Well, this is where it all began. This is where Castlevania, Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Final Fantasy all kicked off.
First Im going to talk about the games. Although many are now classics, NES is known to be plagued by bad games. Companies like LJN messed up, but good games keep this console a legendary one.
Game Library: Accepted
Graphics. I know everything was kicking off but these really suck, especially in some particular games. 8-bit is definitly not good, and 16-bit is when it started being acceptable.
Graphics: Denied
Sound: Well, sometimes this can be a disgrace but really, I have to admit, some 8-bit tunes are actually quite catchy.
Sound: Accepted
Multiplayer: Well, you can't expect online but as far as I know, there are only a handful of games that you can play with a pal simultaniously. Everything else you just take turns. Oh yeah, and only 2 controller ports. But that's ok.
Multiplayer: Denied
As I said this is where it all began, and there are no "NES haters". This is an exellent console in many ways, despite its faults.
Console: Accepted
Next time: I'll review the first handheld, the Gameboy!
Multiplayer: The NES had limited online in Japan and areas of the USA. In Japan, one could download updates to games onto disk format. In the USA, one could trade stocks and check news.
I'm just curious how old everyone is here to be criticizing the NES.
Remember that it came out in 1985 and blew away everything else. At this time, Atari games had blips and bleeps for sound and huge pixels for graphics. The NES brought with it 2D scrolling and even some pseudo 3D racing games. It supported 4 channel audio, lightgun, dance/running pad, and more.
Sure, there were competitors, but the NES had an 85% market share for a reason. No console has topped that rate since that point.
I cant relate to your opinion of the NES Im sorry I dont agree its way better than you make it sound, The reason your saying the graphics are awful is because you seen Modern consoles.