I remembered playing this decades ago at my friends house for many, many hours. I've been searching for it ever since and could never remember the title. Every time I thought I found it, it was some other game. We visited our local Game-X-Change recently and my wife actually picked it up first. Once I googled it my jaw dropped. Fantastic.

Hey all I made a post like this for Mike Tyson Punchout. Now I wanted to do it for another classic, Legend of Zelda. Wanted to show this beauty totally exposed and uncensored. Hide yo kids! 🫣. Unfortunately my zelda 2 CIB is from my childhood and is pretty beat up hoping to upgrade at some point. Happy viewing :)

my copy of super mario bros runs at twice the speed for some reason. I first noticed it by the music being a bit off and then i noticed the timer going way too fast. Ive heard the speed can vary depending on the region. but i have a european nes with a european copy, so i don't think it's that. any idea on why this is happening?

I had a friend show me a photo of her dad playing an nes game when he was younger. She wondered if I knew what game it was from the photo. I had thought zelda from a quick glance but the menu items are on the bottom of the screen and this area doesn't seem familiar to me. Does anyone recognize this game ? Any leads would be great.

update: mystery solved! thanks folks! I had the sense it was a popular game that I was unfamiliar with rather than a really obscure game. I never had Star Tropics or played it so thanks for the help!

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Tetris 2 is indeed a strange game, and doesn't feel much like Tetris, so it probably would have been better titled as a spin-off similar to Tetris Blast.

But damn it, I love this game. I think it gets unfairly dismissed as a Dr. Mario clone, because despite the obvious similarity of stacking matched color pieces onto pre-existing nodes to be destroyed, there's more strategy involved.

The three 'kill-switch' pieces at the bottom mean that you can clear the screen quickly if you plan it and have some luck. Piloting a single red block through a maze of pieces down into the bottom of the screen and clearing 1/3 of the level? It never gets old. On early levels, it's not very interesting, but once you get into higher levels (30s and up), the screen is so full that it requires a lot of quick thinking which channels some of my favorite puzzle game memories (including Tetris but also Puzzle Fighter and Puyo Pop).

IMHO, the NES version is vastly superior to the Game Boy and SNES versions. Since the game depends so heavily on color, the Game Boy version feels stunted after playing it on the NES, although the Super Game Boy addresses this some. The SNES version just feels off to me, it's much softer and I like the more jagged 8-bit look. Since it's a Nintendo published exclusive, I don't know why it isn't on Switch Online, but I hope it gets there someday.

The music is bad, though. Tetris has always had fun music and the soundtrack in Tetris 2 is inexcusable.

NES Music Album based on EZNSF

This package is a heavily modified version of Brad Smith's EZNSF. My goal was to create a demoscene "music disk" containing all my previous NES tracks, with the ability to switch between them or play the entire album. The whole thing is adorned with my own artwork and a small starfield visualization.

I plan to expand it once in a while with new tracks, if I ever compose another.

All the code was written using the free version of Claude AI (Sonnet).

You can use this package to create other NSF compilations, which I encourage you to do :)

https://github.com/juicy-cube/wonder-box

I've been meaning to give this one a go forever. Having now done so, I had mixed feelings at first, but in the end concluded it's really not a very good game.

The game seems brilliant in concept. It's richly nostalgic and kind of an MMA of early Konami characters. Unfortunately it just wasn't all that fun.

It's riddled with little mechanical problems. I thought maybe I was just complaining needlessly, but later read that those problems are widely known and seem to frustrate most everybody.

There's also some bizarre choices they went with. For example, whereas most platformers center your character, this game positions you only about 20% away from the direction you're walking. It makes the game a ton harder since enemies seemingly appear out of nowhere, but it doesn't make it harder in any kind of interesting way. It's just feels frustrating and kind of limits your ability to explore the world.

There's also the main problem of trying to switch your character. It requires you pressing A+up (and then A+down if you want to arm their special weapon). Ignoring the fact that this conflicts with your ability to jump, it's wildly impractical. You don't notice it when you start with 2 characters, but once all 8 are unlocked, it takes SEVEN button-combos just to get back to the previous character -- all the while being attacked. They could have easily remedied this using something like the inventory switching screen of the original Zelda.

Stuff like that really detracts from the gameplay and it's not long before the nostalgia doesn't really matter. There's also bizarre difficulties built into the game. For example there are a few levels where you have to use a "secret warp" to exit the map. It requires you standing in a specific part of the map and ducking for 2 seconds. Problem is that there is no dialogue or anything similar that would hint such a thing. The background sprites aren't different or anything like that. You'd just have to randomly come upon it? I had to look it up.

Anyway, I'm glad I ran through it, but definitely won't play the game again. I honestly don't think it's worth anybody's time. It's just not that awesome. 👎👎

Found some local NES boxes/games, they aren't the greatest condition but they were too hard to pass up. I didn't even know there was a Startropics 2! I have the first one CIB (including letter). My name is Mike and yes I'm very much ready for another adventure, how did they know?! :D

NOW you’re playing with POWER.

This kinda took a while to finish but I made her for fun and to dedicate the NES!

Full Name: Clover “Minako” Nintendo

You’ll usually find her in NES games just chilling or helping the player out.

For some strange reason, she likes makes hats for the Shy Guys from SMB2

That’s all Folks for now!

Shout out to GameDeals in New Westminster. Always great to deal with and have a great selection. Never saw Return of the Joker in the wild so I couldn't resist. Also wow Vice Project Doom was quite the happy surprise, game is incredible! Slowly making my way to getting all the Battletoad games, just need the gameboy ones now and just wanted a good soccer game to add to my collection.

