NES Games No One Played: THE LONE RANGER (NES | Nintendo Entertainment System Review)

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After years of focusing on the best games for the NES, I decided to change gears and focus on lesser known cartridges that have, for one reason or another, generally escaped the public discussion and general nostalgia. This series highlights many of the relatively unknown, obscure, and unloved titles in the Nintendo Entertainment System's library. Some of these games are at best mediocre. Many are painfully bad, some of the worst NES games around. Most are hilarious for all the wrong reasons! Occasionally, OCCASIONALLY, a handful of them are actually good, borderline hidden gems.
While you won't find any of these on the NES Classic, some of these titles have managed to make their way onto the Nintendo Switch, so if you don't have an original Nintendo console or ROMs escape you ethically or technologically, there are several ways to play them.
Want more? Me too! Until then, lots of other articles where the pictures don't move and words have to be read can be found on my website: top100nesgames.com
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[@Catastrophic-hk3mh]

As a kid in the 80s I can tell you retro tv shows were popular. Cable television was still young and there were alot of channels that showed these old shows. I had the 3 Stooges game and it was excellent. I wish I would have played Lone Ranger

[@singthelongswansong]

Yeah those shows were like the modern day office…. Still popular 2 decades-ish after their peak

[@xHarpua]

I remember watching giligans island with my great grandmother whenever I stayed home from school.

[@jamesconroy7030]

Just like 80s nostalgia is popular now, 50s nostalgia was insanely popular in the 80s.

[@mh43]

I didn't have cable as a kid in the 80s and network TV ran a lot of old shows after school and Saturday afternoon.

[@robinfrederick3020]

I had this game as a kid in the early 90s, it was pretty cool but super hard. The Lone Ranger wasn't that obscure of a character either, I'd grew up watching old Westerns at both my grandparents places and most of my friends had heard of him. Mostly we played the shooting gallery game in the town as a change pace from Duck Hunt.

[@EpicLebaneseNerd]

i hate to name drop, but between this channel, nesfriend and snesdrunk, i am quickly starting to have a slight inclination towards this channel, very nice, very engaging, the content creator here is ultra friendly and does interact with the audience in the comments, and most of all, the dude has some great taste in games...also, high quality production as well as content, really get super excited when new videos come out, keep it up my man.

[@Dorelaxen]

Come check out his Thursday night live streams. He always picks out a super hard game to play and spends most of the time slowly descending into madness as the unreal difficulty crushes his soul. All while still being super friendly and chill. Seriously, though, it's a fun time!

[@CrypticCocktails]

Always great to help a smaller channel! They answer comments and are grateful, generally. You eventually learn to not read comments 😂

[@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments]

I agree. I also like SNESDrunk and NESfriend. If you need another nice, cool retro gamer to check out checkout Burst Error. He also streams and I think does some speed running stuff.

[@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments]

I have a similar taste, I enjoy SNESDrunk and NESfriend. Check out Burst Error too for more retro goodness. Also if you like PS1 games check out Sean Seanson. Both are great.

[@BigOleWords]

@@Dorelaxen Hahaha that is not how I thought of myself streaming, but it's pretty accurate!

[@legionaireb]

Among the many shows created by Filmation during this era was a Lone Ranger cartoon. Kids may have known the Ranger from that.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

The Lone Ranger cartoon came out in 1980, so I would think the more recent live action movie would be the reason for the game. However, I wouldn't rule out the cartoon. Most Filmation cartoons were done entirely in the USA. The Lone Ranger is the lone exception, being outsourced to Toei in Japan. I wonder if the cartoon was released in Japan, too. The reason that a Wacky Races game exists is because that show is very popular in Japan. The game's title screen even uses the theme song from the Japanese dub of the show. So something like that could've happened with The Lone Ranger.

[@GoodVibeCollecting]

"I have no idea". Pretty much my response to all of life's questions. I think the reason why the NES had several games based on old tv shows from 60's was not only were they considered retro at the time, but they were in syndication as well which meant kids watched them as well. A great way for parents to bond with their kids and a clever way to sell games.

[@GermanPeter]

4:45 Ironically, this issue could have been avoided by taking another page out of classic Westerns - giving bad guys black hats :P If it works for black and white TV, it also works for the NES!

[@BigOleWords]

Haha that would’ve been helpful!

