NES's 35th Anniversay

[Mario_Friend1982 | 177]

Can you believe the NES is getting closer to the 35th anniversary of its North American launch?

Edited February 4, 2020 by Mario_Friend1982

[Tulpa | 3,723]

Assuming Super Mario Bros is a launch title (see here), that one.

[Mario_Friend1982 | 177]

11 minutes ago, Tulpa said:

Assuming Super Mario Bros is a launch title (see here), that one.

It is.

[Tulpa | 3,723]

14 minutes ago, Mario_Friend1982 said:

It is.

You have definitive proof? Please post it in that thread.

[a3quit4s | 4,372]

If Balloon Fight was on there it wouldn’t be 4/4 SMB lol I didn’t realize that wasn’t one of the original 17

either way it definitely is not gyromite or stack up!

[Mario_Friend1982 | 177]

1 minute ago, Tulpa said:

You have definitive proof? Please post it in that thread.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.

[Mario_Friend1982 | 177]

Just now, a3quit4s said:

If Balloon Fight was on there it wouldn’t be 4/4 SMB lol I didn’t realize that wasn’t one of the original 17

either way it definitely is not gyromite or stack up!

Gyromite and Stack-Up really are launch titles.

[a3quit4s | 4,372]

Just now, Mario_Friend1982 said:

Gyromite and Stack-Up really are launch titles.

I meant more that both games suck lol

[Tulpa | 3,723]

5 minutes ago, Mario_Friend1982 said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Bros.

Yeah, any jerkwad can edit Wikipedia. I want to see a chip that has a date that would put it on launch.

[Mario_Friend1982 | 177]

1 minute ago, Tulpa said:

Yeah, any jerkwad can edit Wikipedia. I want to see a chip that has a date that would put it on launch.

Oh, okay.

[Tulpa | 3,723]

1 minute ago, Mario_Friend1982 said:

Oh, okay.

It has to have a date indicating production of at least a month before October 1985.

[Quest4Nes | 377]

just change your thread title to "launch window title"

 

Doesnt really matter though. If mario bros is included its already the winner. No other black box game comes close to that.

[Tulpa | 3,723]

Yeah, I can't think of anyone not voting SMB. I did, and I'm not even a big Mario guy.

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,124]

I voted for Excitebike. SMB is the obvious choice 35 years later, but as a kid I played Excitebike and Duck Hunt just as much. I figured I'd try and vote with what my answer back then would have been.

Edited January 3, 2020 by Bearcat-Doug

[zombiemicrowave | 42]

Outside of Mario Bros I would go with Kung Fu. 

[Mario_Friend1982 | 177]

1 minute ago, zombiemicrowave said:

Outside of Mario Bros I would go with Kung Fu. 

How come no vote?

[zombiemicrowave | 42]

3 minutes ago, Mario_Friend1982 said:

How come no vote?

I voted Mario.  

[Estil | 1,292]

But wasn't fall 1985 a very limited "test launch" in NYC and maybe a few other places and the "real" launch nationwide wasn't till what, February-ish 1986?  I mean we all know at the time we just a couple years removed from the video game crash and thus retailers were VERY reluctant to Take A Chance on Video Games (as ABBA would say) again.  Why do you think games came on "Nintendo tapes" and went in and out like a VCR?  It was so funny renting an NES game back in the day and the receipt would remind you to please rewind tapes...I don't think you can rewind a Nintendo tape!!

Edited January 3, 2020 by Estil

[Tanooki | 5,135]

If I had to vote for one that wasn't SMB because some people want to stir the launch pot it would be a challenge.  I'd have to throw it either to Balloon Fight or Kung Fu.  They have plenty enough going on with both games to make them worthy and quite lasting.

[themisfit138 | 523]

If I hadn’t voted Mario it would have been Kung Fu.

[darkchylde28 | 1,546]

I, too, went for SMB, but my non-Mario vote would have gone to Hogan's Alley.  There were a lot of good games in the bunch, but Hogan's Alley always brought my friends and I back time and again while other titles would get forgotten about and/or discarded for months and months at a time.

[JamesRobot | 6,034]

15 hours ago, Estil said:

It was so funny renting an NES game back in the day and the receipt would remind you to please rewind tapes...I don't think you can rewind a Nintendo tape!!

I always rewind my 'tendo tapes. Otherwise they charge you 25¢!

[MeganJoanne | 365]

Super Mario Bros is the best, that is the game that got me into Nintendo to begin with. But decided since that was too obvious and well outclassed everything else to give another game my vote, Kung Fu. If there weren't a SMB that would be my favorite, it wouldn't have gotten me into wanting an NES back in the day but if it came bundled with it instead of SMB I would have enjoyed it and it would have become a favorite over time.

[guitarzombie | 936]

I think this should be a landslide.  SMB was fun, long and had an ending, where as all the other games were too high-score/arcade like (minus Kung Fu, thanks iRem!).  Out of all of them the only one I even bothered to own was SMB.  I could not see myself playing anything else.

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,124]

2 hours ago, darkchylde28 said:

I, too, went for SMB, but my non-Mario vote would have gone to Hogan's Alley.  There were a lot of good games in the bunch, but Hogan's Alley always brought my friends and I back time and again while other titles would get forgotten about and/or discarded for months and months at a time.

I had Hogan's Alley as a kid and I thought it was a fun game with the regular mode, the city mode and the can trick shooting. I'm surprised nobody mentioned Duck Hunt as an honorable mention. Everyone I knew as a kid with a NES had the Action Set with the SMB/Duck Hunt cart and Duck Hunt probably got played almost as much as SMB especially after everyone beat SMB.