Author: John Legendoffzelda It’s clear that Capcom’s Mega Man 7 would like to be Mega Man X. The fact that both games were made with the same game engine handily symbolizes MM7 wanting to define what Mega Man is on the Super Nintendo. The main appeal of the Mega Man…
Author: Mongunzoo In 1994 the world of gaming changed. Donkey Kong Country proved that there was plenty of life for 16-bit machines outside gimmicky CD add-ons, Super Metroid showed gamers how deep 2D gameplay can go, and Final Fantasy III introduced RPG players to a brave new world.…
Author: Mr. Saturn What, never heard of this game? I don’t blame you. Despite my playing it in the mid-90s on a rent, I thought it was just a fever dream where my brain had cobbled together memories of other unmemorable platformers on the SNES. Heck, this game doesn’t…
Author: jrsupermoore Space … The final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before. Growing up in the 90s, there seemed to be…
Author: marktheshark Besides Space Invaders and Bubble Bobble, Bust-a-Move aka Puzzle Bobble is another one of Taito’s popular series. The Bust-a-Move series started a trend of cutesy anime puzzle games that lasted for a few years or so. The first game in the series was released in 1994 for…
Author: John Legendoffzelda While 1993 was a slow year for the Super Nintendo, Tradewest’s Plok! was especially overlooked. There doesn’t seem to be any good reason why at first glance; the game is a solid, functional platformer, and its look invokes the Kirby series’ balance of whimsy and…
Author: Mongunzoo If there is one thing I am sure of in this hobby, it’s that developers love surprises. Sometimes these are good, like A Link To The Past springing what at the time seemed like A GAME WITHIN A GAME on us after beating Aghanim. Sometimes…
Author: jrsupermoore I have a pleasantly nostalgic association with watching Major League Baseball (MLB) in its native environment, the ball park. Those long walks from car to stadium my brothers, dad and I took to save a few bucks on parking was as much a gameday ritual as…
Author: Mongunzoo I grew up a voracious reader. Sure, I was fascinated with Nintendo and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles like any other kid, yet nothing beat the thrill of sitting down with the old encyclopedias my parents gave me and learning about a world every bit as imaginative…
Author: Masamune When I see images like these, I remember my childhood love for comic books and that old 1960’s Batman TV series I watched in syndication. Who would of thought playing a Super NES game in the present would conjure up those long forgotten memories once again.…