20 NES Games Released in 1993

[@JohnRiggs]

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[@dwaynemenzies8824]

That juice you were drinking would kill me.......deathly allergic to pineapple.

[@JoHnAnDjAnEdOe81]

Dude I LOVE the tattoos you got. They are really cool. I would constantly use a sharpie to "color" on myself to see if I really wanted the tattoo and it turned out yes. I have 2 and 1 I totally regret. The 1 I absolutley love says I AM... and if you were to make it blck letters it would just be the sahdows of the letters. Wish I could put a pic here. Anyway l, welcome to the tattoo clan!

[@fitnessabcvideo]

You're a Saint. It's been a long day and it's been crap, and then your happy face pops up and I'm instantly happy watching this trove of entertainment. 🙏🏽

[@forcedfeedbackclassicgamer5499]

Ubisoft Last Crusade literally IS the Gameboy game. Code, art, everything straight up lifted from the handheld cart.

[@zooropa04]

The chibi art style worked exceptionally well for Mighty Final Fight. I loved that as a kid before I even knew what it was.

[@Kbed32]

Love the page dude, grew up playing NES (I’m 44 btw) with a tiny amount of SNES and Genesis as a teenager playing Mortal Kombat. Your page brings back a lot of great memories playing Metroid, Zelda and a game my parents bought me that was a dud but I absolutely adored in “Milons Secret Castle”. Keep up the awesome work sir!!

[@Tyler-hs9eu]

Reading your comment just made me think of AVGNs episode on milons secret castle. If you dont know him/havent seen that episode, please watch it - its hilarious

[@Kbed32]

Awesome, I’ll definitely have to check that out. Thanks for letting me know about that.

[@majors77]

Can't wait for 1990 NES games! SMB3, Little Nemo, Gremlins 2, Abadox

[@mjdf122]

1993 30 Years Ago Crazy John Riggs we’ve seen it all from 1980-Now

[@selbyjohnson5986]

it’s hard to believe it was 30 years ago.

[@ecmc6197]

I got a Super Nintendo Christmas of 1992. So by 93 my NES started to collect dust 😢

[@erneststackhouse1133]

Yoshi's Cookie is so much fun on the NES!!! Also Kirby's Adventure rocked! Put in tons of hours into those games back in the day & still do! I remember in 1993 being a babysitter for our neighbors after school & they had a NES, but the 2 boys were too young to know how to play them, so I would "teach them" & just play their NES the whole time while they watch me. I remember they really enjoyed Kirby's Adventure...Easiest babysitting job ever!

[@egocide9034]

10:06 "I just love this game, can't put my finger on why". It's the cherry cookies, John, and you know it. That's my own excuse anyway lol. Them cherry cookies are super tasty and nostalgic to me.

[@JohnRiggs]

It's true. If those were all presented in front of me, that's the one I'd grab first.

[@chrisrj9871]

1993 was when the 80s tried to be the last hurrah but people were so done with them by then! Yeah with "Indiana Jones & TLC" (lol), the movie came out when I was 9, and 1993 was when I was 13 so bringing up anything that was popular when I was 9 at that age was going to get some "you're still talking about that?" looks. Same with DuckTales. ironically, they probably would have done better on the 16 bit consoles or N64 after some years pass and 80s nostalgia starts kicking in, lol

[@aprichman]

I remember 1993 as the first year my NES felt really outdated. I was only 8 back then but after seeing Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat on the SNES and Genesis and realizing none of the games (including new games and sequels) that I wanted to play were ever coming to the NES I really lost interest in the NES and became obsessed with obtaining a Genesis or SNES.

[@janX9]

16:40 *YES,* Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a *Gameboy Port*

[@DarthSideous63]

By 1993 the NES has outlived it's lifespan.

[@mikecole6208]

Fire n’ Ice is one of my favorite NES games of all time. Additionally, the soundtrack is wonderful.

[@CasualConsoleGamerGuy]

I loved Solomon's Key growing up. Unfortunately, I had moved onto the SNES by the time Fire N' Ice came out, but I am thrilled to say, now that I'm a collector, I own a copy. I've played it a few times, and it's great!

[@intel386DX]

Dude, some of those games you listed are from 1991 and 1992!

[@iHusk]

...gonna color the phucc out of that Dinosaur.... and NOBODY CAN STOP ME!!! MWAHAHAHAHA!

[@Rocheburger]

I don’t know why, but in terms of retro consoles, I’ve always preferred games that push graphics on an older console over better graphics on a newer console. I guess it’s the novelty of seeing parallax scrolling or digitized voices on NES, whereas those would be standard features on SNES. Jurassic Park is a good example for comparison; the graphics are okay for SNES, but really good for NES, making the older version seem more impressive by the standards of the hardware.

