I didn't include Black Box games as I already ranked those earlier kzfaq.info/get/bejne/laulY6tkrpbHe3U.html

I don't know who needs to hear this but Mike Tyson's Punchout is a top 5 NES game of all time

Mario bros 3 has such a sweet spot in my heart man, I remember as a kid getting to world 3 and being so amazed, last time i beat it without skipping a level on my Nes with 94 lives!

There is no chance that I will ever be sorry for all the hours of my life I spent on games like Faxanadu, Tyson's Punch Out, Zelda 1&2, StarTropics, Mario 2&3 and Kid Icarus. Just seeing this video makes me want to play these games right now. 👍

DRAGON WARRIOR IS AN S!

Kid Icarus is a top 5 for me. The difficulty is very uneven though; I think level 1-3 might be the hardest level in the game, lol.

Ice Hockey in my country is non existent. However the nes ice hockey game was very popular purely because it was such fun to play. Was so happy to see it appear on switch online

Dude! Star Topics remake NOW!!! Someone get on this yesterday!

Cobra Triangle is such an underrated masterpiece!

Enjoyed the video man! Thanks for doing this one! I smiled from ear to ear when you brought up Snake Rattle 'n Roll. It took me 30+ years but I finally beat this game earlier this year. So many incredible memories involving these assortment of games too.

I know a lot of work went into this, plenty of great games and over a half hour of content. Thanks Riggs!

Dragon Warrior was definitely my first ever RPG. My best friend was borrowing it and it just did NOT click at first. I'd been playing stuff like Zelda and Faxanadu, so having a menu where you just picked "Fight" seemed so alien to me at the time but I kinda started getting more interested in it over the course of the day I was hanging out there. Then Final Fantasy II on SNES hooked me and I've been an RPG fanatic ever since.

Love to see faxanadu getting an S, maybe my favorite NES game

I have come to love your content. It's always fun with good production value.

Finally the one episode I've been waiting for. Thank You John.

Wow! Great Video, John. You hit the nail on the head about sharing Zelda tips on the playground at school. I was in 4th grade when it came out. Of course, no internet, no guide books, but lots of gossip from friends about where to find items in the game. Plenty of false tips also! But it was all anyone talked about at school for a year!

I'm with ya Riggs. I have way more nostalgia for Mario 2 than Mario 3. The fact that they gave each character their own distinct abilities gave the game so much replay-ability. Glad to hear someone else say it.

Mad respect for showing Zelda II the love it deserves!!!

Man, I was so excited when I saw the thumbnail for this ranking video!! And I was not disappointed. Thank you so much John!🙂

I have been waiting for this! So excited!!

Love these ranking and reviewing videos John! Keep Em coming!

Thank you have been waiting for this one for awhile. Great job on the video

Hell yeah!! Fellow Zelda II fan and proud! Awesome. Love these videos btw. Thanks for putting the time in! Think I caught you on MJR initially but either way, a great channel for casual gamers, John!

Hey John. I can't stop watching your "I ranked" videos. Such great feedback. Thanks for doing this!

Love your ranking videos. You’re one of my favorite KZfaqrs. Can’t wait to see you rank more SNES games.

Been waiting for this one for a while! Thank you!

This is now my favorite game review channel. Simple to the point, and you throw in some memories.

Enjoyed this video. I'm a subscriber but it didn't show up till today for some reason. Love this channel and watch it often. Keep the videos coming.

Another fun video! Thanks, Riggs!

YOU FINALLY DID IT! This is amazing and I'm sure took a lot of work. Nobody ranks em like Riggs!

Great video !! Thanks 🙏🏻

Super Mario 2 and 3 is ma jam!! Awesome vid John! :D

I'm with you with Mario 2. Always felt the same way. I got it like the day after release! A kid at school hated it because it wasn't a Mario game (I had the same feelings about Zelda 2 lol) but I loved it. I traded him some other game for it and it became one of my favorites. I got 3 and played through that latter too, sure, but I always like 2 the best. Today, the original is where it's at when I want a quick trip down memory lane.

Love these videos- so much nostalgia.

Been waiting for this one.

Thanks Big Bro. This helps get Through work.. And Brings Back Great Memories..!!😎👌✔

Super nice video. Love your channel

I was waiting for this ranking

Nice, I've been waiting on this one for a while now.

Totally agree, super Mario 2 is better than 3 both are good I just always preferred 2, you're the 1st person apart from myself that I've heard say that, no one used to agree with me.