[@HylianFox3]

What really gets me about this game is how it's like 3 different genres (top-down action-RPG, side-scrolling platformer, first person FPS) and actually manages to be pretty darn good at all of them. And it has a kickass soundtrack. "HI-YO SILVER, AWAY!"

[@BigOleWords]

Agreed!

[@stephenclements6158]

Lone Ranger episodes were still on TV back then, so kids could have known about it.

[@diamondsmasher]

Children weren’t asking for these. Grandparents just bought them for their birthdays. How do I know? Jack Nicklaus golf, that’s how.

[@BigOleWords]

haha that game has amazing music though!

[@roguerifter9724]

Hey I saw my first Star Trek movie in a theater before I saw the first house I lived in during the mid-80s and watched reruns of the original TV series and the 70s animated series when I was a kid. Also the original TV series may have ended but the NES era was when most of the movies with the original series cast were made, And I watched re-runs a lot of Gilligan's island a lot as a kid as well.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

Yeah, I watched those shows all the time as a kid. The Star Trek game was made for the 25th anniversary of the show. In addition to the NES game, there were also versions for other systems. I was aware OF The Lone Ranger and his theme song, "Hi ho Silver, AWAY!", Tonto, "Kemosabe", but to this day I have never seen an episode of the show or any of the movies.

[@thetexasinstrumentsmassacre]

There’s a few reasons these weird licensed games exist: because these properties were already outdated as you said, the license rights could be purchased rather inexpensively. You’re gonna get The Lone Ranger or Gilligan for pennies on the dollar compared to Indiana Jones or Star Wars. But also those properties have big name recognition and nostalgia among older generations who might be buying a game for a young relative. A WWII vet recognizes The Three Stooges but will probably have a hell of a time figuring out what a “Faxanadu” is. Lots of those shows were in syndication well into the 90s as well, when I was a kid in the 80s there was still a ton of TV from the 60s-70s still airing

[@ZacHawkins42]

My favorite Lone Ranger media is a Far Side comic where years after his retirement he finds out that 'kemosabe' actually means 'soggy tumbleweed' and realizes Tonto was insulting him all that time.

[@Marzimus]

My favorite Far Side is when a professor makes a helmet to translate dog barks. They are all saying "hey, hey, hey.." 😂

[@ZacHawkins42]

@@Marzimus Loved that comic. Sad he stopped cause of the crazy stalker.

[@mattalan6618]

@@ZacHawkins42 is that why he quit? i thought he had just retired or ran out of ideas

[@HylianFox3]

I thought the Far Side comic translated "kemosabe" as "a horse's rear end"

[@Marzimus]

@@mattalan6618 I put Gary Larson in the same boat as Bill Watterson - talents lost early to circumstance..

[@lennywright5655]

I love NES had so many games based off of old syndicated shows being aired. I wish you got more stuff like that now, I’d play a Seinfeld, The Office or Fresh Prince of Belair game 😂

[@BigOleWords]

They’d have to do some time traveling for The Office!

[@ice_cube8302]

Alright tbf we grew up with dads who liked all these properties so we in turn liked them. My dad liked stooges, I like stooges. My dad liked gilligans island, I liked it. The one you didn't mention was Platoon which. . by extension was not only a wildly difficult game as a child it was also the first call of duty type game that taught me that shooting foreigners was dope.

[@leefischer5814]

Dude, you can put 5 generation s of men in a room with the 3 stooges on and they'll all be laughing(I know from first hand experience) while most women wonder why we watch that "dumb stuff". The Three Stooges is a right of passage. Though, my old man never liked Star Trek or Universal Horror flicks and I like them, but I see where you are coming from.

[@rayceeya8659]

Actually I was a kid in the 80s and I would have been all over that Star Trek Game.

[@BigOleWords]

You were the secret target audience ;)

[@mattx449]

It’s actually a pretty good game

[@lessthankate]

Ginger being left out of the Gilligan game for being "too sexy" is still the funniest example of NES era morality.

[@mightyfilm]

Is that true? I thought it was because the actress refused to participate and refused her likeness. Kind of like how her character was voiced by someone else when they made that dumb cartoon series. Or am I thinking about someone else?

[@BigOleWords]

I didn't notice that! How strange.

