NESfiend

I know you play a lot of SNES. Do you play the super star wars series and can you beat those games on brave? They are punishing.

I thought about this when I was playing Super Star Wars earlier. NES didn't have many difficulty options, but lots of great SNES games do. I play most of them on easy. Once I can beat it pretty easily there, I move up to the middle setting. From there, I rarely get too far into the game, but have beaten a handful. In addition to the star wars series, some others that come to mind are sunset riders, knights of the round, final fights, and lion king. And most fit into the category, for me, that its too easy on easy and too difficult on the normal setting to be able to beat it without putting in a lot of time/work. I have kind of always assumed I am one of few who plays on easy, but maybe I am wrong. Strangley, for me, its only platformers as I don't alter settings on sports, racing, or head to head fighters like street fighter and mortal combat.

A must even if you don't collect PAL games. Whether you like AVGN or not, his take on that series was dead on. Europe got a great ghostbusters NES game and we got pure trash.

My fault. I missed that comment. Thanks again for putting together the lists.

I was surprised by some of these. Seems like they were somewhat more harshly graded. For example, I think you'd be much more hard pressed to find a copy of caltron 6-1 than a swordmaster or even snow bros. Same could be said comparing action 52 to a lot of the 7s on the licensed list. Maxi 15 as a 6 seems low. I guess it depends on whether you look at it as fewest number of carts out there or difficulty/expense of actually acquiring one. As far as how many carts there are actually are out there, unlicensed games in general are much more scarce than licensed. But there is a lot smaller market of buyers. Are these basically on their own scale?

Agree with this 100%

This thread is an awesome reference. Saved to favorites immediately. Thanks ThePhleo

I agree that the crowd here is great. Also echo how much it sucks that years worth of posts, forums, etc. are completely inaccessible. That really pisses me off. I am warming up to the format here, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss NA layout and the way the forums were organized etc. I think it was just easier. Maybe I don't appreciate the extra functionalities because I am a simpleton, especially when it comes to computers/tech.

RC Pro Am 2 Eliminator Boat duel - bought this a couple weeks ago. Pretty damn good Star Wars Castlevania 1

Can you play them in any order or do you have to start with Contra?

I guess that depends on the strength of your system. I'd say go crazy as long as you are confident its accurate and not debatable/speculative.

I for one plan on using your list as a go to reference and definitely would prefer if you didn't go down to R1-7. If you do do that, I'd suggest/ask you keep this one available as well. I went through R6-9 on your list pretty carefully. Everything here looks really accurate. I have no idea how much work or how long it takes to do that, but I'd love to see one for SNES as well.