Top NES games Excluding the Big Ones

What are in your opinion the best NES games, other than any of the really big games, so no Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Castlevania, Punchout, Battletoads, Final Fantasy, etc.

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-The Battle of Olympus - A great action-RPG set in Ancient Greek Mythology.Emerald_Warrior

My favorite NES games (excluding the big ones):

Mega Man 3 (not sure if this is one of the most popular games, so I'm just gonna include it) - When it comes to Mega Man, most people I talked to either like 1 or 2 the most, but for me MM3 is the best in all aspects. MM1 was a bit too hard and MM2 was way too easy in my opinion. MM3 offers a decent challenge and has good music and graphics (as every other MM game).

Darkwing Duck - It's sort of like Mega Man, which is a good thing. The music is great (for NES standards).

Frankenstein: The Monster Returns - Decent game that's much like Castlevania.

Life Force - probably the best Shoot-'Em-Up on the NES.

Dragon Warrior

Off the top of my head Rygarspliffstar12

No save or password function killed this game.

I'll get flamed for this, but The Guardian Legend was the best NES game ever made.

Ninja Gaiden 1, 2 ,3HawkEye1997

Same here ! Ninja Gaiden 1 and 2 are awesome !

Adventures of Lolo (A puzzle game that gets pretty dang hard).

Little Nemo, Guardian Legend, river city ransom, and darkwing duck are some of my alltime favorite "none big one" games. THey really are amazing.

depends on your definition of "big one"

but other than the famous mario, zelda, punchout games, I love RC Pro-am, and Cobra Triangle. But however both games dont have a password or save feature, so they are a bit difficult (for me at least). Tetris is the current NES game i'm playing alot. and of course Mario3.

duck tales nuff said

To name a few:

1942

Shadow of the Ninja

River City Ransom

Super Dodgeball

Both G.I. Joe games

Rambo

Rad Racer

Ring King

Street Fighter 2010

StriderAstynax

Legend of Kage

Kid Niki

Tecmo Super Bowl

Pro Wrestling

WCW Wrestling

Track & Field 1 & 2

Bad Dudes

Zanac

Journey to Silius is apretty fun game.

i personly think their all great..

i have gotten NES games out of random and they all turned out to be really fun... its one of my favorite systems..

i personly think their all great..

i have gotten NES games out of random and they all turned out to be really fun... its one of my favorite systems..

kingdavid562

-The Battle of Olympus - A great action-RPG set in Ancient Greek Mythology -Bionic Commando - Capcom's crowning acheivment on the NES, IMO. The perfect balance of platforming and run-n-gun, and it's challenging to boot. -Contra- The greatest run-n-gun game on the NES -Crystalis - A top-down view action-RPG that is even better than Legend of Zelda. Better graphics, better music & sounds, better storyline, and an actual level-up system. -DuckTales - Arguably the best platformer on the NES, not counting the Super Mario Bros. series. -Life Force - One of the best space-ship shooters on the NES. -PinBot - A great pinball game, if you're into that kind of thing. -Star Soldier- An early space-ship shooter for the NES that I grew-up on. -Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game - The best beat-em up on the NES, IMO.Emerald_Warrior

Any of the Double Dragon´s,but the 2nd game is the best.

[QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"]-The Battle of Olympus - A great action-RPG set in Ancient Greek Mythology -Bionic Commando - Capcom's crowning acheivment on the NES, IMO. The perfect balance of platforming and run-n-gun, and it's challenging to boot. -Contra- The greatest run-n-gun game on the NES -Crystalis - A top-down view action-RPG that is even better than Legend of Zelda. Better graphics, better music & sounds, better storyline, and an actual level-up system. -DuckTales - Arguably the best platformer on the NES, not counting the Super Mario Bros. series. -Life Force - One of the best space-ship shooters on the NES. -PinBot - A great pinball game, if you're into that kind of thing. -Star Soldier- An early space-ship shooter for the NES that I grew-up on. -Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game - The best beat-em up on the NES, IMO.sayyy-gaa

StarTropics

Zoda's Revenge

Chip 'n Dale's Rescue Rangers

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York LOL

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York LOL

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York LOL

Emerald_Warrior

I am not too sure if you would classify this as a big game, but Batman for the NES was one of my favorite games of all time. I loved that game

I am not too sure if you would classify this as a big game, but Batman for the NES was one of my favorite games of all time. I loved that game

TheRaiderNation

And it was arguably the only good Batman game ever released until Arkham Asylum came out.

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I am not too sure if you would classify this as a big game, but Batman for the NES was one of my favorite games of all time. I loved that game

QuistisTrepe_

And it was arguably the only good Batman game ever released until Arkham Asylum came out.

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I am not too sure if you would classify this as a big game, but Batman for the NES was one of my favorite games of all time. I loved that game

Emerald_Warrior

And it was arguably the only good Batman game ever released until Arkham Asylum came out.

I guess it really is a shame the batman video games went downhill after that. You could argue the next batman games that were good only came out a year ago: Lego batman and arkham asylum

Adventure Island
Bad Dudes
Bayou Billy
Bionic Commando
Blaster Master
Bubble Bobble
Commando
Donkey Kong C.lassics
Double Dragon
Dr. Mario
Dragon Warrior
Duck Hunt
Duck Tales
Faxanadu
Gradius
Gun.Smoke
Gyruss
Hogan's Alley
Ikari Warriors
Karnov
Kid Niki
Kings of the Beach
Mega Man
Metal Gear
Ninja Gaiden
Rad Racer
Tetris
TMNT
TMNT II: The Arcade Game
TMNT III: The Manhattan Project
Top Gun
Track & FIeld 2

Vice: Project Doom, the Dragon Quest series, the Ys series, Batman: The Video Game, Ganbare Goemon, The Adventures Of Lolo series, Kirby's Adventure, Stadium Events, Tetris, Fire N' Ice, River City Ransom, Little Samson, the Bubble Bobble series, the Duck Tales series, Blaster Master, and the Adventure Island series.

Little Samson, totally underappreciated NES game made by Taito, came out too late, should've been redone for the SNES. Basically, it's an action platformer, and you can play as a boy, a mouse, a golem, and a dragon. Boy can shoot bells, is agile, and can cling to walls, mouse is REALLY agile and can also cling to walls, but is smaller and weaker, and can throw/plant bombs. Golem and Punch up, down, left, right, is slow but very strong in terms of attack/hp. Dragon can fly and breathe/charge up fire. The graphics are some of the best on the NES and couldn't be improved, and the music is catchy/fun. A must play, but very rare, and a lot of the copies up for sale nowadays are reproduction carts due to the extreme rarity. This game's all official and licensed, and is simply rare due to the fact that hardly anyone bought it. Spread the word, play Little Samson!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Samson

I know everyone will hate me for this but....Home Alone, Love that game! :oops: