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

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

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59 - Secret of Evermore - 50 points / 2 Votes

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

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58 - Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse - 50 points / 3 Votes

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!

loved this era of bragging about 16 bit consoles and 24 meg cartridges as if anybody knew what those numbers meant

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57 - Super Empire Strikes Back - 51 points / 3 Votes

MALOOOOOOOONE x-( x-(

shit

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56 - Contra 3: The Alien Wars - 53 points / 4 Votes

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55 - Final Fantasy V - 54 points / 2 Votes

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54 - Tetris Attack / Panel de Pon - 54 points / 3 Votes

only six left today but seems like i lost everyone so i am gonna post them a little more quickly

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53 - Shining Force - 56 points / 2 Votes

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52 - Front Mission - 57 points / 2 Votes

^ 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

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51 - Streets of Rage III - 61 points / 3 Votes

^have not played, but fighting kangaroo on box + old man metal arm = i am interested

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?

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50 - Zombies Ate My Neighbors - 61 points / 4 Votes

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

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48 - ActRaiser - 63 points / 3 Votes

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.

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48 - Micro Machines - 63 points / 3 Votes

That's the last one for today! More to come tomorrow. And then the day after.

Recap:

48 - Micro Machines - 63 points / 3 Votes
48 - ActRaiser - 63 points / 3 Votes
50 - Zombies Ate My Neighbors - 61 points / 4 Votes
51 - Streets of Rage III - 61 points / 3 Votes
52 - Front Mission - 57 points / 2 Votes
53 - Shining Force - 56 points / 2 Votes
54 - Tetris Attack / Panel de Pon - 54 points / 3 Votes
55 - Final Fantasy V - 54 points / 2 Votes
56 - Contra 3: The Alien Wars - 53 points / 4 Votes
57 - Super Empire Strikes Back - 51 points / 3 Votes
58 - Castle of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse - 50 points / 3 Votes
59 - Secret of Evermore - 50 points / 2 Votes
60 - Kirby's Dream Land - 48 points / 2 Votes
61 - Shadowrun - 47 points / 3 Votes
62 - Shinobi III - 47 points / 2 Votes
63 - Road Rash II - 46 points / 2 Votes
64 - E.V.O. The Search for Eden - 45 points / 2 Votes
65 - Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins - 44 points / 1 First-place votes / 2 Votes
66 - UN Squadron - 44 points / 2 Votes
66 - ToeJam & Earl in Panic on Funkatron - 44 points / 2 Votes
68 - Cannon Fodder - 43 points / 3 Votes
69 - Wonder Boy V: Monster World III - 43 points / 2 Votes
69 - Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen - 43 points / 2 Votes
69 - Castlevania: Bloodlines - 43 points / 2 Votes
72 - Nobunaga's Ambition - 42 points / 2 Votes
72 - Final Fantasy IV (II) - 42 points / 2 Votes
74 - On the Ball - 40 points / 1 First-place votes / 1 Vote
75 - Mortal Kombat 2 - 40 points / 2 Votes
76 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time - 38 points / 2 Votes
77 - Final Fight - 38 points / 1 Vote
77 - Rings of Power - 38 points / 1 Vote

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

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?

i definitely remember being amazed by how the mortal kombat characters looked just like real life. now i feel somewhat less amazed.

besides a couple of others that will certainly show up micro machines (well, the second one) was my favourite racing game of this era, and maybe the most fun multiplayer of all of them.

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.

although i said upthread that MKII deserved to place better tahn it did, this is otm. MKII is all about the fatalities, basically. the fighting itself was noticeably worse than SFII even when it was first released, and time has not treated it well. all the characters have the exact same speed, same jumping height and distance, everything. you're playing different versions of the same character, with different special moves and fatalities. SFII, of course, had a completely different feel depending on who you were playing as, not even taking special moves into account. still, MKII was such an important part of that era, and it deserves to place a little higher than it did.

not sure i ever played mk2 and i voted for 3, is 3 considered inferior?

3 had a weird lack of focus, MKII had that nice "Big Trouble in Little China" feeling to the aesthetic whereas 3 added cyborgs and Paul Blart mall cop.

MKII was a big one for me. i liked the first game enough to get the SNES version but MKII i remember knowing the release date and asking walmart to hold it for me. maybe the fighting game mechanics were sub-SF2 but to me it was a rich, deep game with a million secrets and little tricks. that they actually included "Friendship" and "Babality" options was kind of amazing at the time -- it was like a playground rumor come true.

TMNTIV is really something else. there's not much to the game, and you are sort of fighting one type of bad guy (foot clan soldier) throughout the entire game. and yet the presentation holds it all together. the music, the graphics, that neat mechanic where you fling your opponent forwards into the screen. i rented this game and beat it several times before bringing it back and then buying it anyways the next week. it was a hell of a lot of fun!

Tetris Attack, they need to remake that for phones

o wait i didn't vote for any mortal kombat. sorry mk, needed to make sure that sparkster gets the top 3 placing it deserves

many xps but EVO was the best
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wistful feeling of having missed out following these results. i guess i was just playing sensi soccer and football manager constantly on the amiga at this point, probably civ games. looking at the box art is terrific tho, totally transports me back to having to wait months to get a game, going into the shop every week and looking at the back of the box, expectations spiralling out of control. sort of similar now in a way, many of these i think i want to grab on an emulator but inevitably will disappoint.

Gonna post a little different today, since I have a lot to do not at the computer I'm going to to a little "sprint" every hour or so of like 8 things in rapid successiun.

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47 - Shining Force 2 - 64 points / 2 Votes