As a kid our game library was limited to what our parents bought us, so seeing this video tells me I missed out on almost every great game, I also see where some of the more polished flash games I played as a teen draw their inspiration from. Those 4 years playing NES during summer break at my grandmas house feels like eternity ago. My first console was a famicom, after that broke I had 3 famiclone's because I'm guessing the circuits fried during the summer heat as I would play almost non-stop, coupled with the fact that it was copied hardware. All in all, pretty good childhood tbh.
I would like to add: Monsters in my pocket, Summer Carnival 92 Recca, Time Dive Avanger, Marcross, Zen - Intergalactic Ninja, Ike Ike Nekketsu and Nekketsu Soccer League. There are more, but that's all I can remember for now.
I guess ill never found the spaceship shooting games i used to play as a kid. The game are never talked about on the internet and im sad because i never beat the last level.
There are so many good games that I feel like I will never have time to play them all. Alot of good games for NES, SNES, Genesis, SMS, N64, Saturn, Dreamcast, and so many other systems.
Yes! Finally after so many years of not remembering the name of the game a loved as a kid, finally found it on your video thank you so much! CONQUEST OF THE CRYSTA PALACE!!!!
Here are my favorite 13 NES hidden gems 13. Dragon Spirit 12. Legacy of the Wizard 11. Faria 10. A Boy and His Blob 9. Casino Kid 8. Krazy Kreatures 7. Clash at Demonhead 6. Cowboy Kid 5. Gargoyle Quest 2 4. Fire n Ice 3. North vs South 2. Ghost Lion 1. Dusty Diamond All Star Softball !!
Thank you for uploading this video, I was no joke looking for 20+ years for a game I remembered playing as a kid but I just couldn't remember the name of it, I just remembered it was pretty difficult and you controlled a ninja/samurai type character and there was a shopkeeper girl that would gent angry at you If you didn't have enough money to buy a product; I resorted to looking for NES top games lists but none of them gave me the one it was, I tried searching on Google using Key words I remembered from the game but to no avail, today I decided to try again on UA-cam and I saw this video had a 100+ games on display and I decided to give it a shot and sure enough there it was "conquest of the crystal Palace" I immediately recognized it, thank you for including it.
I was looking for that game for an entire decade, after my parents threw away all of my NES games. I was quite surprised when I found out it was called SCAT...
Operation Wolf was all rented out at my local 90's video store, so my dad got me Whomp'em instead........my spoiled self was initially sad but then Whomp'em became one of my faves!
most I've never even heard of, let alone played, but I def remember that world runner, the casino kid and trojan were greta games. my favorite underrated new game of all time is Nintendo GOLF. very addicting.
I've been looking for a game for a while now. Thanks to this video I found it (S.C.A.T) as well as rediscovered games I've forgotten already but enjoyed in my youth. 🙏
I really can't find those NES games that one that looks like Castlevania, but it isn't cause he has a weapon that isn't a whip. And that one fantasy adventure, that I can't remember, but was amazed by the exploration.
There was a game i used to play, it's about a bald guy who is a servant of god. He shoots ball rapidly to destroy monster, u can press select button to create a long ladder to climb up
Do you know a certain japanese game where you play as a father who wants to rescue his daughter kidnapped by a demon? The father use guns in this game and whenever he defeats a demon, he can either get their powers or avoid them. It has two endings where he either killed her daughter after finding out she became a demon or accept her.
Over Horizon is an awesome shooter that is very overlooked. Maybe because it's a pal exclusive. I like the fact that you can shoot forwards and backwards. You press A for shooting forward, and B for backwards. You can't do that in most space shooters.
I had Bonk's Adventure for the Turbo GrafX-16 and I never realized it was also ported on the NES (I had an NES, too). Bonk's was an incredible game and it could have easily been the Turbo GrafX-16 mascot like Sonic for Sega Genesis, Mario for Nintendo and Crash Bandicoot for Playstation 1. I won it plenty of times so it wasn't overly difficult but then I had a TG-16 controller with switches which will constantly repeat the button you're pushing down as long as you're holding it down.
isn't the Bonk game only for the Sega Genesis or Game Gear back in the day? Could've sworn it was advertised alot for the Sega Game Gear and/or Genesis back then
You're close! In North America, Bonk was initially presented as the mascot for the fledgling TurboGrafx-16 platform, as a competitor to Mario and Sonic. However, as it became clear that the TG16 wasn't going anywhere, the developers took Bonk multi-platform.
