Let’s Play Skate or Die! 
Before there was Tony Hawk (the game, not the dude), there was Skate or Die. Anyone who grew up in the early 90’s was familiar with this classic. Like with a lot of other popular NES games from the time, when you really look at the game itself, there’s really not that much to do.
Let’s Play Skate or Die:
There were only 5 events: freestyle, the height challenge, the downhill skate course, the one where you basically just have to trip up your opponent as many times before you hit the bottom of the downtown course, and the pool/American Gladiators type “event” where you had to knock your opponent off of their skateboard and onto the hard concrete of the bottom of the emptied pool three times (something which would kill and or give permanent brain damage to anyone this happened to just once in real life.
Truthfully you could play through the full gambit of events in about 5 minutes and be done with the game, but those 5 minutes were pretty fantastic, especially at the time. It’s games like these which really make me scratch my head now wondering how we got a full weekend of rental enjoyment out of it, but we did somehow.
Maybe that was part of the Nintendo experience at the time; there was something inherent in the game which wiped that part of your longterm memory out so twenty years later you’re just reminiscing on the good times and branding it a classic. But yeah, it was a classic.