Nintendo

[TheChosen]

Lets talk about one of the greatest game consoles of all time: Nintendo Entertaiment System.

There was an article about Nintendo in local newspaper. When i read it, i had huge urge to plug the cords and play some of the classic games (Does Super Mario say anything to you?).

The Nintendo was my first console ever. Little Samson was my first game ever. I even beated Super Mario when i was 3 years old.

Some of the classic NES games that il never forget:
Super Mario Series: The basic 2D jumping adventures of the worlds famous video game hero: Mario
Duck Hunt: I loved this game because of the lightgun. Shoot ducks.
Shadowgate: An adventure game on NES.
Track & Field: Sports game. Push buttons very fast and rabidly.
Faxanadu: And RPG & Platform jumping mixture. Great music.
Tetris: Do i really have to say something about this?? Okay then: Im pro in this one!
Nintendo World Cup: A very violent soccer game.
Metal Gear: Spy-game. Infiltrate and Destroy Metal Gear.
Bionic Commando: Save the world from soldiers (also called "baddies" and "Nazis") by using a bionic hand.
Star Wars: Forget those new crappy Episode 1-3 games! This is the true king of Star Wars games!

Of course, i should also list Mike Tyson's Punch Out, Cobra, Legend of Zelda and many others, but i never had a change to play any of these classics.. :cry:

What about you? Do you have any sweet memories of NES?

Thats all, now im off to download some ROM's.

[Tulac]

Yeah nintendo is great for those under 12... :D

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nalj/smash/flash/0129/0129top.jpg

Need I say more? :bleh:


*Added smilies for Data's convinience...

[Gelfo]

Word, the NES was the greatest console ever.. (I've said this before on these forums, but I still have my NES set up in my room.. good times.. nothing like an impromptu 2 player game of DD or Track And Field)

My Top 5 NES games:-


Legend Of Zelda
Bubble Bobble
Isolated Warrior
Rad Gravity
Kid Icarus >> These two both make my top 10 games of all time list


Others that need to be mentioned:
Dragons Lair, Maniac Mansion, Double Dragon, Californian Games, Metroid, Excite Bike, Little Nemo ..oh...and to a lesser extent... Dark Wing Duck =p

[The Good Soldier Švejk]

But if i was younger (7 or so) i had a great time with my Nintendo C64!

[Eagle of Fire]

Yeah nintendo is great for those under 12...
I'm twice that age and I beleive that Super Smash Brothers Melee is the best fighting game I ever played.

[Gelfo]

Originally posted by The Good Soldier Švejk@Mar 19 2006, 01:36 PM
But if i was younger (7 or so) i had a great time with my Nintendo C64!
come again?

[Lucullus]

Damn... if I had to go back to that age I'd be throwing rocks at a box and making my own sound effects... thank god for becoming a teen and then getting my first console (YEah... NES) :)

[plague]

Lots of sweet memories... I still have that old shoebox plugged on tv ready for thumb killing action. Good ol' days, you had to be a really good player if you wished to complete even a single game.

[Scarface]

Oh man, I still love the old Nintendo. It was my first console ever. :ok:

Some games I really liked:

- Paperboy
- Adventure Island series
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series :w00t:
- Excite Bike
- Contra : I still remember the 30 lives cheat :D

[TheGiantMidgit]

Xexyz, Crystallis, awesome stuff...

and awesomely retarded games too, like Bad Street Brawler and such.

[Blood-Pigggy]

Contra...
Contra...

Me and my friend spent hours on Contra, it's just one of the best sidescrolling games ever.
And the multiplayer was AWESOME!

Sad thing is, they never really released the Mother games in the US, they did release the first one under the name "Earthbound" bad sadly, it didn't get enough attention to warrant the release of the second.

Metal Gear was also real damn awesome, emergence of the stealth genre. (Although Snake's Revenge sucked.)



I also see Tulac's fanboyism has entered this topic, please ignore. :P

[TheGiantMidgit]

Originally posted by Tulac@Mar 19 2006, 01:02 PM
Yeah nintendo is great for those under 12...

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n01/n64/software/nus_p_nalj/smash/flash/0129/0129top.jpg

Need I say more?
If you wish to say more, you could try to justify that ridiculous statement.

[Tulac]

Look at the picture :P

If there's anything over 12 on it, I don't see it...

*evades a horde of nintendo fanboys*
No wonder they're number one on the handheld market, since it's the most childish of them all...

(I will not post in this topic again, because I'm tired of discussing with nintendo fanboys, and after all, you all admit that you liked NES the most, when you were probably under 12...)

