Some games have risen above the rest due to how fun they are to play, though. So dust off your old gray box or download an emulation kit – the new wave of NES game bliss is here and aims to please.

They're present in all the NES Black Box games, for example, but in 1987, Nintendo transitioned into three screw cartridges to cut costs. As such, games within that 1987 time window have both ...