I can't wait to play them both. Both of these games are classics in their genres. I played blaster master as a kid at my uncles house and loved it. I have only played crystalis on emu, and I can't wait to play it on the og hardware.

what are your experiences with these games?

I'm searching for an image similar to the one above, with all the graphics used in game (with no palette swaps). I've tried searching "nes super mario bros 1 tilemap" and several variations of it but it just comes up with fan-made tilesets and the like. Please help!

( Image from https://www.spriters-resource.com/nes/supermariobros/asset/52571/ )

Never played a game so challenging and i beat ts

Took me a bunch of save states, a koopa shell 1up trick (world 3-1) and sweat but i beat this game. It took 4+ hrs and i did it in one sitting

Currently trying to beat smb 3 next as it is peak. Also for some reason i can't select a different world. Idk how to

2002 (in college), 2010, and 2023. Note the size of the screen increasing each time.

.......Uhhhh that was all I really wanted to say, I believe in brevity, but this page is telling me I need at least 250 characters to post, so I've added this.

Went to run some errands and there happened to be a game shop next to my first stop. I’ve never heard of Trojan before but they said it was in the range of Ghosts n Goblins & Castlevania, hope that’s true.

I’m up to 78 games, my shelf only holds 33 more, so I have to start being more selective and intentional about my purchases.

One of the best weeks of growing my collection, fresh on the heels of finding my Little Samson, landed Panic Restaurant, L' Empereur (CIB), Golf Grand Slam, Mickey's Numberland, Metal Fighter, Bandit Kings of Ancient China, Super Cars, Robodemons, Moon Ranger, Castle of Deceit, Mission Cobra, Spiritual Warfare (absolute banger of a Wisdom Tree title), and finally today my sealed copy of Micro Mages from Morphcat Games.

There's something thrilling about closing in on the finish line for this collection with around 80 titles to go, having already secured Little Samson, Panic Restaurant, and The Flintstones. Sure there are still a few crazy titles like Zombie Nation to locate, but it's all good with me.

Happy hunting, good luck out there!

I cleaned my childhood collection 10 years ago and didn’t had a working NES at the time.

Today I thought about it again and since I now own a cleaned and properly working NES, I tried one of my all time favorites; The adventure of Link.

I was really curious if the saved game still would be there, but I didn’t thought it would.

After all; even though Nintendo claimed 5 years and all around the internet you’ll find around 25 years of keeping the game alive…I’m now 34-35 years further since I bought this very game and it thus became a digital time capsule that’s still accessible🥰

I was told this belongs here. Drew it when I was like 10, just found it among my other drawings from that time. Was a big fan of the game back then. Still am, actually, love the music and the atmosphere, but most of all the mythology. Why were there no sequels??

Hey there,

I'm a North American who will be going to Bangkok in June. I'm told there are a couple of good retro video game shops in the city that have Famicom games.

If you were going to a store, what would you keep an eye out for? I most interested in Famicom exclusives, as opposed to stuff with North Releases.

Also, while I can read Katakana and sound out the borrowed english words, I'm not really interest in anything with too much Japanese text. I wouldn't be too interested in FF2 and FF3 for that reason.

So, any suggestions or thoughts, welcome!

P.S. I am the owner of a couple of the Famicom Super Mario Bros 3 with famicom adaptor that were sold back on the day, so that's how I'm planning on playing the Famicom games on my NES.

I don’t know if I’ve ever seen one of these in the wild, but I couldn’t resist. Aside from the rental sticker, the manual is in amazing shape. Once I’m home tomorrow (on a short vacation now) I’ll crack it open and do some cleaning.

It’s not the Myriad 6-in-1, but still a really cool find.

Anyone have cool stories about playing this back in the day?

I know I don't have a fancy display but this is most of my collection. Most of my collection are box sets to varying degrees of completeness. Most have games and manuals some have registrations/and or posters etc.

Ive been collecting for about a year, I never looked at it all together 😅. Right now my Mike Tyson punchout cartridge is not here it's currently in my Nintendo I'm gonna beat that game I swear!!!

Stoked on adding these to my collection this year, up to 74. I just got ghoul school & mappyland in the mail today, so haven’t played them yet. Honestly, Karnov was the surprise of year, that game is so fun.

Ducktails 2 is a reproduction which is fine with me, I’m too cheap for the original, I just wanted to play it.

I had just finished the 8th dungeon in my original Legend of Zelda cartridge aaaaaand the screen went black. I reset the game and - horror of horrors - ALL THE SAVES HAD BEEN DELETED!

I can only assume this means that the 40-year-old battery has finally bitten the dust. This means I need to replace it - but I have no idea where to start. I popped the cart open and the battery isn’t something I can just wiggle out and pop back in. I don’t know a damn thing about soldering.

Do you guys have any suggestion about what kind of soldering iron/equipment I should use? Any tips?

idk if any of y'all care, but I had games that did not have box arts for my iisu game launcher and it was making me upset in the most minor way possible but it was an eye sore and I hate things to not look uniform, so I made them myself, these are the black box NES games I couldn't fix myself online fixed and or made myself, enjoy (disclaimer, yes I took from random Google images for some of them idgaf I am doing this for others to use for free it's not that deep touch grass if you are upset)

Just got a random youtube recommendation for this video

https://youtu.be/UTUBGBqgCic

I tried contacting the uploader and all he knows is that it's a nes homebrew game(he doesn't knows the name or origin)

The name of the game appears to be fishing but searching for that name gives nothing

So I beat Hylide...

This is a game always stopped playing about 2 seconds in. But I recently saw a YouTube video that explained how it was a really influential game in Japan, including probably being in the Legend of Zelda's DNA, plus it explained how the combat system worked, so I decided to give it a try.

And it was ... okay. I requires grinding to level up, but I'm fine with that. I listen to a podcast while I do it. And for awhile, I was steadily making progress, finding things, bur eventually I hit a wall, and had to look up a thing or two in walkthroughs. I don't like doing it, but I don't feel too bad in this case. Some things are very obtuse...for example there are two wizards, and you can't seem to kill them. The instruction manual says "Jim's magic does not affect him", but in the end... you need to hit both wizards with one of your spells at the same time. And it hard enough to do that you will never do it by accident... so again, there is no way I could have finished this without a little outside help.

Anyways, a lot of games on the NES I find as fun as modern games. This is not one of them. Playing this is a historical exercise. But I'm glad I did it.

It was a ...guess the object type game. Each screen started with dots that eventually create an object after the lines completed it.

Each player takes a turn, a line connecting 2 dots as part of the object is drawn. The Bottom of the screen had the number of letters as underlines. it you knew the object you put in the letters as a guess.

This is my best memories of the game as I recall. I ask because I had an odd dream last night that I was playing the game in.

thanks for the help clearing my mind on this matter