My personal favorite is The Manhattan Project, mostly due to having the original NES cartridge. Never was able to beat it without cheat codes, though. 😓

Most hated would be Fall of the Foot Clan. It’s like a half-cocked fan game. At least they actually put in effort for Back From The Sewers.

(Guilty pleasure is the original NES game. I actually made it to Stage 5 back in the day…)

First off: This game is not good. It's stiff, poorly designed, and its difficulty is through the roof. It also has really grating sound design, which is puzzling since it also has moments of amazing sound with digitized voices from the movie.

I had the game growing up and it might as well been impossible to beat. Even through adulthood, any attempt at it ended in complete frustration. It's the kind of game where you need to learn all kinds of little obtuse workarounds to advance through, and there are a LOT of them. Get stuck on a new problem area that drains out your continues? Tough, better hope you figure it out on your next slog of playthrough. Want to beat this boss? Find the one spot where it can't reach you, and just fire your pea shooter of a blaster at it until your thumb falls off. There's little skill here other than sheer memorization and choreographing of every move through the game, and knowing how and where to nerf your way though. Slip up once and it can lead to an insta-death. I ended up having to study longplays for the second half of the game to get through it, which kind of felt like cheating, but I would have NEVER beat this otherwise. I have no idea how any child could ever beat this, or honestly any adult without similar help. There's a reason that most longplays on youtube use a turbo controller for it (which I didn't use, for the record).

Also, I actually love the first Star Wars game for the NES, which I mastered many years ago. That game is also hard, but in a way that feels like it rewards skill, not memorization, and its side scrolling mechanics are way ahead of Empire. The games have similarities, but they also have some pretty core differences that always puzzled me. Like you could tell a different team handled Empire. That's for another post another time though.

Anyway, this was one of my main NES 'Mount Everests' and I'm thrilled to finally check it off. There's only a few more hard games from my childhood that I still need to beat now. I'll end with some positive notes: It has pretty good graphics and some fun cutscenes. Some of the digital voices sound like they're from the 16-bit era. It also introduced some neat side-scrolling vehicle levels that Star Wars didn't have. I suppose I also begrudgingly developed some kind of backwards fondness for it now that I mastered it, like one tends to do when they finally beat a hard game. It's a shame that a Return of the Jedi game was never made for the NES. It's one of my biggest video game "what-ifs".

Does anyone else have any experiences with this game that they'd like to share?

I ha e decided to pick up sleeves and use them for place holders for all my missing aes in my collection. No more shifting everything has a home. So far happy with the results i have made it to letter J so far. The problem is getting enough sleeves to do it all. My brother in law has 3d printed some and that has helped but i gotta find a good bulk deal to finish.

Super excited, found someone getting rid of some obscure accessories that I didn’t have yet. Goal when I started long ago was to get all nes in box accessories. Gotta find space and do some rearranging now, as far as I know licensed I’m only missing the arknoid controller game pack if you see something lmk!

Hi! I’ve been looking to get an nes for a while now and I’m wondering what’s the best place to find one. I would hope to find one with zapper, 2 controllers, preferably under $80. I’ve checked marketplace and no one seems to be selling one in my area and ebay has not had the greatest deals as far as I’ve checked. Recommendations would be appreciated thank you.

Up to 262 NES games. A bunch of controller variations. ROB The Robot, along with the Power Glove, the Power Pad, a sealed Game Genie and a sealed NES Classic Mini.

I also have some signed games like WWF King Of The Ring signed by Bret The Hitman Hart, Terminator 2: Judgment Day signed by Edward Furlong, Friday The 13th signed by Kane Hodder, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, The Karate Kid and Back To The Future signed by James Rolfe The Angry Video Game Nerd, StarTropics signed by The Gaming Historian Norman Caruso and WWF Wrestlemania signed by Pat The NES Punk.

I have about 40 NES cartridges and right now they are just stacked on the table. I want a case but the only ones I see on Amazon are $35-$50 for a simple little case. That seems really expensive. Anyone have any better suggestions? What do you use to store and display your NES carts? Help me out!”

I recently accidentally ended my save and have no idea what my password was. Is there a password system for thr game so I can get my progress back.

I have beaten all 6 bosses but I have only collected one piece of Orexxum, the fiest one after the wall junp upgrade.

