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Episode 760: YOUR Greatest* 8-Bit Licensed Games (Patreon)

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2026-04-03 11:00:21
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2026-08
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Jeremy: We asked, you delivered! In this thread, we field dozens of letters from you, the cool Retronauts community, about your picks for the greatest 8-bit licensed games of all time. Needless to say, it's quite a bit different from the ones we selected a few weeks back. And here to do penance for our collective poor taste, I am once again joined by Stuart and Kurt... and of course the voices of dozens of listeners. That's you!

Art by Amanda Neipris.

5:05 - Hot Slots: Untitled background music12:55 - Top Gun: "Refueling"22:15 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game: "Downtown"39:05 - WWF Betrayal: Untitled / G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: "Black Hills"53:25 - Disney's DuckTales: "Transylvania"1:05:10 - Tecmo Super Bowl: "Season Mode - Player 1"1:16:45 - T&C Surf Design: Wood & Water Rage: "Main Theme"1:30:30 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: "Stage Theme 2"End - Castle of Illusion: "Toyland"

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Jonathan Kade

I like the Game Gear Star Trek games but the Geordi repair minigames can go to hell.

Jonathan Kade

Does Darkman have digitized speech?

Jonathan Kade

Stuart, you may know Genpei Touma Den as The Genji and the Heike Clans.

Jonathan Kade

Wow, I got Noobow loose for like $10 not too long ago.

Jonathan Kade

The Treasure McDonald’s game for Game Gear was robbed!

Jonathan Kade

Everyone skipped the Sega Asterix and Disney 8 bit games because they assumed someone else would nominate them. Stuart was right.

Rasheen Jordan

Come for the game talk, stay for the Hedberg references.

Kirk

I was kinda hoping for the return of the “We get mail” song. Another great episode.

Patrick McClafferty

Jeremy was right saying Trickthetm the first time (think I put the correction a previous time). Following up my comment, the NES Star Trek 25th Anniversary was their adaptation of the 1st PC adventure game that changed the gameplay style. Also glad someone else shouted out the Game Boy James Bond game. It didn't cross my mind since it came out so late in the GB's life I didn't consider it 8-bit.

JJR

ZILLION! Wow, that was near the top of my personal list and didn’t expect anyone to mention it. I have to admit, I’ve never finished it without cheating. On accident as a kid, I found a glitch in the first room at the bottom of the first elevator where if you go into the computer while an enemy is overlapping the computer and enter the 0000 you become invincible but can’t switch characters.

Devon Dale

Absolutely loved this episode. I haven’t heard anyone mention the Costner Robin Hood game in 30 years. Really brings back memories of renting the game and struggling to complete the second level—only to have my dad turn off the NES so he could play Nobunaga’s Ambition. Truly a retro problem 🥲

PurpleComet

I was surprised by the sheer variety of answers given, I expected my answer, Ducktales, would be so obvious that it wasn't worth writing in. I'm kinda surprised there was no love for Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers. I never owned it as a kid but it was very well received.

ElGamerVeterano

Thanks for reading my mail, you've made my weekend, T&C was always available at my nearest rental venue back in the day. I was not aware the game is kind of an obscure. It was nice listening to you guys talking about this game.

James Couche

Friday the 13th for the NES has an aura to it that people don't talk enough about. I was introduced to it over 20 years ago while in the Air Force. My best friend raved about this game that he grew up playing with his siblings and eventually bought an NES on eBay just to play it. Watching him tackle Camp Crystal Lake was confounding: the map system was confusing, putting out fires and saving children seemed chaotic, the progression was opaque... None of it made sense to me. I ended up not playing it myself, but the game stayed with me ever since; nestled in a dark corner of my brain where it occasionally emerged into the light just to mess with me. Fast forward to today and I realize I'm not alone in this. The first indication was seeing an oddly familiar indie game at Magfest called Screaming Savage Blood Death. It looked like the original game on steroids. Recently we got a surprisingly faithful Gameboy Color port of Friday the 13th made by ZeichiGames. That's nothing to say for all the Doom mods and fangames scattered across the internet. The cult fandom of this game really speaks to what it was like being a gamer growing up in the 80s. You were lucky if you got 2 or 3 games a year, so you couldn't just discard them the way we do today with our massive Steam libraries. Games like this and Jaws had more time to get their hooks into you, which gave gamers a chance to see past the initial jank to enjoy the compelling game underneath. I guess it's finally time to sit down and play the game for myself... Wish me luck.

CapNChris

I've always wondered why we don't hear more about the NES Robinhood Prince of Thieves game in retro contexts. While it seems like an evolutionary dead end, for the variety of what it did at that time and with that technology, it was an ambitious little game that I enjoyed playing in my youth. I wish someone could do some gaming archaeology to determine if the game inspired any other games. I hope Stuart enjoys playing it.

Devon Dale

I do hope there will be a 16 bit edition of this concept in the future where Stuart praises Donald Duck's "Quackshot" on the Mega Drive, while we all whinge over the ports of Aerosmith's "Revolution X."