Quite a few of these were great titles I rented but never owned. To think this was 30+ years ago. These are some really good games. Piko has released a few NES games on Steam but not the really good ones like on this video. I would love it if we could see games like Shatterhand, GI Joe, Shadow of the Ninja, Power Blade, Kick Master, etc available for purchase. Unfortunately it may never happen.
I have Crash N The Boys, Crystals, Hammerin' Harry, Iron Tank, Mendel Palace, Mighty Final Fight, Street Fighter 2010, Bonk's Adventure, Parasol Stars, and Kid Niki on this video list. Not near as great as many others you put here. Mighty Final Fight being the best out of all of them.
Sorry, I'm searching for a snes game - It's a top down view action, adventure game, and everything takes place in a forest; it has western artstyle; as far as I can remember, your character can catch star (or fairy?) to upgrade or healing. If you know this, please tell me, Thank you in advance.
As a kid our game library was limited to what our parents bought us, so seeing this video tells me I missed out on almost every great game, I also see where some of the more polished flash games I played as a teen draw their inspiration from. Those 4 years playing NES during summer break at my grandmas house feels like eternity ago. My first console was a famicom, after that broke I had 3 famiclone's because I'm guessing the circuits fried during the summer heat as I would play almost non-stop, coupled with the fact that it was copied hardware. All in all, pretty good childhood tbh.
Props for mentioning Werewolf. One of my all time favorite games.
Wizards & Warriors 3 maybe?
8:01 thank you! I finally found this game
Migthy final fight rules!
Like your videos mr Gary.
I always wished for co-op play mode in Mighty final fight. Damn, it would be so good. 😊
Abigail and Sodom are OP as fuck in MIGHTY FINAL RIGHT AND that have Sodom a freaking teleportation move too.
Really great list. So many of these games are rarely mentioned in top lists.
I would like to add: Monsters in my pocket, Summer Carnival 92 Recca, Time Dive Avanger, Marcross, Zen - Intergalactic Ninja, Ike Ike Nekketsu and Nekketsu Soccer League. There are more, but that's all I can remember for now.
KickMaster and Iron Tank. Both in my top 10 nes games of all time.
that Gargoyle game, looked good!
It's from Capcom. What do you expect?
It's slow to start...REALLY slow...
I guess ill never found the spaceship shooting games i used to play as a kid. The game are never talked about on the internet and im sad because i never beat the last level.
Natsume was a awesome developer and publisher.
dragon fighter
6:59 I was looking for a different game but then I found another game that was equally as good that was hidden on the back of my memory, thanks!
Toxic crusaders?
45. "Isolated Warrior", I was searching for that game for many years.
Yes, looks awesome! Never got to play this though.
A few unlicensed games I'd never heard of especially gaiapolis and street heroes 😍 Impressed with this list
04:28 I finally found this game 🥰 I was looking for. Thank you so much.
Contra 8!!!!
