I think it’s because it’s so much different than all the other Marios (probably because it was originally not meant to be a Super Mario game). It’s not that the others aren’t as good, #1 is an OG legend and #3 is probably/technically the “best” of the three, but I just enjoy playing #2 more atm. But since I’m only making a list of 36, it’d be a waste of space to give 3 spots up for one franchise, so I will state the obvious in that you should definitely add all three Super Mario games to whatever ways you’re playing old NES games these days, and then I will go out on a limb and say that I think Super Mario 2 is my fave of the three. It would be sacrilegious to make a ‘best NES’ list and not include a Super Mario Bros game - and that’s because Super Mario 1, 2 & 3 are bonafide classics that still hold up today. AND NOW THAT WE’VE GOT ALL THE EXPLAINERS & DISCLAIMERS OUT of THE WAY… HERE’S MY LIST OF 36 NINTENDO (NES) GAMES THAT ARE STILL FUN TO PLAY TODAY (in whatever year it is this time):
This is just a list of games that I still find personally enjoyable playing as an elder millennial in the 2020s & the ones that I find myself reaching for most often + it should be noted that I don’t really care much for fighting games or button-mashing beat ‘em ups or too-much-on-the-screen-at-one-time shooters and/or turn based strategy RPG games (no matter how ‘critically acclaimed’ they are on the Youtubes & Reddits). Please keep in mind that this list is not really in a ranked order and it is definitely not an attempt at creating a “best NES games ever” list ( so prepare to adjust your “how could you not include _?!” outrage appropriately). So, since I also did a lot of searching for “best NES games” or “most underrated NES games” or “NES games that are still worth playing today” or “hidden gem NES games” once I was done googling the same “how to hack a sega mini” queries that have been directing people to my blahg quite consistently, I figured I should put together some console specific lists too… because SEO, innit? More recently, I’ve been noticing that my most visited website pages, month after month, were my blog posts about retro video gaming (even though I am very clearly a ‘ not a music blog, not not a music blog’), and most of those visits were coming from Google’rs. I guess that’s why they say hindsight is 2020.
And once one goes down that online retro video gaming rabbit hole, one eventually realizes that one could have been playing any old retro video game right on one’s old iMac the whole time.
SNOW BROS 2 ROM SNES TV
This was heavily influenced by me ordering a Sega Mini to hook up to the tv I won at a Super Bowl party right before the world went on a never-ending lockdown quarantine, but the thing that really kicked the new hobby up a notch was realizing that that Sega Mini could be hacked to add any old retro video game from any old retro video game console. As I mentioned in my other top/fave retro video games lists, 2020 was the year I got back into playing retro video games from my youth.
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