Dirty Harry (1990, NES) by Mindscape

Current Any% Leaderboard (speedrun.com)

This game is such a missed opportunity.  What a shame.

The concept of a Dirty Harry NES game could have been great...

Sunday Funday: The Ride (1995, NES) by Wisdom Tree

Current Any% Leaderboard (speedrun.com)

GAMES FROM THIS EPISODE OF AVGN:
–Sunday Funday: The Ride (NES)
-Bible Adventures (NES)
-King of Kings: The Early Years (NES)
-Super Noah’s Ark 3D (SNES)
-Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land (NES)
-Noah’s Ark (NES, PAL)
-Joshua (NES)
-Cr...

Dick Tracy (1990, NES) by Bandai

Current Any% Leaderboard (speedrun.com)

This game is impossible.  That is what I was told.

I gotta say, casually, this game is pretty damned hard.  The clues are abstract and hidden behind tough enemies, the guns are hard to aim, the ammo is limited...

Battletoads (1991, NES) by Tradewest & Rare

Current Any% (No WW) Rash Leaderboard (speedrun.com)

There are games that are hard, that are intimidating, and that are difficult to learn.  And then there’s Battletoads; one of the most notoriously difficult games ever made, let alone NES titles...

Alien³ (1993, NES) by LJN

Current All Prisoners Leaderboard (speedrun.com)

I’ve never been a fan of “adult” games on the NES, or any real classic consoles.  No, I’m not talking about games like Peek-A-Boo Poker or some smut on the Atari 2600 (thus why I’m not speedrunning anything from the Atari Porn episode)...

The Legend of Kage (1987, NES) by Taito

Current 1-Loop Leaderboard (Speedrun.com)

Considering that the game before The Legend of Kage was Kid Kool, one of the worst games I’ve ever played, my bar was set low for this game to be a fun or rewarding speedrun...

Kid Kool and the Quest for the Seven Wonder Herbs (1990, NES) by Vic Tokai

Current Any% Leaderboard (speedrun.com)

120 games into the Trials, and all the time I’m asked, “Which game are you most afraid off, going forward?”  The thing is, the games I feared early on always ended up not being that bad...

Frankenstein: The Monster Returns (1991, NES) by Bandai

Current Any% Leaderboard (speedrun.com)

GAMES FROM THIS EPISODE OF AVGN:
–Frankenstein: The Monster Returns (NES)
-Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (SNES)
-The Adventures of Dr. Franken (SNES)
-The Legend of Zelda (NES)

Average.

That’s the best way to describe Frankenstein on NE...

Batman: Return of the Joker (1991, NES) by Sunsoft

Current Any% Leaderboard (speedrun.com)

GAMES FROM THIS EPISODE OF AVGN:
–Batman: Return of the Joker (NES)
-Batman: Return of the Joker (Game Boy)
-Batman: Revenge of the Joker (Genesis)

I’ve always had a strange fascination with this game, even though I had never beaten it bef...

The Adventures of Gilligan’s Island (1990, NES) by Bandai

Current Any% Leaderboard (speedrun.com)

Obscure games based on outdated or obscure TV shows and movies seems to be a hidden specialty of the NES. There are a lot of games that just seem so… strange, that they even exist...