Best NES game of all time

[Topflight]

If you were stuck in a room with Nesticle for the rest of your life, which rom would you download. You only get one.

[Lazymeatball]

Megaman2, great soundtrack

[kyro]

smb3, although dr. mario is making its way up there on my favorite games list.

[elwoodblues]

Tetris --- I used to get so close to 250 lines that, with a few months of training, I think I could do it.

[scrub]

My initial reaction was FF1 because it was the first game I played through when I got an emulator.

But it would be Megaman 2, upon further reflection.

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[beerbandit]

final fantasty


the series was going great and then it went to hell after 7.

cheers
beer

[ArchAngel71857]

I'd have to say Legend of Zelda.

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[beerbandit]

this was actually my very close second

i prefer these types of games over any other (rpg). final fantasy is just a little more my style also the games is much more complex and i felt that it would take longer for me to explore everything again in ff.

zelda is a great game and then the second was made and it [censored] the bed.

cheers
beer

[Peca277]

All the games everybody mentioned are definitely great for 1 player. But if you are talking multi-player... Tecmo Superbowl definitely takes the cake. Even just last summer my friends and I spent hours on a Tecmo tournament. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[holeplug]

Legend of Zelda is probably my favorite game of all time on any system.

[MarkL444]

megaman 2

[ThaSaltCracka]

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I'd have to say Legend of Zelda.

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yup.

[oljumpstart]

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I'd have to say Legend of Zelda.

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yup.

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yup yup.

[Edge34]

The answer is Contra, the originator of the Cheat Code, the one we all know by heart, and wish would work on every game.

Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-Start

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[ThaSaltCracka]

Contra is sweet, but its about staying power. That game can be beaten in like 2 hours, while Zelda takes a week or so.

[NoPeak]

Tecmo Superbowl, no other even comes close.

[NoPeak]

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The answer is Contra, the originator of the Cheat Code, the one we all know by heart, and wish would work on every game.

Up-Up-Down-Down-Left-Right-Left-Right-B-A-Start

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Isn't there a select between the A and start, or maybe thats just for two players.

[IndieMatty]

Tecmo Super Bowl. There is no debate.

[Topflight]

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I'd have to say Legend of Zelda.

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yup.

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yup yup.

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yup yup yup.

[ThaSaltCracka]

yeah its select-start.

[Edge34]

My bad..forgot the select.

You're right about the staying power...actually, Zelda was like the second game I ever got for NES back in the day...so that would still be a good one.

And Tecmo Super Bowl could go on for days if I had friends around....Bo was unstoppable in that game! The old-school value of that game is off the charts.

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[Topflight]

You are both right.

http://www.cheatbot.com/games/NES/6500/Contra.html

[Edge34]

One more I forgot...

Double Dragon 2. Between being a game where you can beat the hell out of your partner for fun (and take their lives), and a game that's actually pretty friggin' tough to beat, this would be another really good one.

[PhatTBoll]

Toss-up between Dragon Warrior 2 and Excitebike

Blades of Steel also deserves a mention in this thread.

[MarkL444]

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Contra is sweet, but its about staying power. That game can be beaten in like 2 hours, while Zelda takes a week or so.

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my one friend kept beating the game trying to see how fast he could do it. he got down to something like 54 minutes.

[ThaSaltCracka]

I think its easily Zelda, but if you want to do honerable mentions, just for fun, how about Marble Madness, Duckhunt, and all the Marios. I had Mega Man 3, but could never beat it.

[MrGo]

Mike Tyson's Punchout..by a landslide.

[lu_hawk]

Ice Hockey, the one where you pick skinny/medium/fat players.

[nolanfan34]

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final fantasty


the series was going great and then it went to hell after 7.

cheers
beer

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I agree with this. Final Fantasy 3 was really great.

Can't go wrong with Zelda though.

[astroglide]

select-start won't HURT, but the select is unnecessary. and it's quite possible to beat the game without dying.

[mmbt0ne]

Marble Madness?!
Yeah, maybe if I wanted to throw my computer against the wall after an hour and a half. That was the most frustrating game ever. I'm going with Legend of Zelda, Super Mario 3, or maybe Castlevania. Double Dribble gets an honorable mention.

[ThaSaltCracka]

MM was the [censored] man. My thumb hasn't been the same since.

[srvollmer]

"What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse" - Castlevania II
and
Punch Out.

[Sponger15SB]

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MM was the [censored] man. My thumb hasn't been the same since.

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Note to TSC: Don't shove thumb up ass.

I would probably want to play an action game for the rest of my life, like contra, however my favorite game was bubble bobble.

[ThaSaltCracka]

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MM was the [censored] man. My thumb hasn't been the same since.

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Note to TSC: Don't shove thumb up ass.

I would probably want to play an action game for the rest of my life, like contra, however my favorite game was bubble bobble.

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Note to Sponger: never have.
Bubble Bobble is a good choice BTW.

[Sarge85]

Smash TV

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[astroglide]

i can think of more frustrating games than marble madness. either of the simpsons games, rc pro am, etc.

[ThaSaltCracka]

dude, rc pro am sucked, but it made me think of Super Off Road!!! that games was sick man!

[NoPeak]

I still remember from Metal Gear, "The truck have started to move". What about Metroid or Ninja Gaiden, anyone else like those?

[bugstud]

Ninja Gaiden is awesome, #2 is as well

Def a top notch side scroller

[BusterStacks]

"I feel asleep!!?" - Metal Gear

Ninja Gaiden 2 was one of the best games ever, but the crown goes to Mega Man 2. If you want to talk about the hardest game on earth, look no further than Legacy of the Wizard. On a side note, you can fit about 70 NES ROMs on a Gameboy Advance cartridge and have the actual NES games with you wherever you go. Not to mention, any of the actual GBA titles.

