Classic Game Room - JOUST review for NES 

This game reminds me of chill Sunday mornings as a kid.

I played the Atari 800 version SO MUCH, I figured how to insert myself between the two lower right platforms and could clip across them reliably, which is nifty for trick shots or escaping the pterodactyl (but mostly for flexing).

Addicted to Smash Bros. right now and I gotta say, the map layout for Joust looks like a good fit for a map, and the way the platforms disappear the farther you progress looks like a simple yet effective stage hazard!

Im addicted to Wii punch out right now, but I still love some bird ass every now and then!

I grew up with Joust on the SNES as a part of William's Arcades Greatest Hits

Birdass is my all time favorite arcade game. Also thanks for the new title I'm stealing for it. Birdass. Hahahahahaha

The only way to play this game is two player versus. Wasn't meant to be, but it so much fun.

Joust awesome

Gameplay is what makes the Atari 7800. The graphics are good, sounds typically suck, but there is just something about the way Atari games handle.

Easily one of my favorite nes games.

I grew up with the 7800 version.

the original arcade version was so much fun

Hell yeah, JOUST!!!!

I'd love a review of the Everdrive N8 sometime ;)

NES version looks like a very good version. Waiting for the arrival of my copy of the new re-released version for the Colecovision :)

Lord Karnage hasn't aged since 5 years ago.

The graphics look good, but the NES couldn't compete with the arcade sound effects. The classic Williams arcade games had the best sound effects in the business, which probably came from their decades of experience with sound effects for pinball machines. HAL also made Defender II (a port of arcade Williams Stargate) for the NES, and that was severely lacking in the sound effects department too. The only classic cartridge-based consoles that have truly good versions of Williams arcade games such as Joust, Defender, Robotron 2084, and so on, are the SNES and Sega Genesis, i.e., Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits.

Rest In Peace Satoru Iwata, the programmer whom successfully port this game 1 month behind schedule

It's the music from Famicom's Star Gate!!

I love this bird ass game played it ever since snes got to wave 150 then i got bored then started to try and kill the dio birds

I figured Dig Dug had more reviews by now than Joust.

Ah, good-ol' Bird Ass.

this is the best version!

You're missing the Famicom version Mark. It is different from the NES version, developed by Atari.

I love joust...but I think I prefer balloon fight.

Has the same song from Stargate and Millipede

But is it 1080p at 60fps?

reminds me of Balloon Fight

Mark if you read this, I highly advice you to try the Atari ST version.

I hope to see a Joust stage in the new Smash Bro Wii U. That lava hand will scare the shit outta players.

Even Lord Karnage knows, you can't play Ninja Golf on a Nintendo!

175 trillionth!

this gotta have a MOLE in it

A game that you have review waaaaaay more than once... hmmmm... let me think, apart from Missile Command, Zaxxon, several Pac Man versions, among other thousands of Atari games in their diferent versions, i can't think of another series

BIRDASS!!!!!!

5

Well now i know where Blizzard got the idea for that one quest line in mount hyjal lol .

Wasn’t this originally released on the Microbee computer? That’s where I use to play it as a kid. This version is like the Microbee version on steroids!

I grew up with this game specifically via Gameboy Color.

I like Balloon Fight better.

While the original Joust was created by Williams Electronics, this version was actually ported to the NES by HAL Laboratory. Originally it was for a failed deal that Nintendo made with Atari to distribute the Famicom outside Japan. However this deal fell apart and Joust was not released in the USA till four years after it was created and ported and was released under the HAL America brand.

This version wasn't even made by Atari. o_O

Does anybody like their eggs hard boiled, soft boiled,or made into noodles?

I also prefer the 7800 version of this over the NES, any day. :-)

Nuts and milk

Ready player one

Thy game is over!

Trying to remember, can you accidently kill each other in 2 player mode?

I have Joust for the 7800, not the NES, and I gotta say, ironically this game looks like garbage on the NES but it looks fine on the 7800.

1st

If Sucker Punch had been smart and REALLY wanted to make an accurate Seattle in InFamous: Second Son, they would've gone the Shenmue route and made a functioning video arcade where I could've gone to play Joust, Pac-Man, and maybe a 2D platformer of an 8-bit Sly Cooper. Of course, they probably knew those games were better than the high-gloss trash heap they were creating, so they poured all their resources into the Space Needle, shipped the game out the door and called it a day. Obviously hoping the gamers would be too transfixed by the graphics to notice how awful the actual game is.

Buzzard Bait!!!

The Intellivision version was better.

scoring looks wrong

Ready Player One fans, represent.

The 5200 version is awesome. Screw Mark and his constant 5200 bashing, it's older than the system.

balloon fight w uglier art

nicki minaj ´s favorite game

Does he have a speech impediment or is that 80s announcer voice on purpose?