Video Games

[nocera]

What's the most disappointing NES game you remember playing? Mine is X-Men. I was HYPED when it was available at my local rental joint. I learned a valuable life lesson that day: Don't pin all your weekend hopes on one individual thing. Also, **** LJN.

[dodint]

Jaws. Same deal, weekend rental that went nowhere. Also LJN.

[NAN]

Game that me and my friends were pumped for, Friday the 13th (loved the movies when we were kids). Much like Jaws and X-Men, LJN.

Based on cover art at a rental store, Deadly Towers. My buddy and I thought it looked awesome, brought it home, and it sucked ass.

Back to the Future was another.

[nocera]

Jaws and Friday the 13th are great examples. Back to the Future is also LJN, right? Man **** that company.

[eddy]

I liked Jaws quite a bit. Friday the 13th is a good one. Top gun landing frustrated the hell out of me, I don't think I ever landed a plane.

Man, looking at ljn, they made some poor games, but also T&C surf design, so I can't stay mad at them

[nocera]

Was anybody actually able to stay on a wave or do a trick in the halfpipe in T&C Surf Design?

[eddy]

Was anybody actually able to stay on a wave or do a trick in the halfpipe in T&C Surf Design?

It took me a while for surfing, but I got good. I was excellent with skateboarding. Between that and California games, I was pretty hot ****

[Freddy Rumsen]

Skate or Die is the best skateboard game.

[NAN]

Was anybody actually able to stay on a wave or do a trick in the halfpipe in T&C Surf Design?

I got pretty good at it after some practice. But the skate board part was definitely the best.

[NAN]

Skate or Die is the best skateboard game.

I liked 720 for the NES.

[meow]

I was young and stupid. I rented TMNT 1 thinking it was TMNT 2 the arcade and cried for hours when I figured it out

[nocera]

I could ONLY do the side scrolling skate level. The half pipe and the surfing was instant death.

I see a lot of people hate the original TMNT. Maybe it's because I had it as a kid so it's nostalgic, but I love that game. I got to the technodrone once but didn't last long.

[NAN]

I could ONLY do the side scrolling skate level. The half pipe and the surfing was instant death.

I see a lot of people hate the original TMNT. Maybe it's because I had it as a kid so it's nostalgic, but I love that game. I got to the technodrone once but didn't last long.

I think like meow was pointing to, the arcade game was so great, that I think the original NES game was a disappointment if you were expecting that.

I enjoyed it, but man it was a hard game. I beat it once. I think I used the game genie though.

[NAN]

I'm also playing blaster master right now on the switch. That was another game like Rygar that I absolutely loved, but it took forever with no saves. I'm trying to refresh my memory where everything is in that game.

Some games, I can remember everything even 30 years later. Some take some time to come back. But it's amazing how much you remember from the games when you were a kid vs just even playing a game yesterday. I don't know if it's because most games you can play through in a few hours, or at most a few days for the complex ones at the time like Zelda and Metroid. Or it's just you remember stuff better as a kid.

[nocera]

One reason I remember a lot of NES and Genesis games is aside from a small handful, you had to play through the entire game in one sitting if you wanted to beat it. So the games you really liked, you played the first few levels over and over and over again.

[skullman80]

The first TMNT is a good game, it's just unforgiving especially towards the end.

Battletoads was another example of that once you get to the Turbo Tunnel level.... good lord. Memorization and luck...and even then it might not be good enough.

[nocera]

I believe this is the point in the conversation where we're supposed to lament about kids these days and how they have it easy with their save states and white tanooki Mario and how NES games taught you that life is hard and you only get so many chances so don't **** it up.

[Spangler]

I could never make it past the first or second level of the Batman game for NES. That game was super hard.

[NAN]

That turbo tunnel was tough. You could be perfect and still die.

Ghost N Goblins was hard too in that if you made it just to the second level that was an accomplishment.

[skullman80]

I do miss the days of renting games from Giant Eagle and playing all weekend with my friends to beat them. Asking my mom to pay the late fee so we could have one more day etc. Good times, and good memories.

[nocera]

Ninja Gaiden was also hard as hell but similar to Batman, I loved the wall climb.

Another disappointing game was the first Ghostbusters on NES. What a mess.

[NAN]

I can literally talk the NES all day.

[skullman80]

The first ghostbusters on the NES was bad, but the second one wasn't much better.

[nocera]

Yeah they were both bad but after the first one, Ghostbusters 2 seemed great. I liked the Genesis Ghostbusters game a lot. I mean, the best one by far was Ghostsbusters The Game for 360/PS3 but that era doesn't count for this discussion.

[NAN]

Games I remember playing the most and loving that weren't the super popular (ie. Mario, Zelda, Ninja Gaiden, Mega Man etc):

Jackyl
Contra
Commando
Battle of Olympus
Blaster Master
Stryder
Code Named Viper
Rygar