Top Ten Neglected NES Games?

rvcontre78rvcontre78 Registered User regular
edited September 2008 in Games and Technology
Am I on the right track here? Do you guys think this is a good neglected game? I've got a finished list in my head but I'm starting to wonder if games like Crystalis and Zanac really count as neglected. I mean how many people here that played NES games in the 80's didn't have Crystalis. Even though it didn't seem hugely successful at the time it also seems like everyone loves it!


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  • TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Neglected as in unappreciated, or neglected as in not-talked-about-enough but still respected when they ARE mentioned?

    Examples include:
    Cobra Triangle
    Kid Icarus
    Cybernoid
    Rush 'n Attack
    Rygar
    Gumshoe

    Hell, I could probably list fifty. That's a little scary.

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Wh... why aren't you working on Crane Operator?

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  • rvcontre78rvcontre78 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Taramoor wrote: »
    Neglected as in unappreciated, or neglected as in not-talked-about-enough but still respected when they ARE mentioned?

    Examples include:
    Cobra Triangle
    Kid Icarus
    Cybernoid
    Rush 'n Attack
    Rygar
    Gumshoe

    Hell, I could probably list fifty. That's a little scary.

    Maybe as in not talked about enough. I instinctively would put Kid Icarus and Cobra Triangle in different categories. I think people loved Kid Icarus back then and they still love it now but Cobra Triangle, I feel like it wasn't that respected back then and even now people are surprised to hear that it's a Rare game.

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  • EshEsh Tending bar. FFXIV. Motorcycles. Portland, ORRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    This smells kinda like a poll thread...

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  • rvcontre78rvcontre78 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Raslin wrote: »
    Wh... why aren't you working on Crane Operator?

    Ha! I really wish I were! If there were a way to work on it (game, web comic, refrigeration) that made me totally excited about the concept than I would! It's funny though I'll still get comments about CO (like yours) that are encouraging (maybe in jest but still good natured) and then also complete hate! Obviously people will have differing views but to hate me for it? To me it seems like trivial enough of a thing to either like of be indifferent to it. I didn't think it would have the ability to offend anyone! : P

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  • rvcontre78rvcontre78 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Esh wrote: »
    This smells kinda like a poll thread...

    I agree the thread may seem iffy but it's more a question of what an underrated or neglected game might be. I think the NES was pretty well suited to having neglected games just due to the gaming atmosphere at the time and Nintendo's particular marketing choices but when you start making a Top Ten list of them... are you moving out of the realm of neglected? I'll use the Crystalis example again. If everyone loved it why didn't it do well or seem to make a huge impact when it was released?

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  • MonstyMonsty Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Off the top of my head, I want to say Faxanadu. Side-scrolling adventure "RPG" of sorts. Get weapons, armor, magic, and work your way to the Evil Place to kill...uhh...I'm sure it's something like the Evil One. I rather enjoy it but never hear too much about it. Look it up!

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  • Zilla360Zilla360 21st Century. |She/Her| Trans* Woman In Aviators Firing A Bazooka. ⚛️Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Monsty wrote: »
    Off the top of my head, I want to say Faxanadu. Side-scrolling adventure "RPG" of sorts. Get weapons, armor, magic, and work your way to the Evil Place to kill...uhh...I'm sure it's something like the Evil One. I rather enjoy it but never hear too much about it. Look it up!
    Damn Faxanadu, I'd play for hours then the mantra's never worked! :lol:

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  • WoodroezWoodroez Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Esh wrote: »
    This smells kinda like a poll thread...

    I would say a thread that's purpose is, in part, to introduce good games that ought to be checked out is a thread worth having.

    That said, here's a good game that ought to be checked out...

    Guardian Legend - Released by Broderbund

    You are the Guardian Legend, a female cyborg who can turn into a spaceship.

    The gameplay mixes verticle shoot 'em up sequences with a zelda-like overworld as you try to destroy a hostile planet/spaceship before it arrives to Earth. The shoot em up sequences are pretty hard by non-bullet hell standards, and the action-adventure map is huge.

