Reviewing *ALL 50* Konami NES Games!

Konami and Ultra Games were prolific publishers for the Nintendo NES. Most of their games are AMAZING, but there's also some good ones and terrible ones as well. In this video I review all 50 games that were released for the North American NES. Which ones do you like the best?
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[@GregsGameRoom]

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[@pinebarrenpatriot8289]

I cant imagine the 80's without the Castlevania games, Contra, Double Dribble, Blades of Steel just to name a few and I didnt even own an NES at the time.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Without Contra and Super C I’d be far less interested in the NES!

[@wes773105333]

It's not controversial to dislike the NES version of Metal Gear. It's a port of the MSX game with really bad localization. It is riddled with Engrish phrases like "I feel asleep." The Metal Gear series didn't really take off until Metal Gear Solid on the PlayStation.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Ha, I figured it was retroactively beloved because of the PSX version. ;-)

[@SockFullOfCatLitter]

It's not just bad localization, it's an entirely different game. The game was redesigned and not cared for by the original creator.

[@wes773105333]

@@SockFullOfCatLitter yea, for some reason they changed so many things during localization that they're more or less 2 different games. They share a lot of the same map layout, but a lot has been moved around or changed completely. Some of the game mechanics were changed too. It's kind of crazy that they put in quite a bit of extra work to bring it to the West and completely butchered the translation. With a proper English translation patch, I don't think the game is bad, just different. The reason to pay the MSX over the NES version is to experience the game as Kojima intended.

[@Bloodreign1]

In the US maybe, in Japan, the MSX version was pretty popular, hence why it got an MSX sequel, then the series shifted to the infamous PS1 version.

[@user-or6yn8pm3c]

Metal Gear didn't become AAA until it came on the Playstation as MGS.

[@wackyworldofwindios3476]

Good Sunday morning.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Time for lunch!

[@alexgut1everything]

And Good Night from other side of Atlantic🙃

[@Makeshift_Mulder]

Bucky's comic is actually awesome; "Echoes of Future Past." It was the first time I had ever heard a phrase like that and now you see it in things like X-Men. The artwork was beautiful and strange. Such an awesome, underseen gem.

[@GregsGameRoom]

The game is great! Never seen the comic…

[@owlbelieveit6811]

They also had action figures and a cartoon. The cartoon only ran one season but I enjoyed it.

[@IllegallySighted]

Agree with most of these games, and learned about a couple I hadn't played before. I loved Jackal though. I actually like the unique mechanic of always shooting the machine gun up, but being able to launch grenades and such in any direction. It makes it easier to attack enemies in multiple directions. I remember not liking overhead style games as much compared to sides strollers, but loved this one.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Only shooting upwards totally confuses me!

[@SevenCompleted]

​@@GregsGameRoomthink of the machine gun as your secondary weapon

[@hans784]

I loved silent service. Awesome weekend rental

[@GregsGameRoom]

To each his own!

[@udance4ever]

what did you love about the game?

[@eversosleight]

A juggernaut of NES publishers. Great upload my friend!

[@RobsRetroGaming]

Nice video! LOVE most all Konami games!!!

[@GregsGameRoom]

Contra, Super C, Castlevania... How can you go wrong?

[@MisterDozer]

New subscriber, I like your stuff. You have to give Jackal some more time, one of my NES faves. Really fun with 2 players too.

[@CokerCulture]

Really enjoyed this video! Brought back so much nostalgia for me and games that I totally forgot about. That TMNT game & Contra were two of my absolute favs as a kid.

[@GregsGameRoom]

They were frankly amazing! Well, mostly…

[@CokerCulture]

@@GregsGameRoom when you disliked a game, you didn’t hesitate at all to let us know 😂😂

[@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145]

BaseWars, Cyberball & BallBlazer are all spiritual kin in a way; future versions of sports using robots (ok teckmhnically Ballblazer are hovercraft but if you didnt read the instructions youd think they were robots)

[@GregsGameRoom]

I can see that.

[@rydog11]

Great reviews. I enjoy your approach to showing footage and going a bit deeper without focusing too much on any one game.

[@SinistarPro_Mike]

I remember spending a good number of my allowances on the Konami library. Some great titles, but yeah, I ended up getting a few stinkers in the process. Excellent video my friend. 👍

[@GregsGameRoom]

Konami was the best! Wish they would focus on new console games…

[@MoviemaniaNick]

Awesome list! I played most of these games as a kid. TMNT Arcade, Contra and Super C and Transylvania are my favorites!

