With four playable characters, six levels, and a whole lot of fun, Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum is a fantastic game.

It’s not fully a light gun game, alternating between brawling, driving and shooting, with two shooting gallery levels where the NES Zapper is optional. The game’s not fun, though, both too ...

A glut of poorly made games for the Atari 2600 killed the marketplace ... on toy shelves instead of in the electronics department. The NES quickly became a defining part of 1980s culture ...

The NES's success continued to soar in the late ... Contra is a sideways shooting game released in 1988 for Nintendo and has since been a fan favorite action-adventure game. Like many retro ...

In this platform shooter, Kid Klown ... In a rare role reversal, Japan never got a release of this NES Turtles game, further adding to its scarcity. Not to be confused with the colorful ...

When it comes to the best NES games, there's no shortage of greatness ... bringing the best shooting of the era out of the cabinets and into the living room. Konami captured the absurdity of ...

The NES and its incredible library of games changed console gaming forever ... side-scrolling action, first-person shooting, and vehicle stages) that were roughly sewn together and didn’t ...

A lot of NES games were censored due to sex ... After all, the game sees you play as an American pilot tasked with shooting down Japanese aircrafts on his way to sink the Yamato battleship.

The shooting stages include some of the most beautiful ... It’s the most technically impressive NES game ever made, and one of the most challenging. Plainly put, Mr. Gimmick is spellbinding.

It wasn’t the first console created, but the NES was most people’s first exposure to home video games and was responsible for pulling the entire industry out of a crash. This is where some of ...