Great video! I had to do chores to get half the money to buy my NES, and thankfully my Grandmother offered to buy the other half. I remember what I played most as a kid. Blaster Master, City connection, Contra, The Guardian Legend, Jackal, Legendary Wings, Life Force, Low G man, Mike Tyson's Punchout, Pro Wrestling, Rad Racer, and Rush n' attack.
I didn’t see an NES til around ‘94. My step dad had bought a bundle at a yardsale. The games I first experienced were Kung Fu, Kung Fu heroes, Mystery Quest, SMB 1-3, Double Dragon 2: The revenge and a slew of other that are slipping my mind right now. It was a huge bundle even including an NES Advantage. man I wish we made scores like that these days lol Awesome memories Jay! These are exactly the types of video I love to see! Thanks for sharing 🤘
Thanks, Scotty! What a great bundle of games - and yes, I miss scores like this, too. I remember finding Genesis games in the late 90s and yard sales for like $1 a piece, and just passing on them entirely because I was so focused on PS1 and PS2 stuff. I wish I could go back in time!
Solid list Sir! Donkey Kong classics, Mike Tyson’s punch out, Zelda, Mario 1 & 2, contra, life force & street fighter 2010 were a few of the games I remember fondly
You play what you owned, that’s kind of what happened AND I am BIG on ice climber. I loved that game. Bubble Bobble was a big deal for us too and Circus Circus, Mappy, Balloon Fight, and Paper Boy. This was a nice little trip down NES lane. Scott was proud you beat Mike Tyson, even if it was only that once 😂
I'm making it my goal to beat Tyson again this year. Bubble Bobble was big in our house, too! And it's always wild to find another Ice Climber fan - there are DOZENS of us! DOZENS, I TELL YOU!
One thing that makes me love these games as an adult are the save states I get from emulation. It makes things so much less frustrating. I have most of the games you've listed in cartridge, but nearly always use emulators now. I have a retro box that'll hook up to my CRT. It's perfect.
Love this series Jay! I got my start on video games and NES a few years later then you but man there is some nostalgia in this list !! I’m right there with you with a love or run n guns starting with commando !! Keep videos like this commin!! Have a great week!
Well I wasn't playing the NES until '93 (being born in '87 and all) but I recall putting a lot of time into Legend of Zelda and Mario Bros when my best friend from kindergarten and I had chicken pox at the same time. Also, with my cousins we played Super Off Road, Bigfoot, and Yo! Noid.
I should, but I kind of like it as my art installation now for my friends stickers. :) I've got another NES or my Retron that can play the games, so the OG is my childhood trophy.
Nice video, and great list Jay! I was certainly playing a lot of Excite Bike, Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Junior, and The Legend of Zelda myself during this time. Of course my parents got me my Nintendo NES when I was only a three year old. Although I could read some by then I had a hard time understanding many of the games. Though I still tried to play them. So feeling confused by a game is definitely something I can relate to. Not that my parents would have realized this, but even a fairly intelligent three year old like myself would have had trouble figuring out The Legend of Zelda. I know adults who require a game guide for games in that franchise. Although I was never terribly good at them I always enjoyed trying to play Gradius, and Top Gun. Still own physical copies of both Nintendo NES Top Gun games currently.
