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
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.
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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)
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.
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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
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.
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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
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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.
