The WORST NES Games Ranked
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- We discuss a list of the worst NES games, compiled by Seth Abramson. What do we agree and disagree with?
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How is Urban Champion not in the top 25? It is literally Tiger handheld game that loops indefinitely.
lol because it's a product of it's time where at first everything played like an Arcade game, once Console gaming leaned away from Arcade, that's where that kind of stuff stops.
@@UltimateGamerCC I mean I see what you're saying, but there were thousands of excellent games that came out before then, being old doesn't excuse It's craptitude
Someone could re-do the map structure of Friday the 13th and it would be a legitimately decent game. For an LJN game, it is very competent.
What might make a good list is imperfect games that could be improved with 'Redaction' homebrews. I could name a few like 'Street Fighter 2010' and 'Ice Climber' that could benefit from some minor improvements.
@@mattybdbz4665 I always treated the direction your going like looking at a clock. I never had an issue with the map.
Yeah played that as kid whatever year it came out 87 or whatever it was . Didn’t even know it was a bad game. Not sure we even knew what bad games were back then we all grew up playing Atari and colecovision. So nes was 8 bit was cutting edge. Only as adults other than jackal and punch out do I realize what pieces of ….
@NoDrinkTheBleach I honestly think there is a better, more scarier game hidden within it's assets, just adding an West/East Indicator while you are traveling the map would be ideal. Personally I'd ditch the map entirely, add some significant story elements. heck, could have been made similarly to Snatcher with some more refined run and gun/ platform elements like what were featured in the game.
Made by Atlus actually!
I would only count officially released games
I don't see the hate for Friday the 13th. There were some really bad flaws, but I would even say it's not even a bad game. It was an average game that is more than playable with some great ideas. Controls weren't bad at all either. The map was bad, but you can easily open the map and see which way you were going. I can think of easily 50 games that were worse.
Someone wrote a whole book called “Friday the 13th: The Easy Way” which explains almost everything to be had in the game. Highly recommend buying.
I’m legit tired of people saying Friday the 13th is a bad game. I’ve been calm about it for a long time because of “to each his own” manners but fuck it. The only reason it gets the hate is a cause of the AVGN video and people inability to see it as it’s own game vs comparing it parts to another game. “The maps broken!” It takes a couple seconds to learn the orientation and you’re good. “The house battles feel like worse punch out”. There like 10+ boxers in pinch out and only one Jason. What do you want man. I love James and his content but the only reason he and all others have issues with this game is the fact that you’re all bad at the game. There I said it. You’re all BAD AT THIS VIDEO GAME!
that Muppet game is a perfect example of if even when a game was bad, if it was in your collection you played it regardless - I remember getting a copy of it as well as Ninja Turtles II on VHS when I was a kid and I played it all the time
doctor jekyll and mr hyde
I'll be honest, I think people overreact to Friday the 13th. It's not a good game, but it's not nearly as bad as people make it out to be.
Have Mark run around collecting everything you need, potions, a good weapon, and set up the camp councilors in certain cabins to monitor Jason's movement while Mark is collecting stuff. The kid's cabin can survive two attacks, so you can just ignore it for the first part of the game (if you are close enough to stop Jason, I would take the time to save those extra attacks). Once Mark is ready to kill Jason, find him on the map (don't fight him in cabins if you can), and just force him into the corner of the screen, and spam attack him until he runs away, immediately give chase to force him into another fight, rinse and repeat until he is defeated. Find him on the next day, force him into fighting on the map, and repeat the same process. Do it on the third day, and you'll win the game, easy. If you want to save Mark some potions and life, use the camp councilors you have positioned all over the place to force Jason into fights on the map (try to get a knife, but the rocks are just as effective) and do the same thing. If you lose anyone but Mark, you're fine, since he is the best character in the game.
+Lord Kardok
Damn! You really know "Friday the 13th" for the NES! Thanks for the tips! 😎👍
Xmen was so bad, I made it through the four levels as a kid and on the last level the game just stopped and didn't let me progress. Still have bad memories of the color schemes in that one.
