Strange Video Game Adaptations (NES | Nintendo Entertainment System)

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After years of focusing on the best games for the NES, I decided to change gears and focus on lesser known cartridges that have, for one reason or another, generally escaped the public discussion and general nostalgia. This series highlights many of the relatively unknown, obscure, and unloved titles in the Nintendo Entertainment System's library. Some of these games are at best mediocre. Many are painfully bad, some of the worst NES games around. Most are hilarious for all the wrong reasons! Occasionally, OCCASIONALLY, a handful of them are actually good, borderline hidden gems.
While you won't find any of these on the NES Classic, some of these titles have managed to make their way onto the Nintendo Switch, so if you don't have an original Nintendo console or ROMs escape you ethically or technologically, there are several ways to play them.
Want more? Me too! Until then, lots of other articles where the pictures don't move and words have to be read can be found on my website: top100nesgames.com
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@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

To everyone chiming in about Gotcha being a toy line unrelated to the movie, all I can say is that the movie predates the toys and the game. And if it wasn’t related to the movie, I can’t see why they’d mention the Universal copyright in the intro screen of the NES game. But, I’m just speculating, maybe an LJN employee will chime in to clear this up :) To everyone commenting “whose” instead of “who’s”, sorry, I wanted to see if misspelling the word would increase views and it did. Soooo….gotcha?! ;)

@christianhunt7382 Ай бұрын

I love trolling the Grammer trolls with intentional misspellings. Possibly the lowest kind of trolls.

@gitgeronimo9375 Ай бұрын

The campus game “gotcha” came first. Then the movie. Then the toy line. The toy line was not related to the film, but they had to pay for the licensing to get the name. The video game was based on the toys

@OmegaDez Ай бұрын

Yes I know the movie came first. The guns came later, but they had to pay a license to the movie studios to use the name. But they weren't related to the movie otherwise aside from the concept of paintball.

@stephenthomas1492 Ай бұрын

I watched that movie not too long ago for the first time since the 80s. Man, that would NOT be cool to do nowadays. How far we've fallen in terms of freedom.

@bogdanieczezbyszka6538 Ай бұрын

I appreciate your commitment to 4:3 aspect ratio.

@bmwolgas Ай бұрын

I've commented on that before myself - gameplay footage looks fantastic on my big 22 inch CRT Philips monitor.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Got to!

@michaelturner2806 Ай бұрын

I heard one of the more obscure licensed titles for the NES was Barker Bill's Trick Shooting. Barker Bill's Cartoon Show was a 15-minute segment from the 1950s where a static picture of the titular character would appear on screen and announce whichever cheaply-sourced old black and white cartoon was coming up next.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Ok now that is a perfect example I did not know about! Thanks!

@Mephitinae Ай бұрын

Terrytoons was already defunct, so I wonder if the game was actually even licensed?

@JaxTheEpic Ай бұрын

@@Mephitinae CBS owns Terrytoons but CBS was bought by Viacom and Viacom bought Paramount.

@Mephitinae Ай бұрын

@@JaxTheEpic Now I'm curious if someone at Nintendo was a fan of the cartoon show. Hard to imagine Viacom/Paramount approaching Nintendo "Hey can you make a game of this obscure character that hasn't been on TV for decades?"

@OmegaDez Ай бұрын

Gotcha isn't based on the movie. It's based on a Toyline of the 80s by LJN Toys (yes, they did toys) that was basically paintball guns for kids. They had to license the name of the toyline from the Movie of the same name though, so that's why the game also has this copyright notice.

@gitgeronimo9375 Ай бұрын

Yep, and Jim McMahon did the commercials! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e76AdZNlyKnOk4E.htmlsi=PqSn6EoNJlHD0Oem

@gekiohshootingking Ай бұрын

@OmegaDez I came here to say the same exact thing.

@agentmith 28 күн бұрын

Yeah I was going to say, Gotcha! was paintball before Paintball was paintball. They had TV commercials for it and everything.

@daerth4423 Ай бұрын

I was in my early teens during the NES's peak so I was their target audience. IPs like The Lone Ranger and Gilligan's Island were definitely before my time but I was still very familiar with them thanks to reruns as was pretty much everyone my age. They were old yes but I guarantee every kid in my school could sing the Gilligan's Island theme and knew The Lone Ranger's catch phrase.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Y'know, that's true, I have never watched an episode of Gilligan but i definitely knew the general theme of the song.

@JScribe Ай бұрын

I think that's something that's forgotten from the days before the internet. We had constant reruns of old shows and cartoons running night and day on TV, so alot of these older programs were as familiar to us as the stuff that was new at the time.

@sydneymeanstreet Ай бұрын

Want to know something _really_ wild? That's not even the only game based on Stanley's search for Dr. Livingstone. There's a Spanish puzzle-platformer for the European 8-bits called "Livingstone, I Presume?" I had it back in the day and honestly it's not that bad.

