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Most overrated NES games
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Date: January 11th, 2023 7:35 PM Author: Charismatic cheese-eating selfie Contra
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Date: May 12th, 2023 9:11 PM Author: Sienna insecure nibblets multi-billionaire (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46305616) |
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Date: April 15th, 2024 8:32 AM Author: purple bossy hospital (Rudolph) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#47584223) |
Date: January 11th, 2023 7:36 PM Author: Wild giraffe water buffalo it deserves every accolade it ever got. A triumph
most overrated was Kid Icarus |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 7:37 PM Author: lime foreskin library it wasn't even rated (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776034) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 7:39 PM Author: Adventurous faggot firefighter generalized bond it's a sub-par ripoff of metroid re-packaged w/ greco-roman mythology (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776041) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 7:40 PM Author: stirring well-lubricated french chef telephone everyone hated Kid Icarus, it was the forgotton ugly runt of the early made by Nintendo games (SMB, Metroid, Zelda) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776044) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 10:26 PM Author: contagious rusted fortuitous meteor heaven it was actually a pretty good game (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776815) |
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Date: January 12th, 2023 9:07 AM Author: Exciting Black Shrine Boistinker kid icarus was awesome. loved those little stores. eggplant dude freaked me out as a kid. good music too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45777840) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 7:39 PM Author: Gay point keepsake machete Castlevania had very clunky controls. Not sure if that qualifies it as overrated by itself (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776040) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 7:41 PM Author: Adventurous faggot firefighter generalized bond Castlevania is definitely overrated. Really hit its stride with the gameboy advance titles (which i highly suggest downloading if you have switch: https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/castlevania-advance-collection-switch/) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776052) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 7:40 PM Author: lime foreskin library It'll say SMB2 was the most underrated (I liked it better than SMB3 even though SMB2 wasn't technically designed as a sequel)... most overrated, I'd say Double Dragon and Tecmo Bowl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776043) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 7:40 PM Author: trip sepia trailer park useless brakes I don’t know if it was highly rated, but fuck Ghosts and Goblins. You only got two hit points (first hit armor falls off; second hit you dead) and you couldn’t save/restart. The only person I knew who ever beat it was a certifiable lunatic who later ended up in jail. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776047) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 7:44 PM Author: Adventurous faggot firefighter generalized bond that game is trash but i don't think it was ever highly rated. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776066) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 7:44 PM Author: Vengeful tan puppy Original Mario Brothers
That game was fucking weak as shit. |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 7:49 PM Author: milky persian coldplay fan What an edgy contrarian faggot you are
Fucking pumo scum |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 11:47 AM Author: glittery awkward idiot elastic band The game was fucking weaksauce.
The only reason it i still discussed is because it was so important to the rise of Nintendo as leader in the videogame market.
But the game, taken by itself, was and still is fucking trash . |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 11:50 AM Author: soggy pit The fluidity/acceleration of the movement was and still is goated for a sidescroller (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46303767) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 11:56 AM Author: Exciting Black Shrine Boistinker origina mario bros wasnt a side scroller (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46303809) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 12:06 PM Author: soggy pit Oh I misread that
I mean yeah it’s a port of an arcade game but I don’t think it is that highly rated to begin with |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 11:51 AM Author: spectacular crystalline doctorate It was always funny watching people who were used to SMB try to play original MB. They'd jump on a turtle and die and be like WTF. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46303779) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 7:48 PM Author: nighttime wrinkle queen of the night SMB3 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776095) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 7:49 PM Author: milky persian coldplay fan Edgy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776105) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 8:07 PM Author: hyperventilating fishy church building SMB3 can never be overrated (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776188) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 8:13 PM Author: nighttime wrinkle queen of the night Yeah people aren’t actually that dumb to rate a shameless rehash of SMB1 right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776221) |
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Date: April 15th, 2024 1:57 AM Author: Charismatic cheese-eating selfie The “shameless rehash” was Super Mario World, which was a shameless rehash of SMB3.
