What is the best thing about the NES?
I just though I'd see what everyone likes the most about the NES. I had an epiphony of sorts today, and I realized what it is I like so much. Since there are 800+ games out thee, theres no way you have played them all. Since all of the games were definitely not all prize winners, since they are now so cheap, its ok to get some bad games from time to time. Case in point.. I am a Homestarrunner fan, and when I found out that Strong Bad was in Tag Team Wrestling, I immediately went out and bought it for a couple bucks. Now, had this been 1989, and I paid 30 or 40 bucks for this abomination, I would have been pissed. I would have probably smashed it with a hammer within a day. Now, I can at least smile and add it to my collection. On the other hand, there are other excellent games out there I would have never even had a chance to play. I paid one dollar for Eliminator Boat Duel, which I found to be pretty cool with its different racing views, as well as the "We want a photo finish" screen when a race was too close to call. Also, I also got Totally Rad and Shatterhand for a buck a piece, and I love both of them! Maybe its because I only paid a dollar a piece, but thats the beauty of the NES!
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One of my first thoughts were about the cartridges being so huge, since my only comparison at the time were the much smaller Atari cartridges. I was so excited to play SMB at home, since I had seen this popular game at the arcade, but didn't dare to try it with an audience watching. That weekend, I was allowed to get a second game. It was a friend of the family that went to the mall, and my mother gave him money to get me a game. Looking at the original poster, I picked out a 1st choice and a 2nd choice simply based on a screenshot. The store didn't have either one, so I ended up with Golf. I know that wouldn't have been a 3rd or even 4th choice, but I grew to love it, and having 2 games was great.
In more recent years, through emulation, I was able to try out every game that I had to pass on the first time but had wanted to play. After sampling a few hundred games, I went and bought the great ones, and even went on a mission to finally conquer all of my conquerable games, including the tough ones that seemed unbeatable at one time. It was quite a challenge, as my collection contains Battletoads, Cobra Triangle, Gradius, Blaster Master, GunSmoke. My collection is quite a bit smaller than most, with 80 games, but they are all great ones in my opinion.
To keep this post from getting too long, I'll just list some other various memories:
Seeing new games behind store counters and asking to see the boxes
Renting games from a nearby gas station from their very limited stock
Discovering ahead of time that one of my wrapped Xmas presents was 6 games wrapped together
Playing a couple dozen 2 player games for hours upon hours with a childhood friend
Reading Nintendo Power cover to cover and awaiting each monthly issue
And of course attending the NWC in 1990
In my opinion the NES may not have the great multiplayer games the N64 had or the brilliant RPG's the SNES had but theres something more special about that little box. I particulary like the quirkiness of the accessories, like ROB & the power glove. They may have been hard to control & not sold well but what other consoles have these type of accessories and history?
The NES laid many of the foundations that are being exploited with the next gen consoles like the Wii.
All's we need now is WiiROB.
LMAO- someone needs to call Nintendo with that idea
They can reissue a classic remake of StackUp or Gyromite 2K7