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Joined: Oct 19 2009 Location: Nashville, TN Posts: 1479

aeonic wrote:

The only games I never got a chance to play when I wanted to were Low-G Man and Super Spike V'Ball. I plan to rectify this now that I bought a a NES/SNES clone

Oh man, I played Super Spike V'Ball all the time with my cousin when we were little kids. Haven't thought about that game in forever. Thanks for the good memories.

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

I remember renting Kid Icarus as a kid in the 80s. It was neat, but I just never played it after that.

My Mario experience post-NES is pretty much limited to mostly the kart games, as well as Tennis & Golf. It seems like after the greatness of SMB3, I was all Mario'd out. Really weird of me, but I guess I got more into sports games after that instead of platformers. Bought Super Mario Bros. Wii for my wife's b-day last year, but only played it with her once. Co-op is frustrating.

LeshLush wrote:

aeonic wrote:

The only games I never got a chance to play when I wanted to were Low-G Man and Super Spike V'Ball. I plan to rectify this now that I bought a a NES/SNES clone

Oh man, I played Super Spike V'Ball all the time with my cousin when we were little kids. Haven't thought about that game in forever. Thanks for the good memories.

THQ really made some neat, fun, and quirky games for the NES. Just the body style alone in those games is good for a laugh. Besides the obvious River City Ransom, playing the World Cup game on NES and the original Game Boy was fun as hell with the slide tackling system.

Posted: Mar 28 2014 11:40 pm

Too many to list. I'll just say I'm very thankful for emulation.

Joined: Oct 19 2009 Location: Nashville, TN Posts: 1479

Cattivo, I'm sure you've heard this a million times, but you've really got to give Super Mario World and Mario 64 a test drive.

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

Indeed. Maybe I can get them off the Wii virtual console if they're available there.

Posted: Apr 02 2014 10:00 am

I don't know how well Mario 64 has held-up. It was amazing at the time, but it was very much a "You had to be there" sort of game. IMHO, Sunshine has held up far better.

Super Mario World though is still fantastic.

Both SM64 and SMW are on the Virtual Console, unless they've been pulled.

Title: Miss Madness 99 Joined: Sep 09 2012 Posts: 225

Well I'll keep this to NES. Like someone mentioned earlier I too fell prey to buying games that stemmed from IP's I already knew about. That only seemed to work out on TMNT and Ducktails.

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Posted: May 03 2014 02:27 pm

Mario 64 is entirely skippable.

Posted: May 03 2014 07:37 pm

GeorgeTaylor wrote:

Well I'll keep this to NES. Like someone mentioned earlier I too fell prey to buying games that stemmed from IP's I already knew about. That only seemed to work out on TMNT and Ducktails.

Crystalis

Journey to Silius

Dragon Fighter

Shatterhand

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Battle of Olympus

Crystalis is awesome, you'll have to try that. It's moderately challenging. Battle of Olympus is also good, although that one is hard as hell. It plays like Zelda II but harder.

Joined: Oct 19 2009 Location: Nashville, TN Posts: 1479

I'm going to be the voice of dissent and say that Mario 64 is not entirely skippable. I still play through once every two years or so. It's far more exploratory in nature than the later 3D Mario games, which is fun. Also, the graphics have aged better than probably any other N64 game.

Posted: May 04 2014 09:13 pm

I have to agree with those sentiments. Mario 64 is definitely a classic worth playing at least once if you never have before.

Posted: May 04 2014 09:17 pm

Anybody into Terranigma? I just started playing it for the first time.

Posted: May 05 2014 07:38 am

Terranigma is a fantastic game. It's a shame it was never released in North America, although I used to own a PAL copy and am grateful for it. If you have not yet played Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia, I would hold off on Terranigma as it is a the last game in a loosely connected trilogy with those other two being the previous games. All excellent games developed by Quintet and published by Enix. I wish they would revive some of the old Enix games.

Posted: May 05 2014 04:38 pm

slapolakinkaido wrote:

Anybody into Terranigma? I just started playing it for the first time.

I live in europe so i naturally played it. I even remember the TV-commercials. Completed it multiple times and it's still a great and unique gaming experience no other game can give you.

Joined: Oct 19 2009 Location: Nashville, TN Posts: 1479

The only Metroid games I've ever played are Super Metroid and the first Metroid Prime. I should probably make time to play through the NES original. Can anybody comment if the gameboy Metroid II is worth playing> I just got a Super Gameboy and I imagine that one might be fun to blow up on the big screen and add custom colors to.

Posted: May 08 2014 08:16 am

It's very similar to the NES one i think. It's just classic Metroid with Gameboy graphics. I remember it also being very hard and i actually never completed it but i had my fair share of fun with it.

Posted: May 11 2014 01:24 pm

@om*d wrote:

Terranigma is a fantastic game. It's a shame it was never released in North America, although I used to own a PAL copy and am grateful for it. If you have not yet played Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia, I would hold off on Terranigma as it is a the last game in a loosely connected trilogy with those other two being the previous games. All excellent games developed by Quintet and published by Enix. I wish they would revive some of the old Enix games.

Yeah I grew up playing Soulblazer and Illusion of Gaia, probably hundreds of times. I'm glad I finally got me a copy of Terranigma, I'm finding it pretty awesome so far.