Posted: 7/1/2004 9:24 PM
Post subject: Top 100 Famicom games
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Boco
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A while back, Famitsu did a poll of its readers for their favorite Famicom games. Here was the result. 01. Dragon Quest 3 (Dragon Warrior 3) 02. Super Mario Bros. 03. Super Mario Bros. 3 04. Final Fanatasy 3 05. Dragon Quest 4 (Dragon Warrior 4) 06. Dragon Quest 2 (Dragon Warrior 2) 07. Dragon Quest (Dragon Warrior) 08. The Legend of Zelda 1 09. Mother ("EarthBound Zero") 10. Mario Bros. 11. Final Fanatasy 12. Hoshi no Kirby (Kirby's Dreamland) 13. Kunio Kun no Jidaigeki dayo Zenin Shuugou ("TECHNOS Samurai", sequel to River City Ransom) 14. Downtown Nekketsu Koushinkyoku Soreyuke Daiundoukai ("Crash 'n the Boys: Field Chalenge") 15. Spartan X (Kung-Fu) 16. Super Mario Bros. 2 ("Lost Levels", "Super Mario for Super Players") 17. Nekketsu koukou Dodgeball Club (Super Dodgeball) 18. Final Fantasy 2 19. Fire Emblem Ankokuryu to Hikari no Ken 20. Sanma no Meitantei 21. Xevious 22. Ice Climber 23. Spelunker 24. Akumajou Dracula (Castlevania) 25. Gradius 26. Goonies 27. Captain Tsubasa 28. Konami Wai Wai World 29. Metroid 30. Takeshi no choujin (Takeshi "Beat" Kitano game) 31. Final Fantasy 1+2 32. Portpia Renzoku Satsujin Jiken 33. Nekketsu Kouha Kunio Kun (Renegade) 34. Bomberman 35. Ganbare Goemon 36. Wizardry 37. Donkey Kong 38. Hokkaidou Rensa Satsujin Oho-tsuku ni Kiyu 39. Pro Yakkyu Family Stadium 40. Twinbee 41. Dr. Mario 42. Metal Gear 43. Excitebike 44. Fire Emblem Gaiden 45. Super Mario USA (Super Mario Bros. 2) 46. Dai 2 Ji Super Robot Taisen 47. Tetris 48. Rockman 2 (Mega Man 2) 49. Kunio Kun Soccer League (sequel to World Cup Soccer) 50. Rockman (Mega Man) 51. Captain Tsubasa 2 Super Striker 52. Ikki 53. Kinnikuman Muscle tag match (M.U.S.C.L.E.) 54. Star Soldier 55. Dragon Ball Z 56. Tower of Druaga 57. Dragon ball Z 2 Gekishin Freeze!! 58. SD "Gundam" Gachapon 59. Dragon Ball Z Gaiden Sayajin Zetsumetsu Keikaku 60. Takahashi Meijin no Bouken Jima (Hudson's Adventure Island) 61. Makai Mura (Ghosts 'n' Goblins) 62. Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari (River City Ransom) 63. Hatori Kun 64. Metal Slader Glory 65. Lode Runner 66. Waganland 67. Balloon fight 68. Famicom tantei club 2: Ushiru no shoujo kouhen 69. Valkyrie no Bouken Tokinokagi densetsu 70. Momotaro Densetsu 71. Akumajou Densetsu (Castlevania 3) 72. Zelda 2: Adventures of Link 73. Momotarou Dentetsu 74. Contra 75. Meikyu Kumikyoku Milon no daibouken (Milon's Secret Castle) 76. Rockman 5 (Mega Man 5) 77. Rockman 3 (Mega Man 3) 78. Hanjuku Hero 79. Dragon Ball Z 3 80. Famista 89 81. Famicom tantei club 2: ushiro ni tatsu shoujo zenpen 82. Kaiju monogatari 83. Famicom Wars 84. Family Jockey 85. Rockman 6 (Mega Man 6) 86. Dragonball (Dragon Power) 87. Rockman 4 (Mega Man 4) 88. Ganbare Goemon 2 89. SD Gundam Gaiden: Night Gundam Monogatari 90. Legend of Kage 91. Sweet Home (spiritual prequel to Biohazard/Resident Evil) 92. Famicom Jump 93. Yoshi's egg (Yoshi) 94. Dragon Ball 3 95. Famicom tantei club kieta koukeisha kouhen 96. Hokuto no Ken (Fist of the North Star) 97. Famicom tantei club kieta koukeisha zenpen 98. Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu 99. Gundam Z Hot Scramble 100. Gradius 2
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Posted: 7/1/2004 10:18 PM
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Yay.
