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This week's results: Question #34 (3/7-3/13) - When it comes to "legend" what game comes to mind? 1 Legend of Zelda 35.4 2 Dragon Quest III 25.1 3 Legend of Kage 12.0 4 Momotarou Densetsu 4.9 5 Castlevania III 4.9 6 Valkyrie no Bouken 2.3 7 Risa no Yousei Densetsu 1.8 8 Saint Seiya: Ougon Densetsu 1.4 9 Legend of Ghost Lion 1.2 10 Aigiina no Yogen 1.0 11 Majou Densetsu II: Daimashikyou Galious 0.9 12 Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu 0.8 13 Wizards & Warriors 0.7 14 Saint Seiya: Ougon Densetsu Kanketsu-hen 0.5 15 Kaguya Hime Densetsu 0.5 15 Takeshi no Chousenjou 0.5 17 Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu 0.4 18 Toki 0.4 18 Zelda 2 0.4 20 Knight Gundam Monogatari 3 0.3 20 Dragon Quest 0.3 20 Dragon Spirit 0.3 20 Momotarou Densetsu Gaiden 0.3 It did up being Zelda, although DQ3 got a lot of support. Lots of lesser known games making their first appearance in these polls: Aigiina, Galious, W&W, Kaguya, Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu, Toki, KGM3. Next week's question: When it comes to "action game," what comes to mind? I'm assuming platformers would be considered an action game, so SMB1/SMB3/Mega Man 2 for the top spots? Plus the likes of Goemon, Doraemon, etc.

It seems like more of an easter egg than a separate ending. Apparently you just have to whip the girl at the end, and it gives you some bonus points and adds "big man" to the ending screen.

There's only four 17 point games: Battle Tank, Destination Earth Star, Dungeon Magic, Flight of the Intruder So that's all of them done. There's one other game with 7 pain points, Flying Warriors, which is still unbeaten. But it's a 9 pointer, so 16 overall.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mtVLHFkZmpURNTAwnwL0n9i6KaEPuXl8wtsSB3gvdV0/ Check the "by person" tab to see who's beaten what every year. That's what the pain points are for, right? Making a list of who's beaten tough games depends on what a tough game is. It's hard because sometimes those people cause the game to lose points by beating it early every year.

It is really tough, but mbd has beaten that game for 6 straight years, so he's our resident BNJ master. Anyway, very productive day today. I would be contributing myself, but I've been playing nothing but Final Fantasy VII Rebirth for the last week. So any NES stuff is on hold for me until I'm done with that. Then I have a brief window until Dragon's Dogma 2 releases.

This week's results: Question #33 (2/29-3/6) - When it comes to "3 character titles" what game comes to mind? 1 Ikki 25.7 2 Ghosts 'n Goblins 9.0 3 Contra 9.0 4 Popeye 7.7 5 Golf 7.5 6 Tennis 7.3 7 Athena 5.3 8 Kineko 3.2 9 Guerilla War 2.9 10 Romance of the Three Kingdoms 2.8 11 Ys 2.1 12 Adventures of Dino-Riki 1.9 13 Layla 1.9 14 Ikari Warriors 1.4 15 Juuouki 1.2 16 Hototogisu 1.0 17 Banana 0.9 18 Alpha Mission 0.9 19 Double Dragon 0.8 20 Mother 0.7 Seems like there's been a bit of an Ikki revival lately. There was an Ikki level in Blaster Master Zero 2, and there was even a new Ikki online game in the style of Vampire Survivors that came out last year. Looking at this list, you have to take into account that some of these names are just the American names that I put there. And also, some longer names are represented by Kanji, which makes things more complicated. Basically, you can't make much sense of this topic without looking at all the Japanese titles AND seeing how they're written. Next week's question: When it comes to "legend" what game comes to mind? This ought to be more interesting. Obviously Zelda comes to mind first. However, Dragon Quest III's subtitle in Japanese is "And, into the Legend..." We all know how much DQ3 dominates these polls, so I actually expect it to win here. I'll pick Castlevania III (Akumajou Densetsu) for third.

