Gamers today are seriously spoiled.

They don't even have health boxes on the ground in FPSs any more - you just go hide around a corner for 5 seconds and you regenerate up to full. It would seriously blow a kid's mind that people would take the time to beat games like Super Mario Bros 2 or Bionic Commando. I did it, and the thrill you get from beating a hard game is much better than any of these checkpointed/infinite retries games we have today. (Of course, Contra was so ridiculously hard I only beat it with the Konami Code.)

While I loved Bioshock, I hated how bloody easy it was since you'd just pop out of a resurrection chamber every time you died. I'd get bored during a Big Daddy battle and just keep respawning on him over and over again until he went down... about halfway through I decided to just ignore the chambers entirely and play the game without dying.

I'm one of the few who actually beat Bionic Commando on the NES. You know, the game that was intensely impossible to get through on certain levels? The one with no save feature? The one that took nearly six hours to play through? Yeah, that one.

But at that time, games like The Legend of Zelda, Mike Tyson's Punch Out, and Contra, were the fun games. Before that time, for computer games, was ones like Empire, Wing Commander, Space Quest, and even Zork. And before those games: Pong. While the graphics of games have improved tremdously, the game play has remained a constant.

Castlevania 2, Rescue the Embassy, Russian Attack, Jackal, JAWS, and others, were enjoyable games for their day. COD, WoW, EQ, and others, that are popular now, will soon be retired in favoror of newer, more graphic intensive games in 5-10 years.

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Most impressive! I'm reminded of playing Bionic Commando: Re-Armed and wishing Konami would give Contra a similar update to 2008 (and Contra III!).


My roommate and I have been playing BC:RA on/off for a few months. We STILL can't beat the final level (in co-op mode). It's damn near impossible for two players.

Most impressive! I'm reminded of playing Bionic Commando: Re-Armed and wishing Konami would give Contra a similar update to 2008 (and Contra III!).

Looking forward to in Q1-2 of 2009 (PC): Prototype, Braid, Velvet Assassin, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Trine, Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena, Splinter Cell: Conviction, Burnout Paradise, Borderlands, Bionic Commando, Dragon Age: Origins, Tom Clancy's HAWX.
The better part of these really ought to arrive in 2009, even if delayed. Some have solid release dates set for Feb, as far as I can remember.

Re-armed was so well done. They retained everything good about the NES Bionic Commando, while giving us stunning presentation and some nice additional replay value. I'm waiting for the memory to fully fade so I can play through it again some snowy weekend.

My biggest WTF that's not on the list is when I saw Hitler's head explode in Bionic Commando. Before then I don't think I'd ever even seen a drop of blood in a video game, besides Double Dragon.

The co-op looks as though it might have a little Contra feel to it as well, and I agree, Bionic Commando was a great game. It's nice to see it remade as a platform also.

I can wax nostalgic about video games for hours every day. My personal best years in gaming:

1983 - We got Intellivion for Xmas 82.. Played a lot of Lock & Chase, Astrosmash, Night Stalker, Sea Battle, etc.
1989 - The year I bought myself a NES.. Played Bionic Commando, Contra, Castlevania.. First job mowing lawns gave me income in addition to my allowance which went up to $10/wk. to blow on gaming magazines and the occasional game, as well as a decent budget for arcade games which were in their heyday... Golden Axe, Robocop, Narc, Hard Drivin, Stider, that was 1989 for me. Probably the single best year.
1992 - Now working one full-time and one part-time job for the summer, as soon as I wrote my final exams I I bought myself Genesis, then SNES the next day. Played a lot of Super Contra, Street Fighter 2, Castlevania 4, Super Battletank (first game with photo-real graphics on home systems imho), Populous, Strider, etc.
1994 - The year I bought my first PC.. played a lot of Doom 2, Alone in the Dark 2, Ecstatica, Tie Fighter, and countless demos from PC Gamer and other magazine pack-in discs
1998 - The year I got into multiplayer... played insane amounts of Quake 2
2000 - The year I bought my first true custom-built gaming PC.. played Quake 3, Deus Ex, Aliens Vs Predator, and in 2001 played tons of Tribes 2
2002 - At end of 2001 I bought another even better gaming box... played tons of RTCW, Medal of Honor, and ended the year playing BF1942 about four hours per day
2006 - The year I bought my first bleeding-edge custom-built gaming PC (dual GPUs, 30 inch 4 megapixel monitor, $150 mouse, etc.)... played BF2, Quake 4, Call of Duty 2, Prey, HL2: Ep1

2007 was a decent year, might look like a stand-out once I get some distance and perspective.

From YT:

I couldn't find any NES remixes I liked so I used C64 remixes instead for the music.

Here are the tunes used in this video, all by Instant Remedy -

Game On (Issue 0989)
Last Ninja - The Palace
Ghosts 'n Goblins (Trance Version)

Full list of games in the video (might be some errors) -

1. Super Mario Brothers
2. Contra
3. Dragon warrior 1
4. Dr. Mario
5. Excite Bike
6. Lola 3
7. Ice Climber
8. Gradius
9. Ice Hockey
10. Kiwi Craze
11. Little Nemo
12. Scheherazade
13. Abradox
14. Addams Family
15. Adventure Island 1
16. Basewars
17. Marble Madness
18. Kirby
19. Batman 1
20. Battle Chess
21. Mappy Land
22. Maniac Mansion
23. Kid Icarus
24. Silius
25. Duck Hunt
26. Treasure Island 2
27. Goonies 2
28. Castlevania 1
29. Bugs Bunny Birthday
30. Bomberman 1
31. Battletoads
32. Bionic Commando
33. Blades of Steel
34. Blaster Master
35. Castlevania 2
36. Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle
37. Casino Kid
38. Caveman Games
39. Crystalis
40. Deja Vu
41. Double Dribble
42. Duck Tales
43. Double Dragon 2
44. Golgo 13
45. Hogans Alley
46. Jackie Chan
47. Castlevania 3
48. Double Dragon 1
49. Ninja Gaiden 1
50. North & South
51. Prince Of Persia
52. Metroid
53. Metal Gear
54. Pirates
55. Mega Man 2
56. Micro Machines
57. Paper Boy
58. Punch Out
59. Super Mario Brothers 2
60. Ultima IV
61. The Three Stooges
62. The Guardian Legend
63. Bucky O'Hare
64. Wizards & Warriors 2
65. Zelda
66. Turtles 1
67. Tiny Toons Adventures
68. Wrath of the Black Ninja
69. Super Mario Brothers 3
70. Tecmo Super Bowl
71. Tombs & Treasures
72. Snakes Revenge
73. Super Contra
74. Snake Rattle n Roll
75. Talespin
76. Star Tropics 1
77. Spy Hunter
78. Zelda 2
79. Yo! Noid
80. Turtles 2
81. Silver Surfer
82. Robin Hood
83. R.C. Pro Am
84. River City Ransom
85. Shadowgate
86. Robocop
87. Rygar
88. Tetris
89. Supercars
90. Rampage
91. Willow
92. Final Fantasy
93. Mario Brothers
94. Ghosts & Goblins
95. Joe & Mac
96. Donkey Kong
97. Chip & Dale
98. Legendary Wings
99. Bubble Bobble
100. Faxandu