My poor dad got me uncanny X-Men for Christmas of 1989 and I had to pretend it was good and it was so bad.
Luckily a few years later there were better X-Men games, X-Men and X-Men 2 clone wars for Genesis. The game gear X-Men games. X-Men mutant apocalypse for super Nintendo.
X-Men children of the atom for arcade, Saturn, and PS1, X-Men vs Street fighter for arcade, Saturn, and PS1.
And finally, X-Men the arcade game by Konami, I just wished they posted that to super Nintendo.
I don't believe I've ever heard *anyone* defend M.U.S.C.L.E.
Back to the Future definitely would for me. As a child I loved the movies so much, and for me the worst part about the NES game was the difficulty. Getting past the cafe was insanely hard as a kid, in fact I never managed to pull it off. And the worst part was if you lost you had to go back and play the previous level completely over again. So that made practicing the cafe a chore. And this was supposed to be the first level “boss”.
Since that part was so hard, I never got to experience the classroom scene, or the guitar part, or the driving at the end. And the shooting levels in between were definitely monotonous, and had nothing to do with the movies, besides the skateboard, which seemed more like a detriment than a power up. Why was there a bowling ball with pins placed randomly in the street? I hate that game so much.
Even Dragon's Lair though, I've beaten that game. Yes, it is trial and error, it is miserable, it is dogshit, but it's a game. Action 52 should occupy the first 52 slots of worst NES games, cause they're all broken and even calling them games is a stretch.
That would be no fun.
I'll fight any man to the death who tries to argue Friday the 13th is one of the five worst NES games. It's a good game that is only hurt by one or two aggravating points.
Hydlide also came out in the US three years after the Japanese version (which was itself two years after the computer original). Perhaps it would have been more forgivable had it come out in the Black Box era that it basically was. The Famicom version was basically released at the same time as Zelda, except that Zelda was on that new-fangled disk drive.
Surprised Chubby Cherub isn't here. I remember it made my hand hurt so bad! The controls were hideous.
"I remember it being unmemorable" - Is that possible?
lol contrary to how it sounds, it totally can be.
Definitely
The correct phrasing should be "It was an unmemorable game because I beat it yet I can't remember a thing about it."
I have a soft spot for Where's Waldo. I do like speed running it. Friday the 13th even being in the conversation is ridiculous.
It's like finding Waldo in a sea of 8bit trash.
Friday the 13th, just take a picture with cell phone of the map, within 5-10 mins, you get the hang where you going, if you know how to play it, excellent game, you can actually finish it pretty quick! Another game, that I hated, then actually learned how to play, and the concept, is Platoon, fun game, once you know how to play it!
My cousin had Dr Jekyl and I had Where's Waldo growing up. Where's Waldo was just unremarkable, but we actively disliked Dr Jekyl. Friday the 13th is pretty fun once you know what to do
Friday the 13th is actually a GOOD game.... Once you know what you're supposed to do. It's the sort of game that a guide makes 100% better, and I'd absolutely recommend anyone who tries it to look up a guide on it first before playing. You'll have a far better time with it.
I just watched something on the source code of Dragons Lair for NES, and I remember they talked about something being wrong with the US version where it was too slow from some bug. Still, not a great game, but theres a lil more going on.
Videos called: The Hidden Source Code in Dragon's Lair (NES) by Displaced Gamers
Creating a 100 worst games list out of 700+ games seems a little bit excessive, especially for someone who probably hasn't played them all and is really a novice in the field
I never even made it past the first screen in Dragon's Lair for NES. I couldn't get across the drawbridge without falling. I worked at it for a little while before I finally just gave up.
This list is garbage. Since they are throwing in Color Dreams and Action 52, where are the Sachen , Panesian, and America Video Entertainment games? All the movie ones I’d rank in the bottom 250 of licensed but not worst 25. Where is Hillsfar (not that bad but worse than most on the list), LJN’s MLB and NFL? Color a Dinosaur? Videomation, Stack Up? That list was a popularity contest of Me Too!
