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70) Uninvited

Neither of these games are as meaningful to me as Shadowgate (spoilers) since I didn't grow up with them and only discovered them later. As a result I've only played them once and kind of forgotten about them. Uninvited's great though, pretty similar to Shadowgate, has kind of the same moodiness with a little bit more creepy imagery and all the same fun fuck-you death easter eggs that I'm accustomed to. Probably still holds up?

69) Sweet Home

Here's an even better NES horror game, though, a really novel survival horror/RPG that feels way ahead of its time in a lot of ways. I've never beaten this game - spent a couple hours with it, couldn't figure out, but it was extremely memorable and I feel like a lot of people probably regard it as one of those hidden masterpieces. I'd probably have it higher if I didn't suck at it lol. It's definitely worth a look, it's creepy and macabre in a way that few NES games really pull off and the gameplay mechanics are pretty ambitious

68) Batman: The Video Game

Sunsoft has quite a few appearances on this list because, well, they make really solid platformers that look good and have great music and that's the fastest way to get onto this list. This is another one in the "I learned this doing a Big 20 race" category, so I know the first half of this game REALLY WELL and the second half of it NOT AT ALL because the goal was only beating half the game and I never got around to the other half. But it's good! More challenging than it looks, a little clunky but in the Castlevania way where you get used to the particulars of the jumping mechanics and learn how to utilize them.

67) Life Force

It's basically Gradius again, but better! I like Life Force more because the top-down segments give it a little more spice, and the fact that you don't just immediately lose progress whenever you get hit once keeps the flow of the game a lot better. It's still not one of my fave shmups on the system because I feel like it's just too unforgiving - I don't like how many situations in this game just don't feel like I could have done anything about them or have to know there's a trap coming ahead of time (even the first level starts with this immediately), and getting hit even once is really punishing.

66) Ninja Gaiden

Dude, fuck Ninja Gaiden, I hate this game so much. Here's my experience with it - I had to learn how to beat the game any% for Big 20, I learned how to pull it off in about 20-25 minutes (depending on how few deaths I take), it took me forever to figure out how to kill the final boss safely... and then on race day, it's like 5 hours into the race, Ninja Gaiden any% is the last goal of the race, and I'm just fucking exhausted and it took me like an hour to beat the game, just to not be able to execute when I needed to beat the final boss, which infamously sends you all the way to the start of the stage. Infuriating. Awful. I fucking hate Ninja Gaiden. But I'm also a person on this earth who is able to beat Ninja Gaiden in 20 minutes and that's kind of insane. In some ways I feel like I'm a worse person for having undertaken this challenge but I also kind of feel accomplished. I didn't just beat Ninja Gaiden, I like, sort of semi-mastered it over hours and hours of practice and I have to admit it feels kind of good. I had to fucking persevere with this game in a way I've never had to do with a video game before. Normally you can just give up on a game you can't figure out but I HAD to solve Ninja Gaiden and I did and I would like to never play it again.