The Definitive Top 100: Underrated Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Games [Preliminary]

Now that you can use an emulator to play the 800+ NES games on your phone, which titles that were overlooked in the eighties and nineties are most worthy of your time? More than 100 experts weigh in.

Introduction

This is my favorite list that I’ve ever compiled as a curatorial journalist.

Part of the joy in doing research for this list was the simple fact that I didn’t have any idea what the final results of the curation would be. But I also found something else: compiling this list taught me things about the NES I never fully realized or—if I had onc…