Top 5 NES games. let's fight about it

[Chojin]

1. River City Ransom
2. Megaman 3
3. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
4. Super Mario Bros
5. Baseball Stars

[Spruce Moose]

Originally Posted by Emu

Did you guys all play the same 8 games?

Crystalis, Blaster Master, Shadowgate, Uninvited, Deja Vu, Metroid, Faxanadu, any of the Mega Mans, StarTropics, Super Dodgeball, River City Ransom are all great games, and you fags are all "Oh yeah well I like Contra and Super Mario Brothers"

It's one thing to call those good, because they most certainly are. It's another to say that because they are good, other well known and well liked games are not or are the pleasure of fags, by way of some kind of convoluted hipster logic that hates things the majority of people like. There is no quota on quality.

[Emu]

Shut up

[Grislygus]

Man, I reread that awesome run-on sentence over about five times. A Plus!

[MarioRPG]

I don't think I ever played Baseball Stars

[Girl Drink Drunk]

I enjoyed click and point games like Shadowgate (Awesome gameover music, btw), Deja Vu, and Uninvited (haven't actually played that one, but I certainly will if I can get it working properly on an emulator), but the problem I had with them was that once you beat them, there wasn't a lot of replayability. It wasn't really the same experience playing it through a second time. Blaster Master was fun but it could have really used a password system (like a lot of games back then).

[xenosoul]

1.Final Fantasy
2.Ninja Gaiden
3.Strider
4.Castelvania
5.Simons Quest (even though its way too short of a game)

[umop apisdn]

5. Zelda
4. Castlevania 2
3. Contra
2. Super Mario 3
1. Punch-Out (The Mike Tyson version)

[terrva]

There's only one NES game i ever truly cared about. Pro Wrestling.

[Slick Willy]

1: contra. suck at it, but it rocks.
2: adventure island? something like that. the one with the fat kid in the loincloth and unexplained dinosaur buddies.
3: battletoads
4: dragon spirit or warrior. forgot which. was like a fly to the top shooter, where you ruined the otherworldly shit of monsters from above? awesome.
5: mario 3. never gets old.

[Sacks]

Terrva you're invited to my house for ULTIMATE GLORY.

[leathco]

Good topic. I love the old NES era.

1. Final Fantasy
2. Mario 3
3. Legend of Zelda
4. Mega Man 3
5. Punch-Out
6. Tetris
7. Ninja Gaiden
8. Castlevania 3
9. TMNT 2 The Arcade Game
10. Marble Madness

[MarioRPG]

Haha, adventure island.

[Codiekitty]

Originally Posted by Slick Willy

4: dragon spirit or warrior. forgot which. was like a fly to the top shooter, where you ruined the otherworldly shit of monsters from above? awesome.

That would be Dragon Spirit. Dragon Warrior is that RPG where you had to level grind for an hour or three every time you wanted to cross a bridge, and had the really annoying battle music.

I guess in ABC order, my ten favorites are:

Bionic Commando
Blaster Master
Crystalis
The Guardian Legend
Journey to Silius
Little Nemo
Mega Man 2 (I guess any Mega Man except for 6 is noteworthy, but 2 is the cream of the crop)
Nightshade
Startropics (either one)
Super Mario Bros. 3

Honorable Mentions: SMB1, Shadowgate, Zelda, Castlevania 2, Contra. I'd like to mention some others, like CVs 1 and 3, Metal Storm, Ninja Gaiden, Punch-Out, and Final Fantasy, but I've never beaten them.

Or in some cases, like pretty much every Capcom Disney-cartoon-based game, I thought it was really lame (and I only say "pretty much" because I haven't played Talespin).

[MarioRPG]

I haven't heard of 3 of those.

[Sam]

1. PRINCESS TOMATO IN SALAD KINGDOM
2. D&D POOLS OF RADIANCE
3. DRAGON WARRIOR 3
4. RIVER CITY RANSOM
5. TOTALLY RAD

[WhiteRat]

Ughhh, I fucking hate Totally Rad. I don't know why, but my parents must have rented that game for us a half dozen times back in the day. Maybe back then I liked it but I don't remember that game fondly at all.

[Dr. Boogie]

Why the hell did your parents decide what game you rented?


And congratz on getting post #50,000.

[WhiteRat]

I forgot to mention this, but at one point I remember my siblings and I picking the game the first time. The other times my parents would just come home from work on a Friday with the game for us, foolishly thinking we wanted to play that shitty game.

[Kingofeurope]

1: Super Mario Bros. 3
2: Contra
3: Battletoads
4: Ninja Gaiden
5: Punch-Out!

Yeah, beat that.

[Spruce Moose]

Originally Posted by Grislygus

Man, I reread that awesome run-on sentence over about five times. A Plus!

Thank you. I take pride in the quality of my run-on sentences. If you're going to insult grammar, I believe you need to do it well.

And Codiekitty's list has reminded me that I neglected Bionic Commando. I am utterly filled with shame. Who else thinks it's first level's music is the most underrated peice of video game music of all time? I dare say it's even better than Zelda or Mario's theme. I mean, shit, people jizz themselves over One Winged angel, but Bionic Commando's triumph of modern music goes neglected all these years? At least the remake was playing an awesome updated version of it in the trailer I saw.

[Codiekitty]

Well, something in another topic reminded me I forgot Sweet Home, which I guess I'd push Crystalis into the Honorable Mentions to make room for.

[stevetothepast]

1- Super Mario Bros. (Listen, I know this is an obvious choice, and most of you think that I am just saying it to be saying it, but I honestly play this game at least 3 times a week, I cannot lose interest)
2- Star Tropics
3- Gunsmoke
4- Blades of Steel
5- Kiwi Kraze

[Emu]

You know what game kicked ass? Kickle Cubicle.

[timrpgland]

I always forget something in these lists and it changes too much but here we gos agains:

1.) DWIV
2.) Castlevania: Dracula's Curse
3.) RCR
4.) Ninja Gaiden
5.) Mike Tyson's Punchout

Notables: Kung Fu, Baseball Stars, Renegade, Little Nemo: The Dream Master, Kid Nikki, RC Pro-Am.