100%'d a Super Metroid run in under 2 1/2 hours without having to lookup where any items were. Those hundreds of hours playing Super Metroid/Link to the Past random item location mashup really paid off.
Super WrestleMania on SNES was the most mindblowing shit I had ever seen when they showed it on GamePro TV. At the time I was a huge mark for any game with digitized graphics and Super WM started with this very impressive photo of the Hulkster, plus crystal-clear pics of all the wrestlers in the game on the select screen. I thought the in-game graphics were pretty cool too. What I didn't realize since I never played it on an actual SNES was that the game is unfinished. There are no finishing moves and no championship mode, so every match is an exhibition. I did however play the Genesis version since my brother's friend had it and we borrowed the system and game for a while. It had the same Hogan pic on the title screen but due to the Genesis's limited color palette it kinda looked like crap, and I never felt that this was the same magical game that I had seen JD Roth talking up on GamePro TV. However, due to the fact that it does have finishing moves and a simple championship mode, I can declare it one of the few multiplatform 16-bit games where the Genesis version is unequivocally better than its SNES counterpart.
I played Royal Rumble soon after it was released thanks to another of my brother's friends and was very impressed with it (it had even bigger digitized photos than its predecessor!), but I didn't own it until almost two years after it came out by which time Raw had been released, but it was OK because I preferred the Rumble roster anyway, and Raw wasn't nearly the improvement over Rumble that Rumble was over Super WM. Raw should have at least had cage matches.
Allow me to say that it was a huge missed opportunity to not include the classic Wrestlemania and Royal Rumble themes in the SNES games named after those events.
It's a pretty decent show. Too bad he's ending it.ProJared is apparently halting Now in the 90s after 2 years. Views must not have justified the effort.
Looks like it was averaging around 35K views a week. Google tells me that is 150-200 dollars of revenue to split between the editor, writer and himselfIt's a pretty decent show. Too bad he's ending it.
Bumping this post as I remember being into the Hot Dog Stand: The Works game in our computer classes. I was all about that shit. Apparently it was released in 1995, which would've made my middle school years the perfect demographic for it.10 Educational PC Games Every 80s Kid Loved
Do you remember playing these classics in school?www.pcmag.com
I would love to magically have a list of the games I was able to play from 3rd grade-ish to middle school study hall. I have some random memories, but nothing concrete. I have a CD copy of Number Munchers, but there has to be so many others I would love to unlock memories of.
(We did not have a "CPU Lab" until 5th grade. Then we finally started to learn how to type. Before that it was one CPU per 4 class rooms or something like that and you had to sign up to sacrifice outdoor recess to play.)
From this list Odell Lake, Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego are the only ones that jump out as things we had at Hillbilly Elementary.
It's kind of fun to think about how Oregon Trail got 2 or 3 revisions and each time we were all like HOW CAN THIS GET BETTER??!!
And then came Amazon Trail, WHHHHHHHAAAAAT?!!?!
Same basic story with Carmen Sandiego as they got 1 or 2 upgrades from 87-95 at least
There are one or maybe 2 point and click adventure sort of games I recall from middle school, but I have such vague memories of it, I don't even know what I would put on a reddit post to try and have others remember it. "You find ABC gum" and "I think there was a castle door at the start?" are not going to cut it.
I’ve just foolishly decided to get back into snes games. Feel free to tell him some of them got misplaced if you want to sell some off to me.A local guy here says he'll pay 50-80 percent of completed Ebay auctions for games he wants, so since I don't play anything anymore and have totes and totes full of stuff, I made him a master list to see what he might want. Since I went to all that bother, I figured I'd share it here because reasons:
(I didn't list my Maddens since they hold no value so I didn't bother to ask but I have like 15 of those between SNES PS1 PS2 and PS3
This is also not everything I own as I have a pile of SNES games by my Mama because she used to like to play the puzzle games, and I thought my little nieces and nephews might get into Mario, Kirby, Donkey Kong etc. I also didn't list my PS2 console as I am keeping one SNES and a PS2 in case I ever want to bust out some classics. I still have a retro duo as well, but I haven't touched it in several years.
