D-Pad Hero

The D-Pad Hero game for NES, is a musical arcade game developed in 2009 specifically for the NES platform. The game gained popularity, leading to the release of its second installment D-Pad Hero 2.

The gameplay of D-Pad Hero works on the player's reaction speed. At the beginning of the game, you can choose one of four popular artists, and then the melody from their song plays, and in time with the notes, icons that represent certain buttons on the joystick drop from the top of the screen. At the moment when the icon coincides with a button, flying past it, you need to have time to press that button or combination. A correct hit results in bonus points, while a miss results in bonus points.

While D-Pad Hero was released very late in the game's history, when the NES era was already over, it was well received and branched out into a sequel in the series. D-Pad Hero requires a lot of attention and button-pressing precision, it is not simple, but it is not complicated either, so it is recommended for everyone to watch, especially for fans of all kinds of musical arcades.