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Archon

Defender of the Crown

Magic Johnson's Fast Break Someone paid $4000 for a copy of this game

Strider

Overlord. This game feels like they spent a bunch of time making systems, then never tested it. You just fly straight at the enemy base and kill him immediately, lmao. Gotta be in the top 5 shortest NES games. Less than 5 minutes easily. This game has a pain point?? Edit: Did it on the highest difficulty for the ending screen (which is the exact same thing).

Super Mario Bros. OK bed time.

Spot The Video Game

Double Dare

10 Yard Fight. You'd have to be legally dead to lose the Super Bowl. The opposing team was down 21-0 and punted with 2 minutes on the clock. Great job guys.

Home Alone

Oh no, none of these count yet

Where's Waldo.

Ninja Gaiden III

Ninja Gaiden II. I forgot this dumbass game doesn't refill your health in between the final bosses

Ninja Gaiden

No Spy vs Spy yet??

I’m happy to say I’ll soon be playing your favorite game ever… on NES.

It's probably like 8/10 but I can't differentiate these games in my mind enough. I played a lot more Metal Slug 3 because of the Xbox port and Dolphin Blue at my local arcade, which isn't Metal Slug except it is.

I've got the ones I was going for and have don't want to pay today's prices for the ones I don't have. I can buy ten nice CIB Zelda: ALTTPs for one CIB Super Bowling, and I don't even enjoy owning Super Bowling as much as one ALTTP. I think the price increase and gold rush on nice CIBs of common games has made owning "good stuff" more desirable. Just a few years ago, the average Super Mario Bros was $30 common junk to most collectors. Now that it has a perception of value, it might be cooler to own all-time-classic Super Mario Bros than never-even-seen-a-Youtube-video-about-it Arkista's Ring for the same price.

Made in Japan is usually first. Assembled in Mexico is often (but not always) a sign of a Majesco reprint, a company that republished games often with lower quality materials. Some pricey games like Chrono Trigger and Earthbound were only made in Mexico. Even if the timeline isn't perfectly clear, like some newer games where Made in Japan and Made in USA were both available at launch, people usually prefer Made in Japan anyway.

It's funny I saw an Ultima 3 review just posted complaining a bit about slogging through dungeons when a couple spells (rot/descend) completely trivialize that part of the game. Gotta use the right spells in Ultima games.

8/10, I played this like 20 years ago and used mods to do things like increase movement speed and increase the stack limit past 20. I’m a dirty cheater. I still remember it being pretty hard at the end. Neverwinter Nights kind of blew the socks off this era of the genre for me, and I don’t know if it’s ever been surpassed in sheer quantity of user mods. It’s like D&D Mario Maker.

Have @Gloves make a badge for beating a 10-point game. People will do anything for internet clout.