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SHORTCUTS
[NES1] - Available Games List
[NES2] - Victory Condition List
[NES3] - Completed Games List
[NES4] - Claimed Games List
[NES5] - Current/Previous Monthly Targets

Rules to participate:

• Be a member of the RFGeneration.com forum
• Have hardware available to play NES games. Emulated versions of NES games are acceptable as long as you avoid Save States, Cheat Codes, Mods, Hacks or any other method that would alter the original intent of the game
• Must post of a picture or video of your accomplishments when you finish a game or achieve a highscore
• Unless you’re posting videos of your plays this is on the honor system so please don’t cheat your way through any titles or get someone else to complete a game for you or any other method that would corrupt the integrity of this community challenge.
• Standard Controllers encouraged for most games, but any controller you are comfortable with is acceptable. Zapper, Power Pad, Power Glove, Miracle Piano, R.O.B., and LaserScope are all usable for their respective titles. Please don't use extra features that many non-standard controllers may provide such as Turbo Buttons or Slow Mode.
• Outside resources such as guides, maps, walkthroughs, tips n tricks books, having a second person helping the player solve puzzles, etc are all acceptable. Try to play each game as it was intended to be experienced at first, but a little extra help every now and then is totally cool
• Codes are not acceptable unless they are taught to the player either within the game or the materials that came packed with the game. For example the Konami code or continue code in Ikari Warriors are restricted, but the continue code for Adventure Island or Solomon’s Key are acceptable since they are taught to the player in the game manual and pack-in poster respectively

This is a community effort to tackle the NES library and as such the spirit of this challenge is to encourage each other to participate and succeed. This is not a competition so please freely share tips and advice for challenging games or sections of games. Players are encouraged to share passwords if they want to break up long tedious games or need someone else to tackle a particularly challenging section. As long as all players involved are member of the RFGeneration forums this is an acceptable, and encouraged, way to finish a game. All members will have their usernames noted next to any games they have completed as a record of their participation.

If you are unsure as to what is required to consider a certain game to be “finished” please check the post below for clarification. Games that have multiple releases will only be counted once. For example just because there is a cartridge for Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt and World Class Track Meet/Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt the Duck Hunt game only needs to be beaten once on any of these carts to qualify.

Not required, but a short synopsis of your time with each game would be greatly appreciated. Did you have fun with it? What where the biggest challenges to finishing the game? Do you intend to try more games of the genre/publisher/year? Would you revisit it later or recommend it to another player? How does it compare to other similar games you’ve played?

Let’s all play some NES, talk about NES games and have fun!!!

[NES1]
Available Games List:

3-D Worldrunner
Air Fortress
Back to the Future II & III
Bases Loaded
Bases Loaded III
Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure
Bo Jackson Baseball
Boulder Dash
Captain America and the Avengers
Castelian
Circus Caper
Conan: The Mysteries of Time
Crash 'n the Boys: Street Challenge
Destination Earth Star
Dragon's Lair
Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball
Flight of the Intruder
Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll
Flying Warriors
Galaxy 5000
Gemfire
Genghis Khan
George Foreman's KO Boxing
Ghostbusters II
Gumshoe
Heavy Shreddin'
High Speed
Hunt for Red October, The
Incredible Crash Dummies, The
Jetsons: Cogswell's Caper, The
Jungle Book, The
Kid Kool
King's Knight
Kings of the Beach
Kiwi Kraze
Krion Conquest, The
Krusty's Funhouse
Laser Invasion
Last Ninja, The
Legacy of the Wizard, The
Lethal Weapon
Lode Runner
Marvel's X-Men
Metal Mech
Mission: Impossible
NARC
Overlord
Peter Pan & the Pirates
Princess Tomato in the Salad Kingdom
Pro Sport Hockey
Puzznic
Race America
River City Ransom
RoboCop 2
RoboCop 3
Robowarrior
Rocket Ranger
Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Romance of the Three Kingdoms II
Section Z
Shingen the Ruler
Shooting Range
Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man, The
Sky Shark
Slalom
Solomon's Key
Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six
Star Voyager
Stealth ATF
Street Cop
Swords and Serpents
Tag Team Wrestling
Target: Renegade
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters
Thunder & Lightning
Thunderbirds
Touchdown Fever
Town & Country II: Thrilla's Surfari
Toxic Crusaders
Trog
Twin Eagle
Ultima: Warriors of Destiny
Untouchables, The
Vegas Dream
Wall Street Kid
Werewolf: The Last Warrior
Xexyz
Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II

[NES2]
Victory Conditions:

Air Fortress - Similar to Ghosts 'n Goblins, the game must be played through twice to reach the credits.
Bandit Kings of Ancient China - Finish scenario 4 to get the ending
Baseball Simulator 1.000 - Play and win a season. The shortest is 5 games.
Baseball Stars II - Win a league
Bases Loaded - Must win 80 games
Bases Loaded III - Beat a level 5 team with a rating of 100.
Bill Elliott's Nascar Challenge - Play and win the Championship Season
Bo Jackson Baseball - Beat the playoffs mode
Boulder Dash - Complete 4 loops the get credits
Casino Kid - Must win $2 million.
Championship Pool - Win either the 8 ball or 9 ball tournament (not necessary to do both)
Conflict - Must beat all 15 maps to reach map 16, then complete that
Evert & Lendl Top Player's Tennis - Must win all tournaments to get the ending (add more details) rank 12 after asmik, rank 8 wimbledon
Flying Dragon: The Secret Scroll - Similar to Ghosts 'n Goblins, the game must be played through twice to reach the credits.
Flying Warriors - Play on expert difficulty to get the true final boss fight
Galaxy 5000 - Beat Pluto without continuing to get to the final race - Planet X. Win that race to get "The End:"
Gauntlet II - Consider beating stage 100 as finishing it.
Gemfire - Beat scenario 4 to get the ending
Genghis Khan - Choose "World Conquest" and take over the map
Gotcha! - Loops after stage 3
Gyromite - Must beat Game A & B
Hatris - Beat level 9-5
High Speed - Beat the high score
Kings of the Beach - Win tournament mode for ending, which consists of 5 tournaments
KlashBall - Win the league
Legends of the Diamond - Tournament mode
Little League Baseball: Championship Series - Win a championship series
Lode Runner - Complete all 50 stages
LoopZ - Get a high score on Games A & B, and clear Game C
Mach Rider - Fighting Mode Level 20, Endurance Mode Level 11, Solo Mode Level 11
Magic Darts - Complete each game of darts
Magician - Complete the game once.
Miracle Piano - Finish all 36 Lessons (Child or Adult is fine)
Millipede - Loops after round 16
NES Play Action Football - Win the playoffs mode
Nobunaga's Ambition - Complete the 50 fiefs scenario
Nobunaga's Ambition II - Choose the scenario "Nobunaga's Ambition" and take all territories
Overlord - Play on the hardest difficulty to get an actual ending screen.
Palamedes - Win a tournament to get the credits
Pirates! - Retire with the highest rank of King's Advisor
Pro Sport Hockey - Win a Super Cup
Puzznic - Clear Puzznic and Gravnic
Race America - Best ending is not necessary
Rally Bike - Game ends after playing each stage twice
RBI Baseball - Finish the season with a 9-0 record
Ring King - Beat the world #1
Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball - Pick an NL team (they play 6 fewer games)
Rollerball - Get 1 million points to get the credits
Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Win the fifth scenario
Romance of the Three Kingdoms II - Win the sixth scenario
Roundball: 2 on 2 Challenge - Win the tournament
Shooting Range - Get 40,000 points to win the gold medal
Side Pocket - Must get 7,100 points to get the final trick shot to appear, which leads to the credits
Sky Shark - Loops after stage 5
Slalom - Beat all 8 races on each of the 3 mountains
Spy Hunter - Get to the loop point (after each season, ~15 minutes?)
Stack Up - Beat 1 Phase of Each Mode
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Achieve the rank of Captain
Stealth ATF - Loops after stage 8
Tag Team Wrestling - Must beat the champions' mark of 35 straight victories
Tecmo NBA Basketball - Complete a season and win the NBA Finals.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters - Must play on Hard to get credits
Touchdown Fever - Play and win a tournament.
Track & Field II - Play Olympic Mode and reach the closing ceremony after the 8th day
Vegas Dream - Must win $10 million
Xevious - Loops after stage 16

[NES3]
Completed Games:

1. Double Dragon - Disposed Hero (1/1)
2. Hook - Crabmaster2000 (1/1)
3. Mighty Final Fight - Disposed Hero (1/1)
4. 1942 - bombatomba (1/1)
5. Felix the Cat - cverz2 (1/1)
6. Baseball Stars - singlebanana (1/1)
7. Gun.Smoke - singlebanana (1/1)
8. Double Dribble - cverz (1/1)
9. Sword Master - Disposed Hero (1/1)
10. Contra - singlebanana (1/1)
11. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: The Arcade Game - douglie007 (1/2)
12. 10-Yard Fight - singlebanana (1/2)
13. Golf - singlebanana (1/2)
14. Kung Fu - singlebanana (1/2)
15. Donkey Kong Jr. Math - Duke.Togo (1/2)
16. Donkey Kong 3 - Duke.Togo (1/2)
17. Popeye - Duke.Togo (1/2)
18. Tiny Toon Adventures Cartoon Workshop - Duke.Togo (1/2)
19. Color a Dinosaur - Duke.Togo (1/2)
20. Fisher Price: Firehouse Rescue - douglie007 (1/3)
21. Tale Spin - Boshamp (1/3)
22. Duck Tales - Boshamp (1/3)
23. Chip & Dale's Rescue Rangers - Boshamp (1/3)
24. Volleyball - singlebanana (1/3)
25. Urban Champion - singlebanana (1/3)
26. Mega Man - Duke.Togo (1/3)
27. Mystery Quest - shaggy (1/3)
28. Al Unser Jr. Turbo Racing - EZ Racer (1/4)
29. Castlevania - Disposed Hero (1/4)
30. Shadowgate - shane (1/4)
31. Uninvited - shane (1/4)
32. Tombs & Treasures - Fokakis79 (1/4)
33. Castlevania II - Diposed Hero (1/4)
34. Super Dodgeball - singlebanana (1/4)
35. Super Mario Bros 3 - Fleabitten (1/4)
36. Where's Waldo? - shane (1/5)
37. Little Mermaid - Disposed Hero (1/5)
38. Defender II - Duke.Togo (1/5)
39. Monster Party - Fleabitten (1/5)
40. Wizards & Warriors III - shane (1/5)
41. Ninja Gaiden - Disposed Hero (1/5)
42. Silver Surfer - shane (1/5)
43. Marble Madness - EZ Racer (1/6)
44. California Games - Wempster (1/6)
45. Videomation - Wempster (1/6)
46. Clash at Demonhead - bombatomba (1/6)
47. Super C - Disposed Hero (1/6)
48. Taboo: The Sixth Sense - shane (1/6)
49. Super Team Games - shane (1/6)
50. Battle Chess - shane - (1/6)
51. Classic Concentration - cverz2 (1/6)
52. Arch Rivals - cverz2 (1/6)
53. Lunar Pool - EZ Racer (1/6)
54. Mega Man 4 - Normatron (1/7)
55. Willow - Fokakis79 (1/7)
56. Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord - Crabmaster2000 (1/9)
57. Godzilla - Normatron (1/9)
58. Jeopardy 25th Anniversary Edition - Wempster (1/10)
59. Blue Marlin - Fokakis79 - (1/10)
60. Digger T Rock - Crabmaster2000 (1/10)
61. Wizards & Warriors - singlebanana (1/10)
62. Tiger-Heli - Duke.Togo (1/10)
63. Whomp Em - Normatron (1/11)
64. Alfred Chicken - shane (1/11)
65. Jorney to Silius - Disposed Hero (1/12)
66. Rygar - singlebanana (1/12)
67. Balloon Fight - bickman2k (1/12)
68. Donkey Kong - Schlibby (1/12)
69. Monster In My Pocket - shane (1/12)
70. Winter Games - Wempster (1/12)
71. A Nightmare on Elm Street - Disposed Hero (1/12)
72. Mega Man 3 - shane (1/13)
73. Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle - shane (1/13)
74. Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout - EngineerMike (1/13)
75. Mike Tyson's Punch Out!! - singlebanana (1/13)
76. Ice Hockey - singlebanana (1/13)
77. Pinball - singlebanana (1/13)
78. Mega Man 2 - Duke.Togo (1/13)
79. Battleship - shane (1/13)
80. Shatterhand - Disposed Hero (1/14)
81. Beetlejuice - shane (1/14)
82. Dr. Mario - bickman2k (1/14)
83. Soccer - bickman2k (1/14)
84. Faxanadu - Fokakis79 (1/14)
85. Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde - Fokakis79 (1/15)
86. Phantom Fighter - Shaggy (1/15)
87. Roller Games - Disposed Hero (1/15)
88. Gyruss - Normatron (1/15)
89. Wheel of Fortune - shane (1/15)
90. Wheel of Fortune Family Edition - shane (1/15)
91. Wheel of Fortune Jr - shane (1/15)
92. Wheel of Fortune feat. Vanna White - shane (1/15)
93. Athena - Crabmaster2000 (1/15)
94. Vice: Project Doom - Disposed Hero (1/16)
95. Dig Dug II - Crabmaster2000 (1/16)
96. Pac-Man - Crabmaster2000 (1/16)
97. Adventures of Tom Sawyer - Fokakis79 (1/17)
98. Legend of Ghost Lion - shane (1/17)
99. Indy Heat - Crabmaster2000 (1/17)
100. Wacky Races - Crabmaster2000 (1/17)
101. Bigfoot - Crabmaster2000 (1/17)
102. Raid of Bungeling Bay - Crabmaster2000 (1/17)
103. Ms. Pac Man - Crabmaster2000 (1/17)
104. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance - Fokakis79 (1/18)
105. Monster Truck Rally - Crabmaster2000 (1/18)
106. Stinger - Crabmaster2000 (1/18)
107. Gun*Nac - shane (1/18)
108. Power Blade - Disposed Hero (1/18)
109. Maniac Mansion - shane (1/19)
110. Bucky O'Hare - Disposed Hero (1/19)
111. Monopoly - shane (1/19)
112. Jeopardy - shane (1/20)
113. John Elway's Quarterback - Wempster (1/20)
114. Wizardry: Knight of Diamonds - Crabmaster2000 (1/21)
115. Zelda II: The Adventures of Link - bombatomba (1/21)
116. Power Blade 2 - Disposed Hero (1/21)
117. Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom - Crabmaster2000 (1/22)
118. Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu - Disposed Hero (1/22)
119. Sqoon - Crabmaster2000 (1/23)
120. Mappy Land - Crabmaster2000 (1/23)
121. Ninja Kid - Crabmaster2000 (1/24)
122. Kickle Cubicle - singlebanana (1/24)
123. F15 Strike Eagle - Crabmaster2000(1/25)
124. City Connection - EZ Racer (1/25)
125. Dragon Warrior IV - EZ Racer (1/26)
126. Street Fighter 2010 - Fokakis79 (1/26)
127. Double Dare - singlebanana (1/27)
128. Jeopardy Jr Edition - singlebanana (1/27)
129. Hollywood Squares - singlebanana (1/27)
130. Mega Man 6 - EZ Racer (1/28)
131. Tecmo Bowl - singlebanana (1/29)
132. Duck Tales 2 - shane (1/30)
133. Toki - shane (1/31)
134. MTV's Remote Control - singlebanana (1/30)
135. Wild Gunman - singlebanana (1/30)
136. Duck Hunt - singlebanana (1/30)
137. Hogan's Alley - singlebanana (1/30)
138. North vs South - singlebanana (1/30)
139. Galaga - zophar53 (1/31)
140. Donkey Kong Jr - zophar53 (1/31)
141. Barbie - shane (1/31)
142. Mario's Time Machine - shane (1/31)
143. Mario is Missing - shane (1/31)
144. Wrath of the Black Manta - Disposed Hero (1/31)
145. Tennis - shane (1/31)
146. The Great Waldo Search - singlebanana (1/31)
147. Pictionary - singlebanana (1/31)
148. Win, Lose or Draw - singlebanana (1/31)
149. Major League Baseball - singlebanana (1/31)
150. Track & Field - singlebanana (1/31)
151. Super Mario Bros - zophar53 (2/1)
152. Adventure Island - shane (2/1)
153. Mickey Mousecapade - shane (2/1)
154. Bard's Tale - Crabmaster2000 (2/1)
155. Goonies II - Fokakis79 (2/1)
156. Spy vs Spy - zophar52 (2/2)
157. Battle of Olympus - shane (2/2)
158. Blades of Steel - Fokakis79 (2/2)
159. Double Dragon II: The Revenge - Disposed Hero (2/3)
160. Kings Quest V - shane (2/3)
161. Bionic Commando - BuriedOnMars (2/3)
162. Battletoads & Double Dragon - shane (2/3)
163. Mega Man 5 - Apolloboy (2/3)
164. Snow Bros - Normatron (2/4)
165. Base Wars - shane (2/4)
166. Nintendo World Cup Soccer - EZ Racer (2/4)
167. M.C. Kids - shane (2/5)
168. Tecmo Super Bowl - singlebanana (2/6)
169. Ghosts 'n Goblins - Silent Schythe (2/7)
170. Ultima: Exodus - Fokakis79 (2/7)
171. Rad Racer - BuriedOnMars (2/7)
172. Metal Gear - Fokakis79 (2/8)
173. Life Force - Apolloboy (2/8)
174. Times of Lore - singlebanana (2/9)
175. Karnov - singlebanana (2/9)
176. Rad Racer II - BuriedOnMars (2/8)
177. Abadox - Duke.Togo (2/9)
178. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project - Disposed Hero (2/10)
179. Blaster Master - ApolloBoy (2/10)
180. Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse - Disposed Hero (2/10)
181. Jaws - Silent Scythe (2/10)
182. Batman - Disposed Hero (2/11)
183. Desert Commander - Disposed Hero (2/12)
184. Tiny Toon Adventures - Addicted (2/12)
185. Gradius - ApolloBoy (2/13)
186. Magic of Scheherazade - shane (2/13)
187. Strider - Apolloboy (2/13)
188. 720* - Fokakis79 (2/14)
189. Baseball - ApolloBoy (2/14)
190. Dragon Warrior III - douglie007 (2/15)
191. Frankenstein: The Monster Returns - Disposed Hero (2/16)
192. Anticipation - ApolloBoy  (2/16)
193. Kabuki: Quantum Fighter - Disposed Hero  (2/16)
194. Darkwing Duck - Disposed Hero  (2/17)
195. Dungeon Magic - Fokakis79 (2/17)
196. Bomberman 2 - douglie007 (2/17)
197. Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos - Disposed Hero (2/17)
198. Kick Master - Disposed Hero (2/17)
199. Sesame Street: Big Bird's Hide & Speak - ApolloBoy (2/18)
200. Astyanax - Fokakis79 (2/18)
201. Sesame Street: 123 - ApolloBoy (2/18)
202. Adventures of Lolo - Schlibby (2/18)
203. Championship Bowling - Disposed Hero (2/18)
204. Robocop - Fokakis79 (2/18)
205. R.C. Pro-Am Racing - EZ Racer (2/19)
206. Kid Niki - Fokakis79 (2/19)
207. Renegade - Disposed Hero (2/19)
208. Ninja Crusaders (2/20) - Disposed Hero
209. Bubble Bobble Part 2 - doublie007 (2/20)
210. Skate or Die - Fokakis79 (2/21)
211. Bases Loaded 4 - Crabmaster2000 (2/22)
212. Super Spike V'Ball - Fokakis79 (2/22)
213. Sesame Street ABC - ApolloBoy (2/22)
214. Sesame Street Countdown - Apolloboy (2/23)
215. Family Feud - douglie007 (2/24)
216. WWF King of the Ring - bombatomba (2/25)
217. Jack Nicklaus Major Golf Championship - douglie007 (2/25)
218. Jimmy Connors Tennis - Crabmaster2000 (2/26)
219. Magic Johnson's Fast Break - ApolloBoy (2/26)
220. Mario Bros. - douglie007 (2/27)
221. Xenophobe - Fokakis79 (2/27)
222. All Pro Basketball - Crabmaster2000 (2/28)
223. Bad News Baseball - Crabmaster2000 (3/1)
224. Star Wars - Crabmaster2000 (3/1)
225. Qix - douglie007 (3/1)
226. Friday the 13th - Fokakis79 (3/2)
227. Three Stooges - douglie007 (3/2)
228. Mickey's Adventures in Numberland - douglie007 (3/2)
229. Dragon Warrior - Playcast (3/2)
230. Mickey's Safari in Letterland - douglie007 (3/3)
231. Panic Restaurant - ApolloBoy (3/3)
232. Karate Kid - Disposed Hero (3/4)
234. Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular - douglie007 (3/4)
235. Empire Strikes Back - Crabmaster2000 (3/5)
236. Dragon Warrior II - Normatron (3/5)
237. Adventure Island 3 - Crabmaster2000 (3/6)
238. Defenders of Dynatron City - Crabmaster2000 (3/7)
239. Pinball Quest - Normatron (3/7)
240. Commando - Duke0619 (3/8)
241. Swamp Thing - Crabmaster2000 (3/8)
242. Rocketeer - Fokakis79 (3/8)
243. Caesar's Palace - shane (3/9)
244. Mad Max - Crabmaster2000 (3/11)
245. Attack of the Killer Tomatoes - Crabmaster2000 (3/14)
246. Captain Planet and the Planeteers - Crabmaster2000 (3/15)
247. Final Fantasy - bombatomba (3/16)
248. Chip n Dale 2 - shane (3/16)
249. Tiny Toon Adventures 2: Trouble in Wacky Land - shane (3/16)
250. Fisher Price: I Can Remember - shane (3/16)
251. Fisher Price: Perfect Fit - shane (3/16)
252. Little Nemo: Dream Master - shane (3/17)
253. Yo! Noid - shane (3/17)
254. Back to the Future - shane (3/17)
255. Caveman Games - shane (3/17)
256. Bonk's Adventure - shane (3/17)
257. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Hillsfar - bombatomba (3/17)
258. James Bond Jr. - Crabmaster2000 (3/18)
259. Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle - douglie007 (3/18)
260. Cool World - Crabmaster2000 (3/19)
261. Super Jeopardy! - douglie007 (3/19)
262. Excitebike - douglie007 (3/19)
263. Rush'n Attack - Duke0619 (3/19)
264. Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy - EZ Racer (3/20)
265. Guardian Legend - Normatron (3/24)
266. Golgo 13 - Duke0619 (3/24)
267. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance - Crabmaster2000 (3/26)
268. Dirty Harry - bombatomba (3/26)
269. Kung Fu Heroes - bombatomba (3/27)
270. Adventures of Gilligan's Island - Crabmaster2000 (3/27)
271. Fist of the North Star - Crabmaster2000 (3/27)
272. Young Indiana Jones Chronicles - Crabmaster2000 (3/28)
273. Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves - Crabmaster2000 (3/29)
274. Wolverine - bombatomba (3/29)
275. Casino Kid 2 - EZ Racer (3/29)
276. Ninja Gaiden III - EZ Racer (3/30)
277. Legend of Kage - bombatomba (3/30)
278. Archon - shane (3/31)
279. Zombie Nation - shane (3/31)
280. Cubby Cherub - shane (3/31)
281. Clu Clu Land - shane (3/31)
282. Resuce: The Embassy Mission - Schlibby (3/31)
283. Power Punch II - Crabmaster2000 (4/1)
284. Demon Sword - bombatomba (4/3)
285. Legend of Zelda - Wempster (4/6)
286. R.C. Pro Am II - shane (4/6)
287. Jackal - Disposed Hero (4/7)
288. Eliminator Boat Duel - EZ Racer (4/7)
289. Silkworm - Fokakis79 (4/7)
290. Ice Climbers - Douglie007 (4/8)
291. Dynowarz: The Destruction of Spondylus - MustyHobbit (4/9)
292. Gold Medal Challenge '92 - MustyHobbit (4/9)
293. Addams Family  Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt - shane (4/12)
294. Double Dragon III: The Sacred Stones - Disposed Hero (4/14)
295. Pin-Bot - Disposed Hero (4/17)
296. Breakthru - bombatomba (4/20)
297. Guerrilla War - Disposed Hero (4/20)
298. Break Time - shane (4/21)
299. Michael Andretti's World GP - Crabmaster2000 (4/22)
300. Puss n' Boots: Pero's Great Adventure - Disposed Hero (4/22)
301. Heavy Barrel - Disposed Hero (4/22)
302. Castlequest - Crabmaster2000 (4/23)
303. Day Dreamin' Davey - Crabmaster2000 (4/23)
304. Deadly Towers - Normatron (4/23)
305. Adventures in the Magic Kingdom - Silent Scythe (4/23)
306. Super Cars - Crabmaster2000 (4/25)
307. Grand Slam Golf - Crabmaster2000 (4/26)
308. Crystalis - Disposed Hero (4/29)
309. The Lone Ranger - Crabmaster2000 (5/1)
310. Spot - Misto (5/3)
311. Metal Storm - Disposed Hero (5/6)
312. Wayne Gretzky Hockey - Misto (5/8)
313. Arkanoid - Crabmaster2000 (5/10)
314. Kirby's Adventure - Disposed Hero (5/11)
315. S.C.A.T. - Disposed Hero (5/12)
316. Solar Jetman - Schlibby (5/12)
317. Snake Rattle n Roll - Crabmaster2000 (5/17)
318. Dragon Spirit - Disposed Hero (5/20)
319. Chessmaster - Wempster (5/24)
320. 1943 - Misto (6/01)
321. Solstice - Schlibby (6/2)
322. Joust - Misto (6/5)
323. Captain Skyhawk - Crabmaster2000 (6/7)
324. Yoshi - EZ Racer (6/7)
325. Othello - Misto (6/7)
326. Yoshi's Cookie - EZ Racer (6/8)
327. Tetris - EZ Racer (6/9)
328. Lemmings - Crabmaster2000 (6/10)
329. Bandai Golf Pebble Beach - Wempster (6/10)
330. Tetris 2 - EZ Racer (6/11)
331. RoadBlasters - bombatomba (6/16)
332. WWF Wrestlemania: Steel Cage Challenge - Schlibby (6/16)
333. Dragon Fighter - shane (6/16)
334. G.I. Joe - shane (6/17)
335. G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor - shane (6/18)
336. Joe & Mac - shane (6/18)
337. Pro Wrestling - bombatomba (6/18)
338. Darkman - shane (6/18)
339. Kid Klown in Night Mayor World - shane (6/19)
340. Ikari Warriors II: Victory Road - bombatomba (6/19)
341. Ikari Warriors III: The Rescue - bombatomba (6/19)
342. Little Samson - shane (6/20)
343. P.O.W.: Prisoners of War - bombatomba (6/20)
344. Cybernoid: The Fighting Machine - Crabmaster2000 (6/24)
345. Cyberball - Crabmaster2000 (6/24)
346. NES Open Tournament Golf - EZ Racer (6/24)
347. Rampart - EZ Racer (6/25)
348. Harlem Globetrotters - Crabmaster2000 (6/25)
349. NFL Football - Crabmaster2000 (6/25)
350. Rollerblade Racer - Crabmaster2000 (6/25)
351. Magmax - Crabmaster2000 (6/25)
352. Iron Tank - bombatomba - (6/25)
353. T&C Surf Design - EZ Racer (6/25)
354. Cabal - Crabmaster2000 (6/26)
355. Seicross - Crabmaster2000 (6/26)
356. Karate Champ - Crabmaster2000 (6/26)
357. Alpha Mission - bombatomba (6/26)
358. WWF Wrestlemania - Crabmaster2000 (6/27)
359. WWF Wrestlemania Challenge - Crabmaster2000 (6/27)
360. Burai Fighter - Crabmaster2000 (6/27)
361. Hoops - Crabmaster2000 (6/27)
362. Gargoyle's Quest 2 - douglie007 (6/27)
363. Bubble Bobble - douglie007 (6/28)
364. Thundercade - Crabmaster2000 (6/28)
365. Cliffhanger - Crabmaster2000 (6/28)
366. Jordan vs Bird - Crabmaster2000 (6/28)
367. Mighty Bomb Jack - bombatomba (6/29)
368. M.U.S.C.L.E. - bombatomba (6/29)
369. Battle Tank - bombatomba (6/30)
370. EZ Racer - The Immortal (6/30)
371. Image Fight - Crabmaster2000 (7/1)
372. Arkista's Ring - bombatomba (7/2)
373. Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf - Crabmaster2000 (7/2)
374. Muppet Adventure Chaos at the Carnival (7/2)
375. Golf Power - Crabmaster2000 (7/2)
376. Mechanized Attack - Crabmaster2000 (7/2)
377. Hydlide - bombatomba (7/2)
378. Top Gun - bombatomba (7/3)
379. Trojan - bombatomba (7/3)
380. Last Action Hero - Crabmaster2000 (7/3)
381. The Punisher - Crabmaster2000 (7/3)
382. Operation Wolf - Crabmaster2000 (7/3)
383. Code Name: Viper - Crabmaster2000 (7/3)
384. Alien 3 - Crabmaster2000 (7/4)
385. The Addams Family - Crabmaster2000 (7/4)
386. Ultimate Basketball - Crabmaster2000 (7/4)
387. Ghoul School - Misto (7/4)
388. Paperboy - Crabmaster2000 (7/5)
389. Nightshade - shane (7/5)
390. Time Lord - bombatomba (7/5)
391. Motor City Patrol - bombatomba (7/6)
392. Sky Kid - bombatomba (7/6)
393. Space Shuttle Project - Misto (7/7)
394. Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? - shane (7/7)
395. Paperboy 2 - Crabmaster2000 (7/8)
396. Wayne's World - shane (7/8)
397. Amagon - Crabmaster2000 (7/9)
398. Bomberman - Crabmaster2000 (7/9)
399. Castle of Dragon - Crabmaster2000 (7/10)
400. Cobra Command - Crabmaster2000 (7/11)
401. Defender of the Crown - Crabmaster2000 (7/11)
402. Rambo - Crabmaster2000 (7/12)
403. Barker Bill's Trick Shooting - Crabmaster2000 (7/12)
404. Rockin' Kats - shane - (7/13)
405. Star Force - shane (7/13)
406. Fester's Quest - shane (7/13)
407. Flintstones Surprise at Dinosaur Peak - shane (7/13)
408. Shadow of the Ninja - shane (7/14)
409. Super Off Road - shane (7/14)
410. Fun House - Crabmaster2000 (7/15)
411. Dash Galaxy - Crabmaster2000 (7/15)
412. Dick Tracy - Crabmaster2000 (7/16)
413. A Boy and His Blob - Crabmaster2000 (7/16)
414. Freedom Force - Crabmaster2000 (7/17)
415. Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - Crabmaster2000 (7/18)
416. World Champ - Crabmaster2000 (7/18)
417. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Crabmaster2000 (7/19)
418. Rampage - Crabmaster2000 (7/19)
419. Ski or Die - Schlibby (7/19)
420. Stanley: The Search for Doctor Livingston - shane (7/20)
421. Terra Cresta - shane (7/20)
422. The Simpsons: Bart vs. the Space Mutants - shane (7/20)
423. StarTropics - shane (7/21)
424. The Simpsons: Bart vs. the World - shane (7/21)
425. Deja Vu - shane (7/21)
426. Starship Hector - shane (7/21)
427. Orb-3D - polykill_trav (7/22)
428. Treasure Master - bombatomba (7/23)
429. Twin Cobra - shane (7/27)
430. Low G-Man - Crabmaster2000 (7/29)
431. Batman Return of the Joker - Schlibby (7/29)
432. M.U.L.E. - Crabmaster2000 (7/30)
433. Goal! - Crabmaster2000 (8/01)
434. Goal! Two - Crabmaster2000 (8/01)
435. Dr. Chaos - Crabmaster2000 (8/02)
436. Airwolf - Crabmaster2000 (8/02)
437. Mendel Palace - bombatomba (8/03)
438. Rainbow Islands - EZ Racer (8/03)
439. RBI Baseball - EZ Racer (8/4)
440. Conquest of the Crystal Palace - bombatomba (8/04)
441. Wario's Woods - Boshamp (8/05)
442. Kid Icarus - Boshamp (8/05)
443. Elevator Action - bombatomba (8/5)
444. Bad Dudes - bombatomba (8/6)
445. Isolated Warrior - Crabmaster2000 (8/7)
446. Klashball - Crabmaster2000 (8/7)
447. Metroid - shane (8/07)
448. The Terminator - Crabmaster2000 (8/9)
449. Burgertime - bombatomba (8/10)
450. Tom & Jerry - shane (8/10)
451. Die Hard - Schlibby (8/14)
452. Batman Returns - Disposed Hero (8/17)
453. Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonstrike - bombatomba (8/17)
454. Athletic World - shane (8/18)
455. Dance Aerobics - shane (8/18)
456. Stadium Events - shane (8/18)
457. Short Order/Eggsplode - shane (8/18)
458. Gotcha! - Disposed Hero (8/19)
459. The Adventures of Rad Gravity - shane (8/20)
460. Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth - Crabmaster2000 (8/22)
461. Rollerball - bombatomba (8/22)
462. Superman - Crabmaster2000 (9/06)
463. Ghostbusters - shane (9/08)
464. Gremlins 2 - shane (9/08)
465. Super Pitfall - Crabmaster2000 (9/09)
466. Home Alone - shane (9/10)
467. Prince of Persia - Crabmaster2000 (9/10)
468. Rock 'n Ball - Crabmaster2000 (9/13)
469. Silent Service - Schlibby (9/13)
470. Blues Brothers - shane (9/22)
471. Cowboy Kid - shane (9/23)
472. Adventures of Lolo 2 - shaggy (9/24)
473. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - schlibby (9/26)
474. Bases Loaded II - EZ Racer - (9/28)
475. Roundball - shaggy (9/29)