@carn9507 Ай бұрын

Actually two. One in 1986 then a sequel in 1989. I had both on my Amstrad CPC and they're quite fun if frustrating. The sequel's graphics are pretty nice for the machine. There was an Amiga port of the sequel but despite looking quite nice, it plays pretty bad. One of those things what seems fine on the 8-bit seems janky as heck on the 16-bit. :P Anyways yeah I was kinda fascinated by that second game on my CPC particularly cos it had a power meter for using all the items, the boomerang, the whip, the grenade and the polevault. Felt kinda advanced back then. :)

@sydneymeanstreet Ай бұрын

@@carn9507 I’d forgotten all about the sequel!

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Whoa no way!

@NateTheGnat Ай бұрын

Monsters in my pocket was huge when I was a kid in 1992. But it vanished as quickly as it appeared and nobody remembers it. But there was a Konami game.

@bostonrailfan2427 Ай бұрын

1992/1993 was a horrific time for many media properties: Power Rangers and X-Men and Batman killed viewership causing drops in quality and quantity of shows like that

@terribled Ай бұрын

I memba.

@brendn Ай бұрын

Huh, I remembered them instantly and thought of them as fairly popular. But maybe I just saw ads for them a lot.

@Rustem_A_ Ай бұрын

Definetely popular in Eastern Europe and former USSR countries. There were not so many good games for 2 players to forget Konami's best creations🎉

@foxyfoxington2651 Ай бұрын

Don't sleep on Mr. Vampire. It's a great movie.

@dendroleon Ай бұрын

hell yeah mr. vampire rules the sequels and rip-offs are cool too! and don't forget the mr vampire/the gods must be crazy crossover film, crazy safari!

@wayn0r Ай бұрын

@@dendroleon Vampire VS Vampire is the only sequel that comes close, IMO.

@pepijn23 Ай бұрын

Interesting fact: The music for Battleship NES was made by Mark Knight who also composed the PS1 soundtrack for Duke Nukem 3D which is simply awesome, you should check that out. A different fact about Thunderbirds is that it served as heavy inspiration for Star Fox , so thanks to that we’ve got an awesome Nintendo series.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Whoa cool!

@DGR_Dave Ай бұрын

Would love a part 2, this was amazing!

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

You got it!

@otakubullfrog1665 Ай бұрын

I've always considered Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to be among the more bizarre adaptation choices where the source material is still totally recognizable. I feel like most people, if they were asked which Robert Louis Stevenson story would be the easiest to sell to kids as an NES game, would pick Treasure Island.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Oh man that would make a solid NES game!

@TheWarmotor Ай бұрын

This channel has rekindled my love of rare NES games, thank you :) Quickly becoming my favorite retro gaming show!

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Awww thanks man!

@draculaman Ай бұрын

Thunderbirds was a British show and it was a pretty big pop-cultural touchstone here in England, along with Stingray and Captain Scarlett. Even though they were shows from the 60's, they still seemed to be on TV all the time when I was a kid in the 80s and the toys were still relatively popular. No idea why we had so many puppet based espionage shows. Even though they were British shows it never even occurred to me that it wasn't also a big thing in the US until watching this video, I just figured they were one of those ubiquitous pop cultural things from the 60s

@ZacHawkins42 Ай бұрын

There's a KZfaq channel that plays all the Gerry Anderson shows. Amazing puppeteering and practical effects.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

As far as I know, Thunderbirds wasn’t on tv here in the 80s, and I’ve never heard of the other shows!

@carn9507 Ай бұрын

Weird thing is that this Thunderbirds game also predates the huge renewed popularity of Thunderbirds in the UK which happened in early 90s because of re-runs of the show on BBC2 and led to the Tracy Island playset being the must have toy for christmas 1992 and it being sold out everywhere and led to TV show Blue Peter showing how you could make one out of junk. Which itself became so popular they even released an instructional VHS tape for it. :O Thunderbirds got a live action movie in 2004 directed by Jonathan 'Riker' Frakes which bombed hard and a remake show that ran from 2015 to 2020. But yeah, as for why this game was created? Guess the Japanese must have still been enjoying it, as you mentioned in the video they even made an anime inspired by it. :)

@JaceyMitchell Ай бұрын

I'm Canadian/American, and it definitely seems to me like it made more of an impact in Canada than the US. Although I don't think the original show was ever broadcast during my lifetime in either Canada or the US (I was born in 2000), the show and the opening sequence are pretty iconic in Canada nonetheless. What I've seen of it looked rather mature and sophisticated in terms of plots. Far more so than your typical US children's television. I'm not sure if children were the intended target demographic of Thunderbirds but considering mature anime took a longer time to gain mainstream accepted in the US than in Canada, the UK or Europe because cartoons were viewed as for kids by default , and I can imagine electronic puppetry being viewed in a similar manner by US audiences at the time. A shame because it seems like it was actually a good espionage/adventure show, and the scale models they used were incredible. And the opening sequence is awesome. "5....4....3....2....1....Thunderbirds are go!" Was huge in Japan though. Although the anime adaptation Scientific Rescue Team TechnoVoyager/Thunderbirds 2086 kinda flopped.