First game I ever played on a NES was that really really hard TMNT game. Cuz I was little and loved the turtles my cousin was like “here play this” Needless to say, it kept me away from games until the SNES lol Great list man
I was born in 1987 but I started playing NES when I was around 3-4. My favorites were of course Super mario 3, Rush N Attack, Kung Fu, Zelda 2, and Paperboy
I had Game Gear and PS1 as a youth so the first time I played NES was as a middle aged man a few years ago. I started with Xexyz, because it is so weird and blends two genres. I really enjoyed playing it through and trying the famous NES for the first time
I didn't get my NES until 1990, but there is definitely some overlap in our experiences. Some of my earliest memories of my NES are with Mega Man II and Castlevania. They are still two of my favorites on the NES today. If you have the time to set aside I really recommend trying to beat Castlevania. It's quite satisfying when you do. :D I also got Ice Climbers at some point. I know it's not a great game, but I do like the game and have a lot of Nostalgia for it. I saw excite bike at another kid's house. I got to play it, but I could never figure it out. I'm really terrible at that game. I didn't play Punch-out until the mid 90's. A friend had it and I got to play it a few times. I beat it at some point in the 2010s. Spelunker, Commando, Elevator action... never played. Super Mario Bros; One of our neighbors owned it. It was probably the first NES game I ever played. It was one of the reasons my parents ended up getting an NES for me. I remember my dad asking me what i though about it. I told him I liked it and though the graphics were neat. The Legend of Zelda. I remember seeing both Zelda I and II in many store demos and finding it to look interesting. I never played it until around 92 at a friend's house. His older brother was in his room playing the first game. I thought it looked super interesting so I asked what it was. We started playing it at his house not long after and that's how I fell in love with the series. It's become my favorite video game franchise in the years since. :) **Edit** Forgot to mention Donkey Kong Jr! My parents got me Donkey Kong Classics which has Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr on the cartridge. I like(d) them both ok, but I think I like(d) Donkey Kong Jr a little better. It just feels a little better and more developed than its predecessor.
I highly urge you to try out Elevator Action out of those three. The others are...decidedly clunky by todays standards, but Elevator Action still has some fun tense moments of gameplay when you're waiting for the lift to come up and you've got to time whether or not to hop on the roof and go down or hope the guys won't pop out of the doors guns blazing. Thank you for watching, Loto!
My 10 most played games on the NES were The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, Duck Hunt, Track N Field (power pad), The Karate Kid, Contra, Mike Tyson's Punch Out, Bases Loaded, Double Dragon and Dragon Warrior.
My Top 10 up to that point in 1987 1. The Legend of Zelda. I literally spent a whole Xmas vacation locked in my room playing this game. My brother was my co-pilot and made maps of every labyrinth in the game along with a key denoting all of the rooms that held an item in it. What a great Xmas. Its the game i played the most up to that point for the NES, and its not even close. 2. Super Mario Bros. This was my introductory game for the system. The first time i saw it at a friends house they played it for a bit and i just watched. Believe it or not, they were more interested in still playing Atari 2600 games at the time. The second time i saw it was at a different friends house, and i actually got to play it this time. I was playing 2 player with my friends sister. He told me to go easy on not trying to hog the play time as id probably be much better than her. I was not. I was awful at the game. But from that moment on i knew the NES was something special, and i system i knew i had to have. Ive spent countless hours on this game. 3. Castlevania. I didnt own a NES yet in 87 so we would rent them from local video stores along with a few games. This was one of the rental staples. Such a great game. I remember getting to the bat at the end of level 1 and having no idea how to beat it. My older neighbor friend took care of it for me. After that the game became easier. Not saying its an easy game as i still have never beat it, but i guess what im saying is i got the gist of it after that. 4. Mike Tyson's Punch Out. Another perennial rental for us. This game was and still is amazing. It just has that it factor. I fondly remember trying to figure out the best way to beat each fighter and we were getting thriough them until we got to King Hippo. None of us had a clue of what to do. We had to look it up in Nintendo Power or call a friend. i cant remember. But anyway i real;ly felt like i was Little Mac making my way through these fighters. And if you ever wanted to be a legend there was nothing like being the first person in your friends group to beat Mike Tyson. 5. Mega Man. We stayed away from this one for a long time because of the cover art. I thought it was going to be a Tron like game or something along those lines. Boy was i wrong. What a great action platformer. And aquiring the powers of a boss after you defeated them was revolutionary and mind blowing at the time. Now this game is tough as nails, and the only way i can beat it is using the select button spam special weapon cheese cheat, but that still doesnt take away from its brilliance. 6. Kid Icarus. Rented this one with my friend Scott because it caught our eye in a Nintendo Power. Fun game but tough as heck. Ive still never beaten it. From the same team that made Metroid from what i understand. Not one i go back to now because i find it to frustarting. But hey it has a credit card in it lol. 7. Golf. Yep. Its not good, but its what we had and we played the heck out of it. 8. Ghosts N Goblins. My cousin owned this one. TOUGH! We tried and tried but i dont think we even ever got close to beating it. 9. Trojan. Im probably the only person i know that likes this game. Early Capcom. I thought it was a fun early side scrolling beat em up. 10.Excitebike. The early start of games coming from your arcade over to home consoles. Its always been a fun 10-15 minutes pick up and play for me. Thanks for the Video!! It brought back a rush of memories for me. What a fun time to be alive.
