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I remember the joy of having a Super Nintendo appear one Christmas. I remember the even greater joy of figuring out, on my own, how to use the RCA cables and make the games look -amazing-.
That video pleases me for the simple fact that it included Demon Crest. I swear, that is one of the most overlooked gems of the SNES era. Yet I still pine for other games that weren't on there, like Metal Marines.
While I still have my old SNES, I really don't have anything to play it on. I also only have a few SNES games left - the biggest one missing is Super Metroid, because I loaned it to a friend and then his roommate decided to be an asshole and confiscate it and hold it ransom for rent money. I wish I could build up a collection of SNES games again, but my current backlog is already so damned huge...
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Kai_SanCommonly known as Klineshrike!Registered Userregular
I thought my best friend in middle school and I were the only people who knew of this amazing game.
THE. BEST. GAME.
That game was my shit. Played it all the time, and broke mad records. I think I literally broke the stunt score on the 4th set of stages.
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I still have my SNES stored away, along with a bunch of the classic games (Chrono Trigger, FF3, Super Mario All-Stars, etc.) Will bust it out again this winter.
My favorite memory is the first time playing Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. It was frustrating as hell to wait and get it though, as I was trying to rent it, and the assholes who had it returned it 3 weeks late. I seriously called 3 times a day to see if had come back yet.
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I of course remember the SNES fondly, but it wasn't till I read IGN's top 100 SNES games did I realize how many awesome fucking games were on that System. I totally forgot about Uniracers, but man did I kick that game's ass. That was a blast!
Just going down the top 100 I was constantly going, OH YEAH, and HOLY SHIT, and OH MAN I LOVED THAT GAME, and Wow, I rented that 20000x!!!
While I still have my old SNES, I really don't have anything to play it on.
You don't have a TV? That would do it.
Anyway, I mostly use my SNES whenever I feel like playing FF2 or 3 again. The SNES versions are the the best way to play them.
Most of the games I played as a kid, like Mario Kart, or Super Star Wars, or whatnot, I played to death years ago and don't get the urge to ever play again.
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Kai_SanCommonly known as Klineshrike!Registered Userregular
I used to rent games fiendishly. Best time ever was when I rented FF2. Had no idea what an rpg was, played FFadventure on game boy thinking it was just zelda. Turned out that led to the transition that made me the rpgs first gamer I am today.
With regards to ff2; I managed to rent the same cart 3 times and still have my save file. Reached the final boss but didn't finish, went and bought it, started all over. And I loved it.
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Brainiac 8Don't call me Shirley...Registered Userregular
The SNES still to this day has some of my favorite games of all time.
Buster Busts Loose is what I'm currently playing on my SNES.
Oh my SNES...damn did I rent so many games back then. And I played so many damned licensed games. Still my best memory has to be when I FINALLY got a Chrono Trigger cart. Even back then it was kinda hard to find I guess. I remember all the trouble my parents went through to get one but it was SO worth it.
I leant my SNES and all my games to a friend. She went away and her house got flooded. I don't think there was a lot of damage but the SNES and games didn't make it.
The first game I got was the NA Final Fantasy 2. Then, before summer started, I found a link to the past in my parents sock drawer (I was a nosy little bastard). She said she was hiding it until summer, so i had something to play when i was out of school . Man that system kept me busy.
E.V.O
Soul Blazer
Secret of Evermore
...why no VC release!
Also, how could that video leave out Illusion of Gaia! Another game that needs a VC release.
E.V.O. there really isn't another game like it.
Soul Blazer and Gaia are two of the best action RPGs of all time along with Secret of Mana. It saddens me we don't get great games in that style anymore.
My wife loves E.V.O. We bought a copy on ebay a few years ago, but didn't realize it was the UK version. More annoyingly, instead of the previous owner melting the tabs inside his system, he used a hacksaw to cut the corners of the cart off. So it's ugly as fuck, but it still works.
Oh wow, my SNES... It's still in a box in my room somewhere (Just left home a month ago to study a master degree).
I didn't actually wanted a SNES, hell, I remember I used to get together with my friends and watch them play their NES, I was satisfied with watching them play, I wasn't really good.
