First the housekeeping, because I want to get that out of the way. Nintendo just doesn’t have records that I can find about the US releases of games. Or maybe it’s someone on our side of the deal because I’m not the only person having this issue.
What I do have is a list of games that at least gets it down to the month and year. I was going to try using Wikipedia to get some exact dates, but they can’t even decide if Super Mario Bros. was released in 1985 or 1986 in the US. Nintendo says 1985. With that in mind, I’m going to just randomize the list in each month unless I have a reason to do otherwise. We’re actually going to get one of those this month. But let’s take a general look at things first.
It’s been about 8 months since the last US release. 8 months of playing these games and shooting stuff with the light gun and not having new stuff to bug parents about. Then we get 8 games relatively all at once. These games are
- Balloon Fight
- Donkey Kong
- Donkey Kong 3
- Donkey Kong Jr.
- Gumshoe
- Mario Brothers
- Popeye
- Urban Champion
As for the order, I have no idea what it will be except that Donkey Kong will happen before Donkey Kong Jr. which will happen before Donkey Kong 3. Other than that, it’s up to the randomizer.