SMB3 was a quantum leap forward from SMB1 |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 7:51 PM Author: blue church River Shitty Ransom (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776117) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 7:54 PM Author: Mauve floppy organic girlfriend center get off this thread, fool... that was one of the best beat 'em ups ever. Almost as good as Turtles in Time (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776121) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 8:00 PM Author: blue church The enemies all look like they were self portraits drawn by a retarded first grader (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776150) |
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Date: January 12th, 2023 8:38 PM Author: Sienna insecure nibblets multi-billionaire (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45781096) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 11:50 AM Author: glittery awkward idiot elastic band STFU
That game was excellent |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 9:30 PM Author: Sienna insecure nibblets multi-billionaire Fuck off. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46305645) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 8:12 PM Author: vivacious mad-dog skullcap The most overrated are the Rygar/Kid Icarus tier of games. People praise these games without taking the time to clarify that they aren't top-tier. Sometimes Metroid gets praise but the fact is that it sucks and most people realize this. |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 10:22 PM Author: Passionate den never even heard of “Rygar” and I was a huge NESmo back in the day (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776798) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 10:27 PM Author: contagious rusted fortuitous meteor heaven Rygar NES is 180 and very underrated (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776819) |
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Date: April 15th, 2024 7:24 AM Author: dashing garnet hissy fit rehab One of the best NES soundtracks of all time, too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#47584150) |
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Date: January 12th, 2023 9:32 AM Author: Wild giraffe water buffalo No one overrates Rygar (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45777890) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 10:28 PM Author: contagious rusted fortuitous meteor heaven Dragon Warrior (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45776822) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 11:40 AM Author: stirring well-lubricated french chef telephone . (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46303709) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 9:11 PM Author: unholy amethyst goal in life Wasn’t a huge NESmo but after Tecmo, I played Dragon Warrior more than any other. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46305615) |
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Date: January 11th, 2023 10:28 PM Author: flatulent abode Zelda
TMNT
Contra
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Date: January 12th, 2023 8:54 AM Author: excitant claret cuck tank Wtf is wrong with Contra? Especially for 1988 that shit was groundbreaking for a console game (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45777818) |
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Date: January 12th, 2023 9:34 AM Author: Wild giraffe water buffalo Contra was one of the best NES games
Combined bullet hell with great controls and cool enemies and music and weapons. Just great all around, the essence of a good video game |
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Date: April 15th, 2024 8:32 AM Author: purple bossy hospital A sidescroller that later flipped to a *front* scroller--then an *up* scroller? Definitive 2-player simultaneous game play? It is essentially perfect. |
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Date: January 12th, 2023 9:08 AM Author: Exciting Black Shrine Boistinker 90% of the takes in this thread are retarded, you should all quit video games (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45777843) |
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Date: January 12th, 2023 8:41 PM Author: opaque insanely creepy school milk MASE tp started this retardation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45781103) |
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Date: January 14th, 2023 9:56 AM Author: Lavender galvanic fat ankles lay Maniac Mansion had potential but was just a huge mess (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#45787841) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 11:58 AM Author: Exciting Black Shrine Boistinker first good answer itt. was excited for this one after reading about it in nintendo power, all the cool shit you could do with the different jellybeans! rented it from blockbuster and it was a total flop. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46303813) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 12:01 PM Author: spectacular crystalline doctorate tbf it was a computer game ported over to Nintendo, those were rarely if ever good. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46303826) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 12:09 PM Author: stirring well-lubricated french chef telephone you're thinking of A Boy and His Blob, which was a good idea poorly excuted. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46303871) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 12:09 PM Author: Exciting Black Shrine Boistinker oh damn ur right (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46303873) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 11:39 AM Author: Charismatic cheese-eating selfie Metroid
Had elements of a great game but the whole was much less than the sum of its parts |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 11:51 AM Author: soggy pit agreed it did not age well
it was held back by the hardware imo |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 1:47 PM Author: David Lynch's Mistress i think metroid is the most overrated nes game of all time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#48686932) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 11:44 AM Author: spectacular crystalline doctorate Ghosts N Goblins. It was always mentioned as a top tier game in the very early days of NES but it was pretty lame. |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 11:46 AM Author: stirring well-lubricated french chef telephone (unskilled who couldn't pass the first level) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46303743) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 11:48 AM Author: spectacular crystalline doctorate Probably. I was like 7 years old in my defense. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46303753) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 11:49 AM Author: sable curious state jap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46303758) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 11:53 AM Author: walnut meetinghouse toaster Excitebike (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46303789) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 11:54 AM Author: spectacular crystalline doctorate Not much fun, but notable and prestigious for being part of the elite "Programmable Series" of NES games.
