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I think I've got the same fond memory for this one as everyone else does: skinny dude, medium dude, and fat dude. The only game that ended up rivaling this excellent design was Konami's Blades of Steel, but the two were different enough to own and enjoy both (which is why you'll find Blades on this countdown). Every Ice Hockey player discovered their own perfect combination of men, and then it was on to the ice. You could choose from three different player body types, and outfit your team with any combination of them fast but weak Skinny Guys, brawny but slow Fat Guys, or well-balanced, middle-ground Normal Guys. This game of skating and slap shots was perfectly balanced, simple fun with just the right touch of planning and strategy to keep things interesting match after match. None of those games ended up having the lasting appeal and addictiveness of one of its other contemporaries, though – the first-party Nintendo sports sim known simply as Ice Hockey. Nintendo had a fairly diverse lineup of sports titles introduced for the NES early on in the system's life cycle, including 8-bit interpretations of soccer, tennis, volleyball and even downhill slalom skiing. Gradius was hard but fully powering up the Vic Viper made things a lot easier.

I used to apply the Konami code to every game from Konami just to see what would happen. You'll soon realize how much better off you are without a rookie to keep track of. Although you can't tackle Gradius with a pal, you can outfit your ship with 'options' – mindless, floating turrets that flank your ship.

These mysterious monoliths eventually became a series standard. Gradius' unique power-up system makes for some tough decisions: do you beef up your defenses in order to tough out that inevitable meteor shower? Or do you crank your ships thrusters to their max, relying on a quick trigger finger to clear a path? Starting out in fairly straightforward space environments, things soon got weird in Gradius, with levels filled with Moais shooting donut rings. The sluggish junker you start out with is soon augmented with shields and weapons of your choosing.

The Vic Viper's first attack run may have been in the arcades, but the NES brought the popular space shooter home in a near-perfect port. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Arcade Game Skate or Die 2: The Search for Double Troubleīattletoads & Double Dragon: The Ultimate TeamĪ Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia

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