Oh, I would totally defend Bart Vs Space Mutants, Total Recall, Friday The 13th and Silver Surfer. I actually really like these games.
Silver Surfer is actually a good game. You just need to get the powerups and learn the levels a little bit. Its gets the reputation because its so hard at first.
Nah it's flawed but silver surfer looks good and the music is insanely good. They made it way too fucking hard. That and battletoads 2 player.
@@turboshazed7370 Silver Surfer's difficulty level is overrated. Its just very hard the first time you play it.. but when you get a little used to the levels and get the powerups its not really that bad. Starship Hector for example is miles harder.
Cheetahman 2 shouldn't really count as it was never released by any official company.
I would say the worst official NES games are Silver Surfer, Mr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide, Super Pitfall, Action 52, Where's Waldo, Mario is Missing, Bart vs the Space Mutants, The Uncanny X-Men, Dragon's Lair (North American version), Fester's Quest, Back to the Future, Ghostbusters, Tag Team Pro Wrestling, Karate Champ, Deadly Towers, Home Alone, Superman, Fist of the North Star, Total Recall, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Adventures of Gilligan's Island, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, Widget, and Transformers Convoy no Nazo.
Seems like whoever made this list just binge-watched all the AVGN episodes and made that list. I agree with the CU crew, theres much worse out there.
The QA testers for Super Pitfall should have been tossed into a spike pit
I rented super pitfall from blockbuster video in the late 80s and I brought it back after 3 hours and rented willow instead 🙂
It's questionable whether or not the unlicensed games should even be on here, but Cheetahmen II _definitely_ shouldn't be, it wasn't even released!
I haven't played many of the games on this list, but I've played Back to the Future 3 and 3 and it's so bad that I can't believe it's not on here. I genuinely had more fun playing through Action 52 than I did with Back to the Future 2 and 3, no joke.
I understand.
For it was Narc . I spent 50 Canadian on it back in the 90's. I should have bought Strider instead .
I don't know, this is Strider on NES we are talking about.
+Cameron McBride
"NARC" is a decent port, in my opinion. Just as decent as the "Strider" NES port, anyway.
I'm so validated to hear the Friday the 13th entry, because it pretty much echoes what I always say when my friends bring it up.... it had some really good ideas, and some really great, memorable music. It just was really horribly built, with a infuriating map system.
But where's LJN's Jaws on this list?
Ultima: Warriors of Destiny is the true worst lisenced NES game. The only reason it's not on this list is because it wasn't made famous by Seanbaby or RUclipsrs like AVGN. It should at least be in the top 5 of any worst games list.
I can think of 100 games better than conan and worse than deadly towers. Also, get these unlicensed games out of here.
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Only ones I've even dabbled with out of the top ten are Friday the 13th (actually played this some 30-ish years ago as a kid) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (thanks to AVGN, of course), the latter of which I actually beat.
ok so the only thing I really have to say, or ask really, about this list is about Gilligan's Island. I have played it and I agree it's not as bad as the list says, but my biggest question about that game is this: Who was it made for? Kids in the 80s weren't asking for it and people who were kids in the 60s probably werent asking for this game or wanting to play it. So that question always come to mind for me with that game.
yes. I grew up in the 80s and never saw the show. I was familiar with the Addams family, which was in the same era.
@@thepolacek yes, but there were at least an update with movies in the late 80s and early 90s. To me, the GGI game is like making a Mr. Ed game. Who would that be for? lol you know?
@@thepolacek Maybe it depended on your local TV market as it was syndicated? I'm not sure there was another show growing up in the decade I'd had seen more. It wouldn't exactly have been at the top of my list for licensed games. But it didn't seem out of place either.
@@paladin677 When I saw Gilligan's Island (it was on Nick at nite in the 90s), my fiest thought wasnt that it would make a great Nintendo game. When I did find out it was a game when I was around the age of 17 or so I assumed it would be terrible. A buddy of mine had it and while I didnt think it was a bad game per se, It just made me think who is this for? as opposed to this game is awful.