[@danielmccormick700]

​@@mightyfilmThe Ginger actress had no say about her character or likeness after she declined to return for the reunion movies & the producers recast her role. Frankly I doubt any of the other actors had any control over their likenesses in the game either.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

@@mightyfilm I think Dawn Wells voiced both Mary Ann and Ginger in the cartoons. A different actress played Ginger in the reunion movies, but she was blonde! Tina Louise didn't return for reunion movies because she wanted more financial compensation, and Sherwood Schwartz refused. The cast didn't get any royalties from reruns of the show, so she wanted the cast to get some of that money as a condition of her participation. She got along fine with the other cast members, but not Schwartz. I don't know why the character was left out of the game, though, but I would assume it was related to all this stuff.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

@@BigOleWords And now she's the only one who's still alive. : ( The game intro should've just shown everyone else and then said, "and the rest". (Yes, I know "the rest" were The Professor and Mary Ann.)

[@davidpa9266]

There's a Far Side comic: "The Lone Ranger, long since retired, makes an unpleasant discovery." He's sitting there reading an Apache dictionary and thinking: "Here it is, Kemosabe: Apache expression for a horse's rear end. What the hey?"

[@BigOleWords]

Haha

[@bluedistortions]

He made a sequel. The Lone Ranger, bandaged up and on crutches, hands a blindfold to the clerk at the counter: "Hey, isn't this thing supposed to have some holes in it?!"

[@Daniel-jk7pe]

Thats hilarious​@@bluedistortions

[@AyumuNarumi75]

Golgo 13 is probably the closet game to have that many different kinds of gameplay levels. It had side scrolling fighting, the annoying 3d map sections, zapper like sections (but I don't think you could use the zapper), flying combat levels, and underwater levels.

[@BigOleWords]

Yep that’s a good parallel!

[@JohnSmith-zw8vp]

Like the manual reads, the Lone Ranger is human, not some superhero in tights and a cape!

[@BigOleWords]

Hahaha

[@Jim_S.]

I was a child of the 80's, probably about your age. Between Nick at Nite and TBS, I fed myself a steady diet of old TV. This is why I asked my grandmother for Fester's Quest. I was too young to realize the shortcomings of Fester's Quest and loved it. However, I distinctly remember being a little older, playing it for like two hours straight, finally getting to the spaceship, dying within a few minutes, and being sent back to the very beginning...I never played it again.

[@RemoWilliams1227]

We would not have fought over the remote much I think.

[@Jim_S.]

@@RemoWilliams1227 Probably... as I also remember my brother and I checking out Remo Williams on vhs from the library.

[@RemoWilliams1227]

@@Jim_S. 💪

[@carn9507]

This is a cool game I played from time to time when I first got into emulation. Also related, I have a scar through one of my eyebrows from when I was 3 years old and had one of those wheeled horse ride-along thingies and I was at the top of the stairs and my mum was at the bottom on the hallway phone (back when you had to use the phone where it was installed, rather than carry it around with you). And I yelled "'Hi-yo Silver" as if I was the lone ranger, pulling the horse up (onto it's rear wheels like Silver the horse would raise up on it's hind legs), the wheels slipped and the whole thing went down the stairs pulling me with it and I got sent to hospital. I like to assume my mum ended the call quickly after I hit the bottom of the stairs. :D

[@alkristopher]

Dude, I've beaten this game--and it is LEGIT! Yeah, I've noticed a trend where, if it existed as a thing, then it had to be made for the NES. I suppose that was part of the system's goofy charm, though. You'd get your Mega Men and Merrios and Guardian Legends, but then you'd see Gilligan at the rental store, or Tom Sawyer, and you'd be like, "WAHT?" But I think most of us just accepted it back then, though I can't imagine too many kids rushing out to buy them (even though the Star Trek game was surprisingly legit). When you think about it, that weird, esoteric outside-the-box licensed quirkiness never went away. Yeah, you still have your SpongeBob or My Little Pony shovelware, but then you see something like Jay and Silent Bob Mall Brawl, the South Park RPGs, countless Evil Dead games, or even The Witcher (which was a novel series first), and a little part of you smiles.

[@BigOleWords]

That's true, even in modern times there's lots of weird media being made into games.

[@dieinfire920]

One of those games I missed back in the day. Never saw it for sale, never saw it for rent, and never saw it mentioned on any game magazine. Finally got to play it and finished during the pandemic, and it was a great ride (no pun intended), it still has that Konami label but sadly it is very difficult specially near the end of the game. It’s too easy to die unless you learn the game on its fullest. This is one of those cases where you really needed some extra lives. But the game IS a lot of fun!!

