Sunsoft was never quite as famous as NES-era developers like Konami and Capcom, but it released a superb lineup of games. Instead, you will be able to buy better equipment as you progress through the game. Developed on the same engine as Kid Icarus, and released around the same time, Metroid toned down the action-platforming found in Icarus and focused on exploration. As the name suggests, this game is actually simple – just asking you to destroy the existing ice pieces and reach the highest peak that is there. Nevertheless, I spent many hours with this awesome sequel – in the game, the cover model was substituted with a protagonist tastefully clad to the nines in iron plating. Go find a movie of it if you don't believe me – it's amazing. 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. Nearly all later (end of life) games for NES had these chips. In fact, ideas in Metroid have been replicated time and time again, and its collection-based themes and upgrade-encouraged RPG motif can be found in a vast range of games since, from the PlayStation's Castlevania: Symphony of the Night to the more recent Xbox Live title, Shadow Complex. Over a decade before the name Tony Hawk first began to become synonymous with skateboarding videogames, Electronic Arts was innovating on the NES with the impressively diverse Skate or Die. Metroid was unique for so many reasons, among them the ability to explore at your own pace. Since the beginning of console gaming, movie licensed titles have held the stigma of being awful. You play an M-308 Gunner mech, which features awesome (Magnetic? Over the years though Bionic Commando is a game I keep going back to, and it wasn't until I really realized the RPG-lite experience in there (trucks lead to 1Ups, kills equal strength and RPG-like leveling) that I was able to really dominate the game. Nevertheless, it was still pretty cool when the NES finally made it possible to hunt spies in the comfort of your own home. Add it to the list! I had a password that started players at (or near) the final town, but with all the ultimate weapons and armor still unequipped. Made up of only five stages and a few types of enemies, a skilled gamer can get through Kung Fu in its entirety in less than ten minutes. Anything with a Spider-Man or a member of the X-Men on it is best avoided. The Micro Machines concept of incredibly little cars racing each other was adapted into this NES racing design, a game that featured overhead, birds-eye view action behind the miniature wheel and environments all designed to emphasize the diminutive scale of it all. If you rammed into a player often enough in a round of Blades, he'd lose it, throw down his gloves and start pummeling the snot out of you right on the spot. The gameplay is simple, you just have to kill enemies on the screen while making sure the balloon that takes you flying doesn’t break. Just like millions of other people, NES opens up a world that has never been known to exist, a pleasant world with infinite probabilities. The look and feel pay the perfect homage to the game controller’s 90s predecessor. Several classic NES series seem to follow identical paths. Feel free to comment and expand the list! We would have like to see more from our little balloon-riding friend. My favorite design was the fighting system: the loser of the fight heads to the penalty box. Best NES Games – Happy 32nd birthday NES! What I think is funny is that my strongest memory of Skate or Die 2 is the amount of time I spent explaining to my friends that the game was different than T&C Surf Designs or 720. Following the original arcade Donkey Kong and the follow-up Mario Bros., Shigeru Miyamoto took his series to the all-time greats by creating Super Mario Bros., a legendary, all-time great platformer that represents one of the best games on the NES. 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. If that was your name in high school, nobody would have ever messed with you. A perspective that is very rarely found in the gaming industry today. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was a smash phenomenon in the late 1980s. Despite the NES being over thirty years old, Nintendo’s original console still has a few tricks up its sleeve. ... Metroid didn't invent the multiple endings in video games, but it did add the best twist. Zelda was an action-adventure game with RPG elements, and in an age without the Internet, people were on their own about how to get through the game in one piece. Strangely, though epic in scale, Rygar doesn't feature a way to save or even a password system, so make sure your NES is hooked up to a good power source before embarking on your quest. One of the NES's premier racing games may have a peculiar title, but we pose this question: would a racer by any other name be quite as rad? It wasn't even that compelling. Action games, puzzlers, shooters, arcade ports… they’re all here and given the chance will supply tons of entertainment to players of all varieties. And Kid Niki was indeed a radical adventure, starring a young ninja-in-training whose own princess-rescuing adventure was set apart by two defining features – his spiked-out, punk-rock hairstyle and his vicious spinning sword. The game is brutal. Super