rpmxxipt Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 Just idly reading the side flap to a boxed NES action set I have sitting here, and it has games listed under the general blurb "No one creates video hits like Nintendo. From epic adventures and authentic sports competitions, to high flying action and arcade classics." Fair enough. Under Adventure series it lists titles like Zelda, Metroid, Kid Icarus, Zelda II, and SMB. Under Sports series it lists Mike Tyson's Punch Out, Rad Racer, R.C. Pro Am, Baseball, Pro Wrestling, and Golf. Fair enough. But under their screenshots, there's a blurb that says "Plus many other games from the Action Series, Light Gun Series, Programmable Series, Arcade Classics, and Education Series. What the heck carts were programmable for the NES??? rpm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 Yes...some were. Excitebike for example (you could design a custom track). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseyDevil Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 Wrecking Crew and Mach Rider were also part of the Programmable Series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigma Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 Ah the good old Nintendo genre classifications, color coded for your convienience. Too bad it was so confusing. I was really glad to see it go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintendo Penguin Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 Here you go.... http://www.playnintendo.com/nintendo_power...ayers_guide.htm According to the player's guide, there were four of them. Scroll to the bottom half of the page. I think it is funny that there is only one educational game! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keyngs Posted December 14, 2003 Share Posted December 14, 2003 i still have my nintendo players guide! Love looking through it. still comes in handy for games like rygar, and zelda 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JerseyDevil Posted December 15, 2003 Share Posted December 15, 2003 only one educational game! And what a crappy game it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintendo Penguin Posted December 15, 2003 Share Posted December 15, 2003 I wish they had categorized every game... I just like order. Unfortunately we were all left guessing on the other 700 titles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted December 15, 2003 Share Posted December 15, 2003 The programmable series was intended to use the disk drive for saving. It's mentioned in the manual that the save and load functions are for an accessory to be released later. ... The disk drive never made it to America. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigma Posted December 15, 2003 Share Posted December 15, 2003 I wish they had categorized every game... I just like order. Unfortunately we were all left guessing on the other 700 titles. It was dropped because third party companies didn't use it, not to mention CONFUSING AS HELL! [/Raijin Z] So you really didn't miss much without it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasoco Posted December 15, 2003 Share Posted December 15, 2003 How the hell is it confusing? "Adventure" "Sports" It's not hard to get those mixed up, you know. I too wish they had enforced that feature and kept it going. I could really use better categorizing on my game list pages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigma Posted December 26, 2003 Share Posted December 26, 2003 Sorry, I didn't so much mean "confusing" as just plain worthless. Besides, if you really want a classification system, go to gamefaqs and look it up lazy britches Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 Sorry, I didn't so much mean "confusing" as just plain worthless. Besides, if you really want a classification system, go to gamefaqs and look it up lazy britches But GameFAQs has no deia what they're talking about. Their classifications are REALLY hit and miss. Hell, they have a review for a NON-EXISTENT 2600 game. http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/a2600/data/24220.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A2600 Posted December 27, 2003 Share Posted December 27, 2003 Who here has Donkey Kong Math?? I DO Bryan: Look Mom Donkey Kong Taught me that 1+3 = 5 Mother: Its 4 Bryan: No mom even if I get it wrong I get 100 points for trying!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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