Legit every game was a banger on this list. Lowkey emotional watching ❤

Those old news clips hit hard. Remember parents freaking SNES wasn't backwards compatible the following year

I turned 7 in the summer of 90 and can say without a doubt that was an amazing year to be a kid playing all the new games. Sharing amongst friends and helping each other get past tough spots… nothing like it.

Mario 3 alone makes whatever year it was released, the best one. Nothing else was even close to how perfectly crafted that game was. Mario 3 is a work of art. It's an 11 out of 10.

Ah, 1990. The year i graduated and went into the Navy. I was born in 71, my first system was the Atari 2600 in 81 for Xmas. Then got the NES for Xmas in 86. Me and my friends played the Hell out of Nintendo! My first and main Go to games were Zelda, Metroid, Mike Tyson Punch Out, Top Gun, Contra, MegaMan, plus more. I ended buying a Nintendo Gameboy when I went in the Navy. I went through so many batteries! LoL! Good Video 👍

1990 was certainly a great year for NES...I was 8 yrs old and remember it well! Great year for dance music too, when House music was new and fresh, great times! My friends and I were playing with TMNT toys, jamming to MC Hammer & Vanilla Ice and playing lots of amazing NES games! :D

This is my first time checking out your channel. You guys have a great rapport on camera, intriguing content and the editing is great too! Many people, myself included, enjoy these retro treats and it’s always cool to go down memory lane. You earned another subscriber. Thanks!

Thanks for the episode! I was born in January 1981, so I was a prime age to experience and appreciate the “NES” (we all just called it “Nintendo” because that was the only Nintendo system we knew or cared about). We didn’t really think all the games coming out were amazing because we weren’t looking back with rose-coloured glasses. We obviously knew Mario 3 and Mega Man 3, etc., were awesome, but to us, this was the norm. Nintendo reigned supreme and they defined the era and what video games were. They were part of the fabric of our lived experience and talking about our progress in games was often the topic of conversation at school. We had no idea the year was turning out to be epic. We just thought that Nintendo was so freakin’ fun. I got together with my friend and we pinned raccoon ears and a tail on ourselves and jumped around, pretending to be Mario and Luigi. We recorded ourselves on audio cassettes playing Mario 3 so we could hear the music and sound effects. Nintendo was so engrained in our lives, but we still were active and played sports and explored outside. It was a great time!

I remember getting my NES in Christmas 1989. Then my Mom got me Double Dragon 2 in 1990. I mostly rented my NES games at my local video store during the early 1990’s.

Unless you were alive & lived during that time you wouldn’t know how big SMB3 was. It was so awesome of a game & still holds out to this day!

Great video! So crazy to think about all the great games on NES in the midst of Genesis and SNES being around the corner. Something about the 8-bit era that makes it so great to come back to!

Great video yet again. Love the Warrior T-shirt too. Ah, and the epic Warrior vs Hogan match at WrestleMania 6 was also 1990. What a great year to be alive!

Did anybody notice we got a bunch of "3" games in 1990? Super Mario Bros. 3, Castlevania 3, Mega Man 3, Thunder Force 3 for Sega Genesis? In Japan, they got the original Final Fantasy 3! Game Genie also included codes for handicapping the player, like starting with 1 life, or a lower jump. So not always a "cheat"... but kids looked at those and asked why they'd want to do that!

Out of those games in this video, I own 9 of them out of my personal collection of 27. So I'm PRETTY sure you are on to something. 😉 It always seems that later years of a console have some amazing releases. It would be interesting to see similar years for the Genesis, SNES, Xbox and PS2. Nice work boys. 👍

I was born January 1986. I still have the NES my parents bought right before I was born along with the Gauntlet 2 game we used to play. I have memories on that very console playing that very game with my parents, brothers, & neighborhood kids. It's awesome that I can make new memories with my own wife & kids on something from my earliest memories!! Super Mario 3 was the first mario game I played & got me through a lot of difficulties in my life. I still play today!

Fucking awesome episode!! You guys put out such great content, thanks for all the hard work!!

For those of us who were alive that year I can totally agree with you. The Genesis was out but hadn’t quite gone mainstream with Sonic, so the NES was firing on all cylinders during that era. 😎

I remember I was 19 in 1990 and I bought my brand new NES.... along with a brand new Strider, Street Fighter 2010 and Metroid. I also bought a little 13" crt to play it on.....good times.👍🍻

Man, I was 10 years old in 1990 and they got the Nintendo for Christmas along with Mario brothers 2 RC, Pro-Am, Final Fantasy and Tetris. What an epic Christmas that was!

