Let's Look at Every 1-Star NES Game
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- For as many NES games are out there, there sure are some that aren't worth your time. Here's a look at all the Nintendo licensed games that scored 1 star or less in the Ultimate Nintendo: Guide to the NES Library book. Do you agree with any on this list?
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Love the nes awesome games for its time ✌️
Can you do games you wish you did not learn how to play , no one has done this. Friday the 13th , Roger Rabbit like best game ever but once you learn how to play not so much.
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*Awesome to meet you at SEGE years ago, and I love to the see that Gameboy GameFrame!!!*
S/O to the man @JohnRiggs !!
I would love to see a part 2 of this with the color dreams games just to see your opinion on them. Any video you make on NES, I will very likely watch it. Anything for more NES. :D
I remember my mom renting me where's Waldo when I was sick. I was so disappointed. She felt bad and went back out to get another game. Even she realized how terrible it was.
The best part of being sick, was missing school, while my mother made me Chicken Noodle Soup before going to work. Then playing SMB3 and Punch on the NES. It was back in 2010, we got the NES for cheap and everything was old school. Man the congestion sucked, but my parents took care of us even when they had busy schedules.
Dassa good mum.
Good moms know the healing power of the NES.
Moms: Going beyond the call of duty for as long as anyone can remember.
The whole strategy of "not getting punched" you described in George Foreman's KO boxing is pretty much the strategy I try to use every day in the real world. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn't, but it helps to have a strategy.
Everyone has a “strategy” until they get hit…. Mike Tyson.
Played this at my friend's as a kid. Loved it but it is hard as hell
Actually amazed Pat didn't give Deadly Towers one star (or less)
That one is probably a 2 star game… I semi liked it when I was a kid, but even then I knew it was pretty bad. Same thing I feel about Karnov.
Deadly Towers is at least twice as playable as the 1 star Heroes Of The Lance, ergo 2 stars 😆
Didn't he have that game as a kid or something and so he has a weird amount of nostalgia for it? I swear I heard that. May not have been Pat who said it though
I bought the damn game as a kid and I hated every minute of it. I was so pissed off with not being aboe to get far into the game I used a game genie to beat it. Once I realized where to go and what to do it didnt seam so bad. Just honestly the game was a fkn nightmare!
I give Deadly Towers negative 10 stars. One summer the only new games me and my sis had were T&C Surf and Skate, Solamans Key, and Deadly Towers. I really put time into DT, but...damn.
I laughed when John apologized to Roger Clemens when panning his game. Lessens the chance that Clemens will throw a bat shard at him.
Hilarious! Piazza should have kicked his butt!
Wasn't Clemens a pitcher? Sorry I'm not a baseball fan lol.
@@m00k61He was a roided up pitcher who threw a piece of a broken bat at Mike Piazza.
Piazza got him back. They were on the same team at the All Star Game a few years later and Piazza supposedly told the batters which pitches were coming. Clemens got torched in that game. ha ha ha
I had a lot of fun playing this version on the snes. Once you get used to the screen change it ramps up your response time and the game is fast paced. Not like the typical snes baseball games where the cpu would shell you.
I love Rambo for NES, the music was fantastic and the game was decent.
Chubby Cherub is my one star. I can still hear my mother playing it in the other room, swearing when she died calling poor Chubby Cherub a turdbird.
The Last Ninja was a Commodore 64 game and one of the greatest and most praised ones!
Praised on Apple II as well. I'm pretty sure that the NES game is a port of The Last Ninja 2. Either the port is badly done, or console gamers just don't appreciate this style of game for some reason.
The NES was my first console, but I was also born almost a decade after its launch and we only had a few games-so watching your channel over the past few years has been a special treat! Thanks man!
I'm noticing a lot of these games have pretty good graphics for the time. Makes you wonder if they focused more on that than game play and that's where it went wrong. You can see graphics on the box and maybe that was all they thought they needed for sales.
Good point
Good graphics are a great way to distract players from awful gameplay. This technique became even more widespread in later eras
A bunch of those late release licensed/movie games look great but just play terribly.
@@dpgreene yeah was gonna say I think it's just because they were late releases they look decent.
