I can't believe cheetamen 2 didn't make the list, Action 52 was such a smash hit when it released, and such good value too less than $4 per game!

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Haha that is technically a very rare sequel!

@erainmartinez8175

Жыл бұрын

that's insane & wonderful prices!

@khaotix64

Жыл бұрын

It was so great it wasn't released because people wouldn't have been able to handle its epicness 😮😂

@ChaossX77

Жыл бұрын

I didn't think cheetahmen 2 was ever fully released. Either way action 52 was a total ripoff and those games weren't worth 25 cents a piece.

@joes4194

Жыл бұрын

Those games aren't authorized titles. They don't deserve a mention.

The first Power Blade got a Nintendo Power cover spot on an issue somewhere around the volume 19-22 range. It wasn't til way later I learned of Captain Saver.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I think I remember seeing that!

i saw a bunch of NES carts where the sticker was damaged on the top part, i think its because some video stores would put their own stickers on every cart to prevent stealing, often those stickers would be really difficult to remove, and would always leave a mark, and sometimes those stickers would have a piece of magnetized metallic sheet under there, so it would trigger the alarm if someone tried to walk out the video store with a game. These video stores had a big inventory of carts so you often see damaged carts out there. Its pretty crazy to think about some of those games that are worth thousands of dollars these days, that i used to rent constantly back in the day..

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

And unfortunately a lot of the rarest titles were a mostly available only at rental stores.

i am watching this channel daily while eating dinner after my wage cage. very refreshing watching a legacy gaming show that is actually through and through made with much research

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Haha glad you like it :)

I had actually bought Power Blade 2, Rescue Rangers 2, Ducktales 2, TMNT Tournament Fighters and a couple other rare ones back in the late 90s from Funcoland for peanuts. I ended up selling them in 2015 because I was short of money at the time and my son needed some clothes for school.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

That's a real collector roller coaster of a story right there!

@Thomasmemoryscentral

Жыл бұрын

​@@BigOleWords Hey I can list some Canadian priced rarities from the 2010s i bought: 1. River City Ransom-9.99 loose cart at value village 2010 2. Mike Tyson's Punchout-$5.99 loose cart at value village 2010 3. North And South-$5.99 loose cart in 2010. Bought that and Tyson same day! 4. The Jetsons Cogswells Caper-$30 boxed in 2010 5. Ducktales 2-$60 loose cart at a indie store in 2011 6. Tmnt Tournament Fighters-$50 loose cart in 2011 7. Power Blade 2-$7 in 2013 at a flea market loose and from an old chinese lady!

@CC-rb1yf

Жыл бұрын

Moral of the story is don't have kids so that you can keep what you buy

A lot of this may seem obscure to audiences today, but for somebody who was a kid growing up at a time where you could rent nearly any game you wanted for 99 cents over the weekend who's played all of them, anybody would be hard pressed to show me an NES game I wasn't familiar with. My cousins even owned Baby Boomer and Boulderdash, we were huge fans of Faxanadu before it was cool, and my brothers and I bought all the Codemasters games from a local flea market and always wondered why we never saw those gold cartridges in the retail stores. We were among the 20 people outside of the UK who knew who Dizzy was until KZread was a thing. 🤣

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Baby Boomer?! Woof!

@thedude5295

Жыл бұрын

@@BigOleWords Right? Not at all playable today with a billion other things you'd rather be playing, but at the same time it was nice to have another game that used the light gun since Nintendo did such a poor job ever making any games for their light guns. Really, like a lot of games from that time it was only something that could be enjoyed in the moment and nobody today would understand the appeal of it back then. It was pretty cool that you could even play 2 players with the 2nd person using a cursor target with the Dpad on a controller. So a light gun game and a 2 player game as a bonus. You can only beat Contra so many times before you get bored unless you're speedrunning games for subs on Twitch.

@jsmith3946

Жыл бұрын

Ya you wasn't renting game fo 99 cents

@thedude5295

Жыл бұрын

@@jsmith3946 Yeah I was. The 90's were a way better time. Gas regularly got down to around 78 cents per gallon by me too, and you could buy a carton of Marlboros for $12 bucks.

@WilliamJLynch-bn5fs

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, 99 cents was a thing. The good ole days man, when you could still rent games.

