These Are the Best Nintendo Games of All Time?

Super Mario Bros.

There is no Nintendo list that doesn't include Super Mario Bros. The classic game is still so popular today that you can purchase it for multiple consoles, phones, tablets and more. There's something great about guiding the little plumber over obstacles, through pipes and shooting those 16-bit fire bullets.

The Legend of Zelda

Before kids could even start playing the game, they were often in awe of the brilliant Zelda gold cartridge. It only got better from there. Huge maps, cool weapons and those iconic hearts became a huge part of the Zelda pop-culture.

Pokemon: Red & Blue

The Pokemon craze truly began with the release of Pokemon:Red and Pokemon: Blue. Kids would argue about which version was actually better, but the coolest kids always owned both. Traveling with Ash, Pokemon had hours of gameplay that ranged across multiplemaps, mysteries and so many Pokemon to collect.

Super Mario 64

After so many side-scrolling adventures, gamers dreamed about having a 3D world with Mario. This game true in Super Mario 64. Great controls and level design has made this game hold up for so many years. A re-release on the Nintendo DS offered extra characters and enhanced graphics that has made the game even cooler.

Donkey Kong Country

In the 1990s, Donkey Kong transformed from Mario's enemy into a great hero. Donkey Kong Country was a great sidescroller for SNES. It featured advanced graphics for the time, smooth gameplay and plenty of bananas to capture along the way.

Super Mario Bros. 3

Super Mario Bros. 2 was such a disappointment that there was no way the third game could be any worse. However, this game set the standard for ALL future Mario games. Flying raccoon suits, boos, battle ships, and throwing turtle shells were just a few of the features still used today.

Duck Hunt

Before the Wii, Xbox Kinect and other motion sensors, gamers were making waves and kills with Duck Hunt. This classic is often overlooked for Mario, but it featured some great gaming. Shoot ducks, clay and more. Get rewarded with a goofy dog that either laughs at your or cheers you on.

Mario Kart 64

Character racing games are a dime a dozen, but nothing has perfected it quite like the Mario Kart series. The peak of the series came with Mario Kart 64. Using a great selection of characters, vehicles and levels, the game featured racing at its finest.

Super Smash Bros: Melee

For gamers who thought Mario wasn't violent enough came the Super Smash Bros. series. Basically an ultimate battle royal of Nintendo characters, Super Smash Bros. really hit its stride with the Melee sequel. Non-stop action and fighting are what made this game such a huge success.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

Once Zelda went to the 3D world, the potential only increased. Ride horses, roam freely andplay musical flutes in the Nintendo 64 game. The game was so popular that it was eventually released on the Gamecube, Wii, and other systems too.

New! Super Mario Bros. Wii

Fans will never quit loving the proven formula set by the original Mario Bros. With great level designs, the ability to play with four players at once and an awesome soundtrack, New! Super Mario Bros. Wii quickly became a classic and one of the main reasons to own the console.

Mario Party Series

It's hard to pick a favorite among all the Mario Party games. The games allowed you to play as almost every character in the Mario universe. The mini-games were creative, and each new title expanded on the previous release. Once Mario Party went to the Wii, the games offered even more challenges thanks to the motion sensors.

Scribblenauts Unlimited

Having the ability to think and create anything you want is an idea that turned into a super creative game. Scribblenauts Unlimited increased the amount of things that you could create and even introduced Nintendo elements like Mario and Princess Peach.

Metroid: Prime Hunters

Nintendo is not really known for first-person-shooters. This is why Metriod Prime: Hunters stands out among their best games. Shoot your way through an alien world in this non-stop Gamecube title.

Kirby's Dream Land

Kirby truly became a big hit on the Gameboy system. Using his various powers, players could guide Kirby through magical levels. The game was so successful that it was followed by multiple sequels and different console releases.