[@BigOleWords]

Totally agree, the difficulty is kinda overwhelming as the game goes on

[@leefischer5814]

Totally in agreement with ya. Apparently it just got a short blurb in Pak Watch in Nintendo Power I believe, but like you I never seen nor heard of it till like 15 years ago and thought I spent a bundle with it priced at $20, but seeing the price nowadays I feel pretty smart.

[@Elucidus]

"There's really nothing else to do but walk around and have the same pointless conversations over and over." That's my retirement plan.

[@teddyboukagain9985]

That’s a good plan.

[@AFFL1CTED1]

Here my dumbass thought, "Cool, I'll pick up a copy on Ebay, shouldn't be too expensive, right?"

[@BigOleWords]

Yeahhhhhhh...

[@bluedistortions]

Sad I gave my copy away 😭 One of the few titles you really can't emulate, you need a CRT and light gun.

[@cubey]

​@@bluedistortions You can emulate with a CRT. Not difficult.

[@bluedistortions]

@@cubey and use light guns and everything? Didn't know that!

[@chrisharris7931]

Kids that grew up in the 70s and 80s were into all kinds of pop culture that was 40-50 years old...Cartoons, Three Stooges/Little Rascals. We grew up with reruns of classics and weren't afraid to watch things that didn't come out yesterday.

[@bluedistortions]

Yep!

[@brendanfalvy1281]

Exactly! Who are they making a Yogi Bear film for in 2010?

[@BigOleWords]

A very valid question. My guess is the answer being that he’s a cheap but vaguely familiar property and thus little risk for lazy producers

[@raym1477]

An overlooked gem, from Konami's golden age. The soundtrack is so slept on.

[@BigOleWords]

Agreed, this one is a jammer!

[@thenewnostalgia]

They made a game about the band from Airheads? Neat!

[@BigOleWords]

Heyo!

[@mightyfilm]

Only because it was shown at the beginning, I'm still surprised that Tom and Jerry wasn't a game developed by a Japanese game producer. They are HUGE in Japan, and consistently at that. They even sold refrigerators over there. They still sell weird stuff like ramen and cheese flavored chocolate (no kidding). Of course, they were always rerun over in the states and to this day get weird DTV movies. Lone Ranger may have only been a game due to the level of 50's and 60's nostalgia from the 80's.

[@mattikuokkanen]

Bandits may survive a shot from cheaper bullet. Silver bullet is always 1-hit-kill and pass a foe to hit another behind.

[@BigOleWords]

Ahhhh I see

[@mikeypops73]

I am a child of the '80s. When you know uou know.

[@tw7086]

My 5 year old and I just discovered and were playing this game this morning! From what little we played, I was pleasantly surprised. Felt like an action RPG.

[@BigOleWords]

Serendipity! And yeah it feels like that, butttt….

[@carn9507]

@@BigOleWords don't zelda 3 and illusion of time feel like action rpgs but don't have much rpg stats stuff?

[@JOJOAC]

Most of us know the theme of the Lone Ranger by how much it was parodied in cartoons.

[@BigOleWords]

That is true. Most of what I knew about Casablanca was also from old cartoons

[@elgatofelix8917]

What version of the NES is that you have @ 1:13 ? Never seen that before. BTW this game looks great! Thanks for uploading this. Never knew this existed. Love the varied gameplay.

[@BigOleWords]

That is the AVS which outputs in HD, can play any region, has a built in Game Genie, and more. It’s rules.

[@elgatofelix8917]

@@BigOleWords sounds fantastic! Hopefully I can find one on eBay :)

[@michaelcosta1854]

Love that you use a Mr.Show audio clip in opening awesome!

[@BigOleWords]

I love that it brings the Mr Show fans out of the woodwork :)

[@frozentunadeluxe3163]

Loved this game as a kid. You totally nailed how it felt. Awesome job!

[@stevejones9905]

That's always been my rule. If someone is shooting at me, they are the bad guy.

[@BigOleWords]

Probably a solid rule to live by!

[@wildsmiley]

I love The Lone Ranger on the NES. Always bugged me that no one ever talked about it before. Well, here we are.

[@BigOleWords]

Finally the day of prophecy is upon us!

