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I'm talking about the 8-bit NES, here.  For me, it's:

Favorite:
Goonies II
Dragon Warrior III & IV
Final Fantasy
Rivercity Ransom
Super Dodgeball
Contra
Legend of Zelda
Kid Icarus
Metroid

Most Hated:
Deadly Towers
Top Gun
Fester's Quest
Duck Hunt

Favorites:
Zelda 1 & 2
Metroid
Final Fantasy
Mario 1 & 3
Castlevania 1 & 2
Adventures of LoLo
Nemo
Dragon Warrior
Life Force
Sqoon
Tetris

Most Hated:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Klax - if only because I wasn't fantastic at it. I'm good at puzzle games. Some dark force was working against me on this one.
Bubble Bobble

Favorites:

Zelda
Golf
Excitebike
Mario 1 & 3
Rampage
RBI Baseball
Super Dodgeball
JAWS - still love this game

Hated:

Ghosts and Goblins - hardest game ever
Megaman(s)
Jurassic Park
Bible Adventures

Favorites:

• Metroid
• Metal Gear
• Super Mario Brothers
• LoZ
• Zelda II
• Castlevania I & II
• Tecmo Bowl
• Contra

Hated:

• Total Recall
• Deadly Towers
• Legend of Kage
• Bible Adventures
• right there with you on TMNT

*sorry--had to mess around w/ the tools a little bit...

I enjoyed Legend of Kage.

Favorites
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Excite Bike
Double Dribble
Blades of Steel
Tecmo Bowl
Nobunaga's Ambition
Pirates!
Pro Wrestling (Someone tell me they remember this...Does "Starman" and "King Corn Karn" ring a bell?)
Batman
Bases Loaded
Dr. Mario

As much as I loved it though, the Sega Master System was better in every way.

Hated
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Can't remember much. I know Fester's Quest sucked. That's about it.

Really? Oh I hated it. I remember at the time thinking, "These have to be the worst graphics on the NES". And Stray totally has a game I forgot to mention: Blades of Steel.

Pro Wrestling was one of my favorite NES games, bar none.

I always thought that one guy looked like Worf.

This guy?

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v231/lonestar627/Screenshots/gpanstat.gif)

edit: Hmm, it's about time I got an avatar.

A few select Favs:

Puss n Boots
TMNT 2 and 3
Maniac Mansion
Jackel
Tecmo Bowl
(There's more, but why repeat?0

Hated:

The x-Men game (the name eludes me)
Fester's Quest
Dick Tracy

No, the dude in your avatar. And your avatar is great. Best one on f13 right now. You win.. a custom title. I'll have to think of something.

Yay! I finally did something right for a change  :-)

I think....?

Favorites:

Magic of Scheherazade
Trojan
Rush N Attack
Blaster Master
Bionic Commando
Strider
Duck Tales
Mega Man 1 and 2
Ikari Warriors
Battle of Olympus
Rygar

Could name a couple dozen more...

Hated:

Super Pitfall
Street Fighter 2010
Back to the Future II & III
Wall Street Kid
Superman
Simpsons:  Bart Vs. the Space Mutants

Probably a lot more that I've blocked out.

Because I'm tallying up the votes.  :-D  I'm writing reviews of old NES games for my new website, and it makes sense to do the most popular/infamous ones first, with particular attention spent on the worst games, because negative reviews are always more entertaining to read and write than fluff.  So far, I've covered Top Gun and Fester's Quest.  Deadly Towers is probably next in the works because, well, it's my third most hated NES game.  I forgot about TMNT -- another contender.

Bionic Commander was great fun. So was Metal Gear.

Kid Icarus was heavily played on my system.

I enjoyed PinBot as well.

Golgo 13 and Ninja Gaiden were both good.

As for bad? Hmm..

Darkman was bad. Karate Champ was also bad. Friday the 13th was worse.

NES Release List (http://www.gooddealgames.com/Release_Lists/RL_NES.html)

Stray,

Your avatar is classic man...nice.

WTF was up with that game?  It looked all cool on the box, so my brother and I bought it, but it sucked really bad ass.  I just remember some balls bouncing around or some shit.  It looked like it could have been a game on the Atari 2600.  That's when Nintendo started to slip by letting shitty companies produce shitty games.

