10 under-the-radar NES gems that should be remade now

#7 Dr. Jeckyl & Mr. Hyde

Dr.

Jeckyl

and Mr. Hyde

The original: oh boy.

Also releasing in 1988 for the NES in North America was Bandai's Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde. If the game sounds familiar to you at all, you were either a kid with an NES and bad taste in games (no offense) in 1988, or you watched YouTube in 2006.

Or both, I guess. The game was one of the first games featured on the Angry Video Game (then Nintendo) Nerd show, with an even longer, more scathing review years later.

The game's poor reputation is well deserved, with it's confusing gameplay and awkward controls making it a frustrating experience as opposed to an enjoyable game.

In the game, Dr. Jeckyl is heading to a church to get married, but events unfold that eventually cause him to change into his other, evil form, Mr. Hyde...

The potential: ... which could actually make a pretty cool game.

This premise has been explored in a few other games - usually involving the more modern version of the character, The Incredible Hulk, but never done particularly well.

BBC's excellent 2007 miniseries Jecky - which is set in modern times while still tying into the original Robert Louis Stephenson novel - would be a good starting point, story-wise.

Perhaps an open world, with a day/night cycle and other factors outside the player's immediate control that would cause a change between the two characters.

There's a lot of possibilities here and with the original story and characters in the public domain, it wouldn't cost a studio any licensing money. And that 2001 PC game doesn't count.