1:16 The GRAND DADdy of all the rare sequels Clever... very clever ;)

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Ummm yeah, totally intentional ;)

Godzilla 2 was one of my favorite NES games. I played the hell out of it back in the day. Waiting for Mothra to hatch... moving the parts around until the scientists could assemble that cool jet thingy... and the option to deploy nuclear weapons and end the game. It was all so cool and unique.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

You’re the second person to recommend it! Maybe I will give it a second try :)

@Nostrathomas85

Жыл бұрын

it looks identical to Advanced Wars on the gameboy advanced. i wonder if it is the same developers? if you've played advanced wars, how does it compare? and if you haven't play it, they are re-releasing Advanced Wars 1 & 2 for nintendo switch

Neither of the Casino Kid games accurately capture the despondent aura I've felt while being in a casino. I haven't played CK2, but I resonate with your comment about it just not being as charming if you can't walk around the casino. As an actual casino kid (my dad and grandpa loved to go to them on vacation), wandering around a casino is a bit nostalgic for me. Of course, I usually got dumped in the arcade... for some reason, the Atari arcade version of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom really stands out - we didn't have one in my home arcades.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Temple of Doom in the casino arcade?! Awesome!

@Elucidus

Жыл бұрын

@@BigOleWords Yeah! And I was stoked when I picked up the NES game somewhere, turned it on and realized it was a port of the arcade game. ...and that was the end of the positive vibes.

4:31 The Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers games on NES are a fun co-op experience! I'd say that the first one is better though. They're mechanically very similar, but the level design in the first one is more charming. That one has you running along giant tree branches, jumping from faucet to faucet in a kitchen, skirting along a towering picket fence - ordinary places made extraordinary by the fact that you're exploring them as little chipmunks. The sequel has a bit of that in the beginning, and in Western World, but most of the levels feel more abstract and generic. It seems like most of the levels would fit just as well if you were exploring them as some blue super fighting robot rather than a adventurous rodent. 10:47 Similar to Karate Champ, another one-on-one fighter is Yie-Ar Kung Fu! Charming, but pretty rudementary.

Two things: 1. I hope you enjoy *Dragon Strike* . It's more refined that people give it credit for due to its adherence to the AD&D rules; dragons can't hover or change direction without circling with their maneouverability class and can't breathe fire/frost/lightning more than once every few seconds at least. Unfortunately that makes the game more precise and tactics-based than simpler shooters like *Dragon Spirit,* and as a result possibly less fun. 2. I have a friend who worked as a Playboy Bunny card dealer at the London casino and affirms that patrons are not allowed to touch the bunnies. I guess those ones in *Casino Kid II* were off-brand lol

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Did not know there was lore behind those dragon movements!

Fun fact about the 3 versions of TMNT tournament fighters. Every version has at least one character not found in the other versions.

@BigOleWords

10 сағат бұрын

Whoa cool!

Im from Poland .Chip and Dale 2 was most popular game here,beside Mario and Contra.I played (in 90s)Flintstones 2,Turtles fighting game,Power Blade 2 .We usually didn`t buy carts,but borrowed them for week ,or exchaged for other cart.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

So interesting. I do get comments from folks who grew up in Eastern Europe and played some of the rarer titles. It’s cool to see how different games became more widespread in certain places!

I didn't know they made a sequel to Chip and Dale... My sister and I played the first one so much that the level1 theme is still stuck in my head 30 years later 😂

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

It’s pretty fun! If you liked the first one you’ll dig the second.

Lots of boxes in Chip and Dale 2 makes sense. In the comics which were more mature than the cartoon, Chip and Dale smashed a lot of Trim. but sense the game was geared towards kids they changed it to smashing actual boxes. Now you know.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Damn dude, took it there!

Glad you enjoyed Ginga Daisakusen! It was planned for release in the US under the name "Squashed!" but was never released

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Squashed is a great name :)

This is one of the few youtube channels that actually covers more obscure Nes game. Each video I watch on here I learn about a new game. Keep up the good work!

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks! I think after years of collecting I realized I was picking up all these obscure titles but never playing them, just adding them to the shelf. This channel is me catching up :)

@Gatorade69

Жыл бұрын

NES Friend covers some lesser talked about games on his channel. SNES Drunk too but he mostly cover SNES Titles.

I played the crap out of Tournament Fighters. I absolutely loved it and the fact that it was added to the Cowabunga Collection was great.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

That’s right, it is on there!

I played dragonstrike when i was too young to really know what i was doing. I do remember liking it, wouldn't mind playing it again.

Godzilla 2 looks awesome! I liked the first one, my cousin had it, but I never got to spend much time playing. I don't believe I ever got off of earth. I like how they leaned into the strategy aspect. Later I played Master of Monsters on the Genesis, it completely blew me away.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

People have commented that G2 is actually really fun so I’ll have to give it another shot one day

The D&D gold box pc games ported to NES always were weird. I didn't even know about them till last few years. That's how rare they are, being a huge fan of the PC games.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Are they really different from the PC versions?

@rockkiall

Жыл бұрын

@@BigOleWords a few. I guess these ones aren't too different. I also may just be thinking of the later sequels of Pool of Radiance.

