Those were great days. I got my original NES for Christmas one year that had some awesome Nintendo Power tie-in. You got the NES, a one year subscription, Dragon Warrior and a sweet guide and map. Kept up the subscription afterwards and got to hear about the SNES long in advance, and so I saved half of my allowance for like a year or something and bought the SNES soon after release (my first big purchase!).
Before buying it my dad made me rent one to be sure I really wanted it. We rented the console, Super Mario World and F-Zero. Holy fuck F-Zero. Bought soon afterwards.
Oh man I still have like issues 40 through 120 in a box somewhere. Nintendo power was so awesome at that time.
hehe...all the type about the Virtual Boy.
My favorite games follow the trend here, but you're all missing one :P Lagoon! Lagoon was a wonderful action rpg, with, what I felt, was beautifully well done music. Some of the bosses looked quite amazing too. I remember it being a grinding sort of game. Can't beat X boss, go gain 2 levels, take him down. If not, try to gain a couple more (I suppose the same could be said about the FF games too and most all rpgs). I replayed and finished this game at least once a year until my sister wanted to borrow it, and then claimed she had never borrowed it >.<
Speaking of grinding games and action rpgs, YsIII I loved that game so much too! Also had great music. Finished it 'proper' the first time, every play through after though, I abused the trick in the first cave with the bat or bird or something that flys above. You stand in the right place, swing up to kill it, and it just keeps coming back. use tape or something to hold down the appropriate buttons, watch tv for a couple of hours, come back and your max level.
I need to find myself another copy of Lagoon... I've lost hope of them ever re-releasing it on the VC.
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Try here for Lagoon. I saw some guy selling it here.
Those were great days. I got my original NES for Christmas one year that had some awesome Nintendo Power tie-in. You got the NES, a one year subscription, Dragon Warrior and a sweet guide and map. Kept up the subscription afterwards and got to hear about the SNES long in advance, and so I saved half of my allowance for like a year or something and bought the SNES soon after release (my first big purchase!).
Before buying it my dad made me rent one to be sure I really wanted it. We rented the console, Super Mario World and F-Zero. Holy fuck F-Zero. Bought soon afterwards.
I love my SNES.
I still have the very first issue of Nintendo Power. Yes. I am that old.
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Nintendo Power is still fun to read. And yea, my first issue was issue 1 also...I am also that old. :P
Chris Slate is the EIC of Nintendo Power now, he was the awesome guy that used to run PSM, another magazine I loved in its heyday.
I had a Sega Genesis, Turbo Graphics 16, and N64 growing up. but from the experiences I got playing my uncle's SNES, I could tell that I really missed out on something special.
My favorite SNES games would have to be Megaman 7, Legend of Zelda: A link to the past, Starfox, Megaman X 1 through 3, Zombies ate my neighbor, and TMNT: turtles in time. It was a wonderful system that I really missed out on.
Seeing this thread reminded of the time Blockbuster held a nationwide tournament for DKC. Does anyone else remember that? I competed in it, it was awesome!
I was never involved in anything like that, but I miss that stuff. Nintendo was so awesome back then. Commercials, and cereal, and Nintendo Power not sucking, and so much other awesome stuff. Everything was so exciting. The only thing people seem to get as excited about now is when a new COD comes out.
I won in my city for that; it was the Super NES half of the second Blockbuster World Video Game Championships. Won "a year's worth of free game rentals" for that, which only amounted to two per month. :P What's more, despite winning there, I didn't get to move on beyond that... what the hell?
In hindsight, something tells me they just couldn't be bothered to send my score in or something. :P
As for Nintendo Power, I admit there was a period where it wasn't as good, but it's pretty good again now. Not the same as when it started... wow, those were some glorious days... but over 20 years on, it's probably not going to be, especially with the internet and all.
Chris Slate is the EIC of Nintendo Power now, he was the awesome guy that used to run PSM, another magazine I loved in its heyday.
