Everything to do with our favourite pastime! Reviews, recommendations, sells/swaps, problems etc. Whether they are on the latest consoles, arcade or retro classics. It's not the winning or losing, we came to play!
Due to the NES being our Lleague vehicle this week, I started wondering, "What else could I be playing?"
We've only got 4 NES recommendations in this thread. There must be tons of good games on the platform.
I never owned one, so I don't have much first hand experience to go on. Through emulation I've discovered one or two that were lots of fun. I'll see if I can dig them up.
**edit** and I should read the thread a bit more carefully. I see we have more that haven't made the front page.
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Super Mario Bros. And SMB3 (don't like the look of 2).
Don't know the NES that well myself, either.
My kid loves those two, and anything Kirby.
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The NES is the machine I grew up with and yet I haven't played half the games Zotmeister recommends. I guess that goes to show what a strong platform it really was (and still is).
Some recommendations...
Stuff by Nintendo (obviously)
Super Mario Bros 1,2,3
Zelda 1,2
Metroid
Kid Icarus
Excitebike
Stuff by Capcom
Megaman 1,2,3 (and 4,5,6 if you still hunger for more)
Bionic Commando
Little Nemo The Dream Master
Trojan
Section Z
Willow
Duck Tales
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
Stuff by Konami
Castlevania 1,2,3
Gradius
Lifeforce
Contra/Probotector
Metal Gear
Goonies 2
Stuff by Rare (they've never been this good since)
RC Pro Am 1,2
Cobra Triangle
Wizards & Warriors
Snake Rattle n Roll
Slalom
Stuff by others
Gremlins 2 (great game, awesome sountrack, unbelievable cutscenes!)
Batman
Robo Warrior
Maniac Mansion (Yeah, it's available everywhere and this one doesn't even support a mouse, but it's all worth it thanks to the brilliant soundtrack!)
And plenty more, to be added when I can think of them.
Ice Hockey (Nintendo) - Best game ever!
Nintendo World Cup (Technos Japan) - Soccer (nonserious)
Adventures of Lolo 1,2,3 (Hal) - Puzzle games
Faxanadu (Hudson) - Adventure
Double Dragon 2,3 (Technos Japan) - Beat'em up
Spy vs Spy (Kemco/Seika) - Short n' fun
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Not seen this thread, but then I don't visit a lot. Let's see:
C64:
Nebulus
Turrican II
CJ's Elephant Antics
Exile
IO
NARC
Space Taxi
Stunt Car Racer
Creatures 2
Gemini Wing
Hard 'n' Heavy
Lemmings
Microprose Soccer
Bionic Commando
Rainbow Islands
Smash TV
Speedball 2
Trailblazer
NES:
Zelda seies
Super Mario Brothers 3
Super Mario Brothers 1
Castlevania 1
Castlevania 3
Kirby's Adventure
Contra
MD:
Sonic 1
Sonic 2
Sonic 3+K
Ranger-X
Mortal Kombat II
Earthworm Jim
Earthworm Jim 2
FIFA '96
Micro Machines '96
Mercs
SNES:
Killer Instinct
Super Street Fighter II
Donkey Kong Country 2
Donkey Kong Country 3
Super Mario All-Stars
Rendering Ranger
Bust-A-Move 3
Arcade/AES:
Beatmania 4th
Bishi Bashi Championship
Armed Formation
Bionic Commando
Boxy Boy
Dangun Feveron
DoDonPachi
Giga Wing
Gunforce
Great 1000 Miles Rally
Mizubaku Daibouken/Liquid Kids
Metal Slug series
Detana!! Twin Bee
Smash TV
Sparkz
Super Pang
N64:
Super Mario 64
GoldenEye
F-Zero X
Banjo-Kazooie
Super Smash Brothers
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
XBOX 360 is due out very soon which means (hopefully) there'll be loads of XBOX's and XBOX games being sold off cheap.
Can I therefore put forward a recommendations for XBOX since I reckon there'll be quite a few people picking one up soon and looking for recommendations?
XBOX will effectively be 'retro' in a few months
If so my recommendation is....
Outrun 2 Burnout 3
Which are the only decent XBOX games I own! Outrun 2 of course being a better 'racing game' than Burnout 3.
And I'd also like to recommend XBOX Media Center which is free and a very very impressive piece of software. I can't help feeling that it's been the blueprint for the 360's multimedia features.
Scuba Dive
The Forest (orienteering sim)
Star Raiders II
Trefor AKA Glarodon AKA Trevor
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