This original and its sequel, Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II, are still fondly remembered by faithful Nintendo fans to this day for their unique and light-hearted twist on genre conventions. Kung Fu is an enigma. But one has to travel back to the fall of 1985 to find the origin of these two arctic explorers, who first appeared in one of the launch titles on the NES, Ice Climber. I was lucky enough to rent Mega Man 4 over and over again before buying it later on. No one complained. A thinly-veiled plot about the resurrection of Adolf Hitler and an epic soundtrack go a long way towards making Bionic Commando a totally unique experience on the NES. Treat them well and you'll be riding through the eight islands in style. And back in 1987, the franchise started off with a bang with one of the most ambitious replica-gold-plated cartridges to ever grace the NES. Something about Adventures of Link scared memaybe the dark backgrounds in the forest stages, or the increased detail in the enemy designs. Along the way you'll score various weapon upgrades, although Kuros's trademark duds never change. Post by dink Mon Jul 05, 2021 1:32 pm. Contra deftly captures the spirit of the testosterone-fueled '80s summer blockbusters, with obvious nods to the Alien and Rambo series. In it, there's a Qix-inspired mini-game, and in that instant, I remembered how much fun I had with the NES port during my childhood. I will always have a special place in my heart for the original Super Mario Bros., but it was this sequel that took platforming to new heights with tighter controls, more complex levels and, of course, special upgrades like the Super Leaf and Tanooki Suits. Although you can't tackle Gradius with a pal, you can outfit your ship with "options" mindless, floating turrets that flank your ship. Even as a young'un, I felt some injustice every time a guest brought the Zapper up against the television's bubble screen. It wasn't, of course, but it felt that way. But even without it, Maniac Mansion was still an excellent adventure game with a good sense of humor. It's a weird gory little body horror shooter, you're working your way through a giant planet-sized being trying to rescue a princess who's the last surviving member of her race. Admittedly, the exhilaration of burning past the beach-going VW beetles in your red Ferrari 328 (the F1 was significantly less radical) is indeed worthy of such high self praise. Most memorable of all is Tales' peerless soundtrack, particularly the tunes for Transylvania, African Mines, and the Moon. In fact, Tecmo took a page from the book of another successful action-platformer of the day, Konami's Castlevania, and mimicked its special weapon system almost to a tee. But it was this release combined with Super Mario Bros. (and sometimes World Class Track Meet or Gyromite) as a bundled-in offering with the NES made it one of the most proliferated games on the console. Top-down games have been enjoyed by gamers alike for almost as long as video games have existed. Thanks to Saberman who contacted us earlier today, we have yet another Amiga news story to share with you all. The original Castlevania was a typical action-platformer on its facade, but once explored, the game proved to be much, much more. That's awesome! In a cool adventure gaming twist, you'll need to meet a certain booty (diamonds, not damsels) quota before being able to exit each area, but don't expect a sign reading "Here Be Treasure." Unfortunately, this game didn't satisfy everyone. Out of all of the games on the list, Journey to Silius might have one of the most interesting histories. Let's be honest if you are going to play Maniac Mansion, you really should try the uncensored Commodore 64 version. It was a solid companion for the early Zelda games, and perhaps a factor in why Capcom was later approached to develop some portable entries in the Zelda series for Nintendo. A small contingent of NES gamers actually prefer Klax to its main competitors the simple, but accessible, Dr. Mario and even to the great Tetris, which does seem a little stuffy when stacked against the Day-Glo extravaganza that is Klax. My best memories of Ring King are the epic fights I had on the higher difficulty levels. I remember the one clue you had to solve by soaking an included piece of paper in water to reveal it the answer. But while the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were starring in lame TV and movie spin-offs on the NES, Rare actually spent time crafting Battletoads into a surprisingly arcade-like beat-'em-up. Pocky & Rocky is a top-down shooter in which you choose to play as either a young girl named Pocky or her tanuki named Rocky. This game is infinitely more inventive than that. The Guardian Legend's developers went on to craft several more classic