    Along the way you'll collect a pretty wide assortment of weapons, including frag grenades and a double-bladed lightsaber. Really.

    And it's got some pretty bitching music to boot.

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  • RichardTauberRichardTauber Kvlt Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Speaking of NES games that sucked, I've desperately been trying to find this really awful JRPG that I saw on some page. It looked sort of like Dragon Warrior except it was legendary for its buggy shitty engine.

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  • CygnusZCygnusZ Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I don't think you're really on the right track for a few reasons.

    1) The games you're posting are fairly well known. For those of us with nostalgia for the NES, we've played most of those games already.

    2) The games aren't really that good. I remember Spy vs. Spy as sucking pretty hard. Pro Wrestling was shallow. Zaniac was just plain dissapointing compared to its graphically superior brethern.

    3) This retro-review stuff has been done to death. Honestly, AVN reviews came about because people are sick of "normal" reviews. And he remain popular largely because of how much creativity and work goes into each and every review (let's face it, he'd rather be making movies).

    Neglected games is a cool idea, but show us really awesome games that we, and by this I mean people that actually grew up with the NES, never played. Prototypes, fan-made games, games with extremely limited production runs etc. And when you actually shoot the video, make sure that you make something that is interesting, unique and memorable. As it stands, I don't think your videos really leave much of an impression at all on the viewers.

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  • GanluanGanluan Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Speaking of NES games that sucked, I've desperately been trying to find this really awful JRPG that I saw on some page. It looked sort of like Dragon Warrior except it was legendary for its buggy shitty engine.

    Hydlide?

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  • RedMageDarionRedMageDarion Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Woodroez wrote: »
    Guardian Legend - Released by Broderbund
    This.

    This game is so great.

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Gurilla Warfare I think was the game title. Such a great game, but I never hear it get mentioned.

    Also, I can't remember the name, but it had the word 'Tengen' printed on the cartridge and you were some kind of spy perhaps that .... shot people.

    a lot.

    great game too.

    edit: the game was called Rolling Thunder.

    so good.

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  • apotheosapotheos Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    rvcontre78 wrote: »
    I agree the thread may seem iffy but it's more a question of what an underrated or neglected game might be.

    So did you make this YouTube video in the original post?

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  • ViscountalphaViscountalpha The pen is mightier than the sword http://youtu.be/G_sBOsh-vyIRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Speaking of NES games that sucked, I've desperately been trying to find this really awful JRPG that I saw on some page. It looked sort of like Dragon Warrior except it was legendary for its buggy shitty engine.


    That sounds like an interesting game. Was it in an odd looking cartridge form? Some of the bootlegs had hideously buggy code. Master fu and drunken wu is a perfect example of one of the worse nes games ever.

    There is one game I rarely hear people talk about. Zombie nation. Some people hate this game but I think its mis-understood. A disembodied samurai head goes after a legendary sword by spitting bullets and saving stick figures. The sound is not so good and the music kinda sucks but its fun up until the 2nd boss.

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  • wusoldjrwusoldjr Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I vote for Iron Tank.

    That game was awesome. You could combine different power-ups to create types of ammo. But when I talk to people about NES games, not a lot of people have heard of it. Easily on of my favorite games of the time.

    Legend of Kage is another one. Jumping from trees and hacking up ninjas in mid air, that game was really fun.

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  • ChalkbotChalkbot Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I spent a butt-ton of hours in M.U.L.E. and North and South.

    Those were my favorite NES games.

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  • ZellZell Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Little Samson. I'm agreeing with this being a poll thread also.

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  • wusoldjrwusoldjr Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Chalkbot wrote: »
    I spent a butt-ton of hours in M.U.L.E. and North and South.

    Those were my favorite NES games.

    +1 for North and South. Absolutely loved that game, I still play it on my Nesticle.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    So I watched that YouTube video and definitely realized I missed out on something. I also forgot there was an XBox / PS2 release of a Spy vs. Spy game. Disappointed to find out it deviated from the original.

    I think Spy vs. Spy could be brought back in a very dynamic way if they followed the same formula as the first for the NES. It'd be the ultimate vs. mode kind of game. But anyway.

