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Super Mario Bros 3 game
96
46

Super Mario Bros 3

  • adventure
  • Platform

Super Mario Bros. 3 is a platform video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) video game console. Mario and Luigi embark on a quest to save Princess Toadstool and the rulers of seven different kingdoms from the antagonist Bowser and his children, the Koopalings. The player, as Mario or Luigi,...

Mega Man 3 game
94.3
44.3

Mega Man 3 $59.99 $29.99

  • Platform

Mega Man 3 retains the platforming and action game elements established by the two Mega Man games released before it. The player controls the protagonist Mega Man as he traverses eight selectable stages. The player's primary blaster weapon is used to fend off the game's numerous enemies. Several power-ups...

Super Mario Bros. game
92.9
42.9

Super Mario Bros.

  • Platform

[game]Super Mario Bros.[/game][a] is a platform video game developed and published by Nintendo as a pseudo-sequel to the 1983 game, Mario Bros. It is the first of the Super Mario series of games. In 2005, IGN's poll named the "pioneering" and "highly influential" title as the "greatest...

Kirbys Adventure game
91.8
41.8

Kirbys Adventure

  • Action
  • Platform

It is the second game in the Kirby series after Kirby's Dream Land on the Game Boy and the first to include the Copy Ability, which allows the main character Kirby to gain new powers by eating certain enemies. The game centers around Kirby traveling across Dream Land to repair the Star Rod after King...

Maniac Mansion game
90.4
40.4

Maniac Mansion $5.99 $2.09

  • adventure
  • PointAndClick

The player uses a point-and-click interface to guide Dave and two of his six playable friends through the scientist's mansion while solving puzzles and avoiding dangers. The game was conceived in 1985 by Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick, who sought to tell a comedic story based on horror film and B movie...

Mega Man 4 game
88.5
38.5

Mega Man 4

  • Platform
  • Shooter

It is the fourth game in the original Mega Man series and was originally released in Japan in 1991. Mega Man 4 carries on the same action and platforming gameplay as the first three games, in which the player completes a series of stages in any order and adds the weapon of each stage's boss to Mega Man's...

Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade: The Action Game game
88.4
38.4

Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade: The Action Game

  • Platform

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Action Game was released in 1989 by Lucasfilm Games, based on the film of the same name. As in the movie, the player's quest is to find the Holy Grail. The review praised the graphics and sound, but found the fight sequences both too easy and too short, since all...

Qix game
87.9
37.9

Qix

  • Arcade
  • Puzzle

The objective of Qix is to fence off, or claim, a supermajority of the playfield. The player controls a marker that can move around the edges of the rectangle. The player's marker can move at two different speeds; areas drawn exclusively at the slower speed are worth double points. In addition, if the...

Contra Force game
87.5
37.5

Contra Force

  • Arcade
  • Shooter

It is a spinoff of the Contra series, being the third game in the series released for the NES following the original Contra and Super Contra, although the game's plot and setting are unrelated to previous entries, as the villains in the game are human terrorists instead of an alien menace. Contra Force...

Lode Runner game
86.7
36.7

Lode Runner

  • Platform
  • Puzzle

It is one of the first games to include a level editor, a feature that allows players to create their own levels for the game. Smith of Renton, Washington, who at the time was an architecture student at the University of Washington. This prototype, called Kong, was written for a Prime Computer 550 minicomputer...

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse game
86.3
36.3

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse

  • Action
  • Platform

It was published by Konami in Japan in 1989, in North America in 1990, and in Europe in 1992 . The plot of Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse is a prequel to the original Castlevania set a few centuries before the events of the original game. Unlike Castlevania, however, Castlevania III is non-linear:...

Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship Of Doom game
86.3
36.3

Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship Of Doom

  • Platform

It was later ported to the Atari Lynx by Atari and released in 1993 in North America and Europe, the European version retaining the North American Ninja Gaiden III title. The game is the third installment of the Ninja Gaiden trilogy, in which the events take place between the first two games in...

Mega Man 5 game
85.5
35.5

Mega Man 5

  • Action
  • Platform

It is the fifth game in the original Mega Man series and was released in Japan on December 4, 1992. Taking place after the events of Mega Man 4, Mega Man's brother and ally Proto Man uncharacteristically leads a group of menacing robots in attacks on the world and kidnaps his own creator Dr. Like other...

