Back in the early 90's the local video library chain i.e Video Ezy rented out NES titles for $5AUD for 3 Days. New-Releases or SNES titles may have attracted a higher premium but I don't recall because back then it was all about the NES!
The titles I clearly remember are Top Gun (our first rental and we couldn't get the landing..), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles + TMNT II The Arcade Game (<3), Batman, Double Dragon II, Super Mario Bros 2 + 3, The Legend of Zelda, Operation Wolf, Captain Skyhawk, Golf, Hyper Soccer (an regional exclusive title), The Flintstones (Rescue of Dino + Hoppy ;) ) and North & South to name a few. I feel I'll discuss some of these gems again in more detail later on.
One particular time a neighbour of ours asked that we return a game for them because they were unable to and it still had a days credit on it allowing us to enjoy it before it was expected to be back.. This game was Air Fortress and we bought it as an ex-rental years later. It is a great NES title and to think it is unlikely that we would have ever had played this game (at least on original hardware) if not for these circumstances. This same individual sold his copy of Kung Fu to us - One of my all time favourite games, period.
Speaking of other people with the same Nintendo NES console back when it was becoming an aged system...what a great pool of people to have established game libraries including titles that they would have stopped playing awhile ago. These types of generous individuals loaned us games on a number of occasions and trust me for someone otherwise limited to a handful for repetitive games, I was VERY GRATEFUL!
Where to start? These games were from all kinds of people and the variety was very much welcomed. I can recall Double Dribble, Double Dragon 3, Ninja Gaiden, Total Recall, 'Probotector' , Faxanadu and some suspicious 'piggyback' multicarts.
