I had a lot of fun with Gauntlet 2. It definitely started my love of dungeon crawler type games.
Jared Radford shot the food.
Same!! It was in my library as a kid, and I treasured every moment with it. So much fun with a friend
Conan = Myth: History in the Making
The Last Starfighter = Uridium
Myth was great on the c64. Never played Conan So no idea how they botched it
Roadblasters! I used to rent this and play it with my dad a bunch back in the day. I forgot about this game, but as soon as you mentioned the green orbs, it all came back to me! Need to pick this one up
I finally recently beat it! 50 levels of awesomeness - it wasn't easy.
Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, and Heart are currently on tour together in the spirit of Capt Planet.
GO PLANET!!
"Let our powers combine"
"You discovered a mine" .. well played game, well played.
20 mins? Dang sweet
The Last Starfighter is just Uridium renamed
Yep, and Conan was Myth. It's odd seeing highly rated computer games getting bad ratings on console even though they play at least as well as the originals.
That's Riggs for ya'! NES Conan is not nearly as good as Myth on the C64 though; lower frame rate and less responsive controls quickly turn a really good game into a really bad one.
@@robqg It's common because console and 8bit computer games aren't exactly in the same ballpark of style. Uridium doesn't feel out of place at all on the c64, however, when it came out, you had Guardian Legend, Zanac, Star Soldier, etc. and so it very much was like, 'what is this?' and it's very offputting. In other words, on the NES, there's a homogenous feel to a lot of the games, for better or worse. I'm always surprised to see the Camerica/Codemasters games get bad ratings too. I personally love Ultimate Stuntman, but it frequently gets treated like it's Action52, which is beyond hyperbole and beyond the slamming that game deserves. I enjoyed the Dizzy games, but they also get shat on relentlessly by US NES fans.
As an American who's actively looking into European games scene, especially on the 8bit computers (I have a Spectrum NEXT coming in soon...whoot!), I will always side with the 8bit micro community on NES games based on their games getting too much hate. They're a victim of circumstance. I will say, however, Infiltrator really isn't that good and I'm surprised it even got a port OR a sequel...good idea, bad execution if you ask me!
@@robqg Well... IMO Myth isn't any good on the C64 either (I played it back in the day... on cartridge). European devs were just waaay behind the Japanese (and US) devs back in the 80s and 90s when it came to these types of games, with no sense of pacing or design. Enemy killed, immediately respawn it and make it beeline for the player... there were so many games just like that on the C64; just terrible garbage... Myth was a little bit better than that and it looked good which made it seem good in comparison. System 3 made some really great titles besides Myth though.
@@heavysystemsinc. this guy gave jeopardy and maximum carnage the same rating, he's clearly got no idea what he's talking about.
Fun fact about Days of Thunder: It had a bug in it and it was impossible to finish first place. To get anywhere near the top you'd have to avoid pit stops. Seems it wasn't thoroughly play tested and the AI is not susceptible to damage and wear and tear as the player is. You can never finish 1st place. I can't believe this game was even released.
One might suspect that Mindscape had an under the table deal with Galoob or Datel to boost sales of their respective cheat devices in this case...
These are some of my favorite series on UA-cam. Straight to the point and fun to find new games to try.
Thank you.
16:00 Paperboy was amazing in the arcade because the cabinet had controls, I think the controls were made from real bike handles
Great memory, you took me back 😂
The good old days! You could rent games at a grocery store and cigarettes were on the same shelves as the bread and Doritos! I miss the 80’s
Oh yeah, a lot of great memories playing Gauntlet 2 with my brother back in the day. Great list, John Riggs!
One time I absorbed a ghost and when I expelled him it was loud and everyone looked at me and laughed. Ghost was kinda stinky too.
Stinky ghost are TIGHT!
@@BigMacOrange fair enough
I absorbed and expelled a banshee when I was younger. Really embarrassing. Especially when a teacher popped her head out of a supposedly sound-proof computer lab next door and asked, "What was that?"...
Loved Road Blasters in the arcade. I never knew there was an NES port.
And a surprisingly faithful port at that.
I'm addicted to your videos, john. Thanks for the great content
Addicted?! uh oh. You can stop anytime.
Please keep rating games like this. I know the trend has died didn't but these are some of your best videos and I love them ☺️🤘 plus you sometimes show games I've never heard of
"You can cleanse the pallet by checking out these other videos" 😂 I like it. Great segue!
