What are your favorite and most hated NES games?

[Train Wreck]

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

[schild]

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

[Paelos]

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

[JJPasadena]

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...

[Shockeye]

I enjoyed Legend of Kage.

[stray]

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.

[JJPasadena]

I enjoyed Legend of Kage.

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.

[Shockeye]

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

I always thought that one guy looked like Worf.

[stray]

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

I always thought that one guy looked like Worf.

This guy?



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

[Strazos]

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

[Shockeye]

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

I always thought that one guy looked like Worf.

This guy?

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

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.

[stray]

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

I always thought that one guy looked like Worf.

This guy?

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

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....?

[Velorath]

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.

[Train Wreck]

(There's more, but why repeat?)

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.

[Shockeye]

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.

[Shockeye]

NES Release List

[JJPasadena]

Stray,

Your avatar is classic man...nice.

[Arnold]

Most Hated:
Deadly Towers

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.

[Train Wreck]

Most Hated:
Deadly Towers

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 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.

[schild]

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

And California Games to my hated list.

[stray]

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.

[Paelos]

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

[Roac]

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.

[HaemishM]

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.

[Mortriden]

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)

[voodoolily]

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)

[Jobu]

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!

[SuperPopTart]

Most Loved:

Super Mario Brothers
Duck Hunt
Zelda



Most Hated:
Metroid
Mega Man
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

[Rasix]

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.

[Paelos]

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!

[Mortriden]

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

[Lum]

Truly, you cannot discuss Pro Wrestling without invoking Seanbaby's take.

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

[stray]

Truly, you cannot discuss Pro Wrestling without invoking Seanbaby's take.

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

[Shockeye]

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.

[HaemishM]

0LD SK00L SPL01TZ, Y0!