Robin Hood Prince of Thieves for NES - A Review | hungrygoriya 

Okay I have to admit, the visual comedy of 3:47 made me crack up laughing. You make a good point about the password system. I begrudgingly admit, as much as I hate those long passwords, they do serve a purpose. I really like how this game is structured but it has a lot going against it. Those dang bats or birds or whatever those things are...

This was the game that taught me the word melee when I was a kid

I loved the way the camp expanded as you played through the game as a kid. It really felt like you were helping it grow

The movie is my most favorite Robin Hood adaptation and I found this game to be surprisingly immersive, it's this immersiveness that to me made it a fun adventure game. Entertaining review btw

"Like Chuck Norris and David Hasselhoff" I'm still laughing hahaha. And then the horse segment. This game is so ridiculous. And full of... passion. :D Thank you again for a great review and so many chuckles and smiles.

It looks like they bump their heads at the end. Also hearing Hungry coming up with new and interesting ways to describe her murderings is always a good time. GG!

How did I miss this review? You did a very good job on it.

It's wonderful to see a game that respects the source material. Thank you for sharing this. 🧡💛💚💙💜

This is one of my favorite movies and favorite games on nes. It was actually a decently hard game at the time and still gives a pretty decent challenge now, well worth a play. I wish there were still more conversions of movies to games like this. Your review is very spot on to my experience. Wish I still own this, need to get me a nes again, with the covid retro spike prices won't be anytime soon. Love your reviews and play troughs, has relit my fire for the retro world. Thanks and please keep posting.

I'm rolling in laughter on that ending 🤣🤣🤣

Glad you went with this one next! This game has a lot of history and interesting tidbits and factoids around it, and it had a huge scope for such a small, intended-as-throwaway cashgrab title. And with such a unique dev team, they managed to make a weird but fun, charming game I have to say is good.

Thank you for revisiting these classic gems with such a personal flair for hilarity!

I really appreciate that you review some more obscure games. While i enjoy the nostalgia of hearing you talk about something like Faxanadu, these less well known game reviews make me feel like i'm slowly gaining a better appreciation for game design - it's as though i'm taking a history class. Different possible approaches (lives, passwords, leveling up vs not, equipment, inventory, combat styles, view, etc) were tried in every combination in the NES days, and sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't. It's like the very early days of flying machines - all kinds of different bizarre designs were tried before trial and error pared it down to the few working body plans we see today. Thanks for this - your videos are great.

I remember the top-down perspective causing some really weird stuff when you're walking around. Basically, if the perspective showed an object in your way, then it was in your way.... even if realistically, it shouldn't be. For example, the castles were designed isometrically, so the towers looked slanted. You could get stuck by walking in to the 'top' of the tower, even though the castle should be something like 30 feet away. "Oh no! I'm being blocked by that castle way over there! How will I stop the Sheriff now?!"

Seeing the gameplay footage for this game brought back so many vivid memories. I remember playing this at my neighbor's house during my early teenage years. We never got very far, unfortunately. It would have been worth it to see that ending!

Great review! This game is one of my guilty pleasures that I love to play now and then despite its many flaws. Beating this game back in the day was a chore. And that melee battle music is some seriously good stuff.

I forgot how much I played this as a kid! To be honest, I’m more of a “Defender of the Crown” guy, but that’s not even really a Robin Hood game. It was fun to watch you and relive this part of my childhood.

I loved Robin Good prince of thieves. Saw it on the theater in 2nd grade. I always liked this game too, especially how the outlaws forest hideout grows over time.

Hilarious review, Friar Tuck's face is pure nightmare fuel XD

This channel is so underated! You should make a facebook page is very easy to get a bigger audience to bring here. people don't really search this kind of content, but they love it when they see it

Wow we watched this movie dozens of times as kids, never knew there was a game - would have definitely gotten frustrated by the high degree of difficulty in this game and the lack of saves! Cool video :)

Love the chuckle during the ending kiss

It is really impressive how many units are on the same screen in this game for a NES title. Like, really impressive

When I was a kid, I wanted to be Robin from that movie. Loved the music too! This was my favorite game to play. It did confuse me that the cousin was the sherif. You should do the Quatro version. I've only made it to the third area. Dizzy was brutal too!

This is EXACTLY how I remembered feeling when I beat Little John and got his quarterstaff way back in the day

: ) love your voice in these reviews. Love the reviews too Hungry! : )

I remember loving this game as a child.