These are my favorite. Thanks John!
Road Blasters is an awesome game. I've been playing it recently, and I love it because it combines my 2 favorite genre's. Racing and Shooting. There are also ports on Sega Genesis, Atari ST, Lynx and Commodore 64 as well.
Cool list. Loved Gauntlet 2...I got the NES 4 score to play it....to this day I am still blown away anytime more then 2 players can play a game at the same time.
Skate or die was one of the biggest rope a dope games of the 80s. I was so disappointed when I finally got to play it.
I laughed at the part of the video where you played Captain Planet and the video was you constantly crashing your plane. LOL!
The infamous JohnRiggs.. “it’s alright it’s ok I mean yea it’s ok”😂 u should countdown the best games u said this about 😂 love the channel man!!!
I look forward to these videos every week. Thanks.
Yay, Mindscape! My favorite publisher! Atleast to collect for :) The Last Starfighter is insanely hard! Keep those lists coming, John :)
Great content. Love your ranking videos!
this series is incredibly interesting.....keep it going
Love these vids riggs..gives me an idea for games to look out for in the wild..have a great day
Enjoy your videos John. Always a trip to Nostalgiaville.
Hmm I never knew the Paperboy arcade game had handlebars as the controller, super cool!
Yay, thanks for this, I've been waiting for the Mindscape video
on another note - in Alfred Chicken, are you a chicken killing mechanical mice in Cheese Land...? what kind of crazy stuff were they huffing when they came up with that lol
So surprised about Battleship of all things, Nintendo made it look interesting
I remember playing 720 as a kid. Decent game really. Nice work on these reviews.
Thanks for the content Mister Riggs.
Mindscape was the middle man Atari Games published under after Tengen was banished to the Sega Genesis.
Yeah, you remembered the last star fighter just right. He plays an arcade game and gets a high score. It's secretly planted there by the, I can't remember who was it, the aliens, or just like a galactic space force of some sort, alien or earthling, doesn't matter. You're recruited to join! haha cool 80's kid movie right there.
That's a movie that I wouldn't mind a good reboot of. The closest we have is Armada by Ernest Cline who also wrote ready player one. The book wasn't as good at ready player one but still worth a read.
As a kid this movie got me jumping off the couch (something I liked to do when I was pumped up lol)
@@scootermcg9910 lol
@@jaredhammonds8255 I collect CED/ videodisc movies. I have this one in that format.
M.U.L.E blew my mind as a kid. Yeah it was confusing as hell but once I had the basics down I loved it. For a game I only rented maybe twice it stuck with me and I very much think of it as the beginning of my love of games like Civ.
"I'll give it a D"
*Take it back*
Haha very good usage of that soundbite!
Thanks for another great video, man.
DUDE! I was just gonna say something about that picture book! Whenever I heard The Last Starfighter, I think of that book. I remember looking thru that thing all the time. I also had this weird Star Wars book with a Scratch and Sniff fungus thing. It stunk.
The jewel on the hilt of conan's sword looks like an alien grey!
Conan: The Mysteries of Time is the same game known as Myth: History in the Making from System 3, which was released on C64 etc. I used to play it on my C64 and was surprised to see the NES version with a different name.
And The Last Starfighter looks like an Uridium clone. Also an C64 game. Or maybe Uridium is The Last Starfighter clone, dunno.
The PAL version of Flight of the Intruder (known as Phantom Air Mission) is together with the PAL version of Heavy Shreddin (Snowboard Challenge) the holy grails of European NES collecting. They are also the only games missing from my collection :(
Paper Boy was the game my sister and I bonded to, and for that, S all the way. Also, accelerating to increase the throw angle to land the paper in the mailbox? Totally awesome. And the obstacle course? Awesome!
Thank you 😊
For bringing back memories
Dang, I really enjoyed The Last Starfighter when I was little. Haven't played it in decades though, so maybe it's just my rose colored glasses :].
Great video!
I played Paperboy SOOO much when I was a kid! I loved it! Only the first one though, I never played the second
When I was a kid I thought the bases in the Mad Max game were stacks of Oreos. Sure the NES port of Paperboy isn't arcade perfect but I still love it to this day and couldn't get enough of RoadBlasters.
Flight of the Intruder was based on a movie. 1991; Danny Glover, Wilhem Dafoe. My dad was big into air force stuff, so we rented the movie and the game on the same weekend. Not sure which of us got the worse deal...
