SUPER NINTENDO 25 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

[crazydean]

Lots of nostalgia for me. This was my first system. I was about 6 when I got it in 1994, and it came bundled with Donkey Kong Country. There are still a lot of games I want to play on it, but since a lot of them are RPGs, I may do one a year.

For me, the SNES is the gold standard. It's what I compare every 2D system to. It will always be better than the Genesis to me.

[Gentlegamer]

Happy B-Day, SNES!

I bought a SNES on 'launch day' in late August 1991 from TRU, the first and only console I've ever had the day of release.

There was a cool mom and pop rental place that had imported SFCs for the year prior, so I had already had my mind blown by Super Mario World, F-Zero, and even Final Fight.

The funny thing is, before SFC was announced, I was drifting towards becoming a huge FEKA Genesis wanna-be fan, and I pined for that system.

The launch window for SNES was possibly the best of any system ever, between launch and Christmas the following games came out:

Super Mario World
ActRaiser
Sim City
F-Zero
UN Squadron
Super Castlevania IV
Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Final Fantasy II (IV)

Now you're playing with power, SUPER POWER!

[seieienbu]

I didn't get a SNES at release.  I picked one up about a year and a half later.  What I do remember at release is actually a bit Turbo related.  Just after the SNES launched, the Dillards in the mall of my small hometown of College Station TX got rid of their Turbografx display unit and put a SNES on the TV with Final Fight.

[Medic_wheat]

I blame Gamesack for my purches of this game.

[Groover]

I remember renting the system when it first came out confirming that I needed to save up and buy it. I did just that with my babysitting money and lawn mowing money. I already had a Genesis for the last year but Super Mario Bros. 4: Super Mario World was enough.

[TR0N]

I still think this is funny parents in the 90's thinking the snes was a rip off.

[esteban]

The day I fell in love with SNES...

 

[Necromancer]

That first video shows a different title screen for SMW with the subtitle of Super Mario Bros. 4.  Neat.

[Lost Monkey]

That first video shows a different title screen for SMW with the subtitle of Super Mario Bros. 4.  Neat.

Good catch!

[Digi.k]

around that time of the japanese launch I traded in my pc engine and games for this system.

Super Mario World 4, F-zero, Super Castlevania IV,Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Actraiser and Street Fighter II, Super Adventure Island

Then those later games kept me from enjoying any Megadrive/Genesis games until much later on; Legend of the Mystical Ninja, Contra Spirits, Ganbare Goeman 2, Final Fantasy 6 aka III, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Super Puyo Puyo, Parodius Da! Super Street Fighter II/Hyper Fighting, Mario Kart, Star Fox, Stunt Race FX, Super Metroid.
 

[crazydean]

The day I fell in love with SNES...

 

This is the first time I've heard of this game, so I fired it up on le everdrive. Wow, I thought I was going to vomit. The screen shakes when you move quickly or change directions, and there doesn't seem to be any purpose for being in the level. I still don't know what the goal was. Also, there is a button that makes you explode...which doesn't really do anything.

[esteban]

The day I fell in love with SNES...

 

This is the first time I've heard of this game, so I fired it up on le everdrive. Wow, I thought I was going to vomit. The screen shakes when you move quickly or change directions, and there doesn't seem to be any purpose for being in the level. I still don't know what the goal was. Also, there is a button that makes you explode...which doesn't really do anything.

I had never heard of that game back when I was playing SNES in early 90's... I found out about it because it was a running gag with an old TG-16 forum from 15 years ago (critiquing the gratuitous use of "Mode 7" effects was a common tactic by FEKA agents at the turn of the century).

To be honest, I thought folks were making stuff up when they described this game in the message boards.

THEN I PLAYED IT

Dear Lord, save us both: the developers of that game are going to Hell for defiling nature. AND WE ARE GUILTY, by extension, for dabbling in the UNHOLY TRINITY of Mohawk, Headphone Jack and Beelzebub.

I will see you in Hell, comrade.

[KPat]

Happy belated birthday beloved SNES. What can be said that hasn't already been said.  Those launch titles, the spectacular third party support.  Still my most played system to date, and recently have been discovering the library of SFC only releases, from Gokujiu Parodious to Zenki, Maccross Scrambled Valkerie to The Great Battle series.  16 bit Nintendo, the gift that keeps on giving.

[TR0N]

Retronauts just put out there podcast on the snes 25th anniversary.
http://www.retronauts.com/?p=1456#comments

[geise]

Super Mario World 4, F-zero, Super Castlevania IV,Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts, Actraiser and Street Fighter II, Super Adventure Island

Minus a few titles on snes those are my favorites you have listed.  I was lucky and won the SNES in a radio show contest.  Had it a couple weeks before launch.  I was on the snes hate bandwagon at the time since I had a Turbo and Genesis, but man I loved some of the early snes titles.  I still like Sonic 1 over SMW but SMW is such a good game.  I know mario 3 fans hate 4, but I really like that game. I can always pick it up every year and sit down to play through it.  Once I got my Duo though my SNES playing dwindled.  Not completly, but I found I wasn't playing it as much.  I also can't believe it's been 25 damn years.