@@SegaLordX yeah but many times you get personal with your life in regards your videos. I makes it feel like your sitting around hanging out hearing a buddy tell a story about the games he loves. Keep up the great work man
I remember the first time I played and seen a NES. I went to a friend's house and he was playing Super Mario Bros. I was blown away and became a videogame fan for life.
@@FloridaEbikes Funnily enough sprite flicker is actually deliberately programmed into those games. The NES can only display 8 sprites per scanline (1 sprite being a single 8x8 section of pixels and a scanline is just one "row" on the screen.) Flickering allows the illusion of more sprites than normally allowed
These early games had a max file size of 40 KB and only could have 1 8KB tileset. The reduced price of ROM chips in the late 80s and early 90s allowed for bigger and better games than were possible in the beginning
Hey I really like how you manage to explain how certain games can be important because of who you played them with, and the good memories they leave. I was playing Power Stone 2 earlier with my little nephew, and we were having a whale of a time. He's got those memories forever now.
That's just one of the great things about gaming. Some games mean a lot to us cause we had a lot of fun playing them with friends, while other might be cause of a time in our life's were that game helped us cope with something.
I absolutely LOVE the NES. It was the first console I fell in love with. My older brother did play Atari a lot. But I was too young maybe or I simply didnt connect with it. We were lucky to live in Brazil at the time and boy... we were getting some crazy bootleg Japanese NES games that blew my mind. Even Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa which is an obscure Konami game for the Famicon Disk System made its way here on a bootleg cartridge. I never got to own a copy back then. But I rented the heck out of it. I loved the cute crazy graphics. I have very nice memories of the NES. Thanks for another awesome video!
Man, watching your videos always remembers me how important gaming is for people in our generation. It helped shape our lives and our personalities, and gave us memories and experiences that we can now share with our children. Great video, as are all your uploads.
"Balloon Fight always gave me a sort of Joust feeling" perhaps because Satoru Iwata worked on the NES port Joust before programming Balloon Fight. That being said Balloon Fight remains one of my all-time favorite games... loved Clu Clu Land and Slalom too.
I wish they can bring the Balloon fight from Wii U Nintendo Land to Switch. Loved the concept of games in Nintendo Land. I wanted to get one only for Nintendo Land games.
Great memories. Reminds me of when my dad took my brother and I to Toys "R" Us (RIP) back in X-mas 1986 for an NES control deck and a game pack a piece - my big brother chose The Legend of Zelda and I chose Super Mario Bros. I too had an Atari 2600 but the NES rocked my six year old world and I consider it the console that made me a gamer for life. One particular "Black Box" game I enjoyed greatly was NES Golf - it was so easy to pick up and play and the power-accuracy bar was cutting edge at the time and set the tone for virtually all golf games to follow.
Release dates vary depending on source. We did in fact have The Legend of Zelda in 1986 as we lived in Los Angeles and that served as a test market for the NES before an official nationwide launch.
I've always LOVED Donkey Kong and especially DK Junior! I owned it on ColecoVision a few years earlier but I was blown away by the NES version. Still love it to this day. Such a unique game! ❤️
Think it was the first ever Western developed title on the console and the tech it showed off left a great first impression towards the top brass at Nintendo.
It's amazing to think how quickly games evolved from the black box games all the way to the amazing stuff we got toward the end of the NES including stuff that was never officially released or released at all in the west.
I loved opening these old games. The smell, the black sleeve, reading the manual, hoping that I would get a poster, and even that little styrofoam rectangle that kept it all snug in the box. Thanks for the reminder! Great times
I think a lot of us from that era had come home after dark from a friends house after they had just gotten a new game or console. One of my friends was the "rich kid" and he always had the latest console / games and a bunch of us would ride our bikes over in the afternoon and just sit in front of his 19" TV and play till dark. Also helped that he was a Nintendo / PC kid and I was a Sega / PC kid so I would always trade PC games with him then get to play the latest NES/SNES/N64 games. The best was when everyone would tell each other to "stop cheating and looking at my screen" when playing things like Mario Kart or GoldenEye. Great times! Great video as always... And yes, getting the shoe thrown at you was ALWAYS worth it in the end!
