Toxic Crusaders (1991)

                                                                              
The Toxic Avenger had a cartoon. I didn't know that until like 2003 when a friend of mine mentioned it.. However, I loved The Toxic Avenger. it was a bizarre strange and incredibly funny little movie. I'm glad that as a teenager in the late 90s I would pretty much rent any horror movie or hell anything made during the 1980s, so that's how I saw the movie. I still haven't seen the cartoon and to be honest it kinda sounds like shit, but it had a NES game, no matter how popular the license was it had a fucking NES game. That's one thing you can count on.

                                                                           
This is a pretty simple NES game. It's like pretty much every licensed title in the fact that it was a sidescroller (seriously the only NES licensed games I can think of that weren't sidescrollers were Spot, Friday the 13th  Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and the first Ghostbusters game) however it was a pretty decent sidescroller. It did everything for the most part right. The graphics are pretty good, it has decent music, the game controls well. Although the biggest flaw is the challenge is uneven. The first few levels are pretty tough but can be beaten (and most of the bosses are kinda shitty and not too hard from what I remember) but the last level will kick you in the face and break your thumbs and probably shove something up your ass, it's that goddamn hard. 

This is one of the few Bandai developed and published games I could actually stomach. It's not in the top tier of licensed games, it's no Duck Tales, but it's sure a hell of a lot better than Ghostbusters. It's worth the small amount of money it will take to find a copy of this game. 
 

Monster Party (1989)

                                                                              
Bandai is probably most well known for releasing the game Stadium Events, which would go on to become one of the rarest NES games ever. I don't own Stadium Events and I never will, I don't have a fucking thousand dollars to blow on a shitty NES game, besides I have Nintendos World Class Track Meet, which can be found anywhere for like two fucking quarters. Yet people want the more expensive rarer version, because they are retarded. Uh, I don't really know where I was going with that but still, Bandai was most well known for that game and the biggest reason is, most of their other games sucked (a few were pretty good but you'll have to wait to see which ones I liked!!) but the best game they published was Monster Party.

                                                                            

I was surprised to find out that Bandai didn't develop this game (at least according to Wikipedia!) but Human Entertainment did. The same people who developed the totally awesome Kabuki Quantum Fighter, which to be fair, was a pretty strange game in itself, BUT Monster Party is even stranger. EVERYTHING about this game is strange. the levels are strange. the plot is strange. the bosses are really fucking strange. the enemies are strange. EVERYTHING. It's like they took every cliche from every horror film ever and threw it into a game. Every single kind of monster you can think off is in this game. And it's awesome.

                                                                      

Monster Party boasts pretty damn good graphics, very good music, good controls and a neat little plot. You play as Mark whos coming home from a Baseball game and is approached by a Demon named Bert, who wants you to help him save the Dark World! So in this game you get to play as both Mark and Bert who have different attacks. Mark fights with his baseball and Bert can fly and shoot pellets at enemies. You become Bert whenever you pick up a pill. The game is pretty challenging too so you won't beat it in a sitting unless you are really good, but enough practice and you can beat this game.

Despite having a pretty big cult of fans in America, Monster Party was never released in Japan (although a prototype exists.) It's one of the few games that weren't released in Japan (I think Star Tropics and Zoda's Revenge were also kept from the Japanese) It's a shame that they didn't get to play this game but to be fair THE JERKS DIDN'T LET US PLAY KID DRACULA SO THEY CAN GO EAT A PILE OF DICKS.

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1990)

                                                                              
A Nightmare on Elm Street was my other favorite series as a kid, however to be honest I don't think most of the movies held up as well as the Friday the 13th movies, I could easily watch any Friday the 13th movie any time I wanted yet most of the Freddy movies feel eh. I mean the original is still a classic. Part 2 is hilarious in how incredibly homoerotic it is. and Part 3 is a very fun movie, then it kinda goes to crap. 4 was okay. 5 was not very good except for the Super Freddy scene. Part. 6 was a bad movie but I still liked it more than parts 4 or 5 (mostly because it was so bad it was hilarious. and he uses the fucking Power Glove!). And I didn't like New Nightmare (of course the last time I saw that movie I was 10. I was probably expecting something a lot like the other ones) So Freddy just doesn't hold up as well.

