On April 30 2011 01:49 iNcontroL wrote: going to have to agree.. SNES was the shit.
Secret of Mana , FF , UFO HUNTERSSSSSSSSSSSSS
That's what I like to hear.
And yea, Chill speaks the truth. I couldn't afford to just up and buy games -- I got one or two a year -- so once, maybe twice a month I got to rent a game. He totally forgot the part where when the game you want ISN'T there, and you're jonesin', it's like a surprise jelly bean that could be either amazing, or puke-flavoured. You pick a game, and that's your fucking game you play for two days, good or bad, 'cause you paid for that shit.
VmanOfMana, I salute you. Requesting re-naming my account to Doom Wall or Dark Lich, BRB.
More seriously there's too many amazing SNES games to ever make a list. Best console ever.
Oh yeah, Act Raiser was freaking awesome. Who'd have thought mixing Sim City with side scrolling action would make a good game. It's a shame the sequel wasn't anywhere near as good
On April 30 2011 01:39 Chill wrote: Renting games was so dope, holy shit. This is something our kids are definitely going to miss.
When you went to rent a game, there was a such a mix of feelings. You get to play an entirely new game. When you go to the movie store, there's literally hundreds of games, many of which you've never heard of and just choose based on the picture and the back of the box. Sometimes you want a specific game, but you get to the store and it's not there. Then, when you get the game, the countdown begins. You have 1 (or 2, or 3 or 7, depending on the store) days to maximize your experience with the game. It wasn't uncommon for me to get up at 5 AM and get downstairs to play a SNES rental, and then stay in front of the TV all day until 8 PM. Any time spent away for the TV was lost potential and reduced value from the rental.
I also miss renting games. It was such a good way of discovering games that were unknown to you (remember, no internet). One of my favourite SNES rentals was Super Swiv.
Renting was still alive and well for the N64. I remember renting Starfox so many times I think I could have bought the game 3 times over by the end. Renting Yoshi's Story also prevented me from wasting money on buying it because it was too easy.
It's a real shame renting is pretty much dead now, none of the rental stores have any decent games and the selection is always really poor. Maybe that's just a reflection of what's available though.
Also I just now thought of another great game:
I remember spending so long with a bunch of friends trying to collectively finish the game. We'd each take turns when someone died or lost a race, so much fun.
Well there are sites like http://www.gamefly.com/ so its not entirely dead. I too have fond memories of renting and remember a few games I rented again and again (FF6) and a couple games where I had them well past when they were due so I could beat them lol.
Anyways this thread is lacking more games! It's doing the SNES a dishonor...
These might actually end up on my personal favorites list... + Show Spoiler +
These ones probably not, but they're still amazing games + Show Spoiler +
and some awesome incredibly Japanese style games: + Show Spoiler +
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Mega Man X.... so good. The Donkey Kong countries as well. All those have amazing memories for me.
More recently I've gotten to enjoy FFVI, Secret of Mana, and Chronotrigger on emulator but I never played em' as a kid. I think people need to keep in mind people make these lists based on what they played as a kid, and there are a lot of great games out there.
Gotta agree with Chill on renting games. I was such a dumb kid, I rented Super Smash Bros. for the N64 like, a million times before I decided I'd ask my parents to buy it.
On April 29 2011 23:41 KingDime wrote: Some people are more interested in certain genres and also i'm sure most did not own every game available on the system. My "biased" opinion for older games would pretty much entitle a bunch of sonic games, killer instinct, eternal champions and maximum carnage.
With so few games there it may seem like I wasn't really a gamer but it's more the case that I was more into getting really good at a few games rather than playing a lot of games. In retrospect, I missed out on a lot of fantastic games out there but I had a blast playing the ones mentioned above.
you never rented games?
Renting games was so dope, holy shit. This is something our kids are definitely going to miss.