Well, at least that same trip to TRU got us Tecmo Bowl, which ruled.  I played the shit out of that game.  My main team was Chicago, even though I was gimped because I agreed to never throw "that pass" (you Tecmo people know what I'm talkin' about).  I still won most of the time.  I'd otherwise play New York because they had a bitchin' defense and a guy who could block PATs.

It sounds like you managed to block out the worst part of the game from your memory:  Invisible teleportation gates that constantly left you wondering where the fuck you were, and 95% of the time ending in your death.

I remember a screen shot of a cow on the box.  I think he was supposed to be a vicious demon or something.

I'd like to add Nobunga's Ambition, Skate or Die and Scheharazade to my favorites list.

And California Games to my hated list.

I would, but the hackey sack (footbag?) game was great.

Axle Foley!

Everything else was pretty weak though.

Add Tecmo Bowl to my favs, man that one was a hoot.
Black Bass, for some reason I just liked it.
Double Dragon
Ice Hockey - the original TEAM OF FAT GUYS FTW
Dare I say it again - JAWS, this game rules
Marble Madness - you know you loved it.
Paperboy

Hated:

That track and field game with the running pad. Lame.
Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers
Dick Tracey
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out because it schooled me.
Qbert

Fav:
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Metroid
Zelda (1)
Mario (all)
Final Fantasy
Dragon Warrior (all)
Life Force (I will never forget the +30 life code)
Dr. Mario
Archon
Star Tropics

Hated:
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Golgo 13 (you LIKED this one???)
Top Gun
the Power Glove (ok, not a game... but this sucked)


There were others that were good, just not great, but were neat in their own right:
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Snake, Rattle 'n Roll
Marble Madness
Gauntlet
A Boy and His Blob


I thought Castlevania was a great franchise that had tons of potential (I want them to do more with this for the GC), but didn't like the controls for NES.  Didn't care for it.

Favs:
Tecmo Bowl
Ice Hockey

Most Hated:
Super Mario Bros. 3 (It honed my hatred of platform games to a fine, sharp point)

But what do I know, I never owned an NES. I didn't get a console besides the 2600 until my Sega Genesis. I grew up on PC games and the arcades.

Favs
Contra (How could you NOT like this game?)
Lifeforce
Graidus
Bionic Commando (I wore out a copy of this game, only one that ever went bad on me)
Mario 3
Simon's Quest
Metroid
Final Fantasy
Dragon Warrior
Tecmo Bowl
Double Dragon
Metal Gear (quite possibly the worst dialogue ever, did anyone even look at it before they shipped this game?)
Baseball Stars (Turning the team of nobody's into stars... classic)
Kid Icarus
Ninja Gaiden



Hate

Master Blaster (because there wasn't even a password/code to get you back to where you died.  I must have spent DAYS on this game before I finished it)
Top Gun (pure flying shit)
Who framed Roger Rabbit
Friday the 13th (was there a point to this turd?)
Duck Hunt (That dog can burn in electronic hell for the rest of eternity)

Favorites:
Mario (all)
Legend of Zelda (but not the Adventures of Link)
Kid Icarus
Shadowgate
Dodgeball/Super Dodgeball (cheesy, but way fun)
Bubble Bobble (let's just remember, I was a 10-year-old girl)
Tetris
River City Ransom (I loved being able to get sushi and a massage in a game)

Hated:
Gauntlet (Warrior needs food! Bad!)
Contra (and don't give me shit for this; remember, I was a 10-year-old girl)

I enjoyed Maniac Mansion just because I didn't have a real computer at that age, so it let me enjoy Ron Gilbert's genius when I otherwise wouldn't have been able to. Graphics were terrible though. ugh!

