The first in the long line of the popular Castlevania series. It wowed people on arrival with its first rate horror atmosphere, excellent presentation, and memorable music. The game play whilst occasionally frustrating (damn you medusa heads!) is very fun, unique and addictive.

Capcom with yet another quality Disney release. Though the game play of this platformer is far from unique, Capcom bring the high quality of polish to the game that they are known for, with many of the aspects of game play honed to perfection.

When I was a kid, in my eyes this was as good as sports games could get, humiliate your friends by scoring loads, then beat the hell outta' their players just to rub it in! The game play is fast and responsive and you feel that important level of control needed for a good sports game experience.

Anyone who wants a fast action packed challenge on NES need look no further than this. The game play is excellent, and very rewarding, mainly due to the versatile move set which, when mastered, allows you to cling to walls and climb with ease. also of note is how Ninja Gaiden increased the bar where video game presentation is concerned, with it's in depth storyline and and high quality for the time cut scenes.

A clever NES puzzle game which is a little bit reminiscent of the Adventures of Lolo series, here you can turn the enemies into blocks of ice and then push them around to form bridges with the aim to collect all of the "dream bags" in the stage.

What more can you ask of a good shoot-em-up other than fast, fluid controls, lots of action, impressive visuals and great power-ups? all of these things Gun Nac manages to deliver in spades.

Shatterhand is a great action game which is not only very well designed, but has some really well done art direction, a cool and unique (and corny) premise, and a clever mix and match power-up system which is interesting and adds some more depth.

Here we have yet another classic game from Natsume, though unlike their previously mentioned Shatterhand, its much easier here to see where Natsume were taking their inspiration from in this obvious Ninja Gaiden derivative. I'd imagine its "shameless clone" labeling is most likely one of the main reasons why many people dismiss it without giving it a proper chance, it's a very fun, fast, fluid, action packed game with a very impressive soundtrack, and an all important two player co-operative feature. All good reasons why it deserves to be on this list.

Rygar is an open world adventure game similar to games such as Faxanadu, and Metroid, its a very good game but has one big fault many of its peers lacked, namely no kind of save feature, a feature that a game of this scope very much needs.

On release this was one of the stand out puzzle games on the C64, the game starts off simple, with you just needing to collect the gems in each level without getting crushed, but quickly expands its core idea to include a big emphasis on leading the monsters contained in the stages into traps to bury them under falling rocks. Commendably, for the NES port this classic has had a complete graphics overhaul which looks absolutely fantastic.