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NES Launch Games Ranked

 

The NES had quite a lineup of games available when it first debuted. Though the reason that we bought the system was, of course, Super Mario Brothers. We think we ended up saving money in the long run with how many quarters we were popping into the local arcade. No doubt they rued the day we bought our NES, hahahahahhahaha.   After buying the NES Agent K spent his quarters on Kangaroo Boxing!

 

Agent K's Rankings

  1. Super Mario Bros. The main reason for the success of the NES. This game could have carried any system that had it.
  2. Kung Fu Maybe I sound crazy with this one, but man I love my Kung Fu and I really regretted trading it for a box of awful 1978 baseball cards, the crux of the deal being Mario Soto’s rookie card.  What is the card worth 20 years later? Nothing. Oh what a horrible trade, took me 5 years to own the game again!
  3. Excitebike This game is so fun I often overheat while playing it.
  4. Tennis Not great, but a decent vanilla tennis game.
  5. Pinball Personally I like real Pinball, but as far as NES pinball is concerned this is a fun one.
  6. Wild Gunman Draw Pardner. Nothing beats an old fashioned shootout and no one beats a guy who is holding his gun to the screen before the shootout even begins.
  7. Hogan's Alley Not a huge fan of the gun games.
  8. Duck Hunt See above and I still have nightmares about the laughing dog. Oh how I loathe him.
  9. Golf Hmm Golf on the NES, I say play NES Open
  10. 10 Yard Fight 10 Yard crap
  11. Gyromite This game is probably better than this but ROB hasn't functioned in quite some time, though we're still friends.
  12. Baseball This game almost got me to bring the Intellivision back out. Talk about an awful baseball game.

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Agent J's Rankings

  1. Super Mario Bros. – The easiest number one I’ve had for any of our lists.  This game is in another league compared with any other game that had been made up to this point.
  2. Excitebike – This one has never fallen out of rotation at my house.  It was the first racing game I loved and nothing has ever compared to it.  I really want to play the Famicom’s Vs. Excitebike where you can race 2-player and save the tracks you make.
  3. Wrecking Crew – The unknown Mario game.  100 puzzles involving Mario destroying property, what’s not to love?
  4. Gyromite – Gyromite is not very good one player, pretty good 2-player and dynamite 1-player with R.O.B. as your partner.
  5. Pinball – I don’t know why but I’ve always loved this game.  Nothing compares to saving the Pauline with Mario in the middle of a Pinball game.
  6. Kung Fu – My brother traded this one away for the infamous Mario Soto before I ever mastered it but I always remembered it fondly and hated Soto in Strat-O-Matic.
  7. Clu Clu Land – A very unique game.  Creating pictures with gold coins is more fun than it sounds.
  8. Tennis – Tennis is very bland but it is definitely fun.  It’s kind of like Pinball for me, it mastered the basics and didn’t screw anything up.
  9. Hogan's Alley – My favorite of the Zapper games, the old man drove me nuts…
  10. Ice Climber – I never played this one back in the day.  It’s pretty basic, just the way I like it but I probably came across it too late to truly enjoy it.
  11. Duck Hunt – This game was pretty fun with friends but very lame by myself.
  12. Wild Gunman – The theme of this game is sweet but the game is too easy and insanely repetitive.
  13. 10 Yard Fight – Not really a football game but it still found plenty of play in my room, until I got Tecmo Bowl that is!
  14. Golf – If I actually liked golfing then this game would probably be as high as Tennis on this list but instead it’s banished to the bottom.
  15. Donkey Kong, Jr. Math – Actually a pretty fun two-player game but the controls are pretty messed up.
  16. Mach Rider – I can’t stand this game.  In fact I don’t think its ever been in my system for longer than 5 minutes a year.
  17. Baseball – I remember playing this game and thinking that it was awful but refusing to admit it.  Then RBI Baseball came along and this game got banished to the back of my underwear drawer.