Legacy of the Wizard. I probably spent 100’s of hours playing it. Basically an open world game, very cryptic, with not many secrets revealed by the instructions. I loved that game, would love to see a remake.
I loved that game. Never got the chance to beat it since I was never able to beat the game since I couldn’t find the NES cleaning kit. Still had fun with it.
I LOVE this list because it's so personal. I'm tired of the same lists over and over. This person included their personal memories and unique games I haven't seen on other lists.
When the first game was the marble game (that I can't remember the exact title), I was done. I was thinking the same as you when I'd go to rent a game and saw the games he recommended. "Who the heck would want to rent THAT?" Now, we know the answer to the question lol
I would say Shatterhand is one of my all time favorite sidescrolling action platformers, and possibly my favorite NES hidden gem. It even had a weapon combination system before Gunstar Heroes utilized a similar mechanic!
It was one of the most memorable game rentals that I never owned. Now it's difficult to find a cart and it's expensive. Action games were in a good number for the NES and many of them were overlooked gems.
Snake rattle and roll and Marble Madness was my shit! I liked how in Snake Rattle and Roll if you were quick to get to the finish line on the first level you could catch the rocket ship and Warp!
Faxanadu was a game that kept us playing forever. The damn password was so unforgiving. We would carefully write down the password and be absolutely sure we didn't mess up anything and still got it wrong. It became a group effort to make sure it written down correctly when it came time to let one of my brothers play.
I played Goonies (II) as a 7-year-old and loved it. I played Goonies (II) as a 38-year-old and love it. The gameplay does take some getting used to, but no more than the adjustment you have to make when transitioning from Mega Man to SMB to Zelda. Very engaging game that did a great job carving out its own unique experience.
The Mega Man games are some of my favourites. I stil play them on my old NES. I never completely finished the first. Number two and three are easier i think.
TC skate and surf is my fave of all time. Once you figure out the trick to surfing or start doing boardslides on the skate levels, it changes the whole dynamic of the game. And that soothing sound of 8 bit waves crashing in the beginning 👌🏻
My problem with "Jaws" is that is is entirely based upon Jaws 4: The Revenge. If they would have titled it that way I think it would be respected for what it is. If you have only seen Jaws and play this game you are left like me with a this is bloody awful, did they not even watch the movie?
Perl Pictures I agree. I love Mario 2. My favorite NES mario title by far. Love the ability to choose characters. Thanks so much for watching and commenting. Hope to see you around again here at the channel!
Probably so. It had the misfortune of being sandwiched between the most iconic Mario ever (SMB 1) and maybe the best Mario ever (SMB 3). It also kinda wasn't a real Mario...just a reskinned version of a game called Doki Doki Panic. Great game still, IMO.
What do you mean not 100% Mario game? The game it's based on, Doki Doki Panic, was made by the same designer/developers (Miyamoto and team), which is why the platforming elements and characters control just like the other Mario games. It even has the POW block from the original arcade Mario Bros. When they converted it to Super Mario Bros. 2 for the US market, they spruced it up a bit and changed the characters to the Mario characters, but the game always had a Mario influence.
“Hey, Mikey!”, Lol. My aunt who recently passed away after a long battle with cancer use to say that to my oldest son Mikey all the time, probably one of my favorite movies of all time, absolute classic.
Adventure Island! We thought it was so hilarious when you touched fire and the character would jump in the air. Shadowgate is absolutely amazing as well as the detective game made by the same company. The name of the game escapes me at the moment. I also have the modern Shadowgate for PC I got off gog.com and it is great. And freaking hard. I keep dying.
A family friend of ours once competed on American Gladiators his name was James Long (Season 3/Episode 2) he was a fire fighter here in NYC, he actually had a 11 or 12 second head start going into the final obstacle course but at the beginning inclined treadmill he got to the very top and slipped and then went all the way back down, he lost but he put in a tremendous effort and we were so proud that someone we knew was on the show and came so close to winning.
I vaguely remember that level. It's been a long time since I really got far on marble madness. I do eventually want to do a secrets and history vid about it so I'm sure we will answer that question then lol.
This game was super challenging to the point of being infuriating. My one friend was crazy good at it though. I don’t think I ever got to the floating platform level because I SUCKED at the controls on this one. Lol.
@@GenerationGapGaming marble madness was amazing! Two games that could make this list I remember was Solar Jetman and WURM Journey to the Center of the Earth. Both very interesting games!
just takes time. i remember sucking when i first played it as a kid but eventually i was zipping through the entire game without falling/dying once. if it were easy it would get old really fast.
CB Games no, it was pretty bad. Many times people like games due to nostalgia rather than them being good. Friday the 13th was another game that brings back memories of NES but was actually pretty bad.
The hammer bonus stage is easy... its speeds up every time you avoid it (press B not jump), if we go pixel by pixel, first swing 10, 2nd swing 15, 20 25 30 etc Or time it, 0.5 secs, 0.4, 0.3, 0.2 etc The faster it gets the father away you need to hit B to ensure daniel san sprite slaps the hammer away
Oh man. The Karate Kid was a TERRIBLE game. It was brutally hard for 5 year old me and the ending was such a let down. I spent an entire summer trying to beat the game, and when I finally did I was so disappointed I never picked it up again. No cut-scene, no sense of resolution, just a floating Miyagi head telling you you're a karate master now! The monsoon stage and the hammer swing bonus stage still haunt my dreams. Getting bounced in a corner until I died was infuriating. I'm glad someone got some enjoyment out of it though. Definitely an unorthodox pick for underrated game list.
Faxanadu. Every time i bring this game up people look at me like i'm from outer-space. Something about that game's name elicits a bewildered expression and a 1000 yard stare from people. Def an underrated classic of the NES and difficult (yet rewarding) as hell. Highly recommended!