I was born in '88 and watched the TV show on TBS in the early 90s. I rented the NES game because of that. So yeah it was still on the air and was a really goofy show that had some appeal to kids.
What about Airwolf, To The earth, Ninja kid, Legend of kage these games really don't have much to offer and are extremely difficult, 5 minutes in to them you will turn them off and never want to play them again, also the ones on those multigame cartridges like 31 in one had a their fair share of horrible games which were sold individually like Arabian, Karateka, Zippy race etc
Ninja Kid is decent. Definitely not one of the worst 100 games on the NES.
@@chriswells506 Well to me it's just too difficult but unlike mike tyson's punch out that one is hard but it was fun, ninja kid was not that fun in my opinion. I only played it a lot because the few other games i owned back then i had already completed them.
Bad games on the NES to me is an example of a time where developers were still trying to figure out what works. Many of the bad NES games could be INFINITELY better with just some minor tweaking of their mechanics & whatnot.
It's a hackers paradise to be honest, & I'd really love to see more improvement hacks of games that have great potential but miss the mark for one reason or another. Like Silver Surfer for instance! Why doesn't someone simply make the hitbox smaller? The game would be FAR more enjoyable if someone were to do that.
Oh, man, I owned a few of these games in the 80s. I loved them back then and still love them today. Nostalgia is a mighty beast.
i think action 52 has to be the worst by a wide margin just for the fact that it was $200 (~$400 in 2021 dollars). i don't remember if it was armake21 who had that game as a kid, but there has to have been more cases where some kid convinced their parents to buy action 52 & because of the cost they refused to buy more new games for like a year or something. imagine how torturous that has to be for a young kid. like uncanny x-men & dragon's lair are abysmal but they're still not so bad where a kid in the 80s couldn't squeeze a /little/ fun out of them. the only enjoyment a human being can get out of action 52 is by gawking at how unbelievably terrible it is in all aspects.
I hope you do a worst SNES and GEN games as well.
I've been trying to figure out what is widely and definitively consider the worst games for every system. Specifically the 8-16 generations.
cheetahmen 2 isnt' a released game tho so probably shoulnd't been on the list or we wanna count evey beta cart out there too
All of Pat's top 5 got the 'Official Nintendo Seal Of Quality'. 🙃
I had high hopes that Super Pitfall would be as good as the Commodore games we had. So disappointing.
Anyone who defends Action 52 can't be all right in the head.
Wrestlemania I played as a kid and it was fun, but yes the controls are bad. Bad control really brings a game down. Yeah I have Bill and Ted and don't understand it. Simpsons Bart vs space mutants sucks. Ian is completely right about Hydlide. Where waldo loses interest fast. Yeah Dr. Jekly and Mr. Hyde. When I bought that game back in the day, I stopped collecting NES games. Other worst games would be all the AVGN episodes and that came to mind immediately was Advanced dungeons and Dragons Heros of the Lance.
They need to loop the back to the future game music over and over for this entire video in the backgrounds.
Every time you talk about patreon you say how you are behind and not providing the terms of the patreon. So kinda confusing. Not selling me on the idea tbh. I enjoy the podcast tho.
Dragon’s Lair is a terrible game but it’s got some nice animation for an Nes game. It’s a fairly impressive looking game for the Nes, and it’s difficulty used to make me wanna try that much more just to see what the next screen looked like. It has some artistic value to it.
I think there are some games that are bad, but people can enjoy them because they are bad. For example, a game like Action 52 or Cheetahmen 2, they might be bad, but they are 2 games that you can laugh at with friends. Whereas a game like Where's Waldo is just bad. It isn't fun and you can't really laugh at it. Silver Surfer was a great game, just too difficult for most. A game like X-Men may be bad, but playing that on 2 player with someone who has never seen a game of that kind quality always generates some laughs.
Cheetahmen 2 (or Action 52, for that matter) doesn't really count to me. That is not a real developer and of course not a licensed game either.