@Heike--

Жыл бұрын

@@BigOleWords I can't imagine playing a PC CRPG like Pool of Radiance using the clunky NES controls. It would be a nightmare. The game is already long, requiring a controller would triple the time investment.

I'm surprised Star Tropics 2 wasn't on the list. Also, great to know the D&D games are on here. I played them on computer. I still play D&D with my classmates at my seminary here today.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Zoda is actually not that rare despite its late release date. You can pick it up today for $20 or so

that grand dad joke was smooth

Excellent thumbnail. Reminded me so much of Wario World for the GameCube lol. Also I find it so odd there’s no Famicom version of the Flinstones sequel. Sometimes for the rare games the Famicom ones are less expensive. But then… sometimes common games are much more.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Yeah at some point I’ll do a video about North American exclusives :)

I agree that Ducktales 2 is more fun than the 1st. Glad to hear someone else say it! Wish I'd gotten to play it as a kid!

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it’s like playing an enhanced version of the original!

Bubble Bobble 2 was the rarest NES sequel that I ever played. I didn't even know about any of the games in this video back then, but I had access to Bubble Bobble 2 because it was a Blockbuster Video exclusive title, and I was able to rent it. It's just crazy to me that Taito would limit the exposure and availability of a highly desired true sequel to one of their most popular games or why they'd not actually put it up for sale to the public, but the main reason for its scarcity is that it came out so late in the NES' life and that you could only rent it (not buy it) from Blockbuster Video.

@commentresurrection1841

Жыл бұрын

Bubble Bobble part 2 is great. Might have to pop that in tonight!

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Is that true?! It wasn’t sold in stores?

@commentresurrection1841

Жыл бұрын

@@BigOleWords I have heard this about BB part 2 for 15 years now. I never heard exclusive to Blockbuster. I actually always heard it was exclusive to smaller rental stores. One thing I have noticed about BB part 2 is that every copy I have ever owned or seen has a perfect label lol so maybe it was only at small rental places and was never rented.

@ldsviking

2 ай бұрын

I was pretty into Nintendo back in the day and vaguely remember Bubble Bobble 2 sitting in the K-Mart display circa 93 or 94. I remember that a neighbor had it too along with a top-loader NES, which would be consistent with getting into the NES scene that late. I'm like 99% positive it had a retail release.

Hillsfar and Pools of Radiance are in the same universe, and Hillsfar is more or less a "side story/quest" for Pools. There's a mechanic in the PC versions where you could transfer characters from Pools to Hillsfar to explore about, build XP and whatnot. Of course, that didn't make it to the NES. Dragonstrike and Heroes of the Lance are also in the same universe, but frankly I know less about either. I don't have much time into Dragonstrike to form an opinion, but the rest are pretty awful. I find Hillsfar the most playable. Lots of people love Pools of Radiance, like you said, but that style D&D game is not for me. So I 110% appreciated your "this is my nightmare" comment. The later "3D dungeon crawling stuff", starting with The Eye of the Beholder series, is where I dumped some time into D&D games. The overhead 2D stuff really didn't get polished and good for me until Baldur's Gate. Great video so far! I'm stopping after AD&D and will pick it up again later today.

@childofcascadia

Жыл бұрын

Ehhh. As a PC gamer, the D&D NES games are broken pale imitations of the PC SSI goldbox AD&D series. And heroes of the lance on NES is just...what? I will absolutely positively die on that hill. These games dont belong on consoles.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

I remember you saying you loved Hillsfar ;)

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

This is one of those videos that needs an intermission ;)

@Elucidus

Жыл бұрын

@@childofcascadia I agree with you, that these games are almost entirely better experiences on the PC. Sound and graphics might be better on other consoles, but they're really meant for the more intricate experience that the keyboard gave you. ...but I sitll don't like them there, either. :) I loved Ultima, but the Pools-styles games were just kinda meh. I did enjoy Neverwinter Nights in the AOL days, though. I think it was the online-ness that made it more fascinating. Did you know that there are fan servers for that now?

@childofcascadia

Жыл бұрын

@Big Ole Words Me? IIRR, I was the one who wrote HILLSFAR SUX, lol. Then I admitted that the pc one was at least playable when someone else said they looooved it. But those damn horse parts even on pc are annoying AF. Its the weakest of the SSI games.

Fascinating stuff as usual my friend, especially the D&D stuff. FYI I should have that Indy and the Last Crusade ZX Spectrum and Master System vid up soon. If I pull my finger out 😂

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Looking forward to it!

Just discovered the channel, excellent content. Keep up the good work!

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks so much!

Can confirm Flintstones 2 was not Blockbuster exclusive - my hometown had 3 independent video stores in the 90s (what a time to be alive!), and all three stores had at least 1 copy at each. "Rental exclusive", maybe, but definitely NOT Blockbuster exclusive.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

We’re getting closer to the truth!