If you have any problems with the statement please the direct it to blood piggy, he's my PR...

[TheGiantMidgit]

Fair enough. I just know one fact: Zelda reigns supreme over, oh, just about everything.

[Eagle of Fire]

No wonder they're number one on the handheld market, since it's the most childish of them all...
We are not talking about handheld here, you were talking about SSBM. Did you ever tryied that game? Yes, it's aimed rightfully at children since it's the big majority of those who actually play those games. But if you want to go deeper, SMBM have one of the deepest difficulty in moves, combo and fight patterns. There is actually strategy, you need to learn to dodge and block attacks. All the attacks actually have a purpose, and with so much characters it's almost impossible not to find one you don't like.

IMHO, Nintendo is #1 because their games is aimed at the old and proven theory of fun and gameplay over anything else, not because they aim at childs.

[The Good Soldier Švejk]

@Gelfo

Waht do you mean?

@The rest

I am not childish anymore, i an WWWWAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY older now, i just sayed that this nintendo C64 was great for me if i was 7.Today its crap.The whole Nintendo stuff is crap.

For me.Now.

Most of the time i am playing simulators now, subsims mostly.But, my old hobby, Star Trek (And it's games) still often get me for a few weeks.The same with shooters.But at the end, i always came back to my good old Command Aces of the Deep!!!!

http://www.subsim.com/ssr/commandaces.html

http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/comm...ces-of-the-deep (http://www.mobygames.com/game/windows/command-aces-of-the-deep)

And of couse SH1!!!

http://www.subsim.com/silenthunt.html

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/silent-hunter

And Red Baron!!!!!

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/red-baron


Thats it!

[Blood-Pigggy]

Aces Of The Deep = OMFG GOODNESS

I don't see what the problem is with Nintendo being consider "childish" I mean, they're certainly not.
And cmon' my favorite gaming franchise is one of the ones that's aimed exclusively at older audiences, Metal Gear Solid, so I should be able to compare and say "Wtf is this?"

But I can't, seriously, Nintendo has had plenty of exclusives and titles aimed at older audiences.

One example could be one of their best games, "Eternal Darkness".
Personally I think Tulac just considers anyone who disagrees with his "Baby Nintendo" theory as a fanboy.

[Data]

Tulac.
Please stop trolling. (especially that first post of yours, was one big troll).

[Rogue]

Let's start from beggining. Nintendo (NES) was not the greatest console, but it was one of the first, with largest game collection to support it.

That's part that Sega did not understand, so later they become history in console market. Sega Master System (SMS) was technicaly much better then NES.

But still, what made Nintendo great are the games, which some can say are childish, but I would not agree. None of the consoles of that time did include much of 'adult' or 'mature' titles except computers (Amiga, Atari ST and PC, or in early time C64, ZX Spectrum, BBC, ...). Most of the games were actually the same titles, and those titles support my saying that SMS was more advanced and better consoles, as all of them looked and played better on SMS then on NES. But some exclusive titles made Nintendo famouse, including Mario, Zelda, Metroid and later F-Zero and StarFox.

I still play NES and SNES games, as well SMS and Sega Megadrive games, and all of them bring some nice memories back from the 80s-90s.a

And to mention some Nintendo titles:

* Adventure Island (Hudson's version of WonderBoy - made by some programers who actually were working on WonderBoy)
* Adventure of LOLo
* Castelvania - Finished it rescently, it took a lot of tries. Wholse series was nice, with my favorite being N64 version.
* Dr. Mario - nice tetris alike puzzle game
* Final Fantasy - this is were it all started
* Ice Climbers - great game with simple idea
* Metroid - Samus first adventure...
* Megaman - famouse series, but IMO first couple of titles were a bit hard
* Snow Bros - mario on the ice?
* Super Turrican - NES port of the famouse game, that game at the end if its life
* Xevious - nice top view shooter

[Gelfo]

Originally posted by The Good Soldier Švejk@Mar 19 2006, 06:51 PM
@Gelfo

Waht do you mean?

Waht.. I mean is.. what is a Nintendo C64? :crazy:

Back on topic.. Yes.. when I was a kid Nintendo was great, but as I've grown older.. well I moved on, I can totally acknowledge that the games are childish, but that's what Nintendo do and it's what they do best. I regard the NES as my favourite console of all time (Amiga still beats it, but it's not a console so..) just because of all the good memories I have of early Nintendo games.

