Friday the 13th is the only NES game to ever genuinely scare me. No NES moment (for me) was ever as terrifying as having Jason suddenly jump out at you while you're both unprepared and not expecting it. The musical stab that accompanies it added volumes the the scare factor, too.
@Gatorade692 жыл бұрын
The music was kind of unsettling. Monster Party was also kind of freaky. Especially when that first level changes.
@mikecash12212 жыл бұрын
Very true 👍
@haggard1378 Жыл бұрын
Dude the only scary thing about that game is the fucking difficulty
@ophidianmind3332 жыл бұрын
A nice list with many great games. Digital Devil Story Megami Tensei II, Sweet Home, Metroid, Simon's Quest, Faxanadu, Shadowgate, Uninvited, Ghosts 'n Goblins, Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti, Getsu Fuuma Den, Contra, and Maniac Mansion are all 8-bit classics. That ghost woman turning around to reveal her skeletal face in Uninvited fascinated me as a kid and I had dreams with a similar theme for years after first seeing it.
@BitsBeats2 жыл бұрын
I'll never tire of repeating it, I'm quite lucky to have people like you commenting on the videos.
@ophidianmind3332 жыл бұрын
@@BitsBeats Thank you very much for the kind words.
@sc0tticus Жыл бұрын
I wish I could describe just how fun Monster in my Pocket was, and it was so much better with 2 player. My cousin and I played the living hell out of that game (although we never thought it was scary). I think Metroid scared me the most JUST because of the music on some levels.
@DigiEggz2 жыл бұрын
Just yesterday I searched for a video of NES horror games and then today this drops. Excellent timing and great list!
@BitsBeats2 жыл бұрын
Very happy to have provided you with useful content!
@therealseanw.stewart20712 жыл бұрын
First thing that came to mind: I was hoping Monster Party would be here! The list certainly delivered. It's such a creepy, oddball classic with a surprisingly disturbing ending.
@jjenk9112 жыл бұрын
I rented this game in my youth. I don't think I owned it. Fun nostalgia trip.
@Gatorade692 жыл бұрын
@@jjenk911 I bought it from a Rental place when they started liquidating their NES games.
@dimelo8826 Жыл бұрын
Monster Party is on this list!
@officegossip2 жыл бұрын
Good to see megami tensei on here. The first two titles on the NES have tons of creepy satanic imagery, bold story and good atmosphere. The remake of both for the SNES is a good way to play it as well.
@seerus13512 жыл бұрын
Got some really good ones in here. A few were surprising choices as well. Fun as always.
@michealclark9282 жыл бұрын
ANOES and F13 may not have been great games but for those who were always watching the original tapes for both series back in the 80’s and 90’s we have nothing but fond memories of the games. F13 was hard as hell for me because of the crazy map system lol but it’s still a fond memory none the less.
@avalond1193 Жыл бұрын
Alot people found them to be really solid fun games. And after playing a while the map in Friday 13th wasn't that complicated like many haters like to make it out to be. I think it's because of people like avgn and satire that alot these games get a bad rap granted avgn did point out some legit stinkers alot of his videos are just satire and not to be taken serious like the gospels
@soulreaver19832 жыл бұрын
Awesome as always thanks dude 👍 👌
@BitsBeats2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks Mark!
@soulreaver19832 жыл бұрын
@@BitsBeats No problem dude thanks for another awesome video!😎👍
@kurumidisk31422 жыл бұрын
A nightmare on Elm street have great BGM (I like cemetery, Freddy's house and junkyard stage music). Is not a bad game, deserves a second chance.
2 жыл бұрын
There's no second chance if you see rainbow of death: LJN
@metamorphicblood Жыл бұрын
I don’t know why so many people hate A Nightmare on Elm Street, unless it’s because they never realized you push select for the dream powers and you’re better off just avoiding the coffees and radios. Dark atmosphere, weird enemies, and yes, awesomely creepy music.