You had a very different '87 to me. I wouldn't even see an NES for 3 years. And even to this day, the only game I've put any real time into on your list is Commando, and on the Arcade and Spectrum nit the NES. Oh, and we had Frank Bruno's Boxing, which was a Punch Out clone and was on the Micro Computers before the NES got its port. And, in 1987, we only had 10 years left to wait for the greatest game of all time 😉
We didn't have a whole lot of "owned" games, instead renting most of what we had. I spent many hours on Duck Hunt and Tetris though, Anticipation fired up a love of trivia, and I was (and still am) a mega-fan of Mega Man. Of course in later years the advent of emulation meant I could play a lot more than when I was young, but I cherished getting lost in Zelda, and trying to get the secret Mushroom House to appear in SMB3. And the Hell that was a malfunctioning cartridge.
I didn't discover the Mega Man series until MM2, after renting it because there was literally nothing else at the video store I was interested in, but I wanted to play a game. Knew nothing of the series, and immediately fell in love. It's still my favorite NES game of all time. :)
0:39 I wonder if your NES can be resurrected? You’re tech savvy, but there’s people out there that can do electronics voodoo! I don’t need to give you examples of who, but I’d love to see that happen.😎 3:14 I love Ice Climber too. I have my original Gameboy Advance copy CIB. 4:04 DK Jr ❤. I had the Colecovision version first. Brilliant and a great sequel. 10:52 YES! Elevator Action. A great classic. I love it in all its forms and sequels/updates. The newer versions are far better. A fun list fo’ sho’ fo’ sho’!😎
double dippin here,, question: do you know who has the best 1,000 to 10,000 game consoles i can play all these again. i have a knock off version of rhe mini nes,, but its contra all day for that console,, help?!!
Great video! I had to do chores to get half the money to buy my NES, and thankfully my Grandmother offered to buy the other half. I remember what I played most as a kid. Blaster Master, City connection, Contra, The Guardian Legend, Jackal, Legendary Wings, Life Force, Low G man, Mike Tyson's Punchout, Pro Wrestling, Rad Racer, and Rush n' attack.
Fantastic list of games!
I didn’t see an NES til around ‘94. My step dad had bought a bundle at a yardsale. The games I first experienced were Kung Fu, Kung Fu heroes, Mystery Quest, SMB 1-3, Double Dragon 2: The revenge and a slew of other that are slipping my mind right now. It was a huge bundle even including an NES Advantage. man I wish we made scores like that these days lol Awesome memories Jay! These are exactly the types of video I love to see! Thanks for sharing 🤘
Thanks, Scotty! What a great bundle of games - and yes, I miss scores like this, too. I remember finding Genesis games in the late 90s and yard sales for like $1 a piece, and just passing on them entirely because I was so focused on PS1 and PS2 stuff. I wish I could go back in time!
Solid list Sir! Donkey Kong classics, Mike Tyson’s punch out, Zelda, Mario 1 & 2, contra, life force & street fighter 2010 were a few of the games I remember fondly
Great list!