Startropics should be the #2 underrated game. It was an awesome game. Crystalis should've been #1. It was completely underrated! Awesome game if you've never played it.
Not hard it was extremely methodical and formulaic... Once you figure out the flow you can pretty much do it without getting hit even once and I am saying that although i am a pretty average gamer and not a perfectionist by any means but back in the days one of my friend had the game and we borrowed it everyday for a hour or so and after playing it a week or so we finished the game everytime sometimes getting one or two hits overall...
Indeed! Batman was probably a bit underrated during the NES era, but has gotten an upswing in later years thanks to the speedrunning scene. And it has stood the test of time really well. The backgrounds are unbelievably good looking considering the color limitations and the music is just amazing and has some of the very best tunes on the entire console. The game is also perfect in length for some 8-bit modern day action.
Awesome list. I love me some marble madness, jaws, Friday thnight 13th. Wow this is awesome. Adventures of Lolo and XeXyz are games I would put in there as well.
@@GenerationGapGaming Adventures of Lolo is my fav NES series hands down, all 3 games are brilliant, well 5 games if you count the two Famicom ones which are the same but have different levels, then there's the Eggerland Famicom Disk System games.... there's hundreds of hours to be lost in these games
My top 10 (in order current Ranker score) G. I. Joe (114) Bucky O Hare (139) Shatter hand (162) Yo! Noir (168) Felix the Cat (171) Gremlins 2 (180) Snow Bros. (191) Kung Fu (217) Totally Rad (341) Little Ninja Brothers (493) I can't believe I had to scroll down to almost 500 to reach the first game I thought of for this category. I'm too mad to scroll further.
Best underrated list ever! Right on! These are all games I owned or rented and loved, but seem to get crapped on by reviewers and gaming RUclipsrs. Especially the LJN games. I loved Karate Kid and never thought it was a bad game! Same with Jaws, Friday the 13th and Goonies 2. I didn’t know they were “bad games” until the internet.
Conor you are probably right lol. He would say what was he thinking???? Hope you enjoyed thr video man. Hope to see you around again here at the channel!
@@MetalSmasherGaming Actually his smart fans understand that AVGN is a character, and not indicative of the man who portrays him. Simon's Quest is not really that bad, neither is a decent handful of LJN titles. I like his work, but don't always agree with the game choices. I'm just glad he finally covered The Town With No Name, which nearly everyone would agree is one of the worst things ever produced. I waited for that episode for years, I knew eventually it would come.
Thank you for a list of underrated NES games that isn't all ULTRA rare $500+ games. I feel like most top 10 NES game videos only show the really expensive games. "You have to play these!" they say. HOW??? I don't have the money for that!! I have most of these, but some, like the Karate Kid, I never picked up. And it's actually a reasonable price! Thanks!
marble madness and anticipation brought back SO many memories! wow.. I was just talking to my brother about nes games that we both remember playing. Boy& his blob.. T &C, ect. but there's one game that sticks in my mind and only remember 1 level of it. The bad guys jumped like frogs and they had the letter J on the front of them, i think there was a coin involved? I'm not 100% the level was set with pyramids in the background, i though it was trojan or karlov but the levels dont look the same. Does this ring a bell to anyone?
100% on board with NIGHTSHADE. I got that game for my 12th bday and I was obsessed. Loved the humor (somewhat Maniac Mansion-ish) and loved the Bond-ian death traps you had to figure out. Just a great game with so much creativity and innovation. Talk about a hidden gem.
Baseball Stars was the best baseball game. Building your players based on earnings from wins in league play. Spent many a nights staying up all night to try to complete a league with my buddies
Agree. However I loved the FIRST Bases Loaded by Jaleco too. I could pitch a perfect game through 7 innings with FOX on Philly every time. He had a pitch that if you did the right controller move, would result in a strike call every time and was unhittable through 7 until his arm tired. Generally this meant a win anyway. Also, you can CRACK the Bases Loaded code by taking the code from two games played, then counting the spaces between each letter to get your next one. EXAMPLE: If "A" is in the 1st code, and "E" is in the same position in the 2nd code, the next code it would be "I" - I cracked this at 13 and ended up getting a Philly team that had more wins than games played.
Bad News Baseball was my favorite. I found out years later there was a girls team mode as well. I'll never forget the good memories my dad and I had with that game. He made charts and stats on the best teams (overall best is Boston and Minnesota) I always played Toronto because they were fast and stealing bases pissed my old man off lol. Great animation and the energizer bunny was the ref!
You're comments on Jaws and the Goonies sounded like you were reading my mind. In fact, I recently got a copy of the Famicom Goonies to play it through.
I think that little Nemo game is a great gem. I remember being like so ecstatic when I saw the cartoon and connected the dots. It was pretty surreal at the time to me being only maybe 8 or 9 circa 93'. But I always loved that game but dont see any videos on it.
Omg I played most of these and still own a few (Goonies2, Friday the 13th, Jaws, Gladiators...) Can’t believe I never heard of that Baseball Simulator game since I’m a huge baseball fan and had a few baseball games for the NES back in the day.
Wow. Just subscribed. I have faced constant embarrassment for defending Friday the 13th and Goonies 2. This list is GREAT! I have all of the nes roms and I am now anxious to give Jaws and Night shade a fair shot. I dismissed both of those games when I was a kid, but no more. My wife will laugh when she sees me playing Jaws, but she knows this 40 year old retro lover very well! Thanks for the video! I will be looking for more.
Friday the 13th was a scary, fun game to play for sure. I liked playing that one at night with the lights off. Once that title screen popped up, the atmosphere was set.
