Below is a list of all games released for the Nintendo Entertainment System that feature black characters in them. The characters' names and the genre is provided. You provide the title of the game. Please leave comments if I missed any!
Only listing video games with NAMED black characters.
Sequels bearing the same title are not also listed.
Titles in grey are given because the named black characters are generic or otherwise indistinct.
Representation is important to me, and so I wanted to research this topic with regard to the NES. There are many more titles that feature other POC, mostly Asian, but that makes sense considering the vast majority of games were created in Japan. I'd be happy to discuss this topic (constructively) more in the comments. Considering there were roughly 700 NES games released in North America, and I searched but could only find about 30 games with black characters in them.