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The NES is the only console (maybe the Genesis and the PSX too to some extent) where you can see how impressive it evolved during its lifetime, in the NES case from the mid-eighties with the black boxes games which look and play like an Atari game with steroids and then the late-eighties and early-nineties that look and play like a different generation of console, I mean, the jump from Super Mario Bros. to SMB 3 and then from Kung-Fu to Ninja Gaiden is mind blowing. It's amazing how Popeye and Megaman II are in the same system.
That Pro Wrestling theme music would make my top 25 NES chiptunes list. Once it gets stuck in your head it never leaves. It's like a permanent virus of the mind.
7:43. I know that feeling. I grew up with the 2600 and the NES, but it wasn't until I got Mortal Kombat on the Genesis that my dad really played games with me. He always chose Raiden and I could never beat him. It seemed to be the only video game he was into. We spent a lot of good father/son time over that game and looking back it was the best time I could have. He passed when I was 17 but the good memories like him kicking my ass in MK is still one of the best memories a boy could have.
Man, I remember how happy I was when my mother bought me the NES. After playing the original 2600 my stepbrother had and then the smaller model, I couldn’t wait to play the NES. I had the Super Mario/Duck Hunt cart included, which I think most of us had.
@@johneygd or he could rebrand himself as Video Game Lord X! ...nah. We need Sega Lord in these streets to keep the balance in the force, and I'm a Nintendrone
13:00 This is why SLX's videos are fun to watch. The personal memories connect all of us to our youths and the many different ways we experienced these beloved games.
Clu Clu Land and Ice Climber were favorites of mine and my older brother's. Especially Ice Climber. Oh, and Balloon Fight and Mario Bros. too. So many great co-op games in the initial launch!
Great anecdotes! I remember being 7 when anew kid down the street moved in and he was the first person I knew with a playstation. Seeing him control Crash bandicoot was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen at that point. I also stayed out past dusk and my mom was raging mad. 💢
Thank you for covering this SLX! Everyone I knew wanted this one and badly so. To this day, an awesome console. Got the Sega Master System from mom and dad instead, as this thing was out of stock everywhere. Thank you as your channel has helped me to appreciate what I had so much more.
Yes!!! Balloon Fight! I love that game so much, man! I actually just fell in love with it again last month, as I’ve been sick with post viral/chronic fatigue since July and have been going through my NES collection to help pass the time. Such a fun, bite sized game, that’s perfect when you play it on a Nintendo Switch! I actually just reviewed it on my channel a few weeks ago too lol
I am playing Super Mario, donkey 1 and 2, excite bike and Super Mario 3 with my son and he really likes those. I started with Super Mario Bros and my father used to play it with us. That was the only console we ever had and it was a bootleg console. I knew it because of the manufacturer tag and always wanted one Made in Japan which wasn't available anywhere where I lived.
That ending, haha. The shit we did as little kids to get out video game fix. Man, its crazy to think how much video games were a part of our childhood. Like it was something you NEEDED to play
I received an Atari 2600 for free from my relatives in ‘86 with lots of games but I only enjoyed it so much as to pass the time. But when I first saw Super Mario bros. in 1987 I knew gaming would be a big part of my life.
Facts. It's crazy just how mind blowing super Mario bros was for its time. I was pretty much in the same boat. I had a Atari 2600 as well but once a friend got the Nes and I played super Mario bros, I knew I was hooked, it really was a game changer for video games.
Great trip down memory lane! I still vividly remember the first time I first played the NES! I was six years old! Like yourself I was hooked and had to have one! Then my 7th birthday came along and I was like "What friends? Mario is my friend now!" Great channel!
I personally do like donkeykong 3 as well, i like how nintendo combined platforming with shooting elements, i only didn’t like why mario was replaced by stenley,stanley never did get any recognition at all , Now just imagine of donkeykong 1 was donkeykong 3, o,o,o.
Wow...it's like you're telling my story. I myself have never had an attachment to the Atari 2600/5200/7800. My stepfather had a 2600 and 5200 when I was a kid. He would invite me to play often but I was far more enthralled with the arcades of the time. It wasn't until I received my Nes and Master System in 1986 (divorced parents) that I began to really appreciate gaming in the home.
