Haven't you heard retro is cool (Nintendo Super NES)

Member Name: Luce100

Product:	Nintendo Super NES
Date:	20/06/02 (499 review reads)
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Advantages: great games , great control pad, cool retro graphics

Disadvantages: some crap games

Ah, I got my Super(and indeed it is) Nintendo waaaaay back in the christmas of 1993...or was it 1995? 1993 was the year methinks. I recieved it from my parents with a copy of Super Mario World, Joe & Mac and Jurassic Park(the game that clinched my suspicions I would be getting a SNES for christmas...when they bought that, they had to buy something for me to play it on!). Jurassic Park was way too scary for me, then a mere...lemme think...erm...9? 2001...2000..1999...1998...ermegod...no...8? I don't know and I don't care, alls that I remember is I loved it.

Great graphics, a superbly comfortable gaming pad(just compare it to the rectangles that were nes pads...or even worse, the overly light sega pads), and a library of quality games, which may have not been anywhere as nearly as large as the choice for sega, but were always undoubtedly better. I had over 20 games in the end, and a sad day it was for me when production of snes games stopped.

Who can forget the revolutionary Starwing? The awe-inspiring graphical sublimity of the rejuvenated Donkey Kong series? Gaming had never been so good, and from there, I have to say with a heavy heart, it has declined. The Snes nurtured the brilliance of companies such as Square(Chrono Trigger) and Rare(Donkey Kong)--hey they rhyme! -- and gave me many hundreds of hours of wasted youth. It gave us the third installment of the immensley excellent Zelda series, and I almost lost my thumbs to Mortal Kombat 3 and Super Street Fighter Turbo! Football games were aplenty, but ISS was a standout in its time(a trend konami has continued above and beyong the early days). There was trash too. Kevin Keegan's football manager was terrible, Flashback was so gorgeous yet so impossibly difficult I sold it for a mere 2.50 at EB, then wanted it back. But there was Mario Allstars, the entire mario series on one single catridge! How did they do it? Thank god they did. The SNES is the single reason to my devotion to Nin
tendo. Will they recapture these golden days with the Gamecube? One can pray. Will square comeback and give us a game worthy of matching chrono trigger?

Sound was also sublime at times(the ending theme of Starwing was excellent, the tunes of every donkey kong game amazing) and for a while it seemed the Super Nintendo would go on forever. Alas, along came the next generation, along came Sony(Nintendo were originally going to make the PS with Sony and backed down at the last moment - fools...or where they?), the Sega Saturn and the long enduring but admittedly lame and blind N64...and the SNES was swept away. His little brother remained(in the form of the gameboy) but the SNES will always have a special place in my heart.

Super it was.

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