The 25 Best Nintendo Games of the 1980s

"We've decided to look at the very best games developed by Nintendo during the decade where they most clearly dominated the vdeogame industry. We're not considering just games that were released on the NES, or even games that Nintendo itself published but were created by other designers (hence the lack of R.C. Pro Am and Final Fantasy, which were both published by Nintendo in America). We're exclusively talking about games developed by one of Nintendo's in-house teams and released during the 1980s. And yeah, we're looking at the original release dates, which were almost always in Japan, and well before the games ever hit the States."