Destiny of an Emperor, Cobra Triangle, Crystalis, Conquest of the Crystal Palace, Guardian Legend, Journey to Silius, Legendary Wings, Shatter Hand, Power Blade, Metal Storm and S.C.A.T. aka Action in New York....these are some underrated gems that come to my mind. The games he list aren't terrible, but they are more of guilty pleasures, American Gladiators is probably one I like the most out of these. I don't know if that's a good sign or bad, but to each his own. I own pretty much every NES game, with the exception of 15-20 that I haven't been able to get a good price on, so i've been playing them all since childhood, so I do have some experience. The LJN thing though....it's just most games are subpar, but hands down my favorite LJN game is Spider Man Maximum Carnage on SNES. Also, good call on Batman in honorable mentions, it should be a top 20 game of all time.
Maniac mansion, de ja vu, master blaster, princess tomato and the salad kingdom, karnov, arch rivals, golgo 13, skate or die, Jordan vs bird, kid Icarus, wizards and warriors
Legend of Kage is another really good one. There were a few really good NES/Famicom action games that get overlooked. My friends and I rented a few of them and really enjoyed them but I could not find them in the stores. Most of them were more popular in Japan.
4:11 To me it looks like they chose colors cause it's supposed to be nighttime and Jason's supposed to look like he's in the dark. It'd be liking looking at a night scene in a comic book and being like why is everyone suddenly blue and purple?!
Nightshade is an amazing game. Not sure that it was released here in the UK but I have it on my Evercade handheld and I'm absolutely hooked on it. My favourite underrated game on the NES though is Isolated Warrior.
I was hoping and yet shocked of Nightshade because of all the games I rented back then this one was one of my favorites. I wish i bought it and still remember it.
Thanks so much Slappy! Yeah totally agree on the LJN games. The internet can create such negative hype that people will miss out on a lot of great content. Yeah I love my CIB Friday the 13th game. I almost tuck it in bed every night lol
Actually sadly LJN gets the bad rep, but all they were the distribution company. They didn't actually make or develop the game. Atlus actually developed Friday the 13th and Karate Kid but they were distributed by LJN. Which Atlus has gone on to make some classic titles. Overall its a common misrepresentation that LJN made all these "terrible games" when in reality they just have poor choice in what games to publish.
@DejaVoodooDoll Super BTTF2 should've been localized in North America, instead of that garbage, known as BTTF2&3, two shitty games for the price of one. Even AVGN thought Super BTTF2 was a decent game and was sickened that only Japan got that game and we were stuck with the shitty BTTF2&3 one!
Baseball Simulator.1.000 was way underrated. You could play a 162 game season with custom names and it would track your stats. If your lead in the division was too big your pitchers would start the game fatigued. Really ahead of it's time. My brother and I completed many seasons of this game.
2 games that I hear mainly negative stuff about but I love are Silver Surfer and Fester's Quest, Silver Surfer is an extremely challenging Gradius-style space shooter with great music and a very pleasant stage select feature, giving a customizable path through the game depending on which levels are easier/harder for you. Fester's Quest is a very odd overhead shooter game starring Uncle fester from The Addams Family trying to save Gomez Addams from aliens. The music sounds like it's from Mega Man, and some of the gun powerups are annoying to use in tight quarters, but I completed the game and had a blast.
These are all really underrated games. I always enjoyed magic kingdom and othello for the NES. Also Goonies 2 was originally released in the arcade. My local arcade when I was young had that placed right next to MK1 and MK2. And these games on your list need a proper remake on modern consoles. I know Jaws and Friday the 13th did but even if the titles were digitally released I'd still play them.
Loved Othello... Because it was the name of one of Shakespeare's play and having heard about it played the game although had no idea what the play was about. But figured out Othello pretty easily... Later played it online on Windows but at that time I couldn't get back into it.
@@nayyarrashid4661 1st time I played Othello was on an actual game board. I got the NES version along with micro machines as Christmas presents. Now I let my young daughter play my NES with the games I still have. Honestly she prefers those games over the switch.
I appreciate you sticking to your guns. I personal consider games like Shadow of the Ninja underrated since it was over shadowed by Ninja Gaiden. But thats a more well known game. These picks are definitely ones in heated debate, but hey growing up we all had a limited collection to work with so I can see how some games hit a sweet spot for us. I also find a few LJN games good when most dont like Wolverine, Terminator 2, and Spider-Man. Side note - can you add a link to the background music in your descriptions? I often find good tracks from your videos, but have to hunt for them, check through comments or ask you myself. If you can tell me the name of this track too I would appreciate it. Thanks!
Gimmick! My favorite platformer for its music and physics alone! The fact that Gimmick! wasn't on this list is a huge shame because that game (albeit extremely hard) was a very fun platformer made by Sunsoft with extended audio using the S5B on the Japanese famicom It did get a European release but sadly not a US release.
Championship Bowling. The only bowling game on the NES and I how I wished it would have been released on the eShop for my 3DS. Just thinking about the game puts the music for the game right in my head.
I remember watching Jaws the movie as a kid. I was scared to death to take a bath afterwards! I probably took the quickest baths in human history for a couple of weeks until I realized that huge shark couldn't fit in our tub! The video game didn't help either! Lol!
Clash at Demonhead is another underrated game, only my nerdiest friends have ever heard of it but I love it. Faxanadu is another one, I assume it’s underrated because I don’t hear it talked about much. I don’t agree with most of your Ljn picks, but that’s okay, although I have to admit Friday the 13th is somewhat of a guilty pleasure for me.
