Rather than make some piece of trash as the last great NES game, the makers polished it and polished it until you can almost see your face in it. Kirby had an advantage on Mario 3, however, as it was the largest licensed NES cart at 6 Mbit (and it shows). It’s a cute and fun-filled game that, like Super Mario Bros 3, looked like an early SNES game with a smaller color palette. Kirby was another one of those games that came out for the NES as many Nintendo fans already had started building their SNES libraries. Below, RadarScope1 and racketboy team up to review some of the most demanding NES games in terms of hardware resources Kirby’s Adventure With the Famicom / NES hardware remaining popular and active on the retail scene for over a decade, game developers had a lot of time to perfect their programming techniques and squeeze every last bit of power out of the iconic console.
However, if you dig deep into the library, there is a surprising amount of games that maxed out the NES hardware to produce some impressive graphics and sound (See the rest of our Games That Pushed The Limits series). Thinking back to most of the games you played on the NES, it’s easy to remember the 8-bit library as being simple and possibly even primitive. The Games That Pushed The Limits Of The NES