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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
Rad Racer	Square;Nintendo (Square)	1987	[62]* [33]* [4]* [49]* [22]* [66]* [52]* [47]NES-RC-CAN Rad Racer UPC:0-74299-00988-4, Mattel catalog number:sku:0988, published in Canada NES-RC-GBR Rad Racer UPC:0-74299-00988-4, Mattel catalog number:sku:0988, published in Great BritainThis is no ordinary game pak. This is Rad Racer. Nintendo's thrilling 3-D video game. Rad Racer comes action-packed with revolutionary 3-D technology and 3-D glasses (they're free inside) that will have you really believing you're in the middle of a cross country rally race-cruising along at 200 miles per hour!Rad Racer takes you through 8 treacherous race courses including the Los Angeles Nightway, the San Francisco Highway and the Grand Canyon. Choose the Ferrari and you'll enter a Super Machine competition where you'll race against Corvettes and Lamborghinis. Select the F-1 Machine and you'll compete against incredibly fast cars. Whether it's Ferrari or F-1, 3-D or Regular mode, Rad Racer's hair-pin curves, dare-devil turns and realistic action will bring home all the fun and excitement of real rally racing. Think you're up to it? Then drivers start your engines. It's Rad Racer!*"Rad Racer" is as much an OutRun clone for the NES as it can get. You race on eight tracks against a time limit with checkpoints. Each of the tracks has different backgroung graphics, there are three tunes to choose from (which can even be changed while driving) and you can choose your car from either a ferrari sports car or a formula 1 style racing car. The game is fast and all elements are decently implemented, but it also feels monotonous at times. Each stage features only one set of car graphics and the incoming "car waves" reminded me often enough of the old game [game=#5165]Enduro[/game].
The Legend of Zelda	Nintendo;Hyundai;Playtronic (Nintendo)	1987	[83]* [4]* [33]* [22]* [52]* [49]* [47]* [27]The NES version of the first Zelda game appeared roughly a year after the Famicom Disk System version and is of course nearly identical. Fine graphics and music, a huge overworld and many tricky dungeons. Complexity combined with good playability makes it a genre defining masterpiece and started one of the most popular game series ever. The Japanese cartridge version was released way after the original release in February 1994, most likely due to the fact that even in Japan nobody used a Disk System anymore at that time. It was also one of the very last Famicom releases.Gather the Triforce Fragments, collect the weapons needed to defeat Gannon (its says "GANNON" in the game).Rescue the princess. Then do it again (1st Quest, 2nd Quest). This is an appropriately difficult action-adventure with minor puzzle elements and maze like dungeons. There are enemies on nearly every screen to be dispatched by sword, boomerang, arrow, bomb, flame, recorder (flute), and/or magic. Originally released 1986 on the Famicom Disk System, the game was "ported" to cartridge and brought to the western world a year later. In 1994 a cartridge version was created for Japan also. Suggested simple instructions: Kill anything that moves; burn, blow up, feed, and/or steal anything that doesn't; in proper order. You can stop and save your game at anytime without dying. Press start to go to the sub-screen menu. Then on controller 2 press ↑+A. This is often incorrectly regraded as a 'secret'. But in reality, its written in the game instruction booklet. North American (English), European (English), and Japanese (Japanese based with English text also) versions of this cartridge were officially published in 1994. It has been unofficially translated, via ROM patches, to the follow languages: Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Esperanto, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Lojban, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. 젤다의 전설 NES-LZ-KOR published 1987 by Hyundai Electronics Industries Co., Ltd. in Korea. ????????? NES-LZ-HKG Gold cartridge published 19?? by Hi-Tech Expressions in Hong Kong A Lenda de Zelda (NES-LS-BZL not printed on product) Grey cartridge published 19?? by Playtronic localized by Hi-Tech Expressions Tags: The first game in the Legend of Zelda series. Miyamoto has stated that Mario and Zelda titles were intended to be playable animated cartoons. A character in the game, Zelda, is kidnapped by the antagonist in the hopes of forcing her to reveal a secret. One of Link's goals is to rescue her. Link can obtain a bow and shoot arrows at enemies. Damaging an NPC causes balls of energy to be launched at Link from out of fires. Miyamoto is a Shintoist and has publicly acknowledged incorporating Shinto into the Zelda games. This cartrige include 3 save slots via battery backed Save RAM. When played on a NES deck modified for stereo or an emulator with stereo, many have noticed that this game seems to have been designed for it. Their are Christian Crosses on Link's shields and on gravestones which has been shown to be against Nintendo's Content Guidelines by other games which have had Christian Crosses censored. [Zerothis]*Zelda. What more is there to say? Now that the N64 version is out, I hope this one isn't forgotten. I bought this when it came out and it is probably THE best game ever. Out of the NES versions, SNES versions, and this one, this one is probably my fave. The gameplay is amazing, the challenge is kick-ass, the storyline is pretty sweet, and it will keep you glued to your NES from start till finish. Trust me, this one is as good as the N64 version. Even though it doesn't have fancy graphics, the gameplay is unlike any other. You won't be disappointed!!!!