You play what you owned, that’s kind of what happened AND I am BIG on ice climber. I loved that game. Bubble Bobble was a big deal for us too and Circus Circus, Mappy, Balloon Fight, and Paper Boy.
This was a nice little trip down NES lane. Scott was proud you beat Mike Tyson, even if it was only that once 😂
I'm making it my goal to beat Tyson again this year. Bubble Bobble was big in our house, too!
And it's always wild to find another Ice Climber fan - there are DOZENS of us! DOZENS, I TELL YOU!
One thing that makes me love these games as an adult are the save states I get from emulation. It makes things so much less frustrating. I have most of the games you've listed in cartridge, but nearly always use emulators now. I have a retro box that'll hook up to my CRT. It's perfect.
Commando!! My older brother hand drew a multi page 📄 map of that game showing all the secrets / areas. I love ❤️ it, great video 😎👍🏻
Ohhhh, that's so cool!! What a fantastic memory!!
Nice list! Love that you added DK Jr. - when I was a kid and playing this with cousins, we all thought the walking sound was just DK Jr. farting haha
DUDE! My buddies and I thought DK Jr. was farting too!! 😂😂
@@SquarePegs Great minds really do think alike haha
Love this series Jay! I got my start on video games and NES a few years later then you but man there is some nostalgia in this list !! I’m right there with you with a love or run n guns starting with commando !! Keep videos like this commin!! Have a great week!
Thanks Bilbo! Appreciate you watching, man! :)
Great list pegs so many days as a kid with these titles!!!
Thanks for watching!! :)
These videos fuel my nostalgia and im addicted!
Thanks Flashy!! Appreciate you watching and enjoying the trip down memory lane, my friend. :)
Well I wasn't playing the NES until '93 (being born in '87 and all) but I recall putting a lot of time into Legend of Zelda and Mario Bros when my best friend from kindergarten and I had chicken pox at the same time.
Also, with my cousins we played Super Off Road, Bigfoot, and Yo! Noid.
#Bornin87crew Haha
Im not far off born in 86
You are all children. 😂
replace those pins on your NES. Boom good as new. Love all the stickers on it Solid list, glad to see Castlevania on there
I should, but I kind of like it as my art installation now for my friends stickers. :) I've got another NES or my Retron that can play the games, so the OG is my childhood trophy.
Nice video, and great list Jay! I was certainly playing a lot of Excite Bike, Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Junior, and The Legend of Zelda myself during this time. Of course my parents got me my Nintendo NES when I was only a three year old. Although I could read some by then I had a hard time understanding many of the games. Though I still tried to play them. So feeling confused by a game is definitely something I can relate to. Not that my parents would have realized this, but even a fairly intelligent three year old like myself would have had trouble figuring out The Legend of Zelda. I know adults who require a game guide for games in that franchise. Although I was never terribly good at them I always enjoyed trying to play Gradius, and Top Gun. Still own physical copies of both Nintendo NES Top Gun games currently.
Oooh, Top Gun and I don't get along. That was the first time I ever rage quit. :D
@@SquarePegs admittedly the controls can be somewhat tricky.
First game I ever played on a NES was that really really hard TMNT game. Cuz I was little and loved the turtles my cousin was like “here play this”
Needless to say, it kept me away from games until the SNES lol
Great list man
I was born in 1987 but I started playing NES when I was around 3-4. My favorites were of course Super mario 3, Rush N Attack, Kung Fu, Zelda 2, and Paperboy
Kung Fu is so good - that probably should have been on this list, I just spaced on it!!
@@SquarePegs Great game and super cheap!
I had Game Gear and PS1 as a youth so the first time I played NES was as a middle aged man a few years ago. I started with Xexyz, because it is so weird and blends two genres. I really enjoyed playing it through and trying the famous NES for the first time
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I didn't get my NES until 1990, but there is definitely some overlap in our experiences. Some of my earliest memories of my NES are with Mega Man II and Castlevania. They are still two of my favorites on the NES today. If you have the time to set aside I really recommend trying to beat Castlevania. It's quite satisfying when you do. :D
I also got Ice Climbers at some point. I know it's not a great game, but I do like the game and have a lot of Nostalgia for it.
