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Post by Sarge on Aug 31, 2020 14:06:28 GMT -5
So making gaming tier lists seems to be a popular thing these days. And I do find them pretty fun. I know GameFAQs had a yearly one going, although I didn't care for using the Japanese release date for games that came out later here. John Riggs has been going through various companies' NES releases and rating those, and they're smaller chunks to digest and pretty interesting, even if I find some of his tastes questionable at times. (Different strokes and all that!) So here's the tier list link that he did for Capcom, which seems like a good place to start if y'all are interested. Gonna post my own here at the start, too. tiermaker.com/create/nes-capcom-games-467336Not sure this is quite right, but it's a stab at it. It's hard at times to change my x/10 to letter grades.
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Post by Ex on Aug 31, 2020 16:14:42 GMT -5
Here's my rankings: The games circled in red, I have not played enough to have an opinion about yet. Edit: Also the color gradient scheme of the letters in this tier are the opposite of how they should be.
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Post by Sarge on Aug 31, 2020 19:21:14 GMT -5
Yeah, I noticed that too. Oh, and you haven't put much time into Mega Man 6? You really ought to give it a go!
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Post by Ex on Aug 31, 2020 20:32:08 GMT -5
Oh, and you haven't put much time into Mega Man 6? You really ought to give it a go! I have only beaten MM1, MM2, and MM3. I've played a fair bit of MM4 and MM5, never beat them though. I haven't beaten a single stage in MM6. It is interesting that Capcom chose not to publish MM6 in the USA, instead letting Nintendo do it.
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Post by Xeogred on Sept 1, 2020 13:00:02 GMT -5
Oh, and you haven't put much time into Mega Man 6? You really ought to give it a go! I have only beaten MM1, MM2, and MM3. I've played a fair bit of MM4 and MM5, never beat them though. I haven't beaten a single stage in MM6. It is interesting that Capcom chose not to publish MM6 in the USA, instead letting Nintendo do it. Maybe this is why:
MMX - NA: January 1994 MM6 - NA: March 1994
That must have been the last NES game I owned as a kid. Weirdly enough it was the only Mega Man game I ever owned on the NES too actually. I was just spoiled by my grandparents and was able to rent a game pretty much once a week and played MM2 and MM4 specifically a ton, with MM3 and MM5 being harder to find. Never saw or played MM1 back then.
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Post by Ex on Sept 1, 2020 13:12:43 GMT -5
Never saw or played MM1 back then. When I was a kid the two Mega Man games I could rent at the local video rental store, were MM1 and MM2. I remember renting both of them, and my reaction to each. I thought MM1 was awesome, and awesomely hard. Then I rented MM2, and was blown away by how much more polished it was. I made it much farther into MM2, due to its lower difficulty. I distinctly remember thinking both games were absolutely amazing though. Well, in 1989 to a kid stuck living in the middle of nowhere they were. 1989 was my biggest year of discovery for the NES. I received the console for my 10th birthday that year, and proceeded to rent, trade, and borrow for every NES game I could get my hands on. I managed to put together an impressive collection within one year (about 25 games), mostly by trading toys to classmates for NES games they no longer wanted. By and large though, the majority of NES games I played from 1989-1992, were rentals. But I got a SNES in 1992, and that put the NES in the closet.
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Post by Xeogred on Sept 1, 2020 13:51:17 GMT -5
I think I was able to beat MM2, or at least get to Wily's Castle (since it's so visually vivid in my mind all the time), when I was 2 years old, or 3. I find that to be literally insane when I think about it now, I think some of us here even agreed... kids thesedays seem slower or something? I just see young people that age now and can't see them beating NES games like I was. On my 4th birthday which was recorded, I was teaching some kids how to play SMB3. But yeah this also probably explains why Mega Man is in my DNA. Was playing games before I could probably even read and speak correctly.
Off the top of my head I think this was what I owned as a kid, purely from birthday's/holidays and such.
- Mario Bros - Super Mario Bros + Duck Hunt - Golf - Dr Mario - Kung Fu - Super Mario Bros 3 - Blaster Master (one of my dad's best friends just gave me this. Years later he did that again with Perfect Dark. This reminds me I need to tell him how much these games shaped my life haha). - Robocop 3 - TMNT 3 - Mega Man 6
Frequent rentals: - Mega Man 2-5 - Battletoads - TMNT 1-2 - Batman and Batman Returns - Lolo games - Looney Tunes / Disney stuff - SMB2 (for some reason my family thought this game was bad and never wanted me to own it, despite yearning for it and loving it back then too) - Metroid (always got lost in Norfair as a kid haha)
SMB3 was one of the biggest events of my childhood and the buildup to that release. Hopefully I can get the family pictures or something to show you guys someday, I had a whole Mario themed birthday with a custom cake and everything.
I played Zelda at one of my parents friends' place and my dad's father and his family owned Zelda II.
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Post by Sarge on Sept 1, 2020 13:55:12 GMT -5
Sounds like you got an NES just a bit before I did. I had to wait until Christmas of 1990 to get one, and made do with that (and eventually a Game Boy) until around 1994/1995. I did pretty well, though, in finding good games - I would wheel and deal at pawn shops trading games I didn't care for anymore, and of course yard sales and thrift stores. I remember, despite having very little money, that I easily had the most impressive collection of games in our small neighborhood, and it wasn't particularly close. Even if I was beaten in quantity (we had 20-30 games at any one time), the quality of our stuff was way, way better. Guess I can thank Nintendo Power for that one.
I didn't rent games terribly often, but one of my staples was Dragon Warrior III. I'm pretty sure my brother hated me for constantly wanting to get it instead of trying something new. But we also rented The Guardian Legend and River City Ransom back in the day, among others. But our strategy was more to try to buy games from the rental stores that weren't renting much anymore. They'd often let them go for pretty cheaply, and it was better to go ahead and get them to sell than when they'd throw 'em on the rack and we'd miss out.
I struggle to remember if I actually ever rented a Mega Man game. I think maybe once? Mainly because we made sure to track them down. Honestly, I don't even remember how I got my copy of Mega Man 3, but I remember with the others.
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Post by paulofthewest on Sept 1, 2020 17:22:07 GMT -5
Ya, I rented Mega Man 2. It seemed to have been the game to rent at the time.
I did acquire 3 (birthday present!) later and then the whole set. Wow, I had completely forgotten about renting games.
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Post by Sarge on Sept 1, 2020 18:57:43 GMT -5
I got the original Mega Man the long way around. Years ago, we bought our twin cousins the game for Christmas. Fast-forward years later, and I bought their NES and games from them. They were just going to give it to me, but I felt bad about just taking it, so I think I gave them like $40-50. Which is still pretty cheap, but they probably wouldn't have taken more than that... and I probably didn't have more than that at the time, either.
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