Wall Street Kid Tecmo Super Bowl Paperboy Mario Pro Wrestling (recently rated #5 on the best games of all time by Game Informer)
Super Mario Bros. 3 The one game that can make you think "ok, I've seen and done this enough already," but make you want to keep playing it over and over again. Forget about the graphics - they were great at the time but nothing special now. It's all about the gameplay, and few games are better than that one in that department. My mom and a friend of hers would sit and play that game for hours on end, even leaving the system on while they worked or ran errands, always coming back to try to beat Bowser. I was too young at that time to much get into the game, but now - it's a great way to kill several hours. You've gotta go through the entire game without warp whistles to get the full effect of it, though.
Oh my god people. Its RIVER CITY RANSOM hands down!!! I mean, come on, it was Double Dragon with a brain. You could take money from you enenies, go to the several malls throughout the game, and use it to buy food foor powering up your power/stamina/kicks/punches. Or buy books and read them to pick up new fighting techniques (Arco-Circus ruled!). You had a storyline, cool weapons, (everything was a weapon), and tough bosses. This game was way ahead of its time. Oh, yeah, Mario 3 kicked ass too.
i thought i was the only 13 year old kid that was into stocks and money! i loved Wall Street Kid, but whenever I mention it to people (in discussions of childhood toys), they always gimme an odd look and tell me I'm a dork! glad to know someone else enjoyed reading the paper everyday, taking the girlfriend shopping, buying a $10,000 dog, getting that day long exercise in, and buying IBM stock, which always rose steadily throughout the course of the game! i never did beat the game though! I never raised enough money for the final house. did you?
I was never fortunate enough to own acopy. I rented it at Randall's all those years ago. I was going to buy a copy and then SNES came out and...well you know the story. When I was a kid I would watch the news every night with my mom. So I was a dork I guess...but well informed.
How come no one's mentioned Tetris? Two other games that haven't been mentioned that I also like are Master Blaster and Guerilla War.
hey sonny, did you beat the game? did you buy the house at the end? read my earlier post in this thread, cuz i could never beat it, after years of trying... i even started playing it again a few months ago, but i can't buy that house, I NEVER RAISE ENOUGH MONEY!!! AARGH! i think i'll play it this afternoon and try again... got any tips?
Well since I haven't played it in 6 or 7 yrs I don't remember that much, so sorry, no tips for now. I know I did get enough money once and I bought the house. I have the emulator copy, I will try to play again. Good Luck. I mentioned WallStreet Kid before Refman...
Other than the obvious games like Zelda, Mario Bros., Contra, and Excitebike, I always like Baseball Stars. Its the first game I remember where you could upgrade your players, sign free agents, trade players, and create teams. The gameplays was cool too....climbing the wall for a homerun...diving for the smash hit... The only problem was that if you upgraded a guy to full speed, he was impossible to throw out...plus you had to learn to throw the ball by tapping the direction button and the throw button at the same time, otherwise you'd throw a slow bouncer to first base. Metroid was cool too.....countless hours on that game...
Tecmo Super Bowl was years ahead of its time. You could easily pass for 700-800 yards in that game simply by using the Oilers or any other pass-happy team. Just drop back in the pocket to the bad of the end zone, and let the 70-80 yard passes fly. Haywood Jeffries or Ernest Givins can jump and catch it.
SNK Baseball dropped the average GPA of our ten-bedroom house from a 3.2 to a 2.3. We finally destroyed the NES in order to save our scholarships.