https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/Programmable_(series) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 11:57 AM Author: Exciting Black Shrine Boistinker i never owned that game but always enjoyed playing it at more wealthy friends houses, seemed really cool to me (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46303811) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 12:02 PM Author: Cerebral pink space I assumed Excitebike was the embedded premise of this entire thread. While most NES games felt like groundbreaking leaps forward it was appreciably worse than some of the Atari racing games. Some of the older sports games like Ten Yard Fight and Based Loaded also kinda sucked, but they paved the way for glorious later games like RBI Baseball and Blades of Steel was dope as hell. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46303835) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 12:04 PM Author: Exciting Black Shrine Boistinker bases loaded was 180 shitlib (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46303844) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 4:36 PM Author: Cerebral pink space RBI baseball rapes bases loaded, splits it in half, shits in the rape split wound, then lights it on fire and walks away slowly. HTH. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46304849) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 4:38 PM Author: Exciting Black Shrine Boistinker they are both great games (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46304851) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 6:29 PM Author: walnut meetinghouse toaster What about base wars? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46305191) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 6:36 PM Author: idiotic marvelous coffee pot location Base Wars is 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46305216) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 8:48 PM Author: walnut meetinghouse toaster (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46305565) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 9:29 PM Author: idiotic marvelous coffee pot location I'm kind of surprised there hasn't been a modern take on this game
Up until recently I was unaware that the MLB Slugfest series exists. It scratches a similar itch, but it's more of a baseball game with a ton of arcade elements. Base Wars is more of a 50/50 blend between a baseball game and a fighting game. |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 7:02 PM Author: doobsian volcanic crater psychic Ran here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46305265) |
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Date: May 15th, 2023 10:41 AM Author: Charismatic cheese-eating selfie Smart move to pivot the concept to WWII concentration camp simulator for the sequel, Ignitekike (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46313209) |
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Date: April 15th, 2024 1:58 AM Author: Swashbuckling Potus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#47583938) |
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Date: April 15th, 2024 8:27 AM Author: Wild giraffe water buffalo Excitebike was one of those early games that actually involved some skill, especially resource management with the overheating and stuff (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#47584207) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 12:22 PM Author: mountain cat but it gets super boring after about 30 seconds. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#48686658) |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 6:12 PM Author: Peach Big Skinny Woman Duck Hunt
It deserves some props for experimenting with a new technology, and it was tons of fun for about 10-15 minutes. But pretty soon it became apparent that you are doing exactly the same thing over and over and over again. I don't understand how anyone other than an extreme autist would want to play this game for more than about 30 minutes. |
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Date: May 12th, 2023 6:30 PM Author: stirring well-lubricated french chef telephone My dad loved it because he like to shoot trap and it was practice. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46305197) |
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Date: August 31st, 2023 6:00 AM Author: Charismatic cheese-eating selfie My mom grew up shooting rifles at the insistence of her WWII vet father, but hadn’t touched a gun for about 20 years when I got my first NES. (Which she was against me getting as a general knee-jerk “anti-screens” parent.)
It was 180 as fuck the first time I watched her gingerly pick up the NES zapper gun and proceed to absolutely PWN Duck Hunt (literally 0 misses on what we’d call “speedruns” today of all 3 game versions) from about 17 feet away from the TV. |
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Date: April 15th, 2024 6:39 AM Author: Concupiscible frisky crackhouse clown (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#47584116) |
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Date: August 31st, 2023 6:01 AM Author: narrow-minded marketing idea ITT: 50 year olds (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#46738239) |
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Date: April 15th, 2024 7:26 AM Author: dashing garnet hissy fit rehab Megaman 1 is overrated Megaman 2 is universally acclaimed and may still be underrated. |
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Date: April 15th, 2024 8:30 AM Author: stirring well-lubricated french chef telephone No one rates Megaman 1. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#47584219) |
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Date: April 15th, 2024 8:27 AM Author: Wild giraffe water buffalo this thread still pisses me off
pretty sure I made post #3 |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 12:21 PM Author: Titan Uranus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#48686653) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 1:11 PM Author: michael doodikoff I can tell all of the posts I made ITT and they are all spot on (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#48686802) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 1:45 PM Author: Oh, You Travel? ( ) Yeah because the edit button is there, genius. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#48686919) |
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Date: February 23rd, 2025 1:47 PM Author: cacio e poopy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5269175&forum_id=2...id.#48686926) |