Home Game Poll vol. 1 (1984-1992): Nominate the best NES, Master System, etc console games ever (Nom deadline: September 8th)

Sorry, my mistake. Ghostbusters was released for NES and the Master System.

Ghostbusters for the NES is 100% terrible. I generally don't go out of my way to rep for the Angry Video Game Nerd, but IIRC his take on it does nail all the things I found totally dumb, un-fun and head-scratchy as a kid. "The Ghostbusters don't even own their own ghostbusting equipment."

I've got to properly set up this list with crossovers, so before you say a game is missing from x console make sure it isn't already listed for y console... this is the quick and dirty. also if you nominated something in the middle of a paragraph, i probably missed it and am sorry. (thanks forks for your initial re-listing, i used that too).

SEGA MASTER SYSTEM:
Action Fighter
Alex Kidd in Miracle World
alex kidd in shinobi world
Altered Beast
Batman Returns
columns
enduro racer
fantasy zone
Ghostbusters
Golden Axe Warrior
golvellius: valley of doom
James "Buster" Douglas Knockout Boxing
Kung Fu Kid
Mickey Mouse Castle Of Illusion
miracle warriors
operation wolf
Phantasy Star
psycho fox
rampage
rampart
Revenge of Shinobi
rocky
r-type
Shadow Dancer
shadow of the beast
Shinobi
smash tv
snail maze
sonic chaos
Space Harrier
speedball / speedball 2
spy vs spy
Spy vs. Spy
Super Monaco GP
teddy boy
TransBot
ultima iv
Wonder Boy in Monster World
Wonderboy III: The Dragon's Trap
ys
Zillion
Zillion II: The Tri Formation

ATARI 7800:
Dark Chambers
Desert Falcon
Xevious
Food Fight
Mario Bros.
Commando
Galaga
Donkey Kong Jr.
Tower Toppler

NES:
10 Yard Fight
1943: battle of the midway
A Boy and His Blob
Adventures of Lolo
Adventures of Lolo 3
Bad Dudes
banana prince
Baseball Simulator 1.000
Baseball Stars
Bases Loaded
Batman
Batman: Return of the Joker
Battle of Olympus
Battletoads
Bionic Commando
Blades of Steel
Blaster Master
Bomberman
Bubble Bobble
California Games
Castlevania
Castlevania II
Castlevania III
Cobra Triangle
Commando
Contra
Crisis Force
Crystalis
Deja Vu
demon sword
Destiny of an Emperor
Double Dragon
Double Dragon II
Double Dribble
Dragon Warrior
Dragon Warrior II
Dragon Warrior III
Dragon Warrior IV
Duck Hunt
Ducktales
Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball
Earthbound Zero
Excitebike
fantastic dizzy
Faxanadu
Fester's Quest
Final Fantasy
Friday the 13th
gargoyle's quest ii
Gauntlet
Ghosts 'n' Goblins
Golf
Golgo 13
Goonies II
Gradius
Gradius 2
Gumshoe
Hogan's Alley
holy diver
ice climber
Ice Hockey
Ikari Warriors
Impossible Mission
Karnov
Kid Icarus
Kirby's Adventure
Kung Fu
Legacy of the Wizard
Lemmings
Life Force
Little Nemo: The Dream Master
M.C. Kids
Maniac Mansion
Marble Madness
Mega Man
Mega Man II
Mega Man III
Mega Man IV
Metal Gear
Metal Gear II
Metroid
Mike Tyson's Punch Out
Mission Impossible
NARC
Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden II
Ninja Gaiden III
Nobunaga's Ambition
Otocky
Over Horizon
Parodius Da
prince of persia
Pro Wrestling
Rad Racer
Rampage
RBI Baseball
RC Pro Am
RC Pro Am II
Recca
Rescue Rangers
River City Ransom
Rockin' Kats
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Rush n Attack
Rygar
Section Z
Shadowgate
Smash TV
Solar Jetman
Spy Hunter
StarTropics
StarTropics 2
Strider
Super C
super dodge ball
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario Bros 3
sweet home
Swords and Serpents
Tecmo Bowl
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles I
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
Tetris
The Immortal
The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zelda II
Ufouria: The Saga
Ultima Exodus
Uninvited
Wall Street Kid
Willow
Winter Games
Wizards and Warriors
Yoshi
Yoshi's Cookie
Zanac

