I Ranked Every CAPCOM game on NES
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Capcom had some great NES games but were they all winners? In this video I rank every game Capcom made for the NES.
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My little bro (RIP Chris) loved Little Nemo. It was definitely one we really enjoyed as kids and adults. Fantastic game
There is a special place in my heart for Bionic Commando. I like that there wasn’t a jump button because it added a skill/puzzle element to it. The twist at the end was also classic. I had never played the arcade of Bionic Commando but when I finally did on Mame I actually hated it because it wasn’t like the NES version.
Me: "Bionic Commando HAS to be S-Tier:
Great controls, original bionic arm that controls great, nonlinear level design, great challenge, EXCELLENT soundtrack, and you take out Hitler. Legendary!"
Riggs: "B-TIER!"
Me: *Clutches pearls*
It's at least an A. And that's only if you hold a grudge about not getting Super Joe's machine gun. It used to drive me crazy trying to find it.
I agree, once he said Bionic Commando is B I came down to the comments to make sure someone else knows it should've been an A. Because of this I'm not going to watch the rest of the video.
cheeseburger12 yeah how dare someone have a slightly different opinion on a 20 something year old game.
@@Rountree1985 I'm impressed in the thread about 3 people complaining about his score, I'm the one you saw fit to reply too. Cool.
I must have rented bionic commando enough to buy the game several times over I loved that game definitely S tier
Mega Man 6 actually had two western-created Robot Masters: Knight Man and Wind Man. Both were submitted into Capcom as part of a contest that Nintendo Power ran- they collected a bunch of robot master ideas and drawings from North American readers, displayed a few of them in a magazine feature, and sent the whole mess off to Capcom.
Section Z at D tier... And Strider B tier? Strider is a broken mess on NES. Section Z is great and Willow is S tier
Add me to the list of people who really want Little Nemo to get the "DuckTales Remastered" treatment.
It is such an amazing game and it's such a tragedy it will probably never see a re-release or a remake or anyting. I mean who owns the rights to that franchise anyway?! can't they
Make another game pretty cheap?!
There was literally an animated film based on it in the early 90s and that's been in for the last 30 years.
Nemo, darkwing, and destiny are amazing
Isn't Little Nemo public domain though? Windsor McKay died in 1934 after all, well before the silly copyright extensions. I would think all they would have to do is drop the animated film tie-in and call it simply Little Nemo after the original >100 year-old strip.
Just to add: I never played this one back in the day, but I still would like to see a remake. Also include the arcade version of Little Nemo (not a movie tie-in) with it please.
I remember going shopping with my relatives for dress clothes and we stopped at the WIZ for something. Little Nemo caught my eye mostly, because I had, by then, become accustomed to CAPCOM’s traditional blue box look & design, and with the CAPCOM name being on the box, I just knew this game would be great despite the playable character not being too appealing.
Boy, was I in for a cool ride when I finally got home to play the game! Good music, okay graphics, memorable gameplay!
I am definitely with you on Little Nemo and the Dream Master receiving the DUCK Tales remake treatment. Actually, I read somewhere like one year ago that Capcom was entertaining the idea of remaking all their 8-bit DISNEY CAPCOM franchises. Here’s hoping!
@@QunMang The art of the game is based directly on the movie though, you can't just pretend that it isn't and expect Toho to not sue you. And you can't change the art because that's a huge part of the game's charm.
Early Capcom games were sometimes ported by Micronics, by all accounts a one-man team being worked on part-time. It was the epitome of farm hand work.1942, and I believe ghosts'n'goblins were Micronics jobs, and the janky scrolling is usually a dead giveaway for others, as well. Athena and Super Pitfall were Micronics jobs as well, to give you an idea.
Bionic Commando should be S tier. It is such a unique and amazing game. I used to never be able to get past the 3rd or 4th level, then one saturday morning everything clicked and I beat the game. One of my favorite NES memories as a kid!
You don’t get to decide someone else’s opinion for them, that’s not how things work.
@@Rountree1985 he gave his opinion too, and I disagree with him by the way. Bionic Comando is a B to me!!!