@@danielespeziari5545 I disagree. These bad games are so much worse than the bad games we have today or even back on the playstation. And it is only becoming easier to make games look nice.
Hydlide originally came out on Japanese computers in December of 1984 whereas the NES version came out on the US in June 1989 making it appear far more dated than it actually was at the original time of release.
The Last Starfighter is a reskin/rework of Uridium on the C64. Notice it’s Graftgold as the Dev on the start screen.
I always thought Rambo looked exactly like Ricky the Dragon Steamboat LOL
Hydlide's problem is that everyone thinks it's a Zelda clone when it's actually a Dragon Warrior game where all the combat is simulated.
Its other problem is it came out well before Zelda on PC in Japan (1984). It was a popular/revolutionary game... but was released in the US on NES in 1989 when it was obviously dated and lack that context.
Reminds me more of YS
Remember when you would pour over instruction booklets while waiting to FINALLY play the game you'd bought/rented? Hydlide was SUCH disappointment when I finally turned it on. I was ready for an RPG or Zelda clone...
Hydlide came out on Japanese computer before either Zelda 1 or Dragon Warrior. Those games were influenced by Hydlide, not the other way around. Zelda actually copied some mechanics, like burning trees, straight from Hydlide.
@@PCGamer77 Yes, but the context is lost if I use a title like, "Heart of Fantasy." The audience for my comment was individuals who are familiar with North American NES games.
I really like Classic Concentration too. It was a great gameshow growing up and a great game on the NES.
Hydlide actually has a modern spiritual successor in the Fairune series, with a simplified but mostly identical gameplay experience.
Even though your Deck Enhancer blew up under mysterious circumstances, I’d love to see you review the games on The Aladdin Deck Enhancer. Or the Camerica cartridges!
Hey, Riggo. I'm 44, so I can relate so well to your memories of growing up with some of this stuff.
I was really sick as a child, and had to stay home from school for about a week. My mom let me rent a couple of games from the local store, so I could do something with my brain.
I rented Back to the Future and The 3 Stooges.
I'd have rather gotten my friends sick and done sentence diagramming.
Do they even teach how to diagram a sentence anymore?
Great video! I had no idea the PAL version of Dragon's Lair moves faster! I gotta check it out!
I remember Wayne Gretzky’s hockey to be especially disappointing. I mean, Blades of Steel was out there and Ice Hockey ruled, too. This, however, was a steaming piece.
I noticed you mentioned Blades of Steel in your comment. While it was an excellent game it was far very much a game of its time *1987. By the time Wayne Gretzky's Hockey: NHLPA Allstars came out there were much better offerings. The best hockey games from that time period were NHL 91-NHL 94 for the Sega Genesis. The Snes had a rough start with the NHL series until NHLPA 93. From that point forward both versions were the gold standard for hockey games.
Addendum- If you haven't played any of them before you're in luck. NHL 94 was so damn good EA re-released it with modern rosters for like 5 bucks on all Xbox and Playstation consoles. Well...I haven't tried to play it on out PS5 but it works on the Series X.
i like rambo too. my friend had it growing up he could never get anywhere but i borrowed it and beat it. your right it is vania like a lot of memorization
Would have definitely given Back to the Future Part II & III a 2 instead of a 1. Most of the stuff I'm okay with. I love the exploration and running into the landmarks from the trilogy. But it's another game that implements the one-hit kills rule, plus the fact that this is a long game with no real way to record your progress. No save battery or password feature. There were times where I'd play this game, get very far, only for something to happen, which caused the game to get shut off and all progress be lost. But at least I did one day make it to part three which you're given a password to play that part. A great idea on paper, but only half executed.
FLUX CAPACITOR IS THE POWER
i played II for a bit, didn't get far, then just figured this part out by playing with letters, figuring i could spell FLUX CAPACITOR, then filling in the blanks
The where's waldo music is forever engrained in my brain.
I feel like Hydlide should get a 2 out of 5.
I've been craving a video like this! Everyone talks about top ten this, top then that. Cool idea! Can you do more systems? Love the content.
Oh my! Had endless fun with Classic Concentration! Long story short… I played so much as a kid I could solve so many of the puzzles with just 2 or 4 tiles revealed. And my bro would never play against me in it. I could see where some of the annoyances of the game would ding it on the rating, but not one star!
