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[NipplesAndToes23]

I never really understood the objective of the Jurassic Park game as a child I just wanted to kill dinosaurs and stuff. Then it had those FPS Doom sections, the game was weird it had GREAT music though.

This game destroyed me hard as a kid it's just Shinobi on SNES but with them Keita Amemiya designs. So good.

That cover is badass!

 

[Ninja Scooter]

I never got very far in it but I remember really having fun playing E.V.O.

 

[Host Samurai]

SNES era sprites give me such nostalgia. The entire console more than any other. I can look at SNES screen shots for hours

 

[Valjean Lafitte]

Taz-Mania and Road Runner's Death Valley Ralley. Two games I blissfully wasted many hours of my childhood with that it seems like few other people played.

 

[Bar81]

That cover is badass!

Not as badass as the real cover:

 

[Bar81]

This version specifically. Everyone always talks about Final Fight vs Streets of Rage. This is better than both.

Let's put down the pipe. Good game but not a patch on Bare Knuckle.

 

[Bar81]

Please stop perpetuating the myth that these games are actually good - they are poor Turrican clones that just happen to have the Turrican name on the cover. Try playing a proper Turrican game like Mega Turrican and then come back.

 

[Bar81]

THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE

It's crazy how few people know it even exists..

Not a patch on Assault Suits Valken. It's crazy overrated if anything by people who talk about it.

 

[Bar81]

Favorite game on SNES.



You shut your mouth!

There's nothing wrong with it being a game you like but that doesn't make it a good game.

 

[Bar81]

That's some insane import elitism right there. Removing

Spoiler

the suicide

= mutilated? Come on now.

It is what it is. I hope you don't actually think that's the only difference.

People can make up their own minds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOz3x-YHh4s

 

[@MUWANdo]

Please stop perpetuating the myth that these games are actually good - they are poor Turrican clones that just happen to have the Turrican name on the cover. Try playing a proper Turrican game like Mega Turrican and then come back.

They're not good games but they're worlds better than they would have been if they were "authentic" Turrican games.

 

[Bar81]

They're not good games but they're worlds better than they would have been if they were "authentic" Turrican games.

You don't like Turrican - fair enough. But let's not get crazy.

 

[Myansie]

6 posts in a row crazy?

 

[Bar81]

6 posts in a row crazy?

Pointless post crazy?

 

[DoDonGouki]

Please stop perpetuating the myth that these games are actually good - they are poor Turrican clones that just happen to have the Turrican name on the cover. Try playing a proper Turrican game like Mega Turrican and then come back.

These are good games in MY opinion and in the opinion of magazines back then.

 

[Red Chocobo]

Try playing a proper Turrican game like Mega Turrican and then come back.

Mega Turrican? Proper? Get that cheap knock off shit out of here.

Amiga Turrican's are the only proper ones.

 

[lazygecko]

I like Super Turrican 2. Better to judge that game on its own terms. And it's probably the best game Ocean ever published on the system compared to their heap of uninspired license games.

 

[Myansie]

Pointless post crazy?

Try using the edit button next time.

 

[Marceles]

This game with co-op was really fun

Super Smash TV Speed Run TAS

 

[Bar81]

Try using the edit button next time.

Try keeping it to yourself next time.

 

[Bar81]

These are good games in MY opinion and in the opinion of magazines back then.

Well, if the magazine said they're good, then they *must* be good.

 

[Bar81]

Mega Turrican? Proper? Get that cheap knock off shit out of here.

Amiga Turrican's are the only proper ones.

Errr... you do realize that Mega Turrican = Turrican III right?

 

[RoyaleDuke]

Such an amazing point and click cyberpunk RPG, I loved this game and Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars so much on the SNES.

 

[Red Chocobo]

Errr... you do realize that Mega Turrican = Turrican III right?

Turrican 3 was just a port of Mega Turrican to the Amiga. It didn't originate on the Amiga. Hence, it's not a "proper" Amiga Turrican. Only 1 & 2 are.

Always research before making arrogant statements.

 

[Soup Bar]

I'm not sure if this is made by the same people who did Blazing Lasers, but this plays similar. This game still looks great and the music is pretty good too.

 

[Bar81]

Turrican 3 was just a port of Mega Turrican to the Amiga. It didn't originate on the Amiga. Hence, it's not a "proper" Amiga Turrican. Only 1 & 2 are.

Always research before making arrogant statements.

You need to properly qualify your statements so you don't look as ignorant as you originally appeared to be. What you've said now actually makes sense.

 

[Host Samurai]

Did anybody else like this game? It was a nice beat em up platformer with a few mode 7 space shooting levels and a bunch of different endings. It was a fairly good game surprisingly.

 

[Spieler Eins]

They butchered the western version of this game so badly.

How so, outside of translation? I was thinking about getting this in VC for quite some time now (hopefully the Wii U shop will eventually see a Konami sale one day).