Then Christmas arrived, because I one of those "I'm smarter than my parents" kids, every year I would create some sort of experiment to prove that Santa wasn't real (Yeah, so hard), so on that Christmas I didn't tell my parents what I wanted for Christmas, arguing that if Santa was always watching over me, I could tell him what I wanted without tell my parents.
So Christmas arrives and instead of 4 ninja turtle figures, I get a SNES (With Super Mario World), The Home Alone 2 game (Horrible, Horrible game.. Which I managed to finish) and a Nerf ArrowStorm. (Turns out that all the parents from my neighborhood would get together and discuss our presents, so we would all get more or less the same, a friend had asked for a Super Nintendo, so all the kids got one... Although I got the worst game).
I eventually got a pretty impressive game collection, around 20 carts, such as Mario Kart, Megaman 7, Megaman X and X2, Illusion of Gaia, Legend of Zelda III, Contra III, but stupidly let a cousin lend the best games to a friend of his... And they disappeared, I still hate him for that.
I used to rent games at a local Mexican Video Store, which only had 3 SNES games: Super Ghouls'n Ghosts, a sidescrolling airplane shooter and a top-down helicopter shooter (which I have never been able to remember their names); I rented SGnGs most of the time, people don't believe me when I tell them that I got so good on that game that I managed to finished it with the bracelet weapon on the second quest.
There was also a Blockbuster in town, but we didn't rent there, so after begging my parents, we got an account there and I was able to rent from their large selection of SNES games, like Super Metroid, Super Mario RPG, Cybernator, Pocky and Rocky, Turtles in Time, etc.
But renting bliss was when I traveled to a relative's house close to the border with the USA, where local rental stores had an awesome selection of games, such as Megaman X3 (They made a third one!), Secret of Evermore, Marvel Super Heroes, Doom Troopers, Crono Trigger, Castlevania Dracula X, Demon's Crest, and a whole others that I don't remember.
I remember once a friend during Junior High let me borrow his bootleg SNES Dragon Ball Z game, it was in japanese, but hey! DRAGON BALL Z!!!!
So yeah, elementary school rocked. Long live the SNES (Which introduced me to a life of videogames and technology, I bet my parents would have loved to know that I only wanted 4 ninja turtles back then).
For my 10th birthday I got to choose Sega or SNES. It was tempting to go Sega, I enjoyed playing Sonic and Star Control and my friend's house, but after seeing Donkey Kong at toys r us, I was sold.
Anyone play Zoop? I think it was on multiple systems, but I had it on snes.
Any SNES VC suggestions? I'm willing to spend some Wii points.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Super Metroid
Super Mario World
Kirby Super Star
Super Mario RPG
Chrono Trigger
Mega Man X
Donkey Kong Country 2
Super Castlevania IV
Eliminate the ones from this list that you've played/own and then just buy the rest of them.
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Alfred J. Kwakis it because you were insultedwhen I insulted your hair?Registered Userregular
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fun fact
I played all of these
e: oh wait is Chrono Trigger available in the EU region?
The SNES wasn't my first system, since I'm an old bastard, but it certainly is still my favorite. These days I'm more likely to be playing on the 360 or ps3, sure, but for whatever reason no consoles before or since have really captured that magic.
I remember the Christmas I got my SNES, along with Super Mario World, Link to the Past, and Street Fighter II. I still have that same console connected in my bedroom (currently running through chrono trigger), and I've spent way too much money on virtual console games. I also make it a point to play through Super Metroid every couple years, just because.
I was the opposite of some of the posters on the first page, I was the kid with the SNES, and the other kids in my neighborhood had Genesises (genesisi?). I always felt so sorry for them, since the Genesis was just so bad by comparison. This is an objective fact.
They always came over to my house when they got tired of playing Nintendo rip-offs or third party games with horrible graphics/sound.
Man, I must have rented Donkey Kong Country 5 times. During the "Play it Loud" era, remember those commercials?
I've been meaning to sit down and play some Super Nintendo recently but just haven't gotten to it. Maybe this weekend. I feel the need to play Super Mario World 2 again.