Thanks for taking out all the Power Pad games! Dance Arobics next?

Yeah, that's all we've required. I'll go ahead and mark you down for it then. I've played the game a few times, and last time I decided to play against a cpu opponent and beat them. But, you can just give yourself a huge handicap so it isn't any harder. Maybe we should require something like that in the future, still...

This week's results: Question #32 (2/22-2/28) - When it comes to cats what comes to mind? 1 City Connection 25.1 2 Mappy 16.4 3 Onyanko Town 14.0 4 Koneko Monogatari 9.8 5 Nagagutsu o Haita Neko 8.6 6 Doraemon 7.3 7 Kyattou Ninden Teyandee 3.7 8 Doraemon: Gigazombie no Gyakushuu 1.4 9 Dragon Quest III 1.3 10 Mappyland 0.8 11 Jarinko Chie 0.8 12 Ganbare Goemon 0.6 12 Rockin' Kats 0.6 12 Tama & Friends 0.6 15 Apple Town Monogatari 0.6 16 Wing of Madoola 0.6 17 Michael English Daibouken 0.5 18 Ninja Hattori-kun 0.5 19 A Week of Garfield 0.5 20 Ganbare Goemon Gaiden 0.4 20 Megami Tensei 0.4 I'm kinda shocked by this. I like City Connection, and I know the cats are a memorable part of it, but I had no idea it was that well known. Maybe the Japanese company that named itself after the game (and is basically modern Jaleco) has something to do with it. I guess Doraemon isn't as high because he's technically a robot cat? I dunno. Lots of obscure FDS games this week. Plus, #4 is the Japanese version of Puss 'n Boots, and #7 is Samurai Pizza Cats. I also feel like there's a certain percentage of fans who will just answer Dragon Quest III to any question, since that game is so popular over there. Next week's question: When it comes to "3 character titles" what game comes to mind? Well, we already had a 5 character question, so why not. Most popular Twitter answers seem to be Ikki and then Golf.

Updated the google spreadsheet with all of the 2025 point values that are set in stone (486/662).

I hope you have all the stat upgrade potions. If not, then it's better to start over.

It's a very good game, just too complicated and difficult and long for most people.

We were 3rd fastest to 500 & 550 games. We're on pace to be the second fastest to 600. Fastest is 2/24 in 2015, second is 3/13 in 2021 (a year we didn't finish it).

It's finished. There were a few matches where I actually had to play. Final scores: 1-0 Cameroon 1-0 Japan 1-0 France 1-0 Russia 1-0 Spain 2-1 England 2-1 Mexico 16-14 United States 3-2 Brazil 2-0 Netherlands 9-5 Italy 11-7 West Germany

Going through Nintendo World Cup again now. It's 90% waiting around - score 1 goal, then knock out the other team's player and just set the controller down until half time/full time.

This week's results: Question #31 (2/15-2/21) - When it comes to "the package was good", what comes to mind? 1 Dragon Quest III 14.9 2 Mother 5.0 3 Super Mario Bros. 4.7 4 Super Xevious 3.7 4 Dragon Quest IV 3.7 6 Super Mario Bros. 3 3.3 7 Getsu Fuuma Den 3.3 8 Genpei Touma Den 2.3 9 Final Fantasy III 2.2 10 Wizardry 1.8 11 Famicom Jump 1.8 12 Dragon Quest 1.6 13 Dragon Quest II 1.5 14 Kaijuu Monogatari 1.4 15 Athena 1.3 16 Kirby's Adventure 1.3 17 Life Force 1.2 18 Haja no Fuuin 1.0 19 RBI Baseball 1.0 19 Valkyrie no Bouken 1.0 Lots of unique reasons while certain games are here - Super Xevious was the first of three Namco gold carts. Getsu Fuuma Den had the lenticular cover, while Genpei Touma Den was half board game. Kaijuu Monogatari came with some small figures and a big map, while Athena had a cassette tape, and Life Force with its cool see through shell. Of course, the list is still dominated by popular stuff that wasn't quite as impressive, unless you consider game quality to be part of the "package". I would've liked to have seen Shadow Brain and its vhs tape, but that's a very obscure game even for Famicom fans. Next week's question: When it comes to cats, what comes to mind? This should be fun. Surely Doraemon in first? The only two games that actually have "neko" in the title are Puss 'n Boots and Koneko Monogatari (FDS). I guess we'll see Onyanko Town, Rockin' Cats, and Samurai Pizza Cats as well. I see a lot of people on Twitter saying Mappy, which makes sense as an earlier title. Although I was thinking more of the playable characters being cats...

