NES Games

[ApocalypseKurtz]

What are your favorite/best/most fun games for the original NES?

My list:

Rygar
Metroid
Immortal
Legend of Zelda
Zelda 2: The Adventure of Link
Final Fantasy
Crystalis
Castlevania 1-3
Mega Man 2-3

And, for some less well known ones,

Mighty Bomb Jack
Solomon's Key
Rampart
Prince of Persia
Rush 'N Attack

 

[Plexus]

How could you not say Super Mario Brothers? I also played Metroid and Rygar a lot. Probablly a lot more... But I was like 6 when I was still playing the NES.

 

[ApocalypseKurtz]

Super Mario Bros. 1-3 were all very good, too.

 

[Cedric Greene]

Good time for this topic to reappear with the 20th anniversary of the Famicom yesterday, http://www.gamespy.com/articles/july03/famicom/index.shtml

Anyway some of my favorite games before I found ROMs:
10 Yard Fight My uncles had the system first and had all the initial sports games.
Adventures of Lolo 1-3 still don't understand why these haven't been ported to GBA
Baseball Stars
Bionic Commando
Blades of Steel
CastleVania 2&3
Contra or Probotector for the Euros
Double Dragon 1&2
Dr. Mario
Dragon Spirit
Dragon Warrior The greatest RPG ever IMO
Duck Hunt Damn dog
Duck Tales
Excitebike
Gyromite without R.O.B.
Hudson's Adventure Island 1-3
Ice Hockey
Karnov
Kid Niki - Radical Ninja
Legend of Zelda
M.U.S.C.L.E.
Mario Bros.
Mega Man 1-3 kinda lame after that
Metroid
Micro Machines
Mike Tyson's Punch Out Mr. Dream was a flamer
NES Open Golf
Ninja Gaiden
Nintendo World Cup
RC Pro-AM
Rygar
Soccer I liked to play as Bra, I was 5
SMB 1-3 though 2 was a rip-off, they should have just brought the real SMB 2 over.
T&C Surf Design still don't know to surf in that game but the skateboarding was fun.
TMNT 1&2 or TMHeroT for you Europeans
Tennis
Toobin an actually good Tengen game
Wrecking Crew Do you know how to get the magic hammer in level 4?

Now I know I missed some as i went by my ROM list but those are the ones I have the fondest memories of. Since finding ROM's I have enjoyed:

Dragon Warrior 2-4 Role-playing at its finest
Kart Fighter a homebrew I guess, runs like crap but is quite funny
Kickle Cubicle despite the kiddy graphics a great puzzle game
Shadowgate quite possibly the hardest game ever without a walk through
Solstice
Tecmo Bowl
Tecmo Super Bowl
Wizardry a damn hard game as well
A good chunk of these games have stood the test of time, but then again a whole bunch have not. Nintendo should release compilations for the Gamecube, hell all the NES games ever released would fit on 1 mini-dvd but its not very likely.

 

[ApocalypseKurtz]

Nice to see some fans of Rygar; I didn't think many people knew of it besides me.

Shadowgate is dam tough without a walkthrough; so is its sequel, Uninvited.

Immortal is a great dungeon style game; very difficult without a walkthrough.

The Dragon Warriors were great old school RPGs but I like Final Fantasy better than any of them. Crystalis and Faxanadu are also great but not traditional RPGS in that they were action-based too.

 

[.:KNAS:.]

i love the hockey game to nintendo 8 bits, but i cant remember the name. u know the one with the fast skinny guys, the medium guys, and the slow fat guys that always won the face offs

 

[Cedric Greene]

Originally posted by .:KNAS:.
i love the hockey game to nintendo 8 bits, but i cant remember the name. u know the one with the fast skinny guys, the medium guys, and the slow fat guys that always won the face offs

Ice Hockey of course, funny as hell though too easy to score.

 

[Smash]

Nobunaga's Ambition 2 was/is a great old NES game.Some civ like characteristics.

Many hours spent on NES Open and Tecmo Bowl/Superbowl.Track and Feild 1 and 2.Baseball Simulator 5000.Desert Commander.Silent Service..gosh there were so many.I have over 60 NES titles tucked away somewhere
Milon's Secret Castle.StarTropics.Castlevania.Ultima series.The first Final Fantasy.Ah..the memories.

There were many stinkers though.John Elway's Football comes to mind.There was a horrible WWF/E game I can't remember the name of.The original Baseball game was a real smeller.

 

[SunTzu]

Wizards and Warriors!!!
ZELDA 1 and 2!!1
Mario Bros(all)
lots of other games too

 

[china444]

mike tyson's punch out! I love that
battletoads
mario 3
Contra(1st one)
Blades of Steel
Burger Shop or whatever that one is where you make the burgers

EDIT:
Duck Hunt
dr mario
snoopy's stadium
track and field
Soccer

EDIT2:
excitebike
teenage mutant ninja turtles
bubble bobble
root beer stand
pole position II(or was that atari )

 

[SunTzu]

Little League World Series Baseball :Goodjob: the greatest

 

[MajorGeneral2]

Solomon's Key may be the toughest game I've played.
Dragon Warrior was rather tedious, but still great.
Final Fantasy (see above)
Zelda (of course!)
Mario Bros. (again, all)
Can anybody NOT say Duck Hunt?
Ninja Gaiden was good (cinema scenes were quite the novelty)
Nobunaga's Ambition was an obvious progenitor to the modern strategy game
Hmm... Those are the main ones, IMHO.

 

[SunTzu]

I see you love the Legend of Zelda, nice to meet another Zelda fan!

 

[highstreet]

Mine are:

Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Shingen the Ruler
Destiny of an Emperor
Bionic Commando
Final Fantasy
Dragon Warrior
M.U.L.E.
Castlevania 2

 

[Archer 007]

Legend of Zelda, even though i got stuck halfway through.
Super Mario Bros 1-3
World Cup
Super Dodge Ball
Tecmo Bowl
Football
Track and Field 1 & 2
Double Dragon
Top Gun
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 & 3
Final Fantasy
Duck Hunt
Excitebike
Contra
Monopoly

 

[Moff Jerjerrod]

NES:

L'Empereur
Nobunaga's Ambition
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Genghis Khan

SNES:

Super Godzilla
Super Star Wars
Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2 - 4
Genghis Khan 2
Nobunaga's Ambition 2
Gemfire
Uncharted Waters 2 New Horizons
Liberty or Death
Aerobiz
Aerobiz Supersonic
Inindo Way of the Ninja

Basically any and all Koei games.

 

[Captain Carnage]

River City Ransom!!!!!!!!!!