Nowdays I'm still a console fan, but I've gone the way of the Sony.. I never have had two same generation consoles due to money restrictions, but if I was going to buy a second console I would definetly buy a Nintendo over an XBox. Just because XBox is too similar to the Playstation, whilst Nintendo offers more original content

[Rogue]

Amiga CD32 was a console with all great Amiga titles. (Also to mention that CD32 was first 32 bit console :))

Simillar to you, I went Sony's way, but my second console is Nintendo GC, and I do own GBA.

I remember when N64 came out with Cruis'n USA/World and HidroThunder. I played those game in arcade in Germany, and loved it. Never seen those titles as childish....

[Gelfo]

Yeah CD32 was cool, didnt get the recognition it deserved. I never had one unfortunately.. but I do have some CD32 games. I could play CD32 games on my A1200 anyway

There are exceptions to the whole Nintendo for kids thing, like Perfect Dark.. and Goldeneye

[Don Andy]

Meh, just because Nintendo makes games for the sake of fun and not for the sake of "MORE BLOOD" they're childish? Yeah, whatever. Ever thought of Nintendo making games for all audiences instead just for the average CS-kiddie?

I dunno if I ever had a NES, but I can remember some games that only were avaiable on the NES, so I think I had one.

However, since this console rocks, I got one from Ebay recently, with a few good games. I must've been a 10 times better gamer as a kid, just realized how friggin hard these games were ^_^

Of the recent consoles, the DS is definitly the most fun. It's sad that most of the good games are pretty short though.

[Blood-Pigggy]

Age of Empires II for the DS is awesome, same with Advanced Wars.

But what about the first Gameboy? That thing took made all those long road trips bearable.

[Don Andy]

Originally posted by Blood-Pigggy@Mar 20 2006, 09:41 PM
Age of Empires II for the DS is awesome, same with Advanced Wars.

But what about the first Gameboy? That thing took made all those long road trips bearable.
There's AoE II for the DS? Cool.

I dunno, the first Gameboy indeed was cool, but now that our eyes are permanently damaged by fluent 3D-graphics I somehow can't see a thing on the old GBs. Everything is so blurry. It is way easier to play the old games on a Gameboy Pocket or Gameboy Color.

What really sucks about the DS is the inability of playing these old games. But what I've heard they made the GBA-Slot incompatible for GB-Games intentionally, so that nobody starts making emulators for the DS and stuff.

[Blood-Pigggy]

Originally posted by Don Andy+Mar 20 2006, 06:09 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Don Andy @ Mar 20 2006, 06:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ******QuoteBegin-Blood-Pigggy@Mar 20 2006, 09:41 PM
Age of Empires II for the DS is awesome, same with Advanced Wars.

But what about the first Gameboy? That thing took made all those long road trips bearable.
There's AoE II for the DS? Cool.
[/b][/quote]
Yeh, but it's turn-based.
Still feels like AOE, but... it's turn based. NOTHING IS CHANGED. Still research, empires, buildings, and etc. but its... turn based.
OKAY?

[Rogue]

Originally posted by Don Andy+Mar 20 2006, 06:09 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Don Andy @ Mar 20 2006, 06:09 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>
I dunno, the first Gameboy indeed was cool, but now that our eyes are permanently damaged by fluent 3D-graphics I somehow can't see a thing on the old GBs. Everything is so blurry. It is way easier to play the old games on a Gameboy Pocket or Gameboy Color.[/b]

I agree to certain extent. Rescently I wes trying something, so I started to play one GB game and got hooked up for quite some time. :blink:



******QuoteBegin-Don Andy@Mar 20 2006, 06:09 PM

What really sucks about the DS is the inability of playing these old games. But what I've heard they made the GBA-Slot incompatible for GB-Games intentionally, so that nobody starts making emulators for the DS and stuff.[/quote]
GB games are unplayable because they would require additional processors and different power (which on the other end require more components). GB games had different power from GBA games. GBA cards work fine on DS.

[Icewolf]

I'm still 0wn02 of an NES and I still run it from time to time...

My favourites were:
- Mario Bros. 3 (tons of riddles and secrets)
- MM (great on any system)
- Tetris (always been addicted to that)
- Legend of Zelda (no comment needed)
- Super spike V-ball

...and lots more. These are the ones I remember all in the first place.

[The Good Soldier Švejk]

@Gelfo

Well, first there was the NES right?

And after that Nintendo made a new Console!The, 3d Graphics, Nintendo C64.

Thats it.

[Rogue]

You're not serious, are ya? :blink:

Nintendo made console called N64 or Nintendo 64, while C64 is abrv. for Commodore 64.

