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Donkey Kong	Nintendo (Nintendo EAD)	1983	[media=youtube]https://youtu.be/F1kcC4gxBFg[/media]* [142]* [22]* [52]One of the launch games for the Famicom/NES system in Japan. Considering the game's release date, it features great graphics and solid gameplay, which comes close to its arcade counterpart. The NES version only features three levels, instead of four as in the arcade version. Surely this game is a classic, although in my personal opinion the game and its three short levels become boring quite soon and doesn't reach the status of later games in which a certain plumber named Mario made his reappearance.**Donkey Kong has kidnapped Pauline, and it is up to Mario, the fearless carpenter, to come to her rescue. Throwing fate to the wind, Mario tries desperately to climb the labyrinth of structural beams from the top of which Donkey Kong taunts him. Help our hero ascend the metal structure by dodging an assortment of fireballs, steel beams, and exploding barrels the angry ape hurls at him. Prepare yourself for a never-ending adventure as Donkey Kong takes Pauline away to the next level every time Mario gets to the top. Based on the arcade game of the same name, this classic will keep hardcore and casual gamers entertained for hours.
Donkey Kong Jr.	Nintendo (Nintendo EAD)	1983	[media=youtube]https://youtu.be/y6t5zOsWAmU[/media]* [52]Donkey Kong Jr. was one of the launch games for the Famicom/NES release in Japan. An excellent arcade conversion, especially considering the release date of 1983. The game is a little improvement of the original Donkey Kong gameplay, although the concept stays basically the same with the only difference that now Mario is the bad guy (kind of) and Junior Kong wants to rescue his father. All in all a good game for its time and surely a classic, though very limited when compared to later platform games from the post 'Super Mario Bros' era.**Based on the popular arcade game, Donkey Kong Jr. is the sequel to the immensely successful Donkey Kong. Play as Donkey Kong's son, Junior, and rescue your dad who has been kidnapped and imprisoned in a cage by Mario. Use your jumping and climbing abilities to clamber up vines and chains, gather vital fruit and keys, and open the cage to free your father. Make sure you avoid the pesky birds, nasty electric sparks, and creepy chompers! Four different worlds filled with numerous climbing and jumping puzzles await you in this timeless classic.
Mario Bros.	Nintendo (Intelligent Systems;Nintendo)	1983	[100]* [62]* [49]*NES-MA-GBR is used in official Nintendo documentation but the cartridge shows only "GBR" NES-MC-NOE, UPC: 0-45496-63070-6, Mario Bros. (Classic Series) published 1993-04-13 in Germany.You can play alone, or team up with a friend as Mario and Luigi tackle this underground adventure together. There are plenty of cagey critters to conquer -- turtles, crabs and fireflies, to mention a few. You'll progress through endless levels of challenge collecting gold coins and building your score as you go.1 player or 2 players simultaneous. [Zerothis]Enjoyable arcade port and one of the earliest Famicom/NES games ever released. One of the better platform games of the pre Super Mario Bros. era.**Overly simple, straight-forward, yet strangely fun 2-player game. There was a way to access it from [game=Super Mario Bros. 3]Super Mario Bros. 3[/game]. [cjlee001]
Wrecking Crew	Nintendo	1985	[4]* [22]* [52]* [49]1 player or 2 players simultaneous cooperative. [Zerothis]Nice early puzzle / platform mix with nice graphics for its time. Destroy (nearly) everything on the screen to make it to the next level. One of the not so well known games featuring star plumber Mario.*In the days before Mario and Luigi became sports stars in their downtime between plumbing and saving the Princess, they tried their hands as one-man wrecking crews. With a hammer as their only tool, players take control of the brothers and set out to destroy ladders, rip out pipes, knock down walls and detonate explosive devices. But make sure to plan your path of destruction carefully, as each building is designed as its own clever puzzle—if you're not careful, you can easily trap yourself in a dead end. Adding to the excitement and challenge are fireballs, enemies and an angry foreman roaming the buildings. They're all trying to stop you from moving on to the next stage. With 100 buildings to demolish and the ability to construct your own, it's a wonder Mario and Luigi ever got back to saving the Mushroom Kingdom.