I'd call him "boss," except I've never actually interacted with him, so I don't know how appropriate that is. But he is tall in person, let me tell you.
As long as we're talking Super NES and Nintendo Power, I have to admit, the 20th anniversary came at a really bad time: I had to go down to NC to visit my grandfather's a couple of weeks ago. I had some stuff kept in his basement, and he wanted me to go through it all and get rid of what I don't want/need to keep. He said he didn't know what had value to me and what didn't, and he didn't want to go through that.
He kept changing his stipulations on me (such as covering the not-cheap cost of coming down, which he insisted be immediate), and told me I could still keep some stuff there for the time being, provided it fit certain parameters. I had to get rid of a lot of stuff which I'm sure people would love (old WWF, Power Rangers, Dragon Ball Z toys, most of which still in package, and more); he saw no value to any of it, telling me all the while that some plastic fridge tray he could get $50 for was worth more than everything I had. I was pretty insistent that he didn't just toss it in a ditch on his property like he was planning, and managed to get some members of the family to come pick it up for the younger members.
One of the things I kept had been my Nintendo Power collection: every issue from the start until around 2001, maybe a bit before, when I moved to Canada and things continued here with my wife. Strategy Guides, Player's Guides, catalogs, the whole nine. Didn't take up a whole lot of room in boxes, though.
Next thing I know, he goes behind my back and gets a friend of his to come over and basically take everything else away. I'm able to arrange something with family members to save some of it, but for other stuff-- including my Nintendo Powers-- it was too late. He tried calling around to find someone to take them-- Goodwill, Kidney Foundation, stuff like that-- and found no takers, so those went off to a dumpster somewhere, along with a bunch of wrestling magazines and tapes from the mid to late 90s, and my entire collection of Generation 1 and 2 Marvel Transformers comics (in sleeves, of course).
That hurt, and I still feel the sting. I didn't get my Super NES until over a year into its release here, and a lot of my memories of it are tied to those magazines and guides, which I read constantly in lieu of owning the system. And just having nearly every issue (save for a brief six months before they began the new format, since we couldn't afford to resubscribe at the time) had always been one thing I felt a little proud of as a video game fan.
Don't get me wrong; those aren't the most important things in my life. I still have my wife, my cats, my dad, my friends... and I could have accepted it if I'd lost them through some sort of act of God or something-- fire, flood, age, what have you-- but to lose them that way... like I said, it stings.
Oh, and a funny thing... "funny" in the way that makes me want to spit, anyway-- that friend of his found among the stuff my high school diploma, which he returned to my grandfather, who gave it back to me and said I "shouldn't have thrown it out." Dandy.
There is more to the whole thing, quite a bit, but I tried to keep it relevant here. Sorry to go on like this, but it's made all the Super NES celebration bittersweet, even as much as I loved that system.
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Super Mario World was the first video game I've ever played..and one of the best.
I love the system to death..soooo much quality.
My favorite game (besides the obvious ones Mario and Zelda) is Lufia (Lufia 2, technically).
Looking at it today, the gameplay and story are simply, if well thought out..but there's thisd special something about this game that makes it so fantastic.
It also has my favorite video game moment of all time: Just before the final confrontation, that port town (forgot the name) is overrun by monsters. The party is weary of battles, when suddenly
Dekar, who everyone thought died, comes back, riding in on a fucking whale and destroys the monsters.
God, I'm getting goosebumps just typing that out.
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Another fond memory for me and my Super Nintendo was my first time staying up till 4 AM, playing Secret of Mana. That game is one of a small few that are permanently burned into my mind, along with Blaster Master and a few others. Oh man... that music. That glorious music, that fun as hell gameplay, that story that seemed so epic. Sure, I had Legend of Zelda, and loved the shit out of it.. but.. yeah.
I am getting goosebumps and grinning even thinking of it. I forced a friend to loan me Final Fantasy adventure long enough for me to beat it, but I never really got into the sequel due to the lack of a translation at the time. I should honestly circle around and see if I can find the GBA ones.
