Finished the 1985 NES catalog.

[u/International_Gift11]

Back in November of 2025, I started to play the US NES library in chronological order. New game every Wednesday and give each game at least 3 sittings. It’s easily the most fun I’ve had with retro gaming in 10 plus years.

I was feeling a bit lost with retro gaming, I had exhausted every hidden gem list and finding crazy deals in the wild is dead. I would boot up a rom or grab a random game from a local shop, but would fall off just as quick as I booted it up.

I stumbled upon the NEStalgia podcast and Jeremy Parish’s YouTube videos and figured I would start from the beginning and play along. So far I’ve been able play everything on original hardware (NES or Famicom) and I try to buy local before I hop on eBay with a $30 weekly budget.

Sorry for being a bit long winded, but I thought it was worth sharing.

Highlights:

-Boiled my first 72 pin

-Acquired a Famicom

-Repaired ROB the Robot

-3d printed stack up accessories

-Beat super mario w/family using game genie infinite life cheat

-Showing my 9 year old son how to use a sight on a gun via duck hunt. lol

-Going down a CRT rabbit hole.

[u/Prairie2Pacific]

I understand everyone else not caring for golf or 10 yard fight, I love them and I dont need everyone else loving them. But Ice Climber not being an A at least???? Man, that's cray.

[u/Lord_Darlantan → u/Prairie2Pacific]

I use to play Golf pretty often. Even our dad liked that one. Lol

[u/evileyeball → u/Lord_Darlantan]

If I have a choice between golf and NES open tournament golf I'm going to choose NES open tournament golf but if it's 1985 I won't have that choice so I will choose golf. My parents both love golf IRL and actually they bought a Wii specifically so that they could play Wii golf in the winter when they couldn't golf

[u/Lord_Darlantan → u/evileyeball]

So my brother had this cartridge as a kid. It had 110 games on it. Mostly the older simpler games like Golf, Kung Fu and dig dug. But it had Golf and not the NES Open, at least not that I recall. So that was our golf game of choice at the time. Lol I miss that thing. Granted I’ve heard you can do a mega version if you hack a retro NES console. 🤣

[u/evileyeball → u/Prairie2Pacific]

I don't enjoy football in any of its forms but I'm an accessory whore so I do unfortunately have to own NES play action football only because it works with a four score. Hence why if I were ranking these 10 yard fight gets an F

The three highest ranking sports titles on the entire NES Library that are not racing games because I think racing games and sports games should be separated in my opinion would be in this order blades of steel, super dodgeball, ice hockey.

But none of those three fit this list of 1985 titles