Back in the day, Mega Man was the best series to me because what I wanted in a sequel was just more game and Mega Man was awesome for that. The sequels that changed the game too much were disappointments mostly, like Snake's Revenge or Zoda's Revenge. I owned Mafat Conspiracy as a kid, so, I was disappointed by Top Secret Episode not being as good when I finally discovered it years later. Bomberman II was my first $100 game, I think. That was like 10 years ago. Great video, as per usual, James! Always something new to learn about the NES..... somehow. Been playing the damn thing my whole life!

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

On the whole I think most sequels were better, but some are kind of so different that it's hard to say, like Zelda II, Simon's Quest, Mario 2, etc. I think they're often more interesting if maybe not as complete of a gameplay experience.

@Gatorade69

Жыл бұрын

To me the whole point of a sequel is that it plays like the prior game but with new levels and some added mechanics. The MegaMan games were good for that with every one adding new mechanics and levels. I have seen people complain about modern games. "It plays like the first game but with added stuff !" Well yeah, that's a sequel doofus ! You expect them to just change everything up when the people liked the first game ? Just improve on it ! I don't know, people just love to complain about everything now a days and I guess I'm complaining about people complaining.

Great video! Dragonstrike is a little rough around the edges, but getting to play as a dragon is worth the price of entry alone lol. Plenty of fun to be had

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

For sure. Although I’ll probably stick with Dragon Spirit or Dragon Fighter ;)

Casino Kid looks absolutely glorious and I will be playing it for sure 😂

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Nice! It’s probably more interesting on paper than it is to play, but still kinda neat :)

Casino Kid rocked. Rented it a bunch from the Chevron when I was a kid.

@BigOleWords

4 ай бұрын

It’s way more fun and interesting than I was expecting

The Flintstones game is only medium rare here in South America, you can find the game on local places 2 or 3 times a year even in flea markets. Rescue Rangers game, just common, same with Duck Tales, TMNT and Bomberman. The NES was sold until mid 90s here so we had plenty of NES games in stores for a long time.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Interesting! Are the legit NES cartridges or similar to stuff that came out in Eastern Europe where it looks like a official cart but it’s a bootleg? I think that copy of Power Blade 2 actually came from Mexico, but I don’t know much about the South American market!

@TheRealDx

Жыл бұрын

@@BigOleWords Legit carts, you can find lots of retro stuff in South America, even new old stock. I still remember the great Atari find on an old warehouse. Last time I saw nes sealed games in stores was like 2006.

The 3 player mode in bomberman 2 is a holdover from the famicom version. The famicom has hard wire controllers and only one expansion port mainly used for the jp zapper but Hudson came out with a extra controller. Later they also made a multitap but the first more than 2 players games was limited to 3 like bomberman 2 and stinger.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Ohhhhhhh that makes sense!

I miss the days when I could go to a local retro game store and buy any NES game for $3.99. I bought Sonic Blast Man 2 (SNES) for $9.99 and was shocked last year when I realized it was selling for over $200 now loose.

@BigOleWords

19 күн бұрын

Yeah I really missed my chance to clean out some stores back in the day!

I've had the Game Boy version of Ducktales 2, and somehow it feels a bit more polished than the NES counterpart. To get the special bonus treasure in the NES version, you have to buy a piece of treasure map at the end of the level store, which makes me think it was an afterthought. Not so in the GB version. GB also features a couple extra items, like an X-Ray pair of glasses that show where hidden treasures are. Not that the NES game isn't good, but it feels like they knew that version had shortcomings and developed the GB version to be a stronger game. Unlike the other NES to GB ports of Capcom's Disney Afternoon games that feel stripped down.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

X-ray specs sounds like a rad item!

I think this is my new favorite channel thank you Greg Newkirks brother..

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Although I don't know who that is!

@Gatorade69

Жыл бұрын

@@BigOleWords You don't know your own brother !?

Big ol dang good long video dere, Bimmy. Big bird would be proud! Never really checked out the D&D games on the NES, I think your suggestion looks about right.

@mushihimesarna728

Жыл бұрын

I used to call Pool of Radiance, Pool of Radiation. That's what I thought about the game....

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Thanks bud :)

@Elucidus

Жыл бұрын

He prefers to be called Bames.

I have played most of these sequels, but close to none of the originals. These games were all available between 1996 and 1999 in my small home town in Romania on pirated yellow cartridges for about 3 dollars a piece at the weekend market. So, probably there was a lot of NES piracy going on in the last stages of this console's life.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Nice! Yeah people in Eastern Europe have commented that Power Blade 2 was really popular there, but in America it was not so much.

Indy & the Last Crusade also had two different PC games! At least they were subtitled "The Action Game" and "The Adventure Game" if I recall correctly.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Neat!

