Yes.

Super Mario Bros.
Metroid
The Legend of Zelda

Those three games kinda suck. The three sold well because at the time they were innovative. They're looked back at fondly partly because of the amazing modern games in their respective series.

I'm not trying to take away from Mario saving the game industry or Zelda establishing the action/adventure genre. But the original games kinda blow if you didn't grow up with them.

It just makes perfect sense, why else wouldn't they release successors

Obviously this varies person to person and will depend upon what they value most in a game. Personally when I go back to games I rated highly back in the day, I end up asking myself why the f**k aren’t there more games as good/better than these toady.

Wow Kirby I am surprised! The one in a 100 thread, that actually makes sense and is not all about spam.

OT: I think they were so well rated just because on how the indusrtry used to work... some are criticised more today, some less. Doesn't mean that Super Mario Bros. 3 is any less fun if you play it today, but if you think about it, with all the competition in today's market, games like SuperMario 64 for instance wouldn't be appreciated that well because they are in steady competition to at least 10 other games, that might be as good or even better.

The thing is that all the 'Nintendo classics' were pretty much trendsetters in terms of art design and control and thus are remembered as some of the best games.

Also, as you mentioned before, back then competition was not as cruel as it is today. In the NES/SNES era there were almost no games like Mario or Zelda that could compete quality wise.

Yes, because for example Bioshock in my opinion is better than any game made by nintendo and has "only" a 96 in metacritic (it should have 98 or 99 not 100 because perfection doesn't exist).

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D

94 on Metacritic

And as DuckTales Remastered shows classic games don't get a pass when taken into the modern age.

Fixed.

Also, didn't grow up with any of them.

No. It's true that the market hadn't been molded into what it is today so a lot of them were new and different from everything around them at the time, but that's a testament to their impact on gaming; they helped to set the bar for things to come.

And not everyone who exists today grew up playing games or has had all of the experiences we have. Show someone who is new to gaming (be it a kid or just someone who's never tried it before) a very difficult or complicated game of today compared to a game like Space Invaders, Pac Man, Tetris or Super Mario Bros. Many of Nintendo's classics were some of the great "gateway" games that got people interested, and many of them still play better today than a lot of the current games.

To present anecdotal evidence, in an issue of EGM magazine a few years ago they asked a group of pre-teen kids to play some old classics and give their opinions on them. One kid, who was a huge fan of Wind Waker and other "modern" games, got to try the original NES Zelda for the first time and was drawn in instantly. One of the editors asked, "What would you say if we told you we like this better than Wind Waker?" Despite the simplistic 8-bit graphics and sound, the kid actually agreed.

Resi one vs resi 6? Lol if anything games today are worse. Technically better but most games bore me to sleep these days. Its like the same 10 games re-skinned over and over.

No.

Todays game sure are

And that include all developers... way way to many free passes these days.