In the Punchout Thread Mr. Gamingeek (aka the head screwdriver of the toolshead) made the outrageous claim that all but two NES games suck and are not worth playing.  Take a moment to compose yourself, I'm sure it'll be necessary.

Now, a claim such as this doesn't need to be countered as it's so laughable the first instinct is to just ignore it.  But still I feel that the NES should be defended so please continue to read if you like.  So yes, most of the games look quite rough as they were all made 15 to 25 years ago, but there's plenty of utterly fantastic games on it.  

1.  Most of the Puzzle games have held up extremely well.  Adventures of Lolo, Solomon's Key, Dr. Mario, Tetris, and the like are just as much fun to play as ever.

2.  The Arcade Classics likewise are still pretty strong.  Elevator Action, Donkey Kong 3 (so underrated), Mario Bros., Spy Hunter, etc. were all pretty decent arcade translations and still good for a nostalgia rush as well as good solid gaming.

3.  Nintendo's first party games still hold up amazingly well.  The Legend of Zelda and the Mario games still are amazingly fun to play.  Go to hell if you think differently.

I could go on, but I won't.  There's easily more than 2 dozen good quality games on the NES.  In fact, to spite you right now I'm going to go play the very broken Milon's Secret Castle.

travo said:

All of the NES Castlevania games are amazing.

Castlevania 3 is awesome, except when Trevor went Emo on me and committed suicide! 

Awesome.

The thread that is, not the suckitude of the NES.

Zelda is pap, 1 and 2.

travo said:

You should get the Mario games.  I love them still today. I wonder if SMB Allstars will appear on the VC anytime soon.

It was a sucker move not releasing this, on GBA or VC. They would rather sell them all individually.

I personally hate that Capcom are whoring the Street fighter games on VC from normal to turbo to Super etc.

Now all I want is the arcade version of super.

robio said:

gamingeek said:

Awesome.

The thread that is, not the suckitude of the NES.

Yeah, not many places you can make a thread title that makes a personal attack on another forum member.  God bless this place.

I would report you, but Punk would not care

Asshole!

Ravenprose said:

I love playing old NES games. There's a charm in those crude 8-Bit graphics and simple gameplay that I enjoy greatly. I never owned an NES back in the day, so nostalgia really has nothing to do with my enjoyment of those games either. After playing a number of great NES games on VC, I have to admit that I'm tempted to buy a real NES someday, so that I can play a bunch of games that will probably never be released on VC. The NES is like a newly discovered treasure for me.

please when you have time share some more about which games you played and enjoyed.   i'd be interested to hear

bugsonglass said:

Ravenprose said:

I love playing old NES games. There's a charm in those crude 8-Bit graphics and simple gameplay that I enjoy greatly. I never owned an NES back in the day, so nostalgia really has nothing to do with my enjoyment of those games either. After playing a number of great NES games on VC, I have to admit that I'm tempted to buy a real NES someday, so that I can play a bunch of games that will probably never be released on VC. The NES is like a newly discovered treasure for me.

please when you have time share some more about which games you played and enjoyed.   i'd be interested to hear

Well, there's:

• Castlevania
• Castlevania 3

These games are the only types of CV games that I like: linear action/platform games w/out RPG elements.

• SMB
• SMB 2
• SMB 3
• SMB: Lost Levels

Most peole love SMB games, so they are a given. However, Lost levels is probably my favorite NES game simply because of its insane difficulty. I like that everytime I play that game, I get just a little bit farther than before. Perhaps one of these days, I'll actually be good enough to finish it . . .

• Kid Icarus

Love the music, and the gameplay, while very hard, is still fun in small doses.

• Donkey Kong
• Donkey Kong 3 (Galaga meets Mario Bros? awesome!)
• Pac-Man
• Galaga
• Dig Dug

Granted these are just ports of classic arcade games, but I still enjoy them a lot.

• Kirby's Adventure
• Punch-Out!!

Simple fun.

• Zelda
• Zelda II

I actually like Zelda II more than the original Zelda, which is kind of surprising to me. Zelda II is a weird game, which is probably why I like it more. I still haven't finished it yet, but I will someday.

• Mega Man 1-6, 9

Mega Man 9 isn't tecnically a NES game, but it has 8-Bit graphics and gameplay, so I consider it a lost NES game. All of the 8-Bit MM games are epic.

• Super C

Just plain fun.

I should mention that I also like NES music. The music in these classic games really stands out as something special because it's so good despite the hardware limitations.