SUPER NINTENDO 25 YEAR ANNIVERSARY!

[DQ187]

^^For real? I dont think i've ever heard of a Mario 3 fan hating Mario World. I thought both were regarded as 2 of the best Mario games ever. Seems weird a person would love one but hate the other. And Sonic over Mario World? Now i know your trippin!

[geise]

I will always like Sonic 1 over SMW.  There are tons of people if you search around that like Mario 3 over SMW.  I'm not one of them but there are plenty out there.  Sonic 1 that year was a game fresh and new.  I really enjoyed it and still do.

[esteban]

I will always like Sonic 1 over SMW.  There are tons of people if you search around that like Mario 3 over SMW.  I'm not one of them but there are plenty out there.  Sonic 1 that year was a game fresh and new.  I really enjoyed it and still do.

I hear what you are saying: Sonic 1 really was fresh, new and exciting when it came out. I remember the feeling—it seemed as if we jumped into the future...it's how I felt playing the NEO AES at JC Penny for hours every day one summer...this is the future of home gaming!

As for SMB 3 vs SMW...I love both, but SMW really starts off in a plodding, anticlimatic manner, especially in context of "next generation" marketing for consoles—SMW's ho-hum initial impression is *not* what (I) we were expecting our first few moments to be like with a brand new installment on a brand new console. I remember thinking "OK" (I felt the same way about Gradius III). I actually love Gradius III (I know I am in the minority), slowdown and all. It's just not what I was expecting after BLAZING LAZERS was my first impression for TG-16, for example.

However, what's funny is that, over the years, Sonic games (the mechanics) have not retained that magic for me anymore (too jaded)...

Yet, I go back to Mario games all the time. I love slow, plodding Gradius III.

Sonic?

Occasionally.

Sorry Sonic

And, to settle things: I don't think Sonic CD is the best...it's not better than the first two installments... I like Sonic CD, but maybe my expectations were unrealistic? Because I wanted Sonic CD to somehow capture the magic of first two Sonics... and then MOAR.

So: I know I may not be judging Sonic CD objectively, but it will never wear a GOLD or SILVER medal.



/tangent



BACK ON TOPIC: I love SMW, but I couldn't help feeling, initially, that since SMB3 was so much damn fun to play, and so immediate, frenetic, energized... SMW had to prove itself. There was no automatic passes. SMW had to win me over and prove that it, truly, was a great game. It eventually did. But I feel that SMB3's "instant classic" status was achieved almost immediately, whereas SMW took some time before I was convinced it was a masterpiece.

[johnnykonami]

Lets see if I can conjure up a few SNES memories from my past.

- I once had my buddy play through Gradius III over the phone so I could hear the soundtrack, long before we could get things like .sfc files on the internet.  Like, a beige phone with a curly cord.

- Another friend introduced me to Spanky's Quest years later, which has a pretty amazing soundtrack too.  You should go listen to it!  Between the cover art of the game in the US, and the sports theme, I'm sure I'm not the only one who overlooked this gem.

- My first Super Famicom game that I ever saw was Dragon Ball Z: Super Butouden.  A friend at an anime club we went to had it.  Not the biggest DBZ person, but I always thought that split screen fighting to represent distance was really awesome.  I later discovered Macross: Scrambled Valkyrie and not only as a lifelong Robotech/Macross nut, but also as a fan of really good video games, I had my mind blown.  One of my very favorites for the SFC.

I didn't own my own SNES until people were selling them for the next big thing, it was one of the systems I got from a friend who worked at Funcoland when they were rolling in cheap.  I am gunning for a Super Famicom now, and I might get a couple of games for it, but the main reason is because they look really nice and I want to get it to play with the Super Gameboy 2 and play GB games.  I know I can use my SNES but the SFC will have the same curvature and aesthetics which I kinda like.

Overall, a great console with ton of good games on it.

[sanjo]

I got the snes first thing it came out. My parents very reluctantly bought it.
Pack in game was SMW. As I set it up they were watching to see what they invested into. The first stage of mario I tried (aside from Yoshi's house) was Yoshi Island 1. While i thought it was cool "look, mario has more colors and there's parallax scrolling.. or moving background as I would call it"..

my parents immediately said "we wasted hundreds just for a game that looks no different from mario 3!?".

they refused to buy me any more new snes games until UN Squadron.  My dad happened to like the arcade game, so he was willing to buy it for me.

As my parents watched me load the game.. the intro blew us away! the sound was so good and especially loud! when I got to the 2nd stage (the stealth bomber in the clouds), I was like wow.. more moving backgrounds, large sprites, so much awesome music.  They were finally convinced it was a big upgrade from the NES.

[crazydean]

I got the snes first thing it came out. My parents very reluctantly bought it.
Pack in game was SMW. As I set it up they were watching to see what they invested into. The first stage of mario I tried (aside from Yoshi's house) was Yoshi Island 1. While i thought it was cool "look, mario has more colors and there's parallax scrolling.. or moving background as I would call it"..

my parents immediately said "we wasted hundreds just for a game that looks no different from mario 3!?".

they refused to buy me any more new snes games until UN Squadron.  My dad happened to like the arcade game, so he was willing to buy it for me.

As my parents watched me load the game.. the intro blew us away! the sound was so good and especially loud! when I got to the 2nd stage (the stealth bomber in the clouds), I was like wow.. more moving backgrounds, large sprites, so much awesome music.  They were finally convinced it was a big upgrade from the NES.

It sounds like your parents would have fit right in with the video in this thread.

[Punch]

No talk about SNES is complete without the absolute classic:


totally underrated outside Brazil for some reason. Top Gear is awesome.