The importance of the NES and several of its games cannot be overstated, however I feel like most of its current reputation and what fuels its diehard collectorism is nostalgia. I was born during the early years of the NES and was at least old enough to remember it when I was very young, but I never owned one until the late 90s after buying one at a garage sale along with some games. So as someone who has no nostalgia for it, I agree that various well known games on the console are fairly cheap, have poor gameplay, or some other flaw that many might give a pass due to their nostalgia goggles. I have my own nostalgia goggles that taint my opinions of various games and consoles as well though. For example I adore the N64 and the majority of its library, which is crazy talk to many, ironically a lot of NES/SNES diehards. This bias and sentimentality is something all retro video game collectors have, some of us just have them for different consoles. With that said, most of the must have NES games I think are okay to amazing. There are a handful that I think are broken pieces of crap, but I'd have a hard time picking out 10 of these games from a list of top 100 NES games. The NES is not my favorite Nintendo console, in fact it's probably one of my least favorite, but it's still a great console with a lot of great games and I certainly respect the importance of the NES to video gaming as a whole.