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Japanese Fans Vote On Top 30 NES Games
Thanks to 1UP for their report on a Japanese poll rating the top 30 Famicom (NES) games of all time, as conducted for an upcoming Tokyo museum exhibition. The report comments that this poll is "an interesting look at the titles that were big in the early days of Japanese gaming, as well as what's held up in retrospect", and the Dragon Quest series (Dragon Warrior in the U.S.) is particularly well-represented, since "...all four Famicom games in the series made the top 10, compared to only one Final Fantasy." Also pointed out: "It's also interesting to see what's ahead of Super Mario Brothers 3, the most popular NES game in the United States. In Japan, they'd rather play Ice Climber and Balloon Fight."
No, 3 is the only one that has not been released in the US. I don't think it even made it to the WonderSwan, as was pending. The translation ROM I have is versioned 1.1, so it's probably fully-translated.
Though I suspect the parent doesn't know that US FF 3 is really FF 6.
Dragon Warrior IV is probably the most complete game ever developed for the NES. The cart size claimed to be 8 megabytes, but discussion on emulation boards suggested that it was only 4 megs. That's still huge compared to most of the games. There is excellent gameplay, an expansive universe, multiple NPCs, several chapters of gameplay, an interesting storyline, and some beautiful graphics and music. It was the last big NES project that I know of and it still usually sells for $30-$40 online. I would definately rank it as probably the best well-crafted complete game. Enix made some good stuff. * sigh *
indeed..
Are you kidding? That's one of the best NES games ever. It's got great platform action, a tremendous large world map to explore, lots of items to gather, and an awesome soundtrack (including, I'm sure, the NES rendition of a Cyndi Lauper song.) Goonies II is an outstanding game -- I was impressed the list, that speaks highly of the people who responded.
He's right. I look it up and found that Japan has a current population of around 127 million. If you use a tool like Creative Research's Sample Size Calculator ( http://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm )you'd find that you only need a sample size 15,092 to obtain a 99% confidence level of accuracy +/- 1.05% If there really was 15,670 people surveyed [the number of votes], that's pretty good work.
indeed..
In SMB3, they use the original Mario Bros. level as a means to present Vs. Mode. It's not the actual game, though the GBA version (Super Mario Advance 4) contains the original Mario Bros. as do all Super Mario Advance games.