NOW YOU'RE POLLING WITH POWER. SUPER POWER. Console Poll, vol. 2 - 4th Generation RESULTS

just realised i was an actual adult before any of these games were released, explains a lot about my foibles and omissions i guess, synapses already hardening

i have no clue how the top 20 will go. i kind of assumed FFII would be in there. maybe others were like me and thought one FF game (III) on the ballot was enough, but FFII is an excellent game as well

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69 - Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen - 43 points / 2 Votes

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69 - Wonder Boy V: Monster World III (a.k.a. Wonder Boy in Monster World) - 43 points / 2 Votes

i still have to play ogre battle. i've played gba tactics ogre, and the psp remake of the snes tactics ogre, but never the progenitor.

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68 - Cannon Fodder - 43 points / 3 Votes

Wow MKII is very much too mow! This game is a classic. Played the shit out of it at home and in bars.

Cannon Fodder is a great game but I had it on PC, didn't vote for this version.

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66 - ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkatron - 44 points / 2 Votes

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66 - UN Squadron - 44 points / 2 Votes

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65 - Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins - 44 points / 1 First-place vote / 2 Votes

Lots of games I've never played so far.

don't think i've heard of un squadron, looks fun. wonder what went wrong with the first three evil projects

UN Squadron is my fave shmup of the generation and one of my faves of all time. I actually bought it on eBay when I started collecting my "dream collection" of snes games.

and 6 golden coins is amazing! such a great soundtrack (SML and SML2 both kill it) and introduces a hat made of bunny ears, which is fantastic.

in my mind super mario land 2 is the superior game to the first one (and one of the best in the series overall) but somehow just doesn't quite attain the aura of classicness that the first has

Yeah never heard of UN Squadron either, same for Rings of Power.

Voted for Toe Jam & Earl 2, pretty cool mash-up of genres including little rhythm game interludes, music is slap bass heaven. love Cannon Fodder and Wonder Boy but mostly on different machines i guess. threw Cannon Fodder a vote anyway because it's sooooo good but surely designed to be played with a mouse for maximum efficiency.

WOW. I was just looknig through the SML2 soundtrack for a specific song, but I found a different song... that gets stuck in my head ALL THE TIME... and I had no idea where it was from!

How in the world was Castlevania Bloodlines rated GA while Panic on Funkotron got a T? Pervasive Rap Content?

don't understand the rating system but seem to remember there may have been edgy fart-related humour in PoF?

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64 - E.V.O. The Search for Eden - 45 points / 2 Votes

love the cover of final fight. mayor mike haggar is a sensitive man. i'd vote for him.

Antoher stone-cold classic but unfortunately impossible to find cheap on ebay. Love to have that one in my collection. xp

Panic on Funkotron, rated T for Teen due to Strong Rap Content and Pervasive Farts

Have never played Rings of Power but I looooove Baldur's Gate so much, will have to check that out

Never played On the Ball either, gonna have to warm up my old timey kindle fire with the emulators on it tonite

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63 - Road Rash II - 46 points / 2 Votes

TOO LOW

E.V.O. is the first SNES title on the list that i'm completely unfamiliar with. just guessing from the title and description, do you gradually evolve depending on what kind of stuff you eat?

i didn't play road rash til PSX era but it was an absolute classic

racing games have never got better than whipping some dude with a chain whilst avoiding oncoming traffic

i loved the different US regions and the "amusing" character quotes between races, game is perfectly balanced imo

i have very strong memories in my mind of playing raod rash 2 on the genesis with my friend. the two of us trying to beat the single playr game. sometimes you'd go up over a hill and as you came down, you'd hit a car that you couldn't see. now that i'm a "video game professional" or whatever i still think of thaat as the example of bad game design when i close my eyes.

also every time it happened my friend david would yell "THAT WAS A SET-UP!" which i find really funny to this day, because i think it's the only example i can think of of someone calling a non-frame-job a "set up"

i will have a lot of these fun little stories over the course of this rollout

xxxp

E.V.O. is the first SNES title on the list that i'm completely unfamiliar with. just guessing from the title and description, do you gradually evolve depending on what kind of stuff you eat?

― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, October 4, 2016 4:03 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you fight and eat stuff to get xp, use xp to evolve cool new parts of your body (stronger skin, claws, an angler fish light on your head, etc) and eventually you evolve legs and start all over as an amphibian! and then later you evolve... reptilenesss and start all over as a reptile!!!

haha "SPEED AND BLEED", so good

aw man i made a song somewhere out of road rash samples, if i can dig that up i will post it...

