NES Favorite NES/Famicom Game(s)?

[Ikagura]

It's still a bit weird to me that it took Kirby coming over the the NES/Famicom for him to get his copy ability

I'd call that technical limitations.

Dreamland 2 was pushing the GB to its limits.

 

[Doctor Squats]

Castlevania 3 without a doubt. I loved and owned the original, played it many many times. I didn't own 2 until much later. It was fun, but I really preferred the original. When the 3rd one finally came out, I remember renting it one night, but my parents didn't let me play it that night as I had to go to bed and get up super early for 6th grade jazz band practice. I got up even earlier that morning, played up until the Clock Tower level. I remember being blown away by the music. My parents made me turn off the game and sent me to school. I got back that afternoon ready to play, only to find that they had taken it back to the video store. The particular store I rented it from only had a one-night rental for $3. A few years later I finally got a copy of CV3, and it was everything I hoped it to be. Also, it turned out to be the game that got me into Famicom collecting years down the road, as once I found out the music was different in that version, I had to acquire a copy of it, along with a model 2 fami.

Game is incredible, and definitely the best of the classic series.

 

[koldWinter]

i see that many of you seem to like ninja gaiden, almost got insane trying to beat it as a kid xd

 

[Megarockman _1987 Megarockman _1987]

Little Nemo

Underrated game

 

[thumbsdown's iconthumbsdown]

My picks, other than the classics:

Little Samson (1992)

Little Samson is an action platformer that lets you play as four different heroes, switching between their unique abilities, on a quest to defend their homeland.

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Bucky O'Hare (1992)

This video game is based on the cartoon television series Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars under license from Hasbro, Inc. While it is generally classified as a scrolling fighting game, utilizing a Final Fight-esque landscape, the player's character is also armed with a laser gun, adding in...

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Mitsume ga Tooru (1992)

Mitsume ga Tōru is a 2D action platformer released in 1992. It was never released outside Japan. It contains 5 levels with a boss fight at the end of each level. The main character´s weapons are the third eye that shoots bullets, boomerangs or lasers and a spear (the Red Condor) that he can...

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Banana Prince (1991)

Banana Prince was developed by KID and released in Japan by Takara on December 20, 1991. It was also released in Germany in February 1992, with slightly different graphics and gameshow questions based on the region. It is a single player platform game designed for the Nintendo Entertainment System.

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[DreamCPS]

I have more than one... Id say Double Dragon, Journey to Silius, and Super Mario 3 are among them.

 

[Guinea]

Ok, so I'm mostly looking for cool RPG's. I downloaded Mother 1 and Splatterworld, what am I missing?

 

[HextarVigar]

NES ROMs Download – CDRomance

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Don't as us. Look.

 

[Guinea]

Alright, skimming The Repo I thought King's Knight and Lagrange Point looked pretty good. Everything else... not so much.

But because I feel bad for wasting peoples time, what are some of your favorite NES games?

 

[Dyne]

Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest 1/2/3 are the big rpgs on NES but I never played them back then in their original form.
NES had a ton of great games that arent rpgs though.

Some of my favorites are:

Blaster Master
Bubble Bobble
Castelvania 1/2/3
Contra
Dr Mario
Dragon Spirit
Jackal
Life Force
Mega Man 2/3/4
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
Ninja Gaiden
RC Pro-Am
Super C
Super Mario Bros 1/2/3
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Legend of Zelda 1 and 2 (yes, and 2!)
Wizards & Warriors

 

[Boofy]

NES ROMs Download – CDRomance

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Don't as us. Look.

I was gonna say, almost all the nes/fc rpg games in the repo look like they're worth checking out. The 2 best being the classics Dragon Warrior & FF.

Blader & sweet home especially are 2 games I've been meaning to get into

 

[DanCalibur]

This one is really good

Crystalis (USA) NES ROM – CDRomance

Crystalis (USA) NES ROM Languages: English, Spanish Patched. For the NES.

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[Graw]

Aside from the above mentioned FF/DQ games, of which I'd also give FF2 and FF3 a look as well, there's translation patches available. There's also Faxanadu and Zelda 2 which are both side scrolling RPGs, I'd recommend the Zelda 2 redux hack if you do check it out. There's also some ports of the Ultima games on nes which I've never played so can't really give an opinion on. Also, I enjoyed Shadowgate on the GBC when I was younger. There's also a nes version. It's a point and click adventure not an rpg, but it has a fantasy setting and it's pretty fun.

 

[Morrigan]

Ok, so I'm mostly looking for cool RPG's. I downloaded Mother 1 and Splatterworld, what am I missing?

Sweet Home by Capcom. It's a good horror RPG

 

[hazys]

Dream Master is a really cool underrated RPG.

 

[Deleted member 144646]

Dragon Warrior 4, Legacy of the Wizard, Faxanadu, Crystalis, Final Fantasy 2 and Star Tropics are all good games that may be what you are looking for.

 

[Guinea]

Thanks everyone, I now have 12 games to play (and after searching for Dream Master, Little Nemo popped up too, which I haven't played since I was a kid)

Gaming time!

 

[Goshikk]

Splatterworld

bro this game is ass lmao there's a reason it got cancelled

anyway, the essential RPG series on the famicom is dragon quest. it's one of the main reasons why the console was such an absurd success. so yeah, I suppose you're missing that.

RPGs on the console in general are really mid. in my humble opinion it's only cool as a historical thing, but up to you

except mother ofc

 

[χKai]

Jesus no Kyoufu no Bio Monster
Shadow Brain
The Deep Dungeon games.
Minelvation Saga

Alright, skimming The Repo I thought King's Knight and Lagrange Point looked pretty good. Everything else... not so much.

King's Knight is a shump.

 

[Guinea]

King's Knight is a shump.

I know, but I was always curious about it ever since I played FF15 (they always played King's Knight at camping spots)

 

[χKai]

I know, but I was always curious about it ever since I played FF15 (they always played King's Knight at camping spots)

You mean it's in the game?

 

[Goshikk]

I know, but I was always curious about it ever since I played FF15 (they always played King's Knight at camping spots)

now i gotta play ff15

 

[Guinea]

It's only mentioned, not shown.

Noctis: Anyone up for some King's Knight?

They make it sound like a multiplayer game.

 

[ZEGA ZONICZEGA ZONIC's icon]

There's Shatterhand, Bucky O' Hare, Chojin Sentai Jetman & The Krion Conquest, known in Japan as Magical Kids Doropie.

 

[χKai]

It's only mentioned, not shown.

Noctis: Anyone up for some King's Knight?

They make it sound like a multiplayer game.

Look, I've got it right here

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Note how they dont say "Anyone want to play some Cleopatra no Mahou?"

That game is  ass