476. Fire 'n Ice - Misto (9/29)
477. Battletoads - shane (9/29)
478. The Adventures of Dino Riki - shane (10/3)
479. Pipe Dream - EZ Racer (10/9)
480. Magic Darts - EZ Racer (10/9)
481. Super Mario Bros 2 - shane (10/12)
482. Spelunker - EZ Racer (10/12)
483. Ferrari Grand Prix - EZ Racer (10/15)
484. Total Recall - Fokakis79 (10/16)
485. Millipede - Mr_Stubbes (10/19)
486. Legendary Wings - MetalFRO (10/20)
487. Hudson Hawk - shaggy (10/26)
488. Adventure Island II - Fokakis79 (10/27)
489. Totally Rad - Schlibby (10/27)
490. Wrecking Crew - EZ Racer (10/27)
491. Bram Stoker's Dracula - Fokakis79 (10/28)
492. L'Empereur - Crabmaster2000 (10/29)
493. Platoon - Mr_Stubbes (11/05)
494. Best of the Best: Championship Karate - Crabmaster2000 (11/05)
495. 8 Eyes - Crabmaster2000 (11/05)
496. Gyromite - shane (11/05)
497. Contra Force - shane (11/06)
498. Zen: Intergalactic Ninja - shane (11/08)
499. Cobra Triangle - Fokakis79 (11/09)
500. Widget - shane (11/09)
501. Bad Street Brawler - Crabmaster2000 (11/09)
502. Knight Rider - Crabmaster2000 (11/09)
503. The Adventures of Bayou Billy- Mr_Stubbes (11/10)
504. Dragon Power - Crabmaster2000 (11/11)
505. World Games - Fokakis79 (11/11)
506. Godzilla 2 - Crabmaster2000 (11/11)
507. Super Spy Hunter - Fokakis79 (11/12)
508. Track & Field II - Fokakis79 (11/13)
509. Terminator 2 - Schlibby (11/16)
510. Baseball Stars II - Fokakis79 (11/22)
511. Hatris - Fokakis79 (12/10)
512. Tecmo NBA Basketball - EZ Racer (12/16)
513. Star Trek 25th Anniversary - Geardo211 (29/12)
514. Spy Hunter - Geardo211 (30/12)
515. Adventures of Lolo 3, The - MetalFRO/Crabmaster2000 (01/07/20)
516. Jurassic Park - Crabmaster2000 (01/19/20)
517. Star Trek: The Next Generation - douglie007 (02/09/20)
518. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - douglie007 (03/02/20)
519. Bump 'n' Jump - Crabmaster2000 (03/03/20)
520. Days of Thunder - douglie007 (03/06/20)
521. Xevious - Crabmaster2000 (03/06/20)
522. IronSword: Wizards & Warriors II - Crabmaster2000 (03/06/20)
523. Faria: A World of Mystery & Danger - Crabmaster2000 (03/19/20)
524. Destiny of an Emperor - Crabmaster2000 (04/07/20)
525. Casino Kid - douglie007 (04/07/20)
526. The Black Bass - Crabmaster2000 (04/17/20)
527. Ultima: Quest of the Avatar - douglie007 (04/25/20)
528. Ring King - Crabmaster2000 (04/27/20)
529. Predator - Fokakis79 (04/18/20)
530. Magician - Crabmaster2000 (05/24/20)
531. Tecmo Cup Soccer - Crabmaster2000 (05/28/20)
532. Tecmo Baseball - Crabmaster2000 (06/20/20)
533. Baseball Simulator 1.000 - Crabmaster2000 (06/30/20)
534. Little Ninja Brothers - Crabmaster2000 (07/08/20)
535. Legends of the Diamond - Fokakis79 (07/09/20)
536. The Last Starfighter - Crabmaster2000 (07/17/20)
537. To the Earth - Crabmaster2000 (07/20/20)
538. Side Pocket - Crabmaster2000 (07/25/20)
539. Palamedes - Crabmaster2000 (07/26/20)
540. Might & Magic: Secret of the Inner Sanctum - Crabmaster2000 (09/09/20)
541. Tecmo World Wrestling - Crabmaster2000 (09/10/20)
542. Infiltrator - Crabmaster2000 (09/12/20)
543. Little League Baseball: Championship Series - Crabmaster2000 (09/14/20)
544. American Gladiators - Fokakis79 (09/17/20)
545. Skate or Die 2 - Crabmaster2000 (09/24/20)
546. Ikari Warriors - Crabmaster2000 (12/07/20)
547. The Ren & Stimpy Show: Buckaroo$ - douglie007 (12/26/20)
548. Nobunaga's Ambition - Crabmaster2000 (01/07/21)
549. Nobunaga's Ambition II - Crabmaster2000 (01/09/21)
550. Bandit Kings of Ancient China - Crabmaster2000 (01/17/21)
551. Top Gun Second Mission - Crabmaster2000 (01/29/21)
552. Q*Bert - Crabmaster2000 (02/10/21)
553. Formula One: Built to Win - Crabmaster2000 (02/15/21)
554. Ultimate Air Combat - Crabmaster2000 (02/24/21)
555. Uncharted Waters - Crabmaster2000 (03/06/21)
556. Mafat Conspiracy: Golgo 13 II, The - Crabmaster2000 (05/04/21)
557. Star Soldier - Crabmaster2000 (05/07/21)
558. Evert & Lendl Top Player's Tennis - Crabmaster2000 (05/12/21)
559. Racket Attack - Crabmaster2000 (05/14/21)
560. F-117A Stealth Fighter - Crabmaster2000 (06/03/21)
561. Milon's Secret Castle - Crabmaster2000 (06/04/21)
562. Loopz - Crabmaster2000 (06/04/21)
563. Snake's Revenge: Metal Gear II - Crabmaster2000 (06/14/21)
564. Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing - Crabmaster2000 (06/27/21)
565. World Championship Wrestling - Crabmaster2000 (06/30/27)
566. Smash T.V. - Crabmaster2000 (07/05/21)
567. Bill Elliot's NASCAR Challenge - Crabmaster2000 (08/04/21)
568. The Mutant Virus - Crabmaster2000 (08/06/21)
569. Gauntlet - Crabmaster2000 (08/08/21)
570. Gauntlet II - Crabmaster2000 (08/09/21)
571. Conflict - Crabmaster2000 (08/21/21)
572. NES Play Action Football - Crabmaster2000 (08/25/21)
573. Stack-Up - Crabmaster2000 (09/09/21)
574. Championship Pool - Crabmaster2000 (09/13/21)
575. Pirates! - Crabmaster2000 (09/15/21)
576. Super Glove Ball - Crabmaster2000 (09/26/21)
577. Miracle Piano Teaching System - Crabmaster2000 (10/29/21)
578. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Ubisoft) - Crabmaster2000 (12/02/21)
579. Rally Bike - Crabmaster2000 (01/29/22)

[NES5]
Current Monthly Targets:
Community Goal: beat 335 total NES games

Personal goal - beat a puzzle or game style game

Here is the list of qualifying games for the personal goal this month:

Adventures of Lolo II, The
Adventures of Lolo III, The
Adventures of Rad Gravity, The
Arkanoid
Bomberman
Boulder Dash
Boy And His Blob, A
Championship Pool
Chessmaster, The
Fire 'N Ice
Gyromite
Hatris
Krusty's Funhouse
Lemmings
Lode Runner
LoopZ
Mendel Palace
Orb-3D
Othello
Palamedes
Pipe Dream
Puzznic
Short Order/Eggsplode
Side Pocket
Silent Service
Solomon's Key
Solstice
Spot
Stack-Up
Super Glove Ball
Tetris
Tetris 2
Thunder & Lightning
Trog
Vegas Dream
Wario's Woods
Wrecking Crew
Yoshi
Yoshi's Cookie


Past Monthly Targets:

January Goals:

Community Target - Beat 100 games by January 31st
Single Player Goals - Beat 1 game that you've never played before

February Goals:
Community Target - Beat 250 games by February 28th - Failed (Reached 222)
Single Player Goals - Beat at least one sports game in February

March Goals:
Community Target - 300 games beaten by March 31st - Failed (Reached 282)
Single Player Goals - Beat at least 2 games based on a licensed property

April Goals:
Community Target - 325 games beaten by April 30th - Failed (Reached 308)
Single Player Goals - beat at least one driving or cockpit view flight game

Can I claim Bomberman 2, TMNT2 and NES Open Golf?

Gonna start taking claims on Dec.26th. I'll make a reminder post for everybody. Only claim rule is 1 game at a time.

PS - that's a good variety of games! Looking forward to your participation :)

Oops didn't see that lol well forget what I said

Can I still sign up or is it too late?

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No need to sign up at all. All you have to do to join in is beat some NES games in 2019 and post about it in here! We'd be happy to have you help out. The more people we have participating the more likely we can achieve this goal. When you've got a few moments over the next week maybe just read the posts above and let me know if you have any questions

So getting hyped up for this! Wanted to double check something. If we claim a game that takes some time to defeat, we can beat other games that are unclaimed, and it counts toward the goal as long as we post it? I know we can only "claim" one game at a time, I just want to make sure if we claim a game does it lock us into "only" that one specific title until we complete it?

You can totally keep beating other games while you widdle away at your claim. That is exactly the idea behind it. If you're plugging away at at long claim like Romance of the Three Kingdoms feel free to still beat up some Bad Dudes once and a while.

Can't wait for this. This might give me a reason to go out and add these to my collection just so I can tackle the
challenges.

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That's a good a reason as any!! Glad so many of you are eager to get going. Gonna be a great January!

Screw you guys.  I can't wait.  I'm starting now. :laugh:

So it's officially the 26th right? I want to stake my claim on Final Fantasy. I've beaten the PS1 remake a long time ago but never played the NES original.

Yeah what he said. TMNT2 for me

Start your claims!! Looks like we've got a couple already :)

I want to claim Vice: Project Doom.  I've played it for many, many hours over the decades.  Time to beat it.

I'll take SNK Baseball Stars to kick it off.

Doh!  Missed out on Final Fantasy.  Well, I think I will take on 1942.

Updated the claim list. In addition to the ones you guys called I'm gonna take Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord for myself. Been wanting to give it a go for quite a while. One of those foundational games that I've always missed out on and been curious about.

I also added a community and single player target goal for us to achieve. I set a lofty goal of 100 games beaten by January 31st as our community goal. That may sound high, but I think it's doable. With the whole library available to us we have tons of quick easy completions open as well as games that people are familiar with and have beaten previously. If we can hit this number in one month while everybody is eager to play it'll take some stress of later in the year as well when things inevitably slow down as the games get less familiar and more challenging or lengthy.

I gave you all a single player goal of finishing one game that you've never played before as well. Hoping you guys will branch outside of your comfort zones and try some new stuff. Maybe something you've always heard about and want to see how good/bad it really is, an important game that you've always meant to try but for some reason never have, an early game in a series that you enjoy but haven't explored the roots of or just something obscure you don't think a lot of other players will have interest in trying.


I'm also curious if any of you guys have any personal goals for yourselves this year. I'm going to push myself to complete at least 135 NES games this year that are new to me. I've currently completed 365 so if I can hit that number I'll have finished a whopping 500 NES games which would be quite a personal accomplishment. There are a few specific titles I'd like to hit, but I'm not going to push too hard to get most of them. I'd rather you guys pick the games you want and I'll try and pick off titles around the fringes that I suspect will be neglected.

Anyone else have a goal for themselves for 2019?

I'd like to claim Dragon Warrior IV.

Personal note, the Dragon Warriors for the NES are one of the main reasons I got into video game collecting. I'd see ads for them, but I'd never see them available. By the time I actually got my hands on DW4, it got stuck in a backlog, so it will be nice to put time into it.

So it will also fit the single player goal-

My personal goal aligned with the single player goal you set, Crabby.  I want to play games I've never played before.  My NES collection is pretty big, leaving dozens, if hundreds I've never touched before.  I want to change that.

That said, Vice: Project Doom is an old shame of mine.  I've had it since I was a kid, played it so much, but never beat it.  (Well, never beat it legit.  I'm sure I Game Genie'd my way through once or twice.)  I wanted to rectify that off the bat.

Aside from that, I guess I would like to beat at least one game a month.  I'm usually a dabbler with games, especially NES games, and never see them through.  I want to change that, too.

I would like to claim Tombs & Treasure. I dont know much about the game other than its like Shadowgate. Just want to go for something I never would think of playing to start out.

Maybe my personal goal will be to beat as many games on here that I don't already own. I never know what to decide on to  pick up when I start thinking of buying NES games so this will help me out a ton.

BTW, I didn't see a victory condition for Tombs and Treasures so I assume I just need to beat it.

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Is that a typo, or do we only have one day to finish 100 games?  :P

As far as goals, I don't really have anything definite. When this thing was first announced, I figured I would just play all my old favorites like the Castlevanias, Zeldas, Marios, TMNTs, etc., but I've played all of those plenty of times before and will likely play them all again. Instead, I'm going to try to branch out and mostly play games that I haven't played before and hopefully discover some new gems in the process. Vice: Project Doom is a good example. I played a few levels of that the other day, and it seems like a really great game. I know it's been claimed already, but I'll probably play through it on my own anyway.

Other than a handful of games I have in mind, I'll just plug the available games list into a randomizer and see what I get.

Typo.  Crabby has the correct date, January 31, in the NES5 post about goals.

@EZ Rider - nice claim!! That's a long game, very happy to see someone take an interest in it so early!

@Ikariniku - Vice went under my radar forever. A friend asked to play it with me last year and it was great. If I remember correctly there was one part on the last stage very close to the end that we got stuck on for a while, but since there were infinite continues in the game we just stuck with it and eventually were victorious. Glad to see our goals align!!

@Fokakis79 - Great claim as well! Tombs and Treasures is just one of those games that doesn't get any attention and I would have expected we wouldn't get to it until significantly later in the year. You're correct that the victory condition is simply beat the game. Nothing unusual for that title.

@Disposed Hero - That was absolutely a typo (which I've now corrected). I do have faith in our abilities, but 100 in one day is a little too intense, lol. I love how you're approaching this! Finding new gems on your own is super satisfying. Some of my now favorite NES games are ones I've stumbled across like that. I've also used a randomizer before too. Good way to not get overwhelmed by choices as long as you're ok with the results maybe not matching the style of game you are in the mood for.

PS - all new claims updated

I would like to claim Dragon Warrior 2 for my main game. this one is the game that will take the most time. I hope I can complete random games in between my playthrough and still have them count

Can I claim SMB2?

You absolutely can! As long as it's not a game someone else has claimed feel free to complete other games as you work on Dragon Warrior 2.

I'm just heading out to do some family activities. I'll update the list when I get back with Dragon Warrior 2 and Super Mario Bros 2 as soon as I have some spare time. Thanks for your patience guys :)

I would like to claim the legend of zelda

Crap, didn’t realize we can claim yet. Faxandu here.

All claims updated!

I'd like to claim G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor, and if no one would be put out by me taking its predecessor, I'd also like to go through G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero.

I'm going for Felix the Cat.  I really liked this game.  This will give me a reason to play it again and beat it.

Claims updated


I just put you down for Atlantis Factor so that it's fair for everyone else with only one claim. Feel free to play Real American Hero first and finish it while you have claim to Atlantis Factor though. No one can knock that one off while you've got it claimed so might as well play the other first.

Didnt know where to post this just so its known im starting from the beginning. hope its ok

This is the correct spot for all your posting. Just hold off until January 1st before you begin!

I've been setting up my capture devices to record some playthrough videos.  Of course, it didn't work perfectly the first time, but testing and swapping components is part of the fun.

For those interested in the wiring nightmare I ended up with, here's the current setup:

Video: Console --> PVM-9L3 --> Extron System 7SC --> Extron DVS 304 --> Elgato HD60 S --> PC

Audio: Console --> PVM-9L3 --> Monoprice Component to VGA converter --> PC

Awesome! Looking forward to seeing you finish Vice!!

I made mine even more complicated by having a switch ones for video and audio that can go to multiple sources but for streams it goes console - switches - pvm - Framemeister - HDMI splitter - pci capture card.  I have the PlayStation Monitor off the other leg of the HDMI splitter so I know if I have any video or audio issues, if it's the Framemeister or OBS.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20181229/8878136e06464944263d092345ffed90.jpg)

Cool setup, Douglie.  I'm not part of the Framemeister crew.  I may pick up an OSSC at some point, but that's a future purchase.  My current upscaling solution is primitive and I like it that way.  I'm trying to get a CRT look on LCD screens, and I'm fairly happy with my results. 

As an aside, I also have one of those big, awesome Extron switches, but I don't use it much because I want to redo my setup with it at the center.

The extron is cool, but it doesn't have audio. So I have old switches to handle that

I have a stupid question when I complete my claimed game do I put a claim on another game?

Also what happens if I want to play an unclaimed game while playing my claimed game but it later becomes claimed?

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You can claim another game as soon as you finish your current claim. You never have to claim anything though. You can just beat a game any time. Claim is just there mainly for longer games so that you don't put a bunch of work into a game while someone else is also working on it too.

We are all friends here so if you have put a bunch of work into a game and then it becomes claimed after you started it, I'd just send that member a PM and let them know "I'm 52 games into my Bases Loaded season already, would you mind picking a new claim?". This is all just for fun and meant for us to work as a team. Another way to prevent that is to simply keep us posted in this thread to what you're playing. If we've seen a few posts about how many generals you've recruited in Romance of the Three Kingdoms II I can't imagine someone deciding to make that a claim on it.

Got it and that clears things up

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Inspired by Douglie to show off a pic of my compact recording station.  Computer desk is too messy to show off the Elgato or the recording monitor.

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Retrogamingcables.co.uk makes RCA to Phoenix connectors that allow you to do audio through a crosspoint switcher.  I don't have any yet, so no reviews on how they work.

Loving the setup pics you guys!!

Tomorrow is the big day!! Hope you're all ready to go!

Ok, I screwed up. Faxanadu must be at my parents as I can’t find it. I’m going to try Mystery Quest. I’ve never played this and hopefully the title hints at a good game!

I haven't played Mystery Quest yet. Be curious to hear your thoughts

Hey Crabby, can you update the claims list?  Thanks.

It's officially 2019 in some parts of the world, so I'm going to go ahead and post my first contribution: Double Dragon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLuQdyEzg40

I've been practicing this over the last few days, and it took me several attempts before I was able to get to the point where I could beat it, but I finally got it down. I did a quick run right after midnight to make it official. I actually spent a good bit of time with this game a few years ago but could never quite finish off the final boss, so I'm glad to finally come back to it and finish it. Great game!

Expect more to come soon!

Nicely done on Double Dragon! That part on the last stage with the bricks is brutal and like you said that final boss is a monster. Great job knocking down such a tough game so quickly!