For those in Europe, the list can be reduced to 49 hidden gems:
003 - Air Fortress - HAL Laboratory - 1987
005 - Asterix - Bit Managers - 1993
006 - Attack of the Killer Tomatoes - Imagineering - 1991
007 - Banana Prince - KID - 1991
008 - Battle of Olympus, The - Infinity - 1989
009 - Beauty and the Beast - Hudson Soft - 1994
013 - Burai Fighter - KID - 1990
015 - Castelian - Bits Studios - 1991
023 - Deja Vu - ICOM Simulations - 1990
026 - Drop Zone - Eurocom - 1992
027 - Elite - Imagineer - 1991
029 - Felix the Cat - Shimada Kikaku - 1992
030 - Fire'n'Ice - Tecmo - 1992
032 - Flintstones 2 - The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak!, The - Taito - 1994
036 - Galaxy 5000 - Activision - 1991
037 - Gargoyle's Quest iII- The Demon Darkness - Capcom - 1992
039 - Gremlins 2 - The New Batch - Sunsoft - 1990
040 - Guardian Legend, The - Compile - 1989
042 - Hammerin' Harry - Irem - 1992
044 - Iron Tank - The Invasion of Normandy - SNK - 1988
045 - Isolated Warrior - KID - 1991
046 - Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu - Now Production - 1990
047 - Journey To Silius - Sunsoft - 1990
048 - Kabuki - Quantum Fighter - Human Entertainment - 1990
055 - Little Ninja Brothers - Culture Brain - 1990
056 - Little Samson - Takeru - 1992
058 - Low G-Man - The Low Graviy Man - KID - 1991
064 - Mighty Final Fight - Capcom - 1993
065 - Mission Impossible - Konami - 1990
067 - Mr. Gimmick - Sunsoft - 1993
068 - New Ghostbusters 2 - HAL Laboratory - 1991
071 - Noah's Ark - Source R & D - 1992
072 - Over Horizon - Hot B & Pixel - 1991
074 - Panic Restaurant - EIM - 1992
075 - Parasol Stars - The Story of Bubble Bobble 3 - Ocean - 1991
076 - Pinball Quest - TOSE - 1990
077 - Power Blade - Natsume - 1991
078 - SCAT - Special Cybernetic Attack Team - Natsume - 1991
079 - Shadow of the Ninja - Natsume - 1990
080 - Shatterhand - Natsume - 1991
084 - Super Spy Hunter - Sunsoft - 1992
085 - Super Turrican - Rainbow Arts - 1993
086 - Sword Master - Athena - 1992
087 - Swords & Serpents - Interplay -1990
089 - Tom & Jerry (and Tuffy) - Software Creations - 1991
090 - Trojan - Capcom - 1987
091 - Ufouria - The Saga - Sunsoft - 1992
093 - Ultimate Air Combat - Activision - 1992
097 - Werewolf The Last Warrior - SAS Sakata - 1990
abadox, kick master, shaterhand, werewolf. some of my favorit
Great video Gary got some great looking gems on this list
Jackel, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Godzilla, and Maniac Mansion were some hidden gems too.
All the ones mentioned except for Maniac Mansion. That game was well known and talked about enough back then.
I got JACKYL in my Rasspberry ok and it is such fun NES and Arcadegame
No one shuts up about maniac mansion.
I'm surprised you didn't put Rockin' Kats. Rockin' Kats has got to be one of the best hidden gem nes games of all time!
There are so many good games that I feel like I will never have time to play them all. Alot of good games for NES, SNES, Genesis, SMS, N64, Saturn, Dreamcast, and so many other systems.
Wow! if Ninja Crusaders is in the list! is it SUPERB, thank you Gary, smooth as always!
Mighty Final Fight is an excellent game.
Yes! Finally after so many years of not remembering the name of the game a loved as a kid, finally found it on your video thank you so much! CONQUEST OF THE CRYSTA PALACE!!!!
Here are my favorite 13 NES hidden gems
13. Dragon Spirit
12. Legacy of the Wizard
11. Faria
10. A Boy and His Blob
9. Casino Kid
8. Krazy Kreatures
7. Clash at Demonhead
6. Cowboy Kid
5. Gargoyle Quest 2
4. Fire n Ice
3. North vs South
2. Ghost Lion
1. Dusty Diamond All Star Softball !!
This is a good list, well done.
Dammit, it's Shatter Hand! I been looking for that game. Thank you thank you thank you.
Thank you for uploading this video, I was no joke looking for 20+ years for a game I remembered playing as a kid but I just couldn't remember the name of it, I just remembered it was pretty difficult and you controlled a ninja/samurai type character and there was a shopkeeper girl that would gent angry at you If you didn't have enough money to buy a product; I resorted to looking for NES top games lists but none of them gave me the one it was, I tried searching on Google using Key words I remembered from the game but to no avail, today I decided to try again on UA-cam and I saw this video had a 100+ games on display and I decided to give it a shot and sure enough there it was "conquest of the crystal Palace" I immediately recognized it, thank you for including it.
Ahhh, Shadowgate. The music, the complexity. So magnificent.
You are lacking in despair.