Expected to see Karate Champ
DASH GALAXY!!!!!!!!! Is The Worst!!!!!!!!!!
Can a console with a D-pad and A B button really have THAT BAD of controls? :O I mean theres like 6 buttons total on the thing, how could they mess that up :P
Wow, no Karate Champ.
Wow, I would have guessed that Festers Quest woild at least make top 10.
Wha...?! I love that game!
@@tigmo55 me too, but it's hard as fuck.
It's hard as fuck for the wrong reasons
Karate Champ is missing??? WTF!!!
Silver Surfer's not that bad. I beat it without cheats or turbo controller. Battletoads is worse.
While part of the great thing about these rankings is our own opinions and going oh i never thought of it that way people that can see both sides get that. The porblem becomes like you said reputations deserved or not some get lazy instead of doing there research and think it will slide. You guys have also said on array of subjects nah some of us actually care and can see thru the bs..
Dumb
Winter Games by epix sucked all kinds of ass. The controls are very poor.
5. Bill & Ted - A failure on every metric in terms of design, makes no sense, is flawed on a technical level, and isn't fun to play at all.
4. Dragon's Layer - Completely misguided attempt to adapt the game's setpieces makes for a really, painfully-shitty sidescroller.
3. Uncanny X-Men - A huge disappointment on a technical level and boring and annoying as Hell to play.
2. Menace Beach - Fuckin' bullshit dude, like fuck this game- it just pisses me off.
1. Action 52 - A literal, honest-to-god scam. Fuck this game and fuck the frauds responsible for it.
Dr Jekyll is nothing like the worst NES game. AVGN has clearly had too much of an effect on people.
No, it's absolute garbage
@@jbfarley Its bad, but not the worst of the worst.
Worst NES games could have made a great Pat the NES Punk video, WOOOOOO!!
Pats finally doing top 10’S
The US version of Dragon's Lair is garbage that deserves to be ejected into the sun, but at least the European and Japanese versions can be considered a functioning game (even if the later for some ungodly reason adds Up To Jump to the game, that is less of a sin).
Like seriously, a quick time event game where every thing is laggy because the game has to stop and load every animation frame because the cheap asses at Sony needed to be show what unplayable garbage they were shitting out before letting it get fixed for the other regions.
5 worst:
Action 52
Cheetahman 2
Dragons Lair
Where’s Waldo
Hydlide
If you want to play a REALLY shitty NES game, play the U.S. version of Castle Quest. If the music doesn't make you quit after 30 minutes then the gameplay should. The main character attacks enemies with his finger for crying out loud. Hydlide is NOT a bad game, if you can get by the music and learn how combat works in the game then it's not bad.
Silver surfer is a good solid game its just hard
It's way too hard.
Whats a muscle?
Im sorry I had to 😅
3 stooges on NES....
Top 100 worst Amico games:
All of them.
Except EWJ4
But EWJ4 won't happen.
The Amico isn't going to have anywhere near 100 games released for it. Heck, it doesn't any released now. Just boxes.
Plenty of Amico games actually look decently fun to play. Just like some actual old Intellivision games are still fun today.
@@karlcharron3350 And how many are available right now, that are actually finished, that you can play?
@@Rando1975
Why ask rhetorical questions?
I think the system will probably never get released but I hope some of the games they worked on get salvaged, finished and put on other platforms.
How many official North American releases were there?
Google
This was a cool video topic! Interesting ranking!
Dragon's lair is so much fun, what an awesome game
Not on nes
Great vid guys 👍
I love Nes videos.
8/16bits spirit for life!
Keep it up
Super Pitfall is fucking God awful
Back To The Future is number 1 without question.
Ghostbusters is worse
Had to drop a dislike for the question being posed by a collusion jornalist. Now when the world is actually falling apart, it's time to talk about retro games.
Lol "Journalism"
Pat and Ian banned me from commenting on their videos from my main account for saying something similar. It's crazy.