Donkey Kong game
85.3
35.3

Donkey Kong

  • Arcade
  • Platform

Donkey Kong is a series of video games featuring the adventures of a gorilla character called Donkey Kong, conceived by Shigeru Miyamoto in 1981. In 1994, the series was revived as the Donkey Kong Country series, featuring Donkey Kong and his clan as protagonists in their native jungle setting versus...

Dig Dug game
85.2
35.2

Dig Dug

  • Arcade

Dig Dug is an arcade game developed and published by Namco in Japan in 1982. Atari also obtained the license for home versions of Dig Dug, and released it for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 7800, Intellivision, Apple II, Atari 8-bit family, VIC-20, Commodore 64, IBM PC, and TI-99/4A. The objective...

Super Mario Bros. 2 game
85.2
35.2

Super Mario Bros. 2

  • Platform

2, released in Japan as Super Mario USA , is a 1988 platform game developed and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The characters, enemies, and themes of the game were meant to reflect the mascots and theme of the festival. 2 has been considered a classic Super Mario Bros. The...

Captain Tsubasa Vol. II: Super Striker game
82.2
25.7

Captain Tsubasa Vol. II: Super Striker

Captain Tsubasa Volume II: Super Striker is a continuation of the "Cinematic Soccer" series of games started on the Famicom. Many of the Captain Tsubasa games featured fully animated cut scenes throughout the match leaving the player to make key strategic decisions and then watch the outcome. Circa 1994-1996,...

Mega Man game
82.1
32.1

Mega Man $29.99 $9.89

  • Action
  • Platform
  • Shooter
  • Action
  • Platform
  • Shooter

Mega Man, alternatively written as Megaman and MegaMan, known as Rockman in Japan, is a video game franchise created by Capcom, starring the robot character Mega Man, or one of his many counterparts. The classic series is considered to be the origin of the story, with Mega Man being the first installment,...

Winter Games game
81
31

Winter Games

  • Sports

Winter Games was ported to the Amiga, Apple II, Atari ST, Apple Macintosh, Apple IIGS, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, and DOS computer platforms, and to the Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Nintendo Entertainment System, and the Family Computer Disk System video game consoles. The reviewers gave the game 3½...

Dragon Quest game
79.5
29.5

Dragon Quest $4.99 $3.24

  • adventure
  • RolePlaying

The series has had a significant impact on the development of console RPGs, and introduced a number of features to the genre. Early in the series the Dragon Quest games were released under the title Dragon Warrior in North America to avoid trademark conflict with the tabletop role-playing game DragonQuest....

Mario Bros game
78.1
28.1

Mario Bros

  • retro
  • Platform

It is part of the Mario franchise, but originally began as a spin-off from the Donkey Kong series. The arcade and Famicom/Nintendo Entertainment System versions were received positively by critics. Elements introduced in Mario Bros. such as spinning bonus coins, turtles which can be flipped onto their...

Excitebike game
78.2
28.2

Excitebike

  • racing
  • Sports

It debuted as a game for the Famicom in Japan in 1984 and as a launch title for the NES in 1985. The goal is to qualify for the Excitebike race by coming in at third place or above in the challenge race . The player controls the position of the red motorcycle with the Y-axis of the directional pad, and...

Metal Gear game
77.8
22.2

Metal Gear

  • adventure
  • Shooter
  • Stealth
  • engrish

Metal Gear is considered to be the progenitor of the stealth game genre, it was also the first video game designed by Hideo Kojima, who also directed many of the later Metal Gear sequels. A heavily altered port was produced for the Famicom/NES (without Kojima's involvement). A remade version based on...

Punch-Out!! game
77.4
27.4

Punch-Out!!

  • Fighting
  • Sports

Punch-Out!! is a boxing arcade game by Nintendo. It was the first in a series of successful Punch-Out!! games, producing an arcade sequel known as Super Punch-Out!!, a spin-off of the series titled Arm Wrestling, a highly popular version for the NES originally known as Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!, and Super...