[@melchior2678]

Never knew this game existed but it looks fantastic!

[@BigOleWords]

It really is!

[@ggbetz]

This game and startropics (both later life experiences) I thought would benefit from more rpg elements/backtracking. Great video as always

[@brocksamson9737]

THANK YOU ALGORITHM FOR DOING YOUR DAMN JOB!!! Lol all jokes aside I'm glad this video is doing well! Love you're content man! 🙌

[@BigOleWords]

FINALLY!

[@guyincognito959]

Lone Ranger was on TV in Germany in the 90s. IDK how it came to Japan, but I can imagine if it was similarly late, then that could explain why they made a game from it? It was a fun and charming, if oldschool, cartoon and JP obviously has a strong tie to drawn and animated human-made pictures :)

[@BigOleWords]

But then, why not release the game in Japan or Germany?

[@EmeraldWarrior420]

The reason these type of games were made in the 80s was because a lot of the properties you mentioned were regularly rerun on syndicaion or cable TV at the time.

[@BrainSlugs83]

Reminds me of the new NES Jane Austen game. Like... Who was asking for that in 2024? But honestly... it looks sick af. 🤟

[@BigOleWords]

Wait for real?

[@BrainSlugs83]

​@@BigOleWords Yah, for real. Some of the modern NES games are REALLY good. -- I haven't played the Jane Austen one yet but it looks quite interesting. I do highly recommend tracking down a copy of Alwa's Awakening though. It's really good.

[@alienduck6176]

I used to love that Lone Ranger show in the 80s when I was a kid. And that was in Mexico! I would've loved that game, unfortunately I never knew it exists

[@migueldias8546]

Because back in the days, all you really need to program a game was just a small team. Sometimes, 2 or 3 people were enough so just making something to make something, with a licence as an extra bonus, was enough to make a profit... And that's all that matters....

[@leefischer5814]

Maybe for companies like Acclaim or Activision, but come the 90s Konami, Capcom, or Sunsoft strived for a certain threshold of excellence. Unless the game was a little questionable then Konami would slap Ultra on that label.

[@migueldias8546]

@@leefischer5814 Of course. And even when I said you only 2 or 3 persons, it is only to program the game. You still a need a lot of people involved so that a rom becomes a cartridge available in retail store. I took a shortcut because it is KZbin but it is not as basic!

[@michaelrothschild9646]

This is my favorite NES game!

[@BigOleWords]

Oh damn!

[@HylianFox3]

The difference between Standard and Silver bullets is that the silver ones are stronger and pass through multiple enemies. Getting better guns simply increases your attack range.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

I think the Lone Ranger used silver bullets in the show. (I don't know if he used regular ones, or ONLY silver ones, as I've never actually seen the show.)

[@HylianFox3]

@@KasumiKenshirou I'm not sure if he actually used silver bullets or if they were just his calling card.

[@BigOleWords]

Ohhhh

[@blodguizer]

I paid $125 for a complete copy of Lone Ranger. Its a fantastic game.

[@BigOleWords]

Probably a good deal!

[@JoeyJ0J0]

Konami during the nes era was something else, wish they kept this level of quality

[@leefischer5814]

Wish that too as well as SNK. Also wish Sunsoft and Midway were still around 😢

[@dapardine]

I remember renting this when it first came out back in 91. We had rented this and ninja gaiden II that same weekend. I absolutely loved loved love this game. This was one of the few games I used to rent multiple times.

[@Choralone422]

I feel we saw a lot of those odd licensed games in the late 80s and early 90s because: 1. The license was probably really cheap. 2. The publishers were hoping that parents would be more familiar with them and buy the games for their kids on name alone.

[@leefischer5814]

That was the wise move or dirty one depending how ya look at it. Go after those who have the money😂

[@LlorDrei]

Interesting fact. Nintendo Power's "Howard & Nester" comic ended with issue twenty-five, when Howard retired from the comic, to coincide with his real life inspiration Howard Phillips, the creator and former writer of Nintendo Fun Club News and Nintendo Power, left the company for Lucasfilm Games. The comic they ended on was Konami's "The Lone Ranger", after which the comic simply became "Nester's Adventures".

[@GarrettCRW]

There was also the underrated Filmation cartoon (part of The Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour and later on The Tarzan/Lone Ranger/Zorro Adventure Hour) that aired before and after the box office bomb (which was an origin story), but generally, The Lone Ranger was definitely quite a ways down the list of old TV shows that kids had any right to be familiar with in the NES days.