Finished one myself tonight too. I needed to redo my Hook video because it kept failing previously. So I slammed through that and then started up Wizardry. Wizardry is beating me down hard so far. I'm really struggling to get a handle on it.

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As much as I lack for time, I want to claim Metroid to play through with the 8 year old. Something I've been wanting to do anyways.

Glad to see a dent already being made. Stuck at work today, otherwise I would be working on my game.

Thanks! Yes, the bricks were the biggest source of frustration, and I was lucky to get by them with only a couple of hits on this run. I totally cheesed the machine gun guy at the end, but I'm ok with that.  :P

Knocked out another one today: Mighty Final Fight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6e8YzKNn9w

I've played all the other Final Fight games, but I've never played this one before. It's a very fun game, and has a surprisingly fast and fluid feel compared to many other NES games. It only took me two attempts to beat it, so it's also on the easier side compared to many other NES games. Another nice little gem!

Finished 1942 - twice.  I tried the second time in an attempt to get the stupid "congratulation" and keep missing it, so the pic below is the best I could get (without trying for a third time). Hilariously enough I tried with my phone the first, and the second time tried to use the "screenshot" shortcut that Macs have (and failed).  The pic below was with the pic shortcut in OpenEmu (which is what I should have been using all along). Oh well.  I think I would like to claim Clash at Demonhead next.

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Time to complete : ~ 1 hour 20 minutes (beat it twice)
Favored System : OpenEmu-EX on my Macbook (Nestopia emulator)
Favored Controller : retrolink NES USB
Notes : Not as bad as I remember, I think because I have mad nostalgia for the "jank" that this game has (in abundance).  It has bad hit detection (in your favor!), terribly monotonous music, and runs like an MSX game - And I love it!  Simple fun from a bygone era.

@bombatomba: Nice! 2019 has barely begun and we're already knocking games out left and right!

I'm definitely not going to do an entire video playthrough for Final Fantasy, but I'm planning on recording a few videos here and there, mainly trying to capture the highlights. Here's a 'getting started' video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEkfNUuuGEs

Yes, those weird squiggles you see in place of the text is Japanese. I've been attempting to learn Japanese for a while now and thought that playing a relatively simple and repetitive game like this would be good practice for me. According to what I've read, there are no real content or balancing differences between the Japanese and NA versions, so I hope it's cool that I'm playing this version.

Also, in the spirit of this being a community effort, I decided to take some of you guys along for the ride! In order, my party consists of Hero, Banana, Bomba, and Crabby. Sorry for leaving everyone else out, but there's only so much you can do with a 4-man party.

I hope I fight well!

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Felix the Cat was fun to play.  A great platformer that plays and looks a lot like Super Mario Bros 3. There are 9 levels with 3 sub levels for each level except level 8.  A little easy except for level 8.  Had a hard time with that.  But overall a great game.  One of the few mid-level/expensive games worth buying.

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What party are you using, Disposed? I always liked the Fighter, BB, WM, BM, party.

All beaten and claimed games have been updated. Do me a favor and when you beat or claim something keep an eye out that I didn't miss your name when I update the pages. If I did just shoot me a friendly PM and I'll fix it next time I hop on.

Great pace so far guys! If we are going to hit 100 for January we need to finish at little more than 3 a day so this is on pace for us to hit our first target and the day is only half over in my neck of the woods!

@Disposed Hero - That's awesome! What kind of character did you make me? A badass thief perhaps? I tried to do that on Wizardry, but then they all died and I didn't want to recover the members and then realized it was going to be tough keeping track of everybody so I just started naming them Fighter1/2/etc. Made things easier for me :/

also no problem playing the Japanese version for Final Fantasy. Thanks for doing the leg work to make sure there weren't any significant differences in the game.

I went with Fighter, Thief, WM, BM, so it's a similar setup. I wanted to do something a bit more interesting, but with this being such a tough game, I thought I should go with a traditional well-rounded configuration. I might play the PSP version in the future and do something different.

@Crabby: Due to your affinity for FFIX and Vivi in particular, I made you the Black Mage. :)

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I knocked off Baseball Stars this morning completing a series. This could have just been a one-game series according to the rules, but I decided to play each of the top 5 teams once. I won all 5 games and didn't give up a single run. I still contend that this is the best baseball game ever made for any system. I love the RPG elements of being able to name your characters and powering up their abilities. There are so many great touches to this game that it's amazing they got it right in such an early title.

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I wanted to start out with another piece of comfort food today and play through Gunsmoke. I played this game a lot as a kid and was surprised that even after all of these years, I knew where every wanted poster was. This is one of my favorite Shooters of all time and the Western theme is really cool. Did the shock at the end when you take out the boss, but then realize he has a brother. Haha!

For my next claim, I'm going to put myself down for Mario Brothers. I've already made a few attempts and reached stage 14, but I'm going to have to do some work to make it to stage 19. These old arcade games are a challenge and I want to knock off one of the Black Box games this month.

I always recommend BB, BB, WM, BM (or BB, BB, Th, BM), though on the NES that instantly adds another 10-15 hours of grinding (though if you do an all BB band you can skip the Tower of Ordeals).  Still, it is totally worth it at level 42 when every boss dies in one hit from your BB.

That's a LIT choice! I hope your enemies QAKE in my presense! Glad to see you didn't add NUKE.togo to the team, he's always holding me back. Gotta go now, time to RUB one out??

@singlebanana - awesome job Rich!! I really love the Baseball Stars games too. It doesn't have as much depth, but I really like Dusty Diamond also, tons of fun.

EDIT: All claims and finished games updated

I will lay claim to Tale Spin to start this off. Should be a quick one for me to complete. I'm even going to start it right now. I will be playing it on the Disney Afternoon Collection, but I will do so on time attack mode so I am not able to use the compilation's rewind feature to cheat.

Also, aside from the extremely rare titles only a couple of us may own and not have the time to play quickly, I'm guessing we will plow through this list in 3-4 months, maybe less.

You are a crazy person if you think 3-4 months is doable. Don't underestimate how many games are in this library that are hard as heck, long slogs to beat or are just not games that many people want to play. If we do this it's gonna be a nail bitter I'm pretty sure.

I'll mark you down for Tailspin! Thanks for joining in!!

I'll definitely stay motivated to pick up some of that slack to not sound like a complete tool in my majority completion guess, I figured with like 10-20 of us playing, and so many of the titles I was hoping to snag already taken, I figured it would be quick, and I stand by it. Ha ha I wanted all of the Dragon Warriors when I first read the blog post, but three of the four have already been taken, so I will have to look at the rest of my library for games I haven't ever played to keep it going.

I feel your pain!! Mighty Final Fight and Baseball Stars were games I was hoping to nab myself. I would be thrilled to be proven wrong. Bring it on!

Claiming Tecmo NBA Basketball. 

Already 5 games in.  It will take a while so I am going to tackle some smaller games during the grind.

Perfect!!

Got a question about posting pics for endings here. Anyone know of an easier method than uploading to Imgur/photobucket/Flickr then sharing it here?

I suppose you guys could upload the end screen to the database as an image assuming there isn't one already there for that game and then link us to it.

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Knocked out Double Dribble.  My brother and I played this game to death as kids.  It was the first Basketball game we ever owned.  Had to tackle level 1 first to get warmed up then took on level three.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190101/ebed1d642276f3a0ee13e4fa9621e2b0.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190101/829bdb2988ee58f2ce5339910601c91c.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190101/df831209762e8f161da8dcf18b2a8b90.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190101/44196b56291566faf1f7f1987e77c02a.jpg)

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Claiming Kirby's Adventure if it isn't already taken.

Welcome aboard!! Consider it yours. I'll update the list later when I'm near a computer :)

Oh man, I should have just made you a thief.

Here's my next contribution, and probably my last one for today: Sword Master

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbDtQKHuPQs

This is an obscure game that I only just learned about recently. It's fairly simplistic and has its faults, but I enjoyed it. It's a good thing that there's not a lot of platforming, because the platforming mechanics are really screwy. I think it would have been awesome if this was more an of adventure-RPG with towns, NPCs, shops, equipment, etc., kind of like Zelda 2, but it was still fun for a quick playthrough. It's a pretty tough game too; it took me several attempts to finally finish it.

So I started Mystery Quest and can't get the first castle beat. :laugh: This game so reminds me of Milon's Secret Castle.  There are blocks that disappear when you shoot them but unlike Milon's, which I don't believe tells you in the instruction book about this, Mystery Quest does.  I was going to leave the NES on and come back to this but then the kids came running into the room and the screen got distorted so I had to start over. 

Something I don't like about this game is your life gradually decreases over time.  I think this one is going to take a bit for me to beat but at least it has unlimited continues.

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You know that I couldn't resist bumping off Contra. A little rusty, so not one of my no death runs...damn you Snow Field grenades. But it's in the bag.

Have video evidence for it soon, but completed Al Unser Jr. Turbo Racing. Also through Chapter 1 of Dragon Warrior IV.

Well, beat the first castle on Mystery Quest.  Finally.  Game is paused and leaving it on overnight.  I'm in for a looong haul.

First day is officially over in my next of the woods and I feel like we are off to a pretty solid start! Glad to see people around mucking around in the weeds and working on some obscure titles and sports and racing games right away!

@Shaggy - Mystery Quest sounds a lot tougher than the cover would suggest. Thanks for taking on that challenge for us!

Someone needs to save all the end screens so we can make a video of every one.

Oh my goodness, I just read you have to beat the game four times to get the true ending.  Do I have to seriously beat this game four times in one sitting?  :laugh:

Just looked it up to make sure, and yup you've gotta do 4 loops! If you want to back out and start working on a different game that's totally fine.

I put a lot more time into Wizardry tonight. This game is savage. I had my Thief die and the Temple of Cant is supposed to let you resurrect your fallen party members for a nominal fee. So I grinded up with my remaining characters and tried to resurrect him and he turned to ash during the process. So they tell me I can still save him, but it's gonna cost twice as much money. Back to the dungeon to grind for twice as long. Finally get back after an hour and a half and pay to save him and .......it failed sorry he's gone forever now!! Why didn't anyone tell me that was a possibility before I invested all that time!!! Also apparently you can't have evil alignment characters on your team with good alignment characters. Not a problem because my whole team is good and neutral. Oh wait your characters can mysteriously change alignment during after battles and if you don't notice and remove them from your team, they are not welcome back. So now I'm trying to grind out my remaining good alignment characters so that everyone is evil and I can have my team back. This is all still on the first floor of the dungeon too. I have however found a good grinding spot and my fractured team is getting fairly beefy. By the time I have everyone with an evil alignment and I can have all my characters back together I should be able to make it down a few floors without much trouble I think.

Amazing first day of work guys!  Looks like we knocked off 11 games (pending EZ Racer's Al Unser evidence).


I like this idea. Maybe a slideshow video with the date and name of the member who beat it........set to some metal of course. ;)

Hehe, good to know that Wizardry doesn't stray far from the PC original.

Where were you while we were playing this in the Shmup Club? ;)

Congrats on the completion! Not an easy game, that's for sure.

Nope, I've never played this game and I want to beat games I never played.  Because of time constraints, though, I may have to look up a guide but only when I don't know what the heck to do.  I want to try to beat it with no guide.  But maybe there is a Nintendo Power...

I wish to undertake River City Ransom! I beat it in December, but for this, I will undertake it again...if I'm allowed to play it on the Kunio-kun Collection for Xbox One. I will not use Save States, only Passwords that are given in-game, and I will start fresh!

OK, halfway done through the 1st play through.  Just got to the third castle.  No guide used yet!

In the 4th castle now.  This may not be as bad as I originally thought because the 3rd and 4th castle are the same as the 1st and 2nd castle so I'm making better headway because of this.  I also read that the 2nd through 4th playthrough are the same as the 1st, just harder I think.  Hopefully, my muscle memory is working and I can breeze through the castles.

We will probably have to get a ruling from Crabby on this Redd. Not sure if there are any differences in the NES and Xbox One game that you mentioned, so that will have to be looked into.

You'd probably know better than me Redd. All I know about the differences in versions is that the player and enemy sprites are changed in the two regions. Do you know if this affects gameplay (hit boxes for example)? Are there any different enemy types or areas between the two versions? As long as it's the same game with just the different sprites I'm totally cool with it, just not familiar enough to answer that myself.

@shaggy - so glad you didn't back down! That's the kind of effort we are all gonna have to show to get through this together!! Perseverance!!

Actually, the US Version is present on the collection, and while it has a "Quality Up" Mode that fixes bugs and such, it also has the "Original" Mode as well, which replicates the original NES release.

That sounds perfect then. Baring some kind of catstrophic emulation issue I think you're good to go then. Try not to barf on everything!

Despite my hopes, looks like I won't get Vice: project Doom done before MAGfest.  I still want to keep it claimed, but the earliest I'll get it done is Sunday night.

While I am still very good at the early stages, the later ones are proving tough.  Probably because I haven't practiced them as much.  Vice is a tough game, and I'm not, perhaps, as skilled as others here.  I want to hold onto Vice, though, especially as other of my potential picks are gobbled up.  getting through it is important to me, as is the motivation of the NES Challenge to do it.

Is claiming a game mandatory? Or can I just post end screen pics without claiming prior?

... TMNT 2 is harder than I remember, I played the arcade a lot and this is so much harder, I think I'm getting it.. I hope the next try is the last... Shredder got me with the quickness last game.

TMNT 2 is done, I'm picking on to play with the child so  Fisher-Price Firehouse Rescue is my next pick.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190103/f7a000b239c287d1e3df77d67546c133.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190103/026f4152bfe54a6cd666db4afeeaf98a.jpg)

Tale Spin is complete. I will upload my screenshot as soon as I remember how I used to do it. Ha ha

I thought using Time Attack mode on the Disney Afternoon Collection would be a nice way for me to crank those titles out for the team, but I found out that preventing myself from being able to use the rewind feature to cheat created an exchange for a crappy screenshot. You guys will see when I post, but the time attack records just like speed-runner videos, and it freezes the screen on the final hit on the boss, instead of allowing the end credits to roll.

As far as the game itself goes, I loved it, and wish I could have experienced it as a child. The flying mechanics and the upgrade system between stages were awesome. Although to beat the game, I definitely had to make sure I collected all the funds I could during the first two or three stages to be able to afford the Rapid-fire upgrades ASAP. I am not great at platformers to begin with, and not having those upgrades for the back half of the game would have easily seen me burn through my lives and continues well before the final stage.

No, it is not mandatory. We do it so that we don't double up games that people want to put some time into. Just a way to save effort. It will probably come in handy more as we dwindle this list down. Things like RPGs and the longer sports titles , we definitely do not want to double the effort and time on.

I really wanted to start this challenge by knocking off games that where initially released on the system, basically the Black Box games. I'm not claiming these all of course and I'm not going to finish them all for sure, just something I wanted to try. Tonight I knocked off three of them. Kung Fu, Golf, and 10-Yard Fight. I put some effort into Baseball, but the fielding really sucks in that game.

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Donkey Kong Jr. Math done

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Donkey Kong 3 done

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I gave Panic Restaurant some play, but got bored at the next to last level. The early levels were easy, and I'm sure I could get through it if I put the time in, but not now. Maybe if nobody else knocks it out.

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"Beat it once".  On the second castle on the 2nd play through.

Popeye done

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I've played way more of the Colecovision version of this, and I wish there was a really great arcade port. Solid game.

Also, I made a cartoon! Tiny Toon Adventures Cartoon Workshop done.

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To end the evening, I colored the crap out of some dinosaurs. Shield your eyes if you dare look.

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Day 2 was nearly as productive as day 1!! Well done gang!


It's yours as long as you need it. As long as you're working on beating it you can keep it claimed. If you decide to put it down for any reason, just let me know and I'll add it back to the list for others.


Like singlebanana said you never need to claim anything to beat it. It's just there to make sure we don't have 2  or more people investing time into the same game at the same time.


TMNT2 does have some really tough spots. And both the Krang and Shredder fights at the end are brutal. Glad to see you were able to take them down, that's a lot of jump kicks!


Awesome job! I remember not liking Tale Spin at all and have always considered it one of the weakest Disney/Capcom titles. Glad to see someone found more joy in it than I did. I'll cross it off our list as soon as you're able to get that pic up for it.

@Duke.Togo - coming in with hard hitting titles right off the bat!! Who else was gonna do all those maths AND have the skills to stay in the lines while coloring??

@Shaggy - Only 2 more to go!

EDIT: All claims and games updated

Trying to fend off the Alzheimer’s.

Did a ton more grinding on Wizardry tonight, bought some new equipment with my hard earned cash, and then decided to see if I could venture down a couple floors. Floor 1-3 seem like I can handle them now, but 4 was too much. Status effects in this game are the worst. A simple Paralysis or Poison is deadly. I'm also having a heck of time remember what all my spells do. I think I'm going to have the write myself down a cheat sheet with which spell caster can do what for me, because I'm spending too much time looking them up every time I want to cast something.

I don't see the Fisher Price game claimed for me on the list?

Just finished Duck Tales yesterday and will beat Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers today.

Both of their sequels seem pretty doable for me, but I tried Darkwing Duck and it really showcases how bad I suck at platformers, so I might not be able to complete that one. Ha ha

@douglie007 - fixed that for you. Thanks for catching my error.


Totally agree with you. Duck Tales 2 and Rescue Rangers 2 are definitely doable if you can beat the first games. They are a both longer, but about the same level of difficulty. Darkwing Duck is probably the hardest of the Disney/Capcom games. Get some pics up so I can cross your games off the list!!

Great to see everyone chipping away at the list. Haven't been able to start up Tombs & Treasures just yet but will finally have several days to work on it starting tomorrow. I got a couple other games in mind to play along with it. If I start those up, I will post my progress as well.

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Just finished Rescue Rangers. Working on pics for all three of my completions over the last three days now.

My biggest problem with Darkwing Duck is the "Hook" system. Some of them automatically grab, others require you to hold "Up" as you cross them, and after grabbing, I have the worst time controlling my movements afterwards. It was a lot easier to work with the hooks in Duck Tales 2, but with Darkwing Duck, sometimes it won't register my "Down" being held and I jump instead of releasing, or I forget that I don't need to hold "Up" when jumping off of them, creating movements I don't want, or I find myself moving to the joystick on the XBone controller and I don't realize it until I really screw up a jump or an attack. Also, the D-Pad on the XBone controller feels like it plays much crappier than it should. I'm also pretty impatient, which doesn't help the situation. Ha ha If I owned them on the NES itself, I would probably do better with my trusty "Dogbone" controller, but I only physically own Duck Tales and Rescue Rangers, so someone else may end up having to tackle it if I can't get it beat.

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Tale Spin. I am really proud of myself for being able to beat this one, and during my first rewind-free attempt no less. Again, awesome game.

Duck Tales. I played this game dozens of times growing up, (if not hundreds). I know this game inside and out and was able to blow through it in under 11 minutes! That shows up as 75th all time fastest on the leaderboards. I even died twice before I was able to beat Dracula Duck. If I had beat him without dying, I would have been right around 8:30 for the completion, which is in the top 10 all time fastest. I almost want to try it again to see what I can accomplish.

Rescue Rangers. Another game I played a lot growing up, but not nearly as much as Duck Tales. I was also never able to beat it in my youth, so I wasn't going to try to set any speed records with this one. Ended up beating Fat Cat on the first attempt with only one health remaining, so I was very happy there, even if I hadn't used any continues getting to that point.
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@douglie007 Sorry bud, I polished off Golf last night. ;)

Two more black box games down: Volleyball and Urban Champion

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Dang guys, slow your roll.  Leave us some games. :laugh:

I'll claim Startropics next. I haven't ever played that one, but I had the sequel as a child...though I don't remember anything about it or if I even played it as a kiddo.

I got to Dracula in Castlevania and the game locked up, so I switched over to Mega Man.

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"Beat it a 2nd time"

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And a 3rd time

Right now I'm on my 4th run and just beat the 1st castle.  I do have a killer score of over 3,000,000 ;)

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I did it!  I beat it!  Knock it off the list.  What a lackluster ending, though.

I think I have Home Alone at my house so put me down for that one.  Otherwise, I'll be swapping games come tomorrow.

I'll take Dragon Warrior 3.  Get all 4 of them claimed

The other day I picked a NES game off the shelf with the intention of helping out with the challenge and started playing. I didnt recall it having been reserved.

Of course it had been reserved. Game being Tale Spin. Doh

But I kept playing anyway cus it wasnt one I had played before and completed it today. At least I got some screenshots for the UKV version to go on the site at some point

Ok, I can't find Home Alone.  Change my claim to Phantom Fighter.

@shaggy - Nice job persevering through Mystery Quest!

Freaking Wizardry!! I don't know if I've ever played such an unforgiving game. I thought I was going to finish it tonight and I got close as hell. Got to the last boss after navigating a few super confusing levels (one that had warps that sent you back to the beginning of the game :( ). He killed my entire party which means.......I have to start the whole game over again!!! Hooray!! So back to square one for me unfortunately. Rerolled a new team in much less time at least and already started grinding up though so I shouldn't have to invest nearly as much time as my first attempt. I also switched up a few party members so to different types so I think I'll have a better chance at the boss next attempt.

EDIT: All claims and completions updated

Nice work everyone!  27 games down in 3 days is an extraordinary feat.  Let's break 50 this weekend!

No joke! Some of us have other commitments that make it so we can't concentrate on just NES games :P

Thanks a lot!  It actually wasn't too bad after the first playthrough.  Playthrough 2-4 are exactly like the first playthrough  so once you go through it once and have it memorized it is a breeze save for a few platforming deaths.  The highest score I got was 7,000,000 something but you could easily flip the score on this game if you run a flawless playthrough.  The thing with this game is the repetition.  This is one of those games that you have to play repeatedly night after night otherwise you will forget the maze of the castles.  It's all the same and gets tiresome pretty quickly.  I would say average score.

Doesn't Wizardy have a battery for saves?  Can't you load an old save?

Just found out that Phantom Fighter has a password system so that will save me from leaving the NES on overnight.

If you only had to do one run of Mystery Quest you think it would have been better?

Wizardry does have saved and you can save scum out of battles if you do it early enough. Unfortunately it also auto saves and I didn't reset out of the battle soon enough so my save had a dead party on the bottom floor :(

I would have enjoyed it.  It was kind of mindless.  Having to beat it 4 times did drag on and on.  I would say I would like it a smidge better.

What is save scum out of battles?

I can take on Shadowgate and Uninvited this month. I can stream my playthrough of both tomorrow morning at 5:30AM EST if anyone's around.

Basically, saving mid-battle and if you get killed, restarting from the save point.

Promised proof, check Al Unser Jr. Turbo Racing off the list.

Also, have grinded my way through about half of chapter 2 on DW IV.

Started up with Tombs and Treasures today. I thought it was going to be exactly like Shadowgate but it turns out it has combat in it and just not problem solving. The combat is kind of mindless but it does add an extra aspect to it. Puzzles have so far been fun.

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I went ahead and polished off Castlevania. One of my all time favorite NES games. I tried to record a video, but it didn't record for some reason. It wasn't a very graceful run anyway, so no big loss.

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Test run of Shadowgate to make sure I remembered the route ended in me beating the game.(https://i.imgur.com/imzJrGw.png)

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Deja Vu next Shane?

Well that was quick. Most of the puzzle solving was trial and error. You can get stuck in one part and will have to reset. Which happened to me. I basically had to start all the way over because I forgot to get my password to continue. These passwords on this game are incredibly long, so wasn't happy about that.

Since I already knew what to do I got back to where I was pretty quickly. I realized as well if you come across an enemy you can't beat its the game basically telling you that you still need to level up by solving other puzzles and beating other monsters first. On the last puzzle, the game basically tells you what to do. Ending was somewhat cinematic and wasn't just a congratulations screen.

Pretty cool game! Worth the playthrough. In the words of Joe Bob Briggs, "Check it Out"

On a side note, I would like to claim Willow. Been wanting to play this one for awhile and seems like a little bit of a longer game to get through.



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I decided to keep the vampire slaying going and polished off Castlevania II.

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The haters can hate all they want, but this is a good game. It's been several years since I last played it, so I was ready to revisit this one. Playing it again, I realized just how nostalgic this game is for me, which is odd considering that I know I didn't play it very much as a kid. But the music, aesthetic, items, towns, and NPCs all feel so nostalgic.

I agree, totally solid entry in the Castlevania series. The game stands on its own as a really fun game. I like how its so unlike any of the other castlevania games. Everything you said about I agree with. You know, I actually like the quirky things about the game that others hate about it.

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Love Castlevania II as well!  What a horrible night to have a curse...and be on any dodge ball team opposing me. Dodge Ball down.

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I went through 1942 (again!) and snapped the substandard ending pic for the game.  Submitted it in the db and replaced it with the other pic on page 4 of this thread.   Back to Clash at Demonhead...

I'm gonna go ahead and scoop up this playthrough. Always fun to play the best 2D mario game.

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1 Town down with 7 to go in Phantom Fighter.  The jumping and movement in this game is quirky.  When you jump he goes in an arc forward but when he reaches the peak of the jump he just comes straight down instead of continuing to arc.  As far as movement goes, he slides after you let go of the d-pad.  It definitely takes some getting used to.

Started on Dragon Warrior 3, go the the Thief Key.

Alright, these are the ones I'll take on that I haven't seen claimed or beaten yet:

Déja Vu
Fisher Price: I Can Remember
Fisher Price: Perfect Fit
Great Waldo Search
King's Quest V
The Little Mermaid
Maniac Mansion
Rygar
Sesame Street 123
Sesame Street ABC
Sesame Street: Big Bird's Hide & Speak
Sesame Street: Countdown
Silver Surfer
Taboo: The Sixth Sense
Videomation
Wheel of Fortune
Wheel of Fortune: Family Edition
Wheel of Fortune: Featuring Vanna White
Wheel of Fortune: Jr.
Where's Waldo
Wizards & Warriors III
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

Keeping track of this in the forum thread feels clunky. I might try to create something quick to keep track of things today. Maybe a Google sheet?

@Fokakis79 - Wow you got through Tombs & Treasures fairly quick. Nicely done. I can't remember which part, but I do remember getting stuck on that one for a while.