Thanks James for the fun video !!! Video game collecting is fun. 🙂

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

You got it!

The original power blade was pretty well known it was on the cover of Nintendo power in the spring of 1991.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

I mean so was Puggleys Scavanger Hunt soooo….

Lil SAMSON? that makes "I wanna talk to Samson" a whole new statement!!

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

hahaha

Wow I had no idea a Dragonlance (Heroes of the Lance) game was on NES. I didn’t really get into the main books until the SNES era so that probably helped. Crazy that a new trilogy for that main Dragonlance series of books is currently in the middle of being released.

Casino Kid 2 becoming Gambling Street Fighter II, complete with literally just Chun-Li, is not a twist I was expecting.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

I know right? It’s pretty hilarious

Never knew there was a PowerBlade 2. Have to check my local retro stores next week.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Woof good luck, it’s a tough one to find!

I remember renting TMNT Tournament Fighters shortly after it came out, and it had a photocopied manual with it. I played the game so much, I was able to advance far in it. I tried it out recently, and got beat down hard lol

@josephskiles

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I remember the photocopy manuals with rentals. I hated that

@Gatorade69

Жыл бұрын

That's how it goes with fighting games. I was pretty good at Tekken 3. I think it still has the most time I have ever put into a fighting game and I knew how to use most characters. Loaded it up a month ago and just got my ass handed to me over and over again.

Thank God, I thought you forgot about Donkey Kong Jr. Math

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

How could anyone ;)

godzila2's reputation was destroyed by AVGN review, but it is very good turn-based strategy, scientists explain your objectives, hints, and new mechanics, in some buildings you 'build' your units, the dilemma here is order of units to build, depends on what you want, some missions could be done in different ways, due to new fancy mechanics: - loork Godzilla and activate nuclear bomb, - find friendly Mothra, - reflect 'nuclear breath/beam' by energy shield back to monsters to destroy them,... two types of attacks 'machinegun" or "cannon" add depth to strategy, but i ll keep the secret when it could be useful. all monsters carefully designed to have weaknesses, and difficulty depends on how much you want to save (cities or units) so as player you will find some interesting challenges "can i save this building or not", it is high quality game. they had to cut budget due to first game disaster, but they cut only artists and musicians and doubled game designers, but strategies itself not as popular as action platformers, so no hype, no players

@10072018

Жыл бұрын

It was an excellent game, one of my favorites.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Alright I’m convinced, I’ll try it again!

Dragon Warrior IV. Traded about $200 of vintage game stuff for my copy. Well worth it tho. Its rare as the SNES was out and Dragon Quest got overshadowed by Final Fantasy stateside.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I debated including it. I think it’s a bit more well known than these, but still very rare.

Bomberman II seems to borrow a lot from the first Bomberman game on pc-engine/TurboGrafx 16. It reuses sprites, enemies, and music from the PC-E game, with a hit to the fidelity of course. Although there is something nice about the flat colors and NES soundchip

@BigOleWords

3 ай бұрын

Huh didn’t realize that. And yeah I love the color scheme

I was about to call you out on the 1v1 fighter thing, and then remembered that Yie-Ar Kung Fu didn't make it to the US. Childhood memories of that Famiclone bleeding into my recollection...

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Haha the title should’ve given that away ;). Yeah that and Joy Mech Fight would fit the description for sure

@jsmith3946

Жыл бұрын

Ya it did it came out on the commondore 64 in the usa

@Elucidus

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I meant to the NES. :)

Duck Tales 2 is one of the best games on the NES, it also has a very difficult romhack, unfortunately only in russian, which makes some of the puzzles very hard to figure out, but since I played this first in japanese we could not even understand a single word and figured out all what we need :). TMNT Tournament Fighters is also very good for the NES, I tried both the Genesis version and the SNES one, but those not felt the same to me given how many 1 on 1 fighting games I played since the NES one which were not limited by that much on the PC, and the Genesis one is unplayably hard. Cool trick for the NES TMNT: you can play with two Hotheads at the same time (normally this is not enabled since his character is made out of too many sprites and it would cause extreme flickering). First select VS CPU mode and select anybody for yourself except Hothead, then select Hothead for CPU, after that game you can select new characters and you can select Hothead for you, then for the CPU as well :) (okay, technically you cannot play with two Hotheads, the other one must be CPU :) )

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Man the hoops we've gotta jump through just for dual Hotheads!

Ninja Jaja Maru! i gotta ru off and play that one right away! thx for heads upp!

I'll have to get Fire and Ice soon, I have almost every other one you talked about. Love me that late era NES releases

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Fire ‘n ice is awesome!

10:42 Check out Joy Mech Fight if you haven't already.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking of that game while making this, but I'm still to narrowly focused to bring the Famicom into this...yet.

