Which Type of Gamer Are you?

The Video Game Blog recently posted a link to TechFresh Video Games that I had to click on.  With a picture like the one above, I really had no choice but to find out what was going on. The link takes you to the interesting photo above and that page has a link to an interesting quiz.  I can certainly say that the image was appropriate and the NES Power Glove never looked so good…

Do you like to take on the enemy with a massive blaster, or do you like to discover unexplored lands?  Do you like to stimulate your optic nerves or do you like to solve brain tickling puzzles, or meet hot virtual girls?  Take this quiz and find out.

written by Will Snizek \\ tags: games, gaming, NES, power glove, quiz, Video Games

One of my Favorite Flash games out there.  It involves a plumber and his brother trying to go through pipes to save some princess.  Never heard of it, but the colors and music are pretty cool!

written by Juan Perez \\ tags: flash, Mario, NES

Motorcycle games have come a long way in areas since Excitebike, but it’s still an awesome game. Whether racing solo or against computer-assisted riders, you always race against the time limit as well. The NES had one of the greatest game libraries of all-time and Excitebike is certainly towards the top of the list. Never played the game? You can play it online HERE.

You’re probably wondering why I consider Excitebike to be one of the best NES games. I love the game because it was simple and also innovative at the same time. How many other console games were out at the time allowing players to edit their own tracks? None. The ability to edit your own tracks really extended the life of this game and inspired other games to follow. The only thing that sucked was that your track design was lost as soon as you powered off the NES.

written by Will Snizek \\ tags: Excitebike, NES, Old School Sundays

The NES may be a thing of the distant past, but the games continue to live on. When it comes to various collectibles, Zelda and Mario certainly have more items out there. While surfing Etsy.com I came across these interesting earrings selling for $16.00. There’s only one pair available and they definitely look like an interesting find.

Etsy Listing

written by Will Snizek \\ tags: com, Earrings, Etsy, Legend, Listing, Mario, NES, original, pair, past, thing, zelda, Zelda Shield

Not too long ago, I brought you my “Top Ten Video Games of 1987“. Now it’s time for me to unleash my “Top Ten Video Games of 1988″ on you. 1988 was an interesting year in games and in the world. We saw Dan Rather clash with George H.W. Bush on television concerning Bush’s known role in the Iran-Contra scandal. Who would have known that we’d still have a Bush in the White House twenty years later? Hustler won their case against Jerry Falwell in the Supreme Court. Although it was a satirical story made up by Hustler, one still has to wonder if Falwell had sex with his mother in an outhouse. The world may never know!

Oliver North along with John Poindexter were indicted on conspiracy charges against the United States (North went on to found organizations such as the Freedom Alliance, where they used the skills of Jack Thomspson, the lawyer all gamers love, to go after Ice T and the song “Cop Killer”). Kirk Gibson hit perhaps the most memorable home run in World Series history. 1988 was certainly a very interesting year, but let’s talk about the games…

Here are my picks for top ten video games of 1988:

1. Dragon Warrior 3 (NES)
   
2. Mega Man 2 (NES)
   
3. Bionic Commando (NES)
4. Ninja Gaiden (NES)
5. Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest (NES)
6. Contra (NES)
   
7. Shinobi (Arcade)
8. Phantasy Star (Sega Master System)
9. John Madden Football (Apple II)
10. Super Mario Bros. 2 (NES)

You are probably wondering why I didn’t find room for Zelda II on the list. Honestly, I wasn’t a big fan of the game. I felt it was stretched out too long, the game wasn’t put together well and was nowhere close to the great game we saw with the original Zelda. Despite my feelings for Zelda II, the NES certainly dominated my year in gaming. I was still more of a Sega guy at the time, but they really had nothing to compare to NES games of that year.

Dragon Quest III was certainly the greatest video game on 1988. According to Wikipedia, the game is the single reason why the Japanese government outlawed releases of Dragon Quest games on school days. Of the ten games I listed, Dragon Quest III is perhaps the most timeless. It’s as fun today as it was 20 years ago.

Whale image via Shirt.Woot

written by Will Snizek \\ tags: Apple II, Clash, Contra, Dan, Dragon, game, George H.W. Bush, Hustler, III, Jack Thomspson, Jerry Falwell, John Madden, John Poindexter, Kirk Gibson, NES, Oliver North, Quest, Sega, Simon, time, Top, United States, video, wasn, world, year, zelda, Zelda II

There is no secret that the NES is one of the most successful gaming consoles EVER made. Just because you don’t have Nintendo Cartridges to blow into and carefully put it into your NES to play Zelda doesn’t mean you can’t. Well my followers, put down that Nestle Quik and comb your head because the NES will come to YOU! One of our favorite sites to play all those classic NES games is VirtualNES.

Why not hop on over and check out their list of games, only problem is there is no controller and the keyboard can be cumbersome. It’ll remind you of you past and those games you wish you never traded.

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written by Juan Perez \\ tags: Cartridges, comb, EVER, Favorite, gaming, head, mean, NES, Nestle, Nintendo, play, Quik, Secret, VirtualNES, vnes, zelda

In tribute of this past weeks announcement of Mega Man 9, we’re going back to 1987 to bring you how it all started… Mega Man part uno.  Known to some as Rockman, Megaman, developed by Capcom, was a side scrolling action NES game.  Mega Man was the only NES Mega Man title to feature a score counter.  I consider Mega Man to be one of the first strategic games due to the Robot Master attributes you gain after you defeat them.  For ex. The easiest way to kill CutMan relies not in your Mega Buster, but in your Super Arm that you got from GutsMan in the last stage.