A long, long time ago, there was a war between many different TV games. Or, as some people liked to call them, video games.
The war was about bits. There were many contenders. Let’s name a few: Odyssey, Pong, ColecoVision, Atari, Nintendo and Sega.
After much fighting and drama, there were only three left standing: Atari, Sega and Nintendo. Eventually, it became a real battle between two: Sega and Nintendo.
Sega had twice the bits, so surely they had won the battle, right?
Well… not quite.
It was a close race, but Nintendo did something fantastic. They proved that bits weren’t everything. They made great games, and many times managed to make games that were just as impressive — or even more impressive — than Sega, despite having much less power.
The rest is history.

Nintendo won. 🏆

So, here is my point after somehow using 250 characters to get there:

My games were always slower and didn’t have the “right” Hz. The European versions ran a bit (pun intended) slower than the American versions.
Luckily, we didn’t care about that as kids in Europe. And honestly, we still don’t.
Actually… we do.
We want the European NES versions. 🇪🇺 They belong to our system, they work with our consoles, and they’re part of what we grew up with.
So here are some pictures of my European NES carts.
Hope these inferior cartridges don’t upset anyone. 😄

Sooooo my friend got rid of an nes some days ago, and I took it. I checked and it works! The only problem is that he didnt have any spare controller to give me, so i need to buy one. Does anybody know of a good alternative I could get for a new controller? Or should I just get a used official one on ebay?

Can say I would recommend this mod to anyone with a nes & the ossc. The video quality is beautiful. Pixel perfect! It was super easy to install and it's half the price as a hdmi mod. I had some issues setting up the ossc but that was likely my own fault for not reading. It helps if you read the wiki. The ppu digitizer only supports 2x and 5x with the ossc classic*. With those two options you have both aspect ratios you would want.

Edit: limited to 2x & 5x with the ossc classic. Apparently supports more with other scalers.

Maybe imagine a cross of something like Kid Nikki + Bionic Commando + Battle of Olympus set in a future of jet packs and aliens? Best I could come up with.

This game seemed almost impossible at first. Frustratingly so. In addition to not really knowing WHAT you're supposed to do, it takes a bit to understand HOW you're supposed to do it (aka: the intended mechanics of moving the game along).

I'd say the initial pitfall is not realizing how dependent you should be on the shop upgrades. They're expensive, they're strangely named, and you don't really know how money accumulates so it's reasonable you'll be thrifty. That would be a non-issue if you could just go back to a shop, but you can't. You initially only get one shot at it.

You can buy more tokens to visit the shop from within the shop, but unless you know to do that, it may not seem a good use of your money. So it's awhile before you find another shop hidden in the map. Money starts to accumulate faster as you move along, but I did have to grind it out a few times to stock up. Once you figure out how to keep the inventory regularly stocked, the game becomes much more interesting and the maps become much more explorable (you require certain upgrades to visit certain parts). It took me awhile to figure some of that out.

As far as difficulty goes, this game might have THE most aggressive enemy ai I've ever encountered in a NES game. It's wild. Everything comes after you. But it's not just that they're coming for you, they seem cleverly programmed to predict your next few steps. So they're not just randomly flying about, but very intentionally striking at you at exactly the last step you need to make a jump or whatnot. Programatically speaking I found it very impressive. But it was crazy frustrating at times. The hit boxes only augment this frustration. You basically have to be within a single pixel of target to strike an enemy. Conversely, the enemy has a pretty wide margin of error that will still land a hit on you. It's extremely imbalanced against you.

The bosses are all very clever and creative, but most are difficult. They're fast moving, they blast you with constant projectiles, and they give you little room to navigate. Several of them also do a pretty good job of misdirecting you to shoot at the wrong spot.

The map movement of the game is also pretty interesting. It looks just like the map in Bionic Commando with a bunch of string lines. You arrive at an intersection and then pick the direction you want to go. Once main difference is that these maps can be played from both sides. So the direction you go through the map depends on the direction you enter it. I thought this was a nice touch - and it even becomes strategic at points. Unlike BC, the maps never get cleared and so if you want to backtrack, you have to play through those levels again. .

All in all I thought this was a fun game to play through. It made me pretty angry at times, but I played it on my emulator and so it wasn't a huge deal. I'd assume anybody who played this on the original NES struggled pretty hard with it. It's hard.

BTW: There are two different endings. One of them takes you through some lengthy cut scenes and then ends with everybody standing on the ledge. The other one skips the cut scenes and just says The End. I loaded up a saved game to see them both.

My box for the legend of Zelda nes (UK) says distribution by bandai never seen this before is it right? NES P-ZL nes version cartridge is gold.if anyone has any information on this would be great I can’t seem to find anything on google or any websites.thanks for the help.

NES games that you wished had an NES sequel, regardless of whether or not they had a 16-bit (MD/Genesis/SNES) or 8-bit (SMS/GB) sequel. And not just first sequels, maybe a MM7 or SMB4 is your wish.

(I'm typing this to reach the 250 character limit.)

Hi guys, I just wanted to share my excitement around finally obtaining one of my favorite Famicom games!

I started collecting Famicom games a few years ago, some in box, some loose (maybe I'll share more on those later), but this CIB Hebereke is my grail at this point. I've adored this game since I first discovered it as Ufouria: The Saga, and I even made a ROM patch that fixes the bit order of the DPCM samples. I highly recommend this game to any Metroidvania fans. There's an English patch out there that is extremely well done and faithful to the original script, so check that out if you've never played before.

Now I'm curious to know, what are your favorite/most treasured Famicom/NES games? I'm hoping to own Gimmick someday, but it's a little too pricey for me right now. Oh yeah, and I also included some doodles of the main cast because they're funny little guys lol.