A Look at the 10 Rarest Sequels to Popular NES Games (Nintendo Entertainment System)

No love for dragon warrior 4 for the NES ?

Pool of Radiance is awesome. I’ve beaten it twice this year.

The 3 player mode in bomberman 2 is a holdover from the famicom version. The famicom has hard wire controllers and only one expansion port mainly used for the jp zapper but Hudson came out with a extra controller. Later they also made a multitap but the first more than 2 players games was limited to 3 like bomberman 2 and stinger.

I agree that Ducktales 2 is more fun than the 1st. Glad to hear someone else say it! Wish I'd gotten to play it as a kid!

Godzilla 2 looks awesome! I liked the first one, my cousin had it, but I never got to spend much time playing. I don't believe I ever got off of earth. I like how they leaned into the strategy aspect. Later I played Master of Monsters on the Genesis, it completely blew me away.

Pool of Radiance is actually, believe it or not, one of my favorite games for the NES. And I didn't even play it back in the day. I only recently picked it up and learned how to work it, being a D&D fan. The game opens up more once you get outside the town, finding yourself in a top-down overworld that has better graphics than anything in the city. Plus, all the early fights kind of rely on you memorizing and using the sleep spell, your absolute best friend early on.

But in any case, the computer version, and the later sequels on the computer, are all better. That said, I admit this stuff has a narrow demographic. Heck, I was exactly like you early on and perpetually ignored dungeon crawlers.

Im from Poland .Chip and Dale 2 was most popular game here,beside Mario and Contra.I played (in 90s)Flintstones 2,Turtles fighting game,Power Blade 2 .We usually didn`t buy carts,but borrowed them for week ,or exchaged for other cart.

Bomberman 2 is really that rare?! I have a copy of that lying around at my Grandma's house o.O

I'm surprised Star Tropics 2 wasn't on the list.

Also, great to know the D&D games are on here. I played them on computer. I still play D&D with my classmates at my seminary here today.

Wait a sequel to the flintstones...i loved the first one!

Did anyone ever play the NES game that was like a ikari Warriors? The bosses head over exaggerative Asians faces The last boss was a giant Asian head with a straw hat buck teeth . Could never figure this game out. Me and my brother would play it all the time.

Wasn't Yie Ar Kung Fu on the NES? Thought it was the first one v one fighter on NES. I'll look it up but I'm not gonna edit this lol

Nah, I feel bad for dropping Casino Kid back then because it looks interesting 😢

And I thought RC Pro Am II was expensive at a hundred bucks. I had no idea there were at least 10 sequels more than that.

Casino Kid rocked. Rented it a bunch from the Chevron when I was a kid.

Bubble Bobble 2 is pretty expensive these days.

Bomberman II seems to borrow a lot from the first Bomberman game on pc-engine/TurboGrafx 16. It reuses sprites, enemies, and music from the PC-E game, with a hit to the fidelity of course. Although there is something nice about the flat colors and NES soundchip

hilsfar is a sudo-sequel to pool of radiance that was released to fill the void between the first game and it's true sequel "curse of the azure bonds" - which was never ported to nes

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I miss the days when I could go to a local retro game store and buy any NES game for $3.99.

I bought Sonic Blast Man 2 (SNES) for $9.99 and was shocked last year when I realized it was selling for over $200 now loose.

I have Karate Champ... it's not very fun lol had it since I was a kid

Fun fact about the 3 versions of TMNT tournament fighters. Every version has at least one character not found in the other versions.

love your content my dude keep it up!!

Thumbs down for trying to make normal things seem like dirty innuendo

Flintstones Dinosaur Peak was not a Blockbuster exclusive. I rented this a lot as a kid from the Frys grocery store back in the day when they had a section for renting movies and games.

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My favorite Late Era NES Sequal is the one I opened up Christmas Morning of 1994... "Zoda's Revenge: Star Tropics II" but its not an expensive Sequel so it doesn't fit this list.
The only Expensive Sequels I personally have in my collection are Donkey Kong Jr Math, and RC Pro Am II
That is unless you count Stack-up as a Sequel to Gyromite which I don't.

Surprised to see Godzilla 2 here. Godzilla is my favorite thing in the world (i bet youd never guess) and this is one of the worst, most disappointing game i ever played. Im not 100% sure that i didnt cry after renting it as a child lol


But yeah its definitely rare today.
I think it didnt get a wide release; none of my Blockbusters ever carried it and i never saw it for sale - just rented it from Kroger back when they did Nintendo rentals.
And i know its not a popular opinion but i loved the first Godzilla game.

The Ubisoft Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a port of the terrible Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Action Game (PC), which was also ported to nearly every console that existed at the time. Sega Master System, Game Gear, Genesis, Gameboy, NES, along with nearly every computer platform that was available then. The one thing they all have in common is that they all suck. I'd call it the worst retro Indy game ever, except I've played Instruments of Chaos starring Young Indiana Jones for the Genesis, which is an even bigger dumpster fire.

Another rare sequel would be Capcom's GI Joe: the Atlantis factor, sequel to the even rarer GI Joe: A real american hero, by Taxxan...

I love Bomberman II, the one player mode is great and the vs mode is fantastic. Spent many hours battling my dad back in the day.
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Power Blade 2 was insanely fun to play!!! As was Duck Tales 2. Many of the sequels were great, some were terrible. LOL Snake's Revenge was INSANELY AWESOME! Cheetahmen II....worst game ever made. 🤣 Although, there's a line for worst games ever made too and I wonder if you have videos for those as well. I'll have to check them out. (Dudes with Tudes comes to mind as painstakingly awful, but I digress.)

Sorry, had to stop it when you mispronounced "NES".

Pool of Radiance is a great game. It just takes a little while to get oriented

When you mention most expensive nes games, do you not count nes world championships?

I had the dungeons and dragons games. Pool of radiance is something that I still play, I was even building a mod/ hack of it a few years ago. Hillsfar is trash

Its Advanced D&D not Adventure. They all say it.

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My personal rating on the NES D&D games, from best to worst, for people who might want to get them at some point.

Pool of Radiance
DragonStrike
Heroes of the Lance
Hillsfar

Great video

best serie ??? TMHT ??? are you mentally challenged ?

Man I loved the TMNT fighting game on SNES.

I had no idea that Hillsfar was rare. Used to be like... $5 at Funcoland. Power Blade 2 I rented once.

Two more rare sequels (literally by Rare): RC Pro-Am 2, and Battle Toads & Double Dragon.

this guy looks like when your mom tells you that you have Ninja Brian at home ...

Pool of Raidance skill issue

Pool of Radiance is a stone cold classic, and a foundational title in the RPG genre... on PC. The NES port ain't it. It's slow, awkward, ugly, lacks visual variety and the text is heavily truncated to fit on the cartridge. It does fare better than Hillsfar, though.

You see, Hillsfar doesn't have an actual plot or an ending; it's a collection of rather insipid, repetitive minigames that you could use to level up your Pool of Radiance characters to give them an extra leg up when you transferred them into PoR's sequel, Curse of the Azure Bonds. Which means the NES port of Hillsfar has three fundamental problems;

1. Importing characters from Pool of Radiance isn't possible
2. Curse of the Azure Bonds was never released on the NES
3. None of the mini-games are any fun to play in the first place

Are they really deadbeats if the mom left against their will? I really don't like that term...

crates are pretty large, so it doesn't really make sense for there to even be chipmunk-sized crates let alone hundreds of them lying around everywhere.