@EZ Racer living up to his name! You ever play Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge? I really enjoyed that one as far as NES racers go. And Galaxy 5000 as well. Days of Thunder might be the hardest racer on the system though. The pit stops in that game are brutal!

@shaggy - Like banana said save scumming is basically just saving a lot and when something doesn't go your way reloading your previous save and then doing the same thing again and hoping for a more favorable outcome. It's kinda cheap, but super handy in Wizardry since there are many unavoidable encounters, but those encounters have randomly generated enemies. So I can keep reloading a save until the encounter becomes one I'm confident I can win. The last boss has extra goons with him so it's super helpful there also so that you can keep save scumming until he has 2 pushovers with him rather than a couple Dragons to make the fight more bearable.

You guys can add me to the Castlevania II fan club as well!! That's the one I grew up playing so I've always had a soft spot for it.

EDIT: All claims and completions updated!

Love the enthusiasm, but only one claim per player at a time. We want to give people a chance to play a variety of stuff and if we let one player claim so many everyone loses out on those opportunities.

What feels clunky about the forum layout? I'm happy to make adjustments if it makes things easier for you guys. All you have to do is keep an eye on the front page of this thread to see what games are still available. I thought that was fairly straightforward, but like I said I'm open to ideas/changes if you guys have better methods. 

Man guys, give us a chance at games :laugh:

I've been letting my daughter do the kid games with, so if you don't get to them all I'm going to do one of them next.

There will undoubtedly be a gap between when someone signs up for a game and when it's noted on the front page, so the only way to make sure you're not picking a game someone else has is to go through all of the posts looking for the game you picked. With a sheet, we can each just put our name next to the one we're about to play so people know immediately when it's claimed.

I didn't mean to step on anyone's toes with suggesting that. We can continue on with this format. And I'll stick to one game at a time. I was mostly picking games I figured no one else would want to take on to get them out of the way.

I'll do Where's Waldo? right now, then pick a new one when I'm done.

Where's Waldo done. I'll do Wizards & Warriors III next, since that will take a while.

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Doing a spreadsheet isn't going to make it much better. Just look at the initial post of games already beaten and games claimed and you're fine. We update this thread a few times a day and that's plenty. Crabby if you and I just want to post something like, updated to here, on the thread after we update it, then people can just look back to that.

@Shane - anyone can beat any game at any time as long as it's not previously claimed. You never need to claim a game to beat it you just have to make sure no one else is playing by checking the first page only. Between banana and myself the thread should be updated every 12-24 hours. It's messier at the beginning for sure when we have people rushing for their favorites, but it'll slow down once the easy completions and staples are out of the way.  

Sounds good! I've got the bronze thief and wizard already, so I might manage to beat this game today. Maybe I'll stream a game tomorrow morning again.

Started up with Willow. This game is awesome. I wish I knew about this game when I was a kid.

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Willow is great! I beat it as a kid. If you've never played the arcade cab, check out a video. Very different.

Finished The Little Mermaid

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I've never played this game before but have always heard good things about it. It won't go down as one of my favorites for the system, but I liked it. Very short and easy game. Even the final boss was a cakewalk.

Defender II done. Never been a big Defender fan, and this one is a little blah.

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No toes stepped on. Only problem I see with your google sheet idea is that if everyone is able to put their names down we don't have anyone moderating the list in case someone wants to mess with it or claim multiples titles. Is there a solution to that?

@Disposed Hero - Little Mermaid I found really bland and easy to the point of silliness. Definitely not one of my favorites.

@Duke.Togo - I've never understood why Defender was ever popular either. Maybe check out Resogun if you ever have the chance. It's a lot of fun and the best version of "Defender" I've ever come across.

Monster Party completed. Good game! Could have been better but the personality shines through.

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I think a solution to that would take a while to develop. That or we'd have to pages in the sheets file, and one is only editable by the moderators. You'd sign up for a game in one and provide the proof you beat it here, then the moderators would mark it in the read only sheet as completed.

Beat Wizards & Warriors III. Just as hard as I remember.

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Ninja Gaiden done.

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Silver Surfer

I know that the music is amazing in this game, but I always forget how amazing.

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Shortest game in the NES library done (Marble Madness). But very worthwhile. I had forgotten how tough the Ultimate level (level 6) is, and it kicked my butt a few times before I got through the final '6section.

Just started chapter 3 of Dragon Warrior 4 as well.

One more note, forgot to mention when I beat Al Unser Jr Turbo Racing: While it's a pretty average game, there is one thing that stands out- Background Music C is a hidden gem of NES music. It's not quite on the level of Silver Surfer's Level 1, or Ducktales Moon theme, but think about it being on whatever group you would put below those.

I made it to Lake Cheef in Willow and was able to free Madmartigan (Val Kilmer). I absolutely love this game! Its quickly becoming one of my favorite NES games I have ever played.

@banana, I watched some Willow Arcade videos. That game looks awesome also. Why didn't my arcade get this one, I would've sunk my whole allowance into that machine.

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California Games have been completed! The hacky sack was alright, and frisbee was fun but I couldn't figure out the half pipe.

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A little video for Videomation. Like it says RF Gen rocks Channel 3!!!

Clash at Demonhead is in the bag.   A little tip for anyone who wants to finish this excellent game - The last task in Clash is completely random, meaning you getting the good ending is entirely random.  After you beat the final boss, make sure to generate a password, so that you can try again.

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Zelda II looks open, and I've never got to the ending on my own before.  Also, FFIX beckons...

Willow is awesome!  I loved this game when I was a kid.  I would have picked to do this game but I wanted to play some games I haven't tried before.

Town 2 is finished.  On to Town 3.

Currently in the middle of Super Team Games. Had to set up original hardware, so I'm recording videos of each of the four events. My calves are burning.

Super Team Games complete. Video to follow once I have time to edit and upload.

We are nearly halfway to our January goal of 100 games and we still have most of the month left to go! Great job guys, looks like we may be able to blow way past it!

@EZ Racer - I love finding little hidden tracks like that. Heres one of my favs that I never heard anyone talk about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnA6NS05si4&list=PL38E19E0B2571823C&index=6

@shane - thanks for starting in on some tough games and digging out your power pad! Most of the Power Pad games are very quick completions so while you've got it out......

@Wempster - If you post the youtube link it seems to embed it rather than the link it give you to share the video

Super C done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSCqYbac4_Q

Great game. Not my first time beating it, but it's one of those games that I can play over and over and not get tired of it. Pretty much just as good as the original Contra, although I do slightly prefer the original.

Haha! I packed it up after I beat it. My wife and I had already planned to play through Tacoma today, and if I left the power pad out my dogs would have used it as a bed like they do with yoga mats. Maybe I'll break it out again Tuesday and play a couple more.

Taboo: The Sixth Sense "complete".

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Going to play Battle Chess next. I just realized one of the suggestions was to provide a brief opinion on the game. I'll include one for all of the games so far with the next game completed.

Taking a tiny break from Willow to play some Blue Marlin. Never actually played a fishing game on NES. Haven't got the hang of it yet.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190106/88bdf50b08110caf355f0244673b57bf.jpg)

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As promised, here's the video of Super Team Games. I haven't watched it or edited it at all other than pasting the four videos together. https://www.dropbox.com/s/8wmra1ncnci6s8n/super_team_games_merged.mp4?dl=0

Man, at this rate we will have everything beat by April.  You guys have too much time on your hand.  :laugh:

Battle Chess done. My queen killing the king!

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Knocked out Classic Concentration.

Fun puzzle/game show type.  You have to flip tiles over and find matching pairs to expose parts of the screen that has pictures on it.  You then have to put the pictures together to make a phrase.  

Makes you use your noggin.  A little slow paced but still fun.  Beat it on my 9th or 10th try.

It's the final bonus round that can be challenging to beat in 35 seconds.


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"Knocked out" Arch Rivals.  Yes pun intended.

Quirky 2 on 2 Basketball game where you literally punch people in the face to steal the ball from them.   Beat it on my first try.  This game is definitely more fun with 2 players.  (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190107/555913c99a1b235802eba03ff1114fc0.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190107/d5999045a3ff173e895ebc85a1fd5741.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190107/34fad816afd747a48956ba45a0541a4b.jpg)

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I know that a big part of this challenge is to experience games we've never played before, but I also took it as a chance to revisit some games we grew up with but may never have completed. Until seeing it on the victory conditions, I didn't even realize Lunar Pool had an ending, I just thought it was a high score game.

The more I played, the more I wanted to play, but I will say it's a suprisingly grueling game to complete. It took hours to get through, and in the back of my head I kept reminding myself a run of bad shots means a game over, at which point I'd have to start over from scratch.

I will say even though I have some nostalgia attached, if you have a casual interest in pool, this is definitely a game to check out. While some of the tables can be frustrating, and at times it rewards you for just hitting everything as hard as you can to see what falls, it's also the type of game that draws you in to keep playing and get a little further.

One suggestion for you crabby. 

Can we mark out the games that have been completed in the top post.  Like maybe in red front or something.

Just a suggestion.

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They are removing them from the list of games once they are completed.

Oh ok.  Thanks shaggy

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long day at work, dont feel like working on the first real grind on dragon warrior 2 so I quickly destroyed Megaman 4 for the list

We are officially over the halfway hump for January's target of 100 games and we did it in the first week! You guys are killing it!

@Disposed Hero - I grew up with Super C and it wasn't until many years later I found out about regular old Contra. I've always preferred it slightly, but that could very easily be the nostalgia speaking.

@Fokakis79 - A friend of mine had a bass fishing game for the SNES we played a little bit as kids. Never played Blue Marlin on the NES though. How is it so far?

@cverz2 - Doesn't Arch Rivals feel like a pre-curser to NBA Jam? Also shaggy is correct that we are simply removing the beaten titles form the available games list and moving them down to the completed games list. As long as it's in the available list you're good to go.

@EZ Racer - I think where your head is at. Every once and a while I go back to something I played as a kid, but never finished and dedicate myself to taking it down. A couple months back I finally beat X-Men for the Genesis after it kicking my ass for the last 25 years or so. Was very satisfying.

Very surprised that Mega Man 1 and 4 were taken down before 2 and 3!

I was able to put a ton of time back into Wizardry tonight and I'm basically back where I died last time and nearly ready for the final boss. Just been heading down to the 10th floor to grind out some slightly better equipment. One of my fighters got tagged with a -2 levels spell though so I've got a little extra grinding to do now to get him back up. Assuming I don't screw up like I did last time I should be able to finish it off tomorrow when I play. Think I'll go for a couple shorter games to cleanse my palate and then maybe try the other Wizardry game while it's fresh in my mind and I wont have to relearn too many cryptic systems again down the road.

EDIT: All completions updated

A top loader, eh? Is it one of the models with composite out or are you running coax through a series of converters? I've never found the right combination of converters from coax that allow me to use the top loader and the Atari systems.

Finished up Willow this morning! I know I have been going on and on about this game and how much I like it. But it was a joy to play. It had great music. It felt true to the movie for the most part. I mean they had to take liberties to make a game out of it, but it had some memorable scenes from the movie. Difficulty wise the boss fights were pretty easy if you were high enough level and had the right gear. The areas were maze like and you had no map but you could quickly learn your way around the different areas. Willow will be my second game to complete for the challenge and the second I have never played on this challenge.

Going to continue playing Blue Marlin but was wondering if I could claim Amagon as I just picked it up and have never played it at all. I am trying to play games I have never ever played or touched. Not sure if thats allowed if not thats cool, I will just try to play them in tandem and hope noone else jumps in on it.

@crabbie, Blue Marlin is kinda fun when it comes to fighting the fish part. Its got some weird QTEs that seem to be random on the results. I played it a bunch yesterday and I am finally understanding how to reel in fish successfully. I used to play Bass Masters Classic on SNES with my little brother all the time. It got to be a game we rented multiple times, not sure why we didn't just go buy it.

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I made it up to the boss in the 5th town.  I'm having trouble with him, though.

Great job Fokakis79!! I've got Amagan marked off as yours now. I've heard it's pretty short, but quite challenging. Good luck!

@shaggy - Have you upgraded your kicks? I found that was the easiest way to get through the game. Just make sure you keep having that fast flurry of kicks and then it's simply spacing your character just out of the baddies range and kicking them a couple times then moving back just enough to dodge their jump forward and repeat. Get's a little trickier with the later bosses that shoot projectiles, but since you restart right after the last orb thing you collected you can just keep retrying until you nail it.

I could go either way since there are things about both games I like over the other. I prefer the levels, bosses, and music in the original, but prefer the overhead stages in Super C to the Base stages in the original, and I also like that Super C is a bit longer than Contra.

Progress report on Final Fantasy: I just got the ship! Spending some time grinding for money to buy new spells and equipment before moving on.

Adding this to my "to get" list.

This challenge is making it very hard to play FFIX, lol  I need to be getting through disc 2, but instead I am spending all my time playing through Zelda II.

I'm so torn!!

to shane,

mine is a coaxial set up. and my monitor is an emerson tv with (in my opinion) a cool setup only thing i need now is a capture card and my desk would be complete

Crazy! My displays don't have coax inputs or TV tuners, so I've got to at least run it through an RF modulator. With as much electronic equipment plugged in here, though, I always get RFI that isn't fully filtered out with the magnet clamp-ons so the picture has interference. I just end up using the rPi to emulate those systems through HDMI instead.

Freaking Wizardry!!! So the single most ridiculous thing that has every happened to me in a video game happened tonight. Worse than any glitch or crash I've ever had. After a few more hours of grinding and save scumming the final boss to get him locked down I was finally able to defeat him!! Yeah game over, right? Not in Wizardry! Seems I've got to take the Amulet I was awarded for the battle back to the initial Castle you start in, problem is that the final stage is a series of warps that lead to that fight and there is no warp back anywhere in the stage. After a bit of frantic running away from every enemy because I was on the brink of death (and terrified that a random encounter would get priority in battle and take me out before I could run) I finally figured out you can "use" the Amulet to warp around the dungeon! Sounds pretty cool. It lets you input co-ordinates and even floors. Not understanding exactly what I was doing, and having absolutely no direction from the game on how this works I plugged in a few numbers to check it out............. "Your party has teleported into a rock. Everyone is dead"...😭😭😭😭😭

Being that my team was stuck in an unknown wall with the Amulet I needed to end the game I had no way to recover it. I was forced to look up how to clear the save data from my cart completely and start over for the 3rd time! I feel like I've got this down to a science now though so I rolled yet another new team (inspired by Disposed Hero's FF Party I named my party after a few of you guys), and got to grinding immediately once more. Good news is I don't need maps at this point. I've run this dungeon so many times now I can navigate it pretty well as long as I don't get teleported via a chest trap. So even though I failed spectacularly last night, I'm nearly back to the level I need to be to take my 3rd run at W E R D N A (final boss), and finally cross this game off the list. I can't imagine what would get in my way this time other than user input error so as long as I'm slow and careful during my late game battles and I'm going to look up a safe spot to teleport from/to after the battle. I keep saying this, but this time I mean it. Gonna beat Wizardry next time!!

Thanks for keeping me company in the dungeon during all of this you guys :)
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Wow, that's harsh, Crabby! The Retronauts podcast from last year where they interviewed the Wizardry main dev/designer said the NES version was the best one, but obviously even with that, it's still broken in some ways. Keep at it, and you'll get there!

Yeah I listened to that show too. Was really great. The game isn't broken, it was very intentionally destined like this. I found out after if you teleport a level or more above the castle the game tells you that you fall to your death. I just didn't understand how the coordinates worked. Turns out they match up to the 10 x 10 grid that each floor maps out too. Most areas are safe to teleport to on any of the floors, but apparently I found an exception :(

Ain't no party like Crabby party cause a Crabby party.........

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I'm sorry, I meant Town 4 not Town 5.  Anyways, I am upgrading all my moves before gathering the Jades and fighting the boss of the town.

One thing I don't like is that the manual does not tell you what the upgraded moves do.  I had to look up online what the moves did.

I did end up beating the Town 4 boss and I am onto Town 5.  This was the first boss I had trouble with.  I finally ended up trapping him at the edge of the screen and pounding him and finally finished him off.

You can also use a CRT that has monitor out, and send the composite to the capture device

Is this something we're going to do at the end of the year? I've been toying with the idea of recording some covers of various video game music for a while, and I would love to try to put together a medley of all of our favorite NES tunes to play behind the slideshow video. What do you guys think?

My life is crazy or I would offer.

I like the idea of a video showing the completion of every game.  A big issue I see is the sheer amount of games though. Showing the end screen for 5 seconds, maybe with the username of who beat it and when, or the last 5 seconds of a video or stream works out to 55 min and 45 seconds of footage.   If people would be interested though I could put something together maybe month by month to break it up.

That would be cool.

Beat Town 5 & 6.  On to 7!

Ikariniku claimed two games?

Should have just been Vice, not sure how that happened. Thanks for catching my error!

Uh-Oh! We went a whole day with NO new completions on January 8th! Don't tell me you guys are losing steam already!!

On a happier note, it's finally done!! While far from my favorite RPG on the NES I'm really glad I played through Wizardry Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. It's such an early and foundational RPG, it was cool to see where a lot of the other games I love got their roots. I don't expect much different from Wizardry Knight of Diamonds, but I'm gonna go ahead and claim it while I'm at peak Wizarding skill right now. I'll try a few shorter games in the mean time though to feel like I'm actually contributing for a bit.

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EDIT: All claims and completions updated

Ack!  Quit showing me end screens.  Ack!  I'm blind now!

My kids went back to school and I am tired, lol.  I keep falling asleep watching GameCenter CX.  I swear summer vacation was made for parents.

On another note, I did begin making progress in Zelda II again after remembering how to get the bridge in Saria town.  Now if I could find that stupid mirror...

Finally!!! This one took 2 days longer than it should have between work and my dogs and my son that thought it was cool stomp around testing the limits of my top loader from glitching out. I had to restart 4 times and when I finally got smart and started writing down the passwords, I didnt need them. :facepalm:

....but now Godzilla Monster of Monsters! is complete

Yeah, I took a short break yesterday from Amagon and Blue Marlin to play Spider-Man on PS4. I will get back to it today.

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EDITING....... PODCAST........ UGHHHHHHB

Got back from MAGfest Sunday, worked Monday, watched a Vice: Project Doom speedrun on AGDQ, and got back at it yesterday.  Still haven't beaten it, but I got to the last boss today before my skill collapsed and I couldn't play anymore.  Feels like tomorrow will be the day.

Also, found a flaw in my capture setup, so I have to fix that to ensure my completion video has audio.

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Beat Jeopardy 25th Anniversary Edition.  This was harder than I expected because I had to think of current events from 1990.

Beat Blue Marlin today! Had a lot of fun with this one. It makes me want to try out other NES fishing games.

Meanwhile Amagon is pretty challenging for me. This game really is a test of patience.

@crabbie, Days of Thunder is ridiculous but I need to put more time into it to see how difficult it really is.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190110/c5e945c9cd209646061bb2c960ce7b1f.jpg)

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Good progress again you guys. 60 games taken down so far!! Was just teasing about the day with no completions also. With several of us plugging away at RPGs it's to be expected that we'd have an odd day like that.


So close!! Bet you can taste that victory already!!

@Fokakis79 - The racing itself was pretty hard, but you can get used to it after enough time and every track is an oval so once you've got it down you're golden. It was getting in and out of the pit that was so challenging for me. It was very easy to mess up the sloppy controls and spend way too much time in there so that everyone that you've passed overtakes you again. If you can get the pit down you can beat the game though.

Was able to finish Digger T Rock. Never hear anything about it so I was curious to find out what it was all about. Surprised me that it was a RARE game. In each stage You have to stand on a pillar which opens a stone slab later in the each level and rush to it before it closes. Pretty basic at first, but becomes more maze like later on. No continues, but it's only 8 short stages so it wasn't too bad. Once you figure out the bonus stage you can score a free life nearly every one so that helped a ton. I spent a few hours on it learning the levels, but my final playthrough from start to finish was like 12 minutes. Super short game. Sloppy controls and hit detection kind of kill the fun, but there were a few really good songs in it!

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Check these tunes out!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV_QXYm5fss&list=PLEOQ0YA_1DWktLin-fWGpTRLDNCRSrJtO&index=3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip9Unn8yxrk&list=PLEOQ0YA_1DWktLin-fWGpTRLDNCRSrJtO&index=8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAx3geuBoU&list=PLEOQ0YA_1DWktLin-fWGpTRLDNCRSrJtO&index=9

And my personal favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC306e6A_h8&index=10&list=PLEOQ0YA_1DWktLin-fWGpTRLDNCRSrJtO

Alright, I have been chipping away at some of the black box games.  Mario Bros. up to level 15 (need to reach 17), half of Balloon Fight finished, and Excitebike nearly done, just need to shave off some seconds.  I'm going to go ahead and release Mario Bros. in favor of a platformer. I'll still make some runs at it, but if someone knocks it off first, that's fine.  I'm going to switch to the original Wizards & Warriors.

I didn't know Digger T. Rock was an NES title until I saw it on the list. (In fact, I have become a little overwhelmed by my feelings when I see the great many titles on the list that I had no idea were on the NES. It is actually pretty awesome to realize this so many years later.)

I have played it within Rare Replay on the XBone and mirror your feelings about it. Wonderful soundtrack, frustrating controls. (Honestly, that is how I feel about almost every RARE title I have played through on the compilation that came out before like...1992. Ha ha)

I have really fallen in love with RARE more than ever because of Rare Replay. As you progress, you get stamps for playing each game to mark your progress that go on 12-stamp "cards". After completing each card, you unlock a new video of bonus material to enjoy, and watching those really is worth any and all effort to unlock them. I have learned SO much about them and the old school video game industry as a whole from some of those interviews and explanations. The compilation touts 30 titles, and I thought that included everything they produced aside from the Donkey Kong games Nintendo wouldn't release for them to use...I was wrong. They developed something like 120 games that were successfully released, (Including the Silent Service port we all go so crazy over on the NES. :leo:) and I learned they got pretty deep into development on almost just as many projects that were scrapped over the years, not to mention doing so while enduring some of the most interesting and dramatic business changes I have ever heard of, gaming or otherwise.

Well...... That didn't take as long as I thought it would. Wizards & Warriors down. Let's add Rygar to my claimed list next. :)

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I am no good at Amagon. Can't even get past 1-2. Going to give myself more time with it but wow is it frustrating at times. 

Starting to understand Days of Thunder but yeah those pit stops are hard to get done quick.



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Tiger Heli done. I couldn't get a picture of the game over screen since it goes so fast, but you can see my score here.

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Finished Town 7.  Onto the last Town.  This came is sooo frustrating.  The controls are very sloppy which results in a lot of deaths.

Late Night gaming again but I had to try and finish Whomp'EM! i have loved the game growing up and finilly finishing the game for the first time and seeing how close I was to finishing it kind of bums me out. Still love the game though!

Done with work for the week, so that means MORE NES GAMES! Haven't played much of Alfred Chicken before this, but after playing through it I think it's been added to my replay list. Great puzzle platformer with tight controls and a float mechanic. Boss fights are a very basic shooter, so they're a little disappointing, but on the whole a great game. Once you know the stage layouts it'll probably take a couple hours to play through.

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Imagine My surprise when I logged in just now to post my Alfred Chicken completion to see I was beat to it by mere hours!! We have 600 games to choose from, what are the odds two of us in the middle of the same night decided to play Alfred Freakin Chicken!! You win this round shane......Looking at your time stamp I could have even posted mine earlier, but I thought "No one is gonna play Alfred Chicken tonight and maybe I can post two win screens today so I'll play something else too". It's not a total waste for me though since I keep a personal record of the NES games I've been beating and I was at least able to cross it off that list.

@Boshamp - I didn't even think of trying it on that collection. I should boot it up and slam through it while it's fresh in my mind rather than trying to relearn it down the road to unlock that extra content. Thanks!

@Duke.Togo - That works just fine. I know lots of the early and arcade style games don't give you much of a chance to snap a pic if they even show anything at all.

Other than my Alfred Chicken win being ninja'd I also played a bunch of Athena tonight. Whoa boy is this "game" a dumpster fire. Made it to the world of Sky tonight and couldn't quite break through that stage. I'll give it another go in a couple days again.

EDIT: All claims and completions updated

Can we put end screen pictures in spoilers, please?

I'm up to hear other opinions, but I personally don't want to spoiler tag the end screens. I want this thread to be no holds barred. Shout your victories out with no barrier hiding them. For those just browsing it makes the thread really pop too. In nearly every case (maybe Wizardry being the one exception so far) it is not a story spoiler either it's just a splash screen saying thank you, congratulations or game over. AND the newest game on this list came out in 1994!! If you havn't seen the ending by now is it really gonna hurt you to see it this year?

For me, yes.  I'll just use the front page.

Agreed Crabby, I like the photos and let's face it, there are few if no really elaborate endings to NES games that would give anything away.  No spoiler tags FTW.


If you use the front page, we will probably not see your completions.  We do not get any notifications to responses on front page posts.

Would it be possible to remove completed games from this post as well?

http://www.rfgeneration.com/forum/index.php?topic=18893.msg260507#msg260507

I was just looking through some of the games listed there and was curious as to why some of the games hadn't been completed yet, but they were.

That’s funny that you popped in Athena, because I did the same thing. Wow, the game is so terrible. I’m happy to let you hack away at it.

I feel bad about doing this but I may need to abandon Amagon for something else for now. I am just struggling with this one. I am wondering if I can instead claim AD&D Heroes of the Lance. I might revisit Amagon again but for now the game has me licked.

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Don't quit, you can do it!  Dragon Warrior 3 has so much grinding in it.  I have 8 hours in it and I don't think I'm close to finishing it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think he means he'll use the front page to submit his posts, so he's not seeing past that, to avoid spoilers.

@douglie, Alright I will keep going!

Between this and Days of Thunder my sanity is failing. Although Days of Thunder I am getting better on the track but still haven't mastered the Pit Stops. Why is everyone so close together and in the way of other people trying to work on the car?!

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Wow, we already have 64 games down. We're going to crush the 100 game goal for this month!

Still chipping away at Final Fantasy. It's slow going because of all the grinding, but I knew it would be. I just reached Elfland, so I'll be heading for the Marsh Cave soon.

I haven't had much time to play anything this week, but I hope to knock some more out this weekend. I have a few in mind that I want to tackle.