Bionic Commando never had a jump button on purpose. If you could just jump you would have no reason to use the claw. The claw was the games main gimmick to stand out against other Action platformers of the time.
I got caught sneaking out with my gf & was grounded for 2 weeks, effectively killing that relationship. A friend lent me this game, and suddenly, all was right in the world. A slam dunk S for me.
100% Agree. Absolute sacrilege to rank Bionic Commando so low. Easily S-tier. Jump button be damned.
Section Z was pretty solid, I’d give it at least a B. It was unique and had a great soundtrack.
I was never a big fan of shooters but really enjoyed section z and bought it as well. For those reasons and nostalgia wise I’d probably go with a B as well.
Bionic Commando is a HOF NES game. So memorable. Probably Capcom's best NES game.
I loved Bionic Commando, Gun.Smoke and Ghosts n Goblins
I would rate them A to S level.
Ghosts N' Goblins is probably my favorite game ever. While you get sprite flickering and the frame rate is a little low, it's actually incredibly faithful to the arcade.
Bionic Commando has the great control scheme with the bionic arm and an amazing soundtrack. Gun.Smoke is super fun.
All of them are definitely at LEAST A-tier.
@@FinalManaTrigger im glad somebody else likes ghosts n goblins i stopped listening when he gave it a D rating lol
Gun.Smoke is great, I agree. Tough to compare early NES games to something like Mario 3, ya know?
It'll be crazy if Capcom released a compilation with all these Titles! It's been their thing lately.
You forgot Snow Brothers, Capcom definitely published that one.
Good catch, and Megaman 6 was leased and developed by Nintendo.
@@leefischer5814 I think Mega Man 6 was released in Japan by Capcom. Nintendo published it over here.
@@jsb0714 I know Nintendo did design Tomahawk man and whatever other character won the design contest and Capcom wanted no part of development since they were moving towards 16 bit at the time, but as far as Japan I haven't a clue
Capcom wanted to focus on mega man 7 in America the time 6 was coming out and had no plans to release 6. Nintendo felt 6 was need to understand the plot in 7 and chose to publish it.
Very underrated game. It's essentially a clone of Bubble Bobble but that's not a bad thing.
Your seriously docking Bionic Commando for not having a jump button? The whole point of the game was that you grapple and swing instead of jumping. That's what made it a unique platformer.
Love these ranking videos, keep them coming :)
Do konami.... and you're nuts. Ghosts and goblins is one of the few Nintendo games I still play to this day. But it is hard as hell. I've never beat it
When Ghosts & Goblins was in the arcades, I ALWAYS saw players on it. Yes, Ghosts & Goblins is extremely challenging yet I am still impressed by it.
Try using the cheat.
@@Vriappiopoi why would you cheat?
@@Rountree1985 Because the game is super hard.
It was hard because you couldn't shoot up or down on it. You can only shoot in one direction.
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I haven't watched yet, but THANK YOU!!!
Konami games next!
Absolutely spot on with those Mega Man series ratings. Same with the entirely mediocre TaleSpin, despite your misgivings, it just doesn't hold up against most of the other shoot 'em ups on the NES; you can find worse shmups, but so very many are markedly better.
This is more of grading than ranking.
It’s still a great video 👍🏼
I love this series of videos!!! Keep 'em coming Riggs!
The problem with a lot of those early Capcom games was that they farmed out development to a contract developer called Micronics, though of course we didn't know that in the US at the time. Micronics has become infamous for the shoddy quality of their titles, but they must have charged low rates because it seems like tons of big Japanese publishers used them. Once Capcom brought development in-house, their NES titles got vastly better.
I give S tier to all the megaman games, Gargoyles quest 2 and the ducktales games
Your dude isn't wearing Mickey ears in Magic Kingdom because he's supposed to be one of the tour guides from The Jungle Cruise. Back in the 80's, they wore those big hats as part of their uniform. God I'm a nerd.
Oh wow, I bet you're right!
Oh. I thought that is original Woody..
To paraphrase the 11th Doctor : "Nerds are cool !"
