If you eat a popsicle, you can breathe ice. If you eat a hot pepper, you can breathe fire. A great looking platformer with excellent music. In Twin Dragons, you play as two dragons named Dinky & Minky. Vigilante Ninja 2Īnother winner of the 2016 Nesdev game competition, and also a work in progress from France. I, of course, made a game, which is available on cartridge. Here’s a screenshot of what that will look like. Bankethĭiskover recently announced he is porting The Sword of Ianna to the NES. I hope we get to see the full game released some day. Banketh is Diskover’s first game, which is a top-down adventure game (like Star Tropics). I guess this one had a very limited cartidge release, since it didn’t meet it’s crowdfunding goals (I think he said he made a few copies for his friends). Nebs n don’t think he has an official website) There’s a link to the demo at the bottom of the first post here… This was a winner of the 2016 Nesdev competition. A Megaman style platformer, you can dash across gaps and collect diamonds. Still a work in progress, in Nebs n Debs you play as a little girl with an Octopus hat on. Tons of interesting details in this game should keep you occupied for weeks.

There are lots of little secrets in this game (big head mode, bad eye mode, a talking moose). If you find a different costume, you gain new abilities. You play as a little person wearing a lizard costume. In Lizard, Canadian programmer / musician Brad Smith has made a very big open-exploration world…well 2 parallel worlds connected by doors. This is a big one that has been in the works for a while…and is almost done (as of late 2017). (Also available from 2nd Dimension is Get Em Gary – which is like “Wrecking Crew and Fix-It Felix Jr”, programmed by Sly Dog Studios) Imagine a 2x1x1 block that has to be tipped over in exactly the right directions to make it through to the goal. I didn’t want to list “top 10” or “top 20″…and piss someone off, so I listed them sort-of alphabetically.

Which is why I think 2018 is going to be a great year for NES gaming.

Several of these I haven’t played yet because several of these aren’t completed yet. This is my list of favorite NES homebrew games. The past few years have been huge in the NES homebrew community, and I feel like next year will be even bigger. As a NES homebrewer, I have been lucky enough to meet some great people, and play lots of interesting games.

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