purple_beard Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 (edited) Hardware Classics: The Super Famicom Is 30 Today - Nintendo Life Man, what nostalgia reading that article. My brother and I got ours from Brendle's via layaway via our selling of concessions at ECU football games. It was a great day that day to walk in and payout the final balance and take it home. So many fond gaming memories came with that system and games. Off the top of my head we had Super Mario World 1 and 2, Super Mario All Stars, Super Mario Kart, Mario Paint, A Link to the Past, Tetris Dr. Mario, Yoshi's Cookie, Zoop, Final Fantasy __, Donkey Kong Countries, F Zero, Super Metroid, .... and I think I am missing about 10 more somewhere down the line.... Damn, Super Mario RPG, *not* sure we owned or borrowed SimCity, ActRaiser was epic, Secret of Mana was epic, not sure if we owned or borrowed Tetris Attack, ... Edited November 22, 2020 by purple_beard Kezay 1 Quote Link to comment
Kezay Posted November 22, 2020 Share Posted November 22, 2020 (edited) The SNES was definitely the console that cemented me as a gamer for life. My family had the NES and my favorite game of all time SMB3 created some great memories, but I think the SNES was where it really hit home. Before we ever got it my cousins had it for Christmas with games like Super Mario World, Final Fight, Madden and ActRaiser. When we finally got it we had all of those games (sans Actraiser) but then Sim City and F-Zero were added to the mix. So many hours spent in games like Super Mario World and my older brother and dad with Madden. Frustrating times with Final Fight since as a kid I could never get past the wrestling boss that used a katana (forgot his name). Sim City I didn't understand as I would just build stuff until I ran out of money or got so bored I ravaged my cities with disasters. F-Zero... I honestly think that if not for my dad I may not be as big a fan of F-Zero as I am now. He played that game a ton back in the day and much like SMB3 for the NES, F-Zero became our little "bonding game" for the SNES. But that was launch window stuff. Throughout the years as my younger bro Krazy grew older and capable of playing with the controller we started to bond over a ton of different games like Mario World, the DKC games, Kirby Superstar, Super Mario RPG... so many games creating so many memories. There's a lot about that era of gaming that just felt, for lack of a better word, pure and exciting. I still remember the hype among my classmates in 5th grade when Mortal Kombat 3 came around. I remember getting Super Street Fighter II for my birthday and just having tournaments with my dad, brothers and cousin. Anyway, I don't want to gush on and on walking down memory lane. The SNES just holds a very strong place in my own personal history growing up and taking this nostalgia trip has been a great callback to those times. BTW, am I the only one that preferred the NA SNES design? I'm a bit biased as my favorite color is purple but still XD Edited November 22, 2020 by Kezay purple_beard and TKrazyO 1 1 Quote Link to comment
purple_beard Posted November 23, 2020 Author Share Posted November 23, 2020 1 hour ago, Kezay said: BTW, am I the only one that preferred the NA SNES design? I'm a bit biased as my favorite color is purple but still XD I mean, I liked the four color button idea on the controllers but I liked the NA SNES design and the muted gray and purple design was fine with me. Quote Link to comment
Fuzzer1 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 So why did our version have a different design and button color scheme that the rest of the world did? Wasn't old enough to play it being born in 1992, but from what I can see of the NA SNES and the Super Famicom online, it seems strange that ours was an outlier since Europe apparently had the SNES name but the Super Famicom version. purple_beard 1 Quote Link to comment
Eliwood8 Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 14 hours ago, Fuzzer1 said: So why did our version have a different design and button color scheme that the rest of the world did? Wasn't old enough to play it being born in 1992, but from what I can see of the NA SNES and the Super Famicom online, it seems strange that ours was an outlier since Europe apparently had the SNES name but the Super Famicom version. Nintendo of America designers/marketers didn't like the look of the Japanese original, simple as that. Lance Barr, designer at NoA, thought it had a "bag of bread" look. They also wanted to make sure the console would look good with attachments/additions, and thought the blockier design worked better for that. I admit I like the NA version better as well, though at least part of that is probably just familiarity. The SNES feels like the definitive video game console of my childhood; it's the first one that I actually played myself extensively instead of just watching my older siblings play, and many of its games remain some of my absolute favorites of all time. We had a good sized library of games and this was also during the height of renting games from Blockbuster for us so we also played a lot of stuff that we never ended up owning. purple_beard and Kezay 1 1 Quote Link to comment
