Rocket? The Guardian Legend is an action-adventure/top down shooter released for the NES in 1989. If you are wondering, that formula is one part Aliens, two parts First Blood, and perhaps a dash of Predator to keep things exotic. You had sniper shooter levels, like those you might remember from The Adventures of Bayou Billy. Jackal; A remake of the NES top-down shooter of the same name, graphically enhanced to take advantage of the Amiga (OCS-ECS) hardware. This game is infinitely more inventive than that. Contra deftly captures the spirit of the testosterone-fueled '80s summer blockbusters, with obvious nods to the Alien and Rambo series. . 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. 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. This made it a prime game for high score hunting, with certain parts of the experience that were of the make and break variety. Wizards & Warriors is about probing every corner with your trusty blade for treasure chest, precious gems and the like. The game places a greater emphasis on exploration than the first, and can get a bit confusing, but if you hop around enough you can find your way through the game fairly easily. 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. The atypical confluence of high quality and low sales of Little Samson ultimately resulted in it being one of the most sought after cartridges for collectors today. Years before Yoshi first crammed a fat plumber on his back, Adventure Island II offered some of the coolest dinosaur wrangling in the business. Carry on about how this game just isn't as good as the arcades (I do), but the truth is NES had some killer shooters, and this was one that I went back to over and over again. 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. Any discussion of Contra wouldn't be complete without a nod to its iconic 8-bit soundtrack. The game's protagonist, Master Higgins, a yachting playboy with a knack for taming giant lizards, sets out on his adventure with little more than a ball cap and a grass skirt. Have you played the Lost Levels? 2. Perhaps the best example of the NES's capability at adapting and even improving on arcade games of its era, Contra offers the best shooting action on the NES and is also the console's definitive multiplayer experience. And as I recall, Ninja Gaiden II taught me to slide button presses for instant jump slashes, a skill that helped when I graduated to fighting games. Nevertheless, it was still pretty cool when the NES finally made it possible to hunt spies in the comfort of your own home. But after the Wonder Boy series went in the direction of RPG-lite, I was happy to have Master Higgins keeping the flame alive on his trusty skateboard. Choreographing delicate rescue operations with my cousin was a blast, sending one Jeep to collect P.O.W.s while the other threw out cover in the form of myriad bullets and grenades. The Ice Climbers, as the two starring characters are popularly known, are relentless lovers of the alpine trek, and they'll stop at nothing to climb mountain after mountain just to reach its apex, where untold valuable items can be found. One of the counter-examples to this argument is Mario Bros., an NES port that's not perfect when compared to the 1983 arcade original, but one that is about as close as can be expected, with smooth gameplay and crisp graphics that do the original proud. While maintaining breakneck speed, your suave, Bond-inspired spymobile is beset on all sides by reckless limousines, bullet-proof coups and even a helicopter dead set on chipping your pristine paint job. Evidence of this is all over the place, from the enemies to some of the music. Yes, Super Mario Bros. 2 is a repurposing of a non-Mario Japanese Famicom game called Yume Kj: Doki Doki Panic, but why hold that against it? A key eye for subtle detail was needed for success, as your exploration could often come to a sudden and gruesome end if you missed even a single key weapon or item early in the labyrinth. In the game, our pajama clad mascot navigates the often psychedelic Slumberland with the help of wild animals. The game also seemed to take forever to play which made me wonder at the time if it was one of the biggest games ever made. I'm a lifelong Samus Aran groupie. Punch-Out!! When Simon's Quest dropped on the NES in 1988, many gamers were confused. While friends moved on to Super NES, I made do with Kirby. But man, the game delivered. Post by nia_prene Sat Jul 03, 2021 9:07 pm. The sequel features the same great stuff as the first: catchy, mead-swilling tunes; stylized fantasy graphics; and the peculiar use of "ye olde Engrish." 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. These sequences were parlayed into the game's labyrinthine dungeons as well. You have to deal with enemies galore and traps aplenty; the game even gave the player the option to kill his or her character off by pressing the Select button if they found themselves trapped or unable to proceed, a true testament to Lolo 3's deep and difficult gameplay built on a deceivingly-childlike facade. Out of all of the great games on our list, Kickle Cubicle is one of the few titles I never got to experience until I was an adult. 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. Alternately, you can put Toad's speed to use in plucking coins for the game of chance at each level's end. Mega Man 2 is often glossed over as being too easy even on the "Hard" difficulty setting, but that doesn't take away from everything the game offered. 