NES turns 25 today! Come reminisce here!

Olivaw

Henroid wrote: »

Olivaw wrote: »

I played my first game on a family friend's NES

It was Mario Bros.

I was two

If I had never played it, I don't really know who I'd be today!

I mean, probably still pretty awesome, but different

Bah, when I was your age I was playing the Commodore 64!

And I'm so sorry that you had to go through that

Brainiac 8

Heh, I'm older than the NES also.

I remember getting my first NES for Christmas, it was the big, special pack with R.O.B.

I was also given Donkey Kong, Legend of Zelda, and Ghosts and Goblins along with it. Those were the days.

I play Super Mario Bros for hours after getting it.

I still have R.O.B. with all his attachments on my shelf in my bedroom, still in prestine condition.

Cameron_Talley

I spent the evening playing:

Back to the Future (Got to start with shit to appreciate the rest)
Duck Tales (beat it on the easy mode)
Double Dragon II (Practice Run...used to do that every morning before school)
Top Gun (Can't land the damn plane gah!)
Tengen Tetris (I about flipped when I found this cart for $8 the day after Christmas, years ago).
Bible Adventures (Good Job! But you forgot Baby Moses!)
TMNT II (I don't know how you're supposed to beat this without Game Genie)
The Empire Strikes Back (Bah, this was terrible)
JAWS (Little known fact: actually based on JAWS IV)
CastleVania (Halfway to level 3, bah I'm rusty.

I'm two years older than the NES. I pretty much grew up with it. My entire childhood, hell, the entire culture of our childhood revolved around it. I truly believe I would not be the same person I am today without it. For that, I am forever grateful.

And let's not forget that without the NES, we might not even be typing on this forum. The US console industry was in the shitter, and Nintendo had the balls to bring their device to market anyhow. Somehow, they survived and spawned an industry.

I feel like I should go read Game Over again or something.

here's to you, NES.

TeeMan

UncleSporky wrote: »

And the second is Shatterhand, a side scrolling beat-em-up/Megaman style game with awesome graphics for the NES and a fun powerup system:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ-42KqgwXE

Dude. Did that guy just repel an onslaught of bullets from an automatic assault rifle with nothin' but his massive flex!?.

Hoooleeeyy sheeeit. That game looks awesome


Also, do this for fun. Click the youtube link and then start browsing elsewhere and just listen to the game. Hearing that kinda stuff brings back MASSIVE memories of when my brothers were playing in another room and I was off doing something else. You'll have to add in your own "Whoa man did you see that!? OH MAN NO WAY! Goddamnit this game cheats I swear... *reloading sounds*"

anoffday

Cameron_Talley wrote: »

I spent the evening playing:

Back to the Future (Got to start with shit to appreciate the rest)
Duck Tales (beat it on the easy mode)
Double Dragon II (Practice Run...used to do that every morning before school)
Top Gun (Can't land the damn plane gah!)
Tengen Tetris (I about flipped when I found this cart for $8 the day after Christmas, years ago).
Bible Adventures (Good Job! But you forgot Baby Moses!)
TMNT II (I don't know how you're supposed to beat this without Game Genie)
The Empire Strikes Back (Bah, this was terrible)
JAWS (Little known fact: actually based on JAWS IV)
CastleVania (Halfway to level 3, bah I'm rusty.

I'm two years older than the NES. I pretty much grew up with it. My entire childhood, hell, the entire culture of our childhood revolved around it. I truly believe I would not be the same person I am today without it. For that, I am forever grateful.

And let's not forget that without the NES, we might not even be typing on this forum. The US console industry was in the shitter, and Nintendo had the balls to bring their device to market anyhow. Somehow, they survived and spawned an industry.

I feel like I should go read Game Over again or something.

here's to you, NES.

Exactly.

Let me also add, Duck Tales, Woo oooh, Everybody everywhere loves duck tales, Woo oooh.

Waka Laka

I remember my sister getting a NES with Mario Bros and Mach Rider for her Birthday, I think I was 4 at the time and I ended up hogging it.

Eventually I ended up getting dozens of games for it, Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 being my favourites, Snake Rattle and Roll, Kung Fu, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1 and 2 and dozens more. I remember finishing them over and over again and trying to perfect each one until it was a muscle twitch reflex.

Ninja Gaiden and Ninja Turtles I used to beat constantly, I come back to them now and go "Holy shit I was better when I was a kid".