Bionic Commando is an awesome game. Tier A at least. The lack of a jump is one of the things that makes it so different. It falls in the run and gun category, but it does something really different.
1942 is a fascinating game. Made in Japan lass then 40 after the end of World war II, you play a US WWII fighter pilot where your goal is get to Tokyo to blow it up. And it added a lot to the vertical shooter, including the whole idea of floating power ups and bosses at the end of stages. Along with Xevious, it created the vertical scrolling shmup genre. I'd put 1942 and 1943 in tier A, 1942 because of the innovation it brought to the genre, 1943 because it is just a better game.
Ghosts n Goblins is B tier, at least. yes, it is hard, but it is also good.
I'm pretty sure they tell you about the platform cannon in the manual for Megaman 1. I didn't read it either.
Street Fighter 2010 came out in 1990, Street Fighter II came out in arcades in 1991.
I agree with every single ranking. Well, except one that you butchered. Ghosts and Goblins is a treasure. A tier for me for sure.
Now do Konami!
Ghost & Goblins is unquestionably a gem because it's so challenging; the player can enjoy very brief moments of being super-powered then suddenly, BOOM! the player loses everything in one fell swoop. :) ...and has to rebuild those super powers.
I too am interested in how he rates Konami games but only if he also includes their Ultra line...after all, Ultra was just a cheat code to allow Konami to release more games per year under Nintendo's licensing restrictions.
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You don't lose anything in Ghost & Goblins. If you die with the knife, you keep the knife. That's a huge thing. Unlike a shmup where you die and you lose all your power ups.
@@kekeke8988 You are correct. The player keeps the weapon but loses the armor in Ghosts & Goblins when the avatar takes damage; seeing the avatar running around in its underwear can be mortifying even when equipped with a powerful weapon considering that when the avatar takes damage a second time is defeated. :)
Probably cause it's so hard lol
In the earlier days, the reason arcade games on home consoles were vastly different even by arcade game manufacturers that created them is because of smaller developer teams and hardware; I was always fascinated by arcade translations or interpretations to home consoles from a programming perspective because I understood that there were just 1-2 people writing them to limited hardware; we, as kids just didn't know the programmer's names. We also understood that when it came to interpretations, we were critical of what was edited from the original game & what remained. The arcade translations were becoming more & more impressive each year on expanded hardware & larger game developer teams on Super NES, Turbo Grfx-1 & Neo Geo hardware as you already know. :)
Chip and dale was one of the handful of games I had as a kid. That and Mario 3 were by far the go-to games in my limited collection
Gun.Smoke is S-tier all day, every day
Without Gun.Smoke, the Red Dead series by Rockstar probably wouldn't exist.
@@NipplesTheEnchilada2323 lol, I hope this was a joke.
@@cloudtx It's not a joke. Look up the history of Red Dead Revolver, and come back here.
@@NipplesTheEnchilada2323 Wow, I had no idea. I thought you meant the games were connected just cause of the theme. Fair enough man, I was wrong.
@@cloudtx It's no problem, man.
I suspect that it is hard to understand what picking out or even renting a new video game was like back in the day when the NES was current gen unless you have had that actual experience. There was little to no access to video game reviews. You might get a few from a magazine that may or may not have been objective, you might have word of mouth from a friend of a friend who has a secret grudge against you, but it was usually a blind purchase . Games were expensive if you were a kid, parents weren't willing to buy them very often, a high percentage of the NES library was crap, and picking something good was often a crapshoot. Through trial and error many of us figured out that for 3rd party games, buying a one made by Konami or Capcom was usually the safest thing to do. There were other good companies, but Konami and Capcom both made enough games to have a good track record in our minds while others didn't have the same reputation even if they deserved it (Sunsoft comes to mind). Konami and Capcom were the closest we had to a reliably good developer. By the way, It was actually kind of obvious for me at least that Konami and Ultra were the same company just by playing their games, Capcom and Konami games had a certain look and feel.
