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

I had a n64 but I only had two games & they were good & I'll vote for them but then I lent it to my brother who then lent it to his girlfriend's brother but then they broke up & that's my sole exposure to this generation, never even saw a ps1 in person, so my ballot will be those two games but I think one of them will win the whole poll so I don't feel that bad RIP

p stoked to give some love to Blast Corps and Tetrisphere

first thing i thought of with this poll was "i'm going to make room on my ballot for Blast Corps, even though i only got to watch my friend play it for 2 hours that one time". looked amazing (at the time)!

i haven't played Blast Corps since probably 1998 but i remember it being such a jam. there's one vehicle with bad, shitty control, but otherwise it's the best-ever spiritual successor to Rampage: you take all your big toy construction trucks and smash all the buildings!!!!!

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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:

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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