@sleepbox22 жыл бұрын
Impeccable taste on display. I love this channel
@BitsBeats2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks!!
@zeXma20XD62 жыл бұрын
The irony of seeing Metroid categorized as a Metroidvania xD
@elijahvincent9852 жыл бұрын
I think the Monster in my Pocket boss is a little too Goofy looking to be seriously intimidating! LOL! I can't helped but hear "Durrh!" when I see that dorky face! 😂🤣
@RappingNinja2 жыл бұрын
Really enjoyed the video, even if the claim about Friday the 13th being “one of the best horror games of all time” is the wildest hot take I’ve seen since I saw someone call Sonic 06 “excellent.”
@Joe_334 Жыл бұрын
I remember having nightmares as a kid, from playing A Nightmare on Elm Street. The melancholic music really sets the nightmare inducing mood. The sheer difference of ANOES and Ft:13th, It's always night and Freddy only comes when the character stays sleep too long, while Jason can come at you like some annoying internet ad, coming out of friggin' no where at anytime... I have played A nightmare on Elm street, and after freddy attacks, I always assumed he would jump back on screen as some different hideous creature.
@nintendocove2 жыл бұрын
Some of the greatest gaming music ever created all in one awesome video ❤️❤️❤️
@Project_Rebel10 ай бұрын
I have had Bram Stoker's Dracula on the pirated Famicom clone. This game literally gave me nightmares
@billyskittles103625 күн бұрын
Monster Party is my favorite NES game.
@ArttuTheCat2 жыл бұрын
Awesome collection of the old NES games 😺👍🕹️. I had FRIDAY THE 13TH on my Commodore 64 as a disk version in one of the Prism Leisure compilations. I have seen the NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET movies, but never played a played - although i always wanted to look for it on my Commodore 64. I had GHOSTS 'N GOBLINS on my Commodore 64 and Amiga 500 - it is hard and frustrating 😾, but still legendary 😺👍🕹️. I believe, i still have UNINVITED on my Amiga 500 - one of the greatest horror adventure games, i have ever played. I still want to look for SHADOWGATE to my Commodore 64 and Amiga 500. Thank you 😺👍🕹️.
@wobblingpixels39212 жыл бұрын
Your thumbnails are art to me! ❤
@BitsBeats2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks mate ;) (Although my partner, who is very good at designing, helps me with this).
@scarymcclary2 жыл бұрын
Zombie Nation is the disembodied head of Carl from Aqua Teen getting his revenge.
@MechaGod2 жыл бұрын
Heh, yeah. I wasn't expecting you to shoot anything when showing off Chiller
@maxjalife78522 жыл бұрын
Strange that ninja gaiden is not there, was creepy asf
@RPGs2 жыл бұрын
I remember Maniac Mansion was also a TV show after the game released. it had a few seasons too
@gurratheman949 Жыл бұрын
8:30...get the knife!
@sonic_genesis2 жыл бұрын
What about The Addams Family: Festers quest? i thought that was pretty creepy especially the giant spider
@destho43082 жыл бұрын
Creepy list. A shoutout to The Immortal, Gargoyle's Quest II, and Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde.
@elhazthorn918 Жыл бұрын
When you REALLY get into 8-bit horror it can be good, I think because you’ve suspended your disbelief, and have started filling in the blanks, and interpreting what vague pixels might represent in disturbing ways.
@ChristenSmith604 Жыл бұрын
What an awesome list! Makes me want to bust out an emulator later and try some of these out.
@joshlayman7217 Жыл бұрын
The gameplay sound in Swamp Thing is the same as Bart vs The Space Mutants.
@bthellam2 жыл бұрын
I think the first Wizards & Warriors deserved to be on the list ahead of a couple of the games that made it.