Wii Sports

The perfect way to introduce the Wii's motion controls was with Wii Sports. Play bowling, tennis, boxing, golf and baseball using the Wii remote and nunchuk. Bowling was really accurate was one of the best features in the game.

Tetris

For many people who bought the original Gameboy, the default game was Tetris. The addictive puzzler has led the way for many more games today like Bejeweled and Candy Crush.

Pokemon: Black and White

The Pokemon series saw another great success with the release of Pokemon: Black and White. New creatures, larger worlds and crazy battles made this game a huge hit and great for the series.

25 MOST ANNOYING VIDEO GAME CHARACTERS

It’s hard to write a list of the 25 Most Annoying Video Game Characters without finding yourself flying off into an irrational rage at pixelated representation’s of 0′s and 1′s. Still, who would have known that data could be so annoying? Whether they were annoying because of their gameplay, their soundbites, their personality, or their questionable design, these are the 25 Most Annoying Video Game Characters of all time.

25

Claptrap

Borderlands/Borderlands 2

Our lowest rated of the 25 Most Annoying Video Game Characters takes this slots because he was written to be annoying. Claptrap from Borderlands is an example of being annoying for the sake of humor, and it works. His incompetency, weakness to stairs, and constantly running mouth get on your nerves, but for the sake of laughs. Though, the dubstep is pushing it a bit far.

24

Pokey

Earthbound/Mother 3

Pokey is another character that was written to be purposefully annoying, this time to build a lasting disgust that will stick with you when he becomes a villain. Pokey is selfish, disgusting, and obnoxious when he speaks, yet he is a total coward. He literally decides to help a primordial evil being destroy the world because you accidentally got him grounded.

23

Roman Bellic

Grand Theft Auto IV

No Roman, I don’t want to go bowling. No Roman, I don’t want to catch lunch with you. No Roman, I don’t want to see big American teetees. Roman, please just stop calling me for a second! I’m driving my car on the sidewalk over a prostitute while being chased by the police. Geez!

22

Red Angry Bird

Angry Birds

The Red Angry Bird always struck us as annoying. It has no abilities. It easily has the most irritating laugh. Yet, for some reason it gets to be the Angry Bird’s mascot. It’s the only Angry Bird people dread getting in their launch lineup just because of how unfathomably useless it is. If it suddenly disappeared from the face of all Angry Birds games, no one would miss him. His presence alone launches him into our list of the 25 Most Annoying Video Game Characters.

21

Squall

Final Fantasy VIII

You’ll notice that there are a lot of JRPG protagonists on this list because JRPG writers love to write the most trope laden stereotypical pieces of whiny teenage angst possible. Squall was one of those characters who was too interested in his own pain to man up for a minute and save the world, nay, the entire time stream! This is extremely obvious in Dissidia: Final Fantasy, where every whiney piece of voice acted dialogue makes you want to throw your Vita out the window.

20

Natalya Simonova

Goldeneye 64

Whose bright idea was it to make an escort mission where the person you are escorting doesn’t even follow you? The sheer amount of times this mission failed because Natalya would just run out into a group of enemies and got shot is staggering. She was easily the worst part of the best shooter of the N64 era.

19

Rikku

Final Fantasy X/X-2

Rikku was the incredibly perky Al Bhed girl from Final Fantasy X, and she really knew how to get on your nerves. She knew a lot about the plot but would keep it secret for no reason. She had access to tons of technology but would fight with dinky knives. Her voice was horrible and it just got worse in Final Fantasy X-2. Note that this is the blonde haired girl Rikku from Final Fantasy X, not the silver haired boy Riku from Kingdom Hearts, who was annoying in his own right.

18

Gill

Street Fighter III: Third Strike

So you’ve gotten to the final boss of the game who has pelted you with incredibly powerful attacks and projectiles. You’ve battled him down to the last sliver of his health and you manage to strike at just the right moment to deal the fatal blow. You’ve won the game right? WRONG! He resurrects with full health and he’s even more powerful than before… and he was already doing increased damage and taking mere slivers of health to your best combos! This is the frustration of Gill, the final boss of Street Fighter III: Third Strike in a nutshell.

