100 NES Games in 10 Minutes

The NES is the greatest console ever made, by far, and will never be surpassed. Why? They made over 700 games for it. Now, you might say, well they made over 1700 games for the PS2. Well, they did, but about 80% of those games sucked. On the NES, for every one stinker like Battle Chess, you had 3 classics like Battletoads, Bionic Commando, and Blaster Master. The ratio of good games to bad games was much higher.

That being said, I somehow (blame ebay) own the cartridge for almost half the games on this list. I play most of them regularly, just not crap like Bubble Bobble 2 which I own mostly for its status as a collectors item. Why put my money in the bank when I can invest it in grey injection molded plastic filled with 8-bit greatness? Sure, I could just download an emulator and play on my computer, and I do that as well (especially for Kid Icarus and Metal Gear, man those games start out tough, and the save codes are like 50 characters long), but thats not the point.

The point is I am trying to reverse time. The other night, when it was 3:30 in the morning and I found myself playing Kirby's Adventure for 2 hours, I thought to myself, what the hell am I doing? I could be playing Castle Crashers or Metal Gear Solid 4, Civ4, Sins of a Solar Empire, Unreal 3 or Mario Galaxy, why am I playing some ancient 8-bit game?

Simple answer: because it makes me feel like a kid again, and for someone who is still young at heart, there is really nothing better.