Also, I would have really liked to play that Zelda-esque Goemon on SNES... Too bad that unlike on Wii, import titles don't seem to be coming anymore on Wii U Virtual Console (I guess the N64 one was also pretty cool as a Zelda clone, but it really shows that it came out before OoT unfortunately).

 

[Canadian Psycho]

Like a super low rent Strider.

Yeah, it's mediocre at best, it's choppy as hell too. Another game that's now seen as "underrated" because it's been hyped by retro nerd Internet personalities.

 

[Adam Prime]

Sony made games on the SNES? who knew

Ummm... everyone. Comments like this show us your age! lol

 

[lazygecko]

I never really understood the objective of the Jurassic Park game as a child I just wanted to kill dinosaurs and stuff. Then it had those FPS Doom sections, the game was weird it had GREAT music though.

This game destroyed me hard as a kid it's just Shinobi on SNES but with them Keita Amemiya designs. So good.

First level has some sweet music. Even that is right in the spirit of Shinobi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-CfOgAiRd0

Love me some ninja slap bass action.

 

[Projectjustice]

So many, many hours...

Man i used to love this game. Aerobiz Supersonic was awesome too!

 

[Host Samurai]

Pretty much the only awesome Super Scope 6 game. I was hoping that Nintendo would remake the game for the Wii since it would benefit from motion pointer controls.

Before there was Wrestlemania 2000 and No Mercy we had

Sunk in plenty of hours

 

[Sapiens]

I'm not sure if this is made by the same people who did Blazing Lasers, but this plays similar. This game still looks great and the music is pretty good too.

It's an Aleste game, so Compile, I think.

Not underrated, though.

 

[p_xavier]

What were the sales total for each of these games? They must have been in the hundreds? In the SNES days, even great selling games weren't selling that much.

 

[Tenrius]

Sink or Swim.

It's like a puzzle platform game where you save sailors from drowning as water rises and floods the level.

I played the DOS version back in the day, it was indeed pretty good.

 

[Celine]

What were the sales total for each of these games? They must have been in the hundreds? In the SNES days, even great selling games weren't selling that much.

Great selling games sold million of units back in the days.

 

[Castef]

Kazunori Yamauchi's (yeah) Skyblazer is one of those unsung heroes of the library. I was pretty neutral on it initially, but it has grown on me.

Too easy, too short.

 

[p_xavier]

Great selling games sold million of units back in the days.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_video_games

Even Super Metroid barely sold a million copies...

 

[DoDonGouki]

Well, if the magazine said they're good, then they *must* be good.

OH NO !!! They were all wrong back in the 90´s ....but thank God we now have Bar81 who can tell us how shit these games really are.

 

[Celine]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_video_games

Even Super Metroid barely sold a million copies...

As you can see from that list great selling games sold in the million ;-)

EDIT:
Oh and by the way Super Metroid sold 1.42M, fifth best selling Metroid game.

 

[Kart94]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_video_games

Even Super Metroid barely sold a million copies...

I am interested and i am wondering how does a casper game on the snes that was released in 1996 *December in fact* a year after the movie manage to sell 1 million copies.

 

[Rymuth]

Playing through a campaign with co-op blew my mind at the time.

 

[lazygecko]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_video_games

Even Super Metroid barely sold a million copies...

I think emulation culture has done a lot to skew our perception of the 16-bit market. Most notably I think JRPGs really ballooned in popularity years after the SNES had its heyday, making them culturally much bigger than they were sales wise in the west. No RPG reached a million sold units outside of Japan. Final Fantasy 1 on the NES was the only one that got even close with about 800k.

 

[MrCunningham]

= RICH KID

At what point did you ever have to be rich to own Mario Paint + the mouse? I don't remember it costing much more than a standard SNES game, and I owned this as a kid.

 

[120v]

released in japan as "jerry boy"... pretty solid and underrated platformer. the beginning stages start out pretty standard but get more more creative as you go on. it uses effects that were impressive at the time and the soundtrack is incredible.

it got a sequel that never made it to the west. it was ok but a lot of the charm was missing

 

[Celine]

I think emulation culture has done a lot to skew our perception of the 16-bit market. Most notably I think JRPGs really ballooned in popularity years after the SNES had its heyday, making them culturally much bigger than they were sales wise in the west. No RPG reached a million sold units outside of Japan. Final Fantasy 1 on the NES was the only one that got even close with about 800k.

Yes, they were very popular in Japan but not much outside of it.
However perception is skewed even on how successful JRPG were outside Japan during PS1/PS2 gens.
It was mostly Square RPG who were popular the rest not so much (with a few exception).

 

[SirUltimos]

Never see anyone mention this.

I came into this thread to mention this. Granted, I haven't played it in years but I remember it being a really fun platformer with some great level design.

 

[punkmaggit]

Smartball was actually a really decent platforms with some awesome music from a young Akira Yamaoka.

 

[Dragoon En Regalia]

Smart Ball was one of Game Freak's early games, so it's at least interesting from a historical perspective.