A Look at the 10 Rarest Sequels to Popular NES Games (Nintendo Entertainment System)

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A lot of your favorite games for the Nintendo Entertainment System received follow-ups in cartridge form, and for some reason many of them flew under the radar. This is the first in a series focused on these forgotten sequels, beginning with a few games you may or may not know already :)

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CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO

0:00 - Intro
1:16 - Flintstones Surprise at Dinosaur Peak
2:59 - Power Blade 2
4:30 - Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers 2
6:05 - Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Hillsfar
9:06 - Duck Tales 2
10:25 - TMNT Tournament Fighters
11:37 - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (UBI Soft)
12:53 - Godzilla 2
14:33 - Bomberman 2
16:00 - Casino Kid II
17:20 - Outro

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.

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[mikehunt]

i saw a bunch of NES carts where the sticker was damaged on the top part, i think its because some video stores would put their own stickers on every cart to prevent stealing, often those stickers would be really difficult to remove, and would always leave a mark, and sometimes those stickers would have a piece of magnetized metallic sheet under there, so it would trigger the alarm if someone tried to walk out the video store with a game.


These video stores had a big inventory of carts so you often see damaged carts out there. Its pretty crazy to think about some of those games that are worth thousands of dollars these days, that i used to rent constantly back in the day..

[tiamatmichellehart]

Two things:

1. I hope you enjoy *Dragon Strike* . It's more refined that people give it credit for due to its adherence to the AD&D rules; dragons can't hover or change direction without circling with their maneouverability class and can't breathe fire/frost/lightning more than once every few seconds at least. Unfortunately that makes the game more precise and tactics-based than simpler shooters like *Dragon Spirit, * and as a result possibly less fun.


2. I have a friend who worked as a Playboy Bunny card dealer at the London casino and affirms that patrons are not allowed to touch the bunnies. I guess those ones in *Casino Kid II* were off-brand lol

[toddhouchin]

The first Power Blade got a Nintendo Power cover spot on an issue somewhere around the volume 19-22 range. It wasn't til way later I learned of Captain Saver.

[chaseman]

I had actually bought Power Blade 2, Rescue Rangers 2, Ducktales 2, TMNT Tournament Fighters and a couple other rare ones back in the late 90s from Funcoland for peanuts. I ended up selling them in 2015 because I was short of money at the time and my son needed some clothes for school.

[jackbernskoetter]

This is one of the few youtube channels that actually covers more obscure Nes game. Each video I watch on here I learn about a new game. Keep up the good work!

[adampl]

Im from Poland .Chip and Dale 2 was most popular game here, beside Mario and Contra.I played (in 90s)Flintstones 2, Turtles fighting game, Power Blade 2 .We usually didn`t buy carts, but borrowed them for week, or exchaged for other cart.

[oggilein]

I can't believe cheetamen 2 didn't make the list, Action 52 was such a smash hit when it released, and such good value too less than $4 per game!

[natecw]

I didn't know they made a sequel to Chip and Dale... My sister and I played the first one so much that the level1 theme is still stuck in my head 30 years later 😂

Godzilla 2 was one of my favorite NES games. I played the hell out of it back in the day. Waiting for Mothra to hatch... moving the parts around until the scientists could assemble that cool jet thingy... and the option to deploy nuclear weapons and end the game. It was all so cool and unique.

[sailorphilumber]

i am watching this channel daily while eating dinner after my wage cage. very refreshing watching a legacy gaming show that is actually through and through made with much research

[Dracalis]

4:31 The Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers games on NES are a fun co-op experience! I'd say that the first one is better though. They're mechanically very similar, but the level design in the first one is more charming. That one has you running along giant tree branches, jumping from faucet to faucet in a kitchen, skirting along a towering picket fence — ordinary places made extraordinary by the fact that you're exploring them as little chipmunks. The sequel has a bit of that in the beginning, and in Western World, but most of the levels feel more abstract and generic. It seems like most of the levels would fit just as well if you were exploring them as some blue super fighting robot rather than a adventurous rodent.

10:47 Similar to Karate Champ, another one-on-one fighter is Yie-Ar Kung Fu! Charming, but pretty rudementary.

[Elucidus]

Neither of the Casino Kid games accurately capture the despondent aura I've felt while being in a casino. I haven't played CK2, but I resonate with your comment about it just not being as charming if you can't walk around the casino. As an actual casino kid (my dad and grandpa loved to go to them on vacation), wandering around a casino is a bit nostalgic for me. Of course, I usually got dumped in the arcade... for some reason, the Atari arcade version of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom really stands out - we didn't have one in my home arcades.

[GermanPeter]

1:16 The GRAND DADdy of all the rare sequels
Clever... very clever ;)

[DeaDBeaT]

I think this is my new favorite channel thank you Greg Newkirks brother..

[knkn]

godzila2's reputation was destroyed by AVGN review, but it is very good turn-based strategy,
scientists explain your objectives, hints, and new mechanics,
in some buildings you 'build' your units, the dilemma here is order of units to build, depends on what you want,
some missions could be done in different ways, due to new fancy mechanics:
- loork Godzilla and activate nuclear bomb,
- find friendly Mothra,
- reflect 'nuclear breath/beam' by energy shield back to monsters to destroy them, ...
two types of attacks 'machinegun" or "cannon" add depth to strategy, but i ll keep the secret when it could be useful.
all monsters carefully designed to have weaknesses, and difficulty depends on how much you want to save (cities or units)

so as player you will find some interesting challenges "can i save this building or not", it is high quality game.
they had to cut budget due to first game disaster, but they cut only artists and musicians and doubled game designers,

but strategies itself not as popular as action platformers, so no hype, no players

[BadAxeEntertainment]

Just discovered the channel, excellent content. Keep up the good work!

[thedeadpoolwhochuckles.]

Lots of boxes in Chip and Dale 2 makes sense. In the comics which were more mature than the cartoon, Chip and Dale smashed a lot of Trim. but sense the game was geared towards kids they changed it to smashing actual boxes. Now you know.

[ronaldclayton]

The original power blade was pretty well known it was on the cover of Nintendo power in the spring of 1991.

[oceman]

love your content my dude keep it up!!

[HaydenTheHistorian]

Glad you enjoyed Ginga Daisakusen! It was planned for release in the US under the name "Squashed!" but was never released