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Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!!)

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On Oct. 18, 1985, the original Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the United States. It brought video game consoles back from the dead. It made video games mainstream in ways Atari, Intellivision and ColecoVision never could.

Here are X-Play's top 10 NES games of all time:

1. The Legend of Zelda
2. Super Mario Bros. 3
3. Contra
4. Metroid
5. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
6. Mega Man 2
7. Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
8. Bionic Commando
9. Metal Gear
10. Tecmo Super Bowl

If you owned a NES during your youth, chances are it was the defining console for you.

So what are some of your NES memories? Discovering Samus Aran was a woman? Successfully landing on the aircraft carrier in Top Gun? Finding out there was a second quest in The Legend of Zelda? Up up down down left right left right B A start?

What games got the most play from you?
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

My memories are sore thumbs and controller pads being tossed about. :lol:

I loved...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles_(arcade_game)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Dodge_Ball
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros._3
and
this horrible Ice Hockey game; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kXVFCfBWoQ
also... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecmo_Bowl

I did play http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Dragon alot too.
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

I remember I begged my parents for one until they got it one day. And then my mother ended up playing it more than my sister or myself.

We got SMB3 soon after release (I think it was $60 :eek:) and we'd "save" our progress by leaving it on overnight. You could continue as many times as you wanted, but you always got sent back to the beginning of the world you were on. It took a lot of time and teamwork to beat world 8, but I finally did it. :lol:

I don't I played any other game quite as much, except maybe Overlord. I'll be surprised if anyone else played that.
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

i loved the damn thing. i used mine until a few months ago when my cousins daughter managed to spill something (god knows what) on it (in it as well, unfortunately). still boots though but the graphics is all to hell. better get a new one.

Games:
1 Zelda
2 Metroid
3 Super Mario

EDIT: I believe i some star trek game for it as well. not sure though, i might be wrong.
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

Jetfire said:
I loved...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Dodge_Ball
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Ah, Super Dodge Ball.

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntlLvlNcAek[/yt]

From the same "family" as:

Super Spike V'Ball
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unbaUXyVymA[/yt]

World Cup
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00d9RrwCGDY[/yt]

River City Ransom
[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwLBk1zvrw[/yt]

:)
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

I never played those other games...I may have had World Cup for my Gameboy. :lol:
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

Aragorn said:
If you owned a NES during your youth, chances are it was the defining console for you.
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Yup. Still got it too. Hooked up to the TV and in perfect working order even. :techman:

Out of all the games, I think Duck Hunt got the most play time. Maybe Blades of Steel. And, of course, Crystalis. :D
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

My Nintendo also still works fine. :D If only they still built consoles that well.
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

I remember begging my parents for months to get one; all the other kids on the block have one!!! I remember playing Zelda for hours in my parent's bedroom and it creeping the hell out of me with the dungeon music. I remember playing TMNT 2 for all eternity. I remember going over to my sister's apartment and watching her play Super Mario 3.
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

I remember when I got my first console, I couldn't play it because it didn't come with the correct connections for a German TV. My dad ordered the part, but said it would take months to get to us (hey, this was back in 1988). A few months later, my mom and I were out on a Friday evening and when we returned, there was my dad sitting there playing Super Mario Brothers.

I don't think I slept that night. :D
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

I have fond memories of playing SMB 1-3, Metroid, Tetris and Mega Man 2-3.

Sadly I didn't discover other classics like Zelda, Castlevania and Contra until after their SNES counterparts, therefore they don't hold any nostalgic value.

Hard to believe that the best way to discover great games back in the NES days was by word of mouth.

The internet has changed all that!
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

The one memory I never forget is me playing the legend of zelda and having the power go out. Turn nes back on and yeah, all save data is gone. I was devastated.
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

crouteru said:
Hard to believe that the best way to discover great games back in the NES days was by word of mouth.

The internet has changed all that!
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Yes! I booted up every game wondering if it was going to be any good. I would go the local rental place and pick games off the cover art most of the time. :lol:

It is interesting though how much word did get around, since everyone I knew at school played the NES.

Games I played a lot

Mario
Castlevania
Ghostbusters II
Batman and Batman Returns
Donkey Kong Classics
Mike Tyson's Punch-out
Ghost and Goblins
Commando
Mega man (2 and 3 mostly)
Kung-Fu

And many more


Yeah, Super Dodgeball was awesome. I was creeped out by the Ghost soviets at the end that you had to defeat.

I also remember that my Grandfather had two games, Vegas Dream and some Pebble Beach golfing game.:guffaw:
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

In my day we blew on our CARTRIDGES till our cheeks turned red

My games

Blaster master
TMNT
Super Mario bros
Double Dragon
G.I. Joe

Ikari Warriors

Contra (Up up down down left right left right B A start)

Megaman 6
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

my sister and i got an NES the christmas of 1988. I play it to this day.
Still have all my games:
Super Mario Bros 1-3
Back to the Future
Batman
Star Trek 25th Anniversary
Ducktales
Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers
and many many others
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

LANDED on the aircraft carrier!? I always crashed the damn plane in Top Gun (not intentionally)

I still have my NES and I play it just as much as my PS3 and 360

Here are some games I own:

Bad Dudes
Castlevania
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse
Duck Hunt
Elevator Action
Guerrilla War
Hogan's Alley
Jurassic Park
The Legend of Zelda
Mad Max
Metroid
Rad Racer
RoboCop
RoboCop 2
RoboCop 3
Rush 'n Attack
Slalom
Snake's Revenge
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

Nintendo trying to recreate soundtracks: :)

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzoM0Jjwv9k[/yt]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVdZBfqZmp0[/yt]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0RLT7FFyN8[/yt]

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fMslkXyaVM[/yt]
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

Ah yes, the blowing into the cartridges and the NES itself. :lol:
With the big warning on the back telling you not to.
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

Oh man! I got my NES as a christmas present in... 1990 I think. I was seven years old. It came with Super Mario, Tetris and Nintendo World Cup. Later on I was even in the Nintendo Club or whatever that was called. Totally useless, but what the hell. I didn't own too many games, though. Mostly I just rented them from a local video store.
 
Re: Your memories of the Nintendo Entertainment System (25 years old!!

^^VV<><>BA [start]

And

BLADES! OF! STEEL!!!
 
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