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I have a gig in Milwaukee tonight, and I'm picking mine up from my dad's house. The Xbox is going into the closet for awhile.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

anyone ever play shadowrun? I'd never heard of it till I read about it in this month's gamesTM

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allen, what's it like?

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 14 October 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I played it for Genesis, it was pretty crazy. Very open-ended...you're basically wandering around the streets looking for people to give you jobs that may or may not have anything to do with the "storyline". I never got very far, but I would try to break into office buildings that were way out of my league and see how far I could get. I don't think I ever "jacked in".

I'd like to play this again, I wonder if the SNES version is any different?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 14 October 2005 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

Shadowrun as far as i can remember is a cyberpunk rpg based on a pen and paper rpg maybe called shadowrun too. The mega drive and Snes ones were completely different games altogether but both rpgs, i think the mega drive one was better.

Jacking into the matrix was great but i was playing on an emulator and just cheated everytime i got killed by ICE, i think i'll go through it after i've finished FFT without doing that.

― jeffrey (johnson), Friday, 14 October 2005 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link

I HAVE TEH SNES.

Apparently I don't have shit for games though, all I could find was Super Mario World and SFII Turbo (and some crap like Flashback and Super Empire Strikes back). I'm looking forward to getting some of stuff mentioned in this thread.

(Okay, Flashback isn't crap, I just don't have the patience for it right now).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 October 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link

During an impromptu stopover at a coworkers' condo on Friday afternoon en route to Employee Relations Training I discovered that my wonky colleague has both the 8-bit and 16-bit NESes still in working order and that he also has nicely canonical collections of cartridges for each! Fuckin' blast from the past.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 17 October 2005 16:32 (eighteen years ago) link

EARTHBOUND. Tim Rogers' love letter to Shigesato Itoi is helpful in this regard.

― litwack, Monday, 17 October 2005 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Secret of Manna
Whatever that fucking Unicyle game is called (er was it Unicycle?)
Sunset Riders

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 17 October 2005 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

unirider

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 17 October 2005 19:49 (eighteen years ago) link

That Tim Rogers post is really an excellent piece in that it makes the game seem about 500x better than I can recall any aspect of it being, the one time I tried it out on an emulator.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 17 October 2005 20:11 (eighteen years ago) link

Tom,
For me the game is amazing compared to the (relatively) humorless Final Fantasy/Dragon Quest games it followed. It doesn't hurt that Itoi was/is tight with Haruki Murakami; if you're a fan, Earthbound/Mother seems exactly the kind of game one of HM's protagonists would play.

― litwack, Monday, 17 October 2005 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Was the Super Mario RPG on the SNES? I remember that game being tons of fun, but I havent been able to check it out again to see if Im right or if it really sucks.

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:54 (eighteen years ago) link

It was on the Snes. Paper Mario was the follow up AND he was made of paper, that was N64. Paper Mario 2 is Gamecube, they are all incredible.

― jeffrey (johnson), Monday, 17 October 2005 23:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Uniracers, actually.

And Super Empire Strikes Back rules!

― The Yellow Kid, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 02:36 (eighteen years ago) link

How is Super Mario World 2? You never hear about that one.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 03:27 (eighteen years ago) link

d00d thats oyshi island we talked about it

― allenalenelnalenelnae (allenriley), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 05:33 (eighteen years ago) link

I love the part in Yoshi's Island where the giant chain chomps launch out of the distant background, and then plummet into your immediate foreground burrowing enormous holes through the ground in front of you. The game design is so creative--at least where I am now on the second world, my feeling is that your opponents are not the enemies so much as the levels themselves. The enemies are more tools than actual challenges (the Koopas look and act mildly retarded). This is a completely worthy successor to Super Mario World, in large part because it wasn't afraid to be different from it.

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:28 (eighteen years ago) link

that game is such a joy to play...

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link

I was worried that being constricted to being on yoshi's back all the time would be far too limiting... and with my lack of imagination thought that it'd be a re-hash of the yoshi abilities from SMW... wrong! thank god... have you got to the bit where yoshi turns into a helicopter (!!) yet?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:44 (eighteen years ago) link

haha i am in level two of yoshi's island too.

the yoshi turning into things bits are ok, but the egg thing is a rilly genius way to structure it as something mildly puzzlelike.

the fact that if you fuck up you can always try and catch baby mario is a nice twist, b/c it gives a nicer, saner, sort of "breathing room" than losing one time mushroom powerups, etc.

the first time i lost mario i freaked the hell out. now i'm used to it happening a few times per level.

i also like the self-conscious nod of bringing back the super mario 2 characters, and the hovering jump is so addictive!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 11:59 (eighteen years ago) link

there's a great bit towards the end of one of the levels where I was just running comfortably towards the big finishing ring, thinking I'd completed the stage easily... and as you run through a fore-grounded bush you emerge the other side without mario... I didn't realise for about 3 seconds and just continued onto the end... jumped through the hoop and had no idea why the stage didn't complete... then I realised... some little guy in the bush runs off with mario and you have to chase him down...

