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What are your memories of the NES? Which NES games are your favorites?

Previously:
85 percent of voters had a PS1
84 percent had a DS
72 percent had a Genesis
59 percent had an Xbox

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dang I missed the PS1?

NES, I mean what is there to say. The very first video game I remember playing was Rush'n Attack for the NES. I probably played stuff before that but I distinctly remember that game

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I had a NES but didn't really enjoy it.

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Yeah, but only long after the fact. The NES was my first exposure to video games: when I was a little kid, I would always look forward to visiting my cousins so I could play Mario.

had an NES, first game console I ever played. pretty sure all my first gaming memories are playing things like LoZ1 with my dad, I still have the original map we drew of the overworld when looking for level 7 second quest somewhere

years later my dad also set me up with a bunch of NES games on another system, if you get my drift. And by a bunch I mean nearly 100 of them. This was when I first learned that there are some video games which are indeed just plain bad
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i remember being a wee boy in louisiana and getting enraged at my NES and getting in trouble for throwing the controller
good times
fuck you, jaws
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We got an NES the year after I was born and we still have it but it barely functions lol

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I was much too young for the NES, but it's been very easy to play those games along the way if you've had Nintendo platforms. SMB3 is great

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Antifar posted...

I was much too young for the NES, but it's been very easy to play those games along the way if you've had Nintendo platforms. SMB3 is great

I'm a bit too young for the NES, too. I was born in very late 1989. Wut we still primarily had an NES and even the 2600 when I was very young. We never got a Genesis and we didn't get an SNES until after the Super Mario All-Stars bundle was released, which looking it up was mid-1993 and we didn't get it when it was new. Like I remember playing some of the late NES releases like Kirby just because the NES was all I had

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my first exposure was an atari 2800. but I remember my first time seeing the NES at a friend of my brother's house. he had just gotten a NES. and I think I watched him play Commando or Ikari Warriors or whatever it was called. and it looked very high tech compared to the atari and blew my mind

Balrog0 posted...

Like I remember playing some of the late NES releases like Kirby just because the NES was all I had

Just recently played through Kirby's Adventure on the Switch. Good stuff.

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The earliest games I remember were Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, and Bayou Billy. I remember having to put that pink cleaner cartridge kit in the NES when the games wouldn't play:

https://www.nesrepairsshop.com/Catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=716

I remember the TMNT game.

I remember goung to my neighbor's house and they had this gold Zelda game cartridge. They also had this NHL game where it went to a new screen where you can fight.
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I had played a little bit of the Atari 2600 at friend's house, but the NES was the first game system that my family had. So many good memories. A few that really stick out:

- Nearly passing out on the Track & Field mat

- Getting TMNT 2: The Arcade Game for Christmas. I loved the shit out of that game.

- Racing my sister home from school to get to the system first

- My mom getting super addicted to Milon's Secret Castle. To this day, I think it's the only video game she has ever played. I remember waking up in the middle of the night on multiple occasions and my mom would be sitting on my bedroom floor trying to beat this damn game.

Dorfmann_ posted...

- My mom getting super addicted to Milon's Secret Castle. To this day, I think it's the only video game she has ever played.

It's a shame the sequel never got localized outside the Wii VC.
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I still have what was originally my mother's NES.

My favorite memories are playing Super Mario Bros. 3 with her and watching her play the original Legend of Zelda. We never beat SMB3, but she did beat Zelda. I probably wouldn't be a gamer if not for her.

I have a lot of favorite games for the system, but they're mostly the popular and obvious choices. My lesser known choice is Jackal. Excellent co-op fun.

Crystalis, Zelda, Mario, Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom, Final Fantasy, Gauntlet, Klax, Trog, Chip's Challenge, Earthbound/Mother, Powerblade, Destiny of an Emperor, Faxanadu, and Tomb & Treasures.
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KFHEWUI posted...

Crystalis, Zelda, Mario, Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom, Final Fantasy, Gauntlet, Klax, Trog, Chip's Challenge, Earthbound/Mother, Powerblade, Destiny of an Emperor, Faxanadu, and Tomb & Treasures.

nice
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ff1/dragon warrior helped me learn to read. oh, do i have NES memories.

the dark green and then orange of a bad run in the middle of the night of dragon warrior 2.

crystalis' main overworld theme is a slapper but then there's mt. saber.

used to rent dw3/4 and check out the other players' saves.

have an older brother and we played everything together. difference of less than a year. i got to be player 1 in games i was better at.
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Still have mine. Back in the day I replaced the 72-pin connector and clipped Pin 4, but it still works like a champ.

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why is this board full of boomers
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Choco posted...

why is this board full of boomers

The youngest boomers are like fifty five lol. The boards trend older than other sites, but not that old.

_Rinku_ posted...

Choco posted...

why is this board full of boomers

The youngest boomers are like fifty five lol. The boards trend older than other sites, but not that old.

80% in that poll said they had an NES, that is not normal
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Choco posted...

_Rinku_ posted...

Choco posted...

why is this board full of boomers

The youngest boomers are like fifty five lol. The boards trend older than other sites, but not that old.

80% in that poll said they had an NES, that is not normal

I'm under 30 and I had an NES. You know that they still sold them into the early 90s, right? It's like how you could still buy a Wii, PS3, or 360 for relatively cheap even after their successors came out.

Choco posted...

_Rinku_ posted...

Choco posted...

why is this board full of boomers

The youngest boomers are like fifty five lol. The boards trend older than other sites, but not that old.

80% in that poll said they had an NES, that is not normal

Yeah but people who were kids when the NES came out arent boomers. Also Im 24 & voted yes fwiw
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Balrog0 posted...

I'm a bit too young for the NES, too. I was born in very late 1989.

I was born 1993 and it was my main gaming console for quite a while growing up...

really at that sort of age you're not buying anything yourself so it all depends on what your parents happened to have I think
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NES was my introduction to video games when my older brother got one for his birthday in 1989. I was 4 at the time.
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SMB3 is legendary and completely transcends its meager follow-up on the SNES.
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Zack_Attackv1 posted...

SMB3 is legendary and completely transcends its meager follow-up on the SNES.

lol
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I kinda missed that whole era.

Played most of the major games via re-releases on other consoles.

I did eventually buy an NES at an estate sale when I was like 10 but my mom made me throw it out because the dude who owned it was a hoarder and it was caked in mold n dirt n stuff.


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