Most Loved:

Super Mario Brothers
Duck Hunt
Zelda



Most Hated:
Metroid
Mega Man
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Favs:
River City Random
Shadowgate
Bubble Bobble
Final Fantasy 1
Life Force (u, u, d, d, l, r, l, r, b, a, start)
Legend of Zelda 1
Super Mario Bros 2
Metroid (I sucked at it, but it was still cool)
Tecmo Bowl
Dragon Warrior (free with Nintendo Power!)
Nobunga's Ambition
Wizardry
Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers
Blades of Steel
Legend of Cage
Bases Loaded
Crystalis
Faxanadu
RC Pro-AM

Hated:
Zelda 2 (SUUUUUCK)
Top Gun (can't land, can't refuel, fuck this game)
Duck Hunt (goddamn dog, mock me will you!)
Ninja Gaiden (too fucking hard, sorry)
Dick Tracy (god this game was horrible)
Simpsons: Bart v. Space Mutants
Fester's Quest
Ghosts and Goblins (see Ninja Gaiden x 10)
TMNT (find the rope, fuck you!)
Karate Champ
AD&D: Heroes of the Lance
Total Recall
Werewolf: The Last Warrior

Meh:
Every Castlevania game ever made.
Every Megaman ever made.
Any Dragon Warrior after 1.
Metal Gear.
Bionic Commando.
Kid Icarus.

I forgot Kung Fu. That game was simplistic magic. My favorite was the guy you could keep punching the head off of and it would grow back. FLYING HEAD KICKS FTW!

How could I forget RC-PRO AM?  That game was magic.

Truly, you cannot discuss Pro Wrestling without invoking Seanbaby's take (http://www.seanbaby.com/nes/prowrest.htm).

As for the best titles on NES: Metroid, followed shortly by Zelda. I only rank Metroid higher because I spent more time at it.

Heh yeah, funny shit. I snagged the "Amazon" pic from there as well.

The trick to Duck Hunt was to play it on a B&W television. No matter where you aim at the television, it registered as a hit.

0LD SK00L SPL01TZ, Y0!

Having Don Flamenco and Kin Korn Karn as guest game reviewers was genius.  But then again, so is most of the stuff on SeanBaby's site.

Anybody know what he's up to nowadays?  If he's still writing, I need to know where, damn it.  I came across his SG blog, but he updates it about twice a year.

Too bad he's blocked from work.  Too much foul language and whatnot.  The SG link would probably get it blocked, too.

Ask and you shall receive. (http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=seanbaby)

I thought he was writing for some schlocky rag, but I couldn't remember which.

Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Love:
Baseball Stars
Master Blaster
Final Fantasy
Metroid
Zelda
Bases Loaded (Paste 4TW)
PunchOut
Ice Hockey (Fat, Medium, and Skinny Guys)
Contra

Hate:
Legend of Kage (bought this instead of the arkanoid pack with special controller. Regretted it so deeply)
Super Mario 2 (total non-sequitur)
Total Recall
Batman

Search them. Play them. (http://www.everyvideogame.com/nintendo_game_list.htm?cmd=reset)

To be honest, all of you should be listing River City Ransom.  Several times.

It's just too good to pass up...beat em ups nowadays don't have the depth that game had.

Acro circus jump followed by a dragon kick to the back of the head while stunned, gets the bad guys every time.

What's with you cockmunchers and the TMNT hate...I loved it, care to explain?

My list:
Best:
Mario Bros. 1 and 3
TMNT
Double Dragon (the one with the dematerializing helmet guy at end of first level)
FF2/5
Ninja Gaiden
Super Tecmo Bowl- still the best sports game ever made, even today.

Worst:

Mario Bros. 2- so very, very shitty.
All racing games

I think a lot of people listed 'hated' games as games too hard for them, including TMNT, Ninja Gaiden, Batman and Blaster Master, all great games.

TMNT was cool. I loved the whole switching turtles thing. And Ninja Gaiden is the best action game ever made. EVER!

If a game continually kicks your ass when you're like.. ohh say 10 or 12, you're not exactly going to love it.  Blaster Master and TMNT were still shitty games outside of the difficulty.   Thanks for playing though.

Love:
Dragon Warrior 4
Castlevania
Contra
Life Force

Like:
Le Empereur
Ninja Gaiden
The other Dragon Warriors
Both Zelda games

Hate:
X Men and everything else LJN released for the NES.

I don't have the fannish love for the NES most people did.  Owned it a year then got a Commodore 64.  2 years later got a Genesis.   I vastly preferred both systems to the NES, cept it was easier to rent games for the NES and more people had them so I could borrow stuff from them.