shooters on platforms beyond the NES, and modern game makers like the creators of Sigma Star Saga at WayForward Technologies continue to laud the game for its innovations in genre-blending. Metal Gear created the stealth genre, paving the way for Metal Gear Solid to later revolutionize and refine it. Created by Sunsoft, which was at the top of its game in the late 1980s with classic release after classic release, Journey to Silius was originally supposed to be a licensed Terminator game. It was so complicated for me as a six or seven year old that I had to let my brother take the reins, and when I finally got around to playing it when I was older, I realized what all of the fuss was about. I first played this in arcades with relatives manning all four joystickscalling dibs on pizza for health was futile as everyone else was older (and bigger) than me. In it, our metal-clad protagonist, Kuros, sets out on a quest to save not one, but several distressed damsels (and we're not talking about some ugly dude in mushroom regalia). Super C, like Contra, is a nearly perfect cooperative experience, and is best enjoyed with a buddy to high five as the iconic level finish tune plays. And my older brothers, both casual players, could never get past the first stage. Gamers take the role of Scrooge McDuck, who goes through various stages to collect wealth, defeating enemies with his pogo stick attack. Demon's Crest, perhaps one of the biggest under-selling games of all time compared to its quality, wouldn't have been possible without cutting its teeth on the NES and classic Game Boy. For instance, a giant mouth spouts out vortexes that suck you into a side-scrolling stage with a creepy worm mini-boss. For me, just making it to level 2 was a major accomplishment that I reveled in let alone, the brutality that I had to overcome in future levels (especially that darned Ice Cavern). "A winner is you!" The point-and-click adventure genre seems to be in the midst of something of a renaissance, as developers like Telltale Games are working tirelessly to bring series like Sam & Max, Monkey Island and Strongbad's Cool Game for Attractive People to modern platforms. Each world in SMB3 features a unique style, and Mario's quest takes him through desert, grasslands, above the clouds and below the sea there's so much to explore that we still make discoveries every time we dust off the cartridge today. Sweet game. Tecmo World Wrestling's main gameplay screen split the action, with the core wrestling taking place on the top half on the screen while the television's lower portion was dominated by the text bubbles of an overly enthusiastic ringside announcer calling all the play-by-play. 8 posts Page 1 of 1. Just be careful writing down those passwords! This game mixes amazing platforming with some quirky gun and driving missions; almost like Bayu Billy, if that game didn't suck and instead played like Ninja Gaiden. Match three games were starting to gain in popularity when Klax came out. Also, it was the closest thing to "Gleaming the Cube: The Game" as I could find. And then there was Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, the follow-up to the smash hit The Legend of Zelda. Alternates between sidescrolling and top-down scrolling. Watching elaborate slams and suplexes in the glorious 8-bit cinematics captured my imagination immediately. Other elements of Super Mario Bros. 2 have been assimilated into the greater Mario universe as well Shy Guys, Birdo, Bob-ombs, POW blocks making the game seem less like the oddball of the series it's been pegged as. Instead of a game that relied on epic, blind exploration and top-down dungeon-crawling action, Zelda II introduced a completely new idea for the series, and one that hasn't been revisited since. Nintendo was pretty heavy handed about content on the NES, so some of the ribald stuff in MM was yanked. Dracula is the bad guy? American gamers weren't privy to subsequent releases until Dragon Warrior VII hit the PlayStation in 2001. was a knock-out even without his celebrity status. While The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. are unarguable pinnacles of videogame creation, if we were stranded on an island with a power source, an NES and a single game, it would unquestionably be Super Mario Bros. 3. But while action games on the NES are a dime a dozen, it's this very fact that made Batman stand out amongst the competition. River City Ransom's excellent amalgamation of action, adventure, beat-em-up and RPG game elements has won it many vocal supporters, yet it seems destined to remain in the shadow of big name brawlers like Double Dragon. 