List of Nintendo Entertainment System adventure games

Adventure games are sometimes mistaken for role-playing games. Both genres are text-rich, but adventure games have a higher emphasis on navigational puzzles, and they lack either the ability to backtrack to previously-cleared areas, or character development, or both.

Original Nintendo games

 * Magician (1990)
 * Stanley: The Search for Dr. Livingston (1992)

Ports of computer games

 * Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom (1984; NES port 1988)
 * Sid Meier's Pirates! (1987; NES port 1991)
 * Times of Lore (1988)
 * King's Quest V: Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder (1990)
 * Immortal, The (1990)
 * MacVenture series (ports of original Macintosh games):
 * Déjà Vu (1985)
 * Uninvited (1986)
 * Shadowgate (1987)
 * Déjà Vu II: Lost in Las Vegas (1988)