Your Best NES games of all time!!!

[lettuce]

Have got a large collection of NES games, but think my collection is missing some real quality titles that i may have over looked. What would people say are the top 20 NES games of all time??

[AllYourBase]

snake rattle n roll
ninja gaiden
a boy and his blob
duck tails
rad racer
castlevania 1/2/3
life force/salamander
megaman (esp pt 3)
punch out!! (mike tysons if you can find it!)
dr mario

aside from the more obvious, they are some of my top titles!

[lettuce]

what was so good about MegaMan 3 then?

[AllYourBase]

just my favourite of the series, had a easy to beat boss called 'top man' which made me laugh!

[lettuce]

Was DropZone, Elite, New Zealand Story, Rainbow Island, or Defender of the Crown any good?

[AllYourBase]

dropzone was a poor mans defender, for me the character didn't have much control due to the speed he travelled across the screen

check out burai fighter, that is a quality game, sorta like side arms

elite i dont remember but it was good on home computers

new zealand story had a good conversion but the pce version for me is king

don't remember defender of the crown tbh

[Yod@]

lettuce, maybe you should post which games you have to save us repeating them.

Probably no point in mentioning the well-known NES titles, but I really enjoyed Batman, Zelda 1 & 2, Bionic Commando and Life Force. I have Battle of Olympus which comes highly recommended, but I've yet to get around to playing it.

Apparently the NES version of Elite was very good indeed.

[lettuce]

ok i have,

Bionic Commando
Burai Fighter
Rolling Thunder
RoadBlasters
Road Runner
Renegade
Mad Max
Total Recall
Mag Max
Road Racer 1+2
Ikari warriors 1+2
Mighty Final Fight
Joust
Super Mario Bros 1,2+3
Parodius
Commando
Strider
Hogans Alley
Kung Fu
Milions Secret Castle (dont ask)
Double Dragon 1,2,+3
MegaMan 2
Cobra Triangle
Batman
Batman Return OF The Joker
CastleVania 2+3
Ninja Gaiden 1+2
Mighty Bomb Jack
Metroid
TMNT
Target Renegade
Solstice
Metal Gear
Snakes Revenge
Jackal
Tiger Hell
Bayou Billy
Donkey Kong Classics
Operation Wolf
Isolated warrior
Solar Jetman
Greminls 2
Contra Force
Rygar
Zelda
Power Blade
Blast Master
Rush N Attack
Punch Out
Pac Man
Xevious
Platoon
Doctor Mario
Probotector
Gun Smoke

As u can see i have a few toilet games, whats the deal with the sega rip ofs such as shinobi , after buber etc??

[Sketcz]

I had a feature on the Famicon (Japanese NES) printed in Retro Gamer recently. In it I list 15 unusual games.

Above all else, Id say try and get:
Vice: Project Doom (aka Gun-Dec)
Huang-Di (a Chinese bootleg)

Do you have a Famicom adapter? Im assuming you must have, since it's the only way to play the best NES games. (all 1000+ of them)

[lettuce]

nah i dont have a famicom adapter

[markpsych]

Has anyone played Pirates? It had good reviews, but I've been holding out for one with a map....

[lettuce]

Is it true that the Jap version of Contra was surpossed to be better than the PAL and US versions, as it used a different chip??

[Baseley09]

Nuts & Milk!

[Sketcz]

Is it true that the Jap version of Contra was surpossed to be better than the PAL and US versions, as it used a different chip??

Yup, same with Castlevania 3. The Japanese version was MUCH better.
In contra, there are extra cinemas between each level. In most cases the West never had these chips to cut costs. I've actually written a big article on this, should be in print in RG in the next 6-8 weeks hopefully.

But yeah, Famicom is the way to go.
Lik-sang sell adapters for like only ?5, and its well worth picking one up.

[lettuce]

Take it that all TXT would be JAP though?? What other games were improved for the JAP versions?