Actually, the boxing level where you run around as Larry was based on the short "Punch Drunks", where the stooges realize Curly fights like a professional boxer when he hears the song "Pop Goes the Weasel", which is the song Larry plays around Curly so he can beat the champion Killer Kilduff. Larry is trying to run back and forth to get the song played so Curly can beat the champion in both the short and the minigame. It's one of the best episodes of the Stooges and I highly recommend it to anybody young or old!
@@retrorystergaming577 there wasn't really any movie based games that weren't disappointing. Or cartoon based games that weren't made by Capcom either😂
John, your NES review videos are among the best. You score them pretty much on point, and you keep it simple and not overproduced. I also like how you organize the reviews by company. I recently subscribed and I’m looking forward to more!
My best buddy growing up dropped a large chunk of his Christmas cash on Super Pitfall solely based on the box art and our trust in the Activision name from the Atari 2600 days. Needless to say, we trusted in the Activision name no more after that...
Yeah, Activision basically rebranded some time around 1985 and decided to stop creating games and just operated as a publisher from that point on. Super Pitfall was made by Micronics, the same studio that gave us the NES ports of 1942 and Athena. That should really say it all.
Happy Holidays to you and your family John. Would love for you to start ranking 2600 games from different developers. Activision games on the 2600 are a must!!
Most Atari games would be an f by today's standards because they suck. Unfortunately the Atari 2600 did not age quite as gracefully as the wonderful NES.
Thanks for ranking that 3 Stooges game where you did. I have a lot of fond memories from it and something that also reminds me of my Grandfather every time I pop it in as we always watched the Stooges together up till he died. Love this series as well as the Open Cart Surgery and keep up the awesome job 😁👍
Arcon had a really,soothing color pallet. Give Riggs a sub, hes that dad who actually took the time to make a UA-cam channel. Gotta show your respect for that crew.
UPDATE: I finally saw Predator. It was great! Now to watch the sequel. I recently ranked BANDAI NES games here - ua-cam.com/video/DGJPkvPE44s/v-deo.html
@Chris Laurel and Hardy definitely would have gotten a bigger push being that they had a huge budget and filmed in Spanish and French( not dubbed) and one of Stan Laurel's parents was English.
Galaxy 5000 is a lot deeper than you think. There's hidden warps, alternative endings, multiple ships, different weapons, I could go on. I think its a better game than the other games you mentioned. (I played through all of then)
Watching at lunch at work and almost spit my coffee out when you talked about the payback from playing Larry. My mom always hated when I would land on the oysters as she hated that sound
For me I'm sad that Activision didn't keep their top-tier game status when NES came around. Activision made the best Atari 2600 games by far. Great video,
Love it! Give Rad Gravity another try someday with a walkthrough, advance a little farther, because you eventually get weapons and (IMO, of course) it's actually a pretty decent little action-adventure!
I love Super Pitfall. Playing it as a kid, just the weirdness of it fascinated me. It was cryptic and glitchy and the looping soundtrack and bizarre enemies.. just added to the uncanny-ness. You could never play it the same way twice and just when it couldn't get any stranger, you sometimes uncovered a "dark world", where the music and enemies become downright creepy. And because it was just 8-bit, made the whole thing even more unsettling. Maybe that's what made it special to me and fun to play.
Sword Master is a beautiful game. The Japanese version has a tripple jump, and with that small addition it changes significantly the battle system. This would be an authentic hidden gem, specially the Japanese version.
I wish I could post my expression when you said that you've never seen Predator. It's Arnold's best film, just ahead of Terminator 2, and a quote gold mine.
Keep em coming Riggs! Love the let's rank vids!!! Watched em all and love comparing my grades per game with yours. Like your style and if I was anywhere near you I'd insist we geek out on nes on the ol' couch. Keep up the good work my dude!
58 year old gamer here and yes I enjoyed Deadly Towers. Love your channel! I bought my NES games in the late 80's and early 90's from Captron USA. They were located in several malls in So Cal. Sort of a Sun Glass Hut setup. I've never heard anyone mention them in any videos. Are you familiar with them?
