I Ranked Every TAXAN game on NES 

GI Joe for me is a top 10 NES game. I love all the different characters, the settings, the different weapons, the level design is great, and it's an awesome representation of the source material. I also like it better than the Capcom game too, I never thought I'd say that about anything

Low G man was my favorite. The music is about as good as it gets that era. I was so irritated when i found out after beating it once, that i still had to beat it 2 more times to actually finish the game.

"In so old I remember when Pluto was a member of the Galactic Membership of Planets." Pluto will always be a planet to me.

Snake Eyes is the Wolverine of GI Joe. I was surprised to see that I own all oc these. Taxan isn't a company that I just automatically considered to be high quality, but seeing them all in one lump, they were better than I'd realized. Good stuff.

GI Joe and Low G Man are classics.

As the author of a large NES game endings guide on Gamefaqs, Taxan games have a special place in my heart for having multiple quests and several endings. 8-Eyes, Low G Man, Burai Fighter, GI Joe and even Mystery Quest all reward you with a special ending when beating all the quests. Love them all! Great reviews John, always looking forward to your next video.

Nostalgia for Low-G Man right here! Used to rent it back in the 90's from the grocery store in a town of under 500!

That Jimmy"Super Fly" Snuka, appearance was funny.

“This game’s really, really good. I’m giving it a C”. I wish my parents had that philosophy when it came to my report card.

Magician is one of those games you pull up on RU-vid and type "Magician Speed Run" just to see the conclusion.

My cat loved the falcon in 8 Eyes. I’m not sure how he knew it was a bird, but he enjoyed it.

Low G man is one of my favorite NES games. So underrated and often forgotten.

I loved Mappy Land!! I used to rent this all the time as a kid

You should do a developer tier list.

That GI Joe game is definitely a hidden gem.

1:26 One measure of the greatness of a game is how satisfying it is to use pencil and paper along the way.

The thing with Low G Man is the framerate of the game, it looks like it's on a PAL refresh rate or something and that makes the gameplay kinda weird.

I love these videos John esp for NES. Its rare for people to have as much game knowledge as you and its incredibly interesting to hear how you rank these games. Please keep these videos coming!

I’m totally down with you on MappyLand. I have no nostalgia for it as I neither owned nor played it as a kid and I also expected a kids game with the coloring-book graphics, but it’s super fun, has a reasonable challenge that ramps up nicely, and that soundtrack gets stuck in your head. I sometimes find myself whistling Stage 3’s theme, and have for years since discovering this one.

Thanks for the content, Riggs!!

As long as you keep making videos, I'll keep watching them, subscribed since day one! Love the format of your rankings videos, keep em coming.

I'm loving these videos and I think I've watched all of them now. Please keep them coming, thanks!

It is crazy to think that I am almost 40 and have any heard or played any of these games. Goes to show how massive NES library truly is..

I love mappy land. Its in my top 20 nes games. I love the music.

Good stuff as always Riggs.

8 Eyes is a criminally underrated game.

8 Eyes: You could've called this game, Bird vs Camel! And no one would have argued with you

Yup the Taxan GI Joe game came out in January of 1991 while the Capcom game was released the following year. Right there with you on the Taxan game though, I have more nostalgia for it than the Capcom one. I still enjoy it to this day and love playing as Captain Grid-Iron and Snake Eyes.

I love these videos i look forward to them every week. Thanks for making them

The amount of time I spent playing 8 Eyes with one of my good friends was quite ridiculous we probably beat it 10 plus times over and over just switching out one would be the warrior the other would be the eagle. Also, Burai Fighter was like having a lesser version of Forgotten Worlds at home. Loved it.

Thanks for the content Mister Riggs.

Awesome that we had similar experiences with Fist. I was thinking about the time I rented it from Blockbuster, had no idea what was going on. It was rough. Later in the mid nineties I saw the movie and it made sense. So I rented it again!! And it was still rough and returned it the same night and asked them to let me swap it.

Burai Fighter, Low G Man, Kick Master, Isolated Warrior, GI Joe, Banana Prince had all the same developer (K.I.D.). That is why most of these game have the same love behind them when created. The publishers may vary, Taxan or Vapp in these mentioned games.

