Well, being born 19 years before 1988, I was already over the NES by then. I never even played Super Mario Bros. 3 until a few years ago, but I was playing games like Menace (best horizontal shooter ever, in my book), Battle Chess and Marble Madness to death on my Amiga and games like Netrek and Moria on the Sun workstations on campus. That, and going to parties and playing with my band.... pretty much everything but attending class. The campus center still had an arcade, but I spent a lot more quarters on laundry than I did on Xenophobe or Roadblasters. I'd say talk to me about the top 10 games of 1982, but I assume the people who put together lists like these were still watching Sesame Street in 1982.
1988 in Montreal, Canada... It was called Super Mario Bros 4. (and SMB3 was actually SMB2jp)In 1988 there were pirate famicom carts everywhere in Montreal's video clubs and most video game stores. They were selling with a famicom-NES adaptor at a very high price but they were very popular as you could also rent them. People assumed they were simply Japanese imports, but in reality it was a large scale pirate organization that was distributing HK pirate carts. It took a year or two until the whole thing was busted. So we had the chance to play games like SMB3 before most everyone in America. I still have a Super Mario 2 japanese (Lost Levels) cart from this era.
paroparoSep 3, 2006
88 in Japan, 90 North America, 91 Europe
raindog469Sep 3, 2006
Well, being born 19 years before 1988, I was already over the NES by then. I never even played Super Mario Bros. 3 until a few years ago, but I was playing games like Menace (best horizontal shooter ever, in my book), Battle Chess and Marble Madness to death on my Amiga and games like Netrek and Moria on the Sun workstations on campus. That, and going to parties and playing with my band.... pretty much everything but attending class. The campus center still had an arcade, but I spent a lot more quarters on laundry than I did on Xenophobe or Roadblasters. I'd say talk to me about the top 10 games of 1982, but I assume the people who put together lists like these were still watching Sesame Street in 1982.
crashflowSep 4, 2006
Has anyone actually finished contra with no cheats?
dragularSep 5, 2006
How have you made it this far in life as a gamer without playing Contra??? Please tell me my sarcasmometer is just acting screwy today.
thedevilsdueSep 5, 2006
Bionic Commando had one of the best endings I had ever seen for a NES game...Rygar is one of my all time favorites. The music is great.
sp1kenarfSep 5, 2006
sierraland. the mmorpg was the best, although i forget what it was called... so awesome...
delmonteSep 7, 2006
1988 in Montreal, Canada... It was called Super Mario Bros 4. (and SMB3 was actually SMB2jp)In 1988 there were pirate famicom carts everywhere in Montreal's video clubs and most video game stores. They were selling with a famicom-NES adaptor at a very high price but they were very popular as you could also rent them. People assumed they were simply Japanese imports, but in reality it was a large scale pirate organization that was distributing HK pirate carts. It took a year or two until the whole thing was busted. So we had the chance to play games like SMB3 before most everyone in America. I still have a Super Mario 2 japanese (Lost Levels) cart from this era.