Complete NES Game List

[NintendoNerds]

Here is a link to the complete game list for the NES. It is from Nintendo so I am not sure if EVERY single game is on there but it's a 14-page report.

If you happen to know of a game that is not on the list, please share the title with us.

www.NintendoNerds.com/NES/NES_games.pdf

[blargg]

Tengen Tetris for one is missing. But that's expected. ;D

[NintendoNerds]

Hello, blargg. Thank you for your comment. I do understand that there are many games that are not listed on the .pdf file (published by Nintendo) above. That document was used to assist me in creating my list for NintendoNerds.com.

The good thing about your comment is the fact that you noticed a game that was not listed.

My answer to you...I will research the info, get screenshots, and add the info to NintendoNerds.com.

Thanks again for you comment on this

[Chris]

Due to the overhaul of Nintendo.com, the link doesn't work anymore. After scouring the website, the list does not seem to be anywhere.

[NintendoNerds]

ninjatiamat said:

Due to the overhaul of Nintendo.com, the link doesn't work anymore. After scouring the website, the list does not seem to be anywhere.

Ninjatiamat, thanks for noting the makeover for the Nintendo Website and the absense of the NES game list. I have modified the link above. I have added the listing to the NintendoNerds.com website for reference (the link is at the top of this thread).

[Chris]

I found a list of unlicensed NES games. From what I see, most of them aren't on the website. If you want to see the page, here's the link:
www.nesplayer.com/misc/unlicensed.txt

[NintendoNerds]

Great link, Ninjatiamat. It seems as though Tengen was never able to get on board with alot of other software companies. They seem to have the longest list of unlicensed titles. I wonder why that is...

[tails]

Probably embezzlement.

[NintendoNerds]

I really don't know why, but I haven't really researched it all that much either. Does anyone else know of any games that are not on the list?

[Chris]

This is from Wikipedia:
Tengen unsuccessfully tried to negotiate with Nintendo for a less restrictive license (Nintendo restricted their licensees to releasing only five games per year, and required their games to be NES-exclusive for two years). Nintendo was not interested, so Tengen agreed to their standard license in December 1987. In 1988, Tengen released their first (and only) three cartridges licensed through Nintendo - RBI Baseball, Pac-Man and Gauntlet. Meanwhile, Tengen secretly worked to bypass Nintendo's lock-out chip called 10NES that gave them control over which games were published for the NES. While numerous manufacturers managed to override this chip by zapping it with a voltage spike, Tengen engineers feared this could potentially damage NES consoles and expose them to unnecessary liability. Instead they chose to reverse engineer the chip and decipher the code required to unlock it. However, the engineers were unable to do so, and the launch date for their first batch of games was rapidly approaching.

In desperation, Tengen turned to the United States Copyright Office. Their lawyers contacted the government office to request a copy of the Nintendo lock-out program, claiming they needed it for potential litigation against Nintendo. Once obtained, they used the program to create their own chip that would unlock the NES. When Tengen launched the unlicensed versions of their games, Nintendo immediately sued Tengen for copyright and patent infringement. In the initial phases of trial, the court sided with Nintendo, but the sides settled before the matter was fully resolved.

Tengen was the console division of Atari Games, if you care.

[tails]

so is this why Atari died around the same time?

nice bit of info Chris

[Tenser]

Jul 12, 2008 16:11:22 GMT -5 Chris said:

This is from Wikipedia:
Tengen unsuccessfully tried to negotiate with Nintendo for a less restrictive license (Nintendo restricted their licensees to releasing only five games per year, and required their games to be NES-exclusive for two years). Nintendo was not interested, so Tengen agreed to their standard license in December 1987. In 1988, Tengen released their first (and only) three cartridges licensed through Nintendo - RBI Baseball, Pac-Man and Gauntlet. Meanwhile, Tengen secretly worked to bypass Nintendo's lock-out chip called 10NES that gave them control over which games were published for the NES. While numerous manufacturers managed to override this chip by zapping it with a voltage spike, Tengen engineers feared this could potentially damage NES consoles and expose them to unnecessary liability. Instead they chose to reverse engineer the chip and decipher the code required to unlock it. However, the engineers were unable to do so, and the launch date for their first batch of games was rapidly approaching.

In desperation, Tengen turned to the United States Copyright Office. Their lawyers contacted the government office to request a copy of the Nintendo lock-out program, claiming they needed it for potential litigation against Nintendo. Once obtained, they used the program to create their own chip that would unlock the NES. When Tengen launched the unlicensed versions of their games, Nintendo immediately sued Tengen for copyright and patent infringement. In the initial phases of trial, the court sided with Nintendo, but the sides settled before the matter was fully resolved.

Tengen was the console division of Atari Games, if you care.

That's the problem with wikipedia, while the genereal idea is correct, there's a lot of little but false claims in their articles.

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