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, 4 October 2016 20:03 (seven years ago) link
i didn't play road rash til PSX era but it was an absolute classic
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
racing games have never got better than whipping some dude with a chain whilst avoiding oncoming traffic
― don't even see how this was a duck (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:04 (seven years ago) link
i loved the different US regions and the "amusing" character quotes between races, game is perfectly balanced imo
― don't even see how this was a duck (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
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
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
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
― 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!!!
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link
haha "SPEED AND BLEED", so good
― erudite beach boys fan (sheesh), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link
aw man i made a song somewhere out of road rash samples, if i can dig that up i will post it...
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link
SPEED AND BLEED i was gonna mention that hah
adam i wanna hear that song!
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
yes do it
― don't even see how this was a duck (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
RRII is where i first came across the word "brah" iirc thanks to Hawaiian rival
― don't even see how this was a duck (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Pr9eWZj.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/86Et0lm.jpg62 - Shinobi III - 47 points / 2 Votes
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
Real ninja sound effects
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
that top screenshot there is the ninjas on a surfboard level. it's that kind of game.
Ninja sound effects? b-b-b-but
― don't even see how this was a duck (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
unbelievable YUGE bosses, the best bosses, it's true
― cookware regression (Dinsdale), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
Here's the Road Rash song I made about 13 years ago:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9jqUOlcDLaKZzZHQ25Xb18xZHc/view?usp=sharing
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/jc9Nxra.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/wsB3K2B.jpg61 - Shadowrun - 47 points / 3 Votes
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:16 (seven years ago) link
The ultimate foe? Your own mind.
foreshadowing the rest of your life
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:18 (seven years ago) link
good work Adam, cop siren brought back the memories
― don't even see how this was a duck (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:19 (seven years ago) link
I've tried playing through this on an emulator, but the combat seemed like a slog. Great atmosphere, though.
― one way street, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
oh shit adam thats awesome haha
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ikspYpr.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/wUWpU0E.jpg60 - Kirby's Dream Land - 48 points / 2 Votes
http://i.imgur.com/KdPTgQi.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/syjHLDR.jpg59 - Secret of Evermore - 50 points / 2 Votes
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
i also bought evermore on ebay years later intending to play it at some point, but i was never able to figure out how to play it right. i'll have to go back one day, the tim rogers love affair with it pretty much sold me.
http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=390
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/UgWYMU4.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/IH8L3PM.jpg58 - Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse - 50 points / 3 Votes
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:38 (seven years ago) link
I very nearly beat Secret of Evermore back in the day, but my younger brother OVERWROTE MY SAVE FILE as he hastily, thoughtlessly saved his own and I haven't played it since. I am still traumatized. Great game though!
― erudite beach boys fan (sheesh), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
loved this era of bragging about 16 bit consoles and 24 meg cartridges as if anybody knew what those numbers meant
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ah7BE2Z.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/jDsYu7A.jpg57 - Super Empire Strikes Back - 51 points / 3 Votes
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
MALOOOOOOOONE x-( x-(
― lazy rascals, spending their substance, and more, in riotous living (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
shit
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/Super_Star_Wars_-_The_Empire_Strikes_Back_Coverart.png
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/0DxLxEz.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/WGV914s.jpg56 - Contra 3: The Alien Wars - 53 points / 4 Votes
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/1VYttrH.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/YjZJZQa.jpg55 - Final Fantasy V - 54 points / 2 Votes
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/wVw19oX.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/RALyBvK.jpg54 - Tetris Attack / Panel de Pon - 54 points / 3 Votes
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:16 (seven years ago) link
only six left today but seems like i lost everyone so i am gonna post them a little more quickly
http://i.imgur.com/2rOtKzJ.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/9kGabL4.jpg53 - Shining Force - 56 points / 2 Votes
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:22 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/i219DSx.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/TJJTyCA.jpg52 - Front Mission - 57 points / 2 Votes
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:26 (seven years ago) link
^ SUCH a good game. played through a fan translation on an emulator and again when it came out officially on DS. so great. and the shop menu music is the chillest of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkMhJ6STWzY
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:28 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/JGqV0Ea.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/pIuPKBd.jpg51 - Streets of Rage III - 61 points / 3 Votes
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:30 (seven years ago) link
^have not played, but fighting kangaroo on box + old man metal arm = i am interested
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:31 (seven years ago) link
Wait, the box says the cyborg is the newcomer. So this game-series created new fighters, and thought of a kangaroo before they thought of a cyborg?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/m8ELeWy.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/FL0wd9O.jpg50 - Zombies Ate My Neighbors - 61 points / 4 Votes
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link
protip for SOR3: if you avoid killing the kangaroo when you get to him (and just take out his trainer) you can play as him
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/XRsOd63.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/aNvdZ8S.jpg48 - ActRaiser - 63 points / 3 Votes
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:47 (seven years ago) link
ActRaiser haunts me to this day, because I never played it. so many times at movie gallery, deciding which game to rent, always starting in alphabetical order. ActRaiser always caught my eye, every single time, and I'd look at the back of the box, almost decide to give it a try, then pass.
