Strange Secrets Hidden in NES Games (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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I promise this is the last time I'll bring up the bizarre code combos of Castle of Dragon and Dragon Spirit....maybe ;)
Nope. Unacceptable. This is the quality I subbed for
Dragon Spirit doesn't get brought up nearly often enough for my liking.
Dammit, no, haha; give us plebs what we want! 😂
And what we want is pixel tits and upskirts.
Ok my guy I have a code for you.
For Mega Man X on the Super Nintendo, during the Capcom logo , if you input:
Down, R, Up, L,Y,B
You get a chime.
I found this as a kid, but never figured out what it did.
Perhaps you can figure it out
I love how everybody thought controlling the ducks with controller 2 was some big "secret", except me, because I was apparently the only kid in the history of gaming who ever actually read an instruction manual.
Same
"What you all came for, the pervy stuff"
How dare you so correctly call me out like that.
A comment I read a while ago that still stays with me “Imagine being named Zelda, entering your name, then being frustrated by how difficult the game is”
Right? Like I feel bad for Robin Williams's daughter!
*sees video description* I better see Mr. Swanky in there... 9:34 - Hey I'm in someone's CZcams video now!
Congrats you've finally made it 😂 Actually I was kinda surprised he didn't know who you were.
Thank you for your service 🫡
That punisher joke is perfect
It was also discovered recently (maybe 2 years ago).
“Wait, he’s one of “them”.” My 9 year old, responding to the Punisher’s face getting lit up.
Hahaha
"I'm Here To Chew Gum and Kick Ass... and I'm Allll Outta Gum."
I never knew about how to lower shop prices in Kid Icarus as a kid by pressing A+B on the second controller. I am now doubly mad at their high prices
Didn't know about that one! Neat!
The original way to do it on the Japanese version was to shout into the second controller's microphone... but it won't always work, as some shopkeepers will feel insulted and actually RAISE the prices in response
sometimes the prices go even higher. you have to leave the building and go back if its the boss level before the prices rise and try again.
"This goes from impossible to 'me fail English?' levels of unpossible"
Have I mentioned that I love you?
Gotta sneak in the Simpsons jokes where I can
@@BigOleWords I mean any jackass can make a hackneyed Simpsons reference but your delivery took it to another level.
It goes from impossible to Tohou Proyect!
I'm surprised that topless wedding dress managed to sneak past NOA's censors.
"Knock Me Down! Mr. Swanky says: Beer!" feels like the ultimate nerdy memesauce. Can we please, please make that a thing?
The idea that the Justin Bailey password was some intentional hidden secret was debunked long ago. The only deliberate password is the debug password (NARPAS SWORD0 0000), which bypasses the password decoding and verification process entirely. The Justin Bailey code was likely just someone playing with names who managed to find some combination that not only passed the checksum test, but also happened to set the "Samus wearing swimsuit" bit (which is a regular bit in the password system).
i am checking this shit out right now
Isn't that intro so good haha. I didn't understand what it was until I saw a few of these videos but now it's one of my favourite intros I've ever seen. It's short and there isn't 5 minutes of rambling before it happens. It just immediately get me in the gamer zone
@Stang2023Hell, damn, fart -Bart
Good
@@Justhatguy1 phbbtttsqeeeeeeeek
Yep
I'll remember the Konami code on my death bed. As you knew NES games were really hard. Cheat codes weren't common back then and you couldn't go online to help you with the game. Contra is pretty tough without that code and I remember me and a friend heard about it in 4th grade. After school we both got on the phone, put in the code and he played through his game and I played through mine. We would tell each other where we were and we both reached the final stage at about the same time. Well suddenly I heard my friend cry out and drop the phone. I could hear him freaking out on the verge of tears. His game froze up on him. He was so upset that his mom picked up the phone and told me I had to call him back later. It's difficult to communicate how it felt back then to get close to bearing an NES games you'd been struggling with for months, so emotions ran high if you started to get close.
DAYUM, I feel bad retroactively for your buddy. We've all been there!
I think for gamers a cognitive test will be knowing the Konami code or not because I feel like if you knew it and then forgot it, your brain is on its way out.
