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NES by Rafiki 11/01/2016, 12:45pm PDT This was way too hard. I anticipate keyboards being flipped. Naturally, I did not revisit every single one of these games. Some games I have played (relatively) recently, so they're fresh(er) in my mind, but I'm mostly going off my memory on how much I enjoyed them. And I ain't giving no fucks about how iconic some games are (Excitebike, Ghosts n Goblins). NES 1) Super Mario Bros. 3 2) Super Mario Bros. 3) The Legend of Zelda 4) Bionic Commando 5) Mega Man 2 6) Castlevania 7) Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!! 8) Metroid 9) Blaster Master 10) Contra 11) Tetris 12) RC Pro-Am 13) Faxanadu 14) Double Dragon II: The Revenge 15) Castlevania II: Simon's Quest 16) Metal Storm 17) Crystalis 18) Mega Man 3 19) Ninja Gaiden 20) Goonies II 21) Super C 22) Super Mario Bros. 2 23) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game 24) Life Force 25) Double Dragon 26) Gyruss 27) River City Ransom 28) Ducktales 29) Rygar 30) Solomon's Key 31) Mega Man 4 32) Karnov 33) Legendary Wings 34) Snake Rattle n Roll 35) Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom 36) Gauntlet (Tengen) 37) Mega Man 38) Shadowgate 39) Stinger 40) Willow 41) Zelda II: The Adventure of Link 42) Kid Icarus 43) Metal Gear 44) Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos 45) Batman 46) Demon Sword 47) Marble Madness 48) Strider 49) Commando 50) Dragon Warrior 2 51) Ironsword: Wizards and Warriors II 52) Section Z 53) Lemmings 54) Dr. Mario 55) 1943 56) Kid Niki: Radical Ninja 57) Rush n Attack 58) North & South 59) Battletoads 60) A Boy and His Blob 61) Ghosts n Goblins 62) Maniac Mansion 63) Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse 64) Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones 65) Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers 66) Battle of Olympus 67) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 68) Excitebike 69) Heavy Barrel 70) Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 71) Adventure Island 2 72) Clash at Demonhead 73) Adventure Island 74) Astyanax 75) Dragon Warrior 76) Who Framed Roger Rabbit? 77) Sky Kid 78) Uninvited 79) The Magic of Scheherazade 80) Wizard & Warriors 81) Fester's Quest 82) Final Fantasy 83) Golf 84) Kung-Fu 85) Mickey Mousecapade 86) Bump n Jump 87) Bad Dudes 88) MC Kids 89) Paperboy 90) Ice Hockey 91) Milon's Secret Castle 92) Wrath of the Black Manta 93) Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road 94) NES Play Action Football 95) 8 Eyes 96) Double Dribble 97) RBI Baseball 98) Popeye 99) Elevator Action 100) Mario Bros. 101) Gyromite 102) Spy Hunter 103) Trojan 104) Rad Racer 105) Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 106) Adventures in the Magic Kingdom 107) Rampage 108) Town & Country Surf Designs: Wood & Water Rage 109) Duck Hunt 110) Operation Wolf 111) Tecmo World Wrestling 112) Spy vs Spy 113) The Adventures of Bayou Billy 114) Golgo 13 115) The Simpsons: Bart vs The Space Mutants 116) Deadly Towers 117) Ikari Warriors 118) The Karate Kid 119) Rambo 120) Burger Time 121) Pro Wrestling 122) Skate or Die! 123) Top Gun 124) Ring King 125) Renegade 126) Family Feud 127) Wheel of Fortune 128) 10-Yard Fight 129) Track & Field 130) The Adventures of Gilligan's Island 131) Friday the 13th 132) Jaws 133) Ghostbusters 134) Fist of the North Star I LIED!!! Bubble Bobble Choplifter Cobra Triangle Gradius Ice Climber The Immortal NOTES -I am preemptively going to defend my placement of Castlevania III. I don't understand why it's so widely praised. I owned it as a kid (even bought it with my OWN allowance) and didn't care for it much then, and replayed it as an adult and disliked it for the same reasons. Everyone praises the "variety." You get 3 extra characters, and two of them (Grant, Alucard) suck. Sypha is situationally useful on bosses and for her freeze spell, but Trevor is far and away the best character. The branching paths are crap. The first branch leads to the clock tower, which is a dead end that leads to Grant. Fucking useless! The second branch is to either Sypha or Alucard. Alucard also sucks, and his level sequence is the worst in the entire game and contains arguably the worst level in any Castlevania and arguably one of the worst levels of all time. At least skip to 3:10 and see the bullshit you have to sit through. That whole level is incredibly difficult, so imagine trying to play through it 10 times in a row while that god awful soundtrack is on a loop The inner castle levels are brutally difficult, far beyond the original Castlevania The doppleganger boss is so difficult and lopsided that the accepted method to beat it is to use an exploit The levels in general are kind of boring It does, however, contain one of the greatest opening tracks of all time. It's just not that great a game. -Everyone shits on Simon's Quest because the translation made it impossible to know what to do in some cases (red and blue crystals), but I always liked it and must have played through it 20 times. -Final Fantasy is terrible, I don't care if it started a legendary series.

