What is a nice or interesting memory you keep with the SNES?
I played a lot of SNES back when I was a kid (I received my SNES when I was 4 years old as a Christmas present, now I’m on my 37s). But I had Super Battletank, a game where you play as a tank to get rid of enemies. The guns and bombs were so loud it scared the sh*t out of me and I fled from the room and cuddle in the sofa, shutting my ears.
Now I remember this with a laugh 😂.
Street fighter, and dad getting in on it. He just wanted to hangout with me and my siblings. As an adult i realize he didnt mind losing like we did. He would only pick Ken though which is just so odd.
The first video game commercial I ever saw on actual TV was for Secret of Mana. I loved that game. It was the last thing I played on my actual SNES before the system itself just died on me during the final boss fight 😩
Did you manage at least to beat the final boss in some other way?
Oh I almost immediately got a cart dumper to not just emulate the game, but to get my save file off the cart so I didn’t have to grind through the entire game again.
I have fond memories of playing through Super Metroid for the first time. The SNES was at my dad’s house and my parents were separated so I only got to play every other weekend. A friend on my school bus was also playing and usually further along than me (he had his system at home) and he’d drop hints about locations of secret power ups and where to go next when I was stumped. The game world felt huge and full of adventure to me.
On those weeks away from the SNES I’d read through Nintendo Power and draw my own level maps for imaginary games inspired by the ones they’d publish for games like Wolfenstein 3D.
Super Metroid is immersion at its finest, and the magazines back then were an interesting (and colorful) source of information.
I remember playing F-Zero and falling out of my chair as I leaned into tight turns.
From a time when VR was not still a thing 😂
‘blows on the cartridge even though it does nothing’
We all did that 😆
I was 16 when I realized that I actually really enjoy video games. I just hadn’t been that interested before. So I used my own money that I had saved, went by bus to the store and purchased myself a SNES. It was a lot of money for me but I was super happy. My favorite games were Zelda: A link to the past, Super Metroid and Donkey Kong Country. Great games! Donkey Kong Country’s graphics were seen as amazing at the time. It was some kind of innovative 3D modelling.
I played the hell out of DKC, trying to reach 101% without guides (those weren’t easily available back in the day), searching every single level and astonished when I found a secret.
It was an amazing feeling and yeah, I had much more time back then.
Ah yes, the secrets were fun. I remember trying to find them all with a friend but no idea how far we really got.
first thing that popped in my head was how i milked a runny nose into 3 days out of school so i could play biker mice from mars on SNES
I have a distinct memory of being in a grocery store with my godmother when the SNES hit and they had Super Mario World on display.
“Graphics can’t possibly get better than this.” I thought.
going to a friends house and playing mario paint with the mouse. swatting flies and making stupid music with the baby face notes.
Two main things come to mind, beating gnat attack the first time and managing to get lotuses finishing move to work in killer instinct.