To be totally fair while I LIKE the Friday the 13th game, I can honestly see why it's not some peoples cup of tea and why they totally hate it. However when it comes to A Nightmare on Elm Street, I can NOT see why this game is seen as one of the worst games on the NES, thats because it totally kicks ass. This is one of the best licensed games on the NES. It's up there with Batman and the Disney / Capcom titles, and yes I totally do mean that.

                                                                             

This game boasts pretty damn good graphics, good but not great sound (seriously this game was developed by Rare, they have made better music than this. Seriously go listen to anything from Battletoads and then come back to listen to this. a HUGE difference)  a decent challenge (this game is not that hard, but will take some time to beat) and a very unique gameplay mechanic, where in you enter the dream world and become a Dream Warrior (just like in the 3rd movie!) which is pretty awesome. The only flaws I can think off is that Freddy himself is incredibly easy (seriously, He's Freddy goddamn Kruger, he should be one of the hardest bosses to beat in all of Video gaming!) and some of the enemies are generic, other than that I fail to see how this is a bad game that I should be hating with all of my heart.

I think this is a perfect example of a good game that has gotten a bad rap. Seriously worth checking out, forget the fact it was PUBLISHED BY THOSE EVIL RAINBOW PEOPLE AHHHHHHH and just play the fucking thing.                                                                

Friday the 13th (1988)

                                                                             
I was a pretty weird kid (yeah what a shock, huh?!) and some of my favorite movies were the Friday the 13th movies. I loved every single stupid one of them (still do) and I think Jason Voorhees is the greatest fictional serial killer ever! (and the Friday the 13th movies were the best horror series of the 1980s, but then again it's not very hard to beat stuff like Halloween and The Howling, which weren't very good series. Sure the first 3 Halloweens were great, and the original Howling was great too, but as a whole those series were really bad.)  but enough discussion of horror movies. You didn't come here to read that you came here to see me tear this game a new asshole!

                                                                                

Well, that isn't going to happen either. Yes, that's right I LIKE Friday the 13th for the Nintendo Entertainment System. A whole lot too. It's a unique game that has some minor flaws but really I don't get what is so terrible about it. The game has some great atmosphere (sometimes when Jason pops out of fucking nowhere I fucking freak out) some very decent graphics, okay music, and a decent challenge. As for flaws, you get six camp counselors and to be frankly honest, only 3 of them are worth anything, Mark, Crissy, and Laura, you can send the other 3 packing as they seriously suck shit. Also it's pretty annoying to find your way around the Cave and the Woods, but it's doable.

                                                                           

I really think this is a game you'll either like or you will either hate. Quite a number of people actually like the game where as a lot sure as hell don't. As you can see from the review you can put me in the like pile. Still theres a good 50/50 chance you may either like this game or hate it, but I'd give it a whirl anyway as it's not a very expensive game and you get to kill a disembodied head!

Monster In My Pocket (1991)

                                                                              

I should start out this review saying, I never played with M.U.S.C.L.E. figures and had no idea that shitty NES game was based on a toyline for a long time. I also never played with Monster in My Pocket either, which were similar to M.U.S.C.L.E. I have no idea why I didn't but yes, someone born between 1980 and 1985 didnt play with M.U.S.C.L.E., crazy, I know! Still even if you never played with either Monster in my Pocket or M.U.S.C.L.E., you gotta admit Konami made a damn fine game based off this series of toys I didn't know existed (to be fair, I would probably have played the hell out of those toys had I knew about them!)

                                                                            

I think this game, good as it is, is one of the weaker Konami titles. It's down there near the bottom of the list, were I to list Konami games for the NES. But to be fucking fair,  Konami made great games, not only Contra and Super C and the CastleVania games, but Tiny Toon Adventures, Bucky O Hare, the TMNT games, Goonies II, seriously, compared to those games pretty much any game is trash, but even though it's a lesser konami title, it still kicks the shit out of your ass.

                                                                            

The game like pretty much every other Konami title boasts great music, sound effects and graphics, pretty damn good level designs. Neat bosses. (I love the Kraken boss), and it is pretty fun, which is the most important part of a game in the end. The only real problem with this game is that it is way way way way way way way way way way way way way way way WAY too easy. This is totally on the top 10 easiest games on the NES along with Felix the Cat and Wacky Races, but to be fair, they are great games to get beginners hooked on NES! (we all started somewhere right?)