Another great ranking video!

Would love for you to release a video of all the S games when you've gone through all the publishers.

Oh man, I remember Magician. I rented it back in the day and basically just starved to death over and over in the game.

John 'You have to really want to play this game' Riggs ^^

¡Muchas gracias por presentar estos vídeos!

Been waiting for this! I love Low G Man. Got it randomly at a drug store as a kid early 90s and had never played or seen anything like it. No one I know has ever heard of it. Loved the yellow label on the cart.

Thanks Riggs!!! Couldnt wait for Taxan! Love GI Joe!!!

it has taken me months, but I finally subscribed! For the most part, I only watch you, Game Sack, and Sega Lord X. Thank you for the great content, and it's good to see you're from the PNW (we just recently moved back to Illinois from Puyallup).

Thanks John!

Hey! Some love for 8 Eyes! Awesome! Thank you for recognizing! I loved that, Burai Fighter, Low-G Man and the GIJoe game too.

Completely agree about Mappyland being great. That and Circus Caper are very addictive games.

Omg … Low G Man… that just unlocked some deeeeeep memories. I loved that game

Awesome! Thanks John.

You nailed it with Mappy Land. It's a childhood game for me, and going back to it I found it's still fantastic.

Lol I was just thinking Sgt. Slaughter and then you said it. One of the reasons I trust your reviews, we like similar games

Not enough people talk about Burai Fighter, I always loved it as a kid even though I could never get very far in it. Great music too.

Gi joe is the only reason why I waited for this video. I can't enough of it

The final boss fight in Burai Fighter is one the most intense boss fight I've ever experienced. Especially on the hardest difficulty setting (Ultimate), In Low G Man it isn't mandatory to freeze your enemies with your gun. Actually if you beat enemies wthout freezing them you'll always receive an item.

I’m an OG Castlevania fan, I remember anticipating CastleVania 2 and this filled the gap for me between CV2 and CV3. 8 Eyes looked great, but it just felt a lot harder than it needed to be. This was a rental for me, but even back then it felt like a complete rip off of CV, and I was completely fine with that. I would put it as a C for me. The thing I remember the most about GIJoe was all the vehicles. It felt so ahead of its time. Also like the arcade, it followed the toy line which I could appreciate at the time since I was probably still playing with them.

Ive actually been watching these videos hoping to see a title I rented a couple of times as a kid but couldn't for the life of me remember the title of the game or the company that made it. That game was mystery quest. Search complete. But I've watched so many of these videos in my quest to find the game I've come to really enjoy them so I'm definitely going to watch this entire series.

Love Burai Fighter! I was introduced to the series from the Game Boy Color port and loved it to bits

Will you ever do a one hit wonder episode? An episode where you look at publishers that only released one or two games? I sorted my whole nes classic library by publisher and there are quite a few publishers like that.

I had 2 of these games and loved them. 8 eyes and low g man

Been subbed .. Great channel... thumbs up every time my man..!!!

My best friend and I would play 2player 8eyes. I always loved playing as Cutris the falcon.

Mystery quest ! I could never remember the name of this game, my brother owned it when I was a kid. It was definitely a challenge.

My brother and I always said it was called 8 Eyes because that’s how many eyes were looking at the screen when the two of us played.

I have to say that you should have at least 7 videos a day, because they are all well done, laid back, and always interesting! I look forward to gaming cons so that I could get your autograph! Keep up the fantastic work - all the best to you and your family, and even Ron Jiggs!

Being the falcon, making this an early couch coop

Awesome video, Mappy Land is awesome and the music too, at the haunted house, you can go into the house and it will play the mappy theme.

I love the ranking series. I've watched them all...and yes I'm subscribed! 😂😂

All these ranking and review vids take me back to the good old days. If you could take a time machine backwards to a particular year in your gaming past to relive the best moments you experienced what would it be?

great video bro,, im definitely subbed bro

Stopping in to drop a like and make sure the video is in my saved to watch after work 😀

I loved low G man and have no idea what could be missing on the nes at least, I liked it just as much as journey to Silius!