95. Review score. The great thing about TMNT was its ability to let gamers use all four Ninja Turtles at will, even though it was only a one-player action game. One of the most successful RPGs on the NES, the first Final Fantasy improves on many aspects of Dragon Warrior, a game it very clearly attempts emulate. As a kid, I'd go to my grandparents' house for a big Italian dinner every Sunday. Thankfully, unlike Nintendo's release of Tetris, Dr. Mario reveled in its two-player glory, and Nintendo's new hit proved not only to be a favorite among puzzle fans, but a game consumed by multi-player purists as well. This game kicks a wave of unrelenting ass, so while people bitch and moan like the cartridge killed their parents I'll happily relive this dare-to-be-different classic with all its quirks. I'm a lifelong Samus Aran groupie. After all, it is 2009, and there's been a lot of time for Tetris and Dr. Mario. Not content to just slash his foes to death, Niki had to slice and dice them with a whirlwind blade just to be that much more radical. Turned off? But Bionic Commando's Rad Spencer gets by just fine with the help of his bionic appendage. The cartoony visuals manage to. Crap I should really get this awesome gem of a game back to him. Confusion aside, the game left players confounded with its intricate, wide-open design. And even then, Mega Man 3's new additions weren't all it had to offer. It doesn't take a master of Mad Gab to discern the phonetically equivalent true title Konami was going for with this one, especially after you realize that the setting is a Soviet stronghold and all of the enemies are Communists. Funny that both of these defining characteristics have carried over through the years into modern day Gaiden sequels. This was his debut hiding inside a jetpack-equipped flying spacesuit and advancing against the forces of auto-scrolling space invaders out in the darkest reaches of the galaxy. Skate or Die brought gamers several different skateboarding events including downhill races, freestyle ramp competitions and a joust match fought in a drained swimming pool. At first, Bionic Commando's emphasis on swinging seems counterintuitive and limiting, but at some point the smooth grappling action just clicks, you find yourself zipping around the stages in a blur of red and green pixels. What's more, it was a fledgling HAL Laboratory that created the series, a company more popularly-known today for the Lolo-like character Kirby. Don't be. Or maybe it was just that I died so much. Many gamers of today's generation know Popo and Nana best for their recurring role in the Super Smash Bros. franchise. The ability to choose your own path had my permanent attention. All the while, Pit must work his way through four unique worlds, each with multiple unique stages and an end fortress where Pit must navigate through a labyrinthine set of screens to reach the boss. To this day I still vividly remember the cutscenes that showed my sword becoming more powerful. is the original masterpiece boxing game that isn't really about boxing at all. The Game Pak is truly worth tracking down for its multiplayer selection, including a wacky cooperative mode. Cue Fester's Quest, a 1989 offering from Sunsoft that put gamers in the role of Uncle Fester, a character from the 1960s sitcom The Addams Family. When the eight stage select-bound stages were defeated, players entered a more linear part of the game, where both Protoman's and Dr. Wily's multi-stage castles had to be completed for the gamer to see any light at the end of the tunnel. I remember seeing this game being pushed on the Home Shopping Network months before it was available in stores. The NES's original adventure with Konami's cigarette-smoking, tough-as-nails commando, and the stealth action now most associated with PlayStation platforms was just as intense in the '80s as it is today. This one's a classic in both gameplay and theme. My favorite design was the fighting system: the loser of the fight heads to the penalty box. Primitive by today's standards, sure, but I remember being blown away when I first set eyes on it. I always thought Ice Climber was just another way to repackage Mario Bros. "It's just the same game with a bunch of white," I thought. Post by nia_prene Sat Jul 03, 2021 9:07 pm. It may strike some as strange that one of the NES's very greatest platformers dispenses with jumping that essential component of Mario's repertoire entirely. Super C, the somewhat unfortunately-titled sequel to Contra, features the same co-op shooter action of the first without toying with the formula too much. Lode Runner's saga begins some time before the NES, and many people may correctly classify it as a seminal PC title. The key to Jackal's success, like so many other games on this list, is cooperative gameplay. RPGs were still an extremely niche genre at the time and Dragon Warrior was no guaranteed hit. The game also offered the sibling heroes an upgrade to their fighting repertoires, with several