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I mainly remember it responding sluggishly and simply wasn't able to keep up with quick action games when I tried using it. It seemed overly sensitive to some motions, and non-responsive to others and trying to play Punch Out! with it was an excersise in frustration.
The worst offender though was Top Gun, the landing sequence was damn near impossible with a steady hand and a control pad, it was ludicriously bad trying to do it with the U-Force's flight yoke attachment.
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This should be put into the OP.
I could never land in Top Gun anyway, no matter what controller I was using. Fuck that landing sequence. :P
Also, I had forgotten about Crystalis. That was another one of my favorites when I was younger, my grandmother and I played that one together. She also really liked Dr. Mario and was a fucking wizard at it, she'd put it on the hardest difficulty and keep beating the last level over and over and over and never lose. It was insane watching her Zen out to it.
edit: she also really liked Puzznic, though that one was a lot harder than Dr. Mario.
I suppose in another 10 years we'll be reminiscing about the 360 and PS3, though.
I can't tell you how many times I tried to land that plane. Wasn't it the first level too? I still have that game somewhere too, but I swear I'm never going to play it again.
Sky Kid is actually available on the Virtual Console if you're interested.
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Faxanadu is a neat game. Pretty difficult, mainly because the physics are awful. You fall way too fast coming down from a jump, and you increase in speed too slowly from a dead stop. If you ever let go of the d-pad for a second, you'll have to slowly slide up to top speed again.
But I love the textured look of their graphics:
And I like how that pillar's shadow falls closer on the giant tree root than on the wall behind. They put some thought into it.
The enemies are creepy and it has some nice music, I recommend trying it out sometime.
I have to admit something. I never understood the hatred for Top Gun and its landing sequence. But that might be because my dad was the one who played that game, not me, and even though I would embaress him at pretty much any other game when I was 5, he could actually take on Top Gun. Ninja Gaide? He lost in the first or second level. Street Fighter? I would have to try to lose. Top Gun? Motherfucker made it to the FINAL LEVEL.
Granted, he never beat it, but considering from what I hear most people have never even seen the second level, I have to admit thats some impressive shit right there.
My list is simple for favorite games:
Kid Icarus, River City Ransom, Tetris, Karnov, Golgo 13 (which blew my mind) and Journey to Silius. I also watched my neighbor's dad beat LoZ and Castlevania 2 and marveled at how he did it (FYI, found out later that he called the help line).
The worst games that I owned were Rambo, Bible Stories, and this game that I can never remember the name to. It was a blue cartridge. It was kind of a Narc knockoff except that there were like side scrolling boat or driving parts. It might be something like Agent 2012 or NARC 2050.
All right, people. It is not a gerbil. It is not a hamster. It is not a guinea pig. It is a death rabbit. Death. Rabbit. Say it with me, now.
Or, wait, whichever one had Noah's Ark and Baby Moses. I know there were a couple...
I played the Noah game so much, they had really fun physics and weren't too difficult, it was just a nice solid game.
Those blue cartridges were packed with crazy though.
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Also throw out Shadow Gate.
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All I really did was play the Noah game. And my carts were black!
Spiritual Warfare was an awesome Zelda clone too, only hampered by its insanely long password system.
I stick by the fact that those games are crazy and internet kudos to anyone who can remember the other game that I had on a blue cartridge.
Bayou Billy.
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It should be easy enough to find, there weren't many of the blue carts. I think i had rented captain comic and some baby game that were on blue carts.
I'll admit I picked up a few games recently on music alone, karnov and kid nikki being the main ones.
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That's Bible Adventures. The one where you had to get Baby Moses to the end of the level. If you made it without Baby Moses, it would say "Good Job! But you Forgot Baby Moses.." and then let you complete the level anyway.
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Did the baby game you're talking about require you to shoot shit so the baby could crawl safely through a level? Because while I don't remember much of it, I remember it being hard as balls.
edit: Googling reveals it is called Baby Boomer. Fuck that game. :P
Black Carts are later.
http://nesworld.com/colordreams.php
Wisdom Tree (the publisher of the bible games) WAS Color Dreams. The Black carts are from later in the run, the blue carts are from right after they ceased publishing as Color dreams.
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Yes. I think its baby boomer or something.
edit: the narc like game might be
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LOL, I was talking about this game with a friend just this weekend. Man Bayou Billy was kickass.
How many licensed games I played? I remember Friday 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Flintstones, Bart vs The World, Home Alone...dammit I feel so dirty.
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I miss the Game Genie too... was always fun to play games in ways not intended.
90% alcohol + qtips will get the majority of carts. Spending $10 and 15 mins replacing the 72 pin connector is a good start also, do this before you clean any carts. Putting clean carts in and old and possibly busted connector is going to just create double work.
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Even sports games were awesome back then, before the era of yearly sequels.
Tecmo Super Bowl is still amazing, a bunch of people played it in my college dorm all the time. And Nintendo World Cup is also crazy fun (the one with River City Ransom-looking characters).
All you need to do is replace the pin connector man, your NES will be as good as new and it's cheap to get them.
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$12 and a simple 15-minute installation stand between you and a NES that works like a launch-day system.
Edit: I did this myself about 5 years ago and it works like a goddamn charm.
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It's also just as easy to crack it open and bend the pins back to make them more springy. A quick examination ought to show most people what needs to be done.
Seems like a much better solution that what I've been doing for years
Just get a good tutorial online for it, as it is possible to put the connector on wrong *ahem so i've been told*.
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Not really a good explanation of the final, most important part though.
Here's maybe a better guide:
http://www.raphnet.net/electronique/nes_mod/nes_mod_en.php#restore_connector
EDIT: This is for bending, not replacing. Try bending first I'd say, it's cheaper.
You could also buy one of those cheap NES console knockoffs from Amazon. They've gotten mixed reviews but they're cheap and mostly work, plus some of them also play SNES games.
And just to reminisce... I really loved the NES days. There were a lot of great coop games that you don't see as much today... so many hours spent playing games alongside friends or my brother... Contra, Bubble Bobble, even Battle Toads.
And somehow I never broke a controller despite the mind-blowing cheapness and insane difficulty of Ninja Gaiden. Damn birds always knocking me into pits, grrr.
I am too much of a purist for that. :P
Make sure you do your research if you go that route, some of them can't handle stuff like Castlevania 3, etc. due to being an imperfect re-creation. A real NES has some strange behavior that is really tough to duplicate correctly, and some games rely on that strange behavior.
I've seen them on a few other forums (sa, i think gaf has one but that place moves too fast for me), it can be days/weeks between posts but they seem somewhat popular.
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Ask a mod. I think it would depend on whether it's a Nintendo thread, or a Genesis thread, or just anything from 8 or 16 bit era.
This is sort of a NES megathread I guess.
Also, screw you Blaster Master. One day I will beat you.