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Favourite NES game
I actually have a very specific question all of a sudden. What's your favourite NES game?
I'd have to go with either Bionic Commando, Zelda II, or Final Fantasy.
I'd have to go with either Bionic Commando, Zelda II, or Final Fantasy.
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Don't ask me why.
Also love Castlevania III, Mega Man 2, Final Fantasy, Ghosts and Goblins, Rygar, Contra, Gradius, Jackal, Excite Bike.... Too many good games to list... Definately agree with Mega Man 2 being the best, the graphics, music and feel just all come together beautifully in that game.
When I was a kid, I beat Flash Man first. I know most people were in the Air Man first club, but I hated Air Man. The jumps in his level haunted me as a kid. Flash Man was the first robot master I ever beat.
When I'm trying to show off, I beat Quick Man first. The Quick boomerang is the second most useful weapon in the game, and it's a lot of fun to use it in the other robot master's levels. Also, it's very impressive when you get past all the lasers on the first try.
When I'm trying to win, I use the following order. It is tried, and true and guaranteed to win every time.
Quick, Metal, Air, Bubble, Heat, Wood, Flash, Crash
Normally I use this pattern:
Metal, Flash, Wood, Air, Bubble, Heat, Crash, Quick
Super Mario 3
Duckhunt (I've been wanting to play this the last few months)
Blades of Steel
Super Tecmo Bowl
Zelda 1
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A B A Select Start --
Even God knows it.
Actually having Flashman's weaon in Crashman's level does help. Once you get a little less than a quarter of the way you can make it up to the top with JUST enough time to avoid the egg birds.
Anyway, my favorite NES game has to be Dragon Warrior (Quest) 1,3 or 4. I really can't chose between them.
I also enjoy the Dragon Warrior series, DW1 was another of the first few games for the NES I played through. I have DW4 as well but never actually beat that one. FF1 is a given of course. All of these I still have in their full box glory ^_^. So many other good games for that system and many of them rank up there as favorite.
In retrospect, I think it's was one of the longest NES games I've ever played.
I just noticed in the Wikipedia entry I linked that they re-released for the GBC. I never knew about that, wouldn't mind finding that to play through some time ^_^.
When given the choice, developers would almost always make a DX game because there were more potential customers and lower development costs. This hurt the sales of GBCs because nobody needed one to play the latest games. That in turn prevented the creation of more GBC-only games because GBC sales were relatively low. It didn't matter, because it wasn't long before Nintendo released the GBA. They got it right that time and stuck with just GBA-only games. Also, when the GBA came out, the two biggest GBC-only games of all time came out. Those games are Zelda: Oracle of Ages and Zelda: Oracle of Seasons. Most people played them on GBA, and you even got secret things in those games if you played them on GBA.
One GBC-only game that many people forget is Super Mario Bros. Deluxe. I have this game, and IMHO, it's the best version of SMB1 ever. Not only does it have SMB1 and a great challenge mode, but it also has the original Japanese SMB2. The only other way to get that game in the US is in Super Mario All-Stars for SNES where it received a graphic upgrade. SMBD is the only legitimate way to play the original unmodified SMB2 in the US.
Another thing a lot of people don't realize is that a lot of old black and white GB games were re-released as DX games. The most important of these are Link's Awakening, Tetris, Metroid II and Wario II. These are all-time great games, and the DX versions are even better. They added extra things besides color in the upgrades, yet relatively few people actually bought the DX versions. My guess is that it was because they already owned the original.
I bought a GBC on the release date. What can I say? It was a great system that would have been greater if it had been released earlier. The technology just developed too quickly, and the GBA put it to an early demise.
FYI: The GBC had an infra-red port that allowed you to transmit data in very few games. The only time I ever used it was with Pokemon Silver/Gold which were DX games.
Other GBC games to note: Bionic Commando, Commander Keen, Daikatana (lol), Deva Vu 1+2, Donkey Kong Country 1/2 , Dragon Warrior 1+2/3, Dragon Warrior Monsters 1/2, Game and Watch Gallery 2/3, Pokemon Diamond/Crystal/Gold and Wario 3.
And my personal MM2 Robot Master order:
1. Bubble Man
2. Flash Man
3. Metal Man
4. Wood Man
5. Air Man (surprisingly weak to the arm cannon)
6. Crash Man (2 tornado shots and it's over)
7. Fire Man
8. Quick Man (yes, I always used the flash stopper to bypass about half of the beams and then recharged it on the mech enemies later, sue me)
Bionic Commando - Have to agree with Rym on this one. They better make a Wii Sequel!
Battle-toads - nothing like beating your friend up when your trying to play Co-op
Ultima: Exodus - Did I ever figure out out to get anywhere in this game? Did I play it for hours, Yes!
Blaster Master - There is nothing wrong with liking that game Pete!
Star Tropics - They really should make another!
Dragon Warrior - "Does thou love me" "No" "But thou must"
Final Fantasy - Well, I mean it only got me into RPGs (that and Dragon Warrior)
Legacy of the Wizard: Another Motherfucking game that I could never figure out what I was supposed to do but I played the hell out of it!
Oh yea, and Probably the two games I played the Most "Desert Commander" (Advance War for the NES!) and the longest Genghis Khan (I remember playing this after the senior Prom in high school down the shore! Four Player Turn based Action!)
Oh and that reminds me, I've been looking for another Turn based Strategy game for years, since I used to rent it from a video store constantly but never bought it. I believe it was called "Shogun" it was a period game (obviously) that involved unit movement through castles and such when you decided to take over an area and otherwise it was a resource empire builder. Anyone finds a copy of the game or a ROM has my thanks. I've been unable to use the resources of the Internet to find this game which is sad. (though I haven't looked in years)
When I was a little kid I had never seen a zippo lighter, so I had no idea what the hell Heatman was. It wasn't until a few years later that I realized that Heatman was a lighter and not a flaming trash can.