I want to know when we are getting a Conan the Librarian game :).
Good call 😂
Don't you know the Dewey Decimal System?!
Spachala city Spachala city
@@gamesofflames7905 Gifts for the whole family!
I’d rather play wheel of fish.
Love your videos Riggs! I was turned onto your channel by your appearances on a certain "heavy metal deity" whom I no longer watch. Your videos are awesome! Love that you include Leo and Lily in your vids so from Dad to Dad, that's so great to see. I am enjoying this series immensely as a PSP hacker with emulators; I love seeing your opinion on these games and I've definitely gone searching for roms after watching these. You shed light on games I have forgotten about or never knew about (oh god, please don't say hidden gems). Ok, jokes at Jason's expense aside; I wanted to say thank you for this series. Perhaps give Sega developers the same treatment when you run out of NES games (master system or Genesis...or both! More videos, yay). I know you've done a few for SNES too so looking forward to more of those.
Road Blasters was an arcade game I used to play at our local laundromat.
Winter challenge was one of my favorite games and pitstop was another
Love these vids
For what it’s worth, kid me LOVED the noise those black things on the floor made
Well, if the Last Starfighter weren't that difficult, how would the know who the best of the best was to recruit?
Oh man John ... all these lists are literally taking me back to the late 80's and early 90's renting games every weekend to try out as many different titles as possible. Some good, some great and so many that are just horrible. Ahhhh good old nostalgia!!!
one of the best parts about renting, you weren't stuck with a terrible game for too long.
@@JohnRiggs Yup. Then you could save up for the titles you KNEW you would play over and over and enjoy.
Ok, we NEED to have a multiplayer session of M.U.L.E. in the future! I'll teach you the ropes!
Roadblasters great arcade game. Lots of quarters were lost to that driving while shooting game.
720: the game that made “Augh!! Not the bees!!” Before Nick Cage did it.
so the mystery is solved... cage also played this game and when he shot that scene he just closed his eyes and remembered when he used to play this
Case Closed!! ;D
Amazing
Or Chris Farley. “Bees!!!! You’re skateboard is useless against their powers !”
11:30 That land mine death in Infiltrator was pretty brutal- this was a NES game!!!!!
@JohnRiggs, there were actually two Nintendo licensed four player devices for the NES/FDS, and the other one that you did not mention was called the FourScore. However, the FDS (Famicom) had its own four player adapter system that was called the Famicom 4-Players Adapter. I also found out that, since you were mentioning that 720 was giving you fits with the NES Controller, Bandai (now Bandai Namco) made a little controller enhancement adapter that works for both NES and FDS systems that is called simply the Super Controller. I also found something else out, namely, that if you get a special controller that is made by a company that is called Konix, namely, a controller that is called Speedking, it might make a workable workaround for playing Elite on an NTSB-U NES system, as it is a controller that is specifically designed to slow down game play. Finally, you can find out more about NES/FDS accessories by going to nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_accessories .
Thanks john😄😄
I found Mad Max at a thrift store for a dollar about five or six years ago and got it becuase I remember being about 11 or 12 and my mom offered to buy me one of the $20 games at Target and I picked Metroid but right next to it was Mad Max.
I had never heard of Mad Max before but a few years later found that movie in a $5 VHS bin and fell in love with the series.
While the NES game is not as good as the highly underrated 2015 Mad Max game on PS4, Xbox One and PC I still have no regrets over picking Metroid.
Love these!! Can you do one of the other Nintendo / published developed games the ones not the black box? Thx!!
Eventually, yes.
Love this series
Little known fact, Alfred Chicken ran to become a member of parliament in the UK as an advertising gimmick.
Full title of paperboy 2 was "Paper Boy 2: Same **** Different Day"
Hey I remember renting Captain planet when I was like 14, And I found it really challenging, but actually I made progress and I thought it was freaking awesome. I want to go back to it today because it was so unique
The Last Starfighter actually wasn't based on the video game in movie at all- it was a rerelease of a PC title called Uridium. Mindscape literally just slapped the license on the box of an entirely unrelated space shooter. Supposedly Conan was the same thing with a game called Myth- only it had a lot of issues being ported to the NES, which translated to bad controls.
Great series. Thanks John for doing these. I enjoy rewatching the videos
I loved a lot of the Minds cape games on the Amiga
That’s Uridium.
