Posts Tagged ‘SNES’

#294 Chrono Trigger

Posted: 12th March 2015 by Jeroen in Games
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409th played so far Genre: Role-Playing Platform: SNES Year of Release: 1995 Developer: Square Publisher: Square As a side quest while working on making it through this list, Peter has been working on creating an independent best-of list, combining the results of several best-of lists into a uniform result. This may or may not have […]

#293 Yoshi’s Island

Posted: 18th December 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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388th played so far Genre: Platform Platform: SNES Year of Release: 1995 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo We’ve been playing the Mario games out of order for a while, starting from Super Mario 64, but in terms of Mario chronology (as much as that exists) this is (pretty much without argument) the first. Rather than the […]

#259 Earthbound

Posted: 1st September 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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360th played so far Genre: Role-Playing Platform: SNES Year of Release: 1994 Developer: Ape/HAL Laboratory Publisher: Nintendo SNES FEST! (Last time, honestly. For now at least) When I first unlocked Ness as a character on the original Super Smash Bros. I had no clue whatsoever who he was or where he came from. Little wonder […]

#272 Uniracers

Posted: 28th August 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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359th played so far Genre: Racing Platform: SNES Year of Release: 1994 Developer: DMA Design Publisher: Nintendo SNES FEST! Okay we get it. If you’re like us and have followed our exploits, you will know we’ve played quite a few racing games already – and we played more outside the blog. Most of them use […]

#183 Pilotwings

Posted: 24th August 2014 by Jeroen in Games
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358th played so far Genre: Flight Simulator Platform: SNES Year of Release: 1990 Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo SNES fest! I do love obsessively playing a run of games from one console. After Monkey Island, today we turn to Pilotwings. Again a game from my youth, although not as major as Monkey Island, I remember playing […]

#248 Plok

Posted: 30th January 2013 by Jeroen in Games
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213th played so far Genre: Platform Platform: SNES Year of Release: 1993 Developer: Software Creations Publisher: Activision/Tradewest/Nintendo Just as nice as the new games we say we find sometimes, are the blasts of the past we get by playing games we haven’t played in decades. Plok is one of these. I never owned it – […]

#202 Super Castlevania IV

Posted: 19th November 2012 by Jeroen in Games
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195th played so far Genre: Action/Platform Platform: SNES Year of Release: 1991 Developer: Konami Publisher: Konami Castlevania’s one of those long running standard-setting series. You know, like Mario, Mega Man, Sonic and Kirby. Videogame series that have delivered several times and tend to be reliable enough to do a good job most of the time. […]

#311 Harvest Moon

Posted: 22nd March 2012 by Mulholland in Games
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132nd played so far Genre: Role-Playing Game Platform: SNES Year of Release: 1996 Developer: Pack-In-Video Publisher: Natsume If you have been gaming for a number of years you tend to accumulate a lot of the games on the ‘would like to try’ list. These are not necessarily blue ribbon titles like Xenoblade Chronicles and Gears […]

#275 Super Metroid

Posted: 22nd October 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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94th game played so far Genre: Platform/Shoot ’em Up Platform: SNES Year of Release: 1994 Developer: Intelligent Systems, Nintendo R&D 1 Publisher: Nintendo One criticism that has been levied at our blog is that when we review classic games (such as Paradroid and Earthworm Jim) we tend to look at games through modern eyes. Whilst […]

#253 Zombies Ate My Neighbors

Posted: 12th May 2011 by Mulholland in Games
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53rd game played so far Genre: Shoot ’em Up Platform: SNES, Mega Drive Year of Release: 1993 Developer: LucasArts Publisher: Konami And here’s the second of our zombie-themed game week of sorts. Zombies Ate My Neighbors, known as just ‘Zombie’ in certain more squeamish places. The premise is simple – there is a zombie invasion […]