[@mattlockwood6089]

Mighty final fight is the best beat em up on the nes

[@susanfit47]

I played the Game Boy version of DuckTales 2, but I also played the NES version, Mighty Final Fight, Yoshi's Cookie, Rollerblade Blade, Kirby's Adventure, The Ren & Stimpy Show: Buckeroo$!, Wayne's World and Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wackyland of the games on these list.

[@robertcatania1120]

Didn't get introduced to Fire N Ice until later in life and I absolutely love that game. Beaten it many times and endlessly re-playable. Definitely my favorite from this list of 1993 games.

[@luismedeiros8005]

I always wondered why there is so much flickering in Final Fight... there can be only 2 enemies on screen at the same time and the characters are not tha big... come on Capcom!

[@ShytPump]

A great detail in Yoshi's Cookie is the animation on Mario actually matching your actions. Just a neat little unnecessary touch.

[@BrianThurow-sc9ss]

I had DuckTales 2 batman returns and tiny toons 2 and Tetris 2 for nes and had Tetris 2 for snes

[@MzuMzu-nx1em]

11:26, the nes is the console of my childhood , the graphics of this game are way over the capabilities of the console, probably inside the cartridge there is the prototype of the chipsets, for enanching the performances.

[@GamingManual]

Zen Intergalactic Ninja is so overlooked! One of my personal favorites on the NES. Great video as always.

[@sailorneorune]

"I don't know if there's a bigger Yoshi's Cookie fan in the world more than I am"... CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. (Just kidding, it's not a contest.) But I will say I played the absolute heck out of this game with my dad growing up. I have all 3 versions released in North America plus the Nintendo Puzzle Collection. My Japanese GameCube has been to OMG!Con with the Puzzle Collection in tow. I still pick up and play the Game Boy version sometimes when I need to chill out.🐧

[@BDBD16]

Wasn't there a tengen Ms Pacman that was released before the namco one as well?

[@JohnRiggs]

You're right. I think it was released in 1989 or 1990. I should have mentioned it was odd they released this one a few years later.

[@natecubblyn9402]

“These 20 factor meals came out in 2023, let’s talk about them.” Jkjk love the videos

[@JohnRiggs]

Oh, I totally would.

[@selbyjohnson5986]

Some real good games in 1993! And some real heavy hitters! Too bad I missed them all since I moved on to the SNES.

[@esmerylan]

That 1993 Ms. Pac-Man release is even stranger because a much better version had already appeared on the console 3 years earlier... from Tengen! They seemed to have a pattern of this, though unlike with Tetris, their Ms. Pac-Man didn't get taken down by a legal challenge. Anyway, the Tengen version was much more arcade-accurate graphically, though it also had to scroll the mazes up and down to keep the original aspect ratio intact. It also had a ton of additional mazes, broken up into categories like "Big" and "Strange", and a turbo speed option that could be used either with a button press or just turned on permanently. It's so much better than the Namco version there's really no comparison.

[@adamking6645]

Namco's version they put ouf for the NES feels too much like a hack of their earlier Pac-Man title.

[@retrojoe85]

Like this kind of videos! Do you believe that the NES started to get really popular among kids here only in Italy only AFTER 1993? That happened because Nintendo prices were INSANE here, so we had to wait the arrival Super Nintendo to get more honest prices. At that point, NES clones started to be featured in electronic stuff and games stores, so that was THE combo for we italian kids of the 90s: NES games and...a Famiclone! I've lost the count of how many times I've rented Kirby's Adventure in the mid 90s...wow!

[@goranisacson2502]

That's an interesting perspective- in Northern Europe the NES was pretty big from the start, but I can't recall if our prices were better... or if the kronor was just stronger versus the lira.

[@retrojoe85]

​@@goranisacson2502 kronor?! Hur mår du, svensk vän? Väder är väldigt molnigt här i Italien nu så jag är lite förkyld! (I started study swedish a few months ago) Oh, the Lira's value was not so big certainly, but I was talking about the prices who were made by the italian distributor, Mattel: all their stuff was pricy as f**k back in those days! 😶

[@goranisacson2502]

I played Kirby, Ducktales 2 and Mighty Final Fight of the games on these list, really fun late lifespan games... only none of them on actual hardware or played in 1993.☠️

[@ArtificialOrangeStudios]

Like Last Crusade, that was actually the second Ms. Pac-Man game. There was a different one from Tengen that came out earlier.

[@Coolremac]

I remember renting the Tengen version in 1991.

