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What are some of your favorite games that have come from Nintendo? I have alot I like so I guess I'll list them by category.

NES: Zelda 1 and 2, Metroid, Super Mario Bros. 1, 2, and 3.
SNES: Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Metroid, Kirby Super Star, Earthbound, F-Zero.
GB/GBC: Zelda: Link's Awakening, Oracle of Ages/Seasons, Metroid 2, Super Mario Bros.DX.
N64: Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart 64, Paper Mario.
GC: Zelda: The Wind Waker, Four Swords Adventures, Super Smash Bros. Melee, Metroid Prime.
GBA: Zelda: The Minish Cap, Metroid Fusion, Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland.
DS: New Super Mario Bros., Mario Kart DS, Tetris DS.
Wii: Zelda: Twilight Princess, Super Paper Mario, Metroid Prime 3.

I probably left out a couple of categories and theres more games I could list but if I listed them all then it could go on a while. So, I guess you could say I'm a big fan of Nintendo but I do like alot of games made by other companies too.

EDIT: At LadyMoonlight's suggestion I have changed my categories to systems instead of genres. My games may have changed a bit also but I wanted to keep everything to one line.

I love the Zelda games (Ocarina of time and A Link To The Past are my favourites), Mario games (Mario64, Super mario land 3 and Super mario land 2 six golden coins for GB are the best!), Donkey Kong Country, Smash Bros Melee, Mario Party and Super Mario RPG.
I'm sure I forgot some other excellent games, but these are my all-time Nintendo favourites.

I hate to be picky but Donkey Kong Country wasn't by Nintendo it was by Rare, anyway...

Zelda and Metroid are my favourite series of all time (along with Castlevania by Konami)
Platformers: New Super Mario Bros (on the DS) is a great game along with the others mentioned.
Racing games: Rubbish, well ok not that bad, but not in the same league as Need for Speed or Burnout.
Fighting: Again really poor compared to Tekken and Soul Calibur.

RPG: I guess their biggest money spinning success would be Pokemon, and the ones you mention whilst good are they in the same league as Final Fantasy or Kingdom Hearts? (I'd say yes, but I think most people would disagree)

So yeah, Zelda and Metroid rock then.

too easy

You cant beat the Zelda games(every single one was an epic then and a great classic now) i loved all of them. i have a piece of my heart set with Super Mario World(first game i played[i was just 3]) there has never been a more fun and active racer game than Mario Kart and Mario Kart 64. and then there is my alltime favorite game ever created, Super Smash Bros. the original was epic game that just blew me away the first time i played it. i could literally not sleep thinking about that game the first night(unfortunatly i didnt have the game so i couldnt stay up playing it) but when i did get it i played for 40 hours straight. and i have put more hours into that game than any other game i have ever played.

and the last game of my alltime favorites is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 4: Turtles in Time. i have played that for ages and still love playing it. so its probably my second favorite game of the Nintendo Series

Another Konami game. Another great company.
(I'm beginning to think I take my games too seriously here)

Donkey Kong Country was made by Rare but still originated from Nintendo so I consider it a Nintendo franchise. Their RPGs aren't in the same league as Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy but they're still fun on their own. You're lucky you can remember what game you played first Michieru, I started played when I was so young that I can't remember exactly what I played first. I just remember Zelda, Mario, and a couple of others. I never owned the first SSB but my friend had it and we ended up playing it all the time. TMNT 4 was made by Konami but it was still really fun although I think I might of liked the third one for NES a bit better.

Perhaps we should widen the thread by saying what are our favorite games on Nintendo's platforms and not specifically made by Nintendo?

Then my favs would include:

NES: the original Super Mario Bros.
SNES: Kirby's Dreamland 3 (though I haven't played many others)
Gameboy: Mole Mania
N64: MarioKart 64
GBC: Dragon Warrior III
GC: Animal Crossing
GBA: MarioKart Super Circuit
Wii: Twilight Princess
DS: Chocobo Tales

I don't think I could break it up by genre. There are too many genres from which I don't like ANY games.

LM

Yay, someone else who likes Dragon Warrior. I guess dividing it up between systems does make more sense than dividing it by genre though but I still have too many favorites to just pick one for each system. I shall have to redo my original post to change it to a systems format. I'd still like to keep it to games from Nintendo though cause if you include 3rd party games then it almost becomes whats your favorite game.

I used to have the Donkey Kong multi-screen Game and Watch game.

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Bet I'm the only one.

I bet you are too. The game & watch games are from way before Nintendo became big aren't they? Where did you get something like that from?

Well, it's hard for me NOT to include 3rd party, that's all. I'm so picky when it comes to games. Hubby will be like "oh, you'll love this" and I totally don't. Or "this game is so great. you have to see it." and it's so boring. It's not that the games suck, I just get so picky. Like LoZ? Love the games and abhor playing them. Would rather cut off my hands. TP was the first Zelda game that I adored the actual playing of. Otherwise, I'd rather watch them. They're fabulous games, just not for me to play. Know what I mean?

Anyways, it was hard for me to narrow down some of my favorites too. :o Plus I'm not always knowledgeable on exactly who made the game. :rolleyes:
Oh well.

LM

The Pikimin series is also worth a mention too.

I guess 'Game and Watch' gives my age away, I grew up in the 80s and spent most of my time in the arcades at the weekends (Sega and Capcom ruled here as Nintendo had very few releases)

Never had a NES, wasn't that popular in England, most kids seemed to have home computers, like the ZX Spectrum, instead. Are NES games any good? Zelda and Metroid on the SNES are still great games to play now, but are the NES versions or were they just good at the time? Same question with the GB/GBC versions too.

You say that nintendo rpg's cannot compare with dragon quest and final fantasy.

I have one word for the best rpg series ever...Mother. Only mother 2 was released in the US under the name of earthbound. You have to play them if you love RPG's, wacked out humor, and huge lands full of quirky characters.

Of course NES games are good. I still play them all the time. Although it could just be one of those things you have to grow up playing for it to still remain great. I guess I could say the same about the GB/GBC games but if you can you should check them out at least to see what you think of them.

Well I guess I nearly forgot about Earthbound. I'll admit that it is the most unique RPG I've ever played but I still can't quite put it as my favorite. I'd like to play the one for GBA but of course it was only released in Japan.

been playin nintendo since the nes :/ love zelda, mario, and the whole gang. love zelda so much i got a zelda tat

nintendo is definitly my favorite company right now i nevrer had a nes or snes because i was of the sega genisis generation but i played few games for nintendo systems like zelda on snes and megaman 1&2:D

I bought Mother 3 on play-asia.com. Sadly though, I have to use a translation. Right now, there is a super amazing sale going on there all this week where you can get mother 3 for only $15. That comes to $20-21 with shipping.

That is the best site to buy imports and the ds and advance don't have region locks so you can play them:).