NES, the old school system (and yes, I’m well aware of atari… but some of us didn’t have the pleasure of owning one… that worked too well)
So, whats your all time favorite NES game?
Mine:
1942
Spy vs Spy
Rampage
All classic games, which I recently found emulated onto the computer, so I’m graciously enjoying playing them all again 
Little League Baseball
Bad News Baseball
Baseball Stars
I think I had 40 NES games and a solid 70% were baseball games. I only had one hockey game (that’s important because I am a Canadian), the only decent hockey game is/was Blades of Steel. Now of the 40 (or so) NES games that I had 100% of them consisted of sports games and racing games.
I could never find sport games interesting for some reason.
I’m thinkin about pickin up an old NES or SNES system off of ebay for real cheap and gettin some of the old games runnin on it again. Ahh, good times.
For me, a very rare game called Fire and Ice.
It was the sequel to Solomon’s Key in 1991. My father and I spent HOURS on that game. It never got old and I still have it in my closet.
Honestly, there weren’t many good sports games. I only really played those three baseball games, the rest were shite. There was a dirt bike game that was pretty solid that came on a gold cartrige with three others and blades of steel was solid but that’s about it. I only owned sports and racing games because that’s all I liked.
Now that I think of it, I guess I did have one none sports/racing game. The system came with Super Mario Bros. 1 and Duck Hunt.
Castlevania
Legend of Zelda
Dragon Warrior
Final Fantasy
Metriod.
Ok so they were the obvious ones…
Two words:
Tecmo Bowl
Wizards and Warriors.
There has never been an equal.
One of my absolute favorites was Dragon Warrior. “Fortune smiles upon thee, thou hast found the Cursed Belt.”
Both Zelda games and Super Mario Bros. III were up there too. I still have my NES and my SNES hooked up to a TV in my bedroom; I still play both.
The only sports-related game I owned was Excite Bike. Unfortunately, it was purchased second-hand from a video rental store, and quit working shortly after I bought it.
I’ll second most of the choices listed above, and add Chrstyllis(sp?), an adventure RPG.
Fire and Ice…sounds vaguely familiar. Was that the game that had Fabio posing as a warrior on the game box? Or am I confusing that with another game?
Gah, this thread is making me all nostalgic…
Mike Tyson’s Punch Out
Techmo Bowl
Legend of Zelda
those are the only three that I both liked at the time, and can still play today.
Aye, Fire and Ice sounds familiar to me as well. Wonder if I’ve played it…
It’s a toss-up.
Snake, Rattle ‘n’ Roll, or…
(“A new game? You didn’t say anything about a new game!”)
Super Mario Bros. 3
Not only was SMB3 the greatest Mario game ever created, it also had a freakin’ MOVIE made, with actual stars (Fred Savage), to welcome it.
Bases Loaded II
Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden II (which I can beat in one game)
Super Mario Brothers
Master Blaster
Silent Running (or whatever the sub in WWII game was called)
Rampart
Dr. Mario
Kirby
Super Mario 1-3
Destiny of an Emperor
10 yard fight (cheesiest football game ever but loads of fun)
M.U.L.E
Mike Tyson’s Punchout
Pirates
Super Spike V-Ball
Any Baseball game
Just curious as to why my thread was moved to the cafe society? I don’t particularly care, just wondering.
Isn’t the “In my humble opinion” the correct place for a poll? I believe it even says underneath it “What’s your favorite …?” and a place for polling.
Just wondering if there was a reason behind it?
Wizards and Warriors 2: Ironsword was the game with Fabio posing as a barbarian on the box cover, ** Mazikeen**.
My favorites:
Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, 3
Legend of Zelda
Final Fantasy
Dragon Warrior I, II, III, IV (especially IV, the greatest RPG until Final Fantasy 2 and 3 - the Japanese IV and VI - came out for the SNES)
Contra (what '80s kid doesn’t remember Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start?)
Tetris (preferably the unlicensed Tengen version on the black cartridge)
Wizards and Warriors (thank goodness for unlimited continues!)
Metroid (excellent at evoking feelings of claustrophobia, dread, and general creepiness, not unlike the Alien movies)
Bubble Bobble
Kirby’s Adventure (came out too late to be considered a classic, but may be the overall best side-scroller for the NES.)
But I think the most underrated NES game may have been Capcom’s Bionic Commando, an excellent side-scrolling adventure game where you had a bionic arm you could fire like a grappling hook, swing off ledges, and use as a weapon not unlike Indiana Jones’ whip. And at the end,
(Spoiler below…)
you can kill Hitler and see his head explode.
RC Pro Am
Legend of Zelda
Contra
Life Force
Extra Innings
Kung Fu
Ice Hockey
“I love the Power Glove, it’s so bad”
He was right, it was bad. :rolleyes:
lol about the power glove…sooooo true
Bionic Commando Very cool game, lots of weapons to use, lots of ways to use the grappling arm. And plenty of pink Nazis to kill.
Guardian Legend HARD ASS game, but great gameplay, tying in overhead puzzle solving with shoot-em-up action. (WTF was up with Broderbound and all these impossibly difficult games? Guardian Legend, Legacy of the Wizard, and Deadly Towers were all INSANELY hard!)
Tecmo Super Bowl I loved the little ‘cutscenes’ they had in this game. If you play enough, you can actually learn how to trigger many of them. My friend and I got so good at this that we could have one play be almost one entire cutscene-
Quarterback goes back for a pass
Quarterback throws
Lineman pounces at Quarterback, misses the pass
Wide receiver chugging across the field
Wide receiver jumps
Blocker jumps, flails arms to try to block pass
Wide receiver catches pass!
Touchdown! BOOYAH!