Right now, I have 804 games. Beating one a day, it'll take me 2 years, 2 months, and 2 weeks. I'm hopeing I can average one a day but I doubt it. Some games (like Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy) are probably going to take a week. My only hope is that there are enough games I can beat in less then a day to balance the system.

If I beat them all before the world ends in 2012, I'll be happy. We'll see how dedicated I am, I guess.

NES games are some of the best video games ever made. They where made at a time when you couldn't rely on graphics or an awesome soundtrack to make your game good; back then, it was all about gameplay. NES games are the most challangeing and most creative games ever created... Gears of War may be fun, but it's not nearly as challanging, or as addicting, as some of the classics found on the NES.

Some off the top of my head:
Adventures of Bayou Billy, Batman Returns, Battletoads, Battletoads and Double Dragon, Double Dragon, Double Dragon 2, Double Dragon 3, Renegade, River City Ransom, Defenders of Dynotron City (well, some parts)...

I'll keep an eye out and edit this response when I think of, or find, more.

Silver Surfer is not difficult. I turned it on when I was bored expecting a lulz fest of countless deaths but instead, ended up beating the game in just a few hours (4, I think).

The fact is, the levels are all way too short and there are only 3-sections per stage instead of the typical 4. And stage X-3 is only one a half screens long and contains nothing but a few enemies and a boss that can be killed before even being able to fire off more then just a few shots.

The game isn't any easier or any harder then any other game of the same type. Lots of games have the "one hit kills" law behind them and most of those games have more stages with longer parts. Take 1942 for example. 3 lives, 48 stages.

The biggest complaint about Silver Surfer is the fact that you can't touch the walls but there aren't very many walls in the game and they're all clearly marked as "causing death" by the simple fact that your bullets don't go through them. Besides, this is nothing new... there are lots of games where touching a wall kills you, and there are even popular internet games based around just that very idea (Helicopter anyone?)

The hardest part about the game was button mashing to shoot, but I fixed that by using turbo. Everything else is just a game of memorization... but considering the stages are so short, they're not nearly as dificult to learn as one might expect.

Adventure Island plays a lot like Silver Surfer with the fact that you can't touch anything without dying, plus you have to kill enemies that shoot at you. However, Adventrue Island has two other factors making it far more difficult. 1) A very short time limit. 2) Platform jumps. Adventure Island has 4 worlds with 4 stages per world, 4 checkpoints per world, and then a boss. Silver Surfer has maybe 6 very short world with no needed checkpoints and only 3 stages in each world, the 3rd being nothing more then a boss. There are no jumps and no time limits. How it got the title of "hardest NES game ever" I'll never know.

I remember renting it as a kid and never getting very far. I hate the knock-back effect you have when getting hit... I hated it in Ninja Gaiden, I'm sure I'll despise it in a shitty Karate Kid game. This might be the next "out of order" title I do.

Give me time... I'm catching up to you. :)

Yeah, I prefer the retro-titles to the newer ones. No loading times, no hour long cut-scenes full of needles conversations with the heros girlfriend over the phone. No games based around the brightness level of the screen being set to negative 4, no flashlights that only last 15 seconds, and no 17-button combonation moves in order to kick someones ass.

Retro games are all about level design, not story... modern games are about story. Each has it's place but I generally prefer the games where the fun comes from the challange and not from a sweet in-game movie.

I figured, if everything went as planned, I would beat ever NES game, then every GameBoy game, followed by completion of ever SNES game, before trying to beat the entire Genesis collection.

After Genesis I would move on to GameBoy Advanced, N64, and the Playstation. But realistically, that'll never happen. It's going to take me a really long time to finish just the NES, I doubt I'll have the time, the patience, or even the life span to making it through to the Genesis without quitting my job and giving up my social life. :b

The educational Mario games aren't worthy of the Mario name. It's not that they're 'bad games' per-say, but they're just not good enough to have the Mario Brothers world associated with them. If they where just random educational games, I would think slighly better of them, but not much. Overall, they're still bad games.

In Mario is Missing, Bowser decides to flood Planet Earth by buying billions of hairdryers and using them to melt the frozen poles of the planet. To fund his project, he stole the worlds monuments. Mario goes to get them back, but gets captured and now it's up to Luigi.

Each door in the castle contains two pipes. Each pipe takes you to a location in the world. Each location in the world is being randsacked by Bowsers turtle menions. Each turtle contains a famous monment associated with the country you're currently in. Luigi has to then navigate the map and find the turtles in order to jump on their backs and reclaim the stolen monuments. Once a monument is collected you have to find the Information Booth it belongs too and return it to it's rightful location. To do this, you need to talk to towns folks and ask questions at the information booth to get hints about what belongs where and what country you are in.

You ahve to select the monument you want to return, then talk to the information lady. Just because the item is in your inventory doesn't mean the game will select it for you. If you have the peice but don't have it selected, the information lady will tell you to go find the right one. Before the lady will accept the peice, you have to answer a triva question about the momuments history.

If you know where you are at you can call on Yoshi. Calling on Yoshi takes you to a world map where you control Yoshi instead of Luigi. The idea is to walk Yoshi to the town Luigi is in. If you guess the correct location Luigi will ride Yoshi and you can walk faster. Guessing wrong does nothing.

After you return the all the monuments to their rightful locations in all the cities, you'll fight a Koop Kid for the Key to Marios prison cell and the game ends.

It's OK for what it is, it just shouldn't be a Mario game. Espectations are too high for something fun to end up with this. Besides, it's riddled with obvious story flaws that Nintendo shouldn't have allowed. For insance, since when has Bowser ever wanted to destroy Earth? I though he only hated the Mushroom Kingdom. And since when does Mario fail and get captured? That aside, why is it called "Mario is missing" when Mario isn't missing at all; we know where he's at, he's in jail at Bowsers castle... we just can't reach him. Also, how do you buy hairdryers with a monument? Who accepts "a pyramid" as currency? Most places I know won't break $100, let alone give you change for the Statue of David.

Action 52 is broken, but the games are beatable. But it's really not worth it, when a game ends it just starts over; you don't even get a "congratulations" screen. You get the hang of it after doing a few of them so it gets easier... that is, if you can call playing complete shit with broken controls easy. I won't lie though, those games where so bad that I eventually just started saving every few steps.

I crowned it complete when I got to beat the crown jewel of all the 52 games, the only game with a story... "Cheetah Men". I have Cheetah Men 2 but I've yet to play it yet.

Yeah they sure did, and almost every one of them was a lot of fun. There's actually two Chip n' Dale games and even though most of the Disney Movie games where better on Genesis or SNES they did get ports to the NES. So on top of the Ducktales and Darkwing Duck games, there's also Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, Hunchback, and possibly more.

The games based on the movies aren't as good on the NES as they where the 16-bit consoles though. But the Disney Cartoon games are classics.

I haven't had much time to play recently... but I' hopeing I'll eventually make it. But I agknowledge that there's a huge chance I wont. :b

Whenever I get bored or frustrated I go play a game I like... but I try to keep a list of Alphabetical games just so I can keep track of what I have and haven't beat yet. But you're right... beating "Adventures of..." games over and over and over gets old. Especially when you reach games like "Adventures of Lolo". So many stages of exactly the same thing.