What makes the NES library memorable to this day is the weirdness of the games.

@raplesyrup

Жыл бұрын

Conversely, what makes the switch eShop unmemorable is the ocean of shovelware, poor ports, and garbage mobile games.

@quentinparhiala9415

Жыл бұрын

your right

I remember watching a Game Chasers episode featuring the guy responsible for Action 52. I think they actually went over to his place. He sounded very proud of that cartridge.

Predator sticks out of the NES library? The same library that included Alien 3, Rambo, Dirty Harry, Die Hard, Platoon, Robocop 1-2-3, The Terminator 1-2, Total Recall, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th and more? :P Lots of cartoons & games based on R-rated movies back then.

@dieinfire920

Жыл бұрын

This. There’s two games based on SLASHER/Horror movies (friday the 13th, nightmare on elm street), but it’s predator the one that stood out? Lmaof.

@thecunninlynguist

Жыл бұрын

@@dieinfire920 well the reason they gave, I can see why. Not many games utilized 2 different game engines like that.

@chall6761

Жыл бұрын

Agree. Platoon might be the strangest of them all. Definitely the shittiest (Dirty Harry is pretty terrible, too).

@Sammo212

Жыл бұрын

Not to mention this is the decade with kids toys based on r rated movies :D

@DoomPlague

Жыл бұрын

This was my thought too. These films and games were frankly attractive to the young boys who dominated the game market at the time. I myself, despite being in a strict, religious family, remember being exposed to a lot of those things. I agree with the other comment that says Platoon is the weirdest of the bunch. That's a rather dark, serious Oliver Stone film and not quite the mainstream 80s action/horror film like the rest. Also, while not directly weird because its based on a cartoon: Toxic Crusaders. I mean, they made kids cartoon and game out of a Troma B-movie with gory violence and nudity, etc. Probably flew under the radar of a lot of parents who had never heard of the original.

My cats were not fans of Pat’s Chiller sound effect…

We need Fleamarket Madness

@theswapmeetflea

Жыл бұрын

I agree, even if they take place whatever years ago, they're still a treat and great time portal into what it used to be pre pandemic bs.

Monster Party had to be one of the craziest strange games. I used to play it with my siblings and they loved it even though it was so gruesomely weird.

Hmm, Ian found the game about not doing drugs to be "challenging" 🤔

Imagine a real Italian plumber plays Super Mario bros, and be like, WTF, this is *Weird!* , and then some random gamer be like, nah, that's normal.

@Th3Gam3925

Жыл бұрын

Then imagine an Italian plumber kidnaps a giant gorilla, and the giant gorilla's son has to go and save him.

I guess that you could call Taboo an "amusement": in the same way that you might find a fortune telling machine, at a board walk arcade.

Just the fact that you can turn off the music in Wally Bear by pressing Select makes it awesome.

Taboo needed to be on the SNES/ Genesis with upgraded graphics and sound.

Cool World never made sense as a game on any system let alone the NES

@j-morecoffeepls

Жыл бұрын

Weird movie too

@StarForceBelmont321

Жыл бұрын

@@j-morecoffeepls great soundtrack though

Some of the video games on the NES was weird and I love this video and thank you for uploading it Pat

When I was a teenager I remember the local game store having a copy of Bubble Bath Babes and it was new in box. Maybe they made their own box?

The reason that non-game software never really took off on the NES was because of the price range. A Tarot card simulator is something that had a market, but you would have expected it to be selling on the PC for about what Nintendo charged third-party sellers for a cartridge. Taboo is fun if you can find it at a yard sale for a few bucks, but I wonder if anyone who paid full price for it felt satisfied.

The only people who thought grown ups weren't playing games were marketers and really old people.

13:35 "SEEEEAALLED!!"

I hope you do a Part 2 to this. Super enjoyable video.

I love how more than half of these games more games that AVGN reviewed in classic episodes the decade ago even as far as a decade and a half ago with Wally bear on the no gang. I'm surprised you didn't mention Master chew and the drunkard who. 😂

Pat I love your videos from the bottom of my heart they make so happy. I'm happy you and ian have each other as friends. Cheers.