@whosaidthat84 Ай бұрын

@@JaceyMitchell I remember the Thunderbirds had a bit of a presence in the US but in the 70s more than the 80s. My brother, born in 1971, remembered it well. He really wanted the toys

@RetrocartCollector Ай бұрын

There are some interesting ones here. I was just in a store that had Ghost Lion and Zen Intergalactic Ninja. This video made me wish I had grabbed them! Next time I’ll be picking them up for sure. Awesome stuff man!

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Zen is amazing, no joke. Ghost Lion is maybe an acquired taste :)

@Screwfacecapone Ай бұрын

Three Stooges. My dad got this for Christmas when I was a kid. It's a collection of minigames based on the show, but for what it's worth, it was pretty fun.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

I cannot get past those damn oysters, but I’ll take your word for it!

@khatharrmalkavian3306 Ай бұрын

Come to think of it, I haven't heard anyone talk about Livingstone in quite a while. Stanley and Livingstone were still pretty widely known back in the 80s and 90s. I think the story was a sort of meme floating around Hollywood at the time, possibly from the 1939 film about them. Back before the internet got big there weren't many kids who escaped the twin influences of Disney and Warner Bros, which carried forward a massive amount of accumulated cultural context that modern kids probably have no real substitute for, unless perhaps meme culture itself has replaced it.

@arvinrunstein5707 Ай бұрын

Bruh! I rented Phantom Fighter a bunch of times back in the day and I've been trying to remember the name for months. Thank you!

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Happy to be of service!

@mightyfilm Ай бұрын

Lone Ranger, Three Stooges, and Gilligan's Island can be explained by the Baby Boomer nostalgia boom of the 80's and early 90's. Very much a Nick at Nite type movement, and I can see them developing these games as nostalgic cash ins. If not directly meant for the 30-somethings at the time, intended for these parents to buy the games "for their kids." I'm almost surprised they didn't have a Lassie game at some point.

@KamenRiderGumo Ай бұрын

I was probably the rare 80s kid that went nuts for the Lone Ranger game, as I've always loved westerns. I watched the old reruns with Grandpa and I had a VHS of the 1982 "Legend of the Lone Ranger" film, which is what the NES game is based on.

@TiroDvD Ай бұрын

I wish there would be a open world Lassie game like Red Dead, and you are Lassie, not a human. It could totally work.

@mightyfilm Ай бұрын

@@KamenRiderGumo Yeah. It's very much an assumption that kids of any era ONLY watch the newest things. I was always watching older cartoons as a kid. Sure, the old standbies of Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry, but also Bullwinkle and Terrytoons. If anything, those were a little more accessible back in the day than now. They released edited Bullwinkle VHS, they reran old shows during the day, some shows got reboots before the term existed (loved that Ralph Bakshi Mighty Mouse). But a lot of that did have to do with the Baby Boomer nostalgia culture. Not complaining, and I love seeing things more recent come back, even if it's just t-shirts and Pops and stuff.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Lassie! I’m holding out for the Mr. Ed game

@SamtheBravesFan Ай бұрын

I think the Lone Ranger looks pretty good. I definitely love Konami's soundtrack for it. The 8-bit rendition of the William Tell Overture is fantastic.

@bafflemint8442 Ай бұрын

I found out from the Famidaily channel that James Clavel's doorstop novel Shogun got an adaptation on the Famicom. "James Clavel's Shogun: The Video Game" feels like a background joke from The Simpsons that somehow became real.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

What?!? No way!

@carn9507 Ай бұрын

I often played the Amstrad CPC 464 game of Tai-Pan which was another book in that series and it has such a jaunty tune. :)

@alkristopher Ай бұрын

Some more licensed games I conveniently forgot about until now: The Last Starfighter, Wacky Races, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (it's actually a decent game), Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu, Puss in Boots (a fairy tale AND an anime), Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular (a reskin of a Donald Duck game), Adventures of Gilligan's Island (too obvious?), Widget, Fist of the North Star, and the two Golgo 13 games (Top Secret Episode and Mafat Conspiracy). Oh, and James Bond, Jr.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Yes to many of those. Puss N boots I almost included

@MissBandDrama2004 Ай бұрын

I remember being obsessed with last star fighter movie! Never knew their was a NES game 😅

@theusher2893 Ай бұрын

Stanley was actually a really fun game. An open world exploration/action game where literally every square on the map was a level, but you didn't know what was there till you explored it.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

I have never given it a full run through. Soon though!

@theusher2893 Ай бұрын

@@BigOleWords Nice!! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

@mr.g4990 Ай бұрын

Hey I remember Fiorentina wearing the Nintendo jersey back then. Throwback.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Awesome! Yeah I had to have it

@andystreepy3146 Ай бұрын

Was going to say something, but found your comment. I also like the white one they wore that year.