I saw excite bike at another kid's house. I got to play it, but I could never figure it out. I'm really terrible at that game.
I didn't play Punch-out until the mid 90's. A friend had it and I got to play it a few times. I beat it at some point in the 2010s.
Spelunker, Commando, Elevator action... never played.
Super Mario Bros; One of our neighbors owned it. It was probably the first NES game I ever played. It was one of the reasons my parents ended up getting an NES for me. I remember my dad asking me what i though about it. I told him I liked it and though the graphics were neat.
The Legend of Zelda. I remember seeing both Zelda I and II in many store demos and finding it to look interesting. I never played it until around 92 at a friend's house. His older brother was in his room playing the first game. I thought it looked super interesting so I asked what it was. We started playing it at his house not long after and that's how I fell in love with the series. It's become my favorite video game franchise in the years since. :)
**Edit** Forgot to mention Donkey Kong Jr! My parents got me Donkey Kong Classics which has Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr on the cartridge. I like(d) them both ok, but I think I like(d) Donkey Kong Jr a little better. It just feels a little better and more developed than its predecessor.
I highly urge you to try out Elevator Action out of those three. The others are...decidedly clunky by todays standards, but Elevator Action still has some fun tense moments of gameplay when you're waiting for the lift to come up and you've got to time whether or not to hop on the roof and go down or hope the guys won't pop out of the doors guns blazing. Thank you for watching, Loto!
My 10 most played games on the NES were The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario, Duck Hunt, Track N Field (power pad), The Karate Kid, Contra, Mike Tyson's Punch Out, Bases Loaded, Double Dragon and Dragon Warrior.
My Top 10 up to that point in 1987
1. The Legend of Zelda. I literally spent a whole Xmas vacation locked in my room playing this game. My brother was my co-pilot and made maps of every labyrinth in the game along with a key denoting all of the rooms that held an item in it. What a great Xmas. Its the game i played the most up to that point for the NES, and its not even close.
2. Super Mario Bros. This was my introductory game for the system. The first time i saw it at a friends house they played it for a bit and i just watched. Believe it or not, they were more interested in still playing Atari 2600 games at the time. The second time i saw it was at a different friends house, and i actually got to play it this time. I was playing 2 player with my friends sister. He told me to go easy on not trying to hog the play time as id probably be much better than her. I was not. I was awful at the game. But from that moment on i knew the NES was something special, and i system i knew i had to have. Ive spent countless hours on this game.
3. Castlevania. I didnt own a NES yet in 87 so we would rent them from local video stores along with a few games. This was one of the rental staples. Such a great game. I remember getting to the bat at the end of level 1 and having no idea how to beat it. My older neighbor friend took care of it for me. After that the game became easier. Not saying its an easy game as i still have never beat it, but i guess what im saying is i got the gist of it after that.
4. Mike Tyson's Punch Out. Another perennial rental for us. This game was and still is amazing. It just has that it factor. I fondly remember trying to figure out the best way to beat each fighter and we were getting thriough them until we got to King Hippo. None of us had a clue of what to do. We had to look it up in Nintendo Power or call a friend. i cant remember. But anyway i real;ly felt like i was Little Mac making my way through these fighters. And if you ever wanted to be a legend there was nothing like being the first person in your friends group to beat Mike Tyson.
5. Mega Man. We stayed away from this one for a long time because of the cover art. I thought it was going to be a Tron like game or something along those lines. Boy was i wrong. What a great action platformer. And aquiring the powers of a boss after you defeated them was revolutionary and mind blowing at the time. Now this game is tough as nails, and the only way i can beat it is using the select button spam special weapon cheese cheat, but that still doesnt take away from its brilliance.