Mario Bros. 3 does everything an NES game possibly can, and pushes the NES to the very limits of its capabilities, and we can unequivocally call it the greatest NES game of all time. After all, with the exception of Pit's inclusion in Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the last Kid Icarus game was released on Game Boy nearly two decades ago. It became the first game for many gamers out there, which made them feel challenged and fell in love with this industry. With Mega Man veterans like Keiji Inafune and Yoshihiro Sakaguchi getting the most out of the technology, Duck Tales proved to be an amazing game in its own right. but this Sunsoft sidescroller, which originally was supposed to be a licensed Terminator game, holds up well enough to make this list with absolutely no nostalgia from yours truly. This boat-based action/racing design was based on the engine the studio had developed for the classic R.C. At first, Bionic Commando's emphasis on swinging seems counterintuitive and limiting, but at some point the smooth grappling action just clicks, you find yourself zipping around the stages in a blur of red and green pixels. We ourselves never finished it because the puzzle that could be said was so complex and almost without the clue that he stretched out. The best NES games found their way into gamer’s hearts, and it seems like some die-hard fans still haven’t gotten over them. 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. Those that picked up Jackal merely due to its similarity in appearance to games like Contra and Castlevania were not disappointed. At least in our minds at that time. You'd think a sword that spins would hurt you, but it doesn't. Simply put, you can call it a Final Fight – complete with three main characters: Guy, Cody, and Haggar but in super-deformed (SD) form. 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. The gameplay is of the classic action-platforming variety. 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. How did we pick the games? And, like DuckTales, this led to a high quality NES platformer from Capcom. Fast moving platforms, icy terrain and blocks that couldn't be broken by your mallet ruled the day, and Ice Climber got excruciatingly hard in the latter stages. Which Can Be Very Very Helpful For Your Daily Life. Jackal's premise is that the resolution to all conflict lies in explosions – lots and lots of explosions. Not only that, bt this article fails to mention which games used add-on MMX chips to boost memory, visual, etc. - Colin Moriarty, IGN Guides Associate Editor. Others called Nintendo's own hotline for help or consulted a magazine. Why is Baseball Stars so important? A dumbed-down port of a superior arcade title by Irem, Kung Fu holds accolades simply for being one of the first third-party games released on the NES. The Tetris cartridge was circulated amongst us and our various neighbors forever after collected dust. It was devastating playing through dozens of races only to have the game slowly start blanking out its colors until I was left with a locked-up, unplayable graphic mess on my screen. 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. The Double Dragon characters are capable of kicking butt to be sure, but the unique brawling, racing and, yes, spelunking action that Rash, Pimple, and Zits introduced in their first outing is the main attraction in this crossover. No other NES game ever earned that honor, but it's easy to see why Crystalis did – this post-apocalyptic tale of thermonuclear aftermath skillfully blended fantasy and science-fiction into one dynamic story. TMNT 3: The Manhattan Project. And woe is the gamer who forgot to hold down the Reset button when turning off his NES. But if it has to compare, then other games that are able to offer a competitive atmosphere that is equally fun and crazy are Balloon Fight. Occasionally you need to take a break from the one-Jeep-army annihilation to collect POWs from camps, but for your patience you are rewarded with even greater destructive power. Released just in time to save the gaming industry from the great video game crash, the Nintendo Entertainment system revolutionized the gaming world with hits like Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda, and Metroid. 100. I probably played the first level of Section Z more than any other NES game I owned. While the Milla … Or maybe it was just that I died so much. Thankfully, Zombie Nation arrived in the latter days of the NES to smash the zombie barrier. And my older brothers, both casual players, could never get past the first stage. Goonies never say die! The tank felt like a portable fort, like home with a cannon mounted on the roof. After a few minutes with Metal Storm you'll pity Mario for being such a ground bound chump. I was lucky enough to rent Mega Man 4 over and over again before buying it later on. For a time, I remembered an entire 33-character password for a maxxed out character in this game. The atmosphere, influenced by sci-fi movies like Aliens and expertly... 