@avalond1193 Жыл бұрын
Great list of horror games for nes perfect for Halloween week to play
@gus7502 жыл бұрын
Excellent work bro
@albertoizquierdo99632 жыл бұрын
Oh wow!! I never expected to see "Monster in my Pocket" stuff again!! I had a card album when I was a kid. Totally loved its illustrations😍😍
@maxjalife78522 жыл бұрын
Monster party is close to my heart
@ChrolliForever2 жыл бұрын
Sad that we didnt get one of the terrifying bosses from Faxanadu
@evilblader72 жыл бұрын
Espera? Que? Ese es Sagat? 1:53 jajajajajajajajajaja... Ahora puedo decir que Street fighter se metió en el género de horror xDDDD Ok. ya en serio... Que lista tan genial, no conocía varios de estos, el horror no es mi género más prominente jejejejejejejejeje... Veo que varios intentaron replicar la fórmula del exitoso Castlevania y con la misma temática del horror. Ese shot em up de la cabeza, zombie nation, me dió una sensación como la que describes rareza y "repulsión" demasiado extraño D: ni enterada de su existencia. Pensé que ibas a poner Mother (earthbound 1) porque pese a su aspecto "infantil" tiene sus cosas creepys, pero eso creo que sería otro tema, verdad? Si. Eso es lo que amaré toda la vida de Metroid, es la franquicia más seria que tiene Nintendo, todo lo que hace sentir Metroid es perfecto, la "asfixia" la soledad y el peligro sin necesidad de ser un título de horror propiamente dicho. Otro vídeo genial... Cambiaste de horario? Yo lo esperaba en la mañana, pero bueno lo importante es que tenemos vídeo 😉😉😉😉👌
@BitsBeats2 жыл бұрын
Intentaré sacar videos los lunes y jueves. Más largos (veo que os gustan más) y con una mayor producción. Ayer me atrasé un poco en la publicación (21 hora española!)
@evilblader72 жыл бұрын
@@BitsBeats anotado 👌
@juancarlossalazar22802 жыл бұрын
Para mi lo más aterrador fue Friday the 13th!! La música te pone los pelos de gallina!!
@davidv40182 жыл бұрын
Another night without sleeping.
@wehappyducks855411 ай бұрын
8bit music is scary lol BUT I LUV IT🤗
@prettyfeetofflorida86672 жыл бұрын
Friday the 13th is just punch out with Jason. Jason Vorhees’ Punch Out if you will
@Psycho-Thinker Жыл бұрын
Frankenstein is amazing
@GetLostGames12 жыл бұрын
What a great list! Other games that freaked me out as a kid with creepy monsters were Astyanax and Ikari Warriors 2 Victory Road’.
@shiroumxm20522 жыл бұрын
imagine this but presented in a CRT tv!!
@f.k.b.162 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't have called some horror but now that you point them out... I guess I was wrong! Thanks for these!
@jeancarlosdossantossilva85162 жыл бұрын
I really don't know why people hate so much the 13th Friday game... It's kinda confusing, but it's playable... I rented this game only once and barely played because i always turned the game off when Jason appears.
@Gatorade692 жыл бұрын
Agreed. It wasn't a bad game.
@GAMEPRODELTA Жыл бұрын
@@Gatorade69at least atlus got the memo about Jason being a guy wearing a hockey mask, the home computer game released three years prior didn't even get that right.
@Gatorade69 Жыл бұрын
@@GAMEPRODELTA I mean to be fair Jason didn't don the hockey mask until the third film. When did the home computer games come out ?
@GAMEPRODELTA Жыл бұрын
@@Gatorade69 1985 and 1986, aka the point where Jason wearing the hockey mask had been well established by then.
@HolyFlare4842 жыл бұрын
is it just me or does Werewolf: The Last Warrior feel like a mix of Castlevania and Altered Beast?
@thewolfgabe36562 жыл бұрын
8:47 Ladies and Gentlemen the Gaming in the Clinton Years Theme
@commentresurrection18412 жыл бұрын
I couldn't even play Friday the 13th alone as a kid. The only other video game to actually scare me was the original Resident Evil.