Thanks!

don't forget:

Dr. Mario
Little League Baseball: Championship Series

― 1992 ball boy (Karl Malone), Wednesday, August 12, 2015 10:51 AM (1 week ago)

Nes

Jackal
Track and Field

Nes

Mach Rider

Nes

Urban Champion

Nes

Ring King

whoops sorry for the omissions km!

also hahaha ring king

no problem! also, shoot, one more for NES: Tiger Heli

NES:
Super Spike V'Ball
Tecmo Baseball
Town & Country Surf Designs: Wood & Water Rage

Nevermind I was thinking of Super Tecmo Baseball.

we should do some "ILX PLAYS" on these.
i mean, fuck, there's a board.
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=56108700

Truly baffled at some noms. Fester's Quest? Karnov? M.C. Kids?! This is the shit you hoped you wouldn't get stuck with when you got to the rental place and it turned out all the Megaman games were checked out.

I know at least one ILXor is a die-hard fan of Base Wars, so I'm going to nominate that on their behalf.

Technically, the title really is "Zelda II: The Adventure of Link," not "The Legend of Zelda II."

Also, for clarity/memory-jogging, I'd mark "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project," not to be confused with the (very odd and obscure) PC Turtles game, "The Manhattan Missions."

And what the hell, I'll nominate Snake, Rattle & Roll - kinda dumb but spent a lot of pleasant afternoons with that at the neighbors'. They were the kind of neighbors that had tons and tons of NES games but almost all medium-bad or dull ones like Low-G Man, the clunky Godzilla game, and the aforementioned Fester's Quest. The snake game and Rampage were the main saving graces until they went 16-bit.

Oh and they had JACKAL which was awesome and which I totally thought I'd nommed upthread - thanks Euler. That's great two-player fun, just drive and blow stuff up, making progress together.

if marble madness doesn't place i'm going to hack into the mainframe and reveal everyone's ballots and last 4 of digits of SSN

Karnov was whats up fuiud

Kick Master is an amazing NES game

Ring King ruled

Karnov had cool music but the rest was your basic too-hard, awkward-to-control platformer, ime.

Technically, the title really is "Zelda II: The Adventure of Link," not "The Legend of Zelda II."

When I post results I'll write the name correctly, but for the sake of people seeing what's nominated i put sequels alphabetically beside each other.

added snake r&r, base wars, kick master, the sutf designbs game, tecmo baseblal, and super spike v'ball. and im trying to type in a very awkward positino so ill fix my typos NEVERF.

I'm playing some NES games right now and I have a new nomination.

DuckTales 2 (NES)

which nobody played at the time because it came out in 1993 with a tiny print run, but it's good despite having a poor soundtrack.

Dom "Very Awkward" Positino

Was always curious about Duck Tales 2! I think I finally checked it out in the emu era and it didn't "click." Maybe it was the soundtrack for all I know - first one had a pretty fucking great one, especially the Amazon and Moon levels. I liked to imagine that the little octopus alien guys were mouthing the dooty-dooty-deedo stuff that opens the latter.

yo rushomancy, if i didn't answer above, japan-only games are acceptable!

in fact i would love it if you would tell me more about sweet home. all i know is that there was a tie-in movie directed by, of all people, kiyoshi kurosawa :O

surprised that Myst is the same year as Doom. in the end i'd argue that the former's legacy didn't really go anywhere but it feels like an historical moment when something shifted

― the lion tweets tonight (Noodle Vague),

there was a good article recently about the creators of both games and what they thought of eachother's game
http://kotaku.com/what-creators-of-doom-and-myst-thought-of-each-others-1565214198

ooh, I'll look forward to reading that. The story behind Myst is so weird and non-typical for 90s games, it sounds much more like a 70s/80s origin story with a couple of outsider non-gamer weirdos cooking this thing up. see http://mentalfloss.com/article/63351/15-things-you-might-not-know-about-myst

NES:

The Adventures of Rad Gravity

was reading an old copy of Groo and this was on the back cover and i have no memory of this existing.

https://scontent-dfw1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/11902449_10154187043572137_4587347480124198122_n.jpg?oh=f2ea560574b149e7ff24b8be922dfe23&oe=567D680A

also, that ad is from the JANUARY 1990 issue of groo the wanderer. so, total ground zero for 90's graffik design.