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. In Kid Icarus, gamers take the role of Pit. You'd think a sword that spins would hurt you, but it doesn't. This was a defining day for my brother and I, though I'm sure neither of us knew it then. Honestly, that still amazes me, it was so much better than all of those it was nuts. Shotgun, Mario. The gameplay mechanics of the original Castlevania remained intact, but there was a whole lot more that had been added that transferred it from the realm of action-platformer to the realm of action-RPG. (which also just so happens to be placed at the bottom of that hole in his yard). 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. Kind of like Pixar's Toy Story, this was a world seen from a toy's perspective races took place on top of massive billiards tables or in backyard with gigantic, looming flowers and blades of grass. I probably played the first level of Section Z more than any other NES game I owned. It's one of the earliest games that convinced me that RPGs were my favorite. 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. 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. Although the game itself takes a good amount of skill to master, Super Mario Bros has a mysterious quality that makes it appealing to even the most inexperienced players. And that doesn't even begin to mention the game's three unique endings, a rarity in its day. And besides, the game was officially backed by Fred Savage, the ultimate gaming Wizard. Sure, Duck Hunt's gameplay was as simple as pointing-and-shooting, and one could easily cheat by standing an inch from the television. Well it wasn't. The Konami code let me finish this co-op version of Gradius. But when Sunsoft had the license stripped at the last minute, it made due with what it had, and with limited editing, Journey to Silius was released. Wild West Builder: 2023 (TBA) Microsoft Windows: G11 S.A. . On horseback, must prevent 3 bandits from boarding the train. I think Tetris is the better game, but Klax is very creative and the NES version was surprisingly well developed and accurate to the original. It has been called a combination of Zelda and 1942. To this day, this is still the only game that's ever shipped with a coupon for five bucks off an order at Pizza Hut printed on the back of its instruction manual. Before Baseball Stars was released in the summer of 1989, the NES wasn't looked at for its ability to simulate real sports. Top-down action video game Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine: 2006: Microsoft Windows, . But Slumberland is an unexpectedly dangerous place, and the game's advanced difficulty level no doubt took some unsuspecting youngsters by surprise. However, Mario Bros. was eclipsed by Super Mario Bros. almost immediately upon release in the United States. As expected, Spy Hunter still stood out as one of the NES's greatest driving games even though it had aged a bit. Our own Mark Bozon has been working diligently to bring this title back to life, perhaps by way of the Virtual Console. Gradius is all about pimping your ride. 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. Its fast-paced 2D action style made it a game preferred by those with quick reflexes, and its arsenal of weaponry, which can be chosen from a Mega Man-like menu, gave the gameplay variety, with certain weapons working best against certain enemies and bosses. Although you control Mickey, Minnie accompanies you throughout the Mousecapade, which plays out as sort of a puzzle-solving platformer. Oddly, I remember the original Mario Bros. as the first game I ever played on a big screen TV. The sequel to the original Mega Man was quick on the heels of the first, with barely a year in between the release of the two titles in the United States. If the Qix interrupts your line mid-stroke, you are destroyed. But that didn't matter. I happily rediscovered Stinger despite its unfortunate title and packaging (A space ship with boxing gloves? And Christmas of 1990 was when I finally got my hands on the game I would be obsessed with until this day. 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. 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). 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. It's still a blast to this day and Tecmo should bring it back. You played as a sunglasses-wearing muscleman equipped with a cybernetic boomerang, blasting his way through alien-invested futuristic environments on his way to restore the compromised integrity of the Master Computer, and your hero looked an awful lot like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Gameplay is balanced between controlling The Guardian in humanoid form during overhead exploration and shooting sequences and faster-paced forced-scrolling shooter sequences where she transforms into a fighter jet and blasts, and among other things, gigantic robotic alien crustacean creatures. Let me make sure I'm using the correct term. Dozens of Castlevania games have come and gone over the last two decades, but the series started for American gamers on the NES. 