[@ArtificialOrangeStudios]

@Coolremac it's honestly the better version

[@TheLastLineLive]

Imo the nes Jurassic Park was the best one! I think it plays smoother than the snes one and doesn’t have the terrible fps segments. And the sega master system version is the 2nd best imo, that version is quite underrated (pal only).

[@sesa2984]

Lethal Weapon seems like a great opportunity for someone like Piko to "fix" a game. If they made it true 2-player and released it for the evercade or something it could be a great game. I think about that all the time when you give almost there type reviews. We can rebuild them. We have the technology.

[@prolifik302]

I didnt know about Yoshi cookie. Tetris attack makes more sense now. Play tetris attack for the snes!

[@adamking6645]

You forget Namco's NES port of Pac-Man got a third release in 1993.

[@CasualConsoleGamerGuy]

Seeing the clips of Zen: Intergalactic Ninja makes me wonder how Konami could have gone from being one of the premier third party publishers to, well, whatever they are now. Sad.

[@StarlightMirror]

Omg I love Yoshi's Cookie! It's my favorite Puzzle game and it's in my top favorite games of all time list, Imo it should be a crime that it's not had a rerelease on modern consoles. Dr. Mario and Tetris always get one, but poor Yoshi's Cookie doesn't.

[@danbauer3669]

I have Overlord and I don't think I've ever put it in my NES.

[@MegaDeth859]

Now these are my type of Riggs videos!

[@joeyfarris2543]

1993 equals WWF

[@NwordTronPlague]

💯😂😂😂😂😂

[@teeveeparty]

Pandas rule

[@bcamp85]

Watching this video made me think of a video idea for you: video games with both an 8-bit and a 16-bit release, but the 8-bit version was actually better

[@microJUBEI]

Flex those new tattoos, John!!! Gaming ink is the best. Awesome video as always!!🎮❤️

[@se7encureton]

I’m just pumped as all get out to have rdr1 on switch now.

[@enelan619]

Love the new Ink!

[@clintonlewis1261]

I like the new tattoos !

[@istrasci]

Did you feel like a part of the game when you were playing Lethal Weapon? 🤣

[@JohnRiggs]

Playing Lethal Weapon makes me wanna change my name.

[@SpecialAgentEBunny]

@@JohnRiggsi generally don’t actually laugh at comments, but this one was gold! That game is terrible!

[@richardjenkins128]

Another great video

[@DAportfolio]

I was way into POGS in ‘93

[@HiNRGboy]

Last great year of the 2D era and the beginning of the new era of 3D... I stopped caring about the new 3D heavy systems coming out and started collecting for my old ones ^_^

[@fentazen2677]

I think it’s a shadow, but it always looks to me like the Lethal Weapon game gave Danny Glover a mullet too.

[@mjdf122]

1993 was a good year for the NES Genesis Neo Geo SNES and Sega CD

[@Pixelmusement]

I received Bubble Bobble Part 2 as a birthday gift way back when it was brand new, have had it ever since, and it wasn't until way later in life when I realized its value shot through the freaking roof! Also, to put the finger on why it feels so off compared to the original, it's because it's a lot more "scripted". There's way fewer powerups and you usually find the same ones in the same spots, whereas in the original game the powerups were much more wild and there were many more, thus it never played the same way twice! :D

[@yellowmelow25]

Thanks for the info I always felt that the sequel felt off but not quite sure why, something g with the movement and the framerate

[@Lordjunon]

I loved overlord as a kid. Now trying to play it again I have no idea What the fork i'm doing.

[@BhChicagoTVStationhistoriesand]

You were dead on about Tiny Toon Adventures 2, what you said about it echoes my sentiments about it exactly! Everything from Konami back then…we just took them for granted. Every time you saw the Konami logo on a box you knew you’d get that high quality in every way experience-you couldn’t go wrong with them! Pretty much all their games based on licensed characters were fantastic. When the first NES Tiny Toons game came out, it was a really pleasant surprise-it was a heavily Mario inspired game that although it didn’t do anything ground breaking we hadn’t seen before it did what it did very well! Sold great and was a surprise hit for Konami. I remember reading in a magazine they were doing a sequel and was excited for it! I still don’t know how to feel about that sequel to this day 30 years later John, I truly don’t. It’s absolutely got that great Konami high quality we came to expect from them. Great graphics, good sound, controls pretty well. The issue is what you said, the approach the concept. I give em credit, the direction they took it in was gutsy but like you I feel it should have just been a traditional platformer sequel. I really feel at least the first Game Boy Tiny Toons game should have been developed for the NES instead as Tiny Toons 2 and Wackyland could have been done later if they were heartset on it.