I didn't think Silver Surfer was awful. I thought it was decent. It's a hard game. That's it. Does it make it bad? No. Why? I beat it twice and I thought it played okay. It's no Contra, S.C.A.T. or Gun Nac but it plays fine. For some gamers, they need to sharpen their skills if they want to beat some hard games.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde was #1? I thought it was okay. I liked the idea of it. It's not the best or the worst game on the NES. For now, I'll go with Where's Waldo because of how it works.
Jekyll and Hyde NOT BAD? How?
@@turboshazed7370 Well, it's playable and challenging. I like the idea of a character who has a dark side when his stress meter goes down.
@@Matt-Ratmee too just not executed well
@@Matt-Ratmee too just not executed well
@@Matt-Ratmee too just not executed well
And i guess you forgot about Ghostbusters on NES this game is nothing but garbage.
Opinions.
what about chiller? horrible game
I think what makes a game good or bad comes down to a few factors. Playability and difficulty go hand-&-hand as these two can make or break a good game. Games like "Friday the 13th" and "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" could be better if they where ironed out to be more playable, where "Silver Surfer" just takes difficulty too high. I think they get a bad rap but always fun to talk about. The "X-Men" and "where's Waldo" are just unplayable! You wonder just how they made it to store shelves instead of scrapped.
It's always interesting to see what people put on lists like these, especially for the NES. There was so many titles it can be hard not to choose the usual suspects. I think with a bad list there is a definite line between playable and unplayable. Ones worth a look at and ones that just make you wonder how they made it to shelves! For every classic or good title there is an equally stinker for various reasons.
In the end I think everyone has their own opinion. I mean I'm not a big fan of "Battle Toads" as it's broken in places, but people still speak fondly of it to this day. I personally love the title "Mystery Quest" but it is a completely missed title no one ever speaks if!
Anyways, ranted enough, but love this topic! NES still one of the best!
I love m.u.s.c.l.e I had all of the toys
Hey pat member nintendo?
Cool
I love Where’s Waldo! I could easily spot him on the screen when you put the screen shot up while discussing it. You guys are blind 😂(he’s right above your Mario tanooki plush, 3 rows up from the bottom)
10:50 Actually, Displaced Gamers did a video on NES Dragon's Lair and code and tech analysis of the US and the improved Japanese release shows some really interesting stuff that suggests that maybe the game was so awful due to gimped cheaper cart hardware to cut costs. Or maybe it was because it was the developers first NES game.
ruclips.net/video/OoW6ydYMc8E/видео.html
Um, wasn't the Russian collusion stuff later proven to be false? So, why is this guy the source of anything? Makes sense this ended up being a list of the worst games he's heard of.
No, it was not proven to be false. Abramson was right on the mark. The regular media seriously dropped the ball on this. And this list isn't his opinion - he added up a great number of lists from others. Listen to the introduction by the guy on the right again.
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Ian is such a pretentious nerd. The epitome of the "Actually..." guy
Is Ian's new job at intellivision?
Silent Service most boring game ever.
Great discussion guys! Very good stuff! I certainly agree with most of the choices except for one of them. I actually have Friday the 13th as one of my personal hidden gems and this is coming from someone who HATED this game as a kid! I gave it a second chance recently and, once you really understand the nuances of the game (the map can be successfully navigated although I'll admit that the forest/cave areas can get a little murky). you've got yourself a very unique, original game that's actually quite fun (and intense!) In any case, I have thankfully not played several of the games that were mentioned in the Top 5. X-Men is indeed a terrible game and I personally thought that Hydlide was one of the absolute stink bombs for the system. Action 52 looks particularly dreadful though. I haven't played it and I probably never will...LOL.
This lists reads like it's influenced by AVGN videos pretty heavily.
Ikr! It’s so by the numbers basic. I would like to see Pat and Ian’s list of worst NES games.
It's probably not too far fetched to say that most NES bad games lists will be influenced by the AVGN these days, it's hard to avoid because he is probably the most influential person for that particular subject. I mean if someone knows about these games, it's probably because he watched the AVGN episode at some point.