Edit: Now that I think of it, many of the "best" SNES games I didn't play until much later in life. Link to the Past I got when OoT came out. I got the various Final Fantasies on the GBA. And only 2 years ago I got Chrono Trigger.
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My SNES mostly plays Earthbound these days. My younger sister plays it continuously, beating it and restarting it over and over.
When I get a chance to play with it I usually put in LTTP or Super Metroid. I have it hooked up to the TV with an S-Video cable and it looks fantastic.
Whats the deal with certain parts of the SNES turning yellow, anyway? My buddy's is nearly entirely yellow. Mine is normal colored, except the area around the controller port. My replacement controllers (had trouble with controllers dying in the past, for some reason) are yellowing.
Yeah mine is yellowing on the top half as well. I've never heard a reason why this happens though.
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mntorankusuI'm not sure how to use this thing....Registered Userregular
Some batches of plastic used in manufacturing were (more?) susceptible to oxidation simply from being exposed to the air, either due to different mixtures of chemical additives or just being a different type of plastic. Most other electronics with similar discoloration problems only show yellowing on the parts that are exposed to light, but if you take your SNES apart, you'll see the inside of the yellowed parts is exactly the same.
Super Mario RPG is def. in my top 10 list. Now I want to play through it again. I don't have a copy, though, only on the Wii VC, and my sister has my Wii. Damn. Oh well I'm playing through FF7 right now anyway.
Also, like many others in this thread I rented games like crazy. As a poor elementary school kid I didn't have a lot of money to spend on games. For the first time in like forever I actually rented a game the other day. I got Deus Ex from a redbox. Awesome game, but the whole time it just bothered me that I didn't own the game. Renting sucks now.
SNES. The best console ever made.
Games like DK Country 2, Megaman X, Yoshi's Island or Super Mario RPG...or even less known ones like Super Turrican 1&2...
Those were truly the days, aye.
And now I feel old.
The SNES and its games were foundational to my entire mindset. I'm not even kidding. In particular: Chrono Trigger and Link to the Past were my first experiences with immersive storytelling.
So much love in such a little grey box.
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Super Mario RPG is def. in my top 10 list. Now I want to play through it again. I don't have a copy, though, only on the Wii VC, and my sister has my Wii. Damn. Oh well I'm playing through FF7 right now anyway.
Also, like many others in this thread I rented games like crazy. As a poor elementary school kid I didn't have a lot of money to spend on games. For the first time in like forever I actually rented a game the other day. I got Deus Ex from a redbox. Awesome game, but the whole time it just bothered me that I didn't own the game. Renting sucks now.
I rented like crazy as well. Mickey Mouse's Magical Quest was a favorite rental. Don't know why I never bought it.
What I miss the most about cartridges is renting one and playing someone else's save game. Kind of surreal plopping yourself in the middle of a game and have no clue what the hell you're supposed to do, where you're supposed to go, or how you're supposed to do it.
The SNES and its games were foundational to my entire mindset. I'm not even kidding. In particular: Chrono Trigger and Link to the Past were my first experiences with immersive storytelling.
So much love in such a little grey box.
For some reason, I skipped or ignored most of the dialogue the maidens had to say in a Link to the Past so my first experience was with Super Mario RPG.
The fact that some bosses weren't guarding a star, some stars weren't guarding a star, or you had to fight multiple bosses to get a star blew my 8-year-old mind.
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What do you clean it with? Something abrasive or some kind of solvent?
Since the yellowing is caused by the chemicals in the plastic itself, "cleaning" it actually isn't possible. In many cases, if you were to scrape off the outer layer of the plastic, you'd have to go fairly deep before you actually got past the discoloration.
Some chemists and plastics engineers developed a solution they call "Retr0bright" that does something to the chemicals causing the yellowing without affecting anything else. Here's a gallery (super nintendo at the bottom): http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/Gallery+2
It seems like it messes up the color on the SNES a bit, though. In the comparison shots, the parts after cleaning with Retr0bright have less of a blue tint than the parts that were never discolored in the first place. Obviously Nintendo used some kind of dye or coloring in the plastic that is affected either by the oxidation/yellowing, or the cleaning solution. But if the choise is between a slightly incorrect gray color, and an ugly-ass yellowbrown, it's not a hard one.