[@MotherKojiro]

Hot take: DuckTales 2 is almost every inch a better game than its predecessor, and I'm including the soundtrack.

[@JohnRiggs]

removing nostalgia goggles, I agree.

[@Caolan114]

Nintendo wanted the NES to be the kids system, the system an older brother gave to the younger sibling when the Super Nintendo came out hence the NES jr and color a dinosaur

[@aldoushuxleysghost]

Didn't Mega Man 6 release in 1993? Anywho, many of these late releases fetch really high prices today

[@BetterThanDoomWithAZ]

Beat 'Em Ups are better with more than one player but you can't do it for Batman because then you'd have kids arguing over who gets to be Batman. Little brothers all over 90s America would've lived in a state of perpetual sadness over being forced to play as Robin.

[@thefunkdroid2777]

If both can pick Ryu in Street Fighter, both should be able to pick different colored Batmans too!

[@charyche1]

Your consistent content uploading is awesome thanks for the entertainment.

[@FreneticZetetic]

No BT&DD?!

[@JohnRiggs]

I think this was 1993, too. I didn't talk about all of them. This totally could have been on the list.

[@davehollis4258]

Is Overlord just Gemfire in space? Never played, but kinda looks like it.

[@DaBigCheeso]

Zen Intergalactic Ninja was that really cool looking game I saw in comics but never found at Blockbuster. Also one of the first I emulated in the late 90s cause I'd always wanted to try it.

[@ramblinjay3816]

Just downloaded Kid Klown on my analogue pocket. THanks!

[@ThatOneDude219]

Fire and Ice is such a great game

[@fazares]

cool video as usual...kirby's adventure is my favourite one out of these 1993 releases

[@jonnypipes3305]

does John have a BLUE SLIME tattoo referencing Dragon warrior????

[@crono_8398]

I wish we could get a bomberman collection. None if those old games are available. Why? Theres a really cool one on 64 in japan only, most snes games are japan only, and none are on a store. Why?

[@catholicactionbibleonlyist1813]

1993 the year I got my NES (used )

[@tommyozzy317]

Literally just picked up Color a Dinosaur couple days ago. Knocking out a few heavy hitters recently. Lots to go.

[@russcarter2422]

Wait, are you from the Tri-Cities?

[@Ephesians-yn8ux]

I want to go back in time

[@feliciajohnson6350]

lovely video 🌼😄

[@travtuck7646]

I couldn't care less what NES was doing after I got my super NES. Besides Kirby. That's the one exception.

[@Rob_1776]

Honestly when it came to games! That had 2 players on the screen at the same time! I never really, got into! Like that because it seemed like one of you really sucked! And you blamed the other one for not being good enough! Especially in a game like Contra, Just saying!

[@Rountree1985]

You should probably take a grammar class.

[@Walkeranz]

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[@Rob_1776]

@@Rountree1985 You should probably mind your own business!

[@kingofcapp]

​​@@Rountree1985🙂 fellow grammar Nazi. Subject. Predicate. Object.

[@HarriHaffi]

These are cool! Gotta watcb em all

[@PhillipJackson-rl5ty]

Fun memories 😄

[@treycunningham6063]

Trust me.he seoeaostand repeats himself eeoeaoss himself

[@panutalus]

Can hardly believe that you didn't mention Battletoads and double dragon. Literally the greatest beat'em up game with 2 player co-op on NES. Everything was done so well into absolute perfection and extremely well balanced challenge compared to original battletoads. For some reason, both the SNES and Genesis versions do not feel as great as NES version because you can see and feel how they pushed NES to the limits, yet on Genesis and SNES they just made it by obligatory. SNES looks better than Genesis but other than the good soundtrack, it is lacking so much and feels so rushed and lazy. Particulary I don't understand why the sound effects were so minimal. Everytime when I try each one, it's always the NES version that is just so much more fun to play. It's so weird how it feels like the NES was original and SNES and Genesis were just generic ports.

[@chiefjay6559]

Those tattoos new ?

[@daviddonnell2153]

I think the developer should have called it pac-woman

[@spoonshiro]

Ultima 5 is a classic on computers but the NES port is one of the worst RPGs of all time. Seriously disgraceful.

[@ryline666]

Dude, it’s pronounced turmeric, not “tumoric”

[@treycunningham6063]

Comhimk

[@kuruptein]

Final. Fight isnt 2 player I thought..or the one for tthe NES is..your probably right lol havent played the NES one in a bit

[@jamesmoss3424]

I play Zen Intergalactic Ninja 🥷 at blockbuster video when I was a kid and it's great. 😀👍🎮