If you keep playing Sword Master, you'll get your wish. Levels 4 (The Courtyard) and 6 (The Dungeon) feature tons of platforming. Unusual jumping mechanic, too; you have to step off a ledge and THEN jump to clear some of the gaps.
Archon - I agree with the C for single player, but it's a a solid A with a friend once you both learn it! And give Predator a watch, it's a good movie! Finally, I hate Super Pitfall, the idea that a mod has made it good blows my mind, and I'll totally be checking it out! Happy New Year, dude!
@@Slotmassacre yep and it's played in a kinda open world sandbox. Very innovative game for the NES they made the game feel like the movie die hard rather than just some cheap platformer
13:41 I saw it coming and I don't know why. The oyster round was the one I was best at because once you got into the higher, higher rounds, there was only one or two crackers you had to get before the oyster did and they tended to be in the same spots. And be honest, you only hear the "Getoutofhere!" if you blow. And since you get paid by the bowl, ker and ching.
I would've lost it if you had put Super Pitfall higher than an F so thank you for not letting me down! Also, Thundercats tv show creeped me out as a kid.
John, it would be fun so see you rankings of all the Activision games for the Atari 2600. Maybe that could be the start of a series based on the venerable VCS. Even if not it would be cool to at least do the Activision ones as a standalone.
I've still not recovered from the disappointment that is Super Pitfall. I still like flying with the balloon though 😂. Happy holidays to you and the family John!
Classic goof for intro to 3 Stooges. Cyberpunk references had me laughing. Also if anyone is interested in an Archon style game with way better execution check out Dark Wizard on Sega CD.
Man, dogging on not just Thunderbirds the game but the show too - John, it's a classic. I actually played the game before I ever saw the show, but I really liked both. NES Thunderbirds is a decent shooter, but it's hard and you have to lose to restart with more power - werid mechanic. Gotta love that Thunderbirds theme though!
Actually, the boxing level where you run around as Larry was based on the short "Punch Drunks", where the stooges realize Curly fights like a professional boxer when he hears the song "Pop Goes the Weasel", which is the song Larry plays around Curly so he can beat the champion Killer Kilduff. Larry is trying to run back and forth to get the song played so Curly can beat the champion in both the short and the minigame. It's one of the best episodes of the Stooges and I highly recommend it to anybody young or old!
Riggs I can't believe you never watched Predator. That's an 'S' action film for sure!
SSS+++
Yes very good!
Die hard is not a chrismass game. It's a GD Activision game
Yeah, I’ve been enjoying these videos, but now I don’t know if I can trust him anymore.
I hope by now he has…… it’s an absolute classic. “I ain’t got time to bleed”
Predator is one of the best Arnold movies ever
If you haven't watched it and want a good commentary UA-cam red-letter media, for their review.
Its the best movie ever unfortunately the NES game was really disappointing
@@retrorystergaming577 there wasn't really any movie based games that weren't disappointing. Or cartoon based games that weren't made by Capcom either😂
@@leefischer5814 very true.
Predator is one of the best action movies ever.
Dont want this "Rank every..." series to ever end.
How the hell have you never seen Predator?!?!?!?!
Too busy playing every single damn nes game
He has that cloaking thing. He is easy to miss
Best movie Arnold ever did! T2 a close second
Even I didn't. Cuz I got no chance to? I deserve To be Jailed?
@@Joetenka jailed? TF you talking about ?
John, your NES review videos are among the best. You score them pretty much on point, and you keep it simple and not overproduced. I also like how you organize the reviews by company. I recently subscribed and I’m looking forward to more!
No need to stretch out a random game into an 8 minute video if I don't need to. Thanks for hanging out!
My best buddy growing up dropped a large chunk of his Christmas cash on Super Pitfall solely based on the box art and our trust in the Activision name from the Atari 2600 days. Needless to say, we trusted in the Activision name no more after that...
Merry Christmas, John!
