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I'm having a hard time getting into NES games, name off the greatest and I'm going to try them.

>> No.6196909

>>6196897
Super Mario 1, 2, USA, 3
Gimmick
Contra, Super C
Mega Man 1, 2, 4
Castlevania 1, 3
Batman
Metroid
Ninja Gaiden 1-3
Punch-Out
Zelda
Nemo

>> No.6196916

>>6196897
Castlevania 1-3
The Legend of Zelda 1-2
Ninja Gaiden 1-3
Willow
8 Eyes
Metroid
Blaster Master
The Battle of Olympus
Shatterhand
Kick Master
The Lone Ranger
Kabuki - Quantum Fighter
Crystalis
Little Samson
Mega Man 1-6
Adventure Island 1-3
DuckTales 1-2
Darkwing Duck
The Adventures of Bayou Billy
Sweet Home
Low G Man
Metal Gear
Snake's Revenge
Bad Dudes
Code Name - Viper
Batman

>> No.6196928

>>6196916
>most of the decent but overrated once-hidden gems
>no Mario

>> No.6196945

>>6196897
Some lesser masterpieces that haven't been listed:
RC Pro-AM
Double Dragon II
Gargoyle's Quest II
Arumano no Kiseki
Jackal
Super Spike V'Ball
Ice Climber
Journey to Silius
Vice: Project Doom
Balloon Fight
Wrecking Crew

>> No.6196981
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6196981

>>6196897
Dragon Warrior III
Final Fantasy III
Lagrange Point
Monster Maker
Madara
Sweet Home
Gina no Sannin
Fire Emblem
Just Breed
Radia Chronicles

>> No.6196984

>>6196981
>Gina
*Ginga

>> No.6196991

>>6196981
Gina no Mannin: The Virgin Tales

>> No.6197162

River city ransom
Whomp em

>> No.6197190

Broo play gimmick. Also Mario 3, Kirby adventure are good. For sure gimmick though.

>> No.6197195

>>6196897
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Castlevania
Castlevania III
Double Dragon II
Mega Man 2
Mega Man 3
Summer Carnival '92 - Recca
Gun Nac
Gradius
Gradius II
Lifeforce
Tecmo Super Bowl
Super Dodge Ball
Nekketsu! Street Basket - Ganbare Dunk Heroes
Contra
Super C
Snow Brothers
Bubble Bobble
Tetris

>> No.6197196

>>6197190
>Kirby adventure
Not terrible, but skippable

>> No.6197607

>>6196916
Good for you for recognizing Willow. Haunting music. It had a good instruction manual. I didn't know there was a movie as a kid.

>> No.6197612

and those caves in Willow were more frightening to me than any Zelda dungeon could ever hope to be.

>> No.6197615

>burgers paid 60 USD for these games so you could only afford like three of them while we had access to infinite cheap Amiga, C64, Spectrum games on cassette and even free games

>> No.6197617

>>6197196
Kirby you play for the aesthetics. It has some heady chiptunes and lo-fi fantasian pixel art. Kirby is the marijuana high in NES form.

>> No.6197639

>>6196897
Startropics

>> No.6197646

>>6197615
Difference is NES games were good.

>> No.6197654

>>6197646
Also they were like five bucks used at a pawn store. I emulated shitty 8 bit computer games in the 90s they all suck

>> No.6197658

>>6196897
It's like asking someone to name the sweetest turds you can eat. A pointless endeavour, NES games simply suck.

>> No.6197697

>>6197615
We had game rentals though.

>> No.6197726

>>6197615
>while we had access to infinite cheap Amiga, C64, Spectrum games
I had a C128 and shared and hole-punched a ton of floppies as a kid, and I appreciate the soulfulness that shines from those games, especially in how they look and sound. But not even a single one competes with the top 50 or so NES games. Sorry, you were robbed

>> No.6197729

>>6197658
Please fill out this questionnaire.
>Are you
>a) a retarded zoomer, or
>b) a retarded Euro?

>> No.6197737

>>6197726
What games did you play exactly?

>> No.6197747

Elite

>> No.6197758

>>6197646
>what is Dizzy, Creatures, Giana Sisters, The Last Ninja, Turrican, James Pond, Sensible Soccer, Manic Miner and Jack the Nipper

>> No.6197764

>>6197615
Fellow europoor here, I grew up with Nintendo and in hindsight I don't feel like I missed anything about the pre-windows 3.0 era. Computers (ESPECIALLY ibm compatibles) were fucking expensive man, even the NES was still much cheaper to buy and try out games for than an amiga or most microcomputers from the 80s. The spectrum was mostly an english thing and I never heard of it before, its games aren't horrible considering the cheaper hardware but I'd stick with MS DOS if I want to play retro PC games.
Nowadays I'd rather join with the master race but I don't feel it's unjustified that Nintendo games are still popular. Like on other platforms like Sega or Playstation there's just so much variety and quality to find and it's a lot less of a hassle than finding an original 80s microcomputer, floppy disks or tapes and hoping that loading times won't annoy the hell out of me.

As for free games, even the most average flash games are more interesting to try out because you don't even need a physical copy of it to just go online and run it with any more or less recent computer from the last 20 years. By the way I'm not one of those teenagers who thinks new generation consoles need to be retro now or anything but god damn it makes mee feel old that it's been 20 years since the PS2 came out...

