Old, old school: The original NES discussion thread!

My favorite mobs were the egg shooters. Jumping, landing on an egg and grabbing it was so unique for the time.

 

Those hawk gate things after beating the Birdos creeped me out when I saw them for the first time. Hey, I was only 6 at the time!

 

The hawk gate that attacks you in the final level scared the **** out of me when I first saw it.

 

One time as a kid I put $10 in the TMNT arcade game. I got all the way to Shredder and even had him to the point where his mask was off. Then I died and had no more quarters. To this day I wish I had that $10 back. lol

On the brighter note, I loved TMNT2 on the NES. It was probably my favorite game with SMB3 as a close second. I was also a big fan of the first Batman game. The NES was a superb gaming system.

EDIT: How could I forget a nod to Castlevania? All three games on the original NES were awesome!

 

Oh man, I dropped so much time in Simon's Quest. That game is one of the most frustrating I ever played.

 

for me that game was ghosts 'n goblins. so fun but so incredibly hard. i remember making it to the last level only to have my friend trip over the cord and unplug the console.

 

I would've been so mad.

 

Haha ah man something similar happened when my uncle was playing SMB 3. He was right at Bowser and my sister was standing near the NES and her foot accidentally pressed the reset button.

 

Actually I don't remember the game being hard so much as disappointing in the end. Dracula was EASY in Simon's Quest when compared to Castlevania 1 or 3.

 

I didn't have the attention span back then. That's probably why I had so much trouble with it.

 

I wore my thumbs out and got blisters from playing Tecmo Bowl.

 

I used that technique against the mousers and most of the bosses. However, against regular foot soldiers, I would always use the jump+slash attack.

 

IGN recently started their Top 100 NES Games countdown. Some highlights for me:

100. ICE HOCKEY!!! This game is still a ton of fun. Almost every time I go to my friend's house, who has it, we play it until our thumbs hurt.

98. TMNT: Still haven't beaten this. AVGN's review is a classic but I still think it's a great game.

94. Kickle Cubicle: Pleasantly surprised this made the list.

 

All 6 Mega Man games are on that list. That is just awesome.

 

"Old, old school"? Then what does that make consoles like the Coleco, Intellivision and especially the Atari VCS?

But regarding the NES, I didn't have one myself, but I did watch Captain N and Legend of Zelda on TV. Great toons, they were.

 

Sorry, but seeing you say 'Captain N' I just had to :

Nostalgia Critic reviews Captain N
Part 1
Part 2

 

Well, if that's so, that they only made the toons as big ads to sell their games (which they obviously were) then they didn't work on me, 'cause I never bought or even played a NES. But I remember enjoying the toons though.

 

I've heard of Rush'n Attack and Klax. Suffice to say they're not very good, even back then.

 

I had never heard of many of the games on that list.

 

Rush'N'Attack was an awesome side scroller that was a huge hit in arcades. It translated ok to consoles but it was a lot more fun to play in the arcades.