If I ever forget the password to the Red Dragon, the final level of the NES version of Strider, then I’ll know I’m in decline
DMCC BGCP CPOD
I haven’t played that game in close to 35 years but I still know that password
Great, now I'll hear the words "robo grindr" in my head every time I see the MM stage select. You'll pay for this.
I strongly suspect that this is going to catch on more widely
Turns out Mega Man was 'Rock' as in Hudson.
Wood Man is always the pick ;)
Don't let bro find out about hard man from mm3
Splash Woman cheated herself into Grindr?
A friend once gave me a code claiming it was to box Luigi in Punch-Out. It was just Don Flamenco.
Eh, close enough
Dude kinda looks like Adam Sandler too
The use Targaryen as an adjective was perfect. In awe
We’re expanding the modern vocabulary with every hit show!
@@BigOleWords that or “stepbrother, what are you doing?
I love this channel so much. It got me through some dark times. I remember telling you about 2 months ago that I was going through a dark period in my life. Things have gotten better and I see light at the end of the tunnel. Thanks for helping escape, once in a while.
Punisher's face needs to be someone's profile pic 😂
Done and done.
@@MiTBender knew someone would do it!
His job here is done.
Nothing to care about those easter eggs other then being a gimmick in most cases.
Yo
Me fail English? Somebody call Super Nintendo Chalmers!
Haha your icon!!
Here are two small Easter eggs. In Uninvited, there's a phonograph in the game room. If you use it, it plays a slightly distorted version of the Shadowgate theme. Speaking of Shadowgate, once you acquire the flute, if you play it, you can hear a few bars of the Deja Vu theme.
Huh, that’s awesome! I had no idea.
This was awesome, I love these type of videos!
Hey! DGR is here! Was not expecting to see you here
Mr Swanky says "Beer!". Amazing. I'm glad we're still discovering new things from old school NES games.
I still can't believe it.
@6:47 Recca did actually finally come out internationally on the 3DS in 2012
Nice!
Duck Hunt is one of those "hidden in plain sight" things. On page 8 of the instruction manual (or p. 28 of the SMB/DH combo cart manual):
[2 Players:]
Game A can also be played with two players.
* One player is the hunter. The other player controls the ducks horizontally and vertically with the control pad, trying to avoid the hunter's shots until the sky color changes.
do you actually read the manual? 👀
@@nivaldowesley666 Yup. Because I remember it from the manual as well. A friend and I would take turns playing as the duck and the shooter.
@@Syragar cool! i never opened the manuals to read! 😅
i started to appreciate it more as fewer and fewer games came with manuals. i don't reccal any friend who also read the manuals. we just store the game's box or toss away!
Huh! I did not know that, neat!
@@nivaldowesley666 Yeah man, some of us were kids when this game came out and we needed something to read while we were in the bathroom lmao
That Mr. Swanky screen I suspect was both an inside joke AND an error screen while bug testing. I don't know about NES development, but error handling is a part of programming, where you insert hooks for if things go wrong and then can get some information about the kind of error. All speculation on my part.
Huh interesting!
There's no code in the game that will actually load the Mr. Swanky screen, I double checked it. So it's not an error screen.
So it's nonsense or just a game genie thing?@@Dwedit
@@A_Stereotypical_Heretic Probably either an inside joke or a placeholder for something during development.
@@Dwedit dude you are a legend for finding that screen!
1:00 Wow, that cartridge has seen better days.
I know I’m being pedantic but “start” is not part of the Konami code. It’s a pet peeve of mine, I used to argue about it with friends all the time. Some thought there was an extra “B, A”. Some thought “select, start” was part of the code. It’s not. Once you press the A button in the code, it’s automatically entered.
Rant over, great video.
Yep. The Start button is just what you have to press to begin the game and not part of the Konami code itself. If you press "Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A" without pressing Start immediately after, the 30 lives cheat will still be activated. You can test this by waiting for the demo screen to play out. Then when the title screen reappears, press Start to begin the game and you'll still have 30 lives.
You can try the same thing with 2 player mode. Pressing the Select button simply switches between the 1 player and 2 player options on the title screen and doesn't have anything to do with the Konami code.