>> No.6197768

>>6197737
Probably hundreds. I loved Jumpman/Jr, Bubble Bobble, Impossible Mission, Defender of the Crown, Winter Games, Elite, Kung-Fu, Pirates. I loved and love a lot of Commodore games. They just aren't as good

>> No.6197787

>>6197768
The NES ports of DOTC and WG are crap, you don't want to play those over the C64 originals unless you like having no load time. DOTC is a sit-down strategy game, it was not meant for a console--it was like the PS1 Civilization II. Also the NES Pirates! suffered from Nintendo's censorship (eg. changing "tobacco" to "crops").

Bubble Bobble and Kung Fu you might have an argument since they're arcade ports and not very good ones, but then you may as well just play the originals on MAME anyway.

>> No.6197803

What anon is really talking about is the cartoony, cinematic feel of Japanese console games which was something you didn't have on home computer games and how he missed the lack of it on the latter. For the most part. LucasArts was pretty good at it.

>> No.6197805

>>6197787
I wasn't comparing C64 ports to NES ports. I'm saying that the best NES games trounce the best Commodore games

>> No.6197814

>>6197805
Depends on the game. If you want to talk platformers or most button masher stuff, the NES would generally be better because it's optimized for those kind of games. If you mean traditionally computer genres like flight sims and strategy games, then the NES falls short.

>> No.6197842

>>6197758
>Giana Sisters
>James Pond
And you wonder why nobody agrees with you

>> No.6197858

>>6197615
As someone who grew up in both regions, Euro games are trash. They're all one hit and you're dead affairs and the biggest challenge is memorizing all the levels. There's a reason why shit like Asterix, Dizzy, and Hugo never made it across the Atlantic.

>> No.6197863

>>6197729
I could probably be your father.

>> No.6197902

>>6196897
Super Mario Bros. 2 & 3
Batman
Wizards & Warriors
S.C.A.T
Life Force
Tetris
Ducktales
Megaman

>>6197615
Yeah, and these games were actually good. Enjoy 'Skij'

>> No.6197909

>>6197758
>Dizzy
Ridiculously bad.

>Giana Sisters
Shit knockoff of SMB

>The Last Ninja
>Turrican
Actually pretty cool.

>James Pond, Sensible Soccer, Manic Miner and Jack the Nipper
Reheated garbage.

>> No.6197923

>>6196897
Bionic Commando
Kirby's Adventure
Ninja Gaiden (all of them)
Castlevania (1 and 3 but 2 is ok )
Punch-out
Metroid
Super Mario Bros. (all of them)
Legend of Zelda
Excite Bike
Megaman 2
Blaster Master
Duck Hunt

>> No.6197989

>>6196897
You need to go into them knowing that many of them were made in a time where peoole were still figuring out game design.

>> No.6198049

>>6197764
>and quality to find and it's a lot less of a hassle than finding an original 80s microcomputer, floppy disks or tapes and
It's the 21st century, there are Flash storage solutions for them.

>> No.6198060

>>6197814
>>6197805
>>6197787
>>6197726
It needs to be emphasized that most (but by no means all) of the better quality NES games were released stateside while the Famicom had mountains of shovelware we never saw some of which was no better than the average Euro computer game.

>> No.6198065

>>6197639
Yus

>> No.6198080

>>6198060
You probably can get away with the "if its made by a good company, its a good game even if not released on the US" rule for the most part.

But you still lose metal max on this.

>> No.6198091

Seriously, you mean to tell me that A Week of Garfield or Transformers: Comvoy no Nazo was any better than Amiga shovelware?

>> No.6198104

The typical NES game was made on a higher budget than the typical home computer game. The hardware in of itself doesn't magically make AAA games, you can look at Color Dreams for what happens when you try to make NES games on the budget of a ZX Spectrum game.

>> No.6198109

>>6197863
Okay so you're old and still retarded

>> No.6198114

>>6198104
It was easier to hit 60 FPS on the NES than on the C64, due how it has dual screen maps etc..
But 60 FPS garbage is still garbage.

>> No.6198116

>>6197658
There is a site named ResetEra where you can share this shit opinion with.

>> No.6198120

>>6198114
The NES has a 75% faster CPU and port-mapped video memory that doesn't steal CPU cycles. The normal method of scrolling the screen on the C64 is also very chugging and eats a lot of CPU, unless you use VSP which gives you NES-styling scrolling but is sort of a hack that doesn't work on some VIC-IIs.

So yeah, the NES generally has the advantage for fast arcade action but it's not as suitable for sit-down computer games which depend on a keyboard and having more than 2k of writable memory.

>> No.6198124

>>6196897
Mega Man 2 and Metal Storm

>> No.6198126

>>6196897
But the NES has zero good games

>> No.6198127

>>6198120
You can add more memory to the NES and some games do that.
But on C64 you just don't need to.

>> No.6198146

>>6198127
>But on C64 you just don't need to.
You also don't need external chips to get an IRQ timer or scanline interrupts since it does those right out of the box.

>> No.6198179

>>6198146
You have the "better than nothing" sprite zero hit on the NES.

>> No.6198289

>>6197615
No one will ever care about your Zniggy shovelware box.

>> No.6198349

>>6197902
>S.C.A.T
Some might argue that Final Mission is better (well it DOES have better title, you gotta give that), but I find it to be excessively hard, as if SCAT wasn't hard enough.

>> No.6198360

>>6196897
Try Little Nemo in Dreamworld

>> No.6198363

>>6197162
>not recommending the adventures of bayou billy
Not everyone has taken the time to learn moon runes anon

>> No.6198579

Lolo

>> No.6198808
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>>6197615