Favorite NES game?

For those of us who grew up when the NES was jawdropping!

After playing pong and atari, playing mario bros at home was seriously a religious experience!

After reading through the BTTF vid game thread I got to thinking about those old NES games. I still have several and decided to pull it out. Most games are absolutely horrid to play, while some are still awesome. All 3 mario games are as good as ever. They are sidescrolling gold IMHO.

My 2 favorite games of all time on that system though are still Blaster Master, and Ninja Gaiden. I don't know anyone other than me that beat either game, and I can still bust through both of em pretty quick up untill their last few UNBELIEVABLY hard levels.

Just got to level 6 in blaster master in 1 life!

What are/were your favorites on this old timer?

You can throw in any other games too. But what are/were your faves on the NES in particular?

Contra.

I can still beat it without entering the konami code

JoMamma_Smurf said:

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Contra.

I can still beat it without entering the konami code

NICE!

I love that game too, but unfortunately I had already heard of the code by the time I got the game. Thus I never tried without it! Kinda ruined it.

A very hard game even with the code though!

i like mike tyson's punch out and double dragon 2. for a while i was hooked on battle chess.

I didn't have a NES, but played them at my friends' houses and sometimes they'd bring 'em over and we'd play at my house.

Favorites included:

- Rampage Nothing like playing as a towering monster destroying a city.

- Metroid This game was the first game I ever used a hint book for.

- Excitebike I have fond memories of playing this over at my friend Adam's house when school was canceled for snow.

- And, of course, the INCOMPARABLE original Bionic Commando. A friend brought this game over to my house and we spent an entire day trying to beat it. we got to LITERALLY the last level where you fall down this shaft and have to PERFECTLY time a bazooka shot at the cockpit of a helicopter. His folks showed up right then and said we got ONE shot at this.

We missed the shot.


AAAAAARRRRGGGHH!!!




This, of course, caused me to download the Bionic Commando remake on XBLA. I WILL beat that damn game!!!

Super Mario Bros.
Contra
Medal of Honor
Crash Bandicoot
Oddworld
Wipeout XL
Castlevania

Those are the ones I remember most.

wuher da brewer said:

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Super Mario Bros.
Contra
Medal of Honor
Crash Bandicoot
Oddworld
Wipeout XL
Castlevania

Those are the ones I remember most.

Medal of Honor
Crash Bandicoot
Oddworld
Wipeout XL

Not NES games.....just sayin'

I enjoyed Super Mario Bros and LOVED annihilating at Super Dodgeball!

Best thing about a modded Xbox..I have all of these games (and many other consoles) and can "save state" any time so I don't have to start over.

PAINFULL to play those old Atari 2600 games.

The Legend of Zelda.

Not a religious experience, by any means, but it was fun.

Super Mario Brothers 3.

Well being a Star Trek fanboy "Starfleet Academy: Starship Bridge Simulator" has to be my favourite.

However I used to play "Donkey Kong Country" for HOURS and HOURS and HOURS on end!

SNES had a version of DooM that was pretty close to the PC game.


Kevin

JoMamma_Smurf said:

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Medal of Honor
Crash Bandicoot
Oddworld
Wipeout XL

Not NES games.....just sayin'

Yeah, those were PS1 games... Oops.

Contra
Punch Out
Super Mario Bros.
Rygar
Metal Gear
Super Contra
Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Mega Man

Super Techmo Bowl

~Dan

wuher da brewer said:

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Yeah, those were PS1 games... Oops.

Contra
Punch Out
Super Mario Bros.
Rygar
Metal Gear
Super Contra
Legend of Zelda
Metroid
Mega Man

Super Contra was SNES!

Dan Verdi said:

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Super Techmo Bowl

~Dan

Also SNES.

You mean Tecmo Bowl?

OldKen said:

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Super Contra was SNES!

Not Super C. NES, all the way! NES was the last nintendo home system I ever owned. I did have Gameboy, but every other system I owned was Playstation or XBox.

Did anyone play megaman 9?

Came out for the Wii and Xbox live.

Was a NES type "sequal" A friend and I played through it. Was nostalgic goodness!

just look at the sig

The Legend of Zelda

Super Mario Brothers.

The SMB games of course.... I remember waiting in line for all SMB2 and SMB3 the day they came out. =)

BlasterMaster is awesome. Way at the top with my favs.

As far as other favorites:
Final Fantasy
Contra
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Mega Man 2 (I think this was my favorite of the NES Mega Man games)
Duck Tales
Little Nemo: The Dream Master
Maniac Mansion
Adventures of Lolo
Dr. Mario
Life Force
Snake Rattle and Roll
CastleVania Series
Blades of Steel
River City Ransom (I think this was the only game my sister and I used to co-play)

Still have my NES. Still works too. Unfortunately I only still have Final Fantasy as I was robbed about 8 years ago and they stole all my NES games. At least they missed the SNES games and I still have those!

Punh Out got me through the chicken pox in 1993. I still remember the code to get to Tyson. 007 363 5963

AHH... Duck Tales was good.

MAniac mansion! Isn't that the one where the first run of cartridges allowed you to stick a hamster in a microwave??? I remember renting it 3-4 times before I found one that would let me! AWESOME!

And turtles... how could I forget??? Anyone remember the level near the end where you had to make an almost impossible jump?

Of course Castlevania ruled! "what a horrible night for a curse!" But Castlevania 4 Snes was my favorite.

Life force. Also awesome.

Ninja Gaiden
Metal Gear
Contra

I have to go with Blaster Master, Punch-Out and Metroid.