Great video as always I have TMNT tournament fighters on my nes n 8 pro and yes it really hard but ,every time I play it I think man just imagine if this was street fighter 2 on the nes because it shows it could be done to a high standard

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

And there are all those Taiwanese Street Fighter/Mortal Kombat NES games that kind of pull it off!

Pool of Radiance is awesome. I’ve beaten it twice this year.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

I’ll take your word for it ;)

Very cool video! I would guess that Bomberman 2 was only 3 players because of the limited screen space. Maybe that's what their logic was. Either way, I have enjoyed the game from time to time.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I’m not sure, but 4players would be nuts!

Dragon Strike looks awesome! Who doesn't want to fly around as a dragon destroying stuff? 🐉🔥

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Right?!

@HylianFox3

Жыл бұрын

DragonStrike is easily the best of the D&D NES games (to me, anyway) It's basically Dragon Spirit but more tactical than a straight shoot-em-up.

good stuff! thanks for the sweet vid on some really hard to find carts! i had some really good games for the nes and grew up poor so i played the nes into the 90s while everyone else was going to 16bit. i didnt get any of these because i could only afford old games from pawn shops. your carts look much better than mine! i remember a lot of mine had so many other kids names written in sharpie all over them😂

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Believe me, probably a quarter of my games have been written on or stickered!

@adamkaneshiro

Жыл бұрын

@@BigOleWords i will always remember "EVAN"s games. hope his family was ok. that pawn shop had like his whole collection at one time. as a kid i was happy to get anything not thinking about how it came to be. now my imagination wanders on what could have happened to lose your entire collection. perhaps its because i was poor that everything i had was so cherished as if it was an item in legend of zelda hidden in a treasure chest.

14:05 I actually like Godzilla 2 and think it's an underrated title. It's far from perfect, but definitely worth playing if you like turn-based strategy games like Desert Commander. Also, the premise is brilliant! JSDF vs Kaiju.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

That's another one on my list that I've tried a couple times but couldn't quite figure out. One day!

I've discovered all of these thanks to emulator consoles in the past few years. Or, in the case of DuckTales and Rescue Rangers 2, that Disney Afternoon Collection Capcom put out officially. Gotta say, I generally agree with a lot of your "it's similar to the point of being predictable" feelings towards them all. Except for Power Blade 2; that one is way different and is WAY harder than the first one. Oh well. Also am with you when it comes to those old CRPG-style D&D games... those old NES ports of TSR's "Gold Box" games are a hard nope from me as well. The only fighting games for the NES/Famicom I can recall besides Tournament Fighters is Joy Mecha Fight, though there are a bit more if we're counting, like, Taiwanese hack games such as King of Fighters '96 or Tekken 2. If ever you want to make a series about pirate games, you should find some really interesting stuff.... occasionally even decent, lol. That unlicensed KOF '96 ain't bad Oh, and I've heard the term, "Maze Action Game" used to describe stuff like Bomberman, Pac-Man, Adventures of Lolo, Chew Man Fu, and Kid no Hore Hore Daisakusen/Crater Maze/Booby Kids (I _know_ it's meant to be used here like in the term, "Booby Trap" but... c'mon, I think it's okay to giggle at that title like stupid little kids, lol.) in the past. Don't know if that's, like, an official term for old arcade maze games, but just throwing that out there in case no one else has anything better 😃

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

I’m really in to the Hummer Team stuff right now. I’ll hopefully do some bootleg reviews at some point.

I have no idea what went through the mind of the Godzilla video games developers on the NES. You know, when somebody says Godzilla, you think about monster wrestling duels and a city being leveled. Not Final Fantasy Tactics, lol The tactical board thing is an interesting format, but it is way too ambitious for a 8 bits home console, as you need to have skilled enough level designers to imagine various hive environments and make the best of the storage space on the cartridge. But if you design a well made game as this rogue style, it can have a high replayability, I am sure! It reminds me the approach Dragon Ball Z Budokai 2 had, somewhat.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Yeah no idea, but people have chimed in to say they actually love this game, so it might be kinda decent.

Bomberman II is 3 players only because the Famicom version is only 3 players. On the Famicom, player 3 used the Famicom Expansion port and a 15 pin 3rd party controller (ironically, Hudson released one).

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Huh! So the Famicom didn’t get the Four Score or Satellite?

@Waifu4Life

Жыл бұрын

@@BigOleWords Nintendo never made one for the Famicom as far as I'm aware, but there was one or two made by 3rd parties such as HORI. 4 players Famicom games did exist before Bomberman II came out, Hudson just didn't make it that last one for that amount of players (the game did come out during the Super Famicom era, probably wasn't worth the programming investment).

