Top Ten NES Games of All Time

[angshuman]

Gamespot had done an editors' choice version of this a few months back. Here are the Readers' Choices.

[Darque]

Metroid was good.

 

Dragon Warrior 4 isn't there so it fails. <_<

[Dark_Raven]

Contra

Super Mario Bros

Super Mario 3

 

But what the hell? Where's Tetris? It's far better than Zelda. Mike Tysons Punchout? LOLZ what a joke.

[Darque]

Mike Tysons Punchout? LOLZ what a joke.

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No kidding, I'm still trying to get my mind around that one.

[Dark_Raven]

That top ten sucks, not mentioning Tetris. An excellent game to train you on hand & eye coordination especially when you get to higher levels and it moves faster.

[Darque]

That top ten sucks, not mentioning Tetris. An excellent game to train you on hand & eye coordination especially when you get to higher levels and it moves faster.

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You got that right.

Edited June 17, 2006 by Darque

[angshuman]

Tetris at high levels gives me more ulcers than Real Life.

[Hurlshort]

I agree on Tetris, but Punchout was huge on the NES. It definitely deserves to be on the list. What the heck is Dragon Warrior 4? Anyways, these were clearly the games that made NES so popular, the early titles that made kids beg their parents for the system.

[Dark_Raven]

Duck Hunt At least they made use of that gun.

[Darque]

That was the only game for it, right?

[Dark_Raven]

Only one that I know of.

[ramza]

Yeah, but the gun came with the console, no? At least, that's how I got it. We even had 2 controllers at the time. The console came with a cartridge combo that had both super mario bros and duck hunt.

[Laozi]

I remember I had a Pitfall type game on NES that on a couple of the levels used the light gun.

 

 

I remember really losing alot of great sunny days to Contra, Mega Man II and Ninja Gaiden.

 

Mike Tyson's punchout has to be there, its a total hipster game now days.

 

 

But I have to say my alltime favorite game on NES will always be the Tecmo Bowls. There may be no sensation so sweet as seeing your friend throw down the controller as Walter Payton runs down the field for a touchdown.

[alanschu]

Duck Hunt???

[Bokishi]

Duck Hunt FTW

[Fenghuang]

I played this one detectivey game that used the light gun when I was little. Don't remember what it was called, I was only six.

 

No Battletoads?

[Maedhros]

I played this one detectivey game that used the light gun when I was little.  Don't remember what it was called, I was only six. 

 

No Battletoads?

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Wasn't Battletoads for SNES?

[thepixiesrock]

Duck Hunt was sweet. I had that, Supermario Brothers, and I think thats it from the list.

[Deraldin]

I played this one detectivey game that used the light gun when I was little.  Don't remember what it was called, I was only six. 

 

No Battletoads?

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Wasn't Battletoads for SNES?

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Nope. It came out for the NES. I remember playing it with the old square NES controllers till my thumbs could no longer bend. That damn racing section was one of the most infuriating moments in my personal gaming history. <_<

[Diogo Ribeiro]

On Ninja Gaiden

Seriously surprised this didn't make it in [GameSpot's] top10. Incredibly fast paced and responsive for a side scrolling platformer. Everything was quick from your movement to your sword swipe to your jump.

 

Uh, no. Ninja Gaiden was considerably slower than its later iterations. The second (and especially the third) title in the series was more intuitive, had better graphics, less hap hazard level design and was much more fast paced.

 

On Megaman 2

EVERYONE loves this game, and everyone has a different progression of how you beat the bosses. It has the best music ever. And when you jump through a door, Megaman freezes in the air 15 years before the Matrix!

 

And Mario hangs in the air for several seconds when collapsing the bridge under Bowser before Megaman ever got stuck on piss poor side scrolling transitions. Your point?

 

I also remember almost falling off my chair when I saw the giant dragon on the first level of Wily's HQ.

 

Because your lead ass being too heavy to stay on the chair is actually relevant to the game. Christ. None of them even go into what's good about the game in terms of gameplay. When they do talk about it's things that have been there since day one.

 

If you want to make some case about the game being better than its prequel and a reasonable contender for best NES title, here's some of the things you forgot to mention:

• Password feature
   
  
• Energy Tanks
   
  
• Addition of more special items to use across the levels
   
  
• Difficulty selection
  

Unfortunately it was also easier than your drunk, underage sister. But hey, no game is perfect.

 

On Final Fantasy

The defining quality of the Final Fantasy series has always been its storyline. Featuring one of the most complex text-based stories of its time, Final Fantasy outdid the story of Dragon Quest, which featured the traditional plot of saving the Princess from the evil villain. Of course, the complexity of the story was nothing compared to later games, but the ambitious groundwork laid by the young Square.

 

...Yeah, the complexity. Let's just forget for a minute that both games require a princess to be saved in the first moments yet somehow Final Fantasy "outdid" Dragon Warrior, which just shows someone didn't really play the game. What's so complex about adding a secondary quest? Or more than two? Dragon Warrior had you rescue the princess, prove you were Eldrick's descendant, perform a handful of odd jobs to get cool gear or places (like finding the three guardians of Phat Loot, and create a Rainbow Bridge), and kill the Dragonlord or somesuch. Yet Final Fantasy is more complex because it has exactly the same structure but instead of keeping it short and sweet like Dragon Warrior, it wastes hours shoving players around through even more pointless errands?

 

If that's revolutionary you're in for trouble. Mario has you all beat again, as it requires players to keep saving Toad until you find the real Princess. There, pointless errands for you. Still, he goes one step further by having you skip pointless castles through special tubes, whereas in Final Fantasy you're forced to go somewhere out there and kill stuff to get an item/cutscene/engrish and nonsensical phrases (I think that's what was called story back then).

 

 

Where the frack is Tetris, you mooks?

[angshuman]

Gameboy is for pussies. DOS Tetris is hardcore.

(w00t) MS-DOS FTW. Anyone play Digdug?

[thepixiesrock]

At least Tetris wasn't on the list though.

 

Am I right fellas? I mean, am I right?

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Ah ha.

 

I just find it funny that Gamespot readers complain about some game not being there, but then vote in with suggestions that are as bad as the site's editors.

[Dark_Raven]

Paperboy wasn't mentioned either. I remember playing that in the arcade than later on buying it. Great fun

[thepixiesrock]

I will admit I had a lot of fun playing paperboy.