Category: SNES
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Cool Spot (SNES)
(Review archived from February 12, 2023) Every so often I feel like firing up a game. Shocking I know. But faced with lists and spreadsheets of backlogs for various systems, series in progress, and so forth it can be a bit daunting deciding just what exactly I’d like to play. I suspect I’m not alone in this conundrum.…
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Super Mario World (SNES)
(Review archived from January 21, 2019) I try to kick off each year with a bona-fide classic. For me this serves as a means of ‘level-setting the playing field’ in terms of any other games I play during the year, and as a reminder of what truly great games are capable of. It’s a tradition…
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Castlevania: Dracula X (SNES)
(Review archived from October 14, 2018) Castlevania: Dracula X is often remembered as being one of the weaker entries in the Castlevania lineage, and that’s only if it gets remembered at all. Because for better or worse it also tends to be shuffled off as an extremely scaled back port of Rondo of Blood. But…
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The Adventures of Batman & Robin (SNES)
(Review archived from January 17, 2018) The first thing I need to make clear is that I’m completely biased in my views regarding Batman: The Animated Series. For me this version of Batman remains the definitive onscreen version of the character and that includes cinematic adaptations. The Animated Series gave Batman fans something to hold…
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The Addams Family (SNES)
(Review archived from January 15, 2018) The Addams Family was one of the earliest ‘modern reboot’ films that I can recall in my memory, so much so that the movie even predates the term ‘modern reboot’. I’m sure there were other earlier ‘rebooted’ franchises (I mean how many times have the classic Universal monsters been…
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Super Mario All-Stars: Super Mario Bros. 3 (SNES)
(Review archived from January 10, 2018) I’m certain that entire swaths of internet text have been devoted to lauding the greatness of this game, but I’m going to boil it down to the single concept that stuck with me this time around. Meticulous. Certainly not a groundbreaking revelation by any means and if you read…
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Super Mario All-Stars: Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels (SNES)
(Review archived from March 6, 2015) Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels is a Super Mario fever dream hallucinated through a fog of several consecutive bad acid trips and moments of religious epiphany. The gaming world tends to think of Shigeru Miyamoto as that super fun uncle from your childhood who was always cracking jokes…
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Super Mario All-Stars: Super Mario Bros. (SNES)
(Review archived from February 28, 2015) Ya know it’s funny; pretty much every time I fire up Super Mario Bros. it’s the original NES version, and I always forget about this updated release of the game. And that’s a shame really because I have no qualms declaring this to be the definitive version of the…
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (SNES)
(Review archived from January 16, 2015) This isn’t my first play through of Link to the Past by any stretch of the imagination, but it is my first in quite a number of years. In many ways this was the first game in the Zelda series to have begun the process of codifying the lore…