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Besides Super Mario Bros What's your favorite black box NES title? For me it's a three-way tie between Kung Fu, Pinball, and Donkey Kong.
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Balloon Fight, I like the physics and it's one of the few Joust-likes in existence
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>>12412045
Not a bad answer. Balloon Fight is definitely up there for me.
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>>12412039
Growing up I had Excitebike, Kung, Fu, Pinball, Pro Wrestling, and Mario. All of which are great. I think Excitebike was my favorite. Once I learned you could make your own tracks I would make these endless levels and it would make me laugh how long they went on for.

It's also pretty crazy how out of all these we got one licensed game with Popeye. Is that his only console game?
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Pinball
Runner ups: DK Jr, Balloon Fight, Popeye
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Jr Math is surprisingly fun with 2 players.
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>>12412039
Duck Hunt or Excite Bike.
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Golf, Cumshoe, and Stack-Up
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Outside of SMB, Kung Fu is the best one. Popeye is also really cool.
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>>12412081
The whole point of the Famicom in the first place in 1983 was to make a machine that could accurately recreate of Nintendo's arcade games at home. The launch titles of the Famicom were Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Popeye. Popeye is a licenced game but it was directly made by Nintendo for arcades. It's also a really famous piece of trivia that Donkey Kong was going to be based on Popeye.
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>>12412039
I could play Wrecking Crew for ages and not get tired of it. Pinball is also great.
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Balloon Fight. Wasn't Metroid one? If so, that.
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My friend's older brother had 10 Yard Fight. That has to be the worst one.
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>>12412331
Metroid and Kid Icarus were silver boxes.
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>>12412350
Dang, that's right. Thx.
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>>12412039
Excitebike and Balloon Fight.
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>>12412039
Donkey Kong by a mile.
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>>12412039
I probably have no less than 1000 hours in smb1. Also played donkey kong and dk jr heaps. Had excite bike and duck hunt but they honestly kind of suck.
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>>12412039
Super Mario Brothers.
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>>12412039
I fucking love Kung Fu.
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The original Mario Bros. Is pretty addictive once you get into the flow. At least it is for me.
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Pro Wrestling
Loved making my cousin cry by eating his face over and over with the amazon
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balloon fight, hogans, gumshoe, clu clu
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>>12416775
100% agree. After you break 30k the dopamine in your brain will crave more.
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>>12416781
You forgot Duck Hunt
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>>12418503
I didn't, I don't like it very much
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I'll take five at one time, knock you down in a row
Dodgin knives with the quickness and kick to your scrote
I got that Kung Fu kill you without thinking attitude
I'll straight up fuckin Bruce Lee and kick your ass to the moon
So doriamo sensei llamo tamagotchi ali
I don't know what exactly that means, I don't speak no chinese
One with my foot *HUT*
One with my fist *HUT*
One not breathin no more, now hear this
I got that fuckin Chuck Norris Texas Ranger attitude
Straight up smack you like a bitch and then be laughin at you
You see this dojo ain't big enough for the both of us G
I gotta Kung Fu you before you foo me
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>Ice Hockey wasn't a black box
FUCK
but i love it so much
was not even a "sports fan" but this game was so fun 2-player
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>>12419004
That's too bad
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>>12412039
DAMN LOOK AT ALL THAT UNPLAYABLE SHIT
no wonder super mario bros is considered a classic
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>12421376
Astute observation anon! Do you have anything else to add pertaining to the thread topic?
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>>12412039
Alright, I have a few questions for the black box experts.

>Should the silver box games (Metroid / Kid Icarus / Rad Racer) be considered honorary black box games due to the boxart style being identical save for the black "background" being silver instead?
>Should Devil World and F1-Race be considered honorary black box games despite their US releases being cancelled? If they released here, they would've used the black box packaging.
>Should Zelda 1 and Punch-Out!! be considered honorary black box games due to said games initially intending to use the black box style for their packaging before getting swapped for something different?
If someone can please find that flier that shows what I'm taking about with that last one, please post it as I can't find it.
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>>12421447
No
Yes
Yes for punch out No for zelda
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>>12421447
>Should the silver box games (Metroid / Kid Icarus / Rad Racer) be considered honorary black box games due to the boxart style being identical save for the black "background" being silver instead?
Came out after the blackbox run so no.
>Should Devil World and F1-Race be considered honorary black box games despite their US releases being cancelled? If they released here, they would've used the black box packaging.
That's sound reasoning and Devil World technically had a blackbox variant through the PAL release. So yes.
>Should Zelda 1 and Punch-Out!! be considered honorary black box games due to said games initially intending to use the black box style for their packaging before getting swapped for something different?
Came out after the blackbox run so no. Had they been released with their original blackbox designs then yes, but those were more likely placeholders than a final design.
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>>12421447
>>12421505
I feel like Popeye should also be an honorary black box game
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>>12421532
Popeye is already a black box game (>>12412039 in the middle of the far rightmost column)
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>>12421540
Don't mind me, I'm retarded and forgot it got a relatively late release outside of Japan
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>>12412039
You know, I'm surprised Nintendo didn't try and brand the games that had already released in the U.S. as VS System games under the "Arcade Classics Series", especially since they could've made the selling point that they were 99% arcade perfect.
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>>12421562
Mama Mario...
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>>12421562
>Cop Mario has the quaaludes number
What did they mean by this?
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>>12421618
I just rewatched it and I didn't see any badge or car number

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