What's like the "best" games for this console that people actually played when it was the "main" console. Not some youtuber buzzfeed list. That includes games that nobody owned like little samson??

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Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:14:27 2021 No.8472821 [Reply] [Original]

What's like the "best" games for this console that people actually played when it was the "main" console. Not some youtuber buzzfeed list. That includes games that nobody owned like little samson??

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:16:02 2021 No.8472824 Mario, Zelda, the list goes on...

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:16:44 2021 No.8472826 The normal shit like Mario, Zelda, Mega Man, Castlevania, Tetris, etc. Then you have the games everyone owned but probably never beat like TMNT.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:17:05 2021 No.8472827 Just look up old issues of Nintendo Power

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:22:58 2021 No.8472838 The oft-reviled sports stuff was among the biggest selling NES games and the black box Nintendo sports carts, Bases Loaded, Tecmo Bowl, etc were extremely common. Next to that platformers like TMNT, SMB3, etc were major sellers everyone had.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:23:51 2021 No.8472843 >>8472827 Thatd be cool. Where do you suggest I start ? >>8472826 Thinking about it now I wonder how many people beat battle toads. Lmao yeah that makes sense. The classics you cant go wrong with >>8472824

Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:25:30 2021 No.8472849

The youtube buzzfeed lists are actually accurate though, it was mostly first party shit and the popular third parties like Mega Man and Castlevania with lots of middling shit like Karnov or any sports game at all.

I don't get why people think there's anything left to discover about the retro scene.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:27:15 2021 No.8472854 If you looked at Famicom lists it was no better and it would just be sports games, Dragon Quest, and crummy licensed games based on manga/anime.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:27:36 2021 No.8472856 >>8472849 Especially with the NES. Fact is once you get past the A and B listers the library falls off a cliff and is a sea of unplayable trash that maybe is known for being a tie-in like Beetlejuice or something.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:30:29 2021 No.8472861 >>8472856 >Fact is once you get past the A and B listers the library falls off a cliff and is a sea of unplayable trash name a platform where this isn't the case

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:35:20 2021 No.8472874 I'm not above playing old sports games. I like playing mutant foot ball and hockey for the genesis

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:36:26 2021 No.8472881 >the other week >in thrift store >find collection of Atari 2600 carts >which is just sports games and Combat >let me guess, it was one guy's game collection--Combat was the pack-in game and then he bought nothing but sports shit

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:36:29 2021 No.8472882 >>8472861 NES a zillion great random games to pick up and play in moments

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:40:03 2021 No.8472891 >>8472861 That's the point bro. But people keep trying to dig up all the "hidden gems" as if they aren't all well known by now, and half the time the hidden gems aren't even that good.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:41:08 2021 No.8472894 My dad played a lot of the Casino sims.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:42:44 2021 No.8472898 >>8472882 >a zillion great random games HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH >>8472891 Zelda II, Mega Man 3, StarTropics, Dragon Warrior III, Final Fantasy III, Wizards and Warriors II and Super Mario 3. The rest of the library is trash.

Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:46:56 2021 No.8472909

>>8472821
I can tell you the best games that I played as a kid.
>Mario 1/2/3
>Zelda 1/2
>Mike Tyson's Punch Out
>Metal Gear 1 & 2 (yes, 1 was good; but yes, the MSX one is better)
>Bubble Bobble
>1943
>Tetris
>River City Ransom
>Tecmo Bowl
>Joust
>Megaman 3 (didn't play any others in the series until much later)
>RC Pro Am
>Dragon Warrior
>Spot

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:50:07 2021 No.8472916 >>8472898 That's pretty accurate. I'm still discovering interesting NES games. Pretty much every episode of Gamecenter CX features something that looks really cool, that I never heard of.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:53:50 2021 No.8472923 >>8472821 >"best" games for this console that people actually played >That includes that nobody owned? You answered your own question.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 21:58:28 2021 No.8472931 >>8472856 >>8472891 Yeah, God fobid playing something other than commonly accepted classics and "hidden gems" repeated by different youtubers. God forbid searching for something you actually personally like.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 22:02:54 2021 No.8472938 >>8472923 I meant doesn't include those games my bad >>8472909 >>8472898 I'll check all these out

Anonymous Fri Dec 31 22:03:22 2021 No.8472941

>>8472931
Retard, OP asked what the best games on NES were. This subject has already been disected to death since the console is several decades old. Most of the shit that isn't talked about much isn't talked about for a reason. If you want a "best games list" for NES, simply look up "Best NES games" list and you'll have your answer.