Love your videos Riggs

World Cup Soccer is definitely an S! You forgot about the amazing super kicks. Thanks for showing Cobra Triangle some love though...Amazing game.

Love these videos. I picked up dragon warrior thanks to this one and it wasn't really on my radar previously.

Thanks for the content Mister Riggs.

I have been waiting forever for the Nintendo rankings! I can't imagine there are too many publishers remaining for NES, so time to dig into SNES! Anyway, I am on board with most of these grades, but Metroid HAS to be an S!! The moody atmospheric music, the genre defining open world exploration, the mystery and horror...one of the greatest games of all time! I also love Kid Icarus, but the controls are definitely rough in the modern day, yet my great memories of this game as a kid still makes it an S for me, an A at worst. Great job Riggs! I like how your videos are organic and not overproduced. You are one of the rare vloggers who seems genuine and real, like a dude I'd actually enjoy hanging with, and your videos remind me of the early glory days of G4TV before they overproduced things and sent it to the cable trash heap of also ran networks!

I sunk many fun hours into Dragon Warrior! Still holds up! Great Video!

Amazing. Usually watching other people's Tetris gameplay is aggravating, but this time it might as well have been me playing

Cheers John stoked for this one

I was in my mid-30’s before I beat Mike Tyson, and it’s only because a friend and I religiously studied and played it over and over until we did it. God bless the Mike Tyson code. Great list, John!

Ya know John, I just love your videos along with Metal Jesus. Any gamer needs to experience these retro games to better appreciate today’s games. To actually see for yourself the evolution of gaming. It was very memorable for us that grew up in the 80s 90s.

I was waiting for you to bring up Doki Doki Panic as you were showing the Super Mario 2 footage, but you never did. Maybe a separate video about that in the future? Best regards, absolutely love your channel.

Great video bud!

I forgot about this! I haven't watched many videos since the last actual NES game company rankings one..... Was wondering is he ever going to do the Nintendo published games. THANK YOU.

Great video. Thank you.

Metroid and Kid Icarus need to be moved to the ‘S’ column!

Thank you for getting to this list, the completionist in me was scrolling through all your videos looking for this. Also pretty spot on. Just shows that Nintendo published/made (and still does) incredible games. Now if only they would give a BOTW treatment to Faxanadu, Kid Icarus, and Startropics. Nonetheless those IP’s need to re-emerge weather as a remake, reboot, or new game. It’s time for Nintendo to deep dig their properties for new ideas. Thanks again.

Another great one sir!

If I could SUPER like a video based off of your Super Mario Bros 2 opinion I would. Love your work John, thank you for all that you do!

Finally, the Nintendo NES games rank! Spot on Mr. Riggs! Tengen Tetris soundtrack itself scratches my nostalgia hitch and is the main reason why I prefer it over Nintendo's.

More 1/2 hour (or more!) videos! Appreciate the content! Cheers from Mabton!

wow! thanks for putting this together

I love your channel! Been getting into the best NES and Super NES games! I have a channel where I open a lot of 1980's sports and novelty wax packs. Keep up the good work!

Always keeping it classy! 🤩

Very nostalgic and on point for me with the NES!

Zelda 2, Star tropics, Mario 2, and Faxanadu top my list. I don't think I've ever agreed more with a list - you're clearly a man of good taste 😜

I was surprised to recently learn that there is a 2 player mode in the Nintendo release of tetris. It is hidden in the code unlockable by a game genie! It's unfinished, but playable!

Cobra Triangle was one of my favorite games all time. Excellent music. Great gameplay.

I’ve played Dragon Warrior over and over again. Same for FF and I do have found memories with many of these games. Star Tropics is so amazing, I missed playing it.

Actually playing NES emulated quite a bit! Perfectly timed video

Hey! I feel like I haven’t seen these style vids in a while!!

Wow!! From the bottom of my ginger heart to yours...you've outdone yourself this time my friend!

Thank you for making this list you beautiful man!

Hey been watching for a while love the content. Been looking for a particular kung Fu style NES game. I remember it as a good game the main character reminds me of krillin from dragon ball. Can't remember the title. Let me know if you have an idea.

I also prefer smb2 over smb3, even though both are exellent of course. Nice list btw, I would rank cobra triangle S though

Super Mario Bros 2 is very underappreciated. I like watching your ranking videos (games published by this company). Looking forward to the next one.

