It’s not fully a light gun game, alternating between brawling, driving and shooting, with two shooting gallery levels where the NES Zapper is optional. The game’s not fun, though, both too ...

Fortunately, the game itself is a thoroughly enjoyable ... While it may not dethrone the Blue Bomber as the quintessential platform shooter for the NES, Darkwing Duck is nevertheless well worth ...

However, it still manages to be one of the best-looking games on the NES. While the main character and enemy sprites in this side-scrolling shooter are unusually large and detailed for the era ...

The NES Classic Edition will hopefully allow ... And the final level turns the game into a shooter, not a platformer, which makes for an awesome ending. The original Ninja Gaiden is punishingly ...

A glut of poorly made games for the Atari 2600 killed the marketplace ... on toy shelves instead of in the electronics department. The NES quickly became a defining part of 1980s culture ...

While not the best shooter or the best action RPG on NES, The Guardian Legend’s inventive combination of the two remains a unique video game experience, three decades on. 8-bit conversions of ...

This wildly creative NES game features some of the best level design ... The Legend of Zelda (or Startropics) with a top-down shooter that it’s pretty much impossible not to wonder what kind ...

The NES revitalized the home video game market with an impressive library ... as quickly as possible while avoiding obstacles and shooting enemies with your pistol. Mach Rider on Nintendo Switch ...

Star Fox, an on-the-rails space shooter, pushed the technical limits of the Super NES far beyond other games of the time. It achieved this feat thanks to a special graphical co-processor chip ...

At the beginning of the game, a CIA agent named Irene Lew is pursued off a cliff by a Ryu look-alike where she appears to die ...

Shooters were supposed to be about butt rock ... It’s the most technically impressive NES game ever made, and one of the most challenging. Plainly put, Mr. Gimmick is spellbinding.

It wasn’t the first console created, but the NES was most people’s first exposure to home video games and was responsible for pulling the entire industry out of a crash. This is where some of ...