I was lucky to have a mother that thought video games were cool, so we were allowed to rent many, many games. But when it came to buying games, my mom would only buy games she assumed were quality and/or I would love for sure. (Mario, Mega Man, Disney characters, and most RPGs) Although we still had our fair share of terrible games that she would find at garage sales... For example, Hyde Lyde... I will forever despise that game!
It was such a different time back then. Magazines rarely gave enough accurate info to convince the buyer. You really just had to take a chance sometimes.
Thankfully, there were some publishers (like Capcom) you could usually trust.
Little Nemo is a definite hidden gem that I didnt know about until I started watching youtube.... great game.
Great game!
Finished it!
And it WOULD be a great remaster! A hidden gem to be sure.
I played it in 1990 when it came out!
Fun but hard af
Not bad. I'm a huge MegaMan fan so I tend to rate the series a little more harshly. Dark Wing Duck is great, I loved the cartoon and I love the game. Interestingly enough, Dark Wing Duck was built on the MegaMan 5 engine which is why it plays so similar to a MM game
hey, love the channel. Gunsmoke was great. The music alone would justify a b rating. I haven played the game in years, and its playing in my head a i type. Plus, its the spiritual Prequel to the Red Dead series.
Good point about the music. So fun
I'm currently playing through Willow and I love the environments and graphics. Like when you're in the towers and you can see the floors below you and stuff. Great game.
Just found your channel and LOVE it, also Micky Mouscapades was a Hudson Soft game in Japan, due to Capcom having the license exclusively in the US, Capcom cheaply brought it over for a quick buck.
You sir. Have the best retro game channel on RUclips. Thank you for making these video during difficult times
Thank you much!
These ranking videos are really fun, especially because I do learn some games that was released in the US that we didn’t got in Sweden. 😄
Like "Legendary Wings"! I think it's a great and fun shmup for nes, but it's definitely better with a with a turbo controller.
@@Cellfix Gun•Smoke is also considerably more playable with a turbo controller.
Mega Man games need to have their own tier above S.
Yes... "Mega Man" tier
Bionic Commando for the NES is the canonical sequel to the arcade "Bionic Commandos."
You play Super Joe in the arcade game, and you're rescuing him in the NES game.
Little Nemo The Dream Master definitely deserves an S, good pick
Now I've got a couple more CAPCOM titles to chase that I may have overlooked before . Solid choices, and I like the ranking. Thanks for the vid!
I love you're channel everyone said I was crazy because I put my ps4 away for my mini systems 😂🤣😂🤣 retro gaming is here forever.
Good stuff brother. Love the Star Tropics art.
I agree with most of your rankings, but I am willing to wager that Bionic Commando is where most with an opinion might disagree. Its S tier for me. I hated "war" games, but loved RPG, and this just hit the spot.
A fine list Mr. Riggs a fine list...
I would have rated Bionic Commando and S-tier though! That game was way ahead of it's time!
Right in the nostalgia! These were the games I loved as a kid... Little Nemo, Ducktales, Rescue Rangers, the Megaman series... man, we had some good stuff.
Little Nemo and Ducktales are at the top of the list for me.
Looking back (and not realizing at the time), Capcom made most of my favorite games of my youth here. Great list (except I really really liked Talespin back then!)
What about Snow brothers
I forgot it :(
Bionic Commando should be S-tier. It’s one of the best NES games. A at the very least. I’d put Mega Man 6 higher than 5, but that’s just personal preference since the last three are really about the same quality.
I'm not a big fan of BC because of the lack of a jump abiity. It's just too hard to control. I think B tier was generous.
a big hell yes for Little Nemo Dream Master!
Duck Tales, Mega Man 2, Gunsmoke and Bionic Commando: ALL of them S tier.
Great list as always 🙂 I do remember beating Mega Man 1 without the platform beam, but it makes that one section near the end ridiculously hard.
these older ones where you are rating mostly on nostalgia are a bit rough to get through, as a person that doesn't only play retro games for nostalgia reasons, I'm glad that you seemingly don't do that much anymore.
Nice video John, i have to check out a lot of these games yet. Love Gargoyle's Quest for Game Boy, for me was S tier, and GG II for NES is A for me too, i felt it a little off comparing it to the Game boy one.