Micheal Jones Don’t forget its siblings Deja Vu, Uninvited and Deja Vu 2.
@@MesakLalrindika Any other details? How does the game play?
bravo putting together a list so large of NES games I've never heard of. i had hundred games.
Kick Master, Shadow of the Ninja, Gremlins 2. These three are purely awesome, I play them even now in my 30s.
zen intergalactic ninja is missing :p
8 bit nostalgic awesomeness. 😌 Make miss the days of the bit wars and arcades.
6:19 I used to play this with my brother and have this cartridge, AND I FINALLY FOUND IT after 28 years!!!! 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
This is one of my fav. Game ever and my brothers also❤❤
S.C.A.T is my favorite game on NES.
i finally found after a couple of hours finding.. thanks for the help.. 🥰
I was looking for that game for an entire decade, after my parents threw away all of my NES games.
I was quite surprised when I found out it was called SCAT...
min 8:00 finally found it man, years searching for this game. Thanks
7:44 been looking for this game for ages! Thank you so much!!!! TwT
Good vid. I knew of 48 and have an additional 16 of em on various ports. I like watching these and listening to tv shows in the background. Nice work.
@@MesakLalrindika Not sure I'm familiar with it. Any more info on it? Like is it puzzle or platform or rpg?
Fantastic vid, well done.
Operation Wolf was all rented out at my local 90's video store, so my dad got me Whomp'em instead........my spoiled self was initially sad but then Whomp'em became one of my faves!
Fire N Ice, Crystalis, AND Ultima Quest of the Avatar?! Awesome!!
Thank you for providing a great list! I have some shopping to do.
Felix the Cat was one of my favourite games when I was a kid. Probably played it hundreds of times.
Excelente video, me encanta tu canal, ojala subas videos mas seguido. 👍
3:13 finnaly, i had it on japanese when i was little, understood nothing still managed to beat some levels,can't wait to play it now
Great video, thanks😀
Felix the cat was one of the best games I ever played !
Loved that game. Could never find it for purchase as a kid so I rented it non-stop
most I've never even heard of, let alone played, but I def remember that world runner, the casino kid and trojan were greta games. my favorite underrated new game of all time is Nintendo GOLF. very addicting.
I have played 17/101 of these games
Kick ass list my man..... however we have to re-evaluate your Wall Street kid selection
I've been looking for a game for a while now. Thanks to this video I found it (S.C.A.T) as well as rediscovered games I've forgotten already but enjoyed in my youth. 🙏
I really can't find those NES games that one that looks like Castlevania, but it isn't cause he has a weapon that isn't a whip.
And that one fantasy adventure, that I can't remember, but was amazed by the exploration.
4:52
KICKMASTER FUCK YEAH
4:06 finally i found it
Felix the cat, man! The memories!
Bee.
Yep. That's a game about a bee
KAGE Shadow of the Ninja is awesome dude, I'm glad it's getting a remake.
No Burai Fighter, that game was such a dope 👊🏽👌🏽👌🏽
For me.
1) Datsugoku
2) monster in my pocket
3) Captain America and the avengers
4) The Batman
5) Captain Planet
6) Jungle Book
7) Star tropics
this is one of the best hidden gem lists. but one game is missing: Rollergames from Konami?? this pearl is one of my favorite games ever!
@@MesakLalrindika sukeban deka?
I remember a NES game where u use a bald kid that is similar to Krilin from db, it was an action adventure game, maybe someone remembers it's name
Dante Saints Bonks Adventure?
@@a.t.2112 Found it, it was 3 eyes boy, thanks anyway!
Helo
@@Raju-rl1bc Hey, I found it. It's Mitsume ga Tooru.
@@irfanafendi4837 tnks man but I found it earlier
Awesome list, this is really good stuff. I didn't know most of these.
Super, it reminds me of my childhood !
Great list, but don't forget Shadowgate and Code name Viper.
There was a game i used to play, it's about a bald guy who is a servant of god. He shoots ball rapidly to destroy monster, u can press select button to create a long ladder to climb up
Do you know a certain japanese game where you play as a father who wants to rescue his daughter kidnapped by a demon? The father use guns in this game and whenever he defeats a demon, he can either get their powers or avoid them. It has two endings where he either killed her daughter after finding out she became a demon or accept her.
