Yeah, I read that. But the SNES games I have are already paid for. And I have adapters to convert my SNES output to an HDMI input. How sharp do the graphics need to be with an NES game anyway? And really there are only four or five of those games I’d play anyway.
Now, if they’d included Blades of Steel...
Always the critic...
I just didn’t play the NES that much. My younger brother had one, and I'd sometimes play with him when I was home from college, but I don’t have any nostalgia for that particular system—except for Blades of Steel. That game rocked. Tecmo Baseball was pretty fun too, I guess.
I loved the NES. Just looking at a list of games and I am surprised how long games kept coming out and that some games have sequals (or multiple sequals) that I never knew existed.
Blades of Steel was fantastic. Although when it comes to SNES sports games Tecmo Bowl is king.
I never played Tecmo Bowl on SNES, just on NES. My favorite sports games on SNES were Ken Griffey Jr. Major League Baseball (I'm a Blue Jays fan, and they are a juggernaut in that game—kind of like Bo Jackson in Tecmo Bowl) and NHL ’94. (In case you can’t tell, I'm more a hockey and baseball guy than a football guy.)
It is a little off of the classic console conversation, but the nostalgia of it reminded me of this--
There is currently, and through October, an exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens (my neighborhood) of old, playable, coin-op cabinet games. Called Arcade Classics. It's a great exhibit. Lots of nostalgic fun. I got to watch my Star Wars loving six year old sit and try to blow up the Death Star in the same arcade game I used to play. That sort of thing.
One of those games is Dragon's Lair. That crown jewel of the Chuck E Cheese when I was a kid. That one cost two tokens. Fifty cents. In mid-'80s money. And the game would be over so fast, but be so amazing looking. I mean, people who really know their video games probably know it was all a bunch of hooey and terrible design and all that. But I was a child, you know?
So they have it. And theirs is set up to only need one token. I get a handful of free tokens every time we go. (And we're members, the girls love it there, we go pretty often). Also, I think the change machine gives 25 tokens for $5. And I turn 40 in August.
I think we all see where this midlife crisis is headed. At least one afternoon of it.
I had a cousin who dumped so many quarters into Dragon’s Lair that he probably could have just bought the thing outright instead. I never spent much of my money in the arcade, but I did have a weakness for Centipede.
I worked at an arcade one summer while I was in college. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. I went home with a headache most nights. But at least I could play pinball whenever it was slow.
Blades of Steel was fantastic. Although when it comes to SNES sports games Tecmo Bowl is king.
I never played Tecmo Bowl on SNES, just on NES. My favorite sports games on SNES were Ken Griffey Jr. Major League Baseball (I'm a Blue Jays fan, and they are a juggernaut in that game—kind of like Bo Jackson in Tecmo Bowl) and NHL ’94. (In case you can’t tell, I'm more a hockey and baseball guy than a football guy.)
I actually meant NES..not sure how that extra "S" snuck in there.
Blades of Steel was fantastic. Although when it comes to SNES sports games Tecmo Bowl is king.
I never played Tecmo Bowl on SNES, just on NES. My favorite sports games on SNES were Ken Griffey Jr. Major League Baseball (I'm a Blue Jays fan, and they are a juggernaut in that game—kind of like Bo Jackson in Tecmo Bowl) and NHL ’94. (In case you can’t tell, I'm more a hockey and baseball guy than a football guy.)
I actually meant NES..not sure how that extra "S" snuck in there.
Oh, okay. I wasn’t sure. I couldn’t remember if Tecmo Super Bowl was done for the NES or SNES, and thought you might have been talking about that, but I guess that came out near the end of the NES era.
I was one of those "poor" kids who didn't have an Atari 2600 growing up. When I asked my dad if we could get one, he bought a TRS-80 Color Computer instead and said "learn to program your own video games". He was kind of smart that way. I didn't actually get a gaming system of my own until the Playstation One came out.
I loved Dragon's Lair, but spent way more quarters on Cliff Hanger, which was basically the Lupin III cartoon (directed by Miyazaki) of Castle of Cagliostro set to laserdisc gaming specifications. Harder than hell and still way fun...it was my introduction to Lupin, Jigen, and Goemon (Fujiko wasn't in it IIRC). Other favorites were the Journey arcade game (with the band's faces put on tiny little bodies), Jungle Hunt, and of course Gorf! :)
I was a kid with the NES, and love/loved it. My favorite game(s) is probably Bionic Commando, followed by Zelda 1, then BattleToads (the pinnacle of NES game making, it pushed 8bit games to the limit), and then Mario 3.
Now arcade games. I was a Street Fighter 2 guy. Once I learned how to play it, you might as well just give me your $.50. Don't put in the machine to challenge me. The maddest I've ever gotten at an arcade involved a game of Super SF2 and some highschool kid trying to bully me off a machine when I was in 8th grade.
I saw people spend their life savings on that game. There was one kid who offered the soul of his future firstborn child for more tokens to play that game. They gave him a bucket of tokens, and 45 minutes later he was out again and trying to offer the soul of his little brother, but they wouldn’t bite on that one.