17

Serah

Final Fantasy XIII/XIII-2

Serah was the plot device that Final Fantasy XIII was written around. She was a L’Cie, bound to a Fal’Cie to do…. something? She was successful in this something because she turned into crystal rather than a Ceith zombie. Then when Fang and Vanille had a big crystal pillar hug at the end of the game she wasn’t crystal anymore? Then she was a time traveling hero? Then an incarnation of the time goddess? Then she died? Way to be useful Serah.

16

Eggplant Wizard

Kid Icarus/Captain N

Eggplant Wizard was an incredibly annoying enemy from Kid Icarus because he could turn you into an eggplant and remove many of your abilities. However, he really secured his slot on this list because of his appearance in Captain N, the Game Master, where he was a dried up wrinkly purple version of black face. No one liked the Eggplant Wizard… no one.

15

Emil

Tales of Symphonia 2

JRPG writers just love to turn their main characters into wimps. In fact, Emil was so canonically wimpy that he needed a dark god in his head to do all the work for him. Every time a battle would start, Emil's badass personality would take over and wreck face, which meant every time we actually heard Emil talk over the course of the story, he was a blubbering softy who just wanted this whole adventure to stop. Cry less. Stab more. Words to live by Emil.

14

Bald Bull

Punch Out!

Bald Bull was the end of the road for many youngsters playing the original NES Punch Out! His bull charge was one of those near unavoidable attacks if you didn’t know how to avoid it. Not only that, but he would laugh at you whenever he knocked you out. What a jerk!

13

Cable

Marvel vs Capcom 2

Air Hyper Viper Beam. Air Hyper Viper Beam. Air Hyper Viper Beam. Cable was annoying because he was simply too powerful. He had a normal attack that fired an instant screen long projectile multiple times and if any of them hit, he could just super jump cancel into Air Hyper Viper Beam x3 for the win. The sound clip that went along with the Air Hyper Viper Beam still causes post-traumatic stress flashbacks to many pros in the fighting game community.

12

Vanille

Final Fantasy XIII

Another Final Fantasy XIII character? Of course! Nearly everything about that game was annoying. Vanille was a happy go lucky young youth that just so happened to be the cause of the apocalypse. It’s kind of her fault that the whole game took place, and that’s not a good thing. She would never shut up about believing in yourself yet she also wouldn’t stop blaming herself for everything that happened. Whatever babble came out of her mouth was like JRPG trope writing 101 and it make you want to smash your face into the side of a Fal’Cie, whatever that is.

11

Daisy

Super Mario Franchise

Daisy is one of those characters that eventually became annoying because of the sound clips she was saddled with. “Hi, I’m Daisy!” was something you heard over and over and over again if you played Mario Kart, Mario Party, or practically any other game with Daisy in it. Not only that, but she has no personality other than her annoying voice! She was just that princess that wasn’t Peach.

10

Karol Capel

Tales of Vesperia

Hey look, another JRPG person. Karol is another one of those characters that has a bad case of extreme optimism. He was incredibly idealistic and always talked about having his guild, Brave Vesperia, and saving the day like real RPG heroes. All the while Yuri, the real hero of the game, was sneaking off in the middle of the night to solve political problems by murdering nobles. Karol was really nothing more than a figurehead for an assassin’s guild. The only thing he was good at in the game wasmoving boxes.

9

Ashley Grahm

Resident Evil 4

“Ashley wait. No, don’t go there. Come here. Wait in the dumpster. No, don’t go ahead of me. No, there's a guy with a chainsaw down there. Wait. Stop! Come back here! Don’t go near the zombies. There are tentacles. Chainsaw! No!- ‘YOU ARE DEAD’ Goddamit, Ashley!!!” That was a dramatic re-enactment of why you don’t make half of your game an escort mission for a little girl who has no sense of self preservation.

