GAMES OF THE YEAR 2018 - NUMBER ONE
#1: The Whole Got-Dang Super Famicom Library (courtesy of the Analogue Super Nt)
The whole got-dang thing. Every one of 'em.
Some context, I guess. I was a Genesis kid growing up. I loved Mario and Duck Hunt (gotta hold that Zapper right to the screen, it's kid law), but the guy at Toys R Us talked my grandma into picking up a Genesis (which, in 1992, was probably the right move), so I was a Sonic and Streets of Rage boy while everyone else played Final Fantasy III and Super Mario World and Super Scope 6 and what have you.
Fast forward some 20 odd years and I'm sitting in a bed, on vacation in Colorado, panicking, having ordered a ~$200 Super Nintendo in the year twenty eighteen anno domini. Well, that, a handful of Japanese Super Famicom games off eBay.
But hey! Y'know what? It was worth it.
I could go on and on about the Super Nt hardware (it's very nice), but really the meat of the thing is the whole lot of Super Nintendo games I only briefly got to play at a f…
The whole got-dang thing. Every one of 'em.
Some context, I guess. I was a Genesis kid growing up. I loved Mario and Duck Hunt (gotta hold that Zapper right to the screen, it's kid law), but the guy at Toys R Us talked my grandma into picking up a Genesis (which, in 1992, was probably the right move), so I was a Sonic and Streets of Rage boy while everyone else played Final Fantasy III and Super Mario World and Super Scope 6 and what have you.
Fast forward some 20 odd years and I'm sitting in a bed, on vacation in Colorado, panicking, having ordered a ~$200 Super Nintendo in the year twenty eighteen anno domini. Well, that, a handful of Japanese Super Famicom games off eBay.
But hey! Y'know what? It was worth it.
I could go on and on about the Super Nt hardware (it's very nice), but really the meat of the thing is the whole lot of Super Nintendo games I only briefly got to play at a f…