Ya I really enjoyed “dance pad” and “rocking robot “ also. “Phonies”😂 it’s a staple

Great list of games. Double Dragon II is to this day one of my fave games all time. I play through it probably monthly on average.

My dad got me into loving Dr. Mario. True story, earlier this year while attending a local pinball and arcade expo I entered a Dr. Mario NES high score tournament and got second place with a score of 0184,800!

Great video as always Gents. Can’t really join the discussion because us peasants in the UK were so far behind in getting the NES stuff back in the day. Believe we got Super Mario Bros 3 in 1991. Crazy world we lived in back then eh? I was born in June 1986, so four months earlier than Wes and my memories revolve around the Amiga. Didn’t really know what Nintendo was until a few years later when playing Mario All-Stars and Donkey Kong Country around a mates house on the SNES.

Summer of ‘89 I bought a Genesis with my own earnings at 13 but due to the lack of titles and friends who owned one, still played NES for a couple years thereafter (Until SNES dropped). NES was king for many years and really defined what video games were to my generation (Difficulty, cheapskateassedness and rage quits aside). Only so much frustration I can deal with as an old man but NES will always be unique/special to me! Bad ass UW shirt 🤩

Journey to Silius is so underrated, not enough people talk about it, glad you guys mentioned it, and the soundtrack is absolutely amazing, it is definitely one of if not my most favorite NES game, it's the NES game I have beaten the most times, absolutely love it.

I remember 1990 for games and england playing Germany semi final Batman and super Mario wicked games played them till I finished them proper challenging that kept you going even if you died you kept going just to end credits and when you finished them you felt wit a achievement another top video by you too

Was there, can confirm. 1990 was 🔥🔥

This was the best time to be a gamer. We may have gotten better games later on(mid 2000's) but in my opinion, this era was the best era to be a game because a lot of things were being established

1990. NES dominant. SNES out in Japan. Home alone . WrestleMania VI . Load the spaceship with rocket fuel . Load it with the warriors .

Love your enthusiasm. If I weren't Australian, I could definitely see myself hanging out with you guys. The importance of the commodore 64 and amiga in out market would make for some interesting discourse. You could also parallel the games coming out for Switch while we know their A team developers are working on the successor.😅

I’m an 85 kid but it didn’t play super Mario bros 3 until Mario all stars on snes but it’s still one of my favorite games of all time ❤️🙏🏼💕

I feel so fortunate having a NES as a kid and living through that gaming generation. Coming from a nintendo 64 and moving onto the cartridges of the NES felt like things couldn't get any better. 😆

Love your guys channel, keep it up. Mario 3 for me, however I didn't get it till Christmas 92. Probably my favorite of all time on the NES. I'll never forget beating it one late night when my parents let me stay up till almost midnight on the weekend.

With the exception of SMB3 I ended up playing all these games decades later and now have most of them in my physical collection, I had already moved on to the Sega Genesis is 1989 and then SNES soon after, 1990 was an incredible years for OG NES in retrospect.

Great Scott!!!! What it do boys! Ya forgot a little game pt 2 & 3 , were gonna have to go back to the future an add this little gem, cheers awesome vid, looking forward to some Saturn stuff ;)

Love this video! It brought back so many memories. I hope to see more like this!

Double Dragon II is one of my top fave NES games! Great vid guys. Do i feel the start of a new series "best year of (insert console here) series...? I would be down for more of this.

oh man. nostalgia overload. i remember the days of being the cool kid who knew how to fix a nintendo. 1990 was a awesome year. back in the vhs days, RF adapter days lol no smart phone or smart tablet days.

Alot of people born in the early 90's still had a huge familiarity with mid to late 80's consoles. I was born in 91 but yeah I played the NES and the Mega Drive as a kid.

Excellent video gentlemen, loved the topic and discussion! So many memories! #GOTG

Got Dr Mario for xmas in 1990. Wanted it so my mom and I had another game to play together. Fun as hell playing games w her as a kid when she was freaking out😂

I got Castlevania 3 for my Birthday that year and still have it to this day.

