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When a system's first year games are those the likes of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV, Super Mario World, Super Ghouls and Ghosts, Castlevania IV, Zelda: Link to the Past, and Final Fantasy II (among others), you know that you're in for a good couple years (at least!) of gaming goodness. That's exactly what Nintendo delivers with the SuperNES. There are more good games for this system than any other system EVER! Heck, the "cream of the crop" games for this system spans at LEAST fifty different titles!
Just like the NES, the SuperNES kept Nintendo on top of the gaming market, still easily outselling it's closest rival, the Sega Genesis. In fact, the SuperNES games that were released in late '94/'95 made the 32-bit Dreamcast debut look like they were just catching up to the current gaming scene (more proof that true gaming is all about the games). Nintendo actually ended up scrapping their 32-bit system to concentrate on developing the N64. Around the same time, a little company called Rare jumped on the Nintendo bandwagon and began forging the unforgetable Donkey Kong Country, the first 32-bit game to grace the SuperNES. The games Sega were releasing for the Dreamcast weren't that much better (graphics-wise) than the SuperNES games being released. The SuperNES games were more fun, there were a LOT more of them, and if you weren't a die hard Sega fan you probably owned a SuperNES. All these factors give the SuperNES the honor of being the ONLY system to keep cranking out great games right up until the very end (I don't recall many, if any, games released in 1997). Need proof? Just take a look at the games cranked out during last half of the SuperNES reign (1994-1996)...
The Donkey Kong trilogy, Final Fantasy III, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, Mega Man X3, Kirby's Super Star, Tetris Attack, and Killer Instinct were just a handful of the truly great games released. The SuperNES gave us great games until the very end, and squeezed every last ounce of speed that could be juiced out of this bad boy. Of course, when you've got partners like Capcom, Rare, and Squaresoft in your corner it does give you quite an edge over the competition...
You wanna talk about durability? I've owned my SuperNES since it's pre-release in 1990, I've put more hours in this system than any other, and it's still going strong. This is the most durable system (tied with the N64) ever made. However, unlike the N64, the controllers are the most durable and most comfortable out of any system EVER (see my controller review below for more details...).
So, to recap...
- Most durable system EVER designed
- Most durable controller EVER designed
- Most comfortable controller EVER designed
- Most fun, and, dare I say it... TIMELESS games ever made
What's left to say? The SuperNES is still THE gaming system to own. I've owned (note that I use that term in the past tense...) a PS2 (which broke), XBox, and GameCube. With the sole exception of Tekken Tag Tournament, I'm not all that impressed. Sure, GTA3 and Twisted Metal Black were fun, but if they were really that great, why would I still keep coming back to the SuperNES to play the classics I grew up with? It's certainly not for nostalgia purposes. Doing something solely to quell your nostalgia craving is NEVER this fun!
You need MORE proof??? Just look at how much a SuperNES system and games like Final Fantasy II, III, and Chrono Trigger still sell for... USED!!!
Case closed. Time to get eaten so I can find Gogo again...
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