100 Best NES Games Ever: Forumer Comments

On September 30, 2006, The 100 Best NES Games Ever was posted. Three and a quarter years later, forumer jprime created this page as a counterweight to the pre-existing comments page for the SNES list.

Abadox: The Deadly Inner War

joshwoodzell

I saw this advertised on the back page of an Archie comic when I was a wee lad and it looked disgusting. Naturally, I had to have it and was only slightly disappointed in it's gameplay. I still play it every couple years or so.

Ermac

Weird choice for 100 but im sure this is off the list once a revision is in place

Micro Machines

Ermac

I prefer RC Pro AM by a longshot but 99 isnt a horrible spot for it

Ermac

Wow WTF, while I never drank the koolaid on this game, it still is a top 50

Spy Hunter

Better on the PC, but I will accept it here even though I can think of a few games that deserve this spot that were left off the list.

Tombs & Treasure

jprime

Worst. Ending. Ever.

Mega Man

jprime

As good as SMB3 is, for me, this was the beginning of a six-way tie for the NES' best.

Metroid

jprime

Seriously, this LOST to Secret of Mana?!

Super Mario Bros. 3

JRA

For the longest time, this was the golden standard by which future Mario games (and to a lesser extent, platformers) were compared to. I think New Super Mario Brothers Wii raised the bar a little bit higher, but that's a completely different discussion.

If there is any one flaw in this game, it's that you can't save your progress. And while that sounds like a complaint from an inexperienced younger generation, a) I grew up with this game, b) plenty of other games that were made around the same time, if not before then had just as much, if not more, or less gameplay than SMB 3 had saving or password systems. So unless you are going to dedicate an entire Saturday to playing the game, the only way you can beat it is by using warps. That, and I always thought the music box was kinda pointless.