My top 10 listed as most played. Super Mario not listed because it was default 1-Ninja Gaiden 2-Contra 3-Gyruss 4-Double Dragon 5-Mike Tysons Punch Out 6-Bionic Commando 7-Mega Man 2 8-Werewolf: The last warrior 9-TMNT 2 10-Rygar
I’m late to the party but I might blow some minds with this one. Remember the secret to Miyagi-Do? The spinning drum? Remember how Daniel beats chozen by countering left and right? Well same principle applies to that swinging spike thing. If the spike is coming to your left, just before it gets to you, you hit right (towards the spike) and as it passes you hit left. The game tries to recreate the rotation of the hips And as it passes you, you do the opposite. Left then right as the spike passes you.
Is The Immortal the game with the wizard trying to get through a dungeon and you have combat screens? If so, I never beat it. Kept falling in a damn trap in the floor.
“Once you feel you’re strong enough to take down Jaws, you can find him pretty easily; though in all honesty, he’ll probably find you first.” I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything spin quite so well.
Good list. Marble Madness was a beast. Up there with Mega Man as far as difficulty goes. And kids think cuphead is the hardest they have seen, give them a NES...That was our life....lol
Legacy of the Wizard. I probably spent 100’s of hours playing it. Basically an open world game, very cryptic, with not many secrets revealed by the instructions. I loved that game, would love to see a remake.
Awesome game, and an incredible soundtrack by Yuzo Koshiro. One of my favorites as well! :)
I wish people would talk more about Golgo 13
Hard ass game! Lol i had it
Loved that game!!!!!
I hated it
I loved that game. Never got the chance to beat it since I was never able to beat the game since I couldn’t find the NES cleaning kit. Still had fun with it.
Great fun until the maze, then you turn it off.
I LOVE this list because it's so personal. I'm tired of the same lists over and over. This person included their personal memories and unique games I haven't seen on other lists.
Exactly. Almost ever other list is "1. Super mario bros. 2. Zelda 3.....)
Agree?! I remember going to the video store in the 80’s thinking “who would rent THAT game”? That was apparently you.
they suck you in with that cover art.
When the first game was the marble game (that I can't remember the exact title), I was done. I was thinking the same as you when I'd go to rent a game and saw the games he recommended. "Who the heck would want to rent THAT?"
Now, we know the answer to the question lol
I rented them too. Most were pretty good, you missed out.
What is with game abusing grandmas
Dude I was that person as well. I always went for the obscure titles as a kid
I would say Shatterhand is one of my all time favorite sidescrolling action platformers, and possibly my favorite NES hidden gem. It even had a weapon combination system before Gunstar Heroes utilized a similar mechanic!
It was one of the most memorable game rentals that I never owned. Now it's difficult to find a cart and it's expensive. Action games were in a good number for the NES and many of them were overlooked gems.
The plot of Nightshade sounds like the plot to the graphic novel “Watchmen”
Does anybody remember Snake Rattle and Roll? I've always felt that was an overlooked gem for the NES.
I remember the game but dont think I ever played it. The box cover popped up in my head as soon as I read it.
I was just thinking the same thing. That and Balloon Pop.
Adrian21 yup, loved that game. Could never beat the final giant foot at the end though.
Snake rattle and roll and Marble Madness was my shit! I liked how in Snake Rattle and Roll if you were quick to get to the finish line on the first level you could catch the rocket ship and Warp!
It was my favorite game of all time
Faxanadu, Battle of Olympus, and The Guardian Legend.
Bingo.
Never played the first one u said but battle of Olympus and the guardian legend were my childhood.
Faxanadu was awesome
Yes Faxanadu and TGL we're the best games of my childhood . This game list video fucking sucks ass.
Faxanadu was a game that kept us playing forever. The damn password was so unforgiving. We would carefully write down the password and be absolutely sure we didn't mess up anything and still got it wrong. It became a group effort to make sure it written down correctly when it came time to let one of my brothers play.
I played Goonies (II) as a 7-year-old and loved it. I played Goonies (II) as a 38-year-old and love it. The gameplay does take some getting used to, but no more than the adjustment you have to make when transitioning from Mega Man to SMB to Zelda. Very engaging game that did a great job carving out its own unique experience.
The Mega Man games are some of my favourites. I stil play them on my old NES. I never completely finished the first. Number two and three are easier i think.
I can never find all the goonies
Wow, The Blue Marlin caught me WAY off guard! A gem of a fishing game, with a fantastic soundtrack.
I think Astyanax is pretty underrated. I've never really heard anyone talk about it and it's such a fun, satisfying game
It's better than the arcade version for sure.
It is because everybody just labeled it a rip off flight shooter game right of the bat.
Astyanax is a side scrolling action/adventure game. Also doesn't have any clones as far as I know@@rastiga9196
TC skate and surf is my fave of all time. Once you figure out the trick to surfing or start doing boardslides on the skate levels, it changes the whole dynamic of the game. And that soothing sound of 8 bit waves crashing in the beginning 👌🏻
I mastered the skateboarding, and that was fun. I never did get good at surfing, though.
"Jaws"
About to leave.
"Last LGN game! Dont leave just yet!"
Stays.
My problem with "Jaws" is that is is entirely based upon Jaws 4: The Revenge. If they would have titled it that way I think it would be respected for what it is. If you have only seen Jaws and play this game you are left like me with a this is bloody awful, did they not even watch the movie?
Yo Noid was a great title most people haven't played
I enjoyed Yo Noid as a kid... tried it recently though, it didn’t age well
I actually think Super Mario Bros 2 is underrated. It seems that most people pass on it because it isn't a 100% Mario game.
Perl Pictures I agree. I love Mario 2. My favorite NES mario title by far. Love the ability to choose characters. Thanks so much for watching and commenting. Hope to see you around again here at the channel!