DLurkster Posted November 23, 2020 Share Posted November 23, 2020 I believed I said this before but I never owned SNES then or now (have the SNES Classic Edition, tho) but my cousin(s) one had a genesis and the other SNES. I grew up both with the Mario's, Sonic's, Karting and Starfox but like Kezay, the SNES tho I never owned one cement my place in gaming once I got N64. I owned NES but was never really sold on what gaming was till the SNES. And I also like the colors they chose for the SNES and the controllers as well too. Quote Link to comment
purple_beard Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 Well, in regards to some comments here: Junior High= NES Senior High = SNES College = N64, GC Post College graduation = GC still, it came in between college graduation and starting/finishing grad school Mid 30s = Wii Late 30s = WiiU Early 40s = Switch College and Grad school came at the times I was spending more time trying to succeed with school work, and then having a job to support myself that I couldn't game as much as my high school days. I still was able to put some work in with all nighters gaming win the N64 and GC though. Living on my own and not having cable tv as an option had me get back into some critical N64 titles I never got into. Also allowed for me to put some time into the GC games I had. Wii-Switch era has been kind of an odd era, while I kind of game more, "life" and "work" has kind of kept gaming sessions to minimums unless the particular game has "that thing" that I will gravitate to over other things. Quote Link to comment
Dancing Mog Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 I think my first experience w/ the SNES was an evening where my parents went out and my oldest brother hooked up the system to the living room TV and i played A Link to the Past. It was nice to have older brothers to help me out w/ games, like i used to have problems in one dark room in particular in Turtle Rock as a kid but now it's nothing. purple_beard 1 Quote Link to comment
Kezay Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 On 11/23/2020 at 7:36 PM, purple_beard said: Well, in regards to some comments here: Junior High= NES Senior High = SNES College = N64, GC Post College graduation = GC still, it came in between college graduation and starting/finishing grad school Mid 30s = Wii Late 30s = WiiU Early 40s = Switch College and Grad school came at the times I was spending more time trying to succeed with school work, and then having a job to support myself that I couldn't game as much as my high school days. I still was able to put some work in with all nighters gaming win the N64 and GC though. Living on my own and not having cable tv as an option had me get back into some critical N64 titles I never got into. Also allowed for me to put some time into the GC games I had. Wii-Switch era has been kind of an odd era, while I kind of game more, "life" and "work" has kind of kept gaming sessions to minimums unless the particular game has "that thing" that I will gravitate to over other things. For me: Elementary = NES/ SNES Junior High = N64 Senior High = Gamecube College = Wii/Wii U Post Grad = Switch My college years and onward I was working but the early days of the Wii I was still a scrub at my job so my responsibilities were minimal. College wasn't too bad then either so I had a ton of time to game. It was around the later years of the Wii's life and on into Wii U that my gaming time dwindled as accelerated and promoted into new positions where I worked among other things. My current job after Toys R Us, while great especially with pay and benefits, doesn't leave me much time to game as much as I'd like. It's one of those jobs where core hours are 8-5 but if you're in a leadership role your working hours are basically core hours plus additional time as needed and this job uses the "as needed" part extensively. Past month and a half I've put in 60+ hour weeks and being salaried I don't qualify for overtime. So my gaming time has been almost non existent outside of Mario Kart night and the few times I've fired up my switch to get some more time with Xenoblade Chronicles and now Age of Calamity. Once I hit two years with my new gig I may start job hunting elsewhere as the work life balance is not that great and putting in an additional 20-30 hours per week basically for free is starting to wear out its welcome. purple_beard 1 Quote Link to comment
April Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 this is the freshest looking version of the console imo US controller is bottom tier though. concave buttons are ass Quote Link to comment
purple_beard Posted November 27, 2020 Author Share Posted November 27, 2020 1 hour ago, Pichi said: this is the freshest looking version of the console imo US controller is bottom tier though. concave buttons are ass What the F* edition was that? I know they did two versions of the nes. Quote Link to comment
April Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, purple_beard said: What the F* edition was that? I know they did two versions of the nes. the SNS-101. pretty much same deal as the nes one. a streamlined late model. it's 1-chip like the later regular SNES models although it lacks some things. the svideo connections aren't complete for example. you have to solder them lol. unlike the toploader NES though it isn't region free or anything Edited November 27, 2020 by Pichi Quote Link to comment
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