Britbong needing Burger advice

[Anonymous No.4466594]

Britbong here. This was my first console because Double Dragon, Outrun, Super Hang On, Space Harrier, Ghosts & Goblins and Golden Axe. It was in the most shops and my fiends had it too. I even got Alex Kid and Super Hang On included in the console. A few shops had the NES but games and console were more expensive and I only knew one person with one and he lived in another city. I'm not a Sega fanboy because I love some of their snes and 64 titles, but I've never had or really played a NES. So what are the must play game? (not including rpgs).
>TLDR what are the must-play NES titles

[Anonymous No.4466598]

>>4466594
Pretty sure is bait...

Super Mario bros 1-2-3
Legend of Zelda 1 and 2
Crystalis
Solar jetman
Kirby
Double dragon 2
Contra
Ninja gaiden
Castlevania 1-3

[Anonymous No.4466606]

>>4466598
Oh and
Power blade
Metal storm

[Anonymous No.4466662]

Batman
Bubble Bobble
Mega Man, pick any of the 6 I guess, people argue over which is the best one
Kid Icarus
Punch Out
Jackal

[Anonymous No.4466915]

Master system is the better console. don't bother buying a NES. just look up Top 20 NES games and emulate

[Anonymous No.4466930]

>>4466915
Cmon now

[Anonymous No.4466943]

>>4466915
t. salty yuropoor

[Anonymous No.4468154]

Beat 'Em and Eat 'Em

[Anonymous No.4468263]

>>4466915
I'm getting a clone and so,e battery save carts.
console $12
2 carts $5
>thank you china

[Anonymous No.4468265]

>>4466598
>Solar jetman
>Metal storm

interesting
will try

>>4466662
>Kid Icarus

looks good

[Anonymous No.4468269]

>>4466930
>>4466943
Not op but bong, nes came to uk in '87, by that time we had 16 bit computers like the st and amiga while yanks were paying stupid prices for games with worse graphics to play on their glorified childrens toy

[Anonymous No.4468270]

>>4468154
and Whomp 'Em

[Anonymous No.4468276]

>>4468269

What a stupid post, you act like America didn't have that, too. You act like those didn't COME FROM America.

You missed out on the NES, we didn't, you didn't have anything we didn't have.

[Anonymous No.4468283]

Double Dragon 2 and Contra are great for 2 player.

Castlevania, SMB 1 and 3, and Kid Icarus are great platformers.

Zelda 1 and 2 have probably held up better than most other NES games.

[Anonymous No.4468291]

>>4466594
Ducktales 1 and 2

[Anonymous No.4468314]

>>4468276
oi alright ya cunt tryina ave a giggle but you lot di'int ave that well mint speccy wif its crackin arcade ports that shite on that Ness rubbish innit

[Anonymous No.4468317]

>>4468314

Yeah NES has pretty shitty arcade ports overall, Double Dragon 2 being the biggest exception that I know of.

[Anonymous No.4468318]

>>4468276
OP here. When you say we missed out you need to understand that it was in the shops. It's just nobody liked it, there was no schoolyard debate. The Sega option was a sleek lower priced arcade focused unit and you could pick up carts and cards as cheap as 10-20 quid. Whereas the NES looked unattractive in the UK and the games came in flimsy card boxes and ALL cost around 40-50 quid. We simply had no desire for a games console that was expensive, had games we didn't know or care about and cost A LOT more.

>>4468291
I've heard this, will try

[Anonymous No.4468442]

>>4468283
I'm looking forward to SMB 2 Japanese version. That American version doesn't look fun

[Anonymous No.4468460]

Super C.
3d World Runner
Super Mario Bros. 1-3
RC Pro AM
Tetris
Punch Out
Excite Bike

[Anonymous No.4468713]

if JP famicom games count, try Fire Emblem 1 and 2 they have good translation patches

[Anonymous No.4468714]

>>4466594
Life Force

[Anonymous No.4468715]

>>4466594
Blaster Master is pretty fun

[Anonymous No.4468861]

>>4468460
RC Pro AM looks awesome and so does the 2nd one. I loved MicroMachines on the 64.

>>4468714
>Life Force
Thank you. This is exactly what I was looking for.

