A Comprehensive List of Obscure Nintendo Games

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Here is a full comprehensive list of obscure Nintendo games that you might not have heard of but should definitely check out!
Mario:

Title Year System
Mario’s Bombs Away 1983 Game and Watch
Donkey Kong Circus 1984 Game and Watch
Donkey Kong Hockey 1984 Game and Watch
Punch Ball Mario Bros. 1984 NEC PC-8801
Super Mario Bros. Special 1986 NEC PC-8801
I Am a Teacher: Super Mario Sweater 1986 (Famicon Disk System), 1988 (PC) Famicon Disk System, PC (JP)
All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. 1986 Famicon Disk System
Famicom Grand Prix: F-1 Race 1987 Famicom Disk system
Mario Bros. II 1987 Commodore 64
Famicom Grand Prix II: 3D Hot Rally 1988 Famicom Disk system
Kaettekita Mario Bros. 1988 Famicon Disk System
Super Mario Brothers 4 1991 Nelsonic Game watch
Super Mario Bros. & Friends: When I Grow Up 1991 PC
Mario the Juggler 1991 Game and Watch
Super Mario Race 1992 Nelsonic Game Watch
Mario & Wario 1993 Super Famicom
Mario’s Early Years! Fun with Letters 1993 (PC), 1994 (SNES) PC, SNES
Mario’s Early Years! Fun with Numbers 1994 PC, SNES
Mario’s Early Years! Preschool Fun 1994 PC, SNES
Mario’s Game Gallery 1995 PC
Undake30 Same Game 1995 Super Famicom, Satellaview
Mario no Super Picross 1995 Super Famicom
Mario’s Tennis 1995 Virtual Boy
Mario Clash 1995 Virtual Boy
Virtual Boy Wario Land 1995 Virtual Boy
Mario no Photopi 1998 Nintendo 64 (JP)
Wrecking Crew ’98 1998 SNES
Yakuman DS 2004 Nintendo DS (JP)
Itadaki Street DS 2007 Nintendo DS (JP)

Pokémon (There are a lot, so I made this a separate category):

Title Year System
Pocket Monsters Green 1996 Game Boy (JP)
Pokémon Project Studio 1999 PC
Pokémon PokéROM Gotta LEARN ’em all! 2000 PC
Pokémon Card GB2: Great Rocket-Dan Sanjō! 2001 Game Boy Color (JP)
Games for Pokémon Mini 2001 Pokémon Mini
Pokémon: Catch the Numbers!* 2002 Sega Pico (JP)
Pokémon Advanced Generation: I’ve Begun Hiragana and Katakana! 2003 Sega Pico (JP)
Pokémon Masters Arena 2004 PC
Pokémon Advanced Generation: Pico for Everyone Pokémon Loud Battle! 2004 Sega Pico (JP)
Pokémon Advanced Generation: Pokémon Number Battle!* 2005 Advanced Pico Beena
Pokémon Team Turbo 2005 PC
Pokémate (Sorry for the bad video) 2006 Mobile Phone (JP)
Pokémon PC Master 2006 PC (JP)
Intellectual Training Drill Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Letter and Number Intelligence Game* 2007 Advanced Pico Beena
My Pokémon Ranch 2008 Nintendo Wii
Pokémon Diamond & Pearl: Search for Pokémon! Adventure in the Maze!* 2009 Advanced Pico Beena
Pokémon Best Wishes: Intelligence Training Pokémon Big Sports Meet! 2010 Advanced Pico Beena
Learn with Pokémon: Typing Adventure 2011 DS (JP, EU)

Arcade:

Laser Clay Shooting System* – 1973 (JP)

EVR Race* – 1975 (JP)

Wild Gunman – 1976

Shooting Trainer* – 1976

Sky Hawk – 1976

Battle Shark – 1977

Test Driver – 1978

Block Fever – 1978 (JP)

Computer Othello* – 1978 (JP)

Space Fever – 1979

Space Fever High Splitter – 1979

Space Launcher – 1979

Sheriff – 1979

Monkey Magic – 1979 (JP)

Head-On-N* – 1979 (JP)

Smashmatic* – 197? (JP)

Dead Line* – 197? (JP)

Fancy Ball* – 197? (JP)

Space Fire Bird – 1980

Radar Scope – 1980

HeliFire – 1980

Sky Skipper – 1981 (JP) (Atari 2600: 1983)

Space Demon – 1981

Nintendo VS. Series – 1984-1990

Arm Wrestling – 1985

F-Zero AX – 2003

Super Mario Fushigi no Korokoro Party – 2004 (JP)