@toddhouchin3252

Жыл бұрын

Good input! I figured it was a sprite limitation due to the on screen animations of three players worth of bombs.

Good ish to check out as always!

Pool of radiance was awesome.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

If you say so! ;)

I got an NES in the early 90s as my first console and by that point the games were so cheap. People were throwing them away. I guess people didn't value 'old games' back then in the way we do now. I got a lot of NES games as gifts, hand-me-downs from relatives and second-hand and ended up gathering a large collection. No joke, I remember at one point having 3 copies of Ducktales 2 😂. It was one of my favourites for the NES and I played it a lot more than the first one. I eventually got a SNES in 1995/96 so I think we traded in all of my NES stuff at that point. I wish I still had all of those old games 😢

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Three copies?!? You were the real Scrooge McDuck!

@Gatorade69

Жыл бұрын

As with any console a newer generation comes out, people get rid of their games and replace them with ones for the newer system. Then years later they wish that they hadn't gotten rid of them. I had a NES until like 1994 and I remember getting used games for a few dollars a piece. Then I got a Genesis and was getting those games cheap once the PlayStation was a big thing. I remember seeing some rare Sega CD games and passing on them (One of them was Snatcher).

Bubble Bobble 2 is pretty expensive these days.

@BigOleWords

4 ай бұрын

It is! I talked about it and all the Bubble Bobble games in Part 4 of this series: Bubble Bobble and Its Four NES sequels (Nintendo Entertainment System Review) kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZWGjt5SQYqm5pto.html

Pool of Radiance is actually, believe it or not, one of my favorite games for the NES. And I didn't even play it back in the day. I only recently picked it up and learned how to work it, being a D&D fan. The game opens up more once you get outside the town, finding yourself in a top-down overworld that has better graphics than anything in the city. Plus, all the early fights kind of rely on you memorizing and using the sleep spell, your absolute best friend early on. But in any case, the computer version, and the later sequels on the computer, are all better. That said, I admit this stuff has a narrow demographic. Heck, I was exactly like you early on and perpetually ignored dungeon crawlers.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

I mean that’s the strongest endorsement I’ve heard for it so far, maybe I’ll give it another shot!

@atmaweapon2803

Жыл бұрын

@@BigOleWords honestly if you don't like dungeon crawlers, it's not going to really win you over. And the other ones for the NES aren't exactly great. Dungeon Magic is terrible, Bard's Tale is repetitive and soul crushing, Might & Magic is very good but very hard and somewhat soul crushing...there's some better ones for the Famicom, like the Deep Dungeon series. Swords & Serpents is pretty good if you want something really streamlined for the causal player.

hilsfar is a sudo-sequel to pool of radiance that was released to fill the void between the first game and it's true sequel "curse of the azure bonds" - which was never ported to nes

If you love Power Blade, I highly recommend you give the Japanese version "Power Blazer" a look. They're nothing alike and 'Blazer' is MUCH more difficult.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

So I’ve heard! I still haven’t played the Famicom versions of these two, one day!

And I thought RC Pro Am II was expensive at a hundred bucks. I had no idea there were at least 10 sequels more than that.

@BigOleWords

5 ай бұрын

Back when I was collecting for fun instead of to complete, that and Duck Tales 2 were my dream carts. They were super expensive to me then, but nothing compared to the others!

A Godzilla game where you don't play as Godzilla. Yep, that sounds like a very fun and popular idea. Mmm hmm!

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Haha well the early movies were all about fighting Godzilla, but I get I agree!

@HylianFox3

Жыл бұрын

I saw that was and was like "A Godzilla game that's slow-paced and tactical, and you don't even play as Godzilla. Who tf thought that was a good idea?"

@NateTheGnat

Жыл бұрын

@@HylianFox3 i love the first godzilla game for nes. its fun to spit radiation and stomp and swing your tail around and smash things and fight monsters. they should have stuck to that formula.

@10072018

Жыл бұрын

I loved Godzilla 2. One of my favorite NES games.

I think the best one you mentioned is probably duck tales 2

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, that game is really fun!

There is a Power Blade 3 on the ZX Spectrum Next. It's subtitled Delta's Shadow and it's pretty decent.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

What?!? No way!

@sumwan2042

Жыл бұрын

@@BigOleWords kzread.info/dash/bejne/oGiEo9SIgLqvltI.html

Does the NES version of Pool of Radiance do things like tell you that you overhear rumor #78 in the tavern and force you to look up what that is in the manual like the PC version does? As much as I still love a lot of classic games, there are certainly design elements from that era that I don't miss.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Haha not that I know if of but good god that is tedious

I love NES Pool of Radiance

Just wanted to say your vids are good fun, and David Cross can wail.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! And yeah, him and Bob are both amazing singers I’m totally different ways

The 4:3 is greatly appreciated.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Haha it fits the footage better at least.