Did they expect us to not notice that this so-called “Last Starfighter” adaptation was just Uridium??!
M.U.L.E. was a computer game from EA back when EA was a little gaming studio. It was probably one of the most addictive and popular games EA ever put out (along with Archon). I was working for the studio at the time, and we would have multiple hour long sessions of M.U.L.E. on the clock. Hey, someone had to beta test, right? Still have my Atari 800xl version.
Give it a 'D'? I think not.
PS I just subscribed. May not agree with you being a very old school gamer (I'm in my 60's), but your videos are fun and nostalgic and you have a pleasant delivery.
The Last Star Fighter is one of the best video game movies of the '80's, by far.
The Last Starfighter is the NES version of Commodore 64 game called Uridium
Roadblasters & Paperboy were both ported to the Atari Lynx. Gauntlet II was not, but Gauntlet III was available for the system while IV was on the Genesis.
M.U.L.E. was a great game on the C64. Classic music too. I've never played the NES port.
Roundball is how rugby players refer to Soccer and Baseball. With much scorn.
I would love to see you tackle the CodeMasters/Camerica stuff, especially Dizzy.
I loved the last starfighter, movie I mean
Mad Max hasn't aged well but i liked it back in the day. It was the only Mindscape game I owned back in the day. And me and my brother used to troll our friends in it at the first arena by telling them they go to a bonus stage if they fall at the bottom left corner of the arena. Everyone fell for it. 😂
Lol you got really deep on Captain Planet.
Battleship for the Phillips CDI was pretty awesome.
I zoned out after the Captain Planet analogy....deep
I played Road Blaster as a kid! I remember it being really hard, but then again I was between five and ten years old when I was an NES kid so it's probably not as difficult as I thought.
A shame you ranked Mule so low, that game is actually quite fun, especially in multiplayer.
I JUST saw a comment of yours from 5 years ago on another M.U.L.E. video lol.
Exactly. People who love it love it.
@@egocide9034 yeah probably😂
I agree. M.U.L.E. is a classic!
Gauntlet II would have been a good addition to the games with speech as well. One of my favorite NES speech lines is when you kill a dragon in the game it will say "I've never seen such bravery"
haha wow, the only game on this list that I played on NES was Paperboy. I missed a lot!
Battleship is a great game, with really great musical tunes: I've rented this title a lot back in the day!
Today the NES version is really expensive, damn!
Finally you gave to games like NES' Gauntlet II, Paperboy 2 (which is way better than the first one in my opinion) and Roablasters the revenge they deserve: GREAT!
I beat Mad Max so I never had to play it again.
Also, MULE is quite fun.
Heh, MULE was a great game for the computers it was on. Fun fact, there was a physical board game adaptation of MULE that came out a few years back. It definitely gives a decent rendition of the game.
John Ribs is a UA-cam machine !!!
I loved Road Blasters as a kid.
It was so exciting to get the power up from the ship.
I played Infiltrator on my Commodore 64 all the time. I loved that game.
I would say if you're in the mood for a Paperboy game, the best console option is Paperboy 2 for the Genesis. Oh and Gauntlet 2 is the main reason I tracked down a NES FourScore. Good stuff.
@john Riggs, This video was a great way to end the week for me. DO I dare ask..yeah I should. Did you see the Mad Max movie yet? (original) haha. Gauntlet 2 was and is so much fun, can there be a Gauntlet 2.0 (with RPG specs). I never heard of "Roundball", looks like a poor mans NBA JAM
“You have to fly the helicopter by leaving the ground.”
That’s legit the only instructions I received when going for my pilot license. 🤣
The only games I've ever played from mindscape are:
Captain Planet and the Planeteers: I rented this game as a kid because I was a big fan of all saturday morning cartoons but I grew frustrated with it pretty quickly because of its massive spike in difficulty. The furthest I ever got was the captain planet level from the second mission in the forested area and I highly doubt I will ever pick it up and play it again.
Paperboy: Just a timeless classic and it's a great pick up and play game that you really don't need to invest a lot of time in order to enjoy it properly.
Paperboy 2: Pretty much the same thoughts as Paperboy.
When I look at the entire minscape library, I think the only games i will probably go back to and play are probably paperboy 1 and paperboy 2 because the rest of the game library I really have no interest in trying but another stellar entry for your series.