Over the last few months, we’ve been posting Review Crew episodes recapping the Super Nintendo games we missed before the series kicked off in 2021. The good news is that finally finished the backlog, successfully covering every single Super NES game on the Nintendo Switch Online service. The bad news? We still have a few dozen Nintendo Entertainment System games that need the Review Crew treatment. So today we’re going to dive back into looking at those 8-bit classics, including games like Punch-Out!!, Nightshade and Ghosts ‘N Goblins. Sure, these games came out on Nintendo’s online service years ago, but I still need to ask: Are any of these games actually worth playing? To answer that question, I decided to flip through the pages of Electronic Gaming Monthly, ACE, GamePro and more classic magazines to see what the critics said back when these games first came out. So, think twice about going on a date in a cemetery, because this is another monster-filled episode of Nintendo Switch Online Review Crew.
0:00 – Introduction 1:14 – Commercial: Mike Tyson’s Punch Out (U.S.) 1:45 – Punch-Out!! (NES) 3:49 – Nightshade (NES) 6:19 – Commercial: Mike Tyson’s Punch Out (Japan) 6:53 – Ghosts ‘N Goblins (NES) 10:04 – Commercial: Ghosts ‘N Goblins (Japan) 10:21 – Question of the Day