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Yeah, in effect the baby mario function is similar to the two stage power up sequence of going Raccoon/fireball --> Big Mario --> Small Mario, except that it's much easier to recover baby Mario than to get more powerups.
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― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link

d00d thats oyshi island we talked about it

Ohhhh. I'll play it in my scheduled SNES renaissance.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Where's the love for Donkey Cong Country, another beautiful platform game.

The underwater levels were just so nicely designed.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:14 (eighteen years ago) link

great indiana jones style cart levels in that and the barrel-shooting timing of GOD requirements! a great game... what was the sequel like?

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link

I can't remember if I played it.

The barrel shooting was amazing, you'd complete a section and be like "how the fuck did I just do that!"

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link

I was thinking yesterday that frequently the mark of a really fun game is being able to a) perform very complicated/amazing feats b) go to the absolute brink of peril and somehow manage to return from it. They give you the feeling of virtuosity.

This is why I so enjoy the way katamaris can pull themselves back from the most extreme angles and edges.

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:30 (eighteen years ago) link

I still have never played Katamari, and have no idea what it is, maybe I should remedy this.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

That Tim Rogers article is amazing and absolutely OTM. I remember my fifth-grade self trembling uncomfortably during the battle with Giygas.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 18 October 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

donkey kong country is just slightly above average. it has MINE CART STAGES for fucks sake, the biggest platformer cliche of all.

the first sequel is very similar and I never played the third one.

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:12 (eighteen years ago) link

one game no one's mentioned yet: SOUL BLAZER. never played it on the console, only played it once I found rom sites and tried playing everything. it's a great zelda type game where the gimmick is that you can hit orbs in dungeons that build up the towns in the overworld.

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Tuesday, 18 October 2005 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link

ok yeah with the help of some cheats (i don't have time to play fair!!) and a walkthru i just beat super metroid in like 8 hours total. it was still massively fun.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 02:34 (eighteen years ago) link

First time I played S. Metroid I had to cheat to get out of that pit you're supposed to wall-jump out of. The wall-jumping is the weakest part of the game in my opinion.

― abanana, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Sometimes I go to this zen place with walljumping and can scale enormous heights effortlessly, and sometimes I lose it and just flail against the walls. It's weird.

― Laura H. (laurah), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma are like the triumvirate of why I think the Seiken Densetsu series ain't actually so hot. All of them are must-plays in my book, though it's been a long time since I was able to get anywhere in SB I think. I still remember staying up late in the WUTK office where I had my Mac 8500 plugged into the campus network, playing all those games on an emulator and listening to ATCQ's "The Love Movement" on repeat!

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 14:06 (eighteen years ago) link

All the games in the SB/IoG/Terranigma series bug me out something fierce and I don't know why.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 19 October 2005 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

I like when you eat your pet pig in Illusion of Gaia. Also, I still have and unfortunately wear my pack-in Illusion of Gaia t-Shirt.

― allenalenelnalenelnae (allenriley), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link

"Also, I still have and unfortunately wear my pack-in Illusion of Gaia t-Shirt."

BROTHER!!!

― :[ (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 20 October 2005 01:52 (eighteen years ago) link

when i got spin attack my walljumping went all to hell. now along with yoshi's island i'm playing tetris attack a bunch. can't get past stage 4. my combo skillz are weak. beat the "easy" vs. computer tho.

think i'll get a gameboy emu just for yoshi's egg. i played that game all the time.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 20 October 2005 02:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Is that the same game as "Mario and Yoshi" over here, where you've got stars, mushrooms and flowers coming down from the top of the screen and you've got to trap them between halves of eggs? If so, brilliant game!

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 20 October 2005 08:53 (eighteen years ago) link

where does this auper-archive of snes roms exist and could somebody YSI it for me?

― TOMBOT, Sunday, 30 October 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

"auper" duhhhhhh

― TOMBOT, Sunday, 30 October 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

www.mininova.org/tor/20103 ??

