Best NES Games: Top 25 Nintendo Entertainment System Titles
After a turbulent period that saw the video game market hit a new low, the 1980s proved to be a decade of incredible growth for Nintendo. Having dabbled in the market since the 1970s, Nintendo's new home console was a bold and exciting new direction for the company that helped cement it as a household name across the world. The hardware alone made for a handsome box of possibility, but it's the games that helped Nintendo define its brand, with various first and third-party offerings making their way onto cartridges.
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Hundreds and hundreds of games were released over the years before the NES was eventually succeeded by the SNES, but which ones were the best? We've got an idea, with 25 games listed below that should please any fan of the NES glory days. A decent number of these games are available on Switch via a Nintendo Switch Online membership.
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Michael Keaton's caped crusader may have been cursed with limited peripheral vision and an inability to turn his neck when he suited up in Tim Burton's landmark 1989 superhero movie, but those weaknesses weren't present in Sunsoft's brilliant tie-in game. Loosely based on the film, this game gave players a dark knight who could jump off walls, out-punch any criminal who ran into his fists, and a wonderful toybox of gadgets that would have any clown prince of crime wondering about how he could get his hands on them.
Technos and Rare might have been ready for an ambitious crossover, but there was no doubt that the spotlight was on the infamous battling toads named after various skin conditions. Even with that in mind, the NES beat-'em-up was a joyride of over-the-top action,
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