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I remember heading over to my Uncle's house a lot whenever my mom would come to visit. They'd be in the other room getting trashed, but he had an SNES, and oh man, did I have a great time on that. Went through most of his games pretty quickly, and eventually came across a cartridge entitled "Final Fantasy II". I was really little (like only seven or six), so I was just starting to get into reading hardcore. As soon as I saw all the text, I fell in love, and wound up asking for an SNES for Christmas, and a copy of Final Fantasy II for Christmas from my grandparents.
They mistakenly got my FF III - at first I was disappointed, but as soon as I booted it up, I fell in love with that game so hard that I broke the time counter on it. Did everything and anything you could do in it, then did it again.
And so began my love affair with RPG's and gaming in general.
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I neglected to mention Mega Man X and Mega Man X2 somehow. We would rent those games too along with our SNES and DKC / Super Metroid. The funny part was that my brother was the king of Mega Man games up to that point. There were portions of Mega Man games where I was actually scared, as a child, to continue due to fear of failure. But it all changed with MMX. Somehow, my brother wasn't that hip at the games, but I was the goddamn shit at them. Beating bosses with their weaknesses? Fuck that, I was a show off and did it once or twice using jut the X-buster on all of them.
I remember collecting all of the Nintendo Powers to complete the Link to the Past comic book.
Also this system gave me Chrono Trigger and FF3 which ate up a majority of my life.
It was purchased as a 'joint Christmas gift' between my brother and I from my parents. Smartest parenting decision they've ever made. We used to take turns every hour on FF3.
Oh and UN Squadron. Fuck, yes. UN Squadron. I still sit down an afternoon here or there to beat it.
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I neglected to mention Mega Man X and Mega Man X2 somehow. We would rent those games too along with our SNES and DKC / Super Metroid. The funny part was that my brother was the king of Mega Man games up to that point. There were portions of Mega Man games where I was actually scared, as a child, to continue due to fear of failure. But it all changed with MMX. Somehow, my brother wasn't that hip at the games, but I was the goddamn shit at them. Beating bosses with their weaknesses? Fuck that, I was a show off and did it once or twice using jut the X-buster on all of them.
Yesssss
I liked to do Chill Penguin last in X, so I could show off by doing the other stages without the dash.
I neglected to mention Mega Man X and Mega Man X2 somehow. We would rent those games too along with our SNES and DKC / Super Metroid. The funny part was that my brother was the king of Mega Man games up to that point. There were portions of Mega Man games where I was actually scared, as a child, to continue due to fear of failure. But it all changed with MMX. Somehow, my brother wasn't that hip at the games, but I was the goddamn shit at them. Beating bosses with their weaknesses? Fuck that, I was a show off and did it once or twice using jut the X-buster on all of them.
Yesssss
I liked to do Chill Penguin last in X, so I could show off by doing the other stages without the dash.
All of the above, and without any health upgrades. I know I've tried many times to beat Sigma with no armor (excepting dash and x-buster) or health upgrades; I think I managed it once.
I was astonished by MMX in that certain levels change depending on the order you beat them. First game where I experienced something like that, and it still doesn't happen very often.
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Remember that part in Chrono Trigger where Frog leaves the castle and you realize what a freaking badass he is and you hear this music?
I was astonished by MMX in that certain levels change depending on the order you beat them. First game where I experienced something like that, and it still doesn't happen very often.
Even as a kid I knew it had potential to go further, but fuck it, I was too stoked over how all of that worked.
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Xenosaga didn't really use his music too often but when it did it was awesome. I still think the battle theme for Episode 1 is one of the best ever.
He's one of my favorite video game composers and i wish SquareEnix would have a Chrono series concert like the Distant Worlds concert or at least have a concert showcasing his work.
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The music in Mario Party is awesome.