[YourFoxyGrandma]

I might go with Metroid. It was too hard for me when I was little, and the SNES one was pretty sweet. I'd like to spend some time with it. Eternity sounds good.

[beerbandit]

super off road kicked ass, but far more so in the arcade version with the steering and gas pedal.

i just prefered to pick up nitros and drive the track backwards crashing into everyone.

one of the guys i lived with said he was gonna be able to get that arcade version for outr game room. that plan feel through bastard.

cheers
beer

[ThaSaltCracka]

oh yeah the arcade is superior, you [censored] spin that wheel all over the place and turbo, fun times. Many times I would go to the arcade and spend $5 on that game, which was a lot when you were 10!

[astroglide]

eh have you played 1 recently? it feels crippled in its mechanics. castlevania is still fun even though the game locks up at the grim reaper stage fairly often (multiple cartridges/systems).

[astroglide]

try beating gauntlet for the nes.

[astroglide]

again, played it recently? it was a part of metroid: zero mission (both the gba metroids are fun) and it was no fun to play again.

[WEASEL45]

Ten Yard Fight

[ThaSaltCracka]

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try beating gauntlet for the nes.

[/ QUOTE ]whoah....... this game took forever, plus there were no saves. I remember this ghetto POS, it was fun, to bad my buddy always took the benes.

[astroglide]

you had to go in the correct exits to get the clues to enter at the final room as well, and then fight a 3-headed dragon

[ThaSaltCracka]

anyone play Ducktales? That was my chronic back in the day /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[threeonefour]

Hell yes... that ice hockey game was the best sports game on the NES hands down.

i always like the fat guys over the thin guys... it was more fun to knock people over than to be fast.

[kyro]

Cracka,

ALL the Marios? 2 sucked...sucks actually. I have it on an emulator and I think it's awful. SMB3 is my favorite and SMB1 is pretty good. What about BattleToads? I used to rent that one from Blockbuster all the time.

[nolanfan34]

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anyone play Ducktales? That was my chronic back in the day /images/graemlins/grin.gif

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I forgot about that one. I do remember playing it a lot, kind of a SMB3 clone if I remember correctly. Good stuff.

[ThaSaltCracka]

2 was something totally weird but fun. I liked it.

[ThaSaltCracka]

yeah you bounced around on Scrooges cane pummeling fools.

[astroglide]

duck tales was an EXCELLENT game. i beat ff1 with 4 white mages once.

[elwoodblues]

WAY too easy, though it was a fun game

[elwoodblues]

I just don't understand how people are choosing "winnable" games. Clearly, Tetris is the only appropriate answer here.

[ThaSaltCracka]

to me, Tetris will always be a gameboy game though, just like Pokemon. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[threeonefour]

bubble bobble was a really fun game.

i think there are a lot of good games than have gone unmentioned including but not limited to:

trog

dig dug 2 (cool concept)

adventure island 1 (and 2 i suppose)

super mario 3

Metriod

Skulls and Crossbones (or something like that, it was a multiplayer pirate game)

ninja turtles 1 (not that great... but it was the turtles)

and that one video game where you were a little kid who ran down a tunnel to save his frog and found this futuristic tank and went to this alternate universe and killed stuff... that was a good one. oh i remember now... it was masterblaster or blastermaster, something like that.

hardest game:
The barbie video game (it was my sisters) its one of the few games i never beat... i always got to this level with a giant jukebox and i didn't know what to do...

[ThaSaltCracka]

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hardest game:
The barbie video game (it was my sisters) its one of the few games i never beat... i always got to this level with a giant jukebox and i didn't know what to do...

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[astroglide]

the game i've replayed the most after growing up has been defender of the crown

[Demana]

Final Fantasy 1

It offered a plethora of choices (ever try solving it with 4 ninjas?) and was uber flexible (lots of magic choices, etc).

Zelda was fun, but you could beat it in less than an hour and after two or three times through, it was old hat.

[beerbandit]

damn that would have been tough

i havent played that game in a long time --- i think that i might have to break it out tonight

cheers
beer

[NLSoldier]

this is way to easy. Techmo super bowl in a heartbeat.

[astroglide]

i think i would rather do 4 ninjas than 4 white mage. 1 red mage (let the other 3 die immediately) would be hardcore. might be unbeatable even with the masmune.

[BusterStacks]

You did 4 white mages? That is insanity

[blendedsuit]

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I'd have to say Legend of Zelda.

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yup^4

Did you guys ever venture into the underworld and challenge the nine levels all over again? You can only challenge the back nine once you beat the game on the first run thru? Level 9 the second time was ridiculous. I think I bombed every square inch of the map just to uncover the entrance.

[ThaSaltCracka]

nope, too ridiculous for me.

[Topflight]

"I would probably want to play an action game for the rest of my life, like contra, however my favorite game was bubble bobble. "

Last time I broke out the NES it was to play Bubble Bobble.

Has anyone played Mystery Quest. I think that game was actually unbeatable.

[Benal]

The Adventures Of Lolo

[BusterStacks]

NARC is unbeatable.

[billyjex]

I'd have to go with Bubble Bobble. Like crack.

I actually really liked SMB 2. Favorite game as a kid.

[SomethingClever]

I would probably pick something like Tetris that can never really be "solved" if I had to play it for eternity, but it's not my favorite game.

My favorites were:

RBI Baseball... I wish they'd update this to have all the "season" and memory capabilities of today's baseball games, but with the same graphics, gameplay and sound as the original RBI. I'd buy a game cube just for that.
MT Punch Out
Metroid
Mega Man series
Super Mario 2 (weird game, but I have a soft spot for it)
Pro Wrestling
Ikari Warriors
Double Dragon
Baseball Stars