[@udance4ever]

assume u mean Castlevania! 🦇

[@MoviemaniaNick]

@@udance4ever Yes

[@blackenedheart9592]

My dad use to play the hell out of Silent Service lol. Me being a little kid, I couldn't get into it at all. He loved military vehicles and anything involving world war 2 so he was drawn to games like that and flight simulators. He even loved Top Gun on the NES which again, I just couldn't figure out that well and get into. Lol.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Top Gun isn’t too bad. SS is just very dull.

[@blackenedheart9592]

@@GregsGameRoom I agree. It was so boring watching him play it.

[@B33FY2011]

I feel that Castlevania II: Simon's Curse gets a bad wrap because of the AVGN review. I think it's way underrated.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Probably true. I personally don’t find it compelling.

[@owlbelieveit6811]

It's pretty good once you get the game down but I've only gotten two of the three endings. The best ending I can't run through the game anywhere near that fast.

[@udance4ever]

it's just a different format if you're used to the original (which got revived in III)

[@Bloodreign1]

Chances are, if the game had an Ultra label, sometimes the game was just someone elses game that Konami ported to the NES. Skate or Die, Ski or Die, Carmen San Diego (that one had the Konami name and silver box of the era), Defenders of the Crown, and Silent Service were other companies games, Konami just happened to port them over. In Q*berts case, Konami licensed the arcade game in Japan, so they had the rights at the time, and ported the NES version under the Ultra label.

[@alexshadowfax1119]

Never heard anyone say anything bad about kings of the beach or pirates, it's nice to hear different opinions, I mean you're obviously wrong but it's still nice lol

[@Bloody-Butterfly]

“Hit the pan”!

[@GregsGameRoom]

What does it mean?

[@Bloody-Butterfly]

@@GregsGameRoom Blades of Steel. Just making fun of the commentator.

[@broken1394]

Hit the puck! Glad to hear something positive for Batman Returns, I've played it quite a bit. A solid NES Beat em up. My favourite NES Konami game is OG Castlevania.

[@joeboo8626]

Silent Service was a fun little game. It's a lethal version of hide n seek. I mostly pllayed it 30 years ago. It doesn't hold up much today. Konami was the best publisher outside of Nintendo, with Capcom not far behind.

[@jdiluigi]

I'm biased because i owned it. But Skate or Die was very enjoyable once i played it a bunch. Jam and Race were impossible untill i figured out how to control them. Then they were the best parts. You have to tap left or right repeatedly to turn i think. My brothers and I would compete for high scores.

[@coryjohnson22]

Monster in my pocket was my favorite game growing up

[@blackenedheart9592]

Speaking of Mario and Tiny Toons lol. I have a bootleg copy of that game called Super Bros 6! Lol. It's the exact same Tiny Toons game only Buster Bunny's sprite is swapped out for a Mario 3 one and it actually plays really well and feels like a Mario game in a way.

[@GregsGameRoom]

LOL, the those pirate games crack me up!

[@blackenedheart9592]

@@GregsGameRoom I love them 🤣 I have another one on a famicom cartridge called Super Bros. Mario 16 lol. It's the nes game Whomp Em only with Mario in it! Lol. It was alot cheaper than the actual Whomp Em NES cart lol

[@robertanderson2898]

Liked & Subbed! I love Konami games, one of the best companies ever.

[@udance4ever]

too bad they lost their mojo...

[@udance4ever]

@17:54 lol on the Apple ][e - that IS the whole game called Swashbuckler! we'd love to boot it up in the computer room at school!

[@54raynor]

It’s fun to play The Goonies 2.

[@joesshows6793]

I think you may be onto something with needing Nintendo power to play some of these games. I’m not sure how’d you figure out castlevania 2 with out it!

[@GregsGameRoom]

Haha, exactly. Those games should have come with the copy of Nintendo Power to help you figure it out!

[@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145]

As kids we used to jokingly call Konami games Commie ganes & rge Nintendo the Nofriendo (No-Friend-o) 😂 No i don't know why we did 😅

[@GregsGameRoom]

LOL

[@joesshows6793]

10:52 jackal is bad???? Oh dear.

[@GregsGameRoom]

Not bad, just flawed.

[@paulwilliams9381]

Never heard of Bucky O'Hare outside of the NES game?? It's way better than it deserves to be? Maybe you should go and check it out - Bucky is legendary! ... I'm not sure I can trust your judgement..

