A glut of poorly made games for the Atari 2600 killed the marketplace ... on toy shelves instead of in the electronics department. The NES quickly became a defining part of 1980s culture ...

You've got to remember the historical time period that the NES was released – it was an age when the Cold War was still a very prominent problem in many American's minds, and game companies ...

If one company was known for its amazing licensed NES games, it's Sunsoft. With classic titles ranging from Batman to Journey to Silius (which was originally supposed to be a licensed Terminator ...

But while action games on the NES are a dime a dozen, it's this very fact that made Batman stand out amongst the competition. Batman didn't try to do anything unique, but rather took a cue from a few ...

Several classic NES series seem to follow identical paths. Super Mario Bros. was a smash hit, and its American sequel was a completely different type of game. Konami's Castlevania was followed up by ...

A problem I have with many NES games is that beating them is far too ... This is an action role-playing game set in a ...

While many of Nintendo's best games ever made came during later console generations, multiple foundational games are on this console. In addition to Nintendo, several third-party series also saw ...

Out of all of the games on the list, Journey to Silius might have one of the ... because Journey to Silius is one of those seldom-played but everyone-should-play-it NES gems. Its fast-paced 2D action ...

If one company was known for its amazing licensed NES games, it's Sunsoft. With classic titles ranging from Batman to Journey to Silius (which was originally supposed to be a licensed Terminator game) ...