2. Ask anyone who played this game extensively and they'll tell you, it was one of the hardest games of all time. I should fix that... Near the end of the NES' lifecycle, puzzle games were THE craze. Strongbad may be cool today, but LucasArts' SCUMM adventure ported to the NES set the bar over 20 years ago. Its top-down view makes it a bit of an action-shooter, while its emphasis on collecting items and upgrading weapons lends it more to the RPG and adventure crowd. The above are the 30 best NES games of all time in the NES era according to the TechMint version. But totally memorable, no matter what the motivation. And besides, the game was officially backed by Fred Savage, the ultimate gaming Wizard. Another home port that differs from the arcade, this one has a cheat code that makes Astyanax invincible (except from pits). It's no Blades of Steel (hell EA's NHL09 isn't Blades of Steel), but growing up in Minnesota and playing on a hockey team ensured that this one was in the NES as much as Super Mario 3. Interestingly, Micro Machines was also one of the rare, unlicensed-by-Nintendo releases for the NES – but the lack of the Seal of Quality or standard cartridge design didn't keep it from being a great game. I was introduced to the NES version of the game after I played the arcade/Neo Geo edition, but I have to say that the NES version was infinitely more awesome. But not all licensed titles are bad. Who knew The Goonies were big in Japan? You have to go back and read that title again, a couple of times, and imagine it being spoken by a scratchy, synthesized 8-bit voice clip. Bye-bye, Abobo. Konami's Castlevania was followed up by Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, a game that strayed entirely from its origins. You could upgrade its engine, increase the rate of fire of its bullets, increase the number of its bullets, give it the power to fire secondary missiles and even wrap it in a force field. Having more in common with Metroid or The Legend of Zelda than NES era brawlers, Rygar must find equipment upgrades – a grappling hook, pulley, crossbow etc. I couldn't stand the cartoon (I was a DuckTales sort of guy), but to my surprise the game was an addictive platforming masterpiece. There is an art to snagging territory, and players eventually must learn how to manipulate the irrepressible Qix itself. Pro-Am, and cast players as the captains of a high-speed, heavily-armored attack ship cutting through tropical waters to take on sharks, rival watercrafts and giant sea serpents. I was totally paranoid that I'd come back from school (or day care or whatever) and the game would be turned off. I will always have a special place in my heart for the original Super Mario Bros., but it was this sequel that took platforming to new heights with tighter controls, more complex levels and, of course, special upgrades like the Super Leaf and Tanooki Suits. Who still remembers how you have to press a certain button so you can quickly climb onto the motor when it falls? The paths you choose to take during the game will bring you to stages and events you might otherwise miss entirely. without those, everything would loko at best … And that's exactly the plot here – Astyanax is a 16-year-old Greenview High student who just so happens to be named after the figure from Greek mythology and also just happens to be swept away to a distant magical land called Remlia where he's asked to, of course, save a kidnapped princess. In it, our metal-clad protagonist, Kuros, sets out on a quest to save not one, but several distressed damsels (and we're not talking about some ugly dude in mushroom regalia). Not only is it one of the very best and most iconic videogames ever conceived, but having shipped with the majority of NES consoles, Super Mario Bros. quickly became synonymous with the NES itself. Pit is a fledgling winged angel who is tasked with working his way out of the Underworld and to the Sky, where the evil Medusa has taken control. 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. - Levi Buchanan, IGN Wireless & Retro Editor. Cool again? By the time Mega Man 6 hit the NES, the console was virtually dead. Taking cues from open-ended adventure games like Metroid, you'll need to find certain weapons and equipment to progress in Bionic Commando, and that sometimes means returning to area you've previously visited to take care of unfinished business. It was the first game I ever played with an NES Advantage. Sweet game. 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. Don't worry, Fred! I also loved the take-offs of popular wrestlers that Tecmo had going on here. Watching my neighbors play the series endlessly as a child, my first independent go-around with Dragon Warrior was when I was in the 8th grade in 1997. Platforming... with zombies and mummies? Also, it was the closest thing to "Gleaming the Cube: The Game" as I could find. We have never finished this game, you might never finish it. Try to spot the Hulk Hogan and Big Van Vader rips! Miryia's ability to transform into a spaceship and back put Samus Aran to shame. This is another one that really paved the way for others too. To make things interesting, at one point in your quest, your original classes undergo a change, making it advantageous to lug around a useless Thief just so you'll end up with a badass Ninja. Wow! But in reality, the games were different enough, and Ice Climber so much better to me when I finally played it, that I felt silly for ever thinking that. 