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 400 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 | 7,626 of 262,144 bytes (3%) | 148 | 24 | 0 |
| Blades of Steel (USA) | UxROM | 11,184 of 131,072 bytes (9%) | 221 | 28 | 13 |
| Blaster Master (USA) | MMC1 | 9,058 of 131,072 bytes (7%) | 194 | 21 | 0 |
| Defender II (USA) | NROM | 8,161 of 16,384 bytes (50%) | 133 | 28 | 0 |
| Double Dribble (USA) (Rev 1) | UxROM | 15,960 of 131,072 bytes (12%) | 154 | 19 | 7 |
| Fester's Quest (USA) | MMC1 | 5,843 of 131,072 bytes (4%) | 36 | 16 | 0 |
| Goonies II, The (USA) | UxROM | 2,998 of 131,072 bytes (2%) | 61 | 23 | 3 |
| Legend of Zelda, The (USA) (Rev 1) | MMC1 | 4,548 of 131,072 bytes (3%) | 83 | 25 | 6 |
| Metroid (USA) | MMC1 | 6,967 of 131,072 bytes (5%) | 193 | 29 | 4 |
| Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!! (Japan, USA) (En) | MMC2 | 16,633 of 131,072 bytes (13%) | 181 | 51 | 6 |
| Ninja Gaiden (USA) | MMC1 | 8,601 of 131,072 bytes (7%) | 123 | 34 | 2 |
| Paperboy (USA) | CNROM | 4,799 of 32,768 bytes (15%) | 138 | 16 | 0 |
| Q-bert (USA) | CNROM | 4,409 of 32,768 bytes (13%) | 123 | 18 | 9 |
| Super Mario Bros. + Duck Hunt (USA) | GxROM | 11,910 of 65,536 bytes (18%) | 247 | 46 | 13 |
| Super Mario Bros. 2 (USA) (Rev 1) | MMC3 | 9,665 of 131,072 bytes (7%) | 182 | 27 | 9 |
| Super Mario Bros. 3 (USA) (Rev 1) | MMC3 | 19,069 of 262,144 bytes (7%) | 242 | 60 | 0 |
| Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (USA) | MMC1 | 14,264 of 131,072 bytes (11%) | 293 | 42 | 11 |
| Tetris (USA) | MMC1 | 5,371 of 32,768 bytes (16%) | 111 | 27 | 4 |
| Zelda II - The Adventure of Link (USA) | MMC1 | 3,334 of 131,072 bytes (3%) | 70 | 23 | 5 |