Favorite NES game?

[Trench_Man]

What's your favorite game for the Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom? Personally I think mine is either Dragon Quest/Dragon Warrior or River City Ransom, I've always loved games on the NES that were RPGs or had RPG elements. River City Ransom has always been one I find myself coming back to because of how reminiscent it is to later even modern beat em ups.

[ocean]

I really love the NES, theres so so many wonderful games on it when you really explore the library. The poplar ones everyone knows are great, so I won't sing the praises of Mega Man 2 or whatever.

A really good one that I will openly recommend is Bonk's Adventure. It's super fun on NES and has a lovely little OST. Great platformer game. I also really enjoy the Famicom / Japan exclusive Hello Kitty World. Extremely unique platformer design with really charming graphics.

[IndigoGolem]

I think The Legend of Zelda is still good, but also it's probably the second or third most well known game for the system.

Kirby's Adventure is also very fun. Maybe i like it better than Zelda. Good music (even on period appropriate hardware, as i recall), interesting mechanics, minigames,..

Big names, sure, but the question is favorites, not obscures. I'm aware of Yo! Noid! but i don't much care for it.

And then yes, Tetris and Mario are also great. I know a guy who really likes Bubble Bobble. But Kirby's Adventure is probably my favorite.

[stellarfieldanomaly]

I have not played many NES games to be fair. But I really enjoyed the original Castlevania. It's very hard and a bit primitive, but the single cohesive map is very impressive for the time and hardware.