One game that always beat me was "The Adventures of Rad Gravity". I could never figure that game out, it was a confusing pile of crap. All I remember is the tiny laser, giant robots, a cow grazing next to a river and an asteroid field mission where I'd get stuck. No nintendo power (my town never stocked the mag) and no internet to figure out where to go.

I remember my friend telling me how to continue on in Castlevania 2 because he had magazines to tell him, seriously cryptic shit. It's as though the game developers purposefully made the game difficult to proceed unless you shell out for the mag. How the fuck was I supposed to know you kneel before a river in the exact spot and wait for a tornado? It really bugged me.

maximumzero

Ugh I wish there was a place to buy NES carts 'round here. Rhino Games was fucking amazing until Gamestop bought 'em up, and then everything Pre-PS2 went bye bye about a month later.

Waka Laka

anoffday wrote: »

Let me also add, Duck Tales, Woo oooh, Everybody everywhere loves duck tales, Woo oooh.

Best theme ever... possibly... maybe

Brainiac 8

Some games I loved:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4CBb_FGTHM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-G5HMg6f28

agoaj

I don't even know what to post here, I just know that I should.

Olivaw

NES games I played:

Super Mario Bros.
TMNT (hard as fucking balls)
Faxanadu (never got past like the first area because I could not figure out how to progress!)
The Last Starfighter (disappointed that it wasn't like the game in the movie)
Robocop (I think it was pretty awesome)
Donkey Kong Jr. (awesome)
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (awesomeeee)
Contra (even with a shitload of lives I could never beat it)
Dr. Mario (I was bad at it)
Tetris (I was good at it)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (this game sucked)
Mega Man (fuck this game it was hard as balls)

And a ton more but not as memorable

I did have a Dizzy game, though!

Henroid

One of my cousins was a total dick when we'd play Contra. On the cliff-climbing stage, he'd move up faster than me and get me killed by screen scroll.

maximumzero

Alright I'll have to snap a photo of the NES tomorrow as I don't want to wake my parents up.

Also man I want to buy Capcom Mini Mix all of a sudden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0kXJFyOUDA

Estilo

Oh man... Swords and Serpents! I'm pretty sure that's the first RPG I ever played. What a silly goose of a game

Also, Double Dragon II. Legendary. I played that to death.

Honk

Happy birthday NES!

Snake, Rattle 'n Roll was an extremely hard game.

President Rex

I don't think I beat Snake Rattle 'N' Roll even with a Game Genie. On level 11 or something there's an invincible foot and the food balls are a huge pain and then you need to make crazy jumps via isometric view.


I also recall my dad bought Metal Gear to play on the system, but he mussed have played that when I wasn't around or something because hell if I know what comes passed the forest and the "truck have started to move."

WotanAnubis

Oh, the NES. Good times, good times.

My favourite games for it were Megaman 3, Totally Rad, Kirby's Adventure, Asterix, Castlevania 3 and The Battle of Olympus.

I never beat The Battle of Olympus (managed to get past Cerberus once and that's about it), but damn that game was awesome.

Battle of Olympus music

DietarySupplement

This thread doesn't have nearly enough of the following:

Jackal
Ikari Warriors
Life Force
Rush n' Attack
Cobra Triangle

Craigopogo

My first experience with an NES involved Mike Tyson's Punch-Out. I got up to Piston Honda before my 5 year old self gave up and moved on to Super Mario Bros.

After that, over the years, it was Castlevania, Kirby's Adventure, Double Dragon, BattleToads, Mega Man 3 and on and on.

Lezard Valeth

I can't post videos because I'm at work, but one of my favorites NES games ever is Captain Tsubasa II. If you don't know it, is some kind of japanese Soccer RPG. Totally awesome and hard as balls. Very Fucking Hard.

Skull2185

Three words and a number

Super. Mario. Bros. 3

Some of the best memories of my childhood.

stfuad

What was the motion controler for the NES? I had one I don't remember what the name was. Flipping dip switches and having craptastic usability.

I vote Blaster Master for the best game ever.