― unconscious, honey (FE7), Sunday, 30 October 2005 19:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Itoi has joked on his blog, which covers numerous lovely topics, and very rarely mentions videogames, that he'd like to see Mother 3 receive a limited release on Super Famicom as well.

― c7n (Cozen), Sunday, 30 October 2005 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link

i cant believe that snes collection. how much longer before theres a 10 terabyte ps archive?

― unconscious, honey (FE7), Monday, 31 October 2005 21:42 (eighteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...

I can't believe that trying to get snes roms is even MORE retarded than it was 4 years ago.

SO MUCH FARMING OF COCK going on. Enough to make a sequel to "Harvest Moon" from it.

GODDAMMIT I JUST WANT A ROM OF EARTHBOUND IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD

in other news, i found my four-year-old savestates from the last time I played Chrono Trigger. Should I beat the rest of the game, or start over from the beginning?

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 19 November 2005 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

p2p rather than actual emulation sites seems to work a lot lot better for me for finding single roms. I have earthbound rom somewhere if yr still looking it i cld YSI or e-mail

― jeffrey (johnson), Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:07 (eighteen years ago) link

GODDAMMIT I JUST WANT A ROM OF EARTHBOUND IS THAT SO FUCKING HARD

*cough*planetemu dot net*cough*

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link

I would play Harvest Cock.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm pretty sure the Japanese will have made a game that involves Cock Harvesting.

― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Sunday, 20 November 2005 12:48 (eighteen years ago) link

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punishingly difficult opponents

and yet!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emfbB89ZquY

― Evan, Wednesday, 14 February 2018 19:50 (six years ago) link

okay that’s nuts

― albondigas con gas (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 19:54 (six years ago) link

YAY

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Wednesday, 14 February 2018 20:09 (six years ago) link

one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0w2lrn0a4Q
This isn't a rom hack unfortunately. Just really good video editing.

― He said captain, I said wot (FlopsyDuck), Friday, 13 April 2018 12:42 (six years ago) link

one year passes...

I miss Chrono Trigger so much... This is ridiculous

― frame casual (dog latin), Friday, 19 July 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link

lol

there was a snes console in my dreams last night. the one belonging to my brother and i broke many years back and is sitting uselessly in my parents' attic. in the dream it had came back to life and there were new titles to play on it

― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 July 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link

little nemo 2019: the post-apocalyptic dream master

― Karl Malone, Friday, 19 July 2019 18:25 (four years ago) link

oh yeah, for north american readers who enjoy upward scrolling SHMUPs and use an emulator: play pop'n twinbee. great game, never released in north america

― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 July 2019 18:32 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9vh3nTdMhw

― bookmarkflaglink (jim in vancouver), Friday, 19 July 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link

dl, getcherself a Vita! Its optimal function as far as I can tell is as a portable old-school RPG device. I have mine loaded up with practically every major game of the genre through at least like '95.

― My nephew accidentally swalled five quarters and thee dimes. (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 July 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link

OL, can you perhaps explain how i'd get homebrew working on a vita?

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 19 July 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link

That I don't know, but a ridiculous number of these things are available via above-board means. Pretty much all the early Ys and Mana and Phantasy Star and FF games, most of the stuff released on PS1, a bunch of SNES ports.

― My nephew accidentally swalled five quarters and thee dimes. (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 July 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link

four months pass...

Soul Blazer is underrated!

― 💠 (crüt), Saturday, 7 December 2019 02:33 (four years ago) link

32gb card (heard things about larger cards sometimes not working), 2 wired snes-ripoff controllers that are p great, and a preorder copy of this book lol https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2146199819/the-unofficial-snes-super-famicom-a-visual-compend

― sleepingbag, Wednesday, August 2, 2017 8:12 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink

my book never arrived!

― lumen (esby), Saturday, 7 December 2019 03:06 (four years ago) link

That’s kickstarter for ya

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 7 December 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link

eleven months pass...

After watching all those Super Mario Maker vids I got the itch, but don't have a Switch. So I pulled out this old 'FC Twin' bootleg machine that plays both NES and SNES cartridges (it has an 8 bit/16 bit switch and two slots), and the original Super Mario World.

I'd forgotten that even when you save your game (which you can only do after beating certain worlds), it doesn't save your extra lives or powerups. And after moving the console, the screen got all glitchy so I hit reset, and all the save slots were cleared. It's all part of the experience.

― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 November 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link

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