@Videomaster21XX Ай бұрын

Found this video and watched due to recognizing Ghost Lion. Never knew it was based on a movie. I still have my copy of this game I bought used from a Blockbuster back in like 1995... I thought it was a pretty neat little RPG.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

I really like it and I’m not super fond of 8-but RPGS

@alkristopher Ай бұрын

I feel I have to add the inclusion of three of the four Classic Chinese Novels on the NES. There's Romance of the Three Kingdoms (two games), The Water Margin (titled as "Bandit Kings of Ancient China"), and Journey to the West, which was reskinned as Whomp Em (well, the second game was. The first was Famicom-only and retained everyone's favorite Great Sage, Equal to Heaven). For better or worse, Dream of the Red Chamber has never been adapted as a video game (to my knowledge). Oh, and the Famicom RPG Sweet Home was based on a Japanese horror film of the same name. Can't forget that one.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Yeah those definitely fit!

@Elucidus Ай бұрын

For San Guo based games, don't forget Destiny of an Emperor! That one evaded me as a kid. I played it much later - great gae.

@whosaidthat84 Ай бұрын

Sweet Home was also the inspiration for Resident Evil

@alkristopher Ай бұрын

@@Elucidus Oh yeah. There's even a sequel on Famicom.

@Elucidus Ай бұрын

@@alkristopher Yup, and I believe they've translated it - I still need to give that one a go.

@Rhetorical346 Ай бұрын

Little Nemo Dream Master and Puss'n'boots are pretty out there as far as adaptations go. I can't imagine any company today picking a comic that ended 60 years ago to base a game on. Puss'n'boots was similarly a very old story that no kid was likely to know at the time.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

I guess there was a Nemo movie around that time? I never saw it. Puss N Boots though, outside of Japan no-one is getting that reference.

@Rhetorical346 Ай бұрын

@@BigOleWords didn't even know there was a movie, but I am a fan of old comics. That makes way more sense they'd release a game like Little Nemo along with a movie. I actually had that game as a kid, but I was probably too young to see the movie.

@JoelDechant Ай бұрын

I loved the first Golgo 13 NES game, but had no idea until I moved to japan that it was based on a manga that began publication in 1968 and is still going!

@BigOleWords 29 күн бұрын

Right?! I had no idea!

@MicBain Ай бұрын

Thunderbirds was still popular in Australia during the 80s haha. Also I had the Defenders of Dynatron City comics, they were pretty good!

@Djwunmoshen Ай бұрын

Every morning when I get up, I yell at the top of my voice at 6am “Check This Shit Owwwwweeeeeetttaa!” Payback for the horrible neighbors in my building that keeps me up at night….

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Get em!

@andrewdowell6474 Ай бұрын

Maybe it's weird, but as a kid, it was always exciting to see a NES cart with a new label I wasn't familiar with. This video makes me realize that hasn't changed for me.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Same, and there’s still ones I haven’t seen in person!

@goatbone Ай бұрын

Had no idea Ghost Lion was based on a film. I would love to know the process involved to have a game like Stanley made. I have a very small connection to Dr Livingstone, my great grandfather was adopted into a family who were his descendants. And for the record I learned the 'Dr Livingstone I presume' line from Sesame Street.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Maybe that's where I'm remembering it from. I recorded the Bugs Bunny reference and then had trouble finding a cartoon to support it, but I did find a Sesame Street clip!

@brianspain763 Ай бұрын

Remote control was super fun. I loved that

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Yeah me too

@NS-rp1wg Ай бұрын

Phantom Fighter!!! My mom got me this one and it confounded me as a kid. Ahhh, memories.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Nice!

@dougawesomecities Ай бұрын

That's a fantastic shirt. Also first time i noticed the chess clock! Great video man

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

That is my elementary school chess clock. I don’t think I’ve used it since then!

@Glitchedsoulsborne Ай бұрын

Just subbed a day or two ago. Ive been lovin the content! Thanks for the uploads. I can enjoy these videos and a beer before bed! Much appreciated!

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Awesome, glad you dig it :)

@belstar1128 Ай бұрын

3:05 they had a lot of reruns of that show in the 90s were i live it aged well compared to some other 1960s shows

@TheSlashTraxNetwork Ай бұрын

Duuuuude wicked drawing thank you!!! Great video as always, retro gaming is atill my favorite. Nes/snes/64

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Awesome man, glad you like it!

@aaronko3480 Ай бұрын

Love learning more about incredibly obscure games I’m sure I played but not sure actually existed. I played Phantom Fighter back in the day, had no idea it was based on an even more obscure movie. Now that I know it was based on a comedy it makes a lot more sense now. Well, as much sense as any other licensed game back then.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Yeah there is some comedy aspects to Phantom Fighter for sure

@kylelee3576 Ай бұрын

Oh man, so many strange NES games, love seeing you highlight some!

@itsmerickv Ай бұрын

Good ol' Dr. Chaos is rumored that it was originally supposed to be a game version of House.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

No!!!! That can’t be true!!!

@Jshsprngr Ай бұрын

Mad props to that fire KIT! Wow!

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Right? I could resist!

@RaposaCadela Ай бұрын

Very interesting, some games I never knew were licenses, and others I never even knew about!

@billyschwartz3586 Ай бұрын

I mentioned Thunderbirds in the comments section to one of your videos a while back. I doubt you remember, but I'm happy to see you cover it today! Damn you are thorough!!

