Super Mario Bros / Duck Hunt off course 

Size doesn't "always" matter No one is in a who has the biggest contest here, just get whatever you enjoy.  If that is a full set, great.  If that is 20 games, just as good.  When/if you get into variants and stuff is when you turn loony like some of us. 

Loony?

For me, it is about my favorite games, like others have said (Tyson, SMB 1-3, Contra, DW 1-4), but it is also about (again, for me): Having what other people like.  Nothing makes me happier than when someone finds out I collect NES and says, "Oh, do you have XYZ? That was my favorite game!"  And I say yes.  Which leads me to my next point, having them all.  It's important to me to try to get every game, and some variants for fun.  At the same time, I have to live with the constant realization that as much as I've done and as many games as I have, I will never have them all.  I don't think I'll ever own NWC, Stadium Events, all 3 Panesians, Myriad 6-in-1, and others.  And that's ok.  Nobody ever says, "Do you have Hot Slots?  That was my favorite game!"  That being said, I never thought I'd own Rodland, either...

Bottom line, enjoy the search and discovering new games as much as playing them.  There will be a day when you run out of games to collect, and if you haven't lost interest by then, it's a bummer.   I will be checking Goodwill for Stadium Events until I am 95.

i think this is turning into a must-have list:

a real nes collection should of course have your favorite stuff for the system.  theres probably about 10 must-haves and you should probably throw in like 5 games that are your favorite, irregardless of whether they are others.  here would be mine:

nes system (naturally)
two controllers
advantage controller

and here's my must-have (or i guess essential) list:
1. super mario bros/duck hunt
2. super mario bros 3
3. metroid
4. contra
5. castlevania
6. teenage mutant ninja turtles 2
7. kirby's adventure
8. legend of zelda
9. mega man 3
10. mike tyson's pun out

and here's my "other favorite" list:
11. castlevania 2
12. super mario bros 2
13. mega man 4
14. dynowarz
15. teenage mutant ninja turtles

if i were to ever sell off my collection-at-large, these game and a handful of others would survive the clearinghouse.

limewater wrote on 24. Oct 2007 at 03:52:



i'm glad you asked!

i'm the only person in the world that likes Mega Man 4, and here's the reasons:  its the first time (i believe anyway) that you have the slide and the M-buster.  on top of that, RushJet is controllable, you can speed him up or slow him down and determine which flight path he'll take.  in certain other mega man games, RushJet is less controllable.

i like dynowarz because it was THE first game i ever played on my own NES back when i got it for christmas in 1991.  i was really into dinosaurs, what can i say?

i'm the only person in the world that likes Mega Man 4, and here's the reasons:  its the first time (i believe anyway) that you have the slide and the M-buster.  on top of that, RushJet is controllable, you can speed him up or slow him down and determine which flight path he'll take.  in certain other mega man games, RushJet is less controllable.
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Wrong! In Mega Man 3 you can control Rushjet more.  He stops too.