Metroid is a classic NES game, and one that I tried to play when I was a kid. For whatever reason, I didn’t have the patience for it when I was growing up. There was something about it that didn’t click with me back then. When I played it in high school, I thought itContinue reading “Metroid: A Great and Creepy Game on the NES”
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Dr. Mario on the NES is a Great Game
Dr. Mario is a pretty fun puzzle game where you use vitamins to destroy viruses. It uses similar rules to Tetris 2, but it does the formula much better. I guess this could be considered a falling block game, but I’m not entirely sure. It is a fun little puzzle game where you have toContinue reading “Dr. Mario on the NES is a Great Game”
Smash TV: Great Arcade Game, Fun on the NES
Smash TV is a twin-stick shooter that was originally released in the arcades in 1990. It was later ported to just about everything. Midway developed the arcade game, and Acclaim published the ports. Some of the ports were published by Acclaim’s other publishing labels, such as Flying Edge. Because of the game’s control scheme, I’mContinue reading “Smash TV: Great Arcade Game, Fun on the NES”
Gauntlet: A Good, not Great, NES Game
Gauntlet was originally released in the arcades by Atari in 1985. It borrows heavily from the game Dandy, which was released on Atari’s 8-bit computers in 1983. Like several other arcade games that Atari released, the rights to this game would eventually be bought by another company. I never had the chance to play thisContinue reading “Gauntlet: A Good, not Great, NES Game”
A Weird Arcade Port from Nintendo
I really like weird games, and Clu Clu Land is definitely a weird one. This is one of the games that I didn’t know about until the 2010s. I don’t remember if I ever saw this game when I was collecting games in the 1990s, and I definitely don’t remember any of my friends talkingContinue reading “A Weird Arcade Port from Nintendo”
Donkey Kong Jr is a Great Arcade-NES Port
Donkey Kong Jr is the sequel to Donkey Kong, and is one of the few games that I first played at an after school babysitter. For some reason, my parents had me go to a neighbor’s house after school when I was in the first grade. There were a bunch of kids there, and IContinue reading “Donkey Kong Jr is a Great Arcade-NES Port”
TMNT III on the NES is Great
TMNT III: The Manhattan Project is one of the NES games I discovered when I started collecting games in the late 1990s and early 2000s. With how big a deal TMNT was when I was a kid, I’m surprised I didn’t know about this one. The only reason I could think of was that myContinue reading “TMNT III on the NES is Great”
Contra: One of the Best Games on the NES
I want to write about Contra on the NES. This is one of those games that most people who grew up with the NES, or who collect NES games, have played. While I didn’t own it as a kid, my brother and I rented it all the time. Like many little brothers, I didn’t haveContinue reading “Contra: One of the Best Games on the NES”
Bucky O’Hare on the NES is Great
Bucky O’Hare wasn’t a game that I was aware of growing up. I didn’t know about the NES or Arcade games, the comics, or the cartoon. It was one of many media properties that just slipped through the cracks for me. There were so many cartoons and comics back in the 1980s and 1990s thatContinue reading “Bucky O’Hare on the NES is Great”
Metal Storm, One of the Best NES Games
Metal Storm is one of the many games I didn’t know about when I was a kid. It isn’t something I came across in the 1990s or even in the 2000s when I started collecting games. The first time I heard of this game was in 2008 or 2009 when I saw it in aContinue reading “Metal Storm, One of the Best NES Games”