Journey to Silius done. Not a very graceful run, but it's in the bag.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVbSXy0k25k

Another game I played for the first time. It's pretty good and fairly challenging. My only complaints were that the jump mechanic was kind of finicky sometimes, and I didn't like how trial-and-error the final level was, but other than that it was a very solid game. Great soundtrack as well.

Balloon Fight down! I'll get my pictures added to this post in the morning as it's late...

Rygar obliterated. Shocked at how much of this game I was able to recall. Never got lost or backtracked. Still among my favorites on the system.

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Claiming Renegade. Played it a ton as a kid. Made it to the last level, but never beat it.

Haha! Sorry, Crabby. I didn't claim it because I figured from the time I posted a message claiming it to when I either beat it or gave up on it, the  list wouldn't be marked. I started a bit before 5am EST. Thanks to AGDQ, I've been distracted by GBA Metroid and Castlevania games, so I'm not likely to complete more this week.

@Disposed Hero- I love Journey to Silius. I always think of the jumping as similar to Castlevania. Once you leave the ground you are committed to that arc so don't jump unless you mean it! Definitely one of my favorite sound tracks on the system. Were you surprised when you had to fight a Terminator at the end?

@singlebanana - Thanks for shirking your podcast editing duties to keep playing with us ;)

@shane - no problem. It was bound to happen at some point, just didn't think it would be this early. Like I said it was still something for my personal list so I still consider it time well spent :)

EDIT: All completions and claims updated

Meh, to keep the timeline, here's Balloon Fight!

1 player mode high score
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Balloon Trip high score
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Haha, I had heard that the game was originally intended to be a Terminator movie tie-in, so the final boss wasn't too much of a surprise. My issue with the jumping wasn't so much the arc, and you actually do still have a bit of control over it once you leave the ground. I had a problem with it simply just not working sometimes when I pushed the button. I think it happened whenever I tried to jump while turning around or while standing back up from crouching, so I think it had something to do with not being able to execute a jump during those animations. It wasn't a huge deal, but it cost me some hits and even a couple of lives in some places. I still certainly enjoyed the game and will likely come back to it in the future.


I had never played Rygar before, but I toyed around with it the other day, right before you claimed it actually. It seemed pretty good from what I played. I would have tried to beat it myself, but you beat me to it, haha!

After a couple of failed attempts I just wanted to get my name on the board so I knocked out Donkey Kong (pun intended).

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Also grabbed proper screenshots for the UK release in the DB

Got my capture settings just how I wanted, but the next time I turned it on, I didn't get a signal!  Gonna futz around with it for a while, but my Vice run may have to go uncaptured.

Good News: Got my capture rig up and running.

Bad News: I'm yielding Vice: Project Doom.

I can get all the way to the last boss, but the last boss has two forms, and if you die on the last form, you have to go all the way back and repeat the last half of the last stage and both forms of the boss.  If you game over on the last form of the last boss, you have to repeat the entire last stage.  I just don't have the time to grind away on the boss under such circumstances.  

So, after yielding Vice: Project Doom, I claim Yo! Noid.

EDIT: I've been using cheats to make runs at the last boss.  Maybe I was too hasty, I thought.  Maybe I gave up too soon.  Nope.  The boss keeps taking me down time after time.  Ah, well, I got what I wanted out of the game, I hope some other RFGenner can avenge me.

Beat Monster in my Pocket

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I am officially calling it quits for now on Amagon and I am claiming AD&D Heroes of the Lance. I can't get anywhere on Amagon right now. Hope someone else has better luck with it.

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Its January and that means it's time for some Winter Games!!!
The figure skating was like the half pipe in California Games, I just couldn't figure it out.  I could jump and spin, but I would always fall down.  The speed skating was fun but the Hot Dog Jump was the most fun. Theres not a final screen so here's my scores.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbgcTrlgvAw

I actually had this game as a kid, but being only about 4-5 years old, I was too scared to really play it. Any time the "1...2...Freddy(TM)'s coming for you..." theme would start, I would turn the game off. I eventually came back to it and beat it several years ago, but haven't played it much since then. Despite all the hate it gets for being an LJN game, it's actually pretty decent. I wouldn't call it a great game, but it's nowhere near as bad as people make it out to be.

Another productive day in the books!

@Disposed Hero - I don't recall that jump problem ever being an issue for me in Silius. Have you ever played Krion Conquest? That problem you're describing is a major issue in that game. Makes a tough game all the more challenging. And regarding Nightmare on Elm Street, I think that is a solid game all around. Lots of fun to be had. I've even had the pleasure of playing it 4 players with the NES 4-Score and it was unreal, so much fun. LJN gets a lot of hate, but not everything they've done is garbage.

@Ikariniku - So close!! I'm sure someone will be willing to step up and avenge you though.

@Fokakis79 - I'll make the swap for you. Good luck with Heroes of the Lance!

@Wempster - I actually really enjoy a lot of the sports game compilations on the NES. I think Winter Games is among the weakest though. Check out World Games, Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular, Caveman Games and Crash n the Boys if you want some other short fun completions.

I've been playing Mega Man 3 all morning and am at Break Man, so I think I'll be able to beat it.

Best NES Mega Man!!! Shoot some snakes at some robots for me!!!

Yeah, this is the only one I really liked as a kid. When I was playing my brother was pantomiming playing with controller 2, and when I fell into a pit at one point it made the noise that I died but didn't reload. After jumping, I realized I was still alive. We had to figure out what exactly caused it, but when we did I was so excited that I'd have a chance at being printed in Classified Information in Nintendo Power. Unfortunately the trick was already submitted and showed up in the next week's issue.

Had trouble getting top man's ability to work on the final Wily form, but eventually got it. Mega Man 3 down.

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Going to take on Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle next.

Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle complete! Those pipe levels are terrible.

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Related to the last post, I had the a button on my controller stick a few times, and I'm wondering if Mega Man 3 broke my controller. Going to do some surgery right now to confirm.

Aw man, I hope not.  My NES controller actually got a little soft after playing Challenge "prep" NES games (FF, Super Mario, Bad Dudes, etc.) as well as Clash at Demonhead, but for some reason the softness feels better, and my hands have yet to hurt, despite how hard I sometimes have to press on the controller buttons.

Moving along with Zelda II.  You know, I think most of the time spend on this game back in the 80's and 90's was just wandering around trying to find out what to do next.  Without any help you're left to blindly poking around, which I have to say is annoying sometimes.  I finally broke out the walkthrough for some spots that would have else taken hours get through.  In contrast, the palaces are simple and straightforward.  True, I pretty much only die in the palaces, but I'd rather that than the endless wandering.  How long it took someone to jump onto one of the houses to get the down thrust I have no idea.  Must have started with a Nintendo Counselor or something and spread across the world that way.

Bugs Bunny Birthday Blowout


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Literally knocked this one out this morning! R.I.P. Iron Mike.

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Miracle on Ice Dos. Took down the Ruskies and Ice Hockey done!

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Oddly, I've never played Pinball on the NES. The physics are actually  pretty well done and better than many of the more modern pinball titles.

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Surprised that no one has done this yet, but Mega Man 2 is done.
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Yeah, half of the silicone pad around the contact point was ripped, and that was occasionally keeping it depressed. Swapped it out and I'm back in business. I started playing Battleship and had no idea how many games I needed to beat to finish the game.

Collected all the Jade in town 8.  Now I just need to beat the end guy.

I’ve started Mega Man V, so I’m going to claim that one.

Beat Battleship. 40 games to beat it. Such a long game. Every time it shows your shots landing, it shows the same ship. Every time I saw the ship, I saw a face in the ship.

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I picked Yo! Noid having not played it, but having fondness for both Capcom NES games and the delightfully ridiculous fast food mascot that is the Noid.  Unfortunately, Yo! Noid ends up being like Domino's pizza itself.  It looks good to start, but eventually becomes a joyless, tasteless chore.

Shatterhand done. I recorded a video, but I'll have to post it tomorrow.

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This is another first-time playthrough for me. What an underappreciated gem. I would say that this game is in the same league with SMB, Castlevania, Contra, Mega Man, etc. as among the best the NES has to offer.

@Crabby: I've never played Krion Conquest, but I may check it out soon.

That a lot of games of battleship. Especially as it is essentially a game where winning is basically a flip of the coin

Playing some Faxanadu while I wait on my Heroes of the Lance to come in the mail. I have played this before just never beat it. I am about halfway through the game at this point.  I will probably finish it up tomorrow since I am making pretty quick progress through it.

I also played around with Batman today, just can't seem to beat the Joker. I know the tricks to beating him I am just getting unlucky. I turned it off after awhile of struggling with it. Really great game and even if someone else beats it for this challenge this is still a game I hope to beat some time soon.

We are making great progress still, but I wonder if things will start to slow down soon. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190114/004688008c484405259183bdabc98541.jpg)

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Beat Beetlejuice this morning. Turns out that the only differentiator between the start and end sequences is the shot where Beetlejuice is bowing in front of a closed curtain, so this is all I have for a screenshot.

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The game really feels like it would be a great game if it weren't for the random ice physics that you seem to get when it comes to player movement. Most of my deaths were slipping off the side of a platform when it kept moving me beyond my controller input. Thankfully there's a few continues. There's also a point where I softlocked the game because I hadn't picked up a fly swatter and couldn't go back to the previous rooms to pick it up. Had to play through 75% of the game again just to get past it.

It's worth playing, but keep in mind that you can pick up and carry everything, and 60% of it is necessary later. Move over the top of an item in the house and press select to grab it.

Nice work all!  We have already knocked out 80 games!  Still working on Renegade, but with the multi boss run at the end, it's still getting the better of me. I WILL finish it though!  After putting it down, I started Gremlins 2. I am having a blast with this so far and have made it to the boss in level 4-2 (only 5 levels). Since 4-2 is one of the more difficult stages, I am fine tuning my runs to take less damage and make it to the boss with more health. The boss isn't difficult, but the rooms has spikes throughout that you have to jump over, while dodging the huge Gremlin sprite and his gun fire.  Really fun game that I have never played before, so this will meet my "never played" requirement for the month.

You guys had a productive Sunday!! 10 games beaten since I last updated the thread. That's really great!

@shane - Top Man can be tricky to hit that final wily hit with for sure. You can use the snakes as a back up if you run out or just want to play it slower and safer too. Glad you were able to salvage your controller too, nicely done

@EngineerMike - Glad to see you put your name on the scoreboard!! Hopefully the first of many!

@singlebanana - runs a podcast, has another playthrough to keep up with, has family obligations and still slams out 3 NES games in one day. I think we could all learn a little something from this man ;) PS - Gremlins 2 is awesome!

@Ikariniku - that's too bad. I actually like Yo! Noid. It's not the best, but I always find it charming

@Disposed Hero - Shatterhand is awesome! Glad you enjoyed it. You should try Kick Master as well. Very much in the same vein and just as good.



I was hoping to add another completion to the list myself tonight and finish up Athena, but it bested me yet again tonight. Got stuck on the appropriately named World of Hell for like 3 hours tonight, before looking up that I basically needed an item drop from the previous levels boss in order to defeat that worlds boss that I had long since lost so I restarted. Was able to get past that part (which you have to do in one attempt or you lose that item again upon your death) then got stuck for another couple hours on the World of Labyrinth. Looks like there is only one more stage after that part of the game so my hope is tomorrow I can solve the labyrinth and never have to play Athena again. I havn't played every NES game yet, but I have a hunch that Athena may be a VERY strong contender for worst NES game. It's pretty garbage in a lot of ways.

EDIT: All completions and claims updated!

Nice! I'm not familiar with that game but will check it out!

Also, you have 76 listed twice on the completed games list. ;)

Banana only get's half points for his completions :P

Took care of a pair yesterday morning, but Google Photos was down and I couldn't link the pictures.

Dr. Mario, level 20, low speed.

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First time playing Soccer. Not that great, but could see how it would be fun 2 player.

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3 hours of grinding... got the magic key... its progreas.

Finished off Faxanadu today. I have never spent a whole lot of time playing this game back in the day. Glad I picked it back up. It was pretty fun! The music was okay, not great but not annoying. Good background music. I guess the best way to describe the game is by calling it a platform rpg.  Wasn't  a big fan of the ending to the game. Kinda Anticlimactic, but the game was fun overall(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190115/fbdef30e020fe07cbdfec6290ba83879.jpg)

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Also just decided to pop in Dr. Jeckyll and Mr Hyde today. You can mark it off the list. Took me about an hour to complete it. I must say that last stage with the barrels and bombs is absolutely bonkers and I got lucky more than a few times. I know this game has bad reputation but its really not that bad. Its not a good game either. Its just kinda boring and annoying. I am wondering what others think about it that have actually sat down and played it.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190115/d1f6f74d53f60099a9f4d9d10a054be6.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190115/dbcb6d9c20dd552fdd8f0e3ae99c4801.jpg)

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Phantom Fighter is beat.

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Claiming 8 Eyes.

Rollergames done.

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This game sucks. I chose it at random and was pleasantly surprised when I started looking into it. It looked very interesting, and it's a Konami (Ultra) game! Even though I could tell it wasn't a great game as soon as I started it, I actually enjoyed it for the first couple of levels. Then about a third into the game, it goes really heavy into some trial-and-error instant death platforming. It is constant. Most stages from this point took me dozens of tries. The final boss was really cheap too. I wouldn't recommend this game.

@shaggy, Good luck with 8 Eyes! I think that game is so cool with the way you use your bird and the Castlevania-esque action.   Haven't had a chance to play it enough to get good at it to beat it, though! It is a pretty challenging game. Will need to add to my personal list of games to beat when this challenge is all over with.

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Im rusty on this game and made it to the end by the skin of my teeth but I beat Gyruss!

Won a game of Wheel of Fortune. I'm wondering if the end screen is the same for all of them. Thankfully, I'm playing in an emulator and the name is at the top as further proof.

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Went Wheel of Fortune crazy and played the rest. They're identical until the Vanna White one, which strangely prevents you from selecting vowels after a spin like you'd expect but still allows you to select a consonant when buying a vowel. It's the only game that still gives you the spin menu option when there's only vowels left, though I don't know what happens if you pick it.

Wheel of Fortune Family Edition
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Wheel of Fortune Junior Edition
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Wheel of Fortune with Vanna White
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As a bonus, here's the final word I got. It was 50/50 between two words and I guessed correct. When I saw how many letters I initially figured it would be quite easy since you get more letters up front than the other games.

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Wow, that another huge update today you guys! The month is officially half over and we are only 7 games away from the community goal!! Don't let up though keep completing as many as you can past 100!

@Fokakis79 - I've always heard good things about Faxanadu, but have yet to try it out myself. And I totally agree on Jeckyll & Hyde. It's one of those games that Angry Video Game Nerd did and people don't seem to realize that he's over exaggerating everything. Yeah it's not great, but there are far worse games on the system. It has some neat ideas, but they are executed poorly. You're absolutely right that it's just kind of boring in the end.

@shaggy - thanks for fighting all of those phantoms for us!!

@Disposed Hero - We've had pretty similar taste in games so far, but this is where we depart it seems......Rollergames is awesome!! What's not to love about a beat em up on roller blades? And the semi racing on the streets kind of levels were really great I thought. I don't remember the difficulty being too much either.

@Normatron - Sweet pick! I love Gyruss, such a neat shooter.

@shane - so you gonna take some time off the drive your new Porchse to the beach so that you can listen to your pumping new stereo while you develop a tan line from wearing your diamond necklace on your speedboat?

After far too many hours invested I finally finished Athena tonight. It is easily among the worst games I've played on any system in my life. Super bad hit detection, lots of areas that you can get trapped in waiting for a time out, special equipment required to finish certain areas that are not accessible in that area (so if you die once and lose it you have to restart), tons of areas that require you to break blocks and just as many ways that you can lose your block breaking item and be stuck until a time out, several occasional deaths for no apparent reason, sometimes items don't spawn for no apparent reason, music is just awful, fell through or jumped above the level on several occasions causing death, many enemies and bosses give no indication you are iterating with them when you hit them, spent an equal amount of time playing the game as I did waiting for items I didn't want to pick up to disappear so I could continue progressing. And to top it all off I wasn't even sure the ending was the ending. It just shows you standing outside of a castle with the same music running you've heard already and you can pause it, but can't walk. I feared my game had glitched or something so I kept it running while I looked it up to make sure. I can usually find some value in any game regardless of how bad, but that's a pretty tough thing to do with Athena. You do feel pretty badass when you have all the gold armor and flaming giant sword and can fly though.

I though it was gonna be a quick finish, but it ended up eating several days of game time from me. Gonna do a for real quick completion or two to cleanse my palate and then start working on Wizardry Knight of Diamonds which should take a bit of time as well.

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It wasn't the street levels that really bothered me, it was all the platforming in the other levels, beginning with the sewer stage (3-2). The movement is already a little awkward since you're on rollerblades, and doing a ton of precision platforming where small mistakes can instantly kill you, sending you back to the beginning of the stage since there are no checkpoints, got really old really fast. It's probably the most frustrated I've been with a game in a long time, and I recently finished freaking Ninja Gaiden! I also found the beat 'em up mechanics to be underwhelming compared to games like Double Dragon and TMNT II.

Maybe it was a little harsh to say it sucks (I had literally just finished the game and was still fuming), but it's easily my least favorite game I've played for this challenge yet by a large margin. As I said in my last post, I was actually enjoying it for the first couple of levels, but then the trial-and-error platforming killed it for me.

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I think I'm going to play White Lion, I mean Ghost Lion next. I haven't played through a traditional RPG on the NES before, and I used to own a copy of this when I got paid for a web dev job in video games.

Finished chapter 4 of Dragon Warrior IV last night and have made good progress into chapter 5. I'll comment much more after completion, but I gotta say the hype is legit, it's a fantastic RPG, especially considering it's age.

Vice: Project Doom done.

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I'm not gonna lie, I was glad when Ikariniku relinquished this game since it gave me an excuse to finally play it. It's another great underappreciated gem.

Well done, Disposed.  I relinquished it because I remembered you said you wanted to play it, and I wasn't getting anywhere with it.  This is about playing games, not being greedy and stubborn.

If anyone wants to try and take on Days of Thunder be my guest. I don't have it claimed but I have mentioned I was playing it. I don't understand how this game works at all. Crabbie did warn me but I had no idea this is what it would be like.

Meanwhile I have been messing around with Black Bass. Didn't realize how long this game was. Its pretty fun and was published by the same company that did Blue Marlin. I kinda wish it was developed by the same company just because how the fish fights in Blue Marlin were more cinematic and exciting. Reeling in fish on Black Bass is a little less exciting to look at. Still pretty fun, and I learn something new and get a lot better the more I play. It has a learning curve to it but you actually feel yourself getting better instead of just feeling like you are endlessly struggling. Reading the manual on this one is very important.

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Ikariniku has been avenged!!! Good job team!

I was in an arcade-y mode today so I brought Dig Dug II and Pac Man to play. Couldn't quite seal the deal on Pac Man, but did make it to the final stage needed to beat it 3 separate times so I'm close. Dig Dug II is a terrible sequel to a decent game. Bad controls, bad level design and annoying enemy AI and placement. Also there are a few levels with so many characters that they can't all appear on screen at once so you start the round with literal invisible enemies which is ridiculous.

Here's a snap from the cinematic you get after the final stage before it loops:

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And where were the Nintendo censors on this stage!!

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Had enough time for 2 more attempts at Pac Man and was able to sneak out a win on my last attempt! Here's a pic of my death after beating the blue key stage

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A manji is not a swastika.
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Adventures of Tom Sawyer is in the bag. Pretty short mostly enjoyable game. The music is incredibly repetitive and gets grating after awhile. Not a difficult game really. Stage 5 is probably the one I had the most trouble on.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190117/c19c4a1d8f5072baaa2dc7cb3f8a2ca9.jpg)

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Legend of the Ghost Lion done. It was a reminder of why I don't like RPGs. The white lion fight is constantly re-summoning characters to act as damage sponges, all the while hoping you can get one hit in every three or four rounds.

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We have officially completed the community goal for January of 100 games beaten with 14 days to spare!! Everyone deserves a big crisp high five. It's been so great to see so many of you guys digging into the NES library with me and sharing your experiences. Don't start slacking now though we still have A LOT of games left to play!

@Fokakis79 - Interesting. I've have yet to play Tom Sawyer. Sounds like it's a least worth a try. How long did it take you to complete?

@shane - please don't let Ghost Lion be your barometer for good RPGs :p

I had a busy night too! Knock 4 games of the list today! Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat, Wacky Races, Bigfoot and Raid on Bungeling Bay. If you like top down racers Indy Heat wasn't too bad. The single player is quite easy, but I imagine the multiplayer to actually be a lot of fun.

Wacky Races surprised me as it had no actual racing AND you play as the bad guys. It's a very mediocre and forgettable platformer, but it did use a power up system similar to Gradius which was kind of a neat idea. It's was a very easy win.

Bigfoot was the most interesting game I played tonight. Monster Truck races and events like Car Crushes, Hill Climbs, Mud Races and Tractor Pulls. Took me a while to get a hang of the side scrolling parts since you accelerate by alternating between left and right on the d-pad. Once you get that down you also have to pay attention to your shifting and boosting. Was more complicated than I've seen in any other racer on the NES so far. In addition to all that stuff you're constantly destroying and paying to repair your vehicle parts. It seems really hard at first, but you can kind of cheese the AI so that they run out of money and can't afford to repair their vehicle. Once you've done that you can dominate in most events since your truck has max stats and they are just struggling to afford to stay in the game and can't upgrade their vehicle at all. It wasn't an amazing game, and it had terrible music, but it had some really cool ideas in it.

And last was Raid on Bungeling Bay which was a super boring helicopter shooter. You start on an aircraft carrier which you have to defend during your bombing runs in which you destroy enemy factories. Not my jam, luckily there isn't a campaign or anything and you just have to beat a mission on each mode.

Indy Heat:
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Wacky Races:
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Bigfoot:
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Raid on Bungeling Bay:
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Also had time to sneak out a Ms. Pac Man win! Been playing a lot of Pac Man Championship II lately so I was craving a bit more.

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Way to go everyone on the great achievement this month! Glad so many people could put in the time and participate!

@Crabby,  Not that long really, I think a little  under a couple hours but probably can be finished in much much less time than that. You have infinite continues so it really is easy to make it through the game. All of the bosses are pretty easy and didn't die on a single one. Also Bigfoot sounds awesome. It makes me think of the Monster Truck commercials that used to come on TV.

@Shane, The box art alone makes me want to play Ghost Lion. I am curious what makes it a bad rpg.

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Pulled from the Discord channel:

It doesn't have any grinding required, but the leveling system relies on you exploring every screen of the game to find items that increase your level.

To find them, you fight a lot more battles, which doesn't do anything but waste time and add to your ruby count that you mostly need for traveling by boat a couple of times.

I think the fight with the white lion took some 45 turns. That's the thing I don't really like about RPGs. It's just lengthening the game without requiring much skill on the player's part.

I'm going to toss Mega Man V back open in case anyone wants to tackle it. Haven't had much time.

@shane, got it. Although I see RPGs requiring different skills than ones you use in action games. RPGs require the use of strategy. There are exceptions such as Dark Souls which requires controlller skills and strategizing on how to approach taking on challenges.

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BTW I beat AD&D: Heroes of the Lance. Very short game. Just 4 stages and the last stage is just the final boss. Took some puzzle solving to kill the final boss but was able to get it done. I read the books that the game was about when I was younger. The game is basically about the last part of the first book from what I can remember.  Apparently there is a sequel to it that covers the next book but it looks like it was only released in Japan. Please let me know if I am wrong about this and it was released because I would like to play it. The music isn't half bad. The ending music is very catchy to me and I thought it was pretty awesome. I would like to claim Ultima Exodus for next long game. Might go after Batman again while I am working my way through Ultima. I am stalling out on Black Bass for some reason the difficulty of catching fish just shot through the roof. Sticking with but might need to try different strategies for catching fish.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190118/54d907101ba7f2e0376f213abc2956e4.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190118/a62619275dd73af9fdc77a13b8a7acfc.jpg)

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Nice job on Heroes of the Lance Foakakis79! I enjoyed it as well. Short and sweet! I'd recommend using a guide for Ultima Exodus. The dungeons and the moon phase travel are both very confusing without some extra help. It's a neat early RPG, but if you're up for it afterwards Quest of the Avatar is absolutely mind blowing.

I wanted to keep the Monster Truck madness going tonight so I played through Monster Truck Rally. It was not a good game at all. If you're craving some Monster Trucks Bigfoot is a better game in every possible way.

Also noticed the lack of shmups being beaten so far (other than the two Duke took down earlier) so I decided to grab a couple to try. Played and beat Stinger with a little trouble on the top down stages. Game felt a lot better for me when it was scrolling horizontally. And like many shmups of this era once you've got your weapons and shields built up you can make some really good progress. It's a tough recovery once you get shot down though. Thankfully it was very short and every boss fight was a breeze so it was just getting through the 3rd and 4th stage mostly for me. Pretty unremarkable overall.

Also tried to play Sqoon tonight, but my cart kept freezing so I'm gonna have to tear it apart and give it a good scrub down to see if I can't fix that up. Since Sqoon didn't work for me I decided it was time to start my claim of Wizardry Knight of Diamond. Luckily it is an expansion to the first one instead of a sequel so all the the systems in place are super familiar since I had to play the first game 3 times basically. I don't think this will take me nearly as long since I learned a lot of the harsh lessons of Wizardry already. After rolling a team I was satisfied with I found my favorite grind toy (Murphy's Ghost) and spend a couple hours power levelling with him. Got my entire team to Level 12 already which is the same level I finished the last game with so unless the later areas of the dungeon are more plentiful in XP I should be good to do some serious exploring already and hopefully even take this one down next time I can play. I was a little sad to reset the save data on the cart because the previous owner had some level 30 elite characters I could have pulled from, but that seemed unfair plus if they had already collected any story items (which was very likely) I would have missed out on those parts of the game so I cleared it all to start at level 1 again.

Monster Truck Rally:
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Stinger:
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And Wizardry as upped it "classy" factor with some great new encounters in the expansion. Can't wait to grind me some Dinks!
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singlebanana "The Dink Grinder"............ I like the sound of that

It's officially canon now!

