Nostalgic Machine

These types of debates always fascinate me; I LOVE the psychology of people feeling the need to HAVE to choose one or the other, or bash one for completely irrational personal reasons - that are just as valid as the reasons they enjoy another game, lol. I love ALL styles of Metroid. Metroidvania improved a lot of what the first two suffered from IMHO.

The first Metroid is easily an 8.5/10 for me. It ALMOST captured the feel of the original LoZ - but somehow the lack of map made it way more frustrating than DUDE I was looking for my maps, graph paper and all; same score, 8/10! It was like Zelda; no map, but you're exploring space instead of Hyrule. I LOVED that. The ambition was higher than the technology, which almost always proves beneficial once technology catches up. I prefer Super Metroid (what I'd consider far and away the series' finest hour, still to this day 26 years later).

That's my favorite part of the game! It's perfectly creepy and challenging. MM is packed with little gems like that. I also love the hand that reaches out of the toilet, lol.

I've seen that meme YEARS ago, and I totally forgot about it . My brain knows that's his hand and shadow, it doesn't work for me lol. Goldeneye still rules!

Cobra Triangle (NES) Mega Man 1-6 (NES) Tecmo World Wrestling (NES) Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES) Fester's Quest (NES) Guardian Legends (NES)

I got both OOT and MM on their respective launch days. Being a massive OOT fanboi, it was hard to like it better for a long time. 20 years later, it's aged much better than its predecessor. The time challenge is a unique element that stands out to this day, and you actually learn to work with it to your advantage by the end IMHO. I'd give MM 9.95/10, and OOT 9.90/10 as of this date today.

Hey guys! I figured serious NES players would enjoy this. My buddy Josh is nuts when it comes to Mega Man, and he's one of the few I've seen actually play through the game and look like he knows what he's doing, lol. Check out his run below for The Gaming Manual; I learned so much from watching this one! Enjoy! Here are the Time Stamps for everything you see above; all of which can also be found HERE on TheGamingManual.com: What are your thoughts? Are you guys any good at this game? I could NEVER beat single robot master in MM1!

Mega Man VI (NES). Arguably my favorite MM title on the console; under-appreciated for sure!

Cobra Triangle (NES) The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons (GBA) The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages (GBA) Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)

Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES) Friday the 13th (NES) The Legend of Zelda (NES) Just to keep my skills fresh. These three will keep me in NES shape so I can tackle Ninja Gaiden again.

The first game I was obsessed with beyond reason as a kid, right from launch, was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Hands down, far and away the most I've ever been obsessed with a game, lol.

Very easily a 10/10 game, and one of the few that are genuinely worthy of that praise IMHO. Plus, the speed running community continues to blow me away, most of the time, with this particular game.

1. Mega Man 2 is overrated AF, and causes causal players to gloss over some fantastic later-entry games in the series. 2. The Sega Genesis - all versions of said console, controllers, peripherals, etc. - feel like they're made of the same cheap plastic you'd get from something out of a gum ball machine.

NEO GEO cabinets are an example of what all arcade cabinets should have been, bare minimum! A lot of the American arcade games by Midway etc. were all about getting them coins from you while keeping you just pissed enough to keep throwing them in LOL.

Oh I know, that's why I prefaced my last post, once everyone was like "Wtf did he just say?!", with that's admittedly the majority of my arcade experience. TMNT the arcade game has a great layout, as a counterexample to my own argument lol.