I picked up a used NES from a mail order FuncoLand ad around 1997 or 1998 when I was in middle school. The NES was dead at this point, but my local Toys R Us still had several copies of Star Tropics, so I picked one up. They also had NES Advantages on clearance. I really regret not grabbing one of those. Star Tropics was such a hard game, but had a really cool aesthetic. I don't think I beat it till I was in college.

Great upload to start a Monday!

Great video as usual, gents. 1990 fuckin' ripped for the NES.

I would say that the last year of the NES was the best, because games stack, remember. All games that had been made before still existed, for the most of it. At the end, all NES games existed. It was such a wonderful time when NES and Snes were both active systems. It felt like it was going to stay that way, and that life was going to be great!

In 1990 I was 14/15 and it was a great time for the nes still so many fun memories with my friends that are not still with us. on that console

Oh man, 5 years after the consoles release date, and they were still releasing bangers. That's really impressive. awesome video guys! Mario 3 is the best title in 1990 and of the NES

I was 12 in 1990. It was a magnificent year to be a Nintendo fan that's for sure

I think 1990 is the year I started playing NES. The Mario/Duck Hunt cart always reminds me of my Grandmother because she taught me how to play Mario. I guess 1990 was a good time to start playing NES because it was right in the middle of it's production run, and many good games were available.

If you think the NES Metal Gears are good you should see what the actual first two Metal Gears are like haha. Great video guys.

Loved this. One of the best and that’s a high bar. I recall my buddy and me laughing at a yo noid game and rented it just because. I mowed lawns the next couple of days and bought it. Still have my copy too

1990 was the year that had the most releases by far. According to a list 1985: 18 1986: 17 1987: 59 1988: 69 1989: 112 1990: 200 1991: 127 1992: 114 1993: 51 1994: 13 1995: 1 1996: 1 1994 was the last year with licensed games, 1995 and 1996 both had a singular unlicensed game

You guys gotta do a video on the greatest year in gaming (1998). To this day I don’t think we’ve had such a monumental year for gaming like 1998.

I was 10 and I remember going to the rental store every weekend to see what new games they got and deciding what new game I wanted to play. Always had the best selection and I was happy for it. I didn't buy a lot of games just Xmas and bday so almost every weekend I rented a new game.

Other NES games The Chessmaster, Twin Cobra, Genghis Khan, Kings of the Beach, Chris Evert & Ivan Lendl in: Top Players' Tennis, Demon Sword, Top Gun: The Second Mission, Rescue: The Embassy Mission, RoadBlasters, Rock 'n' Ball, Bases Loaded II: Second Season, Rollerball, The Magic of Scheherazade, Clash at Demonhead, Jack Nicklaus' 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf, 8 Eyes, Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum, Destination Earthstar, Burai Fighter, Conflict, Abadox, Al Unser, Jr.'s Turbo Racing, Baseball Simulator 1.000, Astyanax, Code Name Viper, The first 2 Fisher-Price games (I Can Remember & Perfect Fit), Heavy Barrel, Vegas Dream, Magic Johnson's Fast Break, Kid Kool and the Quest for the Seven Wonder Herbs, Terra Cresta, Target: Renegade, Wheel of Fortune Family Edition, Win, Lose or Draw, Tecmo World Wrestling, Dynowarz, Phantom Fighter, Xexyz, Double Dare, Ghostbusters II, Ivan "Iroman" Stewart's Super Off Road, Pin·Bot, WCW Wrestling, Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular, Wrath of the Black Manta, Remote Control, Michael Andretti's World GP, Pinball Quest, The Last Starfighter, Heavy Shreddin', Cabal, Castle of Dragon, Adventures in the Magic Kingdom, Dragon Spirit: The New Legend, Arkista's Ring, The Mafat Conspiracy, Bad News Baseball, Boulder Dash, Captain Skyhawk, Starship Hector, Image Fight, Jeopardy! 25th Anniversary Edition, Wall Street Kid, Solitice, Puss 'n Boots: Pero's Great Adventure, Rad Racer II, Shingen the Ruler, Silkworm, Rocket Ranger, The Adventures of Gilligan's Island, Circus Caper, Bad Dudes, Dungeon Magic: Sword of the Elements, Battle Chess, Snake, Rattle n' Roll, Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball, Mad Max, Little League Baseball: Championship Series, Wizardry: Proven Grounds of the Mad Overlord, Pictionary, Mechanized Attack, Bigfoot, Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream, Barker Bill's Trick Shooting, Dick Tracy, Swords and Serpents, NARC, Total Recall, NES Play Action Football, Battle Tank, Destiny of an Emperor, The Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout, Back To The Future Part II & III, Skate or Die 2: The Search For Double Trouble, Days of Thunder, Rally Bike, Kickle Cubicle, Mission: Impossible, RollerGames, Gauntlet II, M.U.L.E., Low G Man: The Low Gravity Man, Thunderbirds, Pipe Dream, Spot: The Video Game, Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight, Little Nemo: The Dream Master, Time Lord, Ultimate Basketball, Maniac Mansion, Caveman Games, Sesame Street: Big Bird's Hide and Speak, Loopz, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Solar Jetman, Mendel Palace, Orb3D, Super Glove Ball, Palamades, Arch Rivals, Puzznic, Conquest of the Crystal Palace, Jim Henson's Muppet Adventure #1: Chaos at the Carnival, The Immortal, Formula One: Built to Win, WWF WrestleMania Challenge, Silver Surfer, Déjà Vu, Digger T. Rock: The Legend of the Lost City, Super Spike V'Ball/Nintendo World Cup, Dirty Harry, The Adventures of Rad Gravity, North & South, Thunder & Lightning, Shadow of the Ninja, Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu, Ninja Crusaders, Ultima: Quest for the Avatar, Dragon's Lair, as well as the accessories like the Four Score, Konami's LaserScope, Akklaim's Power Player, The Software Toolworks' The Miracle Piano Teaching System, Bondwell/QuickShot's Python 2, Flightgrip 2, and Maverick 2, and BDL Enterprises' Turbo Blaster also came out in the same year.

