mandlecreed

Poking around in old games is great fun, used to do it in Mario World back in the day with the Action Replay. One of the best codes I found changed Mario's physics so he died in the title screen, you could then take over, playing the title screen level, which is slightly different to the Special Zone "Groovy" level it appears to use.

Still my favourite opening FMV of any game ever.

EVER.

Once phoned the Nintendo Hotline while a friend and I was playing his copy of Zelda 2. They couldn't help us as they "didn't have the maps."

Thank you, Ninty Hotline 😂

I always thought the silver GameCube with the glass mirrored front was the best one. shifty eyes emoji

Also, loved the purple colour but even I thought it was a strange choice given consoles were usually black at the time.

Pesky things. Though I did get the "achievement" for catching five of the ruddy things in a row - five trees in succession dropped a nest for me last night. I mean, there's only five trees on my island IN TOTAL at the moment due to refurbishment, BUT ANYWAY.

Not far off a million in the month is marvellous for Metroid. Mmm yes.

"Outside of that, the design is identical to the Super Mario Bros. version – save the neat inclusion of the Triforce, which is embossed on the rear of the unit and actually lights up."

Excerpt from the review - was this text added after the original posting of the article? Or is there ANOTHER Triforce? 😂

Being a 42 year old gaming kinda chap, I have just booked myself in to the nearest care home.

It's for the best.

The knockabout weapon physics are still the series' best, but that CPU rubber banding... Sometimes it seems the CPU forgets it's caught up to you and before you know it they're half a lap in front of you with no way of catching them 😂 otherwise, it's a rollicking good time.

Totally unexpected, but my word, such a good choice.

That's the presenter choices nailed, let's now hope the content does it all justice.

People called Romanes, they go the house?

It's a gorgeous thing, just don't acidentally pop a 240 volt power supply in it, as the safety fuse doesn't always protect it... as I found out. Mine is now just a very nice looking ornament 😂

My earliest memory of Zelda (I was about 11/12 at the time) was watching an old school friend playing this strange looking platform game where his character swung a sword, at head height, or knee height. He was in a palace, apparently, and having difficulty killing the "boss" of said palace, asked if I wanted a go. So I did. After getting to grips with the combat, and being delighted that pushing down in mid-air made the character stab downwards, I managed to kill the boss. Barba, its name was. Big dragon thing. Pain in the ass to kill. But kill it I did. I knew I needed to carry on playing this game, so my mate and I teamed up to carry on. Never did finish it, mind, and the Nintendo Hotline was useless when we rang 'em. Didn't have the maps, it seemed 😂.

It was Zelda 2, it was my first Zelda, and I still love the thing today.

Hands up if you have a Panasonic Q that you killed when you popped in a 240v plug in error, and the safety fuse didn't do its job... ...

Just me then?

Oh cries in burnt circuitry

The Super Mario 3 run with mitchflowerpower and TheHaxor was great to watch, particularly a fan of TheHaxor's demeanour as he runs. I need to catch up on a lot of the event, but I did also enjoy the Majora's Mask, Mischief Makers, GTA3, and Paper Mario runs muchly. Yes. And $2.9mil isn't to be sniffed at!

Gradius V plz. I did enjoy that on Ye Olde Ps2e.

No Cannon Fodder in the list what now? In all seriousness, the GBC port was fantastic given the hardware it was on.

And then the only motivator will be profit, and yeah, down that there hill it goes.

The Super Metroid race should be an absolute sight to behold.

Also MISCHIEF MAKERS omg.

Yeaaaah, it's a bit of a clusterf-ruitcake on the One S, so lord knows how they could strip it back well enough for the humble Switch.

No Faxanadu? I am doin a sad.

I can't believe Animorphs hasn't made the list*

*I totally can. Although, the speedruns of it by Keizaron at GDQ are hilarious.

Blimey, they managed to make the US SNES look sorta pretty 😂

Could do with one for my US SNES seeing as it's a bit yellow and has a ruddy great hole in one side 🙄

Soul Blazer / Illusion of [insert regional word] / Terranigma / The Granstream Saga

P L E A S E

I still PERSONALLY believe that Link To The Past is the most perfectly constructed and fat free Zelda out there, and remains my favourite to this day. But I love Zelda 2 to bits as well so what do I know 😂

Ohhh. This is one of the bonus games in SNES Mystical Ninja, isn't it. Well. It looks like it anyway xD

Ohhhhhhhh I need this.

And I am now going to play Actraiser from beginning to end. As soon as I've made coffee.

Just about all 50 are absolute classics in my book, and shows just how many SNES games utterly hit the spot. You could probably add another 30-40 top notch games to the list too before running out of excellence.

Well played, thought my browser was going scatty for a sec 😂

Have the almighty Scot Scullion review it, and if it's utter mince, he can call it BIG-JOBBY-CAR Racing.

That's it. That's the post.

Shall keep an eye on this fer sure. My only thing with it was it all seemed a bit too floaty-light. Nothing seemed to have any heft to it. If that makes sense...

@noswitchbutidc EXACTLY like Sonic and Knuckles xD

I have two heh. Both PAL ones though, and they do look a little silly sat on top a convertor cartridge in my US SNES.

He needs to start aging like a normal human being first of all. It's a bit rude of him looking so young at his age.

Ahhh. So that's why my Switch kept displaying a "could not thingummy do-dah DNS server" error.

*can't remember EXACTLY what it said.

My only concern here is that it claims (well, "suggests") the official dock causes "overheating" - why put such a thing in, unless you're trying to sort of goad/trick folk in to backing this.

Metroid Prime 4.

Downloaded the JP demo a while back and the framerate utterly tanks at times of on-screen busy-ness.

Also, the joycons vibrate like there's something wrong with 'em when the tremors hit 😂

At my last count, and given my collection dates back to 1992, I have 104 SNES/SFC games in my collection. And an awful lot of them are Very Good Indeed™

Something something "not what I personally want" something something snide remark because it's "not what I personally want" something something clever retort because it's "not what I personally want" something something jump on the hate bandwagon because...oh sod this.

I agree they should be treated differently. "Pro" players found cheating should also pay a fine related to the money they earn in order to set a better example to those steamers who may be thinking of going pro.

The "finish Super Mario 3 in three seconds" glitch (performed by TASBOT) is my favourite glitch.

https://youtu.be/EHfw-BEuRO8?t=4409

This. Changes. Everything.

Got this on PC, and for the money it's an absolute cracker of a rhythm game. The music is brill, the neon hued graphics hit the spot and it provides a good challenge.

Deffo a solid 7 from me.

If it's the NTSC version of Mario Kart in this lot, the CPU karts don't actually cheat/rubber band against you - if you're good enough you can amass a whopping lead, and even lap them (but they will rubber band against each other, oddly). It was the weirdly "optimised" PAL version that saw them get a bit cheaty at times

This makes me want to rewatch the AGDQ 2017 run of Super Metroid Rotation (the 90 degree rotated version of the game that RupeeClock mentioned)

I've only ever had the disc read error on dual layer discs for the Wii.

My Panasonic Q stopped working, but that's a) not really Nintendo hardware, and b) entirely my fault for slapping a 240 volt power supply in to it - not even the safety fuse saved it 😂

May as well just bin all these projects off and just make "Lootbox x Microtransaction : The Game," eh, Activision?

Not holding out much hope but... PLEASE BE GOOD PLEASE BE GOOD PLEASE BE GOOD

Speaking of bricked systems, ArsTechnica did an interesting article as to why third party stuff kills Switches :

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/heres-why-nintendo-switch-consoles-keep-frying/