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Do you remember which video? It’s definitely a game I’ll review at some point

@HaydenTheHistorian Ай бұрын

Fist of the North Star on NES always confused me. As you mentioned in this video, many Japanese properties had their license completely removed when being put on the NES. Not only does Fist of the North Star retain its license, it also retains its original art style, something I don't think any other Japanese property had when brought over. It's a very violent series where people's heads explode and that violence is kept in the game.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Yeah that was a strange one.

@wildkinraccoon37 Ай бұрын

Thunderbirds was one of those shows that got repeated a LOT in the 80's (along with Stingray and Captain Scarlett)in the UK and most likely other places too so it's really not that big a surprise they made a game of it for the NES (Hell there was even a top 10 single using samples from the show in the UK)

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

But still odd that it wasn't released in any PAL countries, only in North America where it wasn't a big deal in the 80s.

@Nick-up5wv Ай бұрын

No lie. I thought the guy on the jungle cover was AVGN. Anyway cool video. Looking forward to more.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Oddly enough that comes up whenever I mention Stanley. I can see it!

@mymoviesbetter8466 Ай бұрын

Love the classic 90s footy shirt

@mymoviesbetter8466 Ай бұрын

Serie A particularly had great 90s unis, I have AC and Inter as well

@Chadleyization Ай бұрын

If you like that Fiorentina jersey sponsored by Nintendo, you might also go for the Sevilla FC jersey from 1992

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Oh damn! I think I have to have that Maradona Jersey!

@BurnRoddy Ай бұрын

The Legend of Prince Valiant based on the cartoon of the same name.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

It's definitely up there!

@christianhunt7382 Ай бұрын

Another banger! Thanks James!

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

You got it!

@Sweetestsadist Ай бұрын

Always love seeing "Tina Yothers" Ghost Lion art. Also, The Gilligan's Island game is the biggest "Why?" license I can think of. An outdated sitcom with no real action premise. As far as ibscure, I'd say the Puss in Boots game based on the Toei film that gave them their mascot. It was probably huge in Japan, but pretty unknown here. I'm glad they ported it, though. Always had a bit of a soft spot for that one.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Puss N Boots is definitely a contender I thought about for this one. Gilligan I think will make the part two

@RoninCatholic Ай бұрын

Unlike the 2010 and 2020s, people didn't expect pop culture things to vanish after only a couple years off the air. Giligan's Island, I Love Lucy, Leave It to Beaver, The Honeymooners, and many other "outdated" or long since defunct properties were still considered ubiquitous household names up through the 80s and 90s, even with limited reruns or home video releases. Consider how The Flintstones also had game adaptations. It was also a sitcom from a bygone decade, its only then-concurrent pop culture presence was being the mascots of a sugary cereal and vitamin tablet, with the game still being based on the original TV cartoon and not its prequel babies variant (because of course there was a "Fred, Barney, Betty, and Wilma as preteens in 80s Bedrock instead of adults in 60s Bedrock" show). The Addams Family also had multiple game adaptations a long while after the show ended, and before its reinvigoration as a brand thanks to the live action movies. Gilligan's Island was only weird to base a game off of due to the lack of action in the premise; its brand recognition was plenty strong at the time to justify the license. The huge glut in the raw _amount of_ pop culture that gets made at all is part of why so much more, proportionally, gets forgotten nowadays (and even in the best of times, you'll only remember maybe the 10% best and 10% worst down the line, standing the test of time in one way or another).

@The_Badseed Ай бұрын

Thunderbirds needed the song: 'Merica F**K YEA!!!

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Freedom is the only fucking way yeah!

@Dug88 Ай бұрын

I had Defenders of Dynatron City when I was a kid. It was not a game I played very often.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

For real? I think if I owned it as a kid I would’ve dug it

@Dug88 Ай бұрын

@@BigOleWords I liked the idea of it. I did play it but I could never get past the first area because of the time limit and I couldn't really figure out what I was supposed to be doing.

@Gui.Vieira_ Ай бұрын

Thunderbirds were pretty popular in Brazil in the 80's and 90's. and even tho we didn't have the official NES, we had the Gradiente Phantom System(It was a NES clone), which all these companies officially released games for. And people say it was called "Phantom System" because it came with the Ghostbusters cartridge (these were officially licensed).

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Love the sound of that

@mattihp Ай бұрын

Great vid! 6:20 a rumour said that some Fox exec LOVED Zen but could not get the license and instead tried to make Deadpool into Zen.

@rhyspatterson679 11 күн бұрын

Thank you for adding the clam soup stage of three stooges that still lives rent free in my head from my child hood. When I rented just about everything else at our mom and pop video store to play I picked that up and….it became my dark souls for awhile and I can’t tell you why. Maybe because I was a nes kid and so many games were easy this weird title just confounded me enough I rented a few more times for like 2 bucks each. Aside from final fantasy I think it got the most rentals out of me

@garyhall7867 Ай бұрын

The Japanese version of Tom Sawyer (or maybe it was Huckleberry Finn, can't remember which, it was downloaded to my mini) had the most racist caricature of a black person I've ever seen. It made my coworkers, most of whom are black guys, laugh their asses off.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

The one made by Square!

