Old, old school: The original NES discussion thread!

ITT we discuss the glory days of the original Nintendo Entertainment System.
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Let's talk about nostalgic memories, favorite games and other great stories we all had with this classic system.

I remember one time I got too close to the screen with the zapper gun while playing Duck Hunt and I actually cracked the glass on my TV in my enthusiasm to shoot those darn ducks.

And of course, Mega Man 2 still rocks even today.

 

IGN recently named it the #1 console of all time.

 

Can't forget the "blowing into the console" trick that made the games work.

My favorite games on the NES were Metroid and Legend of Zelda.

 

I'm almost tempted to bid on it;

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Gaming/Other-Nintendo/SNES-NES/auction-241707011.htm

 

That's a pretty good price for that. I'd go for it.

 

Actually, I meant this one...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Computers/Vintage/auction-241579389.htm

 

I'd still go for the first one.

 

Oh man, you're right on the money about friends getting together to experience the beating of games. I distinctly remember quite a few times having a room full of my friends while flying out of the DS II (granted that was SNES) or landing on the carrier at the end of Top Gun, beating Mother Brain in Metroid and having to run like hell to get out in time. I remember playing Tecmo Bowl sessions all night long. My best friend and I would go through an entire season in a day. I remember when we beat Zelda for the first time.

It's a shame experiences like that have been diluted because of the proliferation of consoles, online game sites and PC games.

 

I spent a ton of time around the Galaga box as a teen, both playing and watching other skilled players. Did the same thing for Street Fighter as well.

Ninja Gaiden was another NES game that offered "how did you get past that" moments when I was growing up.

 

Ah...Galaga.

So cool, Hollywood used its sound effects in the skiFfy masterpiece WarGames.

Galaga.

Nothing matches the Zen-like calm during the three seconds you hover in space awaiting that first wave of invading enemy ships.

Galaga.

Galaxian is such a giant pile of crap compared to the greatness of Galaga.

 

Galaga was the first thing I got from X-Box Live Marketplace after I got my 360.

 

Yeah, I downloaded the original, plus Galaga Legions off LIVE when they went up about a year or so back. I lent out my NES cart years earlier to a "buddy," and never got it back.

(...Your day will come, my friend. I have the long memory of a pachyderm.)

You could play Galaga with chalk on the sidewalk, and it would still be fun. Words cannot describe the joy I feel when I come upon a sit-down Galaga machine in a bar. The quarters levitate from my pocket on their own.

 

Man, the fortune I've spent on games. It started in the arcades and the NES took it from there. I couldn't wait to get home from school to play Zelda. I remember talking about Ganon and beating him at school and at the skating rink.

 

Nothing like a one hit kill after you've scoured the entire world for hours and hours and hours.

I really enjoyed the Top Gun game. Landing on the carrier was an exercise in patience. The missions weren't that hard but the landing afterwards always caused some nice tension.

The Tecmo Bowl sessions are the ones I remember the most. I was always the Raiders and I moved Willie Gault to RB along with Bo Jackson.

 

Tecmo Bowl had a weird quirk like that when you called plays. You would only get the amount of time it took the first person to select a play took. So we had the same 5 second rule so we had enough time to at least look at the plays. We played it so much that we knew the plays by heart and that rule was eventually eliminated.

 

I never could beat Ninja Gaiden 2 when I was a kid. In fact, I don't think I ever beat it for the first time until I was in my 20s.

 

That game was brutally hard.


Loved Super Mario Brothers 2 on the NES. You can tell that game wasn't supposed to be a SMB game. Still one of my all time favorites.

 

There were times when I actually preferred SMB2 to the others.

 

Same here. I couldn't wait to buy it. The game still has some of the coolest levels of any game ever made.

 

And who could forget this classic SMB3 commercial?