There is a short list of games from my childhood that i vividly remember almost everything about. Super Mario Brothers, Goonies II, Mega Man II, and Contra. I remember where every enemy is, what weapons are pop up where, just about anything from that game. That is not only a testament to how much of a geek i am but also to how much fun this game is

Back in the mid to late 80′s i owned just about every major release on the original NES. I would regularly play an assortment of titles when i had the chance, after school. There were however a select group of cartridges that always seemed to make their way back into the system. One of those being Punch Out.

So there on the shelves along side movie greats like “Police Academy III” and “My Science Project” sit a large chuck of my NES memories. One game that i would rent about once a month was “Shadowgate”. Aside from the original Final Fantasy, and Bionic Commando, Shadowgate still stands out as a truly great game experience on the NES.

I don’t think that myself, or any other gamer could consider themselves “hard core” and not talk about a Mega Man game. This post isn’t limited to just one game, more so the entire series, or at least the NES classics.

I vividly remember getting this game the year it came out for Christmas. From the second the title screen dropped in and the first stage started with that rendition of Cindy Lauper’s “Good Enough” I was totally hooked.