The only game i played and i was completely disagree was Section-Z, damn i love to the death this shooter, it's just a misunderstood laberynthic challenging shooter, you are obliged to write down the route to reach the end, maybe it's a little tedious in that aspect but i love the level of challenge have this game, it's very fair in my opinion.
Thanks again, John! Really digging these ranking videos. :)
I remember reading about Nemo in Nintendo Power and being so hyped about it then being totally bummed when it was released because the video store only had one copy to rent and of course it was checked out like 5 weekends in a row. Luckily, one of my friends owned and let me borrow it once he beat it.
Little Nemo Dream Master WAS my damn childhood. That and Mega Man 2 are my favorites on this list.
Destiny of an Emperor. Ahh, that's my childhood. Only one rental place had it at all, but I wasn't the only person who wanted that game badly, so it was always a hold-your-breath moment walking in late in the week and hoping I could play this rpg masterpiece over the weekend. One of my best surprises was picking it up one time and finding the last person had capped their team at level 50. Talk about a power trip for me.
I've been really enjoying this series of videos. Thank you. I hope you're all doing well.
GunSmoke as a C hurts lol I loved that game as a kid getting the horse riding up was awesome 😆
Hey John!😃 big fan and subscribed to your channel. 👍🏻👍🏻 I watched the Capcom games for NES…and I think you forget someone. And it’s one of my favourites.
Snow Bros (now in HD on Switch)
Capcom published it on NES in North America.
Keep on your great channel!🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
Lol, Chip n' Dale 1/2: it's like Robin Williams Genie vs. Dan Castellanetta Genie
haha, always. Not that Dan did a terrible job.. just wasn't the same.
Not nearly as bad as the Will Smith Genie, amirite? To be fair, none of the live-action reduxes of Disney's 90s animated flicks have been that great (I just hope they don't pull this crap with _Frozen_ ten years from now...)
Another great list/ranking. Thank you sir.
I know Contra is not on the list for this video but I have so many memories in my cousin coming over putting in the code and playing the game all the way through it several times.
Gold Medal Challenge is definitely an A in my books. Lots of variety, great gameplay, good graphics and tons of replay value.
It seems that a lot of video game enthusiasts have an aversion to sports for some reason lol.
I totally agree! My friends and I played the hell out of this game. I found a special way to hold the controller and destroyed everyone from that day forward. Although, the swimming events were not my strong suit.
Loved the love for Willow, which is a forgotten and underrated game. I was surprised that Duck Tales only got an "A." I'd rank that an "S" because of how crisp the gameplay was and how iconic the music was. I realize Mega Men 2 and Blaster Master are gold standards for NEW music, but Duck Tales music was flawless, and the Moon level theme is among the greatest video game music ever.
Ghosts and goblins feels like I'm clocking into work and just hoping to get it over with.
Good list but you were overly critical of the Capcom shooters.
Next: All Konami NES Games Ranked!
Kinda thought your ranking for the black box nes games was pretty bad but still somewhat agreeable.
Like i said... Rank Konami!
Include Ultra, too!
Another great video. My dad and I would play commando non stop and those glitches bring back memories. I was playing ghost and goblins on the switch and was telling my gf I never beat level 1 and this game made me sick back in the day and then during that run I made it to level 2. I was like you just witnessed history. Thankfully now I can save it and continue from there. Only took me 34 years.
Great review! Thanks so much for the cool retro content! Definitely nostalgic since I bought my NES control deck at age 12 in 1986!! Any chance for a Konami or Sunsoft rankings video in the future?
I'm usually with you on these but Bionic Commando was a solid S. The bionic arm was so much fun once you got really good at it (those huge leaps across the spotlights in a later level), and the end has you BLOW UP HITLER'S HEAD WITH A BAZOOKA.
I mean come on.
Finally someone giving MegaMan 5 the respect it deserves.
AMEN! I absolutely love MM5. It looks great, has a wonderful soundtrack, and features crisp controls and gameplay. It also involves Proto Man, introduces Beat, and has the BEST Mega Buster in any Mega Man game. What's not to love? :)
Commando is another one of those games you play on the C64 for the music. Ghosts and goblins music on the C64 is also really good.
