Topic: List of unmapped NES games

[JonLeung]

Maybe I will talk more about that, actually...

If you are curious, I also made a wallpaper of the 35 games published by Nintendo themselves that are NOT in a black/silver/blue box.

Nintendo wanted to get North American gamers into RPGs, so they chose to publish Dragon Quest (and rename it to "Dragon Warrior"), Final Fantasy, and Faxanadu.  They also chose to publish Mega Man 6 when Capcom didn't seem to want to do it.

But it's interesting what we have here...
Consider the black/silver/blue-box games (seen on the wallpaper in my previous post) to be when Nintendo was starting out, that is, the early NES era.
Then the games with red banners on the top would be the latest phase (because the Super NES was on the horizon or already out, like Kirby's Adventure, Wario's Woods, and the Yoshi puzzle games).
Then everything else in between is what you'd think would be the "peak Nintendo era".

But if you filter out the Zapper and Power Pad games, since no one remembers those (sorry, Super Team Games and To The Earth), the games from franchises that are not dependent on Nintendo anymore (as mentioned earlier, like Final Fantasy and Mega Man 6), then what are you left with?

Super Mario Bros. 2 and 3, both Zelda games, Punch-Out!!, and... that's pretty much it?

(I mean, I like StarTropics, but sadly, that's not really remembered after the NES era... wasn't even released in Japan... not even any Super Smash Bros. references, if I recall correctly...)

Arguably, The Legend Of Zelda would almost be a "Black Box" game due to the timing and that it almost had a black box... but that just means one fewer game for the "peak era" that we are discussing here!

I mean, sure, the Mario sequels and Zelda (even if it's "just" Zelda II) are certainly nothing to scoff at, and Punch-Out!! was insanely popular too.  Though big, nay, HUGE, that's really not many games at all.  But they didn't need to make many more, clearly.  Maybe Nintendo didn't NEED to release more stuff, lest it distract from the well-selling Super Mario Bros. 2 and 3.  Looking at this really goes to show how the "peak NES era" was probably heavily supported by third-party games, that is, Mega Man, Castlevania, Ninja Gaiden, even licensed stuff like Disney and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Certainly interesting to look at it this way, isn't it?

[JonLeung]

And so what we have here is the combination of the two previous wallpapers from my two previous posts... the 72 games Nintendo Of America published for the NES in North America.

Nintendo did things differently in Europe, so that might be interesting to look at later.  They published The Battle Of Olympus, Kickle Cubicle, Little Nemo: The Dream Master, and others.

Sorry for the North America-centrism, but if we compare the 72 games here to the listing on VGMaps.com...

Wow, we actually have maps for them all... except for Cobra Triangle.

I'm going to put that on my personal requests list now, as well.

That will be a milestone, wouldn't it?  Would be cool to be able to say that we have every Nintendo (of America)-published NES game here on VGMaps.com: The Video Game Atlas?

[dark_lord_zagato]

Crossfire and Brush Roller were mapped by Ricardo Sallin and removed from the international list.


I'm currently working on Super Spy Hunter.

[LTIan]

Can you do a List of unmapped games from these consoles?:

SNES

Sega Genesis

Game Boy/Game Boy Color

Game Boy Advance

PlayStation 1-5

Nintendo 64

Nintendo Gamecube

Sega Dreamcast

Nintendo Wii

[JonLeung]

Can you do a List of unmapped games from these consoles?:

SNES

Sega Genesis

Game Boy/Game Boy Color

Game Boy Advance

PlayStation 1-5

Nintendo 64

Nintendo Gamecube

Sega Dreamcast

Nintendo Wii

There are surely complete lists of video games elsewhere on the Internet...

As much as I'd like to see more games from the original PlayStation mapped, we only have 86 games with at least one map... out of over 4000 games.  The 3D nature of the games from this generation onwards, not to mention broadening mass appeal leading to larger and larger libraries, and more technical hurdles (having the power to dissect the games and having more choices of how to scale increasing resolutions, etc.) make them exponentially more difficult to map.  So, I don't think a list of the PlayStation games, especially all the way up to the current PS5, are going to be realistic checklists for mapping.

We haven't even mapped ONE console completely (aside from the Classic Edition/Mini consoles that have a limited number of stock games).

The NES is relatively simple, still(?) somewhat popular, and even that is far from completion.  But it does seem doable, even if it will take another few years.  Hence, this topic exists.