Hmm... I never owned an NES, so this is all formed over the course of the three or four hours I could stay at my friend's house before his mom gave me the boot, but here goes.

Games I liked:
     TMNT (In retrospect, the game sucked, I was just a frothing TMNT fan so I liked it at the time.)
     TMNT2 (I think, this is the one... it was a port of the arcade game... I loved this game)
     Zelda
     Super Mario 3
     River City Ransom (when I found out about it, which was only a few years ago)
     Rampage (smashing stuff was fun when I was ten)
     Megaman 2 (played it a ton... the music in this game is just incredibly sentimental for me... it's like the soundtrack for that part of my life)


Games I disliked:
     Metroid (I love just about every other Metroid game I've ever played, but the first one I just can't stand... so boring....)
     Zelda 2

     There was some dart game we rented once... I forget what it was called... you could choose different characters (a robot, a monkey, etc.) and they (presumably) had different stats and stuff, but they also had these special abilities where, for example, the robot's arm would telesope out and he'd just stick the dart into the dartboard wherever he wanted.  The computer knew how to do these moves, but we didn't.  Much cursing ensued.

I thought I was just really good :(

Remember liking:
Super Mario Bros 1 & 3
River City Ransom (played this a lot, due to 2 player co-op)
8 Eyes (again, co-op)
Zelda
Deja Vu
Fire 'N Ice
Final Fantasy
Ghost Lion (Both this and FF my first RPGs I believe)
Shadowgate (actually played this on an old mac, but it was a good game)

Don't remember all of the ones I didn't like, there was a lot of shit.  P.O.W. stands out as one that was insanely hard and annoying though.

Man.....  Tecmo Bowl.  The only sports game I ever enjoyed.

I remember epic battles against my brother.  It basically boiled down to two team choices.

Giants.  Had a good offense (think this was a Super Bowl year),  but the real reason you played was LT.  He was a machine that could throw lineman around with the speed of a cheetah.  If you played him well,  he could get a sack maybe 1 out 2 or 3 plays.

49ers.  Great offense,  but it was all Ronnie Lot.  That guy could cover the ENTIRE field.  More than once,  I'd shoot a pass down to my receiver in the bottom corner of screen.  Ronnie Lot, covering the guy at the top of the screen,  would then zoom down to pick off my pass.  IN THE TIME IT TOO THE FOOTBALL TO TRAVEL TO THE RECEIVER.  Jesus.

Luckily,  Lot ran like an arthirtic 90 year old the second he had the ball.  That extra couple of pounds completely threw him off his game.

And of course,  who couldn't love the choice of 4 plays?  And if the Dee chose the right one,  your lineman would suddenly all suffer steriod-induced cardiac fits and fall to the ground,  while the coked up defense came blistering in for the sac....

Ahhh.... there's something to be said for simplicity.

Raiders for me. Bo Jackson for teh win (referred to in Tecmo Bowl simply as: #34). You could plow through almost anyone with that guy. Touchdowns almost every time. And in the rare occassion that he didn't work, there was Marcus Allen.

I don't remember a thing about Tecmo Bowl's passing game though.

I remember lots of long bombs in Tecmo Bowl. Like 90-yard bombs that decided games.

I think it was Tecmo Bowl, but couldn't the QB run like 5x faster than any player, thus being able to completely herd them all together, run a few circles, and then run into the endzone?

If it was - That game was awesome.

Possibly, but I know for sure you could also do this with at least one of the early Madden games.

But anyway, I too love Tecmo Bowl, but me and my friends are always too pissed to play it; it is IMPOSSIBLE to have a passing game, because 95% of all passes are intercepted. Manual defense FOR TWH WIN!!1!

EDIT: Oh yeah, my favorite flavor was the 49'ers, Montana/Rice a go-go.

The passing game either consisted of running backwards as far as you could until the defender was almost on you, then passing down field.  It usually resulted in either a touchdown, long long completion, or an interception.  Or, if you were the 49'ers, there was a slant pass that was indefensible even if the defense picked the play it'd still complete. 

Don't forget the hopped up on roids punters.  At least in Super Tecmo Bowl, they could kick the ball from one goal line to the other if you maxed the meter. 

