Somewhere between Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. in your mental timeline, there’s a third game that most collections quietly skip. Not because it’s rare.
Pop both balloons on your back and you’re done. That’s the whole threat Balloon Fight ever needed. No boss music, no health bar, just two
Picture Mario without his cape and without his jump. That’s Wrecking Crew. He shows up on launch day in 1985 carrying a hammer instead, and
Pop Kung Fu into an NES in October 1985 and you got a guy named Thomas punching his way up five floors of a temple
Everyone knows the scene even if they’ve never touched a controller: a giant ape hauls a woman up a tangle of girders while a mustached
You spent an hour building the perfect Excitebike track. Every jump timed so a turbo boost landed you square in the middle of the next
Duck Hunt didn’t teach you to shoot. It taught you to miss, and then it laughed at you for it. That gray plastic dog popped
Before Nintendo settled into the colorful box art most collectors picture today, the NES launched wearing all black. Thirty games came out between 1985 and
If you want a much more detailed explanation you’ll find one here. On to the quick and easy version… Round seal on the front of