When I was 3-4 yeas old I was staying at my dads and I would wake up before dad was awake at like 5 or 6 in the morning and go put predator the vhs on and watch it till my dad got up. It was my favourite movie. Thats one of my earliest memories.

what the hell is the situation with color a dinosaur? it’s going to be several years before jeremy parish gets to it in nesworks but goddamn I really wanna know the backstory there. like think of all the effort that went into programming & designing the game, getting the license from nintendo, manufacturing boxes & circuit boards & plastic cases, all for a worse version of a 25¢ coloring book. is it some sort of bizarre 5th dimensional money laundering scheme? like for every other bad game I at least get why they made it & thought it would sell. for color a dinosaur I have no clue

I'm going to see Night Rider live this Monday at the New York State Fair

NECA should get the rights and finally make those cheetahmen figures.

I'm creating a cartoon. It's called, Forgotten Tales! It's about these forgotten and obscure characters that go on wacky and crazy adventures.

Somehow Chiller was one of the cabinets in the waiting area at the batting cages in River Edge, NJ in the late 80s. Would literally be on the bottom of the list of games to have at an establishment frequented 90% by kids.

I picked up a 4him - the ride CD from a flea market a few years after the first marathon. I always meant to send it in but never got around to it. I wonder if the cd is still at my house somewhere 🤔

Love Chiller 🤘 It's a mess, literally.

ok looking past the stuff like Platoon and Hudson Hawk and other R rated movies that got a NES game for some reason, the strangest game to exist on the NES imo is Gilligan's Island. The question I always ask when this game is mentioned is "Who was this made for?" Adults who watched it in the 60sas kids weren't gonna go out and get a Nintento b/c of this game and kids who were playing the NES weren't going to want a NES game based on tv show from the 60s. The game came out in 1990 and the show ended in 1967. 23 years between the game and the show ending, strange idea.

@lo1bo2

Жыл бұрын

Well, as a kid I enjoyed watching it in syndication, along with a bunch of other classic shows like The Addams Family. Must have been plenty of people like me.

@SAM-ru4vx

Жыл бұрын

TBS reruns.

@heisensaul5538

Жыл бұрын

@@lo1bo2 and I understand people would enjoy watching it in syndication back in the 80s/90s but was there really anyone who was asking for a game based on Gillian's island? lol I dont think the game itself is bad, I just think it's a weird choice to make a game out of. I remember a buddy of mine had it when he lived down the street from me and it wasn't bad, just odd.

@TheSaltySeaman

Жыл бұрын

@@SAM-ru4vx Yep, anyone with cable or like me lived in Atlanta in the 80s watched Gilligan. I rented the game, it was crap, that's all I remember.

@dieinfire920

Жыл бұрын

At least there was a cartoon called Gilligan’s Planet or something, and the game is still kind of generic. I think weirder was the game based on the three stooges, as it wasn’t that clear how to play it, and had references to black and white era episodes. Now that’s obscure.

I played the Chiller with the whole rifle setup at Game Galaxy in Tennessee. Soooo bad! I think I recognized the game from Erin Plays 😂

Zombie Nation is fucking nuts

I actually LOVE Taboo, but I come as a Tarot card user for decades, so I have a lot to base my criticism on. .Definitely NOT a "game", but incredibly interesting for what it actually is. The interpretations are...ok...but could maybe be a little better.

I grew up with the nes and didn't know about most of these

Do you have *Battletoads?* 🤔😏😆

I knew chiller would be there. So weird and such a cool thing to own because of it

Sunday Funday, wasn't it part of Wisdom Tree?

Has Pat ever mentioned what type of gamebox plastic covers he uses? I want to buy some for SNES games but they always have negative reviews for being the wrong size or breaking easily.

Platoon is still the most bizarre movie license to me.

@heisensaul5538

Жыл бұрын

yes I agree it's a weird license, but I always thought Hudson Hawk was a strange idea for a movie license game, possibly more bizarre.

Very nice 👍

I hope one day you guys will fold NES homebrews into your already large rotation of interesting retro video gaming topics. There is so much amazing work being done on the NES in this decade that I feel like your viewers would love an occasional discussion of the best of what is out there.

@pc5440

Жыл бұрын

as a viewer, no.

4-Him.....that's a group I haven't heard about in a long time...

_any_ NES game based off a R-rated movie...like Platoon 🤣😂

@thecunninlynguist

Жыл бұрын

rambo, alien, predator, terminator, T2, lethal weapon, robocop, dirty harry...geez NES has a lot lol

@Aragorn7884

Жыл бұрын

@@thecunninlynguist 😈

@heisensaul5538

Жыл бұрын

Hudson Hawk was just a weird idea all around imo.

@ccricers

Жыл бұрын

The Blues Blothers platform game

you guys rock!

