Does It Hold Up? - NES Edition

No, I'm not talking about a woman's rack at the age of 50, I'm talking about 8 Bit NES games. So many of those games seemed like masterpieces when we first played them, but how kind has Father Time been to them now that 20 to 30 years has passed since they came out? I don't think many people will argue that the majority of them have aged as gracefully as your average pornstar's meat curtains. Still there are some gems out there. The Super Mario games really seem to have stood the test of time, as well as the Legend of Zelda and a few other high profile games. But what about the others? What about those games that didn't get a dozen sequels over the years and have faded away from our immediate recollection?

So I've decided to go panning for gold this summer, and have chosen 100 NES games. I will play them until either I've finished them, I'm not longer having fun, or I've decided that the particular game sucks donkey ass and will not be getting any better no matter how much time I put into it.

Basically I've got a lot of time on my hands this summer and not enough to fill it with.

Posted by robio Sun, 31 May 2015 01:09:00 (comments: 57)
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Archangel3371
 
Sat, 20 Jun 2015 04:35:52

Oh man I remember that Batman game soooo good, at least from what I recall from way back then. The graphics looked quite good too.

Archangel3371
 
Thu, 09 Jul 2015 03:36:04

Is Journey to Silius in the list of games to be played? I just recently heard a clip of the first level soundtrack and it sure brought back some memories, pretty cool tune. Whatever happened to Sunsoft?

robio
 
Sun, 12 Jul 2015 13:53:50
Archangel3371 said:

Is Journey to Silius in the list of games to be played? I just recently heard a clip of the first level soundtrack and it sure brought back some memories, pretty cool tune. Whatever happened to Sunsoft?

1. Technically Sunsoft is still around. They released a few games on VC on the Wii U and 3DS. I suspect they're just out of the software business.

2. Journey to Silius isn't on it, but I could add it. It's not set in stone. Hell I've only gone through 10% of it so far.

3. And this is kind of a reminder that I need to get back on this. Earthbound Beginnings kind of burned me out on 8-bit gaming for a while since I spent about 20 hours on completing that.

aspro
 
Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:01:24
Ravenprose said:
Hmm, I should install that as well on my Wii. I bought a red one a while back; all I use it for are GameCube games.

Sweet. I wanted that one so bad. They did not sell them here.

robio
 
Wed, 04 Nov 2015 14:40:34
I'm going to have to go back and try to finish this list. Damn thing got derailed by Earthbound Beginnings (and real life). Still, I think I need to give it a second go.
Archangel3371
 
Thu, 05 Nov 2015 20:06:30

I'd certainly like to read more, that is whenever you have the time or inclination to do so.

Nintyfan17
 
Mon, 09 Nov 2015 02:52:10
robio said:
aspro said:

Then you'd be realy confused by the 2000 Wacky Racers game released for the Dreamcast. It was actually fairly decent.  I always make a point to call the IP "Wacky Racists". In a way the simplified characters are the perfect cast for a kart racer typep game, then you have a big audio resource you acn pull from (the TV show) to bring the game alive.

It was in heavt re-run rotation here in the 80's.

I saw that not long ago, and that's sort of what encouraged me to try this one. I can only assume Hannah-Barbera occasionally dusts off the idea of bringing the series back from time to time and always stop just short, but not before they get some licensing deals done.

I used to watch the reruns in the 90s on Cartoon Network.

They are supposedly doing a reboot in 2016.
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