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Despite the fact that you can jump about a mile horizontally and about two miles vertically, Demon Sword for NES was easily the biggest waste of $3. I played it for about 2 minutes before I came to my senses and put it away forever.

I also couldn't believe Resident Evil 4 made it as #1. To me, that is a pure indication that whoever voted for these clearly just voted whichever "coolest" game they were playing at the moment. I've seen other lists like this, and with rare exceptions, Super Mario Bros., Zelda and Pac Man are always in the top 10. I think this list was compiled by people who are all 15 and younger.

I don't think there really was a "killer app" for the SNES. I'm a bit young to know for sure, but it seems to me that the main feature/character/killer app of the SNES was that Nintendo made it. That's all it really to took to sell. The only reason people wanted to play Super Mario World was because of SMB1 and SMB3, not because of the iconic properties of SMW, or any other game for the SNES. And the same goes for A Link to the Past: people just liked Zelda, it didn't necessarily represent the system, as much as it represented the Zelda name. But then, I was born in '85, so what do I know?

I don't know how to program for the Atari, and I wrote the music for one of the homebrew games on this site. I used Capella, which you can download for free from here. They have other platforms if you don't have Windows, too. This program has a built in "mouse piano," that allows you to just click on the notes to transcribe them (assuming you can read music!). I've tried a lot of different notation programs, and this seems the most complete. Although it's a demo version, pretty much everything you'd want to use is accessible, except you can't use the lyrics function (which you probably won't need for Atari music, as far as I know), and you also can only have up to two tracks per system (which was also not a big deal for me when writing for the Atari). There's a bunch of built-in voices, where most instrumental sounds are represented. I don't know about creating "noises" or other Atari-esque sounds, but it's nonetheless very easy to use for the most part. If you want to look at a screenshot, there's a link on the download page. Hope that helps! Good luck!

The game is cool, but what is up with the fruity pink outfit? The NES Warrior- Blaster Master

Rocket Knight Adventures, while sounding gay, is actually a pretty cool game. Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure is also pretty good. In my experience, both are pretty abundant, and cheap.

I got this game for Christmas like 12 years ago, and loved it. Of course, when I was 8, I didn't really have the eye-hand coordination to actually play any video game besides Pac Man (maybe I developed late). Anyway, I got to the second level (the old west), and got to the big bad boss guy at the end (I remember he was fat). I fought that guy for about 20 minutes, and beat the absolute crap out of him with every gun I had, and he still didn't die. I was pretty positive that I had done all I could to kill him. At the time, I just assumed that this game sucked hard balls and never played it again. I recently (like a year ago) played it again, and the same thing happened. I've read walkthroughs and they never even mention anything about how to kill this guy, which means there is no trick! I've never been so frustrated. So now I suspect that there was some bug in the game or something, that made the fat guy invincible. Or I still really suck at this game (which is unlikely, I hope!). Has anyone ever beat this game? Or had this problem before?

I'm glad someone finally mentioned Killer Instinct for the SNES. That was always my favorite because it required so much research, like learning all the combinations of the moves and such. I think that was probably the first (if not the only) game to incorporate multi-hit combos into fighting (at least more than like 3 or 4 hit combos). I also liked Soul Calibur, which I understand was not listed because of the 2D thing.