impressive new skills like the unforgettable Cyclone Spin Kick, and some iconic new set pieces in which to do battle, like a stage that took place aboard a helicopter in-flight thousands of feet above the ocean. Before Baseball Stars was released in the summer of 1989, the NES wasn't looked at for its ability to simulate real sports. With a friend you can tag-team your opponents. Top. A port of a graphically superior arcade version, Konami gave Super C lots of love to help it make a successful transition, including the addition of several unique levels. Jackal - A top down shooter based around the NES version get a new Amiga v6 demo via Neeso Games! Wizards & Warriors is the debut title of a classic, if depressingly anti-climatic NES trilogy. I was introduced to the NES version of the game after I played the arcade/Neo Geo edition, but I have to say that the NES version was infinitely more awesome. And, because our hero loves Fred so much that he doesn't care if he's a giant, disgusting mutant toad, he takes command of the equally-massive armored tank S.O.P.H.I.A. If you fully power up your weapons you turn into a flaming, butt-kicking phoenix. technology that allows it to flip from floor to ceiling with abandon. The answer is multifaceted it's the ability to play a season and track statistics. You could jump and dive for the ball, climb the wall to snag a possible home runand most of all, you could customize a half-dozen teams all the way down to the individual names. Good stuff. Following the success of DuckTales, the iconic Disney chipmunks Chip 'n Dale received an action-packed, after school cartoon series in the late '80s. From Link and Samus Aran to Mega Man and Bowser, Nintendo's 8-bit machine was the debut platform for countless classic heroes and villains that are still active in the industry today. Evidence of this is all over the place, from the enemies to some of the music. I grew up in a hockey town, so I didn't know a single person who owned a NES system that didn't have a copy of this awesome sports game. And Mega Man 3 took the mantle and ran with it. Dozens of Castlevania games have come and gone over the last two decades, but the series started for American gamers on the NES. Two guys with a knife and a suicide complex decide to invade Russia. Just to be extra cool, and to remind you you're still in the '80s. One of the major debates among NES aficionados is the sheer amount of ports that appear on the console, and how many of them are inherently sub-par to their arcade counterparts. 9 Darius Twin From the blade-throwing Cutter to the hard-pounding Stone, the prickly-bodied Needle to the electrifying Spark nearly all of Kirby's classic transformations owe their origin to this late 1992 NES release. Castlevania was not only a brilliant vid, but the music too is timeless I can still hum it on cue. As much as I enjoyed, I honestly don't believe I ever beat it. An arcade-inspired action run and gun starring sweaty shirtless men charging through tropical jungles and blasting everything in sight with an overhead, birds-eye perspective, Ikari Warriors was the definitive videogaming outlet for bottled-up aggression. Vague memories of a strange, somewhat girly shooter plagued me as I restocked my NES collection a few years back. The most anticipated game on the NES, SMB3 had nothing short of a feature length film (The Wizard) plugging it before it hit store shelves. Dumb, I know. And rely on it they did, making The Legend of Zelda one of the NES' most famous games, part of a franchise that thrives to this day. Some of them are good. Every Ice Hockey player discovered their own perfect combination of men, and then it was on to the ice. He then leaps down a nearby hole in the ground and disappears into a vast subterranean labyrinth without a trace. This made it a prime game for high score hunting, with certain parts of the experience that were of the make and break variety. Blades is notable for much more than being an early advancer of recorded voice-work in gaming, though, as its take on professional hockey was brutally realistic (in that it realistically presented the most brutal unofficial aspect of the game fistfights). Who knew The Goonies were big in Japan? In retrospect, it's nowhere near as good as the MSX original, but back then I didn't know better. I still equate the smell of bananas to Mega Man 6 to this day. Its action-platforming style was well-known by Mega Man 3's release, and with the addition of two important new characters, Rush and Protoman, and a new skill, sliding, Mega Man 3 is many fans' favorite in the franchise. But Section Z separated itself from the likes of Gradius and Life Force with a non-linear path to forward progress after each side-scrolling section you successfully survived, you'd be presented with two different