You should rank Data East games next.
Certainly a comic strip that's 120 years old should be in public domain right now? I wonder what it would take to make a new Little Nemo video game...
My 5th grade teacher is still today my favorite teacher (I'm 43) because she and I exchanged NES games throughout the year. The most memorable was I got to borrow her copy of Willow in exchange for my copy of Rygar.
Out of all the mega man games i only beat 3 im close to beating 2 i love your channel brings back awesome memories
You really gotta mention Micronics. They were the company responsible for the buggy early arcade ports, and Micronics had nothing to do with the excellent Gun.Smoke.
I have NEVER heard of the Willow nes game. Wow. Thanks for bringing it to my attention
All mega man games are S on my list and believe or not ghost and goblins is a A for me. I love it. Great video Mr. Riggs
Little Nemo is also my go-to whenever anyone asks which game I'd like to see remastered
You bring your behind back on here and properly rate Legendary Wings right now!
John...an S for ducktales. It’s like we are two brothers from another mother. Would love to buy you a beer one day and discuss our mutual love for duckburg. Keep the great videos coming my brother!
For Adventures in the Magic Kingdom. I'm pretty sure it's a Jungle Cruise Skipper uniform. I'm a former Jungle Cruise skipper myself and since that was Walt's favorite ride I would have to assume that's the uniform they decided to use for that character in the game.
In regards to Adventures in the Magic Kingdom, the Mickey ears thing was probably because the character would look like Mickey Mouse instead of a kid.
You forgot might final fight! Great job with these videos John keep em coming 👏
Mighty Final Fight would be a "B"
Too short, plus no 2 player...great otherwise.
Duck tales is one of my favorite games. The music. I love the show too. Holds up even playing as an adult.
You didn't do Legendary Wings justice. Its soundtrack is absolutely memorable, and more than a very solid shooter fir the time.
Little Nemo is without question, the most underrated Capcom game.
I still go back to Willow much more than I would like to admit. I would rank it S.
I beat Katnov twice when I was 7. One of my greatest achievements
Whoa didnt realize this was today. Awesome video! I love these types. Itd be cool to rank the nes Konami games, Movie Games, Shoot em ups, Or maybe Treasure games for Sega. Lots of good. Ideas here.
Wait...codename Viper is amazing! Ya butthead!
I enjoy watching these videos and guessing what rating you would give each game. Also good for my collecting to decide what games to pick up and how many of each game company I have.
Great list, looking forward to if/when you ever do an All Capcom SNES games list one day, these vids are great!
The troll with the megaman music I was waiting all hyped lol
Having grown up in the 80s/90s I can totally relate to your theater/home video release Disney movies comment lol.
13:12 I would have to agree - this is my very favourite game ever - literally as soon as I wake, Im playin it.
Now I don't feel so bad about being the only kid in my school that liked Yo Noid.
I mean, don't get me wrong, there's still plenty of things for me to feel bad about, just not this one.
Darkwing Duck is my favourite game and you only gave it a B... boo! Haha
Bionic Commando is an A or better. Mega Man 6 is a Nintendo published game, not Capcom. Love you John 😊
Bionic Commando and Strider are deeeeeeep games. S tier. The controls may be buggy at times so maybe an A tier. But the music and atmosphere...soooo good. Keep doing these my dude
I usually agree with your rankings, but just one I'd change to at least an A (Bionic Commando). No jump, but that makes it more challenging, and a better sense of accomplishment when going new places (the Bionic Arm took a while to get used to). Plus the ending also has the date from exactly 10 years ago (most gamers know), I believe August 2 (today's date) right to the day :O
Man i had a bunch of Capcom games too....... 13 I think. Just like Konami, I only have 1 left, Bionic Commando. I also had Final Fight 1,2,3 and Super Street Fighter II for SNES. Another like, these are cool!
Capcom Gold Medal Challenge '92 was in fact called Barcelona '92 on the Famicom so it had some tie in with the Olympics that year. But uh...where's Snow Brothers?