If by "canon" you mean that it's in my signature now, then YES......YES it is

Gun•Nac completed.

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The difficulty was all over the place. There were bosses in some levels that felt like they should have been early game bosses, and it wasn't because of the weapon type I had. I kept weapon 5 for as long as possible. Pretty fun, though. The final boss is a little intense depending on where the tail is positioned.

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Making progress in Legend of Zelda.  4 dungeons down!

Power Blade done. Another awesome game I'm playing for the first time!

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Interesting to hear you say you prefer the weapon #5. I've always preferred weapon 3, and most playthroughs I've seen go for it as well, or weapon 4. Shows the game's balance if that many weapons can be the preferred one.

I like how the outer most beams sweep the complete screen horizontally, then run vertically along the edges of the screen.

This update puts us at 108 total completions now!! Can we make 150 by the end of January??

@shane - Gun Nac is so much fun! Great job it's pretty tough at parts too.

@Wempster - nice progress. Halfway there!!

@Disposed Hero - I  LOVE Power Blade. It's one of my favorite games on the system. I often listen to just the soundtrack as well because it's so dang good. Power Blade 2 is decent, but 1 is superior in every way.

I'm in the middle of Maniac Mansion. Currently waiting for the power to be turned back on.

I think my wife is sick of watch dragon Warrior 3 lol.

Tragedy has struck.  I'm playing on a retro duo because my NES isnt working and I locked up after the 4th dungeon.  I didnt realize I hadn't saved since the middle if the 2nd dungeon. So back through we go, also having to get the white sword, the candle, and the magic shield again :(

That sucks, sorry man.

Maniac Mansion done.

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Yeah, I played the first stage of Power Blade 2 and didn't like it nearly as much as the first game. I'll probably still go through it at some point though.

Bucky O'Hare done.

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I didn't like this game for the exact same reasons that I didn't like Rollergames. It does have good mechanics and some interesting gameplay elements, but I swear the trial-and-error platforming is made for masochists. Even the bosses have instant death attacks in this game! I think the life bar was just there for looks.

Monopoly completed.

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What emulator are you using?

OpenEmu on OSX

Oh man, agreed. I never could beat that game growing up, I played it so much I got close more than a few times though. That is one of the games that defined my NES childhood.

Jeopardy complete. I lost my first game, so I needed to recruit my wife to win.

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I saw nobody had posted a game yet today so I went and beat John Elway's Quarterback.  I came to post the picture and the prolific Shane has beaten yet another game.  Were killing it this month you guys!!!
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Another great update puts us at 114 NES games beaten in just 3 weeks!! Really awesome progress team!

@Douglie007 - There are a lot worse games you could be annoying your family with than Dragon Warrior!

@Wempster - That's rough with your Zelda file. Hopefully you can get back to the 4th dungeon with all your equipment without too much frustration. Also thanks for keeping an eye on the thread to contribute on slow days! That's the kind of stuff that gonna get us to our goal this year.

@Disposed Hero - I'm not willing to spend much energy defending Rollergames. I like it, but I can easily understand why others may not. Bucky O'Hare though!!! That game is freaking awesome!! Pretty surprised you didn't like it. I always have a blast with it and like Power Blade it's got a really amazing soundtrack too.

Was able to seal the deal on Wizardry Knight of Diamonds just now. The dungeon in this game are vastly more challenging than the first game. It's got half as many floors so I guess they felt the need to pump up with confusion factor x10 to make up for it. Tons of teleportation tiles, pits, traps, one way doors, dark areas and even some squares that wipe out all your spells (which is basically a death sentence)!! I found some maps online and used them A LOT for this game. Was kind of surprised that there was no final boss type battle like the last game. You have to fight and obtain 5 pieces of Magic Armor and then have a single character equip all of those pieces and venture to a spot on the final level of the dungeon where you get a staff that you have to return to the starting castle.

To get to one piece of the armor set you have to get behind a locked door that will only open if you have the full armor set...... that's just mean!!! The mage has a late level teleport spell that can get you into that room, but I had made a team with no mage so I had to spend an extra hour grinding up a mage just to teleport me there for that one fight. Was looking into this game a bit and it seems like the NES version is totally reworked from the original. Since the original release of Knight of Diamonds is an expansion of the first game the intention was to import your character saves from the first game into it and have a very high level of difficulty right off the bat. Since there was no way to transfer character saves into the NES version they had to rework the entire game to be playable with a level 1 party. They also made completely different maps for the NES version compared to the PC one. That's a ton of work for a port.

Happy to be done with Wizardry now. It was a neat look into the foundation of RPGs and Dungeon Crawlers. I may pop in a much later one in the series at some point just to see how they've evolved over the years.

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Gonna take a few days off of RPGs and play some other genres then I'll start my next claim - Bard's Tale

Decided to take off Dr. Martin Luther King's B-day off (which is a floating holiday for my company) and squatted down and finally finished Zelda II  Yowza!

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Time to complete : Six hours! (and I consulted a walkthrough to find out some of the puzzles!)
Favored System : My "clean" NES attached to my PVM
Favored Controller : My mushy "Good Job" controller
Notes : It doesn't do much, but I found that when you pick up a red potion (which fills a lot of your magic meter) if you cast magic while it is filling up the potion will go a longer way.  Since the red potion isn't infinite (it will stop after a set number of "boxes") I don't consider this a cheat at all, rather a survival tactic.

I think I would like to take on Dragon Power, and since this is also a game I haven't played before (though I watched Arino on Game Center CX play through some of it), I would like it to go towards my monthly goal.

@bombatomba - did you beat shadow link “legitimately” or crouch down in the corner where he can’t get you?

I had to laugh at this one.  To answer, both.  I knew I would be able to win by doing the crouch thing (I might have beaten this game before?), but in the end it I think Shadow Link is a slightly harder version of one of those annoying jumping blue bird enemies in the Great Palace (Google says they are called Fokkas), so a much harder Iron Knuckle.  I spent about two hours on the Great Palace, with about half that just trying to get into the darn thing.  It was fun, but I don't think I was prepared for this game being as difficult as it was.

Power Blade 2 done. Yeah, not anywhere near as good as the first.

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Blue ring aquired, sword fully powered up and back on course.  5 dungeons down and this time I made sure it saved!!

Looks like both Zelda games are gonna be done pretty close to each other! Should have some Dragon Warriors done in close proximity soon too! Good job tackling some long titles gang.

I went for a childhood game that I have never been able to beat tonight and finished off Indiana Jones & the Temple of Doom. I don't think we ever got past the 4th or 5th wave as kids and never really understood what I was supposed to do. This one felt good to finally cross off my list because of that. This game is a great example of interesting gameplay ideas implemented extremely poorly. There are 12 "waves" to get through to finish. During the first 6 waves you simply "touch" kids which reveal items such as gun ammo, extra lives, hints to secret areas, pieces of map, and one kid will have the key to the next wave. These levels all alternate between platforming/combat areas and minecart/conveyor belt areas with the two styles sometimes overlapping and you can traverse back and forth between the two styles while you are hunting for kids to "touch"......Like a lot of games at the time it's pretty cryptic and doesn't tell you what the map pieces do or that to uncover bombs you need to use your knife to cut open areas and then to open secret passages you need to throw bombs. Once you get to wave 7 and 8 they introduce secret items that really help you out in waves 9 and 10. I wasn't able to find the skeleton key, but I did get the Magical Idol which I think is basically necessary to beat this game. Wave 9 is where the game gets simultaneously horrendous and interesting.

In this wave you have to shoot floating stone heads in the lava to make them stop so that you can cross the lava and get to 3 orbs that you'll need to unlock doors in the next few waves. If at any time you die in the next waves you have to hunt around for those 3 orbs that have been separated and scattered around the level. Now in wave 10 you have 24 possible exits to wave 11. If you have been collecting the map pieces and missed a few you'll have a partially constructed map of one of the 6 areas with 4 possible exits to try (keep in mind you also have to have the 3 orbs so if you die once this wave is a nightmare). It's a really cool idea to have to collect map fragments earlier in the game to help you navigate this stage, unfortunately it's just designed to be a deathtrap and keeping hold of your 3 orbs while trying to find secret exits is brutal. If you have the Magical Idol it'll narrow down your search to just one door, but you still have to navigate to it through a brutally long and challenging stage. Wave 11 has you climbing and swinging (the swinging mechanic feels really good too!) your way up a cliff (again while keeping your 3 orbs on you). And finally you get short wave where you confront the villain and save the lovely lady and presumable "touch" one last kid.

Even though the stages are bland as heck, I though the mechanics and the goal of waves 1-8 were quite fun. 9-12 kind of ruin any joy this game should have brought me though. It's probably a good thing we never got very far as kids.

Touch kid to see prize....
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I'm a Big Man I win!
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@crabbie,  You must feel like a big man after touching kids for a prize.

BTW Started up Ultima Exodus yesterday haven't got too far yet. Trying to level up so I can get the Pirates to show up.

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@crabmaster- Haven't taken pictures of progress, but I should be through DW4 in the next few days. Just reached reached "last refuge" and took down the 4 guardians.

Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu done.

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I've always been a big fan of Jackie Chan's movies, so this game has always intrigued me. It's a pretty good game. Not among the best on the system, but a short and fun one.

If we can beat 30 more games in the next 8 days that'll put us at 150% of January's monthly goal! Keep gaming everyone!

Was able to clean up my Sqoon cart that wasnt working a few days ago and get it to loop tonight. Pretty unique shooter and a lot better than I initially thought it would be. Also for it's length it gave me a lot more trouble than it should have. Found out how to get some extra 1ups and learned to hold back my power up drops until my energy was low and did a lot better. Also didn't realize until fairly late that if you can destroy the entire factory you get to keep your energy level at whatever it was when you destroyed the factory for an extended amount of time, that helped take a lot of the timer pressure off on the later stages.

No ending screen and the game immediately loops back to phase 1 so here is a pic of the final factory being destroyed:
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Was still in an arcade kind of mood so I plugged in Mappy Land after Sqoon was done. It starts off pretty charming and fun and pretty quickly just gets annoying. The levels with the vines and floating trampolines are atrocious and then there are a couple levels in the game where you are in a cave and all of the platforms and ladders are invisible so you just have to trial and error your way through them. Just stupid design and not fun to play. Was neat that the cut scenes in the game kind of told a primitive story of you meeting your mate, getting married, having Christmas and then having a son together though.

No ending screen for this one either so here is a pic of the final cut scene:
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@Fokakis79 - I always feel like a Big Man!

@EZ Racer - That's a big game and you're making awesome progress. Keep at it!

@Disposed Hero - That's a perfectly accurate description of my feelings towards Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu also :)

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Worked some more on Ultima. I got a ship and I am grinding for gold so I can get better weapons. Probably got a few more days in this game but maybe longer. Don't have a good gauge on how long this game is.

I think after this rpg. I am going to claim something a little simpler. Maybe a platformer or shmup.

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Really proud of my victory tonight. "Beat" (pass the 8th stage) Ninja Kid just now! I've tried to beat this one in the past and it has always decimated me around stage 3-4. After dozens of failed attempts I started to get some sort of weird Stockholm Syndrome and was enjoying the game quite a bit more and was understanding it a lot better (when to use power ups, what some items did, best use of invincibility frames, etc). Just had an amazing run and even though I wasn't getting lucky with my scroll and dungeon placements I was in the zone and made it all the way to the 12th stage in spite of that! I don't hate this game like I used to, it's got some kind of janky charm to it.

No ending screen so here is my game over on the 12th stage:
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@Fokakis79 - I think Ultima Exodus was about a 20 hour play for me when I did it a few years back. That's a good idea to switch it up. I don't want you guys burning out, it's a challenge for sure, but it's also supposed to be fun. I didn't want to jump right from Wizardry to Wizardry Knight of Diamonds to Bard's Tale so I've been buffering with other smaller games and it's been working like a charm to keep me motivated.

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After finishing the monthly playthrough, I decided to jump back into the challenge and take out an old favorite. I'm a big fan of puzzle games and Kickle Cubicle is among my top 10 favorite games on the NES. IMO, it's a must own.

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What's everyone up to? It's been unusually quiet these last few days.......

On Sunday I'm going to be starting Bard's Tale so I wanted one more quick game before then so I decided to go flight sim since that's a genre I don't know if any of us are too eager to dive into. Booted up F15 Strike Eagle and took it down. As long as you're not playing on the Ace difficulty it's an incredibly easy game. I played through the whole thing on Pilot difficulty to be safe, which just meant I had to grind a couple missions multiple times to get my score high enough to be promoted and open up the later missions. By the time I got to the final mission I was pretty bored with this so I didn't bother going for the final medal and was just happy to beat each mission and call it a day.

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@singlebanana - I really like that style of game too and love Kickle Cubicle, but I've always preferred the Lolo games to it personally. Have you ever played Tricky Kick for TG16? It's quite similar, you'd probably enjoy it a lot too.

Night Three of Eight, for work. No gaming until next week, and that will probably be reserved for RE2.

I bought some games (Ocarina 3D and Link Between Worlds), does that count?  Nah, I played some Dragon Power a bit and man is it hard to progress.  I seem to remember something about secrets (punching walls?), so I will try to kill it this weekend.  Haven't been doing much else except play FFIX.

@crabmaster2000 Yes, I love the Lolo games, but I think Kickle Cubicle is much better. It has more action, where as Lolo is mostly (not always) stagnant in terms of having to avoid many enemies; it's mostly just figuring out the puzzles and moving on. KC also has amazing graphics, especially when you get to the end of a Land and make your way to the boss battles.  Boss battles are easy, but hey, at least it has them and they are a very nice touch.  Really nice and well-programmed ending for this game too, and even some bonus levels. I know that you don't really collect Famicom games, but puzzle titles are where that system really shines as compared what we got for the NES. :)

Alright everyone, January is almost over. Let's push this weekend to break that 150 game mark!

Will definitely have some time to grind out a few games this weekend. I have been unusually busy with work this week. I usually take a day off in the middle of the week so I can do stuff around the house and have time for video games. This week I wasn't able to get that day, but this weekend and next week I will get it back. I will probably be able to get through Ultima next week. But, I will probably try out and see if I can beat any quicker games over the weekend.

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I have been making progress on Dragon warrior 2 the past few days but it has been years since I have felt angry to the point of almost breaking my controller. I had to set the game aside to play something a bit more relaxing, but I think im ready to get back into it this weekend.....  I WILL DEFEAT YOU, CAVE OF RHONE!!!   >:(

City Connection is done. I got through the first loop, but didn't get a good pic until the game had moved onto the second loop. Played this a lot as a kid, but it's one of the few games that seemed way harder when I was younger as opposed to now. It's fun for something different, and has solid controls and graphics, but it's probably not worth going out of the way to play if looking for a deep experience.

Dragon Warrior IV complete, and WOW! What a fantastic game. While I'm no expert when it comes to RPG's on the NES, I have to think this one would be tough to top. Great story, great music, great sprites, and only occassional grinding.

I posted a full review on the blog page, feel free to check it out-

http://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/EZ+Racer/Dragon-Warrior-IV-the-other-NES-Dragon-Warrior-3871.php

Wow is Dragon Power a difficult game!  It represents everything I love and hate about "janky" Famicom games; difficult, obtuse with its gameplay, and 100% random with item placement.  And once you progress to a certain point, learning how to survive, you get a nasty surprise:

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Attempting to continuing past stage seven will always start you at stage seven!

The random item drop, though, is the true challenge of this game.  You will need health, but you might never get it.  But as backwards as it might seem, I think the strategy is to start from the beginning of the game, instead of hoping for a miracle (with multiple cake drops) in the later stages.  I'll get back later is this strategy actually works.

Wanted to sleep on it for a few days, but I think I'm going to do Mega Man 6 as my next claim. While I've played it briefly, it's the only NES Mega Man I've never really sunk my teeth into.

Mega man 2, 3, and 6 were the three I played a TON of growing up. We rented 4 and 5 a couple times, and eventually got 1, but I have little memory of the stages when I play through them again nowadays. Mega Man 2 was also the very first video game I ever conquered. Even then, I never did become very skilled at platformer titles...I guess I never developed the patience required or the "Futuresight" so many great platform gamers have. My little brother, on the other hand, became a platforming God.

@EZ Racer - Nice job on Dragon Warrior IV!! That's a really big game so it's pretty encouraging that someone got it done in January already. Pretty funny that the last game on the console was finished first too. I've got a buys weekend and just popped in to update the thread, but I plan to check out your review as soon as I have some spare time son Sunday or Monday, really looking forward to it actually. I really like City Connection. It's one of the most "chill" feeling arcade style games I've ever played. I never really try to get a great score on it, I just find it relaxing to pop in and play until I die. Interested to hear your thoughts on Mega Man 6 too since it tries some pretty unique stuff for the series.

@bombatomba - wish I could offer some tips, but I havn't played Dragon Power myself yet. Good luck!

Beat Street Fighter 2010 today. That last stage is just an adrenaline rush trying to beat all the bosses with enough time left to take on the final boss. I really love this game though its challenging the controls are well done. I wish they would've made a sequel to it(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190126/5b1de08ba62d4484ffe865ee11381143.jpg)

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Knocked off 3 game shows today. Double Dare, Jeopardy Jr. Edition, and Hollywood Squares.

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Man, Double Dare brings back some memories. Never could get every prize at the end. Lol

We are at 129 games beaten right now. Who's gonna beat the 130th game for us?

If you guys havn't checked it out yet, give EZ Racer's blog entry on his experience with Dragon Warrior IV a quick read. This is exactly one of the intentions of this challenge. To encourage you guys to dig into your backlogs and hopefully find some amazing experiences you've been depriving yourself all these years!

http://www.rfgeneration.com/blogs/EZ+Racer/Dragon-Warrior-IV-the-other-NES-Dragon-Warrior-3871.php

@fokakis79 - nicely done on Street Fighter 2010! I havnt beaten that one yet myself, but I have played it in the past and it seemed quite challenging.

@singlebanana - 3 more in one day, that a boy!

I put several hours into Bard's Tale last night. It's definitely in the Wizardry vein of games, just with a lot more personality/style to it. Rolling characters and starting your adventure were significantly less frustrating that Wizardry was, with that said I've still died a few times as some of the encounters can be very hard. Now that I'm up a few levels I'm able to cast a lot more spells which is helping out quite a bit. Was able to get my front row team setup with some semi-decent equipment and beat the first "boss" in the first dungeon of the game before shutting it down for the day. Not sure how long this game is going to be quite yet, but my gut says it wont take me longer than this week unless there is a crazy spike in challenge or a lot more dungeons that I'm currently unaware of. Havn't been able to find a good grinding spot yet though so that may slow my progress down if I need to do some grinding later on as well.

Had to snap a pic of the previous players characters before I deleted them to start my own. It was hard not to keep quality party members like Butt or Farto, but sacrifices had to be made....
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Yeah, the obstacle course and challenges really suck.  Side note: I had $18,700 going into final Jeopardy, risked $15,000 and missed the question. Ha ha!  Oh well, it's a win.

@singlebanana - Hollywood Squares! So many memories of playing that at my friend's house when we were kids. That, and Anticipation were our go-to casual NES games for when we wanted something that wasn't overly taxing.

It may be a while before I complete G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor. That game is more challenging than I bargained for. Holy cow, it's hard. I should have claimed the first game, because it's more fun, and I know I can beat it, because I have before. :slick:

Alright crew, 21 more games to reach 150 for the month and only 4 days left!  That's just over 5 games per day. Let's do this!  

Although not claimed and so no one doubles up, I am 5 wins into a Tecmo Bowl season and should have that done soon.

I'm getting pretty frustrated with the cheap antics of Renegade, so I'm going to keep playing it, but drop the claim in case someone else wants to run with it.  Picking up Tecmo Super Bowl as my claim.

O.K. If I have to redo it to get a one credit clear, I'll have to take more time with it, but did get to the end of Mega Man 6 using continues. While I liked it overall, there are things done well and some things that throw off the balance. I liked how it avoided cheap deaths for the most part, using good game design to help the player learn whats upcoming. For example, in one area there are false floors. The first false floor has no danger present, but it helps set you up for the 2nd and third time, where the fall means instant death. I also like the branching paths that many levels have.

At the same time, it seemed like the challenge was the same for the later levels as it was for the 8 robot masters, in fact I'd go as far as to say I had as much trouble with the Plant Man stage as anything. The other reason I felt like the difficulty flatlined a bit is because the Rush Jet adapter made the more perilous jumps fairly easy to manage, and the one extremely technical section of the game has an alternate path to skip it altogether.

While on the subject of the Rush adapters, it was nice seeing a fresh take on them. But they also caused the biggest annoyance in the game, and probably the series. Everytime you switch to a different Rush adapter, it goes through an animation sequence. Eventually, this becomes disjarring to the gameplay when several switches have to be made.

It may seem like I didn't like MM6. I actually did enjoy it, and would rank it ahead of MM5. I like a lot of the new elements it tried, along with having well-themed enemies and stage environments. It's a solid entry in the Mega Man universe, even if it isn't quite as good as some of the earlier entries in the series.

@crabmaster2000- Glad you enjoyed it and thanks for the shout out.

@singlebanana- What team(s) are you playing as for Tecmo Bowl and TSB?

130 game beaten, woo!!

@EZ Racer - your thought on Mega Man 6 echo my own. It's not my favorite, but I like to put it in once and a while because of the interesting changes it has in it. And yeah the rush adapter animations can get a bit grating after the 10th time......

I took down the second dungeon, the catacombs, tonight in Bard's Tale. Stuck my nose into the 3rd dungeon, the Castle, 3 times and barely survived one encounter each time. So I went back to the catacombs to grind the boss since he gives wicked xp. Few more times down the catacombs and hopefully I'll be capable of the exploring the castle tomorrow in tomorrow nights session.

Well, as much as it pains me to not play with my beloved Chicago Bears, I think that the 49ers are the best balanced team in Tecmo Bowl.  The Bears have a great back with Payton, but running becomes tough sledding when the playoffs start. Also, with the lower rated QBs (like McMahon), they tend to float passes rather than throw them quickly. This becomes a big issue as you make your way to the end, since coverage gets much tighter and you have to make decisions quicker even if your play is not read correctly. The 49ers also have a nice slant to Roger Craig in Pass 3 that rarely gets intercepted (even if read) if you hit him after the inside break.

In terms of defense, Ronnie Lott is pretty quick at safety, so I typically just stop the run in his direction each down. I can usually make the tackle in the opposite direction and only give up 1-3 yards a play and I can drop into coverage if needed, which with some patience can lead to an interception. The other great thing is that if they are on my side of the field and I can get them to 4th down, I can block every kick with the second player from the top by running in an L pattern at the snap.

Right now I am two games away from completion and have the Browns and Redskins left.

As far as Tecmo Super Bowl is concerned, I feel like it is more of a passing game. As a result, I also typically play with the 49ers in this game due to their great passing (Young, Rice, Taylor) and decent running (Waters). Another great team to use is the Cowboys (which I will probably use to mix it up) with Aikman, Smith, and Irving.

Can't you just be a one man Bo Jackson team and dominate if you want to make it easy on yourself?

Not really that easy. Bo only has one run play. It works well in the beginning, but running becomes very difficult later on.

It's been really fun reading this thread, and inspiring (both to participate and for an article idea). I pulled out my Raspberry Pi last night to fire up some games myself, but for the life of me I can't find the controller I had it set up with. Probably in a box somewhere, lonely and waiting to be unpacked. I fired up the emulator on my PC instead and got a few games in; almost "finished" Tetris a few times. Not ready to commit to anything yet, but I'd really like to. We'll see what I can get done in the next few days. It'd be great to see if I could return to some games I loved as a kid that I could never quite finish (Batman and Blaster Master, to name just two) I may even crack open the NES Classic that's been sitting around unopened since I got it lol.

One clarifying question though. Not sure if this was addressed and I missed it in the sea of updates, but are we allowed to use continues for the games that have them, or do we have to do it all in one round of lives? I saw EZ Racer mention it, but not sure what the final ruling is on that. It's disappointing turbo fire isn't allowed; I'm finding these games a lot harder without it. I was absolutely in love with my NES Max as a kid.

I'm pretty sure continues are allowed as long as you aren't using any cheat codes to give you extras. At least, I sure as hell hope they are allowed or many of my completions are no longer valid.

Yes, continues are allowed if offered in the game.

We'd love to have you join us! Definitely dig that controller out and dive in.

Continues are absolutely allowed. Use as many as you need to beat stuff like Batman, no shame at all. The exception are games where you have a cheat code to continue, stuff like Ikari Warriors or Arkanoid. It's pretty rare so you shouldn't have to worry about it with most titles though.

This brings up a good question: isn't there a game-breaking bug in Ikari Warriors that makes it nearly impossible to finish the game w/o cheats? I thought I remember hearing that somewhere.

It's beatable. Just extremely challenging

Tecmo Bowl down! The San Francisco 49ers are World Champs. You're welcome Zagnorch.

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It's a ghost town in this thread lately. What's everyone up to lately? Working on long titles? Taking a break? Life keeping you busy? Only 1 day left for January and then I'll update the thread with our new community and personal goals for February. Anyone who completed the January goal of "beat at least one game you've never played before" I'd love to hear more about that too. Why did you choose the game you chose? Was it a worthwhile playthrough? Are you going to dig deeper into that series/developer/genre when you may not have before?

I grinded for quite a while tonight and just at the end of my play session I was able to beat the boss in the Castle tonight. He gave me so much freakin xp (and a measly 5 gp, lol) my whole team went up two levels!! I'm gonna have to run the castle a few more times tomorrow to take advantage of that massive xp boost and then move onto the next dungeon. Just unlocked my level 6 spells too, so interested to play around with those and see what my Wizard and Sorcerer are capable of with their new boosts.

Well, I played two games that I had really never played before. Surprisingly, one was Pinball (which I beat) and the other is Gremlins 2, which I am still working on...

I was really impressed with the physics of Pinball for such an early game.  As some of you know, I'm a big fan and collector of pinball machines, so I have a good grasp on the feel of the gameplay.  I was stunned that the flippers were so bouncy and that I could even bounce pass (let the ball drop onto a dead flipper to bounce over onto the other)!  More modern games don't get this aspect right.  There's not a ton to do in Pinball, but I can really appreciate the effort here and love the bonus, Breakout-like room with Mario. Fun game and much better than I expected.