What the fuck do you want us to say? "Yeah Dino Riki and Black Manta are top tier games that you shouldn't sleep on",. fuck off.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 22:03:37 2021 No.8472942 >>8472821 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_video_games#Games

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 22:14:27 2021 No.8472965 >>8472942 Lmao I didnt even think of this

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 22:17:19 2021 No.8472973 >>8472821 Monster Party Double Dragon 1 and 2 River City Ransom Ghosts and Goblins Paperboy Chip and Dales rescue rangers

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 22:29:57 2021 No.8472997 >>8472941 Loads of perfectly good games barely get talked about. Especially if they were Japan only. Ever heard of Pizza Pop? Because I hadn't, until recently.

Anonymous Fri Dec 31 22:38:54 2021 No.8473017

>>8472861
A lot of NES trash was barely functional. It was much less likely to run into games that didn't work right on a fundamental level as you move forward in time. Though I don't know what kind of garbage was on the Japanese PS1. I'm sure there's tons of similar nonsense over there.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 22:43:21 2021 No.8473024 >>8473017 Depends how you define "barely functional". You not liking a game doesn't mean it's barely functional.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 22:45:35 2021 No.8473034 >>8472843 Volume 1

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 22:56:56 2021 No.8473050 >>8473024 I mean barely functional. Like collision and basic movement was a mess. Things like proper hitstun wasn't yet common practice. A lot of the things that we take for granted today were formulated in that era and took time to spread.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 22:59:05 2021 No.8473053 >>8473034 Lol well naturally but what would be a good safe site to find them?? Archive ?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 23:00:49 2021 No.8473059 >>8473050 I don't think that makes something barely functional. It's just functioning in a way you don't like.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 23:03:03 2021 No.8473064 >>8473059 Good to know that falling through platforms and not knowing whether I'm getting hit or not is "it functioning in a way I don't like" and not a failure in fundamental design practice.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 23:03:28 2021 No.8473065 >>8473050 SMB was actually impressive for how developed the physics and controls were for the time. Most NES games were much more primitive.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 23:04:52 2021 No.8473070 >>8473065 Agreed. Nintendo really did great work when there wasn't a lot of universal direction.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 23:04:59 2021 No.8473071 >>8473064 Which game is that?

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 23:10:21 2021 No.8473075 Sunsoft Konami Nintendo Capcom

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 23:14:46 2021 No.8473089 >>8472942 >Yie ar kung fu not on the list I loved that game, I assumed it was a best seller

Anonymous Fri Dec 31 23:16:07 2021 No.8473093

not only was game design still just being explored but coding a NES game was difficult. everything was done in assembly language, development and debugging tools were primitive, and adding or removing game assets was tedious A lot of times if a game mechanic that sounded good on paper proved not so good when actually implemented you'd be stuck with it since the game had a deadline to be completed and shipped.

Anonymous Fri Dec 31 23:30:01 2021 No.8473128

>>8472843
Archive.org probably has them, but they're all floating around in a big pack online in various places. I was a kiddo at the tail-end of the NES's lifespan, and I never had one, but my friend and I would play TMNT II at his house all the time. Everyone loved that game, I still do.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 23:31:38 2021 No.8473132 >>8472898 What a bizarre list >>8473089 Yie Ar Kung Fu didn't have an NES release at all. It was very common on multicarts, so you may have played it on an NES at some point. Obviously was very popular on Famicom.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 23:36:10 2021 No.8473145 File: 55 KB, 1000x1000, pepe.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8473053 Retromags

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 23:40:28 2021 No.8473153 later period NES games definitely improved but if you were to try something like Milon's Secret Castle it's a crude game with limited physics that has aged like sour milk

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 31 23:46:41 2021 No.8473167 Castlevania is the classic example of a NES game that controls like a brick.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 00:13:03 2022 No.8473217 >>8473153 More like Milon's shitty asshole

Anonymous Sat Jan 1 00:40:47 2022 No.8473269

>>8473145
Based that worked
>>8473128
I was a kid around that time too but maybe a little after. I know the nes was discontinued in like 94 95 or something pretty late but every one I knew growing up had a snes or genesis that was my era as a kid.

