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The near-absolute dominance of the NES/Famicom in Japan meant that the system is ripe with some truly excellent RPGs, including the forebears of some truly massive series, such as all the Zelda games, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy and others. The one big caveat here is that Codemasters released two versions of the game: one standalone cartridge and one that requires the Aladdin Deck Enhancer (which does very little enhancing in this case) to function at all.īest Nintendo Entertainment System game – Shooting: Life Force Single-player acquisition of every single vehicle will take you a good long time with challenging courses to conquer, but it's in the multiplayer mode that you'll face your toughest test. However, there was more joy to be had – and enduring fun – from the top-down or side-angled racing view, and Codemasters' version of Micro Machines for the NES retains its sheer playability – and the silly fun of sending an obviously matchbox-sized car fanging around a breakfast table – after all these years. The 8-bit power of the NES made actually fast, fluid action a big challenge for programmers who actually wanted large sprites in play, with many racing games using the same parallel flickering lines effect to give rear-view racers such as Rad Racer their sense of speed. While there's a retro-chic for 8-bit visuals in modern indie games that's been a factor for some time now, which of the NES's original library is still the very best? Here's our take. Still, the NES (and Japanese Famicom's) dominance overseas meant that the NES got a lot of the very best games of that era. That does give NES games a degree of rarity Down Under because they were one among many, not the dominant platform as was the case in the USA and Japan. Here in Australia, the NES definitely had a role to play, but it was in fierce console combat with Sega's popular Master System in the late 1980s and early 1990s as well as a legion of gamers used to playing on Commodore 64s, Amigas and other home computer platforms.

That's not even remotely true, but it's an online "fact" thanks to the overwhelmingly US-centric frame of reference of so many retro-gaming sites.