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. A spiritual sister series to Nintendo's Legend of Zelda, StarTropics was an overhead dungeon-exploration action/adventure that, unfortunately, never made it past the NES. Top. "Blades of Steel!" Not one, not two, but three games in one. Indeed, GunNac is a technical marvel as shooters on NES go: It's smooth, fast-paced, loaded with danger and projectiles flying in all directions, and insanely challenging. One of the last handfuls of great games to be released for the NES in America, Gargoyle's Quest II had the misfortune of showing up around a year after the 16-bit SNES had gone on sale. Scattered mushrooms are the . As a major Wonder Boy fan, I naturally thought Adventure Island was some kind of rip-off. The care gameplay is right on, the visuals aren't bad at all, and it stinks of Mega Man inspired robot blasting. In addition to exceptionally hard feats of platforming, Ninja Gaiden's fast and furious action was made all the more difficult by its vast army of wily enemies. Out of all of the games built on Capcom's famous Mega Man architecture (that wasn't a Mega Man game, that is), Duck Tales is perhaps the best of the bunch. Section Z was a forced-scrolling shooter made by Capcom, one of that company's few entries into a genre more closely associated with Konami in the 8-bit era. Wizards & Warriors is the debut title of a classic, if depressingly anti-climatic NES trilogy. Batman didn't try to do anything unique, but rather took a cue from a few already-established NES staples to make Batman a fun, worthwhile experience. Released in 1988, Zelda II proved to be an entirely different experience from the first and that wasn't necessarily a bad thing. The Ninja Turtles do love their pizza. is the most well-remembered boxing design from Nintendo's NES, Ring King was a capable competitor thanks to its more accurate simulation of the sport. 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. 2. 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. After all, Dr. Mario had a two player mode. But totally memorable, no matter what the motivation. And then, of course, the difficulty starts off easy enough, but advance through half a dozen areas and you find yourself in a fight for your very life. Just like Mega Man 4 pulled a bait-and-switch with Dr. Cossack, Protoman served the same function in Mega Man 5. That's right if you've ever cursed the skies after falling prey to the infamous Blue Shell, you can trace the source of your rage all the way back to Rare's R.C. But if you venture into this territory, be ready for unforgiving difficulty, one of the game's hallmarks. 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. It has its quirks, and the water level is insane, but it crams a lot into an NES cart. And it's the insanely crisp gameplay. I never was satisfied with the party I formed; so half way through the game, I'd start a new game with a completely different party. After a few minutes with Contra's militant anthems you'll want to put your controller down and headbang along. Above all else, what surprised me most about Rescue Rangers is that it was so fun to play. And for the most part, franchises that did flood the NES were of a high quality. 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. And here's the kicker the pit stop comes to you! Welcome to the 80's. 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. You'll find a few other games that got thrust into the limelight the same way on this countdown, like VICE: Project Doom. Now why couldn't real NHL be like that? Add it to the list! The NES Willow game is better than George Lucas' movie. Thanks to Saberman who contacted us earlier today, we have yet another Amiga news story to share with you all. I could whip through Super Mario Bros. in 10 minutes without losing a life, but progressing Link toward his final battle was an epic undertaking and one filled with surprises and satisfying rewards throughout. Baseball Stars is unequivocally the best baseball game, and overall sports simulation, the NES ever saw. The tank felt like a portable fort, like home with a cannon mounted on the roof. As for "greenish" color palette and "guy in spacesuit," Section-Z comes to mind, but there is no vertical scrolling shooter segments in that . 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. Extending the gameplay to many times the length and difficulty of the original, Castlevania III allowed gamers to take the role of Trevor Belmont, Simon Belmont's ancestor, as well as the roles of three other playable characters that Trevor may meet during his quest. Taito's iconic dragon duo's first outing is also their best. A hit among the new RPG crowd that was developing around Nintendo's 8-bit console, Dragon Warrior III continued with conventions set by, of all games, Dragon Warrior II. 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. And Mega Man 3 took the mantle and ran with it. Sure, Castlevania is only six stages long, but you'll require a lot of luck and skill getting through even half of it. Either way, there's a lot to see and like about Fester's Quest. I bought my own cart off of eBay and experienced the wonders of this influential grinding J-RPG without the help of my peers. When I got the box in my hand, however, it was Castlevania III. Nintendo had a fairly diverse lineup of sports titles introduced for the NES early on in the system's life cycle, including 8-bit interpretations of soccer, tennis, volleyball and even downhill slalom skiing. Link mainly navigated around an RPG-like world map, with action occurring sporadically in side-scrolling sequences. What stuck out most for me about Double Dragon II was how varied the game was. 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. Being the first Mega Man game with tangible secrets within, Mega Man 4 got a lot of playtime when I was a youngster. This isn't the Super Mario Bros. we oft talk about as one of the most groundbreaking games to ever be released. We'd head to Mr. Movies in Minnesota, I'd see the box art, freak out, and he'd pick up something else. 