Then immediately ps1 n64. So I never really played nes games much

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 03:36:28 2022 No.8473524 >>8473217 I get it, Mike Matel said that right? Funny funny stuff.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 03:39:36 2022 No.8473532 >>8472821 contra smb1-3 final fantasy metroid zelda megaman 1-3 not good games people played: TMNT bart vs. the space mutants back to the future star force karnov double dragon 3 indiana jones and the temple of doom

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 03:49:19 2022 No.8473549 >>8472997 That's your example? Jesus christ...

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 04:18:33 2022 No.8473575 >>8473524 No it was the angry videogame nerd you little shitpickle

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 04:29:08 2022 No.8473587 >>8472821 >"best" games for this console that people actually played Ice Climber, SMB and Mega Man

Anonymous Sat Jan 1 04:36:13 2022 No.8473595

NES was mostly ass. But where it shines it shines HARD.
OTOH the SMS has more good games but nothing that really touches those Nintendo shines.
The PC Engine was the first home game console with consistent good games, and from there things just got better.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 04:56:11 2022 No.8473634 >>8472821 Punch-Out is easily the best game on NES, it's shocking how high-quality it is compared to every other game on the system. Has aged phenomenally.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 04:58:25 2022 No.8473640 >>8473634 You know, this isn't really inaccurate.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 05:16:52 2022 No.8473659 >>8472821 Sports games, games with guys with guns shooting things, and licensed crap.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 05:19:38 2022 No.8473662 >>8473659 You forgot the best puzzle games ever.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 05:22:31 2022 No.8473664 >>8473662 OP asked what was popular with normies in the heyday of the system's lifespan. It wasn't puzzle games.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 05:24:31 2022 No.8473665 >>8473664 Tetris says "hello".

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 05:24:58 2022 No.8473668 >>8473659 also beat em' ups. Specifically the TMNT II and III games and Double Dragon.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 05:26:01 2022 No.8473671 >>8473665 NES Tetris wasn't especially popular.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 05:49:03 2022 No.8473710 >>8473575 Oh sorry. I only watch him for his horror movie discussions. I think his angry boy thing is cringey and it put me off of looking at any of the other content he had to offer for years.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 06:42:43 2022 No.8473762 >>8472849 >I don't get why people think there's anything left to discover about the retro scene. seems 2 sided to me >gamers looking for their next fix >new youtubers trying to get ahead of the curve for subs

Anonymous Sat Jan 1 06:47:16 2022 No.8473769

>>8472909
>I can tell you the best games that I played as a kid.

i'll bite

>Zanac
>Guardian Legend
>Gradius / life force
>Castlevania 1/2 (got fun-filtered by 3)
>Crystalis
>River City Ransom
>Double Dragon
>Dragon Warrior 1/2/3
>Ultima 3 and 4 (not very fun in hindsight if you dont respect the grind)
>rc-pro am
>rad racer
>Iron Tank

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 06:59:20 2022 No.8473784 >>8472821 Sega Master System > NES

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 07:18:23 2022 No.8473803 >>8472827 >>8472843 I got my first Nintendo Power in the hospital when my parents bought me one when I had my tonsils out. Started with the full strategy guide ones they did for a while with Ninja Gaiden 2 and Final Fantasy.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 07:19:29 2022 No.8473804 >>8472861 I would say N64 comes pretty close, but that's because it wasn't a third-party friendly console.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 07:57:50 2022 No.8473848 File: 71 KB, 400x400, Hydlidechamp.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8472942 >74. Hydlide Hydlide bros we keep winning! (I think OP would like a list with non-japanese sales figures though)

Anonymous Sat Jan 1 08:05:16 2022 No.8473858

>>8472821
SMB games
Mega Man games
Castlevania games
Dragon Warrior games
Zeldas
Final Fantasy
TMNTs
Battletoads
Tetris
Games that were kind of shit but everyone had or rented were probably things like LJN games, Street Fighter 2010, lots of Data East games.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 11:23:46 2022 No.8474197 >>8473634 What's amazing is that you'd think Mike Tyson being in the game would date it but it really doesn't.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 18:03:54 2022 No.8475324 >>8472821 Nobody knows. Everyone just parrots youtube lists. They don't play games just shitpost about them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 18:24:46 2022 No.8475435 >>8472909 Doing this also >SMB 1-3 >Commando >Bubble Bobble >Megaman 1-6 >Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers >Contra and Super C >Final Fantasy >Breakthru >Jackal >Kung Fu >TMNT

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 18:27:16 2022 No.8475446 File: 3 KB, 256x224, nemo.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8472821 Little Nemo bonus points if you ever watched the movie

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 1 18:30:12 2022 No.8475459 >>8473549 You got a problem with Pizza Pop?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 02:45:25 2022 No.8476773 File: 619 KB, 1740x2376, little-nemo-19051015-l.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8475446 What about bonus points for reading the original comic book from 1905?

