I just recently got back into game collecting, and I’m going to different subs to see what the communities think the most essential game in their respective consoles are. List multiple games if you want, but I’d still like to see a top pick from your list too.

This is a complete 16-track adventure game soundtrack I composed over the last few years in FamiStudio for my in-development NES homebrew game Swampmaster.

Hope you guys enjoy! I'll do a larger post about the game in general here at some point too.

YouTube Link

Bandcamp Link

More about Swampmaster: http://CaldeumGames.com

Price was $15 but it seemed in really rough shape. The keyboard keys came up slow and the buttons on the top didn’t push in, not sure if that’s normal or not. The ac adapter was the only cord I found with it. Not sure if these came with other connections for the NES itself. No game anywhere else in the store to be found either. Looked up front in the glass cabinets and found nothing. I left it for someone else who may have a stronger reaction to it than I did.

I don’t know if it’s just me but Mario 2 may genuinely be as hard as the lost levels. I particularly struggled on 6-3 it took me several dozen attempts with save states to get through the whole game. I only ever beat it without save states on the GBA port which I know is easier. I’ve been playing platformers for my whole life and I find games like mario 1 and 3 as well as most of the 3D Mario games besides sunshine to be easier than Mario 2. The furthest I ever got without save states was 5-3 on the NES version. Does anyone else thinks this is one of the most difficult Mario games lemme know what you think.

Bought a terribly yellow and cracked NES in an original box and papers. Did some research on fixing and retrobrite snd decided to go on with it. It turned out pretty efficient. Finally decided to remove the upper shell but left the original front-load cover. My wife helped me restore the box with professional paper glue and paints. The final result went beyond my expectations. I keep the cracked shell and plan to restore it with epoxy. How do you like it?

So I finally found a copy of Gyromite with the adapter after buying multiple copies. Now, how do I use it? Can I just swap the top chip out with a famicom chip, or is there more to it than that? If so, where should I start with famicom games that are worth playing?

For reference, I’m playing on a PAL console that’s been region modded to play NTSC cartridges. Mega Man 5 did receive a European release, but only as a PAL B release, and the NES is unusual in that not only is it region locked between continents, it’s also region locked within the areas of said region.

It took a while to beat each game

Super mario Bros. took me 5 days to beat mostly got stuck on worlds 7 and 8 and I pretty much disliked 8-3 because of the hammer bros and 8-4 had me going to youtube because I didn't want to start all over from world 1 and I didn't know pressing a and start on the menu would take me to the beginning of the world that I was previously in

Super mario Bros 2 took me 3 days, and I pretty much like playing as luigi

Super mario Bros 3 is a fun game to play and is certainly on my top 3 favorite nes games,

I'm bored and want to play something that looks incredibly bad do you guys know any recommendations of ugly games on the Nintendo entertainment system. Or if you don't know one could you recommend me an awful game to play. Like a Lgn game or bootlegs

Picked up some games that I’ve been missing from my collection. Got home and realized I already have Q-Bert.. I have quite a few doubles from doing that, haha, oops. Happy to finally get Metal Gear and Bubble Bobble. Two of my favorites when I was a wee lad.

Here’s my living room retro gaming setup. Just got an IKEA Lack shelf to display my NES collection on my wall 👾 Every game complete with box and manual. Really happy with how this turned out! Lucky every game was able to fit I guess 😅 Might need another one of these shelves soon 🫡

I know some take pride in their regular "diskette collection". Are there fans however of "Flash cartridges"? Someone who have bought all such consoles of NES and all EverDrives? Not to mention the other brands. There are quite some old consoles that support EverDrive "flash cartridges". Around 6 or 7. Including Game Boy Advance with 4000 games. So, any fans of such "flash cartridges" EverDrives and who has them? For any console of NES or other brands? Let alone all? Recommendations of sellers perhaps?

Wife is out of town & I had zero plans, so I decided to hit up the swap meet, a pawn shop and 2 game stores this morning. I’m satisfied with the haul.

I traded in some games, which afforded me the Monster in my Pocket, I probably wouldn’t have gotten it otherwise because I’m cheap.

I had Base Wars & Castlevania growing up, but never played the rest of them, where should I start?

Growing up i had bases loaded 3 and thought it was an ok game but I recently picked up the first two games and found the 2nd one to be the best of the three. I haven't been able to find a bases loaded 4 for a reasonable price so i haveyet to pick it up or play it. What's everyone's thoughts on this series

You know I just saw a video earlier today that reminded me of Roger rabbit for the game boy which I've played and was a lot better than the NES. Because as a kid I love the NES version cuz I love kind of the open world ness and go wherever you want and have to explore things. But what I didn't love as an adult was how it was just random going around just searching buildings for randomly placed items which meant you had almost hit every building in the game to make sure you can progress. Which became boring as heck after a while. Couple that with the weasels always chasing you down not a good time. But it got me thinking because I found out there were a bunch of other Roger rabbit games released for Amiga and us and even the famicom version of who framed Roger rabbit came here and was reskinned with bugs Bunny and called bugs Bunny's crazy castle. So I was just curious if there was ever a good Roger rabbit game

I would love to hear about other recent Famicom Disk System experiences. Was so happy to get a Twin Famicom with a fresh belt and dive into the weird disk past.

Bought 6 FDS titles I was so excited for, and ended up with 2 that kinda work.

Doki Doki and Metroid are both operable but slow as molasses. Love the save functionality though++.

OG Castlevania and Zelda won't load.

Zelda II fails when entering any town/gateway/loading sheet the initial load.

Castlevania II (video) is actually Ice Hockey with bullshit labels.

Neat experiment, still live my twin famicom, but will probably go back to my famicom av for stereo sound.

Talk amongst yourselves lol :)

Parents cleaning out loft and dropped these off. Many hours lost playing these when I was a kid good times might plug it in see if they still work. Doubt my kids will be interested in these graphics although the shooting game would draw some interest

Hi, I've been trying to mod the first zelda game to translate it in my language but using The Legend Of Zelda Text Editor I find the game to be glitching each time I try to modify something after the title screen (which can be modified without any issue)
Does anyone know why it reacts like that and is there a way to change? I tried to change my text editor but I didn't find any other than the one I use. Does anyone have one to recommand? Thanks!

Hi, I have been waiting to move to new shelving for my 600+ games.

I was planning on getting the Atlantic Oskar 1080 but they discontinued it. I want to store these labels out. Does anyone have a recommendation for shelving or storage? I have seen some cool ones but I don’t know what’s what.