"These and many other little sidequests were stuffed into a movie plot that already had a ton of great things going for it." The truth is, it's actually the other way around. It was the movie that got shoehorned into the game. Many gamers never knew this cart originally started out as a generic Robin Hood title, and it was even previewed in Nintendo Power #16 as "The Adventures of Robin Hood." But when Virgin and Sculptured Software saw the movie was coming out they saw an opportunity to sang the license and basically added in the movie plot at the last minute. That's also why you don't get any songs from the film as well.

Goriya, I'm sending a pattern here. I feel like either you are tragically subjected to games that need you to start from the beginning, of you seek them out and might be a glutton for punishment. But with how you beat em should show how good you are! This one looks really fun, but those portraits are just nightmare incarnate! This is yet another one I've not heard of until you!

I remember an old Nintendo Power magazine said the Quarter Staff was good for the 1v1 duels

Well done! This one gets recommended to me a lot but it sounds like I'll need to muster up some patience before I try it out. Nice review as always!

This is a great channel, glad I discovered it.

Another excellent review! I might have rented this when it was originally released although I can't specifically remember. I loved the movie however and actually watched my VHS a few months ago. Always my favorite Robin Hood movie and I enjoyed Disney's animated movie in the 1980s as a child. I love your descriptions of the game play and characters. My thoughts exactly on nearly everything! I'll definitely try finding this game! Kinda reminds me of the Willow nes game. Thank you again! Thank you for being so awesome!

In that ending cutscene, Robin looks like Roland Orzabal from Tears For Fears, specifically in the "Head Over Heels" video.

always loved this game. and it has one of my fave NES soundtracks

Little Jon's staff was OP indeed. It makes the giant boar boss fight a total non-issue

I remember I rented this one weekend and the farthest I got was fighting Little John, one time. I always wanted to see more of it, thanks.

I rented this when I was a kid and fell in love with it. Such a great game.

If I played this game for the first time today, I wouldn't enjoy it. But because I played this game as a kid, it's such a massive nostalgia hit for me and I love it. Love the overhead gameplay, the fights, the big brawls, the horse racing. So good! Also, thanks for game capturing composite/RF signals.

This really needed a battery save system IMO. It was fun and as a long time lover of the Robin Hood story (A version of Robin Hood was the first book I ever read on my own) I enjoyed it. The wedding quest I didn't actually mind because though it wasn't part of the movie such activities are common in Robin Hood literature. I saw the movie when my parents rented it soon after it came out on VHS but didn't see it again for several years because they preferred the Errol Flynn Robin Hood so much. (We watched the Flynn Robin Hood as a family once or twice a month) I liked both so when a TV and VCR were handed down and put in my room I got myself a copy of Prince of Thieves on VHS then later Prince of Thieves was one of the first five movies I owned on DVD.

Great! Added it to my ever growing wish list

english person here: we were all suffering malnutrition and dysentery, so we had to know how to jump out of the way in a hurry!

I’m going to stick my neck out and say that I really enjoy the aesthetic of NES games in composite video, rather than the super clean look of RGB. It seems like every other RU-vidr these days wants to get that mega sharp look with their NES captures, but footage like this just looks *right* to me. It lends a certain authenticity to the image. Anyway, Fun vid, as usual. Bravo!

Loved this game on GB and beaten too. The game really follows the movie closely and I loved the movie! Just got for NES it should come within a few days, can't wait to play it!

Other great upload and video game to review. Thank you for all your videos.

“You may kiss the bride.” Robin: *slams his mullet into her*

Great review!

one of my childhood games, since we had so few games back then. I played this one a lot. Its one that I have a hard time not wearing the rose colored glasses on when people expose its shortcomings lol. But it does have its fair share of pain points for sure. Back then, I didn't even really understand the concept of leveling up. And when my uncle showed us the passcode system and I found I could use certain ones to skip back after dying, I got frustrated that I couldn't' wear certain armor when i did that as some items are level locked. When I found the game in storage when I got into high school and played/beat it again for the 100th time, I realized why. lol but yeah, the bo staff is a cheat code when you first get it. But one of the maces/flails is my favorite weapon as it has as much reach as the large sword, not as strong, but super fast to use like one of those balloon bounce balls on a string.