I was a big fan of Xenosaga, and the music is really great, and perfect for the tone of the game itself, but it's mostly score for the cutscenes so there's not a lot of really listenable music. Almost every area is silent (which I actually thought was neat), and there's one single battle song aside from the final boss. So it just doesn't stick with you the same way all the great stage and battle themes from his other games do.
Seeing this thread reminded of the time Blockbuster held a nationwide tournament for DKC. Does anyone else remember that? I competed in it, it was awesome!
I was never involved in anything like that, but I miss that stuff. Nintendo was so awesome back then. Commercials, and cereal, and Nintendo Power not sucking, and so much other awesome stuff. Everything was so exciting. The only thing people seem to get as excited about now is when a new COD comes out.
I won in my city for that; it was the Super NES half of the second Blockbuster World Video Game Championships. Won "a year's worth of free game rentals" for that, which only amounted to two per month. :P What's more, despite winning there, I didn't get to move on beyond that... what the hell?
In hindsight, something tells me they just couldn't be bothered to send my score in or something. :P
I won the DKC in my area too but I was told there would be a regional and then national competition. I won all of this cool shit from the store, games, marvel cards, candy, etc, but never got a call to the alleged regionals either.
It was awesome, I always wanted that competition cart, where it would jump around levels.
I remember my second run before the final day I messed up and lost a life. There was this little shit behind me that cheered at me losing a life. I got pissed and proceeded to take over first place with my next run. I made sure to stand right behind that fucker during his run and cheer every time he died, little prick.
Oh man I still have like issues 40 through 120 in a box somewhere. Nintendo power was so awesome at that time.
hehe...all the type about the Virtual Boy.
I have, like, the first seven years of Nintendo Power in a box in my grandparents attic. I remember reading the Final Fantasy strategy guide so much that it fell apart and we had to tape it all back together.
Hell, I read my Dragon Warrior III manual and map so much that I taped them back together and laminated the map.
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I remember doing that with manuals. I read the manual and map for Lufia probably 100 times each. It even inspired me to start making my own maps. I had a lot of fun doing that.
I remember collecting all of the Nintendo Powers to complete the Link to the Past comic book.
Also this system gave me Chrono Trigger and FF3 which ate up a majority of my life.
It was purchased as a 'joint Christmas gift' between my brother and I from my parents. Smartest parenting decision they've ever made. We used to take turns every hour on FF3.
Oh and UN Squadron. Fuck, yes. UN Squadron. I still sit down an afternoon here or there to beat it.
UN Squadron!!! That's the sidescrolling shooter I used to rent years ago!!! Now if I could remember the topdown helicopter shooter.
Oh, man, Crono Trigger Music... I'm at the middle of my master degree, I can't play CT again... Or Can I?
I won the DKC in my area too but I was told there would be a regional and then national competition. I won all of this cool shit from the store, games, marvel cards, candy, etc, but never got a call to the alleged regionals either.
It was awesome, I always wanted that competition cart, where it would jump around levels.
I remember my second run before the final day I messed up and lost a life. There was this little shit behind me that cheered at me losing a life. I got pissed and proceeded to take over first place with my next run. I made sure to stand right behind that fucker during his run and cheer every time he died, little prick.
Hmm, I think I remember the cards and stuff, too, now that you mention it. Sucks you had to deal with that little kid being a snot, but at least you pulled through.
I wonder how on-the-level that whole thing was...
Regarding the Nintendo Power comics, I've got the collected Super Mario Adventures and A Link to the Past editions. Unfortunately, the Mario one lacks the last one they did, a Mario & Wario comic about Peach's birthday (featuring the famous chibi plush Samus).
I wish they had released the Star Fox comics in a collected volume. Super Metroid might be nice for the heck of it, for completion's sake, even, but Star Fox is the one I'd really want.
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I'd have to say one of the best achievements of my young life was figuring out how to wall jump in Super Metroid, and my sister saying "how are you doing that?!?"
