I Ranked Every LJN game on NES 

If a game is ranked lower than "Back to the Future"...

Ljn wasn’t all that bad just rushed programming on all of them.

crazy putting Thrilla's in F tier

I thought we had it bad with the Commodore 64 🤣

I hope you do a Tengen one

We blew our budget on licensing the title.

I wanted to convince myself it was good so bad when I was a kid. Xmen were cool, Nintendo was cool, this game had to be rad as hell, I must just be bad at it... I eventually traded it to a friend's cousin for Star Tropics, so I guess it was a pretty good purchase

I remember being so excited to rent this and it was my biggest gaming disappointment at that time.

I loved the X-Men so much and I was so hyped about getting this game. I was terribly disappointed and even more so with my favorite xman being the worst character in it. Wolverine was atrocious. No ranged attacks, basic attacks and slow. I think he slowly healed but it doesn't matter when you are at the mercy of gates and a timer when you beat a boss. I wanted to like this game but I just couldn't.

I remember renting it as a kid expecting it to be amazing and after playing less than an hour, I realized the game was just terrible. As a 7 year old trying to explain that to your parents is a losing battle as they just assume you are complaining and want another game instead

And yet Nintendo gave it their $eal of approval. It didn't have nudity, blood, religion, hamsters in the microwave, and most importantly the check they got from the publisher cleared.

Laughing Joking Numbnuts

And somewhere else a certain defender is feeling innocent until proven guilty.

@@mattpurvis927 EXACTLY!

RainingMetal LJN defender doesn’t exist anymore.

@@Rountree1985 I know. I was a Patreon patron of his and saw all the announcements.

The MOST important thing, not mentioned, is you can turn it off. I feel like that was an oversight on his part.

I put it in the D tier because, well, yeah... I mean, nevermind, I put it in the C tier because I really want to like it, but I don't, so I can't really... yeah.

I mean, what other positives are there in ljn games?

I agree… It also felt strangely haunted as a kid, which I think is an achievement as a horror game one that is rarely duplicated even in modern gaming.

Bhis.

Sounds like you knew how to really have fun with the Jaws game.

I beat the Karate Kid multiple times as a kid. The trick is to cheese the enemies that pop up and get them to either run past you by switching levels or by getting three of them to constantly chase you which keeps new enemies from spwning ahead of you and you can just rush to the end, as long as you keep enough distance from them.

Jason popping up is still scary!

JohnRiggs And the Cabin music is creepy, but not as creepy as Kunitoki’s music in The Last Ninja

I consider the game ahead of its time for this. The way Jason is going around the map and you run into him is a lot like Nemesis and Mr X from Resident Evil.

Both Wolverine and Silver Surfer were made by Software Creations (as well as Pictionary and Incredible Crash Dummies). LJN didn't make any games themselves.

@@Ruudos Even just as a publisher I can't think of one company since that has this level of reputation. I mean LJN consistently had terrible games.

@@JohnDoe-yf9wk T*HQ and Mindscape are pretty awful too.

yeah the role playing element was good on paper but getting bad advice

So many bad NES games made me think I was a bad gamer.

F13 was the bane of my youth but I do definitely have a soft spot for it. I wish I had Elm Street instead though growing up honestly as I could of had a lot of fun with that. I appreciate F13 more nowadays though as it’s a really ambitious game for NES days.

I still love Jaws even though someone probably made it in an afternoon hahaha

You said: Lakitu You Meant: Spiny I thought: Koopa

The game was fun I thought also

He's also not wrong about the boss. Judge Doom really was one of the most tedious final bosses I can remember ever dealing with. The fight goes on FOREVER, and you're just doing the same basic move over and over and over.

Just on NES? Because I always thought Maximum Carnage on Snes and Genesis was undisputed champ of LJN IMO.

I agree with Nightmare. That is a solid A tier, maybe even S. Friday always pissed me off. Never played Wrestlemania Challenge.

Elm Street is probably the best game LJN ever Published. Which makes sense since it was developed by RARE. Idk if I’d put it in S tier but definitely deserves A tier at least.

The nerd was correct though his experience was my experience...

I loved Nightmare on Elm Street. Me and my cousins would play it all the time. And we even had the 4 score for 4 player support. Definitely S tier as far as LJN games go.

Friday the 13th for the time definitely wasn't bad some minor complaints the water part is kind of unfair to the player and the random spawning weapons can kind of screw you though, jaws could have been longer because it wasn't there worst but way too short

I gotta put T&C as a solid B , I think a C is harsh. Cool music, interesting characters and once you get the hang of the controls it’s pretty rewarding to progress in the game.

Luis Suarez S!

Exactly. I love that game!

S for me!

Planning on both eventually. Probably Capcom next to wash away the sorrow of this list.

haha, dammit!

@@JohnRiggs I have to agree with Chris there, I was able to beat it as a kid on more than one occasion. The key is to farm drum punches and crane kicks. I'd put KK above Jaws, probably a real solid B tier game for me.

It was a better game than his rating here...

I agree with you that Punisher should be ranked higher than what John gave it, but I think it belongs in the B-tier personally. The only thing holding it back from A-tier IMO is the lack of in-game music (aside from the saxophone player).

Great idea, I still can't believe Alien 3 is from ljn

I like fun things for sure!

LJN published 25 NES games, 15 SNES games, 18 or 19 Gameboy games, 1 Dreamcast game, an accessory for the NES(the Rolling Rocker) and a console(the LJN Video Art). He has covered quite a lot of their games, the Rolling Rocker in his "Nes Accessories" video and the LJN Video Art in one of his Christmas videos so i would say that he's near the end. Although he covered "Spirit of Speed"(the LJN Dreamcast game and their last one) in a James and Mike video and not as the AVGN. Here's hoping he covers Spirit of Speed as the AVGN, that would be cool and funny to see. I can only imagine the AVGN celebrating like crazy and throwing quite a party like he did when he finished with Action 52, upon finding out "Spirit of Speed" is the last LJN game. 😀😁

Right? I beat it as a kid and you can cheese the enemies on screen and get them to run past you by changing levels.

Me too

They're not completely terrible. Just wish they did more. At least Challenge has some of their finishers (that you can pull off literally any time)

@@JohnRiggs I feel the same way you do honestly. Most of my enjoyment is childhood memories really.

WWF WrestleMania Challenge was my favourite of the WWF games. Solid B. The two-player tag-team VS CPU mode was so much fun.

@@jerrybrace2209 I only had WrestleMania Challenge and Steel Cage Challenge. I played WWF WrestleMania Challenge more that's for sure.