Grimthwacker

This, right here, sums up the NES for me in one simple expression:
AWESOME!!!!
Spending time with an awesome grandmother who would regularly take me and my brother to Toys R' Us to look at new games (and more often than not walking away with one or two) is just one of the fond memories I have of the system. It was like every new game I picked up was a fresh experience unlike any that had come before waiting to happen. Most of them great (StarTropics, Duck Tales, Ninja Gaiden, Zelda, and yes, even Battletoads in all its masochistic glory), some not so great (real stinkers like Total Recall, Castlequest, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and those damnable Simpsons games from Acclaim). I was weaned on the 2600 and ColecoVision, but the training wheels came off with the NES. Most influential system ever made, that; it's earned its place in the annals of technological history.

BlackDragon480

stfuad wrote: »

What was the motion controler for the NES? I had one I don't remember what the name was. Flipping dip switches and having craptastic usability.

Was it possibly the U-Force:



Or maybe the Power Glove:



Both of them controlled like ass, but at least the Power Glove could take some abuse and still work in its wonderful half-assed way. If you so much as breathed in the direction of the U-Force it'd start to fuck up so bad, it'd make things completely unplayable, as opposed to it's standard semi-unplayable condition.

Capt Howdy

wakkawa wrote: »

The guardian legend was always my favorite game. So good.

I was playing The Guardian Legend last night! I was cheating though, I set my Advantage to turbo. 8-)

anoffday

Craigopogo wrote: »

My first experience with an NES involved Mike Tyson's Punch-Out. I got up to Piston Honda before my 5 year old self gave up and moved on to Super Mario Bros.

After that, over the years, it was Castlevania, Kirby's Adventure, Double Dragon, BattleToads, Mega Man 3 and on and on.

Yes. Battletoads. Awesome. I totally want to play it now. But man, it was hard.

kaleedity

The NES is 3 months older than me. I'm told by my older brother that I played zelda 2 after watching him before I had learned to speak or walk.

My first action was apparently walking into a pit. Good times.

THEPAIN73

I finally beat SMB3 this year.

Feels good man.

UnbreakableVow

Olivaw wrote: »

NES games I played:

Super Mario Bros.
TMNT (hard as fucking balls)
Faxanadu (never got past like the first area because I could not figure out how to progress!)
The Last Starfighter (disappointed that it wasn't like the game in the movie)
Robocop (I think it was pretty awesome)
Donkey Kong Jr. (awesome)
Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (awesomeeee)
Contra (even with a shitload of lives I could never beat it)
Dr. Mario (I was bad at it)
Tetris (I was good at it)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (this game sucked)
Mega Man (fuck this game it was hard as balls)

And a ton more but not as memorable

I did have a Dizzy game, though!

Good, good

But your list is missing Duck Tales

Capt Howdy

I may have to order Wizards and Warriors and Battle Toads now.

Darmak

BlackDragon480 wrote: »

stfuad wrote: »

What was the motion controler for the NES? I had one I don't remember what the name was. Flipping dip switches and having craptastic usability.

Was it possibly the U-Force:



Or maybe the Power Glove:



Both of them controlled like ass, but at least the Power Glove could take some abuse and still work in its wonderful half-assed way. If you so much as breathed in the direction of the U-Force it'd start to fuck up so bad, it'd make things completely unplayable, as opposed to it's standard semi-unplayable condition.

The U-Force always worked for me, I don't know what you were doing wrong.

I had a fucking ton of NES games when I was younger, probably around 50 of them (my brother and I would usually get 1 game each at Christmas and 1 on our birthdays, so like 4 games a year between the two of us). I played the shit out of all of them too, even the ones my brother got that I had no real interest in like Baseball Stars. I've recently been going back through some of my favorite games like Super Mario Bros, The Legend of Zelda, The Guardian Legend, Startropics, Ironsword: Wizards and Warriors 2, Wizardry 2, Duck Tales, Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior 1 and 3 (I never played 2 or 4), Faxanadu (fucking LOVE this game, especially the music), The Battle of Olympus (this game is fucking hard and when I was younger the boss music scared me), and Legacy of the Wizard. I'm not anywhere near as good as I used to be when I was younger and these games kick my ass now, but I'm dusting the rust off and slowly beating them.

SyphonBlue

This was always my favorite NES game - mostly cause my dad and I would play it all the time. Most people have never even heard of it, however, let alone played it.

Heavy Barrel

Tamin

Thank you ever-so-much for reminding just what I've been missing for the past 6 months. My NES decided to die, and I don't really want to replace it with another that'll have the same problem.

I've been slowly collecting the games I never played when I was growing up.

