Friday OT: Favorite NES 8-bit Games

[GTO]

Figured I'd do something light and fun for Friday that takes our minds away from Football. What were your favorite NES games growing up? Any stories about the games that were your favorites? I'll get it started with one Christmas getting Double Dragon II and Ninja Gaiden II. I played those two games non-stop for weeks and weeks. A few others I fondly remember were Castlevania, Contra and SuperC, Bionic Commando, Jackal, and Blaster Master. Please share your favorites, and throw a few screenshots for nostalgia's sake!

 

[jbindm]

River City Ransom. Underrated gem.

 

[GTO]

River City Ransom. Underrated gem.

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Oh man, that was a classic! I never owned it but rented it plenty of times. I loved that it was a fighting game, but an RPG at heart. So many options to upgrade your character.

 

[Daserop]

Mario & Mike Tyson Punch-out

 

[zarnold56]

Mega Man 2 and Ducktales are the correct answers.

 

[bos]

Zelda, Contra, Super Contra, P.O.W, Blades of Steel, Double Dribble, Kid Icarus

 

[bos]

Mega Man 2 and Ducktales are the correct answers.

Mario & Mike Tyson Punch-out

I enjoyed these as well.

 

[dawgpound]

Mario's, Tecmo Super Bowl, Excite Bike, Super Off Road, Duck Hunt, just to name a few.

 

[Farnsworth]

 

[Farnsworth]

Battle Toads was fun, although impossible.

Same with Darkwing Duck.

 

[klamath632]

 

[Farnsworth]

We should do Sega games, had many classics.

 

[Cyclonepride]

Caveman Games. Hilarious game

 

[FDWxMan]

So many of the NES games were completely impossible to beat. There's a list a mile long of games that you needed cheats + and emulator with saves to ever actually finish. (Looking at you Ninja Turtles).

Still love em though.

 

[roundball]

Isn't that actually a screenshot from one of the superior sequels on NES? The original TMNT had 2D and overhead views, like this:

That game was hard, and it sucked. That level where you had to swim through all of the electric seaweed was the worst.

 

[GTO]

Obscure title I really enjoyed: Battle of Olympus. If you haven't tried it, it's worth it. The final battle was epic.

 

[bos]

I remember Olympus! We rented that once. Hard game.

 

[bos]

Game Genie made a bunch of games really fun.

 

[cmjh10]

Those graphics tho

 

[GTO]

That game was hard, and it sucked. That level where you had to swim through all of the electric seaweed was the worst.

That level with the seaweed to deactivate those bombs was the worst. Anytime I got past it, I died pretty quickly on the rooftops level.