The Single Most Underrated Nintendo Game Of All Time – Jaws
Early today I blogged about my top 5 most underrated NES video games. I must have been drunk or something that I forgot Jaws. Jaws is hands down one of the funnest games I’ve ever played. Sailing around until you “hit something” and then shooting sting rays and jelly fish while you collect crabs and shells. Going back and forth from port to port so that you go could get the Jaws radar tracker thing. Finding the mini sub. The bonus rounds where you flew back and forth in your plane bombing jelly fish. You know how absurd it is to blow up jelly fish with bombs? Getting stuck in the shallow waters with no room to maneuver. If you went all the way to the surface, for some reason Baby Jaws couldn’t hurt you. How bout that feeling when Jaws unexpectedly popped up on the screen when you were scuba diving? Terrifying.
I’m not sure if I ever even beat Jaws, but I know it was one of the most fun games I ever played.
UPDATE: Another movie turned video game that nobody has ever beaten but was fun as shit:
Friday the 13th
There is not one normal person on the planet earth who has beaten this game. Unless you were like a video game programmer or a hacker you’ve never seen the end of this game
Dodgeball
Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles or The Rocketeer
TMNT is not underrated its one of the greatest of all time. Rocketeer on the other hand, great choice
Friday the 13th had that same jump factor when Jason would show up.
That reminds me of splatterhouse for Genesis. Jaws was unbeatable
You had to weaken Jaws in each encounter. The more shells you collected the more powerful your speargun would get. Once you get his power down to a point, you go to a final round with him where you’re in the Orca and Jaws is swimming right at you and you have to time it so that right as he gets up to the boat you hit A and ram him. Boom. Beat Jaws. Never did it as a kid, but figured it out on an NES emulator in college. Still fun to play no doubt.
Who’s the mother fucking marksman playing?
How about you 40 year olds catch up with the times and play Call of Duty and Madden like normal people
Castlevania gave me nightmares until the first Resident Evil came out for PS1
Baseball Stars??? Lovely Ladies pay the most!
I legitimately don’t know anyone who still gets excited for Madden, but I don’t have a lot of black friends either.
Underrated game: maniac mansion (never beat it)
But you’re list sucked
No tecmo bowl
No RC pro am ( someone else said it)
No ice hockey???? Wtf?
And props for dodge ball, and whoever said baseball stars
Ps no double dragon?
Underrated game: maniac mansion (never beat it)
But you’re list sucked
No tecmo bowl
No RC pro am ( someone else said it)
No ice hockey???? Wtf?
And props for dodge ball, and whoever said baseball stars
Ps no double dragon?
Pat, was that the Res Evil where the goddamn dead dogs crashed through the window? Scared the piss out of me even when I knew it was coming.
avgn did it
Nv Pack – the whole game was crazy no matter how many times I played it through.
1. The first time you see a zombie eating a human and it slowly turns and looks at you.
2. The dogs crashing through the window.
3. That huge fuckig spider on the ceiling that drops down.
I love Jaws the movie. I love sharks. I owned this game. It is not underrated… why? Because it’s impossible to beat! It’s the same shit every time and you can never defeat Jaws. Almost as pointless as Top Gun the video game, which to this day has probably never been bested. A real man would have listed Excitebike, California Games, or Pro Wrestling (Starman was a badass).
PS – A+ @zyx for the Baseball Stars callout. @digitalmonster – Tecmo Bowl and Ice Hockey aren’t underrated bc they’re Hall of Famers.
PPS – I’m a moron, T&C Surf Designs could be the best game ever created.
River City Ransom
T&C Surf Design is absolutely one of the best calls for underrated games. Great writeup on Jaws definitely on my Top 5 of all time NES games. The shallow water just brought straight panic
Baseball Simulator 2000
How can people never beat Jaws? Go from port to port, get the mini sub, stab him with the boat.
And everything in between? Enjoy the shit out of because its a great fuckin’ game…
Jaws was AWESOME. F’ing fish up with the mini sub and the plane bonus game were my favorite parts. Side note – there is an app called Angry Planes that is pretty much an updated version of the bonus round from Jaws…worth checking out, brings me back to my NES squid bombing days
JACKAL…end of discussion