Super Mario Bros.	Nintendo	1985	[22]* [1]* [52]* [52]* [33]*Super Mario Bros. is the pinnacle of pure, unblemished gaming. The 2D platformer, designed by Nintendo's legendary figurehead Shigeru Miyamoto, still remains in our minds the most intuitive and addictive entry in the genre. The title stars "Jump Man" himself, Mario, along with his brother Luigi, and takes players through more than 30 colorful levels of varied theme and design, all of them packed with cute, stylized enemies like the goombas and a wide array of platforms and obstacles. Super Mario Bros. is the first major showpiece for Nintendo's heightened quality of gaming: full of depth, layered with tight control and remarkably clever level creation that spills with secrets and extras.One of the most important and best-selling games in history. This game was the #1 reason to buy a NES console in its early days. Perfect controls, nice graphics and sounds for its time. Varied levels with many secrets. The major breakthrough for side-scrolling platform games.Also released on a compilation grouping [game=#8317]Tetris[/game], [game=#5128]Super Mario Bros.[/game] and [game=#8062]Nintendo World Cup[/game] (Only in Europe).*First side-scrolling Mario game. Huge sales for the NES, both in Japan and the USA. A superb platformer and early benchmark for the NES and 8-bit consoles. Guinness World Records reports this game as the best selling game of all time at 40230000 copies. [b]Tags[/b] Landing squarely on an enemies head to defeat them is the first and most common tactic in this game. It was available at the launch time of the NES in the USA (Famicom?). It stars Mario the plumber. he main plot includes rescuing the unfortunate Princess in distress, and saving her kingdom; which is threatened by Bowser. Successful completion of the game completes a story of deliverance. Other royal subjects can be rescued optionally. The common bricks in the game can be smashed directly or by hurdling enemies at them. Although a glitch, Mario or Luigi can preform wall jumps. [Zerothis]
Donkey Kong Classics	Nintendo (Nintendo EAD)	1988	What's more fun than a barrel of monkeys? A Donkey Kong double feature! In DONKEY KONG you'll duck barrel bombs and flaming fireballs as you help Mario save his girlfriend Pauline from the clutches of Donkey Kong. In DONKEY KONG JR., you'll join forces with these madcap monkeys to help Donkey Kong Jr. rescue his father from Mario's prison. Are you ready for laughter? You'd better be. Because this double does of monkey business will have you rolling in the aisles!***'Donkey Kong' and 'Donkey Kong Jr.' on one cartridge.
Super Mario Bros. 2	Nintendo;Hyundai (Nintendo)	1988	Mario's back! Bigger and badder than ever before! This time it's a fierce action-packed battle to free the land of Subcon from the curse of the evil Wart. It's up to you, along with Mario, Luigi, Toad and the Princess, to fight your way through bizarre multi-level worlds and find him! This time you've got a brand new kind of power - plucking power - and now anything you find can be a weapon. But beware! You've never seen creatures like these! Shyguys and Tweeters! Ninji and Beezos! And you've never had an adventure like this! Only cunning and speed can save you now...* [62]* [33]* [49]* [64]* [1]* [52]* [27]It is no secret that the US/EU version of Super Mario Bros. 2 was just a slightly edited [game=#156334]Yume Kojo Doki Doki Panic[/game] version, because Nintendo thought the [game=#153349]Japanese Super Mario Bros. 2[/game] version was too difficult for non-Japanese audiences (My personal opinion is that it proved to be too hard for Japanese people as well and Nintendo got a good amount of negative feedback and didn't dare to make that mistake again in the US). Besides the characters some other minor graphical details were improved, but the game stays basically the same. Controls are very good and I think it makes a worthy sequel, more so than similar "black sheep" sequels like [game=#7949]Zelda II The Adventure of Link[/game] or [game=#7648]Castlevania II Simons Quest[/game]. Interestingly this game was also released on cartridge in Japan in 1992 (late in the Famicom life cycle) under the name "Super Mario Bros. USA".**The American and European Version of Super Mario Bros. 2 has its roots in the Japanese game 'Dream Factory: Doki Doki Panic'. It was released in Japan in 1992 as 'Super Mario USA'.