[@carn9507]

eh, we had regular re-runs of the old black and white tv show here in the UK when I was a kid in the 80s. :)

[@thedrunkmonkshow]

I remember as a kid this game was featured or mentioned in Nintendo Power and even though I'm not a huge fan of the Lone Ranger anything Konami especially back then and I had to get my hands on it. Like I would just stare at the pictures and article about it. But no matter which video rental store I went to or even stores in general to buy it outright with allowance money I could never find it. Once again about 20 years ago emulation to the rescue and finally got to play the game but man can it be difficult and sometimes it's confusing on where you need to go. Other than that it's another Konami classic that any NES veteran should give a spin if you already haven't with it's memorable music and great graphics. 😃

[@paulvondresky8639]

I played it back in the day. Rented it from Hogans Video. It was interesting for the time.

[@mymusic3354]

I had this in my original NES games collection as a kid, still play it now and then, never have made it all the way through but I think it's an interesting game.

[@rolfathan]

That little nemo game came out not long after the movie.

[@brandonmoore9503]

Hey man I’m loving this channel. Wondering what the song is in your intro? It sounds sick and I’d like to listen to the full thing

[@nesdev]

Whoa. I had no idea about this game. I've heard of it but wrote it off as one of those quick cash grabs like the other vintage media tie-ins you mentioned. The attention to detail looks impressive.

[@leefischer5814]

When in doubt you have to look at that publisher. Anything Konami, Capcom,HAL, and Sunsoft are pretty much automatic buys from back in that age😊

[@nesdev]

@@leefischer5814 Absolutely.

[@MrMegaManFan]

It was probably made for Japan, and the fact we got it was an accident, because that "already old in our time" stuff could have been pop culture kitsch there.

[@BigOleWords]

And yet, they never got it over there!

[@leefischer5814]

Syndication is the answer. I watched The Lone Ranger, Flintstones, Batman (60s), I Dream of Genie, Bewitched, Zorro, Andy Griffith Show, Bonanza, and The Jetsons. Those were just a few of the shows being rerun then.

[@Vox-Multis]

@@leefischer5814 Yeah, it's not like we'd never heard of any of these. I loved Gilligan's Island as a kid in the 80s.

[@hombage]

This game is for dads. My dad got us an NES with 15 games. My mom was the best in the house at Metroid and Castlevania 3. Dad played a lot of Dragon Warrior, this game, and Too Gun.

[@BigOleWords]

That's cool your folks played. Mine never touched our NES!

[@hombage]

@@BigOleWords I was born in 1985, and my parents were like 25 by the time we got ours in 1990. They were both also closet nerds lol.

[@bluedistortions]

This is my favorite NES game of all time. Its such a banger. I think it has the best light gun action scenes on the entire system! Controlling your movement with the controller and your aim with the gun is awesome! I know nowadays people dont like the "walk around and talk to people until you find a clue," but as a kid with nothing better to do, I didnt mind. And the stiff side scroller sections are based on castlevania, so I also didnt mind that. I loved this game so much, when I finally saw the "real" Lone Ranger show, I was horrified. He was a total puss who wouldnt shoot bandits, and people died as a result of his cowardice. I went back to my NES game and decided that was the true Lone Ranger.

[@BigOleWords]

Hahaha I think he truly is the real Lone Ranger

[@NYHeeb]

This super cool unexpected. Love channel. Your style and editing speaks to me. Keep it up. Thanks

[@nxrp]

Literally never heard of this game even though my siblings said we had it back in 1993, maybe I was too young to remember it. Great video.

[@newkillergenius]

I subbed pretty quickly after hearing David say "check this shit ouuut!".

[@BigOleWords]

It's my trap for collecting Mr. Show fans ;)

[@joshuabidelspach9260]

Very startropicsesque never rented this one. I'm gonna give it a go thanx man!

[@jacobwebb2623]

I genuinely liked "The Lone Ranger." The gameplay was really fun, with all its different elements to it, and the music was great! Cool review!

[@alanfike]

It's pretty great to think back how in the 1980s we thought the future of firearms would involve speaking into a microphone.

