8-Bit Christmas
Being home for the holidays is great, but getting lost on an adventure can be fun, too – like in this game, based on a seasonally popular movie.
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Christmas 1997. My house, my rules. Slappers only. License to Kill. No Odd Job.
GoldenEye 007
This game – a hilarious GTA-like – features the voice acting of Dan Castellaneta, but as we learned in last year’s quiz, that doesn’t narrow it down much.
The Simpsons: Hit and Run
This racing game – fun for all ages – will find you hitting the slopes… and oddly enough, also an amusement park, desert, highway, and Japanese village.
Snowboard Kids
With Fire in the title, this should be easy. One host alluded to this game being a stone’s throw away from playing “anime chess.”
Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones
Yo Ho Ho! Published in 1990 by Capcom, this game featured a yo-yo slinging protagonist, a card game mechanic, and a $1 pizza coupon in the game’s manual.
Yo! Noid
Titles from this game’s iconic songs, like Requiem of Spirit and Prelude of Light, could be mistaken for Christmas tunes. Just don’t let Santa try sneaking around in the protagonist’s clanky footwear.
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Battles for Helm’s Deep, Isengard, Endor, Blackwater, or Hogwarts have nothing on this battle – featured in a 2003 aquatic 3D platformer from THQ.
SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom
This racing game has an Adventure Mode with an open hub that’ll connect you to snow, ice, fire, and water courses!
Diddy Kong Racing
Y’all described this Rare game perfectly… It’s Speed + Oppenheimer + Bob the Builder. Could have left it at that.
Blast Corps
This adventure game would have been a fitting gift for any religious holiday, but playing it might land you on Santa’s naughty list, as it used a low voltage spike to bypass your NES’s lockout chip.
Bible Adventures
If you’re looking for an inconspicuous cardboard box to hide some Christmas gifts in, you’ll definitely find one or two in this 1998 cinematic masterpiece.
Metal Gear Solid
This game has everything… Race cars. Lasers. Aeroplanes. Solving mysteries. Rewriting histories.
DuckTales
This game brings the heat and some synergy with its predecessor – according to RadMax, you can input a 300-character transfer passcode from the first game (it’s actually 260) to carry data over.
Golden Sun: The Lost Age
While the archaic controls were “under fire,” this game’s reputation was shielded by its award-winning screenwriter and soundtrack, and propped up by some notoriously recognizable voice acting.
50 Cent: Bulletproof
One host described this point and click game as “morally repugnant.” Unsurprisingly, it did not get New Game Plus because it stonks, I mean stinks… it stinks.
Wall Street Kid
This 2000 game, arguably one of the greatest in its genre, the greatest on its console, and, controversially, the greatest in its series, features a card game that drove one host crazy and might be the “beginning of his villain origin story.”
Final Fantasy IX
This difficult game has a “character swap” mechanic, but unlike other games of its era – like Bucky O’Hare – you had to find a special item first.
Tiny Toon Adventures
This game – a homophone for an atmospheric phenomenon – was a masterclass in world-building and helped drive CD-ROM drive sales back in the 1990s.
Myst
One does not simply emulate Final Fantasy X without drawing some heat, like this game which Kenny criticized for feeling like “fan-fiction.”
The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age
This game, which might sound biblical, is one of the most valued carts for the NES. It was also featured in a rare guest episode where the randomizer still determined the game.
Little Samson
This game was applauded for being an all-around evolution from its origin series, though possibly y’all were under the influence of a Super Nintendo connoisseur, who called this one of the 5 best SNES games of all time.
Mega Man X
This “cute ‘em up” is HARD. You’re unlikely to master it quickly, even with an Afternoon’s worth of practice.
TaleSpin
A mighty wind is blowing! Commentators for this game called it a lovely twist on the franchise’s formula. The tone had a bit of a “dark side” and it played like a ROM hack.
Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness
This game delivers a different kind of heat, as you “spit fire” and serve up “sick burns.” And while we’re at it, for any haters that say there’s no Santa… you gotta believe!
PaRappa the Rapper