Bro, Ninja Gaiden II and Castlevania III had some awesome music in video games! That music! NES in 1990 is a nostalgic overload, lol.

Im so glad the a lived through the NES era since the beginning having 11 yrs old when it came out. I have a huge nostalgia for the NES playing with my friends and cousins. Love it ❤️💜❤️💜❤️

Yoo, Snake's Revenge. I got that in a $5 score at a local automotive swap meet back in like 2012 maybe. It was a leather wrapped Nintendo game carrying hardcase. I got about a dozen or so games like Snake's Revenge, Tiger Heli, etc. the more military type games. But the real winner was the huge amount of manuals in the case. There's gotta be like 40 manuals in there, for a lot of games that I didn't get. I think Yo! Noid might be one of those. I'd have to go find the thing to check exactly what's in there. When we lament the state of game hunting today, these are the types of deals we're talking about. You're generally just not gonna find that anymore.

Great to see this, super topic! Foolishly, I did kind of miss out on the NES for the most part of 1990 like SMB3... I was deep into the TG-16 and Genesis that year, along with the Atrai Linx and Game Boy handhelds. Forget parents buying me stuff, there was only so much money I could afford to spend right out of high school. But, I did buy Crystalis that year!

I love the Nintendo Entertainment System and 1990 sounds like a golden year for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Cool video. ^_^

So true. 1990 was hot for the NES. Great video as usual.

The music on double dragon 2...o..m..g its so nostalgic

I love the NES because there's always hidden gems to find.....even Mario games. So everyone knows that there's a harder version of Super Mario Bros 2 which was called the Lost Levels and was released in Japan, but not everyone knows there's a harder version of Super Mario Bros 1 and Super Mario Bros 3....and no it's not a hacked version. These were official releases from Nintendo called Super Mario Bros VS and Super Mario Bros 3 (Japan Version). They are MUCH harder than the regular versions with Super Mario Bros VS being a little like Lost Levels with some difficulty tweaks here and there. Then we have SMB3 Japan which makes you play like SMB1 in that even if you are wearing Fire Mario or Tanoki Mario etc...you will go all the way back down to little Mario if you get hit once. It's a unique twist and you should definitely try it!

I missed out on NES in 1990 due to Genesis release, no regrets. But I have revisited the NES during those missed years and yeah those were some fantastic games that I now enjoy

So here in the UK, we didn’t get Mario 3 until August 1991, I was 10 years old 😂

Great vid! Batman soundtrack slaps so friggin hard.

I was born on a historical year in gaming, 1990 ftw!

