Greatest N.E.S. Game of All Time?

[1to392831weretaken]

Not even close.

For the Gameboy, that is the correct answer. Not the NES.

Hard disagree. NES had the best controller feel for that game. From when I was old enough to have a TV in my room, I ended every day passing the controller back and forth with my little brother, taking turns at Tetris until the wee hours. I would warm up on level 19, then drop to 9 for maximum points haul (you get 100 lines on the level you start on, so level 9 was a good combination of points per line vs. ease of Tetrises). The goal would be to get up to at least level 16 or so without anything but Tetrises. I think my best game ended on something like level 24.

 

[chuck]

Tetris and Tecmo Bowl were both right there, but I couldn't put SM 1-3 down until I mastered all of them. 3 was the best of the bunch iirc.

I had a fighter pilot game called Sky Shark that was right there with these three.

 

[Purple_Pills]

Tetris and Tecmo Bowl were both right there, but I couldn't put SM 1-3 down until I mastered all of them. 3 was the best of the bunch iirc.

SM 2 is a clear lagger for me. 1 is great because it is the OG, and 3 is in my top 3 because of the “choose your own adventure” (as opposed to linear style) interface suited perfectly with my personality.

 

[chuck]

Tetris and Tecmo Bowl were both right there, but I couldn't put SM 1-3 down until I mastered all of them. 3 was the best of the bunch iirc.

SM 2 is a clear lagger for me. 1 is great because it is the OG, and 3 is in my top 3 because of the “choose your own adventure” (as opposed to linear style) interface suited perfectly with my personality.

I loved the flying suits they introduced in SM3 and how well they designed levels so that, while the suit could basically help you cheat past early levels, it was the only way to pass later ones and you had to be really good with it.

When I try I can easily visualize 1 and 3, but can't actually remember much from #2. I think there was some kind of flying suit thing in it too, but it was more like a glider thing where you'd come crashing down.

 

[Swaye]

OG Mario Brothers was as good as it gets. Many here are too young to understand the greatness of that game. Loved Excitebike as well.

 

[1to392831weretaken]

Outside of Tetris, there was this game called Blaster Master that was totally rad. Super hard game with no saves (like most back then), so I had to be a total loser and go at it for months, getting a little further every time. Beating the game took over four hours, so it was quite the long haul.

 

[DerekJohnson]

I probably played Double Dribble more than any of them followed by Tecmo Bowl. But Legend of Zelda was lots of fun too so I'm going with that one.

 

[DerekJohnson]

I loved the SWISH! sound on Double Dribble

 

[dnc]

OG Mario Brothers was as good as it gets. Many here are too young to understand the greatness of that game. Loved Excitebike as well.

Excitebike is a great call. Was a great arcade game too.

 

[dnc]

SMB 1 and 3, both Tecmo Bowls, Double Dribble, the RBIs and Excitebike are all great answers.

I probably spent more time playing this one than any of them though.

Another write in option would be Double Dragon.

 

[DerekJohnson]

SMB 1 and 3, both Tecmo Bowls, Double Dribble, the RBIs and Excitebike are all great answers.

I probably spent more time playing this one than any of them though.

Another write in option would be Double Dragon.

 

[dnc]

Tetris and Tecmo Bowl were both right there, but I couldn't put SM 1-3 down until I mastered all of them. 3 was the best of the bunch iirc.

SM 2 is a clear lagger for me. 1 is great because it is the OG, and 3 is in my top 3 because of the “choose your own adventure” (as opposed to linear style) interface suited perfectly with my personality.

I loved the flying suits they introduced in SM3 and how well they designed levels so that, while the suit could basically help you cheat past early levels, it was the only way to pass later ones and you had to be really good with it.

When I try I can easily visualize 1 and 3, but can't actually remember much from #2. [/b] I think there was some kind of flying suit thing in it too, but it was more like a glider thing where you'd come crashing down.

SMB 2 was so forgettable because it wasn't even supposed to be a Mario game. Nintendo released the real SMB 2 in Japan (later released for SNES as "Lost Levels") and it was basically a carbon copy of the original game only significantly harder. 13 year old me tried for hours to beat Lost Levels and never pulled it off, the only Mario game I could never beat.

The SMB 2 they released in the US was another Japanese game that they reformatted to have something to sell for Americans when they realized the one they had was too similar to the original / too hard. The American SMB 2 was pretty difficult too, I don't think I ever beat it until I played it on SNES (which had a saving option).

The one significant thing SMB 2 added to the MB universe was the ability to play as different characters and not just Mario and Luigi (and different characters having different strengths and weaknesses - IIRC Princess could float, Toad could dig quickly, Luigi could jump higher IIRC and Mario was just decent all around - you needed different characters to beat different levels) which of course they didn't come back to until later on. It's not a terrible game, but doesn't compare to it's predecessor or it's successor.

/Mario nerd

 

[dnc]

Oh yeah you could also go left in SMB 2 which was a good step forward for future Mario games.

 

[1to392831weretaken]

I'm weird in that I actually really liked SMB2, for many of the reasons @dnc mentioned. I always rocked Luigi because girls were stupid and gross and Toad couldn't jump.

 

[dnc]

I'm weird in that I actually really liked SMB2, for many of the reasons @dnc mentioned. I always rocked Luigi because girls were stupid and gross and Toad couldn't jump.

Luigi was my go to as well

 

[1to392831weretaken]

My Nintendo ranking went:

1.) Tetris
2.) Blaster Master
3.) Metroid
4.) Tie between a series of similar but competent platformers. The Disney games (Duck Tales, Rescue Rangers, Duck Dodgers, etc.) were all surprisingly good, and there was a game called Adventure Island II that rocked.
5.) Nintendo World Cup (soccer)
6.) NES Play Action Football
7.) Battletoads (hardest game I've ever played, and only one I never beat)

Granted, we got the system late and were poors, so I didn't get to try a whole hell of a lot of games.

 

[Fenderbender123]

Super Mario Bros 2 is a great game. As DNC pointed out, it wasn't originally a Mario game. But it was a game developed by the Mario team, and they upgraded the hell out of it when they turned it into Mario 2 for NA release.

 

[Fenderbender123]

 

[Purple_Pills]

SMB 1 and 3, both Tecmo Bowls, Double Dribble, the RBIs and Excitebike are all great answers.

I probably spent more time playing this one than any of them though.

Another write in option would be Double Dragon.

I missed Dr. Mario on NES, but I bought one of these when COVID started

I play Dr. Mario the most of the 30 games.

 

[dnc]

SMB 1 and 3, both Tecmo Bowls, Double Dribble, the RBIs and Excitebike are all great answers.

I probably spent more time playing this one than any of them though.

Another write in option would be Double Dragon.

I missed Dr. Mario on NES, but I bought one of these when COVID started

I play Dr. Mario the most of the 30 games.

Probably the most on brand post you ever made @Purple_Pills