@nigel_pisswater694209 ай бұрын
What about faith:the unholy trinity? Even though it was released at like 2017 (atleast for chapter 1), the game was trying to mimic the 8-bit era of gaming.
@statutoryape39122 жыл бұрын
I loved Abadox as a kid. I beat it with no game genie or codes!!! Same with Faxanadu!!!
@thepaper8882 жыл бұрын
3:29 Pokémon
@SupraZelda666Ай бұрын
friday 13th nes game had a big potential and a truth remake of this with more place seem a good ideas.
@FluffyThieves2 жыл бұрын
There's just something about calling Friday the 13th one of the best horror games of all time that just tickles the heck out of me.
@Gatorade692 жыл бұрын
People say It's a bad game... but It's not.
@FluffyThieves2 жыл бұрын
@@Gatorade69 I totally disagree, but more power to you if you enjoy it!
@thepolacek2 жыл бұрын
Friday the 13th was the only one that scared me as a kid. I was probably 8 when I played it.
@luisreyes1963 Жыл бұрын
Konami creates the best in horror games. Not to be overlooked are Metroid, Ghosts N' Goblins & a couple of Japan-only titles (Getsuu Fumaden, Sweet Home & Splatterhouse WG). 👻
@Ryuujin1078 Жыл бұрын
Why we using the term “Metroid-vania” with these NES games?! It was never a thing till Symphony of the Night came about years later. The proper genre types is Action Adventure games.
@zkitty112 жыл бұрын
8:47 Gaming in the Clinton Years?????
@captainernest952 жыл бұрын
The last level of contra is where i cant beat this game as a kid because of alien organics freaks me
@dash2thefuture8592 жыл бұрын
Nice list, but how could you forget Fester's Quest? lol
@jeffcox65392 жыл бұрын
I'd say you should have included Swords and Serpents. Some of its monsters were gory.
@BitsBeats2 жыл бұрын
I haven't played that one yet. I will try it this weekend. thanks for the recommendation!
@jeffcox65392 жыл бұрын
@@BitsBeats it's a dungeon crawler that's based a little too much on RNG. I also swear the images had a 3D look to them.
@FindingsOfAnArmouredMind Жыл бұрын
It misses Super C/Contra II :(
@AnotherCamilo2 жыл бұрын
6:03 "Metroid is the closest franchise Nintendo has to a horror series" I was about to mention Eternal Darkness until i remember Nintendo doesn't even want to acknolege that it's their own property.
@Chernobog22 жыл бұрын
at least they put Alex Roivas in Smash as a spirit.
@kidferocious2 жыл бұрын
A shame that we didn’t get some of these in America.
@G4System2 жыл бұрын
Bram Stoker's Dracula 🧛♂️ A Nightmare on Elm Street Monster In My Pocket Zombie Nation Castlevania II: Simon's Quest Games like me mentioned above have been played So honestly I'm not so with horror games in this era of 8 bits.
@aliceinmansonland4482 жыл бұрын
When you were asking about scary NES games I just laughed. Spooky in a Scooby Doo kind of way, yes. Scary? No! At least you showed two of my favorite games I had as a kid. Werewolf and Castlevania 2 were definitely the best in my collection.
@GAMEPRODELTA2 жыл бұрын
Not to nitpick at 0:39, but Friday the 13th was developed by Atlus, not Pack In Video.
@BitsBeats2 жыл бұрын
Many thanks and sorry for the mistake!!
@GAMEPRODELTA2 жыл бұрын
@@BitsBeatsit happens, doesn't help that LJN didn't leave much of a paper trail for the companies they hired to make games during the nes era.
@jjvega63642 жыл бұрын
How about that BOO, HAUNTED HOUSE?
@f.k.b.162 жыл бұрын
4:43 Can anyone guess what game I think Getsu Fuuma Den's music briefly sounds like!?? If you guessed Legend of Kage... You win!
@williammason32292 жыл бұрын
Anyone remember Darkman? Not sure if Vice Project Doom would count though.
