Knockback, Episode 279 | Trying (and Largely Failing) to Make a Top 10 NES Games List
Added 2024-02-14 17:00:18 +0000 UTCFor this week's KnockBack, we thought we'd do something a little bit different. A major fuel source for the origins of our podcast back in 2018 was our shared love of the NES: The hardware, its games, and the community that's long surrounded it. So we thought we'd delve back into that subject matter by each constructing a Top 10 NES Games list and then trying to fuse them together, a task we almost immediately abandoned when we realized we approached our respective lists quite differently. Thus, what emerges is a robust talk about many of the games from our respective childhoods, and how we still grapple with their undeniable greatness to this day.
Comments
This was a hard listen
Jordan Dedo
2024-03-21 19:47:07 +0000 UTCSwap Contra with Kid Icarus and I think my list would be identical to Colin's. I would probably try to sneak Double Dragon 2 in there somewhere, too. Some sports games are noticeably absent, though... Track n Field... RBI Baseball... Ring King. An impossible list to make any way you look at it. Oh shit -- and Chip n Dale's Rescue Rangers. Man, what a generation.
Kevin Cooper
2024-02-22 13:57:06 +0000 UTCMetal Warriors was my mech game, it was available for rent at my local video store in the late 90’s
O
2024-02-18 20:22:45 +0000 UTCGreat conversation! The main omission for me would have been Blaster Master. Straight up feels a generation beyond most of the other games on the system in terms of its scope. And unlike Metroid 1, it’s actually fun to play ;)
Moomoo
2024-02-18 02:05:19 +0000 UTCDo this for all the systems up to 7th gen 🫡
Yalingo
2024-02-16 05:44:28 +0000 UTCAlmost!
PRETENTIEUX
2024-02-16 03:05:28 +0000 UTCI didn't actually get into MegaMan other than on Gameboy until they came out with X on the SNES. The original MegaMan is IMO not fun to control.
PRETENTIEUX
2024-02-16 02:59:27 +0000 UTCNintendo World Cup was some serious competition!
PRETENTIEUX
2024-02-16 02:57:38 +0000 UTCPokemon is definitely one of them but you'd have to count it as a franchise.
PRETENTIEUX
2024-02-16 02:55:04 +0000 UTCWhen the Dagster didn’t have Mario 3 on his list I almost clicked off
Nick Pacheco
2024-02-16 01:58:21 +0000 UTCAre you ok?
Froilan
2024-02-16 01:01:45 +0000 UTCback when colin was a real gamer and wasn’t playing slop for trophies and avoiding the classics of today because they are either too hard or don’t have trophies.
Ryan
2024-02-16 00:59:16 +0000 UTCI love the old school Nintendo talk. I was never a mega man player and now I’m itching to play these games
Joseph Spatola
2024-02-15 21:55:08 +0000 UTCHe tries so hard. 😄
NeO JD
2024-02-15 17:29:21 +0000 UTCNo TMNT the arcade game is kinda sad, you don’t see that in many top tens. Maybe because Turtles in Time is such a masterpiece, it gets overlooked. Special shout-out to dynasty of an emperor, it fostered my love of the Dynasty warriors games.
Michael Thew
2024-02-15 15:40:56 +0000 UTCPeople seem to forget about bubble bobble, great game with tons of replay value.
Michael Thew
2024-02-15 15:39:00 +0000 UTCAbout a decade back, my friend and I went to a retro shop and bought Kings of the Beach and Roger Clemons baseball and played those games all summer. Those games are still really fun to this day and can get really competitive lol.
Michael Mashpotato
2024-02-15 13:51:24 +0000 UTCGreat episode guys. When you mentioned Tetris, it gave me an idea for a topic - and apologies if you’ve already done it. 20 best / most influential games of all time - but not just video games but board games etc as well. So stuff like Chess, Monopoly, Magic The Gathering and D&D could be in there. Possibly a topic for constellation too.
Ross Stoddart
2024-02-15 09:24:59 +0000 UTCIt's done. The Dagster is here to stay. Run the stickers!
Stewy108
2024-02-15 09:08:15 +0000 UTCMy personal top 10 1. Xexyz 2. Super Mario bros 3 3. Contra 4. Mike Tysons punch out 5. Track and Field 2 6. Zelda 7. Bubble Bobble 8. Golgo 13 9. Rescue Rangers 10. Ninja Gaiden 2 ---- Honorable mentions River City Ransom Heavy Barrel R Type Skate or Die Punisher
Mysterious (xo) Narrator
2024-02-15 04:00:38 +0000 UTCCan we please get a retro gaming show?
Mattveego
2024-02-15 03:23:15 +0000 UTCFaxanadu is my favourite NES game besides Zelda 2.
The Devmeister
2024-02-15 01:40:55 +0000 UTCA Boy and His Blob or I riot. Great episode idea.
Dante B
2024-02-15 00:13:58 +0000 UTC“What am I gonna read your novella here?” 😂🙅♂️
Joe Perez
2024-02-14 18:41:45 +0000 UTCGreat idea for a Knockback episode!
GameSimp
2024-02-14 17:07:16 +0000 UTC
