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 ...

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 ...

Nintendo's little pink powerpuff got his start on the Game Boy with Kirby's Dream Land, but it wasn't until this late-generation NES sequel arrived that he gained his trademark trait – absorbing ...

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 ...

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 ...

Konami's The Goonies II followed on the heels of a little-known Goonies game for Nintendo's PlayChoice-10 arcade machines. While the first game was an arcade platformer directly inspired by the movie, ...

It takes a real man to fight against hordes of demons, zombies and ghoulish dragons wearing nothing but a pair of checkered plaid boxer briefs and Ghosts 'n Goblins' Arthur is just such a man. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...