[@FalsebitPakoPako]

"Alexa, kill that Pols Voce for me"

[@antaine1916]

I had this game, and it's always been one of my favorites (still, now that I play on emulators)

[@megamanmarchek8293]

This is definitely one of my top 10 favorite NES games.

[@BigOleWords]

It is pretty solid.

[@megamanmarchek8293]

@@BigOleWords I am also one of those few people that this would have appealed to back in the day as I grew up watching the 1950s show one reruns. I love The Lone Ranger!

[@carn9507]

5:38 Clara in the old west? Back to the Future crossover! :P BttF wishes it's NES games were as good as this. :P

[@whosaidthat84]

Fun fact: Christopher Lloyd actually appears in Legend of the Lone Ranger

[@carn9507]

@@whosaidthat84 That IS a fun fact! A genuine connection between BttF and The Lone Ranger. :O

[@BigOleWords]

Yep, he plays the main villain in the film this is based on!

[@BigOleWords]

Oh snap!

[@whosaidthat84]

@@carn9507 it was even more of a fun fact that I had just learned that five minutes before reading your comment 🤣

[@ZillMob]

I'm curious how you make your cute little signs for the patreons. Is it digital and then printed out? Or is it markers or pencils or something drawn on paper?

[@BigOleWords]

Just markers! Sometimes I'll print out the sprites and draw over them, but otherwise just doodlin' :)

[@johnlewisbrooks]

The FPS sequences in this game were BRUTAL!

[@BigOleWords]

Agreed, real challenging

[@bluedistortions]

They're brutal with the controller, but with a light gun, they are perfectly paced. A lot of thought went into them, I got to the point I could beat them hitless, but I don't think I could have handled anything behind what was dished out, so I think they purposely fine tuned it that way.

[@dreamlandnightmare]

Such a complex, ambitious game for a title that is mostly forgotten.

[@user-is4jf8yr4z]

Big Ole Words: Check this shit ou-ou-out! Me: Well, yes - I absolutely will right now ;)

[@brittislove]

I rented this game twice. I found it legitimately fun and deep. I was big into nintendo power and they told me "hey.. here's the next big game. Go play it I guess" and I said, "YES SIR!". I'm glad I did.

[@sonicsnout]

With some improvements in the rpg elements, this same basic build could have had the makings of a great Boba Fett game back in the classic NES era. At least that's where my brain went while watching this 😅

[@BigOleWords]

That could be a rad hack of Lone Ranger!

[@danbauer3669]

Looks like a good one! I never played it.

[@DanPantzig]

As a kid who was into all kinds of old-timey shit in the 80s, I always got confused when they would make games like this. Kinda like the Keystone Cops Atari game. What about an Our Gang NES game? Maybe an Erol Flynn RPG?

[@user-kv2vc3is8h]

I’m still waiting for a first person shooter adaptation of Bonanza for NES. Makes about as much sense…

[@leefischer5814]

Could go with MASH, Andy Griffith, or Zorro as well.

[@carn9507]

Errol Flynn's Robin Hood could have made for a fun adventure on NES for sure

[@DanPantzig]

@@carn9507 any of his swashbuckling adventures would be a fine game, think of the staircase fights and curtain swinging. Point is not a whole lot of kids would know who he is even in the 80s, and most grown folks weren't playing video games much, so it'd be another confusing choice.

[@leefischer5814]

@@carn9507 too many games like that already... 2 robin hood games, Defender of the Crown, Pirates, Captain Silver, and Skull and Crossbones. If there would be a game like that it would have to be made by a early 90s Capcom, Konami, or at least a Sunsoft/ Hudson Soft, just to get a higher quality on it so it isn't like Konami"Ultra"Defender of the Crown

[@BlueEXEVideos]

Woah, i had never heard of this one

[@neojakemcc]

I was expecting you to rip this game apart saying it was bad! I really liked this one. Never finished it because it was so hard!

[@BigOleWords]

I think that’s my only real complaint about it. If it expanded the ideas a bit it would’ve been an all time classic

[@neojakemcc]

@@BigOleWords I kinda want to play it again now. LOL. Maybe my skills have developed enough to finish it. (Or I can cheat and use save states 🤣)

[@BIayne]

Great video as always Word Man

[@BillBinder]

I hear your general point, but my friends and I were HUGE into Star Trek in the 80s and couldn't wait to get that NES game (even it if was a bit overwhelming). Gilligan's Island? OK, not so much. I'll grant you that.