Posted: 7/1/2004 10:28 PM
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Booda
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Wow, not at all what I'd expect.
Posted: 7/2/2004 6:30 AM
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ehm 10 = mario bros 2 = super mario bros whats the difference? and what the hell is this dragon warrior, never heard of it, yet its #1 (and 5 and 6 and 7)
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Posted: 7/2/2004 9:10 AM
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qFox wrote:
ehm 10 = mario bros 2 = super mario bros whats the difference? and what the hell is this dragon warrior, never heard of it, yet its #1 (and 5 and 6 and 7)
Super Mario Bros...you already know, so I won't go into that. Mario Bros., on the other hand, is a game that was made popular in the arcades and pizza joints of the 80's; P1 is Mario, P2 is his pallete-swapped clone--er, Luigi. The setting is a dank sewer, with 2 sets of pipes at the top and bottom of the screen, out of which enemies come from. Your mission is to, when the enemy is on one of the platforms, come at them from underneath by jumping and hitting it, knocking the enemy over, at which point you have a limited time to kick them off the screen. You might recall this game, since it happened to be ported in every "Mario Advance" game to date. I...am honestly surprised you don't know about Dragon Warrior in some form or another. Nonetheless, it is your basic menu-based RPG, with events happening in different places and times. If you're interested in playing one of these games, I suggest you go after DW4--parts one through three, while good, are plagued with this archaic "olde-english" which tends to be annoying. DW4 is the last, and most polished, of the NES games. (The series continued on the Super Famicom-- number 5, in my opinion, is better.
Posted: 7/2/2004 2:44 PM
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Booda
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I think I need to accuse Famitsu's readership of bias.
Posted: 7/2/2004 5:41 PM
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Booda wrote:
I think I need to accuse Famitsu's readership of bias.
Why? Because Japanese people like RPGs and Nekketsu games?
someone is out there who will like you. take off your mask so they can find you faster. I support the new Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun.
Posted: 7/2/2004 6:37 PM
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Booda
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No, because a few games on that list really suck.
Posted: 7/2/2004 8:13 PM
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omg none of the double dragon games are up there :(
Posted: 7/3/2004 5:17 AM
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kung fu??? for gods sake, that game is OK once u play it you don't want to play again lol. yea, the list is far from what i would expect, the list made on the western side of the world would be very different
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Posted: 7/3/2004 2:19 PM
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Boco
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Locke wrote:
omg none of the double dragon games are up there :(
Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun series >> Double Dragon series
someone is out there who will like you. take off your mask so they can find you faster. I support the new Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun.
Posted: 7/3/2004 3:18 PM
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and what the hell is this dragon warrior, never heard of it, yet its #1 (and 5 and 6 and 7)
What!!!!! you never played Dragon Warrior, that is a revoultionary RPG, you gotta try it man.
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Posted: 7/3/2004 3:47 PM
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I am offended that Castlevania 3 is below so many digital piles of garbage. Also for Rockman 5 being above what is, in my view, the single greatest game in that whole "universe" (3). But, I am greatly pleased by the respect for Kunio-kun (although how in the hell Renegade is so far above River City Ransom is beyond me...), and that FF3 is so high. That is one of my all-time favorites in the series... BTW, Final Fantasy owes its life to being a damn good series of games, at least initially. Dragon Quest, on the other hand, owes its life to Akira Toriyama and Shonen Jump. </fanboy>
but then you take my 75 perchance chance of winning, if we was to go one-on-one, and then add 66 and two-thirds ch...percents...i got a 141 and two-thirds chance of winning at sacrifice
Posted: 7/3/2004 6:33 PM
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Bob_Whoops
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qFox wrote:
and what the hell is this dragon warrior, never heard of it, yet its #1 (and 5 and 6 and 7)
We have a movie for it -_-
Posted: 7/3/2004 6:42 PM
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Ehh . . . the movie's fun if you've played Dragon Quest, but it's not a very good showcase of what the game is about. The short of it is that Dragon Quest was the first japanese RPG. It's basically a japanification of then-popular western computer RPGs - Wizardry, Ultima and the like - and it reached massive popularity due to mangaka Toriyama Akira's (Dragon Ball Z, Chrono Trigger, etc) involvement. It has spawned oodles of imitators and descendents, such as the entire Final Fantasy franchise.