Tetris is still a few months away from hitting the WiiWare service, but Nintendo made up for the absence with its only game to launch with the service in Japan today: Dr. Mario and Virus Buster (for all the smarty pants out there, Pokemon Ranch is published by "Pokemon" in Japan, so it's technically not a Nintendo title).
Dr. Mario has been around for ages, so IGN will skip the detailed gameplay breakdown. As a quick "it's like Tetris except" recap, Dr. Mario is like Tetris except your goal is to eliminate colored bacteria from the play field by making them part of the chains and combos that you create using the capsules that Mario tosses at you.
Despite skyrocketing retro game prices the NES remains a deep trove of excellent games that, if you can avoid eBay sellers, are really quite affordable for new collectors.
I remember one of the levels in Retro City Rampage was paying homage to those seaweed segments. Not quite as hard but man did it bring back bad memories of my many deaths on that level. Never did beat that game without the Game Genie. Same with Battletoads. lol
The top-down view theme music was stuck in my head all day as a kid.
I'm not sure if I ever completed a no-damage seaweed run.
Double Dragon 2 is one of the best!! Several good games on this list! Shadowgate, P.O.W., and Klax. That is actually a super fun puzzle game! TMNT, I think every time after the seaweed, I only had like 1 Turtle left. lol
Shadowgate was how I got so familiar with Nintendo's helpline lol. But man did I love that game.
And wow I forgot all about P.O.W. until you mentioned it. Man being a kid with a NES really was the good ol days.
Best birthday ever: 15 and I got a Super Nintendo with Super Mario World, Pilot Wings and Street Fighter. (Spoiled rotten) And I saw Basic Instinct at the theater!
"Although the NES' game library is renowned, its puzzlers don't get enough recognition so here are the 10 best NES puzzle games." - A.J. Maciejewski from Video Chums
Plumber... doctor... referee... spelunker... Our boy Mario has tried out every gig under the sun, and it has led to a veritable smorgasbord of spin-offs of all shapes and sizes. With that being said, it's time to work out which of those endeavours is the very best!!
I like teh fact i can send a VS ONLY copy to people.. thats so cool.. so i could buy the game and play with a buddy who doesn't have it.. awsome.. so no need for everyone to buy the game if they don't wanna!