Super Mario Bros. 3

Super Mario Bros.

Super Mario Advance

Super Mario Bros. 2

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Ninja Gaiden

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse

Castlevania

Baseball

Kung Fu

Batman: Return of the Joker

The Legend of Kage

The Adventures of Bayou Billy

Mega Man 3

Tiger-Heli

Back to the Future

Super Team Games

Combining playing video games and physical activity! What more could you ask for?

Well, I have to admit. The Power Pad(TM) accessory needed to play this game is long broken, and I'll admit it didn't exactly work all tha well to begin with brand-new as with most such peripherals of this era. But in my ... Read Full Review

Sesame Street: ABC

Ummm. It's Sesame Street. It's, ummmm...Sesame Street . (whoo-hoo, first posted review)

Ummmm...ok. If you look through all my other reviews, you'll see that I tried to write them in the way an actual GameSpot review would be written. But frankly, I can't see how that can be done with this game. I just don'... Read Full Review

Super Mario Bros. 3

Super Mario Bros. 3 marks the high and final point of the franchise on the NES, and set the tone for all future sequels.

Super Mario Bros. 3 marks a high point for the NES, not just for the Super Mario Bros. franchise but for the NES period. Introduced rather late in the NES' life (the Super Nintendo was just around the corner when SMB 3 h... Read Full Review

Super Mario Bros.

The launch title for Nintendo's entire console business continues to age gracefully.

Super Mario Bros., the launch title for Nintendo's entire console business, continues to age gracefully in the presence of 20 years worth of game technology development. Improving upon classic platformer gameplay establi... Read Full Review

Super Mario Advance

Super Mario Advance keeps the original charm of the NES original while improving in important areas.

Super Mario Advance is the first of the "Advance" series of Mario games, enhanced remakes of NES, SNES and N64 titles. To kick the series off, they started with perhaps the most esoteric and quirky of the bunc... Read Full Review

Super Mario USA

Although departing from the formula and world of most Mario games, Super Mario Bros. 2 still lives up to the franchise.

Super Mario Bros. 2, the immediate sequel to the original NES launch hit in the United States, was a tremendous departure from its predecessor in just about every way possible while still maintaining the pretense of bein... Read Full Review

The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World

The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World offers entertaining gameplay as long as you give it a chance.

The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World can be an entertaining game as long as you're willing to give it a chance. Although much maligned and with good reason, Bart vs. the World can offer a rewarding experience to those willin... Read Full Review

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game

After an auspicious start, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise was finally done right in this sequel.

Despite an auspicious start with the first game in the franchise, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles eventually spawned a successful gaming franchise in its own right, with a total of three games on the NES and a highly antici... Read Full Review

Gekikame Ninja Den

Frustrating gameplay brings down a game with nothing special to offer and little in the way of actual franchise tie-in.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was not only spun-off from a highly successful cartoon, comic and toy line franchise but also spun-off a well-respected and fondly remembered gaming franchise on its own, a rare case of an en... Read Full Review

Ninja Ryuukenden

An engaging storyline and good graphics and sound help prop up frustrating gameplay.

Ninja Gaiden was the first of a trilogy of games released towards the tail end of the NES's market life and later spawned a compilation game for the SNES as well as a completely new and much belated franchise restart on ... Read Full Review

Akumajou Densetsu

As great as the original is, Castlevania III further improves in nearly every category.

Castlevania III: Dracula's curse further improves in almost every area on top of the original with just the right mix of excellent gameplay and presentation. Further continuing the success of the original game after the ... Read Full Review

Akumajou Dracula

The original Castlevania may not be the best of all early NES games, but it ranks up there.

Castlevania was one of the first gaming franchises that not only help put Nintendo on the map but Konami as well. With the introduction of this series along with Contra, Konami became one of the early powerhouses of game... Read Full Review

Arch Rivals: A BasketBrawl!

While the single player mode and AI are severely lacking, the real fun lies in one vs. one play.

Arch Rivals: A Basket Brawl! is one of those rare esoteric games that doesn't really offer anything truly innovative other than plenty of gimmicks, but at the same time those gimmicks make for a really fun game. An inter... Read Full Review

Baseball

Surprisingly complex for an NES game and suffers from AI issues; read the manual for this one.

Baseball was perhaps the first sports title available for the NES, especially considering that it was no less than a launch title. As such it had some new ground to break and has a few issues, but the developers did a de... Read Full Review

Spartan X

Simple, short, fun.

Kung Fu, being a launch title for the original NES, manages to supply simple, clean gameplay with few issues and has been recognized by gamers as being one of the classic titles for the console. The player takes on th... Read Full Review

Dynamite Batman

Holy Contra, Batman!

Batman: Return of the Joker, while offering nothing innovative and coming off more like a Contra rip-off than a game actually belonging to the Batman franchise, is still a basic, fun platform shooter offering solid gamep... Read Full Review

Chubby Cherub

An esoteric game with a number of issues, both good and bad.

Chubby Cerub is perhaps the strangest game in my NES collection as of now. It is quite an esoteric game, with a number of issues both good and bad. A very early NES game, Chubby Cerub may have been meant to showcase the ... Read Full Review

Kage no Densetsu

Short and repetitious. Short and repetitious. Short and repetitious....

The Legend of Kage is a basic side-scrolling action game in which the player assumes the role of the title character, shooting and hacking his way through hordes of ninja on his way to rescue his girl. There is little el... Read Full Review

Platoon

Long, tedious, frustrating and even fun.

Platoon, released for the NES a year after the movie in 1987, was not the first console game to capitalize on a blockbuster's success (those of you may remember Atari's infamous E.T. for example) but it was perhaps one o... Read Full Review

Back to the Future II & III

The only thing that comes to my mind when asked to describe this is "what were they thinking?!"

Back to the Future II & III is horrid. Simply horrid. An amalgamation of awful sound, graphics and gameplay, this may very well be one of the worst NES games to suffer few or no technical problems. It is simply a was... Read Full Review

Mad City

A hot babe and decent shoot em' up lightgun levels are hardly enough to shore up this fault-filled game.

Bayou Billy has a number of faults, and a hot babe and some decent lightgun levels are hardly enough to shore it up. The game has so many gameplay and technical issues that it's exceedingly difficult for the average, cas... Read Full Review

Rockman 3: Dr. Wily no Saigo!?

Greater-than-average difficulty, very long completion time and lack of save ability hardly mar this absolute classic.

Mega Man 3 is without a doubt one of the greatest NES games of all time, and one of the standouts of a standout series. I have to admit it's the only Mega Man game I've played on the NES, but despite what I find to be ha... Read Full Review

Tiger-Heli

It's not the best NES game ever, but not the worst either, even with the endless looping of sound and gameplay.

Tiger-Heli is not the best NES game ever, but it's not the worst either, despite the endless looping of sound and gameplay. The plot revolves around the player assuming the role of the pilot of the game's title attack he... Read Full Review