I have always heard rumors that Gremlins 2 was a great game on the NES, but sadly, I had never managed to take the time to sit down and play it.  You play as Gizmo and work your way through 5 main stages and at least 2 levels for each, to defeat the final boss.  The game is rather short, but not too short, as the difficulty in later stages gives it length to newcomers. The game does a great job of using environments from the movie and the boss Gremlins are even the main baddies from the movie as well!  The weapons and power-ups are cool and since you can only buy one item per level from the shop and must choose between a weapon multipler, a balloon (that no-damage rescues you when falling in a pit) an extra life, partial life refill, or an extra heart (life container). What you choose tends to vary based on whether you need life, want to skip a portion of a stage with your balloon reset, or whether you would like to have extra firepower against a boss.

The view in the game is from the overhead perspective and this makes platforming rather awkward at times, especially when conveyor belt platforms are introduced. I always find that overhead platforming is never very good in games and this, while better than most, is no exception. I like that the game makes you use a different weapon for every stage to give it some variety and the cutscenes are really well-done and impressive for such an early title.  Though frustrating at times, I highly recommend this game.

Yeah, I haven't been very active here over the last week or so due to a combination of burning myself out and pretty much all of my gaming time going into the Resident Evil 2 remake. I'm sure I'll get back into it before long.

As far as beating at least one game I've never played before, I actually beat several! Mighty Final Fight, Sword Master, The Little Mermaid, Journey to Silius, Shatterhand, Rollergames, Vice: Project Doom, Power Blade, Bucky O'Hare, Power Blade 2, and Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu were all games that I had little to no experience with. I gave my thoughts on these games when I finished them, but I want to give a special shoutout to Shatterhand, Vice: Project Doom, and Power Blade. I've wanted to play these games for a long time after seeing them on many different hidden gems lists and thinking they looked like a lot of fun, and they certainly didn't disappoint. All three of those games are among my favorites on the system now and are games I'm sure I'll come back to again and again.

It has also opened my eyes to Natsume as a developer, so I will be seeking out more games from them. I particularly want to try out Shadow of the Ninja and Dragon Fighter sometime soon.

This has been a lot of fun so far, and I'd say we had a very productive January!

I was plugging away at a few more last night. Played some Commando and Elevator Action (two of my favorites as a kid). Played more Tetris as well (the Type-B goal is kicking my butt). I think I "finished" Galaga, but is the completion goal correct? I haven't really played the NES version much so maybe it's accurate, but I that the arcade version definitely keeps getting faster and more difficult after stage 3. If the completion goal is right, then I can show a screenshot showing me at stage 6 and beating the high score. Also, on Elevator Action, there aren't any stage numbers indicated that I can see, but the walls in the office buildings are different colors. Is that how we're determining which stage we're on for the ruling?

I may claim a game few people want to play and take Fester's Quest. Everyone hates on it, but it's always had a special place in my heart. I finished it as a kid and have been dipping into it a bit the past couple of days. I may want to make another go at it, and even have an article in mind for it once I've had more time to dig into it more substantially.

I'm noticing how I'm woefully out of practice for these games. It's been humbling lol. I had a lot more time on my hands when I was 10.

@singlebanana Gremlins 2 is awesome. I rented it as a kid and loved the heck out of it. I don't remember how difficult it was, but I did finish it back then. I know you don't usually notice the music in games; have you noticed it in this one? If not, take a listen next time you fire it up. It's typical Sunsoft, with strong bass lines and melodies that make you bob your head. Great stuff.

Started Duck Tales 2 this morning. I'm half done already, so I should have it completed tonight.

Claims down for Fester's Quest (zophar53) and Duck Tales 2 (shane).

@zophar53 I'll let Crabby make that Galaga ruling, since he posted the list. :)

Just heading to bed so I'll do a proper reply later, but the Galaga and Elevator Action conditions are correct. Even thought it's only 4 stages of Elevator Action I found that final stage pretty brutal to actually pass.

Ducktales 2 done. First time I played through it. When I tried playing it before, I got stuck right in the first stage because I didn't know how to jump and swing the cane. Pulled up the instructions this time around and was able to do it. The trick is to hold the direction against the wall/block until his tail wags, then jump and press b. I'm guessing I didn't get all of the map pieces, because it had a message at the end about not knowing what the treasure of McDuck was.

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What'd you think of the game? I'm a huge fan of the original, but have never played the sequel. I don't think I knew it had a sequel until I got older.

Yeah been busy with life stuff and been playing PS4 Spiderman. I needed to take a short break from NES to refresh myself for next month's challenges.

I have played mostly new games to me. Probably my most enjoyable experience has been my first time playing Willow. Probably my favorite of the bunch I have played so far. The game wasn't unfamiliar territory for me because it was very reminiscent of Legend of Zelda. Although it has its own charm so it doesn't feel like its a clone.  Had a blast playing it, and wish it was a little longer or that a sequel exist.

Blue Marlin and Black Bass have been totally new experiences for me. I never played a NES fishing game so I wasn't sure what to expect in gameplay.  I actually liked Blue Marlins gameplay and fun factor. The verdict is still out for Black Bass. The mechanics are so different than Blue Marlin I was caught unaware.

I must say I am enjoying this challenge so much. Its awesome to visit this thread everyday and see the progress being made. Thanks for running this Crabby and Banana.

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Just beat Toki after reading about it in the latest issue of Retro Gamer. I had no idea it was a platforming shooter. Pretty decent, although the boss with the blue hands and feet seems a bit too difficult. There's very little room for error in the jump over the feet as they walk back and forth across the screen. I think I'm going to try out the Amiga version as well, since it's supposed to be near arcade perfect.

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A few more down...

MTV's Remote Control
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Each of the light gun scenarios had a high score of 12,000 points.

Wild Gunman
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Duck Hunt
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Hogans Alley
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North v. South
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Welp, if they're accurate then I have my first one in the bag.

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One more before bed, Donkey Kong Jr. Still working on Elevator Action. I can get to stage 3 pretty reliably, but yeah the enemies get pretty aggressive.

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Barbie complete. What a mess of a game. I had to look up how to beat the last "boss", a jukebox, and the walkthrough on GameFAQs says that there's no way to get through the level leading up to that boss. The writer thought the programmers figured no one could get that far a-la Cheetahmen. Please never make me play this game again.

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I thought there was no way we were gonna make 150 games in January and then you guys pumped out 9 more completions since last update which puts us to 141 games beaten so far. It's a lot to play in one day, but if we can sneak out 9 more wins for January we will have officially hit 150% of our community goal for the month!! I was so freaking close to finishing Bard's Tale tonight and adding that to the list, but I had a few bad encounters in a row leading up to the final boss that knocked out my team. Good news is that I went up a couple more levels and both my warriors have significantly better weapons now so I'm pretty confident I can seal the deal on it tomorrow night though. I'll see if I can put aside a little time today to beat something short and help push us towards 150 for January.

Even if we don't quite make it to 150 for January I need to thank you guys for such a successful month. The participation and discussion has been really encouraging and a lot of fun to be a part of. Hearing you guys enjoy some awesome gems like Gremlins 2, Willow, Power Blade and Dragon Warrior IV and hearing how much fun you had playing them has been a pleasure to witness. I also get some kind of sick pleasure hearing about your time with oddities like Mystery Quest, Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde or most recently Barbie ;)

Here's what my January looked like:

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I'm pretty thrilled with how my month went personally. Wizardry has been something I've wanted to try for so many years, but it just seemed so intimidating and archaic to get into. Was really happy to have the drive to finally dive in and experience such an early RPG and see where a lot of the roots of one of my favorite genres started. Temple of Doom and Ninja Kid both bested me in the past and I was able to sit down and figure them both out at long last. Some of the games like F15 Strike Eagle and Athena I see as "taking one for the team", BUT particularly with Athena I'm glad I played it through because it was such a unique experience playing such a broken mess of a game. My biggest surprises this month I think were Bigfoot and Sqoon. I really enjoyed both and didn't think either would be up my alley. Sqoon just seems to slow and boring at first glance, but it actually had some cool systems like rescuing people and delivering them safely to a rescue boat in exchange for fuel and power ups. And I have zero interest in Monster Trucks, but still managed to have quite a bit of fun playing Bigfoot and crushing some cars, driving in the mud and towing tractors for short distances.

I'll have a post up later today to outline February's goals (as well as a front page Blog entry very soon), but I can't wait to keep chipping away at the NES with you guys. Hope everyone isn't burnt out yet and still having as much fun as I am.

EDIT: All Claims and completions are up to date

Figured I could plow through the Software Toolworks Mario games before the deadline. Here's Mario's Time Machine. Starting Mario is Missing! now.

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With February nearly upon us I should probably update you all on our community and single player targets for the month.

February's Community Goal - 250 NES Games Beaten by February 28th
Single Player Goal -  Beat at Least One Sports Games in the Month of February

Everyone is allowed to CLAIM one additional game this month as long as 1 of their two titles is a sports game also. Let's make another huge dent in the NES library by the end of February!!

Here is a handy list of the sports titles that are currently still available to play. It can always be seen on the front page of this thread in the community goals section so you don't have to hunt down this post if you want to see what sports games still need to be played.

720*
All Pro Basketball
American Gladiators
Athletic World
Bad News Baseball
Bandai Golf: Challenge Pebble Beach
Baseball
Baseball Simulator 1.000
Baseball Stars II
Bases Loaded
Bases Loaded II: Second Season
Bases Loaded III
Bases Loaded IV
Base Wars - Cyber Stadium Series
Best of the Best: Championship Karate
Black Bass
Blades of Steel
Bo Jackson Baseball
Caveman Games
Championship Bowling
Crash 'n the Boys: Street Challenge
Dance Aerobics
Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball
George Foreman's KO Boxing
Goal!
Goal! Two
Gold Medal Challenge '92
Golf Grand Slam
Harlem Globetrotters
Heavy Shreddin'
Hoops
Jack Nicklaus' Major Championship Golf
Jimmy Connors Pro Tennis Tour
Jordan vs. Bird: One-on-One
Karate Champ
Kings of the Beach
Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf
Legends of the Diamond
Little League Baseball: Championship Series
M.U.S.C.L.E.
Magic Johnson's Fast Break
Major League Baseball
NES Open Tournament Golf
NES Play Action Football
NFL Football
Nintendo World Cup Soccer
Pro Sport Hockey
Pro Wrestling
Racket Attack
RBI Baseball
Ring King
Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball
Roundball: 2 on 2 Challenge
Skate Or Die
Skate Or Die 2
Ski Or Die
Snoopy's Silly Sports Spectacular
Stadium Events
Super Spike V'Ball
Tag Team Wrestling
Tecmo Baseball
Tecmo Cup Soccer
Tecmo World Wrestling
Tennis
Touchdown Fever
Town & Country II: Thrilla's Surfari
Town & Country Surf Designs
Track & Field
Track & Field II
Ultimate Basketball
Wayne Gretzky Hockey
World Champ
World Championship Wrestling
World Games
WrestleMania
WWF King of the Ring
WWF Wrestlemania: Steel Cage Challenge
WWF Wrestlemania Challenge

What, Bill Elliot's NASCAR Challenge doesn't count as a sports game lol? There are some who would think that's malarkey (not me, I don't care, just giving you a hard time haha).

Wow, only 8 left now for 150 this month. Come on guys, we got this!  So close to finishing Track & Field last night, but I have to get better at the skeet shooting.... I will prevail.

Mario is Missing! completed. Didn't like this one as much as Mario's Time Machine. Go down a pipe, have Yoshi meet you there, stomp 3 koopas, answer trivia. Repeat 12 times. I guess it would have worked as a basic geography and history learning game, but I think the Carmen Sandiego series does a much better job of it.

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Throwing it out there, if you like button mashing sports games, Gold Medal Challenge is a bit of a gem. I've played it a ton, but for this challenge want to leave it for someone who hasn't experienced it yet.

I would like to claim Blades of Steel. Going to make some more progress on Ultima Exodus tomorrow. I feel refreshed for the big challenge this month.

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I have been playing NES games in my limited free time, just homebrew ones.  8-Bit Xmas 2018 and Nesert Golf, specifically.

My sports claim is Magic Darts.

Wrath of the Black Manta done.

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I actually owned this game as a kid, but I'm not sure if I ever got past the first boss. Going into it, I thought this game was going to suck, but after I got used to the mechanics and had a better understanding of how the game works, I actually enjoyed it. It's not a great game, but decent enough. It also has some of the best writing of any game I've ever played.

Tennis completed. Can that count as my February sports game?

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Guys, now you know that I couldn't let us come up short this close to 150...

The Great Waldo Search
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Win, Lose, or Draw
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Pictionary
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Major League Baseball
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Track & Field
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I'm not sure how no one's done this one yet, but here ya go. I guess I didn't need to get it in tonight with singlebanana's last minute effort, but it feels good all the same :) But good lord did I die a lot haha. I swear, 8-3 has been the bane of my existence for 30 years and counting.

Super Mario Bros.
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Also, has anyone seen this happen before??? It's kind of a minus world effect going on, but I didn't move any further to the right, just got stuck here. Never ever seen this before.
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Tried getting this in last night, but the falling platforms just before the final boss require perfect timing and I just wasn't coordinated enough last night. Here's Adventure Island. I know a lot of people love this series, but I think any platformer more difficult than the first SMB is too difficult.

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Here's Mickey Mousecapades. I used to play this at a friend's house when I was 7. It was always fun trying to find secrets hidden in the background, and it turns out you need to find some of those to complete the game. Music's really repetitive and some of the projectile patterns are unfair, but there's enough hidden health powerups that you can act as a sponge on occasion.

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The team bands together and pulls through at the last second!! Well done shane/singlebanana/zophar!! We made January's stretch goal!

February is now upon us so start throwing some touchdowns, hitting those home runs, slamming those dunks and acing your loves as we tackle our way through more of the NES library with a focus on sports games this month.

I was able to finish Bard's Tale with 2 attempts on the final boss today. It was a neat game being designed around one specific character type, even though you could choose to play through the game without that character if you really wanted to. Very bare bones like Wizardry in terms of story, but because of the sound design, character design and initial town that acts as a hub it had a lot more personality to it. Spell casters were monsters near the end of this game and very useful.

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With that one done for me I'm going to claim Bases Loaded IV as my sports title for February. I've already beaten 1-3 in the past so I figured I'd end the series so that I never have to load another base for as long as I live. So I played many hours of it tonight and won a whopping.............2 games :(. With any of the past baseball titles I've played I should have had 10-15 games done in the amount of time I've played so far. This is pretty discouraging as there are 74 games to win to complete the season. Hoping I can figure out some better methods of pitching and batting to help me out at some point otherwise it's gonna take me the whole freaking month for just this one title. My second claim is going to be All Pro Basketball so I can swap back and forth if I need a break from my grueling baseball season and dunk on some fools.

EDIT: All claims and completions up to date.

I'm going to claim Base Wars and The Battle of Olympus.

Wasn't there a game on the NES where you played darts, and one of the selectable characters was a robot? I can't remember the name of it, and had always wanted to try it since I saw a classified info piece on it in Nintendo Power.

Magic Darts.  You could also pick a monkey, who threw the darts with his back to the dartboard (I think).

My sports claim will be Nintendo World Cup Soccer. It's always had a certain charm to it, but I've never played it fully through.

Nice. Thanks! I may grab that after my sports title.

While playing through so many games in January on the NES, I kind of felt guilty not giving my thoughts on some of these titles, like many of you did.  I play late at night and by the time I am finished, I only have time to load the pics from my phone. Anyway, I thought about doing a monthly wrap up for the games I played. Just little blurbs about things I found interesting and whether I would recommend it to a casual collector or not.

1. Baseball Stars - IMO the best baseball game on the NES. Name and power up your players stats so that they hit better, run faster, and defend better. A must on the NES for baseball fans.

2. Gun.Smoke - A great little shmup with a western theme. Good selection of weapons and diverse boss battles. Looks great too. Recommended.
 
3. Contra - Simply put, a classic. A must for the collector or casual NES fan.

4. 10-Yard Fight - One of the more lackluster football games on the system, but still a big step up from the 2600. Can recommend better games, but not this one.

5. Kung Fu - A port of the arcade classic Kung Fu Master. Fairly easy to master, though the magician will drive you nuts if you're a newcomer. Recommended.
 
6. Golf - I love this game, but I'm not sure I could highly recommend it. There are better games and since yardage is not calculated, you are often left guessing which clubs to use.

7. Urban Champion - Meh, not a very fun experience and poor controls. Not recommended.

8. Volleyball - I was really surprised at how much I liked this game. Though it's not the most technical of volleyball games on the system, it's a great effort and rather fun once you figure out spiking. Recommended.

9. Super Dodgeball - Such a great idea for a sports title on this system. I really like that you can choose your line-up and that all of your teammates have two different special attacks (running & running jump). The environments look great and there's nothing like hitting a guy so hard that he travels around the world. Ha ha. Highly recommended.

10. Wizards & Warriors - Though it can be aggravating to first time players because some of the keys are hidden well, I really like this game.  Nice variety of stages and unlimited continues from the exact spot you die in (even at boss battles) limits a lot of frustration. Recommended.

11. Rygar - Though this game is not a direct port of the arcade cabinet, even purists enjoy this game. I love the horizontal and vertical action, and can even appreciate the top down levels. Neat boss battles and cool equipment aids make this a must own and a top 10 game on the NES for me.
 
12. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out - Iconic game on the NES with great, memorable characters. A must own.

13. Ice Hockey - It's not Blades of Steel, but it's a decent effort. Being able to select your players' physical attributes, which give them advantages and disadvantages is a neat concept. Mild recommendation if you are into hockey.

14. Pinball - Really impressed with the physics of this game. The gameplay and replayability is average, but it's a fun one to pop in for a bit from time to time. Mild recommendation.

15. Kickle Cubicle - Incredible graphics, fun puzzle gameplay, and boss battles. What's not to love?  A must own title that you hear very little about.

16. Double Dare - Unless you are really big into nostalgia, pass this one up. The questions are fine, but the physical challenges and obstacle course are really poorly done. Such a shame, since these were the best parts of the show.

17. Jeopardy Jr Edition - It's Jeopardy, only easier.

18. Hollywood Squares - Basically, a guessing game. I hate how the guest stars try to be funny and give these odd answers. At first, I couldn't tell if they were agreeing or disagreeing with the questions. Not recommended.

19. Tecmo Bowl - A classic, but Tecmo Super Bowl gets everything much better. Great to see some HoF greats on this game like Walter Payton, Joe Montana, Eric Dickerson, and others that did not make the latter version. Mild recommendation.

20. MTV's Remote Control - Hopefully you know a lot of old television trivia, or this game could be your worst nightmare, because lots of questions revolve around specific episodes. Get your parents to help you with it, unless you have every season of Leave It To Beaver. Out dated, do not recommend.
 
21. Wild Gunman - It's fun for a while. The kids love shooting people..... err.....mild recommendation if you like to pretend that you are James Arness.

22. Duck Hunt - Meh, it's alright. Iconic to the NES for sure and you gotta love lovable, taunting dog. Mild recommendation.

23. Hogan's Alley - I know that using similar colors with the citizens and bad guys is on purpose to make the game harder, but man is it annoying. Repetative. Low recommendation.

24. North vs South - This game is actually a lot of fun and I played it a lot as a kid. I didn't remember that you couldn't select the North in 1 player game. Perhaps someone knows a secret? Anyway, winning made me feel weird, but this is a fun title. Recommended.

25. The Great Waldo Search - Meh, it's quick. It's easy. It's Waldo. We like to find him, but not that much. Not recommended.
 
26. Pictionary - Weird mini games that you have to get guud at to ensure that you reveal enough of the puzzle to be able to solve it. I missed the first three clues until I figured out the games and then it was pretty easy. Not recommended.

27. Win, Lose or Draw - No mode to play against the computer?  If so, I couldn't find it. I put the game on auto-draw, so I'd be curious about how the drawing feature works. Apparently, you have to play this game as a group...

28. Major League Baseball - I like that you have to pick your line-ups from the bench before the game. Too many foul balls in this game though, which slows it down. Fielding is bad. Not recommended.

29. Track & Field - I don't remember playing this a lot as a kid because I was more into Track & Field II.  This is a fantastic game that requires you to master various events to progress. I really enjoyed learning all of these events and determining all of the best angles to qualify. High recommendation.  

It is supposed to be a quiet evening at work tonight.  I'll give Bionic Commando a go if it works out.

Sweet!  Give it hell Kevin.

So the last new game I bought for my NES as a kid was Times of Lore.  I never could figure the game out as a kid, so no better time than now to claim and try to play through it.

Goonies II is finished! My only question is why is Annie a mermaid?(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190201/88259905c0b68c21c9ab251c9f329740.jpg)

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Always enjoyed that game.

@singlebanana, me too but for some reason I never beat it until I was an adult.

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Knocked out an easy one. I have a lot of fond memories playing this back in the day. I never had a MAD Magazine subscription, but I really enjoyed it when I got my hands on a copy.

Spy vs. Spy
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I didn't realize Battle of Olympus was going to require grinding for currency so often. I just spent 10 minutes fighting snakes at 78 of the 80 olives needed for a shield, and no olives were dropping. Turns out the game limits how many drops there are in a region. https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/battle_of_olympus26.html

@singlebanana- I love your quick breakdown of everything you played last month!

- Totally agree about Baseball Stars. It's really great. You ever play the NEO GEO version though?
-  I'm really surprised how much you like Pinball. ]
- I'm eager to hear your thoughts on Times of Lore because I feel like that is a very rare occurrence where I havn't heard ANYONE talk about it. It's a real blank spot in my NES knowledge that I need to fix.

@shane - that's nasty game design in Battle of Olympus!!

Beat Battle of Olympus. This game is way too difficult to ever attempt again. I spent two full days trying to beat it. I'd much rather play Silver Surfer. At least you can memorize patterns in that game. This one has a boss that regenerates health so fast that if you don't get a perfect series of hits, you'll be at it forever.

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Played through the College level tournament and finished off Blades of Steel. Vancouver are champions! For some reason the Edmonton gave me the most trouble it was a very back and forth game all the way. This is one if my top 3 favorite hockey video games, probably my favorite is Wayne Gretzky 3D Hockey on N64 other than that its NHLPA 93 on Genesis. Blades of Steel is so replayable for many reasons. The controls feel solid. The fighting mechanics are really fun, so much that I look for fights when I can.

My next sports claim is Roger Clemens MVP Baseball(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190203/60a89d1c5a2105d286b98121d1c01bf7.jpg)

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I'm gonna start out by claiming Mega Man 5, I'll be playing via an Everdrive on my NES top loader.

Double Dragon II: The Revenge done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iwBufHYM7w

This game doesn't get enough credit for how hard it is. There are a lot of cheap deaths if you don't master the platforming sections, and mastering the knee attack is mandatory for completing the game. I still love it though. Awesome game.

Man Shane, I have such fond memories of this game as a kid and actually beat it when I was younger. I always find games where you have to grind a little bit relaxing in a strange way. I think a big part of my love for this game was my youthful obsession with the Greek gods. It's funny that you chose this game because the same day you did oh, I was going to claim it but saw you posted minutes earlier. Haha!

Beat King's Quest V. It was never a really good King's Quest game to begin with, and this is a bad port of the game. I've never played the Master System version, but if there's more time given to save the rat than this version it's already better.

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Bionic Commando is done!  Man, that was a challenge.  I see someone is tackling Mega Man 5 so can do Rad Racer next.

Yeah, the rat part really sticks out in my mind as well. I remember first playing it and not realizing what I missed.

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Beat Battletoads & Double Dragon. A much better game than the first one. I played as a Battletoad. I thought I got a pretty respectable time, but looks like it's about twice as long as the slowest recorded speedrun. A lot of the bosses allow you to get a juggle combo in because they don't fly off of the screen like regular enemies, making a lot of the boss fights much easier than they should be. I was kind of expecting the last Double Dragon boss to be that guy with the machine gun from the first one, but it just ended up being some Mad Max looking character.

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Got Mega Man 5 out of the way! I was pretty rusty and died a few times during the fortress stages, but I persevered.

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Just finished Snow Brothers. not as easy as I remember it but still fun.

Finished a series of Base Wars. The novelty of a Blades of Steel-like fight when running to base wears off pretty quick when you realize that your health is determined based on how close you are to the next base and the opponent always has full health. Didn't do much in the way of customization, though I imagine that adds a degree of replay value where you can sort of RPG your way through playing with certain enhanced attributes.

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So awesome to have you participate with us!


King's Quest V is my favorite King's Quest game. The PC version is definitely superior to the NES port, but it has so much charm I've always loved it. And that wizard battle at the end is just great. The SMS King's Quest is a port of the first game in the series. Really the only King's Quest I don't love it 3.

I played a ton more Bases Loaded 4 and have 9 wins out of my 74 down now. I've watched an entire season of True Detective while playing and only have 9 freakin' wins. This is going way slower than I anticipated. I'm getting far better at the fielding though so I'm hoping I can improve me win rate throughout the week.

EDIT: All claims and completions up to date

Oh, for some reason I thought it was V that was on the SMS. I've always loved IV and VI, but V just felt like the Link's Awakening item trading as a whole game. I'm also not a huge fan of games where something you do or don't do earlier in the game prevents you from completing it later on. For this game, the first instance was saving the rat. The second was not feeding the leg of lamb to the eagle.

I hear you on the Bases Loaded slog. Same applied to Base Wars. I started that before Battle of Olympus, and took breaks after every game to do other things.

Nintendo World Cup Soccer done. A fun, kind of quirky game that I can see being a blast to play multiplayer. The single player mode is good, but there is a massive difficulty spike near the end that I could see turning some people away.

I'm going to go ahead and pick Tecmo World Wrestling as my sports claim.

I'm also going to relinquish my claim on Final Fantasy in case anybody else wants to take a stab at it. I'm enjoying the game, but I haven't been playing it enough to warrant holding a claim on it. I might pick it back up in a couple of months if nobody else grabs it.

In its place, I want to claim Desert Commander. I had this game as a kid but was too young to really play it. It looks like a fun strategy game though, so I'd like to give it a proper try.

I'm going to claim Life Force as my next game.

Desert Commander is pretty good. I used to play it a lot back when it was relatively new and enjoyed it.