This is a pretty good game and if I recall correctly it's pretty cheap too! so I'd give it a whirl.. I mean it's Konami and when was the last time Konami let you down??

The Addams Family (1991)

                                                                              
The first thing I've ever seen the infamous Addams Family in was the 1991 movie intitled The Addam's Family (I mean really what did you expect it to be called?) and I fucking loved that movie as a kid. I remember we got the movie on vhs from McDonalds (really, no joke.) along with another movie I totally loved Charlotte's Web, I haven't seen either movie in years but to me there's no one who can replace Raul Julia as Gomez. No one.

                                                                           

So like every movie that was even sortof kindof popular. It got a NES game. And a SNES game. And a Sega Genesis Game. And an Atari STX or whatever game. AND A Amiga game. I've only played the NES and SNES versions, so I don't know if the other versions are different, but the NES game is pretty decent. Yep, Ocean made a decent game, still this and the Jurassic Park game were flukes. I'm pretty sure every other Ocean NES game sucked (I can't remember if they made the original RoboCop game or not, but if they did I suppose you can add that to the like pile, still even if those three games were the greatest games on the system, they wouldn't make up for the sheer badness that is RoboCop 2. My god that game was bad)

                                                                             

The game is pretty good, although the first time I beat it I wasn't too big on it but it has grown on me. The graphics are fine. The sound is well, you won't really like the classic Addam's Family theme after you play this game to completetion, but the sound effects are pretty good, what I like about this game is that it isn't one of the eighty six billion sidescrollers. It's a sidescroller mixed with Metroid. You have to go around saving the family members so they can help you save other family members. Like grandma will give you a potion (if you collect the stuff you need to make it) so that you can save Pugsley, which adds replay value to this game, trying to see who you can save first.  The controls are pretty okay but they could have been improved on a little, it's hard to really explain why, but they really seem iffy to me. Also the hit detection could have been improved on a bit, but despite those small flaws, the game isn't really that hard. Also the Addams Family keeps the charm of the movie/tvshow/whatever by having their house being weird as hell, full of crazy shit that wants to kill you. That's awesome.

this is another one of the many games that has grown on me, I remember the first time I played it on a emulator and somehow beat it (okay I used a FAQ) but I didn't like it. I don't know if it was using a keyboard or what (an actual NES controller is so much better), but to be fair, the first time I played Contra on an emulator I didn't like it either. That's right, I didn't like Contra the first time I played it,  but I got a copy and I love it now, so in conclusion, playing with a keyboard sucks ass.

Werewolf The Last Warrior (1990)

                                                                               
Werewolves are admittly pretty cool monsters, It's just that most of the material they appear in really sucks ass. For every The Howling or An American Werewolf in London. There's a Twilight (I hear they are techinally shapeshifters, but I don't know because I don't read that goddamn horrible garbage. or watch those terrible movies. In fact they are the only movies I refuse to ever watch. Ever.) or An American Werewolf in Paris.

                                                                         
Published by Data East (makers of Karnov, Bad Dudes and other not very good games) and published by Takara (who I have never heard of. Ever). Werewolf the Last Warrior is probably one of the better games Data East sold, but to be fair that's not saying much. Werewolf has a pretty neat gimmick, in that if you pick up a red W you stop being a total goddamn wuss (seriously your human form sucks) and becomes a total badass werewolf.

                                                                             

Seriously you need to be a werewolf because as a human you will seriously get your shit fucked up in seconds. enemies that take one or two hits as a Werewolf, take several more as a human, and tons of enemies will pop up and attack you, which kills your weak ass human self  very quickly. That's probably the biggest problem of the game, trying to stay a Werewolf.  The games graphics are pretty good, and the music is pretty catchy. The games challenge is kinda depended if you are a werewolf or not, if you are a werewolf the game is challenging but not impossible, as a human the game will fuck you in the ass until you cry uncle.

Despite the fact you suck when you are a person, this game is decent enough. I don't think it'll become your next favorite game but I enjoy it enough to say give it a shot.


Also here's a video talking about tips for this game!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlMOCmICoYY (CUZ THAT DAMN BUM ROTH DISABLED THE EMBEDDING)