SPEED AND BLEED i was gonna mention that hah

adam i wanna hear that song!

yes do it

RRII is where i first came across the word "brah" iirc thanks to Hawaiian rival

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62 - Shinobi III - 47 points / 2 Votes

Real ninja sound effects

that top screenshot there is the ninjas on a surfboard level. it's that kind of game.

Ninja sound effects? b-b-b-but

unbelievable YUGE bosses, the best bosses, it's true

Here's the Road Rash song I made about 13 years ago:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9jqUOlcDLaKZzZHQ25Xb18xZHc/view?usp=sharing

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61 - Shadowrun - 47 points / 3 Votes

The ultimate foe? Your own mind.

foreshadowing the rest of your life

good work Adam, cop siren brought back the memories

I've tried playing through this on an emulator, but the combat seemed like a slog. Great atmosphere, though.

oh shit adam thats awesome haha

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60 - Kirby's Dream Land - 48 points / 2 Votes

So now that my kid is old enough to play video games I have downloaded some emulators and I ended up playing Aladdin for the first time in my life, and wow this game is really super cool, gameplay is super fun and the graphics are lovely, I can't believe it only got one vote in this poll!

Genesis version I assume.

Actually no I was playing the SNES version, and I just put the Genesis one to see if there was any difference and indeed it's a completely different game! I'll give this one a shot too but my first impression is I really miss being able to bounce around, swing on posts and rocks, climb on platforms etc. all the stuff you can do on the snes version. The graphics and animation are better on the genesis though, that's for sure.

Just watched a cool short doc about the making of the Genesis version (which I've still never played) SNES version was cool tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOnUITJqRQQ

This "Devs Play" video on Genesis Aladdin and Lion King is quite interesting. Like how they were forced to make one level in Lion King really hard so that kids couldn't see more than a certain percent of the game during a rental period.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kILeyo1iv0A

SNES Aladdin has a special place in my memory as I played it at a kiosk at Walt Disney World shortly after the game's release. I didn't play it again until I got a good emulator on my PC.

i tried to get into it recently as part of the big batch of titles i loaded onto my SNES mini.... i had a decent enough time bouncing around the first levels but apart from the beautifully done graphics it didn't grab me. i don't think it's a bad instance of its genre (maybe the controls could be a LITTLE tighter), but it's a genre that just isn't my jam these days: platformer with very large sprites and limited screen real estate, loose level design with a lot of meandering around unnecessary paths to collect stuff you don't strictly need.

but boy is it a great-looking game! such smooth animation in the sprites. back then it really did feel like playing a cartoon!

Imagine being 12 in the early nineties and someone told you you could download a file to your computer in 10 minutes and have access to virtually every Genesis/SNes game ever released? Mindblowing. I'm going through one of these bundles right now looking for hidden gems and while a lot of it is pure crap (Captain Novolin anyone?) there has been some rewarding finds:

Beyond Oasis: this Zelda-link RPG for Genesis lets you incarnate Ali, a young Prince who has found a magic gold armlet that once belonged to a wizard.

Trouble Shooter : a fun shoot-em-up in which you play two teenage girls with jetpacks trying to rescue a prince who was taken hostage. There is a real missed opportunity for a 2-player mode though.

Which brings me to a question: what's a good smu with a co-op mode? Nothing too frantic (i.e. not Gunstar Heroes) because my son is new to video games and still struggles with Mario.

lots of beat-em-ups would do the trick (final fight, streets of rage) but I’m not sure about shooters!

Might be good to find one that has a code (infinite health etc) to keep the little one happy!

yeah beat-em-ups seem easier to come up with, he's a fan of TMNT and Streets of Rage

one for the back pocket is Final Fight, starring Haggar and Cody. Haggar got so famous that he ended appearing in a couple other Capcom games. Cody is Patrick Swayze in Road House, so if you can say some of those catchphrases while fighting, it makes the game better. on top of all that:

Extra Credits
Enter your top 3 high score initials as CAP, COM, GUY (in that order) to start a new game with 5 Credits.

i was taking a quick look at smus for SNES, ran across this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXatiYxLl8g

the rare youtube game reviewer who isn't incredibly annoying! they go through pretty much every SMU on SNES in just a few minutes. Space Megaforce looks amazing! unfortunately you'd still need to figure out which ones are co-op and which are single player only.

hey thanks a lot I'll look into that

generation 6 incoming