Someone got a new camera. Looks great!

Yay! I was waiting for this one.

Giving Zelda II some love! Some of my favorite games of all are Zelda titles, and upon a recent replay of Zelda II, I gotta be honest it’s my favorite from the entire series.

Zelda 2 is also my favorite!! You have great taste John!

I’m always happy to see Zelda 2 get some love. Maybe it’s my nostalgia, but that’s my favorite game. Good music, great combat. Thank you!

I just picked up a CIB copy of Cobra Triangle during my layover in Dallas, happy to hear it was a good pickup!

To me "Startropics" felt like a "Goonies 3" with the Yo-yo as the weapon. I played "The Goonies" at the arcade on the Nintendo "Play Choice-10", and later loved "The Goonies II". There was even a spiritual sequel to the original film called "Finding ʻOhana", in 2021 it was a Netflix film, featuring an adventurous girl dragging her friends, and her disapproving brother, on an adventure to find pirate treasure. Several scenes from 'The Goonies' are parodied, with the story taking place in Hawaii. Jonathan Ke Huy Quan makes an appearance, as the character George Phan, parodying his "Slick shoes" dialogue. The middle of the film feels like a reboot of "The Goonies", but it goes its own way after that. "Zoda's Revenge :Startropic II," felt more like a Back to the Future game, and I enjoyed it more than any of the BTTF games until "Back to the Future: The Game" by TellTale, when they got the original cast to do their voice acting. Even though Michael J. Fox is playing minor characters instead of Marty, and someone else is playing Marty, but imitating Michael voice.

Super Spike V'Ball is to this day one of my favorites. So cathartic smashing some fool in the face with a super spike...ahh yes.. *looks a retroarch icon in taskbar*

Wario Woods is an S tier when you are playing against someone. Me and my sister play it all the time.

This is the one we’ve been waiting for!!!!!! YES!!!!

awesome video NES is one of the best, but for new releases i still go for genesis cursed knight, cave story, life on mars...

Yep! My mom saw the advertisement in the Nintendo Power magazine around Christmas time for the Dragon Warrior game. Cost 5.00 for the shipping. However, the game didn’t arrive until way after Christmas, but it was definitely a staple of my NES collection!

Photobomb of the decade goes to the dude in the sweet hat checking out that Mario Bros cabinet @ 23:14... lol

John, I couldn’t agree with you more on. The Zelda 2 love. It was my favorite game on the NES and one of my favorites all time.

PIn-Bot is a technical marvel on the NES getting the screen to scroll like that so smoothly is a feat! And it's invaluable for Multiball! The Music in the game is absolutely great! It does suffer from some unneeded additions like a monster that eats your ball but you have given this great game a disservice. As an "As close to the arcade as they could have gotten" experience It deserves a low B or High C

I remember playing Metroid with Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine on. It better set the mood for me probably because it was the most synth sounding album I had at the time.

You just made me go back to my childhood 😊

Ouch. Rad Racer was a top racing game back in the day. Remember, we only pole position on atari 2600 just before this. This had killer styling and music, different tracks with different locations, hills, you got to drive at night! It had the desert and then cities! Oh man, you had to have been there. The killer music! Press down to change between 3 songs. You raced to reach goal points to proceed or you had to start over. Man, this was top of the line back then man. This was an S game all the way....oh wow, I just remembered the ending! I haven't beaten this game in decades! I've put it on (it's not so great by todays standards of course) to mess around with, but never played it through anymore. I'm gunna do that right after this video.

Yep, back in the day when I saw the Wizard, the local arcade had that Mario 3 on a play choice 10 too. I wondered why doesn't this place have signs letting everyone know about this. Anyway, had a blast playing it there before it came out.

Great vid!!! Metroid S for me

I'm interested to see the next NES ranking video there aren't too many game developers left maybe koei or just a general strategy game list

Good list, is the KOEI titles on the horizon?

I have love for Zelda 2 as well. The palaces got a little stupid with wall through walls but I still love it. Especially the music.

10:32 I am right there with you... Zelda II is also my favorite game of all time. I've bought it so many times from the original NES to the GBA and most recently on the Switch with their subscription service. Any time I setup emulation from CoinOPS to a RetroPie, I always start with The Adventure of Link. It's not S-tier... it's literally GOD-tier.

Faxanadu is truly an amazing game Many of these are just pure nostalgic and sometimes fun to revisit from time to time