Probably so. It had the misfortune of being sandwiched between the most iconic Mario ever (SMB 1) and maybe the best Mario ever (SMB 3). It also kinda wasn't a real Mario...just a reskinned version of a game called Doki Doki Panic. Great game still, IMO.
Agree totally. Mario 2 is my fave also. I really love the remake of it on the SNES Super Mario All-Stars cart. So good.
@D core Yes, but for a while, it's been ignored by the fans.
What do you mean not 100% Mario game? The game it's based on, Doki Doki Panic, was made by the same designer/developers (Miyamoto and team), which is why the platforming elements and characters control just like the other Mario games. It even has the POW block from the original arcade Mario Bros. When they converted it to Super Mario Bros. 2 for the US market, they spruced it up a bit and changed the characters to the Mario characters, but the game always had a Mario influence.
“Hey, Mikey!”, Lol. My aunt who recently passed away after a long battle with cancer use to say that to my oldest son Mikey all the time, probably one of my favorite movies of all time, absolute classic.
Here are several more:
Adventure Island
Crystalis
Adventure of Lolo series
The Battle of Olympus
Shadowgate
Duffy Johnson Shadowgate is now an app game.
Battle of olympus. The better zelda 2
Lolo was amazing!
Adventure Island! We thought it was so hilarious when you touched fire and the character would jump in the air. Shadowgate is absolutely amazing as well as the detective game made by the same company. The name of the game escapes me at the moment. I also have the modern Shadowgate for PC I got off gog.com and it is great. And freaking hard. I keep dying.
Damn, good list!
Jaws with the NES Advantage Turbo controller was so much fun!
Best Baseball on the NES: Baseball Stars
No question
Little league
@@shawnroberts9272 RBI Baseball
Best NES baseball game = Baseball Simulator 1.000. All the others were trash.
Bases Loaded 2
@@fillmorehillmore8239 By far. I'm not sure what is wrong with these people.
A family friend of ours once competed on American Gladiators his name was James Long (Season 3/Episode 2) he was a fire fighter here in NYC, he actually had a 11 or 12 second head start going into the final obstacle course but at the beginning inclined treadmill he got to the very top and slipped and then went all the way back down, he lost but he put in a tremendous effort and we were so proud that someone we knew was on the show and came so close to winning.
I could never figure out that one level that was just a platform floating without any paths on marble madness
I vaguely remember that level. It's been a long time since I really got far on marble madness. I do eventually want to do a secrets and history vid about it so I'm sure we will answer that question then lol.
This game was super challenging to the point of being infuriating. My one friend was crazy good at it though. I don’t think I ever got to the floating platform level because I SUCKED at the controls on this one. Lol.
@@GenerationGapGaming marble madness was amazing! Two games that could make this list I remember was Solar Jetman and WURM Journey to the Center of the Earth. Both very interesting games!
just takes time. i remember sucking when i first played it as a kid but eventually i was zipping through the entire game without falling/dying once. if it were easy it would get old really fast.
@@GenerationGapGaming you miss Bionic Commando
I remember playing the Karate kid when I was really young and thought it was shit then
That's cool dude. we dont have to agree on everything.
It kicked your ass, that's why you hated it.
CB Games no, it was pretty bad. Many times people like games due to nostalgia rather than them being good. Friday the 13th was another game that brings back memories of NES but was actually pretty bad.
yeah the controls were unresponsive and badly laid out. it looked good tho
The hammer bonus stage is easy... its speeds up every time you avoid it (press B not jump), if we go pixel by pixel, first swing 10, 2nd swing 15, 20 25 30 etc
Or time it, 0.5 secs, 0.4, 0.3, 0.2 etc
The faster it gets the father away you need to hit B to ensure daniel san sprite slaps the hammer away
Oh man. The Karate Kid was a TERRIBLE game. It was brutally hard for 5 year old me and the ending was such a let down. I spent an entire summer trying to beat the game, and when I finally did I was so disappointed I never picked it up again. No cut-scene, no sense of resolution, just a floating Miyagi head telling you you're a karate master now! The monsoon stage and the hammer swing bonus stage still haunt my dreams. Getting bounced in a corner until I died was infuriating. I'm glad someone got some enjoyment out of it though. Definitely an unorthodox pick for underrated game list.
Calls Dr. Mario garbage but says The Karate Kid is great.
What the hell kind of tastes in gaming does this guy have?
I beat that game as a tiny kid. Even Mike Tyson had a short ending. Now that game took all summer for me.
I had friends who got it and played it one time and never played it again. They came over my house and played my NES games.
Roller games, Shadow of the ninja, Jackal awesome games and very underrated too
Jackal is awesome.
Faxanadu. Every time i bring this game up people look at me like i'm from outer-space. Something about that game's name elicits a bewildered expression and a 1000 yard stare from people. Def an underrated classic of the NES and difficult (yet rewarding) as hell. Highly recommended!
It was a good game. Hard as hell though as a kid.
Rescue: the Embassy Mission
Great game, Being a sniper, sneaking around those spot lights and smashing through a window to get the bad guy. Love this game.
It was Rainbow Six before Rainbow Six.
Played the shit out of this game
Startropics should be the #2 underrated game. It was an awesome game. Crystalis should've been #1. It was completely underrated! Awesome game if you've never played it.
Startropics and Crystalis both are way better than the original Zelda imo.
J-Mantix they were also developed many years later and wouldn’t exist without the first Zelda
Watching this on silent, and I still remember that Karate Kid music! Need to replay that.
The Battle of Olympus is one that I rented back in the day and loved. It's never talked about today.
Immediate props for the Troll 2 clip lmao. Karate Kid wasnt bad, it was just hard AF in Okinawa.
