GRecommends: Top 10 NES games (Results revealed, p2)

Super Mario bros
Trog
Punch out!
Kirby
Excitebike
Teenage mutant ninja turtles
The Legend of Zelda
Duck hunt
Balloon fighter

My favourite was Trog, it was pacman but with a dinosaur keeping away from cavemen instead.

Not enough Battletoads appreciation in here. I know it's notoriously difficult but I wouldn't say it's unfairly tough - most bits just need practice.

Turtles on the other hand is cruel and actually rubbish (and I say that as someone who still gave it a nostalgia vote.)

When I was six I travelled to see some distant relatives in the US. One of them had the biggest TV I'd ever seen in my life, and attached to it was this plastic grey box, with Hogan's Alley Duck Hunt and Excitbike. It was love at first sight. And 28 years later here I am.

I didn't have a NES (until I got the NES mini), but both my best friends at primary school did – great memories.

1. Super Mario Bros.
2. Super Mario Bros. 3
3. Snake Rattlle & Roll
4. Chip 'n Dale: Rescure Rangers
5. The Legend of Zelda
6. Micro Machines
7. Solar Jetman: Hunt for the Golden Warship
8. Excitebike
9. Gradius
10. Castlevania III

Jazzem wrote:This is actually pretty tough to narrow down, even speaking as someone who didn't grow up with the system. Quite a few I don't want to leave off the 10 D:

Just a reminder for you to get your votes in Jazzem.

Tsunade wrote:My favourite was Trog, it was pacman but with a dinosaur keeping away from cavemen instead.

That sounds like the sort of thing my 8 year old self would have loved.

Ironhide wrote:
Tsunade wrote:My favourite was Trog, it was pacman but with a dinosaur keeping away from cavemen instead.

That sounds like the sort of thing my 8 year old self would have loved.

It was brilliant, in Pac man when you eat the big white dot you can eat the ghosts, in Trog you turned into a t-rex and ate the cavemen.

Castlevania III
Super Mario Bros. 3
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Duck Hunt
Donkey Kong
Super Off Road
Marble Madness

NES was our first console so I have a lot of fondness for it, but at the same time we never had a lot of games for it hence the short list. Yeah I've emulated nearly every NES game ever since, but wanted to keep this to games I've played on an actual NES.

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Would anyone mind if I made the winning 10 in to a quick GRcade YouTube video with quotes from here in it etc? Just thinking it might be fun.

kerr9000 wrote:Would anyone mind if I made the winning 10 in to a quick GRcade YouTube video with quotes from here in it etc? Just thinking it might be fun.

No problem at all. I was going to try and do GRview articles for all the lists, but have only managed Xbox so far!

In no particular order and mostly based on nostaliga:

Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Dr Mario
Bad Dudes vs Dragon Ninja
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Duckhunt
Castlevania
The Legend of Zelda
Mega Man 2

It's the final set of results (sort of) :cry:

, rounding out with a perfect 10.

1st
Super Mario Bros. 3
Developer: Nintendo R&D4, Publisher: Nintendo
First released: 1988

2nd
Super Mario Bros.
Nintendo Creative Department, Nintendo
1985

3rd
The Legend of Zelda
Nintendo R&D4, Nintendo
1986

4th
Duck Hunt
Nintendo R&D1, Nintendo
1984

5th=
Mega Man 2
Capcom, Capcom
1988

5th=
Super Mario Bros. 2
Nintendo R&D4, Nintendo
1988

7th=
Castlevania
Konami, Konami
1986

7th=
DuckTales
Capcom, Capcom
1989

7th=
Punch-Out!!
Nintendo R&D3, Nintendo
1987

7th=
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Konami, Konami
1989

Bubbling under: Balloon Fight (Nintendo R&D1, 1984), Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (Konami, 1989), Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Capcom, 1990)

Total games nominated: 51, Total voters: 13, Total votes: 119

Thanks for taking the time to vote in this, and in all the GRecommends we've run in the past two years. It's been great to share the memories with you all :toot:

SerialCeler wrote:It's the final set of results (sort of) :cry: ...

...Thanks for taking the time to vote in this, and in all the GRecommends we've run in the past two years. It's been great to share the memories with you all :toot:

Thank you, Sir Celer! I have enjoyed these GRecommends events - it has been fun to consider the games and to place votes :-).

I've also thoroughly enjoyed taking part in this nostalgia fuelled journey through gaming history.

Thanks Celer, it's been fun.

Playing through Super Mario Bros 2 at the moment (right at the end actually) and I'm surprised it gets such good ratings generally and a high ranking here. Really don't think it's anything special.

Lotus wrote:Playing through Super Mario Bros 2 at the moment (right at the end actually) and I'm surprised it gets such good ratings generally and a high ranking here. Really don't think it's anything special.

Isn't that the one that wasn't originally a mario game but was reskinned as a quick sequel due to the success of the first mario bros.

Ironhide wrote:
Lotus wrote:Playing through Super Mario Bros 2 at the moment (right at the end actually) and I'm surprised it gets such good ratings generally and a high ranking here. Really don't think it's anything special.

Isn't that the one that wasn't originally a mario game but was reskinned as a quick sequel due to the success of the first mario bros.

I think it was more because they wanted to release a sequel in the west but thought the real SMB2 was too difficult.

It would seem so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._2

I know they say the difficulty thing, but most games were actually harder for the West than the Japanese versions back then, I don’t buy the it was too difficult line from them. I think it’s more to do with the fact the SMB2 was not a good looking game in comparison to the other games of 1988, Mega Man 2, Ninja Gaiden etc all gorgeous games plus Japan got Super Mario Bros 3 that same month as America got SMB2, I know these were pre internet days but Nintendo would be wanting to start shouting about SMB3 soon and imagine them trying to sell a game that looked like a 1985 game when there was so much better competition in 1988.

Added to the above, The Lost Levels was also deemed to look too similar to Super Mario Bros.

Why didn’t I include Metal Storm?! Stupid Chris.

GRecommends: Top 10 NES games (Results revealed, p2)

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