Also, if you inspect the Contra ROM in a hex editor, it only lists "Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A" as part of the code, and not Start or Select, nor does it list an extra "B, A." CZcamsr "Displaced Gamers" did a video on it.
czcams.com/video/8LnwsYL7Apk/video.html
Love this! So many secrets from back in the day. Made us feel like there were infinite possibilities
9:38 DWedit is actually pretty prolific (to me at least) in the world of understanding the low-level side of games and stuff. I've run into them and their posts a lot over the past 20ish years. They're really awesome. Him and Tepples.
I would assume they came across that easter egg when they were either trying to figure out the game's RNG, or the way that the game handles answer checking.
Awesome. Hes a winner for Family Feud for sure
He's in this comments section as well here and there
@@A_Stereotypical_Heretic what no way! That rules!!
"Robo grindr for your next mechanized hookup" cheesus crust dude, loled at that. (And I'm old enough to remember when MM2 launched. We're about the same age.)
Im 41 and still have the mike tyson code memorized
Easter eggs like the one from Family Feud probably get discovered by playing through the game with a debugger checking code coverage, then analyzing the parts of the rom which never got executed.
Love how that Megaman 2 cart shows the unbridled "love" its given its owner(s).
Yeah I don't know what happened there...
lol Mr Swanky! I’ll take a couple cold ones!
Knock me down!
vodka
6:42 - Those are the katakana characters バキ, romanization baki. It's probably supposed to be a sound effect for a hit or a bunch. Usually sound effects written in manga are in katakana.
I always find it funny how people bring up the 2P controller controlling the ducks in Duck Hunt like it was a secret. It's mentioned right in the manual that came with the Mario/Duck Hunt pack-in lol
But who read the manual?
@@catholiccontriversyfirst off, great username. 2nd, that's a good point. I wasn't playing games until my own childhood in the 2000s, so manuals then were big, glossy, full color things that were begging to be read.
What were manuals like for this game?? Printed on that phone book type paper I'm visualizing
@@ThommyofThenn thanks. They fairly small and were printed on magazine print from what I remember.
@@catholiccontriversy 8:55 me reading the Halo 2 manual :p
@@catholiccontriversy Kids who didn't have a gameboy and had to poop lol
Never thought to use a game genie on family feud lol
Hahah right?! Why would you ever need to?
I haven’t played Mega Man 2 in over thirty years. I still recognize the Crash Man level theme.
A cool tidbit i discovered about the classic Konami cheat code up,up,down, down,... is on the Gradius series. On the NES both Gradius and Life Force(Gradius 2), the code gives You full arsenal capacity and unlimited lives( i think). By the time the 3rd installment in the franchise arrives Gradius 3 on the Super NES, when You pause the screen and put in the code, You self destruct! It was so cool discovering that for the first time!
In Gradius 3 you self destruct because you're supposed to use the L/R buttons to do it.
I think it’s just 30 lives, not unlimited
Also, iirc if you were playing a two-player game and one of you loses a life, the other could recapture an Option as it floats away from the crashed Vic Viper (or Road British, for player 2)
I now want the Mr. Swanky image on a shirt.
That would be dope!
"Hears Mr. Show's 'Jeepers Creeepers Superstar in the intro"
OH that's a sub.
Yessir!
@@BigOleWords I can't wait to see you reach the max of 24 subscribers - the HIGHEST number of them all.
OMG the busy tone in Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! Thought I knew everything about the game as much as anyone other than the developers and the long-time speed-running crew (who taught me all the things I didn't know from playing the everliving shit out of this game from it's release until I could beat the game start to finish without taking a hit. Was 8 when it came out, and when I was 17 I finally mastered it, lol). Awesome stuff, man, thanks!
Sports game Easter eggs:
- Run a reverse play on offense in John Elway’s Quarterback. Get close to the slot back before you pass it; it has to almost be like a handoff. If you time it right, the guy will run about 10x faster than everyone else on screen, easily scoring touchdown after touchdown.
- Use Minnesota in Roger Clemens MVP Baseball. Brian Harper’s game likeness - I believe he is called B. Harpring here - is able to hit a home run every time up if you make sure to pull the ball down the line. I’ve hit 200 home runs with him in a 40 game season (the game starts you in mid-August, only a month and a half of the season).