3:47 “unfortunately it isnt so unfortunately it is”. Put that on your tombstone
I LOVE that book & the SNES version!!!!
Hopefully they make a N64 version 🤞🤞
Pat said he's making a certain N64 book!👏
Riggs talking about contris book is like hogan and savage forming the Mega Powers. We aren’t ready for it.
haha, it's a great book!
John, I appreciate how, while your videos have a theme, you do a great job of coming up with new ideas and keep it interesting.
Fun fact: Hydlide was the first game with regenerative health
I believe Wrestlemania should be on the list. Not only does it play terribly but in game Hulk Hogan wears red trunks. They got his look (well minus the facial features) right on the title screen!
So lucky that I was recommended this! My aunt and I love to watch the Classic Consentration reruns on Buzzr, and we would love to play the NES version!
Ironically in Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde you *are* supposed to get hurt, just not too soon. Hyde has a boss that you need to get rid of for the ideal ending (and also to purge the last map of enemies), but if Hyde catches up to Jekyll before then you explode.
The concept of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde is just a little much for a NES game. The Jekyll parts of the game aren't so much enemies as just day to day occurrences that annoy him. When he's annoyed enough, he turns into Hyde. But, if he stay Hyde too long (ie, catches up to Jekyll's position), he loses himself to rage and "explodes."
I played it on an emulator, but I didn't realize there were multiple endings! Fascinating.
5:55 Home Alone could be a great game rebooted as a survival booby trap strategy game. Nice vid!
I always liked Classic Concentration. It's faithful to the show and that's all it needs to do so I don't agree with the low rating.
”Don't get punched" is a great strategy for both George Foreman's KO Boxing and life in general
I mean, I follow that advice every time I go anywhere. Words to live by.
Roger Clemons MVP Baseball for the NES is actually my favorite baseball game of all time. I had it growing up (still do), and played it ALL THE TIME. I've since come to find out, that I'm about the only person who feels this way about that game. :)
So my thoughts on the Jekyll and Hyde game. It was developed by the same people who made Rygar. It wasn't that they couldn't make a fun game. It's that Jekyll and Hyde was too ambitious of a game, especially for it's time. I'm sure a game like Jekyll and Hyde would be fantastic if it were made today.
I was amazed watching AVGN play the whole thing.
It was so complex and challenging!
I played the heck out of that Classic Concentration game on the Apple II, where it looked worse. I really liked it, too.
Maybe I'm biased because I have a lifelong neurodivergent hyperfixation on game shows, but I believe Classic Concentration absolutely deserves more than one star. It's my favorite game show game on the NES, mainly because of the bonus round. Winning a car in this game is just about the most uniquely difficult thing you'll do in a Nintendo game, and it is SO satisfying when you finally do.
Literally all the Ultima games have that camera angle after 4 lol, they're all good, too. The PC version definitely looks like it plays better though
"Games shouldn't need manuals" is the argument that grinds my gears when it comes to reviewing 30+ year old games.
I always enjoyed Magic Johnson's Fast Break. To each their own.
I like Dr.Jekle and Mr. Hyde a lot. Dragons Lair I always come back to. I have no idea why lol
How am I feeling? Much better since I'm watching a John Riggs video
wow, I only have 2 of the games on this list. That is a surprise
I love that one of the answers to a quiz question in an NES game is "Nancy Sinatra" hahaha. Who's next for the kids to guess the name of? Chubby Checker?
Ultima was so badass! Still is in my book.
I don't fully agree that a game shouldn't need a game manual to be playable; I think it's ideal, but there are some great games that really need the manual to make them more approachable. That said, this was a fun rundown, and I also love Rambo!
What a kick in the teeth Dragon's Lair was.
I confirm that Alien 3 is quite an enjoyable game, especially for the great music.
It features even some kind of dark atmosphere who really belongs to the Alien movies.
I honestly think it comes down to controls and the timer. It's just...frustrating. Hard to justify spending time with it when the Genesis game exists.
@@ClavainRS I agree, I own a copy and I play it almost every time I turn on my SNES. Best version of the game.
