alt Hacker NewsMy favourite modern NES games
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Thanks for sharing!
I love the NES — probably my favorite console! I still enjoy playing the original games today on occasion.
I have a modest (curated) collection of about 60 games, but most are what I would consider some of the best titles for the system: Dragon Warrior 1-4, Mega Man 1-6, SMB 1-3, both Zeldas, Castlevania 1-3, Final Fantasy, Destiny of an Emperor, Guardian Legend, Faxanadu, Duck Tales — just to name a few of my favorites.
Just the other day I was thinking to myself that I should look to see what homebrew/modern third titles are out there an worth playing.
So I’d say this post was actually perfect timing!
Two modern NES games not on this list that I would also highly recommend:
Little Sisyphus https://youtu.be/to0rkV_SbMA
Nice games. Wish I would have found those back in the day but no such luck.
Back in the 90's, NES clones were all the rage in Eastern Europe:
With ludicrous names like "Gold Leopard King" https://www.reddit.com/r/crappyoffbrands/comments/1ekwzx5/go...
Or mimicking a Sega Genesis package and console look, this is the one that was most popular in Romania and I had one too : https://gadget.ro/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/terminator2.jpg
There's still a ton of old cartridges for it on sale on the flea market: https://www.olx.ro/d/oferta/jocuri-clona-nes-dischete-casete...
Back in the 90's, buying such a cartridge was a big decision, since a single one would cost the allowance for several months. And with no Internet and YouTube to run a search for "Haunted Haloween 85 NES", the only criteria for evaluating such a game in the physical flea market was the poster on the cartridge. Which, unlike the OPs which at least seem to pose a resemblance to the actual game, it had almost nothing to do with how the game will look.
Consequently I almost never got the good games and was utter disappointed after trying them. Fortunately there were neighbors who also bought and we exchanged cartridges, and so I found the best game I ever remember playing on such a console, Mighty Final Fight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoUPvwCcUo8
Whoa... I didn't even know these existed. This is linked from that page and is a pretty cool example of what it takes to make these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWQ0591PAxM. It's cool to see the Nintendo games are still being developed! I was 8yo when the NES came out and my mom saved up all her waitress money and bought me one that Christmas.