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 04:54:32 2022 No.8476976 File: 474 KB, 1280x1723, 1637779447525.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] A good bet is looking at Nintendo Power Top lists. Check the list in every issue and every time a new game pops up, add it to your play list

Anonymous Sun Jan 2 10:25:24 2022 No.8477312
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>>8472821
I don't know if all of these were big hits and popular or anything, but I can confirm these to be good:
>Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, & 3
>Ninja Gaidens
>S.C.A.T / Action In New York
>Batman
>Zelders
>Metroid
>Bubble Bobble
>Ducktales
>Fester's Quest
>Punch-Out
>Tetris
>Megaman
>Blaster Master
>Castlevania
>Gremlins 2
>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
>Duck Hunt
>Lone Ranger
>Battletoads
>Wizards & Warriors
>Life Force / Salamander
>Contra

>>8472843
TMNT and Battle Toads were games which most people probably never beat back then, they're so fucking good, but so fucking harsh. I saw someone describe TMNT as "Finding the fine line between just hard enough that it's fun, and so hard it's fucking impossible, then taking a huge shit on it."

>>8474197
He's still famous, and his reputation as a boxing titan of the era I think still carries. Dude was an absolute machine in his prime, so having him as your final boss in your boxing game I think simply works.
It'd be like having a game about trick shooting featuring Annie Oakley, she was the absolute best to the point that her name is associated with being a crack shot still to this day, many decades after her passing.

>>8473858
Streetfighter 2010 is one of those games which is on the brink of being good, but has some bad design decisions which hold it back hard. There's a bunch of other games like that in the library too, prime romhack material.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 10:44:38 2022 No.8477349 >>8476976 Bonus points for Famitsu lists

Anonymous Sun Jan 2 10:47:30 2022 No.8477354

Are we talking about the actual libraries that normalfags had on the NES back in the day? Really not much different than any other library including modern day consoles. People generally had a mix of the really obvious typical stuff as well as a bunch of sports games trash.

For example the NES was my first console but I got it in the mid 90s from someone giving it away. So I got the console itself and one of those nintendo carrying cases that holds 10 games. The stand-out titles I got were SMB1, SMB3, Punch Out and Double Dragon 2. The rest were all sports games like bases loaded, golf, some volleyball game, etc.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 10:52:24 2022 No.8477367 my sister had a PS1 and although she had many of the usual standards like Crash, Spyro, and FF7 we never had a single sports game. I take pride in that.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 10:56:00 2022 No.8477374 >>8477367 The only sports game we had on NES was Blades Of Steel. I guess Duck Hunt counts if you select the clay shooting game.

Anonymous Sun Jan 2 10:58:11 2022 No.8477378

>>8477367
I don't understand the mentality of people who buy sports games. You can have anything in the world, and you want a no thrills virtual recreation of that sport you watch on TV, because that's the extent of what your imagination will allow. I just feel like they're lesser people somehow.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 10:58:27 2022 No.8477379 Any NES game by Nintendo, Capcom or Konami. They can be filed under the assumption that they are a safe quality standard

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 11:00:59 2022 No.8477380 >>8477379 They had the occasional lemon here and there and Konami purposely mangling the NES release of Contra so they could use a smaller, cheaper cartridge ROM is hard to overlook.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 11:14:29 2022 No.8477410 >>8477380 That's still a great game though. It just lacks some extra sprites.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 17:50:49 2022 No.8478429 >>8473858 >Street Fighter 2010 This game is really good though. The only thing that would have led people to dislike it back then is the bizarre use of the Street Fighter name.

