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Posted: Apr 18 2008 11:21 am

From the 8-bit: A light gun game best known for players' inability to do a certain something and its association to a certain other game.

From the 16-bit: A top-down action game that pits one or two teenagers against B-movie monsters as they try to save their neighbors from them.

Fun Fact: Both of these games appear on Flying Omlette's top 25 list of the most overrated games she's played. In fact, she particularly hates the latter.

Posted: Apr 18 2008 11:41 am

Zombies Ate My Neighbors. Such a good game...

Posted: Apr 18 2008 12:07 pm

who the F is flying omelette?

Posted: Apr 18 2008 12:36 pm

It's a retro video game site. Not a bad one either. Frankly, I'm not a huge fan of her features and reviews, but her video game music download section has helped me get some real gems.

Posted: Apr 18 2008 01:34 pm

I love Duck Hunt, but I like Hogan's Alley better. It always makes me think of the shootoff in Magnum Force.

That said, my vote goes for Zombies.

Posted: Apr 18 2008 03:27 pm

Flying Omelette can suck my balls.

Posted: Apr 18 2008 03:31 pm

Flying Omlette is cool, but both these games are fantastic.

I will say though that it's very hard to call Duck Hunt overrated. I mean, it was a free fucking game. Unless you got the crappy original NES package with ROB, Duck Hunt came packaged with your system as either 1/2 or 1/3 of a multicart. It's not like you paid money for it. It came FREE with your damn system. And maybe it's not as good as Super Mario. But it's still fucking fun.

Posted: Apr 18 2008 08:13 pm

What Syd said.

Duck Hunt is awesome.

Posted: Apr 18 2008 09:14 pm

i never got duck hunt

for some reason our system only had the single super mario bros cart.

i guess we got ours way before the double cart or the ROB came out.

Posted: Apr 18 2008 09:33 pm

username wrote:

i never got duck hunt

for some reason our system only had the single super mario bros cart.

i guess we got ours way before the double cart or the ROB came out.

I dont think it was before rob. Rob was the first package i think.

Posted: Apr 18 2008 09:45 pm

erock462 wrote:

username wrote:

i never got duck hunt

for some reason our system only had the single super mario bros cart.

i guess we got ours way before the double cart or the ROB came out.

I dont think it was before rob. Rob was the first package i think.

hmmm. i was very young so all i remember was the NES + the game and it was just super mario bros. the sticker on the cartridge was just super mario bros. i remember my cousin buying his NES and his came w/the dual cartridge. needless to say, my brother and i felt gypped. cant recall if it came w/two controllers or one though.

Posted: Apr 18 2008 10:09 pm

I had the 3 in 1 cart, but my zapper was the gay orange one instead of the cool gray one...

Posted: Apr 18 2008 11:11 pm

[quote="erock462"]

username wrote:

I dont think it was before rob. Rob was the first package i think.

There were two packages that debuted side by side. The Controler Deck, which was 199.99 and came with an NES, SMB, and two controller. Then there was the Deluxe Set, which is the original package that most people remember. It was an NES, ROB, two controllers, a Zapper, and three game carts: SMB, Duck Hunt, and Gyromite. These packages were eventually replaced by an Action Pack that came with an NES, a Zapper, two controllers, and the SMB/Duck Hunt multicart. It retailed for 149.99. This retooled package and price cut led the NES to much success.

Posted: Apr 19 2008 02:33 am

Yeah all i remember is the rob trigme and then the classic dual game.

Posted: Apr 19 2008 11:22 am

And it's Zombies Ate My Neighbors for the win. Next.

Posted: Apr 19 2008 12:04 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

username wrote:

I dont think it was before rob. Rob was the first package i think.

There were two packages that debuted side by side. The Controler Deck, which was 199.99 and came with an NES, SMB, and two controller. Then there was the Deluxe Set, which is the original package that most people remember. It was an NES, ROB, two controllers, a Zapper, and three game carts: SMB, Duck Hunt, and Gyromite. These packages were eventually replaced by an Action Pack that came with an NES, a Zapper, two controllers, and the SMB/Duck Hunt multicart. It retailed for 149.99. This retooled package and price cut led the NES to much success.

so we probably got the controller deck.

thanks syd for having this anal retentive attention to detail

Posted: Apr 21 2008 11:09 pm

I have to grab the gray zapper that's at Game Exchange.

Posted: Apr 22 2008 12:59 pm

I'm not exactly sure how but I somehow own 2 NES Zappers.

I think it's just one of those mysteries whose answer is lost in time, like whatever happened to my copy of SMB2.

Posted: Apr 22 2008 01:10 pm

I need a new NES Zapper. Sad