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 ...

However, it still manages to be one of the best-looking games on the NES. While the main character and enemy sprites in this side-scrolling shooter are unusually large and detailed for the era ...

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 ...

The best early NES sports games focus on quick ... and blasting the civilians in the shooting gallery is a rebellious thrill. I rented this one a lot, just to give my Zapper something non duck ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barker Bill's Trick Shooting made use of this obscure licence and the titular ringmaster (and his assistant, Trixie) for a cheerful NES Zapper game that launched in 1990 in North America.

Amid a lot of '80s style marketing glitz, the video briefly showed some NES Classic Edition games in action, displaying what seems to be much crisper and more accurate HD emulation of the NES ...