Anonymous Sun Jan 2 18:02:28 2022 No.8478454

>>8477378

My favorite NES sports game was Baseball Simulator 1.000 because it let you play with crazy superpowers, which of course changed the game quite a bit. But you can also play without them... in fact the game presents them as if they're a secondary option, with the main option being a simulation (as the title suggests) of a season of mundane baseball. It amazes me on some level to think that anybody might ever even consider actually playing that game for a full season WITHOUT any teams capable of using superpowers. But people like that surely exist.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 19:21:48 2022 No.8478653 >>8478429 While I agree it's a pretty good game, it's pretty hard to ignore the admittedly janky controls.

Anonymous Sun Jan 2 19:32:03 2022 No.8478685

>>8477378
there are tons of empty NPCs who feel nothing inside and play only sports games. oh well, it's a necessity to bring home the bacon. the gaming industry makes like half or more of their total profits from sports games. perhaps your favorite obscure Famicom shmup could not exist without 10 million copies of Bases Loaded being sold.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 19:35:56 2022 No.8478701 >>8472821 I had a shitload of Sunsoft games that I played, Ufouria was my favourite as a kid

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 19:46:22 2022 No.8478726 >>8472821 Every single game made by Nintendo R&D1 is a must play. Nothing defines the console more than those games.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 19:47:50 2022 No.8478729 I am very surprised nobody has brought up Gimmick

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 19:48:15 2022 No.8478730 >>8472821 Blaster Master and Faxanadu were two games that I had that I loved a LOT

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 19:50:51 2022 No.8478740 >>8477378 Blades of Steel is one of the best games on NES. Play continues immediately from where the fight started and it's the loser who gets the penalty.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 19:53:16 2022 No.8478747 >>8473071 It's far from the worst game on the NES but TMNT does fit that description. Collision is really wonky in that game.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 19:57:02 2022 No.8478753 NES games are prone to really bad collision detection since there's no hardware collision registers. It requires you do manual bounds checking and sloppy coding could result in stuff like falling through the platform things in the Ice Man stage in MM1.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 19:58:37 2022 No.8478758 >>8478753 Mega Man 1 has a lot of weirdness. Mercy invincibility from enemies but not spikes catches you off guard.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 20:01:27 2022 No.8478765 It wasn't just the NES, to be fair. It took a long time for designers to appreciate the importance of proper hitstun. It's probably the number one reason why Street Fighter 1 is so much worse than Street Fighter II.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 20:14:41 2022 No.8478803 >>8478758 They were still experimenting with the game design at that point and the lead programmer was a guy who'd coded control software for industrial equipment so he didn't know vidya all that well.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 20:19:01 2022 No.8478814 Nintendo has never included collision registers in any of their 2D consoles.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 20:21:01 2022 No.8478824 >>8478729 great game but OP literally said that he doesn't want games from some youtube vid that nobody owned

Anonymous Sun Jan 2 20:35:28 2022 No.8478861

>>8478803
I have a theory that this is why Nintendo was so good at making video games. While almost everyone else in the industry came out of electrical engineering and TV/computer technology, Nintendo was a toy company and Miyamoto's background was in industrial design. So they were uniquely interested in the ins and outs of how the user actually interacted with the product and what feedback they'd get from it.

Anonymous Sun Jan 2 20:39:45 2022 No.8478873

>>8478861
Even the way consoles were built conveys this. American engineers would put together a machine that can do "anything" and leave the programmers to decide how to use it. For geniuses like Carmack this can be a great thing but for everyone else it can be a problem. Nintendo basically built it's consoles with very specific functionality in comparison. The Jaguar's hardware, as an example, is actually pretty interesting but it's very sink or swim.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 20:46:19 2022 No.8478895 >>8478873 >geniuses like Carmack reddit meme

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 20:47:44 2022 No.8478902 >>8478873 as for example the Atari 2600 >there's no frame buffer you can draw anything you want provided you can do it in the available raster time go nuts

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 20:56:17 2022 No.8478930 >>8478902 That race the beam shit still amazes me. The 2600 was rudimentary even by 1970s standards.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 22:37:17 2022 No.8479152 >>8477367 The only sports games i ever liked were nba jam and nfl blitz

Anonymous Sun Jan 2 22:40:10 2022 No.8479162 [DELETED]

A few weeks ago I found at a flea market a couple of Atari 2600 carts which were Combat and a few sports games (think most of them were Activision titles). My guess is it was all one guy's game collection and he was an extreme NPC ie. Combat was the pack-in game that came with the console and he only bought sports games.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 22:42:42 2022 No.8479167 File: 83 KB, 1024x560, 1024px-Bally-Arcade-Console.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8479152 on a more blessed timeline this boy won the 2nd generation