    This thread is a poll thread because of the "top ten" bit. Then again, if that video is any indiction, I think the OP intends to show us some sort of countdown from an actual Top Ten Neglected list (which isn't a poll thread at all). And if that isn't the case, removing the "top ten" bit from this thread means we can just discuss them openly. There are neglected games out there.

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  • SaddlerSaddler Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    There are so many NES games that are sort of forgotten. Kid Icarus would be a bad example, since it is the first one that comes up every time there's speculation about Nintendo's next move.

    I'd say to be neglected it would have to a) not have any well known modern sequels or remakes and b) not be constantly recognized for whatever reason.

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  • h8b1llg8tsh8b1llg8ts Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Goonies II and Pro Wrestling ... I wake up every Monday morning early just to double check my Wii for those two games ...

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  • AresProphetAresProphet Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Xaquin wrote: »
    Gurilla Warfare I think was the game title. Such a great game, but I never hear it get mentioned.

    Also, I can't remember the name, but it had the word 'Tengen' printed on the cartridge and you were some kind of spy perhaps that .... shot people.

    a lot.

    great game too.

    edit: the game was called Rolling Thunder.

    so good.

    Holy shit. That was the hardest game ever. Like 50 levels and you had only 2 lives and 2 continues to do it. One bullet killed you, or two contact hits with enemies did you in too. Also there was an obscene amount of really difficult platforming, and your jumps were limited to (a) a pathetic sort of standing-still crouch jkump (b) a superman-style leap straight into the air with no forward motion (c) a pitfall-style forward jump that was exactly the same every time.

    Fuck that game. It was impossible to beat, especially when you got to enemies that took 4 hits to kill and would duck and jump and almost always hit you before you hit them.
    h8b1llg8ts wrote: »
    Goonies II and Pro Wrestling ... I wake up every Monday morning early just to double check my Wii for those two games ...

    Now the Goonies II, that I can get behind. Fun as hell although it basically gave you zero clues as to what the fuck you were doing and how you needed to do it. But it was pretty creative and interesting.

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  • SlagmireSlagmire Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Good selections so far; and I'd love to see them all hit the VC.

    Iron Tank was a monster and difficult as hell. I remember playing that game in turn with my cousin when we were kids (when we weren't playing RBI Baseball or the like).

    A trio of other titles that I think should be mentioned are The Battle of Olympus (another Borderbund title), Mission Impossible and The Lone Ranger. TBoO was pretty much a Zelda 2 clone using Greek Mythology and it was enjoyable as hell (though I think I still liked Guardian Legend more). Mission Impossible was ungodly hard, but mixed up the action really well with a top-down game where you controlled one of three specialists (one was a weapons guy, another was tech/explosives, the last was disguises), and some of the stages mixed it up with a really cool boat level and a snowmobile level. The Lone Ranger was a fusion of RPG and Shooter (including bits that used the light gun) that came out near the end of the NES's lifespan.

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  • Ah_PookAh_Pook Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    CygnusZ wrote: »
    Zanac was just plain dissapointing compared to its graphically superior brethern.

    i disagree so hard with this. zanac is an all time classic shmup.

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  • KagnarosKagnaros Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Startropics and Startropics 2:Zora's Revenge, I think it is.

    I love those games. And they are good. And fun. And hard.

    Yes yes yes.

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  • Spectral SwallowSpectral Swallow Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    A lot of europian games weren't played by the American public. Ufouria and Adventure Island 4, Legend of the White Lion, Destiny of an Emporer.
    The games you're listing may be 'obscure' to casual gamers, but anybody with any kind of gaming background knows Spy Vs Spy.

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  • HenroidHenroid Mexican kicked from Immigration Thread Centrism is Racism :3Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I don't know how many people have played it or would consider it neglected, but there was a game for the NES called Jackal which had you controlling a jeep. Anyone remember? It had some great music.

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  • AresProphetAresProphet Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Shabutie wrote: »
    Startropics and Startropics 2:Zora's Revenge, I think it is.

    I love those games. And they are good. And fun. And hard.

    Yes yes yes.

    Oh hell yes. There's nothing quite like beating a giant squid to death with a yo-yo.