(Almost) Every Game I've Ever Played by Rafiki 10/15/2016, 12:16pm PDT     Top 68 SNES Games!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! by Rafiki 10/17/2016, 11:28am PDT         Metal Warriors deserves a spot in there by Rey Mysterio Jr. 10/17/2016, 11:40am PDT         Chrono Trigger below FF6? Fag. NT by Gamefaqs 10/18/2016, 5:40am PDT             Empire was the worst of the SNES star wars trilogy NT by fag 10/18/2016, 7:29am PDT         This is amazing. I want to make a list like this! by But I'm too indecisive. 10/18/2016, 9:06am PDT             ICJ posted during the HOUR it took me to type this and now my subject line looks by like a cruel parody of his :( 10/18/2016, 9:12am PDT             Hey Jerry, you don't have to wonder, it's 2016! by JERRY HELPER 10/20/2016, 1:09pm PDT                 Or really any sort of condom engineered for her pleasure, it's my understanding by they are very selfish lovers. 10/21/2016, 1:35am PDT                     Fans fixed the Genesis port, it's now the definitive 16-bit console version. by (Not counting the CPS Changer.) 10/23/2016, 12:25pm PDT                         They may have fixed the scratchiness, but not the Genesis fart synth NT by Rafiki 10/23/2016, 4:26pm PDT                         Those SFII CE patches look (& sound) great! NT by still taking CPS tho 10/23/2016, 4:26pm PDT         Re: Top Apple ][ games by Blackwater 10/27/2016, 5:51pm PDT             Re: Top Apple ][ games by Fullofkittens 10/27/2016, 7:00pm PDT     This is great. I haven't been able to join you in this venture, but I will. by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/18/2016, 8:34am PDT     Side-track: A poll for Caltrops - Player's Guides by Rafiki 10/18/2016, 9:26am PDT         It only applies to the original Legend of Zelda by fabio 10/18/2016, 4:39pm PDT             Did you ever play X-Men for the Genesis? by Rafiki 10/19/2016, 12:08pm PDT                 That wasn't the penultimate level, Asteroid M was by Rey Mysterio Jr. 10/19/2016, 7:28pm PDT                 Re: Did you ever play X-Men for the Genesis? by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/19/2016, 9:02pm PDT         Listen to Fonzie! I can't believe I have to say that! by Dream Cast 10/18/2016, 11:14pm PDT             You don't have to say that! I picked a side when I ranked Street Fighter by Rafiki 10/19/2016, 12:03pm PDT                 I feel like you and especially fabio are being too hard on Street Fighter. by Dream Cast 10/19/2016, 1:46pm PDT                     And the Street Fighter G.I. Joes had combos printed on their filecards! NT by Check and mate, American children. 10/19/2016, 1:52pm PDT                     Re: I feel like you and especially fabio are being too hard on Street Fighter. by Rafiki 10/19/2016, 2:13pm PDT             Shut up and release Halflife 3, erik! by Caltrops Conspiracy Theorists Trust 10/19/2016, 5:46pm PDT                 Re: Shut up and release Halflife 3, erik! by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/19/2016, 9:04pm PDT                     Ok fine but Umberto fucked K. Thor THEN fucked Veronica, is the real story NT by Caltrops Conspiracy Theorists Trust 10/20/2016, 12:16am PDT                     Dreamcast is definitely Jerry by fag 10/20/2016, 8:00am PDT                         Thanks Rafiki for making a thread about pissing on the memory of Old Man Murray by and every Clayfighter for some reas 10/20/2016, 8:49am PDT                             Out of all of the games there are to defend, I never would have predicted Clayfi NT by Rafiki 10/20/2016, 11:18am PDT                         Further digging reveals erik once wrote an article loving Dreamcast!More to come NT by Caltrops Conspiracy Theorists Trust 10/20/2016, 5:24pm PDT                         If someone asks erik if he was Jerry and gets a response, I'll by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/23/2016, 1:03pm PDT                             Please do not ask erik this, or Marlon Wayans if he was the 'funny' black guy by you went to school with. 10/23/2016, 1:48pm PDT                                 I might have posted that while drunk before. by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/23/2016, 5:54pm PDT                                     Duke Nukem World Tour reminded me how much I hate the Red Cross, for ruining by the health packs in all our games. 