>>12051197
This is assuming you're emulating, I have no idea how expensive these are physically:
>Adventure Island 1-3
>Adventures of Lolo 1 (US)
>Adventure of Lolo 1 (JPN)
>Adventures of Lolo 2 (JPN)
>Adventures of Lolo 3 (US)
>Asterix
>Balloon Fight
>Batman: The Video Game and Batman: Return of the Joker (NES Returns kind of sucks, just get the SNES version)
>Battle City
>The Battle of Olympus
>Battletoads and Battletoads and Double Dragon, don't bother with the 16-bit versions
>Bionic Commando
>Blaster Master
>Bucky O'Hare
>Castlevania 1 and 3 + 3 (JPN)
>Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers 1 and 2
>Crystalis / God Slayer
>Darkwing Duck
>Duck Tales 1 and 2
>Felix the Cat
>Fire 'n Ice
>Both Flintstones games
>Both GI Joe games
>Gimmick! (JP version, ignore PAL)
>Golgo 13
>Gun Nac
>Jackal
>Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu
>Journey to Silius
>Kickle Cubicle
>Little Nemo
>Little Samson
>Magical Doropie
>MC Kids
>The other Mega Man games
>Mighty Final Fight
>Monster in My Pocket
>Monster Party
>Moon Crystal
>Mother
>New Ghostbusters II
>Ninja Gaiden 1-3
>Noah's Ark
>Nuts & Milk
>Panic Restaurant
>Parodius Da! (not the best version, but has a pretty good exclusive stage and OST)
>Power Blade 1 and 2
>Princess Tomato in Salad Kingdom
>The Punisher
>Rockin' Kats
>SCAT: Special Cybernetic Attack Team
>Shadow of the Ninja
>Solstice
>Startropics 1 and 2
>SMB2J
>TaleSpin
>TMNT 3: Manhattan Project (the other two are okay but 3 is a must-play)
>Tiny Toon Adventures 1 and 2
>Tom & Jerry (and Tuffy)
>Ufouria Saga
>The Ultimate Stuntman
>Vice: Project Doom
>Wacky Races
>Wai Wai World and 2
>Rygar
>Whomp'Em
>Willow
>Xexyz
>Yume Penguin Monogatari
>Zombie Nation

>>12051267
As a bonus:
>Zelda 1: Some say this is best played with the Redux patch, but it may change too much for you. I haven't tried it yet.
>Metroid: Saving + Map: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1186/
>Contra: Patches to translate the superior Japanese version, enhance the title screen, and set the game to the hardest difficulty from the start:
https://www.romhacking.net/translations/1451/
https://www.romhacking.net/translations/7271/
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4884/
>Mega Man 3: I personally like the Japanese logos, all of the games except for 6 (I think) have one: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6694/. I would not recommend using "Mega Man 3 Improvement" unless you are okay with unoptional level design changes.
>DK Classics: There is a version of NES DK with the cement factory added into the game, I believe it was part of the Wii virtual console or something like that.
>Dr. Mario: Get Turbo (https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/6158/), then (https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/8878/).

>>12051270
Forgot:
>Mario 3
A patch to remove the annoying flicker on the HUD bar: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/7713/. You should also download the Nintendo e-shop version of Mario Advance 4 and patch it with the SNES color restoration patch for the best experience to play the e-Reader levels.

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>>12051197
Chaos World

The Battle of Olympus
Crystalis
Willow

>>12051197
Kart Fighter

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>>12051197
Between solid original titles and unique ports of existing games I think the NES has one of the best and most memorable libraries of all time. I could probably keep recommending games all day if I wanted to.

>1943

>Solid vertically scrolling shooter with a good difficulty curve
>Giant bosses based on actual battleships
>RPG elements that reward good play and discovery of secrets through replays

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>>12055179
Abadox

>Hard af shooter that switches between vertical and horizontal segments
>better grotesque settings and enemies than Salamander

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>>12055189

Adventure Island

>Way more momentum based than Super Mario Bros
> Absolute bullshit hard, but addicting
> Wonder Boy can suck it

>>12052829
>The Battle of Olympus
the passwords are quite brutal in this one (same for faxanadu)

>>12051197
Castlevania, Castlevania 3, Super C, Ninja Gaiden 1-3

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>>12055201
Adventure Island II

>Add dino riding to the skateboarding antics. This came out after Super Mario World, so don't get any ideas about this shit inspiring Yoshi
>Tropical AF
> Easier than the first, but less bullshit

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>>12055620
Adventure Island III

>Completes the Mario-fication of Adventure Island
>By far the prettiest of the series, also likely the easiest
>More dinos and weapons, what's not to like?