Super Mario Bros. 3	Nintendo	1988	[64]* [37]* [32]* [29]* [27]*Mario and Luigi are back and have some new tricks. Wear different suits for flying, short span of invincibility, hopping, swimming and throwing hammers. Collect items for later use. There is now and overworld with multiple branching paths and optional sub levels. King Koopa is back too, with a brood of unruly koopa kids to throw at the brothers. 1 player or 2 players take turns but a players can elect to compeat or cooperate in a 2 player simultaneous bonus minigame game of the original Mario Bros. (simulated) [spoiler=Controls;Controls] Enter a level = A Look at items = B Select an item = A Jump = A Bounce high off enemies = ↓ Bounce high off bouncing blocks = A Fire = B Run = B Duck = ↓ Enter a pipe = ↓ Enter ceiling pipe = A+↑ Enter horizontal pipe = ← or → Enter a door = ↑ Pick up certain items = B+← or B+→ Kick held items =Release B Drop certain held items = Hold ↓ + Release B Flying, use B to run and charge your P meter then press A Gliding, Hold B (with certain suits) Mid-air bouncing, tap B (with certain suits) Leap from water's surface = A+↑, A+↑+→, or A+↑+←[/spoiler]Secrets: [spoiler=Lots of 1-ups;Lots of 1-ups]Enter level 1-2 with a suit with a tail or get one in the level. There is a horizontal pipe that keeps spitting out goombas. If you bounce high of them (hold A), then float down slowly (tapping B), you can land one one after another without ever touching the ground. Hit 9 in a row to start scoring 1-ups. This can also be done with the first Dry Bones you meet in the 2nd fortress In level 3-4: Past the pool of water pounce the koopas once and let them live. Kill the para-goombas. Grab a koopa and kick him between the two blocks below the pipes. Stand on the middle blocks and hopfully avoid Lakitu's eggs. When the 9th eggs fall in the path of the bouncing koopa, you will begin scoring 1-ups. In level 3-4: Kick a koopa between two cannons where it will destroy the bullets.[/spoiler][spoiler=The incredibly clumsy Frog Suit;Frong Suit]It is most useful in entering pipes that have a current flowing out of them. There is no other way to enter flowing pipes. Some people prefer the swimming ability of this suit to Mario's dog paddle[/spoiler][spoiler=Match game solutions;Match game] 1=10 Coins 2=20 Coins F=Flower M=Mushroom S=Star X=1-up F2MSXF [b]X[/b]F1M2S M1SMFS F1XFXM [b]S[/b]M2SM1 SF2MFS MF2M1S [b]F[/b]XM1X2 SFSMFS XM1MFS [b]M[/b]1S22F SXFMFS MF2F1S [b]2X[/b]M1XF SMSMFS MFXFSS [b]2S[/b]M1XF 2M1MFS FSXF2M [b]1[/b]M2XM1 S[b]F[/b]SMFS FAXFXM [b]1[/b]MFSM1 S[b]2[/b]2MFS Identify these quickly by choosing the cards that I have marked in bold. Start with the left most card in the middle row. It will only take one, or two cards to identify which set you have.[/spoiler][spoiler=Treasure ships instead of hammer brothers;Treasure Ships]On levels 1, 3, 5 and 6, have 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, or 99 coins exactly, have the tens digit in your score match this number (11=1, 99=9), end a stage with an even number on the clock and by matching 3 cards. There are different versions of this game that will also let the ten digit be 5 different from the coins (2 or 7 for 22 or 77, 0 or 5 for 55) and the ending time must be odd instead of even.[/spoiler][spoiler=Warp Whistle;Warp Whistle]Stand on the right corner of the last white block in level 1-3. Duck down and wait, you will eventually fall through the block and behind the scenery. As you begin to fall, run right. If you are fast enough, you will run right behind the goal screen and hit a secret toad's house with a whistle in it.[/spoiler][spoiler=Warp Whistle;Warp Whistle]In the first fortress, don't enter the boss door. Instead, make sure you arrive at the door in a suit with a tail. Flatten the Dry Bone and fly before he revives. Up off the top of the screen (avoid the spiked ceiling) and to the right is a door; you will not be able to see it. But keep running right until the screen stops scrolling. Now press up to enter the door.[/spoiler][spoiler=Warp Whistle;Warp Whistle]On the level 2 overworld map, use a hammer on the rock in the upper right corner of the screen. In this secret area is a Toad house with a frog suit and a hammer bros guarding a Warp Whistle[/spoiler][spoiler=Another secret map area;Another secret map area]Break the rock to the right of 3-5 and ride the canoe[/spoiler][spoiler=Tanooki suits;Tanooki Suits]Level 4-5. There's a hidden vine above the taller of the two cannons that are right next to each other. Bounce off a bullet to get on the vine. It leads to a question brick containing a Tanooki suit Level 5-5: The second pipe leads to a Tanooki suit. Level 6-3: Kick a koopa shell at the left block of the first group of three. This vine appears leads to a pipe Tanooki suit.]]Hammer Suit[[spoiler:Hammer Suit\| Level 6-5: Use a koopa to knock out the plants blocking the secret exit. This leads to a toad's house holding a Hammer Suit.]]Kuribo goomba's boot[[spoiler:Kuribo goomba's boot\| This body shoe protects you enough that you can walk on anything, including enemies that are usually deadly to touch. In Level 5-3, uppercut the bricks that Kuribo is on to evict him from his boot.