NES Favorite NES/Famicom Game(s)?

[ThunderBoy]

Metal Storm

 

[Pjira]

Also Super Mario Bros, Castlevania, Mega Man, and Ninja Gaiden games in general

 

[Megarockman _1987 Megarockman _1987]

What is your favorite NES/Famicom game?
my favorites are:

 

[MajesticSiN]

It's really hard to just pick one but my most played NES game is probably The Legend Of Zelda.
I've played so many NES games but that has the most hours in it from me by far.

 

[Elwiwi]

Dragon quest

 

[Deleted member 3099]

Grew up with these and love them to death.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Ah yes the NES, a home to many classics

 

[Deleted member 660650]

- Duck Hunt (Me favorite NES game)

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/nes-roms/metal-max-english-patched/

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/nes-roms/earthbound-beginnings-usa/

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/nes-roms/river-city-ransom-usa-europe-japan/

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/nes-roms/kunio-kun-no-nekketsu-soccer-league-english-patched/

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/nes-roms/nekketsu-street-basket-ganbare-dunk-heroes-english-patched/

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/nes-...idaigeki-da-yo-zenin-shuugou-english-patched/

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/nes-roms/contra-force-usa/

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/nes-roms/gun-dec-japan/

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/nes-roms/god-slayer-haruka-tenkuu-no-sonata-english-patched/

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/nes-roms/lagrange-point-english-patched/

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/nes-roms/magician-usa/

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/nes-roms/tombs-treasure-japan-uspanish-patched-nes/

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/nes-roms/sted-iseki-wakusei-no-yabou-english-patched/

- Gradius II (Couldn't find on repo)

- Punk Tennis (Hack of Tennis on NES. Also couldn't find on repo. Me cry lol)

And these newly released games:

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/nes-roms/pizza-portals-homebrew/

https://retrogametalk.com/repo/nes-roms/changeable-guardian-estique-demo/

 

[bjork]

My favorite nes GAME (non plural) is probably Guardian Legend. I'm bad at it, but I like the concept and the presentation of it.

 

[Tonberry]

These are my top 10, off the top of my head at least:

 

[Deleted member 560402]

What is your favorite NES/Famicom game?
my favorites are:
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Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden 2
Bionic Commando
Mega Man 2
DuckTales
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project
Blaster Master
Castlevania
Batman
The Legend of Zelda
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Metroid
Gauntlet
Kirby's Adventure
Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Dragon Warrior
Dragon Warrior II
Dragon Warrior III
Dragon Warrior IV
Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy II (fan translation)
Final Fantasy III (fan translation)
Earthbound Beginnings
The Adventures of Bayou Billy
Shadow of The Ninja
The Legend of Kage
Legacy of The Wizard
Journey To Silius
Pac-Man (Tengen)
Joust
Shinobi (Tengen)
Fantasy Zone (Tengen)
After Burner (Tengen)
Alien Syndrome (Tengen)
MIKE TYSON'S PUNCH-OUT!!

Had to shorten the list to just these. I got carried away and almost posted my entire collection. lol

 

[TacoMeister]

Too many great games on this system so I'll go with a top ten:
Metroid
Dragon Quest/Warrior
Kirby's Adventure
Mega man 2
Contra
Ducktales
Ninja Gaiden
The Guardian Legend
Gun Nac
Final Fantasy

Didn't want to include romhacks or translations.

 

[stealthRUSH stealthRUSH]

• Metal Storm / Juuryoku Soukou, Blaster Master / Chou-Wakusei Senki MetaFight, Bucky O'Hare, Little Nemo: Dream Master / Pajama Hero, Mr. Gimmick!
• Gun Nac, Rockin' Kats / NY Nyankies, Kyatto Ninden Teyandee / Samurai Pizza Cats, Snow Brothers / Nick & Tom, Xexyz / Kame no Ongaeshi: Urashima Densetsu
• Fire 'n Ice / Solomon's Key 2, Bubble Bobble, Felix The Cat, Cocoron, Don Doko Don 2

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Doki! Doki! Yuuenchi: Crazy Land Daisakusen, Goardic Gaiden, Bio-Miracle Bokutte Upa (FDS), Abadox: Jigoku no Inner Wars, Chitei Senkou Vazolder, Saiyuuki World 2: Tenjoukai no Majin, Bananan Ouji no Daibouken, Robocco Wars, Seirei Densetsu Lickle, Magical Kids Doropie. HM: Magic John, Final Mission, Abarenbou Tengu.

