Tennis

Year: 1985
Publisher: Nintendo
Genre: Sports – Tennis

I believe that, since my childhood, there has been not only a general tendency to make games easier (which is super-good) but also a dumbing down of expectations. Players were once required to control every aspect of the game’s interaction, whereas now there exist a good many games that take parts that would have once fell out of the player’s purview out of their hands. Take, for example, the Nintendo version of Tennis vs. the analogous Wii Sports subgame.

Tennis Title Screen
I could have just reviewed Tennis, but that would almost certainly be less interesting.

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Kung Fu

Publisher: Nintendo
Year: 1985
Genre: Brawler – Side-Scroll

There was something of a martial arts craze in the 80’s brought on by the likes of the Karate Kid, The Last Dragon and Gymkata. Ok, maybe not so much Gymkata. Point being that it is generally agreed that in the 80’s, everybody was Kung Fu Fighting.

Those cats were fast as lightning.

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