So many great games here!! Thanks man.
Nice selection ! Have you a 100 underrated/hidden gems on SNES video ? great work !
Yes! This channel has not one, but two such SNES videos! ua-cam.com/video/D39kca6HWt8/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/2BIq8gxDvqA/v-deo.html
@@GaryRetroGamer Yep ! thank you much ! :)
@@MesakLalrindika Sorry, for now, it doesn't mean anything to me, but if I find I will try to give you the info :s
Man i totally forgot about that werewolf game have not seen that game in forever.
I like your channel.
Nice list!
Over Horizon is an awesome shooter that is very overlooked. Maybe because it's a pal exclusive. I like the fact that you can shoot forwards and backwards. You press A for shooting forward, and B for backwards. You can't do that in most space shooters.
@@MesakLalrindika I don't know
I had Bonk's Adventure for the Turbo GrafX-16 and I never realized it was also ported on the NES (I had an NES, too). Bonk's was an incredible game and it could have easily been the Turbo GrafX-16 mascot like Sonic for Sega Genesis, Mario for Nintendo and Crash Bandicoot for Playstation 1. I won it plenty of times so it wasn't overly difficult but then I had a TG-16 controller with switches which will constantly repeat the button you're pushing down as long as you're holding it down.
Turbo bonk was infinitely better
Another obscure gem would be the nes/famicom chibi style splatterhouse game.
I know what I'm going to be playing this weekend
Now I know what to play this weekend 😁
Great picks!
Thank you for this is so amazing ✨’
4:31 - THE GOAT
contra force was my fav here
Finally! ❤
I found it! Conquest of the Crystal Palace! THX!
You are amazing
I have the chance to play all those games with my Super Console X I bought last week so adding this list to favorites. Thnx
This list would make a great multi cart
Little Samson needs a sequel.
Number 23 Deja Vu is a really cool game. Detective video games 💥🔫🚬🍸
Chris Garcia It actually has a sequel that didn’t come out on nes.
Clash at demonhead was one of my favorites as a kid. took me a year to beat
@@MesakLalrindika the one with the ninja kids or something
Crystalis is one of the best black gems!
isn't the Bonk game only for the Sega Genesis or Game Gear back in the day? Could've sworn it was advertised alot for the Sega Game Gear and/or Genesis back then
You're close! In North America, Bonk was initially presented as the mascot for the fledgling TurboGrafx-16 platform, as a competitor to Mario and Sonic.
However, as it became clear that the TG16 wasn't going anywhere, the developers took Bonk multi-platform.
A personal favorite hidden gem of mine besides Gun Nac is Little Nemo Dream Master
Contra Force, Mighty Final Fight, Shatterhand, Tom&Jerry and many other hidden gem games )
Quite a few of these were great titles I rented but never owned. To think this was 30+ years ago. These are some really good games. Piko has released a few NES games on Steam but not the really good ones like on this video. I would love it if we could see games like Shatterhand, GI Joe, Shadow of the Ninja, Power Blade, Kick Master, etc available for purchase. Unfortunately it may never happen.
I have Crash N The Boys, Crystals, Hammerin' Harry, Iron Tank, Mendel Palace, Mighty Final Fight, Street Fighter 2010, Bonk's Adventure, Parasol Stars, and Kid Niki on this video list. Not near as great as many others you put here. Mighty Final Fight being the best out of all of them.
What about Mario brothers, Contra and the Castlevania series?
Radical Ninja
that really radical imo
Codemasters made some really good games on nes
I played banana prince and yes it's not very common game but very nice game indeed!
Sorry, I'm searching for a snes game - It's a top down view action, adventure game, and everything takes place in a forest; it has western artstyle; as far as I can remember, your character can catch star (or fairy?) to upgrade or healing.
If you know this, please tell me, Thank you in advance.
Somehow i don't think Special Cybernetic Attack Team is getting a rerelease anytime soon
What about the other underrated ones as well? Chiller, Mappy Land, Dino Ricky, Super Pitfall and Athena?
Xexyz was/is my favorite!