Great video. My NES stories are very similar to yours, especially your anecdote about your dad and Pinball, except it was Dunk Hunt with my dad. It's the game that sold him on getting us an NES after playing it at a cousin's house. Thirty-something years later and I'm a veteran game developer because of that machine. Still have my original NES and 220'ish carts, including a complete black-label set. They're all timeless classics, and the arcade ports among them were incredibly well done, especially Mario Bros., Donkey Kong (which, btw, is actually missing a level), and Pop-Eye.
Big shout out to Sega Lord X. Only the OGs know about hooking up game systems to a black and white TV. A lot of people had their cable boxes hooked up to a black and white TV. Yeah thats right looking at every cable channel in BLACK AND WHITE!
I had a friend who had a game system that used cassettes. I can't even remember what it was called or what games we played but it was the only one i had and have since ever seen.
@@creepingdeath9795 The early computer system the Timex Sinclair used cassettes to load games. I had one in the early 80's. I'm sure a few others did too.
I had a 64 and Vic 20 both with cassettes. The quality in games was no different. THe only difference was the load times. Tapes were cheaper so you could get a game for two quid, or free in some mags. The best top games were on both tape and disk.
when i was a kid, my cousins had a NES clone system called Dynavision, we had only one bootleg cart with 250 games in it. All the games were simple screen clearing black box NES games and tons of japanese Famicom games, it had no big complex games like Zelda or Metroid, it had the original Super Mario Bros though. Videos about early NES/Famicom games are really notalgic for me
Great list my friend! I too grew up with the original NES as the first system I truly connected with. And all the games you list here are justified in their notoriety. I played ‘em all furiously back in the day! Thanks for all the awesome content man. I frequent your channel quite often. Keep up the great work!
I really like Slalom, and it's also notable for being the first Rare-developed game for a Nintendo system. The beginning of the Rare-Nintendo relationship that gave us several masterpieces across at least 3 generations of consoles
I have the same opinion about the Atari 2600. I played a lot of NES at a cousins house, in 86, loved Pro Wrestling, Contra, Metroid, Kid Icarus and Zelda. I was still waiting for a Sega system with Wonder Boy and Out Run!
I got the NES that had Super Mario Brothers + Duck Hunt, with the grey zapper. That was like three games in one, because Duck Hunt itself contains the aforementioned Duck Hunt AND Skeet shooting.
Niiiice video! The NES has a special place in my gaming days! I am a Sega fan but the nes was an awesome system to play. Shooters with the turbo stick with auto fire a game changer! So many amazing platformers, super spike vball, super dodgeball, world cup soccer took up a lot of my game time! I wish they would do HD remakes of many of the NES games.
Haha I loved the story at the end when you stayed late at your friends and got grounded. I did something similar when I was about 8 or 9, but I was at my friend’s house salivating over his collection of Star Wars figures and ships🤤 I realised it was pitch black outside and ran home. I met my mum on the way, she was heading towards my friends house looking for me with a face like thunder!
Thank you for sharing your memories. It's fun to be able to get into someone else's mind and see how they experienced things. I also lived through this era, but I must admit that one of the most amazing times in my life was looking at the CRT TV in the Babbage's store window of the insanely colorful, fast, and physics-based Sonic The Hedgehog. What also caught my eye was Super Mario World. I remember that the gems in the cave (Vanilla Dome) glistening blew me away...but not as much as Sonic. And I decided to go with the Genesis (which my parents got me...they were...and are...so great to me). This was after the salesman was pushing the Super NES...just like in that Sonic commercial. The commercial I remember more, though, was the H.A.G. commercial, with great animation for Sonic...and I was mesmerized by the part of the Starlight Zone theme that I heard. It's funny how some things are so vivid to some people, although they may not stand out to others.
Another great video :) it’s always amazing to hear when somebody has their retrospective from mid 80s and just how categorically different the NES was from anything else they’d seen before. I grew up with the SNES, born the same year, but anyway, worthy Like and watch!
My first NES experience was a couple days before I started first grade, renting a control deck from my local video store with two games: JAWS and Rambo. It would be some time before I would get around to any of the black box games, my first being in the form of Donkey Kong Classics which I got as a Christmas gift along with my first game console that same year. it would be another year before I got around to Super Mario, and I honestly never got into that one. The games that hooked me in were Metroid and Zelda. I also played a lot of crap before I got around to those two, but the memories I took away from them makes them stand out for me as titles to go back to again and again.
