Enigmatic_Oddity wrote:
Tetris, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid. No real surprises on my list; I really didn't play many NES games since I didn't grow up in that era and played them well after that era of gaming was over. All of these games have superior versions of them available nowadays anyway, and there's no reason to revisit the originals.
Eh, depends. The idea of another version being superior is VERY subjective.
I look back on these older ones, and I will always always ALWAYS choose them over later things in the series, or even remakes such as Zero Mission (which I frankly didnt like). Particularly with Zelda. I liked the first few Zelda games... the two on the NES, the Gameboy one, and Link to the Past, with the very first one being my favorite of that group. I outright loathe damn near all of the rest of the series... the jump to 3D didnt sit well with me, not with Zelda anyway. Hell, I played through OOT just like everyone else.... exactly once. I wont do so again. I dont even know why I played through the entire thing in the first place, considering I didnt like it much. I must have been REALLY bored back then to have done that.
Kinda the same way with Metroid. I loved the first three games. And then the series vanished for a very long time. And when it came back... Metroid Prime, seriously? An FPS? Yeah, no. Hated those from the very start (not an FPS fan in most cases), though I did give them a try. Needless to say I dont do Metroid games anymore. As far as I personally am concerned, the series died entirely after Super Metroid and never came back. I did try Fusion too, but that one was linear and weird. Bleh.
Mario on the other hand is still just as good as ever (though I didnt like Galaxy much for whatever reason) but the very first game in the series still remains my favorite of all of them. Hard to explain just why without it taking forever, but some design elements changed between that game and the third that I kinda missed. Really though all the Mario games are darned good usually. But for me at least they still dont top the early ones.
Come to think of it though I STILL havent played Odyssey. I need to get around to that. Keep intending to pick it up, keep forgetting.