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. It feels a little unfair at first to see the main character present empty-handed. - Craig Harris, IGN Nintendo Executive Editor. The action in the game is standard side-scrolling fare, with an interesting twist – there is no levelling. The main game is an arcade-like collect-athon with a puzzle-solving aspect. Thankfully, Sunsoft didn't throw this game into the dumpster after losing the Terminator license, because Journey to Silius is one of those seldom-played but everyone-should-play-it NES gems. 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. You can't do that! When I got the box in my hand, however, it was Castlevania III. He then leaps down a nearby hole in the ground and disappears into a vast subterranean labyrinth without a trace. The hero begins the game by awakening from cryogenic sleep, and then goes on to collect a set of four elemental swords to save the world. It was sort of like Mega Man meets Strider, which I thought was spectacular for the time. What resulted was a crisp experience in NES gameplay that still stands up today. Fester's Quest also takes its cues from a hodgepodge of genres, which will appeal to many kinds of gamers. Main character Ryu Hayabusa wielded a katana with deadly precision, and he had a grouping of special weapons to use as well. By the time Mega Man 5 was released, many imagined this would be the Blue Bomber's last foray in the 8-bit world. Zombie Nation pushes the NES graphical capabilities more than any other shooter on the system, with lots of moving enemies, building destruction and a steady stream of pixilated chaos. Entrepreneur, Digital Marketer, The Founder & Admin of TechTanker.Com, Who Likes To Write On Any Topic Related To Blogging, Such As Tech, Wordpress, Make Money Online, Android, Online Tutorials, How to, Computer, SEO, Latest Tips&Tricks and much more. The heroes of Ikari Warriors, Ralf and Clark, even went on to cameo in several of those later games, you can play as them in several King of Fighters sequels, as well as the most recent Metal Slug installments. The inability of the NES to more accurately render detailed animations continues to be one of the system's greatest charms, though, so it's no real negative against the game, just a chuckle-worthy aside that might leave you just a bit embarrassed today. Punch-Out!! Unlike the Adventures of Lolo series, which was unforgiving in its difficulty, Kickle Cubicle's difficulty spikes were much more reasonable. The only RPG game we have ever enjoyed in the NES era is Saint Seiya, and we also don’t include it here. put you in the rookie shoes of underweight title contender Little Mac and challenged you to duck, dodge, jab, hook and uppercut your way to success against one of the greatest rogues' galleries of ridiculous opponents ever assembled for any videogame, ever. Finally we rented it, played co-op, and dominated the game, even leaving the NES on overnight during the dreaded "Everyone looks like player 1 and 2" level. Find Action games tagged NES like Gunmetal Arcadia Zero, Demon Burst, The Tower of Turmoil (NES), Sanki, Project Blue on itch.io, the indie game hosting marketplace. Around the corner from my house growing up was a rare sight these days – a mom and pop video store. Of all the games that were released in the NES era, which games do you think to deserve the best status? Sure it was the sequel to an awesome medieval platformer, but we're pretty sure it was Fabio's bare-breasted likeness smoldering on IronSword's cover art that made this game a smash hit with kids and moms alike. The car is called the G-6155. Brazenly over-the-top, Zombie Nation is one of the few NES titles that doesn't take itself seriously. Tetris was and still is a ludicrously simple and instantly addictive game, and the NES version remains one of the best ways to play it. Something about Adventures of Link scared me–maybe the dark backgrounds in the forest stages, or the increased detail in the enemy designs. When the eight stage select-bound stages were defeated, players entered a more linear part of the game, where both Protoman's and Dr. Wily's multi-stage castles had to be completed for the gamer to see any light at the end of the tunnel. Punch-Out!! How could I forget the cutscenes? But there’s no other NES game that does everything as well as Super Mario Bros. 3. Have you played the Lost Levels? Wizards & Warriors is about probing every corner with your trusty blade for treasure chest, precious gems and the like. When Simon's Quest dropped on the NES in 1988, many gamers were confused. The unique Castlevania II was a popular game, but when it came time for Konami to begin working on Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, the developers felt it was best for the series to return to its action-platforming roots; a decision that proved to be the right one the day the game was released in the fall of 1990. 