>>4468715
>Blaster Master is pretty fun
a platformer-shoot'em'up hybrid. Will definitely try

[Anonymous No.4468894]

>>4466594
Mario Bros 1-3
Final Fantasy
Crystalis
Mother fucking Sword Master
Ghost Lion
Castlevania 1-3
Mega Man 1-6
Legend of Zelda
Clash at Demonhead
Arkista's Ring
Metal Gear
Solomons Key

[Anonymous No.4469293]

Are you at all interested in famicom games, OP? There's a bunch of great games that never left Japan.

[Anonymous No.4469424]

>>4466594

[Anonymous No.4469428]

>>4466594
>>4469424

[Anonymous No.4469529]

>>4468317

Actually, most of their ports were golden, but some were only released for the Famicom. Their Galaxian, Dig Dug, Pac-Mac, Ms. Pac-Man, Gradius, Gyruss, Contra, and Defender II ports were all aces, and I'm sure I'm missing a ton (that's just off my head).

[Anonymous No.4469605]

>>4468276
>missed out on NES

we dodged that bullet mate. by the time the nes got popular in uk it was basically a cheap alternative to the snes

[Anonymous No.4469610]

I suppose if you haven't played it yet, the nes version of Elite is considered the best 8bit version.

[Anonymous No.4470442]

>>4469605
>by the time the nes got popular in uk
never happened

it went
>atari 2600
>SMS
>MegaDrive
>SNES (it was released after the MegaDrive.. either people were waiting for it or sold their MegaDrives and bought a SNES, like me).

The MegaDrive and SNES seemed pretty even-stevens in the UK. There wasn't a big argument about which was better, everyone could see the difference in graphics and sound on the later released SNES, but it was all about titles. British kids didn't seem to want to argue about consoles unlike what we're told went on in the USA.

[Anonymous No.4470449]

>>4470442
>what we're told went on in the USA.

I never experienced it in the US. Maybe it happened, but not among anyone I ever hung out with.

[Anonymous No.4470450]

>>4469529
the examples of ports are all early games. The later arcade games did look good (at the time) on the SMS. It was insane getting Double Dragon and Outrun at home.

[Anonymous No.4470456]

>>4470449
it's mainly the e-celebs on youtube saying it. But there was nothing that I remember and we all loved videogames throughout school.

We did talk about which was better, but it was a conversation and we weren't bantering or insisting on anything.

[Anonymous No.4470461]

>>4466594
VICE: Project Doom is my personal favorite on the system, along with River City Rampage.

[Anonymous No.4470520]

>>4470461
RCR has a 16-bit remake on pce, so its irrelevant

[Anonymous No.4470559]

>>4470461
>VICE: Project Doom
I like hybrid games with different styles of play

[Anonymous No.4470748]

>>4470520
>pce
>16 bit
do you even retro?

[Anonymous No.4470770]

>>4470748
16 bit graphics chip bro

[Anonymous No.4470790]

>>4468861
Since you seem to like Shoot em ups

Heres a good NES/Famicom Shmup list
http://nesartifacts.blogspot.nl/p/nes-shmup-guide.html

[Anonymous No.4470940]

Conversely, I'll ask as a Burger. The fuck is the point of the SMS?

The Genesis came along and made the SMS obsolete since just about every worthwhile game the SMS had, the Genesis had a better version of and the NES still had a few more years of life in it.

The SMS never had a presence over here for a good reason.

[Anonymous No.4471134]

>>4470940
>The fuck is the point of the SMS?
Arcade focused, cheaper than the NES, better sound and graphics and games that were half the price (and didn't come in crappy papery boxes.)

[Anonymous No.4471137]

>>4470770
So you're saying it's a true 16 bit console similar to the SNES and MegaDrive?

[Anonymous No.4471227]

>>4470940
nes was barely a step above the Atari consoles. Some of its later titles looked OK tho

[Anonymous No.4471231]

>>4471227
Come the fuck on
Atari sucks
NES does too but not as bad

[Anonymous No.4471369]

>>4471227
>>4471231
you're both fools

[Anonymous No.4472246]

>>4468318
>you could pick up carts and cards as cheap as 10-20 quid.
Crikey m8. In early 90's Australia Master System games went for 70-80 dollarydoos. And it was still the most popular system until about 1994 when Mega Drive took over. MD games were about 90-110 dollarydoos.

I don't know what the Nintendo prices were here but they must have been comparable or worse because they just weren't that big until the SNES really took off here around the DKC era.