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 22:43:43 2022 No.8479171 >>8479167 meant for >>8478930 lol

Anonymous Sun Jan 2 22:47:53 2022 No.8479190

>>8472843
There's archives of old gaming magazines in lots of places, such as archive.org.
A lot of old magazines were really cool because they were full of guides, maps and cheat codes; stuff that can easily be found on the web now but was incredibly handy to have back then.
After the internet gained ground a lot of magazines and websites just sort of became a mouthpiece for the industry; sanitized reviews, cover stories recapping bullshit footage the final game wouldn't be anything like.
But binging these old ones is a great way to discover games you may not have played before, especially if they come with any material that teaches you about the game.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 22:49:01 2022 No.8479192 >>8472909 I didn't even know Joust was on the NES, neat.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 22:54:35 2022 No.8479206 >>8478930 In a way, but still more advanced than the Coleco Telstar and Channel F.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 22:57:16 2022 No.8479214 >>8479167 BALLY-SAMAAAAA I KNEEEEEEEL

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 2 23:10:27 2022 No.8479257 >>8479167 I wonder why Bally could neither make the license to Pac-Man less tight nor keep the home rights to their own arcade games like wizard of wor?

Anonymous Sun Jan 2 23:17:00 2022 No.8479276
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>>8472881
>local community market in the neighbouring town
>my dad takes me there almost every sunday
>shit is magical, feel like I can find anything and always come home with a treasure
>various oldies selling off atari 2600 games, even in the early 2000s
>my dad kept his old atari 2600 and colecovision, collect games for both
>H.E.R.O. and cosmic ark are unbelievably based, my dad really likes asteroids but we find 3 broken copies in a row
>my dad bets $1 or $2 coins with me on games of atari 2600 tennis, have a blast
>use it to fund my bootleg yu-gi-oh card, old games, and book/vhs purchases the next sunday
thank you dad

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 02:14:06 2022 No.8479646 >>8478429 I cannot cope with the controls and tight time limits.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 02:16:24 2022 No.8479652 >>8478803 Admirable effort in that case, because the game is ultimately still very playable, if rather hard.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 02:21:01 2022 No.8479661

>>8472821
Post-Soviet countries played that shit in the 90s, and they all had Disney Capcom games like Duck Tales, Chip & Dale, and Darkwing Duck. I suggest checking those out, it's some of the most impressive stuff on the console, even though it arrived pretty late.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 02:21:18 2022 No.8479662

>>8479190
>After the internet gained ground a lot of magazines and websites just sort of became a mouthpiece for the industry; sanitized reviews, cover stories recapping bullshit footage the final game wouldn't be anything like.
Kind of, but this was already happening in the 80s and 90s, shillrags and paid reviews are pretty damn retro.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 02:22:07 2022 No.8479663 >>8479661 Capcom's output of licensed Disney shit on Nintendo and Sega was bafflingly good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 02:24:45 2022 No.8479668 >>8479276 Sounds very comfy. Aren't 2600 games still fairly inexpensive, or did WATA ruin that too?

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 02:45:35 2022 No.8479718

>>8479668
back then we were buying them at the market for AU$1-3, I have no idea what actual market prices would be.
I'd say I have somewhere between 25-30 games I got at that price, but no clue how many still would work (they're stored at my parents' house somewhere and I can't imagine they're well protected)

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 08:14:10 2022 No.8480109 >>8478653 I have no idea what you're talking about. I remember it just being a normal run-and-jump-and-shoot game? I mean, control-wise. It's kinda weird in some other ways.

Anonymous Mon Jan 3 12:56:01 2022 No.8480758

>>8473595
>OTOH the SMS has more good games
No, and it's not even close. The SMS library is terrible
>The PC Engine was the first home game console with consistent good games, and from there things just got better.
If you're not in the mood for shooters then you're limited to a handful of games worth playing. Rondo, and Dragon's Trap are the only great non-shooters. And even its shooters aren't at the apex of the genre

The NES dominates both of these consoles combined, both in breadth of worthwhile games and in heights reached by their respective top tier games

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 13:00:01 2022 No.8480762 >>8479663 Disney were shrewd at picking quality developers for their licensed games back then; they had Capcom for console games and Sierra for computer games.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 14:58:40 2022 No.8480993 Op here been reading the thread and just wanted to say thanks bros for all the reccomends. Got like 40 games. Itll probably take me a while to play through these