- Bases Loaded beanball brawl players: Paste, Warner and Oho. Hit them with a pitch and they’ll charge the mound.
Dude those are all awesome. Thanks!
You got some mileage on that "candy corn" shirt
It's actually my soccer shirt. I think I recorded the on camera stuff right after a game :)
Omg “Robo-grinder” haha
+1 for the random GOT reference.
I love the Mr show nod! That just made my day!
I was on the 18th holllleee!
I’m pretty impressed, I’ve watched retro game videos since CZcams was a thing, and other than the MM2 bird code I’ve never seen any of these, shocked at the Punch Out one, can’t believe I’ve never heard that.
The punisher punishing people's nightmares with that face
Just discovered this channel, I love these videos not only because of the topic but also because of the video format, what a refreshing look after all these 16:9 format videos
I prefer 4:3 for NES footage :)
CRASHMAN music goin' hard in the bg!
It never disappoints!
I played the heck out of the Punisher NES game as a kid, and thankfully I never accidentally pressed that button combination...
you could write a whole creepy pasta story based on that hidden face. Would have creeped me out if I accidentally found that playing as a kid.
"Browsing robo grindr for your next mechanized hookup" had me in tears! :D
The weirded NES hidden thing I know of is in the game "Gimmick!", there is a single enemy in the second level that doesn't move or attack like any of the other enemies. Instead it just sits still and does nothing. ...Well, in fact, for whatever reason, this enemy actually responds to player 2's controller. Player 2 can move it left and right, and press A to jump. And that's it. There isn't much to do with it because it can't be taken to the next screen. There is no functionality for player 2's controller anywhere else in the game. There is no 2-player mode or anything.
Very peculiar.
That is amazing, thanks!
Mega Man 2 one: you just need to hold A and press start for the bird background.
Oh cool!
Concerning the discovery of the Game Genie code for the 19th screen for "Family Feud:" the person who discovered that was someone at Codemasters who was paid to. When the idea for the Game Genie was thought up, the only way to generate a list of codes for each game was to methodically try every single combination and note which ones worked and what their results were. Codemasters hired people to do that.
I can't remember a lot of things but I still remember the code to fight Mike Tyson
Interesting subject for an NES video. Wow, that got pervy fast! I like the Family Feud one.
Things always tend to get pervy fast!
I'd never heard of Over Horizon. It looks fabulous!
It rules!
That number still works today
Love the "Mr. Show" Reference....Awesome!!
I was on the 18th hollleee!
I want a NES copy of Days Of Thunder just so I can enter this code at the start screen(copied from TCRF):
At the title screen, when "PRESS START TO PLAY" is displayed, hold A, press B 4 times, release A, hold A, press B one time, release A, hold A, press B 26 times, release A, hold A, press B 5 times, and release A.
OK, now this sounds promising!
That game was also done by Beam Software, the same company who made NES Family Feud. The game could possibly share developers, but I can't confirm that.
Pixel art used to look different due to the CRT scanlines, so I bet the princess was even hotter back then
Such a thing can't be possible!
"never left Japan"
Rekka was officially sold on the Nintendo 3DS back in the day, so TECHNICALLY...
"Hope your love of dragon slaying is equal to your desire for long term commitment"
Bro just attacked the very nature of allegory as we know it hahahaha brilliant
Megaman 3 has some fun things to plsy with if you use controller 2, you can jump super high, freeze everything but megamans mega buster, if you jump down a bottomless hit while using super jump, you achieve undead mode, where you lose your buster, but become invincible (you can use rush jump to shoot) until you pick up power.
😲😁 That was a great code/cheat! … it’s how I beat Mega Man 3 😕😬😂
Please make more of these, love the retro Easter eggs better than todays
I cannot believe this is a real thing!
If Punch-Out was made by Kojima, the phone numbers would have unlocked a secret message, a different version of Mike Tyson, and a playable Metal Gear. lol
I remember those Nintendo Adventure Books and how I considered them mind-blowing high literature back in 5th grade.
Yeah on the playground kids were trading gushers like crazy, but no conversion rate was good enough for the hoarders of the sacred Ring Pop™.
The precious!
