| Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf 115k | ![]() | This is a neat golf game - I rented this long ago, and it's still a fun game now. If you want a quick game of golf, this is your ticket! |
| Legendary Wings 81k | ![]() | Better in the arcade, this game still managed to be a fun shooter. Co-op play make this a good one for an evening spent with a bowl of popcorn as big as a dog, a 2-liter of pop, a sleep-over, and a friend. |
| Legend of the Ghost Lion 136k | ![]() | This late-era RPG really didn't impress people very much, but I enjoyed it simply because it eschewed the typical 'rescue the princess' or 'defeat the dark lord' kind of stuff. Summoning spirits is a bit different. |
| Legend of Zelda 64k | ![]() | Does this game really need an introduction? A perfect marriage of exploration, fighting, and overworld/underworld adventuring, The Legend of Zelda does everything right. |
| Legend of Zelda 2 87k | ![]() | The red-headed stepchild of the Zelda family, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link is a challenging, interesting game, if you're willing to accept that it's completely different from the first Zelda. |
| Lifeforce 89k | ![]() | This one that I begged for my parents to buy for me at Toys 'R' Us all those years ago. I'm not much of a shooter fan, so I'm not sure why - but it remains a challenging, graphically impressive shooter. |
| Little Nemo the Dream Master 148k | ![]() | I thought it then, and I stand by it now - this game looks like it could be 16-bit. Great color palette, cute and cartoony characters, and good platforming adventuring. |
| Magic of Scheher azade 149k | ![]() | Despite having the most cliched of all cliched storylines and a frequenly hideous color palette, Magic of Scheherazade manages to be quite enjoyable. |
| Maniac Mansion 156k | ![]() | A great adventure title, faithfully converted to the NES. It's a funny adventure with several different paths to the end. |
| Mega Man 78k | ![]() | I've never been the biggest Mega Man fan in the world - I think they've crapped out far too many too-similar sequels in too short a time. Still, it's solid platforming action. |
| Mega Man 2 133k | ![]() | And the sequelitis begins.. |
| Mega Man 3 218k | ![]() | And another one... |
| Mega Man 4 288k | ![]() | A lot of people think that this is the best Mega Man ever. |
| Mega Man 5 261k | ![]() | Fifth one in 5 years... |
| Mega Man 6 254k | ![]() | And the last one on the NES debuts at the nadir of the NES's life cycle. |
| Metroid 59k | ![]() | Metroid - yet another one of the greatest games for the NES. It's just about always in the top 10 NES games of all time lists. |
| Might and Magic 268k | ![]() | I've always been a fan of the Might and Magic series, even the latest Might and Magic IX that precipitated so much hatred and vitrol from reviewers. This one is graphically a bit painful, but fun in a slow, building kind of way. |
| Mighty Final Fight 143k | ![]() | Think Double Dragon with Final Fight characters! The deformed character styles always bring a smile to my face. Ah, super-deformed characters! |
| Mike Tyson's Punch Out 131k | ![]() | If you had an NES, you had Punch-out - or at least knew someone who did. It was 'the game' to beat, and whomping Mike Tyson earned you bragging rights. It's still a tough game! |
| Narc 73k | ![]() | Great fun in the arcade, this game loses a little on the graphics side of things but remains a fun game. It's amusing to see how drug dealers explode in a cloud of intestines, gore, and shoes! |
| Ninja Gaiden 138k | ![]() | This is another title that you owned if you had an NES, or at least knew someone that did. Tough as nails, many are the curses and broken controllers effected by this game. |
| Ninja Gaiden 2 163k | ![]() | Despite the cheesy title, this game continues and adds to the gameplay of the original game in the series. |
| Ninja Gaiden 3 138k | ![]() | More Ninja Gaiden, if you somehow haven't had enough after the first two. |
| Nobunaga's Ambition 108k | ![]() | A relatively deep strategy game, bringing a new kind of gameplay to the NES. I still prefer Gemfire, though. |