Yep
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Popeye is a fine game. What?!
I think everyone who has put out a "Worst NES Games Ever" list has been heavily influenced by AVGN and Seanbaby to the point where you're just going to hear the same 10 games over and over again, most of which were either licensed media tie-in crap, LJN garbage, or unlicensed games from gray-market shovelware sweatshops like Color Dreams and Wisdom Tree. I think that to get to the heart of the worst NES games ever, we either need to just retire those games from the conversation entirely or get more granular; maybe make lists like "Worst 10 First-Party Nintendo NES Cartridges (That Aren't Urban Champion)" or "10 Worst Arcade to Home Conversions" or "10 Bad Games that People Actually Bought Back in the Day (With Contemporary Review Scores from Period Gaming Magazines) Which Weren't Just Dredged Up from a ROM Library Years Later For Comedy Purposes."
Where's Waldo. Even if it was fun, the game is barely 6 minutes long
It can't be the worst if it's fun! :)
@@MarioNintendoh try saying that if you paid $50 back in the day, you can speedrun it in 6 minutes, even if you think it's fun, that's $9+ per minute of fun.
@@UltimateGamerCC yeah, but there's no way in hell you are beating that game in six minutes unless you look online for the answers.
@@UltimateGamerCC I had it as a kid. The length never bothered me. It has good replay value, as he is always in a different location. Medium and hard difficulties are brutal.
@@thepolacek eh... i'd sooner play the Genesis/SNES versions, they're much better overall.
My Dad got me Where’s Waldo for NES for Christmas in 1992. I already moved on to SNES and didn’t have NES anymore. We returned it to Toys ‘R Us and I got Mario Paint instead. Dodged a bullet there…
Mario paint is a million times better than wheres waldo
Just shows how little many people care about making their own oppinions and just following the mainstream... You can clearly see the influence of AVGN regarding the reputation of many retro games.
I actually came down here to comment this: The list seems to be curated from "Games that James has done videos on"
James has been doing videos on shitty games for well over 10 years now so it's no coincidence that he has done video on most if not all the games on that list.
The funny thing is James has even admitted that he actually likes many of the games he "reviewed" early on. He picked those games because everyone remembers them and they have elements that are easy to make jokes about.
Would have been pissed the fuck off if Simon's Quest would have been anywhere on this list.
@@Raven34643 yes. I would never "blame" James for this. His videos were supposed to be funny and not an in depth analysis 😄 the problem are all those people who never even played a game but call it "worst game evaaa". Just like E.T. is definitely not the worst game ever made. Compared to other titles for the Atari 2600 it's not even close to the bottom.
As a Kid I played probably 50 hours of Super Pitfall. It's a fun exploration game but has unfair hidden and obtuse gates to advance.
It's too bad Activision became a shovelware company in the NES era. Ghostbusters and Super Pitfall showed that they just wanted a quick buck and didn't care about quality at all.
really whipping out the vocabulary there, "obtuse". XD
Super Pitfall is not a good game, but I can see where the good game could have been.
X-Men for sure. Awful game for NES.
I felt bad for my dad because he got me that game for one of my birthdays. He didn't know it was bad. Luckily years later I got X-Men mutant apocalypse for super nintendo and that was 1000 times better.
Silver Surfer is a stupid choice. For shooter games I'd say its one of the EASIEST. I beat it pretty easily. Try Starship Hector! THATS a hard shooter. Friday the 13th?! C'mon. This list is just someone that watched the first 2 season of AVGN. #1: HOME ALONE. Just a lazy, worthless piece of trash. Terrible music, game play. Has ZERO redeeming qualities. ZERO. Even the game boy version is better! Also top 3 any of the THQ games. But Id say Rocky and Bullwinkle, or maybe Waynes World. Its so inept I love it. Its like the Birdemic of video games. They should have been embarrassed to put that out.
Way too many NES games are shit. People seem to forget that because they're wrapped up in nostalgia.