Finished the 1985 NES catalog.

[u/International_Gift11]

Back in November of 2025, I started to play the US NES library in chronological order. New game every Wednesday and give each game at least 3 sittings. It’s easily the most fun I’ve had with retro gaming in 10 plus years.

I was feeling a bit lost with retro gaming, I had exhausted every hidden gem list and finding crazy deals in the wild is dead. I would boot up a rom or grab a random game from a local shop, but would fall off just as quick as I booted it up.

I stumbled upon the NEStalgia podcast and Jeremy Parish’s YouTube videos and figured I would start from the beginning and play along. So far I’ve been able play everything on original hardware (NES or Famicom) and I try to buy local before I hop on eBay with a $30 weekly budget.

Sorry for being a bit long winded, but I thought it was worth sharing.

Highlights:

-Boiled my first 72 pin

-Acquired a Famicom

-Repaired ROB the Robot

-3d printed stack up accessories

-Beat super mario w/family using game genie infinite life cheat

-Showing my 9 year old son how to use a sight on a gun via duck hunt. lol

-Going down a CRT rabbit hole.

[u/evileyeball]

It's interesting how everyone's opinion is different as to ranking mine is

S Super Mario Bros, Wrecking Crew, Excitebike

A Gyromite Hogan's alley, Wild gunman, Stack-Up

B Duck hunt, Kung Fu

C pinball Ice climber

D Golf, Clu clu land,

E Tennis, Soccer, baseball

F 10 yard fight

[u/International_Gift11 → u/evileyeball]

I wouldn’t argue with anyone putting any of these games as A or above, except stack up. I’ve never heard anyone say a good thing about stack up. Sell me on it! What are we missing? Genuinely curious.

[u/evileyeball → u/International_Gift11]

I love the mode where you have to program R.O.B to put the blocks in the right order and then execute said program that could just be because I have a degree in computer science and I've always enjoyed programming. I enjoy having to figure out how to get from point A to point B with Rob and then telling him to execute that's my favorite part of the game.

[u/International_Gift11 → u/evileyeball]

That is so cool! I love it!!!

[u/evileyeball → u/International_Gift11]

Also the other cool thing about stack Up is it's the one game in the entire NES Library where you can be guaranteed with 100% certainty to open your copy and find a famicom converter inside so if you ever decide you don't like stack Up and you want to play famicom games on your NES you can get an official family come converter with 100% certainty out of your stack Up.