1,000 Things You Learned from the Famicom

[RainLink]

65. The princess is always in another castle. (Execpt in the eighth castle but that's beside the point)

[YoshiFan501]

66) freshly melted rubber smells bad.

[egg_sanwich]

67 - Rubber disk drive belts don't last for 25 years

[Frank_fjs]

68. Slamming the eject button and popping a cart into the air like a toaster is fun, though not very productive.

[JohnnyBlaze]

69.(heh heh heh 69 huh huh huh) The Twin Famicom's eject is so powerful that you can use it as a weapon to eject cartridges like projectiles.

70. The FDS unit is interchangeable with the Twin Famicom disk drive.

71. The wrestling games made for the NES/Famicom were HORRIBLE, except for the original Pro Wrestling.

72. No matter WHAT system I play it on, WWF Wrestlemania Challenge doesn't seem to want to work.

73. In WWF Wrestlemania Challenge, you can play with "Yourself", but just like real life, you won't get very far and it offers no reward at all.....

74. Listening to "Take My Breath Away" with the wife reminded me of something today: When trying to land the plane in either Top Gun game, up is down and down is up....

75. Super Pitfall is the WORST Pitfall game....ever...so much so that I call it "Super SHITfall"

76. When a game is about to kick your ass, it's perfectly acceptable to turn the game off and say that the game "reset itself". I've got the wife and my friends using that line ever since I learned that trick at my best friend's house while breaking out his NES.

77. The 6th world of Ninja Gaiden is the ULTIMATE definition of torture....

78. Despite being hard wired into the system, the Famicom controllers CAN be replaced by even the most novice of user.

79. The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game sucked balls. The next one's better.

80. All Acclaim was good for in the early days was taking games from other Japanese publishers and marketing them as their own, starting what would later become known as the Acclaim standard of laziness and the LJN rainbow of shit.....

[Cheetahmen]

77. The 6th world of Ninja Gaiden is the ULTIMATE definition of torture....

That reminds me,

81. Whoever programmed the NES version of Dragon's Lair was a masochistic arsehole.

82. Nintendo were very lenient (not as much as they are with the Wii, but still) when handing out the seal of approval on NES games, as evidenced by how awful a large number of games were in the NES' library.

83. There's about 50 baseball games on the Famicom/NES. Seriously, who wants to play that many games based off one sport?

[JohnnyBlaze]

77. The 6th world of Ninja Gaiden is the ULTIMATE definition of torture....

That reminds me,

81. Whoever programmed the NES version of Dragon's Lair was a masochistic arsehole.

82. Nintendo were very lenient (not as much as they are with the Wii, but still) when handing out the seal of approval on NES games, as evidenced by how awful a large number of games were in the NES' library.

Oh YES! I used to own Dragon's Lair as a kid. We got the game because we loved the arcade game. But, when we got it home, we were REALLY disappointed. I'm still scarred playing that first stage over and over again....

As for the Nintendo Seal of Quality. I think we all learned early on ESPECIALLY with ANY LJN game, that it was good for shit. All it mean was that company paid a licensing fee to Nintendo and got their shit released.

Which reminds me:

84. The Nintendo Seal of Quality is anything but. It's supposed to be a Seal of Quality, yet so many shitty games were released that you begin to question who was in charge of making the decisions what games made the cut and what didn't...

85. Almost all games based on movies for the NES/Famicom suck major ass.....

[Cheetahmen]

85. Almost all games based on movies for the NES/Famicom suck major ass.....

I can think of a few good ones. The Batman games, The Goonies and any Disney movie adaptations that Capcom did for the NES come to mind. Also,

86. Journey to Silius was supposed to be a Terminator game; pity really, as the Terminator game that Radical Entertainment/Mindscape did is one of the worst games released for the console.

87. If you find a NES game developed by Radical Entertainment, avoid it because it makes almost anything published by LJN look like a masterpiece in comparison.

[Jedi Master Baiter]

71. The wrestling games made for the NES/Famicom were HORRIBLE, except for the original Pro Wrestling.

Does Tsuppari Oozumou count?

When trying to land the plane in either Top Gun game, up is down and down is up....

Well duh, it's inverted. But saying 'Up' when it means 'Speed Up' is unforgivable.

78. Despite being hard wired into the system, the Famicom controllers CAN be replaced by even the most novice of user.

Tell that guy.

79. The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game sucked balls. The next one's better.

I liked it.

86. Journey to Silius was supposed to be a Terminator game; pity really, as the Terminator game that Radical Entertainment/Mindscape did is one of the worst games released for the console.

One of the worst? Nah. Mediocre - yes. It's a shame nonetheless.

[JohnnyBlaze]

71. The wrestling games made for the NES/Famicom were HORRIBLE, except for the original Pro Wrestling.

Does Tsuppari Oozumou count?

Don't know what that is. All I've played are the WWF and WCW games, Pro Wrestling, Tag Team Wrestling, MUSCLE, and Tecmo World Wrestling.

79. The first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game sucked balls. The next one's better.

I liked it.

This song says it all:

http://www.dorkly.com/video/25541/dorkly-bits-nes-ninja-turtles-theme-song

86. Journey to Silius was supposed to be a Terminator game; pity really, as the Terminator game that Radical Entertainment/Mindscape did is one of the worst games released for the console.

One of the worst? Nah. Mediocre - yes. It's a shame nonetheless.

I don't think I said that lmao

[L___E___T]

88. Round concave plastic buttons are better than flat square, rubber buttons.

Spoiler

chiming in now because 88 is a lucky number in some parts - I was born on the luckiest day of the year in my area and my gf's name is lucky.

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[Cheetahmen]

Speaking of 88:

89. The Back to the Future video game isn't as bad as a lot of people make it out to be. (Not in my opinion, at least) It's more like an average early NES game if anything. Hell, it's way better than Part II & III on the NES.

[Nightstar699]

Speaking of 88:

89. The Back to the Future video game isn't as bad as a lot of people make it out to be. (Not in my opinion, at least) It's more like an average early NES game if anything. Hell, it's way better than Part II & III on the NES.

Love hearing an opinion like this. Most people will just agree with whatever AVGN says without even playing the game first.

90. As much as people complain about great Famicom exclusives never coming to NES, that situation is also quite common vice versa.

[Cheetahmen]

91. Way too many people are too lazy to find out that LJN never developed games. Then again, given that most of the games they published were pretty bad they probably rushed the developers or something.

[Nightstar699]

Most people think I'm trolling when I say I like Karate Kid on NES more than I like Super Mario Bros. 3.

92. Much of the time, the lower the number of games on a multicart, the better they will be.