Super Famicom Obscure Review Guide Get
Time to switch gears back to geek collectors (the life blood of GSW, of course), and Jiji kindly pointed out the Super Nintendo obscure game review site RVGFanatic.com, newly unleashed upon the Internet.
The site is filled with really nice quality reviews of obscure SNES games, such as 'King Of Demons'/Mayjuuou, which "could be described as "Castlevania with a gun" or "Resident Evil meets Castlevania"", and I've certainly never heard of. Alternatively, one of my personal favorite SNES titles, The Firemen, is also represented: "a 1-player top-down action game where you navigate a top high-rise fire fighter through the burning Metrotech building."
There's also in-depth (possibly excessively in-depth!) collection stories, such as a 9-month saga to get some Super Play magazines: "January 17, 2006 is the official comeback date for yours truly. And so I began actively pursuing a complete Super Play set from that day forth. The following journey I took is simply unbelievable. I always had confidence I would one day own Super Play, but I had no idea it'd be anything like this...." It's practically a Viking Saga!
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Even with the language barrier, old Famicom and SFC games are so readily available in ROM form that it's strange you don't see more writing about them.
Posted by: jc | January 18, 2007 10:01 AM
I still have all of my issues of Super Play - all complete, bar issue number 1, which I never got to see :(
I think I still have my Super Play pen somewhere, from when I had a letter printed! Can't remember the issue, but it had the title "Cut the mustard"
*sigh*
Posted by: fuse | January 18, 2007 2:35 PM
Rendering Rangers R2 is gold.
Posted by: Ryan in exile | January 18, 2007 4:46 PM
"Even with the language barrier, old Famicom and SFC games are so readily available in ROM form that it's strange you don't see more writing about them."
Also note that many old games have unofficial fan translations (including Majyuuou and Do-Re-Mi Fantasy from that site), making the language barrier that much less of a problem. Romhacking.net is probably the most comprehensive archive of English translations.
Posted by: Shih Tzu | January 18, 2007 5:35 PM