Bomberman 2 is really that rare?! I have a copy of that lying around at my Grandma's house o.O

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

🤑🤑🤑

Pool of Radiance and the rest of the SSI D&D games were ports of far superior PC games of the same names. In that era, any game ported from PC to console and vice versa were almost always terrible. Ultima 3 and 4 also got similar bastardizations on the NES. Though come to think of it, Dragonstrike does look like it plays a bit differently from what I remember of the PC version - if I am thinking of the same game.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Oof those Ultima games are also ones I've never played! I'm just too intimidated to settled in with them.

Wait a sequel to the flintstones...i loved the first one!

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Yep! Who would’ve known it would end up being so rare!

just discovered your channel. like everything about it. gen x in da house

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Hey thanks! I think I’m technically an “elder millennial” but who knows!

You didn't mention RC Pro Am 2, but I'm guessing it's probably in one of the other videos in the series.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

It’s not quite as rare as these ten, but I’ll definitely get to it at some point :)

Some of the most sought after games there man. So ridiculous how much they go for these days haha. My chances of ever owing a complete nes collection is slim haha

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

I definitely got ahead on some of these years ago. These days, yeah it's rough.

@Gatorade69

Жыл бұрын

Really makes you wish you had started collecting back in the early 2000s. Also makes me wish that my stepdad didn't get rid of all my video games/systems when I moved out after High School. Wish I had taken my stuff and started collecting back when things were cheap.

@The_Bad_Guy.

Жыл бұрын

@@Gatorade69 well the sad part is that I started collecting around 2011 and didn't realize that some of these games would become extremely rare and expensive. When I started collecting I went after the games I liked as a kid. Like batman, contra, ect. Games that don't have any value haha. I remember passing up a copy of bonks adventure for 200 bucks and saying 200 for a game is ridiculous.

i feel like heros of the lance only appeals to fans of the dragonlance kids books

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Yeah maybe!

@childofcascadia

Жыл бұрын

@Big Ole Words Narrator: It does not. (The NES version anyway) -an old Dragonlance fan

I also love just how utterly worthless Fred's "ducking" ability is.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

It’s the best

That is a sizeable NES collection for someone who doesn't actually know anything about what he's collected. I can't imagine going to the trouble and expense when you don't love or respect what you have.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

I’ll bite, continue your thought. What about this video or my channel makes you think I don’t love or know anything about my NES collection.

@samuraian5905

Жыл бұрын

@@BigOleWords To your statement (?), a counter-statement: the entire video is essentially built around the obscurity of these titles and cursory comments on a few moments of playing them blind. Not even a quick search to give some context or meaning, the difference between this and any random person watching a trailer is the ownership of the cartridges. Ownership with no (desire for) greater insight is just avarice. So I say this does not show even a passing interest in enlightenment, necessary to claim one loves their subject. This is strictly profit-seeking. And you killed Raistlin. Just... awful.

Would you believe me if I told you I traded an entire Xbox One console with all my games for a copy of Ducktales 2? I was also thinking man, did I get a good deal!

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

I think you won out on that one!

@jsmith3946

Жыл бұрын

Na you dumb

Oh my! This video brought back memories of the time I rented the first Godzilla game on the NES. That game was a complete POS and one that I had locked away from ever thinking about for decades until just now! Wow!

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Not sure if I should be proud or not! ;)

@Gatorade69

Жыл бұрын

I don't think It's THAT bad once you figure it out. Though I'm in the same boat. Rented it as a kid and was sad to see it that it looked like a strategy game... Until it wasn't.

🙌 the intro

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

I use to play just power blade as a kid....

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

It’s a good one!

Is that Tiny Toons cartoon maker a sequel? I lent a kid at school that cart and never got it back.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

I would say so! I'm working on a trilogies video and I'm including Cartoon Workshop in there.

Nah, I feel bad for dropping Casino Kid back then because it looks interesting 😢

@BigOleWords

7 ай бұрын

It’s way more interesting than I would’ve guessed!

Your time spent in Hillsfar sounded better than playing Skyrim, honestly.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Somehow I doubt that. I once watched my friend chop wood for two hours in that game!

@Gatorade69

Жыл бұрын

@@BigOleWords Oh ? I didn't know you were friends with Sigurd, who works for Belethor at the General goods store.

Bomberman is a maze puzzle game. ^^;

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

Is it a maze?

I PLAYED HILLSFAR IN THE 90S. IT WAS CRAZY... i kept breaking into peoples houses by picking the locks and stealing things... then getting caught. gta before gta.

@BigOleWords

Жыл бұрын

What else is there to do but break into people's houses?!

@Montork

Жыл бұрын

@@BigOleWords ride a horse. ... fight in a coliseum.. that's about it tbh.