8

Big the Cat

Sonic Adventure

Sonic the Hedgehog is a game about speed, right? It’s about shavingseconds off of your best runs as you blow through Dr. Robotnik’s bad-bots and break the sound barrier. So what better way to give you the feeling of running at mach speeds than breaking up that high velocity action with aFISHING MINIGAME. Oh, and this isn’t just any fishing mini-game. It’s a whole chapter of fishing mini-games, a whole chapter of fishing mini-games that you HAVE to complete if you want to beat the game, a whole chapter of fishing mini-games featuring a mentally challenged cat and his pet frog that he apparently is in a committed relationship with. This, is easily the stupidest character to ever grace the face of Sonic fandom, and Sonic Team created a character called Cream the Rabbit!

7

Mr. Resetti

Animal Crossing

Mr. Resetti is just a mean joke. Animal Crossing wanted you to not reset your game to avoid something bad happening without the game saving. But, it could also tell that you reset the game, which was what prompted Mr. Resetti to show up in the first place. So, if this was the case, why couldn’t it have been possible to program a save state function that captured your last game state when the game was reset? Did you really have to make a mole talk our ear off for hours at a time?

6

Tingle

The Legend of Zelda Franchise

Tingle is a person who thinks he’s a fairy. He prances around in a green leotard, flies on balloons, and generally gives you nothing useful in your journey. Yet, as much as you want to get away from Tingle, you can’t, because apparently he is a Zelda mascot now. So he will forever come back in every new Zelda game, trying to sell you things you don’t need, talking about adventures he never had, and generally looking creepy in his forest green footie pajamas.

5

Baby Mario

Super Mario franchise

Making Super Mario World 2 about Yoshi was a risky choice but not a bad idea. Giving the whole game a storybook feel was also risky but wasn’t really a bad idea. But forcing the player to put up with Baby Mario’s incessant cries every time Yoshi would get hit might have been the worst idea imaginable. Not to mention, Baby Mario has been in plenty of gameswith regular Mario, and they only ever explained it once! Either this is some sort of weird time paradox or Baby Mario is a phony.

4

Slippy Toad

Star Fox Franchise

No Slippy, I will not save your ass again! You are a highly skilled trained fighter pilot flying a space ship. What’s wrong with you? Falco is doing just fine. Peppy is doing ok and he has one foot in the grave already! Just drop a bomb. Shoot your lasers. Do a barrel roll for all we care. Just stop bugging us and be competent at your job.

3

Navi

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

I probably don’t have to explain why Navi is so annoying. But, just in case you forgot, here’s a bit of a reminder. “HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN! HEY LISTEN!” Do you think she deserves slot number 3 yet?

2

Every Pokemon Trainer In Existence

Pokemon

There’s just something infuriating about Pokemon Trainers and their attitudes toward Pokemon battles. Oops, I made eye contact with you, I guess we have to have superpowered magical cock fights now! What’s really annoying is the creepiness of it all. A three year-old kid will sick his lethal flame dog on you, and then cry when you defeat it in self-defense… and then you’ll take his money… and then you’ll walk three steps and an eighty year-old man will try and take your money. What the heck is wrong with these people!?

1

Duck Hunt Dog

Duck Hunt

Finally, the most annoying video game character of all time is no surprise to anyone, the Duck Hunt Dog. He’s the poster boy for this article and perhaps the very first video game character to ever laugh at your failure. He’s everything that is bad with sportsmanship, hunting, and dog-ownership. Maybe you were just having a bad day. Maybe your light gun was broken. It didn’t matter because as long as you missed your ducks, this little jerk would pop up out of the grass and laugh at you. Oh, and if you shot a duck, he would grab it by the neck and keep it for himself! You actually see him picking up the ducks with his paws! Hey dog, why don’t you try picking up a rifle if it’s so easy? Congrats on being the Most Annoying Video Game Character.