NES
1985: Nintendo revived an industry everyone had declared dead. Mario, Zelda, Mega Man, Contra — the DNA of everything you played later is here, and it's still as hard as it was back then.
NES
3.692 games found
The ceiling of the 8-bit era: world maps, suits, and inexhaustible design.
1988 · Platformer
The golden cartridge that invented the pocket-sized open world.
1986 · Action-adventure
Eight robots, swappable weapons, and the most beloved soundtrack on the NES.
1988 · Action
Isolation, nonlinear exploration, and the twist behind Samus.
1986 · Action-adventure
The Belmont whip and the gothic tale that founded a dynasty.
1986 · Action
Pure pattern-reading boxing: knowing your opponent is everything.
1987 · Sports
Thirty lives (↑↑↓↓←→←→BA) and the best co-op the 8-bit era ever had.
1988 · Run and gun
The NES's technical swan song, complete with copy abilities.
1993 · Platformer
The platformer's big bang: 1985, a plumber, and video games were never the same.
1985 · Platformer · World
The computerized horoscope of 1989: the NES as household oracle.
Japan
The NES's founding American football game: ten yards at a time, since 1983.
Sports · USA
A hundred games on one cartridge: the bootleg multicart that fed entire childhoods.
Arcade
The Million Dollar Kid goes all in: gambling and fortune, straight from manga to Famicom.
Puzzle · Japan
Ten million games, the label claims: bootleg exaggeration made cartridge.
Arcade
An oddity bolted to the margins of the NES catalog.
Arcade · World
A hundred and six games of dubious arithmetic: another treasure from the Famiclone era.
Arcade
Eleven ball games on one cartridge: the sports-themed multicart.
Sports
Eleven musical pieces on a cartridge: the NES tuned like an instrument.
World
A hundred and ten games, zero licenses: the endless menu of the Famiclones.
Arcade
A hundred and fifteen promises on a gold label: pure bootleg folklore.
Arcade
A hundred and sixteen games on the menu: the informal library of the 8-bit era.
Arcade
A hundred and eighteen games on one chip: the generous arithmetic of the bootleg famiclone cartridge.
Arcade
Twelve hundred titles that are really just a couple of dozen: the bootleg multicart in full hyperbole mode.
Arcade
Fifteen games, few tricks: a compact multicart from the golden age of the famiclone bazaar.
Arcade
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