Topic: Ill-feelings towards SNES-era Nintendo?

[Ian Sane]

So was Another World or Out of this World as it is known in North America.

[darknight06]

That's what I thought.  I remember one time playing Spiderman/X-Men on SNES (Superman 64 level crap)  and someone came up while I was on it and said something around the lines of "They made Marvel look toddler, that's why I can't stand Nintendo."  Keep in mind that there was also a Game Boy version, a Game Gear version, and a *gulp* GENESIS version, which aside from even weaker color, looked virtually identical.   It's funny though, I've seen some defend the lacking color palette of the Genesis saying things like, it gave the games a grittier more mature look.  

[The Omen]

Genesis took about 50% of the market from the NES, because Nintenod were caught with their pants down and didn't have the SNES ready to go.  The Genesis had about a year and a half head start.  I believe the SNES ended up with about 60% of the market when all was said and done.  Mode 7!

I still think the SNES is the best system ever.  The RPGs alone made it the system to buy.  Add in Nintendo first party games, and it was dominate.  

[darknight06]

Boy did Sega go on the attack during those days too.  I still remember the commercials they had during that time,  "Gennnesis does... What Nintendo doesn't, Gennnesis does, Gennnesis does, 16 BIT Graphics...  ah those were the days.

[Aussie Ben PGC]

 

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I still think the SNES is the best system ever. The RPGs alone made it the system to buy. Add in Nintendo first party games, and it was dominate.

Wow, RPGs?  It must have been nice to have those.

For goodness sake, I remember having to rent an import version of Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage because it wasn't released locally.

[oohhboy]

If you ask me the rpgs of the time were extreamly cookie cutter. Almost all of them were the same square based menu combat system set in some quasi middle evil fantasy theme. Even the vaunted Crono trigger starts off there.

[Ian Sane]

"If you ask me the rpgs of the time were extreamly cookie cutter. Almost all of them were the same square based menu combat system set in some quasi middle evil fantasy theme."

True but you have to remember that at the time this was still a reasonably new idea.  A game like Final Fantasy IV may look generic and cookie cutter now but at the time it was way beyond any RPG that had been on the NES.  Plus it's not like RPGs aren't even MORE cookie cutter now.

[Aussie Ben PGC]

Are you kidding?  The only way I could get Illusion of Gaia was through import.  And I never could find Soulblazer.  Got Terranigma though.  *sigh*  [Insert moaning about modern games not being as good as old ones here]

[xts3]

Anyone who thinks the genesis was in the lead was an idiot the sales numbers for the SNES total around ~50-60 million, what playstation / PS2 now does.  There was no contest the genesis lost once the super Nintendo was released because of all the great 3rd party games plus Nintendo's own killer line up it was the best system ever.  It was probably THE golden age of video gaming.  Playstation was good but they started having way more 'filler' and cookie cutter games after that.  Even today, even though the PS2 has the most and best games I and I'm sure others feel that 90% of the games lost the 'fun factor'  way more games during the SNES era had.  The fun that a lot of modern games totally lack.  Being a part of the 16-bit era was a time when new lots of genres and game mechanics that wouldn't change for years to come were being defined and invented.

 

[Bill Aurion]

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Originally posted by: Aussie Ben PGC
Are you kidding?  The only way I could get Illusion of Gaia was through import.  And I never could find Soulblazer.  Got Terranigma though.  *sigh*  [Insert moaning about modern games not being as good as old ones here]

Terranigma is the only good one of those anyway! (More like Terranigma is one of the best games of all-time! =D)