I love that your grandmother had an NES that she played all the time. My mom did the same thing.

That "Official Nintendo Seal of Quality" was on every game... The only requirement was for the game to boot to get it. So many bad games. So many I forgot I ever played...

*"hella dopest"

RC Pro-Am, which inspired Mario Kart, was one of my favorite games on that system. It was essentially unbeatable. Any mistake, no matter how minor, would result in the yellow truck entering god mode and blowing your truck off the track.

My best friend and I spent almost a full week playing Ninja Gaiden at his house one summer. Since there were no saves, we'd progressively get farther in the game each day and then pause it at night so we could pick up where we left off the next day. After about 5 days of non-stop ninja action, we had finally made it…

Adventure Island. Just a brutal 32-level side-scroller with a tropical setting. The graphics blink in and out and everything can kill you. By 6-1, it's not just impossible — you feel as if the developers are somewhere giggling. There are walkthroughs on YouTube but I'm still not convinced.

That music was awesome though... until the time was almost up. Talk about heart-attack inducing.

I come from a generation of men who must explain to the young that Donatello is the objectively best Ninja Turtle because his weapon reached farther in the video games. Well, I mean, you know. We're only men in the strictest legal definition of external genitals and age but you know what I mean. We are a very silly…

A game that surely belongs on this list is one I loved, but never could beat - Bart Vs. the Space Mutants. The first level was beatable but the difficulty ramped up pretty soon after that. I think I made it to the mall (or carnival, whatever the fourth level was) once on my own. There was a fifth level, I think…

Ninja turtles was Damm near impossible. Same for ninja Gaiden and Kid Niki (a game so poorly designed and made it had to have been used for torture methods). Face it Nintendo wanted us to know ninjas are our overlords. I swear on all that is unholy I dominated Contra. Repeatedly. I could run the game without…

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Looks like he is humping that poor guy.

I hooked up my old 2600 a while ago, and my Dad sat down to play ET. He beat it in like 20 minutes. To this day, he is content in saying that was the worst $40 he ever spent (in 1982).

The games that piss you off the most are the ones that don't have ends, but you don't figure it out until Al Gore invents the Internet and you can look it up. One word . . . Gauntlet.

I was 5 when I got my nintendo, and I bought all of my games based on how cool the monsters looked on the box. My first three games were:

1. Blaster Master
2. Legacy of the Wizard
3. The Guardian Legend

I had PTSD by age 7.

TMNT II (based on the arcade game) was one of my favorites from that era. 2p version version was awesome. It was similar to Double Dragon and Streets of Rage in gameplay. wasn't that hard at all though.

Someone told me the other day that they "think" they beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles when they were a kid. Motherfucker don't lie to me YOU WOULD REMEMBER THAT IF IT HAD HAPPENED.

I know it wasn't on NES, but I'm pretty sure that people going back and trying to replay E.T. on the Atari 2600 is responsible for roughly 64.8% of gun violence in this country.

You are missing one.

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