Super Mario Bros. First, last, and always.
Two more words:
Techmo Bowl
I think it was a port of the Atari game sharing the same title. It was absolutely the worse football game on the NES. You couldn’t pass the ball and the linemen on both teams moved in one big line.
Marc
Listing just the games I’ve played in the past year and enjoyed-
Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom- Surprisingly, the darkest game I’ve seen on a console, while similarly managing to be hilariously silly at times. SpoilerI still remember the exact smile I gave when I put the flower at the Princess’s Shrine, and how long I stared at it after I noticed it turned all red after they rounded up the vagrants.Spoiler
Kid Icarus-Damnit, this game should be legendary
To The Earth- Using the Lightgun, with very limited energy and I think limited ammo. It’s essentially duckhunt with better music and the occasional fight back (I can remember the first and second bosses clearly), but you’ll probably stop shooting before anything’s a threat, unless you shoot an allied plane.
Legend of Zelda 1&2- default greats
Mario 2&3-Yeah, I liked 2. So what?
Chip n’ Dale
Ducktales- Now I can barely stand it, but I remeber loving it as a kid.
That was its charm. So aweful but brilliant.
Random NES thoughts:
Tecmo Bowl is great and all. But IMHO, Tecmo Super Bowl was the more enjoyable only for the fact you could play an entire season with every team, which is pretty much what I did.
That game made me the sports geek I am today. sniff
Buy anyways, yes. the NES was my God through elementary and middle school. Hell, I even subscribed to Nintendo Power. I don’t know how my mom agreed to that.
The game that haunted me the most was “Simon’s Quest”. Seriously. I had dreams about it. Not nightmares, but dreams that I was IN the game.
I don’t think I ever passed BattleToads.
Ditto Ninja Gaiden.
Ever play NES Ice Hockey with 4 fat guys? 4 skinny guys? My team was always 3 fats and a skinny. The mediums guys were useless to me.
And did you ever play as the Soviet Union?
Double Dragon is a classic. And DD2 wasn’t that bad either.
DD3? Ugh…
The Wizard is the best Nintendo movie EVER. EVER!
In Punch-Out, Bald Bull always gave me problems. And that Tyson guy too.
Another game that I rarely see discussed is StarTropics. That one wasn’t too shabby.
And don’t get me started on Ninja Turtles.
Good times. Good times.
Lesse, there’s Metroid, Legend of Zelda (just the first one; I refuse to believe that the second one ever existed), and Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, and 3. Kirby’s Adventure was also another of my favorites. But how did this thread make it so far without mention of Balloon Fight?
I think we all enjoyed all of the Super Mario Brothers games to a certain extent. I personally vote the 3rd one as the best… but thats just me.
I was never a fan of the Metroid series (yeh, flame me 
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And now that Eman_Ramos, mentioned it, I used to love Punch-Out… found it to be difficult though. Was fun watching my uncle play it though, he was good at it.
I’ve seen a couple of people on this board diss Zelda II recently, but I thought it was a great game. The magic system was innovative, and I thought the side-scrolling was great. It was definitely more of an action game than the first title, but it was a good action game. I loved it. I’ve played it all the way through several times, though I haven’t played it for a few years now.
The music was excellent too.
Ah, I thought I was the only person to have played that game! The title does make it sound like a silly children’s game, but you are right, it was pretty dark.
I second
Kirby
Mario 1 2 3 (yes I did like the second one, even if it was a rip-off)
Ninja Gaiden
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
Street Fighter
Konami Soccer
Oh, I forgot to mention Wario’s Woods, which was awesome both for NES and SNES. My favorite puzzle game of all time.
GodDAMN, TMNT was so hard… I never even got close to finishing it, I don’t think.
You know what my brother and I used to do with Ice Hockey? We used to pick two teams of a similar shade and turn the colour on the TV all the way down so we couldn’t tell who was who. Now THAT was fun.
Journey to Silius. No one’s mentioned it… is it rare?
It has kick-ass music, too!
The only thing that I found to work for that (along with the lung-bursting blowing, of course) was to shove the cartridge all the way in, click it down, and then while it was clicked down, to pull it back out as far as the case would allow.
As for my favorites, I’ve lately returned to Final Fantasy, which I played through completely umpteen-many times (gotta try every party combination, of course!). Incidentally, there’s a cap of level 50 and 999 hit points, if you were wondering.
And I totally ruled Dr. Mario. On single player, I was able to consistently able to beat level 20 (supposedly the last level), and once beat level 24 six times in a row (after beating level 20, you’d advance to 21, then 22, etc., but beating level 24 just gave you 24 again. Not that it mattered; 21 and up were identical to 20, as far as gameplay went). But the real glory of that game was in multiplayer. Remember how you could drop extra pill-pieces on your opponent? I regularly set up my bottle so I could dump 6 or 8 pieces at a time.
Super Mario 3, Blaster Master, and the various Megaman games were also very cool, but I didn’t own any of them, and so only got to play them occasionally at friends’ houses.