Console Game Poll vol. 2 - Vote for the best 4th Generation Console Games (SNES, Genesis, Game Boy, etc) here! (Ballot Deadline: September 26th)

I'm looking at you, Noodle Vague and BradNelson and f sharp and ste and crut and sheesh and kingfish and tombot and le hague and intheblanks and polyphonic and original bgm and the once-ler and doctor casino and difficult listening hour and old lunch and it's a boy and thomp and mordy! I'M LOOKING AT ALL OF YOU

A month would be great! As alluded to upthread or...I dunno, somewhere, I've been in the midst of renovation-related moving and all my gaming stuff has been boxed up and in storage. This will give me time to utilize something other than hazy memories in casting my ballot.

ain't my fault! I totally voted with an hour or two to spare, forgot to post about it here tho sorry.

rock the vote!

oh man, spaced, will do it this week

yeah i really want to put more time into my ballot. super busy at work :(

Let's say September 26th then. Anyone reading this have the ability to change the topic?

Thanks, Will. This has been One Crazy Summer and the postponement will help greatly.

How many total ballots currently?

less than 15 iirc, i imagine we can do far better than that!

agreed

this stuff is so completely part of our cultural heritage (and/or paucity thereof, but for a different thread)

Whew, really glad for the extension - opened thread prepared to type ''shit shit shit can't believe I missed this.''

this stuff is so completely part of our cultural heritage (and/or paucity thereof, but for a different thread)

― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Monday, August 29, 2016 4:32 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

interesting that so much of it came from Japan! one of the few areas of western pop culture dominated by eastern producers

I'm glad that more people are going to vote, but have to admit that part of me was happy that my #1 choice (marvel puzzle quest, of course) would have greater influence with only 15 voters.

i am kind of bummed at how boring the rest of my ballot is, for the most part, though. even just limiting myself to SNES only, there are so many stone cold classics that it's impossible not to vote for.

you haven't experienced marvel puzzle quest until you've played it on the neo geo

Toughest stuff to rank in my ballot: all the multiplayer smashes that I know prompted endless hours of fun, surprise take-downs and devastating combos in earlier years, but which can't really deliver any of that on an emulator, single-player. I assure you that Metal Warriors, Tetris Attack, Rock 'n' Roll Racing, Super Bomberman (in my case, Super Bomberman 3, but whatever) and Zombies Ate My Neighbors all deserve your votes, but how I would rank them versus the staggering, genre-defining one-player classics, I have no idea.

Oddly, I can handle dropping Street Fighter II and Turtles in Time into the ranking just fine - maybe their pleasures are more basically sugar-rushy and need no present-day play to clarify.

SFII is among the most important games in my personal pantheon; I would sooner drop tetris.

And i'm very bad at it! But I spent so long trying.

my challopsy opinion is that tetris attack is the greatest multiplayer tetris game of them all. but yeah, 1P version, not as exciting. i think it still made my ballot though.

i voted for whichever would i rather play right now over whichever is the "better game". so instead of big pantheon stuff like Super Mario World/Zelda: ALTTP i voted Rondo of Blood, Revenge of Shinboi, etc.

Rondo of Blood rules, and in a way that clicks exactly with my idea of what I want to pick up and play now - ready-to-roll action in a package that you could really take on in an afternoon, no problem. Not too many buttons, either. In a way it might be the best Castlevania game - it's a regression from where the series was going up to that point, but it returns to the punchy simplicity of the first game and basically gives it a makeover while lowering its psychotic difficulty to where you could really hand it to somebody cold and trust that they'd enjoy themselves with it. Super Castlevania IV is close to this same idea, but IIRC a good bit longer and considerably harder. Dracula X68000 I never knew about until high school when a friend was struggling to emulate it and reported back on its staggering graphics and boss fights....

My ballot's a mix of "play it now" and "best," partly cause "best" sorta overlaps with "happiest memories" and those may make me feel like picking up and playing!

oh shit oh shit did I miss it again

no! deadline bumped down to 9/26.

yeah i have tons of great excuses but i will get on this

http://www.mancrates.com/crates/super-retro-gamer/

2 classic Super Nintendo games
(randomly selected from an assortment of time-honored, awesome games)

I bet!

classics like the nba live game they feature on the main photo (the snes versions of it have not aged well at all)

i will try to do this by the end of this week but a reminder around friday would really help

https://gmail.googleblog.com/2016/04/reminders-come-to-google-calendar-on-the-web.html

that man crates site is infuriating

the comments!

I'm looking at you, Noodle Vague and BradNelson and f sharp and ste and crut and sheesh and kingfish and tombot and le hague and intheblanks and polyphonic and original bgm and the once-ler and doctor casino and difficult listening hour and old lunch and it's a boy and thomp and mordy! I'M LOOKING AT ALL OF YOU

― a simba man (Will M.), Monday, August 29, 2016 8:32 AM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dude so sorry about this. i never check this thread and i'm super busy this entire month unfortunately

sorry for being lame

voted

i meant to play more of these again before voting but it's never going to happen (still haven't even ordered the snes usb controller i wanted to pick up) so this is entirely based off what i loved as a child

I did just enough dipping into games a few weeks ago to do some rearranging of the lower half of the ballot. The top was a lot easier - played the shit out of them and recalling their qualities and shortcomings is practically SPINAL FUNCTION.

Yeah, same here! I tried to channel long lost Nintendo reflex intuition when picking games

Ballot is tough but thankfully I'm able to drop some games (even though they're classics) because I had them on PC and therefore never bought their console version (Lemmings, Another World, Populous etc.).

oh shit i would've voted for another world but i knew it as out of this world and i missed it in the list (where i know it's listed w/ both names but i guess i was scanning too quickly)

you can totally send a v2.0 if you want

My memories of that game are much fonder than my current feelings from replaying it and trying to figure out what the fuck I'm supposed to do to get past the point five minutes in where I've died approximately one billion times so far.

Imma break out my PS3 Genesis collection this weekend and try to ballot it up soon thereafter.

another world is on ios and kinda cheap

thank u friendly neighborhood mod for editing the title!

NEW DEADLINE IN 11 DAYS

Do I have to attach a spreadsheet to the e-mail or can I just put the list in the message?

list in e-mail is fine! ideally a copy paste from the original list tho :) thanks!

gotcha, thanks

I gave Another World a spin recently and was sad to realize that despite its super amazng atmosphere it's a pretty dubious gaming experience. If I understand it right, the company was inspired by an Amiga port of Dragon's Lair, and boy does it feel like it - a 100% linear experience where every encounter has exactly one correct move and everything else is instant death, sending you back to redo a bunch of stuff. I imagine back in the day it could have been really satisfying to work it all out through trial and (endless) error, and then nail it on one perfect run, but in 2016 I just couldn't get with that. I do love the graphics and the learn/infer from almost no information approach to story and world.

i'm not sure if i ever played another world but i associate it strongly with flashback, which in my memory is great and weird and atmospheric and cinematic but maybe wouldn't hold up now. as i recall i never did get past a part where you have to compete in a running man-style game show.

i won't have time to re-play stuff but as this was my #1 gaming generation i'll try to throw together a ballot based on fuzzy memories alone

My tuba

Dragon's Lair was exactly the comparison I wanted to make last night but I couldn't be bothered to wrestle with my phone. Pretty games for their time, sure, but basically just unfun memory tests on the narrowest of rails.

speaking of basically just unfun memory tests on the narrowest of rails, can we talk about Time Traveler?

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