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:51 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/nsrn27M.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/1sWny6g.jpg48 - Micro Machines - 63 points / 3 Votes
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
That's the last one for today! More to come tomorrow. And then the day after.
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
Recap:
48 - Micro Machines - 63 points / 3 Votes48 - ActRaiser - 63 points / 3 Votes50 - Zombies Ate My Neighbors - 61 points / 4 Votes51 - Streets of Rage III - 61 points / 3 Votes52 - Front Mission - 57 points / 2 Votes53 - Shining Force - 56 points / 2 Votes54 - Tetris Attack / Panel de Pon - 54 points / 3 Votes55 - Final Fantasy V - 54 points / 2 Votes56 - Contra 3: The Alien Wars - 53 points / 4 Votes57 - Super Empire Strikes Back - 51 points / 3 Votes58 - Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse - 50 points / 3 Votes59 - Secret of Evermore - 50 points / 2 Votes60 - Kirby's Dream Land - 48 points / 2 Votes61 - Shadowrun - 47 points / 3 Votes62 - Shinobi III - 47 points / 2 Votes63 - Road Rash II - 46 points / 2 Votes64 - E.V.O. The Search for Eden - 45 points / 2 Votes65 - Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins - 44 points / 1 First-place votes / 2 Votes66 - UN Squadron - 44 points / 2 Votes66 - ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkatron - 44 points / 2 Votes68 - Cannon Fodder - 43 points / 3 Votes69 - Wonder Boy V: Monster World III - 43 points / 2 Votes69 - Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen - 43 points / 2 Votes69 - Castlevania: Bloodlines - 43 points / 2 Votes72 - Nobunaga's Ambition - 42 points / 2 Votes72 - Final Fantasy IV (II) - 42 points / 2 Votes74 - On the Ball - 40 points / 1 First-place votes / 1 Vote75 - Mortal Kombat 2 - 40 points / 2 Votes76 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time - 38 points / 2 Votes77 - Final Fight - 38 points / 1 Vote77 - Rings of Power - 38 points / 1 Vote
― a simba man (Will M.), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
KM you should play ActRaiser it's good
FF2 with only two votes is insane but I guess everyone opted for 3 instead and didn't want to waste two votes on FF games
Secret of Evermore is amazing & I'm glad it made the cut
― esempiu (crüt), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 22:38 (seven years ago) link
and we're off! woohoo!!!
stunned at 'turtles in time' getting only two votes. in the very wacky Dom poll of 2008 it was the #56 greatest game ever. obviously that is crazy, but i think a lot of people treated it as stand-in for its genre. and surely there is not a better home-console version of the 2.5D side-scrolling cooperative beat-em-up? colorful, fast, fun, satisfying, trading on a popular license but by no means coasting on it. yeah i dug streets of rage too, but only because all i had was a genesis. at the very least, this has to be the best turtles game ever made, besides the arcade one itself.
i want to say mortal kombat never ever spoke to me as much as street fighter - it was just uglier, and SO much stiffer in terms of control and animation. but i have to cast my brain back to 6th grade and remember that i, too, gazed deeply into the magazine screenshots showing the differences between the SNES and Genesis versions. was this my first encounter with the idea of "censorship" in my actual lived experience? the injustice of that blood turned into sweat! laughable! i definitely rented the game and played it very thoroughly, and i'm sure the digitized actors wowed me more back then than they do now... but i really don't think there's all that much to it. also about half the characters are pretty boring. i basically never played the sequels except once or twice at friends' houses. not enough to make any sense of the giant casts of characters, or learn any moves or anything.
tetris attack is a real hoot. not much to say about it beyond that - if you haven't played it, play it, but play it two player.
shining force is great and REALLY fascinated me in 1993. as i said in the voting thread, it hasn't held up so well in terms of certain gameplay and interface choices, and (aside from a couple of hidden character things) it's painfully linear. very close to someone's observation about final fantasy I, on last year's poll, that essentially once you put your name in you are done making choices for the rest of the game.
zombies ate my neighbors is way too hard, but it is great co-op fun. the kind of thing where if you don't personally need to beat it, you can be satisfied playing the first few levels over and over. very fun music too IIRC.
man, seeing the box art nice and big is a good reminder that while the NES era gets most of the lolz for terrible cover art, it definitely did not end there. "shinobi iii" looks so cheap and generic.
several of these - ogre battle, actraiser, shadowrun - are ones i always heard i needed to play but never once saw a copy of, and somehow just forgot to ever check out via emu. others, like 'on the ball,' are totally new to me. this is fun!
is secret of evermore really an okay game? i remember starting it, getting a little while in and being like "this seems like it's for littler kids than me." but if you take away all the trappings/reputation around it, is it basically fun?
― DOCTOR CAISNO, BYCREATIVELABBUS (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 4 October 2016 22:46 (seven years ago) link