Hot Like Wasabi

Totally Rad never did live up to its name but it was still pretty cool.

I guess MobyGames really is the definitive resource for PC games, although I'm not sure what that has to do with the NES.

And I really hope your talking about the Japanese/European Ghostbusters 2 and not the Activision one that came out over here. That thing was a pile of hot garbage.

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Dude, attach function is mandatory.

Fixed, sorry!

Timber - I agree, it was hot garbage, lol. But I played the hell out of it for some reason. Bad taste? Probably

Looking back, stuff I remember:

Ninja Gaiden
Mega Man 1&2
Destiny of an Emperor
Castlevania III
Golgo 13
Shadowgate
Tombs & Treasure
The Immortal
Gyruss
Metroid

NES was such an epic system it feels bad to only list 10, I'm looking at that and I can't believe I didn't write down Blaster Master, Batman, Ninja Turtles, Ice Hockey, Final Fantasy or Dragon Warrior, Tecmo Super Bowl, Zanac, Super C etc. etc. etc.

Destiny of an Emperor!

I rented that game for about 2 months straight before I got around to beating it (thanks to 50 cent, week long NES rentals from Phar-Mor)

I bought it on a trip to an outlet mall in Buffalo, never having heard of it before. I just liked the theme and figured a Capcom RPG (had there ever been such a thing before?) had to be rad. Turned out to be one of the best gaming purchases I ever made, though I find the fights to be interminably long today.

Originally Posted by Timber

Destiny of an Emperor!

I rented that game for about 2 months straight before I got around to beating it (thanks to 50 cent, week long NES rentals from Phar-Mor)

Dude, Phar-Mor was how I did most of my gaming as a kid! Yes!

Yeah, I left out a lot and keeping it to 10 was pretty hard. Battletoads, Bad Dudes, Dr. Mario, Air Fortress, Batman, the list goes on and on. Those were some kick ass times.

StriderKyo is a fucking man's man for having The Immortal and Golgo 13 in his list.

NES games that I specifically remember from childhood:

Megaman 2: Rented from the video game place I came in 2nd place at, got it for Christmas that year.
SMB2: Mom and Dad ordered it via UPS, was first kid on the block to have it wtf.
Ninja Gaiden 2: I used to call my ninja clones Bill and Ted.
Batman: Saw the movie at a drive through in Deep Creek, got the game after.
Journey to Silius: Got this for like $5 from some dept store.
Castlevania 2: My parents watched Twins the night I got this. I was so mad, it was the only tv in the house then.
1943: Played the HELL out of this game.
Milon's Secret Castle: No lie, my mom's favorite game.

I loved The Immortal but the NES version was completely butchered.

It was. The Genny version was the shit tho.

Yeah, I remember the Amiga version being the one to get but I didn't have one. Still remember the trick you had to use to beat the dragon at the end, how that item was useless the whole way through the game until the very end. I wish that EA was still around instead of the one we ended up with.

Journey to Silius was awesome, I remember renting that and the animation and music (especially the length of the songs) blew my mind.

Castlevania III, Ninja Gaiden 1-3, Mafat Conspiracy, Blaster Master, RC Pro-Am, Guardian Legend, River City Ransom, Battle of Olympus

I sold off a ton of NES games five years ago and gave my old system to a friend who wanted to mod it into a harddrive. Couldn't part with these though, even though they can be emulated and the carts may never see a NES again, they were some of the best memories I had as a kid.

Contra: My very first NES game besides Super Mario Bros! My parents were convinced it had something to do with Iran-Contra, so I had to play it at a friend's house, haha. We could make it to the snow level without taking a hit, no problem.
River City Ransom: Rented on a lark from the local strip mall in Ft. Lauderdale, subsequently rented many, many more times. My favorite game I have never owned a copy of, easily.
Shatterhand: For some reason this was a big one. One of the best platformers in which dudes get punched!
Super Mario Bros 2: Plucking a rocket ship out of the ground is still amazing.
Batman: Everything about this game is gold.
Ghostbusters: I hate this game, but have spent countless hours playing it! It's just this side of abstract, something about that was really compelling I guess. Fuck those stairs, seriously.
G.I. Joe: Such a good game! Leveling up all the characters and digging through those last few Cobra base levels was a good time.
Mega Man 3: I like it slightly more than 2. It's all about making up lyrics to Snake Man's theme.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: I always liked how they had the red masks from the comics on the box art. Sheer hatred for those water levels, even though we figured 'em out after a while.
Abadox: This was the sickest damn thing for a long while, but we still played the hell out of it; all intestines and skinned cows and what-not.

Yellerdog - The water level in TMNT is by far one of the toughest levels in any NES game. I never did get any further then the level after the water level.

I played Game Boy since I never had a NES.

All the NES games I played were at friends' or cousins' houses:

RC Pro-AM
Contra
Tecmo Super Bowl
Arch Rivals
Ghosts N Goblins

Good times.