K's Complete NES Reviews
Hi, I'm Keith, or K for short. To
all those who may come
across my page, here you will (eventually ) find full reviews of every
NES game that
I currently have in my collection of 150+ games , including pros, cons,
and pictures. Although
I own several gaming consoles, the nintendo has always had a special
place in my heart, and thus this site is dedicated to it.
I remember getting my first Nintendo Entertainment
System for Christmas one year with my younger brother Wesley. Oh
boy was I ecstatic. Time would get away from me so fast, as I
would be
glued to the television set for hours on end, playing Super Mario
Brothers and Duck Hunt. My parents became worried about me, and
many times would have me shut off my game to "go outside and
play." I would go outside so aggravated, and would end up
pretending I was Mario or something, until I could go back inside and
then I was once again stuck to the TV screen.
I guess my parents got used to my obsession with
this thing called Nintendo and that it wasn't going to go away, and
since my grades in school remained very high, I guess they stopped
worrying
about me as much. Then they began buying me more games. All
in all, with my brother ,of course, I think we had about 15 games on
the
NES collected until the time came when the Super Nintendo got
really big and then my parents bought us one of them. That ended
my classic NES days for awhile.
Flash forward several years later. I graduated
from high school in 1999, joined the United States Marine Corps, and
served as an F-18 fighter jet Electrician for five years, and then
ended my active
service in 2004 and began working at my local home town telephone
company as an installation/repair tech, where I still remain
today.
One day in 2005, I came across my old NES at
my parents place, and being the big Playstation 2 buff I was at the
time, I laughed a bit and brought it over to my house. The only
games I could find were
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ( first one ) and Super Mario 3. A
couple weeks later I actually felt like checking to see if that old
system still worked, and it did, partially. I could start the
games, but usually during play the game would lock up , or I would get
the
aggravating blinking power light. I got on the Internet and
googled some information to help me restore my NES and within a week, I
had a new
72-pin connector come in that I purchased off E-bay, which I used to
replace the old worn out one on my system. At the same time ,
I also followed the advice of several NES buffs on the net and stopped
blowing into my games when they were not coming on. Instead I
bought a container of Q-tips , and every time I'd have problems getting
SMB3or TMNT to load I would give the copper connectors on the game paks
a
quick swab and it would fix the problem. When a dry q-tip would'nt
work, a couple of alcohol swabbed ones with an hours drying time would
do the trick. Also, this fixed the
locking up, or power on/off blinking problems I would get mid game.
In late 2005, a video game store opened up in our
small home town, and upon visiting it my first time , I could'nt help
notice the sign on the front door stating that they trade in used
games. I could'nt help
but think, maybe they have some old Nintendo games. Sure enough,
they did, at least a hundred of them, and boy did I go crazy on that
first visit.
I believe I came out of the store with around 30 games, each ranging
from $1.00 to 5.00 apiece. Thus began my NES game collection.
During the life of Rhino Games ( the aforementioned
gaming store ), I collected around 100 games or so over multiple
visits. I would go by there every couple of weeks and buy up 5 to
10 games at a time.
Sadly, though, they got bought out by Game Stop, and the first thing
the new company did was to sell off all the old games and gaming
systems. I went in there one day and found no NES games, where
there had been tons of them the week before. I was informed that
every one
of their old cartridges (ranging from $1.00 to some over 30.00- the
rare ones) went up for sale for $1.00 each just so they could get rid
of them
fast. One guy had come in and bought the whole lot of Nintendo
games ( over 200), thus wiping them out. I have not been to that
store since.
They only cater to the most modern ( ps2 and up ) consoles now.
Since then, I have slowly built my collection up
using E-bay and by hitting up various flea markets, pawn shops, and
video game trading stores. I currently have in my collection 158
games, as of today, August 19,
2007. There are roughly 650 games made for this system, and it is
my goal to one day own them all. However, one problem I have is
that I do
not want to just keep collecting games that I will never play, and
thus, I felt this to be a worthy project for me to actually sit down,
fully play, and then review each
and every one of my games, and post it for all to see. For you
other NES collectors out there, I hope these reviews will be
entertaining as well
as informative to help you choose your next purchases.
So, come on in, take a load off, and read up on some
of the best and worst that the classic NES had to offer.
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