The NES library is ridiculously good. A lot of crap was shoveled onto the platform throughout the course of its lifetime, but a shockingly high proportion of games manufactured for the NES are good, and more than a handful are bona fide classics.
Getting the list down to ten was NOT easy. I left off dozens of legitimate contenders, zeroing in on games that in many cases beat their closest rivals not by miles but by mere inches.
But in the end, I narrowed it down to these ten. Now remember, these are NES games... no Famicom-exclusives allowed. Every game here was available for the stock Nintendo Entertainment System, (though one of the ten, a European exclusive, never made it it to America). These are the games that encapsulate what was great about the Nintendo Entertainment System. Let’s Play with Power.
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Getting the list down to ten was NOT easy. I left off dozens of legitimate contenders, zeroing in on games that in many cases beat their closest rivals not by miles but by mere inches.
But in the end, I narrowed it down to these ten. Now remember, these are NES games... no Famicom-exclusives allowed. Every game here was available for the stock Nintendo Entertainment System, (though one of the ten, a European exclusive, never made it it to America). These are the games that encapsulate what was great about the Nintendo Entertainment System. Let’s Play with Power.
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