Mappy and Mappy Land are two superb games that do not receive all the luv and respect they deserve

Loved that G I Joe game and it is better than the Atlantis Factor sequel. Got Low G Man for Christmas and was excited till I played it. Ended up playing Bigfoot more got it for Christmas same year.

Been subbed for awhile and your opinion is pretty right on about the games. Also I would have never guessed you are 6'5. I'm 6'3 and wear a size 15 or 16 so I'm sure you are right there too. Such a joy to shoe shop.

Never heard of this developer. Mappy Adventures looks great expanding on the arcade game.

Another great video Mr Riggs....keep it up. G-Man will be something I look up now.

Great episode as always. My brother and I had mappy land and mystery quest. Mappy land is excellent and mystery quest is so so. If didn't have it as a kid I dont think I'd like it .

There is a hack of 8 Eyes that turns it into a Castlevania game, with the whips items etc...Very fun!

Thanks again for selling me your copy of Fist of the North Star at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo in 2017. You also sold me Street Cop. You gave me a good deal on both. Thanks :-)

Low G Man!??!?! Wow bro, I played that game so much but I totally forgot about it until now. Once again, thx for bringing the memories back

Loved 8 eyes - couldn’t get far but had a fun time with it

Snuka was walking pretty fast in Magician. He must've been leaving the hotel...😳🙈🙉🙊

I love this channel, I came to it following Metal Jesus Rocks and I would love to see a series like this but from super nintendo, there are so many games that I never heard of.

I loved 8 eyes as a kid, but had totally forgotten it's name since! I didn't remember being able to control the hawk with the 2nd controller either. Taxan was a publisher I otherwise didn't even know about. I don't think any of the other games I ever played.

My mother-in-law is so old she was a waitress at the Last Supper!

BTW - Mappy Land is on the Namco Museum Archives Collection #2 for the Switch!

8 Eyes has my all-time favorite cover art for a NES game.

Hokuto no Ken/Fist of the Northstar had 2 action platformers. This one is actually the 2nd one. The rest were RPG style games. When they carried over to Super Famicom, they had a couple of fighters (I wanna say 6 & 7) and the previous ones were RPG style. Atahh!

Man, you've just about reviewed every NES third party publisher's games. I can only think of three that you haven't covered yet. FCI, Mindscape, and Infogrames. Looking forward to seeing them soon!

Having grown up with the Atari 7800 and not the NES at our house (I did have some friends that had the NES, so I did play some games for it), I hadn’t played any of these games as a kid. I did pick up the Evercade tho, and one of the carts has 8-Eyes...it’s quite cool. I’d give it a “B” at least.

You're old enough to have served wine at the Last Supper. So am I.

Congratulations on 100k subs

Music in 8-eyes is pretty good. The weapon level up system in GIJoe is pretty fun.

Lmao when you were talking about Magician and asked if that was Jimmy Snuka!

I remember renting and enjoying Low G Man back in the day. Great video! Now, about that Koei video ;) See ya at MGC!

I subscribed because of the way you parlayed the Fist of the North Star into asking for subs. For the longest time I thought that game was a hack and not an official release. It sure looked and played like one.

Ahhh, Mappyland. I remember renting that one once and loved it. I've been looking for a copy for years, but haven't found one in the wild yet.

Every time you post, I watch and then go to my emulator and try some of these games.

The GI Joe games were both so awesome.

8 Eyes was a great bargain game too. As far as the 20$ rack at Toys R Us, it was a good pick

Yes!!!!!! These were games that only kiddie city had or obscure department stores. My local Kmart never had mappy only had like the latest ones and capcom stuff

It was cool that you could pick any stage in 8 Eyes, but the fact there is a specific order they want you to do them in and is hinted at in the book makes it pretty linear unless you want the bosses to be 10x harder. It's a shame you can't select the right sword for the bosses like you could in Mega Man to get past this issue.

Thanks for this one! Glad to see the praise for GI Joe. Hope American Sammy is coming up!