6. Kid Icarus. Rented this one with my friend Scott because it caught our eye in a Nintendo Power. Fun game but tough as heck. Ive still never beaten it. From the same team that made Metroid from what i understand. Not one i go back to now because i find it to frustarting. But hey it has a credit card in it lol.
7. Golf. Yep. Its not good, but its what we had and we played the heck out of it.
8. Ghosts N Goblins. My cousin owned this one. TOUGH! We tried and tried but i dont think we even ever got close to beating it.
9. Trojan. Im probably the only person i know that likes this game. Early Capcom. I thought it was a fun early side scrolling beat em up.
10.Excitebike. The early start of games coming from your arcade over to home consoles. Its always been a fun 10-15 minutes pick up and play for me.
Thanks for the Video!! It brought back a rush of memories for me. What a fun time to be alive.
This whole list is basically the games I played as a kid lol
You had a very different '87 to me. I wouldn't even see an NES for 3 years. And even to this day, the only game I've put any real time into on your list is Commando, and on the Arcade and Spectrum nit the NES. Oh, and we had Frank Bruno's Boxing, which was a Punch Out clone and was on the Micro Computers before the NES got its port.
And, in 1987, we only had 10 years left to wait for the greatest game of all time 😉
I need to spend some time with a Spectrum emulator, I think. I feel like I'm missing out on a LOT by knowing nothing about the system. :)
@Square Pegs that would be a brave move, the Speccy is a hard-core machine for gaming on 😉🤣
Games I was playing in 87'? Only the games I got for Christmas with my brand new Nintendo. Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, and Joust.
I got my NES on my 5th birthday: June 27th 1987.
I got mine for my 8th! :)
We didn't have a whole lot of "owned" games, instead renting most of what we had. I spent many hours on Duck Hunt and Tetris though, Anticipation fired up a love of trivia, and I was (and still am) a mega-fan of Mega Man.
Of course in later years the advent of emulation meant I could play a lot more than when I was young, but I cherished getting lost in Zelda, and trying to get the secret Mushroom House to appear in SMB3.
And the Hell that was a malfunctioning cartridge.
I didn't discover the Mega Man series until MM2, after renting it because there was literally nothing else at the video store I was interested in, but I wanted to play a game. Knew nothing of the series, and immediately fell in love. It's still my favorite NES game of all time. :)
i was playing "exit out of the womb in sept 87"
And look at you now - you won! :D
My cousin had excitebike and I freaking played it all the time when I went to his house
0:39 I wonder if your NES can be resurrected? You’re tech savvy, but there’s people out there that can do electronics voodoo! I don’t need to give you examples of who, but I’d love to see that happen.😎
3:14 I love Ice Climber too. I have my original Gameboy Advance copy CIB.
4:04 DK Jr ❤. I had the Colecovision version first. Brilliant and a great sequel.
10:52 YES! Elevator Action. A great classic. I love it in all its forms and sequels/updates. The newer versions are far better.
A fun list fo’ sho’ fo’ sho’!😎
i love your videos and i really dont mean to be nit-picky but as an oregonian its pronounced ore-GUN not ore-GONE
As a Massachusetts native, be happy I didn't pronounce it 'AHR-a-gahn'. 😜
Thanks so much for watching!
Legend of Zelda was probably one of my favorites on the NES. I don't think I've ever beaten the game. The second one wasn't as good to me
The bite of 87'?
double dippin here,, question:
do you know who has the best 1,000 to 10,000 game consoles i can play all these again.
i have a knock off version of rhe mini nes,, but its contra all day for that console,, help?!!
excit bike ,, summer time,, sun burnt-out,, fan on the back, a.c on high,, paly until 9:30..
Worst.
Macho.
Man.
EVAR
Nah.
Another awesome video
Glad you enjoyed it! thanks for watching. :)