God that intro is so cool. Reminds me of old MTV (or adult swim) interstitials.
That's a comparison I love!
Your schoolyard cred is thru the roof!
Finally!
I didnt come here for the pervy stuff
I came here exclusively for Mr. Swanky. Truly legendary, we should all follow Swanky's philosophy
Beer.
Over Horizon and Reka Summer Carnival '92 are games I don't ever remember seeing back in the day, and I made nerdy lists of NES games back then.
They were Japanese only. Recca was pretty obscure because of its origins and late release, but Over Horizon was widely slated for release in the US. Funcoland/Gamestop published its name in their game price lists because it was practically a done deal but Hot-B was on the way to bankruptcy and Nintendo wanted to focus solely on SNES games during the period.
Recca was Japan only. The cartridge I showed is a repro :(. Over Horizon though was released in Europe and Australia, just no North America. Both are AMAZING.
(Mega man 2) THATS HOW YOU DO THAT?! I always thought it was random!
Just want to say i really enjoy your content and have been slowly worming through your whole channel. Keep up the great videos!
That’s awesome :)
The PuncOut number code I figured out as a child… the phone number was printed in the bottom of the NES and was natural to try
That Punisher face one was hilarious. Also was that opening bit from the Jeepers Creepers episode of Mr. Show? Cause if so, very nice!
Yeah it is!
If you ever do a NES shortcuts video, I found a way to bypass one of the harder "swimming from the gears" part of Battletoads when I was a kid and I've never seen it talked about anywhere.
Maybe one day!
One of my favorites is a room in Kirby's Adventure that has "HAL" spelled with star blocks. You can't even get there except with a pretty easy to pull off glitch.
I knew a few of these. Mainly because I read every video game magazine I could get my hands on back in the day. I even kept most of them up until 2019 when I bought my new house.
I love how people still to this day find exotic passwords that work, like the “ENGAGE RIDLEY M***** F*****” one in Metroid.
Can't believe that works
being able to control the ohagi in the second stage of mr gimmick blew my mind when i found that out
Oh word? How do you do that?
there is an ohagi at the bottom level of the ship who does not move. plug in a second controller and you can control it with it
@@HaydenTheHistorian cool!
Great video, and lots of info I never knew before. You earned yourself a new subscriber!
30 minute retrospective on color a dinosaur. This would be prime YT content
Could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure you sold me a coffee once. Awesome video btw!
If it was 15 years ago at Aurora Coffee in Atlanta, then yes!
I like the one in Silent Hill: Shattered Memories where you can call Konami Customer Support on the characters phone. The customer service rep tells you her caller ID says you are calling from within the town of Silent Hill and you are beyond helping
Ive never seen the family feud one before, totally a wtf is this moment 😅 cheers
Yeah it’s a real strange one
9:08 those two guys chilling like an '80s high school girl in the movies. They only need to be gossiping and twirling a phone cord around their finger.
One of my friends' phone numbers took you to the second fight with Piston Honda. None of the rest of us had such luck. Another kid's dad's name was a boring password in Metroid. Nothing like Justin Bailey. What you got was a massive set of missiles and the varia suit.
What no way! That’s amazing!
The “Justin Bailey” code in NES Metroid is not an easter egg, it’s a bug. It gets past the password checksum that checks if a password is valid. NES Metroid does have an easter egg password, NarPas sword” which bypasses the checksum and starts Samus with all of the upgrades as well as infinite health and missile ammo.
Easter eggs (not counting cheat codes or left over dev debug codes like the Konami code) in NES games seem extremely rare.
8:02 excellent use of a reference.
ah the castle of dragon one.... classic. LOL! a few of these are new to me, that's for sure! no idea what was going on in that family feud easter egg though, and I've seen some weird ones!
Dude! I would TOTALLY buy a Mr. Swanky shirt. Ha!
100%
Ice blocks give me ECCO the Dolphin PTSD..
Videos like this are so much fun! Thank you very much!!!
Thanks!
That Mr. Show sound byte in the intro caught me off guard lmao
Work is play, tofutti break today!
Can I have change for a dollar? Quarters mostly.
Jeepers Creepers that's a great intro!
Haha yes!