Mario Kart Arcade GP – 2005

Donkey Kong: Jungle Fever* – 2005 (JP)

Mario Kart Arcade GP 2 – 2006

Donkey Kong: Banana Kingdom* – 2006 (JP)

Pokémon Battrio – 2007 (JP)

Rhythm Tengoku – 2007 (JP)

New Super Mario Bros. Wii Coin World – 2011 (JP)

Pokémon Tretta – 2012 (JP)

Mario Kart Arcade GP DX – 2013

Luigi’s Mansion Arcade – 2015 (JP)


Color TV Game Series:

Color TV Game 6 – 1977

Color TV Game 15 – 1978

Color TV Racing 112 – 1978

Color TV Block Kusure* – 1979

Computer TV Game* – 1980


Satellaview:

BS Zelda no Densetsu – 1995

BS Mario Paint: Yuu Shou Naizou Ban – 1995

Wario’s Woods: Burst of Laughter Version – 1995

Yoshi no Panepon – 1996

Kirby no Omocha Hako: Beesuboruu – 1996

BS Zelda no Densetsu (2nd map) – 1996

BS F-Zero Grand Prix – 1996-1997

Itoi Shigesato no Bass Tsuri No. 1 – 1997

Excitebike: Bun Bun Mario Battle Stadium – 1997

Wario’s Woods: Again* – 1997

BS Fire Emblem: Akaneia Senki – 1997

BS Zelda no Densetsu Kodai no Sekiban – 1997

BS Dr. Mario – 1997

Panel de Pon ’98 – 1998

Marvelous: Camp Arnold – Unknown

Marvelous: Time Athletic – Unknown

Satella Q – Unknown

Satella Walker – Unknown

Satella Walker 2 – Unknown

Shin Onigashima – Unknown

Sim City: Gai Tsukuri Taikai* – Unknown

Special Tee Shot – Unknown

Super Famicom Wars – Unknown

Super Mario Collection – Unknown

Super Mario USA Power Challenge – Unknown

Sutte Hakkun – Unknown

Sutte Hakkun ’98: Winter Event Version – Unknown

BS Tantei Club: Yuki ni Kieta Kako ‎- Unknown

Zoo-tto Mahjong! – Unknown


N64DD:

Mario Artist: Paint Studio – 1999

Doshin the Giant – 1999 (GameCube: 2002)

Mario Artist: Talent Studio – 2000

SimCity 64 – 2000

F-Zero X Expansion Kit – 2000

Japan Pro Golf Tour 64 – 2000

Doshin the Giant: Tinkling Toddler Liberation Front! Assemble! – 2000

Mario Artist: Communication Kit – 2000

Mario Artist: Polygon Studio – 2000


e-Reader “Games” (No Videos for many of these):

Animal Crossing-e – 2002

Domokun Card-e – 2002

Kirby Slide Puzzle – 2002

Mario Party-e – 2002

Pikmin 2 Card-e – 2002

Pokémon Battle-e – 2002

Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3-e – 2002

Tottoko Hamtaro Card-e – 2002

Mario vs. Donkey Kong-e – 2002

Domo-Kun no Fushigi Terebi-e – 2002

E3 2002 Promo Pack – 2002

F-Zero: Falcon Densetsu-e – 2003


Other:

Title Year System
Devil World 1984 Famicom
Joy Mech Fight 1993 Famicom
Galactic Pinball 1995 Virtual Boy
Teleroboxer 1995 Virtual Boy
Nester’s Funky Bowling 1996 Virtual Boy
Marvelous: Another Treasure Island 1996 Super Famicom
Animal Forest 2001 Nintendo 64 (JP)
Tomato Adventure 2002 Gameboy Advance
F-Zero Climax 2004 Game Boy Advance (JP)
Freshly-Picked Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland 2006 Nintendo DS (JP, EU)
Tingle’s Balloon Fight DS 2007 Nintendo DS (JP)
Captain Rainbow 2008 Nintendo Wii (JP)
Too Much Tingle Pack 2009 Nintendo DS (JP)
Ripened Tingle’s Balloon Trip of Love 2009 Nintendo DS (JP)

“*” = No video found

Sources:

http://nintendo.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_featuring_Mario

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pok%C3%A9mon_video_games

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Sega_Pico

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Advanced_Pico_Beena

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64DD

http://www.usgamer.net/articles/forgottendo-10-nintendo-games-youve-probably-never-heard-of

http://zeldawiki.org/Tingle_(Series)#Games

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