I always used the bomb jump to get out of the pit where you were supposed to learn to wall jump. I could never get the timing down as a kid. I can do not it now at least, so I don't feel like a failure
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Holy fuck the guy who brought up lagoon. I loved that game so much. It was very comparable to crystalis on nes, to the point I wondered if the same dude made it. I used to go hiking for the brief time I was in boy scouts and hum those tunes as I went exploring imagining it was lagoon.
Ah! Another person who knows of and enjoyed Lagoon, how wonderful ^_^ I never had the chance to play Crystalis on the NES, but you have intrigued me. Should it ever release for the 3DS eshop I'll have to purchase it. Also, gal, not guy.
I think Lagoon was the first game I played where equipping different armor made a difference in how you looked. This fascinated me (which also fascinated me in Castlevania SotN. I like little things like that). I just wished that the sword upgrades led to a bigger sword, but it was fun taking out the last boss with what looked like a toothpick :P
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I started collecting retro games about a year go, just recently picked up Lagoon along with Brain Lord and Paladins quest as I try to complete my snes rpg collection (just need lufiia 2 and a few other cheaper games, not going for earthbound). Will have to give Lagoon a go this week.
I also picked up the michael jordon platformer game because a) it was like $3 and b) it looked amusing. It's held my attention more than it should. The level design is kind of whacky sometime, but having random basketball hoops around you can slam drunk for points/powerups is kinda cool. Also throwing flaming basketballs at giant spiders or robots or god knows what.
I'd have to say one of the best achievements of my young life was figuring out how to wall jump in Super Metroid, and my sister saying "how are you doing that?!?"
I remember if you left the title screen on you can see all the crazy shit you can do. The wall-jumping was the first thing I wowed my brother with, and then I learned about the speed boost deal.
I also played Lagoon when I was about ... 12? A friend and I made it to the final boss but couldn't actually beat him for whatever reason. Died so fast. The game overall was pretty great and what really made it was the music. Also I don't think I'd seen sprites that big before so that was pretty "wow" at the time.
I remember that bit where you're jumping around in the clouds and you see the bit of land far below, but it's a mindfuck and you're supposed to just jump on it. We were stumped about what to do for hours before I just said 'whatever' and tried jumping, and OH MY GOD it worked!
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Those were great days. I got my original NES for Christmas one year that had some awesome Nintendo Power tie-in. You got the NES, a one year subscription, Dragon Warrior and a sweet guide and map. Kept up the subscription afterwards and got to hear about the SNES long in advance, and so I saved half of my allowance for like a year or something and bought the SNES soon after release (my first big purchase!).
Before buying it my dad made me rent one to be sure I really wanted it. We rented the console, Super Mario World and F-Zero. Holy fuck F-Zero. Bought soon afterwards.
I love my SNES.
hehe...all the type about the Virtual Boy.
Speaking of grinding games and action rpgs, YsIII I loved that game so much too! Also had great music. Finished it 'proper' the first time, every play through after though, I abused the trick in the first cave with the bat or bird or something that flys above. You stand in the right place, swing up to kill it, and it just keeps coming back. use tape or something to hold down the appropriate buttons, watch tv for a couple of hours, come back and your max level.
I need to find myself another copy of Lagoon... I've lost hope of them ever re-releasing it on the VC.
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Also found this about that DKC championship someone was talking about. It's a cool read, and it really makes me miss the 90s.
http://www.snescentral.com/article.php?id=0910
I still have the very first issue of Nintendo Power. Yes. I am that old.
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I won in my city for that; it was the Super NES half of the second Blockbuster World Video Game Championships. Won "a year's worth of free game rentals" for that, which only amounted to two per month. :P What's more, despite winning there, I didn't get to move on beyond that... what the hell?
In hindsight, something tells me they just couldn't be bothered to send my score in or something. :P
As for Nintendo Power, I admit there was a period where it wasn't as good, but it's pretty good again now. Not the same as when it started... wow, those were some glorious days... but over 20 years on, it's probably not going to be, especially with the internet and all.