[/spoiler] [Zerothis]Remember when no one had ever heard of a Tanooki Suit or knew that Bowser had a clan of Koopalings? The game that made these things common knowledge is also considered by many to be one of the best ever made. Bowser and the Koopalings are causing chaos yet again, but this time they're going beyond the Mushroom Kingdom into the seven worlds that neighbor it. Now Mario and Luigi must battle new enemies, returning favorites and a new Koopaling in each unique and distinctive world on their way to ultimately taking on Bowser himself. Luckily for the brothers, they have more power-ups available than ever before. Fly above the action using the Super Leaf, swim faster by donning the Frog Suit or defeat enemies using the Hammer Bros. Suit. Use the brand-new overworld map to take the chance to play a minigame in hopes of gaining extra lives or to find a Toad's House where you can pick up additional items. All this (and more) combines into one of gaming's most well-known and beloved titles—are you ready to experience gaming bliss?**For me, this was the game that started it all! It was the first NES game I ever beat (sorry, I was a little late with getting an NES), and it drew me back into the video game world that I had long since abandoned after years of lackluster Atari games. Even when playing it today, I still think it is one of the greatest games of all time. SMB3 has a multitude of levels with varying, but always creative, obstacles, loads of secrets, special suits (like Tanooki and Hammer Bros.), lots of new enemies, and Kuribo's Shoe! Although much of the game is relatively easy, SMB3 does have its moments of difficulty, and World 8 is a real challenge! [Spiez]
Kaettekita Mario Bros.	Nintendo	1988
Dr. Mario	Nintendo	1990	It's Dr. Mario for an intense new challenge! Mario throws multi-shaded vitamin capsules into a bottle that contains an ugly variety of nasty viruses. You can move, shift or spin the capsules as they fall. Arrange them to align with other capsules on top of a virus. If you can get 4 or more of the same shade in a row, POOF! They disappear! Destroy all of the viruses in the bottle and you progress to the next round where things get even more difficult. Dr. Mario, with germs that are fun to catch.* [64]* [37]* [27]1 player or 2 players simultaneous competitive. [Zerothis]**You and Dr. Mario must defeat all the viruses by matching them with the appropriate colored pills. You can play head-to-head, or against the computer at different difficulty levels. You'll probally think 'tetris clone'..but it's MUCH more challenging, and it VERY addictive. the music is catchy, the game is fun. [Airhead91]
NES Open Tournament Golf	Nintendo	1991	We all knew that Mario was a top-notch plumber, but did you know that he could also be a world-class golfer? You can challenge another player in Stroke, Match and Tournament modes. Play on three fantasy courses in the USA, the UK and Japan and try to win a million dollars. Make sure you keep an eye on the wind and distance to the hole before selecting your club, or else you'll be racking up some high scores - which is exactly what you don't want to do in this game. Whether you're a beginner or an experienced golfer, NES Open Tournament Golf is perfect for those days when you just can't get to the local golf course.
Mario is Missing	Mindscape;Nintendo;The Software Toolworks (Radical Entertainment)	1991
Kart Fighter	Ge De Industry (Gouder;Hummer Team)	1993	Some sources say this game is published by J.Y. Company and developed by Somari Team. Of note, many companies have pirated this (hacks of hacks).***Game description from [[link:http://www.romhacking.net Romhacking.net]]: Okay, here’s a weird one. Kart Fighter is an unlicensed “pirate original” fighting game for the Famicom which features characters from Super Mario Kart beating the holy hell out of each other, Street Fighter style. Sound like Super Smash Bros? It shouldn’t. This game predates Nintendo’s own take on the genre by several years, and in fact could be cited as a source of inspiration for the creation of Smash Bros. Well, okay, maybe not. But still. Anyway, Kart Fighter is…well, it’s actually really good, surprisingly. Some would go as far to say that it’s the best one-on-one fighting game on the NES, though its only serious competition is Joy Mech Fight, TMNT Tournament Fighters, and all that unplayable pirated crap like those “ports” of The King of Fighters, Mortal Kombat, and the dreaded Cony versions of Street Fighter. Among its bootlegged peers, though, Kart Fighter reigns supreme. The game positively reeks of effort - all character sprites are original and unique to this game, and are large, colorful, and well-animated. The gameplay isn’t perfect, but it’s at least existent, which is more than you can say for any other pirated fighting game ever made for the NES. It’s actually playable, for chrissake. PLAYABLE! Heavens! It’s not an excellent game by any means, but its mere concept and the decent amount of quirk contained within (dig the game’s inexplicably capable and hot interpretation of Princess Peach) make Kart Fighter very much worth playing. If only for a few minutes. And yes, the game has a two-player mode. Press left or right on controller 2 at the character select screen to enable it. Have a fun! Unofficial English translation available: [[link:http://www.geocities.com/dvdtranslations/ http://www.geocities.com/dvdtranslations/]] [[link:http://www.romhacking.net/trans/784/ http://www.romhacking.net/]] [cjlee001]
Mario's Time Machine	Mindscape;The Software Toolworks (Radical Entertainment)	1994

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