Yes, Super Mario Bros. 2 is a repurposing of a non-Mario Japanese Famicom game called Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, but why hold that against it? The North American sequel to everyone's favorite game ...

A year after the events of Double Dragon II, the street fighting twins Billy and Jimmy Lee are once again called to rescue the kidnapped damsel in distress, Marion. This time around though, they're ...

Several classic NES series seem to follow identical paths. Super Mario Bros. was a smash hit, and its American sequel was a completely different type of game. Konami's Castlevania was followed up by ...

The NES had its fair share of unique puzzle games, and Adventures of Lolo 3 might take the cake as the genre's quintessential title on the console. While two Lolo games preceded the 1991 release of ...

Few franchises in Nintendo's storied history are as famous as The Legend of Zelda. And back in 1987, the franchise started off with a bang with one of the most ambitious replica-gold-plated cartridges ...

If there was ever a more perfect title for an NES game, we don't know what it was – Kid Niki: Radical Ninja got it exactly right. You've got "Kid," first of all, which went ahead and put this ...

If one company was known for its amazing licensed NES games, it's Sunsoft. With classic titles ranging from Batman to Journey to Silius (which was originally supposed to be a licensed Terminator game) ...

If Battletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate Team strikes you as a bit gimmicky, we've got news for you: it is! It's effectively a full Battletoads follow up with our boys Billy and Jimmy Lee along ...

In the realm of 8-bit graphics and extremely limited storage space, Nintendo RPGs (and other RPGs of the time) had a difficult time telling expansive, immersive stories. Dragon Warrior IV, released in ...

An incredibly popular release in both sales and lasting fan opinion, RC Pro-Am was an innovative racing game developed by Rare. Released in 1988, it pioneered something very important for the racing ...

It only took a year for Tecmo to follow-up the smash-hit status of the original Ninja Gaiden with its sequel. Officially titled The Dark Sword of Chaos, the gameplay remained true to the original, ...

River City Ransom's excellent amalgamation of action, adventure, beat-em-up and RPG game elements has won it many vocal supporters, yet it seems destined to remain in the shadow of big name brawlers ...