[Icewolf]

@ soldier: And between the NES and the N64 still was the SNES!!!

NES -> 53 colors (could display 24 at the same time)
SNES -> 256
N64 -> 64 bit architecture and 32 bit colors

That's what it's about! <_<

[Scarface]

Originally posted by Icewolf@Mar 21 2006, 09:32 AM
@ soldier: And between the NES and the N64 still was the SNES!!!
And between each console there was a considerable amount of time. Not like today's consoles.

[Don Andy]

Originally posted by Scarface+Mar 21 2006, 06:56 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Scarface @ Mar 21 2006, 06:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ******QuoteBegin-Icewolf@Mar 21 2006, 09:32 AM
@ soldier: And between the NES and the N64 still was the SNES!!!
And between each console there was a considerable amount of time. Not like today's consoles. [/b][/quote]
Back then it was all about the gaming.

Today it's all about the money. Anyone played Halo 2? You get the point.

[troop18546]

Ok, it's wrong to diss nintendo games, but perfectly ok to diss Halo?
Please, the game is way more than graphics or smth. Who cares if it's overhyped, but with the amount of people hooked on that I don't think it makes a lousy game... :whistle:

P.S. Tulac has a point there (I'm not flaming, just repeating the fact)... Just look at the nintendo characters... LOL

[Rogue]

That's why M$ got Perfect Dark Zero?? LOL (Perfect Dark was N64 exclusive title)

Market at the beggining was slow, as parents mostly purchased consoles for kids. Today those kids are much older and have more money to spend on consoles.

Also having 3 major console players is different then having only tow in beggining. But still, PS - PS2 and PS3 spread over a decade.

[Don Andy]

Originally posted by troop18546@Mar 21 2006, 07:14 PM
Ok, it's wrong to diss nintendo games, but perfectly ok to diss Halo?
Please, the game is way more than graphics or smth. Who cares if it's overhyped, but with the amount of people hooked on that I don't think it makes a lousy game... :whistle:

P.S. Tulac has a point there (I'm not flaming, just repeating the fact)... Just look at the nintendo characters... LOL
You get me wrong here, I wasn't dissing Halo LOL

Halo 1 and 2 are two really great games.

The whole M$-typical thing about it, is the ending of Halo 2.
It's like they made Halo 2, then had the idea for the Xbox 360 and cut Halo 2 in half. The other half is then released for XBox 360, so they can make sure every Halo-Fan who wants to see the story finished gets the 360.

That's what I meant.

Oh, and I have a argument about the SSBM pic. You've seen Mr. Game and Watch at the upper right? I bet no kid younger than 12 does even know what a Game and Watch is ;)
Oh, before I get dissed again: Of course back then Game and Watch was made for the kids. But I guess the kids of yesterday are still playing their favourite Nintendo game today.

Does playing Super Mario Bros. for the NES make any of you a small child?

[Icewolf]

Originally posted by Don Andy@Mar 21 2006, 09:21 PM
Does playing Super Mario Bros. for the NES make any of you a small child?
Very intelligent argument.
Like I said I still have a NES and I still use it.

But another thing is that yesterdays' kids know games that are simple but enjoyable for hours, even days. Todays games are all about fancy graphics but when you play through the whole game once it's no fun anymore. They stopped programming games you can play over and over again four, five years ago. :cry:
The only exeption personally I think there is would be ProEvolutionSoccer.

Probably it's a thing of personal taste.
What do the others think? :ph34r:

[Iron_Scarecrow]

I've got a PSP and I'm loving it, but there's just that extra level of enjoyability missing that you can only get with Nintendo.

Tony Hawk games have great replayability.

And the best soccer game ever is Fever Pitch Soccer on the Mega Drive 2.

[troop18546]

Originally posted by Don Andy+Mar 21 2006, 10:21 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Don Andy @ Mar 21 2006, 10:21 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ******QuoteBegin-troop18546@Mar 21 2006, 07:14 PM
Ok, it's wrong to diss nintendo games, but perfectly ok to diss Halo?
Please, the game is way more than graphics or smth. Who cares if it's overhyped, but with the amount of people hooked on that I don't think it makes a lousy game... :whistle:

P.S. Tulac has a point there (I'm not flaming, just repeating the fact)... Just look at the nintendo characters... LOL
You get me wrong here, I wasn't dissing Halo LOL

Halo 1 and 2 are two really great games.

The whole M$-typical thing about it, is the ending of Halo 2.
It's like they made Halo 2, then had the idea for the Xbox 360 and cut Halo 2 in half. The other half is then released for XBox 360, so they can make sure every Halo-Fan who wants to see the story finished gets the 360.