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>>12055723
Adventure Island IV

>Wait, actually this one is the easiest
>Island-vania makes this more in line with the later Wonder Boy titles. Convergent evolution?
>You live with your GF, but for some reason you have 2 beds. WHY?

>>12051197
>Tetris
>MegaMan 2
>Ninja Gaiden 1-3
>Mario Bros
>Balloon Fight
>Donkey Kong 3
>Double Dragon
>Kung Fu
>Castlevania
>Godzilla
Can't go wrong with any of these.

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>>12055735
Adventures of Lolo

>Action puzzler, but not too tough
> HAL developed, so charming as hell
> A remix of a few MSX titles

>>12055542
This except for Ninja Gaiden 3. This game will cause you to rethink life.

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>>12055620
>>12055723
these two really surprised me when i played them recently
really enjoy them both

>>12056590
>>12055723
>>12055620
They are genuinely the highest quality platformers on the NES/FC after the SMB trilogy, which by extension makes them some of the best platformers I've played period.

>>12055735
Last official release of the Famicom. Japan exclusive, low print run.... The kind of games you can be sure more people have enjoyed emulated than IRL

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The games that have held up the best are the arcade games and shmups.

Arcade - Donkey Kong 1-3, Defender II, Gyruss, Galaxian, Galaga, Popeye, BurgerTime, Pooyan, Mappy, Sky Kid, Rolling Thunder

Shmups - Gradius, Gradius 2, Life Force, Gunsmoke, Star Force, Star Soldier, Final Mission (aka SCAT), Sky Shark, 1943, Insector X, Burai Fighter, Starship Hector, Dragon Spirit, Dino Riki, Silver Surfer, Over Horizon, Abadox

Other Games - Battletoads, Code Name Viper, Journey to Silius, Power Blade, Shadow of the Ninja

>>12056593
>They are genuinely the highest quality platformers on the NES/FC after the SMB trilogy
Part 1 is the best, the sequels were dumbed down for toddlers. Part 2 is far too easy. Part 3 is better but there are a ton of cheap deaths to suffer through.

>>12051197
Darkwing Duck. It’s just more Mega Man. Not easy either

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>>12056049
Adventures of Lolo II

>Its tougher but still doable!
>Slight graphical improvements, good thing the initial sprites had so much charm
>Apparently the Japanese version has largely different puzzles, so it may be worth a look

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>>12057008
Adventures of Lolo 3

>HARD AS HEART FRAMERS
>An overworld, neato
>Can play as Lolo and Lala
>Bosses too!
>Remember when these two were bosses in the first Kirby game?

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>>12057012
Adventures of Musashi

>Dragon Quest 1 type JRPG
>1 party member other than a useless tanuki
>A little grindy, a little goofy and silly

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>>12057042
I like DQ1 clones

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>>12057042
Archon

>Great 2 Player competitive action
>Asymmetrical armies of fantasy creatures
>Go between strategy boardgame type shit and real time action for combat between pieces
>Port of microcomputer title

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>>12057153
Astyanax

>Dumb name, dumber "totally radical" cutscenes in the American version
>Hack and slash action with huge sprites
>Cool music
>Regenerating strength meter between blows for those of you who like that sort of thing

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>>12051197
Assuming you're on actual hardware and want some cheap-ish ($10-$25 on eBay) games:
>Solstice
>Dragon Warrior
>Little Nemo: The Dream Master
>Faxanadu
>Zelda II
>StarTropics
>Gradius
>Clash at Demonhead

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>>12051197
if you like point and click adventures

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>>12057161
Balloon Fight

>An obvious choice but a good one, an early title
>Peep that fish snatching anything that gets too close to the water!
>Balloon trip makes for an interesting change of pace
>Joust can suck it