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I really like these NES ranking videos. Thanks!

Oh my god, that's the one! Lunar Pool is the pool game I was playing as a kid! Thanks for reminding me! Magmax was a trip down memory lane too!

I've got John Riggs here? On a Friday?? What a great way to start the weekend!

Picked up Phantom Fighter at a Woolworth back in the day. Drinking Kool-aid playing it those where the days! And Dr.Chaos I got from trading my friend. Dang that was awesome and the box art wow 🤩

I got World Championship Wrestling for my birthday in 1990 I believe. Ordered from an ad in Pro Wrestling Illustrated. One of my favorite NES games.

Minor quibble: Lunar Pool isn't "just pool" aside from the mechanics. One of the fun things about it is the constantly changing table layouts that keep things less boring. Also Magmax is a super fun game. One of my favorite NES games.

I always loved FCI's logo. I never knew why, I just thought it was such a cool, sleek logo.

Finally some love for Dr. Chaos! It's as hidden of a gem as there can possibly be left for the NES library that most reviewers have ignored. Is it the most amazing game in the world? No, but it's as playable as many other "classics" and underrated titles

WCW was such a good game. Underrrated wrestling game!

I started to get serious playing NES games at age 35

7:07 amazing editing 😂

Lunar pool was the pool game I played a ton of as a kid. I really liked. It back then. I actually never knew there were other pool games as a kid lol

My first NES was a generic clone manufactured in Brazil, compatible with japanese cartridges, and one day my dad comes home with a new game - SNOOKER POOL. Yeah, I know, it doesn't make much sense, but as your video popped up I came to see if I could recognize it among the others. Turns out it was Lunar Pool all the time! I sucked at it because I was too young to think of a strategy, but it was fun nonetheless lol

MagMax is still one of my favorite nes games. I still remember making it to the first boss when i was a kid lol

John is quickly becoming one of my favorites YT personalities. He's extremely relaxing to watch after a hard day of work. Thank you for everything Mr. Riggs.

Zanac is an A; groundbreaking Compile title that laid the groundwork for masterpieces such as Guardian Legend and Gun-Nac, the Aleste series, Blazing Lazers and MUSHA. Smooth gameplay with little to no glitches Bard’s Tale and Ultima 3 should’ve been ranked at least B - I’ve been playing these lately and I’m a fan of both

I don't think I've ever seen Ric Flair do a regular clothesline let alone a Baba style lariat. Also, Lunar Pool has one of my favorite box covers of all time.

Thanks bro for those videos ! From Montreal Canada CHEERS!

Damn FCI made some of my underrated favorites!

Dragon Strike is one of my favs.

JR: I’m so old I was played NES in junior high. Me: Woo hoo, somebody older than me. I only have to go back to college for NES My brain: That’s not how math works Me: think... think... Doh!

I love when John Riggs keeps doing rating retro games.

It’s not a Friday without a John Riggs ranking video.

I loved A Bard's Tale for the PC back in the day, but I didn't know there was a port for the NES! I'm going to have to try to find me one of those!! This is why I love your videos! I always learn something new!

That one perspective from the one Ultima game worked really well for dungeons and dragons warriors of the eternal sun on sega genesis, which is an amazing d&d game btw!

Solid advice to anyone: play MagMax with the sound off.

Love these videos John :) Thanks for uploading

Yes! I've been waiting for you to rank Phantom Fighter! 2:10 You rang?

Can you do game rank for Technos?

So how did AAAAAAAAAA, FFFFFFFFFF and Bard do on their adventure?

Never heard of FCI - but I have played a few of these games as a kid. Lunar Pool was on this bootleg "31-in-1" cart I had, and I believe I rented Magmax. When I was a kid I didn't think about who made what games, I just played the ones I was lucky enough to get or rented whatever one had the best looking box art lol

I played Ultima to death. I had heard about the games on computer but I didn't have a computer. I managed to get to Exodus but couldn't defeat him. The Ultima series was MASSIVE in Japan. Both Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy were started as attempts to see if an Ultima style game could even be done on the NES. And from that we have the entire JRPG genre. It all started with Ultima.

