List of Controller II microphone games

[JC]

Famicom Microphone Games
Which games make use of Controller II’s microphone?

Atlantis no Nazo (NES = Super Pitfall II) – get the microphone power-up and then yell into the microphone to freeze and kill most enemies.

Hikari Shinwa: Palutena no Kagami (NES = Kid Icarus) – talk into the microphone to bargain for lower shop prices.

Raid on Bungeling Bay (NES = Raid on Bungeling Bay) – ?

SD Kamen Rider -- in one of the mini games, blow air into the microphone to get a windmill to spin.

Takeshi no Chousenjou – featuring Takeshi Kitano who starred in Zatoichi, Battle Royale, Violent Cop, etc.) Kitano hates videogames and wanted this game to show its players how futile and pointless their hobby was. Amongst the challenges included in the game were a section where the player must hold a single button for up to an hour, a boss that takes over 1,000 punches to kill and of course the microphone section, where players are required to sing a verse of karaoke or talk whilst playing a pachislo minigame. The microphone section was replaced in later versions of the game once the microphone was dropped from the Famicom.

Zelda no Densetsu: The Hyrule Fantasy (cart/disk) (NES = The Legend of Zelda) – yell into the microphone to kill Pols Voice enemies.

[MattyD]

Takeshi no Chosenjo (Takeshi's Challenge, featuring Takeshi Kitano who starred in Zatoichi, Battle Royale, Violent Cop etc)

Kitano hates videogames and wanted this game to show its players how futile and pointless their hobby was. Amongst the challenges included in the game were a section where the player must hold a single button for up to an hour, a boss that takes over 1,000 punches to kill and of course the microphone section, where players are required to sing a verse of karaoke or talk whilst playing a pachislo minigame. The microphone section was replaced in later versions of the game once the microphone was dropped from the Famicom.

[JC]

I didn't realize the game was changed for later versions because of the AV FC. That's kinda interesting. A question I had in another thread was whether or not games with a microphone feature still had the feature in place even when the system (NES) didn't have a microphone. I guess with this game it was necessary to remove the feature because it was impossible to advance in the game if there was no mic.

[MattyD]

A lot of them they just remapped the sound part to the 'select' button. The machine obviously couldn't interpret what the sound was, it just detected whether there was sound or not. You could just blow into it for instance, so it's no big deal to just press a button instead.

[Sensei]

There were also some karaoke games for the Famicom.  Did they make use of the microphone?  I would assume so.

[UglyJoe]

I think the karaoke games came with microphone controllers (some of them, at least).  Those would be used via the expansion port, not with controller II.  Some of them may have worked with it, though, I don't really know 

[nurd]

In Hikari Shinwa, how do you get prices lowered?

is it only at certain shops, or do I have to do something special, or say a certain thing/ things?

[Lorfarius]

So the microphone was pretty much a big failur then? Seems a shame.

[The Uninvited Gremlin]

So the microphone was pretty much a big failur then? Seems a shame.

I like to talk on my tv with it, so its not a total waste. Its actually quite fun to play with.