I remember the existence of TurboGrafx-16 (probably as much from those ads on the back of comics as anything), but I don't know that I ever saw one in person.

I remember that so well. Very striking image.

Was Bonk the only TurboGrafx exclusive to get any traction? I'm looking at a list of games and that's the only one I recognize that wasn't available for other platforms.

keith's adventure, i want to say? you were a nerd who could turn into a metroid looking dude.

i knew one kid who had one... i am like 20% sure i can remember who the kid is tho.

one of my best friends had a turbo-16 and a bunch of games, we played the shit out of it. It was a really good system!
Splatterhouse was what was up.

Legendary Axe was cool. Maybe next poll.

4th gen! def next poll!

also the game was called keith courage in alpha zones, apparently.

also sept 8 stands as the deadline because i just remembered i'm on vacation until then, haha

I didn't have the time to read the whole thread, but shouldn't the original greyscale Game Boy be included in this poll? It came out in 1989 in USA/Japan and in 1990 in Europe (that's when I got mine), it was 8 bit and the games are definitely comparable to what was on NES at the time. If the Game Boy is only included in the 4th generation poll, it'll be pretty weird to compare something like Super Mario Land to 16 bit games on the SNES.

We had this discussion upthread about the Game Gear. Both handhelds were distinctly 4th gen in terms of time period, despite their graphical inferiority, and I believe Will has opted to poll them as such.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/08/27/metal-gear-solid-v-preview/

Cool will Turbo CD be included? Played some games lately ("Gradius II", "Last Alert", "Gate of Thunder", "R-Type Complete CD" and they were INCREDIBLE. Electro anime Japanese weirdness cranked up. The intro to R-Type alone was like a 10-minute cutscene with voice acting and nearly full screen anime-style sprite animations. This stuff really intrigues me because in the US we didn't really get this we got EXTREME proto dudebro machismo marketing. The Turbo CD stuff is like mutant interpretations of Chuck Norris-era action movies.

Oops sorry for that link wrong thread. I was responding to

4th gen! def next poll!

Sorry to keep going OT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU80R7jGanE

What do you all think is the best 8-bit Mario from the original trilogy? SMB3 is frequently hailed as the greatest game of all time, and with that globe-spanning ad and "The Wizard", it definitely felt like a zeitgeist game. Plus it's so fun and has so many levels and secrets and things you can always go back to. It's also hard as heck.

Yeah, I have no doubt Super Mario 3 is gonna win this poll, and deservedly so. It's pretty much the 2nd best 2D era Nintendo game (the best being A Link to the Past). So much imagination, cool imagery, gameplay variation with the different suites, secrets, bonuses, etc... My family never even had a NES, but I still know SM3 inside out, because when it came out I used to hang at friends of mine who had it all day and play the game.

But SMB has the best physics imo. SMB3 felt a little floaty. It also gave you WAY too many lives, it was kind of the start of handholding imo. The music is the best too, if only for inventing the standards that all game music still strive for. I highly recommend the 33 1/3 book.

Maybe handholding started with SMB2, which was famously released as an entirely different game. Also pretty floaty physics. It was the first spin-off even though it was a mainline number game. I loved it. It was so weird and I dug the Arabian Nights influence. Player selection: CLASSIC. Almost wish they had it in SMB3 but maybe they felt that one was so different best to keep it simple at times.

One of my clearest childhood memories is the first time playing SMB2 at a friend's house, who was also playing me the Beach Boys for the first time. I didn't actually hear the music for a long time. It's still by Koji Kondo and it is still amazing. It kind of ramps up the silent film schtick they were developing. Mario as a kind of Super Saiyan Buster Keaton. I learned how to play it on keyboard, it's very ragtime. Playing through only a 3 notes at a time + noise channel it's fucking beautiful.

SMB3 soundtrack is great, I LOVE the drum samples. I think they don't really sample any melodic sounds but there may be a string or two. The new Matronix-style beat for the underworld theme is incredible. Koji Kondo is a genius. Some of this is very garage rock. Some calypso (as always) but more dubby here, with the drum samples.

Thank God Mario doesn't speak in any of them.