bigmackdaddy
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Post by bigmackdaddy on Dec 19, 2009 12:24:22 GMT -5
I'll admit that my knowledge of NES games before 1985's Super Mario Bros. is limited, so I come here to ask -- what was the console's killer app before Mario?
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Post by forgottensinpwf on Dec 19, 2009 12:31:09 GMT -5
Kung Fu?
Or Duck Hunt. It was THE zapper game on the system. so popular that it was bundled later with Mario.
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Malcolm
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Post by Malcolm on Dec 19, 2009 12:33:27 GMT -5
Probably one of the old sports games.
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Post by Jay Peas 42 on Dec 19, 2009 13:53:17 GMT -5
I think it was R.O.B.
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Post by PaperStreetBrigade on Dec 19, 2009 14:08:37 GMT -5
Mario Bros?
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Post by Free Hat on Dec 19, 2009 14:11:15 GMT -5
Keep in mind that a killer app usually refers to a game so popular that large numbers of people are willing to buy the hardware just to play it. Considering that initial sales of the Famicom weren't all that strong, I'm not sure it had one pre-SMB.
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Post by Mr. Backlund on Dec 19, 2009 14:25:26 GMT -5
NES was launched in the US with Super Mario Bros. so......
That said, it was probably Donkey Kong if you're talking Famicom.
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Post by forgottensinpwf on Dec 19, 2009 14:25:56 GMT -5
NES was launched in the US with Super Mario Bros. so...... That said, it was probably Donkey Kong if you're talking Famicom. It didn't launch with Mario, It launched with Gyromite and Duck Hunt. SMB didn't get released until March of 86. |
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Post by Mr. Backlund on Dec 19, 2009 14:34:37 GMT -5
NES was launched in the US with Super Mario Bros. so...... That said, it was probably Donkey Kong if you're talking Famicom. It didn't launch with Mario, It launched with Gyromite and Duck Hunt. SMB didn't get released until March of 86. I always had thought there was the Deluxe Bundle (what you described) and a regular bundle, which had SMB. Wikipedia (the purveyor of all truths) says it was a launch title, but says the game was released in March like you said. That said, I tried the old Google search and most places say it was a launch title, but hold the March date as its release (despite the NES already being out for 6 months). Hmm.... |
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Post by CM Dazz on Dec 19, 2009 14:35:33 GMT -5
NES was launched in the US with Super Mario Bros. so...... That said, it was probably Donkey Kong if you're talking Famicom. It didn't launch with Mario, It launched with Gyromite and Duck Hunt. SMB didn't get released until March of 86. Yep, Gyromite, and Duck Hunt. You got the robot and the gun. |
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Post by Bo Rida on Dec 19, 2009 14:37:09 GMT -5
Balloon fight maybe?
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Post by forgottensinpwf on Dec 19, 2009 14:37:52 GMT -5
It didn't launch with Mario, It launched with Gyromite and Duck Hunt. SMB didn't get released until March of 86. I always had thought there was the Deluxe Bundle (what you described) and a regular bundle, which had SMB. Wikipedia (the purveyor of all truths) says it was a launch title, but says the game was released in March like you said. That said, I tried the old Google search and most places say it was a launch title, but hold the March date as its release (despite the NES already being out for 6 months). Hmm.... Probably it's first Non-Bundle release. |
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Post by Blindkarevik on Dec 19, 2009 15:06:15 GMT -5
Yeah, when I got my Nintendo it was the one with Gyromite and Duck Hunt, but they did have two different bundles. One with R.O.B. and one without, which I THINK had SMB with it. I know they were available at roughly the same time because I knew I was getting an NES for Xmas that year, looked at the size of the box and figured it was the smaller version and was amazed when it was the one with ROB. Of course, one session of Gyromite later and I realized it was just so much easier to put ROB away, put the red and blue button control on the ground and just use my feet.
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Post by bob on Dec 19, 2009 15:17:15 GMT -5
Duck Hunt
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Post by Dirty Hazy on Dec 20, 2009 3:07:34 GMT -5
I never even seen ROB in the stores, I remember MARIO coming with the system and thought it WAS the first game on NES.
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Post by RatedRKoffee on Dec 20, 2009 3:34:04 GMT -5
There absolutly was a deluxe set with R.O.B., zapper gyromite and duck hunt, as well as a standard bundle with just NES and Mario. No google required here, you don't forget staring at a Nintendo display at Kmart and vowing that it WILL be yours. As to the question there was NO game people wanted more than Mario. Sure it was fun to play some Kung-fu or exictebike but you kept going back to Mario. There was nothing else like it no console game had ever had as much hidden stuff to find and worlds to explore. The first hit was free man. Then the fun club newsletter told us of a shiny new game called Legend of Zelda that would actually let you SAVE your game and go back to it!!! I feel old.
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Post by Paul on Dec 20, 2009 5:11:40 GMT -5
Excitebike!
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Post by Madman Szalinski on Dec 20, 2009 9:17:51 GMT -5
*waits for some smartass to say John Elway's Quarterback*
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2009 10:07:03 GMT -5
I got the ROB system that Christmas. I also got Baseball, Excitebike, and two other games I don't recall.
First game I actually bought was 10-Yard Fight. I played the hell out of it at the movie theater and thought it would be cheaper in the long run to just own it.
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Post by 8.2.11/SAVIOR_NEZ on Dec 20, 2009 17:20:43 GMT -5
"Pinball" was a simple, yet pretty fun game (including a Mario and Pauline cameo in the bonus stage). "Clu Clu Land" was also pretty addictive. I do want to say that "Super Mario Bros." was always available when the American NES came out, whether as a pack-in or separately.
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