TOUCHDOWN THURMAN THOMAS

it's almost like there should be a 2+2 video games forum or something

Awesome thread. I've seen the obvious ones. One poster said Tecmo Bowl and it's not close. I'd agree. Contra was awesome too. But how has no one said Skykid yet?

Yep. Those messages where it changes from day to night were so [censored] annoying.

Metroid.

runners-up include Mike Tyson's Punch Out, The Legend of Zelda, Dragon Warrior III-IV, Bionic Commando, Faxanadu, Super Mario Bros. 1 and 3, Tecmo Super Bowl, River City Ransom, and many others.

I feel very strongly about this, all things considered.

Some less popular great games

Rushn Attack, knife up some russians

Solomon's key is a great puzzlish game which is rediculously difficult

Little Nemo Dream Master

Chip'n Dale Rescue Rangers

and the true greatest game of all BIONIC COMMANDO!!

i definitely grunched before i read the thread, but now i'm finding who shares similar sentiments.

my roommate and i beat this last week. i'm not kidding. it was like my 12th time or whatever, but i loved this game.

Wow, I edited my post to include this before I read yours. I love this game so much I'm embarrassed I forgot it.

Other runners-up I didn't list: Final Fantasy, Kid Icarus, Ninja Gaiden, Super Dodge Ball, Metal Gear, Blades of Steel, Castlevania I and II, the Mega Man games (release order is more or less order of quality), R.C. Pro-Am

Wow, this is like exactly my story with this game.

I also played a ton of Arkanoid, Shadowgate, Blaster Master, Life Force, and, uh... lots and lots of others. Gauntlet (1 and 2)! The Battle of Olympus! TMNT 2! Milon's Secret Castle! Crystalis! Bomberman! A Boy and His Blob! The Adventures of Lolo! etc. etc.

I got ridiculously good at that. I mean, the secret is to just take the double-or-nothing every time until you max out. This is the only real way to make tons of coins and by everyone Metal Babble Shields.

Okay, now that I've erased any doubts in anyone's mind that I'm not a huge nerd, carry on.

I also have to add Duck Tales, a relatively easy but great game.

This thread also reminds me how unbeatable and ******ed some nintendo games were, like Bart vs the Space Mutants.

god [censored] damnit bart vs. the space mutants is impossible as is fester's quest

more impossible imo

also great choice of rcr and sdb earlier, glad someone else s those american technos pudgy square humanoids as much as i do

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faxanadu was a good choice by you as well, and obviously metroid (though to be honest i'm not such a huge fan of the series).

to me rcr basically defines the nes. the only other game i can think of that has such an impact on the system is probably tetris.

Was this the game where you could build your own team and improve your players based on money you won on the games?

If so, this was truly the nuts and way ahead of its time.

The play where if you shot it perpendicular to the goal line was unstoppable.

After awhile my friends and I had a rule that no goals could be scored that way to even out the playing field.

Battletoads is the same way without a Game Genie. Even with infinite lives I don't think I ever beat it.

Burger Time also falls into this category.

My favs are Tecmo Bowl, Kid Icarus, Tetris, Q-Bert, all 3 TMNT games, SMB 3.

I used to wreck shop with Neal Anderson in that game.

I loved Arkanoid. Sadly its worthless on emulators because the special controller was so important to the game.

Since it's only been mentioned once -

DR MARIO - simple gameplay, addicting, fun. 2 Player mode is awesome since you can handicap it. So much time wasted freshman and sophomore years in college.

I could not be beat with the 49ers, they had this one play that was unstoppable, Roger Craig coming out of the backfield and running a slant, it was all in the timing.

D. Orginal LT was unstoppable in that game too, you could never kick a field goal or an extra point because he would always be able to block it, or was that Super Tecmo Bowl, don't quite remember now.

Very underrated.

I loved it when you could just hang in the air and then shoot it at the last second before you hit the floor.

Damn those were good times.

the series i can take or leave, though i do think super metroid is a great game and what i played of metroid prime i really liked. but the original, for me, with what it did in terms of creating an immersive environment with its limitations, and the style of gameplay, and the incredible precision of the controls, not to mention the awesome main character, was... yeah. i don't think it will ever be topped. it's one of the most personally significant artifacts of our culture to me.

i got surprisingly good at it with a regular NES controller.

I think you guys are clearly forgetting RAD RACER!!!!

It had the 3-d vision option!!

zomg

my favorite was bionic commando

bionic commando vault


runner up would probably be nes soccer or tmnt arcade game

A list of NES games I still enjoy playing to this day:

Adventures of Lolo (series)
Bad Dudes
Batman
Battletoads
Castlevania (series)
Contra
Crash n The Boys Street Challenge
Double Dragon (series)
Dragon Warrior (series)
Excitebike
Adventure Island (series)
Legend of Zelda (series)
Mega Man (series)
Metroid
Mike Tyson's Punch Out
Ninja Gaiden (series)
Super Dodge Ball
Super Mario Bros (series)
Tecmo Super Bowl
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2 and 3 only)
Tetris

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Also to those of you posting the JAVA emulator links, you guys should try out the downloadable NES emulators out there. They have better features, no lag, better sound and graphic emulation, and support for more games. PM me if you want to know how to get it all setup.

been watching JNN?