prisocisor wrote:I just finished playing Contra!
Still an awesome game
Of course, I had to cheat myself an extra 90 lives to really get anywhere, but hey, who's keeping track

Yeah.. I thought of some others... Mike Tyson's Punchout was one I poured HOUUURS into. I actually beat it once... the hardest was beating Super Macho Man, he was f'ing IMPOSSIBLE. Once you did that you got a code to take u right to Tyson every time you tried, and Tyson was always a one-hit KO. I forget how it worked now but there was a place you could get stars on Tyson and use them to knock him down... sort of the way when Piston Honda came rolling towards you on his special if you hit him in the gut. See! I know this game inside and out!
What else on NES... THE JACKAL! I can hear the theme song to that one still and it's honestly the only game I remember buying b/c I was with my dad and he got it for me. Every other game just appeared at our house, probably from my older brothers or my dad when I wasn't around.