@jarredkrum98942 жыл бұрын
I remember both those
@EdrickII2 жыл бұрын
Habían varios que me sorprendieron :)
@bombeiromascaradooficial2 жыл бұрын
Where Ninja Gaiden and yours horrors cutscenes
@maddestmike57912 жыл бұрын
Chiller is one of the most genuinely evil games out there. And AVGN would heartily disagree with you on the quality of the Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street NES games. Apparently they were both terrible.
@necrosadotor2 жыл бұрын
lucky for us sweet home is better known nowadays
@Birimbeto2 жыл бұрын
That Frankenstein, I hated when trying to jump the water plataforms, in de first or second stage, I was 10 years old, don't expect me to remember precisely, and when miss the jump, fall into the water and everytime had to fight some creepy like fish mini boss. Annoying. But the atmosphere of horror of the game was realy good.
@gaminggoddess852 жыл бұрын
This is kind of just a repeat of the Goriest NES Games episode. The Friday the 13th review is sarcastic, right? The Uninvited scared me a lot as a little kid (around 6 or 7). Also took anyone in my family 10 years to figure out how to beat it. Stupid dancing thing give me your keyyyyy Monster In My Pocket has some good animation for NES. Faxanadu did scare me once when I got a secondhand copy and used a "mantra" (aka password) someone had written in the game's manual and warped to a town that was totally taken over by demons and they killed me. But I wouldn't call it really creepy besides that.
@lyhuewynegar7312Ай бұрын
No Phantom Fighter?
@CuteLesbo69 Жыл бұрын
No Swords & Setpents?
@Hello-hz7gj2 жыл бұрын
Cool
@aaronman28172 жыл бұрын
Many of these are just not horror driven games. Sure, some of them retain certain elements found in traditional horror video games, but something like Metroid or Maniac Mansion do not fall under the category of horror.
@Merkdawgm16 Жыл бұрын
Shadow gate should be number 1
@greensun13342 жыл бұрын
Friday the 13th a metroidvania?
@BitsBeats2 жыл бұрын
I could defend that it has some elements of the genre... but I have really been clumsy with the copypaste in the edition. apologies 😁
@greensun13342 жыл бұрын
@@BitsBeats It's hard to define, a weird mix between sidescroller and first person - maybe RPG? Weird game!
@sir_jerhyn10 ай бұрын
Uh... Metroid is a horror game? I always thought it was an action adventure.
@airic21 Жыл бұрын
100% Monster party
@owlbelieveit68112 жыл бұрын
Castlevania II is a good game but the final boss is a real let down. The flame wall you get at the beginning of the game can kill him without them getting a hit on you
@necrosadotor2 жыл бұрын
u forgot robodemons!
@ajcastelar51732 жыл бұрын
What's the name of the outro song?
@BitsBeats2 жыл бұрын
Aries Beats "Synthwave Dreams 2020"
@RSK4122 жыл бұрын
Jeez, that werewolf game was such a ripoff. Impossible to beat the first miniboss.
@StevenMichaelCunningham2 жыл бұрын
Paper Boy....
@Dorelaxen2 жыл бұрын
Ok, you lost me saying that Friday the 13th was a great adaptation of the films. I don't hate the game like many do, but come on.
@NobodyAtAll4202 жыл бұрын
Don't like Fester's quest? 🙁
@BitsBeats2 жыл бұрын
🙏🙏
@jackb76472 жыл бұрын
I really wish we could go back to NES, or possibly GeneSNES and stay there Too much creativity didn't survive the 21st century
@m123oficial72 жыл бұрын
First
@joechill9964 Жыл бұрын
Freddy throwing gang signs?
@MURD3RWAVE2 жыл бұрын
Freddy.tm is coming! New Line Cinema just had to make sure everyone knew they owned the Freddy trademark. Also that F13 music to this day is one of my fav nes scores. GAME OVER. You and all your friends are dead.