drwho222 wrote:
Pretty much all the arcade ports to the 2600 were pretty bad. Its a very overrated system...
Incorrect.
drwho222 wrote:
The dominant system post crash was the NES. A system with a library that was 1% gold and 99% garbage. Possibly the most overrated system ever.
According to Wikipedia, "A total of 714 known licensed game titles were released for the Nintendo Entertainment System video game console during its life span, 679 of these games released in North America..."
I doubt anyone could, with all honesty, pick
only six great NES titles and then denounce the rest of them as trash. I don't think I could even pick
twenty, and I'm not even counting unlicensed or import titles.
RainbowUnion wrote:
It even gave the Zelda franchise its lone bad game!
No, that was the Phillips CDi.
Unless you want to get controversial, then I would say it was the N64.
There was nothing "bad" about Zelda II, it was just really, frustratingly difficult.
alcockell wrote:
YLTLF would have been the Righteous Bros version - as it was heavily featured in Top Gun.
You could be right. I just looked up the Hall and Oates version, that one's from 1980, so it would've been a little out-of-fashion by then...Top Gun was 1986, so that puts it closer to the correct time period.
Steve Winwood's single came out December of '86, so it might fit together...though I honestly couldn't say what year these two memories even occured in. I was dead certain that I heard Back in the High Life the day my brother was born, but Wikipedia says that that is impossible =)
In Zelda 2 you had a sword the size of a lipstick. And that's just for starters. Zelda 3 stands as one of the all time best games ever because it took was great about the original LOZ and made it better.