@@charleybarley7148 that's interesting, because I've never tried the Genesis (Mega Drive for we europeans) version! Is it good as the SNES version or even better?
@@retrojoe85 I personally feel that the Genesis version is the better 16-bit game (more action; less redundant). But, this might be the nostalgia talking (at least in part).
@@charleybarley7148 I understand perfectly, nostalgia is a brutal factor when it comes to be transparent in being objective. It happens to everyone, myself included.
Jekyll and Hyde has a very cool and creepy ending.
Last Starfighter looks a lot like Uridium on the C64.
I picked up BTF2+3 at an outlet mall in the 90s for $5. I felt like I got ripped off 😕
Color a dinosaur is awesome. Thanks for not showing more footage of it though, wouldn't want to give anyone seizures 😅
It's so weird, The Last Starfighter is a port of the game Uridium on the C64, and on that system, it's an 8/10 on lemon64, usually quite well respected, but apparently awful on the NES? Very strange!
The Last Ninja (it was a C64 game not PC) was also well regarded on C64.
@@DragonGrafx-16 That's a good point! I was so fixated I forgot about that one xD It's true, Last Ninja is a classic on C64
Ghostbusters were sold along *Phantom System* , one of the strangest NES clones, looked like a 5800 and his controls looked like Genesis.
Shoutout to Pat the NES Punk for creating the Ultimate Nintendo guide.
I'm sure JohnRiggs appreciated Pat for making the book feel so heavy in his hands (and on his head lol).
"Dad why do you love your games more than us?"
That book balancing on your head, I can see you completed Finishing School. You're so proper
4:51 Rick Rude said that wresting is an upper body business, but so is boxing, apparently. ;)
I played Rambo as a kid some. As I recall, none of my friends thought it was a terrible game. Super Pitfall is the only game here that I beat, and if it did not have Pitfall in the name, then I never would have bothered.
Keep up the great work Mr Riggs! I really like your honesty and lack of drama when doing your reviews. Love your videos man!
I feel we tolerated more crappy games than we would today as that was a lot of our first home consoles and only got so many games. I played the heck out of Rambo especially once I figured out what I was doing. I played ghostbusters more than I should have but the stairs were awful unless you had a turbo controller.
I also love Rambo. The backgrounds and levels are kinda trippy and cool.
Surprised X-Men got such a high rating.
I like the Roger Clemens game on the SNES and it looks very similar if you get past the odd setup it has for fielding it can be pretty fun. I certainly got my 1.99 that I paid for a used copy out of it on the SNES.
As someone who watched NES streamers a lot, this video is fantastic.
I like the book, but I always feel more sorry about Ian and Pat hating on Battletoads. Which is one my two favorite NES games. As for these games, I have no huge objections, although you're probably right Rambo is better than one star. I also remember playing Hillsfar and thinking it was interesting although not executed very well. Its one of those games with ambition at least.
Battletoads was awesome to play... it was just so damn HARD. I could never get past the jet ski section as a kid. I finally did on an emulator, only to get stuck in a later stage where my keyboard can't superjump, so I'm stuck in a pipe.
@@Swiftbow Yeah, I think I know the level. Battletoads is very very hard, but also very good. I don't think that is a problem if one is willing to "get guud", but I can understand those liked it but got stuck on level 3 (over 90% did, it seems). The difficult spike probably went up to high... a good game if you get into it though!
Wayne gretzy hockey looks just like that one on one hockey game for the Atari 7800...hat trick...except zoomed out.
The last ninja and last starfighter are iconic C64 games shame they didnt translate
Winter Games by Epyx was another horrible translation from the C64 to NES
Think I'm more surprised by the ones NOT on this list than by the ones that are here. Athena, anyone?
"1star is justified because you shouldn't need to pick up a manual" is kinda a weird statement for a AD&D game... because it basically is "Manual the game"
I'm surprised I did not see deadly towers on this list but I will say I just bought Rambo because I loved it as a kid and it's still pretty good
I also really like Rambo!
OK, not even one minute in and I love this video! LOL, Heroes of the Lance STUNK. I remember thinking it was gonna be so cool, because I was (and am) a big fan of the DragonLance books, but I was sorely disappointed. I couldn't figure out what the hell to do, lol
if you care, Last Starfighter is a port of Uridium.
great video!
