Board 8 > Jeff Gerstmann has taken it upon himself to rank every NES game

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I was going to say "this might be the longest amount of time anyone has ever spent with Action 52" but I'm sure some pervert has grinded their Cheetahmen speedrun strats for 14 hours straight or something

Its really impressive to make 52 things and theyre all bad

Couldnt even get one sort of right by accident

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXQK9deTirQ

00:00:00 - Intro
00:04:55 - DuckTales
01:07:08 - Ghostbusters II
01:28:38 - Crash 'n The Boys: Street Challenge
02:10:37 - S.C.A.T.: Special Cybernetic Attack Team
02:36:08 - The Adventures of Captain Comic

hey ducktales. i rented it and game genied it but never really got good at it. tried it in the disney afternoon collection but didnt really play much. good game. and of course The Moon. would love a new game based on the remake of the show

also finished the action 52 ep. i dont think i have anything else to say

also made a retro achievements account and decided to do a little science myself. played some tiny toons and got like 13 achievements! controlled way loose and floatier than i remember and i couldnt make it to the 2nd boss :/ . i may have doubted The Science when i shouldnt have

Wait though, doesnt Tiny Toons directly steal the physics from Mario 3? Like literal plagiarism of the code?

I bet I posted this in this topic already but yeah
https://upsilandre.over-blog.com/2021/10/du-clonage-chez-konami.html

it really doesnt feel like mario 3 to me. could be something to do with some sort of retro arch settings or something. ill try out mario sometime and see

Wow DuckTales at 6. Honestly, I've never gotten the hype over DuckTales, I think it's a playable but mediocre NES game. It's not, like, bad, but it wouldn't even make my top 100.

I don't think there were 100 'playable' NES games before DuckTales came out!

Darkwing Duck is the superior Disney game though

After Action 52 was so long it skipped my mind that there would be regular rankings as well this week

I've never cared much for DuckTales either. It's weirdly unforgiving

pjbasis posted...

Darkwing Duck is the superior Disney game though

This. DuckTales was fun to pogo back in the NES days, but it wasn't very good back then and even the remaster from a few years ago wasn't up to modern expectations either.

Paratroopa1 posted...

Wow DuckTales at 6. Honestly, I've never gotten the hype over DuckTales, I think it's a playable but mediocre NES game. It's not, like, bad, but it wouldn't even make my top 100.

not making the top 100 seems wild to me, I think Id really struggle to come up with 100 of these games that Id even like enough to put on a list

Im curious, roughly how many of the games he already ranked do you think youd put above Ducktales?

MoogleKupo141 posted...

Im curious, roughly how many of the games he already ranked do you think youd put above Ducktales?

I went through the list and decided to list every game I either KNOW I like more than DuckTales or I'M PRETTY SURE I'd like it more based on having seen the game played (I've played like 2/3 of these)

Bionic Commando
Super Mario Bros.
River City Ransom
Super Mario Bros. 2
Contra
Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!
Blaster Master
Super Dodge Ball
Little Samson
Solomon's Key
Jackal
R.C. Pro-Am
Gun-Nac
Mega Man
Cobra Triangle
Tecmo Bowl
Castlevania
Kickle Cubicle
Shatterhand
Gradius
Tetris
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
Kid Icarus
Batman: The Video Game
Snake Rattle 'n Roll
Wrecking Crew
R.C. Pro-Am II
Little Nemo: The Dream Master
The Little Mermaid
Bubble Bobble
Excitebike
Galaga: Demons of Death
Donkey Kong
Battletoads
Dr. Mario
Wario's Woods

That's 36 games just from the list alone. Obviously there's a whole heaping handful of yet-unplayed NES games that I also know I'd like more - we have five Mega Mans to go through alone. This is also not counting games that I haven't played enough to be sure if I'd prefer them over DuckTales. I also didn't list some borderline ones - depending on the day and if I have a friend to play with I might prefer something like Mario Bros over DuckTales but it's close. I kinda suspect that if I played every NES game I'd eventually find 100 that I like more than DuckTales, but it'd be close. DuckTales is still like, playable and accessible enough to enjoy but there's just nothing about it that I really like.

Interesting, I think ill play it today or tomorrow to better judge. I beat that remake they did a while ago and liked it, but its very possible Ive never actually played the NES version.

Im realizing that I havent given NES games in their original form much time in general. Like Im sure Ive started stuff like Bionic Commando and Ninja Gaiden in my teens, but l probably just got frustrated at the first game over and booted up something else.

Jeffs series has encouraged me to try some of these games with more deliberate intention to get through them, which has been kind of cool. Retroachievements has helped with the motivation too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRs1xq4rmhs

What is time

00:04:15 - Mario's Time Machine
00:46:20 - Baseball Stars
01:12:40 - Burai Fighter
01:41:10 - Volleyball
01:59:20 - Platoon
02:19:10 - Pac-Man
02:36:25 - Dragon Fighter

Dragon Fighter is one of the few NES games Ive never even seen gameplay of before

hell yeah Pinball

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABX9gSZtqg

00:02:48 - Pinball
00:30:50 - Milon's Secret Castle
01:14:45 - Hudson Hawk
01:31:56 - Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
01:52:30 - Phantom Fighter
02:24:30 - Castle of Dragon
02:43:02 - Star Force

That was the highest score I have ever seen of Pinball