When you went to rent a game, there was a such a mix of feelings. You get to play an entirely new game. When you go to the movie store, there's literally hundreds of games, many of which you've never heard of and just choose based on the picture and the back of the box. Sometimes you want a specific game, but you get to the store and it's not there. Then, when you get the game, the countdown begins. You have 1 (or 2, or 3 or 7, depending on the store) days to maximize your experience with the game. It wasn't uncommon for me to get up at 5 AM and get downstairs to play a SNES rental, and then stay in front of the TV all day until 8 PM. Any time spent away for the TV was lost potential and reduced value from the rental.
Don't even get me started on the techniques like marking the cartridge so that when you re-rented it you could get the same save game.
I'm getting insanely nostalgic about this. Renting video games is such an amazing memory for me.
guy having sleep overs with friends/cousins and then you all goto blockbuster and had to collectively pick out games ... so good
solid enough list but lol no super metroid and having smrpg #1 is odd even if you're a huge rpg fan given that chrono trigger and earthbound were also on the console
I know many people seem to be upset or puzzled that I didn't include certain games they love. I didn't own Super Metroid, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, and any Final Fantasy game, among others. I only played what I had and this is my experience with playing those games.
Feel free to recommend me some games because I still play my SNES.
I also want to note that renting games was indeed awesome...for the most part. But one day I rented Mario is Missing and I never quite looked forward to renting games as much after that incident.
Grew up a Sega guy, but I can't argue about SNES being a great system back then, so much great games on it. Good list. TMNT and all the Mario games, Micromachines, oh yes. And WrestleMania, The Arcade Game
:D I love these lists though... Obviously not everyone's are going to be the same and I like how insightful you were with how and why you loved the games. You obviously have a deep love for my favorite system and for that, you have my respect, sir!
On April 29 2011 23:41 KingDime wrote: Some people are more interested in certain genres and also i'm sure most did not own every game available on the system. My "biased" opinion for older games would pretty much entitle a bunch of sonic games, killer instinct, eternal champions and maximum carnage.
With so few games there it may seem like I wasn't really a gamer but it's more the case that I was more into getting really good at a few games rather than playing a lot of games. In retrospect, I missed out on a lot of fantastic games out there but I had a blast playing the ones mentioned above.
you never rented games?
Renting games was so dope, holy shit. This is something our kids are definitely going to miss.
When you went to rent a game, there was a such a mix of feelings. You get to play an entirely new game. When you go to the movie store, there's literally hundreds of games, many of which you've never heard of and just choose based on the picture and the back of the box. Sometimes you want a specific game, but you get to the store and it's not there. Then, when you get the game, the countdown begins. You have 1 (or 2, or 3 or 7, depending on the store) days to maximize your experience with the game. It wasn't uncommon for me to get up at 5 AM and get downstairs to play a SNES rental, and then stay in front of the TV all day until 8 PM. Any time spent away for the TV was lost potential and reduced value from the rental.
Don't even get me started on the techniques like marking the cartridge so that when you re-rented it you could get the same save game.
I'm getting insanely nostalgic about this. Renting video games is such an amazing memory for me.
I know this was Necro'd, but reading this gave me so much nostalgia. Renting video games was the best thing ever. It was always such a rush looking through tons of games and making your decision purely based on the pictures on the box + the text on the back. In many ways i'm sad that our kids will grow up with all of the information that the internet offers.
I remember playing games so many times with my brothers that we would make up our own challenges to make them harder once we beat them. We would do things like try to beat Megaman X without using any boss abilities and no charging up, or going through Final Fantasy III without using Espers. We'd squeeze the maximum amount of value out of every game we got, because we knew that it would be a long time before we were able to get something new to consume all of our free time.
I saved a lot of old games and systems that I grew up with because dammit, my kids are going to play the same games that I did growing up. I just hope that they are able to have the same experience despite games nowadays having better graphics.
There were a lot of benefits of not knowing everything about every big game release before it came out. It's really too bad that the next generation simply won't be able to have those experiences.
EPT
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