We really need to see a close-up of that Robotnik plush behind you! Looks incredible :D
I had Classic Concentration on MS Dos. We played that game a ton.
Me and my friends had so much fun with Hilsfar, it was one of our goto sleepover rentals. Although it consists mostly of a single town, it was one of the first "open world" games I ever played. The game is a little aimless, and we never had a manual so it could be very confusing, still we'd always come back for more.
I later picked up the DOS version, and realized the game doubles as a trainer for characters you can load in from your other gold box D&D games. In fact, that seems to be the whole point.
I love the implication that Robocop's robo shoes have no grip
Alien 3, Rambo and Super Pitfall aren’t that bad to me. The rest of this list though, those are deserving
Just want to point out that, from the thumbnail, you look like the alternate reality version of High Pitch Eric.
Pat is way too underappreciated in my oppinion. He is also one of the really early CZcams creators.
I'm just glad you didn't play all the sound effects from Rocky and Bullwinkle. My ears are still trying to recover after AVGN reviewed it.
Just in case you guys haven’t heard enough about pats book by now. Also, Rambo is not a 1 star game. It’s at least a 3
The Last Starfighter is such a wonderful film.
Good video! Robocop 2 always amazes me with the "ice" walk. Like who in their right mind thought sliding through levels on ice skates was fine?
I agree. Classic Concentration is great. My wife and I still play this and have fun. It’s the only game I can beat her.
I un-ironically like George Foreman KO boxing.
We had around 10-15 nes games as a kid and never got more because technology progressed and i played it a ton.
I need to revisit it , but I remember as a kid thinking it was hard but so satisfying when i finally beat the whole game
I am going through each NES game in the library, and I swear, these games are pretty much developed by Satan. Once you get into SNES territory and further, it's unbelievable how easier games get the more you advance. Most NES games were so difficult that I even greatly struggled with cheats turned on. In fact, I've used cheats pretty much on 98% of the games I've played. Games off the top of my head I did not use cheats was Maniac Mansion, Deja Vu, Uninvited, and Doki Doki Panic.
Many of the NES games were arcade ports, which are designed to eat quarters, not really provide a balanced game. It's strengths are the native games, like Mega Man and Super Mario, with some of the PC ports being pretty good for the day as well (a lot of western style RPGs got ported, including Wizardry, Might and Magic 1, and more).
@@drg5352 They also used increased difficulty to make games last longer, since NES cartridges can't contain all that much data. (Especially the early ones.) They found pretty clever ways to stretch the limited memory, but it was always a factor.
They did Ghostbusters dirty… that game was my childhood. But on the Master System
Actually X-men game in NES is good. It just takes a while to figure things out. There’s a strategy to picking partnerships even on one player
There was only 1 game I had on here Super Pitfall and I gave it a chance and did enjoy getting really close to the end of the game. My friend had 3 games on the list and I know he did like them. Rambo was a game he played a lot and I seen him play Roger Clemon's Baseball and Where's Waldo a bunch of times. I guess back then we only got like one new game a month so we had to play it with the ones we already were playing so that we did keep trying games. Most games I wouldn't want to play again unless for nostalgia. It brings me back to a very happy time in my life when I wasn't working and hung out with friends.
AVGN has already done some great videos about many of these games over the years. Especially "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." That game is the bane of AVGN's existence! LOL Plus, Pat Contri AKA The NES Punk, wrote the NES book featured here.
I miss the old Nerd quality. I get that he's got a family now and whatnot but most of his new stuff blows.
@@theskoomacat3106 nope
I have fond memories of Nintendo, but perhaps they were doing quantity over quality at a certain point. They also seemed quite content to not upgrade their system. Who knows how many more years it may have been if Sega hadn't have pushed them?
whoah robocop 2...no way, awesome game once you get a hold on robocop.
Hillsfar was part of a trilogy but was the only one ported to Nes. There was Pool of Radiance and my favorite Curse of the Azure Bonds. You can transfer your character party from one game into the next.
I remember playing Ghostbusters. Totally agree.
Played Super Pitfall today. Got the game over screen in about 15 seconds.
Heroes of the Lance has a couple great songs on its soundtrack, even if they're short.