If anybody has anybody has anything, I can't find any password help

EDIT: I HAVE THE PASSWORD SYSTEM LINK BELOW TO THE TEXT FILE

I recently got a nintendo Wii & started playing nes games on it & since I have a brother who is willing to play with me I wanted to know some of your favorites to play with friends or family.We recently tried Archon & it was so fun even with the jank.

EDIT: Case solved. The games are Adventure Island and Circus Charlie.

Years ago, when I was around maybe 7, I remember playing a few games on nes at my grandparents' house. First was Mario, but the other two are less know, so I've never encountered their names on the internet. Thus, I don't really remember them enough to find by googling (tried). I want to find them and see what they actually look like beyond my memories.

First was a tropical themed platformer with pastel colors. I remember yellow (beach), blue (first level had a light blue color, but also water), green, and pink being more prevelant than others. The protaganist is a boy with brownish hair.

Second had levels, but wasn't a platformer like the other two (tho it did make you control a character?). Circus theme. Blue, red and maybe purple were the main colours. What you had to do (I think) was to pass challenges akin to circus tricks like going on a rope on a mono bycicle.

I barely remember them. These are the only details that I clearly remember. Any help would be appreciated

Traveling to VA this week for work and found a retro game store. Adding numbers 240 - 243 to the collection. I've never played any of these and I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to. Let me know if you recommend any of them and I'll try it out when I get back home and have a chance to play.

I’m thinking of buying a 2nd hand gamers tek nes clone, but I really cannot get around the weird audio that it produces. Are there any fixes?

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I'll try for under 3 hours next but under one hour seems unlikely. The nostalgia hits hard on this game. I was about 15 when I last beat thoa game. Playing again after all these years makes me feel young again. I really need a controller with a turbo setting on it.

My parents bid on a storage unit and found this guy inside, and they let me have it! Cleaned him up and he became my favorite piece in my entire collection!

Now if I just can find alternative version of it on my trip to Japan next week!

I don’t know what more to say to get this to 250 characters…

When I was a kid I remember being trashed by the AI with this game.
Couldn't score a goal and the AI always scored.

Then when I went back to play as an adult I discovered the gimmick of scoring against the AI in just two play troughs, just shoot in the centre of the goal and you score every time.

I found out as well the short guys (mid speed mid strength) where op against any opponent. (As a kid I thought mix and match were the way to go.

What game was this for you?

I know I'm a little late in getting this game but in all fairness, I just found out that this game exists a few weeks ago. I liked the story behind the creation of the NES port of the original Atari computer game and it look interesting to me, also I really like to add physical copys of games to my collection. I tried it out and it gives me a Load Runner vibe, which makes sense because that is also an early computer game port. The color palette and sprites used in the game definitely give an Atari2600 vibe and I'm down for, I saw online during my research for this game that one of the criticisms was the graphics but I disagree, I think if this game was ported to the Famicom in 1984 it most likely would have looked similar to this anyways. I'm looking forward to playing more of this game and trying to beat it. One of the odd things is (that doesn't have anything to do with the game itself) that I was having trouble dumping the ROM with my sanni OSCR, so I tried my INL Retro but also had no luck with that. I had the same issue with my Limited Run Games release of Gimmick too, if anyone knows why please let me know because I spent about a hour and a half fiddling with it and nothing seemed work. One last note that I would like to add is that I really do dig the colored cartridges that a lot of new NES games are coming in, this orange cartridge adds a bit of variety to my collections color along with several of my other newer released games.

Let's be clear: this game is hands down awful.

But after doing a bunch of reading, I came to find that the ROM file floating around is essentially a demo/prototype of the last version the developers had approved before Capcom cancelled it.

Unfortunately the game just doesn't work very well. It's largely based on climbing vertical objects (like vines or pipes) only a good chunk of the mechanics around that very critical component don't work. It's often impossible to land what should be trivial jumps or to jump off of a climbed object. Most of the enemies are overly simple, but then others are basically just impossible to avoid. It's very imbalanced.

Ignoring the whole California Raisins branding thing, the unfortunate part is that I think it could have been an okay game. You can see how the levels could have been reasonably fun. The mazes aren't terrible. You can play in a very non-linear fashion. There's a good bit of real estate to explore. There are a variety of pickups. Things like that are all wins.

But since they didn't finish it...

Who knows how it could have turned out in the end, but the version you can play probably wouldn't be especially interesting to most people. Still, you CAN play through the entire game if you're curious about it. So it's not a total loss.