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That video pleases me for the simple fact that it included Demon Crest. I swear, that is one of the most overlooked gems of the SNES era. Yet I still pine for other games that weren't on there, like Metal Marines.
While I still have my old SNES, I really don't have anything to play it on. I also only have a few SNES games left - the biggest one missing is Super Metroid, because I loaned it to a friend and then his roommate decided to be an asshole and confiscate it and hold it ransom for rent money. I wish I could build up a collection of SNES games again, but my current backlog is already so damned huge...
That game was my shit. Played it all the time, and broke mad records. I think I literally broke the stunt score on the 4th set of stages.
My favorite memory is the first time playing Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. It was frustrating as hell to wait and get it though, as I was trying to rent it, and the assholes who had it returned it 3 weeks late. I seriously called 3 times a day to see if had come back yet.
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Just going down the top 100 I was constantly going, OH YEAH, and HOLY SHIT, and OH MAN I LOVED THAT GAME, and Wow, I rented that 20000x!!!
Such a great system!
You don't have a TV? That would do it.
Anyway, I mostly use my SNES whenever I feel like playing FF2 or 3 again. The SNES versions are the the best way to play them.
Most of the games I played as a kid, like Mario Kart, or Super Star Wars, or whatnot, I played to death years ago and don't get the urge to ever play again.
With regards to ff2; I managed to rent the same cart 3 times and still have my save file. Reached the final boss but didn't finish, went and bought it, started all over. And I loved it.
Buster Busts Loose is what I'm currently playing on my SNES.
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Nowadays, I have a ton of roms on my xperia play.
My wife loves E.V.O. We bought a copy on ebay a few years ago, but didn't realize it was the UK version. More annoyingly, instead of the previous owner melting the tabs inside his system, he used a hacksaw to cut the corners of the cart off. So it's ugly as fuck, but it still works.
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I didn't actually wanted a SNES, hell, I remember I used to get together with my friends and watch them play their NES, I was satisfied with watching them play, I wasn't really good.
Then Christmas arrived, because I one of those "I'm smarter than my parents" kids, every year I would create some sort of experiment to prove that Santa wasn't real (Yeah, so hard), so on that Christmas I didn't tell my parents what I wanted for Christmas, arguing that if Santa was always watching over me, I could tell him what I wanted without tell my parents.
So Christmas arrives and instead of 4 ninja turtle figures, I get a SNES (With Super Mario World), The Home Alone 2 game (Horrible, Horrible game.. Which I managed to finish) and a Nerf ArrowStorm. (Turns out that all the parents from my neighborhood would get together and discuss our presents, so we would all get more or less the same, a friend had asked for a Super Nintendo, so all the kids got one... Although I got the worst game).
I eventually got a pretty impressive game collection, around 20 carts, such as Mario Kart, Megaman 7, Megaman X and X2, Illusion of Gaia, Legend of Zelda III, Contra III, but stupidly let a cousin lend the best games to a friend of his... And they disappeared, I still hate him for that.
I used to rent games at a local Mexican Video Store, which only had 3 SNES games: Super Ghouls'n Ghosts, a sidescrolling airplane shooter and a top-down helicopter shooter (which I have never been able to remember their names); I rented SGnGs most of the time, people don't believe me when I tell them that I got so good on that game that I managed to finished it with the bracelet weapon on the second quest.
There was also a Blockbuster in town, but we didn't rent there, so after begging my parents, we got an account there and I was able to rent from their large selection of SNES games, like Super Metroid, Super Mario RPG, Cybernator, Pocky and Rocky, Turtles in Time, etc.
But renting bliss was when I traveled to a relative's house close to the border with the USA, where local rental stores had an awesome selection of games, such as Megaman X3 (They made a third one!), Secret of Evermore, Marvel Super Heroes, Doom Troopers, Crono Trigger, Castlevania Dracula X, Demon's Crest, and a whole others that I don't remember.
I remember once a friend during Junior High let me borrow his bootleg SNES Dragon Ball Z game, it was in japanese, but hey! DRAGON BALL Z!!!!