Stick Hunter: Exciting Ice Hockey Game	K Amusement Leasing (Micronics)	1987	"Stick Hunter" was the first ice hockey game for the Famicom/NES, predating Nintendo's popular [url=http://www.uvlist.net/game-7876-Ice+Hockey]Ice Hockey[/url] by a month. Of course Stick Hunter must be compared with Nintendo's Ice Hockey and it loses in all aspects. Graphics and sound are only average at best, but that isn't the gamebreaking aspect. "Stick Hunter is just on the border of being unplayable. Overall bad controls ruin the gameplay badly.
R.C. Pro-Am	Nintendo;Hyundai (Rare)	1988	"R.C. Pro-Am" is a popular early NES racing game featuring remote controlled cars (although you might wonder why they drive easily over 100MPH). The controls work well and the racing is reasonably fun. There are some upgrade methods for your car which is also nice. Despite the good features the game felt a bit bland to me. There are a couple of tracks but they are graphically not very appealing and somehow all too similar. There is also no league mode or something like that. As long as you don't finish last in a race you continue to the next race endlessly with tracks repeating themselves after some time obviously.* [22]* [66]* [1]* [52]*Grab your controller and pull up to the starting line. It's you against four other all-star racers in this thrilling Nintendo R.C. racing competition! You'll face hair-pin turns, outrageous curves, oil slicks and rain clouds as you make your way through 32 treacherous courses that will test your driving ability like never before. Along the way, you'll pick up performance boosters like Turbo Acceleration, Sticky Tires and Top Speed taht will help you get to the finish line first. But, if the going gets tough, you'll use your bombs and missiles to knock the competition for a loop to make sure you're the winner! Collect the letters that spell N-I-N-T-E-N-D-O and you'll collect and even more powerful car. Then hop in and enjoy the ultimate in video racing competition, R.C. Pro-Am!*Some US packages have the UPC as 0-45496-63039-0. This is an invalid UPC code and a typo. The correct IPC, 0-45496-63039-3, is on other US packages. Announced as Pro-Am Racing, but the name was later changed.
Final Lap	Namco (Arc System Works)	1988
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link	Nintendo	1988	There is an extremely obscure bug in the game whereby the attack value which normally maxes out at 8 can be set to something else. "0" and "F" have been seen. Both of these, with two exceptions, will allow Link to kill any enemy with one hit. The exceptions are the Thunderbird boss which requires one hit but the thunder spell must still be cast on it first. Shadow Link still requires 8 hits. No one has discovered what triggers this bug. It can be saved and in fact cannot be undone from a saved game.* [17]* [30]* [49]* [1]* [52]* [37]*Link returns to Hyrule to search for the Triforce and to awaken Zelda from an endless sleep. Embark on a quest to find the Triforce of Courage and save Hyrule from ruin. Learn magic spells, talk to people in towns to get clues, collect items to increase your power and explore six palaces where the underlings of the evil Ganon await you. This sequel to the Adventure classic uses a side-scrolling visual engine unique to the series for more technical combat, and features more in-depth world roaming as Link encounters townsfolk while on his quest.*A year and a half after the original Famicom Disk System release in Japan, Nintendo brought this game to the west on cartridge. Desptite being a quite good game, Zelda 2 is my least favorite of the classic Zelda games. It surely explored a new gameplay style but the levels were too difficult and I didn't like the random enemy encounter battle system (the similar "[game=#7581]The Battle of Olympus[/game]" would prove to be much better balanced in my eyes). Graphics and sound are very good for its time. Nintendo understood how to program their 8-bit console.
