Yes, Super Mario Bros. 2 is a repurposing of a non-Mario Japanese Famicom game called Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic, but why hold that against it? The North American sequel to everyone's favorite game ...

Several classic NES series seem to follow identical paths. Super Mario Bros. was a smash hit, and its American sequel was a completely different type of game. Konami's Castlevania was followed up by ...

Nintendo's little pink powerpuff got his start on the Game Boy with Kirby's Dream Land, but it wasn't until this late-generation NES sequel arrived that he gained his trademark trait – absorbing ...

River City Ransom's excellent amalgamation of action, adventure, beat-em-up and RPG game elements has won it many vocal supporters, yet it seems destined to remain in the shadow of big name brawlers ...

Not one, not two, but three games in one. VICE: Project Doom is one of the most overlooked and underappreciated third-party game designs to ever hit the NES, even after claiming a cover of Nintendo ...

A year after the events of Double Dragon II, the street fighting twins Billy and Jimmy Lee are once again called to rescue the kidnapped damsel in distress, Marion. This time around though, they're ...

In the realm of 8-bit graphics and extremely limited storage space, Nintendo RPGs (and other RPGs of the time) had a difficult time telling expansive, immersive stories. Dragon Warrior IV, released in ...

The unique Castlevania II was a popular game, but when it came time for Konami to begin working on Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse, the developers felt it was best for the series to return to its ...

It only took a year for Tecmo to follow-up the smash-hit status of the original Ninja Gaiden with its sequel. Officially titled The Dark Sword of Chaos, the gameplay remained true to the original, ...

While The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros. are unarguable pinnacles of videogame creation, if we were stranded on an island with a power source, an NES and a single game, it would unquestionably ...