I'd call him "boss," except I've never actually interacted with him, so I don't know how appropriate that is. But he is tall in person, let me tell you.
As long as we're talking Super NES and Nintendo Power, I have to admit, the 20th anniversary came at a really bad time: I had to go down to NC to visit my grandfather's a couple of weeks ago. I had some stuff kept in his basement, and he wanted me to go through it all and get rid of what I don't want/need to keep. He said he didn't know what had value to me and what didn't, and he didn't want to go through that.
He kept changing his stipulations on me (such as covering the not-cheap cost of coming down, which he insisted be immediate), and told me I could still keep some stuff there for the time being, provided it fit certain parameters. I had to get rid of a lot of stuff which I'm sure people would love (old WWF, Power Rangers, Dragon Ball Z toys, most of which still in package, and more); he saw no value to any of it, telling me all the while that some plastic fridge tray he could get $50 for was worth more than everything I had. I was pretty insistent that he didn't just toss it in a ditch on his property like he was planning, and managed to get some members of the family to come pick it up for the younger members.
One of the things I kept had been my Nintendo Power collection: every issue from the start until around 2001, maybe a bit before, when I moved to Canada and things continued here with my wife. Strategy Guides, Player's Guides, catalogs, the whole nine. Didn't take up a whole lot of room in boxes, though.
Next thing I know, he goes behind my back and gets a friend of his to come over and basically take everything else away. I'm able to arrange something with family members to save some of it, but for other stuff-- including my Nintendo Powers-- it was too late. He tried calling around to find someone to take them-- Goodwill, Kidney Foundation, stuff like that-- and found no takers, so those went off to a dumpster somewhere, along with a bunch of wrestling magazines and tapes from the mid to late 90s, and my entire collection of Generation 1 and 2 Marvel Transformers comics (in sleeves, of course).
That hurt, and I still feel the sting. I didn't get my Super NES until over a year into its release here, and a lot of my memories of it are tied to those magazines and guides, which I read constantly in lieu of owning the system. And just having nearly every issue (save for a brief six months before they began the new format, since we couldn't afford to resubscribe at the time) had always been one thing I felt a little proud of as a video game fan.
Don't get me wrong; those aren't the most important things in my life. I still have my wife, my cats, my dad, my friends... and I could have accepted it if I'd lost them through some sort of act of God or something-- fire, flood, age, what have you-- but to lose them that way... like I said, it stings.
Oh, and a funny thing... "funny" in the way that makes me want to spit, anyway-- that friend of his found among the stuff my high school diploma, which he returned to my grandfather, who gave it back to me and said I "shouldn't have thrown it out." Dandy.
There is more to the whole thing, quite a bit, but I tried to keep it relevant here. Sorry to go on like this, but it's made all the Super NES celebration bittersweet, even as much as I loved that system.
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Super Mario World was the first video game I've ever played..and one of the best.
I love the system to death..soooo much quality.
My favorite game (besides the obvious ones Mario and Zelda) is Lufia (Lufia 2, technically).
Looking at it today, the gameplay and story are simply, if well thought out..but there's thisd special something about this game that makes it so fantastic.
It also has my favorite video game moment of all time: Just before the final confrontation, that port town (forgot the name) is overrun by monsters. The party is weary of battles, when suddenly
I am getting goosebumps and grinning even thinking of it. I forced a friend to loan me Final Fantasy adventure long enough for me to beat it, but I never really got into the sequel due to the lack of a translation at the time. I should honestly circle around and see if I can find the GBA ones.
They mistakenly got my FF III - at first I was disappointed, but as soon as I booted it up, I fell in love with that game so hard that I broke the time counter on it. Did everything and anything you could do in it, then did it again.
And so began my love affair with RPG's and gaming in general.
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Also this system gave me Chrono Trigger and FF3 which ate up a majority of my life.
