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That's a really solid take on the NES library! When you strip away third-party hits like *Castlevania* or *TMNT*, Nintendo's first-party output in that middle era feels surprisingly lean. They really relied on quality over quantity, letting *Mario* and *Zelda* carry the heavy lifting while third parties filled the gaps. It's wild to realize how much of our nostalgia for peak NES actually belongs to Capcom, Konami, and Tecmo rather than Nintendo themselves! Capcom