Post by Lionheart on Jul 26, 2009 23:17:22 GMT -5
I grew up in the 16-bit era of the early and mid 90's. Back then I didn't have any video games because my parents (mostly my mom) thought they would rot my brain, kill my imagination, that sort of thing.
Now that I'm an adult and my parents can't tell me what to do, and other stuff has already rotted my brain, and my imagination has long since been crushed by the cruel realities of the world, I'm getting to re-live (?) the childhood I never had by catching up on the great video games of that era, mostly SNES stuff.
What I'd like from all of you is to help me share the joy and make up for lost time by suggesting good SNES games besides the obvious. No Mario, no Zelda, no Chrono Trigger...all of those games are marvelous, and I've got them, but I'm looking for little-known, overlooked, and underappreciated classics.
To start things off...The Firemen, which was released in Europe and Japan but sadly never in the US.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn3FuXBHQHs
I've only had time to mess around with the first couple of levels of this one, but it's really a kick. Very unique gameplay that's fairly intuitive to pick up but difficult to get really good at, partially due to the inherent difficulty of directing the hose's spray accurately with the (by today's standards primitive) SNES directional controls.
Edit: Also worth noting is that this game is by HUMAN Entertainment, the people behind the Fire Pro Wrestling games we all know and love, and some of the menu selection sounds are the same as the ones in the SNES FP games, which I appreciate.
Please, plug your favorite lesser-known SNES games.
Now that I'm an adult and my parents can't tell me what to do, and other stuff has already rotted my brain, and my imagination has long since been crushed by the cruel realities of the world, I'm getting to re-live (?) the childhood I never had by catching up on the great video games of that era, mostly SNES stuff.
What I'd like from all of you is to help me share the joy and make up for lost time by suggesting good SNES games besides the obvious. No Mario, no Zelda, no Chrono Trigger...all of those games are marvelous, and I've got them, but I'm looking for little-known, overlooked, and underappreciated classics.
To start things off...The Firemen, which was released in Europe and Japan but sadly never in the US.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn3FuXBHQHs
I've only had time to mess around with the first couple of levels of this one, but it's really a kick. Very unique gameplay that's fairly intuitive to pick up but difficult to get really good at, partially due to the inherent difficulty of directing the hose's spray accurately with the (by today's standards primitive) SNES directional controls.
Edit: Also worth noting is that this game is by HUMAN Entertainment, the people behind the Fire Pro Wrestling games we all know and love, and some of the menu selection sounds are the same as the ones in the SNES FP games, which I appreciate.
Please, plug your favorite lesser-known SNES games.
