Ahhh don't we all love to reminisce about the good old days of gaming. And whenever that happens the discussion will lead back to the NES 9 times out of 10. "Remember Contra man. That game was awesome!" a young lad may say. Other classics include Zelda, the Super Mario Brothers series, Tetris, Excitebike,and Tecmo Bowl. Classics are a accurate term for these games which had withstood the test of time. However once you get past the 20 or so classics like Punch Out you are left with a gray box that displays 3 colors at a time while powering piles of crap shaped into plastic rectangular cartridges. The truth of the matter is that even with all of the games that came out for the NES 95% of them were absolute crap. But some hardheaded gamers still try to cling on to what little nostalgia is left. They remember the glory days of renting out Mega Man 2 but try to forget the time they brought 3 new NES games after saving up for a few years. This would be nice and all but most likley the games were Puss and Boots, Wurm journey to the center of the earth, and Seasame Street counting to 3 with Big Bird or whatever the hell it was called.
I know some people are saying "what about that cool game__________ huh?" Well I dare you to play that game today. You will not be able to play it for more than 5 minuites simply because it sucks. While 3 second loops of music may have been awesome back then they absolutley suck now. Now I am not comparing the NES to the PS2 or XBOX but damn those games were and still are bad.
Another topic of discussion would have to be the blowing on the carts. The NES was unreliable. Young boys could not bring young women over to show them their cool new game simply because the bastard NES would most likley require blowing into the console and game to play it, which would result in little Jhonny looking like a dumbass in front of little Debbie since he could not get Total Recall to work, a pile of miserable crap by the way. The only time a game worked without the requirement of blowing is if it just came out of the package in new and pristine condition. However after 10 minuites of play the game would automatically reset or freeze. Think about it in todays standards. Would you buy a Gamecube if you knew it would freeze up if you wanted a friend to play along and plug in an extra controller? GOD FORBID ANYTHING THAT WEIGHS MORE THAN A FEATHER FALL ON THE DECK! Any bright spots to this at all? Well you found out the durability of the deck after throwing it against a wall to try to get the stupid thing to work!
If you can play NES games all day long without being miserable and slipping into a coma then more power to you. That shows one of 2 things. You actually like the crap served up to you and would not mind playing Barney's adventure over and over again to see if he'll talk at the end of the game, made that game up by the way or 2) you feel no pain which would make you a perfect persona to be a game tester for the ARMY MEN series. Transformers? BAH!! Some things are better left a memory and that pile of plastic space occupancy you call the NES, games and accessories certainly fit the bill.
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