The SNES and you, 25 years of SUPER POWER!

[mas]

All this talk about the super has made me want to jump on the snes and start playing away but gotta take care of family first due to the situations. Still might pay some spiderman venom.

[Tanooki]

Ziggy gets a faux internet chocolate chip cookie for that write up. I didn't even know about a lost world unless it was in some manual so I wouldn't have even cared. Even back then I found as a teen/early 20s the collect-a-pile-o-crap-a-thon stuff aggravating and annoying, insulting too when it amounted to getting a halfass ending. If it amounts to just a fun extra, much like unlocked pictures or whatever from a menu some games do, I am cool with that as I just don't care. It's when you commit 10 hours or 100 hours to a game, and then it spits in your face and goes HAH you didn't do ... here's the crap ending. I won't touch a game like that anymore.

DKC2, I was under the impression the coins were required and in DKC3 they were not. Even with that off the table I still preferred the stage design and content of the final title. DKC2 as always the black sheep game to me.

I really do need to go get back DKC3, it was along with 2 (which I found maybe year ago for like $5 if that at a flea market bench) was one of the mighty Pin-Bot machine sacrifices. Also after seeing that comment about the unique game Prince of Persia exclusively is on SNES, very tempted.


I'm in with that comment above too, thread and anniversary on its own has me more interested again, but time is kicking my ass. So much crap I have unfinished makes it hard to start yet another thing. I feel like I need to just say enough is enough, even if I've only had something weeks or months, and sell off some serious stuff to get rid of the pile I have no chance of destroying. Sadly this would mean dumping my entire Sega setup to chip away at around 70 games or so and 2 systems out of the way.

[Exhuminator]

Got some more ads for you folks...

Want to know why Earthbound didn't do so hot when it was released stateside? Check out this derpy assed ad campaign:

Might have do to the ol' Ctrl+ zoom to read these:





Yes Nintendo, flatulence humor WILL make me buy your new RPG.

"Play it Loud" was never a great idea, but look what they did to poor Kirby:

How can we sell Super Metroid? I dunno, lamb chop references? Ok:

This poor SNES died for this stupid ad:

Here's some Ack & Bone might enjoy:

[BoneSnapDeez]

There were actually two different SNES/SF ports of Might & Magic II developed. That one pictured stayed in Europe, the North American release was cancelled. There's also a Japan-only port by Starcraft.

Those ads are rad, man.

[fastbilly1]

There's also a Japan-only port by Starcraft.

Try again?

Starcraft was on the 64.

[J T]

Penetrate the gates of Might & Magic II?

That's uncomfortably sexual.

[Sarge]

Hey, Earthbound was released during some of the gross-out era, what with stuff like Boogerman existing. Some of those ads are pretty dopey, though.

I remember one of my issues of Nintendo Power having the smell stickers for Earthbound. Kinda interesting, in its own way. I'm not sure there were many ways they could have effectively marketed the game at the time, though. RPGs were already low on the totem pole, and compared to something epic-looking like Final Fantasy, it just looked...

...well, it looked kinda dopey. And it kinda is. But in a good way!

[BoneSnapDeez]

There's also a Japan-only port by Starcraft.

Try again?

Starcraft was on the 64.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/company/78855-starcraft

[Exhuminator]

what with stuff like Boogerman existing

Even as a kid I didn't understand the appeal of that one... like who wants this?

[fastbilly1]

There's also a Japan-only port by Starcraft.

Try again?

Starcraft was on the 64.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/company/78855-starcraft

Gotcha, misread. I was unaware of the COMPANY named Starcraft. I thought you were referring to the game.