Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves NES Review

by Scarlett on January 30, 2007 · View Comments

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It doesn’t get any grander than the licensed videogame where Kevin Costner squeezed into his tights and plucked up a longbow to kick ass in the name of the proletariat! Let’s take a blast back to the past and relive the horror that is… Prince of Thieves!

Ronin_the_Silent

What would have been funny is if someone got killed with a spoon. Both puns intended.

Lizzy Hayde

It's actually not called "The Benny Hill Chase Theme," it's called "Yakety Sax" by Boots Randolf. Just FYI. :D

sailorleif

Dude, why dont you use the staff? the pig pig die like hell when you use it! and why not the fucking multi fire bow??! the game dont suck.. that much..
Great review btw, salute from sweden!

VenomSpawn

button mash dueling? Well he's raphael, what do you expect?

invisiblecrane

It surprises me Spoony One never made mention of Everything I Do I Do It For You by Bryan Adams in this review, granted it was obviously not featured in the game, but any mention of Robin Hood Prince Of Thieves often involves that song

andreas

I cant belive me and a frind of mine completed the game at the age of 10. And we liked it!
Kids in the 80's had ALOT of patience!

Mike

Is it me or... in the dialog scenes, Robin looks like David Hasslehoff... and in the ending screen he looks like Christopher Lambert. I don't know, just looks that way.

Also, I'm very glad I never played this PoS.

robotpanda

I was thinking the exact same thing! They should have called the game "Robin Hood: You don't mess with the Hoff!"

Mishloo

Technically, the source material never stated that Robin Hood wanted to kill the sheriff of nottingham, nor did the sheriff ever die. Robin Hood was never bloodthirsty in any way, and was more of some dude who wanted to have fun. The Kevin Costner movie made an actually interesting tragedy involving Robin Hood's death, into a crap action movie.

Dr. Psychosis

I just LOVE how those cats murder you like some kind of experiment gone feral.

Dragonqueen

I argue with Spoony Robin hood: Prince of Thieves is the best movie ever!!!

Blu

Robin Hood Daffy was good, but no one can compare to Robin Hoek from Ren and Stimpy.

bmoore4026

And just what's wrong with a gay Robin Hood? I mean who wouldn't want to jump Little John's big willy?

Favorite Robin Hood, hands down, is Daffy Duck. Come on, the bo staff fight parody was comedy gold and "yoikes and away" never gets old. Hey, that rhymes! :D

And admit it, Disney Robin Fox Hood made you into a Furry a little bit. JUST a little bit.

Mr.Stillman

Agree about the lack of a bow...it's supposed to be Robin Hood!

Too many different fight modes. They should have picked one and made it good.

ToketsuKitsune

Yea Adarmus it is the song from disney's robin hood it is called "whistle stop"

Argh

True, it is a painful game. However, I wouldn't call it bad. More like... unusually advanced, at least when it comes to the NES.

pvtCaboose

amazing, now i have to go watch The Disney robin hood with talking animals, I love that song lol. To prince john the phony king of England

Zontain

Man your reviews own!

zachary

U can't touch Spoony

LordSchmee (Toast and Tea)

It's quite hilarious to see the large amount of English people getting angry over a simple sarcastic comment.

Though the English never were too bright, huh?
Considering they let Germany take over quite a lot of England. Funny, seeing as not one German foot was laid in Wales or Scotland. =)

Still, I agree with what's been said. With such genius as Monty Python and Douglas Adams, why get so flustered over 3 words?

adarmus47

The music at the end of the review is from the Robin Hood Disney cartoon right. I loved that as a kid but that was so many moons ago I cannot be certain. Love your work by the way. I have just spent a lazy Sunday watching your entire catalogue of reviews. I haven’t laughed so hard in such a long time.
Have to say that I am also surprised that there have been a few negative comments relating to the "British accent = gay" thing. Common you brits, with such great comedic works as Monty Python, Black Adder and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy coming from your fine country you should know sarcasm when you see it.

Malice430

"who's your favorite New Kid?" lol love the Mallrats reference

VoidKeeper

I think nobody asked the OBVIOUS question... this is robin hood, and you NEVER USE A BOW! what the hell is up with that????

PB4610

The video cut out at 12:00. Another clitch from server crash?

Snowfight

Did anyone else notice that robin looks like david hasselhoff http://www.cognacscorner.tv/news/wp-content/upl...

Doggie

you didnt like the brittish accents?... Robin Hood is from England? why wouldnt he have a brittish accent?
liked the Kevin Costner flic though.

blackflare13

Robin says ok and headbutts her

MondoMolesto

I remember wasting a lot of time with this. I didnt understand a goddamn thing that was going on, but i kinda liked it i suppose. I just remember that after little john everything got really easy, aside from the big skeleton thing. It actually got to the point where it was so easy it was boring. I wasnt a bright kid though, so i might be thinking about starfox or something.

haman

this review made me have to watch the lancelot scene in holy grail... well done, sir.

Gianthogweed

I remember wasting far too much precious time on this game in the early nineties. I wasted one sunday beating the whole thing. It took me like 5 hours. My nintendo never fully recovered. Needless to say I was pretty sick of it by the end. Still I did like the game because it was the first multi character rpg I ever played.