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Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:40:05

travo said:
The bad thing about the VC is that there are actually some games that I had a fondness for, but now suck ass.   Kid Icarus just isn't cool anymore.

I had never touched kid icarus in the NES days, I played it on the VC and loved it. It was like a Metroid mixed with Zelda type game. It is cool.

I pretty much mirror what Raven says, especially about the music, many of the best tunes ever came from the NES. There is something special about NES games, a certain charm, a certain beauty that goes along with what these developers got out of such limited hardware.

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Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:50:18

Outside of the the Marios (plus 1943 and Dr. Mario), I don't think there is much there that is fun to play.  I like the music in pretty much all of them though.

Castlevania and Dig Dug are okay.

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Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:02:19
No one's mentioned Mega Man?

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Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:12:00

Yodariquo said:
No one's mentioned Mega Man?

Raven did and I agreed with him.

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Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:12:34
Oh and lets not forget the game covers, back then game covers were a work of art. (not Mega Man)
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Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:49:32
Dvader said:

Yodariquo said:
No one's mentioned Mega Man?

Raven did and I agreed with him.

Missed it in the list.  I prefer the NES Mega-Man games to the later ones having both the Mega-Man and Mega-Man X Collections.  Mega-Man 1 FTW!

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Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:25:31

gamingeek said:

I personally hate that Capcom are whoring the Street fighter games on VC from normal to turbo to Super etc.


Do you have to cough up some more points for extra colors that's already on the roms?  

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Mon, 13 Apr 2009 01:38:24

Some weird stuff was released during those days.  Does anyone remember Kid Niki?


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He was radical!! I actually bought this, pink box and all and it's not bad.  Isn't Data East a part of Capcom?

We need Leo in this thread.

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Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:03:20

travo said:

Some weird stuff was released during those days.  Does anyone remember Kid Niki?


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He was radical!! I actually bought this, pink box and all and it's not bad.  Isn't Data East a part of Capcom?

We need Leo in this thread.

yes robio had a club with his buddies named after him.  and i also really love the game.  i only ever played it at the arcades as a youngster though.  i loved so many data east games

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Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:04:12

ASK_Story said:

gamingeek said:

I personally hate that Capcom are whoring the Street fighter games on VC from normal to turbo to Super etc.


Do you have to cough up some more points for extra colors that's already on the roms?  

LOL!

Dvader, you found beauty in NES graphics? Do you collect dog turds and frame them in your house? LOLOLOLOL

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Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:32:39

Dvader said:
Oh and lets not forget the game covers, back then game covers were a work of art. (not Mega Man)

That's an excellent point.  Game covers back then were still experimental.  Publishers still hadn't quite figured out the right elements for a game cover.  So many game covers were usually just awful, but some real bizarre and creative covers were done.  I think we may have to have an 8-bit cover thread in the near future.

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Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:42:17

bugsonglass said:

travo said:

Some weird stuff was released during those days.  Does anyone remember Kid Niki?


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He was radical!! I actually bought this, pink box and all and it's not bad.  Isn't Data East a part of Capcom?

We need Leo in this thread.

yes robio had a club with his buddies named after him.  and i also really love the game.  i only ever played it at the arcades as a youngster though.  i loved so many data east games

I loved Data East games (Are You Bad Enough?) until I played RoboCop.  One of the worst games ever to show up on the NES I tell you.  But Karnov still makes up for that.

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Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:09:10

Ravenprose said:

Yodariquo said:
*ahem*

Final Fantasy

MobyGames?

That game ruled! LOL

Off the top of my head:

  • Adventures of Lolo.
  • MegaMan, MegaMan 2 and MegaMan 3.
  • Castlevania 1, 2 and 3.
  • Faxanadu.
  • River City Ransom.
  • Mike Tyson's PunchOut!!
  • SMB, also 2 and especially 3.
  • Deadly Towers...no, I'm kidding on this one. LOL
  • LifeForce. The only shmup I ever managed to finish. With the Konami code, lol.
  • Battletoads.
  • Ninja Gaiden.
  • Friday the 13th. This one for real. Like a proto-survival horror title.
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Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:41:41
You know I'm going to have to bring over all my old "Fond Memories" of NES games blog posts from GS.  Those always seemed to spark a good reaction.
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Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:42:26

Proof that older covers where better, check out this thread on gaf

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=357607

They take new games and make them fit old covers. It works, i see covers like this and I feel a something inside I dont when I see modern covers, back then it was magical.


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Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:21:32

Dvader said:

Proof that older covers where better

 Nice!

EDIT: Hey,  a version of Madworld I'd actually play! LOL

Edited: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 04:29:59

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Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:20:07

Damn you Raven!

Love the retro boxart. Here's an idea, all games come with reversible covers, retro ones. It's not hard to do.

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Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:42:27

LOL at the retro MGS and Okami covers.
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