Not hard it was extremely methodical and formulaic... Once you figure out the flow you can pretty much do it without getting hit even once and I am saying that although i am a pretty average gamer and not a perfectionist by any means but back in the days one of my friend had the game and we borrowed it everyday for a hour or so and after playing it a week or so we finished the game everytime sometimes getting one or two hits overall...
I loved batman, probably in my opinion one of the best looking nes games :>
Indeed! Batman was probably a bit underrated during the NES era, but has gotten an upswing in later years thanks to the speedrunning scene. And it has stood the test of time really well. The backgrounds are unbelievably good looking considering the color limitations and the music is just amazing and has some of the very best tunes on the entire console. The game is also perfect in length for some 8-bit modern day action.
The best baseball game on NES is the original RBI baseball!
No gimmick...just good baseball!
Best underrated list in sometime. Love that you included Friday the 13th.
Agreed! It's still one of my favorite games of all time 😊
Awesome list. I love me some marble madness, jaws, Friday thnight 13th. Wow this is awesome. Adventures of Lolo and XeXyz are games I would put in there as well.
TBelly thanks man! Means a lot coming from you buddy. I've heard Adventurea of Lolo is great. I need to try it!
@@GenerationGapGaming Adventures of Lolo is my fav NES series hands down, all 3 games are brilliant, well 5 games if you count the two Famicom ones which are the same but have different levels, then there's the Eggerland Famicom Disk System games.... there's hundreds of hours to be lost in these games
I love Marble Madness! No, I mean, I LOVE it!!
Startropics was my all time fav game growing up as a kid. Ill be 32.
That was a great game
I love the game too. Plus the sequel, zoda's revenge, is pretty good too.
My top 10 (in order current Ranker score)
G. I. Joe (114)
Bucky O Hare (139)
Shatter hand (162)
Yo! Noir (168)
Felix the Cat (171)
Gremlins 2 (180)
Snow Bros. (191)
Kung Fu (217)
Totally Rad (341)
Little Ninja Brothers (493)
I can't believe I had to scroll down to almost 500 to reach the first game I thought of for this category. I'm too mad to scroll further.
Bucky is so good
Best underrated list ever! Right on! These are all games I owned or rented and loved, but seem to get crapped on by reviewers and gaming RUclipsrs. Especially the LJN games. I loved Karate Kid and never thought it was a bad game! Same with Jaws, Friday the 13th and Goonies 2. I didn’t know they were “bad games” until the internet.
Great April Fools video!
Wait... You are not joking.
*Pukes
ok buddy
My favorite Nes games were super dodgeball, snake-rattle-n-roll, spy vs. spy, contra (with the life code) and zelda...
Looking back now, Marble Madness does look rather good, I did have Snake, Rattle and Roll.
The avgns head will explode if he sees this list
Conor you are probably right lol. He would say what was he thinking???? Hope you enjoyed thr video man. Hope to see you around again here at the channel!
The HVGN would be pleased, though. -da
His fans take his reviews very seriously. I bet the hate for Castlevania 2 was much less strong before the AVGN reviewed it.
@@MetalSmasherGaming Actually his smart fans understand that AVGN is a character, and not indicative of the man who portrays him. Simon's Quest is not really that bad, neither is a decent handful of LJN titles. I like his work, but don't always agree with the game choices. I'm just glad he finally covered The Town With No Name, which nearly everyone would agree is one of the worst things ever produced. I waited for that episode for years, I knew eventually it would come.
Fuck avgn hes a bitch
Thank you for a list of underrated NES games that isn't all ULTRA rare $500+ games. I feel like most top 10 NES game videos only show the really expensive games. "You have to play these!" they say. HOW??? I don't have the money for that!! I have most of these, but some, like the Karate Kid, I never picked up. And it's actually a reasonable price! Thanks!
marble madness and anticipation brought back SO many memories! wow.. I was just talking to my brother about nes games that we both remember playing. Boy& his blob.. T &C, ect. but there's one game that sticks in my mind and only remember 1 level of it. The bad guys jumped like frogs and they had the letter J on the front of them, i think there was a coin involved? I'm not 100% the level was set with pyramids in the background, i though it was trojan or karlov but the levels dont look the same. Does this ring a bell to anyone?
Wow Nightshade is actually pretty awesome. Ultra really did great work! Thank you so much for introducing this game to me!
Blaster Master needs to be listed here. best game of all time
Agreed.
Adjective - Blaster Master isn't really underrated. Pretty much everyone loves that game.
It was a good NES game but definitely NOT the best game of all time lol.
@@jcdenton4621 meh subjective
@@Adjective69 not really.
100% on board with NIGHTSHADE. I got that game for my 12th bday and I was obsessed. Loved the humor (somewhat Maniac Mansion-ish) and loved the Bond-ian death traps you had to figure out. Just a great game with so much creativity and innovation. Talk about a hidden gem.
Baseball Stars was the best baseball game. Building your players based on earnings from wins in league play. Spent many a nights staying up all night to try to complete a league with my buddies
Has anyone ever played "Battle of Olympus"? I think you'd like that one Tyler, hidden gem
one of my oldest faves, it literally got me into reading so much greek mythology back in grade school
Battle of Olympus plays a lot like Zelda 2
Baseball stars best baseball nes game
Agree. However I loved the FIRST Bases Loaded by Jaleco too. I could pitch a perfect game through 7 innings with FOX on Philly every time. He had a pitch that if you did the right controller move, would result in a strike call every time and was unhittable through 7 until his arm tired. Generally this meant a win anyway. Also, you can CRACK the Bases Loaded code by taking the code from two games played, then counting the spaces between each letter to get your next one. EXAMPLE: If "A" is in the 1st code, and "E" is in the same position in the 2nd code, the next code it would be "I" - I cracked this at 13 and ended up getting a Philly team that had more wins than games played.
