Tero's Top 10 - NES

The question "what are your favourite games" is one that comes up a lot in games communities (I've even joked it's the gamer's equivalent of "What's your sign"). My answers change constantly, both because I'm always playing new games and because I can't remember what I answered last time.

Still, it seems like a good thing to go in a blog about Classic Gaming because blogs are supposed to be vaguely personal and it's something I've made reference to a lot of times. It also buys me several posts worth of filler. Don't be surprised if these posts randomly change in the future.

And of course, you'll probably disagree. That's not surprising. Note that it says "favourite games", not necessarily "what do you think are the best games".

I'll start with the NES, because it's the system I've covered the most here.

1 - Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers
2 - Snake Rattle n' Roll
3 - Bubble Bobble
4 - River City Ransom
5 - Double Dragon 2
6 - Super Mario Bros
7 - Kirby's Adventure
8 - Stunt Kids
9 - Mega Man 3
10 - MC Kids

Apart from the top 2 slots, this is very difficult to choose, but I forced myself to only pick 10. One pattern is that the top 5 games all have simultaneous co-op - the NES is one of the greatest co-op systems available, and you can see that dominance reflected here.

Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers has always been my favourite NES game, and it's definitely the single game I've beaten the most times total. It's a very easy game, but it's extremely well made and is still fun even when you're extremely good at it. I always recommend it to anyone who is just starting at gaming, because I believe it's the best game ever at what it does.

Snake Rattle 'n Roll is pretty much on the opposite end of the spectrum. Where CnD is just extremely solid but conventional, SRnR (what is it with NES and 'n?) is extremely unique. It's an isometric platformer with gameplay that can really only be called bizarre. Still, it's very fun, and most people I know who know what it is rate it pretty high. It's also pretty hard, actually, I only beat it for the first time a few weeks before I made the video of it and I've had it since childhood.

Of course, I'm sure I'll take some flak for including MC Kids and not Super Mario Bros 3. I've always slightly preferred MC Kids to SMB3, mostly because of its emphasis on exploration. I prefer SMW to SMB3 (and to MC Kids, for that matter) for mostly the same reason.

Most of the rest of the choices should be familiar to NES fans. Astute viewers may notice that I eventually subbed out DuckTales for Kirby's Adventure, it just didn't feel right leaving Kirby off the list after I went back and played it again.