John "I'm Gonna Give This One a C" Riggs Just pulling your chain, awesome video :D

I loved the heros of the lance books...the game still makes me sad when i think about it

Wow, serious nostalgia vibes while watching this! I loved Quest of the Avatar as a kid... now I want to grab a copy for myself and play it again!

Oh goodness, I remember Phantom Fighter. I thought I was just bad at the game, then again when I played this I was really young. Now looking at this, the hitboxes were really bad.

I bought MagMax back in the day mostly because I thought the cover art was cool. Pretty much made myself like it since it was a blind purchase. It's very nostalgic to me.

Yes, Mag Max and Seicross were in arcades in the eighties, at least in my neck of the woods. Both of them got a few coins from me as a kid.

If you wanted to get into a game like Zannak, the sister game Gunnak is absolutely amazing, and feels like practice for when they made Blazing Lazers. I actually recommend trying Gunnak, Blazing Lazers, and Space Megaforce (Super Aleste) in that order to see how that branch of their shooters evolved along side their other varieties.

Zanac gets a C?! We're gonna have to talk!! Hydlide is probably infamous for the Indiana Jones theme song. Ultima 1 & 2 looks fun. I remember my cousins played WCW when I was a kid. Compile also developed both of the pool games.

Pool of radiance was one of my favorites on the PC. I had no idea it had an NES conversion!

I remember Dr. Chaos had the coolest box art. It really made me curious about the game as a kid. Seicross was fun but it took me a cheat code to find out it was a high score based game.

I used to be undefeated on WCW wrestling among my friends

The AD&D games were all computer ports originally by SSI. I played Hillsfar on C64

I spent a lot of my teenage years playing pool of radiance. I drew maps on graph paper and everything. Best game ever :)!

One of the cool things about Lunar Pool is the different table designs that you can actually select without having to beat or unlock them, plus you can change the "gravity" which affects the ball physics according to how much or how little gravity you use. It's definitely not your average pool game.

Lunar Pool (Ball 🇯🇵) gets an S in my books, the amount of different tables, the friction level switcher, the music. A classic!

I'm really looking forward to your coverage of the KOEI games. I know strategy games are not your taste, but I really hope you take your time with it and give them all a "I'm 12yo, and this is the game I rented for the weekend and I'm super sick of all the games I own" try. I really love the depth/immersion of these games... and while they have ENORMOUS learning curves, there is something to appreciate in all of them. Also... when it comes to box art... every single KOEI release box art sells the game. I'm sure there are a lot of people that were in your boat... that were enraptured by the box art, then got home and realized... "damn, this isn't my kind of game".

In Japan Lunar Pool is called Lunar Ball and I have Lunar Pool and I have Mag Max as well

I love this series. In fact, its what got me into your content. But as a SNES guy, id love to see more videos like this but from the 16 bit era. Ill watch and give you a thumbs up no matter what though. Youre just quality, wholesome entertainment that triggers tons of nostalgia.

thanks for your great videos, so much nostalgia

The way Zanac randomized the enemies made it a favorite of mine. I also like Lunar Pool. It is not a regular pool game. The tables would change making it more of a miniature golf/pool hybrid.

Zanac was my favorite NES game. Interesting you mentioned Guardian Legend; The same cheat code for Zanac works for Guardian Legend as well; I figured this out way back, on my own, when I noticed the connection.

John one of the reasons I watch videos like yours and the AVGN is because we are from the same age range and have similar experiences and taste. Even if we both live on different sides of the US

Thanks for the content Mister Riggs.

Dude always always love your content , your just awesome man 👻😊🐬

Zanac was the prototype for what became the Aleste series (M.U.S.H.A., Space Mega Force, Power Strike 1 & 2 etc). It's one of the very best 8-bit shmups there is period. Probably the only thing on the NES (not Famicom, Rekka is nuts) that matches its intensity is its sequel, Gun-Nac. One of the few true standouts in the genre on the system, I'd definitely rank it well above all that middling stuff.

Nice. I played Mag Max in the arcade and remember loving it. I just got a modded Wii.I’m gonna play it tonight if I have it in there.

