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Great list, I was a big fan of Search for Eden and The Firemen.

The narrator sounds like Linus from Peanuts all grown up.

1:10 - Geez... I remember the protests at the video store near my house when word got out they had that game pak. 4:30 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was a real shelf warmer - nobody wanted it.

I have a copy of Taboo: The Sixth Sense still in it's original box. It no longer has it's original plastic wrap, but it has never been removed from the box.

I played 1, 3 and 5.

Great game!!

I have that CIB

Bionic Commando was controversial for delicate unbalanced people.

Hello! I've seen a lot of videos about this game, it works from me, but I can't play..... I do not found any controls.... pls, can you help me?

I guessed that Chiller would be in here, but I didn't know about Taboo. What I do find interesting is that the protagonist in Bionic Commando was called Super Joe in advertising when the game hit the US - making it a "sequel" to Capcom's original Commando. Nowadays he's referred to as Nathan "Rad" Spencer.

My favorite was Monster Party. Alongside Darkwing Duck

The NES had two pornographic games on it, tho

Bionic Commando was awesome to kill hitler

4:32 I'm confused about the significance of the DSP in relation to thid game. The DSP is mentioned, and what it does, but never really mentions how the gsme benefits from the DSP

Taboo should have been controversial because people may have mistsken it for a real game instead of a silly tarot card application

Another thing about Jeckyl and Hyde was that it actually had less content than the Japanese version, at least one less level/area. Not that it made much difference, it still sucked in Japan.

Action 52 was quite ahead of its time in terms of generic games are concern. The games suck for the most part but the compilations of games is what made it unique for its time.

Re-release Cionic Commando today and it would be REALLY popular on college campuses. Except they would purposely lose so that Hitler would survive.

I love Mickey’s Magical Quest. It was one of my favorite games as a kid. I’d love a re-release. I used to (stupidly) sell my games to get new stuff. I stopped selling my games 25 years ago, but I got rid of old stuff back when I was young. I regret it so much. The SNES is one of my all time favorite systems. Great list!

Three of these games I hadn’t even heard of till now. The other two, Jekyll and Hyde and Action 52 I learned about from AVGN’s videos.

Weren’t Castlevania and Ghosts ‘n Goblins considered controversial for their usage of monsters and religious iconography? I know that Castlevania specifically had to change the Cross to a Boomerang when ported overseas.

Bionic man boss did nothing wrong

Bionic Commando? So… killing Hitler is bad? I mean, it’s only been the last few months where baby Dems have been pushing for the elimination of Israel, so why would they care in the 80’s?

False advertising! Promises underrated games, shows list full of games on practically every European SNES owner's rec list. I mean, yeah, these are great games, but Terranigma, Wild Guns, Illusion of Gaia and Actraiser are considered essential must plays that you learn about within fiteen minutes of asking anyone for games to play. Maybe change the video title and you're good?

Hola amigo... verdad que no se puede poner en español?

I know you dont want people to just scroll and then click off, but you could at least keep the game names up for a little bit longer

I have alll of these games. Bionic Commando is one of my favorite games of all time!

This would have been a much better video if you used the actual music for the game being represented at the time.

That seagul is right beside the mic 😂

I've noticed that there are a lot of Taito games on this list. Guess they remained getting games out right at the end of the NES life cycle while working on the SNES ones.

Love the list and enjoy all of them. Actraiser is a top 10 game on SNES console period, let alone underrated list.

Super mario bros 2 is a controvery becauss it is a reskinned Doki Doki Panic.

1991 Nintendo Campus Challenge?

I have a Raspberry Pi-powered arcade cabinet in my work's breakroom that, every morning, I pick a game (from the library of many thousands) to set on "attract mode". I'm going to have to let the Japanese Bionic Commando run one day.

Most of these weird games I didn’t even know existed…

Have you considered doing a video like this for Skyward Sword HD as well?

Astonishing

This doesnt look like a snes game!

Bionic Commando was lambasted for the lack of jumping and having to use that arm contraption, making it a difficult experience on young gamers. Nintendo Power didn't even promote it positively. Nothing to do with this moustache man, gamers usually never even got far enough to meet mustache man.

Taboo - Meh, worse has been said about D&D. None of us listened to them back then and we still aren't listening. Chiller - Considering where games go today for disturbing content, you'd think that NES was about collecting flowers. I personally don't see a need/purpose to go that far in gaming as disturbing content that goes that far isn't entertaining to me, but I have tons of other games I can play so I just ignore it. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - A classic example of nonexistent quality control for the time. Both the game and the manual could've been improved to avoid the mess they made by confusing gamers. Action 52 - A precursor to game bundles of crappy games today. What Action 52 did back then lives on in spirit. It probably wasn't the first, but it's the first one that most people think about. Bionic Commando - Since then, a lot more WW2 imagery and such have shown up in games (some more disturbing than others). I think it probably came out too soon for the west to accept such a thing. In the 80s, many of us kids had grandparents who fought in WW2 or knew other kids with family members who were WW2 veterans. It was a time when our parents understood what happened from their parents and that was getting passed on to us, but it wasn't as successful as it was for our parents. As time marches on, generations get more and more distant from major world events and what those events meant to the people who lived through them. WW2 imagery hit the older generations hard and they cared more about where games came from than did us kids who just wanted to play them. We kids in the 80s didn't see any WW2 imagery in Bionic Commando so we didn't care. Overtime as WW2 gets even more normalized in gaming (some may argue it's already there, and especially among younger gamers), this controversy will be pretty much forgotten except to gaming historians who keep track of such things. In time, I would not be surprised if content related to 9/11 or other world events shows up in games (if it hasn't already). That's the problem with using anything related to historical events in gaming. Gamers just want entertainment, but for people who lived through the times when the events happened...they may have a different opinion on the matter depending on how it hit them. If anything these 5 games just mean that what one person finds entertaining, another person won't. No matter what it is. Even the first Super Mario Bros game, one of the most historically significant and well known games of all time, may eventually be seen as 'meh' or even 'bad' by people in younger generations who never grew up with games of that type. Only time will tell, but everyone will always have their own "cup of tea" preference for what they consider "fun" in gaming.

Mega Man box art. Now that's controversial.

Lol soon as I saw Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde i guessed it was controversial bc it was so bad

Up until I saw this video, I had no idea that the original release of Bionic Commando in Japan was about a Neo-Nazi Militia led by a resurrected Hitler. As for Chiller, I remember seeing the arcade version by Exidy at my old Pizza Hut and nobody ever said a word about it. The NES version was also unlicensed by Nintendo. And Taboo is one of the games where I learned about Tarot and how to read the cards. Finally, Action 52 is Video Gaming Nightmare Fuel & Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde had Robert Louis Stephenson turning in his grave.

Representation of gender? I don't remember there ever being any issues with a woman in the NES era. One of the most beloved characters in gaming (Samus Aran) came from that era.

TABOO

Back in the day none of us knew Taboo even existed, very obscure. Most of this list is controversial today and unknown back then.

Now we have companies like Sweet Baby Inc destroying creativity under the guise of DEI

Terranigma have one of the best unforgettable soundtracks. Prime Blue should everyone know ❤