Favorite NES games (MARIO EXCLUDED)

[KCJ506]

I know I know not too orginal but it's something that'll probably get some response to it. Mine are:

The Mega Man Games
Mike Tyson Punch-Out
TMNT

[Charlie]

Kirby's Adventure
Megaman 6
Megaman 3
Snake Rattle 'n Roll
Double Dragon 2
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
TMNT 2
Wizards & Warriors

Starting to regret putting my NES and games in my storage unit now.

Edit: And Tetris. How could I forget Tetris?

[Andrew T. Hingson]

All TMNT games (Manhattan Project is my favorite)
All Mega Man games (2 and 6 are my favorites)
Darkwing Duck
Zoda's Revenge: Star Tropics II
Duck Hunt
Ice Climber
Kirby's Adventure
Contra
Final Fantasy I
The Legend of Zelda

[Tapout]

Duck Tales
Chip 'n' Dale
Pro Wrestling
Mega Man Series

There are others, but I can't remember if half of them were SNES or NES and I'm too lazy to look.

[Borg4of3]

After being reacquainted with my collection, I think I have a few more obscure ones I could toss up.

Ice Hockey - My very first game ever, and still fun to this day. Wacky, unrealistic arcade-style hockey game.
Spy vs Spy - I loved the multiplayer VS in this game, and hadn't found a game like it since. Run around a house, searching for things to steal, while leaving a variety of traps for your enemey? Heh heh heh
North vs South - An original turn-based strategy game that had you compete against your opponent in a bunch of different confrontation possibilities, from controlling an entire platoon of cannons, cavalry, and soldiers to running on a moving train to stop the enemy from getting supplies.
Snake Rattle and Roll - Charlie mentioned it! Another great multiplayer game with a more polished but odd anti-centipede like feel.
RC Pro Am - First time racing with missiles, mines, and oil slicks. Man, even Rareware kicked butt back then.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Maybe just cause its my favorite movie ever, but the game did a great job incorporating elements in and making a unique random quest-type of game. And another Rare game! Hmmm.
Little Ninja Brothers - One of the first Action RPGs I'd ever known that took away turn-based battles (mostly) in favor of action combat and had a fun and wacky story to boot. And it was multiplayer! How this game could have missed the train of success of Zelda, Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy is beyond me.
Bubble Bobble and Snow Bros - Slightly similar arcade-style platformers that were also great to play with friends.
Tetris - From the obscure to the purely obvious, but undeniable

Maybe I'm just getting nostalgaic, but games back then were so varied and wierd, and knew how to do some real special things with multiplayer, both deathmatch and coop - that I once again miss that generation.

[Zach]

Final Fantasy
Contra
Zelda
Star Tropics
Captain Skyhawk
Casino Kid 2
Contra Force
Ren and Stimpy
Bart vs. The World
Megaman 2
Dragon Warrior 1 and 2
TMNT 1 and 2

[fuchikoma]

Castlevania III
Little Samson
Kirby's Adventure
River City Ransom
Batman
Battle of Olympus
Bionic Commando
Metroid
Tiny Toon Adventures
Kid Icarus
A Boy and His Blob
Mickey Mouse
Bart vs the Space Mutants
TMNT
Wizards and Warriors

[EinBebop]

Mike Tyson Punch-OutHah! You broke your own no-Mario rule!

[Tanooki]

punch-out
double dragon 3
final fantasy I
bart vs the space mutants
contra
i'm sure there are others...

Falcon

[Classic Speedy]

-Adventure Island series (II and III specifically)
-Bubble Bobble
-Bugs Bunny's Birthday Blowout
-Castlevania series
-Chip N Dale
-Darkwing Duck
-Double Dragon series (III less so, though)
-DuckTales
-Kirby's Adventure
-Kiwi Kraze
-Legend of Zelda (original)
-Mega Man series
-Ninja Gaiden series
-Rockin' Katz
-Tecmo Super Bowl
-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series
-Tetris
-Tiny Toon Adventures
-Yo-Noid!

[silverwings]

Zelda I
Crystalis
Dragon Spirit
Castlevania 2 (I think. The one with night/day themes.:p )

[chris3116]

Legend of Zelda
Mega Man Series (Especially 2-3)
Castlevania Series
River City Ransom
Contra
Bionic Commando
Mike Tyson's PUnch-Out

[Captain Harlock]

I think with the NES, the most fun I had with the console came with the sports titles. Tecmo Super Bowl is just a great game that survives the test of time. Very arcade style and fun. Also, endless fun could be had with RBI Baseball. Tengen's addicting, and also simplistic baseball game leaves hours of fun. Ice Hockey also followed this simplistic, but fun format.

In terms of not sports games, I always had a good time playing the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game. The dam level where you have to disarm the bombs has become memorable. Mega Man 2 will forever remain as my favorite in the series. River City Ransom, Dodgeball, Contra, and Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road all served as great multiplayer games. Mario rule or not, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out is still fun to play.

[Zyzzybalubah]

Mike Tyson's Punch Out (even though the referee is Mario, lol)
Rock 'n' Cats (even though no one knows that game)
Legend of Zelda 1
Dr. Mario
Castlevania
Chip n Dales Rescue Rangers
Duck Hunt

[Punisher]

Metroid
Baseball
Legend of Zelda
Wario's Woods
And there are surely others, just I either I forgot or am too lazy to put down over twenty games.