[Anonymous No.4472274]

>>4470450
The NES Double Dragon is a complete reimagining of the game and very well worth checking out.

[Anonymous No.4472658]

Speaking as someone from '81 in the US, I can say that the SMS seemed like a weird off-brand console back in the day. I remember Toys R Us had a huge vibrant NES section with colorful box art on display and lots of Mario and Zelda merch.

Further down the aisle was the Master System area. A tiny little ghetto with ugly ass box art and nothing like Mario or Zelda or Metroid or Donkey Kong to gave that feeling like the system itself was a WORLD with characters inhabiting it.

It's well known these days that Nintendo did some shady monopoly shit to stifle competition in the US so who knows who things would have played out but as it stands, being able to play both on a whim, the NES is just more fun. Even though the graphics aren't as good on NES games like Ninja Gaiden are laughably bad on SMS but legendary on NES.

I remember seeing tons of commercials for the SMS back in the day but I never actually knew anyone who had one. As an Army brat, I moved around a lot and had lots of friends in different States and the only Master System I ever saw was owned by a friend whose family had been stationed in Europe years prior. This was 1995 at this point and the SMS was just a weird old thing he had in his closet and hadn't touched in years. It's like learning you were in an alternate dimension for most of your life.

The Master System was the dominant system in the world yet I never saw one?? Entire neighborhoods revolved around the Nintendo. It truly had a subculture of its own among the kids my age and nobody in Europe or South America gave a shit about it!

[Anonymous No.4473704]

>>4472658

My wife actually had a SMS growing up. Her dad was into video games so they had pretty much everything. They even talked their grandparents into seganetwork for christmas on year.

[Anonymous No.4474130]

>>4472658
We had an American exchange student who claimed him and all his friends had TurboGrafix16 not Nintendo.

[Anonymous No.4474461]

>>4472246
Ay up me duck, in blighty we'd shell out a few quid for a Sega game and say 'ta very much love'

[Anonymous No.4474495]

>>4468269
Eat your tea and crumpets limey poofster.

[Anonymous No.4476213]

>>4472658
>I can say that the SMS seemed like a weird off-brand console back in the day.
Weren't you playing Double Dragon, Super Hang ON and Outrun in the arcades?

[Anonymous No.4476327]

The library is obviously lacking, but damn, this has to be the coolest looking console ever made. That sleek futuristic red and black design, makes me want to admire it on a shelf. The original Mega Drive also looks awesome. Too bad the European variations of both systems look pretty meh in comparison.

[Anonymous No.4477770]

>>4474461
I laughed, but ya misspelt 'luv'. It's important.

[Anonymous No.4477990]

>>4476213

Arcade ports only mattered so much to the SMS because it lacked stuff like Mario, Mega Man, Zelda and so on.
And yeah the NES had arcade ports too of course but don't act like the NES Double Dragon isn't better than a straight arcade port.
And by the time Ninja Turtles...which the SMS didn't have a port of

I don't recall anyone giving so much of a shit about Hang-On and Outrun for it to sway opinion. The Genesis would have the better versions of those anyway for those who needed them. That system, again, depended heavily on arcade ports early on but did a better job of it. That was 1989 when displays of Altered Beast in the local Sears was min-blowing.

The timeline, I think, needs some perspective. The NES came out in Oct of'85 (so damn near 86). The public over here was still kind of weary of video games, having gone through an industry crash (everybody knows about that, I'm sure)
The Genesis was out in '89. That's a crazy small window for the NES to appear, revitalize the home console market kick the shit out of Atari and establish a fanbase before the 16-Bit era started.

When people compare the Genesis to the SNES they are forgetting is the Gens wasn't intended to take on the SNES but the NES. The fact that the Gens was able to hang in for the battle against SNES as long as it did was a testament to how good it was.

So that's basically how it happened in the US. The NES got here first, got its hooks in, made a splash, used shady business tactics and pretty much locked anybody else out for a while. The NES was THE system and anything else felt like a knockoff.
All the kids you went to school with had an NES. Mario and Zelda had cartoons and cereals and t-shirts. What the fuck is a Master System?

[Anonymous No.4478386]

>>4477990
In England my mate only had 2 games for his NES because of the prices and the Turtles 2D platformer was shit. I just remember this swimming part that didn't let you progress through some really dodgy level design. He also had Mario 1 but it really didn't impress anyone in the UK, i personally thought it was repetitive and also had uninspiring level design.