Good morning Goriya! Back in 1993 I had bought this game used along with festers quest. It was my best friends birthday coming up and I was to give him one of the two. I ended up keeping Robin Hood, never beat it or anything but had a lot of fun with it as a kid. Probably never even got that far...time to revisit maybe

You don't disappoint, Hungry Goriya. I knew there would be humor, I knew there would be passion, but there was also an in-depth, fully fleshed-out review here that was as interesting as it was entertaining. Even having played through this, I didn't have nearly the insight you had into this absurd game. Well done, once again.. and thank you for disseminating the pure passion that is NES Robin Hood. Oh, and Super Robin Hood - GENERIC?! HOW COULD YOU??

Reminds me a bit of Willow, just with the graphics and being a movie tie-in with RPG elements.

Another great video HG. I think I’ve seen an emote of that ending somewhere, i can’t quite remember where.

What a bizarre thing to hide a password system behind a cheat code :S That must have been a last minute change, _"oh, we wanted to make an RPG, but realized it's a bit short, let's make the player finish it in one sitting now!"_ How did you get the passwords in game? But it was made by Sclptured Software, who would also make the Super Star Wars games and the SNES ports of Mortal Kombat 1-3.

Hahahaha wow i've never noticed that Robin Hood looked like David Hasslehoff, but now I will never un-see that! One of my all time favorite games and I loved the movie. Also......you mean to tell me there was a MAP feature...?? I've never even noticed this... as much as I've played it 🤣🤣🤣 would have saved my younger self so much frustration hah

Of course they kissed at the end. The 6 inches of space between them is the room we are supposed to leave for jessus.

I don’t think I’d spent any time with this game before, it’s got the jack I usually enjoy from NES. Great review, HG!

As I've said before, I love this game. The music, the different gameplay modes, and the sense of adventure are great. However, I agree with you about the horse segment lol! Man this game could be frustrating! You can also get to the end of the game and not be able to beat it because you missed an important weapon which I did in one of my playthroughs.

A valiant effort to make us want to play this AVGN fodder - worthy of the an experienced defense lawyer. I'm sure it really is worth playing as you say, but anyone who has a NES Classic Mini has a ton of A-level NES adventure games that easily blow RHPOT out of the water. Zelda: Outlands, Zelda: Legend of Link, Silva Saga, Just Breed, and dozens more. But back in the 80s, if my parents had bought me RHPOT I'd probably have enjoyed it. There's a lot to be said about not having any other games to play :)

I can't believe you tried to rob that guy at the end.

That ending is pretty steamy stuff!

Loved Disney’s version but my favorite is “Men in Tights” 🙃

I loved this game. I was expecting a shoutout to the music! I still hum the inventory screen music to myself!

It looks like Robin took damage during that ending! That is what I thought of when the red flash happened. Perhaps he can get the kiss in during his i-frames.

Those soulless eyes are freaking terrifying! We kids of the 90's went through some true horror! Good thing we all came out tough as nails, eh? lol

I played the hell out of robin hood prince of thieves when i was young, i think its a hidden gem, i still play it every now and then

Strongly recommend The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) with Errol Flynn... very fun and entertaining 🤺

As flawed as this game is, I really loved it as a kid, even to the point of renting it multiple times just to get that little bit further. I never owned the NES version, but I did get the Gameboy version which I played the most until I was an adult (and as far as I know, the Gameboy version was very nearly identical to the NES version, but I could be wrong on that point). Looking back, its clear that the developers had a very good vision for this game and it might have been a bit to ambitious, but I would MUCH rather prefer a game with ambition that ended with a flawed game over the amount of cash grabs at the time. Plus it helps that Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is one of my favorite movies. Also, Robin Hood: Men in Tights is alright ;) the 90s was good to Robin Hood.

Robin performs the traditional wedding headbutt on his beautiful new bride.

Very soothing voice!

The melee fights where your AI partners run in actually sound super cool, shame it doesn't quite work out in practice.

I liked playing this game at my friend’s house when we were kids, but I never really got into it much because of the password system. We would often get interrupted to go play outside or have dinner, etc and wind up having a to start over. I liked the gameplay, but I didn’t really want to play through it. We’d just duck around with it a while before putting in Mario or bad dudes.

At the 7th grade dance that year they played Everything I Do no less than 5 times.

Ah, the glorious 12th century AD... when atmospheric oxygen levels were so absurdly high, human flesh literally exploded like pyrotechnical dynamite, throwing bones like shrapnel in all directions!!

A good way to beat the 1st boss. Jump up onto the table and jump over him. Back him up against the table and hit him with the sword. Try to stand just out of reach of his battle axe.

