Post by ShadowAngel on Mar 10, 2016 1:32:46 GMT
Shooter-wise I still think the NES only wins over if you include Famicom titles.
I excluded japanese titles actually in my previous post. All games i mentioned got released in the west.
I mentioned games that got released in the west and only mentioned a very few jap only games that stood out. Had i included all japanese games it would be the same argument as to why the Sega Saturn is better than the Sony Playstation thanks to it's large 2D Arcade Library
and I guess Aerial Assault counts if you're not playing it on hard)
No, just no. Even with all the "i played it when i was young, i beat it later, memories drew me back"-feelings it's a painfully slow, mediocre shmup with annoying music and annoying features (why does lightning destroy a f-16?)m i excluded it just like Transbot because it just suck big time.
Sports - ice hockey and basketball may be poorly represented but you have golf, football, Speedball, Olympics, California Games... it's a strong enough lineup to compete.
Which Football?
American Handegg has Tecmo Bowl and Super Bowl with the latter apparently being the ultimate game ever according to everybody (you really get the impression it's the best thing ever since the invention of sliced bread or cars) who loves that type of sport (i played it to, even in multiplayer amd it is actually fun, then again i also like Madden 06 with it's career mode) as for real Football, i said it before, the ms has Sensible Soccer and that is legendary, the NES has Konami Hyper Soccer and the Nekketsu series for wacky unrealistic football best experienced in multiplayer action. I prefer the multiplayer wackyness of Nintendo World Cup over something like World Cup Italia 90.
Sure the NES has more games but quantity isn't quality - it has a number of big names that get shouted out louder thanks to the US bias in retro gaming.{/quote]
Is it a bias? I think the Master System easily rivals the plattformers you mention. I always think that Alex Kidd in Miracle World is easily better than the Super Mario Bros. games (despite all the weird cries about 'inverted controls'), it was more innovative with the vehicles, it was more darring with the jankenpon game instead of jumping several times on the boss, it has better level design with horizontal and vertical scroling levels where Mario always goes from left to right like a Lemming.
I also would say the Master System rivals the overal platform genre, you have the better Disney games (Castle of Illusion, Land of Illusion, Lucky Dime Caper are 3 for 2 good Disnes NES games: Duck Tales and Chip n' Dale - Rescue Rangers) as well as other franchises like Asterix (the NES Asterix games are bad)
How many games that show up on both consoles are clearly superior on one or the other (without being a different game)?
I think the Master System wins there since the NES got horrible conversions of Shinobi, Choplifter and Fantasy Zone thanks to weird licence issues) with faeces like Heroes of the Lance being bad all across the board (to this day i don't get why that game got ported over all plattforms everywhere, it just sucks, like Dark Castle taht went from Apple to the PC, Amiga, the Mega Drive and it's just horrible all around)