What Games Really Pushed The Limits of the NES?

Post by **racketboy** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:56 am

I'm hoping that this will be an article in less than a month (RadarScope1 has volunteered to take this one on), so I was hoping to brainstorm what games really pushed what the NES could do technically in terms of graphics and sound.

Discuss!

Post by **opethfan** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:08 pm

After Burner by Sunsoft is pretty impressive.

Looks like a Master System game.

Post by **Pullmyfinger** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:21 pm

Batman ROTJ (Great Game, really fancy gfx, much better than the genesis version)

Kirby's Adventure (Great graphics and sound, excellent gameplay)

Mighty Final Fight (Cool little brawler, great sprites)

Post by **JJJ** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 12:26 pm

Castlevania 3 (Japan) with its VRC6 obviously pushed the limits both sonically and graphically.

SMB3 looked amazing at its time of release. Especially if the first glimpse you caught of it was during the 80s nerd fest The Wizard!

Lagrange Point (Japan) is the only game to my knowledge to use the VRC7 soundchip, which gives it audio capabilities roughly analogous to Sega Genesis. Its impressive.

Journey to Silius has very impressive 'NES-Metal' music. One of its unique aspects is that rather than use the Digital channel for the kick or snare (as was usually done), they use the Digital channel for a simple sampled bassline. And then the kick drum uses the Triangle channel which gives it a very different tone. This gives the soundtrack a sound all its own.

Post by **Mozgus** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 1:19 pm

I think Kirby was just absolute tops. It has so much color and animation that no other NES game really matched. It was huge in scale, and the levels felt much less like a series of tiles than any other game at the time.

Post by **pocket** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:05 pm

Slalom by Rare. It was the first nes game to have splitscreen.

Post by **cosmodromo** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:31 pm

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Post by **racketboy** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 3:35 pm

Great first post!
And welcome to the forum -- enjoy your stay

Post by **Majors** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 7:16 pm

My vote for Image Fight and Castlevania III.

A lot of times when the NES was pushed (or just poorly programed) you'd get that edge of the screen redraw crap. Od course those with "round" TV's never saw it.

Post by **fastbilly1** » Thu Sep 06, 2007 8:38 pm

Final Fantasy 3 - The shear scope of it still astonishes me.
3d World Runner - I still think it was a good mix of both Space Harrier and a platformer that was quite pretty at the time.
Blades of Steel - Solid framerate, amazing gameplay, and rudimentary speech, all lead to one of the best sports games ever made.
Gyromite - integrating ROB was bloody amazing at the time (even if all he could do was go left and right).
Megaman 6 - beautiful is a good word to describe it, though it did lag sometimes.