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  • MC MysteryMC Mystery Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Zoda's Revenge: Startropics II

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  • rvcontre78rvcontre78 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Monsty wrote: »
    Off the top of my head, I want to say Faxanadu. Side-scrolling adventure "RPG" of sorts. Get weapons, armor, magic, and work your way to the Evil Place to kill...uhh...I'm sure it's something like the Evil One. I rather enjoy it but never hear too much about it. Look it up!

    Faxanadu, yeah, that definitely is a great game. I really wonder why it never became a franchise!

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  • KagnarosKagnaros Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    MC Mystery wrote: »
    Zoda's Revenge: Startropics II

    That's what it was, thank you.

    I had bought both of them for NES a couple years back and played them and they were still just as good as they were 10+ years ago.

    Nostalgia... <3

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  • rvcontre78rvcontre78 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    CygnusZ wrote: »
    I don't think you're really on the right track for a few reasons.

    1) The games you're posting are fairly well known. For those of us with nostalgia for the NES, we've played most of those games already.

    2) The games aren't really that good. I remember Spy vs. Spy as sucking pretty hard. Pro Wrestling was shallow. Zaniac was just plain dissapointing compared to its graphically superior brethern.

    3) This retro-review stuff has been done to death. Honestly, AVN reviews came about because people are sick of "normal" reviews. And he remain popular largely because of how much creativity and work goes into each and every review (let's face it, he'd rather be making movies).

    Neglected games is a cool idea, but show us really awesome games that we, and by this I mean people that actually grew up with the NES, never played. Prototypes, fan-made games, games with extremely limited production runs etc. And when you actually shoot the video, make sure that you make something that is interesting, unique and memorable. As it stands, I don't think your videos really leave much of an impression at all on the viewers.

    Oh! I really like the idea of fan-made games and prototypes. That's definitely interesting. If I had more time I would do that. It might take a long, long, long time to really come up with the experience to make that judgement though is the only issue I see with that.

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  • apotheosapotheos Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited June 2008
    apotheos wrote: »
    rvcontre78 wrote: »
    I agree the thread may seem iffy but it's more a question of what an underrated or neglected game might be.

    So did you make this YouTube video in the original post?

    Inquiring mods want to know.

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  • UltrachristUltrachrist Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Was Super Dodgeball neglected? My friends and I played the shit out of it, but I can't remember ever hearing people talk about it much. Team Iceland, Captain Helgi, ohh yeah.

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  • southwicksouthwick Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Taramoor wrote: »
    Neglected as in unappreciated, or neglected as in not-talked-about-enough but still respected when they ARE mentioned?

    Examples include:
    Cobra Triangle
    Kid Icarus
    Cybernoid
    Rush 'n Attack
    Rygar
    Gumshoe

    Hell, I could probably list fifty. That's a little scary.

    Cybernoid should stay neglected as in it-should-never-be-played-by-anyone.

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  • TelMarineTelMarine Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Cobra Triangle isn't that great and it is extremely hard to boot (not too surprised, RARE NES game). I almost beat it once, got to the final boss, but it kills you in one hit, fucking lame.

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  • rvcontre78rvcontre78 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    apotheos wrote: »
    apotheos wrote: »
    rvcontre78 wrote: »
    I agree the thread may seem iffy but it's more a question of what an underrated or neglected game might be.

    So did you make this YouTube video in the original post?

    Inquiring mods want to know.

    Oh yeah, I did make the video. Is that a problem? I can put a random YouTube video with a random neglected game if that's a problem. I just figured I put something up that I enjoyed making that I thought people here would like. Not some AVGN ripoff. : )

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  • rvcontre78rvcontre78 Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Was Super Dodgeball neglected? My friends and I played the shit out of it, but I can't remember ever hearing people talk about it much. Team Iceland, Captain Helgi, ohh yeah.

    See? That's a good question! I haven't found the sales numbers of NES games so I'm basically going by games that people don't talk about much or had mounds of sequels but that I still really enjoyed. Super Dodgeball was definitely a great game. Did it sell well? I've no idea! : )

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