Jody & the kids
Yeah, Activision basically rebranded some time around 1985 and decided to stop creating games and just operated as a publisher from that point on. Super Pitfall was made by Micronics, the same studio that gave us the NES ports of 1942 and Athena. That should really say it all.
To be honest, Micronics developed a huge amount of games and not all of them are bad 👾, but people know them for Super Pitfall, Athena, etc
Really Hope you get to go through list like these for SNES and N64 one day!
He started SNES so I think theyre coming
Best Christmas present ! A new Riggs ranking video !
Happy Holidays to you and your family John. Would love for you to start ranking 2600 games from different developers. Activision games on the 2600 are a must!!
Most Atari games would be an f by today's standards because they suck. Unfortunately the Atari 2600 did not age quite as gracefully as the wonderful NES.
Thanks for ranking that 3 Stooges game where you did. I have a lot of fond memories from it and something that also reminds me of my Grandfather every time I pop it in as we always watched the Stooges together up till he died. Love this series as well as the Open Cart Surgery and keep up the awesome job 😁👍
I love it.
Arcon had a really,soothing color pallet.
Give Riggs a sub, hes that dad who actually took the time to make a UA-cam channel. Gotta show your respect for that crew.
Oh snap! Christmas delights! Merry Christmas Riggs family!
I love your videos mate.
Merry Christmas to all from Ottawa 🇨🇦
UPDATE: I finally saw Predator. It was great! Now to watch the sequel.
I recently ranked BANDAI NES games here - ua-cam.com/video/DGJPkvPE44s/v-deo.html
Jaleco, Mindscape, Broderbund, FCI
@@CaptFwiffo He did Broderbund in an older episode
I dont know what youve done already by heart, but THQ and Tecmo?
HAL
HAL’s gonna have some S ranks!
Merry Christmas, John!
Larry plays “Pop goes the weasel” to make Curley go crazy and able to win boxing matches.
Easily one of their best shorts.
@@ThatJohnKillion1970 am I the only one thinking "Ranking 3 Stooges shorts" by year or by stooge or by movie. That would be hard but interesting.
I believe the short is called 'Punch Drunks"
@@kouheicoppola2157 it was.
@Chris Laurel and Hardy definitely would have gotten a bigger push being that they had a huge budget and filmed in Spanish and French( not dubbed) and one of Stan Laurel's parents was English.
Merry Christmas John, enjoyed this video as always.
Thank you for uploading on Christmas! Merry christmas to you and the family!!!!
Merry Christmas, Righteous John Riggs! Glad you mentioned NEW GhostBusters 2. If I review it one day, I will tell everyone to play it!
John Riggs with another gift! Another list! Thank you my friend. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas. Great video!. . Also, Larry Fine had to play "pop goes the Weasel" for Curly to deliver the harsh whooping on his opponents.
This video is an amazing Christmas present.
Galaxy 5000 is a lot deeper than you think. There's hidden warps, alternative endings, multiple ships, different weapons, I could go on. I think its a better game than the other games you mentioned. (I played through all of then)
Watching at lunch at work and almost spit my coffee out when you talked about the payback from playing Larry. My mom always hated when I would land on the oysters as she hated that sound
Yesssss! I love the ranking videos. What a great Christmas present. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
For me I'm sad that Activision didn't keep their top-tier game status when NES came around. Activision made the best Atari 2600 games by far. Great video,
I used to play Ghostbusters on the c64 in the 80's. Great game (back then). Thanks for the memories!!!! And a verry meery christmas to you John!
You gotta see the original Predator movie. Classic lines and great music.
Merry Christmas Mr. Riggs. I love your channel a gift that keeps on giving.
Die hard is so underrated. You can beat it a few different ways and has multiple endings. I mean you get to jump off the roof!!
You can play the movie out like you want.
- Call the police, or dont .
- Keep the detenator, or lose it.
- Save the police car, or dont.
- and more 😃
Been watching all your rankings!!! Nice job!
