Hell yes it has. In fact, Im going to go drag it out of the closet now and play me some Cabal, Panic Resturant and Chip and Dales. Whoo!
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Hell yes it has. In fact, Im going to go drag it out of the closet now and play me some Cabal, Panic Resturant and Chip and Dales. Whoo!
I voted no, simply because I don't have much fun playing older systems. I'd much rather play the current stuff.
I voted no, because the graphics are crappy, the sound is crappy, the controller is too simple, and there isn't anything on the system that I can't play a much better version of on something current.
I could argue that the games are still fun, but so is Pong, if faced with no alternatives.
Yes, it has aged well. It still has plenty of games I love going back to. I play NES games a lot. But a few things need to be said on the negative side.
Almost every arcade port on the NES is available in much better form now. The NES' line-up consisted of quite a few arcade games.
Graphically it ain't pretty anymore. Even in the 8-bit era, it was showing its age graphically compared to the competition.
There are the usual genres that tend to age badly(racing, RPG).
The 16-bitters improved every genre, thus the SNES and Genesis have aged better.
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Originally Posted by FuryFox
Castlevania III, SMB3, Arkanoid, MT Punchout!!, Contra.... all still look fine. Certainly not "crappy".
Sound:
Castlevania III (Japanese version especially) has awesome music. I listen to it in my car quite frequently. Ditto for Megaman II.
Controller:
Too simple? And that hurt it how? Double Dragon is the only game I can think of that suffered for a lack of buttons, and they managed to work around that quite nicely and make a fantastic serries of DD games on the NES.
With certain exceptions! One of which being the "Track and Field" genre, or whatever people call it.Quote:
The 16-bitters improved every genre
World Class Track Meet (100m dash in 3 seconds? RIGHT HERE!)
Caveman Games (In this day and age, mate toss would probably be banned)
Crash and the Boys: Street Challenge
Uhh...Track and Field! WHOO!
I still play Caveman Games online with some of my IRC friends. Good times.
I voted yes for one main reason. Anything that is that old and you can still play with a group of friends and still be entertaining sounds like it's aged well to me. Yes, everything is very simple and low tech, but it's a really good escape from present day.
Nope.
I have the Mario games on Super Mario Collection.
I have Rockman 2 on Playstation.
Metroid is probably getting remade for GBA.
Likewise with the Metal Gear games.
River City Ransom on GBA confirmed a while back.
Everything else I don't care for or has aged badly. Also getting RGB from it is a hassle. Famicom has the damn pads wired to the machine, Famicom AV can't do RGB at all (to my knowledge) and the American NES has dodgy cart ports. I don't own a NES of my own and don't intend to any more either.
Wow, I'm so sorry that at least 9 of you have been dropped on your head from a considerable height. :p
Even :icepick: is still impressed by the NES.
My reasons are perfectly ok. How about recommending some games then? I don't care for the sports ones.