Pat, no kid would want “Predator?” What are you talking about? It was like the forbidden fruit of Nintendo gaming! We loved the bad licensed games from R-rated movies that we couldn’t legally watch. You got to pretend you were older. I’d have put “Predator” along with “Total Recall.”

Nes probably has more of these gamrs then any system which makes so great

It's almost like Cheetahmen theme inspired the track "Cornered" in Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney xDDD

Predator is not weird,.. They made a toy line out of Rambo,.. i miss the 80s lol.

@namebrandmason

Жыл бұрын

Predator makes more sense than any of the games based upon Nick at Night shows. I remember being at the rental store wondering why there were games based around The Three Stooges and Gilligan’s Island. Heck, Fester’s Quest came out two years before the Addams Family movie and fifteen years after their appearance on New Scooby Doo Mysteries.

Blues brothers. A late release that came out 10+ years after the movie lol

I absolutely love Wally Bear

@jbfarley

Жыл бұрын

It's complete garbage, but somehow people still like it for some reason

No mention of Star Voyager/Cosmo Genesis?

I remember playing a game where I think you just skateboard to the right while avoiding obstacles - not saying it's a weird game but was hoping someone could possibly tell Mr what game it was

@garygorrent9917

Жыл бұрын

T and C surf design or something like that. Each time you beat the level you restarted with a longer level and had to beat it in a certain amount of time.

@toshironikko8444

Жыл бұрын

@@garygorrent9917 Yes! Thank you!

Gilligan's Island always seemed like a weird one to me.

Who someone spent $50 back then on taboo for less than 10 minutes of entertainment

When I was a kid I hated manuals and all the paper bits that come with games. I never really threw them away (unless I threw the box away). I just didn’t have the patience to open and close it carefully each time I wanted to play each game. That was one of the reasons I welcomed Nintendo going clamshell from GameCube and DS onwards although DS cases sometimes held manuals poorly, resulting in damage

I thought this topic meant game’s that have great graphics and or that you wouldn’t expect to see on the NES.

color a dinosaur, sure it was made to prob capitalize off mario paint and Jurassic park, but it was too narrow in scope and too crappy.

@notpsicoh2107

Жыл бұрын

And also features a soundtrack composed by the one and only Tommy Tallarico!

North & South. Being from the South? An awkward game to play as a kid.

Hey Pat. I want to buy your book. Where do I find it?

@jbfarley

Жыл бұрын

Google

Totally RAD

Let's go chaps, it's about to get weird. Also love to see you chaps with the game chasers.

Next one - Weird Amico games we can't believe exist! Video will end at 0:00.

The way he describes Wally bear in the no gang kind of sounds like me when I play Operation secret Storm it's a bad game it plays bad everything about it is just bad but yet I want to play it and see if I can get to the third level I think I've never gotten past the second level terrible game but always had me hooked

Not sure if people have ever heard of these NES games that I have played but are actually good (though very difficult) Airfortress and Gunnac. I rented them as a kid and I still play them as Roms, and they are pretty good, especially Gunnac. It is a bonkers game but an amazing shmup.

These don't sound officially licensed by Nintendo lol

King's Quest V - like, who the hell thought they could squeeze that game onto an NES cart, with no mouse, worse controls, fewer colors, lower resolution and worse audio. Ambitious but a complete waste of time.

Good old Jesus of Nazareth. Great guy

Ask Frank???

a lot of kids would watch r rated action movies as kids anyway. predator wasnt3 weird for the time

Chiller and Bubble Bath Babes are adult game for Adult Age 18+

@jbfarley

Жыл бұрын

Derp

holy fuck is that ian?

Why does the reselling topic always get outvoted? It’s a legit, important topic that affects all of us and has a lot of nuance to explore.

@jbfarley

Жыл бұрын

Opinions, dude, it's not an interesting topic to most people, obviously

Come on guys, for the true clickbait effect you need to put random red arrows and circles all over the thumbnail.

Toxic crusaders

Come on guys!!! The 80’s were way less sensitive!! I was born in 83 and I watched everything from chucky to die hard. Either your parents didn’t care or they were religious freaks! It seemed like no in between lol

1st!

The NES was pure blinking GARBAGE....the SMS was WAYYY better at the time...oh and the colors SUCKED..the only games worth playing on the NES were the black box games but the rest were pure garbage

These games exist on the NES?! This is the first I've heard of them. I am shocked, I mean I am shocked, that's what I mean, I am appalled.