teleporters. Enix had added a ton of new features to the game, and the build up to going out and getting it was up there with getting Final Fantasy II for my SNES. I had a password that started players at (or near) the final town, but with all the ultimate weapons and armor still unequipped. Not too shabby. Well it wasn't. As a kid, Shadowgate was straight spooky. The new Rush Adaptors combined Mega Man with his robotic dog into one unit for the first time, and yes, Dr. Wily is again behind the robotic destruction coursing through the game, this time masquerading as the ill-disguised Mr. X. If the name "Willow" isn't immediately familiar to you, we suppose you can be forgiven but you really should get to know it. When the old-style gameplay was combined with these myriad new additions, Castlevania II was so deep you could drown in it. Note: the Power Glove will not enhance gameplay, but you'll look pretty darn rad, we promise. We won. But even if we never see it again, it's earned its spot on this countdown. Haunting music and the constant fear of running out of torches usually kept me from playing more than a half hour at a time, but I kept going back to it. Built side-by-side with Metroid on the same engine and released at identical times, Kid Icarus is often the brother that's overshadowed. Weird, right? Instead, it was a lot easier to take your time and advance through each level slowly, as waves of soldiers spawned from all direction to charge you and kill you dead. But rest assured that like the original, Ninja Gaiden II's difficulty level is nothing to scoff at. Ask anyone who played this game extensively and they'll tell you, it was one of the hardest games of all time. You can't do that! It featured actual cut-scenes in an era when such things were considered extraordinary. It had two player support so even when my feeble, under-developed child hands couldn't hack it my bro could step up and dominate and the addition of not only top view but also side scrolling portions sent my infant-like brain into convulsions. The Tetris cartridge was circulated amongst us and our various neighbors forever after collected dust. And I get to hit him with a whip? If Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team strikes you as a bit gimmicky, we've got news for you: it is! But if you venture into this territory, be ready for unforgiving difficulty, one of the game's hallmarks. In other words, it's just about everything. We'd head to Mr. Movies in Minnesota, I'd see the box art, freak out, and he'd pick up something else. The key to not being obliterated is, of course, power-ups. What was most interesting about Mega Man 4 was its ability to tell a deeper story than what was told in the past three iterations in the series. I only bought this game several years later, but in the meantime, I got a Mega Man 5 sticker in a box of Apple Jacks, and stuck it to a shelf in my room. From simulated parallax that means multiple backgrounds moving at varying speeds to precise, multi-celled animation, this mech platformer pushes the NES to the very limits of its hardware capabilities. Although the NES had trouble tackling some of its arcade contemporaries, games like 1981's Qix were a perfect match for its capabilities. Snake parachuted into the jungle fortress of Outer Heaven with nothing but his courage and a pack of smokes, and skillfully avoided detection while sneaking through the enemy encampment to find and destroy the titular weapon of mass destruction or, if sneaking didn't work, he beat the snot out of the soldiers in his way. The music is as memorable as anything from Nintendo. Navigate up the ramp of a moving semi and you'll instantly up your arsenal. Its top-down view makes it a bit of an action-shooter, while its emphasis on collecting items and upgrading weapons lends it more to the RPG and adventure crowd. Fantastic. The only game that ended up rivaling this excellent design was Konami's Blades of Steel, but the two were different enough to own and enjoy both (which is why you'll find Blades on this countdown). Willow on the NES, then, was notable for having the likeness to both actors, as well as many of the supporting cast from the film it was a movie tie-in adventure developed by Capcom, and was in many ways that company's take on Nintendo's Legend of Zelda formula. The grappling animation between the two fighters makes it look like they're just hugging each other, and the boxers' interaction with their cornermen between rounds is even more, well, provocative. This game allowed two players to face off against one another in the squared circle, move freely around the ring, throw a variety of punches and even get into grapples, all things you wouldn't find in Little Mac's game. This game was much tighter in control and actually gave a better sense of