Lists

7 games

Best of the Famicom Disk System

Japan's rewritable floppy add-on, where games could save and a shop kiosk could write a new one onto your disk.

  1. The Legend of Zelda

    1986 · NES · Famicom · Famicom Disk System

    Launched on disk in 1986 as The Hyrule Fantasy, with saves the cartridge couldn't do yet.

  2. Metroid

    1986 · NES · Famicom Disk System

    The disk version saves your game and has an extra sound channel.

  3. Super Mario Bros. 2

    1986 · Famicom Disk System

    The Japanese sequel: poison mushrooms and wind. The West called it The Lost Levels.

  4. Castlevania

    1986 · NES · Famicom · Famicom Disk System

    Akumajō Dracula, first released on disk.

  5. Kid Icarus

    1986 · NES · Famicom Disk System

    Hikari Shinwa: Palutena no Kagami, a platformer with shops and a climb to the sky.

  6. Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

    1987 · NES · Famicom Disk System

    Link no Bōken, first released on disk.

  7. Famicom Tantei Club: Kieta Kōkeisha - Zenpen

    1988 · Famicom Disk System

    Part one of Nintendo's two-disk murder mystery, The Missing Heir. Part two came out a month later.