It was purchased as a 'joint Christmas gift' between my brother and I from my parents. Smartest parenting decision they've ever made. We used to take turns every hour on FF3.
Oh and UN Squadron. Fuck, yes. UN Squadron. I still sit down an afternoon here or there to beat it.
Yesssss
I liked to do Chill Penguin last in X, so I could show off by doing the other stages without the dash.
All of the above, and without any health upgrades. I know I've tried many times to beat Sigma with no armor (excepting dash and x-buster) or health upgrades; I think I managed it once.
So awesome.
Even as a kid I knew it had potential to go further, but fuck it, I was too stoked over how all of that worked.
Yasunori Mitsuda. Chrono Cross, Xenogears, Xenosaga Ep. 1. Mario Party.
I like how you lined those games up. :P
Chrono Trigger / Cross are pretty much his best works, frankly. Xenogears I didn't get too familiar with, let alone Xenosaga. But anyhow...
He's one of my favorite video game composers and i wish SquareEnix would have a Chrono series concert like the Distant Worlds concert or at least have a concert showcasing his work.
I was a big fan of Xenosaga, and the music is really great, and perfect for the tone of the game itself, but it's mostly score for the cutscenes so there's not a lot of really listenable music. Almost every area is silent (which I actually thought was neat), and there's one single battle song aside from the final boss. So it just doesn't stick with you the same way all the great stage and battle themes from his other games do.
I won the DKC in my area too but I was told there would be a regional and then national competition. I won all of this cool shit from the store, games, marvel cards, candy, etc, but never got a call to the alleged regionals either.
It was awesome, I always wanted that competition cart, where it would jump around levels.
I remember my second run before the final day I messed up and lost a life. There was this little shit behind me that cheered at me losing a life. I got pissed and proceeded to take over first place with my next run. I made sure to stand right behind that fucker during his run and cheer every time he died, little prick.
I have, like, the first seven years of Nintendo Power in a box in my grandparents attic. I remember reading the Final Fantasy strategy guide so much that it fell apart and we had to tape it all back together.
Hell, I read my Dragon Warrior III manual and map so much that I taped them back together and laminated the map.
UN Squadron!!! That's the sidescrolling shooter I used to rent years ago!!! Now if I could remember the topdown helicopter shooter.
Oh, man, Crono Trigger Music... I'm at the middle of my master degree, I can't play CT again... Or Can I?
Hmm, I think I remember the cards and stuff, too, now that you mention it. Sucks you had to deal with that little kid being a snot, but at least you pulled through.
I wonder how on-the-level that whole thing was...
Regarding the Nintendo Power comics, I've got the collected Super Mario Adventures and A Link to the Past editions. Unfortunately, the Mario one lacks the last one they did, a Mario & Wario comic about Peach's birthday (featuring the famous chibi plush Samus).
I wish they had released the Star Fox comics in a collected volume. Super Metroid might be nice for the heck of it, for completion's sake, even, but Star Fox is the one I'd really want.
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Still have my original cart of it too.
I think Lagoon was the first game I played where equipping different armor made a difference in how you looked. This fascinated me (which also fascinated me in Castlevania SotN. I like little things like that). I just wished that the sword upgrades led to a bigger sword, but it was fun taking out the last boss with what looked like a toothpick :P
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I also picked up the michael jordon platformer game because a) it was like $3 and b) it looked amusing. It's held my attention more than it should. The level design is kind of whacky sometime, but having random basketball hoops around you can slam drunk for points/powerups is kinda cool. Also throwing flaming basketballs at giant spiders or robots or god knows what.
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I remember if you left the title screen on you can see all the crazy shit you can do. The wall-jumping was the first thing I wowed my brother with, and then I learned about the speed boost deal.
I remember that bit where you're jumping around in the clouds and you see the bit of land far below, but it's a mindfuck and you're supposed to just jump on it. We were stumped about what to do for hours before I just said 'whatever' and tried jumping, and OH MY GOD it worked!