 

[Turbo Kid]

All of the Mega Man games and all of these:

TMNT 2 Arcade - Japanese version

Most of those are games I used to play years ago on original hardware and have fond memories of. There's a bunch of other cool, obscure titles that I've been exploring recently through emulation as well as some good rom hacks like Ninja Gaiden III Restoration Plus

 

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[TruxtonTatsujin]

I like a lot of them, most of the ones listed already I would put in my top lists. But the game that's always at number 1 for me is Bionic Commando. A platformer where you can't jump is just very fascinating to me, and getting good at the swinging is very satisfying.

 

[ThomatoSauce]

Dr. Mario & Kirby's Adventure immediately pop out to me as some of my favorites.

 

[Bakuma1997]

The big ones aside:

1. MOTHER, The very first Earthbound game i played, rough around the edges there are patches that round those, up to this day i still hum the Eight Melodies while making myself breakfast
2. Rockin Kats, a goofy platformer with the weapon being ny favorite cartoon trope: those gloves fueled by a spring, for the record, this game beat Sonic to the "Mascot with attitude" for six months
3. Little Samson, the annoying shot noise aside, i love this game, the graphics made me question if i was playing a NES game at times, and all of the four PCs are useful
4. The Guardian Legend, Zelda and Gradius got a baby and this is the result, an excellent game with its only caveat being pretty long passwords
5. Bonk's Adventure, a goofy ass caveman defeats an army lead by a giant reptile before Donkey Kong made it mainstream
6. And lastly Crystalis, my very first ARPG, love the music, the gameplay and Lore, i has memorized it so much i has beaten it in a single sitting

 

[ThunderBoy]

 

[ColonelKurtz]

Nekketsu Street Basket: Ganbare Dunk Heroes is a fighting-sports game hybrid that is probably the best multiplayer game I've ever played. Each team has two players and 3 baskets per side. There's weapon pickups, super moves, fighting game combos and stage interactions that leads to some crazy moments. Strange that more people haven't played this one because it's one of the best games on the system.

My other favorite NES game is Full Quiet - an NES homebrew game released in 2023. It's a sidescrolling survival horror game (yes you read that correctly) with incredible art direction. It's criminal this game didn't get more attention. Amazing puzzles, a huge open world, tight controls and incredible atmosphere. Part of the reason why it never got much attention is because it's paid homebrew. It was also never released on cdromance. It's actually the only NES rom I've ever paid money for. It's available on steam and certain romsites still and I really encourage everyone to give this a try.

Another honorable mention is Battle Kid 2: Mountain of Torment another incredible homebrew release. It's clearly inspired by esrly Mega Man and I Wanna Be the Guy. Tough as nails but has lots of checkpoints and quick retries. It's got cleverly designed challenges and a huge interconnected Metroidvania-style map. Great boss battles in this one with a Metal Gear inspired story.

 

[nobitakun]

A not mentioned game and one of my favourite Famicom games:

 

[Taitai]

 

[diet_orange]

A not mentioned game and one of my favourite Famicom games:
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One of my favorites. My babysitter had a copy of the Volume 42 issue of Nintendo Power that she gave me that I believe had a brief piece about it (along with a kid winning a decommissioned OCP police cruiser from Robocop 2)

Some of mine are ones that got translated (or had little to no need for it) like Konami's Wai Wai World 2, Samurai Pizza Cats, Zombie Hunter, Splatterhouse Wanpaku Graffiti, and Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa

I also really like the port of Pac-Man, Sega's Fantasy Zone, and of course Micro Machines

 

[Bakuma1997]

A not mentioned game and one of my favourite Famicom games:
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Absolute fire

 

[χKai]

I just can't, the closest thing is I could provide a list of every NES and Famicom game that are all good enough to be my favorite. It's a tie between several hundreds.