[@nemanjamilosevic1370]

I love turtles manhatan project

[@teddym2808]

I think ABCDEF was a better system, just my opinion. Not that I won't keep watching, just my 2c.

[@treyjohnson4035]

Sega genesis did a better Pirates and the Starflight one is good too

[@pinebarrenpatriot8289]

Konami releases on the Sega Genesis were better than their SNES counterparts. I like both consoles but just saying.

[@GregsGameRoom]

I don’t doubt the Genesis versions are better!

[@T___Brown]

On defenders of the crown, if you get really good at raiding its a cakewalk to win. Kinda ruined the game lol

[@EsmeAmelia]

Yeah, it was difficult to figure out what to do in Castlevania 2 back in the day, but now we live in the 21st century when you can just look up a walkthrough online. The game really isn't bad once you know what to do (and even James Rolfe has admitted since making the AVGN review that he doesn't actually hate the game).

[@asa-punkatsouthvinland7145]

Gradius aparently is an Engrish.. aparently the intent was to call it Gladius after the Roman infantry sword but many Asians have trouble differentiating between L & R sounds so Gladius became Gradius. Gladius is normally pronounced in English as Glad-e-us but in Latin its more like Glād-eye-ūs (ūs is pronounced like -oose in goose)

[@GregsGameRoom]

Great, now I’ll be calling it Gladius!

[@gertytk5528]

It's actually not Engrish in this case. It's really just Gradius, even if gladius is also a thing.

[@chuckufarlie8215]

​@@gertytk5528 No, he was accurate. It was Gladius, and they engrished it to gradius like he said. It was describing the shape of the ship. Now it is a word, yes, but only because of that process so that is meaningless to consider in the context of explaining specifically the reason the pronunciation is Grad (like college graduate) eous, like erroneous statement. That context is exactly the pertinent information to address the confusion over the pronunciation.

[@gertytk5528]

​@@chuckufarlie8215 The Gradius creator has specifically said that it is Gradius, and it's just a coincidence that it could also be interpreted as engrish from gladius. Gradius is the name of the planet, the ship is Vic Viper. Besides if it really was just engrish, surely they would have corrected that at some point. Instead to this day, even the last game in the series is called Gradius.

[@chuckufarlie8215]

@@gertytk5528 The name of the planet shit is all press junket hype. Yes, it's always been Gradius. And the Gladius story was from people at Konami too. I believe the marketing team. The autuer bullshit they sell you fan boys is a joke. It's engineering, not story telling. All that "I wanted ti tell a story..." is complete fucking ad hoc made up tripe. Nice try, though. Yeah, I've heard the shit they say. I will never believe any of these celebrity video game directors over the business guys especially the ones on the US end after they quit because you can't ever break kayfabe in Japan, but sure... it's school yard rumors that came from nowhere, good thing the real imagineer has put that to rest. Na, I'd need something more than an internet Google searchers proof, sorry. Seen too much in real life to unsee from one of those charlatans goofy sales pitch bullshit, thanks. I'm sure he wanted ti make the world better with his products and raise awareness and all that shit too. Cooool.

[@IcedFreon]

You have Skate or Die, Skate or Die, but no Skate or Die 2??? Man cmon. Lol I used to listen to the title screen for like 20 minutes

[@GregsGameRoom]

That was developed and published by EA.

[@IcedFreon]

@@GregsGameRoom woops I didn't read the wiki far enough. Good morning!

[@zparklebugz424]

The crappy 8-bit voice samples saying the titles of Bayou Billy, Double Dribble and Blades of Steel!🤦🏼‍♀️😅 ...video games sure have come a long way!🤷🏼‍♀️

[@KrunchyTheClown78]

This just makes me bitter about the whole 80s Nintendo domination. I personally prefer the Atari 7800. Now excuse me while I brood in the corner. 😒

[@GregsGameRoom]

LOL, well maybe that homebrew for 7800 Castlevania will materialize one day. ;-)

[@KrunchyTheClown78]

@@GregsGameRoom fingers crossed!

[@udance4ever]

​@@GregsGameRoomCastlevania AGA is coming along nicely & in beta!

[@travisedwards3543]

7:54 Because your character is based off the character of a movie where that character is an average boy. Not batman or even the likes of a musclebound militant character like in conta. Mix (presumably) the developers desire to be canonical w the nes' tech limitations and it should have made perfect sense why the character looked so basic and maybe failed to meet your expectations visually.

[@travisedwards3543]

By the way thanks for the video. I enjoyed it and subbed to your channel. 👍