Baseball stars was great, I loved RBI as well.
You beat me to the Baseball Stars comment
I prefer basewars!
Bad News Baseball was my favorite. I found out years later there was a girls team mode as well. I'll never forget the good memories my dad and I had with that game. He made charts and stats on the best teams (overall best is Boston and Minnesota) I always played Toronto because they were fast and stealing bases pissed my old man off lol. Great animation and the energizer bunny was the ref!
Good list overall. I think I'd add Cobra Triangle to that list. And Journey to Silius.
You're comments on Jaws and the Goonies sounded like you were reading my mind. In fact, I recently got a copy of the Famicom Goonies to play it through.
The Addams Family is most underrated game on nes
Check out Fester's Quest
I think that little Nemo game is a great gem. I remember being like so ecstatic when I saw the cartoon and connected the dots. It was pretty surreal at the time to me being only maybe 8 or 9 circa 93'. But I always loved that game but dont see any videos on it.
Omg I played most of these and still own a few (Goonies2, Friday the 13th, Jaws, Gladiators...) Can’t believe I never heard of that Baseball Simulator game since I’m a huge baseball fan and had a few baseball games for the NES back in the day.
Baseball simulator 1000 is definitely one the best nes baseball games, but Baseball Stars is THE best
Jerry Alexander Baseball Stars is great but I always loved Bases Loaded
I thought Trojan and Balloon fight were underrated
Fair list there Jesse. I wasn't the biggest fan of balloon fight though lol. Don't hate me.
But are they related?
Absolutely agree with Trojan!
I agree trojan was awesome
I have a lot of great memories playing Jaws with my neighbors when growing up. Played it again recently and still enjoyed it.
Wow. Just subscribed. I have faced constant embarrassment for defending Friday the 13th and Goonies 2. This list is GREAT! I have all of the nes roms and I am now anxious to give Jaws and Night shade a fair shot. I dismissed both of those games when I was a kid, but no more. My wife will laugh when she sees me playing Jaws, but she knows this 40 year old retro lover very well! Thanks for the video! I will be looking for more.
Friday the 13th was a scary, fun game to play for sure. I liked playing that one at night with the lights off. Once that title screen popped up, the atmosphere was set.
Destiny of an Emperor, Cobra Triangle, Crystalis, Conquest of the Crystal Palace, Guardian Legend, Journey to Silius, Legendary Wings, Shatter Hand, Power Blade, Metal Storm and S.C.A.T. aka Action in New York....these are some underrated gems that come to my mind. The games he list aren't terrible, but they are more of guilty pleasures, American Gladiators is probably one I like the most out of these. I don't know if that's a good sign or bad, but to each his own. I own pretty much every NES game, with the exception of 15-20 that I haven't been able to get a good price on, so i've been playing them all since childhood, so I do have some experience. The LJN thing though....it's just most games are subpar, but hands down my favorite LJN game is Spider Man Maximum Carnage on SNES. Also, good call on Batman in honorable mentions, it should be a top 20 game of all time.
Baseball stars! baseball Stars! I mean you can play baseball as the horror movie icons!
Maniac mansion, de ja vu, master blaster, princess tomato and the salad kingdom, karnov, arch rivals, golgo 13, skate or die, Jordan vs bird, kid Icarus, wizards and warriors
Yo, listen up: Shatterhand. Just give it whirl, trust me, it's so good.
This.
Shatter hand is awesome!
Legend of Kage is another really good one. There were a few really good NES/Famicom action games that get overlooked. My friends and I rented a few of them and really enjoyed them but I could not find them in the stores. Most of them were more popular in Japan.
I agree with Baseball Simulator 1.000. The stats, music, and overall presentation blows all other baseball games away. IMHO.
Anticipation and Goonies 2 are some of the best nes games and some of the best video game soundtracks too.
4:11 To me it looks like they chose colors cause it's supposed to be nighttime and Jason's supposed to look like he's in the dark. It'd be liking looking at a night scene in a comic book and being like why is everyone suddenly blue and purple?!
Nightshade is an amazing game. Not sure that it was released here in the UK but I have it on my Evercade handheld and I'm absolutely hooked on it.
My favourite underrated game on the NES though is Isolated Warrior.
Super spike v-ball is one of the best 2 player games ever and most people have never heard of it
Loved that game
I was hoping and yet shocked of Nightshade because of all the games I rented back then this one was one of my favorites. I wish i bought it and still remember it.
Another awesome video! Why does LJN get such a bad wrap? They made several really great games. Friday the 13th is one favorites of all time.
Thanks so much Slappy! Yeah totally agree on the LJN games. The internet can create such negative hype that people will miss out on a lot of great content. Yeah I love my CIB Friday the 13th game. I almost tuck it in bed every night lol
Lin gets a bad wrap because of the bad games they make. Like so many.
Actually sadly LJN gets the bad rep, but all they were the distribution company. They didn't actually make or develop the game. Atlus actually developed Friday the 13th and Karate Kid but they were distributed by LJN. Which Atlus has gone on to make some classic titles.
Overall its a common misrepresentation that LJN made all these "terrible games" when in reality they just have poor choice in what games to publish.
@DejaVoodooDoll Super BTTF2 should've been localized in North America, instead of that garbage, known as BTTF2&3, two shitty games for the price of one. Even AVGN thought Super BTTF2 was a decent game and was sickened that only Japan got that game and we were stuck with the shitty BTTF2&3 one!
Goonies 2 is in my top 3 on the NES and was the first I picked up when building my new collection.
Useless trivia: Marble Madness was one of the first arcade games with Stereo Sound.
