Ultimate Nintendo: Guide to the NES Library (1985-1995)

Ultimate Nintendo: Guide to the NES Library is an expansive and thorough look at one of the greatest video game libraries of all time: the Nintendo Entertainment System. This definitive source contains reviews and screenshots of all of the mainstream games released for the home video game console between 1985-1995. Read about hundreds of fun and classic 8-bit games like Super Mario Bros., Tetris, Castlevania, Punch-Out!!, Ninja Gaiden, Mega Man, The Legend of Zelda, and many others.

Featuring all licensed and unlicensed titles, the book provides details for each game cart: developer, publisher, release date, genre, availability, and more. Bonus sections are dedicated to test and promo cartridges and even game cart variants! It s all here, so Nintendo and video game fans alike can learn about all the good, bad, and interesting games in the large and impressive NES library!

- 800+ NES game reviews, including games released exclusively in Europe and Australia
- Supplemental articles relating to the history of the NES by internet personalities and game historians such as James Rolfe, Andre Meadows, and more
- A guide to popular NES devices and controllers
- Samples of unreleased NES games
- Written and compiled by Pat Contri, NES game collector and historian
- Foreword by Blake Harris, author of Console Wars

Note: this book is not authorized or endorsed by Nintendo. All registered trademarks, game art, and game screenshots used are copyright their respective holders and are utilized here under Fair Use.

Pat Contri is a video game player, collector, and historian who has had an interest in Nintendo since receiving an NES console for Christmas in 1987. He is known primarily online for his web shows Pat the NES Punk, Flea Market Madness, and The Completely Unnecessary Podcast. He is also the codirector and co-producer of The Video Game Years, the year-by-year historic video game web series, runs thepunkeffect.com, and conducts the live annual NES Charity Marathon benefiting children s hospitals. In his spare time (which isn t much) he enjoys movies, the gym, eating numerous nachos, and hanging out with an old Jersey hippie named Frank.