[@JamesPero-u1c]

This game rocks ,I found out about it last year and played it all the way through...loved it

[@TheWarmotor]

I've seen so many 'every NES zapper game' compilations and somehow never heard of this game. You'd think that maybe optional and occasional use might preclude it, but Bayou Billy always shows up. Is this a fever dream, are you even real?

[@bluedistortions]

What's especially sad is, this is the best light gun experience on the NES. And so few know about it.

[@FnrrfYgmSchnish]

Huh, had no idea this game existed until now! I can imagine I would've played it to death if I'd stumbled across it as a kid, despite being only *vaguely* familiar with the Lone Ranger thanks to TV reruns (and the show just being so widely known that even in the late '80s/early '90s it wasn't unusual to just kind of... pick up a few names and details here and there even if you've never seen it.)

[@FalsebitPakoPako]

A few of these NES games were an impressive collection of multiple mechanics. And pulled it off unlike say Action 52. Battletoads is the big one, being a brawler, shooter, racer, platform jumper, etc. Ski/Skate or Die had a lot of mini games (as did CaveMan games in a pre-Mario Party party game). Vice: Project Doom was a late bloomer. Guardian Legend counts. Air Fortress too. And then there's this. I actually thought the FPS were insane for an NES to do without frame drops.

[@PukeSkinwalker]

This was built off the Adventures of Byaou billy video game by Konami. I am thinking that there are a lot of NES titles and IPs that were designed to sell to the license. Hence why this game is highly similar to it.

[@BigOleWords]

Definitely see some Billy parallels!

[@maynardwayward12]

2-4 HOURS!? I'm used to NES games just abruptly ending. I just finished Gimmick. Needed to be longer. I'm interested in what the longest NES games are

[@BigOleWords]

Like it's nothing by todays standards, but it's like 19 DuckTales worth of time

[@alexshadowfax1119]

Good quality game that rarely gets talked about, not sure why, it came out late but not that late, it's made by Konami, Im guessing the fact that cowboys weren't as popular during this time as they had been in the past. Nice video.

[@BigOleWords]

I think just late era NES games as a whole got that treatment but you’re probably right about the cowboys

[@lughnagh]

In regards to the Little Nemo game, there was an animated film that came out around the time of the game. Now, why the studio thought that kids were clamoring for a Little Nemo film, I can't tell you.

[@hanselmanryanjames]

Its interesting how so many NES games tried to vary the gameplay so much, while modern games usually stick to one gameplay style throughout.

[@dangerkeith3000]

This game looks like it's right up my alley. Who woulda thought? I've never been on a train before so that's reason enough for me to play it. Yippee oh ki yay! 🤠

[@mymusic3354]

I had the lone ranger for NES, I liked it, it's in my collection today and I play it sometimes. It's not too bad, although bullets are pretty expensive 😂

[@Jason_Bryant]

I watched a *ton* of reruns of the old TV show when I was a kid in the 80s. My favorite part was that the Lone Ranger never shot anyone. Instead he shot the guns out of their hands. Violent and non-violent at the same time! That obviously isn't the route the game took.

[@leefischer5814]

They were paintballs in the game😂

[@mattsweeney3790]

Big Ole Words- NES LoneRanger Me- I have no idea!

[@mattsweeney3790]

With Adam Sandler and Brendan Fraser and Steve "you're out of your element donny" Buscemi?!?

[@novelezra]

Petty Coat Junction is one of the underrated jewels of the NES.

[@HylianFox3]

This is the game they should have made instead of Gilligan's Island.

[@carn9507]

why did i google that to see if it really had been a nes game?

[@BigOleWords]

hahaha

[@leefischer5814]

​@@HylianFox3nah, they should have made The Andy Griffith NES game. Round up Otis, Find Floyd's scissors, Make it to Goobers before your car dies, and lock up Ernest T. Bass could've been but a few of the levels in that gem😂

[@mr.g4990]

You nailed my same impression of the game pretty well. On the surface it looks great but there's actually a lot of railroading and some pointless action. Makes me think of Gargoyle's Quest 2 and its RPG-styled overworld which is pretty useless and doesn't have much content. In these cases I wish those resources would be allocated to a richer/longer platforming experience.

[@BigOleWords]

Yeah that’s a very similar experience. Gargoyle’s feels huge but it’s actually pretty linear.