Useless trivia is the best and I have never heard that! Thanks.
Baseball Simulator.1.000 was way underrated. You could play a 162 game season with custom names and it would track your stats. If your lead in the division was too big your pitchers would start the game fatigued. Really ahead of it's time. My brother and I completed many seasons of this game.
2 games that I hear mainly negative stuff about but I love are Silver Surfer and Fester's Quest,
Silver Surfer is an extremely challenging Gradius-style space shooter with great music and a very pleasant stage select feature, giving a customizable path through the game depending on which levels are easier/harder for you.
Fester's Quest is a very odd overhead shooter game starring Uncle fester from The Addams Family trying to save Gomez Addams from aliens. The music sounds like it's from Mega Man, and some of the gun powerups are annoying to use in tight quarters, but I completed the game and had a blast.
I'm back for another vid
Thanks Isaac! Awesome you're here. Did you enjoy the video?
Yes
Pirates! by ultra games
These are all really underrated games. I always enjoyed magic kingdom and othello for the NES. Also Goonies 2 was originally released in the arcade. My local arcade when I was young had that placed right next to MK1 and MK2. And these games on your list need a proper remake on modern consoles. I know Jaws and Friday the 13th did but even if the titles were digitally released I'd still play them.
Loved Othello... Because it was the name of one of Shakespeare's play and having heard about it played the game although had no idea what the play was about. But figured out Othello pretty easily... Later played it online on Windows but at that time I couldn't get back into it.
@@nayyarrashid4661 1st time I played Othello was on an actual game board. I got the NES version along with micro machines as Christmas presents. Now I let my young daughter play my NES with the games I still have. Honestly she prefers those games over the switch.
I appreciate you sticking to your guns. I personal consider games like Shadow of the Ninja underrated since it was over shadowed by Ninja Gaiden. But thats a more well known game. These picks are definitely ones in heated debate, but hey growing up we all had a limited collection to work with so I can see how some games hit a sweet spot for us. I also find a few LJN games good when most dont like Wolverine, Terminator 2, and Spider-Man.
Side note - can you add a link to the background music in your descriptions? I often find good tracks from your videos, but have to hunt for them, check through comments or ask you myself. If you can tell me the name of this track too I would appreciate it. Thanks!
I would also add Gremlins 2,The Guardian Legend, Werewolf the last warrior, journey to silius.
Gimmick!
My favorite platformer for its music and physics alone!
The fact that Gimmick! wasn't on this list is a huge shame because that game (albeit extremely hard) was a very fun platformer made by Sunsoft with extended audio using the S5B on the Japanese famicom
It did get a European release but sadly not a US release.
Championship Bowling. The only bowling game on the NES and I how I wished it would have been released on the eShop for my 3DS. Just thinking about the game puts the music for the game right in my head.
I remember watching Jaws the movie as a kid. I was scared to death to take a bath afterwards! I probably took the quickest baths in human history for a couple of weeks until I realized that huge shark couldn't fit in our tub! The video game didn't help either! Lol!
8 Eyes...somehow we never played Castlevania when we were kids. Only later did I notice the visual similarities.
Clash at Demonhead is another underrated game, only my nerdiest friends have ever heard of it but I love it. Faxanadu is another one, I assume it’s underrated because I don’t hear it talked about much. I don’t agree with most of your Ljn picks, but that’s okay, although I have to admit Friday the 13th is somewhat of a guilty pleasure for me.
Nightshade is the Rorschach Simulator. I'll have to see if I can snag a copy somewhere.
I love Blue Marlin and was thinking about it right before you mentioned it!
My top 10 listed as most played. Super Mario not listed because it was default
1-Ninja Gaiden
2-Contra
3-Gyruss
4-Double Dragon
5-Mike Tysons Punch Out
6-Bionic Commando
7-Mega Man 2
8-Werewolf: The last warrior
9-TMNT 2
10-Rygar
TMNT 2 could possibly be the best NES game ever. I loved it better than the arcade.
Buddy Muniz right on! I have fond memories of that game!
Werewolf was awesome, hard as nails though
I’m late to the party but I might blow some minds with this one.
Remember the secret to Miyagi-Do? The spinning drum? Remember how Daniel beats chozen by countering left and right? Well same principle applies to that swinging spike thing.
If the spike is coming to your left, just before it gets to you, you hit right (towards the spike) and as it passes you hit left.
The game tries to recreate the rotation of the hips
And as it passes you, you do the opposite. Left then right as the spike passes you.
Here are some underrated titles: The Immortal, VICE:Project Doom, Skull and Crossbones, Rockin' Kats, Faxanadu
Is The Immortal the game with the wizard trying to get through a dungeon and you have combat screens? If so, I never beat it. Kept falling in a damn trap in the floor.
omg I rented that NES American Gladiators sooo much back in the day
Wow, I just found this channel and I'm all about it. Subscribed. Where is Silver Surfer on the list?
Marble Madness! Oh my God I haven't seen that game in years! Not since I was a child.
“Once you feel you’re strong enough to take down Jaws, you can find him pretty easily; though in all honesty, he’ll probably find you first.” I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything spin quite so well.
I was mad how the black counselor was the slowest on Friday the 13th lol
A boy and his blob is one of the most underrated games ever. I think more people need to know about that game.
Shatterhand, dude! Almost no one knows about it, but it kicks some serious ass!
Good list. Marble Madness was a beast. Up there with Mega Man as far as difficulty goes. And kids think cuphead is the hardest they have seen, give them a NES...That was our life....lol
I came across ShingenThe Ruler, I couldn't understand it at first, after a while it happened to be a pretty good game
Solstice was probably my top underrated game.
Loved goonies II also