accomplishment to the player. By the time Mega Man 6 hit the NES, the console was virtually dead. The very last project created by Irem for the NES, Kickle Cubicle appeared to be a straight rip-off of the aforementioned Adventures of Lolo, but had gameplay features of its own that made it a unique offering, and one worth anyone's time interested in the genre. With Contra III on the Super NES, this game didn't get the attention it deserved. You've got "Kid," first of all, which went ahead and put this adventure on the upper echelon alongside Kid Icarus, Casino Kid and Kid Klown in Night Mayor World. While Qix was never lauded for its graphical flair, the NES got not only the look but the mechanics of this strange geometric puzzler down perfectly. Final Fantasy also offered new ways to navigate its sprawling overworld. This is a game that looks,. While it clearly adopted its non-linear level select structure from Mega Man, the similarities end there. When one stage is cleared, Scrooge can pick from any of the remaining stages to undertake his next quest. Kung Fu proved how good even the most simple games can be, and it's still a title I go back and play often to this day. (which also just so happens to be placed at the bottom of that hole in his yard). If there was ever a more perfect title for an NES game, we don't know what it was Kid Niki: Radical Ninja got it exactly right. In the realm of 8-bit graphics and extremely limited storage space, Nintendo RPGs (and other RPGs of the time) had a difficult time telling expansive, immersive stories. And Christmas of 1990 was when I finally got my hands on the game I would be obsessed with until this day. Feeding jellybeans to Blobert to transform it into different items and it was fun just to experiment with, such as making a blow torch with a cinnamon bean and a rocket with a root beer bean. I doubt anybody would rank the title in their top 10s, but for a 20-plus-year-old action romp, it was as the title suggests pretty rad. Death Rally is a top-down combat racing game developed by Remedy, published by Apogee, and distributed by GT Interactive Software. After all, Tetris is one of the classic games not only on the NES, but of all-time. For such a late release, Mega Man 6 ended up being worth the temporarily ignoring of my SNES I had to go through when I played it. An irate watermelon spits seed at you at the end of one level, while a very angry water faucet lurks at the conclusion of another. edited 2y. To capitalize on the puzzle trend, Nintendo threw its first-party hat into the ring and released Dr. Mario on the console just in time for the 1990 holiday season. If you have 120 lives, killing yourself was fun. You sped through a scrolling track, weaving up and down into and out of four parallel lanes filled with obstacles, traps and humongous hills. Jackal - A NES top down shooter coming to the Amiga via Neeso Games gets a new demo While many of you are still waiting for Neeso Games awesome looking Arcade platformer of 'Super Delivery Boy', which is due for . Get ready to relive the days when shooting down enemy forces and dodging oncoming fire while sipping a can of Surge was all we needed for a quick adrenaline rush. It goes down something like this: an extra-terrestrial force named Darc Seed has zombie-fied the world, oh and there's some kind of stolen sword involved or something. While not nearly as deep or polished as Ninja Gaiden, as you progress you can amass new skills, weapons and powers befitting of a ninja. An early attempt by Nintendo at copy protection? Amazingly enough, this game still holds up too. The game was extremely popular, resulting in an official sequel, a Game Boy Advance spinoff title, and a spiritual successor in the form of the PS2 game called Heavenly Guardian. It was so much fun to play that we didn't know many people who cared that it didn't look quite as good as its source material. Then, Skate or Die 2 came along and trumped its predecessor in many ways, offering a full storyline adventure in addition to the standalone skating events as well as adding in the "Double Trouble" half pipe, a massive structure that spanned two full game screens and let you pull off highly stylish (for the time) vert skating tricks. He's hidden himself inside the enormous, Tower of Babylon-esque World Tree a massive, multi-leveled living structure that holds the entire game's worth of town, fortresses and enemy lairs within its roots, trunk and branches. Duck Hunt is the game that immortalized forever Nintendo's light gun called the Zapper, and was certainly the game that used the underused peripheral more than any other. The car is called the G-6155. I probably played the first level of Section Z more than any other NES game I owned. Don't worry, Fred! 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