The games
Every cartridge on our shelf has been through the same four steps. Each line is one game: how much of its program the crawl ran, how many routines it entered, how many pattern names the rules put on them, and how many jump tables it wrote down. Pick a game for its page.
A crawl of 6,400, 8,000 steps from power-on does not get far into a big game. These numbers say how far it got, not how big the game is.
| game | board | program run | routines | names | tables |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Battle Chess (USA) | MMC1 | 9,181 of 262,144 bytes (4%) | 186 | 28 | 1 |
| Blades of Steel (USA) | UxROM | 31,083 of 131,072 bytes (24%) | 453 | 51 | 30 |
| Blaster Master (USA) | MMC1 | 13,581 of 131,072 bytes (10%) | 280 | 22 | 1 |
| Defender II (USA) | NROM | 9,444 of 16,384 bytes (58%) | 136 | 30 | 0 |
| Double Dribble (USA) (Rev 1) | UxROM | 31,512 of 131,072 bytes (24%) | 279 | 37 | 8 |
| Fester's Quest (USA) | MMC1 | 13,207 of 131,072 bytes (10%) | 82 | 21 | 2 |
| Goonies II, The (USA) | UxROM | 17,460 of 131,072 bytes (13%) | 345 | 43 | 21 |
| Legend of Zelda, The (USA) (Rev 1) | MMC1 | 14,209 of 131,072 bytes (11%) | 304 | 49 | 16 |
| Metroid (USA) | MMC1 | 15,464 of 131,072 bytes (12%) | 459 | 52 | 14 |
| Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (Japan, USA) (En) | MMC2 | 25,519 of 131,072 bytes (19%) | 319 | 68 | 10 |
| Ninja Gaiden (USA) | MMC1 | 12,425 of 131,072 bytes (9%) | 177 | 48 | 8 |
| Paperboy (USA) | CNROM | 9,018 of 32,768 bytes (28%) | 276 | 26 | 1 |
| Q-bert (USA) | CNROM | 8,718 of 32,768 bytes (27%) | 227 | 22 | 19 |
| Super Mario Bros. + Duck Hunt (USA) | GxROM | 18,801 of 65,536 bytes (29%) | 360 | 65 | 17 |
| Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) (Rev 1) | MMC3 | 19,286 of 131,072 bytes (15%) | 253 | 36 | 13 |
| Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA) (Rev 1) | MMC3 | 26,553 of 262,144 bytes (10%) | 264 | 67 | 23 |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (USA) | MMC1 | 17,970 of 131,072 bytes (14%) | 372 | 58 | 19 |
| Tetris (USA) | MMC1 | 6,318 of 32,768 bytes (19%) | 121 | 27 | 5 |
| Zelda II - The Adventure of Link (USA) | MMC1 | 12,967 of 131,072 bytes (10%) | 246 | 49 | 16 |