Been waiting for Phantom Fighter review. Big fan of the ancient Eastern mythology so right up my alley. Once you get the hang of controlling it, reach other towns, and learn new moves, the game improves greatly so don't judge it too harshly right away. An underappreciated favorite of mine.

I played Dr Chaos again this weekend. I've beaten it several times over the years, and it holds up. The controls are a bit stiff and the hit boxes take some getting used to, but the structure of the game is cool, the atmosphere is awesome, and it definitely deserves a place as a formative survival horror game. It's just a bit cryptic for its own good to a new player who doesn't know where to get the warp zone detector. The game is really neat if you get past that hurdle.

Lunar Pool had a bunch of different pool tables and shapes, it just the standard rectangular fare, which made it fun to play.

Been waiting for this one

Another great video!

I still have all four AD&D games with boxes and manuals and such. I didn't get those until much later in life, when I was more capable of forethought, so I was a little more careful about saving things for posterity.

Had alot of fun with Phantom Fighter. Was a unique game for the time. Never owned it, but rented it enough from the local video store that I probably could have owned a few copies.

Guardian Legend, thank you! That was driving me crazy.

holy moly the only one of these titles I had was magmax and this hit the nostalgia feels hard.

Did not know a lot of these nice one ☝️

I'll have to check a few of these out sometime. I've never played a single one of FCI games growing up.

When I was a kid I thought the put together robot in MagMax looked like Captain Power from Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future. As for World Championship Wrestling on the NES it had "Dr. Death" Steve Williams and The Varsity Club.. 'nough said :) Riki Choshu created the Sasori-gatame (Scorpion Hold) afterall.

1:19 😂😂😂 Gotta love Riggs

I remember seeing the D&D Games in some ad listing them at $99 each before they were released. I don't know the company. Was a paper ad with xeroxed copies of the boxes in B&W lol

I had no idea that was a version of Dragon Strike on the Nintendo Entertainment System. I have that game for MS DOS and it was pretty entertaining way back in the day

hmmm... I wonder what it would take to find the hit detection for phantom fighter and tweak it a bit to remove the reach of the enemies.

Fun fact John, Dr. Chaos, is based on the 1985 movie House.

Pretty good games shown I do know the WCW one. The sounds on the WCW game are amazing.

D & D: Heroes of the Lance had one of the best ending music in all of NES (Metroid being another). For that reason, my nostalgia is through the roof for that game!!!

Giant Baba did a running neck breaker.The weirdest substitution to me was Steamboat for bruiser Brody.

Is it just me or does Jon have almost the perfect teeth lmao ultra white almost look fake like dentures lol

World Championship Wrestling, that was the game you mentioned that made me remember playing as a kid 😆

@johnriggs great job on the ASL

Simple videos. And to the point thank you

Your Videogame ránking are epic👍

You're SLACKING with the beard game. Add just a teaspoon of epic and you'll be fine. Your reviews are great, by the way.

Love World Championship Wrestling. Such a great game and I’m glad to see you agree

The physics options in Lunar Pool make it the best and most replayable pool games on the system. Nearly an S tier for me.

There were several FCI/Pony Canyon games that were not released in the USA, or internationally, with one of the most egregious omissions being Nuts 'N' Milk.

Nice! Shout out to the American sign language letters at the start

I LOVED Lunar Pool

My Dad rented Pool of Radiance when I was a kid believe it or not. I think 3 times total. He never finished it. From the screen shots, I remember the dungeon part but I can see why he didn’t continue with it 😂. Great list. Thank you

How have I never heard of Dragon Strike? Looks so cool. And of course it’s around $100!

You best not be doing my fav game Phantom Fighter dirty!

Yeah, MagMax and Seicross were both arcade games. Nichibutsu (the company that created Moon Cresta, Terra Cresta, and Crazy Climber) made both of them. Supposedly both released for North American arcades too, though I've never seen them in the wild either. I've played plenty of Seicross on MAME, though. It's one of those games I always wanted to get good at, but it's too hard for me.

I remembered playing MagMax. I liked the cool box art with the three headed robotic dragon.

Johnny Riggs with another hit!

Yay love these vids

Class of 1994? Man I bet we would have been trading games back in middle school.

This channel is great.

OMG...I forgot about MagMax. That was a great game. A+ for me.