@RoninCatholic Ай бұрын

In the early 2000s, I used to hang out in indie game dev forums and there was one black developer who used that sprite as his avatar because _he_ thought it was funny too. Nowadays he's part of the perpetually offended mob and fun police instead. Same jerk, different internet culture.

@narm_greyrunner Ай бұрын

I learned from James Rolfe the AVGN that Frankenstein is the name of the doctor, not the monster.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

That’s a classic “well actually”. Like I remember Alex Trebek correcting someone on Jeopardy in the smuggest way posssible!

@RockSoup Ай бұрын

The Monster is Frankenstein's son, which makes him a Frankenstein.

@Dunsparce206 Ай бұрын

@@RockSoup The Monster's name is Adam in the original book

@RockSoup Ай бұрын

@@Dunsparce206 You know Frankenstein is a surname, right?

@AyumuNarumi75 Ай бұрын

You never seen the Monster Squad? I'm pretty sure that's one of the questions they asked somebody who wanted to join their club. Now thinking about it. I wonder why that never got a licensed game. A squad of kids fighting against classic monsters seems like a cool game idea.

@TrevorAWilliams Ай бұрын

Great video and I love the Fiorentina shirt, I have one myself!

@demgreens Ай бұрын

Interesting that you brought up Zen the Intergalactic Ninja. I ran into the creator at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle and brought up the NES game. I think he said that Konami approached Archie Comics about potential properties to make into games - Don't quote me on this as I didn't write anything down.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

No way! That’s super cool

@japanesehercules Ай бұрын

I actually like Legend of Ghost Lion. It may not be a Top 5 NES RPG but it certainly falls in the Top 10

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Agreed!

@robintst Ай бұрын

I used to play that Three Stooges game on my brother's Amiga 500 a lot. Seems like a lot of people have a sour opinion of it these days, even with the NES port, but I've always enjoyed it. It's an acquired taste.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

It drives me nuts that’s for sure!

@shipped_my_pants_3000 Ай бұрын

I had a lot of fun with phantom fighter back in the day renting it from the video store. There's definitely a huge difficulty curve on it though

@LynceusGlaciermaw Ай бұрын

Stanley and the Search for Dr. Livingstone was a very odd and rough-looking game but it also did have a strange draw to it. I first saw it played here on KZfaq by DeceasedCrab. Definitely one of the more interesting and unique NES entries, it felt like it had potential as a serious adventure. Another interesting title - don’t know if it was licensed from something or not - was Clash at Demon Head. Similar adventure exploration vibe.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

That’s definitely how it seems to me. I need to buckle down and really play it

@SwannyTheMike Ай бұрын

I live for weird tie-ins and licensed games!

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

I like it!

@Se7enBeatleofDoom Ай бұрын

Platoon on NES is the first video game I recall having a morality system. Shooting innocent villages will get you a court martial game over.

@ralphmerridew Ай бұрын

According to Wikipedia, Ultima IV (1985) on non-NES preceded Platoon (1987), but NES Ultima IV didn't appear until 1990.

@shipped_my_pants_3000 Ай бұрын

I want to say adventures of rad gravity but, that game is so weird that nobody ever did anything so weird before or since and it's an island of its own

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Is that based on something?

@shipped_my_pants_3000 Ай бұрын

@@BigOleWords I don't think it is, that's why it won't fit. But it's definitely one of the weirdest on the system

@roytherocketparsons9096 Ай бұрын

I enjoy your positivity and light hearted clever jokes

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Hey thanks so much!

@HylianFox3 Ай бұрын

_Beyond the Pyramids: Legend of the White Lion_ is definitely MST3k/RiffTrax material

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Oh for sure, prime material right there

@BonesawIsReady Ай бұрын

Wow, some really interesting games here.

@DivineSmooof Ай бұрын

I don't know your recording setup, but I use a powered composite splitter to send one signal to my TV and another to my capture card. No lag introduced so light gun games work perfectly.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

It’s the CRT or lack thereof that’s causing the issue. I just don’t have one working right now

@Ruudos Ай бұрын

Thunderbirds was pretty popular here in Europe. My cousin used to watch the show and had lots of toys and this was all in the early to mid 90s. However the game was never released over here.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Weird that y’all didn’t get it but we did

@jefflindquist6138 Ай бұрын

Cool game coverage !!! 🙂

@JaceyMitchell Ай бұрын

Believe it or not, the world of licensed games gets even weirder once you start delving into the world of the 80s microcomputers that were popular in the UK and Europe, like the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and the Amiga. Stuff like the Eastenders game, based a long-running British soap opera. Would be kinda similar to the NES having an "All My Children" video game in 1988. 😂 Then again, I do believe the US got an All My Children tabletop RPG by the creators of Dungeons & Dragons in the 80s. That's pretty weird too. 😂 That Three Stooges game...hoo-boy, it really took a long time for games based around mini-games to get good. Mario Party it is not.

