Playing the first Street Fighter game I ever owned. Street Fighter II Turbo on the Super NES Classic!
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Star Fox on the Super NES Classic Live Stream
Do a barrel roll! It’s Star Fox on the Super NES Classic!
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Live Stream
Legendary! Playing through the beginning of A Link to the Past and having a blast!
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Contra III: The Alien Wars on Super NES Classic Live Stream
Run ‘n gun through Contra III, one of my favourite SNES games!
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F-Zero on the Super NES Classic Live Stream
Zooming through Mute City in the 2nd installment of my Super NES Classic live stream series!
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Out Now: Super NES Classic
This holiday season, some will be chasing after a Nintendo Switch. Others may be shelling out their hard-earned bucks on an Xbox One X. For me, the must-have gaming hardware this year is the Super NES Classic. Having sung the platform’s praises over the past month, we now have the chance to relive the memories of yesteryear or experience the legendary console for the first time.
That is, if you’re able to get your hands on one.
Super Nintendo Essays: Timeless
The Super Nintendo Essays is a series of posts detailing my history with and passion for the SNES. It had a profound effect on my life as a gamer, and I wanted to share some of my most memorable stories about it with you!
Almost 30 years after the initial launch of the Super NES, Nintendo’s 16-bit gem returns in miniature form. Coming with two controllers, 20 classic games and one brand new game in the mythical Star Fox 2, this is about as good as it gets for a package like this. Unlike the NES Classic, where the novelty of it wore quickly when you realized that many of the games on it aren’t that good any more, the SNES Classic is filled to the brim with games that stand the test of time.
Super Nintendo Essays: Grasping at Nostalgia
The Super Nintendo Essays is a series of posts detailing my history with and passion for the SNES. It had a profound effect on my life as a gamer, and I wanted to share some of my most memorable stories about it with you!
At some point during the Nintendo 64 era, my house got robbed. All of our gaming stuff was gone. It was a very tough time for my family and I, and our overall safety was probably a bigger concern than my gaming items being taken away. When it came time to move on, my brother and I decided against re-buying our Super Nintendo things, and instead focused what little money we had on re-buying our modern Nintendo 64 stuff.
Almost a decade after first receiving it as a birthday present, my parents got me a used SNES for Christmas. Alongside of it were two controllers, Super Mario World, Street Fighter II, and Super Star Wars. In that moment, it was one of the warmest and fuzziest feelings I’d ever felt. However, it also became a factor in the darkest part of my life to-date.
Super Nintendo Essays: Second-Hand
The Super Nintendo Essays is a series of posts detailing my history with and passion for the SNES. It had a profound effect on my life as a gamer, and I wanted to share some of my most memorable stories about it with you!
Despite my disdain for the current $80 price point for new games in Canada, it’s a bargain compared to what I was contending with in the 90s. The additional cost of cartridges, combined with the wonky Canadian dollar, made new titles cost upwards of $100 in the early-to-mid 90s. Above is a screenshot of a Toys R Us flyer that I’m presuming is from the holiday season of 1995, where Mortal Kombat 3 is priced as a new title. Assuming that, the likes of Batman Forever would actually cost $140.92 CAD today.
I would struggle to pay those kinds of prices today. In 1995, when I was an elementary school student who wasn’t even getting an allowance at that point, new games were almost entirely out of the question. Because of this, I got most of my games used and was active in trading games away.
The Super NES Essays: The Donkey Kong Country Tape
The Super Nintendo Essays is a series of posts detailing my history with and passion for the SNES. It had a profound effect on my life as a gamer, and I wanted to share some of my most memorable stories about it with you!
In the summer of 1994, I received an unusual package from Nintendo. Just a few months before, they had sent me a copy of Super Mario All-Stars as part of a promo for buying an SNES. This wasn’t a game, though. Inside, was a VHS tape about the upcoming Donkey Kong Country. Though I didn’t know about it before watching the video, I knew that game like the back of my hand long before it was inevitably released later that year.
In Third Person 