Ostensibly a puzzle game, and yet...

User Rating: 6.5 | Crackout NES
This is based on the game Breakout by Atari, as far as I can see. You are a paddle and you have to deflect balls to hit the blocks. A round is cleared if you destroy all the blocks. There are upgrades which you get by hitting the monsters on each level (it starts with eyeballs). I have a vague recollection of bosses too, but I'm not sure.
Powerups ranged from missiles to extra balls, and some were decidedly unhelpful. You could pause time, which froze the enemies on the screen. Sometimes a little superman would come and if you caught him with your paddle, you would be transported to another level. I think he was activated by time or score. And sometimes, as this was a password based game, you could hit the sides of the levels, and letters would come out, which I vaguely recall unlocked some secret level / powerup.

In truth I don't know if this game is good or not. There was no distracting music, but the bricks all made a different note when hit. The gameplay was incredibly basic, but it had so much else going on it was hard to keep track.

Almost no one I know has it, even dedicated NES owners, but someone has stuck it on emulator called NEScafe. Go play it and see for yourself.