@JaceyMitchell Ай бұрын

I love Zen the Intergalactic Ninja though. Really interesting late-era NES release. And the Game Boy game was pretty good too. And thank you for mentioning Rollergames. Really fun game! The term hidden gem has been beaten to death, but that's definitely an underrated game in my opinion. Legend of Ghost Lion is a much better game than the property it was based on deserved. That's a refreshing change of pace for a licensed game though, usually it's the other way around. 😆

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

What?!? No way!

@carn9507 Ай бұрын

there was a 'Neighbours' game too based on the also long-running soap opera, made in Australia but popular in Britain. :)

@carn9507 Ай бұрын

come to think of it, it's crazy there were computer games of BBC shows like Eastenders and Grange Hill but NONE for Red Dwarf, the popular sci-fi sitcom, especially given how beloved it was (and still is) by computer nerds. You'd think a game of it would be an absolute certainty (especially when the show itself revamped a bit from series 3 and had action scenes more often, you could imagine a typical platform shooter with Lister armed with a bazookoid having to take out GELFS, perhaps with Kryten hacking computer systems, Cat sniffing out clues and trails and Rimmer able to go through walls and so on) but nope. Missed opportunity.

@Filthnails Ай бұрын

I had no idea Ghost Lion was based on anything.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

It fooled me until now!

@FarmerSlideJoeBob Ай бұрын

The NES era was wild🤔😆

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Yes it was!

@Mrshoujo Ай бұрын

Akira was a world wide hit movie. It's legendary even outside of Japan

@HylianFox3 Ай бұрын

Yeah, 'Akira' was perhaps the first major hit that made anime popular in the US aside from more kiddie fare like 'Speed Racer'

@carn9507 Ай бұрын

Yeah, first saw Akira in the very early 90s as one of the first VHS releases from Manga Video and it blew me away. And even today it's one of my fave movies. And the animation still looks gorgeous.

@Dracalis Ай бұрын

9:52 In French, when you've got an apostrophe that makes a compound word, you don't need to pronounce it with a glottal stop. "Le empereur", because of its back-to-back vowels, becomes "l'empereur" and is pronounced like "lempereur". Nice selection! I hope you get around to that Stanley review someday.

@DadRacer 8 күн бұрын

Great topic! One weird one that comes to mind is Death Race, although it’s unlicensed. Maybe check it out! Take care dude!

@BigOleWords 7 күн бұрын

I love that movie, used to watch it all the time in college!

@DadRacer 7 күн бұрын

@@BigOleWords It's brutal!

@Dorelaxen Ай бұрын

There was that weird Photon game for the Famicom. You know, based off the (actual first) laser tag game from the 80's? That had a super shitty TV show (which I love, though) where all the characters looked incredibly goofy lumbering around in moon boots and obviously plastic "armor". It's a bit of an odd duck, since there is no Zapper support. You know, a game ALL ABOUT using a laser gun to zap other players doesn't use the damn Zapper.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

That sounds like a whole mess of confusing awesomeness.

@SoulforSale Ай бұрын

I wish they made Mork (from Ork)

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Not too late!

@frankf684 Ай бұрын

Nice fiorentina kit

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Oh yeah!

@yellowblanka6058 Ай бұрын

Unrelated to the content of the video, but I cracked up at your use of the "Jeepers Creepers" Mr. Show audio in your intro. Weird to think of NES games based on very violent/profane movies like Robocop (definitely NOT something kids should be viewing, though obviously many did) being marketed to children. Ditto toys based on said movies.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Yeah I almost included an R rated one I this video but opted not too. There’s almost too many ultra violent ones to choose from

@EpicLebaneseNerd Ай бұрын

i need to say 1 thing: i love how Overt this guy is, i mean why not ? what is so bad about showing up in ur videos ? of course most will indeed know i am talking about a couple of other great nintendo youtubers that for some reason, choose to remain covert, but i think they showed their faces a couple of times, but not enough for me to remember if they did or not. anw, the dude is pleasing to the eyes, and i like to have a face to go with the voice, he has a very charming voice also. I say it as a fellow small content creator, i am not much to look at, but when i started showing up in my videos, people started warming up to the channel and i got more subs at the time. anw, amazing ep as always, really a great treat to see a new video.

@HylianFox3 Ай бұрын

If you've got it, flaunt it.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Damn player that is very kind of you to say!

@EpicLebaneseNerd Ай бұрын

@@BigOleWords we give credit where credit is due, love ur videos.

@gianlucasighinolfi7095 Ай бұрын

That is AVGN hiding in the jungle on the cover!! He made it on the cover of a nes game!!!

@TheBathrobeWizard Ай бұрын

I played Stanley a bunch as a kid for some reason. I dont know why i obsessed over it. It was fun but i remember beating it and going 'Cool' and then promptly forgot about it for 15 years. Discovered it in a defunct rom site and started playing again. Its a Bad story in a quirky but fun game

@Elucidus Ай бұрын

Playing Gotcha! as a kid, I had pretty much no idea it was a game about paintball, let alone an adaptation of a movie. I just assumed it was another Operation Wolf style game. Does the movie have this paintball fight on the mean streets, shooting generic mohawk thugs?