[Anonymous No.4478387]

>>4477770
I'm from Sheffield aswell so no excuses

[Anonymous No.4478475]

>>4478386
>I just remember this swimming part that didn't let you progress through some really dodgy level design
The first Ninja Turtle game is pretty hard at first but that dam level can be blasted through in like two minutes. It's a pretty simple map.

> He also had Mario 1 but it really didn't impress anyone in the UK, i personally thought it was repetitive and also had uninspiring level design.
Well I don't know what to say about that. The game has withstood the test of time, has been analyzed and copied and venerated for a reason.

[Anonymous No.4478524]

>>4478475
Nothing wrong with it it justdidn't seem to excite anyone here. Me included. I'd been happily playing Shinobi and Golden Axe. Also as the for the NES, I prefer the Rockman series retrospectively speaking.

[Anonymous No.4478537]

>>4466594
Every single game you mentioned is better on the genesis

[Anonymous No.4478539]

>>4470748
Pce river city ransom has 16-bit graphics and redbook audio. Gameplay is also identical so no dumb changes

You can not refute this

[Anonymous No.4478543]

>>4474130
Turbografx only sold ok in two cities, San Francisco and New York. That was it, since nec blew all its budget on manufacturing instead of marketing

[Anonymous No.4478565]

>>4478475
The dam level is there to teach you to switch turtles to manipulate the health bar. It's not very hard once you learn that.

[Anonymous No.4478571]

>>4478475
Nintendo wasn't popular everywhere, and obviously in a lot of places they didn't bother to penetrate the market. That's mostly where Sega came in hard.
I'm kind of irked that a lot of Americans act like the console situation in their country has universal applicability. Yes, the NES rocked the competition in North America, and revitalised home video games after the crash. Let's not forget though, the crash had little or no impact outside of North America. Europeans were gaming happily on their 80s computers and didn't have any kind of confidence problem with video games. The Commodore was specifically marketed for its focus on video games. I can tell you for Eastern Europe, we gave very little fucks about Nintendo, which was inaccessible and expensive - the Mega Drive was THE console for a large number of people. I think a bit later Famiclones started being more popular, but I'm not sure about the timeframe.

[Anonymous No.4478578]

>>4478565
It was a bad design not some clever tool.
>so we discovered a way to manipulate health
and you were more likely to learn this trick through friends and media not after repeatedly dying and probably giving up.

[Anonymous No.4478584]

>>4478571
>Famiclones
never saw one in the UK
There were plenty in South America and Asia though.

[Anonymous No.4478601]

>>4478578
>you were more likely to learn this trick through friends and media not after repeatedly dying and probably giving up.
Wrong

[Anonymous No.4478607]

>>4470442
mate you can go on youtube and watch early episodes of Gamesmaster where they talk quite a bit about it. why bother talking about a dead on arrival console if it didn't slowly take off years into its release?

Also look at UK nes consoles, you get Mattel versions, which were the poorly marketed ones and you have the NES versions, which is when Nintendo took the rights for european distribution from mattel and got some traction with the system in the early 90's

[Anonymous No.4478612]

>>4478578
Git gud faggot

[Anonymous No.4478620]

>>4478571
The fact is the US market, especially in the 80s, was bigger than a hundred EU markets combined and most of those computers were American in the first place.
The computers being viable gaming platforms was one of the things that helped diminish the console market.
No one acts like the crash was a worldwide phenomenon.

Also, Mattel screwed the pooch for Nintendo in EU markets

[Anonymous No.4478739]

>>4478571
An I live in Norway, and get irked by this entire "Sega was more popular than Nintendo in Europe" thing the Internet constantly parrots. Nobody gave a shit about Sega here, I didn't know a single person that had one, never saw any systems in stores, and played a Mega Drive ONCE when it was current, and that was in a rental store that had one hooked up with Tale Spin.
When the video game magazine Power Player, which had been called "Nintendo Magazine" from 1990 to 1994, switched from being Nintendo-only to covering all systems in late 1995, they outright explained to angry readers that it would be impossible to have a magazine that focused on Sega since Sega systems were so niche it'd never sell enough.

Sega was popular in some European countries. Not "in Europe".