I was a kid with the NES, and love/loved it. My favorite game(s) is probably Bionic Commando, followed by Zelda 1, then BattleToads (the pinnacle of NES game making, it pushed 8bit games to the limit), and then Mario 3.
Now arcade games. I was a Street Fighter 2 guy. Once I learned how to play it, you might as well just give me your $.50. Don't put in the machine to challenge me. The maddest I've ever gotten at an arcade involved a game of Super SF2 and some highschool kid trying to bully me off a machine when I was in 8th grade.
Battletoads is a great, extremely difficult game. I never did finish that one. I think I got to the last or next to last level but it proved to tough for me.
I always thought that Bionic Commando was underrated and underplayed but it seems to show up on every list I see for best games.
I had a softspot for Baseball Stars, Double Dragon III, Tecmo Wrestling and Super Tecmo Bowl, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II.
I was a kid with the NES, and love/loved it. My favorite game(s) is probably Bionic Commando, followed by Zelda 1, then BattleToads (the pinnacle of NES game making, it pushed 8bit games to the limit), and then Mario 3.
Now arcade games. I was a Street Fighter 2 guy. Once I learned how to play it, you might as well just give me your $.50. Don't put in the machine to challenge me. The maddest I've ever gotten at an arcade involved a game of Super SF2 and some highschool kid trying to bully me off a machine when I was in 8th grade.
I had a softspot for Baseball Stars, Double Dragon III, Tecmo Wrestling and Super Tecmo Bowl, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II.
I love Baseball Stars; I love making my on team. If you need a special cheat to earn quick cash for team upgrades: 2 player tournaments your team vs. the lovely ladies. Mercy rule the LL (since you there is only one person playing it shouldn't be too hard) and earn 10k per game.
Techmo Wrestling is incredible. DD2 & 3 are both extremely fun games. TMNT 2 is one of the most fun NES games ever.
Saying I have a top four games is like saying I have a top four comic runs or top four movies. There are so many NES games I enjoyed and think are amazing. I could ramble on about this topic.
The funniest/saddest moment for me and Gauntlet was when I realized your health is constantly ticking down even if you're doing nothing and, outraged, I screamed this out loud.
I forgot this one! One of my college roommates had it, and we set up a league of four. But his game had issues and would glitch out randomly, wiping out an entire game, so we never finished a season.
Man, give me an NES with Blades of Steel and Baseball Stars built in, and I wouldn’t care what else was on it.
I forgot this one! One of my college roommates had it, and we set up a league of four. But his game had issues and would glitch out randomly, wiping out an entire game, so we never finished a season.
Man, give me an NES with Blades of Steel and Baseball Stars built in, and I wouldn’t care what else was on it.
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Similar to my own penchant with very different styles.
Embrace it, Eric.
There is currently, and through October, an exhibition at the Museum of the Moving Image in Astoria, Queens (my neighborhood) of old, playable, coin-op cabinet games. Called Arcade Classics. It's a great exhibit. Lots of nostalgic fun. I got to watch my Star Wars loving six year old sit and try to blow up the Death Star in the same arcade game I used to play. That sort of thing.
One of those games is Dragon's Lair. That crown jewel of the Chuck E Cheese when I was a kid. That one cost two tokens. Fifty cents. In mid-'80s money. And the game would be over so fast, but be so amazing looking. I mean, people who really know their video games probably know it was all a bunch of hooey and terrible design and all that. But I was a child, you know?
So they have it. And theirs is set up to only need one token. I get a handful of free tokens every time we go. (And we're members, the girls love it there, we go pretty often). Also, I think the change machine gives 25 tokens for $5. And I turn 40 in August.
I think we all see where this midlife crisis is headed. At least one afternoon of it.
I worked at an arcade one summer while I was in college. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. I went home with a headache most nights. But at least I could play pinball whenever it was slow.
I loved Dragon's Lair, but spent way more quarters on Cliff Hanger, which was basically the Lupin III cartoon (directed by Miyazaki) of Castle of Cagliostro set to laserdisc gaming specifications. Harder than hell and still way fun...it was my introduction to Lupin, Jigen, and Goemon (Fujiko wasn't in it IIRC). Other favorites were the Journey arcade game (with the band's faces put on tiny little bodies), Jungle Hunt, and of course Gorf! :)
As well as Golden Axe
Now arcade games. I was a Street Fighter 2 guy. Once I learned how to play it, you might as well just give me your $.50. Don't put in the machine to challenge me. The maddest I've ever gotten at an arcade involved a game of Super SF2 and some highschool kid trying to bully me off a machine when I was in 8th grade.
I always thought that Bionic Commando was underrated and underplayed but it seems to show up on every list I see for best games.
I had a softspot for Baseball Stars, Double Dragon III, Tecmo Wrestling and Super Tecmo Bowl, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II.
Techmo Wrestling is incredible. DD2 & 3 are both extremely fun games. TMNT 2 is one of the most fun NES games ever.
Saying I have a top four games is like saying I have a top four comic runs or top four movies. There are so many NES games I enjoyed and think are amazing. I could ramble on about this topic.
Dawn breaks over Marblehead. :)
Man, give me an NES with Blades of Steel and Baseball Stars built in, and I wouldn’t care what else was on it.
Because the other games would never get played.