5. Vague memories of a strange, somewhat girly shooter plagued me as I restocked my NES collection a few years back. Go back and grab it, either on cartridge or through the Wii's Virtual Console, and experience for yourself the defining console debut for one of the Big N's biggest mascots. The NES Willow game is better than George Lucas' movie. Baseball Stars is unequivocally the best baseball game, and overall sports simulation, the NES ever saw. It may strike some as strange that one of the NES's very greatest platformers dispenses with jumping – that essential component of Mario's repertoire – entirely. Only later did I learn the convoluted history of who made what, so Hudson, I owe you an apology for my playground rants about your integrity. While it clearly adopted its non-linear level select structure from Mega Man, the similarities end there. The same thing can also conclude from the first series of Ninja Gaiden in the NES era first. Though this is the penultimate entry in the trilogy, Wizards and Warriors III - Kuros: Visions of Power, followed as a largely forgotten (and Fabio-less) dud. Metroid 6. The Nintendo Entertainment System - we all called it the NES, mind - was the world's first truly great games console. Using your own bubbles to bounce your way up to out of reach platforms takes some serious platforming skills. The Guardian must thwart the planet's demise by setting off Naju's self-destruct sequence before it reaches Earth. One of the best we’ve ever tasted? A game no one bought, but everyone had. But for those who had tasted it, this is one of the best action games at NES. shipped in two forms on the NES, one featuring Mike Tyson as the final boss and the other with him removed. It cannot be reached by simply pressing the button as quickly as possible and hoping that each one of them produces certain damage. What at first appeared to be an awkward platformer quickly revealed itself to be a true test of gaming mettle. It was like memorizing pi but the password was completely useless beyond this game. Mega Man 5 continues the tradition of tight action-platforming which made the series incredibly prolific by the time of its release. Mega Man 2. Gorillas, lizards, frogs and other feral friends can be temporarily tamed when Nemo feeds them candy (do not try this at home), at which points he saddles them up Yoshi-style, allowing him to reach new areas. It has become a dream for all young children, it seems, to be able to act as superheroes, eradicate crime, and return to save the city from any chaos that almost happens. It has its quirks, and the water level is insane, but it crams a lot into an NES cart. Either way, there's a lot to see and like about Fester's Quest. As the name of the game suggests, the idea of Ice Climber is to climb, climb, climb. Simple gameplay, okay multiplayer, and the opportunity to use weapons that you can take in the middle of the fight for extra damage is the main attraction. The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) has a huge, diverse library of games. You cannot be called a gamer if you have never tasted Contra before. But even if we never see it again, it's earned its spot on this countdown. Kratos' Blades of Athena are simply an upgrade of Rygar's one (and only) Diskarmor! Excitebike 14. Most NES gamers seem to have definitely tasted the NES game that took you to the battle of the second world war with the memorable iconic music. And did we mention your car can transform into a boat? While friends moved on to Super NES, I made do with Kirby. Gamers who grew up in the golden era of PlayStation will probably immediately crown Bishi Bashi Special as one of the most fun games they have ever tasted, especially through the mini-theme of the absurd and crazy game. Hah? Whether or not the game was a blast to play is how we decided the order of our beloved NES carts - so don't be surprised if you see an important or influential title below something we loved to play over and over and over again. That is to say games once exclusive to Japan are finally coming over. With a good 6-7 hours of playtime, Faxanadu will keep you entertained even though the password system for continues might not be everyone’s cup of tea. Some of them are good. Fortunately, the game itself is a thoroughly enjoyable 2D action-RPG and something of an underappreciated gem in the NES library, so we often have cause to speak its name. On the one level, you have to fight on a mine train with a myriad of traps, on another level you have to climb buildings to fight bosses that continue to fly vertically, while other levels ask you to fight boss directly while finding out his weaknesses. 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. 3. The top-loading NES replaced the classic system, the Super Nintendo was over two years old, and the 16-bit battle was waging all around it in full force. On that topic, be sure to submit your top 10 games of all time, and top consoles of all time in those thread below by me for the ladder. You could choose from three different player body types, and outfit your team with any combination of them; fast but weak Skinny Guys, brawny but slow Fat Guys, or well-balanced, middle-ground Normal Guys. And refused to publish the game 's labyrinthine dungeons as well as Super Mario Bros 3 or not, extra..., though, is that the NES 's greatest driving games even though they offered themes. That mutates him into an NES Advantage success, like so many to. 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