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 15:31:19 2022 No.8481071 >>8476773 Holy shit were people completely incapable of filling in details a hundred years ago?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 17:46:51 2022 No.8481513 >>8480993 Add Legacy of the Wizard to the list. Idk why nobody ever talks about it. It’s fantastic.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jan 3 19:32:05 2022 No.8481870 >>8481513 Alright for sure.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 01:45:50 2022 No.8482824 Snow Bros. Adventure Island Kirby's Adventure Circus Charlie Pooyan Bomberman Super Mario Bros. 2 JP Tiny Toon Adventures Kid Icarus

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 04:29:19 2022 No.8483095 >>8480993 Hope you have fun!

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 04:50:48 2022 No.8483128

>>8473024
Dragon's Lair is super well produced for a NES game and it's just barely playable what does that say about devs who didnt care as much, there's a reason people circlejerk too hard the good and popular ones. Thankfully the genesis in a way feels like the NES except the chances of a game both looking and playing decently grow exponentially thanks to the lots and lots of competition publishers had by then.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 04:56:38 2022 No.8483138 >>8480758 Didnt PC Engine had rpgs too? Before Nintendo then sony became the designated consoles for them of course

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 05:04:01 2022 No.8483147

>>8473634
Between that and Mario 3, one represents what people mean by "Nintendo hard" while the other one represents more what they would end up doing in the future. My zoomer ass played these 2 way too much even in an era with thousands of games available with emulation, trying to speedrun all SMB3 levels and just trying to beat punch out at all is peak NES experience to me.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 05:09:14 2022 No.8483157 >>8483147 >My zoomer ass played these 2 way too much even in an era with thousands of games available with emulation Out of thousands, you picked two good games, I don't see the issue there.

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 12:40:35 2022 No.8484075

Adventures of Lolo (and sequels) - good puzzles never get old
Marble Madness, short and sweet
Dr. Mario was quite popular
if you're into Gradius, maybe throw in Abadox; add Gradius II if you're willing to accept Famicom-only games
I liked Solstice a lot as a kid, and it's still one of the few Follin-music'd games I actually like
Maniac Mansion is unique (on the console) and good
Metal Storm is kinda one of those YouTube buzzy games but I did personally play it and like it as a kid
I loved Shadowgate as a kid; it's probably too shallow for an adult but you might enjoy its wackiness and soulful music anyway (if not then maybe the similar and allegedly superior Deja Vu would be worth trying)
I don't think ALL the Konami/Ultra TMNT games have been mentioned in this thread - but I do think that probably all of them are good and worth trying

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 18:19:44 2022 No.8485143 >>8481071 >y shakespeare no emoji?

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 20:01:30 2022 No.8485415

>>8484075
>Dr. Mario was quite popular

More falling blocks/block elimination games you could try if you wanted: Tetris of course, Tetris 2, Wario's Woods, Klax, Yoshi, Yoshi's Cookie. Most of these were artificially attached to famous franchises (Tetris and Mario), which means they probably sold pretty well and were thus games people actually played. All are quick and easy to try. Some will have "puzzle" modes that remove time pressure (as opposed to the standard action-puzzle mode, in which you're always hurrying), and that provide only handmade problems for you to cleverly unravel. That kind of mode is almost always fun for players who like logic puzzles, regardless of the quality of the rest of the game. Some (Wario's Woods, Yoshi's Cookie, Tetris 2) also have SNES versions, which are probably prettier and might have additional modes. SNES offers additional games of this type of course, including the miraculous Tetris Attack.

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 20:36:21 2022 No.8485514

>>8477378
When you really like a sport, it's really fun to play a game of it. Watching is a completely different experience, why would someone even make that comparison in a videogame board.

Obviously playing it in real life is best but it's really not different from playing any other kind of game. Sports are games in themselves. And it's especially fun to compete against friends. Only thing I think it too much is getting the games yearly. But the people who do that have a network of friends who do the same and have to stay current since they kill servers of the last game and updates before the new one comes out.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 21:35:37 2022 No.8485673 >>8485514 >i have never played a sport in my life It shows

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 21:39:03 2022 No.8485682 >>8485514 Why would you not at least put death traps on the field though? Or make the players all beautiful women? The boundless potential of video games, and you want football. Just football. And every year the same football.

