NES Games No One Played: GHOST LION (Nintendo Entertainment System Review)



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Ghost Lion | 1993
Similar Games: Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy

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After years of focusing on the best games for the NES, I decided to change gears and focus on lesser known cartridges that have, for one reason or another, generally escaped the public discussion and general nostalgia. This series highlights many of the relatively unknown, obscure, and unloved titles in the Nintendo Entertainment System’s library. Some of these games are at best mediocre. Many are painfully bad, some of the worst NES games around. Most are hilarious for all the wrong reasons! Occasionally, OCCASIONALLY, a handful of them are actually good, borderline hidden gems.

While you won’t find any of these on the NES Classic, some of these titles have managed to make their way onto the Nintendo Switch, so if you don’t have an original Nintendo console or ROMs escape you ethically or technologically, there are several ways to play them.

Want more? Me too! Until then, lots of other articles where the pictures don’t move and words have to be read can be found on my website: http://top100nesgames.com

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37 comments

@BigOleWords January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
If you're looking for NES games where you play as a woman, check out this compilation video: https://youtu.be/TjQ5Bkx43E0
@jimlittle7111 January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
I'm going to be looking for this gsme.
@LurchTroll January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
Yeah it isn't until the 16-bit era that games/gaming got good. all of the 8-bit era sucked just a scam for little kids of the time. adults played on Dos anyway.
@unocarb January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
I remember seeing it for rent at a video store but never paid much attention to it
@guysmiley7957 January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
so why is it actually called ghost lion?
@righty-o3585 January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
It's Tina Yothers
@VJFranzK January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
It was Maria before she entered the Castlevania series! Kept summoning creatures later on...
@fuckgoogle8661 January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
I owned ghost lion. I liked it.
@CosmicCosmo1 January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
We get this trash but we were deprived of several NES final fantasy and dragon quest rpgs in America.
@hexkwondo January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
Ghost Lion was a pretty fun game. I liked it a lot. It had some pretty unique takes in it’s story that I havent seen other games.
@jeremysteelman2900 January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
Why is the spear a black guy?
@Reelphresh January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
I played a little bit of it back in the day, wish i could playbit now and finish it.
@THEBIGCHULETA January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
It’s a work out game with lions and swords.
@SCRIPTMONK January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
I forced myself to finish this game out of pure masochism. Every battle is just hitting A after every message 30 times to the same annoying music.
@ZSBrian January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
100% agree that this is a nice hidden gem. I loved this genre of game and really got into this one. Unfortunately, I ran out of money to keep renting it and eventually had to turn it back in. Thanks for the memory refresh!
@NYHeeb January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
Dragon Warrior was my first RPG and my favorite. I think yhe 4th one u could get attacked by 8 metal slimes and if u kill them before they run you git crazy exp points. Man miss thise times
@NYHeeb January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
Missed this one and i think its a Liger or Lyger on the cover.
@standard74521 January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
Ty
@alkristopher January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
As a diehard RPG fan always on the lookout for the strange, unusual, and esoteric, I wish this game hadn't been an RPG.

HEAR ME OUT

Exploring a fantasy world with a girl who can recruit other characters by collecting artifacts or defeating foes sounds amazing, right? It could've very easily been a Metroid-style game where various allies could use their skills to overcome obstacles or solve puzzles--and yet the RPG mechanics don't dole out any experience points, give you money you'll almost never need, have the absolute WORST battle music I've EVER heard (and I've played over 200 RPGs), nearly every enemy is a damage sponge you can't run from, and serve only to waste your time and resources. I've played worse, but that doesn't excuse this game from not being BETTER.

What's worse is that Kemco developed the Macventure trilogy, so they definitely know what they're doing. Why Ghost Lion couldn't be more like Shadowgate or Uninvited is beyond me.
@Hank-ip8rl January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
Lmao Stryper!
@Toadaboticus January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
Was this ever under the alternate title Legend of the White Lion because I Have that title stuck in my head for this game
@FinalFrantasy January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
Just finished this game today thanks to your other video about female protaganists! I'd say you pretty much covered everything! :]

My biggest complaint about the game had to be how tedious it is to use healing items 1 by 1.. coupled with the fact there are no healing spells. Enjoy your 50 hp per bite of bread.
@nahumgardner January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
The normal fight music is so tense, I've always wondered if the Boss music and the normal fight music got switched around.
@samueldecelles6646 January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
This game is actually based on a movie only release in Japan in 1988 called White Lion Densetsu: Pyramid no Kanata ni
@N3Selina January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
the overworld theme of this game slaps pretty hard though
@Neil_Chapman January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
Gotta try this one out
@megagrey January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
I got this back before the turn of the millennium and enjoyed it, don't get some of the hate it got.
@rickykeim2005 January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
looking at the art on the Cart Id never guess this was anything close to a Dragon Warrior like RPG.
@gruntguru2274 January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
Great video!
I'd love to see a video of Magician. I never see any reviews for that game and don't know many people that played it.
@blakebutler900 January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
I had this game as a kid . It was
Hard
@WarSerebii January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
I actually played this game quite a bit when it came out. It's a great game, though sadly someone stole it from the video rental store I got it at, and I couldn't find it again. good hidden gem
@khatharrmalkavian3306 January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
Oh my god, that Snoopy sports game
@El_Febo_Abel January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
¿Do you know what diferences have with the japanese edition?.
@oxymontana4307 January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
Winger.....😂😂😂😂
@joshuabidelspach9260 January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
Very impressed with your picks..just when I thought I've seen every nes game you surprise me with AN AWESOME LEGGING TIGER LION JRPG!!
@rollanddev January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
I had this game as a kid! :D

And I never beat it. The leveling system was terrible. Not gaining any XP, and money having little impact on the game, makes battles unrewarding. Your most effective move in battle is to just run away and avoid losing resources...

This is one of those games I just want to love but, even with my NES emulator open and the ROM selected in the open dialog to prove a point, I'm still not about to play it anytime soon. ...That same ROM list contains far better entries so why bother? Oh, look, FF3! *click-click* :D
@NeonKnight83 January 27, 2025 - 2:00 pm
It actually looks like a White Lion album cover

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