Classic NES Series

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Classic NES Series is a series of games released on the Game Boy Advance which are ports of games that originally appeared on the NES platform. The games were released for US$20, which was cheap for Game Boy Advance games.

[edit] Titles Included in the Classic NES Series

• Bomberman
• Castlevania
• Donkey Kong
• Dr. Mario
• Excitebike
• Ice Climber
• Metroid
• Pac-Man
• Super Mario Bros.
• The Legend of Zelda
• Xevious
• Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

[edit] Criticism

Many people have criticized the Classic NES Series for its prices. Many of the titles in the Classic NES Series were available in other forms, such as on sets of $5 e-Reader cards and within the game Animal Crossing. At $20 each, many Nintendo fans were outraged.

Other people criticized the Classic NES Series simply because it consisted mostly of games that Nintendo had re-released many times before. Some games such as Pac-Man were merely arcade ports and had been released countless times before on other systems.

The Japanese NES Classics also received more than twice as many titles as the Classic NES Series.

Having already been released in enhanced forms onto the GBA, many classic NES titles were omitted from the series. Super Mario Bros. 2 had been released as Super Mario Advance, albeit with significant changes. Super Mario Bros. 3 had also been released in Advanced form, but with only a few alterations. Like all the Advance Series games, both came with enhanced versions of Mario Bros. Tetris had already been released as Tetris Worlds, but could not be re-released in its original form due to a dispute with Elorg.

The Bomberman port was criticized for its lack of a multiplayer mode.

The Donkey Kong port was criticized for omitting the 50m level, which was never in the NES version.