10/23/2016, 6:29pm PDT                                         I think Kingpin was the first time I saw regenerating health, and it was for the by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/23/2016, 9:15pm PDT         Many of the first-wave NES games req'd a Nintendo Power subscription by Fullofkittens 10/19/2016, 4:33am PDT     Handheld and Mobile by Rafiki 10/18/2016, 2:19pm PDT         Thank you for reminding me that Kirby Canvas Curse was amazing and Scribblenauts NT by was super lame -- mark 08/01/2017, 7:14pm PDT     My 2600 list is WAY longer NT by guess that makes me old 10/18/2016, 2:29pm PDT         Or poor. You could have been poor. Maybe you couldn't afford new systems becau NT by Rafiki 10/18/2016, 2:53pm PDT             "Call it duty?" by Robin Ramzinski 10/18/2016, 5:22pm PDT     NINTENDO SIXTY-FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUR by Rafiki 10/19/2016, 4:27pm PDT     Sega Consoles by Rafiki 10/22/2016, 5:41pm PDT     Playstation2, 3, 4 by Rafiki 10/22/2016, 7:04pm PDT         LA NOIRE???!!!! NT by thead over, everyone go home 10/22/2016, 7:19pm PDT             I can only rank something I played. What am I, a games journalist? NT by Rafiki 10/22/2016, 7:48pm PDT                 Well then the one thing we learned from this thread, you need to play more games NT by Roop 10/22/2016, 11:23pm PDT     Gamecube, Wii, and Wii U by Rafiki 10/27/2016, 3:10pm PDT         Re: Gamecube, Wii, and Wii U by fabio 07/18/2017, 7:55am PDT     NES by Rafiki 11/01/2016, 12:45pm PDT         8 Eyes should be on the very bottom of that list by fabio 11/01/2016, 5:01pm PDT             Cobra Triangle: one of the best Dave Wise albums after Battletoads NT by Vested Id 11/01/2016, 5:04pm PDT             WOW, that is an oversight that it's up that high. It's such a shit game by Rafiki 11/01/2016, 5:21pm PDT         re: Castlevania III godawful song by Rafiki 11/01/2016, 5:28pm PDT         All that is true about Castlevania 3 by fabio 11/01/2016, 10:56pm PDT         I have come to needlessly shit on your list by fabio 11/11/2016, 9:34pm PST             Causing as much damage as possible in Paperboy NT by is its own reward. 11/11/2016, 11:03pm PST             a beautiful breakdown NT by the best breakdown, so good 11/11/2016, 11:49pm PST             I never finished The Lost Levels, but I had more fun with them than I ever did by with Mario 2. 11/12/2016, 3:25am PST                 Lost Levels? So insane mosochists hated Mario 2 by fabio 11/12/2016, 10:10am PST             I never figure out how to beat Double Dragon 3 by Fullofkittens 11/12/2016, 5:12am PST                 figured* (EDIT BUTTON) NT by MY POST SUCKS: I HAVE TO WAIT 33 SE 11/12/2016, 5:13am PST                 The last boss was the weakest point by fabio 11/12/2016, 10:01am PST             HOW DARE YOU by Rafiki 11/12/2016, 3:01pm PST     spinoff: NES games that still hold up today by fabio 07/18/2017, 8:48am PDT         Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! is probably the second- or third-best NES game. by Dream Cast 07/30/2017, 1:38pm PDT             Not everything has to be a pinball, Jerry NT by fabio 08/03/2017, 9:33pm PDT                 Punch-Out!! is just enough like pinball when you're pulling the left and right NT by flippers to hit Bald Bull's bumpers 08/03/2017, 9:58pm PDT         I forgot Balloon FIght! by fabio 08/03/2017, 6:05pm PDT             I also just played possibly the bottom 3 NES game on emulation by fabio 08/03/2017, 6:08pm PDT                 Dave Wise's White Album by Vested Id 08/03/2017, 8:24pm PDT                     Should have included in my post by Vested Id 08/03/2017, 8:27pm PDT         I maintain that 8-bit NES's version was the peak Tetris. NT by Fullofkittens 08/09/2017, 6:03am PDT             AHH TENGEN OR NINTENDO though? NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 08/10/2017, 11:58pm PDT         Mario 2 > Mario 3 by FITE ME Stew 08/23/2017, 8:47pm PDT