10 Best NES Intros

The 10 Best NES Intros start off brutal with Marion getting socked in the stomach.

Despite how cartoon-like it was, the Battletoads' intro reflected many of the graphical advances that occurred in the NES' lifetime.

From its amazing title screen music to its scenes of Strider Hiryu running, the introduction to Strider was quite impressive.

Robocop's intro music matched the gritty, but techno-y, tone of its classic source material. And its breakdown of Murphy's specs left the fans giddy over how awesome cyborgs really are.

The title screen says it all: you're in for an adventure, some girl split a triangle into eight pieces, and you better collect all those glowing icons along the way (this was of course, before we were familiar with the traditional Zelda plot).

The silence of Super Mario 3's chaotic intro helped segue into the amazing realization of how different it was from the first two titles. Once you hit start and reached the first world map, you're in for a treat, which is why it's on our list of the 10 Best NES Intros.

The badass riff that started it all. Unless you knew the code, you'd be seeing that screen again in just a few minutes.

The first turtles game may have made no sense and had thousands of cheap deaths throughout it, but its intro left us wide-eyed at how it captured the essence of our favorite heroes in a half shell.

Words cannot express how awesome the original Ninja Gaiden's intro is. There's a murder plot, there's action, and there's ninjas fighting to the death.

What can we say? Mega Man 2 is at the top of our 10 Best NES Intros list because of the rise. What do we mean by the rise? Easy. The camera's rise to the top of the tower, the melody's slow rise into the greatest 8-bit soundtrack of all time, and the rising excitement we felt when we saw Mega Man's helmet up and teleport away as we hit start.