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. And what gamers found in Mega Man 2 was something seen in few games since a title that was virtually flawless. Death Rally is a top-down combat racing game developed by Remedy, published by Apogee, and distributed by GT Interactive Software. I should fix that Near the end of the NES' lifecycle, puzzle games were THE craze. When you aren't pounding all manner of non-amphibious fauna, you are racing speeding vehicles, repelling down pits and performing various other stunts uncharacteristic of your every day brawler. The NES classic is surrounded by so many standout features and moments that it's hard to decide on just one, from the collectable gold cart to its battery-powered save function. These powerhouse efforts were complemented by a robust library of third-party titles. Do you need anything else? Life Force's moderate difficulty sets it apart from its peers in a genre generally geared towards the masochistic. What makes the game so special, then? Perhaps the NES's only intentional B-game, Zombie Nation is actually pretty fun, and always good for a laugh. You had driving levels, featuring an overhead viewpoint straight out of Spy Hunter. In 1991, Turtlemania was in full swing, and every marketer worth his or her weight in branded merchandise wanted a piece of animals-that-kick-ass pie. Vague memories of a strange, somewhat girly shooter plagued me as I restocked my NES collection a few years back. A game no one bought, but everyone had. I was playing the amazing Super Mario Bros. in a 7-eleven game room months before the NES was even announced in the US. Perhaps the most interesting tidbit of all about Duck Hunt, however, was the stand-alone product's incredibly small size. Ah, Kid Niki, with your crazy hair and your even wackier spinning sword. Despite the unparalleled hype, no one was disappointed. Buy Buy Buy. Welcome additions include the four giant Animal Kings, cool spells and shops. Old-school arcade gamers have found and will continue to find a lot to love in any iteration of Mario Bros., but new gamers beware! But not all licensed titles are bad. - Matt Casamassina, IGN Nintendo Editor-in-Chief. 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. 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. Top. Unfortunately, this game didn't satisfy everyone. I had no qualms with wasting the POW block if I didn't get my way. Despite their popularity, cooperative games were rarity on the NES and hey, when was the last time you got to spend some quality time with your little sister? All that work, gone. Wyatt Earp's Old . My earliest forays into the Cave of Monsters were rarely solo. This grappler was unmatched in its diversity of moves and over-the-top personality, and remains today a favorite of thousands of fans across the world. 8 posts Page 1 of 1. 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. Fester's Quest also takes its cues from a hodgepodge of genres, which will appeal to many kinds of gamers. But it belongs on our NES list as well, for the port of Lode Runner was pixel-perfect and provided something that only Excitebike had done prior: a level editor. 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. Weird West is a game that might spark some interest . The Big N's amazing 1980s home console reinvigorated the videogame market with classic, genre-defining games including Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda. Unlike its source, the NES version is an exploration-focused game with both side-scrolling platforming levels connected by a top down overworld-like area. And talk about difficult if you were unlucky enough to lose all of your lives in the game's final stages (which gamers did over and over and over again), you'd have quite the trek in front of you to get back to where you were to try all over again. All of the Adventures of Lolo games were great, but the third chapter has the best puzzles of the whole series and almost the most difficult. 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. Or do you crank your ships thrusters to their max, relying on a quick trigger finger to clear a path? When that happened, the gameplay actually switched away from the hockey design and into a one-on-one versus fighter while the two mad men slugged it out. The North American sequel to everyone's favorite game does not disappoint. Thankfully, Zombie Nation arrived in the latter days of the NES to smash the zombie barrier. After all, it is 2009, and there's been a lot of time for Tetris and Dr. Mario. Essentially the '80s answer to The Lord of The Rings films, it was a fantasy film written by Star Wars' own George Lucas and directed by Ron Howard it starred Warwick Davis as a hobbit-esque Nelwyn and none other than Val Kilmer as his brash human companion Madmartigan. Sound easy? That's a shame, because its blend of three different types of gameplay set it apart from the crowd and made it a classic. With Contra III on the Super NES, this game didn't get the attention it deserved. Eventually, you must learn to apply your gravity-defying skills to puzzles, while at the very same time applying your blasters to the faces of many, many enemy robots. technology that allows it to flip from floor to ceiling with abandon. With little emphasis on the scaled-up world of the titular chipmunks, many of the things lying around the inflated settings could be picked up and used as projectiles on exploration. An item-based menu allowed you to equip gems, whips and special weapons. Overworld puzzle-solving was equally as important there was even a riddle that you couldn't solve unless you opened up the physical game box and read a piece of paper packaged with the game. Then you've got "Ninja," which summoned up the best emotions from Ninja Gaiden, the Ninja Turtles and Zen: Intergalactic Ninja. 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