Nandemoyasan
Standing guard
- AKA
- Johnny
File this under the 'just for fun' category, but...
Yesterday, I got Mega Man 1 delivered through USPS after buying it on Amazon last week, completing a goal I've had since I was 10 years old and first got a NES. I have eight NES games which I consider to be the quintessential carts on the system. Perhaps there are many other NES games I could include, but when I was a kid in the early 90's, these were the 8 games that had characters featured in television shows, those being:
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show
The Legend of Zelda
and
Captain N: The Game Master.
My "8 NES Classics" list is therefore limited to these 8 games based on 10-year-old me's logic. And 8 was chosen as the cutoff number by 10-year-old me as it seemed appropriate for an 8-bit system. The list is therefore inherently reductive; perhaps I subconsciously designed it to keep myself from wanting to buy too many games.
However, I am open to suggestions for where to go next on my NES collection, going forward. I could use the diversion from the current state of things, honestly, and if you could too, then go ahead and rec me some NES games, on the condition they not be part of the series above. Obviously getting the sequels, spinoffs and/or prequels to these 8 games (if any) would be nice, but I'm looking for other unique entries. I am very familiar with the library of the NES; this is why I am asking for suggestions, not because I don't know of any other games on the system, but because I know about them all, and can't quite make up my mind. 10-year-old logic somehow has evaded a 38-year-old man, heh.
So, which other NES games do you think are "Classic?" There are a great many which are even on the NES Classic Mini which made me think "What? Why?*" How about you?
* "Balloon Fight?"
Yesterday, I got Mega Man 1 delivered through USPS after buying it on Amazon last week, completing a goal I've had since I was 10 years old and first got a NES. I have eight NES games which I consider to be the quintessential carts on the system. Perhaps there are many other NES games I could include, but when I was a kid in the early 90's, these were the 8 games that had characters featured in television shows, those being:
The Super Mario Bros. Super Show
The Legend of Zelda
and
Captain N: The Game Master.
My "8 NES Classics" list is therefore limited to these 8 games based on 10-year-old me's logic. And 8 was chosen as the cutoff number by 10-year-old me as it seemed appropriate for an 8-bit system. The list is therefore inherently reductive; perhaps I subconsciously designed it to keep myself from wanting to buy too many games.
However, I am open to suggestions for where to go next on my NES collection, going forward. I could use the diversion from the current state of things, honestly, and if you could too, then go ahead and rec me some NES games, on the condition they not be part of the series above. Obviously getting the sequels, spinoffs and/or prequels to these 8 games (if any) would be nice, but I'm looking for other unique entries. I am very familiar with the library of the NES; this is why I am asking for suggestions, not because I don't know of any other games on the system, but because I know about them all, and can't quite make up my mind. 10-year-old logic somehow has evaded a 38-year-old man, heh.
So, which other NES games do you think are "Classic?" There are a great many which are even on the NES Classic Mini which made me think "What? Why?*" How about you?
* "Balloon Fight?"