Genesis system
NES Console
Model 2 SNES
Model 1 SNES
Model 1 SNES
PS1
N64 console
SNES controller box
N64 Controller box
NES Game Genie
Game boy Game Genie
NES Games:
Double Dragon 2
Master Blaster
Mike Tyson’s Punch Out
NFL
Dig Dug 2
Blades of Steel
Excitebike
Ghostbusters 2
Rad Racer (x2)
Rush N Attack
Wrestlemania: Steel Cage Challege
Tag Team Wrestling
WrestleMania
Yoshi
Double Dribble
Tecmo Super Bowl
Mario Bros/Duck Hunt (x2)
Castlevania 3: Dracula’s Curse
Track and Field 2
A Boy and His Blob
TMNT: Manhatten Project
Pro Wrestling
CastleVania 2: Simon’s Quest
Tecmo World Wrestling
Wrestlemania Challenge
Friday the 13th
Tecmo Bowl
WCW Wrestling
Wolverine
Kung Fu
TMNT: The Arcade Game
Rolling Thunder
TMNT
Metroid
SNES Games:
Bulls vs Blazers
NCAA Basketball
Super Game Boy
Kirby Superstar
Tecmo Super Bowl
Tecmo Super Bowl 3
Yoshi’s Safari
Zoop
Super Mario All Stars
WWF RAW (w/ box – but it’s flattened)
WWF RAW
Winter Olympics
Link to the Past
King of Monsters 2
NBA Jam
Super Mario World (x2)
Super Mario Kart
Jeopardy Sports Edition
SMW 2: Yoshi’s Island (X2)
Tetris/Dr Mario 2 pack
Donkey Kong Country
Super Punch Out
PilotWings
Final Fantasy: Mystic Quest
Kirby’s Dream Course
Top Gear (x2)
Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure
Tiny Tunes: Buster Busts Loose
Foreman For Real
Mario’s Time Machine
Jim Power in the lost dimension
NBA Jam: Tournament Edition
Royal Rumble (X3)
Mortal Kombat 3
Fatal Fury 2
Monopoly
Primal Rage
NFL QB Club 96
Ken Griffey Jr MLB
Street Fighter 2 (x2)
Super Wrestlemania
Super Black Bass
Battle Clash
Mario Paint (w/ Mouse and pad)
Prince of Persia
Donkey Kong Country
Wrestlemania: The Arcade Game
Sim Earth
NFL QB Club
BattleShip
Wolverine
Kirby’s Avalanche
Taz Mania
Super Ghouls and Ghosts
Natsume Wrestling
Super Street Fighter 2
WCW Super Brawl
CastleVania 4
Tecmo Super Bowl 3
WII
Wario Land Shake It
Punch Out
Super Paper Mario
Madden 11
Fortune Street
Price is Right Decades
Price is Right 2010 Edition
Wheel of Fortune
90 Great Games Party Pack
Super Mario Bros WII (No box)
Game Boy
Donkey Kong
Roger Rabbit
TMNT Back from the Sewers
Mole Mania (x2)
Donkey Kong Land 2
Wario Land 2
Castlevania Adventure
Yoshi
Tetris
Castlevania 2: Belmont’s Revenge
Kirby’s Pinball Land
Monopoly
Wordtris
Kirby’s Dreamland 2
Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins
Super Mario Land
Kwirk
Warioland
Donkey Kong Land
Boxxle
Zelda: Link;s Awakening
TMNT Fall of the Foot Clan
Game and Watch Gallery 1
Game and Watch Gallery 2
Warioland 2
Game Boy Color:
Wario Land 3
Game Boy Advance:
Bomberman
Super Mario World
Wario Land 4 (x2)
Aggravation/Sorry/Scrabble(x2)
Battleship/Risk/Clue
The Legend of Zelda
Wario Ware Inc (x2)
Kirby: Nightmare in DreamLand
Castlevania Double Pack
Masters of the Universe
PS3:
UFC Undisputed 2009 and 2010
Little Big Planet
Call of Duty 3
GTA 4
Ruse
N64"
Mario Kart 64
NBA Jam 99
Mario 64
South Park
Conker’s Bad Fur Day
Monster Truck Madness 64
Mario 64
GoldenEye 007 (x3)
WCW vs NWO World Tour
WCW/NWO Revenge
Armorines
Ken Griffey MLB
Wailae Country Club
Fifa 99
Cruisin USA
1080 Snowboarding
Automobile Gamborini
Super NES Box (Yoshi’s Island version) w/ Foam
2 N64 console boxes (w/foam)
Sealed in wrapper SNES AsciiPad
PS3 box
PS2
UFC Sudden Impact (Disc only)
Midway Arcade Treasures 2
Smackdown: Shut your mouth
Capcom Classics Collection
Rocky
UFC Throwdown
Pride FC
Atari Anthology
Cabella’s Dangerous Hunts
Monopoly
Call of Duty World at War Final Fronts
Medal of Honor European Assault
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
Bejeweled 2/Astro Pop
NBA Live 06
NBA Live 2005
NBA Live 2008
The Great Escape
Maxx Payne
Silent Scope
GTA 3
Medal of Honor: Vanguard
Cabella’s Big Game Hunter
Risk: Global Domination
MLB 09: The Show
GTA: San Andreas
Gun
Tetris Worlds
Cabella’s Alaskan Adventure
Sonic Mega Collection
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
Conflict: Vietnam
Cabella’s Dangerous Hunts 2
Vietcong: Purple Haze
ShellShock: Nam’ 67
Cabella’s Dangerous Hunts 2009
GFA: Liberty City Stories Medal of Honor Frontlines
Sim City 2000 (Disc only)
Fire Pro Wrestling Returns
PS1
Activision Classic Games for the Atari (X2)
UFC (no box)
NCAA Football 2000
Monopoly
GTA 2
Knockout Kings 2000
Football Midseason Update 2001
Genesis:
Bootleg of Sunset Riders
EA Sports Fifa Soccer
NFL Football 94: Starring Joe Montana
NBA Jam
NFL 95
Sports Talk Football 93
Joe Montana 2: Sports Talk Football
NHL Hockey
(32X) MotoCross
F22 Interceptor
Double Dribble: The Playoff Edition
NHL 96
NBA Action 94
ATP Tour Tennis
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Feels weird to get rid of my memories, but there's always emulation....