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:57:32 2022 No.8485909

>>8485673
I just knew this comment was coming. I played NBA videogames by far the most when I was going to the park everyday. Everyone there played too. Total projection.

>>8485682
There are arcade versions like Street, and also simulation versions which people also enjoy. It's funny because same fags like you are the ones who hype up Blitzball which is awful.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:06:03 2022 No.8485920 >>8485514 I love boxing, but due to health problems I had to cut my ringtime short. Stuff like fight night helps me cope.

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:45:59 2022 No.8485996
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>>8472881
>>let me guess, it was one guy's game collection--Combat was the pack-in game and then he bought nothing but sports shit
that is the average north American gamer. Sports games have been the backbone of every console gen since the 1970s.

The "top 20 best selling" numbers for each console get skewed because bundled packaging, virtual console sales, "flashback classic" bundles for later systems, and other re-releases of seemingly iconic games heavily pad the numbers and often leave out the sports titles. People look at wiki and are tricked by the endless re-releasing of mascot character games. There is a reason the thrift stores are choking on old sports titles for every console gen.

The thing people forget is that sports games have "dad appeal" and it is dad buying the consoles. For anyone who lived in this era, the games kids actually owned were sport titles. Getting your dad you buy you a baseball game was a hell of a lot easier than getting him to buy you some Japanese cartoon shit. At my school far, far more kids owned NES ice hockey, bases loaded, and tecmo bowl and the only mario games they owned came with their system. This carried through the 16 bit era as the EA annual sport titles drove day to day sales, in between the mega hits like street fighter 2 that rolled around every few years or flagship games like sonic/mario.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:54:48 2022 No.8486025 >>8485996 >used game stores with NES Baseball and Golf in stacks 20-30 cartridges high The horror, the horror.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 00:05:50 2022 No.8486043 in Japan it's no better. used game bins are filled with piles of baseball and mahjong shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 02:05:48 2022 No.8486312 >>8481071 Kind of, you get this with old political comics. All the strawmen are prattling on forever, there' barely enough room for the test. The modern equivalent is putting labels on everything.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 02:09:12 2022 No.8486316 >>8483138 It had some very good Falcom titles for the CD addon, and what's amazing was that a few even came out overseas with dubbed voice acting.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 02:17:47 2022 No.8486330 File: 656 KB, 1200x1560, treason.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8486312 Some old political cartoons are alright.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 02:20:18 2022 No.8486335 >>8481071 it kind of seems like a transitional form of the medium, between picture books and what we see today (we still have narration though)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 02:22:13 2022 No.8486340 >>8473595 I like the PCE, but there’s a lot of mediocre junk on it, especially on hucard. I guess there’s a lot of trash on NES/FC but the library is so vast that that stuff fades into the background easily

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 03:13:14 2022 No.8486430 >>8486330 You know I was actually thinking of that very one as a counterpoint to my post, as I hit enter. That's one of the classics.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 03:35:31 2022 No.8486474 >>8472821 Blaster Master The Guardian Legend Rygar Little Nemo Kid Nikki the Radical Ninja Iron Sword games Faxanadu

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 03:37:06 2022 No.8486475 >>8484075 Seconding Shadowgate.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 03:52:26 2022 No.8486494 >>8485909 But shouldn't you have playing horse riding games when your mommy was taking you to the park every day to ride on the spring horsies?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 11:29:02 2022 No.8487376 >>8484075 >>8486475 Shadowgate is probably best, but Uninvited is not far behind never did finish Deja Vu

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 15:26:37 2022 No.8488137 >>8486340 the SNES has almost 350 more games than the NES

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 15:34:21 2022 No.8488162 >>8484075 >maybe throw in Abadox No fuck this troll post, Abadox is one of the worst bullshit shmups on the NES. Try: Salamander / Life Force Burai Fighter Dragon Spirit Hell I'll even vouch for King's Knight over Abadox any day.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 20:44:22 2022 No.8489038 >>8472826 had all of those except castlevania (and including TMNT), can confirm >Mega Man 2, to be precise

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 6 09:24:16 2022 No.8490854 >>8488162 >Hell I'll even vouch for King's Knight over Abadox any day. Speaking of troll posts... Well anyway OP could try any and all of those, because why not? These aren't long games, and you can always just quit.

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