Author Topic: Underappreciated NES classics (Read 14770 times)

nemo_83 · « **on:** March 25, 2005, 07:07:32 PM »

I love old NES games. Maybe it is just the electronic music. I stomped the crap out of Rygar this morning in around two hours. I didn't start until around five AM, but once I was fifteen minutes in to it I could not stop. I love the music and the sunset. It is only the second time in my life that I have seen the rainbow you get for beating that game. I made it to the boss many times as a child, but did not beat the game for the first time until I was in highschool. I never took enough time to sit and level up so I would get to the end of the game and get raped by the wacky looking final boss with the two dragon heads spitting what looks like butterflies. Crazy game, but it brings back a flood of feelings from when I was like eight years old. This game was once an adventure for me. Now days I play fifteen hour games and complain that they weren't twenty five hours long.

Other NES favorites of mine that I don't hear much about anymore include Castlevania 2, Little Nemo, Jaws, and Friday the 13th.

what do you guys think?

KDR_11k · « **Reply #1 on:** March 25, 2005, 10:20:04 PM »

I have no NES favourites because I have no NES. Back then I had my C64 and a Gameboy with a few games. R-Type was my first GB game.

Many of the old games you had are awfully easy when you play them nowadays. For example, I play through Super Mario Land, which I never beat as a child (and rarely made it to world 4) in 30 minutes now. Not so with R-Type, Nemesis (Gradius for the GB) or the many C64 games. Katakis, IO, Giana Sisters, all as hard as I remember them. Okay, I AM better at Giana Sisters now but only marginally.

Rancid Planet · « **Reply #2 on:** March 26, 2005, 01:07:41 AM »

I still pop in Cobra Triangle once in a while. Hard freaking game. A RARE classic.

Flames_of_chaos · « **Reply #3 on:** March 26, 2005, 06:04:40 AM »

Yo Noid! was one of my favorites but too bad my NES pin connector broke. Any one know where i can get a replacement thats cheap?

Robotor · « **Reply #4 on:** March 26, 2005, 10:05:33 AM »

When I was little I played Mickey Mousecapades all the time. It's actually a pretty good game, and still one of my favorites. I remebered it being so hard, but when I played it about a month ago, I got to the last level and lost intrest.

The main thing about the NES age is how much wonder the games created. I remember playing Metroid when I was 6 or 7, and just running around. It brought up all these emotions. I would actually feel isolated and lost, but I knew that if I gave up that the Universe would end. Same goes for mousecapades, because the game was like a fun house. Suprises around ever corner, just exploring was fun, seeing a new room would be progress. I remember very clearly when I learned that Mario could jump, and when I squashed my first goomba.

Sorry, went off on a tangent there. But yeah, Mousecapades was a fun game. It had a real magical feel too it, the forest level really stands out in that regard. I also enjoyed Godzilla, I rarely hear about that. Everyone who hasn't played it should, it's a fun Beat 'em up.

TMW · « **Reply #5 on:** March 26, 2005, 11:37:19 AM »

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I still pop in Cobra Triangle once in a while. Hard freaking game. A RARE classic.

Holy crap! I used to love that game. I had totally forgotten about it...

*revels in the nostalgia*

Mr. Segali · « **Reply #6 on:** March 26, 2005, 05:57:08 PM »

Dragon Spirit. Think 1942 or Raiden but with a dragon. I loved everything about that game. My favorite part was probably the music... it had some really freaking great music.

The Omen · « **Reply #7 on:** March 26, 2005, 06:48:48 PM »

R.C. PRO AM

Savior · « **Reply #8 on:** March 26, 2005, 07:15:36 PM »

Ninja Gaiden. Hell all 3. Awesome Awesome story.

How can you not like Super Ninjas, Secret Agents, and Cracy Brazillian Cults?

Still wish Tecmo would shoul Ninty some love.

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #9 on:** March 27, 2005, 04:41:44 PM »

Lickle was an incredible game, though impossible without save states. Lots of fun.
I'm not certain it exists, I could have imagined it. I've never heard of anyone else who ever played it. I'm starting to suspect someone used another game's engine to make the Lickle game for an emulator. Not sure, though.

Rancid Planet · « **Reply #10 on:** March 27, 2005, 10:59:09 PM »

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Originally posted by: Rancid Planet
I still pop in Cobra Triangle once in a while. Hard freaking game. A RARE classic.

Holy crap! I used to love that game. I had totally forgotten about it...

*revels in the nostalgia*

I always knew I'd meet someone else who had actually played that game...sniffle...heh

Dasmos · « **Reply #11 on:** March 27, 2005, 11:44:05 PM »

My fav games were Battletoads and Double Dragon 2............so many hours spent playing those alone and many more when playing with friends

Rancid Planet · « **Reply #12 on:** March 27, 2005, 11:55:49 PM »

Yeah I was just talking with my brother the other day about how much I'd like a new DD game.

darknight06 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 28, 2005, 06:30:39 AM »

Well, if you can find it the closest thing I can recommend for that would be Double Dragon Advance. Great game and had elements from DD1 to Super DD.

Caliban · « **Reply #14 on:** March 28, 2005, 10:22:05 AM »

LOL, anyone know Faxanadu? Well yeah it's one of my favourite Nes games and I can tell you that it is really underappreciated, and you can bet your human ass that it is hard but not as hard as Cobra Triangle, that's for sure. Cobra Triangle was so hard that the only way we ever passed it was with the game genie. Oh what about Marble Madness, lol it's like the primal game-species of Super Monkey Ball.