@gitgeronimo9375 Ай бұрын

The video game was based on the Gotcha! The Sport guns advertised by Jim McMahon, not the movie. Big Ole Words got his “facts” way wrong in this one. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e76AdZNlyKnOk4E.htmlsi=PqSn6EoNJlHD0Oem

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Actually, it kinda does!

@whitewolf3051 Ай бұрын

BigOleWords, could you review the NES game Magician that you briefly mentioned in your James Bond Jr video? I missed on the chance to get it, and it being a side scrolling RPG, *possibly* the first of its kind, it looked interesting. *Hopefully* it either gets a re master for the modern system, or be re-released on NSO.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

It’s on my list!

@jiminboo Ай бұрын

Cheetahmen! It’s the TMNT wannabe that never was… maybe a video on TMNT clones for NES ? 😂

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

There are a ton! I’d have to extend that to the 16bit era though

@user-lj2my3vb3u Ай бұрын

Rescue The Embasy

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Wait was that based on something?!

@detectingretro6313 Ай бұрын

Class Fiorentina shirt 👏🏻

@Riz2336 Ай бұрын

I’m guessing some of these were for more adult gamers since the kids wouldn’t have a clue what they are

@bostonrailfan2427 Ай бұрын

Buck O’Hare, obscure? wasn’t obscure then, it was everywhere for two years but faded when then there Power Rangers killed many popular franchises And Thunderbirds was around for years by then but still heavily shown on TV…it was huge in the UK and Commonwealth countries so would be exactly the kind of show adapted for the system

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

I mean one season of a cartoon, six issues of a comic, and a toy line that only lasted one year? If you remember it Bucky may not seem obscure but to me it makes just as much sense as the Widget, Fox’s Peter Pan and the Pirates, and Fun House NES games.

@bostonrailfan2427 Ай бұрын

@@BigOleWords understood: you were too young or never saw it…meanwhile it was hugely popular for two years

@carlcouture1023 Ай бұрын

Toxic Crusaders is pretty weird. Someone made a Troma movie into a TMNT knockoff and made a video game based on that. We could also talk about how a trashy horror novel spawned one of the biggest JRPG franchises of all time.

@nivaldowesley666 Ай бұрын

well, i aways wonder why the legend of ghost lion have the carla perez in the cover... here is why! 😅

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

I still have no idea why. The character on the game and movie is a preteen girl!

@lt7114 Ай бұрын

Like the Jeepers Creepers reference

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Oh yeah!

@carn9507 Ай бұрын

jeepers creepers? hopefully not the film series by convicted p*** victor salva.

@GermanPeter Ай бұрын

It always baffles me when I see an old NES game that does something you'd only see being done today. Like, look at that angled enemy sprite at 9:15. That's so lame and lazy! If you did that in your Game Maker retro-inspired game these days, you'd get called for it IMMEDIATELY! And yet, there it is, about 20 years earlier. It's fascinating.

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Hahaha you know, I never really noticed that!

@SylentEcho Ай бұрын

Lone Ranger is fkn dope!

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Yeah it is!

@stinkbanana2522 Ай бұрын

I like your videos, I just wish they were a bit longer. Algo would too most likely, but keep up the good work

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Which is funny because these feel like (and take) an eternity! I'm not sure I could go much longer and keep my sanity.

@stinkbanana2522 Ай бұрын

@@BigOleWords don't blame you there one bit lol I know these are a ton of work to edit.

@doordashdriver Ай бұрын

wasn't gotcha a toy line as well? similar to laser tag?

@lughnagh Ай бұрын

Came here to say this! It was a "paintball" game that fired these plastic slugs with colored gel on them. The gel was water soluble and supposedly didn't stain, and the slugs didn't fire as fast as an actual paintball gun, but they stung when they hit you. I never played, but as a kid who was constantly bullied in the 80s, I was shot with these on a few occasions.

@mightyfilm Ай бұрын

I always assumed the game was a tie-in to the toy line more so than the movie. Especially since I didn't know of the movie until I was older. Though I don't quite know if the movie came first and they licensed it out as a toy or the movie was part of a multimedia publicity blitz.

@GimpyDingo Ай бұрын

The NES ge is based on the toys which are based on the movie which is based on a game played on some college campuses. Confusing.

@michaelturner2806 Ай бұрын

I didn't know about the movie until watching this! I thought the toys were original, and ceased super suddenly along with all the other toy guns.

@mightyfilm Ай бұрын

@@michaelturner2806 I get the feeling parents REALLY didn't want their kids playing with big, staining blobs of paint. You know kids. Someone's going to play inside despite the fact they shouldn't and ruin all the furniture.

@Dwedit Ай бұрын

Circus Caper (a very boring and generic NES game) is actually completely different in Japan. In Japan, it's based on an Anime/Manga licensed property called "Moeru! Onii-san".

@BigOleWords Ай бұрын

Whoa cool!