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

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12 - Super Mario Kart - 204 points / 1 First-place vote / 11 Votes

i was always Yoshi.

wow super mario kart pretty low imo. will m correct that f zero lives in its shadow.

link's awakening has an eerie, melancholy vibe in locations, music, and yes, eventually, story: it's a small personal/metaphysical quest rather than an epic opportunity to save the world; the final boss shuffles through the forms of classic zelda bosses past; the "wind fish" might be link, or dreamed by link, or sharing link's dream, or something, it's pretty rad for a zelda plot

when i try to decide whether link's awakening or link to the past is better i end up stacking all that stuff ^^^ up against the guy who lives under one of the bridges in lttp

Sonic 1 > Sonic 2. Trippier bonus round.

SMK too low, game is top 3 of ALL TIME hands down

I'd have to agree with that.

but....tethering.

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11 - Super Bomberman - 209 points / 9 Votes

xpost i get why it's there, and it's part of why people love the game (you can be bad and still have a chance to win) but i wish they would have included an option to turn it off

wtf is tethering?

slowing down the winners and speeding up the losers to keep the race close. "rubber band" effect.

whoever is ahead gets punished by being artificially slowed down and giving everyone who's behind better items so they can catch up.
same thing happens in nba jam and other games

like i said i get why it's there and it definitely makes it a much better party game. no one wants to sit around playing with the mario kart expert who crushes everyone every single time

i just wish there was an option to turn it off

Super Bomberman caught my eye when Next Generation magazine named Super Bomberman 2 the third-greatest game of all time purely on the basis of the multiplayer game. I bought it and liked it, but I could only play two player. I didn't have enough friends.

smk's powerup ration scheme provides an interesting incentive to not always be at the head of the pack (maybe duck back a minute or so and see if you get a triple-redshell instead of another banana, then pull forward)

named Super Bomberman 2 the third-greatest game of all time purely on the basis of the multiplayer game

too low

these last few games look like something i would have chosen, with bomberman, yes, a little higher

it was an awesome party game

i never played or got into the zelda games for the gameboy though

So many times I would immediately accidentally get caught and blow myself up, and then you just have to sit there and wait for the other players to finish the game. After a while I was like fuck this!

also i played donkey kong country so much...that probably would be in my top 10

bomberman is one giant cross-generational votesplit: i've never played super bomberman 2 and i don't even know which bomberman on which system i should actually be championing. (on the NES poll i put a bomberman at #1 on principle that turned out to have no multiplayer or something.) but bomberman-the-concept is so so so good, absolutely one of the very small handful of best multiplayer games.

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amazing list, changed my life, got me into so much good shit

snes super bomberman 2 rules them all dude

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10 - StarFox - 218 points / 9 Votes

xp to mr snrub that lsit has nhl powerplay at #40, what the

lots of fun things on that list. i had to smile and agree with marble madness at #15, although i'm sure no one else would agree today!

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9 - Secret of Mana - 222 points / 11 Votes

that action button secret of evermore review was heavily critical of secret of mana, but secret of mana rules. i haven't played evermore, so perhaps it's even better, but that still wouldn't diminish the greatness of mana.

one key, though, is that i played through it with my sister. the multiplayer aspect of it was key.

this thread has convinced me I need an SNES emulator right now. Only ever had Genesis from this generation :(

ps I assume everyone is listening to this reading the rollout? https://nmesh.bandcamp.com/album/welcome-to-warp-zone-4-hour-vgm-mix

i bought an snes controller with a usb adapter and it works amazingly well

xp

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8 - Super Metroid - 288 points / 11 Votes

Note the point jump, getting into rarified air now

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7 - Street Fighter II & SFII' Turbo - 292 points / 11 Votes

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6 - Earthbound - 304 points / 3 First-place votes / 11 Votes

OHHH NOOOO

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MALOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONE

sorry everyone.

Man, that Edge article has me salivating about the next generation, and it hadn't even got to the good stuff yet.

turns out that the thing i do on ilx where entire words and even parts of phrases go mysteriously missing in the middle of sentences, also happens when i fill in a spreadsheet. i tried to be careful.

*ducks*

on the plus side i think i'm going to give emulated link's awakening a try today. never owned the original gameboy, so i'm looking forward to it! also the super mario lands

play mario lands w sound on! hopefully emulator doesnt sound bad!

have tried and failed to love Super Metroid and Earthbound. i get why people like the latter and maybe i just need to get further in but it just drags for me

super metroid took me a while too but i did eventually get it

here we go... top 5 incoming!

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5 - Tetris - 313 points / 1 First-place vote / 13 Votes

i loved super metroid because of the mood it created

i used to play at night in the dark and loved the music

at the time, the worlds seemed so big and crazy, and the 'puzzles' were enough to keep me engaged

but i had already been a massive fan since the first nes game

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4 - Final Fantasy VI (III) - 371 points / 2 First-place votes / 12 Votes

I get it with FF3 but I don't GET IT get it. There are just a lot of other jRPGs I love a lot more on the SNES. then again that's a lot of nostalgia and maybe not necessarily taste? like i have a uge soft spot for illusion of gaia. is it a bad game? i can't remember!

also where did everyone go it's the final 3 soon!

still hungover :/ i feel much the same as you about the whole FF series

pretty sure i know what the top 2 are, just not the order

actually i can guess the order