8 Video Games Released After Their Consoles DIED

8. Micro Mages - NES

Make no bones about it, I am in love with Micro Mages. Move over Micro Machines, move over Micro brewery pubs, there is a new love in my hipstery life and it's this NES game that was released all the way back in...2019.

That's right a whopping 24 years after the final game was dropped for the NES (that being the tie-in game for The Lion King) comes arguably one of the console's greatest-ever achievements. Developed by Morphcat Games and using just 40kb worth of cartridge space, Micro Mages is the epitome of quality game design and ludicrous milking of ever single ounce of the NES's hardware.

Playing as one of the titular tiny tricksters, you need to ascend a series of increasingly tough towers in order to prove to the world that big things come in small packages. Utilizing wall jumping, spell-slinging and even roping in a buddy or two to help you out in the game's co-op mode, this is a gaming experience polished to a mirror sheen.

Honestly, if you were to take this title and travel back to the NES heyday, this title would be championed as the best of it's ilk and likely have some announcing that graphics will never get better than this. And when you fall under the spell of Micro Mages's charm, you'd be hard-pressed to argue with them.