That's what I meant.

Oh, and I have a argument about the SSBM pic. You've seen Mr. Game and Watch at the upper right? I bet no kid younger than 12 does even know what a Game and Watch is ;)
Oh, before I get dissed again: Of course back then Game and Watch was made for the kids. But I guess the kids of yesterday are still playing their favourite Nintendo game today.

Does playing Super Mario Bros. for the NES make any of you a small child? [/b][/quote]
Oh, that's the point of Halo2? Heh, I never thought about that (mainly cause I only played it a few times at a friend). I'll just tell him about this, he has no idea about this too... :sneaky:

Answering to your question:
"Does playing Super Mario Bros. for the NES make any of you a small child?"

No. Mainly cause I played it only when I was little and it wouldn't make me a child if I played it now - it's just a simple game, a classic to be exact. Tetris could be called for mentally disabled, but everyone enjoys this - it's FUN. :whistle:

I actually have played more childish games than Mario (not long ago, last year - "Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday" for SNES.) It's the WB character which I liked all of my life, funny and well has a neat voice. I aced it, but it is really in my book's content for FUN. I mean, compare it to the other stuff I play on PC. :D

[Don Andy]

Originally posted by troop18546@Mar 22 2006, 07:14 PM
Answering to your question:
"Does playing Super Mario Bros. for the NES make any of you a small child?"

No. Mainly cause I played it only when I was little and it wouldn't make me a child if I played it now - it's just a simple game, a classic to be exact. Tetris could be called for mentally disabled, but everyone enjoys this - it's FUN. :whistle:

I actually have played more childish games than Mario (not long ago, last year - "Porky Pig's Haunted Holiday" for SNES.) It's the WB character which I liked all of my life, funny and well has a neat voice. I aced it, but it is really in my book's content for FUN. I mean, compare it to the other stuff I play on PC. :D
That's what I was aiming at.

Nintendo games aren't childish, although they seem so. They're just fun. Sadly, in todays "gamer-soceity" fun is declared by the amount of blood and in how many different ways you can kill your enemie. Simple fun gameplay is rare nowadays.

I know, the "gamer-soceity" I described above is very generalized here. Of course there's much more than just the two categories "blood" and "fun". But you get the idea.

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Originally posted by Don Andy@Mar 23 2006, 07:06 AM
Sadly, in todays "gamer-soceity" fun is declared by the amount of blood and in how many different ways you can kill your enemie.
Sadly?

Have you played Postal 2?

[Don Andy]

Originally posted by Iron_Scarecrow+Mar 23 2006, 08:06 AM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Iron_Scarecrow @ Mar 23 2006, 08:06 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ******QuoteBegin-Don Andy@Mar 23 2006, 07:06 AM
Sadly, in todays "gamer-soceity" fun is declared by the amount of blood and in how many different ways you can kill your enemie.
Sadly?

Have you played Postal 2? [/b][/quote]
I did, it gets boring after like 5 minutes.

[Icewolf]

Why aren't the old ones (most of 'em) becoming repetitive?
I'm really wondering... :unsure:

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Originally posted by Don Andy+Mar 23 2006, 11:17 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Don Andy @ Mar 23 2006, 11:17 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Originally posted by Iron_Scarecrow@Mar 23 2006, 08:06 AM
******QuoteBegin-Don Andy@Mar 23 2006, 07:06 AM
Sadly, in todays "gamer-soceity" fun is declared by the amount of blood and in how many different ways you can kill your enemie.
Sadly?

Have you played Postal 2?
I did, it gets boring after like 5 minutes. [/b][/quote]
Obviously you didn't shoot an elephant in the arse to have it run around and trample a marching band.

[moogle]

NES / SNES rock, by far the best counsels eve. But, after GC I pretty much gave up on Nintendo, I have no urge to play 12 dozen editions of Mario Party, yes, GC has its good games, Super Smash was fun for a bit, Metroid Prime was OK, Resident Evil 4 ROCKED, but for the majority of them I hated it. I don't do platformers, so no Zelda or Mario, so no Nintendo.

[gufu1992]

Co0ntra forever!

[Doc Adrian]

I love my NES...Still have it in fact. Its not to flashy but it's still fun

[Scarface]

Originally posted by Doc Adrian@Mar 23 2006, 11:39 PM
I love my NES...Still have it in fact.* Its not to flashy but it's still fun
I wish I still had mine :cry:
Luckily, I can get the roms and play'em