You guys are making me miss Mutant League Football. Not a NES game, it was, I think, a Sega Genesis game. Nothing like throwing a long bomb that was literally a bomb.

Super Tecmo introduced player health/injuries.  This meant all your starters were broken and bloody half way through a game if you played someone with a decent defensive player.  One game where teh 49ers player was on their 3rd string QB in the 2nd quarter was enough for us to load up Tecmo.

The Raiders were alright,  but mostly because of Bo.  If everyone else's stats went to 6, his went to 11.  He and Marcus Allen were the only thing that recommended them.

Denver wasn't bad, but another one trick pony.  Elway can only run the ball and throw around linebackers so many times....

Still, those two teams were a distint third and fourth to the Giants and 49ers.

And yes.....  49er slant pass while Montana ran like a chicken for his own endzone with LT in hot pursuit was your win condition.  That and Lott making his palsied run in for a touchdown after intercepting.

Most of the other teams passing was relegated to short passes right after the snap,  praying that unencumbered Lott couldn't zip in from 3 miles out to pick it off....

There is fun in simplicity, at times.....

Gah. Leave it up to you boys to boy it up with the sports games.

If it makes you feel better, I've also played the Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast games.

I whooped their asses.

^ SF and Denver were my squads...Elway was unstoppable

Now I don't feel like much of a man having the theme song as my ring tone. (Arcade Version).

Worste NES game ever :  Hydlide

I loved my mom for buying me it randomly, but If anyone else has ever heard of ,or played it, i'm sure they would agree it is quite possibly the worste game ever made.

Ok, so it was Big Garbage Day today, and last night I cleaned out my garage.  I found my old 8-bit NES, and went on a little nostalgia trip.  I was surprised the thing actually worked, as did all my old cartridges (including Zelda, with the battery thingy).

My favorites are the same as most here:  Zelda 1 & 2 (sidescrolling Zelda was cool, critics be damned), Metroid, River City Ransom.

My most hated game?  Metroid, but not for the reason you think.  It owned me, body and soul.  It was such a good game that I couldn't stop playing it.  Eat?  No, not unless Mistress Samus allowed me to.  Sleep?  Maybe, if I've been a good little slave and Madame Samus permitted it.  I even geeked out last night playing it.  I felt the track marks in my arm emerge again and my Dark Lady Samus called to me.

Excuse me, I need to go ... take care of something ... yes ... something ...

Kickass:

Super Dodgeball
Contra
River City Ransom
Ultima: Quest of the Avatar
TMNT 2
Castlevania 2

Hard to remember, but apparently we all agree Fester's Quest was shit, despite the usual quality of games based loosely on black-and-white sitcoms.  Ghosts and Goblins or Ghouls or whatever was too hard.  Dying in two hits is not fun.  I had no money in the 8-bit era so I don't have a big list of hated titles.

I really liked Double Dragon and River City Ransom, Final Fantasy, Mario 1+2, and Blaster Master.  I beat Blaster Master twice as a rental.  Seems to have a bit of hate here, but I loved it.  Sort of like Metroid with a tank.

Welcome back.

Hard core. I never did beat it.

Favorite:
Crystalis, especially gets points for saying that the end of the world occured on October 1st 1997.  I love how much folks in the 80s and 70s overestimated our society's ability to progress.
http://zanyvgquotes.com/crystalis/

Least Favorite:
Wolverine (http://www.vgmuseum.com/end/nes/b/wol.htm)

Oooh.  Damn, missed the heated Techmo Bowl rehashing.  This game was big when I was in college and we played the hell out of it in our spare time.  Everybody got so good at it we had to resort to handicapping each other with the worst teams; you got to chose the team your opponent played with and vice versa.  Was actually even more fun coming up with winning strategies for those Colts vs. Browns clashes.

Loved:

Techmo Bowl
Contra
(what was the licenced NBAl game that came out?  we did the same with that game; lots of tournaments in the dorms)

Hated:
...
I think the above were the only 3 games I ever played on NES /shrug

There were tricks to beating those damn frogs, but the other bosses just required hand-numbing persistence, particularly that bubble-blowing crab.

Why do I remember this shit?!