Tetris Classic
Best Nintendo Entertainment System puzzle games
The Matrix has 73 puzzle games on file for the Nintendo Entertainment System, released between 1983–1994. 41 of them support multiplayer. They're ranked below by legacy score, so the games that shaped the genre on the NES come first, with lesser-known picks further down.
Puzzle games challenge pattern recognition, planning and quick thinking, from falling-block games to single-screen logic puzzles.
Typical commitment: quick session (under an hour, or endless arcade fun). Tip: Puzzle games are perfect for short sessions and often have endless or score-attack modes, so they never really end.
Dr. Mario Classic
Yoshi's Cookie Classic
Clu Clu Land Classic
Yoshi Classic
Wario's Woods Classic
Adventures of Lolo Classic
Devil World Classic
Adventures of Lolo 2 Classic
Block Hole Classic
Gyromite Classic
Lemmings Classic
Binary Land Classic
Dig Dug II Deep cut
Joshua & the Battle of Jericho Deep cut
Pipe Mania Deep cut
Bubble Bath Babes Deep cut
Crayon Shin-Chan: Ora to Poi Poi Deep cut
Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum Deep cut
Flappy Deep cut
Klax Deep cut
Moai-kun Deep cut
Puyo Puyo Deep cut
Puzznic Deep cut
Rampart Deep cut
Solomon's Key Deep cut
Bomberman Deep cut
Fun House Deep cut
Gorby no Pipeline Daisakusen Deep cut
Noah's Ark Deep cut
Parallel World Deep cut
Short Order / Eggsplode! Deep cut
Solomon's Key 2 Deep cut
More NES puzzle games
- The Great Waldo Search (1992)
- Where's Waldo? (1991)
- Orb-3D (1990)
- Crackout (1991)
- Shockwave (1991)
- Spot: The Video Game (1990)
- Egypt (1991)
- Tetris 2 + Bombliss (1991)
- Where in Time Is Carmen Sandiego? (1991)
- Bible Buffet (1993)
- Jeopardy! (1988)
- Dig Dug II: Trouble in Paradise (1989)
- Digger T. Rock: The Legend of the Lost City (1990)