[KCJ506]

Hah! You broke your own no-Mario rule!
That doesn't count.

[Andrew T. Hingson]

Yell it does have Mario in it.

So is the rule not games from the Mario series only or no games that feature Mario characters?

[Michael24]

The Legend of Zelda
Ducktales
Chip 'n' Dale's Rescue Rangers
Castlevania II: Simon's Quest
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (the first and second ones)
Bionic Commando (even though it was always frustrating)
Ninja Gaiden
Double Dragon
Tetris
Paperboy (the only game my mom could ever play lol!!)
ExciteBike

And CONTRA is still my favorite video game of all time, from any system, period. :D

[UberMonkey]

Now it is the beginning of a fantastic story . . Let us make a journey to the cave of monsters!

Bubble Bobble's where's it at, yo.

EDIT: Honorable mentions to Kirby's Adventure, River City Ransom, and Megaman 2. Which all should probably count more anyways, since Bubble Bobble is an arcade game originally.

[KCJ506]

Yell it does have Mario in it.

So is the rule not games from the Mario series only or no games that feature Mario characters?
Not from the Mario series.

[EinBebop]

Which all should probably count more anyways, since Bubble Bobble is an arcade game originally.Disagree. Most arcade ports done on the NES sucked because the NES just wasn't up to the task. The few that got it right (Bubble Bobble, Ghosts and Goblins, Contra, and a handful of others) deserve to be called classics.

[EinBebop]

Not from the Mario series.Three games hardly seems worth the effort to exclude, being such a small portion of any given list.

[Tapout]

Was there any first-party, non-Zelda game for the NES that didn't include Mario in some small capacity?

[GMB]

Was there any first-party, non-Zelda game for the NES that didn't include Mario in some small capacity?

Metroid and Kid Icarus spring to mind . . .

[RAINMAN]

Batman
TMNT series
MM series
Contra N Super Contra
Ninja gaiden series
Castlevania series
Double Dragon
Adventures of Link
Tecmo Super bowl
Donkey Kong3
Duck Hunt
Gyromite
Disney games
Rad Racer
Spy Hunter
punch out

[RAINMAN]

Was there any first-party, non-Zelda game for the NES that didn't include Mario in some small capacity?


DK3
Star tropica
gyromite
popeye
play action football
mertiod
kid icurs
doki doki panic :D

[email2003]

TMNT I
TMNT II
Ninja Gaiden
Ninja Gaiden II
Ninja Gaiden III
Tetris
Batman
Batman Returns
Duck Tales
Contra
Super Contra
G.I. Joe
G.I. Joe II The Atlantis Factor

Oh and Super Mario Bros. 3 just for the hell of it.:D

[pidget bill]

WHAT!? No mention of the great "Adventures of Lolo" series!!? :crying: heh heh... Seriously those were great. Quite the addictive head scratchers If I' do say so myself :D (though I never beat even one of them except coming real close on 3).

[WolfieKiwi]

Harvest Moon
Bart's Worst Nightmare
Final Fantasy III
TMNT Turtles in time
MK I II and III
Doom Troopers
Kirby's Dreamland 2 and 3
Bubsy 1 and 2
Super Puch Out
Zelda A link to the past
Yoshi's Island
Donkey Kong Country 1,2,3
Alien VS Predator
Street Fighter
Metroid

not in order
there are more..

[SuperLuigiBros]

Was there any first-party, non-Zelda game for the NES that didn't include Mario in some small capacity?
Ice Climber, Balloon Fight, Metroid, Earthbound 0 (although not released in the US), Popeye (it was first-party), Pinball, Urban Champion, Kid Icarus, the list goes on.

[unknown hero]

Some of my favorites include:
Double Dragon 2
River City Ransom
Megaman 3, 4, & 5
Zelda

[Chris3123]

Contra
Legend of Zelda
DuckTales
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out
RBI Baseball
Teenage MMutant Ninja Turtles

[Jade_GL]

Tetris
Chip 'n' Dales Rescue Rangers
Ducktales

And now for something completely different...

Sweet Home

Yeah, it's a game that never came to America. Yeah it's only the most awesome game ever. It's a precursor to the horror games of today. It takes place in a haunted house that belonged to a famous mural painter. Of course, it hides a dark secret....

This has a great story, and is pretty scary for an 8-bit game. Heck, it's probably the only scary 8-bit game. It's kind of a survival horror rpg. You fight monsters and can pick up new weapons, and your stats increase as you go along. You also have to do inventory management. Each character (there are five) comes with one item that the rest of the party needs. You can use a camera to uncover secrets written in murals, a lighter to burn away rope obstacles, and a medicine kit to heal people who are poisoned. Besides that, your characters only have two other inventory slots. You need to use those to pick up things like boards and logs to span gaps, among other things. Oh, and you have one weapon slot. So you have to juggle with that, as well as solve puzzles and try to get out of the house alive. Let's just say the story is probably why this game didn't come to America. But it's a favorite of mine.

[Tash]

Startropics.

That game is still good. Sadly, a lot of people I know have never heard of the game.