The SNES and you, 25 years of SUPER POWER!

[mas]

I remember the angry video nerd showed that snes in ice block ad on one of his episodes I think Nintendo power episode and they say the illusion of the camera and they didn't turn an snes into an ice block

[Sarge]

I remember something I read as well stating they didn't actually freeze an SNES. Just don't remember where.

[Tanooki]

Ugh more terrible SNES ads.

I know it's bad, but it wasn't just the fart jokes with the cloud or the pile of garbage, but the way they wrote up and the imagery used for Earthbound it turned me off. Nintendo took that fart joke too far with people cutting up their EB guides to get out the stank card in the back so they could get an equally rotten Mach Pizza air (un)freshener. I have a pristine guide if it wasn't for that one card carefully cut out of it.

Play it Loud turned me almost equally off, I wouldn't touch any of those stupid other colors or things really pushed on that label it was just that mentally offensive/unstimulating I wanted nothing to do with it.

I forgot about the Super Metroid one, makes no sense at all. I thought the ice cube was cool actually but didn't think it was in there (it wasn't I'm sure.) The others I remember them, never was much any those style of games but they were done nicely enough I'd look at the pictures and read about it which was the point.

[BoneSnapDeez]

I have most Nintendo Powers from the SNES era. This thread makes me want to dig them out. Maybe I can find that blurb about The 7th Saga II.

Speaking of RPGs, remember the Epic Center feature in the magazine? They used to tease us so bad. I remember the Star Ocean feature. "This shit's not coming out in North America but let's show y'all some specs and screenshots anyway lololololol."

[Ziggy]

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.

Shadows of the Empire pissed me off. I put a lot of hours into beating that game, and when I finally did, the ending was (ending spoiler below)...

Play on a higher difficulty to find out if Dash Rendar lives or dies!

I bought Shadows of the Empire on GoG though, so I've been meaning to replay it there.

The absolute WORST experience I ever had though was Castlevania 64. Don't ever bother playing that game on the easy setting. If you do, the game will cut out mid level on you. Some level midway through the game, midway through the level, you go up and elevator and the screen just goes black. You get a message "play the game on a higher difficulty" which means you have to START A NEW GAME FROM THE BEGINNING! How much of a bastard do you have to be to pull some shit like that?

[Exhuminator]

Maybe I can find that blurb about The 7th Saga II.

Were they talking about this?:

You get a message "play the game on a higher difficulty" which means you have to START A NEW GAME FROM THE BEGINNING! How much of a bastard do you have to be to pull some shit like that?

If you've never beaten Ghosts 'n Goblins or Ghouls 'n Ghosts, you probably should stay away from those.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Yeah we were teased with Mystic Ark localization.

[Tanooki]

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.

Shadows of the Empire pissed me off. I put a lot of hours into beating that game, and when I finally did, the ending was (ending spoiler below)...

Play on a higher difficulty to find out if Dash Rendar lives or dies!

I bought Shadows of the Empire on GoG though, so I've been meaning to replay it there.

The absolute WORST experience I ever had though was Castlevania 64. Don't ever bother playing that game on the easy setting. If you do, the game will cut out mid level on you. Some level midway through the game, midway through the level, you go up and elevator and the screen just goes black. You get a message "play the game on a higher difficulty" which means you have to START A NEW GAME FROM THE BEGINNING! How much of a bastard do you have to be to pull some shit like that?

Shit dude that infuriated me so much I forgot about it. I just remember enjoying the ride so I kept playing it anyway and not on hard to as a middle finger and then when GoG dropped it, I went for it too. FUCK Castlevania 64. Easy mode doesn't even make it playable let alone medium it's broken. Do you know the story behind that one? EGM had a story in the day, interview with Konami about the game. Very long story made brief. Japanese bean counting stock holders/board members were short of making their goal. They forced a 40% finished game together with chewing gum and duct tape, called it Castlevania 64 loaded with a shit ton of bugs. 10mo later Legacy of Darkness arrived, it's the complete game and bugs removed.

I was furious over that, I've owned it, own the finished game still. The hit detection (gears room the worst) is random if you die walking required moving paths. Camera spins almost every time dangling from an edge(nudging you to death), jump physics aren't the same twice so jumps to small square death pit platforms are a lucky bitch to pass, frame rate horrid to where it causes problems too. They say Superman 64 is the worst as far as boring and buggy hot mess on the system, Castlevania 64 is it's ugly little brother.

That whole start again on another level (medium) games have done a lot since that era, and they never warn you. There's worse, games with invisible kill clocks to the failed ending which they don't tell you until the end of the game. Winback N64(PS2 too) does this. You have to clear 1/2 the game in under 2 hours, or you lose but that's not known until the end as it changes no mechanic in the game. You just get the failed mission ending scene where stuff goes horribly wrong as a middle finger for your wasted efforts.

[Ziggy]

Yeah, I got CV64 for like $5 in a K-Mart when it was on clearance. I wasn't too pissed with that price. If I would have rented the game first, I don't think I ever would have bought a copy. After replaying it on medium I was so fed up, but I wanted to beat it so I used some GameShark codes. I have Legacy of Darkness, and I want to play through it one day.

If you've never beaten Ghosts 'n Goblins or Ghouls 'n Ghosts, you probably should stay away from those.

Oh, I know the deal with those games.

Having played too much Mario and Sonic, I don't think I ever would have enjoyed Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts. But, I like to think I have a little more patience now that I'm an adult (or at least as close to an adult as I ever will be). I've been thinking more and more about finally giving it a shot.

[Ack]

I don't care what anyone says, Shadowrun advertising is always good.

Even when it's like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GPGQoR6f6w

You know what? ESPECIALLY when it's like that.