Crime Busters	Dismac;Bit Corp;Gradiente (Bit Corp)	1989
Lucky Bingo	Sachen (Thin Chen Enterprise)	1989
Cobra Triangle	Nintendo;Hyundai (Rare)	1989	You're in the hot seat and it's full speed ahead into a river of danger! Logs jam the river, whirlpools spin madly. You're under enemy fire, and it's a race against time! And this is just the start! Advance in skill and work your way up through the seven stages of Cobra Triangle. Collect pods in mid-air as you rocket over jumps. Outmaneuver the enemy as you frantically speed exploding mines to the safety areas. You thought you'd seen it all. And then! Speeding boats actually drag helpless swimmers away! You're the protector. It's up to you to outwit the enemy and sink their rotten boats... before it's too late! Finally, you meet the monsters. Can you discover the secret of getting past them? And if you can, what dangers await you then?* [1]* [37]*** [27]
I Love Softball	Coconuts Japan (Marionette)	1989	Baseball game with girls.
R.B.I. Baseball 2	Tengen	1990	RBI BASEBALL first set the standard as the only baseball game for play on the NES to use real players and their stats. RBI BASEBALL 2 raises the standard to a new level: You get all 26 pro teams, each with a roster of 24 real players. Every player comes with his actual 1989 stats. There's instant replay, as well as new and improved animation, graphics, music and sound effects to make the game come alive. As the manager, you get the designated-hitter rule, switch-hitting, and your own lineup of starters and subs. It's so great, it's approved by the Major League Baseball Players Association!***Still heavily based on the first "[game=#8140]Pro Yakyuu Family Stadium / R.B.I. Baseball[/game]" game. New are the character design with more realistic proportions and new player roster.
Bigfoot	Acclaim Entertainment (Beam Software)	1990	Get behind the wheel of Bigfoot - King of the Monster Trucks - and drive 14,000 pounds of explosive head-to-head crunching action! First, compete on the most treacherous off-road terrain America has to offer: twisted roads, washed-out bridges, and mud bogs as deep as your truck. Next, upgrade your rig with monster tires, super-charged engines and more. Then, put your pedal to the metal in the toughest events of the monster truck circuit. Caution: Don't blow your engine... Otherwise you'll end up in the junkyard instead of the winner's circle!*** [49]
NARC	Acclaim Entertainment (Rare)	1990	You are Max Force... you mission...bust Mr. Big and destroy his dreaded criminal empire...seize all contraband, stolen money, illegal weapons...use rocket bombs, high-powered machine guns...apprehend all suspects...protect the innocent and punish the guilty...stop at nothing!***1 player or 2 players simultaneous cooperative. At the end of each level, each player is awarded bonus points for various actions. The tally of arrested enemies is where the most bonus points can be accumulated. Somewhat symmetrical to actual life, killing enemies and taking their stuff offers immediate rewards during gameplay, including a better chance of survival; but taking the higher risk to do things right has a greater reward (if you live that long). [Zerothis]
Bubble Bath Babes	Panesian;Hacker International (Hacker International;C&E Inc)	1991	1 player or 2 players simultaneous. This game was modified under the direction of American Video Entertainment to remove its porn content. The result was Mermaids of Atlantis. A comment by Phil Mikkelson is included on this page. [Zerothis]***It [Bubble Bath Babes] was a Bubble Popping/Tetris/Strip/puzzle game where each time you got 10,000 points you would see one of 6 girls with and without cloths. To release it in the States (since Americans can't handle tits) we had to replace the 12 images of girls with something else. We came up with a liner story that unfolded in 12 pictures and we changed the game into a Bubble/Tetris/Little Mermaid/puzzle game. [Phil Mikkelson]
R.B.I. Baseball 3	Tengen	1991	Very similar to it's predecessor [game=#8141]R.B.I. Baseball 2[/game] and thus still very heavily based on the first [game=#8140]Pro Yakyuu Family Stadium / R.B.I. Baseball[/game].***1 player or 2 players simultaneous cooperative. [Zerothis]
Rampart	Jaleco (Bitmasters;Tengen)	1992	Your castle and your lands are under siege! Enemy hoards attack by land while seaborne invaders bombard your castle walls with cannon fire. Somehow, you must defend your realm. But it won't be over until you conquer your enemies and regain all the land for yourself.***1 player or 2 players simultaneous competitive. This version was developed by a different team in a different country than [game=#199216]the other Rampart game[/game]. Both are based on the Arcade game but this one is most like the original. This version was released in the USA, Canada, and Germany. [Zerothis]
R.C. Pro-Am 2	Tradewest (Rare)	1992	1 player, 2 players. 3 players, or 4 players simultaneous. All players are stuck on the same screen and the view does not change to accommodate stragglers (they are forced along). [Zerothis]
Hit the Ice	Taito	1993
Pro Sport Hockey	Jaleco (Tose)	1993

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