Archon rules. Had it on Atari back inthe day. There’s so much more to it than I thought back then. The diff colored spaces and such
Dude, this series is freaking awesome. Very comforting!
Love it! Give Rad Gravity another try someday with a walkthrough, advance a little farther, because you eventually get weapons and (IMO, of course) it's actually a pretty decent little action-adventure!
Hero on the Atari was fantastic!!! I remember getting it for my birthday!!
I really dig these ranking videos. Great stuff
I love Super Pitfall. Playing it as a kid, just the weirdness of it fascinated me. It was cryptic and glitchy and the looping soundtrack and bizarre enemies.. just added to the uncanny-ness. You could never play it the same way twice and just when it couldn't get any stranger, you sometimes uncovered a "dark world", where the music and enemies become downright creepy. And because it was just 8-bit, made the whole thing even more unsettling. Maybe that's what made it special to me and fun to play.
Same here. I rented numerous times and spent so much time trying to figure it all out, but never could.
Thank you for all your videos and congratulations on passing 100K subs!
Sword Master is a beautiful game. The Japanese version has a tripple jump, and with that small addition it changes significantly the battle system. This would be an authentic hidden gem, specially the Japanese version.
Hey John! Hope you had a wonderful Christmas.
Like that Ghostbusters game had it in my commodore 64
I can only speak for myself but I liked your stealth joke 👍🏽
How have you never seen Predator? "Get to the choppa!" You're missing out on one of the quintessential 80s action movies.
I wish I could post my expression when you said that you've never seen Predator. It's Arnold's best film, just ahead of Terminator 2, and a quote gold mine.
Grats on the 100k!!! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!
Quality NES video like always JohnRiggs!
Merry Christmas!!
Merry Christmas to the Riggs family!!!
Same to you and more of it.
Keep em coming Riggs! Love the let's rank vids!!! Watched em all and love comparing my grades per game with yours. Like your style and if I was anywhere near you I'd insist we geek out on nes on the ol' couch. Keep up the good work my dude!
John love these videos and your encyclopedic knowledge of the nes
I just started watching your channel and enjoy these videos. I love me some old school nes and snes. 👍
HO! HO! HO! Now I have a controller!
Happy trails Hans, er Riggs (I hear ya Riggs (Jeez, a lot of Christmas action movie references....))
"You are just going for a walk, and every once in a while you got to stab a fool."
I loved the Thunderbirds show and movies. It was like someone making a show with their toys. Only played the NES game once, though.
I really appreciated the light hearted joking in this episode. Excellent
Merry Christmas to you and your family. And thank you.
58 year old gamer here and yes I enjoyed Deadly Towers. Love your channel! I bought my NES games in the late 80's and early 90's from Captron USA. They were located in several malls in So Cal. Sort of a Sun Glass Hut setup. I've never heard anyone mention them in any videos. Are you familiar with them?
Merry Christmas Mr Riggs! Hope you and the family had a great holiday, and thank you for all the great videos, really helps get thru the tough times.
Merry Christmas John and family!!!!!
awesome video as always John! Maaaan I can't believe you haven't seen Predator hahahhha :D
Merry Christmas dude!
Keep making these Ranking videos and merry christmas, Riggs.
Man Riggs, If you like sci-fi action flicks, you sure are missing out with Predator. Classic 80's stuff. Love your vids btw.
Congrats on a 100k subscribers man!
I loved the Ghostbusters game on the PC - we played it at my cousin's house every time we visited. That 3 Stooges intro is great.
If you keep playing Sword Master, you'll get your wish. Levels 4 (The Courtyard) and 6 (The Dungeon) feature tons of platforming. Unusual jumping mechanic, too; you have to step off a ledge and THEN jump to clear some of the gaps.
"Get to tha Choppa!" -- yes you must see Predator. The Action gods demand it! LOL
Archon - I agree with the C for single player, but it's a a solid A with a friend once you both learn it! And give Predator a watch, it's a good movie! Finally, I hate Super Pitfall, the idea that a mod has made it good blows my mind, and I'll totally be checking it out! Happy New Year, dude!
