Your favourite NES games of all time!

I've been trying to remember what my favourite NES games were in a sudden bought of nostalgia lately. I owned (still own, they're all in storage) maybe 40 or 50 of these games. Which games are your favourites?

So far, from my collection, I've remembered:

Crystalis (one of my favourite games of all time, I ever created a book of drawings and writings for a sequel when I was a kid)
Strider
Ninja Gaiden I-III
Bionic Commando
Battle of Olympus
Dragon Warrior I-IV
Final Fantasy I
Faxanadu (I wish they'd make a new one)
River City Ransom!!!!
Rampart
Ultima Quest of the Avatar
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Castlevania I-III (II the most)
Metal Gear I and II
Blaster Master
Zelda I and II
Shadowgate
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Contra
Double Dragon I-III
Maniac Mansion
Duck Tales
Super Mario 2 and 3 (2 the most)
Fester's Quest and Adventure Island used to drive me nuts so I wouldn't say they're faves
Life Force
Ikari Warriors I and II and Jackal are worth mentioning
Metroid
Bomberman
Mega Man's
Marble Madness

Had Bad Dudes, Heavy Barrel and The Guardian Legend and played them a lot, but they're not my favourites really

I think I've forgotten some important ones for some reason.

Konami Hyper Soccer!

I was just thinking about RC Pro Am and Excitebike actually

Never played Konami Hyper Soccer.

Definately RC ProAm and Exitebike. But also Mike Tyson's Punch out and All of the Mario Bro's, and tetris.

I still play Mario 1, 2, & 3 on the Wii I have a super nintendo that i still regularly play yoshi's island and tetris and Dr. Mario.

Ah yes, SMB 3.

It just so happened that my step-mother went on a trip to Tokyo in the winter of 1988. She said she would bring something back for me. That woman, being the kind of person she is, always put a lot of thought into gifts. When she came back from her trip, she had not only Super Mario Brothers 3 for the Japanese Famicom system, she had the grey adapter that allowed the game to be used on US NES consoles! It appears some wise old Japanese gamer with a white ZZ Top beard was knowledgeable enough to supply her with everything she needed. Either that or they got a lot of Americans going there for the games before they hit the States. I don't know, it was 1988 after all. I do remember there being a ridiculous amount of time between when I got that game and when it finally got released in the States. Definitely more than a year.

The best part? The day after she returned, our school was cancelled because of snow and I got to stay home all day and play. I think half my school showed up at my house on their bikes or on foot anyway, despite the road conditions. I was 10 years old.

To this day, I still don't know WTF those little mushroom dudes throughout the game were saying to me because I've actually only played the Japanese version. Good memories, those. If I wasn't only 10, I would have realised that game import would potentially be big business and I would have gotten rich!! Haha.

Definitely Romance of the 3 Kingdoms. That game was SO far ahead of it's time.

I guess I was ahead of my time too, loving strategy games as a youngster.

edit - I almost forgot the NES version of Ghosts and Goblins. I played that to death; never did finish it. It was too hard.

Certainly Metroid.
T&C Surf
Skate or Die

We used to play Tecmo Bowl on a projector. A bunch of drunk dudes playing nintendo on a giant screen = total chaos. I remember fights breaking out over it. Good times.

We'd play gauntlet too. That game never ended

For some reason, I liked Rygar too. I remember playing it all weekend until we beat it. You couldn't save the POS, so you had to keep playing. Really it was a pretty crappy game, but for some reason I liked it.

I have a good friend that is not really a video game guy at all, but he could destroy Dr. Mario. Nobody could beat him on two player.

River City Ransom
The Adventures of Bayou Billy
Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode
Golgo 13: The Mafat Conspiracy
Final Fantasy
Stealth ATF
Dragon Warrior
Tecmo World Wrestling
Shadowgate
Strider
Mega Man
Conflict

I am not much of a collector and I am also too young to remember the NES, but what would that have been worth? I mean a factory sealed game system that is 20 years old.

Duck Hunt for sure...and Zelda (Thought the cartridge was made of real gold...damn young age)

OMG, Bubble Bobble!

-Pro Am
-Ice Hockey or Blade of Steel (both were good)
-Punch Out
-Zelda: Link (I think it's the second one - it came in a gold cartridge)
-Mario 3
-Mega man series
**Edit**
-Contra
-Double Dragon
-Ninja Turtles
-Ninja Gaiden

and.....*drumrolls*

-Battletoads!

Yes, older games were much harder. When games became more about story and characters and backgrounds, they became less about being absurdly difficult tests of manual dexterity and mental acuity.

So much is this the case that if you say to a gamer that something is NES hard, they know you mean REALLY F'n HARD.

what's the one where you're in that space ship, and you turn into a chick in a thong?