Knocked out 3 more games of Tecmo Super Bowl tonight and won 2 of the 5 tournaments on Kings of the Beach. The rules state that I only have to win a tournament, but there is actually a true ending after the 5th, so that seems like the way to go.

Managed another 9 wins tonight on Bases Loaded 4 in only 5 hours! At that rate it'll be another 30-35 hours of baseball!!! Good news is I'm catching up on some Television though, lol.

Seconded! I remember playing that as a kid, and had some fun with it.

I'll try to chip away at Final Fantasy. I don't want to officially claim it, as I'm still working on Fester's Quest (I'm having to relearn the boss patterns. The rest of the game is more tedious than difficult). Also, I'd like to let others give it a go if they want. It's a long game and it's been years so I'll need to get back into the swing of it to make a serious run at it.

Still grinding away at Ultima. I have three of the Marks. Need to pick up the Mark of Kings and level up some stats, and grab the horn and I will be on my way to the last dungeon. I had no idea how important gold is in this game.

Played some Roger Clemens MVP Baseball . Not sure if I am feeling this one, might try another baseball game.

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Finished M.C Kids. I really enjoyed this game as a kid, as kind of a Super Mario 3 without the power-ups. The play control is excellent, and there's a couple of spots that require you to be precise but don't feel punishing. There's also some replay to the levels with additional card pieces hidden away to find. The number of 1ups available is way too much, but maybe that's to ensure that young children can still progress.

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I love MC Kids. Such a fun game. Some of the platforming near the end is fairly challenging too.

I had some work related training last night so my normal play time was cut in half. I'm currently at 23 out of 74 games done in my season of Bases Loaded 4 now.

Tomorrow should be a slow day for me. I could do Ghosts n Goblins if no one else wants it.

All yours mate!

Played a lot of Ultima today. Almost ready for the final dungeon. Should be done with it by tomorrow and then I can try to concentrate on Roger Clemens more so I can get better at it.

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I just finished the first mission in Desert Commander, which is probably further than I ever got as a kid. It seems a bit quirky, but I like it. I think I'll need to reference a guide to see the advantages/disadvantages of all the unit types, but otherwise it seems fairly straightforward.

I've also played Tecmo World Wrestling a bit, and I'm still trying to get a feel for the controls. It seems like it's kind of random as to who gets to pull off a move when the wrestlers lock up, which can be frustrating, but maybe there's some nuance to it that I haven't grasped yet.

Have to share this quick story-

When I was playing through Nintendo World Cup Soccer, there was one team that was like hitting a brick wall, so admittedly I watched a youtube playthrough against that team to get some ideas on how to win.

Hopped on youtube today, and as always it had recommended videos based on what I had watched, and the 1st vid on the list: "NES World Cup Soccer: Finished" by 2000CrabMaster. Without spoilers, it was a little bit relieving that it seemed as if we both hit the same wall.

Tecmo Super Bowl finished. I definitely prefer this game over its predecessor. Instead of four plays you get eight, every NFL team is available, and there are nuances to the game like a battery save with stat keeping that make it a much better experience. Still one of the things that annoys me most is that when you receive a kickoff in the endzone, you can't down the ball or just stand there to be tackled for a touch back. For some odd reason it's an automatic safety and I can't figure out why they would not have done a better job of programming after the first game. Anyway, in my opinion it's by far the best football game on the NES and one of the best of all time. There's no wonder that they still recreate this game every year with updated lineups.

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Ha! That's awesome. I always try to get my vids uploaded when I've completed a game. I'll be the first to admit that most of them arn't pretty playthroughs as most are my first time beating each game. It's been long enough that I don't remember that particular part in NES World Soccer though. I played the game quite a bit at a friends house as a kid and always had a soft spot for it.

Won a few more games of Base Loaded 4 tonight and then just went on a savage losing streak. I think I'm gonna have to take a few days off and play something else, because I'm starting to space out and make a lot of errors now.

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It took me close to 5 hours between cooking/eating dinner but I managed to run through both play throughs to see the true ending last night. I love the Ghosts 'N Goblin games but this one has got to be at the bottom of the list. A side from graphics and sound that isn't really enjoyable the game can be really glitchy. There were several times where the dragon boss at the end of the fire bridge stage didn't spawn and I had to run back to kill myself and try again. Thankfully I've played this one enough to remember some of the tricks to help me get by and not get too frustrated.


I can do another short game Saturday, put me down for Jaws.

Ultima Exodus has been taken down. The game is a bit too much of a grind with regards to money. I really enjoyed the first person view of the dungeons. Wish there were more and I realized there were a couple dungeons that were pointless to go in because other dungeons already had the marks I needed. I went in them anyways because they were the more fun parts of the game to me. The ending of the game is quite anticlimactic for the amount of time I put into it. I think it was you Crabby who said the other Ultima game on NES is way better. Would like to give it a try sometime but for now, I am going to claim Dungeon Magic. Its a first person dungeon crawler hopefully it has what I am looking for in a RPG.

Regarding Roger Clemens MVP Baseball. I am going to dump it, and claim 720. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190208/3201fb1089a837c8354de97dd756b13a.jpg)

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Guys, those are two HUGE games!  Congrats.

Well, I have now finished 3 of the 5 tournaments in Kings of the Beach.  I also started Times of Lore... Not the most spectacular of games, but I will get into that after my review.

My next sports claim is Goal!

Updated finished games and claims.

Rad Racer is done.  I'll take Rad Racer II next.

Wrapped up Metal Gear tonight. I know Mr. Kojima doesn't like this version of his game and I can understand since a bunch of stuff was cut from the NES version. I would be interested in trying out the MSX version just to see the difference. The game by itself is pretty fun, though. The action, the items are fun to use, especially the remote guided missle. I have played around with this game a lot so its not a new experience but I did enjoy playing it again for old time  sakes.

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I tried to take down Life Force last night, but I was super tired and kept messing up so I tried again tonight. This time I succeeded :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1WsRhMeihU

Even though I first played this as a kid, I actually prefer its Japanese version, Salamander, since you can have more Options and hence more firepower. The ending is also much better since it has a staff roll and a little animation of your pilot taking their helmet off. Never understood why the US version just ends with a Konami logo.

I'm now going to claim Blaster Master next, I love that game to pieces and I should be able to blast through it (pun intended).

I'd guess that Lifeforce was changed because Konami used their own custom mapper chips on the Famicom, but were forced to use Nintendo mappers and reprogram for the NES. You guys are really knocking these out!

I know that explains the missing two Options, but the plain logo just mystifies me regardless, especially since the ROM size is the same between the two.

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Times of Lore complete!

Like I said before, Times of Lore was the last NES game I purchased at retail as a kid.  I was totally sold by the awesome game box. However, while playing it as a kid, I could not figure out why I kept dying, since it wasn't enemies who were killing me. It turns out that you have to keep your character stocked up on food (you can hold six at a time) or he will die of starvation... The character automatically eats the food as you adventure and each time, one piece is consumed. You start off with a few pieces and they drop fairly  uncommonly throughout the game off enemies.  What I did not realize as a young chap is that you can buy "provisions" at the inns. No idea why they call it food in your inventory and as drops you pick up, but then use the word provisions with the innkeeper. Of course, I probably didn't understand this word at a young age and of course, didn't care for this game because I die inexplicably so much. This go round, I figured it out and had a better experience.

ToL can best be described as a fetch quest game. It requires you to talk to the right people, ask them about the right subject, and search the map for your next objective.  The gameplay here is terrible and there are really no boss "battles" to speak of. Yes, you do encounter bosses, but many of them only require using a single item to defeat them. I would compare this game to Shadowgate in terms of its menu and how you dispatch major foes, but add in loads of walking around and completing fetch quests. At the end of the game, you get a final score though there is no scoring in the game; this reminds me of the old Sierra games like Kings Quest and Space Quest. The game has a great story and good ideas for gameplay, but lacks enough action to make it fun.  Not the worst game on the NES, but not one I would seek out if you're not going for a complete set.  

Next claim: Milon's Secret Castle

I'm super impressed. You guys knocked out some impressive titles over the last couple days!

@Silent Scythe - I have some kind of Stockholm syndrome with the NES version of Ghosts n Goblins and it's my favorite game in the whole series. I really love it, jank and all.

@Fokakis79 - Couldn't agree more with your thoughts on Ultima Exodus. Super grindy and very poor payoff for all the work that goes into beating the game. And yes it was me talking up the next one in the series, Quest of the Avatar. I think it's one of the best RPGs on the system and still to this day a super unique take on the genre that impressed the hell out of me when I played through it a few years ago. As for Warriors of Destiny I've only played the NES version, but it seems like a game that HAS to be played on a PC. It just wasn't very easy to play on the NES and I'm sure would have been better on it's native platform. Luckily it was the shortest of the 3 by far though. I'll be curious to know your thoughts on Dungeon Magic as I havn't touched that one yet.

@BuriedOnMars - Rad Racer 1/2 are super fun. Love the tunes.

@Apolloboy - I'm not a huge Life Force fan. There are so many shooters on the system I'd rather play. Very much disliked the fire level and the final stage when you have to dodge all the walls to escape and a few other slightly less annoying areas also.

@singlebanana - Wow that was fast. I just assumed Times of Lore was going to be a massive time commitment. Very eager to hear your thoughts on it after you've had your beauty sleep.

I had one of those rare work days where I actually had to do some work so I didn't get to advance my Bases Loaded 4 season at all today unfortunately which sucks a lot. Was hoping to at least get to the halfway point by today, but this game is kicking my ass.

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At home with a sick kid. Early morning run to polish off Karnov. Karnov was one of those games that my local convenience store had a cabinet of, so I was very familiar with it.  Little did I know, but the arcade is fairly hard to come by these days.  My neighbor actually had a very nice one that he sold locally.

Anyway, while the arcade cab is brutal, the NES port is a great experience. I love the variety of the stages and enjoy the underwater and flying parts; I just wish that the boss battles were underwater and in the sky as well. Karnov has a nice variety of sub-weapons and items to choose from and I always feel well-prepared for boss battles, even if I die mid-stage and have to power up beforehand. It's a quick game and not overly difficult once you learn how to navigate the stages. I was shocked as to how all the little tricks I knew came right back to me after so many years.

The biggest negative...probably the shittiest end screen in history. Way to mail it in guys! Now to dive into some editing.

**Be sure to check out my Times of Lore review above**

Ended up finishing Rad Racer II last night before bed.  Was way more familiar with this game and it all came back as I started playing it.  I swear, the first course if the toughest in the game.  Not sure what my next game will be yet.

Abadox is done. The game gets just nuts on level 6, and has one of those escape sequences at the end where you have to dodge everything. Not my favorite shooter for the NES, but some of the artwork was pretty good.

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Started diving into Dungeon Magic. So far I am liking it. Game is pretty challenging so far. Its not frustrating hard so it is a pleasure getting to know the game and get better at.

Played some 720, its been awhile since I played this one. Probably only played it a couple times in my life. Pretty fun so far

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I started The Magic of Scheherazade if you want to mark it as claimed. Never played it before, and as soon as I started it I knew that it heavily influenced the demo I played of Mystic Searches.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project done.

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Another old game from my childhood, but unlike most of the others, I have actually beaten this one before. I like TMNT II quite a bit more, but this one is still a lot of fun.

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Got through Blaster Master tonight! Didn’t quite blaze through it like I thought I would, but I persevered regardless. The 7th boss is absolutely brutal but I was able to curb stomp the final boss, go figure.

I now claim Tiny Toon Adventures as my next victim.

Well done everybody!! Lots of different genres being taken down lately, which is awesome to see!! I'm gonna be back to my Bases Loaded 4 grind tonight.

Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse done.

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So I finally bit the bullet and tackled Castlevania III. Not the first time I've beaten the NA version, but I generally opt for the Famicom version when I can due to the enhanced soundtrack and less ridiculous difficulty. As a huge fan of the series, I certainly do enjoy this game, but I prefer the first game over this one, although I appreciate how innovative this entry was for its multiple paths and characters.

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Jaws is down. Had this one when I was a kid and could never beat it. It's super easy once you know how everything works. The trickiest part is at the end when you have to impale Jaws with the ship's bowsprit and if you mess up you have to deplete Jaw's entire health bar again. Having the main antagonist stalk you and able to ambush you reminded me a lot of Friday the 13th. I must be getting old because my thumbs were a little sore after jamming on the shoot button too much. :P

I'm going to relinquish my claim on Tiny Toon Adventures, I've tried playing through it a couple of times and good god it's way too brutal for me!

In exchange I'm going to tackle Gradius which I could beat in my sleep.

Batman done.

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I never played this game until recently when I played through it with a friend on an emulator with liberal use of save states. It's a fun game, and it's nice to go back and finish it legitimately. The final boss fight against the Joker is brutal, but it's manageable if you can figure out precisely how to do it.

31 out of 74 games down in Bases Loaded 4 now. This is quite possibly the least amount of fun I've ever had with an NES game, very frustrating with how often I need to restart and how slow the progress has been. Part of me wants to take a break, but another part just wants to get it done and over with.

Got myself up to 40 games out of 74 now, one of my better nights in terms of games won. I seem to be getting better at shutting down my opponent from being able to score. If I could myself score a point consistently this would go a lot smoother. I've had multiple games run to the 18th inning and end in a tie (which is a reset for me), or I just make an error very late into the game and have wasted 30-40 minutes of my life.

Do you have to win every game Crabby, or can you just have a good enough record to win the World Series or other form of finishing the game?

Throwing it out there: Not claiming it, because if there's someone who wants a chance to experience it, I want them to get a chance. That said, I am making progress on Ninja Gaiden III. I love this series, and have beaten the 1st two, and played through the third on SNES NG Trilogy. Never have beaten NES version of NG III.

At the same time, while difficult, the NES Ninja Gaidens are some of the best games on the system, and if someone is out there who hasn't played them and doesn't mind a challenge, go for it.

Just beat it amigo!  We only have two more days until the month is half over and we are 18 games away from half of our February goal of reaching the 250 mark. Let's see if we can make a push. :)

@singlebanana - I can't actually find any info on that. And because of that I'm playing it quite safe. If I get to the world series and was short some games and had to restart there is no way I'd go through another season. So I may be making it harder on myself, but I just don't know. Maybe when I get to like 60 wins I'll just slam through a few win or lose and see what happens though.

@EZ Racer - Go for it! I love the Ninja Gaiden games and I think III is easily the hardest of the trilogy. There are a couple stage near the end that are just brutal and without having the infinite continues of the first game it's a big challenge.

I’ll take Tiny toon adventures. I’ve already beaten it on the famicom and nes.

Desert Commander done. The ending sequence for all 5 missions is exactly the same, so you'll just have to take my word for it.

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Being a strategy game from 1988, it is fairly quirky and primitive, and the AI isn't too great either. I enjoyed it though, and I would say that it's a good early attempt at this genre. Probably not something I would ever play again since these types of games have come a long way over the years, but it's cool to finally finish this game after all this time.

Edit: I'm going to throw my next claim down on Crystalis. I've actually been playing it a bit here and there over the last few weeks, so I'll go ahead and make it official.

Still hammering away at Dungeon Magic. I am not sure how far away I am from the end but I think I have a while. Haven't really picked up any other games since I started playing this one. Probably should give 720 a try for a little bit and coe back to this one when I finish 720.

Great job so far for us this month.

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There it is.  Tiny toons done.  

Kudos, I found that game surprisingly tough so that’s why I abandoned it. Anyway I got Gradius out of the way tonight:

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I’m now going to claim Strider next.

Finally beat The Magic of Scheherazade. I didn't realize this was an action RPG. If you like Illusion of Gaia, this is a great game to play through. It's got a light/dark world concept by using time travel in each chapter and has bosses that are reminiscent of Blaster Master's bosses.

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@ApolloBoy: Thanks. It's a game that requires memorization. There's also a couple of parts that require you to make use of your invincible frames.

There's a youtuber called Cornshaq that does a series of guides called play it through. I've found them helpful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6lKt8S4U1Y&t=125s

Nice job once again guys!

@Disposed Hero - I'm gonna half to check out Desert Commander now. It's something that I totally wrote off as uninteresting, but after hearing from you and the others it sounds more interesting than I gave it credit for.

@Fokakis79 - 720 is super short so if you do decide to take a break from Dungeon Magic it shouldn't take too long.

@Apolloboy - It's funny how the difficulty of a game can differ so drastically from player to player. I'd consider Gradius considerably more challenging to beat than Tiny Toon Adventures (I've beat them both in the past), but Gradius didn't seem to phase you. Well done!

@shane - Scheherazade has been on my backlog forever and just never got around to it. Always hear nice things though.

@Addicted - Conshaq vids are awesome! When I need some help on a game I always check to see if he's got a vid on it first. For extremely confusing games like Dirty Harry (NES) for example it was a life saver.

I got myself up to 49 wins out of my 74 on Bases Loaded 4 tonight. I've got one more day to play then I'm going to be out of town for close to a week. singlebanana is gonna be keeping an eye on the thread for me and updating your wins and claims until I get home on the 19th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3oJPT2H_io

Strider's done! This is probably the glitchiest game that Capcom ever put out for the NES; the jumping physics sometimes break, there's graphical glitches abound, and it's just very rough and unpolished overall. I know this was unfinished when it was originally intended for a Japanese release, and I think Capcom USA may have asked to have it dusted off since the arcade game was pretty popular at the time. Speaking of the arcade game, this game actually has nothing to do with it and is instead based on the manga (https://lscmainframe.kontek.net/features/manga/) that was published months before any of the games came out.

For my next game, I'm going to keep with the sports theme and tackle Baseball.

Bring 'er home, crabby!

Alright finished Class 4 in 720*. I like the game but I wish they gave you more free time to try out jumps and tricks. I mean you probably have like 10 secs before the game tells you "Skate or Die".  Its a really quick game and you have infinite continues so not exactly challenging to beat but does require skill to rack up points. Wish the music was more rocking than what they have in the game.

Going to give Skate or Die a try now. Still working on Dungeon Magic but I am getting close to last part of the game. Need to grind out some levels and I should be able to finish out the rest of it.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190214/0300c75b27fbee045b097012b2612c3f.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190214/ea131c486393bf38034f8a08fc48fdf8.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190214/fffb035c265fc82980c86c2107a81eda.jpg)

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Halfway point for February today and we need to take down 62 games more to meet the monthly goal of 250 titles. Has everyone dove into a sports title yet? There's a lot of variety in types of sports and quite a few short ones too.

As for me I'm now 56 games into my 74 of Bases Loaded 4, wasn't quite as productive as I had hoped tonight. I'm gonna be away for a few days now before I can pick it up again.

Big thanks to singlebanana for keeping an eye on things for me over the weekend!!

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I think this is the first time I’ve ever won a game in Baseball and y’know, I think it’s actually grown on me. It’s crude and simplistic sure, but it’s actually kinda fun when you get the hang of it. Also helps that Shigeru Miyamoto had a hand in its development too.

I’m gonna go after Anticipation next on Hard difficulty.

I cant remember if I was ever really attached to any sports games on the NES when I was young. During the SNES days my mom use to love playing the Bass Master Classic games. I remember watching her play quite often.

That being said I'll start playing Black Bass tomorrow night.

@silentscythe, Good luck. I tried playing Black Bass for a little bit. Got to the third or fourth lake where the fish became unbelievably difficult to reel in.  Get those thumbs and fingers nice and warmed up. BTW Bass Masters Classic is an awesome fishing game. Me and my brother played that one all the time. It is one of my top three favorite fishing games. The other ones being Sega Bass Fishing and Blue Marlin.

Dungeon Magic is turning out to be a really fun and challenging rpg. There are lots of dungeons and areas to explore. The magic system is very interesting and fun to use. I will talk more about it when I am finished but so far it has turned out to be a very fun game on the NES. Its awesome that I have found two games so far during this challenge that are reaching into my top 25 favorite NES games.

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I remember trying Blue Marlin back when I was young. I didnt have the paitence to figure it out back then.  ;D

Victories and claims updated to here.

Dear God, finally finished Dragon Warrior 3, next I'll take Bomberman 2. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190215/b4dc37b19026eb022a621b749b948ca1.jpg)

I’m going to start Adventures of Lolo tomorrow I think so can I claim that one please

Frankenstein: The Monster Returns done.

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I have never even heard of this game before today, but I took a chance on it and came away pleasantly surprised. It's a pretty decent game. Not great, but it's worth a playthrough.

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Beat Anticipation on Hard with three computer players. The CPU in this game can be immensely unfair on the higher difficulties because you'll be trying to guess what the drawing is, and then all of a sudden one of the CPU players jumps in and correctly answers it! That seems to be a typical Rare thing I suppose.

I'm gonna go after some low-hanging fruit and play Sesame Street: Hide and Seek. Heck I'll probably go after the rest of the Sesame Street games to help hit our monthly goal.

Kabuki: Quantum Fighter done.

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This is yet another very solid game I'm playing for the first time.

Darkwing Duck done.

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I stayed up way too late making this happen, but I didn't want to stop after getting halfway through it. This is a pretty solid game. It has some issues, and this is probably the most frustrated I've been with a game in a while, but it's worth playing.

Dungeon Magic has been taken down! Like I said I really enjoyed this game. It had the right amount of challenge that fringes on frustration and fun. Kinda like Dark Souls. Might be on the lookout for more first person dungeon crawlers on the NES as that was one of the things I enjoyed most about this game. The games magic systemn was interesting as it was based around 5 types of magic. Fairy, Fire, Earth, Wind, and Water. Each one has its set of runes. What is interesting is that for attack spells you can create more powerful spells by inputing runes from the different types of magic. The fighting was also made interesting as you can parry monsters attack by moving/turning away from the monster. If you time it right you won't get hit by their attack. I believe I hit the major things I liked about, I didn't have too much to complain about other than sometimes it can be difficult to get around if you don't choose fairy as your starting spell type. You can cast a spell showing a map of the area. Once you have that though you are good to explore without getting lost. Anyways a great game indeed and a bit of a surprise that I had this much fun with it. Glad I took a chance on it.

My next claim is gonna be Zodas Revenge: Startropics II also my sports game claim has changed from Roger Clemens to Skate or Die.

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Well bomberman 2 has the most generic ending ever... end... well next I'm taking is Bubble Bobble part 2 (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190217/2ab021e07721cea8d51305cfcb9cd306.jpg)

Ninja Gaiden II done.

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I liked this one a little bit better than the first. Just like the first game, it has excellent gameplay mechanics, it's just very frustrating sometimes.

@Boshamp,

I noticed you are playing the first Startropics. I can choose a different game if you have the intention of playing the sequel. Many others to choose from so I don't mind picking something else.

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Kick Master done.

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This is a pretty fun game, although the last level really tested my patience. It's mostly a straightforward platformer, but it tosses in some interesting RPG mechanics to keep things interesting.

Alright, I think everything is updated to here. Be sure to check your games beaten and claims.

Almost to 200 games beaten!  Who will claim that victory?

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Okey doke, I got Big Bird’s Hide and Seek out of the way even though all the games loop endlessly and there’s no way to “win” really. It’s for very young kids so can’t say I was surprised with that.

I’ll go ahead and take down Sesame Street 123 to get down some more low-hanging fruit.

Finished Astyanax tonight. Pretty fun side scroller action game. Not that difficult if you figure out patterns and hit boxes for enemies. I would like to mention the cutscenes are great and the ending is pretty awesome. Although I laughed when I saw the name of the right hand man to the main villain is named Thorndog. LOL

@banana or @crabby, I am going to claim Robocop instead of Startropics II. I want to claim something a little quicker. Sorry, I keep switching up on games. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190218/789d57869583742114f2e60eba2aa59d.jpg)

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Sesame Street 123 is done. The last few games in Ernie’s Magic Shapes loop indefinitely so I played each one for a few minutes before moving on.

I’ll take on Sesame Street ABC next.

Adventures of Lolo 1 complete

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Championship Bowling done.

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I started this game on a whim since I was getting frustrated with Tecmo World Wrestling and wanted to try a different sports game. It's alright for a bowling game on the NES, although it really needs some more game modes. I didn't realize that the win condition was just to complete one game, but I guess I'm entitled to some low-hanging fruit as well.

Since this fulfills my goal of one sports title this month, I'm going to relinquish my claim on Tecmo World Wrestling. I may come back to it later, but somebody else can take a crack at it if they want.

Dead or Alive your coming with me. Robocop is done! Actually pretty well done adaptation of the movie for an NES game. Fun cutscenes and pretty good music that is slightly repetitive but does have the Robocop theme in there.

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R.C. Pro-Am completed. The game loops after 24 stages, so here is a picture of the beginning of level 25. Hadn't played it in a while, but it holds a special place of nostalgia as it was the first racing game I owned, getting it for Christmas when I was 8.

As a racing game it holds up well, and feels fairly fast, but the controls feel a litttle off, sometimes feeling loose and other times feeling overly responsive.

All in all still a worthwhile playthrough.

Games beaten and claims updated to here.

Congratulations all!  We are over the 200 games beaten hump and now sit at 205!  Can we knock out 45 more games in February to hit our goal?

Kid Niki is finished. Always one of my faves when I was kid. Really interesting bosses, especially the Mad Monk. First time beating it, though.

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Renegade done.

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Fairly new one to me, although I think I may have dabbled with it in the past. Despite being kind of rigid and simplistic, I still liked it. Honestly, it's kind of a poor man's Double Dragon, but it's not bad. Worth a playthrough. That final boss is pretty cheap though with his 1-hit kills.

I need to pick the easy games... and not the ones I want to play lol

I'm back home and back to slaving away at Bases Loaded 4...... Got to 64 games out of my 74 tonight. Although I've yet to win 10 games in a single session, I'm hopefully I can do all 10 remaining games tomorrow and finally be done with the Bases Loaded series. I have the most trouble against New York and I just beat them tonight so unless they end up being the team I face in the world series it should be smooth sailing. If they are the world series match up, it's not gonna be pretty though.

Great job while I was away though and another huge thanks to singlebanana for keeping the lists up to date on here for me. Looks like we have 8 days left for February and we still need to beat 43 games. That's a little over 5 a day which is a fairly tall order at our current pace, but there are still a ton of easy completions left if anyone is feeling up to knocking out some quick wins for us. Once I'm done with Bases Loaded 4 I'll go see what I can do for shorter games to help us get to 250 for the month.

EDIT: All completions and claims up to date