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The Top 100 Unreleased Nintendo Entertainment System Games (All of Which You Can Play Right Now)

The largest list of playable NES prototypes ever published—ranked by quality—gives retro gamers a menu of "new" Nintendo games to choose from. Some of them ought to be deemed NES classics.

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Seth Abramson
Dec 16, 2021
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Introduction

In the age of emulators, there’s no real difference between a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) game that was released in the twentieth century and one discovered—as an “archival find”—in this century. If a game deserves to be deemed an “NES classic,” it deserves to be deemed a classic. Many of the games below are excellent NES titles, and…

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