A Christmas nes game review. You’re a real gent.
Your friend Pete has great taste in games lol pitfall and deadly towers are also 2 of my favorite nes games
Happy Holidays to you and the family. Just subbed, this is a great series!
Same to you and more of it!
You haven't seen Predator?! Oh that's an Arnold classic, definitely have to see it!
You need to. "Get to the CHOPPA!" and watch this.
Loving some Christmas John Riggs. 🎅
Were you able to finish Die Hard?
It's on a list of games I still wanna play through soon (along Power Blade 2, Cliffhanger and a few others)
I finished it!! Multiple endings in that game too. I really enjoyed die hard on the NES. I don't understand the hate it gets
It plays out differently depending on things you do or don’t do through the game. One of the best and true to story movie games of all time.
@@Slotmassacre yep and it's played in a kinda open world sandbox. Very innovative game for the NES they made the game feel like the movie die hard rather than just some cheap platformer
13:41 I saw it coming and I don't know why. The oyster round was the one I was best at because once you got into the higher, higher rounds, there was only one or two crackers you had to get before the oyster did and they tended to be in the same spots. And be honest, you only hear the "Getoutofhere!" if you blow. And since you get paid by the bowl, ker and ching.
Using rad gravity for the transition sound brings me back when I used to play it.
Merry Christmas John!
Just subscribed awesome content
Ha I remember that Archon game from and old Nintendo tips and tricks VHS tape i had. The "Game Pros" in the video had the coolest jackets and mullets.
3:13 if Johnriggs never mentioned the watch time thing the world would explode
Got dang it Riggs you coming thru in the clutch again I was bored!!!!!
Rad Gravity is less messed up than Cyberpunk 😂 and I've seen The Predator once or twice back in the day Awesome Stuff. Great Vid as Always
Merry Christmas did Grinch get those games or did i miss it
Love these videos!
JohnRiggs love your videos Brother!
I would've lost it if you had put Super Pitfall higher than an F so thank you for not letting me down! Also, Thundercats tv show creeped me out as a kid.
Merry Christmas! Also, WATCH PREDATOR, what the heck
John, Milons Secret Castle, Faxanadu, Krion Conquest. Awesome NES games!
John, it would be fun so see you rankings of all the Activision games for the Atari 2600. Maybe that could be the start of a series based on the venerable VCS. Even if not it would be cool to at least do the Activision ones as a standalone.
Lol Pete and I have the same taste, super pitfall and deadly towers were two of my absolute favorite games growing up, along with legacy of the wizard
He's a TurboGrafx collector now. Check him out on instagram.com/super_grafx/
Riggs YOU NEED TONSEE PREDATOR!!! All time classic and still holds up
Yes, please do. You’re killing me, Smalls
Whatever video you’re working on right now, John, put it on hold and watch “Predator”.
Like, this instant.
I've still not recovered from the disappointment that is Super Pitfall. I still like flying with the balloon though 😂. Happy holidays to you and the family John!
Merry Christmas John
That blows my mind you've never seen Predator . That's definitely in top 5 arnold movies at least.
My dad was never into the macho films like this, commando... even Top Gun so I never saw those. Muppets Take Manhattan, however...
@@JohnRiggs You definitely should see it, it's a classic. It even has probably the most famous arnold quote in it.
I met David Crane and the other 3 founders of Activision last year at Freeplay they are all cool guys.
Classic goof for intro to 3 Stooges. Cyberpunk references had me laughing. Also if anyone is interested in an Archon style game with way better execution check out Dark Wizard on Sega CD.
Man, dogging on not just Thunderbirds the game but the show too - John, it's a classic. I actually played the game before I ever saw the show, but I really liked both. NES Thunderbirds is a decent shooter, but it's hard and you have to lose to restart with more power - werid mechanic. Gotta love that Thunderbirds theme though!
Right on! Thunderbirds was Gerry Anderson's best show !
John you really need to apologize to all of your fans who are also Thunderbird fans!!!!!!