In my home country back in the day, there were bootlegged famicom games that were sold everywhere, and there's a game that I have fond memories of. However, it was never released here in the US and barely anyone knows about it here. I can say with absolute confidence thst this is the most underrated and overlooked NES game ever, and an absolute hidden gem. It's none other than the TRUE grand daddy of all 1 on 1 fighting games: Yie Ar Yu Kung Fu!
Funny enough, the first time I discovered Mario or Nintendo in my youth, it was a Super Mario Bros. arcade cabinet in a local supermarket, and it blew my mind at the time.
The 2600 is one of those systems that struggled horribly with arcade ports, but had decent original titles (well when the developer had a reasonable amount of time 😅). Easier to make when you aren't trying to force a game to look or play like something beyond its system limits.
I know you had Demon Attack in your intro of games that didn't excite you, but we didn't have an arcade anywhere near my house, and that game just blew me away for years. It's fun to look back on those days
Love your videos man! I always was, and always will be a Sega fan, was by far my favorite consoles. Love your narration as well because (And I mean this in a good way, like compliment way) you not only sound like a a voice you would hear when you read a comic, you have all the phrases and language that would go with it. Keep em coming my friend, we all love it!
Great video! Loved those games. I spent a lot of time on Slalom and Kung Fu master. Ludicrous to think how difficult games were back then, but it was sure fun.
I remember being on fire one time in excitebike i was so far ahead of the other bikes that even my "rival" couldn't catch me, then out of nowhere my rival comes falling out of the sky. My brother and i busted out laughing trying to figure out what ramp he hit to get that kind of air. We later just chalked it up to the CPU trying to keep the race close by dumping him out on the track near me. good times
Damn, savage with the earlier consoles. You are right though the Atari 2600 ports of many games didn't do the arcade originals justice, but the 5200 and Colecovision did have some close ports of arcade titles, including Mario Bros and Donkey Kong...they were missing some levels though.
i remember x-mas '85 ; NES on display at the mall, kids lined up to try the games. R.O.B. convinced me it was for children ... we had the ColecoVision at home, just wanted a computer that much more
i played 10-yard fight in the arcade and on the NES. it's a classic along with Baseball, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, Excitebike, Kung fu, Mario bros, Pro wrestling, Mach Rider, and Super Mario bros. 💪
Holy crap... I think I'm twitching just remembering that music of Rygar (and you had to put it right after the intro) and the hours I spent on it and never completed it.... Whew, I believe my blood pressure increased a bit roflmao ❤️😎
When you said kids playing Excitebike when Mario 3 came out I said "Guilty as charged!" out loud. And right there with you playing Super Mario Bros on a 13 inch Black and White TV. Sometimes my parents let me hook it up in the living room on the color family tv but not nearly as often as I'd liked. I didn't get a color tv until the old black and white one straight out of the 70s finally died right as I got my Sega Genesis. Good timing on that one.
A similar memory - I first played Super Mario and Kung-fu Master at a friends house, but the next time I went back, there was only Mario. I didn't even notice but years later i realised his parents must have considered Kung-Fu Master TOO VIOLENT and hidden it away!
There was also Tennis and Golf and Soccer and Urban Champion, Duck Hunt, Wild Gunman, Hogan’s Ally, Wrecking Crew among others that weren’t in the video
These original launch titles all had a uniform look, now commonly reefed to as the “Black Box” look, which featured a black box with simple pixel art of the same characters, inspired by the in-game graphics themselves. The stark style gave anyone a good indication of what anyone were actually getting, although the pixel art was always slightly more detailed than the in-game visuals and was often enhanced with motion-blur effects. I liked the NES black box games. I just want 16 Nintendo NES black box games to play on the NES in my video game collection one day. Those will include: Super Mario Bros. (standalone) Pinball Golf Hogan's Alley Excitebike Ice Climber Wrecking Crew Kung Fu Wild Gunman Donkey Kong 3 Mario Bros. Popeye Mach Rider Urban Champion Balloon Fight And Slalom
