Nerdicus NES Review #60 : Barbie

Title : Barbie Publisher : Hi Tech Expressions Genre : Platform Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1991 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $5-$10 I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie wooooorllld.....I want to shoot myself. I don't have a thing against Barbie. I mean, she is the epitome of a childhood for most girls growing up. And while I didn't grow up playing with Barbies ( I was a GI JOE guy ), I did steal my...

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Nerdicus NES Review #59 : Bandit Kings of Ancient China

Title : Bandit Kings of Ancient China Publisher : Koei Genre : Turn Based Strategy Players : 1 Player (up to 5 simultaneously though) Release Date : 1990 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $50 Back in 1989, while I wasn't obsessing over my NES system, I was also getting involved with PC gaming. I didn't have many PC games back in 1989, but I do remember having some absolute classics. Prince of Persia,...

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Nerdicus NES Review #58 : Bandai Golf - Challenge Pebble Beach

Title : Bandai Golf Challenge Pebble Beach Publisher : Bandai Genre : Golf Players : 1 / 2 Players Release Date : 1989 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $3-$5 Let's get this fact perfectly clear. I am bad at golf. Sure, I go to the driving but I'm also a self taught hack. I slice with a driver a good 100 yards to the right. If you think about it, if you take into the slice compensation, I'd probably...

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Nerdicus NES Review #57 : Balloon Fight

Title : Balloon Fight Publisher : Nintendo Genre : Platform Players : 1 / 2 Players Release Date : 1986 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $4-$5 Phew - you don't know how excited I am to finally review a black box game. These games were the blood of the NES library back when it first came out. These were the original classics, and although there were a few that just didn't excel as some of the others,...

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Nerdicus NES Review #56 : Bad Street Brawler

Title : Bad Street Brawler Publisher : Mattel Genre : Beat Em Up Players : 1 / 2 Players Release Date : 1990 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $4-$5 It seems like only yesterday I was playing BAD DUDES, another well known Beat em Up. Sure enough it was practically yesterday, and lo and behold I am facing another Beat Em Up. This one I had never heard of until recently, and after looking at the publisher...

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Nerdicus NES Review #55 : Bad News Baseball

Title : Bad News Baseball Publisher : Tecmo Genre : Sports Players : 1 / 2 Players Release Date : 1990 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $4-$5 Besides hockey, there aren't many sports games I enjoy playing. Football is alright, as long as I'm playing with someone else. Basketball I despise, probably because I just don't like basketball. Now when it comes to baseball, I'm really not that much of...

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Nerdicus NES Review #54 : Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja

Title : Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja Publisher : Data East / Ocean Genre : Beat Em Up Players : 1 / 2 Players Release Date : 1988 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $5-$6 There's a lot of debate as to what game has the greatest title for the NES. I'm not sure why there is such a debate, because it is obvious that BAD DUDES VS DRAGON NINJA is the winner. As a kid just seeing the cover and title of this...

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Nerdicus NES Review #53 : Back to the Future Part 2 + 3

Title : Back to the Future Part 2 + 3 Publisher : LJN Genre : Action Adventure Players : 1 Release Date : 1990 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $5-$6 *sigh* No, wait. Make that....*SIGH* Just when I thought that LJN couldn't ruin my beloved Back to the Future series, they went ahead and pulled this out of their arses. Instead of doing Back to the Future Part 2 and 3 as individual games,...

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Nerdicus NES Review # 52 : Back to the Future

Title : Back to the Future Publisher : LJN Genre : Action Adventure Players : 1 Release Date : 1989 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $3-$5 Back to the Future easily remains in my top five favorite movies of all time. I've bought the movies at least a half a dozen times in DVD, VHS, Blu-Ray, and collector boxes. You name it. I have movie posters, models, legos, and I even shelled out the money for the...

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Nerdicus NES Review # 51 : Aussie Rules Footy

Title : Aussie Rules Footy Publisher : Mattel Genre : Sports Players : 1 / 2 Players Release Date : 1991 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $?????? This one is going to be a quicky for a few reasons. 1) It's a sports games, and you guys know how I feel about sports games. 2) This was only released in Australia, so I shouldn't even be doing this. BUT I have a few Aussie friends, so why not. 3) It's...

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Nerdicus NES Review #50 : Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

Title : Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Publisher : THQ Genre : Action Platformer Players : 1 Release Date : 1992 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $15-$20 Attack of the Killer Tomatoes was quite possibly one of the campiest and bizarre "B-horror" movies of its time. Well, it was a mockery of those movies, and it only had a budget of around $100,000. But that didn't matter. After its release it garnered...

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Nerdicus NES Review #49 : Athletic World

Title : Athletic World Publisher : Bandai Genre : Sports / Fitness Players : 1  / 2 Players Release Date : 1987 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $6-$12 Before there was Wii Fit, there was ATHLETIC WORLD. Some of you may know this game as the re-hashing of that famous NES game worth thousands of dollars, STADIUM EVENTS. Well after Nintendo bought the rights to the FAMILY FUN FITNESS pad, they...

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Nerdicus NES Review #48 : Athena

Title : Athena Publisher : SNK Genre : Action Adventure Platformer Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1987 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $5-$8 Athena - the Goddess of Wisdom, Warfare, Divine Intelligence, Architecture, and Crafts....not to mention crappy NES games. In comes Athena, by SNK. A horrid attempt at a platformer, and the final product made it seem like SNK had no idea what they were...

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Nerdicus NES Review #47 : Astynax

Title : Astynax Publisher : Jaleco Genre : Action Adventure Platformer Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1990 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $3-$5 Only in Astyanax does a 16 year old kid turn into a barbaric warrior with a fairy named CUTIE as a side kick. Not a joke. The fairy is called Cutie. At least she doesn't irritate the hell out of you with incessant "HEY, LISTEN!"'s Oh, but it gets better....

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Nerdicus NES Review #46 : Asterix

Title : Asterix Publisher : Infogrames Genre : Platformer Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1993 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $50-$75 I may be cheating a little bit by adding this game to my NES reviews since it was only released in Europe, but I can't help it. Asterix was one of my favorite cartoons / comics growing up and I snagged as many translated versions of this as I could.  ...

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Nerdicus NES Review #45 : Arkista's Ring

Title : Arkista's Ring Publisher : American Sammy Genre : Action Adventure Players : 1 Player Release Date : 1990 Estimated Value (as of today's date) : $8-$10 Ah, what a way to start the New Year. After playing the Legend of Zelda approximately a million times when I was a kid, I was always craving something that could fill the void and match Zelda's epic-ness. Sure enough, there are plenty of them...

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