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I Ranked Every TAITO game on NES

136K views · Dec 11, 2020 · Gaming

JohnRiggs

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@JohnRiggs · 5 years ago · pinned
While you're here, let's rank Data East games + binge the whole playlist from ranking other companies, too! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGZe5mzhEhQ&list=PLsOTz-tlvayLekfyjFF6OWMHU1WWWi8E3">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGZe5mzhEhQ&list=PLsOTz-tlvayLekfyjFF6OWMHU1WWWi8E3&index=2</a>
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@bueno8191 · 5 years ago
"It's great, it's a B, it's OK, it's wonderful, it's not bad, I love it." - John Riggs commenting on about 80% of NES games
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@BigRAC83 · 5 years ago
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bl6_XGav28&t=1260">21:00</a> It's the Bret Hart gang.
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@mr.mooseknuckle9524 · 5 years ago
Arkanoid was literally training for all future video games. Man I love the fact that I grew up with an NES
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@MikeCastleberry80 · 5 years ago
Weirdly, Renegade was made by Technos,  and distributed by Taito in the states, so Double Dragon was actually its spiritual successor, while the Kunio-kun series continued down its own path and we eventually got another of the sequels, "River City Ransom"  down the line on the NES.
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@ratubadis7 · 5 years ago
I came from third world country, and believe me, 2000's here is like 80's (at least in term of gaming). the fact that I play those game in 2005, when i was in elementary school, is such nostalgia. I know i was using bootleg console and games, but I and my brothers was growing up with it. we used to play elevator action, the flintstones (it's called 'super mario 8' for some reason) and many other NES bootleg games all night until our parents get mad and forced us to sleep. oh, and our father really like arkanoid.
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@aeter4352 · 5 years ago
A lot of good games, but Power Blade for me is at least an A, maybe even an S.
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@Megarobotsquadron · 5 years ago
I hope that when you're done this wonderful list, you do one vid of all the S rankings across all of the developers.  I'd love to hear you talk about the best of the best
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@MotherKojiro · 5 years ago
I thought Demon Sword was kinda neat, because of all of the weird secrets, but it's one of those games that you need to play over and over to really get into all of that, and I totally understand anyone not willing to put in the time.  There's actually a sequel to that called Legend of Kage 2 on the DS.  Bubble Bobble has a neat trick: if you pause and press select, you can sacrifice a life to bring in the second player; I use that to get the good ending when I'm playing solo.  Panic Restaurant is one of those games that just DEFINES the late NES for me; Fire & Ice does, too.  I think it has something to do with the visuals.
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@TheTrueBro · 5 years ago
Being  Taito a big arcade developer (both software and hardware), it's no wonder they pushed the limits of the NES in a lot of their games (originals, ports or adaptations). My favorite is Little Samson, too bad I don't have the cartridge anymore.
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@humorouserrectis5791 · 5 years ago (edited)
Man when I was a kid I remember rummaging thought the Wolworth $20 NES bargain bin and picking up Wrath of the Black Manta , Phantom Fighter,  and werewolf the last Warrior. Dam that was a fun weekend. Like number 57 is from me man! Keep up the awesome content
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@Tenkai917 · 5 years ago
My daughter and I still play Bubble Bobble together, and she made a perler bead Bub just like the one on your wall.
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