So yeah, elementary school rocked. Long live the SNES (Which introduced me to a life of videogames and technology, I bet my parents would have loved to know that I only wanted 4 ninja turtles back then).
Anyone play Zoop? I think it was on multiple systems, but I had it on snes.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Super Metroid
Super Mario World
Kirby Super Star
Super Mario RPG
Chrono Trigger
Mega Man X
Donkey Kong Country 2
Super Castlevania IV
Eliminate the ones from this list that you've played/own and then just buy the rest of them.
I played all of these
e: oh wait is Chrono Trigger available in the EU region?
The SNES wasn't my first system, since I'm an old bastard, but it certainly is still my favorite. These days I'm more likely to be playing on the 360 or ps3, sure, but for whatever reason no consoles before or since have really captured that magic.
I remember the Christmas I got my SNES, along with Super Mario World, Link to the Past, and Street Fighter II. I still have that same console connected in my bedroom (currently running through chrono trigger), and I've spent way too much money on virtual console games. I also make it a point to play through Super Metroid every couple years, just because.
I was the opposite of some of the posters on the first page, I was the kid with the SNES, and the other kids in my neighborhood had Genesises (genesisi?). I always felt so sorry for them, since the Genesis was just so bad by comparison. This is an objective fact.
They always came over to my house when they got tired of playing Nintendo rip-offs or third party games with horrible graphics/sound.
Apparently so!
Have you played Super Mario Kart, Pilotwings and Kirby's Dream Course? Those are excellent, too.
I've been meaning to sit down and play some Super Nintendo recently but just haven't gotten to it. Maybe this weekend. I feel the need to play Super Mario World 2 again.
Edit: Now that I think of it, many of the "best" SNES games I didn't play until much later in life. Link to the Past I got when OoT came out. I got the various Final Fantasies on the GBA. And only 2 years ago I got Chrono Trigger.
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Man 90's Nintendo commmercials were weird.
When I get a chance to play with it I usually put in LTTP or Super Metroid. I have it hooked up to the TV with an S-Video cable and it looks fantastic.
Super Mario RPG is def. in my top 10 list. Now I want to play through it again. I don't have a copy, though, only on the Wii VC, and my sister has my Wii. Damn. Oh well I'm playing through FF7 right now anyway.
Also, like many others in this thread I rented games like crazy. As a poor elementary school kid I didn't have a lot of money to spend on games. For the first time in like forever I actually rented a game the other day. I got Deus Ex from a redbox. Awesome game, but the whole time it just bothered me that I didn't own the game. Renting sucks now.
Games like DK Country 2, Megaman X, Yoshi's Island or Super Mario RPG...or even less known ones like Super Turrican 1&2...
Those were truly the days, aye.
And now I feel old.
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So much love in such a little grey box.
I rented like crazy as well. Mickey Mouse's Magical Quest was a favorite rental. Don't know why I never bought it.
What I miss the most about cartridges is renting one and playing someone else's save game. Kind of surreal plopping yourself in the middle of a game and have no clue what the hell you're supposed to do, where you're supposed to go, or how you're supposed to do it.
For some reason, I skipped or ignored most of the dialogue the maidens had to say in a Link to the Past so my first experience was with Super Mario RPG.
The fact that some bosses weren't guarding a star, some stars weren't guarding a star, or you had to fight multiple bosses to get a star blew my 8-year-old mind.
Since the yellowing is caused by the chemicals in the plastic itself, "cleaning" it actually isn't possible. In many cases, if you were to scrape off the outer layer of the plastic, you'd have to go fairly deep before you actually got past the discoloration.
Some chemists and plastics engineers developed a solution they call "Retr0bright" that does something to the chemicals causing the yellowing without affecting anything else. Here's a gallery (super nintendo at the bottom): http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/Gallery+2
It seems like it messes up the color on the SNES a bit, though. In the comparison shots, the parts after cleaning with Retr0bright have less of a blue tint than the parts that were never discolored in the first place. Obviously Nintendo used some kind of dye or coloring in the plastic that is affected either by the oxidation/yellowing, or the cleaning solution. But if the choise is between a slightly incorrect gray color, and an ugly-ass yellowbrown, it's not a hard one.