Some highlights include Dragon Warrior 1-4, MegaMan 2-6, Castlevania 1-3, Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2, and Snake's Revenge.

Deaderinred

WotanAnubis wrote: »

Oh, the NES. Good times, good times.

My favourite games for it were Megaman 3, Totally Rad, Kirby's Adventure, Asterix, Castlevania 3 and The Battle of Olympus.

I never beat The Battle of Olympus (managed to get past Cerberus once and that's about it), but damn that game was awesome.

Battle of Olympus music

oh god yes, i never beat it either, i remember reading a guide in the shop about the later levels and it just felt like i had another 2000 hours and a whole other life before i get to the end.

anyone remember low-g man? that was fucking epic, also buck o'hare, its the only nes cart i still have, in the box and everything.

oh crap who could forget that jackie chan game? i forget the full name but i remember the levels and everything, took me forever and a nightmare to beat it but i felt like king of the world when i did.

shit the memories are flooding back of the good old times when i didnt have to worry about money or screwed up ex-relationships or life. ahh.

Skull2185

THEPAIN73 wrote: »

I finally beat SMB3 this year.

Feels good man.

Better late than never! :^:


I've never beaten SMB1...

Madpanda

I didn't even realize this anniversary was so close.

I had been slowly building a snes collection and just within the last month started branching out into nes and genesis.

I picked up a toaster nes with a new 72 pin (which by the way, are tight as hell, like kung fu grip "oh god i dont want to break this thing" tight) and the lockout chip disabled.

I've been hunting down stores that carry retro game stuff, half price books, play n trade etc. Had some total busts, some good finds, megaman 2 with manual $10? Yes please.

Over the weekend I picked up a pair of nes wireless controllers, for $5. They actually work perfectly but I will probably replace them once I find a good wired pad with turbo or get a nes advantage.

I also found metal storm which I remember playing the crap out of as a kid, it let you flip gravity so you could be shooting dudes 1 minutes on the ground, then flip up to the ceiling and keep shooting. Just a few screens in they start with the puzzles similar to VVVVVVV.

I already picked up shadowgate, need to get deja vu and uninvited still. I remember not being able to get very far in them as a kid. Going to try and play through them this year.

Oh and I also can beat the first level in ninja gaiden without getting hit or really stopping, I know its going to get tougher but I think current gen action/beat em ups have helped keep my skills up.


nintendoage.com is a great forum for this kind of stuff
along with racketboy.com

lionheart_m

I was always intrigued by Faxanadu. Never got around to play it. Never beat Ikari Warriors 2 either.

Kai_San

Ragnar Dragonfyre wrote: »

My 23 year old NES. I got it for my 4th birthday after my cousins got it for Christmas and I fell in love with SMB. Best birthday ever? Oh yes.

I just brought it back from my cottage where I had kept it for a loooong time. It's seen a lot of use over the years, but it's still running. I bought that stand for it recently at Value Village for $2.50.

Here's my collection. I really need to get around to setting these up on the shelf proper.

Here's to another 25 NES. I bet you'll still be running even then.

EDIT: I was looking at the picture and realized SMB3 was missing... panicked, then realized it was in the system. Phew!

Holy fuck I had that stand when I was a kid. That is fucking crazy and brought back more memories than any game did.

maximumzero

Skull2185 wrote: »

THEPAIN73 wrote: »

I finally beat SMB3 this year.

Feels good man.

I've never beaten SMB1...

Don't feel bad, I only beat SMB1 for the first time in 2006, after owning the damn game & console for 17 years.

Elvenshae

Battletoads has been mentioned, of course. I've still got the speederbike warp sequence muscle-memorized, even though I've never beaten the game.

Crystalis, too - which, apart from Final Fantasy, is probably the NES game I've beaten the most often. Crystalis is still one of the best games I've ever played.

River City Ransom is my wife's favorite game.

Metal Storm was badass - I rented and beat it after I read the Nintendo Power article on it. [Ed: Don't know why I typed "bought" there.]

Free Dragon Warrior was the best free game, ever.

My brother and I used to rent a game called Sky Kids from time to time - anyone else ever heard of it? Kind of a co-op sidescrolling biplane game. We used to "accidentally" shoot each other, which resulted in us "deliberately" shooting each other, which resulted in us fighting, which resulted in us not getting to play the Nintendo for the rest of the day. We'd still rent it out again a couple weeks later.