AznKhmerBoi wrote:not much of a collection here, but with limited amt of games i played them over and over again. Even the worst of games still kept me entertained.
This is what I kinda miss about being young and having NO money to buy games. You only had a few, and you played the hell out of them. Now that I'm an adult, and I have things like eBay, I can buy an endless amount of SNES games. It kinda takes away from playing them though.
I had a Genesis when this system was current, so my list of faves is pretty small. I'd count Chrono Trigger, Mario World 1&2, Link to the Past, Killer Instinct, and Donkey Kong Country as the ones I've played the most over the years.
Very nice article. It brought back to that time. I forget what things were like pre-internet sometimes.
darth_blunted wrote:#3. Final Fight It was another game I would play co-op with my brother. I love the gameplay of this one, it's simple button mashing at it's finest! Besides who doesn't like Mike Haggar? What... You don't? Don't make me 360 pile drive you!
How? SNES Final Fight was only a 1-player game... Maybe you're thinking of Final Fight 2, TMNT IV, or one of the other beat 'em ups?
AznKhmerBoi wrote:not much of a collection here, but with limited amt of games i played them over and over again. Even the worst of games still kept me entertained.
This is what I kinda miss about being young and having NO money to buy games. You only had a few, and you played the hell out of them. Now that I'm an adult, and I have things like eBay, I can buy an endless amount of SNES games. It kinda takes away from playing them though.
You're so right dude. Back then if a game made me grind to get through, I'd do it, as I had the time and damn it that game was expensive. Now if a game makes me waste time grinding or other pointless tedious stuff I'll likely just stop playing it and move on.
I also remember having to scrape money together to get a new game coming out and if that meant selling off games too, yeah, I did that too. I even went 50/50 on some game purchases with friends. The deal was if either of us got tired of it we'd buy the other one out of their part or sell it and split the money if neither of us wanted it. Yeah it really didn't work well but being young you really try hard to get the ones you want to play.
I have some great super nintendo memories dating back to first grade (1993) My dad bought me the console and wwf super wrestlemania. I was obsessed with wrestling at the time, so I loved it. I remember less than a year later though renting royal rumble and wanting that game much more. I didn't own very many games but I went to a few local video stores and would rent games almost weekly. The games I had growing up were wwf wrestlemania, GP-1 racing, George Foreman boxing, Madden 96, and Doom. That was my choice of games for years aside from renting them. From about 93 to 99 when I got my nintendo 64. A friend gave me donkey kong country 2 back in 98 and I played the hell out of it. My best friend had a sega and a super nintendo so I definitely got my sonic time growing up. I would borrow games from time to time, I'm bummed my console didn't come with all stars or SMW I now own 150+ super nintendo games and it is by far still my favorite console.
I just finished modifying my original SNES for digital audio. When I say original I not only mean the model 1, but the original SNES I owned. This was the first brand new game system I ever owned. I vividly remember that Christmas morning. I was completely shocked because my parents made me think we were too poor to own a new game system. We only owned an NES before that, and only for a few months. A neighbor had sold it to me for $5 because he got a SNES. The first game I ever remember playing was Super Mario World on his Super Nintendo. It was the SNES bundled with Super Mario World and All Stars. I didn't have very many games for it throughout its lifetime looking back.
The first game I listened to after modifying it was Yoshi's Island. I literally shed a tear when the opening theme started, because it immediately took me back to when I was kid. I think it might have been the game I spent the most time playing. The Super Nintendo is the best game system period.
Early on in my childhood, Genesis was easily my favorite console. I was a huge Sonic fan, playing the Sonic 1 through S&K over and over again among other games. It wasn't until I was a little bit older and acquired a number of games that sealed the SNES as my favorite: Contra III, Super Metroid, Super Castlevania IV, Donkey Kong Country, Link to the Past, Secret of Mana, and Final Fantasy II. After FFII, I never, ever turned back.
darth_blunted wrote:#3. Final Fight It was another game I would play co-op with my brother. I love the gameplay of this one, it's simple button mashing at it's finest! Besides who doesn't like Mike Haggar? What... You don't? Don't make me 360 pile drive you!
How? SNES Final Fight was only a 1-player game... Maybe you're thinking of Final Fight 2, TMNT IV, or one of the other beat 'em ups?
darth_blunted wrote:#3. Final Fight It was another game I would play co-op with my brother. I love the gameplay of this one, it's simple button mashing at it's finest! Besides who doesn't like Mike Haggar? What... You don't? Don't make me 360 pile drive you!
How? SNES Final Fight was only a 1-player game... Maybe you're thinking of Final Fight 2, TMNT IV, or one of the other beat 'em ups?
Saturday Night Slam Masters??
Actually, a 360 driver might be Final Fight 3.
My scheduling skills have died of dysentery; I hope to visit at least on a monthly basis. Still, don't forget to tip your waitress.
being a kid at the time I only owned a genesis and couldn't afford an snes too so most of my memories stem from going to friends' houses and playing multiplayer snes games.
Turtles in Time, Joe & Mac, Contra III, Street Fighter II Turbo and Mortal Kombat II. Easily the most fun I had was 4-player Super Bomberman.
having gone back recently and played some of the essential single player snes games...have to admit I still have a hard time getting into most of them. Did like Chrono Trigger enough to get to the last boss but then never beat it and kind of forgot about it. Got halfway through link to the past but because I had already played and beaten link's awakening on gameboy as a kid, I found the superior snes game was a too familiar play experience to keep me going.
great system though. 16-bit era in general was such a magical time. For me it was the first generation where graphics and sound were good enough to be recognizable, where playing something like earthworm jim 2 felt like you were playing a tv cartoon and listening to beethoven music. Not that the nes' abstract pixels and beeps didn't have their own charm. It's too bad 2d was pushed aside so quickly by 3d the following generation because I think 2d still had a lot of potential to mine.
I even went 50/50 on some game purchases with friends. The deal was if either of us got tired of it we'd buy the other one out of their part or sell it and split the money if neither of us wanted it. Yeah it really didn't work well but being young you really try hard to get the ones you want to play.