WCW (World Championship Wrestling) is done, on the Japanese version Superstar Pro Wrestling. Same game except for the different, unlicensed roster. I beat it with Jumbo Tsuruta (or "Tsuruma").

Trojan completed. Not too bad if you know where the power ups are. EDIT: Also working on WCW.

I agree that Mendel Palace is good. There's not too many NES games that I can say are still underrated at this point, but that's one of them.

Evert & Lendl Top Players Tennis is completed. Yeah, I suffered through this game once again. It's not even very hard, just so tedious. Well, the one time I had to beat Lendl was hard, but other than that, just spent the time watching some streams while playing on autopilot. The Japanese version is the same except for not having the voices.

I get what you're saying, but there's no way you could've played it on release like that. And it also goes back to the whole code discussion. I think I've said before that it's fine to not play it.

This week's result: Question #30 (2/8-2/14) - When it comes to 2, what game comes to mind? 1 Dragon Quest II 23.9 2 Super Mario Bros. 2 (JP) 20.1 3 Mega Man 2 10.8 4 King Kong 2 8.9 5 Volguard II 2.7 6 Final Fantasy II 2.4 7 Goonies II 2.1 8 Seikima II 1.7 9 Megami Tensei II 1.5 10 Captain Tsubasa II 1.4 10 Gradius II 1.4 12 Ganbare Goemon 2 1.2 13 1942 1.1 14 Gachapon Senshi 2 1.0 15 Famicom Detective Club (part 2) 0.9 16 Mother 0.8 17 Wai Wai World 2 0.7 18 Zelda 2 0.7 19 Dig Dug II 0.6 20 Kyonshiizu 2 0.6 20 Hiryuu no Ken II 0.6 These results really show you how important it was to be launched in that boom period for the system. I wouldn't expect King Kong and Volguard to do better than Final Fantasy and Zelda, but there it is. Although, Zelda 2 might be so low because it's listed as just "Link no Bouken" (Adventure of Link). If you type in Zelda 2 in the search box, there's no suggested result. But it does come up if you actually search for that (but not "Zelda II".) This is probably a good time to point out that the search suggestions may play a role in the poll results. That is to say, without clicking to actually do the search, some suggestions will pop up under the search box. If you put in just the number "2" into the search box, the suggestions are 1942, Keisan Game 2, SMB2, King Kong 2, and Stadium Events (aka Family Trainer 2). So I guess I should be checking that every week too, huh. Next week's question: When it comes to "the package was good", what comes to mind? We already had a poll for good manuals, which Zelda won followed by DQ3. They didn't use the word for box specifically, but I have to assume this will mostly be about that? Maybe about box art? Some replies on Twitter are talking about box art, but others are talking about actual sturdy cases, so who knows.

Crash 'n the Boys: Street Challenge finished. Easy 10 point game when you understand how to play. I've beaten it before, so it took less than an hour this time:

Also, I finally got around to posting all the previous years' standings on Google Sheets, along with some other stats. You can check it out here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mtVLHFkZmpURNTAwnwL0n9i6KaEPuXl8wtsSB3gvdV0/edit#gid=1249105543

Pinbot is done. I've been playing this game off and on for a few weeks now, finally was able to do it today. I think the key is to not advance the playfield, because it adds too much randomness. Better to stay on the first stage and slowly build your score. I did advance it at the end to crush my previous best. Overall, it was a satisfying game to clear, since I just had to slowly get better at it without any easy strats.