Batman for the Nes is freaking awesome! My friend prefers the genesis version but this to me was the best. 1990 I was 12 lol. Those commercials take me back. What a time

Appreciate you guys, another great conversation. I Agree with you, 1990 was a great year in gaming. Cheers!

I’m new to your channel I can honestly say I’m a fan!! Keep this up great work!!!

I've been looking for a copy of dragon fighter for awhile now, I'm pretty sure its a Natsumi game, part shooter, part action platformer, I did find a gunnac recently tho

1990 I was 8yrs old happy days. NES, completed it mate 😂

I remember the hype when Mario 3 came out. It was THE SUBJECT on the playground. I would have been in 2nd grade at the time. I remember playing sick so I could stay home from school and play Mario 3. Also Mario Land 2 was nearly on the same level as far as the hype. We all had our Game Boys and Mario Land 2.

I think i got close to every game on the list (definitely not at release date) for 1990 releases. Sometimes I forget what those old ass games meant to me as a kid, you had to sit there and try to beat a game in ONE SITTING! If you didn't love the game you had to do something stupid like play outside 😂 Great video, cheers boys🍻

Do all the years for the NES. I just love that system n wish they made more games like this now just w more mechanics n smarter A.I.

You really can’t go wrong with any year between 1988-90 when it comes to NES games. No wonder the NES had a 90%+ market share in video games.

I'm a recent subscriber but I'm digging your videos, guys! Who'd win an arm wrestle?

You guys should check out classic gaming quarterly. He has some really good coverage on the release of game systems and what was happening at the time. Great video by the way!!!

90 was a great year... I was 11 years old, prime gaming age.

I enjoyed snakes revenge as well. Didn’t blow me away 😂, but the series did become my favorite of all time. Master collection day one for me

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Awesome subject! Please do more videos like this!

Finally someone other then me showed some love for yo niod . love that game.

Awesome episode guys! Gotta be mega man 3 for me, that game made me appreciate video game music and I still have some of those songs playing in my head regularly BTW, loving that warrior shirt, makes me think about laying on the ground and being run over by lawn mowers or trampled by elephants lol

Their best year ever. Those games are classics that were fun for years. Now they might put out one or two good games a year.

Still tinker with Dr. Mario on the Switch. I had that new as a kid on Gameboy. ^_^

great video as usual but am i the only one that likes your beer reviews more than the actual video games?, btw 1990 was amazing i agree.

TMNT 2 is my favorite video game overall.

You ain't wrong about Yo! Noid. That's a great game. I put many many many hours into that game. I have a ton of nostalgia for that one.

Hideo Kojima didn't like Metal Gear on the NES. The MSX version was the proper verison. MSX was a popular computer platform in Japan despite it being made by Microsoft. The port could have been better with some really bad design faults that were not present in the MSX version.

Love this video. Would love a snes version of this ❤

It’s weird because I distinctly remember going to see The Wizard in the theater, and then shortly thereafter getting Mario 3 for Xmas 89’. Strange.

I had amazing times in 1990 with NES Double Dragon 2 River City Ransom Batman Super Mario Bros 3 Snakes Revenge Super C Ninja Gaiden 2 Final Fantasy NARC Castlevania 3 Dragon Warrior 2 Mega Man 3 Star Tropics TMNT

Snake's Revenge wasn't made by Kojima and I think he publicly disowns it. His games were on the MSX Japanese home computers

The year I was born. 🔥

1990 for the win! Another Monday, another great video to start off the week. Cheers boys

I was 4 years old in 1990. Great year for Nintendo.

Cheers indeed. Well done lads.

TMNT2 was massive. As kids we were all a bit disappointed by the first one because we didn't get it, as you mentioned. It also grew on me later. It was a game aimed at 8 year olds and it was hard as F! They more than made up for that with TMNT2. That was my favorite beat em up game for a long long time. Dragon Warrior also grew on me when I was older. Someone bought it for me when I was really young and I had no clue what I was supposed to do. I thought it was terrible. Tried it a few times, then it sat in my NES case for years. Tried it again when I was closer to 12, was one of my favorites for a while. Yeah Manhattan Project was even better, but too late in the NES lifespan to make the same impact the 2nd one did. The Genesis was out for years by this point (although nobody knew it until Sonic came out) and the SNES was released the year prior. 16 bit TMNT games took it to a whole new level. It really was like the arcade then.