I love how everyone explodes when they are defeated

Damn fun game - i remember convincing my mom to split the cost of it with me when it came out. Than i beat it 2 days later and she was pissed that i was asking to rent a game from blockbuster for that weekend.

I remember enjoying the movie back when I was a kid, but I haven't seen it since. Might be worth a revisit some day. I've been curious about the game for a while now, since I heard it was an RPG. Eventually I'll hunt down a copy of it. Although the idea of making Robin Hood the only one on your team not using a bow is kinda weird...

NES games definitely have an ongoing theme of Trial & Error. Since most of them are quite short, they made them tough so you couldn't just plow thru them in a single afternoon & then never play them again. Just a sign of the times I suppose. Part of the charm is slowly learning, getting better & getting just a bit further on your next attempt.

The second entry into The Legend of Zelda series is an action role-playing game. You also have lives in that game.

Oh, enemies do have spawn points where they do come at you non-stop, so yeah. They best way to progress in this game is just ignore most of the enemies. Best way to grind exp in this game is the Giant boar where you can enter leave and re-enter the cave every time the giant boar is exploding. Plus yeah, Staff is literally the best weapon in this game. Rodents can be easily handled with better armor since this game loosely follows D&D rules. You can also select your party member during combat section by select button so if they're stupidly running towards arrows as they usually do, you can avoid instant slaughter by arrows by manually moving them out of the harm's way. My main problem with the game was that it was supposed to be bigger DnD adventure but it had lots of chests and stuff left out of the game because it was rushed out of the window for the movie release which is a big shame because I really liked this game as a kid. With little hex editing you could have a working shield for an example which was never used in a game itself but working code and sprites were there for you. Plus there were couple of chests and keys that led to no chests at all in the game itself that programmers just forgot about. Basically, in many respects, Robin Hood the prince of thieves was pretty much unfinished game that would've been much bigger and better defined adventure if devs would've been given time to finish what they started instead of just rushing it out for holiday seasons.

Oh man, this is one of many NES games that I acknowledge is not "great" (to be diplomatic), yet I enjoy it anyways! Great (fair) review.

Nice that you ask the guy what you can steal from him :P I had the game in spannish, since they sold it in Holland only in Spannish, so I didn't know what they were saying. Didn't understand it at all. Now I got it in English....and should give it a second chance.

I have played this game so many times inn my youth. I Have nevere ever seen the game over screen before this video. This is a really easy game. YUou get so many apples and bread from the dead enemies at its imposibil to lose. And for grinding if you want to do that just wait until you get the stick from Litle John

Hey Hun did you see Robin Hood: Men in Tights ? it's a Mel Brooks Film so it might not Be to your Taste but it's another Take on Robin Hood that you could check out.

The mystery of childhood was a skeleton in the well in the middle of the game - it was impossible to kill him (I think?). He was the same at the end of the game, but you could kill him with a special dagger.

This actually looks pretty neat for a huge Nes fan like me. Not sure if I'd have the patience though.

Love this game!!!!!

Wow I'm realizing as long as I've had this game I've never given it the time of day. I don't recognize any of this, haha. ...A random suggestion: I'd like to hear your review of Magical Starsign on the DS. I really enjoyed that one x)

It looks like Jerry Seinfeld kissing Elaine! Seriously though, I loved the hell out of this game as a kid and beat it quite a few times. I still have my copy but I doubt itll hold up. Its suprisingly fun for a licensed title of the era.

the player info screen: 👁👄👁

Great review. Rented this as a kid and I was fairly disappointed. That kiss at the end was incredible. Where was 8 bit Sean Connery though?

I love the Robin of Sherwood series from the 80ies. Have you seen it? It was a real favourite in our household. I was allowed to stay up. :)

😅😂I thought Robinhood was trying to kiss Sleeping Beauty 🤣 L👾ve your vids👾👾👾👾 : 🚀

"Hi, are you naked?"

So I should play it or not? Bc every time I toss it in that 1st board is rough lol

Awesome game! One of the most adult themed games on the system too. I think Nintendo gave them a pass as it was based on a movie and bound to be a success.

Seems really packed with content for a licensed game, just a shame about the lack of save. Perfect for emulation as at least you can use save states to get round the problem if you want to go through completely.

You found a marion! Im glad i nudged you and ren into playing this.

I didn't find out about this game until I was in high school. It was surprisingly fun, but had a lot of rushed elements that made it less than memorable

I can't tell if I am in love or hate the art especially the town stuff. Almost seems too slanted like everything's gonna fall over