Characters

• Mega Man — Tool assistant, originally known as Rock (or Mega in the remake), created and modified by Dr. Light to combat Wily.
• Dr. Albert W. Wily — The antagonist of the game, his goal is world domination. He appears as the final boss in a hovering ship (at first a tank-like machine in the remake).
• Dr. Thomas Light — Creator of Mega Man, aids Mega Man on his adventure to stop Dr. Wily.
• Roll — Mega Man’s sister, she makes her debut in this game, though in the NES version her name is not mentioned. She is only seen at the ending of the credits in the NES version, but she can be downloaded in the PSP remake as a playable character.
• Robot Masters — Cutman, Gutsman, Elecman, Fireman, Iceman, and Bombman.

Mega Man is made up of six stages, with a Robot Master at the end guarding a weapon. The stage select screen allows the player to choose from these six stages, and when they are all completed, the seventh and last stage appears in the middle of the menu, replacing the text “Stage Select, Press Start”. This last stage is in fact more like four regular stages linked together, some a bit shorter than average, but with bosses that are considered harder than usual.

Mega Man 9 is due out on the XBox Live Arcade and Playstation Network.  We’ll keep you updated with all the news “Mega Man 9″ related.

written by Juan Perez \\ tags: announcement, Dr. Albert W, Dr. Light, Dr. Thomas Light, Dr. Wily, Edition, game, man, master, Mega Man, Mega Man 9, NES, Old, part, robot, Rock, Rockman, School, Sony PSP, stage, Tribute, uno, version

For all you new Firefox 3 user’s out there, there a neat plug-in that brings most of your favorite NES roms to your browser. Now, I have to admit I like FCE Ultra emulator a bit better because it supports a joystick and ALL roms ( RiverCity Ransom is missing???). For the rest of you cheapo’s that can’t cough up $5 bucks for a Virtual Console release, FireNES has got you covered.

HOW TO PLAY NINTENDO GAMES IN FIREFOX 3

1) Get Firefox 3 (if you haven’t already you should be smacked)

2) Download the FireNES plugin.

3) Install FireNES and restart Firefox 3.

3b) You may get a pop up asking you if you want to disable or uninstall FireNES when Firefox 3 restarts. Do not do any of those things, simply close that pop up.

4) Click on Tools and scroll all the way down to “FireNES”. Select FireNES and a sidebar should pop up on the left side of your browser. This bar will feature a shit ton of classic Nintendo games.

5) To play the game of your choice, simply double click on it in the list.

5b) If the game does not load, you may need to install the latest version of Java which only takes a few seconds to install.

6) For instructions on which keys to press, right click on the title and select “options” from the pop up menu, then tab over to the “controls” tab.

7) Prepare to use the key combination of “Alt + Tab” to prevent getting caught playing videogames in your browser at work. Be smart, and there is no reason that this can’t remain our little secret.

Of course, all Homebrew Projects follow our Disclosure Policy… eww scaryyy.

Via Ripten

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written by Juan Perez \\ tags: bit, browser, Click, emulator, FCE, Firefox, FireNes, game, homebrew, NES, Nintendo, pop, tab, Ultra, user

After a month long hiatus, Destructoid’s GameJew returned with another interesting singing review.  I’ll be honest that this is the first time I have even though about City Connection (NES) in many, many years.  Although it wasn’t really a great game or anything, I did enjoy playing it back in the day for what it was worth.

Via Destructoid

written by Will Snizek \\ tags: anything, CITY, connection, day, Destructoid, game, GameJew, hiatus, month, Mushroom, NES, Review, Singdom, singing, time, wasn

Growing up in the 80’s exposed you to many, many odd fashion trends. It brought MC Hammer pants, the wedge haircut and neon arm sunglasses. Many of these embarrassing fashion statements went (Thanks to the 90’s). But the 80’s also brought us some of the coolest NES accessories known to every kid wishing he were the star in “The Wizard”. I was able to feed some banana peels into my Dolorean and head back to 1985 and take pictures with my Polaroid for you convenience, of course.

<Pst, the secret word of the day is “NES”. When you read NES you scream as loud as you can>

NES Power Glove - A controller accessory for the Nintendo Entertainment System designed by the team of Grant Goddard, William Novak and Sam Davis for Abrams/Gentile Entertainment, made by Mattel in the United States and PAX in Japan. Though it was an officially licensed product, Nintendo was not involved in the design or release of this accessory. It was the first peripheral interface controller to recreate human hand movements on a television or computer screen, and was commercially successful as almost 100,000 were made and sold in the U.S. alone. However, it is often derided by gamers due to its imprecise nature of controls, and the fact that basic actions such as jumping or using an item may be very difficult or impossible to pull off reliably.

NES Cleaning Kit - The Cleaning Kit contained two green plastic cleaning tools and an instruction manual. The first tool consisted of a plastic handle and an end with a C-shaped padded cleaning surface. This surface was designed to be wet with water and inserted over the contacts of a cartridge and used to scrub the cartridge’s contacts. The second tool was similar in design and function but had a flat padded end for insertion into the console itself to clean the console’s contacts. Cleaning the console and the cartridges once a month would supposedly extend product life and increase reliability. Long use would eventually dirty the cleaning pads, which could be replaced at cost through either mail order or by phone using information found in the manual. The Cleaning Kit was apparently created in response to the common practice amongst gamers of blowing into the cartridge or console in an attempt to remove dust from the contacts.

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written by Juan Perez \\ tags: cartridge, controller, Davis, design, Entertainment, Europe, Famicom, Family, Features, game, Grant Goddard, gun, Japan, Kit, NES, Nintendo, North America, pad, PAX, plastic, Power, R.O.B, Sam, system, United States, US, Video Games, William Novak