This game of skating and slap shots was perfectly balanced, simple fun with just the right touch of planning and strategy to keep things interesting match after match. None of those games ended up having the lasting appeal and addictiveness of one of its other contemporaries, though – the first-party Nintendo sports sim known simply as Ice Hockey. Nintendo had a fairly diverse lineup of sports titles introduced for the NES early on in the system's life cycle, including 8-bit interpretations of soccer, tennis, volleyball and even downhill slalom skiing. Mark Ryan Sallee, IGN Game Help Editor-in-Chief It was the first game I ever played with an NES Advantage. Our Fondest MemoriesĬhoreographing delicate rescue operations with my cousin was a blast, sending one Jeep to collect P.O.W.s while the other threw out cover in the form of myriad bullets and grenades.
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Enlist a second set of wheels and you'll be nuking twice the whatever-the-hell-you-want-to in no time. The key to Jackal's success, like so many other games on this list, is cooperative gameplay. Before long your middling grenades are replaced by sleek missiles capable of taking out even the largest of enemy tanks. Occasionally you need to take a break from the one-Jeep-army annihilation to collect POWs from camps, but for your patience you are rewarded with even greater destructive power.
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Jackal's premise is that the resolution to all conflict lies in explosions – lots and lots of explosions. Those that picked up Jackal merely due to its similarity in appearance to games like Contra and Castlevania were not disappointed. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade GameĪt some point in the latter half of the 1980s, Konami's instantly-recognizable silver-framed package art became a surefire visual indicator of a top-notch NES experience. Skate or Die 2: The Search for Double Troubleīattletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate TeamĪ Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia