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These are really neat! Gotta say, though.... Mega Man's foot scooch is one of the best/ingenious gameplay moves for NES ever. SO MANY games you can't move your player over juuuuuuuuuuust a touch when you need to get closer to an edge, etc. YOU NEED A SCOOCH! Mega Man has it. Always loved it. Sometimes I do a little scooching just to dance.

Are we ALLOWED to say NWC Gold? That's kinda a cop out I think. But alas... OP Does say price and rarity are no issue. For the record, I'll leave it off my list. I'm not even sure I have 5... 1) Little Samson - NES 2) Mega Man 5 CIB - NES 3) Power Blade 2 - NES 4) Final Fight 3 - SNES 5) Magical Chase (Turbo GFX) There's probably WAY more expensive games I could have picked, but those are the games that I WANT for my collection to play. Well, play... that's obviously a lie because I've snuck in the "CIB" on Mega Man 5.

Jesus. Time warp. I may be a touch bias to the 80's, but here's another addition.... I didn't realize it was a play on words, loco and motion, until I was an adult....

Glad to see I'm not the only one.... A few off the top of my head, already mentioned..... GTA Fortnite Call of Duty Minecraft There's far FAR more than that...

Haha... So much to unpack there... I'm not even sure where to start. Not even sure if I know where/how with this one. Actually... it's easy, I much prefer the NES controller, and I think you lose a bit of the "tightness" with the port/SNES controller. Whatever the reason is, I don't know.... but in SMB3 All Stars the gameplay feels a bit "heavier" for me. Plus while I can appreciate the upgrade in graphics, sometimes I don't like change. I must admit, I have never played the ecard levels. Mostly because I am not a fan of the button set-up on the GBA and find playing SMB3 awkward. When the A button is on an slight angle upwards I find in annoying. When I'm playing SMB3 on All Stars I can never play that way, I think it's weird. I also hate the Dogbone controller for the exact same reason. OKAY.... So just to see how the button configuration was handled I tossed in SMB All-Stars. It has been YEARS since I played it. So the button option comes before you start the game... okay. I chose Mario 3 and IMMEDIATELY was upset/shocked/disgusted. I uncontrollably said out lout "What the fuck is this!?!?" at hearing the music and sound in the opening. Big fuck up there. Then the music in the first world. Ugh. They try to get fancy with it and just ends up fucking it up. Gameplay feels okay, but still not as comfortable as NES. Graphics are neat, sure, but it fucks with the gameplay and feels "heavy" like I said above. And the tail sounds like shit. OG SMB3 FTW. This comment about the cape is just false. CAMMAN! We all know the Tanooki Suit exists, right? BUT... even before that.... the Racoon Tail is far superior to the Cape. Cape = One big jump and MUST move forward. Racoon Tail = Can fly upwards. Then when you're flying forward with the cape all you can do is go up or down, and you must do one or the other, there's not much room for maneuvering. Plus, when you have the Cape on, you can't fly while carrying a shell/item. You can jump high, but that's it. With the Racoon Tail/Tanooki Suit you can fly while you're holding that shell, baybay! Maybe I'm missing something about the cape that people love? I mean, yeah, you can fly through a whole level with it.... I do agree that Dino Land is hella cool. Being such a SMB3 map lover, I can't say it's "better' than the maps, but I certainly do give much respect to the "world" layout and that in SMW.

I see... Haha... Yeah, me too! What Sumez said!!! I get it now.... At least someone agrees with me the game is basically unplayable at a certain stage.

This is a good conversation.... 8/10.... because I typically categorize NES & SNES separately... so overall, compared to the SNES library SMW is definitely at least an 8.... could maybe even be higher. I would say, in an SNES discussion only, that it is a "great" game.... Even a 9 in this context because if you are playing SNES then you 100% should be playing this game. HOWEVER.... when we look at the overall Mario games and compare them, as others have brought up, I will go ahead and quote myself: "SMW is not great if you compare it to SMB3."

Wide screen Blades of Steel makes extra wide screen Gradius, apparently.

Haha, fuck, well that doesn't make me feel any better. I mean, at least you confirmed it's a "pretty hard game"... that's enough for me, haha. A week? sweet lawd, well done. It literally feels impossible right now... I'll give it a couple more tries, but damn. Then there's the SECOND adventure mode??? Lord... I'm sure this is funny.... but I just don't understand the reference. Meaning I'm slow? Because I am LITERALLY slow at the game? Haha... I'm sure it's a good zinger ( @Gloves thinks so? ) as I do indeed suck enough at the game to find it difficult.

I live in the "path of totality" or whatever the technical term is so people around here were freaking out and there were a ton of tourists who came to the area. Unfortunately it was cloudy that day, so we couldn't actually see the sun. it peeked through the clouds a couple times, but for the most part it was a pretty cloudy day. BUT it was still a relatively bright day, so when the eclipse happened and it got dark for a few minutes it was really creepy and a bit eerie. All in all a neat experience. Pretty neat to just so happened to be right in it's path.

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Okay so I played a bunch of Diddy Kong Racing.... But figured I would "beat the game" and complete the adventure mode. Didn't seem to insane to attempt.... BUT WHY IN THE SWEET JESUS LORD IN FUCKING HELL is the silver coin bullshit so annoyingly hard???? There's 2 levels I can't get.... The town in Frosty Village took me forever, too, fuck. A couple of them too were ridiculous, in Windmill Plains no matter what I did the computer would ALWAYS be too far in front to reach.... but I managed to get them except the last 2 in the Dragon Forest. Greenwood Village.... can't do it. And yeah, the racing is cool, probably fun with friends.... but the Adventure mode itself is fucking annoying.

Hmmmm.... interesting question. It comes down a lot to personal preference. Someone can tell me a million times how amazing Chrono Trigger is and I will never like it because I don't like RPG's. So, any suggestions put in will be inherently biased. But still.... there's some I would throw in there: Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario 64. I know that shit is basic, but we are talking about games people HAVE to play... so kept it simple. For people who like Beat 'Em Ups or Platformers I would also suggest: Mega Man 2, Contra, Double Dragon 2, & Battletoads (all on the NES). I find this interesting because I play Pac-Man/Ms. Pac Man every once in a while.... Galaga too, actually. There's a cabinet at my work.... One of these things: https://arcade1up.com/collections/pac-man/products/pac-man-partycade-12-games-in-1 At first I was like "Oh neat, some classic arcade games..." So I played it... but Pac-Man is fucking RELENTLESS. It's fucking hard, man. FRUSTRATINGLY and ANNOYINGLY hard. So much so that I play it for like 5 minutes, get annoyed, and then stop. It's not a very fun gaming experience. I can barely make it past the first 4-5 levels. I mean.... I am trying to maximize my points, so maybe I could get "farther" without effing around with the power dots, but each game only takes about 2 minutes, if you're lucky. My hightest score is like 40k or something pathetic, and that seemed IMPOSSIBLE for me.... I can't fathom getting it again. I can understand how it would have been fun "back in the day" because of the lack of games/differentiation, but I don't think Pac-Man holds up very well today. Haha, yeah... just about all of North America did after that apparently. Thank god for the NES.

Welcome! You will find that many (most) people love the NES & SNES around here and discuss all sorts of topics about them. As someone who is unabashedly an "NES" person, SNES in second, I have *some respect for other systems as well. Master System I have for Wonder Boy, but looking forward to grabbing some other decent titles. Yoshi's Island is excellent, great you enjoy playing together!

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