PJ gamer10 · « **Reply #15 on:** March 28, 2005, 04:29:45 PM »

Those are all great games , id like to add a few to the list... How about Crystalis and Golgo 13.. Those were two of my favorite games when i was younger. No one even brought up Duck Hunt. Come on! Thats the first shooter. Thats what Nintnedo should remake and give a gun with it. J/k

Bill Aurion · « **Reply #16 on:** March 28, 2005, 05:15:02 PM »

Adventures of Lolo, awesome HAL puzzle-type-adventure game that REALLY needs a comeback...

Jackal, fun co-op military Jeep+guns+grenades game played from an eagle eye view, scrolling upward...

Silkworm, ANOTHER co-op military-type game, but this time it's 2d...1 person picks helicopter, and the other gets jeep, and both players must work together to make it through...Very fun...

Hostile Creation · « **Reply #17 on:** March 28, 2005, 09:47:36 PM »

Jackal! I knew there was a game I was forgetting, but I could not for the life of me think of what it was. That's it! My friends and I played the hell out of that game, it was incredible. One of the best games on the NES, hands down.

mantidor · « **Reply #18 on:** April 01, 2005, 12:51:56 PM »

I dont know if it has already been mentioned because I cant remember the title, but it was this game with two cute penguins, you only moved one, but the other mirrored the movements of the one you were moving, the goal was to make them kiss each other at the end. I know it sounds corny, but it was awesome!! best puzzle game Ive ever played.

Shecky · « **Reply #19 on:** April 03, 2005, 10:12:16 PM »

Blaster Master

couchmonkey · « **Reply #20 on:** April 04, 2005, 05:04:20 AM »

Dragon Warrior IV. Okay, the series was pretty well known, but I think that game got overlooked because of the Super NES' release. The story had this cool converging plot line with all your various party members going on their own individual quests and meeting up in the final chapter, and it also introduced a battle system where you could just give general directions to your party and they'd carry them out. It was a lot faster, particularly against weak enemies, though not having complete control could become scary in tougher battles.

I'll second Crystalis! I didn't have the patience to beat that game, but it was pretty awesome. I bet I could do it now.

nemo_83 · « **Reply #21 on:** April 04, 2005, 10:46:16 AM »

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Blaster Master

i never could get to the end

darknight06 · « **Reply #22 on:** April 04, 2005, 05:14:46 PM »

I've only beaten Blaster Master twice on the actual NES, any other time it was on an emulator with save states. If that game at LEAST had a password feature, I'd beat it all the time, but otherwise unless you plan to do an 8 hour expedition you can hang it up. BTW, I don't know if anyone else's cartridge was like this, but I remember a MAJOR glitch on Level 5 where if you were swimming in the wrong spot by a wall at one part the game would trap you into the wall and about 5 hours of gameplay was dead.

As for underappreciated NES classics I've played, let's see...

Chip'n Dale's Rescue Rangers:
Remember what licensed games used to be like, you know, back when good companies were actually doing them? 2 player simultaneous, quite a few stages which involved platform gameplay and throwing things at enemies, and not hard, but not braindead easy either. Rented it once and bought it soon after. This game was produced by Capcom, and I'm not certain on this, but I believe the game was led by Shinji Mikami. I remember someone saying that he used to do games like this.

Anticipation:
Really fun family game for what I believe to be 4 players. Everyone picked one board piece from a selection of eight, including a hat, ice cream, a teddy bear, high heel shoes, a tuba, and a few other things I can't remember at this moment. The board had 4 tiers and when you rolled the dice you landed on a color square which you would then try to figure out what the pencil was drawing. Each color represented a different theme. I remember the one theme that used to kill us a lot was "whatchamacallit" This game was produced by none other than RARE COIN IT, or as we know them, Rare.

"Oh what about Marble Madness, lol it's like the primal game-species of Super Monkey Ball. "
I had this game!!! Imagine if they could do a DS remake with a TON more stages.

Arbok · « **Reply #23 on:** April 04, 2005, 07:19:30 PM »

I'm insulted no one has mentioned Super Dodgeball... endless hours of fun. Spent a good two years tracking that game down after I first played it.

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Chip'n Dale's Rescue Rangers:
Remember what licensed games used to be like, you know, back when good companies were actually doing them?

Throw the two Duck Tales games in there too, although Capcom's Disneyland game was brutally hard. Might as well throw the TMNT 2 into the mix as well, another fun game.

Shecky · « **Reply #24 on:** April 05, 2005, 07:30:16 AM »

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I've only beaten Blaster Master twice on the actual NES, any other time it was on an emulator with save states. If that game at LEAST had a password feature, I'd beat it all the time, but otherwise unless you plan to do an 8 hour expedition you can hang it up. BTW, I don't know if anyone else's cartridge was like this, but I remember a MAJOR glitch on Level 5 where if you were swimming in the wrong spot by a wall at one part the game would trap you into the wall and about 5 hours of gameplay was dead.

Well, being the twitchy kids we were back then, we couldn't seem to help but eventually jar the NES - just the slightest bit - as we got to the later levels... inevitably causing the NES cart to deviate from its prime position, causing the multiple colors screen of death (MuCSOD) There I just invented a term

Yes, being able to save would have helped that game.

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"Oh what about Marble Madness, lol it's like the primal game-species of Super Monkey Ball. "
I had this game!!! Imagine if they could do a DS remake with a TON more stages.

Marble Madness was on the NES? Bah, I played it on the Amiga, with a trackball, they way it was meant to be played

(And Marble Madness would be the perfect game for the DS, given the control scheme... I don't remember who owns the rights to that game anymore though)

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